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JAMES W. THOMAS,
Fledged but to Truth, to Liberty and Lwr, Ho fvnt mji ai-u !W out Awe.
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VOLUME XVIIL
Miscellaneous Selection .
THE BEST.
bt louiba bvshnill.
Why ask for Joy's tumultuous thrill,
That suffers no laorease Í
Better the motions sure and still
Of ever-deepening peace.
Better to dwell with lowly things,
And with their growth to grow)
To feel within those seoret springs,
That gather, cool and alow.
Born of such stlUness^wells the brook,
tMM the nook
O'erflows into a hymn.
The little singer trips along,
_In musical content)
But ever gains a fuller song,
And learns Its own intent.
Gladly it spends Its tunetal grace,
. In hidden minstrelsy |
Nor asks, as yet, a wider space,
But Just to sing and be.
In simple silence thrives its heart-
It waters flowerets shy,
It (Ms the spotted Ashes dart,
it mirrors bits of sky i
Till slipping down by hillside flurms,
Its ministries enlarge;
And in the meadow's oircllng arms,
It wins a broader marge.
White lilies anchor on its breast,
A boat glides softly through,
And ever deeper grows its rest
The more it has to do.
For in its tasks it knows no haste,
Nor lets the music cease-
Too free to keep, too calm to waste,
The largesse of its peace)
But bears it on to outstretched lands.
Where thirsty cities wait)
And then, at length, it understands
The ftaliness of its (kite.
MqKINNEY, COLLIN COUNTY, TEXAS, AUG
Proud ships upon its bosom ride,
It throbs with busy oars;
It grows more nobly satisfied,
Between its widening shores;
It gathers strength and majesty,
Yet flows with rhythmic ease;
And the great gladness of the sea
Completes its garnered peaoe.,
O, bettor far to feel the flow
Of inward peace like this,
Than some brief ecstaov to know,
Some swift, unfruitful bliss 1
Better? dear Peacc, thou art the best I
For where thou hast thy home,
Full grows the silence, deep the rest,
Ana Joy herself shall come)
—The Atlantic for September.
THE YOUM* MUSICIAN.
by rebecca harding davis.
There are some quaint little towns hid-
den here and there in the Pennsylvania
hills, of which few of the readers of the
Companion are likely to have heard. The
settlements were made by Germans, a
generation or two ago, who carried Into
the wilderness their own traditions, lan-
guage and customs, and who have held to
them obstinately ever since. The young
men oí these families do not " go West,"
as other Americans do, to push their for-
tunes ; the young women marry usually
among their own people.
One of the most secluded and queerest
of these villagers Parrendorff, among the
central mountains of the State. It lies oil
of any postroad, and is too insignificant
to find a place on the map.
You might ride for a day or two throi
forests of oak and sycamore, with JMB
casional glimpse of a deer, if luck favi
you, or, indeed, of a bear, before you
would come to this lonely hamlet, which,
after all, consists but of half-a-dozen enor-
mous red-roofed barns, with small dwel-
lings attached. After searching for a
while, you would have found, years ago,
one of these houses with a broader porch
than the others, on which two sleepy, fat
Dutchmen rooked themselves in the sun,
and dozed and smoked while watching for
the guests thnt never came. ,
By the side of the mountain, too, close
to the house, a spring dripped its clear
crystal into a long, mossy, wooden
trough, which ran over on the road,
making a delectable puddle for the ducks.
This was the most prominent sign that
old Peter Schnell's house was an inn.
The countenances of the people were
heavy. There was nothing light or beau-
tiful in them; no hint of any feeling be-
yond a dull appetite for scrapple or wurst.
.The town, too, had a heavy, listless ap-
pearance, with but two singular excep-
tions—the rare and lovely flowers in front
of every dwelling, and the music with
which in the evening the streets were
filled.
All Germans eare for music, but it was
Herr Weber who had taught the bovs in
Parrendorff such wonderful skill. None
of them, except Conrad Rosen, the car-
penter's son, had anything else to do after
the ploughing and planting were over
than to scrape away on their violins.
But long before Conrad was born, his
father had found oulf there was no car-
pentering work to be done in Parrendorff.
His farm was poorly managed, the crops
died out, acre after acre was sold, and the
end of it all was that Rosen with the
rheumatism, and his wife with a lame leg,
and Conrad, red-cheeked and bright-
eyed, were the poorest and jolllest family
in Parrendorff.
