Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1879 — Page 4

LAMENT OF THE “BOBS” PRINTER. BY GEOBOK T. EDDY. All “ont of »ort>i," with a terrible frown, The old “ Bosh ” printer sat himself down. TblDgM had irone wrong, nothing gone right. From seven in morning till six at night. First, to begin with, he didn't feel well. And wished things in “ blazes,” or—(guess I won't tell); Which was caused, I’ve no doubt, from his indigestion; Woe to the “ comp ” who asked him a question. He had lost a good “ job ” just two days before From a first-class, good customer of a year or more; Jones, of the Fof/hom. had offered to do it Fur considerable less, and he couldn't see through it. Ho bad figured bis paper dear down to “ coat,” Remeasured the type to see what Jones lost; Went over his press work at so much a “ token,” And finally gave up. completely heart-broken. Just then from the press-room comes the bad news, To mnke things more pleasant, and add to the “ blues," The feeder (well, feeders are generally “rippers”) Had got Ids thumb mashed by one of the “nippers.” He is scarce out of sight, and his “ form ” lost to view, Before in comes a patron in a terrible stew; “ Those cards that you printed are short over one hundred; I either am swindled, or else you have blundered.” Then down to the press room be hastily goes, His mind boiling over with troubles and woes; “ How many of Brown's business cards did you spoilt” He thunders, and loudly, to the black imp of toil. “ I only spiled three.” yet there in plain sight On the floor, in the grease, we'll say that he might Make a guess at some fifty; while under the press Were full fifty more, without any guess. With a parting salute, in form of a “ cuss,” He goes back to his room to straighten the muss, Ass ires Mr. Brown that it will be all right, And he’ll “ send the cards over before five to-night.” The foreman comes down in a state? of alarm; “ Lili McGinnis, the new man. has ■ pied ’ the large form Which we alwavskeep standing, to use as they will, For the • Anti Dyspeptic and Food-Mixing Mill!'” “Oh! blank Bill McGinnis, what in blank is the rip? Don't the blank fool know better, or was the nip He took before breakfast too strong for his good? Pay him off, • Fire him out!’ hets really no good.” And so things went from morning till night, When the old “ boss ” printer, in this terrible plight, Hat down with a thump and a horrible frown. Gave a nod, went to sleep, his sorrows to drown.

FROST FABLES.

Tho Moral Effects of a Severe Winter. [From the Cincinnati Commercial.] Popular prejudices are not always confined to the dink ages and illiterate classes of a nation, but may become fashionable in the noontime of enlightenment, and not among the morally shabby-genteel only, for the experience of our own centuiy proves that the grossest absurdities may be defended in the language of science, or, as Mons. D’Alember expressed it, “that our national academies are turning out adepts in the art of making nonsense plausible.” Throughout Northwestern Europe and English-speaking North America, people incline to think that a high latitude exercises an elevating influence on the morals and scientific capacity of the human species, and that a land of perennial summer dooms its inhabitants to a state of permanent sloth and ignorance, a view which Col. Ingersoll condenses, in his epigrammatic way, by assuring us that “civilization is a plant which can only thrive in the snow.” Now, the truth is evidently this: That civilization which flourished in open air during ihe golden age of the Mediterranean nations has become a hot-house plant in the nineteenth century. We may hunt or fight in a snow-storm; so may the Sioux and the Seljuk Tartars; but painting, fiddling, preaching, the invention of labor-saving machinery, the manufacture of shirts, steel pens, newspapers, nutmegs and liberal lectures—in short, all the occupations that distinguish the civilizt d biped from the two-legged beast are still carried on in a warm climate, only with this difference: That the inspiring warmth that once emanated from the central body of the solar system has now to be paid for in the form of Yonghiogheny coal and kindling-wood. Cold, i. e., the absence of warmth, per se, is as unfavorable to the process of life as darkness or rarefied air; though a partial explanation of our modern snow-worship may be found in the circumstance that frost, like other evils, has an indirect value as an antidote; it enables us to indulge, with comparative impunity, in certain poisons wnieh the Southlander has to avoid on pain of death. A few months ago the papers adverted to the uiscoveiy 01 a California opiumeater who was able to “ sober up ” at ♦f’n minutes’ notice by swallowing a heroic dose of arsenic; and more than 300 years ago Paracelsus found that the progress of a virulent, and till *hen incurable disease could be arrested by the internal use of mercury. These remedies may be infallible, and, on the whole, the lesser evil; but all that would hardly justify the assertion that sobriety and purity can only thrive on a basis of arsenic and quicksilver; and yet it is in a precisely analogous way that a cold climate counteracts a tendency to sloth and ignorance, and mitigates the consequences of dietetic abuses.

