The Greensboro patriot [April 2, 1879]

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The Greensboro Patriot.
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Established in 1821. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1879.
New Series No. 572.
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MABELS MATCH-MAKING.
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In. hadjiMi written. I..i us read
•i HI Fun MI [ am never write
[•raking of my deep
Um 1..rvi.HI unceasing
il I should no* be
■' 11 ;in.I m\ Bister -
■ in) lather's prop
> 11. mi- replaced in my
' "'I . ".■• warn, and am happy
d borne. A- the lieloved
ill u losl ... lain, and the
lather's proper!.? and li r,
1 mj I'rii ndshi|i and
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.1 . 1 word:
welcome, and ■peeking brotherly wordato
her,
Then hiiry footsteps came tripping 10
ward Ibem, and llettie came forward in
per white dree*, with bare arms and
-li.millers, bercbeeksglowing with beallb
mill loveliness, and her yellow hair fall
UM mi bar shoulders like a shower of
golden rimrs. The glory of youth was
1 ;-.ii her, and iier blue eyes "shone like
mingi twinkling atan, She came forward shyly
and stood by Malx-I's side; and Mabel
linked at her fondly, proudly, and intro-duced
her in a loving, leader lone, and
l<a>ked into the young man's face 10 tee
the expression there, as he nazcd on llet
tie s loveliness. He took.the white plump
bund in bis, and gallantly kissed it, mak-ing
sunn- little flattering remark about her
fairy-like beauty, and calling up a rosy
Hush to the bright, young lace. 11 had
< um no d better than Mabel bad hoped,
and she siooil bark a little in the shadow,
mid thought whata handanme couple they
would make.
The days thai followed were days of
gayer* and pleasure. The guests invited
were all younger than Mabel, and though
she did not always mingle with them in
their amusements, ii was a very happv
lime for her^ lor it gave her pleasure to
Bee otherahanpy. Ileiiie was the gayest
ol the gay, latigiiing. singing and dancing,
with no care, a very child in the trials of
life.
MainI was housekeeper ami overseer of
all that belonged to her, and much of her
lime was required to perform pressing
duties. >ll was she who put up nice
dainties lor picnics, sailing parties and
ri.bs, 1 trough she often remained at home
in.I saw her sister and her guests go on
ih. ir way laughing and happy; and 1 lien
she would return to her labor, singing
softly, or sometimes sighing unconbcious
ly-
Mabel preferred lo work a |n>rtion of
her lime—the days of her love ol'gayety
Were over, anil she preferred iiuiet walks
and sound conversation. Wesley Dart-mouth
was a man who could talk well
and deeply; and often an hour or more
was given to uuiet conversation between
himself and Mabel; and often would
bis eve light up with pleasure and as-toniahmentas
Mabel displayed the depth
of her mind and the wealth of bbr infor-mation.
The days passed happily away, and
Mabel lull more and more assured that
her plans were succeeding, and visions
of wedding arrangements passed before
hi r inin.I. and sin saw lleitie- herdarling
Hi ttii—the wife of Wesley Dartmouth,
one of the best men, she thought, in all
the world. Hut often, while thinking
thus, she would look at her sli
angers, on which
shone, and then she
and la* contented; but
II ..11 •
ik linveilune.
yon are a true, loving woman, and I love
you as I never loved before."
His face was close to here, his warm
breath came quickly upon her face. The
feelings that swept over her were mingled
with astonishment, guilt, pain and plea-sure.
She could not speak; her face
blanched white as snow. His face was
bowed nearer to hers, until his bearded
lips aim...1 touched hers, then she pushed
him away, with her trembling hands, any
ing;
"Ho more; yon arc killing me."
tie ansje at once lo his feet.
"I am sorry to have grieved you. Ma-bel;!
know noi your secret, for there must
be something beyond your dislike to dis-appoint
111c that moves you so. I am al-ways
your friend, renteatber that, and
let no thought of my sorrow- cause you
pain.''
He was gone. Mabel tried to speak, but
her white lips refused to move, and she
sat pale and motionless when llettie came
in weeping bitterly. In an instant she was
herself again, aad naked llettie the cause
of her tears.
"Wesley Dartmouth has gone," she said,
"and I know be does not love me; he
kissed BM when we parted as he would
have kissed a child, and told me to be a
good girl, and try to make you happy.
<>h, Mabel, Mabel! It will kill me! Why
did you invite him beret 1 wish I never |
had seen him!
changes as seemed good to him. Hut
Admiral dc Horsey states that they are
laws of "puerile simplicity, ' contenipla
ling as possible only three crimes, theft,
profane swearing, and illicit intercourse
between the sexes, offences of which no
case has ever bean known to occur since
lin-inus were draw n up. Captain Beecbey,
writiug in 1825, aaid ,1 the Pitcairn
Islanders before either of their removals.
"These excellent iieraons appear lo live
together in perfect harmony and content-ment,
to lie virtuous, religious', cheerful,
and hospitable, to be |«lterns ol" conjugal
and parental all'ei lion, and to have very
few vices.'' Admiral de Horsey says:
"I have ventured lo quote these Words, as
they hold true to this day. the children
having followed in the footsteps of their
parents.'' Indeed, unless the brevity of
Admiral dc Horsey's re|iort to some extent
conceals bis meaning, he would seem to
think not that there islanders have "very
few vices,' but that they have none at'ali.
Of their religious attributes, he says, "no
one can speak without deep leaped A
people whose grcalesl privileges and plea
sure is to commune in prayer with their
God, and to join in hymns of praise, and
who arc, moreover, cheerful, diligent,
and probably freer from vice than any
other community, need no priest amongst
them.'' Nevertheless they have a pastor,
Mr. Simon Young, apparently one of
themselves, aud of course not in orders,—
Mabel tried to soothe her. but could not; who always uses the liturgy of ttie Church
she would not be comforted. She would I of Knglancl, and is heliicifvery efficiently
neither sleep nor cat as usual, but wept I by his daughter, Miss Rosalind Amelia
almost continuously. A doctor was con I Young. These two teach the children
suited, and advised a change of scene for Vending, writing, arithmetic, geography,
pell
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vet I think w
lines. Mi
person,
stead
W > Wan- in\ited a few
pi 11.1 some ol these
>s w illi us, and would
"" .-a guest
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iTiollgli we have
shall
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l .11 all ays. and
ynii is 1 guest,
• 11 true friend,
M ua I II till KV."