The old man and woman sat and smoked
their pipes at each side of the clean
hearth; Conrad dug, and plowed, and
reaped for half the farmers in the coun-
•h Peter laughed and
he Had an anjtotp lot* at
ad not bft+nfed to Mm be-
~Just then the great event tn the history
of Parrendorff oecured—the Grand Duke
Of Hesse-Oassel came to visit it. This
grand duke, aa our fathers remember,
made a tour oí the United States when
railroads were not, and steamboats were
unknown, and when grand dukes and
princes ot the blood were not so common
as tourists among us.
Herr Weber had been his tutor,the peo-
ple were all from his duchy: it entered,
therefore, into his highness1 whimsical
brain to go up Into the mountains, and
see how it fared with them. Perhaps, too,
he had an attack of longing to hear his
own tongue, and eat a t>lt of genuine
wurst again. However that may be. up
he came with two or three stout, plainly
dressed Germans like himself.
An American village would have been
In an uproar, and hurrahed Itself hoarse*
The Parrendorffers only put on their Sun-
day clothes and red stockings, and puffed
harder at their pipes) ,
The Grand Duke, in the evening, found
Herr Weber and his violinists ranged.on
Peter Schnell's porch, and heara them
play. He was a shrewd as well as kindly
man.
" They play well," he said, to Weber.
" There is one, at least, powerfol youth
among them." And afterward. "Your
music will be the salvation of this town.
It wlll'save it from sinking Into the mire
of eating and drinking, and snoozing,
like the pigs yonder. X want to bestow a
gift, to leave some kindly memento of
myself. I think it will in some way refer
to this music."
Herr Weber, therefore, was not sur-
f>rlsed at night when his highness sent
br him, ana stated his intention of tak-
ing one young lad from the village, and
giving to him the best musical education
which Europe would afford.
'I shall thus bestow upon him the
chance of helping the world by some-
thing better and loftier than fat porkers
and mammoth potatoes."
"Andhow will your highness make
your choice?" demanded Herr Weber.
"Ah! I have thought of that. In four
weeks I shall return. Let each pupil play
before me something of his own composi-
tion, no matter how simple or short, but
it must be all his own."
That night the Grand Duke slept on
four feather beds, with two on top or him,
and departed the next morning, leaving
the village of Parrendorff stunned with
gratitude and amazement. It was quite
as though a royal highness was to be born
among them. A lad of Parrendorff to
become a pupil in the conservatory of Vi-
enna I To choose his Instructors among
the ereat teachers in Paris I
For three weeks nothing was heard but
thrnm-thrummlng and scraping. The
farm-work was left; the horses were un-
fed ; the cows were seldom led to the pas-
tures, unless the girls <£tose to take them
Conrad washwi4fl|L the rest. They
met in the cvepngs to practice and com-
pare their scowtatMit-ria week before the
time of dedslon?Bbrtrad had as yet done
said
nothing.
" What does this mean, my boy?"
Herr Weber.
And Conrad was but a ruddy, apple-
cheeked boy, after all, and the others were
young men.
"Itis because I know so little!" he
broke out.
You can hear
of the drui
ing. And
light on the
the sobbing
the moon's first
Hans has a battle-piece,
ions, and the rolling
' neks of thedy-
iturne,' Moon-
de me observe
d the effect of
ie tide. And
a
, to keep meat in the pot. Worst ot
about this time the lad began to cast
his blue eyes on Greta Brandt, and to
take bis fiddle into Brandt's porch, in the
few hours he had to play on ft.
Greta was then a plump little girl of six-
teen, rosy and fair. In the last month or
two, she had tied her long yellow braids
with bits of blue ribbon, and knitted
open-work in the white stockings that
covered her stout ankles.
Young Peter Schnell began to take his
violin up in the evenings, too, and Greta
said, " Muss ieh dmn,'"with them both,
and laughed till she showed her pretty
white teeth, and held out her soft, warm
hand just as quickly to welcome one as the
other. Conrad laughed back at her, but
Peter struck a melancholy note on his vi-
olin. He was a tall, thin, dark fellow,
with a determinately gloomy face.
Very probably, Conrad, who was a
reckless, topsy-turvy, good-natured fel-
low, never had a serious thought as to
how it all would end, until one evening he
chanced to be sitting in Greta's kitchen
alone, when her fatner and Peter Schnell
were outside. . _
" How's this ?" grunted old Peter. " Is
it Conrad Rosen that I hafe seen here
again ? I do not like dat, Jacob Brandt.
What shall that beggar be friends mlt the
girl for ?" __.