Au intelligent observer, traveling slowly from the equator toward the North pole, might notice chat with every degree farther north the forms of all organic life decrease in size and perfection, and he might thus arrive at a conclusion which biologists have reached by a different route, viz: That the tropics were the original home of all living things, and that only an unsuccessful struggle f_>r existence in their i ative clime forced animals and plants to a snowward emigration. On their way from India to Kamtschatka, palm trees dwindled to bullrushes, arbor vitie giants to juniper dwarfs, fern trees to ferns; tigers shrank to wild cats and boars to blindworms; and there seems an a priori improbability in the idea that man alone should improve under influences which stunt the development of all other organic beings. The paradise tradition and numberless national sagas point toward a southern origin of the human race (not to mention the Darwinian indicia in the same direction): A- former happier existence of. beings of our species who held the lease of life on more generous terms and enjoyed centuries of unbought pleasures which now only the wealthy can purchase for a few deades.

Alexander von Humboldt remarks apropos of a Brazilian fruit plantation that “the banana tree yields a 600 times greater amount of nutritious substance to the acre than any of our Northern cereals, and, by the same amount of work by which a day laborer in the North has to maintain himself, he could in the tropics provide the necessities and many luxuries of life for a village of 200 inhabitants.” Himself and a moderate family he could consequently support with a merely nominal amount of hard labor, arrd by far the greater portion of his time might be devoted to pursuits that would raise him high above the anthropoid drudge of the snow countries. Should he at the same time be a temperate and continent man, the same sun t tat raises palm trees to the height of eighty cubits would develop his mental and physical faculties -with a minimum waste of vital power, and, since the home of the Semitic races was a land of eternal summer, the statistics of patriarchal longevity may belong to the less mythical portions of the Pentateuch. In a latitude where “all meadows and all wood are ever green, and spring retires with every rising sun,” man might regain his pristine happiness in the course of five or six generations. He might—but does the history of the human race make it likely that he ever will? Has man ever failed to

demolish bin physical or political paradise at his earliest leisure? “For one man,” says Goethe, “ who can endure unmixed happiness, 10,000 manage to endure nnmixed misery,” and it is distressingly probable that, if we could support ourselves on forty minutes of daily labor, ninety out of a hundred would devote the rest of the twentyfour hours to sleep and vice. The why is as occult as the origin of all evil, but it really seems as if the average man had to be dragged away from the pitfalls of ruin; and our mutual efforts to that effect are generally unavailing against a large and very mischievous class of sins—the sins of omission. No legislation, for instance, can prevent the neglect of the industrial virtues, for nothing short of outright slavery can prevent a lazy man from taking to the woods and herding with his fellow-brutes if he can digest their diet, or from enjoying his dolce far niente at home if he be rich enough to bribe his overseer.

A cold cliqaate now supplies this deficiency to some degree; it compels the cultivation of industrial habits by reducing the sluggard to the alternative of death or labor—rather hard labor, where remunerative work is monopolized by non-sluggards. Cold weather, therefore, is a guarantee against laziness; but a rarely considered question is this: Who is the better for it, except those who would work anywhere, and might work to much better purpose in a less ungenerous climate ? Are the lower classes benefited by circumstances that compel them to fight the battle of life under a disadvantage ? Experience may secure them against the fear of utter defeat in that battle; their labor may enable them to survive winter after winter, and make “ both ends meet,” but does it enable them to make any progress—in the direction of happiness ? Constant drudgery prevents, indeed, the indulgence of vicious tastes, but we must not forget that it still more effectually prevents the development of the noblest faculties of the human mind. Ten hours of factory work, followed by two or three hours of domestic labor, may not leave much time for the gratification of an ugly habit, but it is certain that they leave even less time for the cultivation of a fine talent. Our ethical systems—a mixture of Puritan and mercantile principles—make us liable to forget that labor is a blessing only as a means to something better, but not as the end of existence. “Let us consider the way in which we (in Massachusetts) spend our lives,” says Henry Thoreau. “This world of business. What an infinite bustle 1 I am awakened almost every night by the panting of the locomotive. It interrupts my dreams. There is no Sabbath. It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work. I cannot easily buy a blank book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents. An Irishman, seeing mq making a minute in the fields, took ik for granted that I was calculating my wages. If a man was tossed out of a window when an infant, and so made a cripple for life, or scared out of his wits by the Indians, it would be regietted chiefly because he was thus incapacitated for—business! I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to philosophy, aye, to life itself, than this incessant business.”

