Decatur Democrat, Volume 26, Number 26, Decatur, Adams County, 6 October 1882 — Page 4

GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES. Th« Foolish Vow. A pretty maid, quit* unaware Os her soft charms—her silken hair, Her rosy cheeks and snow-white brow, Uttered, in foolish haste, this vow: “Believe me—from this very hour I will not pick or wear a single flower; The sparkling wine whose magic drips In sweetness shall not meet my lips, And—further still, far more than this — I will not give or take a kiss." O, queer, capricious little maid—’Twas not so easy done as said. One day she felt a different mood, When just the opposite seemed good; And so—'tis true —alack-a-day— I heard this very maiden say: “ How charming my new dress would be If flowers adorned its drapery; O. I should melt in languors tine It I might taste some fragrant wine; And when my lover comes to prove My heart, and proffers me his love, I will not spurn the welcome bliss, But he shall seal it with a kiss.” A Change of Field. An Illinois church is the latest victim of the uncertainties of a young woman's mind. The church educated the young woman for foreign missionary work, purchased her outfit, and hoped for the conversion of the heathen under her ministrations. Now the young woman changes her mind—her affections have sh fte.l from the unconverted foreigner to a Chicago young man. and she has determined to marry. Chicago is certainly field enough for the most active missionary spirit.—MllwauA.ee Sentinel. Why He Don't Marry. “Old Bach,” who writes to the New York Sun, gives a reason why he is not married, wh ch is a reason. “I am,” he says, “35, an old bachelor, they say; and have been wanting a wife these ten years. Some of my friends suggest that I want to marry rich, and am too particular. Now Ido not object to riches if other things are all right. But, honor bright, if I were to find a woman who would bring nobler thoughts, make me a better man, think less of gossip about her neighbors, and more about her own home affairs, a woman well educated and not helpless, I should like to marry her, even if she did not own a copper.” The Glory of a Woman. They do not cut off the hair of women convicts in the prisons, and they say there would be a tremendous row if they attempted it. The matron of a New York prison says that she never saw a woman who did not comb her hair once a day, and the Warden says he has “seen men who never comb theirs but once a month.” It is added that “the most-important articles about a woman’s cell, after her mirror, are the comb and brush,” and it is asserted that physicians have given as their opinion that to cut women’s hair would increase headaches and neuralgia among them, and “subject them to colds in their heads.” — Progress. A Thoughtful and Economical Girl. “I tell you what it is,” said young Spilkins, “that Podgers girl is just the right kind of a girl. There’s no} nonsense about her. you know, and she’s so observing, you know; sees everything there is to be seen, and she’s just as economical and modest-like as she can be. I took her out to walk the other evening, and she saw everything there was in the. shop windows. More than a dozen times she said: ‘ Doesn’t that candy look nice?’ And two or three times, as we were going by an open door, she said: * How lovely that smells 1 It smells just like ice-cream, doesn’t it?’ But la! notwithstanding she would like to have had some, she never once asked me to give her any. I tell you, bovs, you don’t often find a girl like that, so thoughtful and economical, you know.” Spilkins says if he ever gets married Miss Podgers shall be the happy woman ; but Spilkins may be mistaken, Miss Podgers may have a word to say.— Boston Journal.

Rude Fashionable Women, By incidents like the one related below Oscar Wilde justifies his assertion that American society is rude even to boorishness: “In Saratoga, last summer, I stopped at the State and Congress Hall —two of the best hotels, which one would suppose would be patronized by cultured people. While talking with Judge Brady there a crowd came around us, mostly women, and, finding it a bore to be thus stared at, I moved on into the office. There they came flocking in after us. I went to the billiard-room, bnt found no refuse there. The women rnshed there—ladies in silks and crapes and laces, with diamonds in their ears, bringing their daughters with them. To balk the pursuit utterly’, I fled to the bar-room. Will you believe me that they came there—in ten minutes fifty to 100 of them—filling up the place almost ? It seemed to me a most-pain-ful and dreadful thing—the “bold-faced staring and half-audible comment. It seemed much worse than the conduct of abandoned women. Why didn't I say, ‘What’ll vou have, ladies?’ Oh. it wouldn't have done any good, and all the country would have said I had insulted the ladies at Saratoga.” Julia Ward Howe. The girl Julia Ward was a studious dreamer. She wrote verses in childhood, and acquired French, Italian and German in earlv girlhood. As a schoolgirl, she knew the wealth of Schiller and Goethe, and even published a review of Lamartine’s “Jocelyn,” creditable to any years. At 20 she was subject to seasons of profound melancholy. Her studies of German philosophy had made her anti-Theistic; but the sudden death of her father and brother drove tier passionate nature to tne otner extreme. The heretic became a devotee, and for two years her only reading was the Bible. At length a copy of Guizot's “History of Civilization” fell into her hands. Its perusal awakened her from a dream of holiness to a life of usefulness. She became liberal in politics and religion. At 23 she married Dr. Samuel G. Howe, whose heroic labors for Greece in her struggle for independence, whose devotion to the blind, and whose activity in the anti-slavery crusades made him called “the n'w- Bayard” They went abroad. In English court circles she was petted and shone by the light of her husband's fame, which the publication of Dickens’ “American Notes” had made dear to English hearts. Her first child was born in Rome, from which city she returned to the less-romantic New England home. She continued her studies, taking up Swedenborg. A second trip to Europe was made in 1850. From this time on her contributions to American literature became frequent. Her husband was publishing an antislavery paper, the Commonwealth, and for it she wrote verses, editorials, letters, sketches. In 1857 she published “The World's Own,” a play which was brought out at Wallack's—and failed. In 1859, with her hnsband, she accompauied the dying Theodore Parker to Cults, and contributed to the Atlantic Monthly an account of the trip. It contained more humor than anything she had at that time written. It is impossible to name her subsequent writings, which have been legion, and have been in the fields of philosophy, religious ethics and poetry, beside much lighter work. Her account of a trip made in 1887 to the East to distribute Ajuerican supplies to destitute Cretans shows her as an enthusiastic philanthropist. It is well said of her that she has

