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LITITZ, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 1.1882. NO. 52.
THE LITITZ RECORD
TO A CHILD.
Tnou iiaat the colors of the Spring,
The gold of kingscups triumphing,
The blue of wood-bslls wild;
But Winter-thoughts thy spirit nil,
And thou art wandering from us still,
Too young to be our child.
Yet have thy fleeting smiles confessed,
Thou dear and much desired guest,
That home is near at last;
Long lost in high mysterious lands,
Oiose by our door thy spirit stands,
Its journey well-nigh passed.
0 sweet bewildered soul, I watch
The fountain of thine eyes, to catch
New fancies bubbling there,
To feel our common light, and lose
.This flush of strange ethereal hues
Too dim for us to-share!
Fade, oold Immortal lights, and make
This creature human for my sake,
Since I am naughfcbut clay;
An angel is too fine a thing
To sit beside my chair and sing,
And cheer my passing day.
1 smile who could not smile unless
The air of rapt unconsciousness
Passed, with the fading hours;
I joy in every childish sign.
That proves the stranger less divine
And much more meekly ours.
I smile, as one by night who sees,
Through midst of newly budded trees,
The clear Orion set,
And knows that soon the dawn will fly
In lire across the riven sky,
And gild the woodland wet.
and drill, io fit himself for his new po- i to bring out what was in the man, but
sition. Horton enjoyed the reputation Jack was modest and didn't presume he
A RED MITTEN.
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town free of charge.
OUR ELEGANT OYSTER SOUP
served every Saturday night. It cant be beat
Lager Beer and other Refreshments
always fresh.
Returning thanks for many past favors, we hope
to receive your patronage in the future.
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n25 Proprietor.
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CLKE KING OB1 SALES, REAL AND PERSONA!«
It was tlie afternoon of a clear, sharp
January day of 3861, and the company
numbered fully two hundred; there
were men and women, boys and girls,
flying and circling about, in masses,
singly, by dozens, and by twos and
threes, over the frozen surface of the
beautiful Silver lake in Rockdale, a
suburb of the flourishing city of B .
New England is dotted with these
small bodies of water, and it is astound-ing
to recount what a surprising number
bear the name of Silver. And so on
Silver Lake this goodly company was
disporting itself with all the gayety and
zest the keen, bracing air and exhilara-ting
sport combined to produce.
Among the crowd were many lads and-lasses
who imagined they were fond of
skating and came to Silver lake for no
other reason. It was singular, too, to
note how much more gracefully the
"outward roll," backward or forward
can be accomplished by joining hands
or being linked together by a walking
stick. Those sticks in some instanees
proved no non-conductors to the sym-pathetic
thrill that pervaded the mag-nets
at either end.
The positive and negative conditions
were fully realised in the case of brawny
John Horton and rosy cheeked Abbie
Latham, the daughter of the 'squire.
She, with her plump, comely figure,
and fresh, handsome face, lit up by a
pair of laughing blue eyes, could have
led awkward John, oh or off skates, any-where,
with an apron string or a thread
for a conductor. Not so with John. He
could lead her nowhere , and the more
the girl could balk and tantalize him,
the u.ore she seemed to enjoy the skat-ing
and his company; Many a ludicrous
figure he cut, and many an awkward
fall he endured by her sudden and unac-countable
turns and shiftings, and her
mirth and glee were at the highest at
John's repeated failures to follow her
difficult and tortuous windings. John
was overgrown and massive, his twenty
years of existence not having yet served
to properly knit together and round out
the proportions of his frame. She was
lithe and quick, and as graceful as glie
was skillful in the use of skates. .
Apart from the throng, this afternoon,
John espied a little red mitten lying on
the ice, where it had been dropped by
some one of the numerous children.
Miss Abbie saw it too, and as John, by
one of hia graceful movements, essayed
to stoop and capture the article, she re-fused
to release his hand; but, just as
he bent forward she gave a wicked pull
and John, unbalanced, was sent sprawl-ing
a rod or two beyond. A peal of
silvery laughter was her sympathetic
comment, as with a graceful curve she
turned and caught the tiny thing in her
hand. .
John blushed at his awkwardness, and
held out his hand to receive the mitten.
But the captor only held it before
him, and gently moved away.
" Won't you give it to me?"
" I will find the owner."
I can find the owner more easily
than. you. I can't trust you; you
would fail and erusti t h e poor t h i n g m
trying to deliver it." And she saucily
laughed again.
You made me fall," said John in
grieved tone. "You are always doing
these things. If I skated more and
studied less I'd soon be as much an
adept as your friend, Joe Staples, whom
you are always praising."
