The true northerner. [volume], October 23, 1874, Image 6

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LOVU IIS WIMKH.
H UU1IKK1 HOOMAKAH.
I.
Oh. love in llkttbe rone,
u l every roH shall fall.
F it aura M a um ui a oloaee
, ,..'1 lata "Ud ami all.
'1 u. i. .v. while leave are on the tree.
v,ii l.inU iug iu tli.- liowora ;
When ' inter comet, tJ late twill be
i a elect the happy loweea.
It la a maiden alnnin.;,
An ancient girl, in ootb ;
Xtae haiy roeta in tiugiug
With tier mUi ill I to of JSOUth ;
Tli- wlni" keya aob m swttt au tries
Each mIh ill mid shrieking scale :
Oh. love tM likr the roeej f ei lea
I'll -. uiindlUod nightingale.
Iii a dirk corner during
I . ' my eye aud mra,
Ami oell up, wiiiU' ropoaiugj
a sUmyee float other year:
A fwnre-pteenre, tiuaiut and Dutch,
I tiotn tins ilurl: seat,
Pia inn iii bamea brtajtitaeee, nuoii
v mite naMflitKMifle woet.
ii.
Flat league of endleaa meadow
(in Holland 11m the tetae),
Where niauy pollard-shadowx
u tt aat-btowt rtftrhea leMi j
Ores oloada above tdat never break,
MiMtH Mm paie MtinlM'ama Htrljie.
Witt gioiiim of hteatuiiig t ittle, make
A landscape ' after OBJ o.
A wi.itlmill, and Im'Iow It
cot' ago mi a rou.l,
Whata H4)uji' meek pateon! poet
'i I lii.il i abode :
A OOttast With a ra r. l-n . wln-ie
Pr in H(iiareH of piiiisie ;jrow,
An.l. itliug on a garden-chair,
A laui' wi'.li liK'Urf ei HMVi
la arias black, tlfJMMi nnd bodieed,
With peitlei a el red,
A:. I o'l ll.T l.onOUl modrxt
i archil f e bite bee n td
A i.! ttae bfeaet that heaven below
i ihi Iftleil now an.l thin,
1 .i j i vi-ta'. thought a wliit. as .-now
w u petajtute witum.
IP r limnl gig taittMUd BhTtlJt
a- i folded ob het km
Her ni 'i, that meet precieely,
v moviiiu' q deify,
Bbe liatana while the dreamy hells
O'er tlm dark il 1 1 - latent
Vow o me, now I me. in dyiaf hwcIIh
Tim Sabbat a eouadi tie Mows
Hi ! liicok :l itli T .1 : nut' i-,
HT eye a violet duu :
Bt i i: bar i bail the doze,
Ami hums a bappf hymn,
lint eoft ! what woudi r laakcM her start
And lift her auiil head,
W i ttae faint iatterlayt of bet heart
-j ii nt taaota her tbteki wMli r.-il?
1 '.i- 1 i. ii I V. ; 'h.-.-UKh tin u;.it way
Aii aj,'eil i'lil atejis nlow,
Tbi 1 1 pdweee, dfffllng ht.aiijhtway
Bit nrog l-Ttrl Turned xay i-hapeau !
Svsllow-liilod coat of blue mo frauI,
With iMitt.ntH bright beeldi ,
Ha weiirw, tad iii liM IrenbUag hand
A iuiMe)(:iy, nlilnL-'ied.
, : liin old trip iihtly
In breeobet of aapkeeo.
Hi v tl.ihle I f l. e i... kf. bfigdiUxi
!Ho rosy, fieeb, tad 'i an ;'
v r oi l he ii aud wriakied plaiBf
v itta UH'kt. of i Men grey,
An.l eiiinur "ii a ttteeled oaoa.
lie Linbli in oa Uim way.