" Dey are only children," puffed
Brandt. . ....
" Vat is dat, dat he plays on de violin
for her? Dat is nofflug? I flint you to
remember," knocking nis pipe on his
knee, by way of emphasis. " that your
girl is bespoken mit my boy, befoi
she could walk alone. Dat meadov
▼ou vill give me mit her, pesides all year,
barings and holdings, ant shall be hen
when you are dead.'r
Brandt nodded.
" My boy Peter shall haf dePlatt farm.
His mother haf for him twenty-two pil-
lows, ten feather beds."
Brandt shuffled his huge body uneasily
" Yes *, I know all dat I promised. Ii
two years Peter shall marry her."
Peter Schnelloolbring hotly—" has an
aria called' Love,' It is rail of sweetness
and passion. But I—what do I know? I
have seen nothing but Parrendorf; done
nothing but plow and dig!"
" I do not know," sala Herr, gravely,
"how you are to equal these master-
pieces. But be sure of one thing, my
you can only describe what you
w."
So Conrad went his way.
The Grand Duke was back. Parren-
dorff again wore its Sunday petticoats
and red stockings. Early In the morning,
the little band ofmusicans, Herr Weber
at their head, marehed up the street,.each
with his violin and a roll of paper, and a
rose in his Jacket.
Their sweethearts had sent them the
roses. Greta had sent a bud to Conrad,
but his old mother hobbled In with one
the next moment, when he hid Greta's,
and wore his old mother's.
All the eld people of the village were
fathered about the spring, boasting of
[ans or Seppel; but Conrad's father and
mother slipped off from the others, and
prayed for him. Then Frau Rosen began
to cook dinner.
" He will lose, of course, poor boy: so
I will make glad for him Just as much as
if he won."
Meanwhile his highness sat nursing one
leg over the other Tknee, listening to the
competitors.
"Andwas 1st das?" when Hans had
scraped and tugged until the perspiration
oured down nis face. "Battle, he?
Irles of the wounded? Cannon? Pah I
pahl You never saw a battle, young
man! Pray God you never may! Mean-
while that tum-tum sounds like a child's
beating on a tin-pan. Stand aside. Moon-
light? Waves? That is the splash of
suds from a tub, if it has any meaning!
And you," waiting for Peter Schnell,
"you discourse on love and Jealousy ? A
most maudlin wail, verily! What comes
next?" as Conrad took his place.
" 'Morning on the Farm ?' Aha! Mow
we are coming to Parrendorff again!"
It was no help to Conrad or his music,
that the grand duke should talk as he did,
at the top of his voice; but he played
lightly and with spirit. The dulce lis-
tened sharply, then began to laugh and
nod.
" I see! I see! Quiet, and then a stir
among the leaves, and then the plow-boy
whistling the air. The birds—there are
the partridge, and quail, and one I don't
know—the air whistled again—and—there
we' are in the barn-yard i Do you not re-
General News Summary*
member, Weber, the farm-house where I
was a boy? Just as the birds sang, and
the chickens clucked, and the maids called
the cows! Again, again, boy!"
The grand duke's face was heated, and
his eyes sparkled like an ordinary man's
whenpleased.
" What it this lad's name, Weber?
How do you call him, heln? He Is my
pupil. You are my pupil, Conrad. The
man who hears the music in the common
things he knows is the musician for me!"
How Conrad went and came again, and
built a snug house for his mother and
father, and married Greta, and wrote
songs which we all sing—have you not
all seen that from the beginning 1—Youth's
Companion.
In Saginaw City, Mich., where a civil
damages liquor law Is In force, a publican,
in order to provide agaipst risks of prose-
iln
i against risk
cution, posted the f<wwlng notice in his
saloon: " On and sitter the 1st day of
Aúgust, 1873, no liquor, wine or beer will
be sold to any married man without a
permit froa> nis wife. Georok Lad-
t*r." J .
and Political.
Jefferson Davis addressed the Southern
Historical Convention at White Sulphur
Springs, August 18. In speaking of the
lite war, he said: "We havt been more
cheated-than conquered by the declara-
tions of the Federal President, Congress
and Generals, for there never oould have
been a surrender had we anticipated what
followed, and we would to-day have been
free." He still had hopee of the
South, because whatever men might
be he never yet had seen re-
constructed women, and while men
of to-day are mightier than the principle
for whlph they had struggled, they yet
hoped their children who suooeeded them
would grow up to perpetuate them and
redeem all we had lost. Davis' remarks,
It is said, oontalned no sentiment hostile
to the Federal Government.