You? Ha, ha, ha ! As graceful as
Joe Staples?" and the'hilarity of the
young maiden made John Horton's slug-gish
blood course through his veins till
his face was red as the scarlet kerchief
that encircled his neck.
All thi rest of that afternoon .John
as gloomy and aiient. He moved
around mechanically, or rather, auto-matically,
and his companion concluded
to serve no more tricks upon him.
The sport finished, the two wended
their way to the house of Mr. Latham,
John's fair companion failing to rally
him into any thing like conversation,
He answered her only in monosyllables
acd seemed morose and preoccupied.
As he was about to take his leave
John said seriously and a little sarcasti-cally,
"Abbie, I'm going back to col-lege
to-morrow and L hope you will en-joy
the rest of the skating season
in companionship more graceful than
mine,''
" I hope I shall," replied she in the
same tone. "You must feel bad about
something; perhaps it's the mitten take
it, no, not now—I won't give it up. If I
ever think enough of you to surrender
it, I'll send it to you by express.
And then she smiled on John, with
rare sweetness, but John had seen that
smile before, and ielt she was only
mocking him. So with a solemn good
night he buttoned his coat close to his
chin and with hands resolutely thrust
into his pockets, turned homeward, re
solved to waste na more time with skat-ing
girls, who judged young men by fcha
dexterity they exhibited in handling their
heels.
Houses to Rent and for Sale.
Also,
Agent for First-Class l i f e and Fir
inaurane« Companies.
1 he asked.
n.
Among the earlist volunteer regiments
thatleft tor the seat of war in the sum-mer
of 41-861, was the—th Massachusetts,
with Lieut John Horton as an officer of
Co. B. Like hundreds of others he
abandoned his books for the sword,
aud had passed nights and days in study
among the fellows of being an anchorite.
He was reticent, sometimes gloomy, and
although he performed his duties ac-ceptably,
he had thus far failed to show
any distinguishing qualities for a mil-itary
career. He joined in few of the
camp pleasures, and. when he was not
on duty, reading or studying, was sure
to be seen in abstract thought, walking
about the streets of the camp, or in the
region of country immediately around.
Christmas and New Year in camp form-ed
one of the brightest seasons to the
hard-worked soldier in the years of the
Rebellion, Though the quantity of
useful and useless articles dispatched
from home was at all times great, the
bulk of contributions arriving in camp
at this Jestive season sorely tried the
carrying capacity of all engaged in sup-plying
the army at the front. And the
occasions of opening the boxes and
bundles among both officers and privates
were most interesting; and exciting. The
officers of the —th had arranged to
have an "opening," in the colonel's
quarters, and thither all who were not
on duty repaired. The evening was of
course most enjoyable, for nearly every
one had received from home some gift
or token to remind him of a mother,
sister or sweetheart, sometimes of all
three. Horton was present, cool,
gloomy and indifferent. He did not ex-pect
any present. His family was scat-tered.
and many of those nearest to him
to whose loving sympathy he would
naturally turn at this time had passed
away. He did not feel in a sentimental
or sympathetic mood, and yet no par-ticle
of envy entered his mind in wit-nessing
the enjoyment of other,«. As
the major held up a small paper box,
however, and called out "Lieutenant
John W. Horton," the latter started and
felt his. face aglow in' an instant. He
took the parcel and in spite of entreaties
in which not a few jokes were cracked
at his expense, placed it in his pocket
till the conclusion of the festivities,
when he retired to the comfortable
quarters he shared with Lieut Carter.
Lieut Horton was. puzzled and cudous.
After divesting himself of his overcoat,
he sat down, placed the box on the' ta-ble,
and in company with his compan-ion
lighted the aoiaeing dudeen, deter-mined
to approach and unravel the mys-tery
as became a philospher. Carter
got decidedly impatient before even the
outer wrappings were removed, as Hor-ton
conducted proceedings with weighty
deliberation. At last Horton shook
from the box a little red mitten snugly
wrapped in a piece of white tissue pa-per.
No note of explanation appeared,
and Horton met his companion's gaze
with a look,in which were pictured, at
least half a dozen of the emotians that
affect the human mind, the principal
one being surprise.
in.