Ohj aky-l.irk, Minxiii; ovr
Toe tllenl nill bard ly,
Tu ola ho btapy lovei
ftm nut with aumtaer-cry 1
He been Itaee, laoagb hi blood cold,
mii aaare, Ittoagk deafaad woek
She etaada to r i I ktat4 a of old,
A OlUMh ui oil Uer t ;ieek.
In BpriagrtlBtt the-,- re arted
fh tone i-H'i e ad of aoe ;
F iriorn ted hroken-beerted
H.i. h fettereHi l n ao;
'i 'i parted : tiaif a e.-utury
Baeta look the t.nthof uuiu
It- l! veil .1 li.i lielnr, it. t'eht-
v ii nerec wooed agadata
15 a -vhen the Sunmi.- tAdodt
Whan Vntnran, too, oaadeadt
When ver- vHtoti ipteadld
Ot y mill tud bone n;,- ge I,
Again tlioM" twui'i BtBM face t o face
.v.- la ' bt 'otia ag :
They tret within a miiiI.'ms place
Iu the Meanou of tu- snow.
Oh. lov.i like the roMta,
L vi- .ii. md lora etaai Bat
U,.-.i.-,, t aa - as n -r el Met
L - ' m ra.tnre ai.il loVeSj g'.ee I"
Ob teeael I irfi Ihe gtfdM there
He iiiwa in rttaaeu taf,
l t ba , ai d witu a oourtty air
Pi -itf. aii fond bouquet.
( . i day ia vi'i t t0fi n,
Bhan ii-' la aoftly rijg,
X ii ippjr, aiieei i eavak
.; uoida 'In h.-; -mom Ihaagl
T.i" . iy 'Id I y lUua the Kate,
' ltd rlhboba jt .,. k:..-.-;
" When eriatet ooi en la love too late ?"
1 1 ' lap! I, i ok and see !
Ob, : ith not of ! iTea rapture,
Waea yontaful (oven kiH j
Wnet mortal alghl rnajr oentve
Meua to ivtd at his?
i Iii now l.i and glow ,
iThi c Ian aha ilta, tad j toud,
1' , i ta.'l.'s upon ui h"-e,
II a hi the wewL'n BOWl aloud !
. wi'li BO toaeh Of paiou,
: ' , afth bo titiif" oi ,"ai!i :
Th'a m aweet tahaatbfaahion,
ri v live tkeir love aittiin.
Bhe teat la h:m a bapaj fc
Swift, ngii, ti ooaeeyed
'. ' leea La ber w own iieart' joj
YOttth, !i )pe, i ., ;vifted!
Content, (hnre he m;1b sinokiuR
Hi . loag Dal ib pi . . l wood ;
GkM ;"iti oft :iiki joki.iij,
A i ay lover Mboiild,
And in, while then in company
. i, , atnila foe love'a aareet Make,
I . kuncT-bon trfeck atae kttda. tad hi
a ;i nra, deep ptach doth take
Tb ire, gravely lavagavaaakij
In Mooor fMibbat.i-, jy,
Mr lni th- pat iinl present,
They i. it, a niai.l tud boy I
' III, love It like 1 lie tOMe !" No !
'i ton foolish Miner, ooaea
Xove imhIm hit en Midi "Btld the mow,
And Hinr keM the pipe of patM !
'Gentleman' Mtkfftsimu
THE DKTERWALD WEDOIHvi,
Ifgihrd ie ler was a well-proKerved,
agil ge&tttHlfUl oi nearly .sixty. At
twe:.' i thought oi nothing but law j
At thirty, t' nothing but pleading; at
forty b tm a Judge ; aud only at
lift v -v- did bt m ik" the discovery that
vTWghilig Uiwn and splitting hairs upon
the mi tniag of w ids and phrases is
fiearcoly ail the pleasure to be found in
vxist'-uee.
At litty-tivo he hWOkd to the conscious
ness that ho had wasted life. He was
very olhWfaT tl aTVttJ point in the com
mon Law of the CJntCdTWttld, but hi was
not wiaa ana gh la know that at that
age oae cm ireely begin life over
again.