Those who may hope to improve their condition, or that of mankind, cannot work too incessantly, but if labor has no other purpose but prolongation of life, such life seems, indeed, not worth prolonging. It is certain that the consequences of intemperance are less fatal in a frigid climate than in the tropics; but this advantage, too, has serious drawbacks, and, if we are told that a tropicid country necessarily enervates its inhabitants, and that the North must always be tiie home of valor and worth, the arguments alleged on either side require for their digestion a good many grains of salt. In the first place, the antagonism of strength and a warm chmate is a myth. The honor of being the strongest men on earth must be conceded ei her to the Albanian Turks or the natives of Southern Abyssinia; but. even the savages of the Malay Archipelago, the Afghans, the Nubian Fellahs and the Kabyles of Algiers and Morocco are physically a match for any Northern rival. The palm of longevity, too, can be claimed by the natives of the winterless zone. The vital statistics of the French republic show that the greatest percentage of centenarians to a given number of inhabitants is found in the African colonies, especially in the province of Elgor (Southeastern Algiers), south of the Atlas mountains, where the Mohammedan element predominates ; and the average duration of life in Southern Arabia, Southern Russia (province of Azof), and Northwestern Russia is, respectively, 58, 52 and 38 years. The Arabs of Muscat and Algiers are, indeed, the most frugal and temperate men on the earth; and here is the explanation of the degenerate condition of the Southern Latin races—they are fast livers, and copy to tho extent of their ability the vices of their heroic ancestors without imitating their virtues. Sickness, like every other process of organic growth and decay, proceeds rapidly under a vertical sun, and the same climatic influences which once developed the genius of Greece and Rome develop nothing now but extraordinary diseases.

A cold climate, on the other hand, while it stunts Southern animals, plants and arts, checks likewise the progress of Southern maladies, destroys fever germs, and enables the human body to resist the influence of various intoxicants. Cold itself is a tonic, but not a healthy mechanical one, like physical exercise; its agency is rather chemical, and exhausts the vital power very rapidly, unless its ravages are repaired by dietetic invigorants. It may be exaggeration to say that the temperature of high latitude forces us to stimulate our system, and thus to wear out life between two grindstones, but nobody can deny that the North is the land of intemperance par excellence, and there is no doubt that the antiseptic power of cold is strictly that of an antidote— i. e., a counter-poison. Like quinine, strychnine and belladonna, a heavy frost acts like a ferbrifuge; like salt and pepper, it preserves animal tissues from decay, but chemists would tell us that all these anti-zymotic efforts prove cold to be an enemy of organic life. The most virulent mineral and vegetable poisons are more friendly to our nature than frost; no man can ever learn to relish it, as millions relish opium, alcohol and arsenic; our skin may become hardened against a certain degree of it, as the driver’s cudgel hardens the hide of a canal mule, but to feel it means to detest it. In the unmistakable language of our senses, nature warns us to avoid cold as a hostile agency. By four or five weeks of steady application the President of any temperance society could become a devotee of ardent spirits; but who ever heard of a person being afflicted with a passionate desire of having the blood chilled? Take me from this icy desert Up to nice, Eternal One 1 prays Rueckert’s Circassian to the sun, after a twelve-years’ exile in Siberia, instead of having taken a fancy to the climate, as he probably did to Russian schnapps and mare’s-milk cheese. A few animals, two or threq qut of a

thousand, stay with us during the season of short days and long nights, but do they appear to like the weather? Does it seem to improve their condition ? Do foxes and crows look healthier in January than in July? The unanimous testimony of the vegetable and animal kingdoms contradicts the idea that there is anything salutary or desirable in a low temperature; and all our fellowmen who have to brave the rigor of winter in open air still echo the paeans of the ancient Druids, who celebrated the return of spring as a revival of our Mother Earth from an unnatural deathtrance.

