Bloomington Courier, Volume 9, Number 51, Bloomington, Monroe County, 20 October 1883 — Page 3

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KEEP NO tfllNj FROM MOTHER. TR9 t at th'i spinning together, And they spa the Sao whit thread; One face was old and the otter youug A go den and a silver head . At times the young voice broke in f oug . T at was wonderfully awe t; And the mother's hsart beat deep and calm. For her joy was moat complete. There waa many a holy lesson. Interwoven with ailent prayer, . Taught to her gentle, listening child As they two sat spinning there. "And of all that I apsa my darting. Froai my oiderTiead and heart. God giveth me one last thing to say. And with it thou shall not part. "Thouwilt listen to my voice, . And ah! woe that this must ta! . . The r eioe of praise and the voicft of love And the voice of flattery. "But listen to me my little one. Chore's one thing that .thou shall f tnr Let never a word to my to ve be said W hich her mother majyiot hear. "No mntter how true, my darling one. The words miy eem to thee, . They are not fit for my child to hear If they oauurt be to d to m?. j If thou'lt ever keep thy young heart pure And thy mother's heart from fear, Bring all that is said to thee h day A t night to thy m other's ear. M

W3AT ONE GIRL DID.

Mollie Perry woke, the morning of memorial day, about fs cross as it is possible for a healthy, sunny-tempared girl to be, and with some reason. For, to begin with, her waking senses werefi ret greeted by a, strong wbiff of tobacco smoke wafted into her open window from the pipe of a lodger below; and as she had gone to sleep with the same incense in her nostrils, you must own that it was trying, particularly to a country-born nose tl at knew the fragrance of "wild grape vines and locust trees. Whatever yon think, Molly was wrathful, and

flounced out of bed, shut the window with emphasis, and sitting down in her one rocking chair, eyed with strong disfavor a pile of clothes on another chair And here waa another reason for her crossness. The night before she had taken account of stock in the way of clothes, and found herself on the verge of bankruptcy. "Not a decent thing among them except that gray suit," aha thought disconsolately ; and the truth is they were aBbabby lot Barring the gray suit, a navy blue serge (ragged as to edges, and shiny as to elbows and back), a faded cambric, an old black cashmere, hot and dusty looking, make up the sorry display, "Why didn't she bny some new clothes?" Well, there was no particular reason except that she had no money to bny and no time to wake, being one of the forty or more clerks in the "Mart - of Fashion " on Washington street, at a a alary of SB a week. Anyone mathematically inclined can do thaaum which Molly did each week: Board..... ,..$4.00 Washing and ironing 50 One sitting at "Trinity' (a very humble one). .... .15

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.., Tota' . . ...................... .$4 65 And out of the difference between this total and six dollars most come boots and gloves and hair-p'ns and pocket haudk erobiefs and everything else, so that you eaii see that the Quean ' of $helba wasquite safe from e rival so far as Molly was concerned. ,:'"r" . -T".' " . .- But this mention of the MMart of Fash ion" brings me to the cap-sheaf of Molly's discomfort. She had . expected to have the day to herself but it ush & Cr-sh, scenting possible profits from country visitors, decided to keep open. So it was a very cross face that looked at Molly frcm the little wtfvy looking-glass, and the soft brown hair was hateheled and twisted with very few of she pam and touches usually bestowed on it, and the blue dreoS waa donned.'with some twitches. The sight of the breakfast table did not lighten her mood; She looked down its. long length, and- notrd the Bpots and rings and splashes on the coarse cloth, the knives and forks at all angles,; and the dishes piled up, fragments audi all, by the untidy tabfc-girl, and felt an unutterable disgust for it alL It is not necessary o go into the story of sickness and debt and death which had brought her from a quiet, refined home to be a clerk in the Mart of Fashion and an inmate of Widow Jack -on a second-rate boarding-house; but we will start with her this Memorial morning, whet , after trying her little teeth on some tough steak- and turning over on her plate some flabby fixed potatoes, she fished a fly out of her coffee, and took her way to the store. Half the forenoon had worn away when with a box of tumbled laces before her, std looking after a lady who had just raised with a cluster of violets at her throat, and tb inking wistfully of a certain place she . knew of where they

grew,cool and moist in their green leaves, when the voice of the ubiquitous floorwalker brought her to the present "Miss Perry, if yon are not more attentive, I shall have to report you." "I will save you th.t trouble," said Miss Perry, and clap went the cover of the box, and swish went the box into its place, and Miss Perry, with very red cheats and bright eyes, went down the long store to the office and tendered her resignation, "to take effect at once, if you please.' Mr. Bush was pleased, for trade was sleekening and there were twenty girls for every vacancy. 0But you know our rale." Yes, she knew the rule, which was that a clerk leaving without notice should forfeit pay from the last Saturday night settlement. Bat Molly e ancestors did not fight at Concord without leaving some of their spirit to their descendants, to she turned to go with an air that betokened ho acquaintance with "rules when Mr. Rush, .whose heart had been a trifled softened by memories of a certain grave in Mount Auburn which would be .decorated that day. handed .out. three trade dollars, and in ten minutes Molly WHS 111 f VA Pmirnn utwih alt t.ha wrrvll

before her where to choose.''

The usual leisure was so pleasant that the girl loitered and lingered, enjoying the sunshine and air, and only when the noon whistles blew did she come down to reality. ' After dinner, with locked door, she held a council of war. Here, on one side, was Molly Perry,24 years oldjWith health and hope, five dollars in her trunk, three silver dollars in her pockety and one good suit, and on the other side the great,push ing, scrambling, selfish world, eager to grasp, and slow to give. " oUy did aomo hard thinking. There is oca thing sure ehe thought, "I won't (ea stpie again, and I won't sew for a

I living, and I, won't be cooped up in a

? shop." The chances are narrowing fast.