If, apgjti i'ron the law, he had ever a
pasnion, it was a tpiiet, half-doubting
love of fishing : and, therefore, when
he gavo up his judgeship, and retired
into priVAtt life with the respect aud
vn vem t ttion of all who knew him,
hawing angled hail hit hfe for clients,
MM aAtlcal l hi (hlVoreuces of other legal
aafjdfffl tlirrmp;!, iu.Hrly a score of years,
he IwU at) angling for fish as the one joy
of his life. 9
Indf . d it was this new occupation,
amid i.itturo, troes, flowers and liviug
water, whioh pi raiptgd Maitre S-ilcr to
the conebiHiou that he had made a mis
take in Uft when he brought it down to
grinding law from New Year's Day to
Bt Bylfenter t, winch is the last day in
Dcce iu I
- Tho old man's heart was desolate.
Jiis quiet, rosignod old housakeeper a
sad spinster, who had thrown herself
into thu pathetic and tears early in life
Maitre Seiler found, now that he saw
sky and ton st daily, to be quite a weari
some Wi.mau; aii.l the consequence
was that IfataTfl Seiler would pack up
his Ashing wallet, with a erust and flask
of whit.- tying oi his lunch, ami g out
from six in the morning until sunset.
One day, having caught trout until
In-w is weary of unhooking them, and
the afternoon beOOWUg close it was a
warm April that year he fell asleep
under a whispering fir tree, and there
he dept the sound sleep of innoceuce
for hours.
Then as ha awoke he experienced that
wonderful luxury a gradual regaining
of the lamai rwli I sweet voice was
singing in the distanee.
When he sat up and rubbed his eves,
he found flint the sun had let. and that
lie himself was rather stiller in the
limbs than was comfortable.
The voice came nearer, and through
tin break in the glade he saw a moun
taineer girl spinning as she came slowly
forward, followed by two orthrec brows
ing goats.
The girl was about screen ; her yel
low, light wavy hair was drawn to the
bark of the head, and there fell in two
long, red ribbon-tied plaits; while the
blaek bodice and poppy-oolored skirt
eontph ted a far more charming picture
than iiny the old Judge had seen in court
through all his legal years.
He sighed lightly.
She stopped and looked about, but
ihe Mowed no fear.
" Don't be afraid," he said, gently.
The girl smiled as slm saw the pleas
ant old gentleman, and said, 44 0, no ;
and iiruttlewart and Miehlin would butt
you If I told them."
The goatl looked at lhi stranger in
an u. decided way, but apparently re
solved to go on munching.
44 Aud wlio art thou ?"
'I urn Lotte."
11 And where dOM Lotte live ?"
44 1 am the daughter of the Forester
Yeri."
44 Ha! hfe I art thou the daughter of
the Poreater Yeri? I remind me I have
seen him in my court at sessions and
other times. Is his house far away ?"
44 Hut a. turn, messirc, in the path ;
and the foroater will be glad to see thee,
good herr, if he kttOWl tln'e."
44 Why, whom have v e here V" ask d
th forester, looking out from the head
of the stone steps, which led from the
living floor of his forest home to the
ground.
"GoodeYen, Yeri ; thy daughter has
found me. I an ItoBeira s Ilea?, lite
Judge of the canton. Hnst so soon for
gotten me ?''
"Hu! "lis Messire Seiler!" cried
the forester, doffing his hat and hurry
ing down the steps.
44 I fell asleep !" said the old Judge,
looking yrt upon Lotte ; 44 and, though
I am still as active as a roe, 1 did no
awake until the sun had gone down. I
am a long way from the town ; my wal
let is empty, and so also am I ; and,
therefore, I am asking thee for some
supper, Yeii."