Dr. Bock, of Leipzig, used to distinguish between self-caused and frostcaused diseases; summer complaints, which all might avoid by regulating their diet, and winter complaints, which the weak cannot always avoid, except by emigration to a warmer climate. Weak lungs are affected by cold weather as a weak stomach is by indigestible food, or inflamed eyes by a lurid light. Every one knows how often a slight wound, a sore hand or sore foot, becomes malignant under the influence of frost, and in the same way slightly damaged lungs may become hopelessly tuberculous by a ride in a snow-storm or an attempt to sleep in open air under a threadbare army blanket. Cold contracts the blood vessels and irritates the exposed nerves of wounded animal tissues, the process of reconstruction comes to a lull stop, and mortification sets in. Aeronauts know that it is time to open their valves if they are overcome by a respiratory tremor; we shudder at nauseous food, and, if cold air makes us shiver, we ought to take the hint and a speedy departure. The civilized portion of the human race might be divided into sun-worship-ers and fire-worshipers— the inhabitants of sun-warmed fields and of stovewarmed houses—and it may be said that the latter class enjoy a more regular and perhaps larger supply of caloric; but it is to this in-door climate, not to that of the open air, that Northern nations owe their boasted civilization, for the openair inhabitants of a snow-afflicted country are certainly the worst barbarians on the face of the earth. Neither the equatorial regions of Africa nor the southern coasts of India and Siam produce human beings whose savagery and brutality could be compared with that of our red skins or the nomads of Northern Tartary; and, though Canada and the New England States have been settled by the best races of the Old World, it is certain that the sciences i and arts would not outlast their store of fuel for a single generation. Nations or individuals who would regulate their mode of life by the laws of nature could be happter in the South than in the North by just as much as sunlight is superior to a stove fire or a paradise to a drawing-room—superior not in beauty only, but in healthiness, enduring qualities and cheapness. The energy of the North European nations has so far enabled them to reproduce the winter climate of Southern Greece ' (in their snow-bound homes, but their efforts have made each bald before her time, and the cause that has contributed most to swell the westward exodus of these nations is the steadily-increasing fuel famine of their lower classes. Our continent was a continuous woodland a few centuries ago, but fuel is not so cheap as it used to be, and, if the accessible coal and timber stores of North America become depleted, our frost ' worshipers will have au opportunity to become familiar with their idol, and may condescend to return to a latitude ; where warmth and comfort are the free I gilts of nature.

Loyal Canucks.

An intellectual gentleman, that is to say, a person with long hair and but-toned-up coat, and a lady were standing in front of a St. James street book store this afternoon. The gentleman was explaining something to the lady concerning pictures in the window they were both admiring, and as near as possible the following conversation took place: “See,” said the man of intellect, “how boldly imperial the face of the lady is, and how like that of her Majesty, God bless her.” Lady—“Oh, my! and so it is.” Gentleman—“ Then, again, observe the contour of the Marquis, even from a poor photograph you can see the long line of ancestry that—that renders the name illustrious—that Lady—“l was just thinking the same. Let us buy and take them home.” In, accordingly, they stepped, and the gentleman said: “I want to purchase the photographs of her Royal Highness and his Excellency ? ” “I regret to say,” politely rejoined the clerk, “that they are all gone; but we are having some more struck off.” “But, my dear sir, you have them in the window” (pointing). “No, sir; one of those is Hanlan, our famous oarsman, and the lady is his wife.” (Exit gentleman, hastily, after buying a newspaper.)— Montreal Post.

A Dinner Excuse.