Suddenly came an idea. "111 do it," paid

Molly; and what it was, the Advertiser

told next morning':

WANTED, by an American girl who i a good plain cook, a situation to do brnspwork m

a 8malLfamilv:coartrr oroforred, Aaarees ni.

P., Advertiser fflae, Boston

Well, the answers fairly poured in. It

seemed as though all womankind had been waitiug for "an American girl who

is a good plain cook; but Molly resolved

to be critical and waited. In thi mean

time, seeing that a way was open, she

dressed herself in her best and went shop

ping Saturday afternoon. " She chose to

patronize Rush & Crush, where her high

and mighty airs gave unbounded satis

faction to the clerks, with whom she was

a favorite She sailed up to the print counter with great dignity, tamed the goods over, pulled the corners crosswiseafter the fashion of women shoppers, de,

predated the patterns, eta, but finally bought print for three dresses, girgham for aprons, etc., to the amount of $3, and counted out with great majesty the three trade dollars. "Oh, Molly, yon know we oau'fc take them," said the clerk. Molly turned to Mr. Bush, who was sauntering along wi in his eyes on the other side of the store,and taking in the whole proceeding. "Mr. Rush," she said, "I took these here day before yesterday, and now the clerk refuses them.1 ' Mr. Rush was grimly am ised at her pudaoity, but instead of answering her turned to the grinning cash-boy in waiting, and snapped: "Cash, what are you waiting for? Take the goods and money this instant !" , The youthful Mercury disappeared like a spirit, and Molly felt somewhat as her great grandfather did at Concord. Monday morning brought a letter,

which seemed promising, and which read

as follows:

WnKATyrKiii, N. EL June Miss M.

P.: We iseed a domestic, and prefer one of own nation. The family consists of myself and wife and a hired man. My wife is feeble, and the domestic would have to take charge of everything. We would pay $3 a week to the right person If you feel capable tor the place, and can bring a recommendation, we should like to have you come as soon as possible. Then followed some directions about trains, and the whole was signed in plain, homely fashion, 'Tours Bethuel Barlow' "Wife feeble," mused Molly; "well, she won't be poking around the kitchen all the time" (another flash of the Concord spirit). "Domestic," not "servant" or "hired girl.' That suited. The result was that a few days later Molly, with a letter from her minister was.set down, the. only passenger, at Wheatflelds station. Squire Harlow, waiting for the expected "good, plain co k" was smitten with great misgivings at the sight of the stylish young lady, for to his eye?, accustomed to the dress of Wheatfield-3 daughters, the simple gray suit with its graceful drapery seemed the heighth of- ele gance, anVl he was not reassured by the question of the station agent: "Got company from the citr, aint ye?" But it was too late to retreat,and soon o!d Dan'l waa pulling them steadily toward home. The Squire said little, but glanced at the girl occasionally from under his shaggy eyebrows. It was a fair, honest face, which freshened with every nr le i the sweet evening air, and the gray eyes took in everything, from the ehipmonk on the wall to the locust trees with their flagrant drooling clusters. "Want a piece? ' said the Squire, as they drove under one. Her face was- answer enough, and stopping old Dau'),the good man cut a cluster and dropped it in her lap. She triftily took off heme w lisle thread gloveaf to take.it, showing 'hands so white that the Squire- groaned inter

nally. Those hands wash hia dishes andi

sci ub his floors? Was this young Indyi who was prettier and better dressed than any girl in Wheatfieldsr . his domestic? He ahook hi3 head slightly, chewing a bi of the locust. ' : Sicily ventured a few qnesiions about the family, and he rd the story of what was always uppermost in the Squire's mindthe story of the lost uaugMer,Mary, one of the victims of New England's scourge, who had faded away three years before, since when "Miss Harlow had sorter pined." It was a pathetic little story told in the laconic Naw England way, but the brown, knotty hands worked unsteadily on the reins, and the Squire's eyes had a far-away look, as though toward the country which held his Mary. Presently they drove up to a comfortable house, with an air of plen ty about the large barn and wide fporcb, over which grew a white lilac. Molly f ou nd her mistress a little woman with faded, gentle

i eyes, and soft, slow voice. She looked at

the girl kindly, and held out her hand. After giving her a ew directions, and telling her where to find things, she addfd to her husband, " Pell John to carry her trunk to the east chamber. ' This, apparently, was something unusual, for the Squire opened his mouth as though to say something, but being a man of few word3, shut it again, and went out, Molly, following her trunk, found herself in'a small room, with a bright carpet on the floor white on-tains looped away at the window, home-made linen towels with knotted fringe on the little table, an old-fashioned chest of drawers, and a low four-posted bed with valance and patehwoik counterpane The room was neat, but had an unused look, and Molly

wondered if the tribe of girls of which the Squire had made mention, had marched through it ; but, too tired to think long,she unpacked her small ward robe, said her prayers, and knew nothing' more till morning,when n trilling of hi da and a ray of sunshine on her face, woke her to her first day of service as a "do mestie." While making her simple toi lette she gave many quick glan os at the billows of apple blossoms under her window,and t omething born of the light and fragrance and music was reflected in her face as she took her way to the kitchen. The wood and kindlings were near at hand, the fire started off briskly with a cheerful air of encouragement, and then Molly considered her bill of fare. There was salt mackerel, eggs, stale bread, the inevitable sail; pork, doughnuts and pie, and a pan of cream whose yellow, wrinkled surface bore tejfeinany t th Squire's Jersey. "That mackerel won't be fried," said Molly, for the course of frying at Widow Jackman'e had been revere. The fi n gern that had ijoeasnred lace and ribbons so deftly made abort work of getting brea k fpa anj' theQojure, coniing in from his

t trawberry bed with a pan full of "Wilsans," found it about ready. . . But somehow his table had an unfamiliar look. The cloth was on straight, the knives and forks were laid with mathematical precision, an unwonted air of trimness pervaded his familiar crrokery, and there was no pie on the table. But there was mackerel baked in cream, and mashed potatoes, and nicely browned toast, and the doughnuts. "Miss Harl ow :!on' t feel able to come out to the table tlus morning,and I guess

I'll take h er a bite before I eat."