demonstrated in her life the wisdom of allowing women to learn the alphabet. Os late years she has written less than formerly, but is active in all such movements as the Woman’s Congress. Woman’s Peace Conference and woman's suffrage reform. The Wife and the Omelet. Zulana has returned from the country. lam overjoyed; 1 have expatiated at great length to her on the oheerlessncss of our silent house with its shrouded furniture, of the monotony of club life, of how existence without her is—and so forth. Oh, I have made myself solid. But I am afraid she is beginning to suspect me. (Perhaps I am a trifle jaded.) At breakfast the other morning she spoke: “My dear,” said she, “you never seem to have any appetite for your breakfast now. What is the matter?” “Nothing—nothing at all. my dear,” and vigorously attacked a cold biscuit and leathery omelet. “I am afraid you have been spoiled for plain home fare,” she said, a trifle querulously. “N ot so—you are wrong, Zulana. But, now that you speak of it, I wish you'd see that the cook would make good omelets. They are always bad, and they are never alike. Now, if I have a weakness, it is omelets. Will you see to it, Zulana ?” She said she would. “Ah,” I continued, meditatively, waving my fork in forgetful enthusiasm, “ah, what omelets that cook at the club does make! M-m-m-m-m-elting 1 Delicious ! Ido bethink me, Zulana, of a certain omelet au confiture he confected for me the other day. The dark purple masses of jelly hidden within its golden folds reminded me of the violet bands of cloud through which the sun descends over the Golden Gate 1” Zulana poured some cream into her coffee with a trembling hand. "Then there was another." I went on in gastronomic rapture, an omelet poem. : Its substratum was chicken livers, cooked into a savory stew; mingled with them i here and there were fresh green pep- ' tiers. The whole was then incorporated —assimilated, so to speak—with an ' omelet. Ah me! when I think of the | ' land little livers struggling with the fiery flavor of the peppers, the whole > pacified, as it were, by the omelet proper, I could weep, Zulana, I could— ’’ Zulana arose so violently that the toast rack trembled and fell over. “If you do not like your own table," ; she began in a voice which she vainlytried to render steady, “you had better go back to your old c-c-c-lub!” She flounced out of the room. What extraordinary creatures these women are! I had said nothing whatever depreciatory of my own table. Well, some women are melting and sweet, like omelet au confiture; some are fiery, like pepper omelets. I like both kinds—of omelets.— San Francisco Argonaut. Absence of Children in Shakspeare. It is commonly said, and would be considered almost a huism, that Shakspeare has presented all phases of human life. To this there is one noticeable exception. There are no little girls, there are next to no little bovs. for William, in“ Merry Wives of Windsor," and Mamilius, in “Winter's Tale.” come like shadows and so depart. The one exception is the bright-witted ■ and delightful Moth. Arthur, who is by age a mere boy is raised by the ; tragical circumstances in which be is \ presented to a passion and a dignity j above his years, and does not appeal to us as a child, so much as a youthful I prince whose boyhood has been prema ! tnrely taken from him. It may, of course, be said, and it is, no doubt. ' true, that children are not suited for stage representation; those of an age | to present them lack, for the most part. I dramatic faculty. Yet not always; we | have seen a “Moth” whose performance f by a girl of 12 left nothing lacking: I and we cannot but believe that the circumstances of Shakspeare’s own lifthindered his study of children. Ht was clearly old for his age when still boy, and so would have associated, not with children, but witii young men. His marriage as a mere lad. and the scanty legends of his youth, all tend in the same direction The course of his life led him to live apart from his children in their youth; his busy life in London brought him into the interior of but few’ families; his son, of whom he saw bnt little, died young. If our supposition be true, it is a pathetic thought that the great dramatist was shut out from the one kind of companionship which, even when it is in no degree intellectual, never palls. A man, whenever his mental powers can take delight in the society of a child, when a person of intellect far moie I matured, bnt inferior to his own, would be simply insufferable.

Not Worth It. A citizen of Michigan who has something of a reputation for his infidel views and arguments happened to meet seven or eight clergymen at a railroad station as they were waiting to take the train to attend a conference, and introducing himself to one of them he said: “I want half an hour's talk with the smartest one of vour crowd. Who is he?” “Well, Brother White is pretty smart,” was the reply. The infidel walked up the clergyman named and bluntly began: “Preacher AVhite, you hold that there is a God, don’t you?” “Yes, sir.” “And a heaven and a hell?” “Yes, sir.” “And that none but believers can be saved ?” ‘ “Just so.” “Weß, sir, I don’t believe any such thing, and I'll defy yon to convince me!” “I shan’t try to, sir.” “Yon won't? Don't you want me to be saved?” “No, sir—no, sir! I wouldn’t waste five minutes to send you straight to heaven.” “Why not?” “ AATiy not ? AVhy, sir. folks have been going to heaven by the million for thousands of years, and there is now such a crowd up there that a small soul like yours could no more be found or heard of than an atom of sand thrown into the middle of the ocean. It's too small potatoes to pay for the hoeing!”—Detroit Free Press. Why She Wanted to Get Left. “ Oh. dear!” said a pretty young woman, who was hurrying along on the stone pier one hot Sunday afternoon to catch the Coney Island boat, “oh, dear! I wish I could get left.” She looked very unhappy and very warm. and. although there was a roguish smile on her face as she spoke, there was also a sort of piteous protest against the fact of continued existence, that was only to be explained by the rapidity with which the mercury was rising Her escort looked equally unhappy: but in his case the inward protest against the brutal nature of the weather took the form of an evident burning desire to be profane. He had apparently been well dressed when he started, but had thrown away his cuffs and was carrying his coat in one hand and his collar in the other. “ AA hat on earth do you v ant to get left for?” said he. “ AA'hy,then it would he a cold day,” said she, demurely. He glared at her, speechless with indienation, and they passed on.—Neu- York Herald.