For the next three evenings our hero
was engagedin writing letters—or rather
a letter—for no sooner was each one
completed than it was torn in pieces
and burned. Horton felt himself in u
tight fix, and hoped the enemy would
make a demonsiration on the camp; that
he might get out of it. He had rather
face a hundred cannon than undertake
the reception of that mitten. He knew
he had loved Miss Latham, but his big,
sensitive soul had been terribly iacera-tly
by her apparently heartless behavior,
and he had concluded to become indif-ferent,
not only to her but to all woman-kind,
This might be another of her
heartless tricks, but when Jack recalled
her words, "if lever think enough of
you to surrender it, I'll send it to yoa,"
he ..felt the little witch did entertain
some regard for him. Still, »s she had
vouchsafed no kind of message with the
surrender of the* mittfn, he was at a
loss how to act. Write he could not.
"If I asked Carter's advice," he reason-ed,
" he would only laugh at me, Why
can't these plaguey women let a fellow
alone, anyway?" he muttered to himself.
' I was trying to forget her—and now
be has opened all my wounds afresh.
She did it to tantalize me, but 4*li show
the flirt and the whole sex that I can't
be tantalized." And then Jack took
from his inner pocket an envelope, out
of which he fished a little red object, on
which he gazed for a few moments as a
nataraligt • might gage upon a newly-discovered
insect, with mingled curiosi-ty
and tenderness. The soldier sighed
as he replaced the trifle, and going to
the door of his tent, gazed out into the
darkness.
The evening was mild and calm and
the darkness almost peintrable. Scarce-ly
a sound disturbed the sleeping oarnps,
and as the enemy; across the Potomac
were believed to intend no hostile de-monstration,
the utmost precaution had
not been taken to guard againstsurprise.
As Jack stood gazing into the darkness
a succession of flashes lit up the gloom
and the sharp report of small arms broke
the stillness. " Hello ! here's for fun
exclaimed Jack, as he rushed for his ac-countrements.
The long roil called the
men into line, and in a few moments
the regiment was prepared to receive
the enemy. Being one of the officers at
hand, Lieut Horton was ordered by the
colonel to go forward with a detail of
men, and ascertain the true state of af-fairs.
Our pickets were retreating, the
firing being answered by stray shots
from the enemy ; no judgment of theii
numbers could be formed, but our panic
stricken pickets reported them to be ten
thousand strong, at least. Horton de-termined
to keep cool, and ascertain
for himseif the number of the enemy.
He had had little experience of fighting
as yet, and his position was by no means
a pleasant one. In this manoeuvre his
excellent judgment was proved, for af-ter
studying the situation as long as it
was prudent, he hastened to the col-onel,
and informed him that the force
consisted of not more than a regiment of
infantry moving direotly for the camp,
A hot skirmish ensued, the fight
lasted for an hour or two. The demon-stration
closed with the retreat of the
enemy, oh whose heels Lieut Horton,
whose fighting blood was up, hung
with a tenacity that astonished las
brother officers. Jack braved danger
with a coolness that was amazing, and
directed the fire of his men where it
wonld do the most good. It was his
ambition to capture somebody or some-thing,
and he did, a Confederate cap
tain and two privates who were " sur-rounded"
b^ himself and one of his
soldiers. But Jack, fired by this sue
cess, rashly pressed ahead for more
human plunder, when he was laid low
by a bullet through the shoulder.
had clone more then he ought. His
wound was a painful one, and in a iew
days he was on his way to Bockdale,
where the reports of his achievements
had proceeded him. Jack couldn't help
feeling a little curious about how Miss
Abbie would greet him if he chanced to
meet her. He hadn't the remotest idea
of calling on her, however. His time
was his country's, and all hi» leisure
moments were passed, even in those
invalid days, in the study of military
tactics. He did not want to be made a
lion of; did not pretend to resemble
that noble animal in the least. So he
stayed at home and studied his books,
Juat before his return to the army he
attended a fair at Bockdale in aid of the
soldiers. The young ladies were the
principal attractions at this, as at all
fairs; and among the young ladies none
were more attractive than Miss Abbie
Latham. She drove a remarkably suc-cessful
business at the flower stand, one
of her principal patrons being Mr.
Joseph Staples, who purchased at least
half her stock, and distributed it with a
lavish hand. He had not gone to war,
but had at least, and without compul-sion,
hired a substitute. His patrotism
was ardent, as he assured Miss Abbie,
but there were other attractions nearer
home..
Certainly Lieut Horton could but pay
his respects to Miss Abbie. His face
was paler and his form had become
more trim and manly then when she last
saw him. His features, Abbie noticed,
bore an expression of sadness and suffer-ing
; he moved without awkwardness,
and all the young ladies declared him to
be the handsomest soldier in the hall.