Ii J md put in a deli
Mala 1 Harvey said
nine, and I so hope he
u I believe 111 match-ease
me so much
. 1 11 h other.
I now, 111,1 I think she
111 u 1 iage and
almost sure
-lie w ins all
■ i- sigh, and she
. inning bear:*
1 years old.
faded from
' ml laauiil'ul
i ii n eyes
ll.au ill "the
• I mil II nugh n.'
.- her lips were
■■Hi ki shining
' written in
• 'filed bj
•■"ii lashes, she
... '■ . I'e li had been
i 11 ills thrilling pleasures,
luxury and a ant. She
dailghti 1. pelted ami
w isb, ami a slur in the
1 -i.. moved; but her lu-ll
the midst .'I pr<>-
mother had married in a
- lid Was lather In 11 lit
six ye ir-. the llet-
1 ' r (teen like a
misfortunes came.
iitpportcd them in
swi-pt HI iv through
I, md pin erli', stern.
■ 111 in the face
suddenly, and
1 ng been a vie-n
more feeble,
- del ' ale 11 lute
tsed to labor,
11 ii. lnr needle to
I I lie ilnor.
lathi r bad lingered, as it
> grave, and pa
- pported and
. evei in bis presence
mil earing for
111 Wl 11' IIIT "11 II
s|i pfathi r shi'oh-
111 liertn all academy,
lot In .1 and sent 10
hopeful, and some
bri -.'liter .lai - re
I han,-- Il.nl I time.
was the friend of a
- who bad died away
in. y of youth, took
's !.->t pr.-p. rli in
had at last I. siorctl it.
waul and li r. 1 ,-r the
■I ;.i tiie to m who had
The 1 KM had never met
-tie through the
.t the meeting was
I smiled a- -in-
. nil her drooping
away over the
md half proving
irht love each other,
- first 11 her thoughts
extended to
ti" young lawyer,
■lay Mabel
' :' a- ii came lazily
would stop at her
' and a tall. Iiearded
mil walked through
vel walk, and
M tl» I - face a- she
-net him. Iii one
»l, in the other he
- his bead ?rao
■ iving her words of
tapely
0 betrothal ring
would try lo smile
there was always
a vague longing ami unrest in her heart,
however much she strove to bauisb
them.
Once, when the merry party had gone
for a moonlight sail on the river, she had
-nl alone at I lie piano, singing some old,
quaint melody. There was no' light In the
room -uve that from Heaven s lauqis; but
that fell ncro.— her smooth, brown Hair,
and her slender lingers on the white keys.
She was thinking of the pastdays (hat the
lllebaiy called to her mind, and did not
km.w 1 iiui Wesley Dartmouth bad stolen
quietly into the room, ami wss standing at
tni side. She finished her song, and turn-ing
her head slightly, she started to gee
h:m standing there and lookingdown upon
lnr -11 kindly.
"I thought you had gone with the sail
ing parly." she said.
"I started logo," he replied, "butgave
it up on account of a dull headache, which
1 thought would prevent my being an
agreeable companion. Your singing
soothes me, Mabel; will you -ing that snug
to in.' again?"
.Mabel did not answer, hut turned to
the piano and sang in soft, gentle tones:
■1 «..ni.i i„-11,11,,.. i-,i wortfuptbM
Hi all that's noble, alldlvlue:
Mi .'i.'ii Iliouaiil Is tail |..r 11
I w.'iiiil Is- lliliie. I W..11I1I t« thine."
Neither spoke for a moment after she
had finished her song, then Wesley Dart-mouth
laid his hand carelessly "on her
shining hair, and said, almost in a whis
per
"I thank you, Mabel; it was beautiful."
fjond night
Before -be could answer he was gone,
and she wondered why he seemed so
moved, and half feared thai lletlie bad
slighted him, or perhaps refused his band
in marriage.
li was late when -he went to herroom,
but she did not retire. She drew the
crimson curtains from her window and-at
looking off over the blue river, where she
could just distinguish a sail boat approach
ing the -bore in the moonlight. Nearer
and nearer it came, until she could bears
-'Uig the merry party were singing: and
in a -hurl time llettie came cautiously
into hi r room, her face wearing a grieved
'u«ik
"•Mi. dear, Mabel," she said, tossing
luck her heavy curls. "I wish I hadn't
gone. It was an awful dull affair. What
did Mr. Dart nth come back for?"
Mabel put her hand out and drew the
bright young thing upon her knee, ki-sing
her pouting li|is as she did s.,.
"Was ii Mr. Dartmouth's absence that
made the lime so dull, llellie." said -be,
"tell me."
A crimson Hush overspread Hettie's
face, which she hid upon Mabel's shoul-der,
"Yes. it was," she said. "I am never
happy at our picnics, or anywhere el-e.
il he is not there. I never keep a secret
from you, Mabel, and I want to ten you
thai 1 believe I love Wesley Dartmoath."
-•There is no sin in that," answered
Mabel; "and I think he loves you, too;"
ami she smiled and sig|ied at the same
time.
"Do you'.'*' said llettie. springing up
and looking into Mabel's eyes with a
pleading, earnest look. "Do you think he
loves me. Maliel? If it is not so I shall die,
for he is all the world to me."
A fear crept into Mabel's heart. She saw
1' was a serious thing with her beautiful
-i-ter. and I here was a possibility that she
was not loved by Wesley.
•I hope he loves yon, llettie, "she said,
"and I think hedoes. Hut lime will prove,
and you mii-t not grow pale and sad about
it."
