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VOL.-XI.IX. CAMDEN, 8. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1891, "r : '... .' 'NO. 28.; ' - ^
UNREST.
The farther you journey and wander
^ From the swcet.simple faith of ; our youth, !
The more you peer into the yonder
And search for the root of all truth,
.No matter what secrets uncover
Their vailed mystic brows in yonr quest, J
Or close on your astral sight hover.
Still, still shall you walk with unrest.
Jf yoa srek for strange things you shall tini
them,
But the finding shall bring you to grief;
The dead lock the portals behind them,
And he who breaks through is a thief.
The soul with such ill-gotten p'.un ler
With its premature knowlelge oppressed,
r--^j&fiaii_?ropeJri unsatisfied wonder
Always by"thesui3r?5^f unrest. ^ [
Though bold hands lift up the tdin curtain !
That hides the unknown from our sight; |
Though a shadowy faith becomes certain
Of the new light that follows death's night-;
Though miracles past comprehending
Shall startle th? heart iu your breast,
Still, still will your thirst be unending.
And your soul will be sad with unrest.
There ara truths too sublime and too holy
To grasp with a mortal mind's touch.
We are happier far to be lowly;
Content means not knowing too much.
Pcaoe dwells not with hearts that are yearn- i
iDt?
To fathom all labyrinths uaguesse J,
And the soul that is bent on vast learning
^ Shall find with its kuowle Ige?unrest.
~EU<x IK. Wilcox, in the Weekly. !
I HER TRIUMPH. j
Our city was so small and the pipe |
organ so large that it was an elephant ou
our hands, as good orgauists had to be !
hired from other cities at large expense, i
the only player in Ilnbbard being the
one who manipulated the Presbyterian
organ, which instrument we had tried to
outshine. We were Methodists,
v At the end of two years, during which
we had endured auy number of organists,
good, bad nud indifferent (mostly
the latter), I was delighted one rummer
Sunday inoruing, upon cutering the i
church, to hear real music, and surveyed j
with some curiosity the small figure of a
Tonne woman about twentv rears old on '
The organ stool. She did not attempt j
anything intricate, but the music was all i
majestic, soulful, religious.
A few weeks later, one the trustees |
asked rae if we could give the new or- j
ganist a room at our house, adding that !
possibly sister and myself might tind her;
a pleasant companion in our little home, j
She had been iu town about six mouths, !
writing in an insurance office, but she j
objected to a boarding house and wished
to get into a private family.
She came to us quietly, every j'ncjub*
lady." Y ou might not call her pretty,
but she bad speaking eyes which made ;
you forget everything else when she |
looked at you. They were bright when j
k she was in conversation, but I soon I
L noticed that when she was not animated j
Y they were sad, and I fell to wondering
f what sorrow had befallen her so early iu :
life. She was pleasant and helpful but
rot confidential, and nothing eventful j
occurred until just after the holidays J
when she came in quite excited, saying j
(hot nno c\f hot* fumicr fripnrtc nt hnmp '
was to be married the next week, and she i
bad leave of absence for a fortnight. ;
She had said very little about her family, i
but I knew she had sent them n Christ- J
inas box, so if I thought anything of her !
emotion, it was for the joy of going j
home.
It was surprising?the vacancy she
left in our house, and you inay be sure
we welcomed her return with much
Waimtb. But though she evidently appreciated
our feelings toward her, I observed
that s"hc was making a great effort
to control herself. Thinking she was
suffering from homesickness. 1 rapped at
her door in the evening to ask if she
cared for my society a little while. She
was weeping so violently that she could
scarcely speak, and when I put my arm
about her she burst out:
"O, Miss Vau Zandt, if I could only ^
?talk to you?to some oue?who would
help me?to bear it?and tell me?what
to do! O dear! O dear!"'
By soothing words and pats, I assisted
her to something like calmness, and
while 1 did not urge her to talk, she
understood that my sympathies were .
with her.
Finally she told me that she had had J
warm feelings toward a young man two j
years her senior, since she was sixteen, |
but that he had tired of her apparently,
or being influenced by another young
lady. Fot a year she suffered torments
at home, and then came to Hubbard to
see whether time and absence would not
kill her affection or briug back his. It
seemed to have done neither, for she had
met him at the wedding she had just attended,
and although he had express^
pleasure at meeting her agaiD, hc^iiTl not
seek her society and his time was occu^
pied with her rival. And so shcfelt her
long trip had been for naught,unfa while
her judgment told her to forget Mm, her
rebellion heart clung to her girlhood's
lover.
What could I suv to comfort her?.
rXothing, excepting that Uod knew
best, and probably that this great darkness
was but the loreruuner of a glorious
dawn.