He won the sword that was voted for on
this occasion, as he deserved to. Jack's
heart throbbed a little as he met the
gaze of the young lady; but if he felt
any emotion it must have been slight;
she was very busy with her customers,
and especially with her wholesale patron,
Mr. Staples, yet as the lieutenant bade
her good evening and turned away he
saw her eyes drop and a faint flush steal
over her <sheek. For two old friends so
long separated, the meeting was decid-enly
cold and formal, and Jaok was
chilled to the marrow.
IV.
Jack Horton was the hero of that
night, and was mentioned in the com-mander's
report for his coolness, cor-rect
judgment and unflinching bravery,
It needed just such an occasion as this
v.
relic in the Horton family, and it has
been a wondering question to several
cherubs that gladden the household
why mamma has never knit a mate for
it.
A curio as Australian Torpedo.
In the stiring events of the next, two
years Horton bore his full shared—at
Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, An-tietam,
Gettysburg, the Wilderness,
down to Oold Harbor, where at the head
of his regiment he fell desperately
wounded, in the. terrible and, unsuccess-ful
assault on that stronghold.
He was conyeyed to the hospital at
Washington in a seemingly hopeless
condition, with several wounds, each of
which was dangerous. The nurses mov-ed
among the wounded men like angels
of mercy, Some of the, soldiers lay hi a
stupor, some were raying in delirium,
and others dying in agony. For days
Horton's life hung on a thread, his fever-ed
brain mercifully rendering him un-conscious
of suffering. As he awoke
one morning, a soft and gentle hand
was soothing his brow, when the damp-ness
indicated that the fever was broken.
He tried to open his eyes but was too
weak ; speak he could not ; and, many
hours passed before he\ could discern
what was around him. Since the night
of the Cold Harbor fight his life had
been V blank. He remembered, noth-ing.
And now he saw before him the
physician, and the nurse with a sweet
pale face, that looked familiar, but he
could not recall the name of its owner.
Again trying to speak, the surgeon
kindly whispered, "Keep perfectly
quiet and all will be well," .and the fa-male
attendant at his motion, withdrew.
The next morning his dim vision dis-cerned
the same pale and anxious face ;
and a gleam of wondering inquiry
passed oyer his countenance as he gaa-ed
upon her. At last he feebly whisper-ed
; "Where ami?"
In the hospital, and with friends, "
She gently answered.
He would have spoken more but she
withdrew. The next day he was strong-er,
and he asked, " Where have I seen
you?" At a sign from the physician,
the nurse answered :
At 3 our old home. Don't you know
me i I'm Abbie Latham. You are get-ting
better now, and will soon be. well,"
Jack was strong enough to begin to
collect his thougiits, which were, of
course, at once concentrated on his
nurse. He improved wonderfully under
her care, and one bright morning occur-red
the last conversation we shall record
in this romantic sketch,
Miss Latham was sitting by the side
of his cot," arranging a bouquet. The
wounded man had begun to leel like
his old self, and permission was given
him to converse all he desired.
How long have you been in the hos-pital,
Abbie ?"
'Moie than a year," she replied, in a
sweet, womanly voice.
Jack thought he had never beheld a
fairer creature. If she was beautiful as
a girl, the scenes she had witnessed had
touched and chastened all that was lov-able
and womanly in her nature. She
was no longer a girl—she was a tender,
thoughtful woman.
You have saved my life," said Jack,
his eyes filling with tears.
"No, no. Your strength has tri-umphed.
I have done what little
could. Oh, you were so terribly hurt !"
And here her eyes filled, and her bosom
heaved as she took his hand and gently
pushed the brown curling locks away
from his forehead.
Jack had never felt so happy before
in his life, despite the solemn character
of the couversation.
I can never repay you* Abbie. I'm
only sorry for that. But if I dared
hope—"
"Perhaps you can, Jack," she replied
with the sweetest and most confiding
smile. "I found something in your in-ner
ves.t pocket which has paid me al-ready."
And she took from a blood
stained envelope the little red mitten,
•'Then you knew by that token that I
had loved—at least, had never forgot
ten," said Jack a little confused.
"Yes ; and if my woman's sense had
not told me, your talk in delirium
would have proved it."
Jack mentally thanked heaven that
he had been crazy.
"But, Jack, why didn't you answer
my letter ? It was cruel of you."
"Your letter?"
"Yes ; the one I sent by post to ap-prise
you of my present. Mr. Staples
took-it to the offioe."
"And I never received iti Do you
suppose that fellow was mean enough—"
"No, dear Jack, don't get excited.