A lew more day- passed by, and all the
guests had gone Inn Wesley Dartmoath,
and he was to linger but a week longer.
With a wonian's tact Mabel avoided his
society, giving him up entirely to llettie.
Hut the day before bis departure, as Mabel
sal in the library quietly reading, be un
ceremoniously entered the room and took
a -eat beside her.
"1 haven't badachal with you, Mabel,"
In-said "for a week, and I am going to
break in upon your reading to-day, and
make you talk with inc.''
"lam willing,"shesaid, laughing, and
throwing her lunik aside. "What shall
we talk alsiitt'.'"
"I will nil you," he said. "I am
ill love, and I ciime to ask your ap-proval."
"My heartiest approval is yours." she
-aid, "blushing slightly, "and" I am most
happy to give my dear sister into the
bands of one I esteem so highly."
"Mabel, have you not seen—can you
Dot sec—that it is you I love, and not
your sister? llettie is but a child lo me;
her, and Mabel went wiih berloa friend's
at lirighton: but they had been there no
more than a week before llettie begged to
go back to her dear home; and, disheart-ened,
Mabel returned with her.
Whiter and thinner the poor child grew,
and the doctor said there was no hope for
her; she was a victim of consumption, as
her father bad been before her. W ben
the autumn came round, llettie lay upon
her couch, with a bright red spot in either
cheek, and her breath coming and going
quick and fast.
"Mate-," she whispered, "I wish I
might see Wesley Dartmouth."
Sion a telegram went Hying over ihe
wire: "Come. llettie is dying and wishes
10 -ee you."
Il was not long before he came and stood
over her, bis baud - ia.-p. .1 tiers and a tear
in his eye.
"I loved you," whispered the pale lips,
"and I could not lie reconciled to being
unloved. But I am happy now. All is
given up. and my heart is with the Sa-viour.
Mabel, Where are youl Your un-complaining
and tender can- of me will
always find their reward. I leave you
alone, but a spirit like yours will always
find friends."
The light was fast failing out of tin-blue
eyes, the lips moved but made no
sound, and then the freed spirit of the
beautiful girl Soared away from the sor-rowful
regions of earth, and Mettle was
an angel.
A year |uissed away, and it was Mabel's
thirty second liirt!,day. She sat in the
library as she had sat two years bejbre,
when Wesley Dartmouth had said he
loved her. The sun's last rays were creep
ing in at the window and gilding her
brown hair, and she was mu-ing with a
tear in either eye.
'How- strange my life has been," she
soliloquized. "I am growing old, and
there will never be rest for me till I rest
ill the grave."
"Mabel!"
She started. Wesley Dartmouth stood
before her. Scarcely knowing what she
was doing, she allowed him to take her in
his arms and kiss her.
"Mabel," he said softly, "shall I be re
fused again?"
"No, 'she answered bravely; and with
her head upon bis breast she felt thai rest
had come to her at last,'and Wesley Dart-month
felt that he had won a woman well
worthy to be the wife of any man.
A WORLDLET WITHIN THE WORLD.
We wonder that Admiral de Honey's
report on the condition of Pitcairn Island
lias not attracted more public attention.
The story of the island is curious enough,
and its present condition more curious
even than its story. As our readers pro-bably
know, il is an island of about seven
miles in circumference, andaboutasquare
mile and a quarter in extent, not much
more than half the size OfBark. It isonlv
two miles and a quarter long, and niit
hall that in average breadth, so that a
minuter spot, which is habitable at all.
scarcely exists on the globe, and none
certainly which is so far removed from its
nearesi inhabited neighbors. Otahelte is
several hundred miles away and but that
il is the only place where shqis sailing
from the South American coast to otabeite
can get fresh water, a ship would hardly
touch there trom any motive of self in-terest
once in a hundred years. It was
first occupied by nine of the mutineers of
the ■-Bounty," who. in IT'.K). lied from
Otabeite, in the not goundle-s fear of
Is-ing there apprehended and punished by
the llritish government for their mutiny.
taking with them six otabeitan men aiid
twelve Otaheitan women. Thus the ori-ginal
settlement was one the chief ctiarac-teristic
of which was the violent and
lawless character of UM chief leaders.
Hut before 1800. eight out of the nine
mutineers, all the Otaheitan men, and
several of the women had been killed out
by violence or diseane, and the island was
populated only hy the children ofthe origi-nal
settlers, with a few of the Otaheitan
women, and a single English sailor origi-nally
called Alexander Smith, who had
taken the name of .John Adams, and who
ruled over the liltle settlement. Solitude
had produced a very deep effect on his
character; and tie had established a simple
code of laws for the rising generation,
which had la-en so well obeyed that the
re|sirts of the settlement, as early as 1M14,
were like re|iorts of the Happy Valley.
In is:tl their numbers had increased to
eighty-seven—a population nearly as large
as the island can support—and hence Ihey
were trans|iorted, at their own request,
from Pitcairn Island to Otabeite. Bui
disgusted by the dissolute habits of the
people of that island, most of them re-turned
10 Pitcairn Island within the year.
In 1886 they again found themselves too
numerous for their dwelling place, and at
their own request were taki n to Norfolk
Island. But in l-'.'.i two families, mini
licring seventeen in all, returned lo their
old home, and in lSf>4 anothei instalment
rciurned also. On Admiral de Honey's
visit in the "Shah."' in September last, he
found sixteen men, nineteen women.
twenty-five tsiys. and thirty gills.—say. a
number equivalent to some sixteen lam:
lies in all. Only twelve deaths hail
Occurred in nineteen years, no contagious
diseases bad visited ihe island, either as
regarded men or cattle. The governor
(elected by universal suffrage of both
sexes over seventeen, and open to re elec-tion)
is James Russell M Koy. the steers
man ofthe whaleboat, Ihe only boat ihey
have, and built hy himself, but as, in
building it. he had to use iron bolls in
the absence of copper, the boat will soon
go to pieces. This chief magistrate him-self
drew up the existing code of lsws.
using for that purpose John Adams's code,
and the amendment, on it, with such
There
eoplc
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and Scripture history. The giris learn
sewing and hat -making, and all the chil
drcn are taught |mrt-singing, and practice
it very effectively Schooling is conducted
in the church-house, at one end of w hieh
is a free library. The island has no
springs, but rain usually falls once a
month, so that it is only occasionally that
t he people suffer from drought. Once a
month also, or Iherealaiuts, they have a
chance of communicating with a passing
stiip. The only language spoken is
English. Drunkenness is unknown, ami
alcohol is used only in cases of disease.
