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NORWALK, CONN, TUESDAY EP'l‘LMBLP. 7,1886.
I (III! BODEIIIIR, Jr.
An Enterprising Republican ‘J ournal, especially devoted to Local News and Interests.
Two DOLLARS A Y EAR- '
Number. .36;
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With' asashal softandslllrcfevery brilliant
dint
Andahstiustheavy- -ladcnwlthal] thelowers
Mm,
I'dbe't'hohappieet maldeninQuakerdomJ know'
he I slowly-combed my enri'sby theloeking-glass'
Mother gentiy chided inch her own peacclul way.
“All. Euthmyllttledaaghtorl Theomustthlnk
thyself fdllv'falr.
Thee ta‘k’st ihli t‘lIIces‘s Io'ug's thee necd’st t1-
simply smooth thy hair.
“ I fear me much dimdcstforgetthatlifois short
and vain.
And day; for workare‘passlng which may never
come again.
Then. Bath. 1111 child. seasombor that the fairest.
Inflow
Whose lives are filled with goodness from child-
hood III the close. "
leannot understand it. why alltha world’s st
”flail.
Whygay colon on a maiden are anything but
mt.-
noodhasmadcusauakersmhygrcentreosin-
stead of gray,
And why these flowers so brilliant a-bloonliug all
the day? '
If God had meant no tohednb. whyno myeycs
so blue, _
11y emanated mime: hi in: the cord'i‘
I cannot understand iti Perhaps I will some day.
When I'm as old as granny, and my yellowhair
is gray.
“We-—
Mary’s Elopem‘ent.
Face to face we sat for some time, in,
the cards 11g: sprees tho couriti‘y'
through0_ 0.3 .5
Oldh but erect of figure, keen
and bright of eye, ruddy of check. He
eat well forward on the seat as though
accoutromenta still prevented any
lounging, and I noted him for an “old
so armament. Ill! made the
"gig: wiW a' preliminary
“Hem!” the passing of his left palm
over the upper lip, where the mustache-
0ugll; to have been, and with a slight
Irish accent.
“Bog pardon-.sir; butIthInk yerin
the service. "
“Right you no,"i. I replied, “and if I
am not mistaken, you’ ve been there,
tool"
Then the right hand went to the fore-
head in“ mute; and the body became " L
rigid..-
“Thaukee, girl I'm proud to say I
have, and proudc'r to know Ihaven’t
lost the feet .up' yet. Forty-two years; .-
eight-months, five dhys,man manaud b0y,l
served the country 1n the field. Delauy’ a
me name—Sergeant Delanyyg—th’ cav
ulry—onoet—Dragoons—an’ there’ s few
officers or ould men of the bald story,
that do'u’t know Sergeant Delany an"
be willin’ tospeak agood word forhim. ”_
Their wetalkc'd and talked, he meat,
through: the long day. In the- spirit
begotten of comradnhi‘pjn the patron-
age the‘ old blade felt for “the young
soldier, he gave confidencos no other:
. circumstances would have called forth,
and, tskin‘g‘th‘e about of hisstory,ti'\g
sum total was this:
“ You could not have served so long
him on.
“ To be sure, no! But I haven’t kept
count. I've. marked on me shoulders
an’ a full complemintiof'dogs and aims,
an' anythiné short ofthé lots of fthem
don't count. Sure, we take them in the
line of doty—the way they come.
“I was nifio s'ay it massif, as tight
a lad as over straddled pigskin and
wore blade, cocked me hat, carried a
can, slapped me leg an’ winked at the
girls. ButI was caught early and fast.
I’m of Ifih blood, ye see, though I was
brought over here while a blt of a boy -
iove-makin’ :-
gocngwerea " ‘
I met as note an Irish lass ascverwore
leather, and in a week I was a married
man, and a betther enlistment paper I
never signed. I always needed strict
discipline; then I had it at home and
while on duty, and it was the savin’ of
me. '
“Faith, it didn't seem longer than
from reville to retreat afore a year
slipped around and I was a sergeant
and the father of a daughter. Mary
we called her, after the mother I loved
' ever camf.
of her,as
isldn’ that
well-man 1;,
:iplin -,. ‘ l
nigh-b '2" .
worst of puzzle to me. '
" There may have been and be men
who love their little ones well as I, but
aher' were never a man loved daughter
setter since God gave daughters. to
man. When she first came Iwere some
out eut, because she wereu’ a boy; but 1
and no thought of that when I found
the fendsmess of her baby heart. But
[ taught her all a boy should know.
She could swim, ride, shoot, skate afore
she were seven, and whistle like a can-
ary. It’s yams,”t I’d la ,'
when they’lillEII mild gs
about ‘whis
l'd
the notion of igh
talent, but Mixing” K‘gher n
drivln’ me wife and all the garrison
hazy with me practichi’, I loomed to
make at fair list, or mouth, with the fife,
1111] could give Yankee Doodle, Garry-
.1.- . 1. and club to the satisfaction of ms
friends and mcself and to every one but
the regular mimbers of the band. Well,
she, Mary. could hate me hollow on that
life in no time, and proud to the very
height of pride I was of her.