After this she spent most of her time
after tea playingthe organ at the church,
and I believe it was a soothing outlet for
her pent up feeliugs. I often went into
cHuroh to enjoy the exquisite melody
which floated out uuder her lingers.
A Sometimes she used such selections as
ft Gottschalk's "Serenade," Jungmann's
ft "Hemweh," or ilarstou's "Slumber
n Song," but more frequently it was her
|9ft own improvisation.
One evening through the dusk I dis Hi
rcmed another listener, who, however,
slipped away before I could identify him.
This occurred several times.until I placed
myself where I could see his face as he
passed, when I recognized him as Lawg|8S||
rence Roberts, whom I had known from
Hp^Lboyhood. He had recently been apu?eS|^^pftintcd
a teacher of science in the High
SaTOflSMfcll'-noh and wise men said hftwas des10
moke his mark in smAutaM
\ ? \ %
Iii May the cantata of "Esther*' was
given at our theatre. It was not worn so
threadbare then, and though it was ou
the boards every night for a week, the
house was always crowded, and families
came up by the wagon-load from all the
^urrouuding villages and crossroads.
To Miss Hunt was assigned the character
of Zerah, and I expect nevei to enjoy
a rendition of it so much agaiu. She
had often sung to me in the evening, accompanying
herself on our little organ,
and while I thought her voice musical
and pleasing, still it had a girlish quality
and lacked power. But this rich con; i
tralto which rolled over^hg~trtldTgSceirnd
sobbed aiid JhiTttTrT?cniild that belong
<1 T ?i V? tl ,?l.
.u? uui JjUUI^V;. IUIUU^U uti
.heart-sorrow had come her voice, beautiful,
womanly, refined.
All the women were in tears and many
of the men showed emotion, while I,
who loved her aud understood her long- :
ing, wept uncontrollably. It did not seem
as though she could keep up that, tension
another night, but every evening of the
cantata witnessed that same fervor and
the same effect on her audieuce. Sunday
she was prostrated, and her organ position
for that day was filled by another.
In the fall, a year after she came to our
house, she told me that her mother had
moved to another city ' and had sent for
her. The evening previous to,her departure,
Lawrence Itoberts called to sea
her, as he had frequently done lately.
Other friends came to bid her good-bye.
aud as I stepped into the garden to call
her, I heard licr say:
"You have been very kind to me, but
I never suspected it would come to this.
Tell me truly, I have not given you false
encouragement, have I?"
As he ausweredin the negative, I called
her name, delivered my message, and
started for the house. They followed
me, aud :is the air was so still, I could
not avoid hearing her last words:
"Under any other circumstance I
would not tell you what now you should
know; my heart was years ago given to
another and"?in a whisper, "rejected."
I parted from her with regret, and we
kept up a correspondence for some time.
Then I lost track of her.
Last week I met a gentleman who is
an old friend both of Louise and her boy
lover, Clinton Hadlcy. lie related to
me this finale:
"One evening I attended a musicale
given by a New York lady noted for her
high-class soirees, and there met Hadlcy,
whom I had not seen in several years.
He looked as handsome as ever, but a
trifle bored. We were talking over past
events, when I suddenly said: 4Did
you know, Clint, that your old girl,
Louise Hunt, is on the programme to- ,
night ?'
He started. 'No! Why, she did'
n Y"ice when I -knew
her. What nas she oca doing all these
years? She must be?let me see--twentyeight
now. Quite an old maid, eh?1
U A nrl lit lon rKorl rffOOoMl'
U V4 lit lUU^UWVl MiWU^kWuwij
" 'Well, you are au old batch., which
is just as bad. I have not heard Louise
sing, but I know that she is creating enthusiasm
wherever she goe3, both on account
of her voice and her charming
manners. She has been studying with
line instructors and has a salaried positiou
in a church choir.'
"Hadlcy was thinking, and I knew he
was recalling his youthful experience, so
I let him think. Between you and me,
I thought he deserved to be troubled, foY
he hiri courted her persistently two years
or more, and a? soon as she showed affection
for him. had thrown her over, just
ashe did later with other young ladies.
"The whole musicale was very enjoyable,but
Louise carried off the palm. I felt
lladley start when she came forward,
small but dignified, gracious n3 a queen
and twice as lovable. And such c-yes!
"Her first number was an aria, 'O
Don Fatale,' from 4Lc Prophet,' and.
Hartley had scarcely recovered from his
dazed wonderment, when her second
song was due, an English ballad called
Faithful.*
" 'Friendship has failed us. oid trust has
gone,
Love that was dawning is dead:
Life and its sunshine are clouded o'er,
Aye, for ti.e pa*t has fled.
You will forgot, and our story will seem
The dream of a summer day.