Twice recently they have assisted Ihe
crews of wrecked English vessels most
liberally, one islanders life having been
lust in the dangerous exploit; and so far
from taking advantage of these wrecks for
their own purposes, they seem in have
received noequivalcntor compensation in
either cases for the aid rendered, ,
In short, if the account of Admiral de I ing coal
Horsey is 10 be trusted, here is a Ihlle '
population of simple, contented, friendly,
gentle, religious |ieople, iioor and happy,
strict in their Sunday services, but eager
to do any good work on Sunday, with
out thinking it Sahbath-breaking; not
loving the world, or the things of the
world, bui returning by preference to their
seclusion, whenever the narrowness of
their limits has driven ttiein forth to try
their lot in a more miscellaneous com
miinity. Indeed, the adults of Pitcairn
Island must be regarded as a twice silted
population. Once the greater number of
them rciurned from Otabeite. repelled by
ihe dissoluteness of that island. Anil
again, apparent!) about halfoftheir whole
number returned from Norfolk Island, tor
a similar reason. Hence, of the elders at
least, those preferring the excitements and
temptations of a larger world 10 the peace
ful and homely life of this little nook,have
twice been skimmed off the society, ami
only those whose preference for the moral
seclusion of the place is very distinct,
haw lain left behind. Ii is pretty certain
that this ngaccss of selection must go on
afresh, as every fresh generation grows
up. The island will not ap|«renlly sus
lain a liopulalioii ol more than a hundred:
so thai as the numbers grow, those who
prefer a more exciting world will Inevi-tably
leave, and only the grealest lovers
of moral tranquillity will remain la-hind.
Thus a process of moral selection may by
degrees furnish us with a population 'il
unusually refined moral simplicity,—
where the preponderance of unruly "pro-jtensitie.-
is almost unknown; where the
love of excitement has well-nigh vanished:
where there is no love of money, because
money has no uses (Admiral de Horsey
says that there is no coin on the island,
except by way of s curiosity);aad where
there is nothing forbidding or austere,
even in Ihe religious character of Un-people;
where, too, the affections never
swell into pas-ions, aud sentiment is loo
much restricted in its sphere to admit of
its rising into sentimentality and false-hood.
It is curious to sja'cuhtc to what type \
of character a community thus carefully
weeded from
kind which wiaild hardly have a meaning
»i all lor men who knew what active life
really was. The fear reminds one almost
o" he fears which very good and genile
laiTinisis. who have been bred up to
uiiuk their own nature in need iff abso-lute
and complete renewal, entertain.
">ougn in their case it is fear not of ihe
governments of this world, but of ,1,,-
government of the invisible and eternal
Kingdom They are alwav-afraid lhal
some yielding to their own inmost bins
Will be reckoned lo them as an offence, by
S power which requires thai thev should
generally renounce that bias. Thai the
1 ncairn Islanders should ascribe such a
reeling to the British government, to whom
they seem very loyal, is, we s'ustwet, an
indication ofthat too gnat tendency lo
believe itself in the wrong, which is apt
10 mark a type ol" character of this IIM>
i"-galive, too tame, too little original kind
lifter all, miginality, even moral origi-
Jjnlty. needs a certain selfconfidence to
»uj.|~iri it. If y„„ milkc tm. „.,,„,„,,„.
rule which restrains self-will too large a
proportion of life, and ingrain il too much
into Ihe very essence ofthe moral tastes,
the result is likely hi be this deep fearful-si
almost any preference which
• demonstrated 10 lie right,
ie wrong, simply because it is
*. Elbii-8 are everything in a
society ot stiong emotions and strong
bents, but you may dwell on the law, till
ihe imperious impulses which need the
liw are thinned away almost to nothing.
We should be inclined to sti-pect, from
Aominil de Honey's brief and Interesting
account of this little remote world within
s world, thai ihe moral selection which
tend- to make these islandeis so good
kindly, and lovable, had almost grownup
lo the point of imparing the vitality which
needs the restraint of law", and li.ui cer
tainly grown beyond the point where the
rein and Ihe curh add lo, even while ihey
guide, ihe force ofthe naiure for which
Ihe rein and the curb were devised.
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should
preference
if
may take a tritle more fuel but it will
prevent cold draugbte, drowsiness,
Uth) faces, and poor health. UooTJ
health is a pn^-icsa treasure, often too
liltle prized till it is taken from us. To
regain it we are willing Ui spend for-tunes;
to preserve it in our children
we should take all reasonable pre-cautions.
A school-room, even the poorest,
need oot be destitute of ornaments. A
little effort 011 the part of a teacher or
or the School board, will secure some
pictures, bracketsand vases for ilowers.
■ inc.-in a wlitie .Mime evergreens niav
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keeping their good qualities lefore the
public.
Kvery business should lie advertised,
no matter where or what it is. If a
moderate cotton was sure among a
circle of friends and acquaintances in a
given locality, it would still lie u> thi
\,trieties.
— The hotel- at Florida watering
place- are well lilled.
English life insurance charges an
increase his trade. The mam expense
of doing business will !«• about so much,
be the amount transacted greater or
less. A large business can Is- done at
a much less perccutago of cost than a
small one. A man can better afford to
sell one hundred ih. 11-aml dollars'
worth of goods at a profit of ten per
cent., than titty thousand at lifleen pi r
cent. A merchant may expect to hold
trade by selling low. but be must have
brst Blade it known in some wav lhat
l«Hir, the number ol children small
merchant's interest to advertise and I •*'*• I"' WBK M old bachelors.