INDIANA ITEMS. G. W. Habuing was killed by a boiler | explosion at Lexington. . Elias Bodkin, of Jonesboro, while walking on the AA'. AM. 11. IL, was struck by a train and killed. The corner-stone of the new Presbyterian church, at Seymour, sas laid w ith appropriate ceremonies. AA’m. Bopp, while at work unloading saw-logs, nt Shideler’s Station, was crushed to death by a rolling log. The County Treasurer at Wabash has levied upon and closed the gasworks for taxes amounting to S3OO. J. llolzman, a Wabash machinist, at Peru, was scalded to death by escaping steam from a flue which he was repairing. Henry F. Canto has re-established the Wabash Commercial, founded by his father in 18-18. It will be Republican. The Grand Army of the Republic has now one hundred and three posts in this State, a post at Sheridan being the latest. Station Agent Quiles, of the C.. W, & M. R. R., nt Urbana, who was about to be made the defendant in a bastardy suit, jumped the country.

Frey & Maag, boot and shoe dealers iof Indianapolis, have assigned to Charles Krippendorf, of Cincinnati, i Liabilities. $50,000; assets, $19,000. It is authoritatively stated that the Wabash road w ill not abandon Andrew s j as a division point, interested Ft. Wayne I and Lafayette papers to the contrary. Mrs. Henry Hayman, an aged lady. | was killed in the eastern outskirts of Logansport, by a Wabash train, while seeking to protect some children in her charge. A CORRESPONDENT of the Imlianapoj lis Journal figures that a special elec- | tion in this State will not exceed s*2o,I 000, or one cent for each resident man, j woman and child. About twenty cases of violations of . | the internal revenue law have been re- \ I ported to the officers at Jeffersonville, ■ the offense consisting in using old beer I and cigar stamps. Salem, Washington county, is I scourged with the diphtheria, which i has become epidemic. The schools have been closed, and the doctors are kept busy day and night. John Schuckman, ten years ago a : prominent tin merchant and mechanic : of Fort Wayne, but who became a drunkard, fell from a barn loft, where he was sleeping off a debauch, and was ! killed. Corn looks very well around Colnm- j bus, Seymour, Shelbyville, Rushville I and Cambridge City. All good corn is out of danger of frost. Fall seeding is j now progressing nicely, and farmers are i verv busv.

Dispatches from various points in , the Northwest report more or less ' heavy frosts in Eastern lowa. Northern and Central Illinois, and Northern Indiana. In only a few places was it heavy enough to materially injure the corn crop. Mme. Marianna Dubayd, who started a “temple of fashion and dressmaking 5 studio” at Indianapolis, where within the past month about twenty-five ladies j have paid sums of money ranging from j $5 to S4O for worthless instructions, has ' disappeared. The Lake Shore Company, which is I now interested in the Fort Wayne and Jackson road, is forwarding a portion - of their business for this section via that line and the Fort AA'ayne, Muncie and Cincinnati road to Muncie, then to Indianapolis over the Dee Line. The four-year-old son of Michael Collins, of Elkhart, while playing at a Ixmfire was accidentally jostled into the j flame. His clothes caught fire, and before he could reach the house they were ! all burned off and his stomach ami limbs burned to a crisp. He can not live. AA'm. N. Dixon, employed by Henry S. Byers, jr., Franklin, while endeaxor- ! ing to attach a pulley to a derrick fiftyfeet in heighth, fell to the ground, and was almost instantly killed. Mr. Dixon f was a native of Tennessee, and a young man highly esteemed by all who knew him. At Sullivan, George Heck, a constable, and Park Rusher, keeper of the poor farm, have been arrested and placed under $2,000 bond each for an attempt to blackmail certain well-known citizens of that place by asserting that ■ they were engaged in an extensive ’ blackmailing scheme. Within the past month some nuns of! the order of St. Francis have gone to j Terre Haute and established a hospital there. At the first came two. and within the past week two more. More are to follow, as the work undertaken by those already there grow s on their hands beyond their physical ability. Coroner Wheelock, of Allen county, concluded a post-mortem examination on the remains of Mrs. Dr. Stevens of Areola, which proved that an abortion bad been performed through the agency of some drug. Her husband and Dr. McDowell, the latter an ex-legislator, figure nuenviably in the affair. W. (). Dean, administrator of the estate of Tephiniah Davis, of Howard county, has just secured a judgment against the county by reason of a defective bridge through which Davis fell, killing him instantly. Davis left a wife and six children, who have been in the county’s charge since his death. Articles of incorporation of the Vinton Iron Works of Indianapolis, have been filed with the State. The object is to manufacture machinery for sawmills, portable and stationary engines, etc. The capital stock is $50,000, and the directors are Lindley A'inton, Theresa C. A'inton and George Ports. New Albany has the champion car-pet-weaver in Mrs. Eliza Jenno, now sixty years old. In the last six years, on an old-fashioned hand-loom, Mrs. Jenno has woven 6.000 yards of rag carpet—au average <>l 1,000 yards per year —and for which she received only the small pittance of ten to twelve and one-half cents per yard. Anthony McDougal (colored ) of Jeffersonville, jealous of his wife, after quarreling with her, went to the yard and procured an axe, with which he severed her head from her body. She had shortly I>efore returned home from LouisGlle, whither she had gone without her husband's consent. The murderer is in jail. The deed causes much excitement. The remarkable arson case which has been on trial at New Albany, in which Miss Mattie Bowman was charged w ith firing the barn of Gabriel Farnsley. in I'ranklin township, has closed with a verdict of not guilty. It seems Miss Bowman jilted one of the Farnsley Ixiys, which led to a coolness between the two families. She proposes now to rctalict- by libel suits. AVm.R inkin', the colored man who killed a fellow employe at the Indianapolis Stock-yards about two months ago. was fonnd guilty of manslaughter and the jury fixed his punishment at i fifteen years. The killing was the r< - 1 suit of a quarrel, the innocent cause of | which was a white girl aliout whom ; Rankin had lieen frequently bantered ' by the man whose life v. .-.s s.e rificed. Ths frequent a< • ident-s o; late on the 1 AVabash road proper is calling forth I mueh newspaper comment and inquiry I into the cause. The answer is a simple

one. Last fall, when the economical streak passed over the Wabash, the wages es the men were so cut down or work so increased that they quit ami have since found better jobs, and the men who are now handling the trains are inexperienced, and some of them hardly competent to drive a street-car. A lady on a railroad train, who was suddenly aroused from sleep by arriving at the depot in Terre Haute, one day last week, indulged in a gape, and the lower jaw slipped out of place and refused to go back. A physician was summoned, but he declined to treat her unless she consented to stop over for a day. This she could not do, as it would prevent her sailing from New Y’ork for Europe. A traveling salesman on the train came to the rescue, and by rubbing her jaw s with the knuckles of his hands for about a minute, the jaw w ith a map returned to its normal position. The older Delphians are greatly interested in a recent rumor of a startling character. The facts seems to be about these, although at present names are w ithheld through sympathy: Years ago a gentleman and his family went to Delphi, where they resided for a long time, and he was for a season editor of j the Delphi Times. Subsequently he J removed to Rensselaer, a few miles west. On a recent visit East, in the in- i