And so saying the Squire took a plate, and commenced piling things on it in a

promiscuous way,

"Oh," said Mol ly, "let me do it. I have

had a long experience with sick people.

They must be tempted, you know."

She looked up at him with her bright

smile, and the Squire gave in at once,and watched with wonder while a tray was

brought, a clean napkin spread over it, a

piece of the macfeerel laid on a plate, with the cream ladled .( aintily over it, (Molly had seen too much of plates where the meat seemed to have been launched on

th'mby an avalanche of gravv); then

came a little plate of the potato, a slice

of brown toast, a little plate of butter, a

cup of. coffee, knife, fork, spcon,eto. Then she whisked into the pantry, and out

again with a saucer of strawberries, and

added them to the contents of the tray.

"Wait a mimite," she said, as the

'Squire lifted his burden, and in a twink

ling she was out of the door and back

again with a spray of white lilac, which,

in a tall glass, was given the place of hrjnor in the middle of the tray.

"Sho!" said the 'Squire, with his slow

smile, "that'll just suit my wife. She's famous for having things fixy."

Mrs. Harlow had missed the accustom

ed smelt1 of frying, and wondered in a

feeble way if Molly conldn't find the pork.

"Why, Bethuel," she said, as her husband sat the tray down beside her "how pretty! I really believe I am hungry." And the 'Squire went back to his own breakfast so happy that lie entirely forgot the absence of the pie. Well, this was the beginning, and though life afterwards was not all cream and strawberries and white lilacs, and though bread would sometimes burn,and pastry flatly refuse to be flaky,and though unused muscles sometimes ached with the new work, yet the giri kept" up a brave heart. The 'Squire and his wife were uniformly kind, and the latter, who had suffered aa much from lack of cheerful society as from any physical cauee, gradually grew stronger, and . would sit through the long summer forenoons in the creat airy kitchen, plaiidly knitting or paring apples, and though she sometimes looked wistfully after Molly as she tripped from pantry to cellar, and longed for the girliah figure which used to flit about in the same way, her heart took great comfort m the briglft, cheerful

stranger. And the 'Squire, hearing the fresh, new voice singing about the house, would give a great sigh for the lost voire, but somehow the old house seemed less lonely to him, after awhile his first question would be, "Where's Molly?" The plain country society readily took her in and considered hiar high authority in the matter of "looping" of overskirts and "doing up'1 of hair, and at last no merrymaking was complete without Molly Perry. a Those of you who have followed this story m expectation of some absent son or nephew or younger brother of the family appearing and taking Molly for a wife may as well stop here, for nothing whatever of the kind liappeued,for the' Squire and his wife had no sons,and their nephews and brothers were married long before Molly's day. It is true that some smart young f arraeTs of the region round about tied their horses occasionally at the 'Squire's gate, and it is equally true that Molly said No to some of them, though they one and all Bwear by htr. This story is not. written to induce all clerks and shop girls to rush into housework, for not one in twenty would be capable of doing as Molly did, and not one in a hundred would find such a home; it is written simply to show what one girl did.

Scientific Observations. After prolonged observation, M. Musser ha3 never seen an insect captured by the leaves of the Drosera rondif olin. Tn the year 1872 the consumption of copper 'in 'the United Stated was thirtyfour million pounds, and since that time it Has' steadily increased. Last year it was seventy-seven millions. Irrigation destroys young fish, a has been proved by M. O . Raveret-Watch. The young fry penetrate suddenly into the channels and die when the eurrent is quickly shut off. If it is tine that sparrows and swallows forsake a district where cholera is about to make its advent, the fact should be generally known and thoroughly established on all creditable data. It seems to be a fact which ought to be readily verified that persons deprived of the crystalline lens to cure cataract perceive the ultra-violet rays far more readily than persons who had. not been so treated. A statue to the inventor of the manufacture of soda is about to be created at Issondum, his native place. When this great chemist was alive the world refusinl him a breakfast; now that he ia, oead, a monument, of course. . ...There vrere, in round numbers, about 145000,000 people in Spain and its be

longings at its last Record. Of these 000,000 were in Spain, and 5,500,000 in the PhiUippines; 1,$00,000 in Cuba, and about 750,000 in Porto Rico. A new fire-proof liquid is being introduced. It is a basic f silicate of alumina, and it is said to be far better than tungas tate o soda, because the cyanite does not scale off or evaporate, while the soda requires reapplic&tiou every week. Cattle, a writer eats, aro maliciously destroyed in India ! by wounding them with a spike molded from the seeds of the arbus precatcnios. I peath ensues on the second day, but the powdered seeds have little or no bad eifwt when taken internally. It is reported that! Dr. T W. N. Greene states that he practiced for four years in a province of Mortti video, whore the population, practically ! speaking, subsisted entirely upon meat, m& yet scurvy was not known among them notwithstanding. Barbara Mitdeb, who was hanged at Richmond for murdering hor husband, had expressed a desjre to go to the gal1 iws in white stoe&ingsand without $hona m she expected ''to wear golden fill ope re m heaven

A WESTERN JAUNT.