The revolution in Veneaoala when
the last steamer left was a great -tic-s'
tastily arranged and suitable mot-toes
placed about the men.
And now, after, making all needful
preparations in Ihe bouse and its sur-r.
Huntings, do not neglect the most im-port
ant _ port of placing a lirst-class
"COOKED AIR "
OMK HINTS THAT MAT KNAIII.K US
NOT To TAKE 1 01. D.
is one very good reason why
'take cold'' in winter time,
oet of the well-to-do—and how many
hundred thousand that is for Philadel-phia
I—spend their lives, when indoors,
in cooked air. The lower down the
thermometer goes, the higher the burn-is
piled ; all the chinks and
cracks are stopped that would let any
fresh air in, and its main chance, in-deed,
is when the front door opens for
twenty seconds, or when the beds are
made in the sleeping rooms. In the
living rooms of the family there is no
occasion, many people think, to raise
the windows ever, except to amah them,
on periodic cleaning days, or to shut
in the shutters. So carpets and furni-ture
nnd people, lungs and skin, are
dried and baked in the hot, dry rooms,
until ingenious persons can bring out
electric •parka from Iheir linger ends
by skating rapidly up and down Ihe
mom in their woolen slippers. Out
,'roiu this kiln-drted atmosphere into
the winter streets and into the very
cold or very damp air plunge the folks
who live in these air-tight rooms. They
put on plenty of wraps, but they Wear
the same foot gear and they carry the
same lungs out into the streets with
them, and the same sensitive skin.
Then they go into friends' houses and
sit in oilier hot rooms with their wraps
on, at Ie st heavily mulllcd in furs and
woolens, for a matter of two hours.
(Why a man anil take off his overcoat
in church, and women cling to their
jackets a-s to an article of faith, is
among the pozzies for the wise to set-tle.)
Again, theygo out into the damp
streets, and it is a wonder to all doc-tors
and thinkers thai they do not all
"take," and keep, too. that congested
slate of lungs, and membranes, and
chilled blood-vessels that we class un-der
thisOne convenient term of "cold.''
Perhaps the Imusts are not kept any
wanner than they ought to be, when
people are taking but little exercise.
But they certainly are neatly all of
them too dry and lacking in constantly
renewed pure air. It lias la-en before
remarked that folks who are extremely
particular about wearing their own
clothes, and who would by no means
consent to take the cast off garments of
a neighbor—one and all of them arc
perfectly comfortable to breathe over
rcn
UM limes hard, and the most rigid
economy seem necessary; but here is
on.- of the last places wherein to cut
oft expenses. The enterprising fanner
does not try to hire i-ior. Cheap hands
to do bis work, liecaum- produce is
chi-np or because be is in debt. He
kimws the Iwst are the cheapest at any
reasonable price. He bins men tii
drive his team, to feed his animals,
inilk his cows, plant, cultivate, and
harvest bis crops. He does not expect
that even his beat men will perform
these duties with profit to himself
without some ot his personal over-sight.
To perform this wotk, he often
pays a man more wages than is paid
the teacher of the summer district
school. He is willing to leave this
cheap teacher with entire control of
his children all summer for the beat
hours of the day, but he would no)
think of trusting the '"tire care of his
swine ui the best man he could hire
He could not afford it,
llionev
Ways of advertising are as numerous
as the bun] brain of man can invent,
Posters on the wall arc good, but they
arc there only a few days, and then
they are covered by another advertiser.
Signs nailed to tries along the country
roads are effectual while tbuy last, bill
they soon beQOBM old or are' rendered
Of no value by a doaaif others being
nailed over and under them.
The most unmitigated huuibugain
soliciting advertisements aie the men
who have hotel cards, depot card-,
business cards, maps, and similar
abominations. Men will invest in
■ hese wild-cat enterprises who think an
advertisement in the daily or weekly
news|ia|»'r is so much money thrown
away.
A retailer should advertise in every
legitimate way. If by circulars, the)
should contain but a very few lines, and
ought to have something about them
to attract the leader. But Ihe retailer
should invest iiinety-iiineilollars in the
columns of his local pa|icrs to every
one that In- expends for circulars, hand-bills
and cards. His name should be
constantly before the public. But a
small card of half a dozen lines, paid
for by the year, and never changed, i-nt
doubtful value. —Mxtratt trom ■■",,
Hie /foodie Rkhe*!"
He would lose
Swine may live a year or two
and that is the last of them. The
children will rWobably live fnrtv to
sixty years, and mold the character of
those who follow them, and. to some
extant, of all those with whom they
associate. There is no reason in thus
discriminating between the care of our
domestic animals and of our children,
la it not a wonder that the district
schools are as gocd as they are, con-sidering
their management?
Every farmer does not know how to
superintend a school. But few of them
know how, and they are aware of it,
hence they do not visit the schools or
attempt to interfere with their man-agement.
In some States Ihe |miple
einplov skilled or professional persons
to superintend their schools, but in
many places there is almost no super-vision.
The school runs itself, if the
teacher and scholars can get along to-gether.
Every man ought to be expert
at his own business, and has no reason , signals of distress were Hying. On tin
10 expect he can do everything and do Captain of the Celebrity landing. IN
It Wccll. , jjaM 1,1 ik.i *..,., ..1 *i... N ;.. il..