Let us suppose nothing. All's well that
ends well,"
. The little red mitten is a treasured
The latest offspring of Australian de-structive
ingenuity promises to be a
distinct success. Its motive power is
not compressed air, neither is it con-tained
in the body of the torpedo. To
propel the weapon through the water
at a speed of from fifteen knots to
twenty knots an hour for 100 yards a
separate engine, or at least a special
connection with an existing one, is
necessary. This engine drives two
drums about three feet in diameter with
a velocity at their peripheries of 100
feet per second. Their duty is to wind
in two fine steel wires, No. 18 gauge,
of the same sort as that used in the
deep sea sounding apparatus of Sir
William Thomson. The rapid uncoil-ing
of*these wires from two small cor-responding
reels in the belly of the fish
imparts to them, as may readily be con-ceived,
an extremely high velocity.
The reels are connected with the shafts
of the two propellers which drive the
torpedo through the water. The pro-pellers
work, as has long been known
to be necessary to insure straight run-ning-,
in opposite directions and both in
one line, the shaft of one being hollow
and containing the shaft of the other
Now, at first sight it would seem as if
hauling a torpedo backward by two
wires was a sufficiently curious way of
Speeding it "full speed ahead," but it is
found m practice that the amount of
' 'drag" is so small, as compared with
the power utilized in spinning the reels
that give motion to the propellers, that
it may be left out of calculation al-together.
Of course it is. at once seen
that this method of propulsion does
away With the necessity for air-com-pressing
engines and reservoirs pressed
to 1,500 pounds on the square inch,
which, however carefully constructed,
must always involve a. certain element
of danger, however small. Neither are
any delicate little engines, controlled
and stopped by complicated though ex-quisite
mechanism required. But these
advantages, great as they may be, are
as naught compared with the power
possessed by the use of the Brennan
torpedo to guide and govern its course
and movements.
Sixty Feet Under tue Sea.
The Antarctic Circle.
The only Antarctic exploring expedi-tion
sent out for forty years has been
wrecked long before it reached the Ant-arctic
circle, but the members of the
exploring party have fortunately been
saved. Tradition or hypothesis says
that there is a great continent at the
South pole, just as tradition or hypothe-sis
says there are open seas at the
North, but no positive proof has been
furnished of either assertion. Much
i is known of Antarctic polar regions
than of Arctic. The former, besides
beiiig even more inhospitable than the
frozen North, are farther from the
civilized centres whence expeditions are
sent forth. When Wilkes was a Lieu-tenant
in the United States Navy he
explored southern seas and discovered
good many indications of land, but
they may have been islands, instead of
parts of a great continent. Just forty
years ago Captain Ross, commanding
the Erebus and Terror, discovered two
volcanoes, one of them active, whioh he
named after his vessels. They were
between the 77th and 78th degree of
south latitude, and mark the nearest
approach yet made to the1 South Pole.
The wrecked expedition was of Italian
origin, and was intended to help in the
international scheme of polar work
which went into effect on the first of
the present month. Eleven stations
have been established in the far North,
each of whioh is to simultaneously make
notes of temperature of air and sea,
velocity and direction of wind and sea
currents, variations of terrestrial mag-netism,
pressure and humidity of1 the
atmosphere, character and duration of
storms, etc., and tha data thus collected
for a whole year are to bo compiled and
studied with relation to similar data
collected at other stations outside the
Arctic Zone. It is quite probable that
these studies may afford all the informa-tion
applicable to the study of meteor-ology
that a successful Poiar expedition
would give, aud the investigations,
being carried on in comparatively low
latitudes, are not attended with the
dangers that beset Arctic voyages for
exploration.
Tlie Sliops of Pompeii.
"I was once a diver—not a wrecker, hut
a pearl diver— and a hard business it was,"
recently observed the captain of a Spanish
brig to a reporter. ' 'We worked off the
Mexican and Panama coasts, principally
on the Pacific side, Sometimes we worked
alone, but generally on shares, and some-times
for pay. We went to the grounds in
small sailing vessael, then we took the
small boats and covered as much ground
as possible. Each man had a basket, a
weight and a knife. For sharks? Yes,
but it is a poor defense, for it is ,almost
4m possible to swing the arm with any force
under water. The best weapon is a short
spear. Wheh you reach the ground you
strip, put your feet in a big sinker, take
the basket that has a rope for hoisting, drop
over, and soon find yourself at the bottom.