44 With right good will," said the
f tweeter, holding out his hand, which
the old Judge took ; for in and about
Switzerland the general equality of
riches appear to create an equality of
habits; the oflloer and the private will
sit down together, and the great man of
the district will not find himself ill at
ease when he eats his supper with a
small farmer, the latter meanwhile,
being perfectly hospitable, never
servile, and rarely uncomfortable, when
face to face with a man of superior
social rank.
The good wife Kristine now coming
forth with a welcome, these four peo
ple shut out the evening, after entering
the foreeter'i house, and Lotte and her
mother fell to work preparing supper.
The red-cheeked, coarse white cloth
was soon up. in the fable, the wooden
spoons and platters laid, and the big
tureen, lively with a pattern of wild
flowers, was ready for the soup.
Not much of B meal but plain soup,
the beef which made it eaten with viu
agi F and oil, black bread and strong
cheese, the whole washed down with
some blackish, sour country wine yet
the old Judge thought he never had
eaten such, a meal.
To tell the truth at once, the old
Judge was in love with Lotte, though
she was only 10, and the old gentleman
was by that time ,"S, if n day.
4'i jtv me, good Judge, yon will sleep
till late in the morning," said broad
eheated fori, When they were saying
good night.
44 O. no," replies the Judge, wishing
to cut a good figurge before Lotte ;
44 1 never was more active ihan I am.
I shall be up with the lark, and out be
fore any of you."
Neverthless, though they softly called
him three timaat, hi never awoke, and,
in fact, did not preaent himself until
fche forester's breakfast had been wait
ing a Whole hour.
The forest girl had been out and
away hours ; and, as ho saw her, with
the fresh morning color on her face,
I holding out to him a bunch of wild
flowers which she had gathered, he de
cided fh.it i pretty girl looked better at
sunrise even than by suuset.
That was the beginning of it.
The prim hOUaekeeper wondered
what became of her master until all
capacity of astonishment was left;
while good Yeri and his wife, though
they were wonderfully benefited and
honored by the old Judge's friendship,
I were marvelously puzzled to find an
answer to the riddle why Maitre Seiler
c tme to their hut four or five times in
the week.
One day a barrel of rikvir, a capital
wine in those parts, would le gent with
Maitre Seller's oomplimente: and.
within a week, an admirable present of
SaueagS would be received.
The graves condemnation of the
poor old Judge.and the best prof of the
honesty of the couple, Yeri and Kris
tine, were to be found in the fact that
the latter never suspected the real basis
I of all these civilities on the part of the
smitten old gentleman.
As lor trOUt, the good woman Kris
tine uns weedy of cooking it, so much
of that ti-h did the good old Judge bring
to the chalet.
lie never ; aid much to Lotte spoke
like a father to her, and certainly never
enabled the pretty girl to guess
what was in his heart.
This life went on to the end of June,
when the tall mountain grass was ready
for the scythe.
The old Judge, however, had never
slept at Y'eri'a except upon that one
particular night whem that he visited
the fori ster.
He did not know that he had been put
in Lotte's loom; he supposed it the
guest's chamber.
hut upon that particular night in
June he had made up his mind to speak
to Yeri ; aud then it was he found that,
Judge and orator as he was, he oould
not plead for himself.
41 What ails the old Judge to-night? "
thought the forester. "He does not
seem himself."
The time went on, and when at last
the Judge decided that he would defer
it until tho morning, the forester made
the discovery that it was dark, and the
moon would not be up for two BOUTS, so
the good Judge was invited to stop for
the night.
Ho had no idea that his remaining
put the primitive family to any incon
venience ; UO more than at the moment
he learned that he took Lotte's room
from her.
But, in fact, the young goat-herdess
was carried oil' to her mother's room for
the night, while the forester made him
self a bed of furs, etc., on the ground
Of the living-room.
He thought the girl looked pale and
anxious J but he could not detect that
she was in great tribulation.
A little while, and the forest hut was
quite quiet not a light to be seen.
Now they have a habit iu parts of
Switzerland of cutting the high grass
by moonlight, the belief being common
that grass so out makes better liny than
that which falls beneath tho scythe in
sunlight.