9) all I say, employ only good
teachers. How can this be done',
—Life in a lighthouse must at all
limes Is' a dreary existence, and when
illness occurs the sense of isolation must
lie terrible Indeed. The lighthouses
off the Burma coast are, it seems, very
insufficiently inspected; andastorj t..l.l
by tlie Rangoon limes of one thus
neglected will, it is to be hoped, had
to some better arrangements being
adopted in ful lire. A telegram having
been received at Rangoon slating thai
the light on the Alguada reef was noi
visible, the steamer Celebrity was de-spatched
to ascertain the cause. The
light was found burning all right, but
all its more r.esSt les"sla'^n'id",u'.nns't;a' bf-l';ente,,lre'm"'"ennt""' j and over again the cisl-off and soiled
might eventually give rUje. Would it be
to a community of saints from whom we
might hope tii derive ihe leaven with
which our Impurer societies might be
leavened, or would it lie to a community
of gentle and innocent children, who
would lie too much awe struck and repelled
by the ordinary forms of human wicked-ness
lo render us any efficient moral aid
whatever! Ofcourse it is to be assumed
lhal the harmony of these islanders' na-tures
would lie strengthened by the con-tinual
exclusion ot all rcsllessand feverish
elements, and that the type of character
which would result would not be a weak
one. but in ils way a very ittible one.—
one in which the moral laste at len-t
would be veiy clear and strong, —In which
indeed there would lie no fiery battle
against temptation, but rather a fixed and
serene preference for the life in which
temptation is kept at a distance, and a
calm. just, disinterested, and gentle habit
of char.n ter encouraged. It mtisl lie
conceded, then, lhal Ihe repeated elimina-tion
ol all passionate, disturbing, aud
exciting elemenis In such a community,
and the accumulation of pure and kindly
and lighl-bearled la.-les amongst the
islanders, would, in all probability, pro-duce
111 the enil a marked and a very
unique moral type, noi manifesting Ihe
kind of w eakness we generallv assiK'iate
with mere innocence, but the kind of
strength which we assis-iate with the
highest stability. At the same time, il is,
we think, clear that such a tyjie of char '
scter would hardly IH.'one likely lo render
ell'cclive help ill an nld community, full ,
of the old self-willed and vicious elei'iunis.
The deep distaste for evil is, in one sense,
not enough,—and is, in another sense,
too much,—for effective struggle against
evil, it is not enough, for il keeps those
who feel it out of the atmosphere where I
they might best lie useful. It is loo much,
for il robs Ihem of active -ympailiy with
Iheviciimsol violent desires and of ruin
mis pas-ions. Then, again, there is a
certain tearfulness and feeling of inade-quacy
to ihe struggles of l.Ie, bred hy this
constantly protected stateof moral feeling.
The most pathetic touch in Admiral de
Honey's report is his statement that "a
notion appears to prevail among the Pit-cairn
islanders lhat her Majesty's govern-nienlare
displeased with them for having
returned from Norfolk Island ... al
though their relurn was. I believe, st
llieirown expense, and ihey iiave since
been no burden to the crown'' The ad-miral
did what be could lo remove this
feeling, bill a gentle fear of this kind is
obviously characteristic of a small society,
purged of all self willed de-ires and
agitating pas-ions. and liable, therefore,
to scrupulous fancies of their own of a !
I air from each other's lungs, when it is
I cooked especially : for in summer time
they do insist on a ctu n :e of it. and do
I get their bouses ventilated. Janitors
of public buildings, in a short-sighted
j economy of fuel, will shut up all tie
apertures by*wh"cli fresh air might get
1 in, lest they should suffer some heat to
■ esca|ie thereby, and are rewarded by
j sleepy audiences, especially when the
I gas burners an- at work, also draining
the conkui air of what liltle life il lias.
There are -nine people—many, it is to
be Imped—who open an inch or two of
their bedroom wiudowsevery nighl to
insure a modicum of fresh air to sleep
by. But these do not in the lea-t care
tu have fresh air to Is* awake in, il
seems, for hey arc content to have
their furnace draw all ils supplies from
ihe tightly Sealed cellar, and from the
stale atmosphere of the ash boxes and
vegetable bins in that subterranean
-ip.t: 111.' :.: When we live in fre-h air
within door- as without, with its proper
pr*'porti>ui of moisture for the skin and
breathing apparatus to keep up their
healthy lone, it is likely we shall have
found out one way al least of how noi
to take cold. -I'kilailtlpkia Lvlger.
HOW TO SECURE A 600D COUNTRY
SCHOOL-HOUSE.
"Agriculture advances with the im-proved
conditions of the common
schools'
There i- more at stake in a little
country school than some of us are
aware of. The surroundings of a child
exert a wonderful influence for good or
ill. It is good economy to see that the
school-house and its surroundings are
convenient and pleasant. For beauti-fying
the ground employ a landscape
gardener or the man or men of your
own neighborhood, whohavc displayed
the lajst taste in Is-atitifiing their own
boiiies. Before constructing a school,
do not In' afraid lo pay a small fee for
plans to be examined. Then, on these
plans get the advice of a committ) f
Every man
Certainly not without taking B-HIIC
pains to rind out that they are g I.
The candidates should be thorough!)
examined in various studies, by eom-
I elent persona, who make this their en-lire
business, or an imiHirtaut .part of
their business. This is not all. (iood
testimonials must be produced, vouch-ing
lor moral character, correct habits,
etc. If the person has ever taught
school before, great care should lie
lakeu to ham lhat he has liked the
business, kept good order, and suc-
Ceeded in interesting bis pupils. With
thorough exaininatioiisaiid asearching
inquiry of reliable persons as to char-acter
and former success, compct-nt
teachers can la' selected.
There is no objection to hiring such
persons at the lowest possible rales
that will employ them, but hire them
al any price, and do not take up, even
for one term, with a person who does
noi bear the seveust test. In hiring
for low wages, this must lie taken into
consideration: the teacher will not lie
contented with his place or business.
He may think it important to give
part of his time to something else, to
eke out bis -mall salary. If be is pos-sessed
of good calibre, he will soon en-gage
in some other business, while his
energy will bring larger returns. This
will make il necessary to employ new
and untried teachers. Frequent
changes of teachers are much to lie
avoided.—I'rt/f. /(en/.
discovered that two ot the men in the
light house were ih ad, while a third
I wa« lying in a precarious slate. The
I lighthouse keeper stated thai signals
J of distress, such as "I want immediate
help " and " Man dying," had la-en
; exhibited by him for about twentydays;
but,although several vessels and steam-ers
had passed by, no notice whatever
I hail been taken of these appeals for as-sistance,
lie, therefore, as a last re-
: source, darkened the light on the Itas-sein
side, feeling certain that this step
would not fail to attract attention to
the lighthouse,
M.WtV AMI II Kit I.IITI.KI HIM..