“ We lived well and happy, when we
weren’t fighting. till she were sixteen
years ould. ’ silks 110 . .
wounds set 1 - 3, a"? lion ' .
you howan :_ - til, “99$“ if .
fromafrie = ..‘ - ' I 4 g -. fore, =3
sabre of an tli" ’ ht there ivss‘fho
how he can wound himself worse nor all.
“Showers slxtson.asIsaid,andwcll
educated for her place in life. We were
in garrison then. and to fit her for tskln’
care of herself we let her go into the
town to learn the dressmakln’ —and
never agirl had the good taste in dressti
like her.
“ Well, thsr’ were a young lefteuaut
came to our troop, then. a gay, hand-
some. brave young chap as ever you see.
Bartonbe name. Irespectedhimasan
officer and I loved him as a son.
“ It were some ten months after he
come, when one night I went to my
quarters at the barrioks and Mar!
wasn ’t there to sit at the table with me.
That night, before I wint In, Leftolfllt.
Barton came to me with fis
smile and friendly way, . ’0
hand. ‘Good by,“ gr
I’m off tonight! '0 heroin ”is”
I. ‘ I resigned two weeks ago and my
papers has Just come in,’ says he.
" That onssttled me. I’m hastytem-
pered at tinios, and when I went home
the wife say ys she, ' Youtgolate, but ~
there' a the m
“ ‘ The
Mrs. Delany.’ says I. f’Whero's my
daughter? _ ,
'Azonougllgp; ‘
'f «we
'15'
:- troublesad ‘
next mornin', talkiu’ toMary and the .
”I ’sposc she' a hop late. Ate your stew.
man, and don’ t be cursin’ me, for I
won’t take it off you nor no man.’
“ I'm fond. of Irish stew, sir, and no
woman makes it better nor Mrs. Delany,
but with this and that I were so put 1
out I never enjoyed a bite less.
“ Eight o 'clock came and I was wor-
ried more and more. Then the wife came
out from the room where Mary slept
with a bit ofa note in herhand. I read '
it: “Dear father and mother, I have
gone with my Barton, that I love with
all my heart.’
“I was struck cold, sir; I saw it all.
AforeI could catch my breath there
were footsteps running up the bill"...
racks stairs, and Mary burst in, all in
silks and eating and velvet. . 1.
"'Oh, father! daddy! 0h, mother 1"
' she cried. 'I couldn’t go after a]1,with-
out seeln’ you 1’ Her mother Would
have rushed to her girl, but I rushed
between them. .
“‘You’ re no daughter of mine 1' says
I." ’Mrs. penny, don’t touch heri
Girl go! I’ll hear no word from he1
.mouth. (lot before I disgracc_ mo
,uuiforhi by strikin’ you, before I break '
my heart with cursin’ youl’
“She looked at me; she knew what
my tethper was when it was up, and
she turned and went.
“Ah, sorrow like that is hard to
bear. It's the broken heart I carried
in my bréast them days, and long after.
Men tried to speak to me of her and
lump but u iwore rd ran the first man
oatmeal.» namof, find I’vp done it.
I could not face the men and officers
who’d known me so long. I had the
right to ask me discharge after that
length of service, and I did it and got it,
and went where I’d never see a fuse
that knew me. ., "‘
" “The wife never troubled me about
the hardness, but I knew no other
trade but the soldieriug, and things
didn't go well with us
“ Mary kept, somehow, knowledge of
* all our changes, and every month would
come a letter with fifty dollars' 1n notes
'3 to me. No word—no way I could tell
from where it came. Christmas times '
:the notes would be for a hundred, so I
knew she was not in want. .
“This Bartons were rich and a high
fondly. Often I swore to go tothem
with the story of the ruin ofmy girl;
' biit the love I still had for her and me
own pride held me back from exposiu’
the trouble. I never played the fife,
never thought of the mud thing after,
aid it’s a hard life the wife had with me
. taupers, but she here it all.
9 The wound me daughter, me officer
- add mcsclf had given me were killin’
die with anger and despair. That wound
hurt me longer, hurt me sorer and hurt
111:0 worse to the life 6010 than any I
sv‘cr got from Mexicans, Injuns or
rebels, and I got them R0111 all. '
e e e.
.‘P Well, air, it was just five years from
time I got that deadly hurt, and we
re livin’ in—, with hard scratchiu’
' beget along on me pension and whatI ..
and weapon wounds," I said," to” lead;
, .ould, I'm past seventy now.
could make laboriu’, for I was gettin’
“’I came in rather late one night and
3110 wife says. 'You’ so ’fivanted imme-
:hlate to‘ the Union Hotel,’ says she;
‘J'you’ve been sent for “twice! ‘Who is
lt?’ says I. ‘I don't know,’ says she;
‘ but brush yourself up.aud go, at onct, ’
says she, ‘ and I'll have a nice stew for
you when you get back. Maybe it’s
good luck comin'.’