The First of A beries of Interesting

Letters to This Paper from a. He osier

Boy, Pleasure Hunting in the West

Descriotion of Scecerv and Personal

Incident. Special Corresponclou cc. WESTWARD BOUND. Denver, Con., Sept. 30, 1883.

There are few Hoosier bovs who have

not thought of going West some day, and

thinking of it have almost gone wild with

enthusiasm on the subiect. Let me tell

Ul ITUflV J4VW OlCiXin iiao (V UICU1U wv

but which,nevertheless is a reality a'trip

to the West and Yellowstone Park. A

more delightful season to travol will neverjbe found than the month of September.

The weather then is nerfeot in all its

loveliiiess. The sun never shines brighter, the skies are clearest, the atmosphero most exhilirating, The country west of Chicago along the line of tho Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railway to Omaha is one unbroken prairie of great beauty and fertility and a continuation of the finest farms I over saw. The growing corn and recently harvested crop of wheat and oats told how well the industrious husbandman had been rewarded for his labor, and tho emigration to the section of country along this line is increasing so rapidly that in a few years this will be one of therricbest belts in the Mississippi valley. The small towns along the way are live and progressive, and will double in population within the next tive years. Towa is indeed "the beautiful land" as the word, in the language of the aborigines means, and the picture I saw of it I shall not soon forget. It was a warm, hazy afternoon, and the Btrong breezes wafted for many mileaybhe brightest snnshine, wide spreading corn fields,

long stretches of wheat stubble, clumps

of maples, elm and willows that Bat like boques on the prairie meadow.neat farm houses surrounded by luxuriant orchards.

now and then a viPage to be seen far away in the distance, bright shining creeks lined with a wall of willows and-

cottouwoods is it not a beautiful scene?

Council Blnflfs, on tho Missouri River,

at the foot of a low ransre of lulls or

bluffs, many miles in length along the

river's course, is a city of 30,000 inhabitants, and growing rapidly. The eountry

surrounding it is 'verv productive, and

the "Short Line" road having its branch

offices here, it will not be a great while until the place will be a, mo?t important city.

Omnhfijtbe great metropolis of Nobrnska,, is jupt rcroiR the jive1, situated on

high, rcl'ing gmin, and h?i? the characteristic push of a typical Western city. Tn many respects it suggests Chicago, and I doubt not,in a few yers will be as booming. It is the home of United States Senator Manderson and ex-Senator Paddock, now of the Utah Commission, as well as ox Senator Saunders all progressive statesmen. Hon. P. S. B, Piuehback, noted as a colored statesman of Louisiana, was Secretary of the Territory of

Nebraska when Senator Saunders was

Territorial Governor. Afterward Pinchback became a United State Senator for Louisiana and servo 1 in tho Senate with Saunders. Omaha is the smarting place of the greatest-railwpv system in the West if not in the World, the Union. Pacific, I extends from Omaha to Salt Lake City to Denver, and has a complete network of roads in the Rooky Mountains, to Idaho, Oregon and the wonderful Yellowstone Park. I started from Omaha at noon, and the vast expanse of the great plains was one of the grandest sights I over witnessed. On either side of the train are the prairies where the eye sees but wildness, then lookincr back upon this long aisle or avenue he sees civilization, comfort and luxury. How sharp the contrast! Twenty years ago this vast meadow was the feeding place of countless bnilalo, antelope and deer, the home of the murderous sav a gel the haunt of the hungry wolves What a change has occurred since then! The Union Pacific was the redemption, tho eivilizar of this geat dominion, Now we se? instead of a wilderness, a country of progress and plenty. .The Indian saw the "fire wagon" coursing along the horizon and ho left; the buffalo heard a bellow that struck terror to him, and with; the frightened herd of antelope, rushed toward the mountain ranse. On and on the railroad and its iron rider came, the avant courier of civilization, and we have this great producing country of wheat and corn, the land.of plenty, the home cf the prosperous far ner and herdsman, the site of a hundred churehea, the country oi schools and prosperity. I shall not soon forget the impression my trip across this Nebraska country has made. The first day's ride is a short one to nightfall, but it carrier one through the most beautiful undulating prairies of eastern Nebraska, where are the finest farms and richest soil. Opening suddenly into the broad valley of the Platte, the luxuriant wild meadows, gayly decked with sunflowers and buttercups rich with delicious odars and nodding in the warmth of the afternoon sun, present a scene that makes the most prosaical feel there is real beauty in prairie life. The Platte is the water-course of the great plains, and is being used as the fountain of an extensive system of irrigation that will event n ally redeem all this country to cultivation. Farms are being opened all along its way, and herds of sleek cattle are grazing on the thousand hills. Nature has been most considerate in placing here this body of water, for without it the country would be little else than a desert. The ride at night in a Pnllman sleeper was a kingly comfort. At early nightfall I saw far away to the north a night awfully grand and really sublime, The. great black wail of cloud and smoke loomed up to the very skies, it seemed, while the earth was euwmpped in a sea of flame. The distance broke

from us the wild noise of tho courlacra-

tioa and a storm eomu g up, Ike vivid lightning added to the remarkable panorama Who can describe the spectacle? war? The ee3ond day out from Omaha, we arc fast ascending the high plains of the foot-hills of the Rocky mountains. Everybody on the train is full of glow and enthusiasm. All are alive with enjoyment, vet can scarcely tell why. Tho great plains themselves that we will soon be oyer seem full of unusual" interest. Something makes everyone almost extatic, A h ! It is tho keen, beau tif ul, refreshing, oxygenated, inv5?orafinir, toning, healthfnl, enlivening mountain air. The more you breathe the more yon want to breathe. The lungs are now feasiing, Thera is