The Texas Republicans have nominated
E. J.' Davis for Governor, R. H. Taylor
for Lieutenant Governor, and J. W.
Thomas for Comptroller.
Crimea and Casualties.
At Fulton, Mo., August IB, an old man
named Peter Kessler was on trial for mule
stealing; ne pleaded guilty, and was sen
tenced by the Court to six years in the
penitentiary. There had been threats of
lynching Kessler during the day, and af-
ter the trial a close carriage was pro-
cured, and the prisoner placed therein,
guarded by the sheriff, prosecuting at-
torney, and a constable; the city marshal
was also near with a force of six or seven
men mounted and armed to act as escort.
As the driver was about to mount his seat,
a man stepped up with a drawn revolver,
took the reins, and Jumping on the seat,
started the horses ona run. He then turned
and pointed his revolver at Kessler, when
the sheriff, George Law, caught the pistol
in his only hand (one of them having been
shot off in the war), and turned it out-
ward, Just as it was dischaiged. About
twenty-five men then mounted thelr
horses and went in pursuit of the carriage,
and commenced firing Into it. Col. Law
was shot in the spine, and constable
Dundon was shot In the neck. The
former was fatally, and the latter se-
riously wounded. John G. Provines, the
prosecuting attorney, was shot through
the wrist The mob then got possession
of the carriage, and drove to a grove
about a mile from the court house, and
there hung Kessler until he was dead.
He made no statements, but offered up a
very earnest prayer. The fury of the
mob was intense, and was doubtless
caused by the escape of Kessler's son
from the cars while the two prisoners
were being brought from Jefferson City for
trial.
A one-armed soldier named Weston, a
peddler of prize packages, was murdered
near Albany, N. Y., recently, and his
wife and two other women have been ar-
rested as accomplices in the deed. A
German barber named Lowensteln is be-
lieved to have committed the murder, and
he has escaped. His wife Is one of the
three women arrested. They all lived to-
gether in Brooklyn.
At Granby, Mo., August 15, during
the performance of an itinerant show, a
pistol combat took place between two
white men and a negro, in which several
shots were exchanged. The negro, Thom-
as, was badly wounded, and a Mr.
Schmidt, a prominent merchant of the
town, was instantly killed by a chance
shot. Two other quiet citizens—one a
lady—were wounded. The white men
were the aggressors in the row, and were
subsequently arrested.
Wijllam Jackson, colored, was hanged
at Alexandria, Va., August 15, for the
murder of his wife in February last.
Mrs. Ellen McKinney, of Chicago,
poured kerosene on the fire and burt her-
self and a four year old child to death.
By an accident on the Chicago and Al-
ton Railroad, near iiemont, twenty
miles south of Chicago, on the eve-
ning of August 16, caused by the collision
of a coal and passenger train, eleven per-
sons were killed outright or died short-
ly afterward, and some thirty-five others
injured, some fatally. Most of the
deaths were caused by the passen-
gers in the smoking-car being scald-
ed by steam from the boiler of the
freight locomotive, which ran into that
car, crushing it In pieces and cutting off
all means of escape. The passenger
train was the St. Louis express, and the
coal train should have remained on the
siding at Lemont until the express
The firemen of both trains were
killed. The engineer of the coal train, to
whose carelessness the accident Is said to
have been due, was not seen after the ac-
cident, and it was thought that he escaped
iqjury and had fled. Among the killed
were R. J. Brass, of the firm of J. V.
Farwell A Co , Chicago; ex-Mayor Smith,
of Sprlngfleld, Warden of the Illinois
State Penitentiary; J. W. Fleury, Stew-
ard, and Noah Dlvelblss, Jr., clerk in the
same institution; Wm. Little, Spring-
field ; and Thomas Morton, porter in An-
derson's Hotel, Chicago.
A San Francisco dispatch, August 18,
says that the mail stage between Makul-
umne Hill and the station was stopped
by two highwaymen two miles from the
city, who robbed the passengers of $4,000.
Wells, Fargo A Co.'s treasurer's box was
destroyed, with mails, papers and all val-
uables. Officers were In pursuit of the
robbers, who are known.
Emll Lowensteln, the alleged murder-
er of John D. Weston, at Brooklyn, has
been arrested at St. Catharines, Canada.
Mrs. Weston strongly declares her Inno-
cencyti any knowledge of the murder of
her husband, and presents conclusive evi-
dence, it is said, to prove her statements.