But 1 shall remember its golden light.
When years shall have passe 1 away.
I thouiht you love 1 me once,
I deemed the story true;
The dream has gone.
The love has flown,
But still I am faithful to you:'
| '^'Bnt where the world has sung yon of sorj
row.
Hiding its golden beam.
Tbon, love, I pray that you may remember
Just once again our dream!
And when the Angels guide you to Heaven,
O'er the dividing sea.
Look on the shore and give me this wel
come,
"I know you are faithful to mo!"
; I thought you lovcil me one *,
I deetnel the story true:
When shadows fall,
And love is all,
You'll know I was faithful to you'.'
"Could if be possible chat she knew
her old-time love was to hear her,'and
: was she singing to him? Hartley looked
' as though bethought so, and undercover
I of the prolonged applause he grasped me
eagerly, saying:
" 'I want to meet her!'
"lie bad still that waked-up look on
; his face when later in the evening I
said:
j " 'Louise, allow rae to present an old
| acquaintance.'
"Too accustomed to all kinds of sur:
prises to be taken off her guard,she offered
! him her gloved hand in a charming man
' uer. saying:
" 'Good evening, Mr. Hadley, this is
an unexpected pleasure.'
j "But he said, still holding her hand:
"'Louise, may 1 speak with you
alone?'
" 'Certainly,' and they stepped into
. an alcove, where he began :
" 'Louise, O, Louise! what a shame
1 that we ever had any trouble? To-night
you have brought up all the happy past,
and I plead with you to forget all my unkindness
and stupidity, and let us begin
where we were before '
" 'Excuse me, Mr. Hadley. Had It
not been for that trouble, I would not
have my vfdt^aud as to beginning again,
jgjgfc^Hjj^^^^^^^usband, aud you
will have to ask hi* permission. Mr.
Hartley. Professor Roberts!"'?Detroit
Free Press.
Emptying English Prisons.
The annual report of the English
Commissioners of Prisons, recently published,
shows that there has been a large
decline since last year in the nuxber of
initiates of the local prisons of England
and Wales. A similar or even more
marked diminution of the prison popitktr
tion has been uotcd in preyimrryears.
In spite of the jaorsSSe in population,
thCPfc-are'Tewer prisoners than at any
previous time iu forty years. The decrease
since 1878 has been particularly
great. The number of prisoners in March,
1890, was 13,877, which was S81 less
than in March, 1SS9; 1659 less than in
March, 18SS; 5958 le3S than in March,
- oon 1 fnm X 4.1 1 CTQ
ioou, unu u?u less uiau iuiu. ? uu
prison population is only three-quarters
of that of twelve years ago, while the
population of the country has increased
one-seventil. The Commissioners believe
that the diminution iu the number of
prisoners is due entirely to a decrease in
crime, and not to any laxity of the police
or of the public prosecutors. -The contrast
of these figures with the statistics of
the ever-increasing prison population
of the United States will afford little
pleasure to the patriotic resident of this
country, but one or two'consideiations
may give him some comfort. The increase
of crime, in this country i? due iu
some measure to the immigration^/ meu
who have led criminal lives iu other
countries, or who come .here.. with thq,
idea of obtaining money by criminal
means if necessary. England itscl/has 5
sent us not a few person?, w/ua have -at.,
one time or another formed L part of its '
prison population. Atiofcher-reason 'for-.'
the increase of the number dFhSiminat in
this country is the restless and rapidly r
moving manner of life,ia some . of the
communities, and the -rpo^hness ipse
parable- from life in the-*?emote parts '
of the country. When the United
States settled Ititq the comparative re?pose
of the- nhciCpt civilization tbe?<
prisons may be less crowded.?Ntuo York
7'riliune.
Shooting Groivse,
Wlieu flushed the ruffled grouse
springs into the a.r with a whirr aud
boom that make the dry fallen leave3
around dance under the swiftly-beating
pinions, say3 the Philadelphia Pros.
This is the bird's chiefest characteristic,
suggestive of the power and speed of
which it is alone capable. The novice,
taken unawares, is often so startled at
tho hurst to winor that he stands in onsn
mouthed astonishment gazing ufter the
J bird, or sometimes aimlessly lets his guu
go off into the air, or as often into. the
ground. Tho experienced hunter listens
for the welcome sound of the bird's
wing3 with a zest that is akin to craving.
The speed of grouse is truly phenomenal.
After the first beating of wings
that gives the momentum the bird 6ets
its pinions and teems to glide through
air like a cannon ball. Unless the
sportsman be at a considerable distance
in cross shooting there is no possible
chance of bis being able to put his aim
"on"' the bird at all. At a distance of
thirty yards or more, if the flush is expected
and the woods comparatively
open, the chance is that a quick shot
will pull the trigger. As to whether he
will kill or not, all I may say is, try,
ambitious reader, you may. I have seen
it done.