1'hen your business is to knock off as many
oysters as you can, and pile them Into the
basket before you lose your wind. It is a
t'ernble strain, but 1 could stand it in those
days for six minutes, and 1 have known
some men who could stay down ten; but it
is sure death in the long run. If the ground
is well stocked you can get twenty or more
shells,but it is all luck. When the basket
is full it is hauled up, aud after yon come
up for your wind, down you go again, the
sinker being hauled up with a small cord
for that purpose. It was on one of these
trips that I ran afoul of the animal that
gave me a lasting fight. You will smile
when I say it was only a star fish, but
it really was. 1 went down sixty feet with
a rush, and landing on the edge of a big
bunch of coral, swung off into a kind of
basin. The basket went ahead of me, and
as I swung off to reach the bottom, some-thing
seemed to spring up all around me,
and I was in the arms of some kind of a
monster that coiled about my body, arms ;
and legs. 1 tried to scream, forgetting th»t
I was iu the water, and lost my wind. It
was just as if a plant had sprouted under
me and threw its vines and tendrils about
me. There were thousands of them, coil
ing and writhing, and 1 thought I had lan-ded
in a nest of sea snakes. I gave the
signal as soon as i could, and made a breuk
upward, part of the creature clinging to
me, while the rest, 1 could see, was drop-ping
to pieces. They hauled me into the
host when I reached tbe surface, and pull-ed
the main part of the animal from me.
It was oval, about three feet across, and
the five arms seemed to divide- into thou-sands
of others. I piobably landed on top
of that one, which at this time was tlie
largest I had ever seen. I afterward saw
the body body of one that was washed
ashore on the Isthmus that must have had
a spread of t-hitty-tive ieet. Their power
of grasping i« considerable, but touch them
in a certain way and they throw off their
arms m a tegular shower, and are soon re-duced
to an oval body.
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Reindeer.
The part of the houses) facing on the
street was used as shops, as in modern
Italian houses. These have no connec-tion
with the back, and are open to the
street, through grooves in the walls and
sills, and the iron, shutters found show
that it was customary to inclose them
at night. The wine shops—which seem
to have been pretty frequent—Estill
contain most of their fixtures. Large
earthen jars, or amphoroe, occupy the
interior, while in the marble counter
are sunk a number of basins, evidently
intended for holding the different wines
called for by customers, and the names
of popular drinks are inscribed on the
walls. In the bakers' shops—which
combined milling and baking—are
hand or donkey mills for grinding the
grain, kneading troughs, water basins,
ovens and racks. Barbers' shops are
still provided with seats for oustomer3;
and the "fullers' establishments are
known by their basins for washing the
cloths, their stamps for stamping them,
and other apparatus; and the taverns
with their wine tablés, have their walls
decorated with rude cartoons and
coarsely humorons inscriptions. But
time and space would fail to tell of all
the wonders of this risen city; to describe
its columned temples with the shrines
and altars and statues; its stately theatres
and luxurious therm»; its frescoes and
mosaics and marble and bronzes; its
manifold ornaments and domestic and
manufacturing implements, The mu
seum at Naples must have fifteen or
twenty large rooms devoted to the
thousand Pompeiian relics of various
kinds; from the loaf of bread stamped
with the baker's name, and the kitchen
cook-stove and gridiron and egg-boiler,
to the most delicate cut-glass vases,
the richest gems, and the most exquisite
work of the artist's brush and the
sculptor's chisel.
A youDg girl of Hartford, Conn., by the
exercise of her own innate good taste and
putting every spare penny where it would
do the most good, has furnished forth a
charming room at a comparatively small
expense and sufficiently aesthetic to please
the most fastidious person. The floor,
painted by her own hands, is a dark wal-nut
shade, partly covered by a large rag
made of,cheap ingrain carpet in a small
pattern bf cream and olive, bordered by a
broad band of plain olive felt. The inex-pensive
wall paper is plain olive, fleeked
with pink,finished by a nairow olive frieze,
terminating at the corners with a cluster of
four tiny pink fans. One window faces a
dingy brick Wall and she painted the win-dow
panes in bright water colors,following
a preity traced pattern, which gives a bit
of stained glass quite effective in the pret-ty
room. , The other window is draped
gracefully with long full folds of sprigged
muslin, depending from rings on a plain
pine roll, to be replaced in the winter
with a heavier curtain of olive cotton Sau-ne1.
The furniture is light wood and a lamp
with a rosy transparency stands on a five
o'clock tea tablé of unvarnished wood and
throws a soft light over the room, Which
also contains books, shelves of pine, a cou-ple
of second hand easy chairs and a small
dry goods box for shoes, covered by her
own hands, with pink and olive cretonne.