Advices received at Washington, August
18, from Indian Agent Thomas, In Mew
Mexico, state that a demand had been
made upon the Apaches for the notorious
thief and murderer, Chief Sancha, which
they refosed, saying they were ready to
fight for him. They soon after broke
camp, however, and went to the moun-
tains. Three other Indians were arrested
and held as hostages for Sancha, and
M^Jor Price had started In pursuit with a
sufficient force to MOW* his arrest.
At Twin Springs, Linn county, Kansas,
on th¿ night of August IT, a man by the
name of Kellar kOMMa wife, her sister
and his two children, fQed their bodies
upon the floor, oovered then up with
straw, and then sel Are to the heap. Rel-
iar was arrested and , there was strong
talk of lynching hint*
Edwanl Bean, conductor, and Jeehnl
Puflenburger, engineer, of the coal train
which caused the dtoiktroui oollislon on
the Chicago and AStfoi Railroad, have
been arrested on a duum of manslaugh-
ter. A ooroner's lnqueet was commenced
at Lemont, August 18. Up to the night
of the 18th, the number of dead had
reached eighteen, aid the wounded num-
bered forty, ten of whom it was thought
would die.
The "Reverend" J.'U> Schuler,
of a private, (Mtyhin ^Éftpn at Aiunn,
Jackson oouht^iowaTnas confessed to be-
ing guilty of the most heinous orlmes to-
ward several of the young girls commit-
ted to his care.. He escaped to Europe
In time to avoid arrest.
Governor Woodson, of Missouri, has
taken measures to have the perpetrators
of the Callaway county outrage arrested
and brought to trial.
A desperate encounter took place at
Swansboro, Emanuel county, Ga., August
20, between J. C.King and Brlen Mo-
Leod, which resulted in the death of both
parties. King advised his sister-in-law
not to receive McLeod's attentions. She
acted accordingly, writing him a note to
that effect. This exasperated McLeod,
who, while under the influence of liquor,
insulted King, which the latter resented
by slapping his face. Whereupon McLeod
fired four times from a revolver, fatally
wounding King, who returned the fire,
inflicting mortal wounds, from which
McLeod died. King was a lawyer and
McLeod was a clerk.
At La Cygnes, Kansas, August 20, the
man Kellar, wlio murdered his wife and
two children and his wife's sister, at Twin
Springs recently, was taken by a mob
from the custody of the Sheriff and sum-
marily hung. The Sheriff and some of
the best citizens of the town endeavored
to save the prisoner from the Airy of the
mob, but without avail.
The coroner's inquest held upon the
bodies of the persons killed by the recent
accident upon the Chicago & Alton Rail-
road, resulted in a verdict by the Jury that
the collision by which they lost their lives
was "caused by the criminal carelessness
of Edward Bean, conductor, and Joshua
Puifenberger, engineer of coal train Mo.
23, in violating the rules and regulations
of the railroad company governing the
movement of trains on said railroad."
The coroner issued a mittimus for the ar-
rest of both men.
Domestic Intettllceace.
Gold closed in Mew York, August;20, at
115}.
A violent and long continued rain-
storm has recently prevailed at the East.
Reports up to August 14, from Mew
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and other
points, give accounts of considerable dam-
age to railroad tracks, bridges, etc., which
had caused some delay to travel.
The returns of the Agricultural De-
partment for the 1st of August indicate
a general and somewhat marked improve-
ment In the condition and promise of the
cotton crop since the 1st of July. The
average condition on July 1st was 85-5, on
August 1st, 01-8. The crop on the whole
Is still somewhat backward, though tn
many localities the rapid growth in June
has brought It forward to the average ad-
vancement for the season.
The following is the comparative cotton
statement for the week ending Aug. 15:
Bales.
Becelpta at all U.S. ports far the week 18,885
Same time last year 8,441
For the year 8,578,(Km
Last year 8,708,0
Exports for the week 11,107
Same time last year 7,<S3
For the year 3,488,848
Last year 1,18,079
Stock at all U. B. ports 187,180
75,808
19,778
0,822
«17,000
018,01/0
45,1100
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canto, and ate
rich towns.
Tfce Spanish Coi
bill calling for M,l
th«tthe Carlista and
gents may be put down.
Several heavy Mures In the
trade have recently ocourred in London.
Many coalpits in Leicestershire, Eng-
land, have been closed, and several thou-
sand miners have struck in consequence
of dlsssüsfttton with .the weighing sys-
tem.