“ So I trimmed up for inspection and
review. I’d been tryin’ to get a watch-
man’ s place on a railroad and thought
maybe some of the masters were wantin’
I,
thinks 1. ‘It‘s risiu’ in the world I
am. Maybe they’ll be makin’ a super-
intendent of an ould soldier,’ thinks I,
and I followed the blackie, all in a blind
of wonder.
“It's a fine room I were shown into,
and nobody in it. The sarvent left and
I was smoothin’ my hair before a big
lookin’ glass were there, when I heard
a swish like a dress aside me. I turned
and there were Mary—my Maryi—so
beautiful, so like a queen, with her
.. so wistful at
‘3.- rose- 0, though
" beatin’likc‘twmlldburst
ms breast and a lump in me throat
were chokin' me.
“‘Not a word,’ says I, ’not a word
with dcserters, and traitors, and worse]
You're dead to me] You were no more
Mary Delany from the night you left
your parcntsl'
“‘Nol’ says a deep, clear voice, ‘but
she's Mary Barton, and has been from
that same night,’ and out of a room
door, leadin' into the parlor, steps my
old leftenant, and put his arm around
foo .bolh', and loc§iu.so.1handsome,
$11" I wipeeahrmgnd méyelcss ‘1 .
gastrufi the tire dromnfi cycsénd
S lihlc voice so ‘ prodded? su’I
looked down, and there was my little
Mary, three years ould, lookin’ up at me,
an ”holdin in her hands that ould life.
“I looked from the child to the
mother, to the father, and I saw what
an ould brute and fool I’d. been. N0
needtotellnseawonhmoro.v ;.:'_‘_ .~ '
“’Tiss me, drand'adl’s'ays the little
one, and I gathered her up, and I, that
had never shed a tear for sorrow or
pain, run the eyes out of me with c1_.'iu'
for joy.
“We talked and we talked:
like the ould sargoant’s Mary, the son’s
wife. And all this time, God forgive
me for beiu’ selfish, I were forgettin’
the poor ould mother.
“ The baby was bundled up, holdin’
the ould fife that Mary had takenawith
1‘16: when "she went, and thht baby had ’ 1
always played with, and we were soon
in a carriage rolling of! to my poor
home.
“I went in first, little Mary in my
arms. Mrs. Dclauy was in bed in the
back room.- '
see she. ‘I hope ’twas good luck Y0 ‘11
find th’ stew on the stove.’ .
“‘The devil fly away with yer stew,
.Mrs. Delany,’ says I. ‘Come out here
WW9 any livabrought ou. 2.1311 '_
the tenderness of that night! I waked
the whole house with Yankee Doodle
md Garryowen on that fife, and with
me feelin’s all Worked up and bcln' out
of practice too,thoy were played bad
lefteuant I says. takin’ a lot of letters
., i ‘leu't huge? mjc known, 'so’ys 11116.3 f
‘ . to the cause and to his colleagues.
“fitfiififl’”
, ,1 185110;
.111 of my 110ckel,if you young pet: '110
:--..u 511011; of money, here’s over three
- thousand dollars that belongs to you,
lb: it‘s been sent to me for five years
1.:li'k.’
"5011, you dear, proud old daddyl’
cries Mary, with her arms about my
1101le and teams 1.; her eyes and voice,
Mind you wouldn’t use it in all your
, needs? I might have known it, think-.
dug what you did of me.’
“ Well, sir, that money went to buy a
little farm where I and the ould wife
live like a lady, and of course it will go
back to them that gave it when we die.
.“ There’s ;1 boy now, sir. I’m going
to see him christened Delany Barton,
and. he’s to be a soldier. They’re none
of them sshamed‘ofi the fluid sergeant
and his wife, but she’s not able to
travel, and so I have to report alone.
"Will I take a sup out of your flask, sir?
1“ Well, talkin’s dry work, and I’ve
been doin’ a powerof it; a sup would go
_w'ell, now, but if you’ll excuse me, 1
won’t-take it}. Ten minutes will bring
me to where they’re all waitin’, for me,
and I'd rather not kiss Mary and the
babies with a taste of it-on, my lips.”
In ten minutes we stopped at 11 etc-
tion, and the old sergeant stopped from
the cars, and as we moved off he was
still this centre of a. beautiful, loving
group. ‘
'. Stanton, Lincoln and‘Grant.
'1’1'0f.Go]dwiu Smith, in Macmillan' s
Magazine,wr1 ;veStaut0n, I see, toil-
iu‘g without remission at his overwhelm
bigtask. This manwasinlaboragiant,
and paths a country never was
‘served wi a sterile: sense of duty
Iuthefieldthsmulcs, inthc office
Stanton pulled the war through with
dogged tenacity and with little reward
or praise. For Stanton seemed“ not to
be popular. In his position it was
hardly possible to avoid making one-
mics, and he was probably rendered
irritable by the malady which he had
contracted by sitting without intermis-
siou at his desk. If monuments were
always proportioned to services Stun
tdu’s monument would be grand.