The old Judge, unable to sleep, was
turning over in his mind what he
should say on the following day to the
forester, win n he heard the tinkle of
cow-bells, the lumbering of heavy wag
ons, and the rattle of talking and sing
ing voices, all of which gradually ap
proached. Not ignorant of the custom of moon
light hay-making, the old Judge found
the rustic sounds rather soothing than
not, when be heard a tapping ut the
window.
He listened, and the sound was re
peated. He knew that the window was ken r
twelve fedlt from the grouud, and that
it could only be reached either by a
ladd r, or by climbing the vine which
grew on the wall about the lattice.
A thief ! W hat thief would tap at a
window? What could a thief hope to
steal in that poor place, unless
The old Judge's heart began to beat
high.
And, as though iu reply to his
thoughts, a soft, pleasant voice called,
as the tapping was In ard again :
44 Lotte !"
He moved oil' the bed (for he had lain
down in his clothes, too weary with
thinking over, the grand question to un
dress), and drawing near the window,
he saw by the light of the moon which
had now just topped the trees, that a
black-haired and extremely handsome
youth was clinging to the viue, his
bright eyes agerly fixed upon the win
dow. The old Judge silently opened thi lat
tice ; there was a low, bright laugh,
and the young man leaped lithely ami
blithely into the room.
44 And whom have we here?" sudden
ly cried tho Judge, pouncing upon the
intruder.
The youth uttered a low crv, but
offered do resistance.
41 What thief in the night are you ?"
44 So please your worship," said a
clear, pleasant voice, 41 1 am no thief,
but Wilhem, only son of the wood
ranger at Kuenaoh, and I am come to
f ee niV Lotte !''
44 Thy Lotte ?"
4' So ph as- vou, she is my wife "
44 Your wife f"
44 Ay, messire; 'twas an Unterwalden
wedding. Tis our custom here in this
canton ; and I am but waiting for my
appointment as ranger, which 1 hope
to get by the interest of one Meeaire
Seiler, an ex-Judge, who has benm a
BecOBfl father to my Lotte, to tell my
father and hers that we are betrothed,
ami that we are ready to marry by sun
light !"
44 O, then, the interest Yeri's daugh
ter has shown in the old Judge comes
out of the hope that he will help thee
to thy rangership V"
41 'Tis exactly so, messire. I am no
thief, but an honest man, and Lotte's
husband by the laws of Unterwald !"
" How long since ?"
41 Theee fair six weeks !"
Tic very time during which she had
Ion iked at aim i i earnest iy.
He underatood the k ok then.
44 Begone, young man ; I think I may
promise thee thy wife and place."
Nt xt morning he was reri grave, but
there was that BOblc something in his
face we are pleaaod to call resignation.
44 .Messire Seiler, thou art not well !"
cried the forcatoTi
"Nay; better than yesterday. Ivy
the way, I told thee last 'night i should
have something to say to thee. It is
this I want thy consent to a marriage
between Lotte, here, and one Wilhem,
only son of the ranger, at Kusuach."
The forester beat his hand upon the
table as Lotte uttered a cry, and the
good wife clapped her hands'.
44 Never !" slid he ; 44 tis a rare good-for-naught
!"
' No," said the Judge ; 44 I'll answer
for him."
" Thou, Judge ?"
44 Yes ; he will make her a good hus
band." 44 But he has no post ; he is nothing."
"I promise you he shall have the
under rangership."
44 Well now, messire, when thou
pleadest to me, 'tis as thou didst when
thou wert a lawyer, and if my girl says
aye"
Lotto looked at the Judge, meaningly,
aud said :
I do not hate him, father."