' terest of some inherited property, he made the startling discovery that he and his wife are full brother and sister. They were adopted by different families in early orphanage, are now quite aged, and have several grown children, three of whom are veritable albinos, and one, f a lady, is at present traveling with a I circus. Richard Girdler went to Jeffersonville from Cementville, over the J. M. X I. road on a tricycle, a three-wheeled vehicle propelled in the same manner j ias a velocipede. When opjiosite Ingram’s tanyard, about one mile from | the city, the vehicle struck a cross-tie I which had lieen placed across the track. The tricycle was throw n from the track and two men who accompanied Mr. i Girdler were severely injured. One ' man's leg was run over by the vehicle j and severely bruised, while the thumb of the other was dislocated. The crosstie had evidently l>een placed across the track to wreck train No. six, which arrives in Jeffersonville from Indianap- I olis at 7:30 o'clock. The obstruction was removed about fifteen minntes before the train arrived. An interesting case is now on trial in the Wabash Circuit court, and the decision will affect the title to much valuable property on the Indian reservation in the southern part of the county. The parties to the suit are George Shapp and the sisters of a w oman named Nancy Voterv. The people are all Indians, and the matter in dispute is, whether a marriage according to the Indian custom is legal or not. Al suit three years ago George Shapp and Nancy Votery entered into an agreement to live together as man and wife. One year sub- ' sequent to the marriage a child was . born, and a little later it died. It was soon followed to the crave by its mother, leaving Shapp, in case his marriage with the woman was legal, heir to her property, consisting of a farm of 250 acres, valued at SIO,OOO. Indiana Pensioners. Indiana has 15,289 citizens on the pension rolls, who receive annually sl.638.322. With the arrears added they received last year $3.106,817 —no small amount to be distributed among the . commercial element of the State, for to them it ultimately finds its way. Only four states exceed these figures, Indiana being fifth on the pension list, j In consideration of the pension pay- ! ments by congressional districts, we find that the Second district bears the j palm, having 1,367 pensioners, who draw from the Treasury annually ; $148,368. Last year together with arrears, they were paid $281,899. The ■ Third district comes next, with 1,336 on the pension list, who receive $142,876. and last year together with arrears, $271,464. The Thirteenth district has j the least number. 856, receiving $91.628. with arrears, $174,094. When the counties are reached we find Marion at the head of the list, with 838 pensioners. They receive $100,517 last year;with arrears, the payment was $190,982. It will be seen that the arrearages add largely to the regular annual payments The banner county, as well as the lowest, in each district is as follow s: First District — Vanderburg County leads with 228 pensioners, receiving $24,408, and with arrears, $46,375; Warrick has the least number, 118, receiving $12,664; with arrears. $24,062. See- ' ond District—Greene County leads with 290. the annual payments being $31,072; with arrears, $59,027: Dubois County has only 91. receiving $9,700, with arrears, $18,430. Third District—Jack son County has 22. receiving $23,784; with arrears, $45,190; Scott County has 75, with payment of $8,016; with arrears, $15,230. Fourth District—Jefferson County has 232, receiving $24,796; with arrears, $47,112; Union County has 49, receiving $5,196; with arrears. $9,872. Fifth District—Bartholomew County has 229. receiving $24.434: with arrears, $46,520; Brown County has 75,receiving $8,030: with arrears,sls,23B. | Sixth Districtr—Wayne county has 246. receiving $20,328; with arrears, $50,023; Fayette county has 61. receiving $6,548: with arrears. $12,441. Seventh District ' —Marion county has 939, receiving 8100,517; with arrears, $190,982; Hancock county has 133, receiving $14,292; * with arrears, $27,155; Shelby county has 196, receiving 20,976; with ; arrears $39,854. Eighth District Vigo county has 380, receiving $40.568; with arrears, $77,079; Warren ! county has 79. receiving $8,452; with arrears, $6,059. Ninth District—Tippe canoe county has 344. receh.ng $36,833: with arrears, $69.981; Clinton county lias 152, receiving $16,312; with arrears, $39,908; Benton county has 61, receiving $6,536; with arrears, $40,538: Blackford effhnty has 48, rei ceiving $5,152; with arrears, $9,789. Twelfth District—Dekalb county has 345: receiving $36,984: with ari rears. $70,270; Whitley county has 76, j receiving $8,112; with arrears.' $15,413. Thirteenth District—St. Joseph has 1.3. receiving $18,620; with arrears, $35,378. Starke county has 40, receiving $1,300; with arrears, $8,170. While it would, perhaps, lie too lengthy to give the pension statistics pertaining to each county in the State, still a general idea of the numlier and locality of pensioners can lie secured from the above. Eighteen counties have more than 200 pensioners, while sixteen have less than 100. The following table will show the number of i pensioners in each Congressional DisI trict. the annual value of pensions, and annual payment, with arrears: ' I l J 11 C ? f ® *2. DISTRICT. I 5 o | * < 5 - 1 ? i B I I l_l - “ S irst , 131,318 249,581 ?■ AT f'Lh '•*“ 1 *•••«-’ 34S,<WI i r 2? '• •> LG.tsi S? wi Nim? ... I’S; . Thu-eeath _ 53, 916 Jg 15,MJ 1,»M,355 3,108,817