Mar| bad il lilllei'liUI.
win, h gave h.-t kit*nl pain :
A ml »lieu -lii-un-l loshafes I hit Hall.
Ii -li-ok inn ha. k an-itn.
fi rolkiweil he* i" - li— lay,
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ADVERTISING.
In a little hook published many years
ago, enlilbil, "How to Get Money," I
find the following remark on adver-tising:
Whatever your occupation or calling
may be, it needs support from the
public; advertise it thoroughly and
efficiently in some shape or oilier that
will arrest public attention. There
may be occupations that ..'o not n-quire
advertising; but 1 cannot well conceive
what they arc Men in business will
sometimes tell you they have tried ad-vertising,
and that ildiduot pay. This
is only when advertising is doue spar-ingly
aud grudgingly. - llomi opathic
doses ot advertising will not pay, per-haps;
il is like halfa portion of physic
making the pa!lent sick, but effecting
nothing. Administer liberally, and
the cure will be permanent. Some say
Ihey cannot afford lo advertise. They
mistake; they cannot, afford not to ad-vertise.
If that was true forty years ago. it is
still more forcibly true to-day. Busi-ness
has thrown off many of the forms
that h-in ;■• i-.I men engaged in il.
Retailerl no longer tie their trade to
one bouse, nor exited to be personally
acquainted with each one of their
customers. People buy of the pany
who offer the best bargain-. Is* he friend
or stranger. Ait'iougb the young lirm
of sharp A: Beatem an selling goods
very low, it is not known around the
town, and they have no trade. Slow A
Steady have' a good stock, are well-known,
and claim to sell as cheap as
the cheapest. Sharp st Beatem must
do somelbing to inform the public that
they have a better -tock of goods and
an- selling cheaper than Slow .V Steady;
they must adverti-e.
To-morrow it will Is- heralded alsiut
thecity that Sharp & Beatem an- selling
giiisls cheaper llian any lirm in the city.
People will wonder if it is true; they
will call "just to price things." buv
- Competitoraof British manutactii-rers
are. springing up on all sides. The
iron workers of Germany have joined
our own a- rivals of the British in lor-eign
markets, and Russian cotton
spinners are following those of New
England as mriiufaciurersof goods lor
the I'.ast. A few days ago asteamship
with over live thousand lial-s of cotton
sailed trom New Orleans for Sebasto-pol.
II is said to have been the lirst
direct clearance from New Orleans for
that |»irt.
—The plans for the Palace of Indus-try
intended lo be erected at the 1 hamp
dis Maliotivres, for the puIpOK of the
anniversary fetes ol Belgian Independ-ence
in li*7, ami which have been pre-pared
by M. Bordeau, of Brussels, have
been approved of by the (government
and the municipal authorities. The
works, which will la- constructed al-most
entirely ol iron, wib lie proceeded
with as early as possible.
- Alabaster has been found in the
north eastern part orOgeman county,
Mich.
- General Sherman w ill -tart uiinn a
journey to the coast oftlie Pacific about
April 1st,
Hereafter every loaf of bread sold
in Cineinniili must have its weigh'
stamped upon it.
- The Hartford [I onn,-) Theological
Seminar) wni , xprnd sTO.UUU the coin-ing
year on Its library.
-A chai in ing combination foraband
Isiuqiict Is bluish hyacinth sprays ami
the pink and while tulip.
Il is reported that of the ■-'..Vlii
I'n mil communists now undergoing
sentence, j.inti will la- pardoned.
—Tin- ik' it Arctic i xp. dilion will
leave San Francisco during lime.
There will s.ul with it thirty-three per-sons,
- Kerns and geraniums arc p'la. . I
among artificial Sowers, which |wi
fumes them and gives them a natural
appearance,
—There are few mil ions which have
a stock ol proverbs to extensive and
racy as the Spanish. Juan dc Vriarte
collected SM.QUtt.
—There are in (ieorghj -.,.I',.",II per-son.,
between the ages of ten and eight-eenyean
whocan neither road noi wine.
while iii |s74 then' were ISii.jll.
—The Supreme Court of tin Tinted
States has rendered a decision uphold-ing
the law ol t'oiign-s- against p
amy. Now let it ho \ igorously enlorci 3.
'- Diphtheria has lor two yean ragi d
in some disimis of Hungary, [none
town 2,1:1.1 persons outid Jo,0U0havc
lately Ufii altai ked. ami '.iJT have died.
The malady ulso prevails in Vienna,
—Statisticsshow that ihe at rests
drunkenness on Sunday iulllltowi
Ireland have fallen oil en per cent., as
compared with last year, -m." the
Sunday (losing Ad came nil" force.
—The demand foi Welsh Isioks and
periodical, is quite huge in the I nited
Mates, and oue weekly |MI|IIT printed
in that language has a emulation of
eight thousand copies ami a gold Inn
of advert ising.
-A Bridgeport cat was m the 0
one day, ami, HI eiug a crab, went up
to examine It. A moment later the eat
was helping the crah up -tan- at the
rale ot a mile a minute. To a crab,
such a raleol -pec,| must have app. and
extremely unique, iHutlAtry '■
- The Supreme < out I ot Teiu i
has lust decided that the t> id, and
profits of the estate of a married wo-man,
not settled upon hcii,,i her sole
benefit and use, an- -ubject t., tin- pay-ment
ol ih. debts oi In r l.u-i.ai.d.