I was abnost ashamed to take advan-
tage of Mr. Seward’s introduction to
.. President Lincoln, who had something
to do in those tremendous days besides
receiving idle visitors, though I am
afraid he had a good many idle visitors,
and, what: was worse, a good many
office-seekers to receive. But I yielded
to the temptation, and found the Presi-
dent most kind and courteous: A
glance was sufiicient to dissipate the
inipressiou 0f Lincoln’s unseemly icvity
amidst scenes of horror which had been '
produced in England by the repetition of
his jokes and apothegms. Care and
anxiety never sat more visibly on any
mortal brow. His love of mournful
poetry was a proof that the natural
temperament of the man was melan-
choly, and his face showed that he felt
the full responsibility of his terrible
position. I know not whether there
was any particle of truth in the story
that after Chancellorsville he meditated
suicide; but I can well believe that
Chancellorsville went to his heart. The
little stories, one or two of which he
told in theintcrview which I had with
him, were simply his habitual mode of
expressiom‘ioaud perhaps at the. same
time a relief for his surcharged mind——
a pinchasit were of mental snuff.
' Grant I saw in Stanton’s ollice, and he
struck me as a most quiet and unpretend-
lug thunderbolt of war. In the camp 1
saw his tent, which was as plainly
equipped as that of any subaltcrn, and it
was well known that he hated military
parade. Of his strategy I am no judge,
..«lv nor 01111111de to decide whether any
‘ good puriode’was served by all the car-
nage of t . t campaign; but beyond
' _ fvictor of Fort Donclsou
’ the; military pillar of tho
suppose it must be said that he was
ruthless. He certainly was, if it be true
that he refused to exchange prisoners
when his soldiers were perishing by
thousands in the murderous prison
<cmnp at Andersonvillc. ’ But if be shed
blood without stint, he brought the
slaughter to a close.
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Adaptivencss of Creole Clraractei.
As aprc-of ol‘ the writer’s assertion
that the creole woman knows the am: of
“ much in little ” is cited the follow ing
instzmcc A* creole gentleman, of dis-
.itinguhhed lineagé, educated 'jn Paris,
“nemesis parts above the average,
" " and of ample means, was imbued With
allcsirc to better the condition of the
poor. 1:ch left his plantation, and with
EHis‘efimca noble in conception, came-
to naught. His substance was gone,
his plantation sold, and he and his fami-
ly faced actual poverty. The family of
nine, and a lady boarder with her little
daughter, lived upon fifty cents a day—
lived, not starved, as the rounded for ms
and creamy complexions of the dab 511-
ters testified How did they do it?
Frankly, we do not know; but coffee,
French rolls (which when stale are
bought at half price, and rewormed are
delicious), gumbos and soups, liver, red
beans, rice and hominy varied with fish,
fruits and vcgetablcs‘, all delicately
cookéd gwere the materials of their
f'dfreig; I ”must have been good, for the
boarder fdidi—i not grumble. The ladies
were always cheerful, even gay, and no
word of complaint ever reached the
stranger’s ear. “ The heart for any
fate” is preeminently the creole’s. She
is cheerful under the most adverse cir-
cumstances. The plunge from riches
to poverty, which to the average Anglo-
Saxon temperament is awful almost as
Lucifer’s fall, has rarely any disastrous
effect upon the creole. Replniug and
bitterness of spirit are foreign to her
mercurial nature. Then she is born
cent l.calico, fits her to perfection. Her
feet are sure to be pretty, and just as
sure to be encased in pretty shoes. Her
mirroris a part of her cult; a belief in
the arts of pleasing, and the cvaugels
of coquetry, clauses inher social creed.
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--Ptsncl1"e'dr Nickel for ‘the drip.
The Japanese proletuire has no pock-
ets, and he finds it awkward to carry in
his bands such coins as he contrivcs to
possess. In ancient times his rulers
were more considerate. They punched
“Bauhrdfliolwlu the centre of the coins,
through which he passed a string, and
was thus able to carry about his avail-
able capital tied round his neck or to his
waistband. The coins were not large
lnamcuut it took a thousand of them
c a few shillings, while a cart
was winquired to convey a sovereign’.s
MB utwitfi' civilization came an
improvedB coinage, larger in value and
with no holes, and the pocketless prolc
talrs naturally grumbled that civiliza-
tion treated him hardly in this respect.
But his cries have been heard, and the
Japan government has promised to
9' ew coin Specially for his he:
hoof value is lose their bde—lf'fthl
:1f' :1 half-penny sterling, and it is to
I possess the indispensable hole, by which
. no can stiing it as :1 child strings beads.