The London JflbraW correspondent at
Oarthagena telegraphed, August 17, that
Martines Gompa had besieged the dty
j.'t < iíi * ¡.
Last year
At Interior towns
Last year
At Liverpool
Last Tear...
Afloat for Great Britain!!!!'.
Last year
A treaty has been negotiated with the
Crow Indians, by which they cede to the
Government all their present reservation,
taking territory one-third as large on the
Missouri, near Judith's basin. The ces-
sion Includes a number of valuable mincB.
A special from Jacksonville, 111., to the
St. Louis Democrat, August 19, says that
the cholera had broken out In the suburbs
of that city in a most malignant form.
ttntiM té'guar
German and British Consuls had left the
city.
In the machinery department of the
Vienna Exposition, diplomas of honor
have been awarded to Mew York and
Philadelphia. Twenty-six United States
exhibitors received medals for progress;
nineteen medals of merit, and eighteen
certificates of excellence.
Several prisoners have been oondemned
to death by the Tribunal of Justice at
Seville, for firing buildings by means of
petroleum while that dty was oooupled
by Insurgents. Many others, charged
with the same crime, escaped to Portugal,
but a number of them have been arrest-
ed and surrendered to the Spanish offi-
cers.
A Madrid dispatch denies the truth of
the reported capture of Bergaby the Car-
list forces.
A dispatch from the Carllst headquar-
ters states that the French Government
has taken the Initiatory step towards re-
cognising the Carlista as belligerents, hav-
ing issued orders to permit the transit of
arms and munitions of war between the
Custom-house lines In South France.
It has been ascertained from a naval of-
ficer Just returned from the East that all
the tribes «1 the northern portion of Sum-
atra heretofore tributary to the Dutch
have joined the Sultan oi Aoheen. The
pepper trade is temporarily suspended by
the war. The Sultan, In response to an
overture by the Dutch to make a treaty,
said that before he would do so évery man
In arms under him should perish. A gen-
eral Malay Insurrection among the Dutch
subjects of the Metherland Strait settle-
ments is apprehended.
By the caving of a tunnel at Shepton
Mallet, Somerset, England, four workmen
were killed and twenty wounded.
Practical Adrice for
^a-teefc-1-tad
the river to
otter. And now
at has snubbed it, and the!
ft
awed It Into submission, what oould little
Manitoba do t Buried in the wilderness,
without railways or telegraphs, snowed
What's the use of having
and what-
lousand peo-
ows inithlnff about It!
So what should this contemptible little
Srovlnoe, with less than hair the popula-
on of some counties In Minnesota, do.
but ruffle Into a Airy of Inaultod national
dignity because a worthless scoundrel* has
beeh arrested in the wilderness on the
north side of an imaginary line that di-
vides Manitoba from—civilisation.
It is now thirteen years sinoe
ton days In this settlement. It h
changed Ita general designation
times. We knew it as® Fort
" The Red River Settlement," and
Selkirk Settlement," but It was '
aspiring to be oslled a crown
had adopted the name of "
alter the Asslniboln Indians, whose
Is rather freely mingled with that
white race in many of the settlers,
slcibola gave way presently to " Winne-
peg," and now we have "Manitoba."
Thus the settlement not only makefjtaelf
big, but It makes itself many. :■
I went down on theseeondor thlratrlp
ever made by a steamboat/ We had trav-
eled five days In stages from St. Psnl,
' " of them through an almost unbroken,
«uuerness, to reach the Red River oi the
Morth at Georgetown, not for from the
point at which the Northern Pacific
crosses the river now. For two days we
had traveled dov "
Wlnnepeg wit'
at Pembina.
day we bega
The houses t
Into frames,
The forme are i,
wide on the river i
milee. So that
one oontT
oilce. ^
got Into the house,
for Brown's returi
ing the supper
tea set of not
Brown's in the
sftssr*-
SS&ii
3S£
tBUA
cold, oold
AH "mmm ■—a —
■ firftiu
iv-Missmm
- .i!;
■Among many pleasant things in Colonel
Forney's Aneodotes of Public Meb is the
following extract from a speech delivered
not
a* yet dug mom
warm yourselves .. .— —
You have sent no tilt-hammer of Vulcan
to strike blows worthy of gods in the iron
foundries. You have not yet «nun more
than ooarse cotton enough, l^ too ynr ot
V acune of
"playing your fish till he is
htm in your basket as soon as
Hews from Abroad.