Apologies for poor dinners are generally out of place. But when a lady has a forgetful husband, who, without warning, brings home a dozen guests to sit down to a plain family dinner for four, it is not in human nature to keep absolute silence. What to say and how to say it, form the problem. Mrs. Tucker, the wife of Judge Tucker, of Williamsburg, Va., solved this problem many years ago She was a daughter or niece (I am uncertain which) of Sir Peter Skipwith, and celebrated for her beauty, wit, ease and grace of manner. Her temper and tact were put to the proof one court-day, when the Judge brought with him the accustomed halfscore or more of lawyers, for whom not the least preparation had been made, the Judge having quite forgotten to remind his wife that it was court-day, and she herself, strange to say, having overlooked the fact. The dinner was served with elegance, and Mrs. T. made herself very charming. Upon rising to leave the guests to their wine, she said: “ Gentlemen, you have dined to-day with Judge Tucker; promise me now that you will dine with me to-morrow.” This was all her apology, whereupon the guests declared that such a wife ■was beyond price. The Judge then explained the situation, and the next day there was a noble banquet. Moral: Never worry a guest with apologies.

The Convict-Lease System in Georgia. A report of the Penitentiary Committee of the Georgia Legislature has startled the State, and a resolution has been introduced to abolish the lease of convicts which was made for twenty years. The report shows: 1. That there have been 25 to 40 per cent, of escapes, against 7 per cent, under the old system; and that there are 525 escaped convicts now roaming through the State of Georgia- 2. That in some camps the men and women prisoners are chained together indiscriminately in sleeping bunks, and that the State is actually raising a camp of felons, as there are twenty-five children in the penitentiary, bom of mothers who are in shackles. 3. That the death-rate is 10 per cent, per annum (omitting the Dade coal company), and that in two camps it has averaged 16 per cent, per annum for two years, and in another it was, for four months, 10 per cent, per ipopth, or 40 per cent, for four months,

FARM NOTES.

Some light soils suffer from certain manures as men suffer from alcohol. The stimulation caused by them is followed by an injurious reaction, resulting in sterility. Ripeness in sweet potatoes may generally be determined by cutting several and allowing the cut surface to dry. If they dry evenly white, without dark spots, the crop is considered mature and ready for digging.— North Carolina Farmer. The wicks of kerosene lamps should be changed frequently, or, if not too short, washed in strong, hot soap-suds, with some ammonia in the rinsing water. We think the trouble with poor light from kerosene lamps probably arises from the wicks being full of the sediment or refuse matter which comes from the oil, and that impedes the free passage of the kerosene through the wicks.— Christian Union. How to Save Clover Seed. —Cut the clover about the 15th or 20th of September. The usual w r ay of cutting the clover for seed is to cut with a reaper set to cut very low, and to cut it off in small bunches. Then turn these bunches two or three times a day. Do not commit the common error of taking it in to* soon, or the clover will be hard to thrash. The seed should be thrashed out with a clover huller.— —Toronto Globe. The end of the potato nearest to the plant is called the stem-end, and the opposite the seed-end. At the seed-end the eyes are much more numerous than elsewhere. It is generally conceded that these are more excitable than the others, and consequently start first. In illustration of this fact are the experiments of Dr. F. M. Hexamer, of New Castle, N. Y. Out of 100 potatoes planted whole, 98 started from the seed-end. —New York World. Clipping Fowls’ Wings.—To prevent poultry from flying, etc., it is a common practice to simply cut the feathers of a w’ing; but these, unfortunately grow again. A plan much adopted here is to cut the extremity of the pinion, or “tip-bone, about half an inch from the articulation. This maims the wing for life. The operation must be performed when the bird is four or five months old, and in the spring or autumn. The wound quickly heals.— Paris letter to New England Farmer.

Temperature for Seeds.—Seeds are more easily killed by high temperature than low. Though no seeds have been known to germinate below 37 degrees Fahrenheit, they are, with few exceptions, destroyed by a temperature above 168, and many kinds perish below that point. They will not germinate above 128 degrees. Most seeds will stand the severest cold of the winters in this latitude, and wheat left for years in the Arctic region has been sown in England afterward, -where it germinated freely.— Springfield Union. Many years ago a friend of mine had a dozen very large trees that were bearing heavy crops of apples every other year, so he took a long pole and gave them a heavy beating just as the fruit was about the size of hickory nuts, knocking off every fruit on the south side of the trees. The result was, as I saw for several years, that these trees bore heavy crops on one side one year, and the next year a heavy crop on the other side, so that for many years he had plenty of apples for home use every year. His trees stood in a rich soil that was annually cultivated—no grass sod to cover the roots. — Weekly Rural. Soot as . a Manure.—To strong growing greenhouse plants, such as pelargoniums, fuchsias, roses, carnations, chrysanthemums, azaleas, solanums, and many others, soot is a valuable and easily obtained stimulant. A handful of it tied in a bag and stirred in a threegallon can of water has a marvelous effect on all the plants just named, and on many others besides. It induces vigorous growth, and adds freshness and substance to both leaf and flower. It is better to use it in small quantities and often, rather than charge the compost with more carbon than the plants can readily assimilate. For the more robust growers, especially if grown in small pots, mixture with fresh manure from the cow-shed is desirable, but this should be allowed to settle before using, otherwise the grassy particles will remain on the surface of the pots, and, while giving them an unsightly appearance, exclude the free aeration which all healthy roots require. Montreal Gazette.

HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY.

Before washing black and white cotton or linen dresses, or any of these dark colors, first dip them in salt and water and hang them in a shady place to dry. Mix lightly one pound of Graham flour with a pint of thick, sweet cream; add salt, roll thin and bake as other pastry, and you will have a fine Graham pastry. Nice Breakfast Dish.—Cold mashed potatoes, made into little balls, and slightly flattened; dip them into an egg slightly, so as to mix the yelk and white; roll them in cracker crumbs. Fry them in hot lard or butter. Send to table hot. If horse-radish be prepared in the fall, as follows, it may be kept all winter: To each coffee-cupful of horse-radish allow one table-spoonful of salt, one table-spoonful of white sugar, and a pint and a half of good vinegar; bottle and seal. Rat Traps.—Rats and mice will go into a trap more readily if a small piece of looking-glass be put in any part of thetrap where they can see themselves reflected. They mistake the reflection for another rat, and where others go they follow. Fruit or wine stains can be removed from woolen or cotton goods by sponging them gently—do not rub the goods —in ammonia and alcohol; a teaspoonful of ammonia to a wine-glass of alcohol. Then if needed the material may be washed.

A piece of red peopper, the size of your finger-nail, put into meat and vegetables, when first beginning to co«k, will aid greatly in killing the unpleasant odor arising therefrom. Remember this for boiling cabbage, green beans, onions, chickens, mutton, etc. House Plants.—Tobacco smokeunder cover—will be found an effectual remedy for aphides; but the larvoe of many other insects, especially of. the tipula and the tenth-redinidee, which occasions the wrapping up and shriveling of the leaves, can be removed by washing with lime-water, or hand-picking. To make buckwheat cakes, mix one gill of wheat flour with one quart of buckwheat flour, add one large teaspoonful of salt, then add gradually a scant quart of warm water mixed with one gill of yeast. Let it rise all night, and then in the morning add a quarter teaspoonful of carbonate of soda, and bake immediately. Wasting Flour.—A correspondent writes to the Christian Union: “ How can I help wasting much flour when making bread, cake or pastry? So much is washed off the bread board or the cake bowl, and yet I can’t see how it can be helped.” Mrs. Beecher answers : “ There is no necessity for wasting any of it. Knead your bread in the bowl till it will no longer adhere to your hands; then dip your hands in flour and rub off all the dough that

clings to them. Sprinkle very little floor on the board, taking care not to scatter it, but keep it only where it will be needed. If the bread is properly prepared, it will require but little flour to finish kneading it after you put it on the board. Put a little flour in the bowl and, with it, rub oft all the dough that remains, and work it in with the bread. Scrape off all the flour and such dough as may stick to the molding board, which should be very little. Put what is thus scraped up in the bottom of the bread bowl, and when the dough is raised enough to go into the pans this flour at the bottom of the bowl will be light enough to work into the dough and thus be saved. When molding the dough to put into the pans, if you scatter flour or dough on the boards, more than you work in, scrape it up and put it in your yeast pot, and do the same with all adhering to the board when making pastry. By practice you will soon be able to make both bread and pastry and leave but very little to scrape from the board. All that sticks to the bowl in making cake should be scraped off with a thin-bladed knife and dropped into the pan with the cake.”

Glimpses of Mexico.