DOW'! EAST. Lire In a Maine Village Pictured. To properly understand the folk-life of this simple viUage, writes a correspondent from Castine. Me., one must know ' first that its best elements have been sapped off yearly, for at least the space of a generation, by emigration. There is a steady annual exodus of the bright, active, ambitious voung men and wo- ' men to better fields. Only the dullards remain on the native soil. And a queer community these latter make. The chief feature of this life is its total lack of concentration. AVhat little there is of individual energy is diffused over the w hole sphere of activity. Ihe jeweler of the town is also the barbe", the general mechanic and the tinker; j he likes to “hay it” a little, to fish a lit- , tie, to “berry it” a little, and to raise ! some garden truck. He is a sample, and a pleasant one, of all his fellows, i If there are tradesmen, they keep a little of everything; if day laborers they ; want to shift around into a dozen or I more varieties of work during the year. ■No one works hard. Fish, clams and ! vegetables are the food staples. Perhaps it is impossible to base lalxir upon these; perhaps it is in the influence of the lazy atmosphere: perhaps again it is in the breed. But whatever the cause. j the result is very clear; no Castinian 'knows what the' word “work" means, i The stores open in an indolent manner at nine or so in the morning. They i close with more promptness at noon; | reopen sleepily about two hours later, | and thenceforward are likely to shut up ■nt any time. There is a delightful un- ; certainty about every phase of what ' they call business It is the exception 1 to find a merchant in his own store, ' even in the busiest times; the tinsmith, | his boy will tell you, may be over at the 1 butcher's; perhaps you could find* him at the drug store; possibly he is on the ! wharf; there is a chance of encounter- ) ing him at the hotel. What is true of the tinsmith is true of all the others. There is absolutely no enterprise, or suggestion of enterprise, among the natives. The lobster-pots are set in the same places, the mackerel boats go to the same coves, year after year. If the lobsters do not come into the pots, if the mackerel do not bite, so much the worse; nobody looks for them anywhere else. Once on a time Castine had a good deal of business; now she has next to none. Nobody thinks of asking why, or, at least, going out after the retreating trade and striving to bring it back. Traffic is now altogether local, and as narrow and as shortranged as may be. A Castine man, with SBOO worth of fish on hand, which were on the verge of taint, found another willing tr! purchase. There was a difference of S4O between their views, and no sale was made that day. The next day there was only a difference of $lB, but no sale. That night the owner of the fish had to throw the whole lot into the sea. He was rather proud than otherwise of his refusal to be cheated out of $lB, though. The people there knew no steak-cut save the tough round. They buy that because there is no bone in it; the porter-house is sold for roasts: they like it better for steak, they say. but cannot afford to buy so much bone. Living, however, is exceedingly cheap there, and all through this section—cheaper than in any other part of the country, perhaps. Tire social side of this village life is very meagre and cold. The women rule matters here very generally. The men of snap and stuff have sought their fortunes elsewhere; those who remain are easily domineered by their wives, mothers and sisters. This fact accounts for much that is otherwise odd in Maine's condition. Dancing is almost a lost art here. Music is sober and serious. New Yorkers are regarded with uneasiness. The wilder western man is looked upon with positive distrust. A person who confesses to a liking for lager beer is viewed in Castine as a confirmed opium-eater would be in Albany. The gregarious instinct of the two sexes finds a vent in mite societies, singing-classes, and a grand camp-meeting once a year. Campmeetings reach their climax of popularity in Maine. There is not much religious excitement or fervor in them, but much sedate and quiet comfort, for the ; women at least. As to masculine diversions, it is not easy to hit upon their ! identity. The men of the village do not seem to get much fun. Perhaps i their sport is spread so evenly through their listless lives, along with their labor, that there is no call to break out in spots. Certainly there is no such thing as hilarity among them. After supper they want to stand or sit in little groups of two or three in front of the closed stores on the main street, talking little, chewing or smoking tobacco invariably, laughing never.

Georgia Hospitality. As I got beyond Rossville, in riding out to the battle-field of Chickamauga, it began to rain, and the way the thunder roared anl lightning flashed and the flood-gates opened was appalling. A farmer just over the Georgia line beckoned me in out of the wet, and there I stuck from one o’clock until dank. It was a steady storm, without a break for a minute, and as there were no signs of its clearing up before midnight the man said I had better stay all night. It looked that way to me, too, but it was a log house with only one room, and only two beds for the tweh’e of us. There xvere six children, some half-grown, the farmer and his wife, an old woman, a son-in-law, a young woman and myself. It looked as if some of us would have to stand up to sleep, and along about nine o’clock I liegan to get nervous. Perhaps the man noticed it. for soon after that hour he said: “Stranger, we will step out and look at the weather.” AA'e went to the barn, and after a look at the horse returned and found all the women in one bed and the light out. “Shake off and jump into’tother bed,” whispered the man. and I followed directions. I was no sooner in when he followed. Then came the young man, then the old one, and then three boys lay across our feet, the upper one resting upon my kneee. It was impossible to move or turn, bnt in ten minutes all were snoring away as if that was their usual way of going to lied. I heard the old clock strike 11, 12, 1 and 2, and was finally dozing off when some one opened the door, w alked in, and began to undress. The noise aroused the farmer, who carefully called out: “Who’s that?” “Me!” “Who’s me?” “Jim Baker.” “Oh, Jim. eh! Want to stav all night ?” “I reckon.” “Well, strip off and pile in between the fust two in the front—there's onlv four of us lying len'thwise!" Jim piled in without another word being said, and was soon asleen. ami as I was sliding out to finish the night on the floor, the farmer sleepily queried: “That you Tom ? Pull off yer bates and slip in here—lots of room left vet!”—.lf. (guad. Weed Staining. A novel system of staining wood has been introduced that has the merit of simplicity and cheapness. The wood having lieen carefully planed and finished. it is given two thin coats of mg. This is prepared b,- adding to glue a small quantity of Jbunien 'and alum. AA hen this is dry and hard, the design is painted or stenciled upon the