Insatiable Graves in the West.
it is an awful sight to see a man
drown, but with foresight and skill no
man need-drown. Fancy a sea in which
there is no swimming, and a sea into
which you may plunge unaware. A
man is loping over the green prairie,
looking out from under ids broad som-
brero at the lazy cattle and the prairie
dogs playing in the sun. Suddenly there
is a sound like a giant's throat swallow-
ing a choking about of terror. The
prairie dogs run into their holes, and a
moment later come out cautiously, curl-
ously and frightened. The tall, reed-
iike grass is waving where the horse
and rider were just new. The antelope
on the crest of the divide yonder look
around them watchfully. But there is
nothing to fear, no man in sight. He its
going to town, that rider, with the
wages of a hard winter’s work in his
pocket, riding his favorite broucho,
dressed'in‘ the buckskins he had fringed
in the winter evenings, ready to show
the foolish girls how brave he looked in
his rude attire. Where is he now—he
and his horse? In a grave of slimy,
shivering mud—alkali paste, blue with
a nameless tint 0f putrid death, has
filled his throat—covered his-eyes be-
fore he could close the lids .
What does this mean—this hideous
freak of nature—some work, of a devil:
endowed with a moment’s power? No;
only an alkali sink; only a natural Well
filled with a paste as yielding as water.
retentive as hell. Picture to yourself
the surface setting back to its normal
quietude with an indescribable gulp,a
ghoul-like masking of the lips. A
grave that supplies itself with dead, a
grave that buries almost before it kills,
an insatiable, bottomless grave, set like
a trap for the living. The sink-holcjs
not always covered with grass, some-
times it has a cakcd and seamed crust
of bluish white alkali on the top of it.
But even that is -a poor safeguard, for
the long, green grass around it will hide
it from the rider until it is too late to
avoid it.
“ The tenacity of this paste of mud if
something incredible,” says s writer.
“ I have never seen a man caught in a
sink-hole, but I have seen a man ride
to the edge of one, discover it too late
to turn his horse, and, shaking himself
loose in the saddle, vault over the hom-
pommo], when the pony was caught,
striking the ground far beyond the
sink.- holq. There were twenty men
there, and before the horse had sunk
far there were half a dozen ropes fast
to him. Half a dozen strong ponies
can pull almost anything, but ,they
could not draw that horseback from
the grave that was closing over him.
There is a strange suction about this
alkali—it holds all it grasps with _a
horrible pertiuucity.” , ’. .
Religious Intolerance in Russia.
The deplorable intolerance in relig-
ious matters which distinguishes Rus-
sian rule, has just obtained fresh vic-
tims, one named Tikhanolf, an inferior
functionary of the telegraphs; the other,
Veksdine, a countryman. These werea
few weeks ago summoned before the
court of Novgorod for an. offence
against orthodoxy, an offence detailed
in the 18ch paragraph of the Penal
Law. Tikhanoff, it was alleged, has as-
sembled various persons and toldthem
that he could not find the Orthodox
Church to be right in recommending the
worship of Holy im ages. “The Saviour,”
he said, “never spoke one word about
such images. We ought to worship God
alone, and when praying we should do
well if we did as the Saviour told us to
do, to go into our chamber instead of
praying in the streets as the Pharisees
did 1n the old time and as the Orthodox
do now. ” Mhn'y‘ of the hearers sympa-
thi'ze‘d with the views of Tikhauoff, and
the other offender, vcksdine, seems to
have carried on an energetic agitation
for the “ new truth.”
The two men charged with the of-
fence were sentenced to hard labor. A
great crowd attended the trial, consist-
ing for the most part, of sympathizers
with the defendants. Only one of allthe
Russian papers and reviews has had the
courage to make any remarks about this
sentence. That organ, a review called
the Viestrik chropi (The European
Messenger), asks what the adherents of
Tikhanolf and Veksdine, who attended
the trial, can think of the case ? It can
scarcely be supposed, the writer ,says,.
that this sentence will, in their eyos‘, be
judged as sufficient proof that TikhaMfi
and .Veksdinc are wrong and the Ortho-N’
dox Church right. It is much more
probable that the condemned men will
be considered martyrs to truth, and that
the number of their secret adherents
will increase. All that the Orthodox
Church can gain by its severity is to
increase the number of religious hypo-
crites.
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Il’nslrington’s Headquarters in France.
After the surrender of Yorktown and
the departure of the French Washington
established his headquarters at New-
burg-on-the-Hudsou. The house in
which he lived is carefully preserved
and shown as an historical museum.
There is a’pleasant story of Lafayette's
affectionate remembrance of the life
there. Just before his death, which
occurred in 1834, he gave in dinner
:party -in Paris to the American minis-
tor and some friends who had been old
associates. Later' in the evening, when
it came time for supper, the guests
were ushered into a room which was in
strange contrast with the elegance of
the apartments they had been in. The
ceiling was low, with large beams
crossing it; there was a. single small,
uncurtaiued window and several small
doors. It looked more like an old-
fashioned Dutch kitchen than a room
in a French house. A long, rough table
was meagrely set.