A recent Bayonne telegram says that a
British steamer had landed at Fontarabta
2,000 rifles, 50 cwt. ammunition and forty
horses for the Csriists. The vessel was
subsequently captured by a Spanish man-
of-war and towed into San Sebastian.
A London special to the Mew York
World say : "It Is stated upon the high
est authority that Count de Chambord
has announced his resolution to accept the
constitution for Frsnoe prepared by rrwm-
bers of the Right of the Assembly and
himself, and will rule both by the will of
God and the good will of the people.
The proclamation of monarchy will be
made In about six weeks."
Spanish advices of August 14, say that
the Carllst attack on Berga had com-
menced, and that six hours after the bat-
teries opened the dty was on fire in sev-
eral places.
Two ootton warehouses In Liverpool
were burned August 14.
A London dispatch says that six hun-
dred French Imperialists met at Chisel-
hurst, August 15, and oelebmted the fete
day of the late Emperor. Prince Louis
Napoleon made a speech, In the course of
which he said: "Planting myself as an
exile near the tomb of the Emperor, I
represent his teachings, which may be
summarized In the motto, 'Govern for the
people, by the people.'" The Prince
was loudly cheered, and the meeting was
most enthusiastic.
Dispatches from various places In Ger-
many state that the cholera Is Increasing
in virulence.
get some one who knows the water to
show you where the flsh lie; and when he
shows them to you, don't you show your-
self to them.
Second—Don't Imagine, if the flsh does
not dart away, that ne has not seen you;
on the contrary, be Is very
his whole attention to you, ani
to start the moment danger Is tmi
Third—If you are fishing with a fly,
and you pass It neatly three times over
him, and ne refoses it, you need not wait
any longer; he has seen your line of invi-
tation, and does not Intend to come.
Fourth—If you are above a flsh when
you hook him. get below htm as soon as
you can: for if you pull him one instant
against the stream, and he is a heavy flsh,
he will break bis hold.
Fifth—Nev«r throw a long line when a
short one will answer.
Sixth—Never mind what Is said about
put
'ou can.
Seventh—Remember that everything de-
pends upon the way you begin your ac-
quaintance. 11 you can prevail on a flsh
to go down the stream a little way with
?rou, you will afterward have no difficulty
n persuading him to let you have the
pleasure of seeing him to dinner.
To these excellent maxims I beg leave
to add one of Mr. S tod dart's, especially
Intended for bachelors, young an 1 old:
" Never fall in Une with a woman by the
water eidet there are situations in which every
woman looks an angel."—Christian Union.
Poisoning by Arsenic in Tfail-Papers.
The poisonous effects upon the air of
rooms of arsenical pigments on wall-paper
have been generally ascribed to the
inhalation of the dust, which was found
to contain arsenic and copper, but oases
of arsenical poisoning of this kind have
occurred In which, on account oi the
moisture still present in the wall and the
effectual fixing of the colors, this explana-
tion will not answer. Upon these a re-
cent series of experiments by Fleck
throws some light. Air In glass receivers
was subjected to the action of Schweln-
forth green and arsenlous add by simply
" some
. L. .
ers, with and
placing these substanoes
bodies In a moist condition
Ing them as a coating to ot
without paper, potato and wheat starch
ing employed as pastes. After from
jht days to three weeks, in different
oases, the presence of arseniureted hydro-
gen In the air was unmistakably revealed
bv teats, and left no doubt tbatcases of
enronie arsenical poisoning must be at-
tributed not onlv to the mechanical mix-
ture of arsenical oompounds with the air
of rooms In the form of dust, but also to
the presence of this gas, resulting from
the decomposition or free arsenlous add
In Sohwelnforth green. It was also found
that the development of the gas is flavored
by moisture in the air and the presence of
organlo matter, especially that in the
paste. Mould appeared on the paper In
some oases, showing that arsenic is not a
preventive of in formation as often stated
-Harper's Monthly.
The Unties of Tenth.
The first yean of man must make pro-
vision for the last. He that never thinks
Itvends
though
ur, mil
He that never
never oan be wise.