almost a taste to the air, so pure is it and fresh. It is the balm of Qilead. We are approaching the mountain ayetem and the sea of land behind us we are loth to leave the vastness of wide-extending, un inhabited ,lifeless,uplif ted solitude,a majesty of loneliness. DENVER, The city of a day's growth, as it were, the business oeu'or of the gold region, the wonder of progress, the marvel of compactness and beauty, located on a site more beautiful than a picture, is the western headquarters of the southwest branch of the Union Pacific. I never saw a finer city than the capital of Co lorado. It is new and, hence, clean. The streets are wide and naturally paved with sand that is well-nigh as hard as s tone. The public buildings are of stone, or a red granite, from the mountains twenty miles distant, and preseut a handsome appearanca The city hail, just comple&d, is a fine specimen of architectura Tabor's opera-house is generally considered the most palatial in the United States, and the Windsor Hotel is in keeping with it. There are several beautif ul drives and two parks in Denver, and just now there

is a system of artesian wells being eunk

in them. There is a population of 40,000

at Denver made up of almost all national

ities. The Yankee is probably the most

numerous, and tnen tne cooi, oarerui Yorkehireman, who is interested in min

ing machinery, is almost as often to be seen. The Puritan face is generally seen

in the stores, and the best merchants are of this type. The Germans are numerous in Denver as they are in most cities,

while the Irish seem not to have emigra

ted to Color ado as much as to some other

states, though there are many Irishmen in Colorado. Swedes and Norwegians and then Danes are the foreign faces to be

seen almost anytime, and tfcese people, for the mosfe part, are the hardest working miners. Most everybody is engaged,

or interested, in the mining business, which shows how bad the mania is. You can't talk anything else in Denver. There

are hundreds of men who go to work in

tho morning, after eating a' scanty break

fast, who would not be the least bit sur

prised if, when they returned from work in the evening, thst ha i "struck it rich"

during the day and were millionaire. Hundreds of men have made fortunes it

mining while hundreds have failed. It

is not a surer business than some other

avocation?, but it is so seductive that men almost become insane with expecta

tion and not infrequently with despair. But. the wealth of Denver is from the mining business, and some fortunes have

been made that it seemed a tale of the

Arabian Nights to hear of them.

The trip from Denver over the South

Park road'to Lead vi lie is one of thrilling

interest. The read leads over the wildest

oart cf tho Rockies, and there are times

len it seems as if the train would ca

reen over ft precipice into the abyss below.

But there is seemingly as much safety on this mountain road as on any other. A

few miles out from Denver and we are

ten thousand feet above the sea. Tho

train clings to the mountain side, the walls rising alihost perpendicularly to a height of a thousand feet! The foot-hold for the track was made by tearing rooks from te cliffs and piling them one above another u ntil a rook-bed was secured. Looking down eight hundred feet one sees t wo i; lender, shining branches winding their way down the hill side with parallel uniformity- it is the railroad, and to think one has to go there is a matter of apprehension. Lifting the eyes from thi3 abyss and facing westward is a delightful view. The valley of Quartz creek is half a mile beneath us. There is a long stretch of brightest green at the bottom which rises gracefully,fading into lesser proportions to ,.the pine-covered hills beyond. The creek sparkles like a 6ilver serpent as it winds in and out of sight. Great mountains rise from this footstool of emeralds, rise until they seem reioh the sky, andthe soft radiating tints of the summer sun lends to the glory- of the view. The sides of the mountains as they begin their ascent are covered with pine trees that seem to stnd on a carpet of lighter green grass. Higher, the mountains throw off their verdure and great bald peaks stau J boldly out beneath the firmanent, while those which seem to be lords of the air, are clothed with snowy covering. Far away in the hazy distance is the Gunnison country, the land of sunshine beneath the bluest Fky above the earth. It is the Italy of America. What a scene of grandeur and beauty is this mountain range and nestling valleys! No pen can describe it,and it is worthy of the most delicate work of an artist Then how i nperfeot the description the finest eoenic production gives one no idea of air, sunshine, winds there are no perfumes from flowers, no songs of birds, no roaring of waterfalls, no eohoings of the canons, no sighing of the pines, no glittering of the cascades fcht se grand beauties of nature can sever be produced by art The Grand Canon on the Denver and Kio Grande road is a marvellous sight The railroad conies down the mountain side for mihss and finally enters what seems nothing more than a gulch. This deepens to a depth of riee thousand feet! The walls are perpendicular and barren, and the railroad follows the stream at the bottom for a distance of six or eight miles. This is as much as I can say about it; language can't convey a proper idea of this wonder of nature. Our trail leads to Utah, the land of Mormons; Idaho, the hunting grounds, and the Yellowstone Park, of which I will write you. Stbkbor,

CURRENT HISTORY,

A Grsat Whale Hunt in Scotland, Glaagow Herald. Au exciting whale hunt took place at West Voe, Dnnrossness, September 20th, resulting in the capture of a shoal of .twenty-eight whales. Early in the morning a number of six-oared boats were proceeding to the fishing, when they observed the shoal disporting themselves close To Sumburg Head. They immediately gave chase, and succeeded in drivng them all ashore. An eye-witness describes the scene of slaughter as wild in the extreme. Along the head of the Yoe were spread the whales1, lashing the water into foam in their death-struggles, while in the midst of the blood and foam the men, wading

waist-deep in water, were ssen " gomgj

from fish to fish and plnnging lances into the monsters' sides. One big fellow managed to get his head to seaward, and away he went at a great rate, sometimes below and sometimes to the surface; but he had been wounded mortally, and ho was easily brought ashore agin. All vegetables are growu with more or less epocess in Kansas,

THE BA.NEBKS STSNTIITOHT. Before the adjournment of the'National Bankers' Association the following resolutions wsie adopted: Resolvad, That the President, VicePresioent and Executive Council be instructed to prepare and oigest a plan to be presented to Congress for the continuance uf the National Bank system. Resolved, That it is the reuse of the American Bankers' Association that a compulsory coinage of the standard silver dollar of 412 grains is against the wel

fare of the nation, and that they recommend to Congress the continuance of

anon coinage only in such amounts as

the demands of the business of the couu-

try may require, THB OHIO OOVBBNOn-HXECT.