A large clothes horse, on which she pasted
thé story of Cinderella in Walter Crane's
pictures over olive psper, shuts off the
washstand and bedstead trom view. Tiie
toilet accessories, set off with fresh sprigged
muslin over a pink lining, are a pink, and
white washbowl and a large pitcher of the
quaint shape that comes now in the cheap-er
grades of china; a second hand ward-robe,
draped with a portiere of olive Can-ton
flannel, contains the unsesthetic dust
pau, broonos aud other homely articles
necessary to neatness and. comfort, all tri-fles
of that description bought at the five-cent
counters. A pretty willow rocking
chair, ornamented with olive and pink rib-bon,
and a knitted hassock to match, the
two latter Christmas gifts, stand on the
rug- On the olive draped mantel are grandma
Nankin's teapot,two tall silver candlesticks
and a large ginger jar, not decorated and
spoiled with gummed on piotures, but left
in its pristine blue aud white beauty, filled
with white daisies gathered on Sunday af-ternoon
walks. Two or three photographs
of good subjects, that are better than
chromos and cost less, hang on the wall
and complete the pretty refuge of this
pi oud and industrial girlj who is self re
spectmg enough to earn her own living
rather than be dependent upon her rich
relations.
DENTIST (examining patient's teeth;)
"Well, sir, they talk about coming at
the eleventh hour, but it's a quarter to
twelve with all your teeth, I'm afraid,"
On a thirty miles journey from Mukka--
vuamo to HeJligsKoven in Norway, during
which he encountered a terrific storm, M.
du Chaillu had an opportunity of observing
the endurance of the reindeer. In ascend-ing
the hills they were so exhausted by
their struggle? with the snow that ttiey
would drop upon it and lie on their backs,
apparently in great suffering, then breathe
very hard, and be so utterly helpless that
a stranger would think they were abmit to
die; but in a few minutes they would re-gain
their breath, rise to their feet, eat
snow and set off again. The expedition
had to go down a narrow ravine by a very
steep and dangerous descent; it was on the
western shed of the mountains and above
the tree vegetation, and this was how
Peter and Bphraim, two clever Finns,
managed it. "Numbers of sleighs were
1 ashed together by a long and strong
leather, plaited cord, which was first se-cured
to the forward part of each, then
passing along the middle was made fast,
after which it was attached to the next in
the same manner and so on, and four
others were connected with mine. With
the exception of the leader eacch reindeer
was secured to the rear fit his sleigh by à
leather cord from the base of the horns;
almost every sleigh had a deer behind,
Each man remained in his vehicla the dis-tance
apart beina; small. Peler was to
take the lead. The spare reindeer were
tor thé first time harnessed and the tired
ones put behind. Peter had to start the
whole train which would go with great
velocity; he rode with his leg outstde,
turned back somewhat, with his feet
touching the snow. "Every man but me,"
saye M. du Ciialliu, seated himself in the
same posture, the feet acting as rudder and
drag in the snow. I was not allowed to
ride^that way, for they said my legs would
surely be broken. When eyerythmg was
ready Peter looked back and gave the sig-nal,
aud started his reindeer down the hill
in a zigzag course, This required great
dexterity, as we flew over the snow with
astonishing speed. At times the sleigh
would swerve on the declivity, but wo
went so last that we were soon out of dan-ger."
How strange a sight—had there been
any upon the great waste to see it, that
living line—ad once rushiug and wriggling
down the steep snow field, would have
been; the flying animals, - with their red
nostrils, flying horns and clinking hoofs,
and the wary, vighant men.
The moss'tracts, vast as they are, have
to be carefully husbanded, for the crop
takes from seven to ten years to grow.
Year after year wdl a Lapp family roam
over the same tract as their ancestor«, all
their eeeiaies devoted to the tending aud
increase of their herds. M. . du Cliaillu
things tha reindeer owned by the Nomad
and S ja Lapps number about 400,000.
In tha province of Fmmarkea alone there
are over 65,000. The moving season is
the beginning of May; then tbe herds
leave their wimer pasture grounds by the
livers and in the woods and migrate to the
higher lands near the fjords. A "moving
day' at Keutokeimo is a fine sight, as the
great herds muster for theirpassage|over the
snow-clad, trackless hills. The newly-born
calves are either carried or put in a
sleigh. Kemdeer are never housed; they
enjjy the cold and revel in tbe snow. Food
is never given them and unless they "are
specially trained to do so, they will not
touch moss that has been gathered. When
the snow is so deep as to defy their dig-ging
they are almost as ill off as Iriah
tenants evicted after a bad harvest; and
the brief spring of Scandinavia tries them,
for the snow melts during the day and^a
thick crust forms at night, so that their
feet breafc through and they suffer from
lameness. They are very tame and yet
strangely wild or rather nervous, and it is
bad to startle them.