Then 'tis settled," said Yeri.
a e e e e e a
So the old Judge went home wearilv,
a sadder and a wiser man. The forester,
Yeri, wondered why the old Judge never
came, while the presents were sent as
before ; and the melancholy housekeeper
marveled that her master gave up fish-
eiler was unite hannv. but never e
word said he. Not even once again did
he go to the hut in the forest, and he
benefited by the leHson he had learned
that youth is for youth, and that if it is
thrown away in the early summer-t me
of nt't , it is not to be picked up agtin
in the autumn of existence.
For no man can retrace his life.
Ulernal Desolation.
In the northwest corner of San Uer
nardiuo county, lying partly aluo in Inyo
county, and, by the newly surveyed line,
partly also in the State of Nevada, is a
region paralleled by few other spots on
the face of the earth. Wo say tho world
is inttiuct with life. Hero, if tho phra
seology may be pardoned, is a place
inatiuct with death. A huge ba in,
whose rim is the ancient hills, stricken
with the barrenness of eternal desola
tion, whose bosom is the blastd waste
of the deeett treeless, ehrublesn and
waterless, sajfU a few bitter pools like
the lye of potash water ; surrounded by
mountains that tower thousands of feet
above tho sea-level, itself lying three
hundred feet above the sea. It is a very
"Gehenna " a place of death and
bones. birds do not fly over it. Ani
mals do not enter it. Vegetation can
not exist in it. Tho broad sands absorb'
the heat, the bare mountains reflect it,
the unclouih d sun daily add . to it.
Ninety degrees ia the shade (artificial
shade, there is no other) means winter.
One hundred and thirtv and one hun
dred and forl.y degieee, that is summer.
l he hot air grows hotter, wavera,
trembh s with heat, until nature, goaded
to madness, can endure no more; and
then the burning blast rouses itself in
its might ; rouses as an angry beast,
with a hoarse, ominous roar; sw pa
mile after mile, tm, ever on, over the
broad reach of the desert, bearing in
its black, whirling bosom blaek as the
midnight dust, sand, alkali and death.
Sometimes a murky cloud gathers upon
the mountains above ; then there is a
rush a warning sigh on the winds a
low rumbling iu the air ; the bills
quiver, the earth trembles, and a b r-
rent, half water, half mud, bounds from
the bills, leaps into the desert, plowing
chasms like river-beds in the loose sand.
The clouds scatter, the sun 008108
again, the eternal tnirst of the desert is
not quenched. The raging river wai
only a dream.
In the year 1848 a party of emigrants
entered the basin. Day af ter day tm-y
toiled on, thirsting, dying. The piti
h b m uutains walled them in ; no I
cape. One by one they dropped and
died. A few, abandoning everything,
sealed the mountains and escapt d. The
others lie as they fell, dried to mum
mies no birds even to devour their
llenh ; no beasts to pray upon them
Wagon-tires unrusted ; gun-barrels
bright, untarnished. Such is the place.
Mile alter mile silence reigns ; .silence
and death.
" WaUtd hj- the mount. tiiiH, dooineU with brazen
sky,
Leslie alter leacno the neve r-eudhag MHMl
Bptatdi like the oe an, to the lifting eye.
An aKed, weary, loUK-iorKtteu land ;
As eotaad la wrath, an.l Himt wUh (eodi Berat
band,
No ooollog inlst qoeachtt the tadlaea thirst
That rnii tapraoM the hounuleHB atretohea
Hraml ;
Over ltd hrond cxiaue no uterm-chunl burnt
With hurryuiK tet-t. It Ih a laud aienri-ed."
BftM (icuis and Their Value
Mr. GiaSOB has recently concluded a
journey round the world, which he
made for the purpose of ascertaining
the condition of the trade in gems. In
an article in the St. Petersburg Oati tti
he states the result of his iuvestig t
tions. Diamonds he found at a lower
rate than they have reached in ten
years past. 1'earls and emeralds are.
on the other hand, at a premium. An
opal the size of an average olive would
bring in New York, at the present time,
about SlHf); a sapphire of the same
size would bring (1,866; an emerald
i?7,")0() ; a diamond $13,500, and a ruby
$37,500. In Europe th se g ma would
rank somewhat dill'erently, opals and
sapphires rating higher and emeralds
lower. Pearls are now brought from
Central America, California and the
Persian Gulf, but none of them rival
thoae of the Last indies. About 85
250,000 of diamonds are annually im
ported from South America into Eu
rope, and the same into America.