“Do you know where we are new!”
{asked Lafayette .as his companions
Vlooked about puzzled, and'gas '
, .dreamn
dwindowi and the silver caulpegobletsi
as'iff;i_n-.a
" Ah! the seven doors and one'f
We are at Washington’s headquarters
on the Hudson, fifty years ago!” He
had reproduced the room as a surprise
to his friends.
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Advantages 'of Turkish Bedrooms.
This simplicity of domestic furniture
has its advantages. At the first alarm of
fire everything can be turned out of the
window without injury; but it is very
much opposed to our Western ideas of
comfort, as the slave girls, unless care-
fully barricaded out, make an inroad
into the sleeping room in early mom-
ing. They swoop up bed and bedding
before your eyes are fairly open; two
or three maidens pounce upon the
mattresses, the yorghans, and the em-
; broidercd pillows the instant they are
unoccupied, Land? rolling the ~;;-wholc
into thewraji J {hon it,.sw.ay., "to the
~vast cupboard constructed for that
purpose in most of the rooms. The
visitor is left stranded, and obliged to
proceed with the incongruous feeling
of dressing in a drawing room. These
remarks apply to orthodox, ,fld-fash-
toned households. Y g and ,_ _
Bailey haqftsFrcnchgznGcndao, -
steads, its‘ “armoire s g'lacc,’"its wdshe
stand, 311 marble and fine porcelain “a
la francs”
The Geyser-s of to Yellowstone.
not give much space to them. Your
readers all know what a geyser is. Its
operation can easily be imagined, and
the photographs, which are frequent, -
give an excellent idea of the appear-
ance of these eruptions. "I was pre-
pared for them, and they created less
of Wonder and admiration in my mind
than the coloring, the conformation
and the permaueut'agitation in the
springs, to which I have given more
attention in this letter There is but
one of the greater geysers that the via.
ltor is sure of seeing in a limited .
sojourn—Old Faithful, which spo’utg'
every hour, and is hardly surpassed in
others go at longer intervals—some of
several days. one is pretty sure in two
days’ time to see a number of minor
ones, as we did. We ere fortunate
enough to witness ption of the
grand geyser also, w ch, in its breadth
and power, is magnificent. The Castle
we missed, much to our regret. If we
left little to be desired. The landlord
who lives in fr0ut of it told me: ‘ “ There
is just one word toAdescrihe it—it is
awful. It makers noise that appalls
you, and it shakes the earth all about, we
when it is over.“ The craters built up
around these geysers are great curiosiv
tics in the form which the deposits
have taken, and it is very. interesting to ._
visit them all. One of the chicfest, the
Grand, covers no begin at all that would
be observed: othcrt, like the Castle
and the Grotto, his large and peculiar.
The whole area within view of the
hotel at this upper basin is covered with
springs and geysers from Which the-'3
effect toward twilight is the best of ' all. ,
I saw a curious. combination of,“tl.1,'e"
of July. All at once I came upon a"
man and his family washing for the
hotel in one of these springs. Ho 1104
moved the heavy soil-from the gar-
.the spring. I took a handkerchief
from my pocket and it was cleansed,
ironed and back. thcré in five minutbs’
time. This man Id me a Chiuaman
had established himself at one than
spring some time since but he put so
much soap in the‘walcr that it created
a small geyser, and john decampcd hur-
riedly, thinking that lie was in the in-
ferns] regions. We tried the exp'eii-
ment later withnpouud 0f- soap,a1ul it
resulted in 'tliroinug 5,up_’ the yvateré‘with
great violence five or six feet."
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The Natural Divlalons of Time.
The natural divisions of time are
the year and the day. The week is
arbitrary, being probably derived from
considerations that suggested by the
first chapter of Genesis. The month,
though originally intended to be the
has of necessity, departed from this
idea, in order to make an even number
in the year. The decade and the cen-
tury are purely artificial, deduced from
our system of numbering. But the
day and the year, the one derived from
the other measuring the round of .the
seasons, are universally adopted units
of time, suggesting to‘cmselvesalike to
cultured and savage,- and"«which we
The year is the time of the revolution
of the earth around the sun. Its meas-
ure is most easily obtained by the resp-
pearauce of the sun at the same altitude
in the sky. Every one knows that it is
higher in the summer than in winter.
-If the circle of the earth’s equator were
extended right out from the centre of
the earth into the sky, it would cut out
a circle there which is called the celes-
tial equator. Now, the sun crosses this
line in the spring northward, arriving
at its greatest altitude“ 1n the middle of
summer; thence it descends, crossing
the line southward in the fall, and
reaching its lowest point' in midwinter.