- Il is thought possible iii Paris thai
ihe French Government will abolish
the rank ol Marshal in the army.Cen-eial
de Wiinpilcn is .-.nil lo In- earnest
in recommending the atoliiiou ot all
tin- great commands, a- rii ens il hj the
Assemblies of the first Itepiiblic
- A man. n ui lesnliug in Idaho,
who'iti years ago cut his foot badly in
slipping upon broken glass ha
ban a piece ol the glass removed from
In- I....!. The glass bad sluftcd iu po-sition
about six inches, working Uick
ami upward from tb. toe- t.. the auk i .
- Remarkable are the stoi ii ■ coming
from Newfoundland a- to it- w-.hth of
copper on-. According to the •■ »■■
counts vast maasmol coppei have lieen
discovered mar the sea, r-.u.. above
the surlaee in lofty cinis. easily quar-ried
and easily shipped, aud ol superior
richness.
—Francois firilbon, a rich French
fanner, quarrelled with hi- son-in-law.
and sit his mill on lire, iletben went
home and burned his own house, ami
as the llaini'B devoured it kepi the
neighbors al bay with a double-bar-relled
shot gun. Iletben proceeded to
throw a large sum of money in gold
and notes into the blazing ruins, and
filially blew his brains out in the pres-ence
of the horrified crowd.
— In (iermany a man who wishes to
bn ieainedic.il practitioner has to
pass, some time in the course of his
third year's study, an examination in
chemistry and physii -, b .tiny, zoology,
anatomy and physiology, nnd at the
close ol his studies be ha- to spend
sometimes as much a- a live months'
session in passing a final examinatiof
in the practical depart meats.
teachers. »■—j ..-- .- ...—. . .,—-■- .
scape gardener or an architect, an> | much or little, and go their way. slow-more
than he is a blacksmith or a ! A Steady notice that a great deal of
doctor. By employing the liest men [ their©Mf trade is going across the way:
for each place or business, time and i what shall Ihey do to regain it? They
money are saved and everything goes I conclude the* must advertise; and in
off better. There are numerous an- i this way advertising is an absolute
proved patterns of stoves and furnaces , necessity. T'opaiu customers we must
Mr. Jacob, a clever Pans detec-tive,
said that he could always re-cognize
a man. no matter what were
bis disguise, simply by the expression
of his eyes. I in one occasion, on a bet,
he went to the tail of l.a KoqUStW, and
from live hundred or more convicts a
d../en were paraded in coverlets and
hoods, so that only their eyes could I-seeu.
He named each one a- be passed.
ii'-in
l!..i
r.r-Ki*
of ih.*
wliiih arc- made for brin^ini; ml*. Un-root...
:n aparliallv hcatiil CODditlOD.
an abundance of fresh air.
pelling the impure air.
ami for ex-
To do this
advertis**; we must adviTtis** to ke«.-p
them. We must create a demand tnr
new K-iod* by advertism*- their mints;
we must"hold the sale of old goods by |
t-catcs.
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itlfllairkTsl.
■• iir-.n Hi. I.i 1. I .1—1.
A ■.(...tii. A- '•;■■- >-< H.
' I ry n,r»t,.| i Mill .... fill _• --I
-*li»h.- nel! l*f..tr yn t^h.- .'
H0ffu*-l ii-M.li irii-ti-^r »itii iiriM/i
A ml un tlir in.-:' i. -i ui a n.
Thru rrawle-J tat-oomfji * irsiii-r i*t>i
AIM. »tiuk -vi-r.- h* ink H.
—There an- I,.'.' o m ilu i. ,:( s con-stantly
"ii the road between ..• .i<hill<-
and ' arson I ily. both ofl biota I". It
IM a lair estimate to BuppUHC thai .11
leaal out- mule haiku f*ai li day, Now
Imagine the rest, renicroherin^ thai
there ;ir-- mule driv»-r» on that mad who
speak four, lan^'i-'^es and several dia-lect*.
- Ily a n«iui change in the i
law.-, a paefcage not exceeding fwur
pounds ma) IM* registered for i< n i
tin- same as a Icti-r. and sent "it.
additional postage. Thii is cheaper
than the evprea* companies ran .iiTon!
b> handle these smalt pnck.iL"-, and
lu-i an -.tic. aud will he Hound i
convenient.
—There was a raising i >■<■ in *pencei
eounly, Ihd., followed b) a ball in the
evening, and a rule "a-* adopted that
nobody should dance wlm had noi
worked at tin* raising of the h
frame. N'al hauiel \Vo< ils bad
qualified himaell in the required man
ner, but insisted on dancing. A row
was the result am! Woods WH~ killed.
Miss Tatlicrine A. Delattre, the
yi nngestdauglitei .,t M. Delattre, the
eminent engraver, has latelv died in
her ninety-Hflh year. She well remem-bered
siuin_' in [he lap ol Aoirelica
Kaulinann, ami being i-'llul b> the
lair and clever 'M;i aVngel.'1 It wai
Mist lielattre'a eldest sister who firsl
put a pencil in the hai <! : I ■•
Laudsei r.
M the young ladies att<
church would give more attention t«»
the number of the hymn the (Metoi
-iv- nut,aud not BO much alt'-ution
t<» the nutnbi i <>t hiU3fl that ar< in the
church, the) would not t*** 10 noi to
sinir one hymn while the congregation
are singing anot her. ■ Vonker U
M.inun 1."" ;*aid a wicket! young-ster,
"am I >"<>!' f,.inor-!'' -N
child, why do>i u ash *" "1 »h, )■•
you always sa) you lik.- to *. .■ ;
pad lie tin t own canoe; and I «i ■! "
know but ma> l» I was yours.*1 Vlu
hoy wci.i ".it ol the door with 1
refer* nee to speed t tmn ^r.i< «■.
— Mrs Iiuolucldi r fed a tramp
lerdai because ho wore an old arun
coal "i laded blue. "Youweutthrough
the war!** said the sympathetic soul.
"Ycs'm; I was drummer," and s
the fellow reached tin- sidewalk he con-cluded
tin- sentence, ••tor ;, hard* 1
store in f*binago '* Tftim Obsencr,