Many of these are of gooel size, and
most have a ydlowir h tinge. In const -
quenoe f tins Importation, diamond.1 ot
the same hue have fallen 7n per cent, in
the maraet. They would have fallen
Still lower were it not that the enormous
fortunes realised in Awiiou through
petroleum and military contracts have
created an earn aarve demand. But this
eilect upon the value of the stones lua
be considered merely temporary. A
similar depreciation in their pnoe oc
curred at the discovery of the diamond
mines in Lruzil Go couda having pre
viously supplied the market but they
soon regained their value.
BamuaVi WiTea
Mr. Barnum was first married forty
five years ago, November M, 1829, to
Charity Hallet, it Bethel tailoress. lie
was nineteen yais old at the time of
this marriage, of which he used to say :
41 1 don't think I could have done bet
ter if Iliad waited twenty years." The
house he first took his bride to was
in Bethel, and cost him 21,050. The
house he took his second wife to is on
Murray Hill, Fifth avenue, New York,
and is a brown stone palace of magnifi
cent proportions, and worth over 100,
000. Mr. Barnum l as daughters nearly
twice as old as his present wife, aM
grand-children within two or three
years of her age. Although Mr. Bar
num is at heart, and always will be, a
showman, he is very much of gentleman
in a parlor. He is a capital talker, and
has an inexhaustible fund of anecdote
at command, and what is more, he is an
acomplished listener. Iu telling him
anything, one does not feel that he is
being bored, for he appears to take the
deepest interest in all that is told him.
Rubbing up against all ranks of people
has had a polishing effect upon his
natural roughness, and his intimacy at
the Cary's was a great refining influ
ence. Jtujj'ato 9tpT9tt,
I am now on the shady side of half a
century, but I expect to see the lime
w hen there will not be a dram shop in
this land. I can't tell just hnw they
will be abolished, no more than I could
twenty years, ago how slavery would be
ended. But the day will come when
temperance shall prevail and liqnor
taloous be a thing of the past. S hnj
N r Colfax.
t urrent raragraph.
Easy roads lead to hard places.
Monky generally costs too much.
Tiik origin of Easter eggs A hen.
A man who has no mind will not
change it.
NiiNKi: marry a woman who kicks
sideways.
Tub wisdom of tho wisest is folly in
the sight of God.
A foolish friend is more troublesome
than a wise enemy.
In California all educatioual offices
are open to women.
Only the stores of the mind can be
taken to the next world.
A iiRAiriiY heart digests and draws
str. Bgth from misfortuue.
Hked the slanderer to-day, and ho
will talk of thee to-morrow.
Neaulv every county in Oregon con
tains ondert loped coal mines.
Don I iatt says shrewdly : "Humor
is to a newspaper what a tail is to a kite
very absurd, but very necessary to its
ascension."
Tun latest Utah discovery is of a bed
of sulphur, almost pure, assaying IK) per
cent, on the average and entirely tree
from arsenic.
"Go to grass " is swearing when used
in New Hampshire. At least th- y an
churching a deacon down there for
using tne expression.
I f anything will Imprest the human
mind with awe, it is the expression (,t g
man's face who has just been aroused
from sooting in church.
The frog-dealers of New Y'ork are do
ing a jumping business. Five hundred
pounds of that Trench delicacy are con
sumed in that city daily.
BeJfOnorr's history, the tenth volume
of which is now in press, has been just
forty years in pubuahing, the first vol
ume baring appeared in 1884.
A Bowling Gkeen (Ky.) man has a
chicken covered with red hair instead of
feathers and down. The old hen leels
very much ashamed of herself.