1 wood, the intention being to produce a pattern, one part of which shall l>c of the natural color of the wood, the stencil of the design selected representing the white parts only. For instance, if the finished work is to show white figures on a dark ground, the w hite parts only must appear to the stencil. M hen the' sizing is dry the pattern is painted on in Canada Balsam, or Brunswick black. AVhen the balsam is hard and dry the w hole surface is w ashed with a sponge and warm water. This will remove the sizing from all those paits of the wood net protected by the hard balsam, which resists the warm water. When the wood is dry the exposed parts are stained in imitation of walnut or other dark woods. When the staining is finished, the balsam is removed by brushing it with tnipeutine, leaving the pattern or design in the natural color of the wood on the dark, stained ground. The finished work is said to resemble closely inlaid wood. An Anecdote of Lamb. Haydon, in his autobiography and journals, relates a droll story of a dinner which he gave in his painting-room to Wordsworth, Lamb, Keats and Richie, the traveler. Wordsworth was in fine cue. Lamb got exceedingly mirthful and exquisitely witty; and his fun, in the midst of AA ordsworth s solemn intonations of oratory, was like the sarcasm and wit of the fool in the intervals of Lear's passion. Lamb soon got delightfully merry. "Now.” . said Lamb, “you old Lake poet, you rascally poet, why do you call A oltnire dull?” The party all defended Wordworth, and affirmed there was a state of i mind when A’oltaire could be dull. “Well,” said Lamb, “here's A'oltaire. the Messiah of the French nation, and a very proper one. too!” It was delightful to see the good humor of W ordsworth in giving in to all these frolics. 1 In the morning of this most delight- | ful day, a gentleman, a perfect stranger. I had called on Haydon. He said he knew his friends had an enthusiasm for Wordsworth, and liegged an iutroducI tion. He added he was a Comptroller 1 of Stamps, and often had correspond- , ence with Wordsworth. Haydon thought it a liberty, but at last consented : ami when the party retired to tea they fonnd the Comptroller. In introducing him to Wordsworth, Haydon forgot to say w ho he was. Alter a little time the man of stamps looked down, looked up. and said to Wordsworth, “Don't you think, sir. Milton was a great genius?” Keats looked at Haydon, Wordsworth looked at the Comptroller. Lamb who was dozing by the fire, turned round and said. “Pray, sir, did you say Milton was a great genius?” “No, sir, I asked Mr. Wordsworth if he were not.” “Oh." said Lamb, “then you are a silly fellow. ” “Charles, my dear Charles!” said Wordsworth, but Lamb, perfectly innocent of the confusion lie had created, was off again by the fire. After an awful pause the Comptroller asked. 'Don't you think Newton was a great genius?" Haydon could not stand it any longer. Keats put his head into Imoks. AVordsworth seemed asking himself, “Who is this?” Lamb got up, and taking the candle said. “Sir, will ; yon allow me to look at your phrenob igical developement ?" He then turned his back upon the poor Comptroller : and at every question chanted, I "Di'ldlv. dhhlle, dnmpling, my .son John “Went to his l>e<i with his breeches on." The man in office, finding Wordsworth did not know who he was, said. I have had the honor of some correspondence with you, Mr. Wordsworth.” With me, sir? I don't remember.” Don’t you. sir? I am Comptroller of Stamps.” While they were waiting for Wordsworth’s reply, Lamb sang out: “ ‘Hey, diddle, diddle, ‘The cat and the fiddle. ’

Do let us have another look at the gentleman's organs.” Keats and Haydon hurried Lamb into the painting-room. They went back. The Comptroller was nt first irreeoncileablc: they soothed him, they asked him to supper. He stayed, though his dignity was sorely affected. However, being a good-na-tured man. they parted iu good humor, and no ill effects followed. Philosophers. Philosophers are men and sometimes women who know it's all done but never do it. Philosopers are sometimes those who shut themselves up in libraries and closets to study nature—out of books. Philosophers are sometimes reckoned very wise; yet not wise enough to avoid 1 the dyspepsia. Philosophers often grow old and baldheaded at an early age. Can't liear to have children about them. Not able, as a rule, to harness a horse. Can't walk over a mile, a id afraid to eat after nine o’clock in the evening. Not of ' much account iu the corn or potato 1 field, but great in a debating club. Can't sail a boat, but use spectacles at 35. Learned in logic, but not much help at a fire. Some philosophers haven’t known over fifty acquaintances for the last thirty years. Out of which association they study all mankind and write books about the human race. Other philosophers are discontented with everything that is and would lie satisfied only with what isn't. Then there are philosophers who even fail to recognize when a man or woman not talking philosophy at all yet lives and practices it. A woman philosopher after 50, wearing spectacles, unmarried and run to I seed, philosophically is a fearful thing I to contemplate. . Some philosophers are never happy j unless writing or talking philosophy, I and then all others who read or hear i their philosophy are unhappy. A balky horse is more than a match I for any philosopher in the United States. Intellectually speaking, there are no ! two worse swindled people after mar--1 riage than when a male and female 1 philosopher think they fall in love and 1 court and marry each other. The progeny of philosophers, when they have any, are rarely philosophical on coming of age. They know how t is themselves. So Easily Gulled. According to a Chicago street “fakir" ! the public is so easily gulled that imposters and sharpers actually despise their fellow-men for their sheep-like stupidity. A man he knew- of ran a perfectly square game which was an out-and-out swindle, but which brought in the first people of the town. He hail a pile of gold and a pile of silver coin. B.v paying half a dollar a person could throw six dice. If he threw six sixes 1 he took gold: if six aces, silver No one ever did it. It was next to ar. impossibility. and the mar. raked in several hundred dollars and left. A fellow traveling down in Alabama who had scarcely money enomth to bur a few ' bars of transparent soap, cut the soap in very small pieces, wrapped them in tissue paper and tin foil, sprinkled them with cologne, took a sponge saturat. d with benzine and arnica, with it washed the grease spots out of coats and hat., that came along, pretending ’ it ya- the soap, and in three hours with a ghb tonsue and a little rubbing deposed of $36 worth of what had cost him alm.at nothing. <»f the threq sons of ex-President Hayes, Birchard, the eldest, is practic- ! mg law in Toledo; Webb, the second, is m business in Cleveland, and Rutherford, Jr., i» in the savings bank at Franont.