The careless American Gringo, if you will, and the unprogressive Mexican of to-day, wandering amid the great and natural attractions of the table lands, scarcely realizes that here once existed one of the best civilizations, one of the most populous empires of a splendid antiquity. Here, occupying then, as now, a territory 2,000 miles in length and 1,000 broad, of 862,460 square miles, and equal to the combined areas of France, Spain, Austria and the British isles—once flourished a monarchy, said to have had 30,000,000 subjects, and whose traces, visible in the temples, pyramids and palaces that remain as monuments to attest its grandeur, are fully as interesting, if not as ancient, as the hieroglyphics on the pvramids of the Nile. According to Humboldt, who passed some time in Mexico studying its antiquities, the first race that inhabited that country—the Toltecs—were of Asiatic origin, and emigrated by way of Behring’s straits about A. D. 700. This belief, however, combatted by the advocates of the theory of more than one center of animal creation, rests upon conjecture, but appears plausible. In the opinion of Humboldt, the Toltec dynasty and occupation lasted 500 years, ending about A. D. 1200, nearly three years before the advent of Columbus. The Toltecs are then said to have emigrated to the mountainous recesses of Central America, being succeeded by another race of aborigines—the Aztecs—as possessors of the territory they had left behind.

They were an Indian race, of forms rather taller and stouter than ordinary, well-proportioned, good complexions, narrow foreheads and black eyes; regular, white teeth, and thick, black, coarse hair and thin beards, and the peculiarity of no hair upon their thighs and legs. Many of their women were beautiful and fair, whose attractions were increased by winning sweetness of manner and speech and modest behavior. The Aztec empire is traced for about 300 years from the cessation of the Toltec dynasty; it. originally comprised the Central States of Mexico proper, Rueretaro and Vera Cruz; and, in 1352, after a long series of revolutions and wars, was consolidated under its first King. In 1436, a generation before the discovery' of Columbus, the first of the celebrated line of Kings, the Montezumas, ascended the Aztec throne. Two reigns followed, when Montezuma 11. took the reins of power. Under this Prince the Aztec empire, after an existence of 150 years, assumed a pitch of grandeur and power—a height of civilization—scarcely ever attained by any other nation in so short a time. Under Montezuma 11. the empire was extended over 1,500 miles of territory, and is thought to have numbered 30,000,000, the City of Mexico alone having 300,000 inhabitants. So splendid an empire, so beneficent a civilization, was destined to be crushed by Cortez, who overthrew the power of the Montezumas in 1520, nearly 400 years ago. This adventurer and his myrmidons, although they bore the banner of the cross, were nothing but murderers, thieves and cut-throats who came to plunder and strew ruin and misery up and down among the populous cities, the stately temples and beautiful palaces of a land to which they had no more, right than the burglar has to the safe he is rifling. Cortez, the bloodthirsty scoundrel, with the innate cruelty of the Spaniard, sought to annihilate the Aztecs, and his whole “ conquest ” was one unspeakable outrage, in which the utmost horrors were visited on the unoffending subjects of Montezuma. No age or sex was spared; millions, whole races, were cut off and exterminated. The high civilization of the Aztecs and the monarchy of the Montezumas were savept away, to be replaced by Spanish cruelty and spoliation. Of the splendid empire of the Aztecs the 300 years of Spanish domination succeeding the fall of Moutezuma have left little except the remains of magnificent temples and stately palaces still visible in this beautiful land, and that once added glory to a monarchy that must forever eclipse the despotism of the 120 thieving Spanish Viceroys that succeeded the ancient line of Aztec Kings.— Mexico Cor. St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

How the Girls Were Fooled.

Horace Vernet was going from Versailles to Paris by railway. In the same compartment with him were two ladies, ■who were evidently acquainted with him. They examined him minutely and commented freely upon his martial bearing, his hale old age, the style of dress, etc. They continued their annoyance until finally the painter determined to put an end to the persecution. As the train passed through the tunnel of St. Cloud the travelers were wrapped in complete darkness. Vernet raised the back of his hand to his mouth and kissed it twice violently. On emerging from the obscurity he found that the ladies had drawn their attention from him and were accusing each other of having been kissed in the dark. Presently they arrived at Paris, and Vernet, on leaving them, said: “ Ladies, I shall be puzzled all my life by the inquiry, which of you two ladies was it that kissed me ? ”

Hosts of People Are Martyrs

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