The ancients, by measuring the length
of the shadow cast by a vertical stick
surprisingly coorrcct results as to the
length of the year. In 450 B. C. Democ-
ritus asserted the year to be 366% days
long, which is within about eleven
..minutes of the truth. Another ingeni-
._ one device for the same purpose was
that of the Egyptian astronomers, who
set up a wheel parallel to the plane of
the equator. When the sun Was in this
01' the wheel would be exactly inter-
cepted by the' other, and the interval
between two such occurrences would
measure the year. Owing to the fact
that the sun does not cross the celes-
tial equator in the same place each
year, this year which measures the
seasons is a few minutes shorter than
the exact time of the earth’s motion
around the sun.
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The Senouaslte Brotherhood.
The Senoussite sect, founded in
North Africa about the middle of the
present century by an Arab of the Beni
Senous tribe, from the neighborhood of
Tlcmsen, in Algeria, is organized on
to Christian civilization as. its main-s}
spring of action. From its "cradle 111';
the Tripolitau Sahara it has extended
its ramifications through all North
Africa, from the Somali coast to the
mouth of the Senegal. M. Henri Du-
veyrier, the eminent explorer of the
Sahara, estimates the number, of the
khouan, or brothers, ht not iess than a.
million and a half, while that figure may
probably be doubled. “Each of these
adopts, ” he says, “is not only ipso facto
a missionary, but is ready at the signal
.of his superior to transform himself
ginto a propagaudist agent, a so]dier,a
bravo, or eye 'a cowardly poisoncr.”
To the aerobic“ f- tho soot hc ascribes
many recent rising: in Algeria, and
numerous massacres of European trav-
ellers, such as that of Mlle. Tinne’s
party ih;the 801111111 in 1869 and of the
Flattcr's Mission in the Algerian Sfihardd
in 1881. The Sultans of Morocco and
Wadai are believed tobc more 91'; less
subservient to its decrees, while its in-
finance is felt as the disturbing element
in many cities of Egypt, notably in
Tantah and throughout the land of
Yemen on the further shore of the Red
Sea. Mussulmaus, tainted with West-
ern ideas,a are held by it n‘ 'a like ab—
horence with the odious Nazarene, and
tians, being on lechrn ustgbe‘anni
hilated by tho lain blow; '~ The” fouhdér
of the seciety, dyiugiu 1859, transmitted?
his authority to his son, Sidi Moham-
med-ben-Ali-es-Seuomsi, the present
sheik, regarded. throughout North 4:
rlca witli? 114.i'ev’sioucc "eéllps-
ing that felt for Mohaugcdf mg, if.
There was,; in a cc 0 erv
cones of chili Comm foi' fifeohamm
Ahmed among Senoussi’s followers im-
" , tely on the fall of Khartoum, but
5 ‘ idly subsided with the subsequent
wane in the fortunes of the Warrior
Prophet of the Soudan.
'A correspondon'ciwritiug says: The .
geyscrs are the most remarkable maui- ~
festations of this regiop; but I shall -'
effectiveness by anyof the others. The ‘i
had included that also, it would have. ,-
look for it with hope,.hut we are: glad .3. ;
practical on- this majestic scene as if
strolled through it alone on the Fourth
meats, and then set them to boil in '-
time from one new moon to the next, _ k
1 d d knees if
the reappearance of] 8h; an at "- a billtyhPremuiurc Decline in Man, Errors of Youth,
wind I
cannot think will ever be superseded. .
on different days of the year, arrived at _
plane, the shadow of the suuward side“ I,
the system of the secret societies :of‘
Europe, with uncompromising hostility '
its watchword is that Turk! and CM”:
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The sea occupies three-fifths of the
three thousand five hundred feet waves
same; varying only a trifle fr0m the ice
inch. If a box six feet degp was filled.
the averagcg; depth. of} the ocean to 1111
three miles, there would die
pure salt two hunt“ and thirty feet
«wafer 1s colder at the 66mm than 011
,f.’ 1': the surface. In many .ofstho hays on.
the coast of Norway the water often
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~ above.
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> the water traveled. The-.watcr stays in‘
the same place, but the motion goes on. .
Sometimes in stems these waves are
hour, more than twice as fast as the
Jthe swiftest steamer. The «hatches
fiom valley to valleyis. generally fifteen
times the height, hence a. wave five feet
high will extend over seventy-five feet
« of water. The films 0f the sea dashing
011 Bell Rock“ 13 said to- lie seventeen
tons for each squamwrd Evapora-
3on3 is a. wonderful m in drawing
e water from the sea. Every year a
ck is taken up into the clouds. The
dc bear their burden to the land
(1 the water comes down' 111 rain upon .
: fthe fields, to flow back .at last through
, vers. The depth of the sea presents
interesting problem, If the Atlan-
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liundrcd and sixty-four feet, the dis-
dines from. shore to shore would be-
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red miles. If lowered a. little more
fon three miles, there would be a road
fdry land from Newfoundland to
. 3eland. This is the plain on which
the great tlantic cables were laid.
The Mod! rranean is comparatively
. and sixty feet would leave three differ-
out seas, and Africa would he joined
with Italy. ' The- British Channel is
are like a pond, which accounts for-
choppy waver.