All Oftedient Woman.
' 'There goes L a ¿10 « n agai n," said on
of the patrolmen to the reporter. The
woman was reeling. Her skirt was be-drabbled,
and on her attenuated figure
looked like a weather-beaten rag. "8tie
is only twenty years old at tnat," contin-ued
the officer. Hhe is going to the sta-tion
to be locked up,'' he said, as he still
looked after her. "But she is alone," sug-gested
the listener. "Of course she is, \
answered the officer. "Taat's the thing
to admire in her.She's less trouble than any
offender 1 ever saw—I mean to the police,
No matter where an officer comes, across
her, if she is drunk, all hs has to say to her
'Liz, you git to the station,' and she
gits all alone. One day, up to Lincoln
Park, there was a crowd, and Liz kind of
edged herself in, and the ofiicor says to
her. 'You go to the station,' and she
walked right to the lock-up. A man who
knew her stopped her on the street and
says; 'Liz. where are you going?' 'Don't
bother me,'she says to him, 'I'm busy;
I've got to go to the lock-up.' No matter
where she is, if she is ordered to go to the
station, she goes. Une day I sa w her
looking at a circus procession, aud I says
to her, just to see how she would act,- says
L to her: Liz, you inoseo to the lock-up.'
'Can't 1 see the show first V says she to
me. 'No' says 1 to her; 'you move along,
and she just sacrificed the pleasure of see
ing that show parade to obey orders, and
Started off. But I called her back and told
her, she could stay, and she thanked me
and said she would go after she got through
looking at the parade if X wanted her to,
She's bettor at minding what said to her
than lots of first-class children. But she
drinks awful hard."
Women's Clotlies
In spite of the labors of the esthetes,
and in spite of the higher education of
women, the women still have wedge
waists, crinolettes, high heels and
various other things in opposition to the
canons of beauty. Woman still impedes
her every motion with her clothes, and
still makes an instrument of torture of
her own hair. Man wears comfortable
and sensible garments, and man tastes
the unspeakable rapture of baring hi»
bald pate to every breeze that blows.
There is but one conclusion to arrive at
from the feminine love of uncomfortable
clothes. It is that women have duller
sensibilities than men, and women have
duller brains than men. Men would die
under the torment of women's clothes, If
a man wants to proye his superiority to
woman he has only to point silently to
his clothes. Old magazines and peri-odicals
show in their illustrations the
men's costumes invariably wise, good
and graceful, while the women's are
painiul, laughably, disgracefully fool-ish
and ugly. While comparing the
clothes of men and women, we aro
surprised that the superiority of man
should be questioned. If men are not
superior to women, how came they to get
the upper hand in the first place? How-ever,
this has nothing to do with the
clothes question. Women have not
worn decent-looking clothes since the
fall of Bome save once, during the
French revolution, when they revived
Roman dresses. In history we read of
woman who seem superior to men, they
were mostly dressed m clothes that, like
men's raiment, left the frame free to
perform its functions. The Kansas
women recently besought Congress to
give eighty acres apiece, cooking stoves,
plows, cattle and schools to the Kansas
negroes. Now, look at that. Such aa
idea, so contrary to the principles of
political economy and history is at war
with stiff bonnets, heavy skirts, pinch-ing
oorset-steels, and scratch ing frizzes.
The first sign of -woman's progress
towards the ballot will be improved
clothes. At present women are too
conventional, too anxious to do a3
others do, to take a bold step foward.
Fooling Bartenders.
bartenders in
by a
For some time past
Pittsburg, have been victimized
gan, who conducted his operations" m
this wise: He would enter a saloon, call
for a drink, and offer in payment a
genuine silver dollar. Before the bar-tender
could pick it from the counter, he
would say: "See here, I don't want to
swindle you; that's a counterfeit," The
barkeeper would then scrutinize the
eoin, and admire what he believed was
a clever imitation. The confidence man
would then ask for an offer on so many
pieces to be delivered as per sample.
A contract was .commonly made at 50
cents on the dollar. A number were
victimized in this way, and after mak-ing
cash advances would receive iu
return boxes filled with fragments of
scrap iron, or other worthless material.
One of the men has been arrested. He
made a full confession, and urged the
excuse that if people were willing to
buy counterfeit coin it was little pity
they should be swindled,