J'iie Postmaster General has per-
empterily peohiaal d the use of in
toxicating lirjuors either in or out of
the department during business hours.
A B tt ii mono negro went to steal hens,
caught his foot in a trap, and cut a toe
off rather than have daylight find him
there. It was an untoward alhur for
him.
Theke are at present 214 prisoners
in Washington City jail, which is sev
enty nine more than have been confined
in that institution at any one time since
the war.
Boston ui i m- year contributes nearly
13,500,000 for the poor, or enough t'
board all the poor at the leading hotel
the year around. But it does not all
reach the poor.
Bnflt BaBVI It said to be constantly
haul up. Such, however, is genius.
Exchange, If being hard up consti
tutes genius, we have had some spells
of remarkable brilliancy. Nashville
Ac ws.
A tpaoiAA convention of clergymen
and laymen of the Episcopal diocese of
Iowa has been called to meet at daven
port on the Mfa of December for the
purpose ot electing a successor to the
late Bishop Lee.
The equalized valuation of taxable
wealth of New York State for 1874
shows real estate $L 750,688,918 ; per
sonal property, 1418,608,955; total.
$2,169,807,878 which is 10,000,000
greater than in 1 S7:J. Of the whole
amount, New York city contributed
11,106,156,000, or over one-half.
California contains twice as many
square miles as the six New England
States combined. Again, Cal. contains
:57,77o more square miles than Great
Britain, Ireland, and all the adjacent
islands under the British llag. Were
it as densely inhabited as the British
home territories California would have
mole than thirty-five millions of peo
ple. WiTn few SXCeptiont, says a veteran
observer, illiterate nud half-educated
persons use more 44 big words " than
people of thorough education. It is a
very common but a very egregious mis
take to suppose that long words are
more genteel than short ones just as
the same sort of people imagine high
colors and flashy figures improve the
style of dress.
The French ReturBiag to Hani atfJMya
Tin? French government have taken
an important step in the direction of a
ipeedy resumption of specie payments.
A recent circular issued by the Ministe:
of Finance instructs the t ft &Ofit r.
fftfteraux Of the departments to maki
Ote of gold pieces of 20 francs, 5(
franca and lOU francs, in the BUBC wa;
as any other deecription of mouy iu
their disbursements for government ac
count. At the same time the Minister
of Finance recommends the Depart
mental Treasurers to abstain from all
payments in 25fraBC Bank of France
notes, but to reserve them exclusively
for their payment to the French Treas
ury. The sffeotS of this measure will
be to replace the 2"-fianc notes in the
hands of the public by a metallic OUT
n ney. Gold and silver are- very abun
dant at this moment iu France, not only
at the bank but also in circulation, in
addition to 150.000,000 francs of gold
aud silver coined by the mints of Paris
and Bordeaux siuoe the Franco - iernmn
war, the bullion importations during
the first seven montha of the present
year amount to 684,000,000 francs. ( )f
the latter sum the exportation of the
precious metals since the 1 st of .Tanuary
amounts to 81,000,000 francs. The bal
ance of internal coiuage of Franco is,
therefore, exclusive of bullion, a trifle
over 553,000,000 francs.
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WISHART'S
PIE TREE TAR CORDIAL.
It Is now fifteen years sincn the attention of the
public wa tlrst called by Dr. Luc. Wishart to
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tae test ,,f time that to-day It not only hat the atn
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';""'", y a peculiar process in the distillation
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Dk. L. O,. C. Wishabt : Dear Sir 1 am grateful to
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cough. She has now finished the fourth bottle, and
is able lode the work for her family; and mayOod
peed you on with your great discovery aud cure
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REV. K II HOPKINS,
Jackson Centro, Shelby Co., Ohio.
Krom I.oula, Mo.
Da. Wikbabt, Pnii.AOBi.rRiA Deer Sir-Dunne
a visit to Phi ladelphla. some three years ago 1 wee
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11 hi my family ever SM.ee, and am of the
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