, -It has been found difficult to get
:dorrect soundings 0f the Atlantic. A
dudshipman of the navy overcame the
- difficulty, and shot weighing thirty
domds carries down the line. A hole
labored through the sinker, through
hich a rod- of iron is passed, moving
' y back and forth." In the end of
a bar a cup is dug out and the inside
.'.1
t to the line ands sling holds the
below the ball touches the earth, the =
-_3 ng unhooks and the shot slides 011'.
e lard in the end of the bar. holds
the bottom, and a dr0p shuts over
_ e cup to keep the water from wash-
] g the sand out. When the ground
ifi reached a shock is felt as if an elec-
tric current had passed through .the
line.
ffsE‘me of the sand, 0r-_whatcvcr may be 5
t
l—W I
Decline of Paper Collars.
Twenty-five years ago, when the paper
collar made its. appearance, it was
V‘sdmethiug of a marvel, for who had
' ever heard of paper being substituted
for textile fabrics?
hit, ;h0wevcr, the conditions under
which it appeared being exactly suited
to it. The progress of the war had
curried prices of textiles very high, and
linen collars were almost a luxury. The
new article was of course much cheaper,
' ' even less than the price of washing and
' ironing the linen one. But it was not
the cheapness 0f the former that recom-
mended 11.1111. gloss with which it
woe finished was a step in advance of
any laundrying that had been done at
thht time. It may be that many people
hesitated before wearing a paper collar,
shrinking from anything in the nature
of a sham. It took some time for this
prejudice to be overcome, for the aver-
ago American hates cheap substitutes.
[t as not difficult to distinguish at- a
glance the imitation from the real thing,
for, the latter was usually without much
globe, if it was not also limp and broken
in 'wrlnkles. Yet in time the new co]-
sham as a. real article of another
character. Taking into account these
facts it would seem strange that it
shculd almost disappear from view, for
even though the linen collar has come
to be a comparatively cheap article, it
would seem that paper ought to be
ablo to compete with it. But it has
been so. The industry of manufactur-
ing’; paper dollars has entirely disap-
peared from the city of Troy, where it
had‘its birth, and is confined to New
'Yoi'k and Boston, where less'than a
million dollar’s worth are produced
annually.
“MO-9
zil'hey Were Probably Both Right.
In a small town on the Susquehanna
river there is a church in which the
singing had “ run completely down.”
Ithad been led for many years by
oueiof the deacons, whose voice and
magical power had been gradually fail-
ins-'3
Ohe evening the clergyman gave out
the hymn, which was in metrical meas-
ure father harder than usual, and the
deadon led off. Upon its conclusion
the minister arose and said:.
“Brother B—will please repeat the
hym'n, as I cannot conscientiously pray
afte'r such singing!”
The deacon very composcdly pitched
it td another tune, with a. manifest
impiovement upon the first effort, and
the: clergyman proceeded with his
prayier. Having finished, he took up a
booli to give the second hymn, when he
was interrupted by the deacon gravely
getting up and saying, in a voice audible
to tile whole congregation.
“Will Mr. —plcase make another
prayhr? It will be impossible for me
to sing after such praying as that!”
W
' Why the Audience Smiled.
“ If I ever got married in church
again you can call me a. goa ” said a
bashful young man the other day.
“ What’s the matter now. 9”
“ Matter enough,” he retorted, and he
seemed to get mad as he thought of it
‘ I was married not long ago, and as my
sife’ 13 parents were pillars of the
church it had to come off there, so they
thought. Well, some repairs were being
took place in the Sunday-school room
l‘hcrc’s where the whole trouble came
before the minister got startchnoticeé-
a great many people smiling in the
audience. I didn’t know what to make
of it. 'Thcyall seemed to be looking
over my head. Inever said anything
till the thing was done; then I turned
_a'r011nd and looked up. What do you
think I saw? One of those confounded
and it said: ‘Sulfcr Little Children to
Come Unto Me.’ Isn't that enough t1
make a man mad l”
with sea water and allowcdto evapot- '.
ate under the sun, thcrc' would be two
inches 0f salt left on the bottom. Taking a:
forty feet high, and travel fifty miles an .
layer. of the entire sea, fourteen feet '
shallow. A drying up of six bundled ’
ated with lard. The bar is made ‘
5 at on. When them: which extends
It was a great ,
[erg came to be regarded not so much a ,
made in the church, so the marriage -
in. We stood on the platform when ‘
the Superintendent’s desk stood, out »
tuckontnebedoftiiisa he The;
n.
m'ottoes hanging right over our heads 1
'1 BlnhaMAmagesandnnfhan~ .
Questionable advrts. aothswtedstasypsha. ,
surface of the earth. At- the. depth of. .
are not felt. The temperature is the ‘
of the palate the «burning sun of 'the
eduator. A mile down the water has a.
' pressure of over a ton to the gnarl},
a. lgyer,’ of ,
Norwalk Chronicler