Gov. -elect George Hoadly is a native

Ya nkee, born in New Haven, Conn., July

31, 1826. His father was at one time may

or of that city, but emigrated west, where

George grew up with the country in

Cleveland, O., and received his elementa

ry education. He graduated in Western

J Beaerve College, Hudson, O., in 1844. He

read law on year in the law school of Cambridge, Mass., went to Cincinnati

and entered the law offioe of Chase k Ball in 1846, and was admitted to the bar in

August, 1847. In 1849 he waa admitted to partnershin in that firm. He was sleeted by the Legislature in 1851 to the judgeship of the Superior Court of Cincinnati for the residue of the term , to

which the Court had been limited by the

constitutional convention. He was city solicitor in 1855, and in 1857 succeeded Judg') Gholson on the bench of the new Superior Court. He declined a seat on the Supreme Bench in 1856, offered by G overnor Chase, and the same honor in 1862, offered by Gov. Tod. He was reelected to the .Superior Court in 1864,but resigned in 1866 to establish the law firm of which he is etill the head. He was an active, prominent member of the constitution&l convention of 1873 4, and devoted eight months of his valuable time to that unfrui tfnl service. Although a hard worker in his profession, he has found time to teach law.in the law school, to sarre as trustee in the Cincinnati University, ana in other ways to promote the progress of arts and sciences in that city. Hi i dentin cation with the forth couyng Cincinnati Museum,and the Weet endowment may be instanced in proof. He was one of the counsel who smseessfully resisted the rffort to compel the reainrr of the Bible in the public schools. Hoadlv originally was a l)emocrat,but on account of slavers found hia way into tho Republican party, with which he remained until the close of Grant's first terra as President. In 1876 he joined the

Liberal Republicans, and was absorbed into the Democratic ranks under the banner of reform and the leadership of Tilr en and Hendricks. He appeared as counsel in favor of the Florida end Oregon Democratic electors in lS77,but since then baa davoted himself exclusively to the duties of his profession. AJT ABCTIO DISCOVERY. Lieutenant Stoney, who went up on the Jasi trip of the revenue -cutter Corwin for the purpose of distributing among the Tchuokehee Indians of Alaska, $5,000 worth of presents given them by the government in recognition of the shelter and food afforded to the officers and crew o the steamer Rodgere, burned in 1881, reports the discovery of an iromenpe river hitherto unknown to the geographers Tho riyr had been vaguely spoken of by the Indians to former explorers, and Stoney, being compelled to await the return trip of the Corwin, determined to see if there was anything in it. Accompanied by one attendant and an interpreter hi proceeded inland from Hetham Inlet in a southeasterly direction, and struck what is believed to be the mysterious river. He traced it to its mouth, a distance of fifteen milas, where he saw such immense pieces of floating timber as Co satisfy him that, the stream must be of immense length. He retraced his steps, a distance tf Ufty miles, where he encountered nativeo from whom he learned that to reach the headwaters of the unknown stream would take several months. The Indians told hi n they came down it a distance of 1,500 miles to meet the fur traders, and that the rivet went up higher than that. Having no time to g further, Stoney returned. It is his opinion, as stated by those on the Corwin, from w hom this information was obtained, that the discovery of this river accounts for the larger amount of floating timber in the Arctic, popularly supposed to come down the Yukon. The Indians stated that the river in some places was twenty mile wide. It is within the Arctic circle, but in Angust, whqn Stoney was there, he found flowers and vegetables of varieties not hitherto discovered in such high latitudes. Ha has forwarded his report to the Secretary cf the Naw, and hope3 he will he permitted to go back and continue tho exploration.

The Fat Lady Wedded. N. Y. special, Sept. 27, The nuptial rites of Daniel raoses and Mies Blanche Gray, the female giant, were the most brilliant which have taken place in the Bowery. The groomsman is a profound student ol! etnology and natural history, and bids fair to. become a professor in the New York museum. The bri ie is a blondo of sixteen, and is little inclined to embonpoint, weighing 575 pounds. She was born in Detroit, Mich., and grew fat in a young ladies' boarding sohool because she had nothing to do. The museum was crowded with spectators, and among the guests were several officers of the police force,under the command of Captain Kale, of the Fourteenth precinct All the preferred guests were elaborately dressed. The toilet of the New Zeala.nder .was especially admired. He was neatly attired in an African buflalo skin and a dozoir strings of clamshells had blue and red stripes across the forehead and down his nose, and looked like a ohiomoi The Oiroasehm girl had her head of hair, which is nbqnft the siae of a currant bush, done up in the Pompadour fashion, which made it look much higher than it was. Ab0:30 o'clock the preliminary shocks