In ignorance; and _—
It may fire the spirits for an hourL
make life short and miserable. Let us
consider that youth Is of no long dura-
tion, and that In mature age, when the
enchantments offoney shall oease, and
phantoms of delight dance no more about
us, we shall have no comforts but the es-
teem of wise men, and the means of do-
ing good; let us therefore stop, while to
stop Is 'n our power; let us live as men
who are sometime to grow old, and to
whom it will be the most dreadml of all
to count their past years by follies, and to
be reminded of their former luxuriance
of health only by the maladies which riot
has produoed.
toward Lake
BBSS
■t
•taring
m sanl
has skinned
has skinned the land
(Laughter
-I will
Mktadi*
in the
of
ilto-
> two olassee:
"Thateh."
yards of
was made
ago, and
children I
at our I
dlostl
At the]
settlement
houses. The i
ba divides all the i
the " Shingle-roofs " add?
There are many people of refine-
ment and culture. Archdeaoon Hunter,
Mr. Black, the minister of the Irirk,
and other gentlemen I found to be well-
informed and excellent. The best edu-
cated and most refined lady that I saw
was a half-breed educated In the aatt)
ment. She was the daughter of a distin-
guished Sootoh explorer, whose wife was
a foil Indian and' unable even In her old
age to speak English. The daughter wu
cultivated and devout, the wifeof a min-
ister, and It seemed to me in every way
an admirable lady.' When I was then
Governor Mactavlsh reigned over the
tlement. He was a foroefW
fine Illustration of Sootoh st
Of SeOtCh StifflMM.
The population is of the most
sort: English, French, Highland
Lowland Scotch, Orknev u
pewas, Crees, Asslnibolns,
half-breeds, French-Cree
Scotch-Cree half-breeds, Front
wa half-breeds, — " *
IttonoT
BmHH
the tenant
have grown
[ hafreheard
|||H_ here or there
i bout the condition of our agrloulture.
It was told by a gentleman in Washing-
ton, not long ago, that m was traveling
In a oountnr not a hundred nriles from
this plaoe, and overtook
sens on horseback, with ~
hay for a saddle,
the leading-line "
oTaUr dU-
a bag of
p*and
ho said,
¡.«nil
to an*
'Mine, too,
% 'And whoee house
neto ,etranger; but
aa addaMMpooraa
nii'iiii m ..-i .
ee half-breeds, French-Chlppe-
ireeds, Engllsh-Chlppewa naif-
breeds, Sooton-Cbippewa half-breeds,
Scotch-Asslnlboin half-breeds, Engllsh-
' boln half-breeds, French-Asslniboln
■ecds, Orkney lie Asslniboln half-
i, and so on through every possible
itatlon of the aerie* of white and
are two
inthlsooon
as it la
Asslniboln half-breeds, Frendt- .
half-breeds, Orkney lie Asslniboln
breeds,
permu
red races.
The people In the settlement are like
Bryant's description of Nature—they
"speak *
French,
slniboin
boy's ft. a „
Cree, he will learn Gaelic from hlsfother
and Cree from his mother and English
from others. Some children prattle inno-
cently in five languages, I
iCngluh of the tower da
"Red River English," ant
Jargon. For Instance, the name for a wo-
man is wife. A young woman to a young
wife; a little woman a little wife. They
are frank enough thus to show yon that
they think a woman bonito marry. ▲
woman Is always a wife on Red River.
I Had bound to say that-the Selkirkers
(or Asdnlbolans, or Manitobans, or Win-
nepeggers, or whatever they now call
themselves) have no reason to Uto Amer-
loans. The worst part ^^erttiement,
when I was there, was that Inhabited by
the most heaven-forsaken raoe of Yan-
kees the sun ever shone noon. Their
business In that day was the
ire and sale of what wju tec
caliy known as American whisky,
the'keening of the lowest hoosee of Ill-
fame. The whisky was mai
«rallar red pe which I was at
euro, and which,
shall give as ■■
Two gallons oil
molasses, twH
two drams of I
for a barrel of ■
The Ingrediente, except tí
hauledfover the plains onl
half-breeds were very fond
dous stuff. It made "dranki
But after awhOe the ■
treated by a veterinary
quite too formidable a (
Who cannot diagnoeeac
quackery used the m
■the tmepoxTwI
vacdnating the humanas
are also Mdatobe well atml
issrffrssrfS
soap. Than dry carefully with a
doth, and keep the patient on a dry
forailvdwhbUifelMMI
wtthH
thelfl
Then!
| has become 1Ü1P
that are troubled, with]
never have their legiy
tie that wiU dryJftÉri
Injures the skin, f
ItoMHMhM
• ' ■ í iS
v.M
by the roots.
Turtles are low
,V<
Black of the^H
hold temperance!
was there dght h|
signed the temperance p
■MMM^kffinthel
uñaren o
to destroy thSti
f
"■%* * '■
"''Mill
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