f'anits in vur Bctioois. Prof. tTidctwnod, in a recent article in one of the magazines, dismisses vigorously man v of the faults In the educational system of the United States Main among these he puts, as done cverv thinking man, its vicious tendency of educating all its scholars for the professions, and away from the practical trades and arts, by the fatter of w hich the most of the children educated must inevitably win their bread as adults. One paragraph of the Professor, including some apt quotations from Emerson, is worth quoting in With liis gentle la nee Emerson pricked many a bubble, and, though eo ]].,p He Jia not always follow iaimediatelv. the wound was alwavs fatal. In 1'44. in his essay on New England reformers he charged popular education with a want of truth and nature. He complained that an education to things was not given. Said he: “Be are students of words: we are shut up in schools and colleges and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last w ith a bag of wind, a memorv of words, and do not know a thing. We cannot use our hands or our legs, or our eyes or our arms." And again, speaking of the exclusive devotion of the schools to Latin, Greek and mathematics, “which, by a wonderful drowsiness of usage” had been “stereotyped education, as the manner of men is,” he says: “In a hundred high schools and"colleges this warfare against : common sense still goes on * * * * Is it not absurd that the whole liberal talent of this country should be directed in its best years on studies that lead to nothing?” This is evidently too severe, but we must admit that Emerson anticipated and greatly aided a reform which has been gathering strength for a whole generation. Hence it is 1 to-day hardly necessary that I should present arguments in favor of manual education. The great tidal-wave of conviction is sweeping over our whole land, and the attitude and aspect of men are greatly changed from what they were ten years ago. AA’hat 1 said in 1873 in a public address in favor of technical education was held to lie rank heresy. I fear it would be regarded as rather commonplace to-day. The progressive spirit of the ago has actually penetrated our thick hides, and we are trying to keep step with the universe. In every community the demands of technical education have been discussed, and in every instance when the old system has lieen subjected to the tests which good sense applies to business it has been found wanting." In reading this article of Mr. Underwood’s we have been reminded of the following other quotation from Emerson as to the comparative value of collegiate and practical education, as given in a recent paper by John Albee, as read at the Concord School a few weeks ago—which was: After I had read in Emerson for some time I had the Imldness to write to him and the good fortune to be answered. In my note I had solicited his opinion in regard to college education. I will quote so much of his reply as is not personal: “To a brave soul it really seems indifferent whether its tuition is in or out of college. And yet I confess to a strong bias in favor of college. I think we cannot give ourselves too many advantages: and he that goes to Cambridge has free the best of that kind. AA’hen he has seen their little all. he will rate it very moderately beside that which he brought thither. There are many things much better 1 than a college: an exploring expedition, if one could join it; or the living with any great master in one's proper art; but in the common run of opportunities and with no more than the common proportion of energy in ourselves, a college is safest, from its literary tone ! and from the access to books it gives: 1 mainly that it introduces you to the best of your contemporaries. Bnt if you can easily come to Concord and spend an afternoon with me we could talk over the whole ease by the river bank.” There is a good deal in the above for the boy, with his education yet to gain, and for the educator with a conscience, to think about and study over.—Des Moines Begister.

Kinder Looking Around. A middle-aged gentleman, who formerly lived in this city, returned after an absence of two years, and in dutv bound called upon a number of his former acquaintances. He stepped into the store of a well-known trader and was familiarly and cordially greeted and after a chat ho said : “I have met with a sad bereavement lately.” “Indeed! what has been yonr trouble?” asked the trader. “I have lost my wife,” replied the poor man; "she died about ten days ago. Here is an obituary which the editor of the Blank wrote,” and he pulled from his pocket a newspaper, a id unfolding it. pointed to a veritable ! obituary. “I added a few lines myself,” i be continued, “for she was a good woman, and .Smith's obituary does her no more than justice.” “I presume vou are right.” said the trader, “and the loss of one’s wife is indeed a bereavement. You have the sympathy undoubtedly of all your friends." “Yes, bnt that is a poor consolation, after all,” said the widower, with a solemn visage. Finally the subject was changed to one of 3 more cheerful character, and after a few moments’ talk the trader said: “But what, may I ask. has brought you back to Lowell?” The stranger didn't answer heartily; but after a moment he re- j plied: “Well, to tell the truth, friend, I 1 am kinder looking around for another nife.”—Lowell Mail. Value of Fruit. It is a fact that fruit is a great regulator of the human system. It will ; ; keep the blood in order, the bowels regular, tone up tlm stomach, and is positively a specific in many diseases. . It is said of a doctor w ho became largely interested in peach-growing, that he recommended peaches to his patients on all occasions. The story was told .to illustrate the man’s meanness; but . if he was mean it was a meanness that i benefitted his patients. If men were 1 1 wise they would spend two days in a vinevard or orchard to every five minutes in a drug store when anything is i the matter with them. If vou have dyspepsia, eat fruit. Did ‘yon ever think what a doctor gives fordrspejisia? He gives an acid. Fruit will furnish a letter acid than a drug store will. Do you know what the doctors dose you with when your liver is out of order? AA ith acids. Then why not supply the remedy yourself, from your ow n garden ? AAliy continue to have your med- i icine done up in such a repulsive mixture when nature furnishes it in so palatable shape. Every home should have at least one grape vine. Once in possession it would lie almost above price, — IVestern Farmer. An Indian Dinner Party. Born in 1822. Colonel Ramsey commenced his military career in the Scots Greys, but after a few years exchanged into the Fourteenth Light Dragoons, then s -rving in India. He had been bnt a short time in India when he was appointed aide-de-camp to the Governor of Bombay, Sir George Arthur. At the first gcaat dinner party his brother I aide-de-camp was ill, and he had to pair j off the guests, all strangers to him To 1 make matters worse, at the last moment ■ many of the arrangements had to be I altered; I got on very well until I came to a large, imposing-looking officer, and said:

'Colonel D , I believe?’ He l>o-. ve d I assent. I see you arc down on mv list to take Miss A— down to dinner/ Sternly and briefly he replied: ‘No • sir, I will not.’ I stared at him speech' ; less! and he said : 'Ah, I forgot; von ! are new on the island. That fellow D’Arcy is. I suppose, amusing himself ! in the’jungles, so I may as well let y oa know I am a full Colonel off pay at)) i j reckoning, and Commissary-General of the Bombay army, and my position en- ' titles me to a married woman. I W ill 1 take no Miss down to dinner.’ I smiled | sweetly, and said; ’Colonel, I have just I come from a little place called England i and there we are very fond of taking I young ladies down to dinner, and the older we get the more w‘e like it.’ q ■ know nothing about England,’ he replied ; and off he went again—the old j refrain, full Colonel, Ooinmissarv-Gen- ■ end, etc., etc. I was oblige! to tell him ! that he had l»een originally marked o g for a married lady, but, owing to t| le numerous apologies, there was none ! available. The next officer I came to was standing by laughing. I said: ‘Colonel B—?’ He bowed. I then told him how delighted I was to find that he hail a married lady. He inquired her name. I told him. No, sir, he said hastily. ‘I cannot; I have not spoken to her for twenty years.' I was in despair. However, the two great men went down good-naturedly together.”— London Athenceunt. A Famous “Equestrienne.” I was reading Gottschalk’s memoir! recently, and a reference that he makes to the furore caused at Havana by the “hermosa aenorita Zoyara” reminded me of the last time I saw that peciiliat person. Os course every one knows now that “Ella Zoyara, the greatest lady equestrienne in the world,” was Omar Kingsley. But for a long time it was not known, and the strength and dash of Kingsley made him a phenoaienal success. He used to be an extremely handsome fellow, with curling black hair, black eyes, small hands and feet and a fine figure. I can recall him now Mitering the ring as a jaunty eeuyere, his riding-whip at the traditional angle, making eyes at the men and kissing his finger tips. They used to rave over him in the Spanish-American lands to the south of us. Many were the gifts Zoyara received from amorous Spanish dandies. But lam wandering. I was going to i speak of the last time I saw him as Zoyara. It was at his benefit, and he wasthe ring-master. Many years had elapsed since he had worn the female garb. Bnt when Zoyara bounded into the ring, the transformation was complete. No one would have recognized the sung ring-master of a few moments before. She went through the regulation feats with daring grace, and finally came to the lumps. She cleared all but one, which an awkward super persisted in holding at an impossible angle. Three times she passed it. and each time the super grew more uneasy and more awkward. Finally Zoyara attempted it, bnt the super bad lost his head. He succeeded in catching Zoyara’s foot with the hoop, and she was dragged from her horse and hurled with much force to the ground, where her forehead struck against the edge of one of the wooden stools used for star ’ing on. There was a roar of dismay from the audience, and then a storm of hisses leveled at the unhappy super. Zoyara rose, picked up the hoop, gracefully presented it to the super, smiled, kissed ! her hand to the audience, boundid after her horse, mounted and finished ‘ the act successfully. The whole thing was so neatly done, and Kingsley’s command of his temper was so great, that the audience fairly rose at him. I admired his self-control extremely; for I had seen him drilling his troupe once when there was no audience present. The vigor of his profanity then ‘ convinced me that had such been the I . case at this time he would have laid I 1 out the super with a stool. | , Saxon. Celt and Hebrew. The three races, Saxon. Cel tie. Semi! I ic, in this day strive together, react on ’ I each other, and on the while, I • nefii cially. The Saxon goes to the fringeof : some new continent, carrying with him ! his other self, his lever, his mattock, r spade, plow, ax and other tool or enj gine. He cuts into the forest, lie digs into the earth, he levels the roads, he ' builds rude houses, warm and comfort- ■ able enough for him if he be let alone, i he sets up earthworks and forts, he j plans docks, builds and mans ships.and does it all often out of what he iinds on the S]>ot, taking everything as if it were ! his own, and fighting the owner if he dares to interfere; crushing out nil that comes in his way. AVhen he h.".; made a rough holding he lets the Celt join him on terms which he keeps the key of, and the Celt, with his light heart and elastic mind, beautifies the place and makes it more human; builds the temple, the theater, the mansion: lays . out the garden; introduces the picture the sculpture; improves and lightens the literature; lets in the light: the art, the beauty, in fact, furnishes the place I and makes it happy. AVhen Saxon and Celt have in their ways thus installed the community in comfort and position, in glides the Jew with his money-bags and "AVill you buy. will you buy. "ill you buy?” Incomes the ring of the i street and market; so commerce completes the u hole. The Jew does more than this; he brings music also, enterprise, and, nntil he feels his wav. long sufferance ami stability.— Dr. Hi’ hardson. Effect of Odors on Milk. Upon this question Professor Arnold in the works “ American Dairying, says: “The London Milk- Journal cites instances where milk that has stood a short time in the presence of persons sick with typhoid fever, or been hand' d by parties Ix-fore fully recovered from the smallpox, has spread these discuses as effectually as if the persons themselves had lieen present. Scarlatina, measles and other contagious disea-es have been spread in the same way. The peculiar smell of a cellar is indelibly impressed uj>on the butter made from milk standing in it. A few puffs from a pipe or a cigar will scent all the ui’lk in a room, and a smoking lamp soon do the same. A pail of milk standing ten minutes whore it will take the scent of a strong-smelling, stale, or any other offensive odor, »ill imbibe a taint that will never leave it. A maker of gilt-edge butter objects to cooliDK warm milk in the room where his nidk stands for the cream to rise, because he says the odor escaping from the new milk while cooling is taken in by the other milk, and retained to the injury 01 his butter. This may seem like descending to little things: but it must lie remembered that it is the sum such little things that detci-mii"" whether the products of the darr' are to le sold at cost or below, or as a big’ 1 ’ priced luxury. If milk is to be converted into an article of the latter das’, it must lie handled and kept in clean vessels, and must stand in pure. be s “ air. .such as would lie desirable and healthy for people to breathe.” A missionary’ in Jamaica was once questioning some little black children on the fifth chapter of Matthew s go s ' pel, and he asked: “Who are th® meek?” A little fellow answered: “Those who give soft answers to rough questions.” Ii was the man who mistook the lo u S French window iu the second story t° . the door, who stepped down and om-