Uof a supposed earthquake were followed

by the announcement that the fat girl was coming. Sho wore a scarlet silk dress, adorned with flowers, and carried a bouquet Her face .was wreathed with emile 55. Her shoulders and arms were a shade lighter than her dresa. At her right arm waa a modest and inconspicious youth, who might weigh anywhere from

eightv-Ave to ninety -ee-yen pounds

His

face wa 3 beardless. He ti as said to be

tvreuty-one, and did not look older than

eighteen. The bridal party took up their

crand march to the altar. As the pair passed over the room the floor sank half way into the cellar. The tattooed prince and the emaciated-Circassian slave came next to them, followed by the living skeleton and the Zulu princess. Theepiderman, the man flute, the man who never stole an umbrella,, the woman who never wanted a new bonnet, and the other curiosities, closing with the wild New Zealander, from Thompson street made up the bridal train. The marriage ceremony was performed on the stage by a minister. Two baskets

of flowers werb presented to the bride from the "Witch of Wall Street." The owners of the museum gave her 3200 as a bridal oreeent, and the museums employes presented her with a gold watch and chain. A bridal supper was given on an ... upper floor of the museum, and in the dance which followed the bride danced like a fairy. The Tiger and His Victims.

Belgravin. As a matter of ftel, the 'tiger is not a specially ferocious animal. As the greatest authority on Indian natural history says, it is "a harmless,, timid animal. It feeds on animals that are prodigiously injurious to crops, and there are on record in India the complaints of villagers on the increase of deer and wild animals in conseqnenoe of the d etructioh of tigers in their neighborhood. When it gets too feeble to catch wild animals it begins to eat tame ones, or, easier victims still, the men and women who are in charge of the cattle. It then becomes, as a "man-eater,' a criminal against humanity and death cannot overtake it too soon. But it is

only those who know the Hinloo thor

oughly who can credit the amazing apa

thy of these men even when in imminent danger. So long as it is not. actually visible they refuse to take precations against peril, and I remember during ihe Afghan

.war assisting to thrash some lazy follow

era in order to arcuse them to a proper sense of the necessity of saviug thir lives. They had squatted do wn to smoke along the roadside in the Khyber Pass though they knew the enemy was lurking

in r.ne tocks aoove tnem ana in tne jun

gle behind them; though thev had with their own eyes seen the corpses of camp followers lying where they had been murdered when they set down to smoke. Iu the very same way the herdsman cornea loafing home iu the twilight, singing a song of the country as hp goes (to let the tiger know that no ono is coming, probably) and suddenly out of the sugar-canes flashes the tiger, and there is an end of that herdsman. But the next man will probably do the very same thing. He will take another iv-ad, of coursei on his way home, but he will lag behind -hia oattle and sing to himself in the tsame ridiculous way, and out-from uuder the bair tree springs the same-old tiger. Indeed, it is one of the problems of Indian Administration how to keep the natives from suicide. They prefer to have half the village down with the small-pox and then to carry a dead chicken round the stricken hamlet on the end of a pole than to bo vaccinated. Theyprefer to lose a prodigious number of their acquaintances by drowning than to protect their welH

They prefer to have tens of thousands of

men and women bitten by snakes in the

toes and thumbs and die therefrom than

to let enough light into a hut to see the

diflferense bef v.'cen firewood and cobras.

Irish Humor.

Chamber's Journal.

"I engaged," said a burly lawyer, a chaise at Galway to conduct me some few

miles into the country, and had proceeded eome distance when it came to a sudden standstill at the beginning of a rather eteep incline, and the coachman leap

ing to the-giouad, came tb the door and

opened it. What are you at, man? This is not where I ordered you to stop. Has the animal j ibbed V 'Whisht, yer honor,

whisht P said Paddy, ' in an undertone,

"I'm only clesaving the sly baste. I'll

jist bang the door, and . the oraf ty ould Greater will think he's intirely got rid of yer honor's eplindid lorm, and he'll be at

the top. of the hill in no time.' " On the edge of a small river in the

County of Oavan, in Ireland, there is Or

used to be a stone with the following in

scription out upon it no doubt intended

for the information of strangers traveling

that way: "N. B. When this etone is out of sialic it is not safo to ford the river."

Even the above is almost if not quitesur-

passed by the famous post erected - a few

years funce by the surveyors of the Kent

roads in England; ?'This is the bridlepath to Favereham. If you can't read

this you had better keep to the main

road.' We aro also reminded of a debate

which took place in the Irish House of

Commons in 1705, -on the leather tax, in

which ihe Chancellor of the Exchequer,

Sir John Plunkett, observed with great

emphasis: "That in the prosecution of the present war, every man ought to give

his last guinea to protective remainder."

Mr. Vandaleur added: "However that

might4be, the tax on leather would be severely felt by the barefooted peasantry of

Creland." To which Sir B. Heche replied

that this could be easily remedied by

making the under-leathere of wood."

The following story is related by a New

York paper of John-Jarre bt, who recently resigned the presidency of the Tron and Steel workers: John Jarre, t landed iu

New York city from Sp .th Wales onMay

24, 1862, when he was sixteen years old,

and went that autumn to Jjuncanville, Pa., and obtained work in an iron-mill. On his first Sunday there he went out for a walk, and seeing an orchard laden

with fine apples, swung himself up--the

nearest tree and began to help himself to the fruit. Pretty soon the farmer came

along. "What 'eyedoiu'up that tree, young fellow?" "I'm 'elpiu myself to"

some happles, sur, ' tin young fellow

smilingly responded. ;Elpin yourself to some happlfts, zoor, are ye?" cried the

farmer, in exaggerated mimicry of the young foreigner's dialect. "And who the

blazes told you you might 'elp yourself

to my happlea?" "Why," stammered the apple-eater.in innocent perplexity,"hi8nt this a free country?" "Mebbe it is, but them's my apples. Yo u come down off

a' tree." The young man came down, and

the farmer, seeing he had only recently landed, gave him a kind, emphatic expo sition of the rights of property in this free count, y. A TWO-CENT KHYME.

FORTY BILLION GERMS.

A Wo ndcr'ul Theory that Concerns the Welfare, Happiness and Life of Everyone, -

Morohant Traveler. - 3 send a letter now yon want , 2 listen to this sonnet. ; v 2 write it plain and then to pnta

at stamnuoa ik

In this quiet and cosy library at the close of a busy day sat a gentleman and his wife, he absorbed in a new book and ehe iu the newspaper. Quickly glancing toward her husband, she asked, at a pertain point-in the article, John, what is the germ theoiy?" : The germ theory wellyes; jast look in the encyclopedia under 'Germ,' that will explain it so much better than l oan., ' Accordingly his wife opened the book at the word named and read: Germ Theory of Disease A theory advanced by the ablest and best investigators and" scientists of the times. It supposes the surface of the earth, the air and wafer tobe inhabited to a greater or less extent with a peculiar growth of the lowest form

of fungi commonly teimed bacteria,

whose power of reproduction, .under favorable conditions, is so srreat that a

single germ will increase to fifteen million

in. twenty-four hours' time and uncheckv

cd in its increase would grow to a mass

of eighthundred tons, in three days' time

if space and food be furnished. There is no condition under which it can iye said to be absent, unless it be from fire or air iiltcred through cotton-batting in numer-. pus layers. A single drop of water containing a germ, put into water boiled, filtered and thus freed from bacteria, will grow murky in a day or two from the development of new germs. When it is considered that it requires about forty billion to weigh one grain, some remote idea can be had of the-capacity of germ reproduction. Professor John Tyndell, in

a late work, elaborately treats of the iniluence of germs in the propagation of disease and charges upon this cause, the inception and development of very many of the ailments most injurious to man. Professor Pasteur, an eminent French savant, has carried his original and beautiful experiments so far, and from them deduced7 such practical results as very greatly to diminish the number of cases of anthrax among sheep . and chicken cholera among fowls, proving his theory that these are essentially and actually germ diseases. These germs are carried into the system through the lungs, the stomach t-nd possibly the skin but through the lungs chiefly. Once in the system, they begin to develop, poisoning the blood, inyading the nerve centers . disturbing the fnnotionaiactivity of the great ergahs of the body and inducing a general impairment of the vital processes They are the cause of fevers, rheumatism, Bright? disease of the Mdneye, pneumon a, blood poisoning, liver disease diphtheria and many other ailments. Lately Professor Koah, a famous German physician, has proved tha consumption of the lung U due to this cause the presecceof a pecuUjir germ. When the circulation is bounding, the nerves elastic and the system all. aglow with life and energy, the germs seem to develop poorly, if at all. But with weakened nerves, poor digestion or malaasimition of food or n lowering of vitality from any cause, a chflge ensues, and in this impoverished and weakened fluid the germ finds a genial home and develops until symptoms of disease are distinctly manifested. Th is is seen in the everyday experience of alL I?he healthy man resists the influences around him and does not take cold, while those whose systems have become weak from any oause readily contractoldsl This is on th6 same principle as the germ ilieory. The germs attack any weakened spot in the body, and fixing themselves upon it begin their propagation. It ;is plain, therefore, that it. is only by fortifying the weak portions of the body that the germ

of disease can be resisted and driven from the system. But this has proved an almost impossibility heretofore, anditha been the study of phyeioians tor years how best to accomplish it. Within tl-e past few years, however, a prepnratiou has been attracting great attention, not only throughout the ettire land, but among the medical profession and soientists generally, which is based upon tliis theory, and it may safelyvbe said, no remedy has ever been found , which can so successfully place the system in a condition to rest the germs of disee as Warner's Safe Cure, This article is unquestion?bly the best, the most efficient that has ever been discovered for thw, parppse, and - . vs ; "John, say, John! does theenoyolopedia advertise Warners Safe Oure?" , V , I eliould not wonder, dear, it's a grand remedy, and that pamphlet we received the other day stated that lr. Gunn, of the United States Medical College, endorsed it. At all events the wonderful cures itie accomplishing entitles it to be honorably noted among the great disooyeries of the presr nt century Hoever the facts above stated may be, the truth remains that the germ theory of disease is the correct one and that the ; great remedy mentioned is the only one which has ever been found that can put the system in a condition, to killjihese germs before they obtain a holduppn the body,.and undermine the life. v The Noble D g. ; ' In a dwelling-hpuse that wa9 burned near Korth Adams, Mass., three children were sleeping, their rarente being away from home , The house-dog succeded in getting into the children's room and resoned them wilt great difficulty, as two of hem had fainted.' ,: Aa a dog in South Bend, Ind., was quietly gnawing a bone a rat crawled out frem under the sidewalk on the opposite side of the street, and, rushing cloeeup to '

the jaws of the dog, made off with the 1 bone before the astonished do could recover sufficiently to pursue it. A Dog at Newcastle, Penn.. was for

twelve years an inseparable companion of

Sidney Davis. Davis died recently, and r fter searching in vain for his master, the dog finally settled down in his arm-chair and waited "his coming. It required stratagem to get him to take the smallest quanity of food, and he, gradually pined away and died. . r .

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Watch closely, mildew, the greatest enemy of the grape grower. Apply eujphur with a ..bellows on a still dayi . ;

A man has been found down in New

York, who saya the English sparrow,

destroys beetles. Who will rltorafce this statement? The Berlin government prohibits it6ay

importation of swipe pna

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