In some instances after flushing the
grouse will fly straight up to the tree
top, then away. This is the easiest
shot to many. Of the methods of shooti
ing the ruffled grouse I know of but two;
i they may be called the legitimate and
' illegitimate. The latter is that of tree:
ing the birds with a small dog that
j thrashes around like a fox and will then
i bark at tbem, keeping tncir attention
( while the pot-hunter soeaks up to withj
in range and pops the bird over as nny
: boy of tea years might do. The other
1 method is with the bird-dog, and for its
merits boasts of shooting the bird only
while on the wing. The Pennsylvania
season is from October 1 to January 1.
In Mexico You Marry the Entire Family
One characteristic of the Mexican is
best exemplified by their proceedings in
the event of the marriage of one of their
daughters to an American. The Mexican,
bear in mind, is possessed of the ineradicable
idea that Americans are all
rolling in wealth. The idea is a source
of never-ceasing envy on the part of one
i sex and satisfaction to the other. When
: an American marries a Mexican girl her
| whole family, her sisters, cousins, aunts,
etc., and all their sisters, cousins, aunts,
etc., for a hundred miles around arc invited
to the wedding. This includes
every blood relation to the very remotest.
They not only come, which is bad,
but they stay, which is worse. There
j they caiup, and until every ounce of food
and every dollar in sight is gone there
, they continue to camp, and should the
j luckless bridegroom have employment
! tliey stay still longer, encouraged in the
: most natural and artless manner by their
i 1.-?Tl,?
I very uud]Jim.U4V/ iciauvt, ciiw ux&nw *.**</
feelings of the groom under such circuin,
stances can be imagined, but a protest
or.ly meets with tears from the bride and
| indignant astonishment from the guests,
| before which the bridegroom generally
succumbs. It is apparent that the Mexican
merely guages the hospitality and
charity of others by his own, aud wants
to be done by as he does to others. ? Chica'jj
Times.
A Famous Oil Town. ^
The survivors of Pithole, the famous
I oil town in Venango County, Penn., have
been holding a reunion at Titusville. Mr.
i Porter's count of the present Pithole will
I show possibly a population of five persons,
whereas in its palmy days it had a
population of 15,000, and in point of
postal business transacted it was the third
city in the State, Philadelphia and Pittsburg
only exceeding it. The Holmden
farm at Pithole, which once was sold to
Chicago people for $1,500,000, has
been sold at a tax sale lor $100.?Dc
ICEBERG CAPERS.
the tricks and antics of
arctic monsters.
It is a Grand SpectapJ<- to See a Moantain
of Ice T'arn a Doable
Sci*iersanlt-?ulceberj*
Calves."
* No one who has ever seen a grand,
stately iceberg on "its solemn southward
march," writes Frederick Schwatka, in
the New York Herald, would ever credit
these floating islands of ice with undignified
capers nnd erratic movements, so
impressive is the air of awful stillness and
almost solemn solidity that surrounds
these colossal children of cold climates.
Still a great mountain of ice will sometimes
vary itaTjjnouotonous movements of
steady drifting by turning somersaults
and double. somersaults and whirling
tricks until it looks like some huge hyperborean
hippopotamus with skin of
suowlike whiteness, wallowing around
in the waters of the northern sea.
I have seen but one such overturning
of these moving mountains of marble,
and surely it looked -as if the *'great
waters of the deep were breaking up"
and that the end of all things had come.
Great green waves went thundering by
asif a hurricane might have been howling
v hours across the sea that but a
few moments before had been as motionless
as a mill pond. "Flying flecks of
foam d-sli dowrT from dizzy heights
i above, aud its slippery sides are almost
covered with cascades;forraed frota the
-waters that have been lifted up by the
rapidly overturning berg.
The first intimation wc had of the
coming on of_ the conyujsion was a dull
shock from under the Water against our
ship's side as .lt a submarine blast had
been esplotted, a shock very much like
that given when the great Hell Gate
ein New York haihor was sprung,
sgful a nnmcnt aftcrwavfl, a hugh rising
"flf the sea near one side , of the iceberg
was apparent, and through this vast lake
of uplifted waters broke through a snow
white mass of ice that hid been detached
from the hugh crystal mountain far
down in the ocean's depths, and that
"came whirling to the surface with a
swiftness that seemed tQ.lift it half way
out of the sea, and wh3|ch kept it spinuiug
aud splashing for a^full fiveminutes
afterward. -"p.
The release of this portion from its
frozen fetters far below: had disturbed
the "stable equilibrium"?as the learned
scientists would say?of the greater and
parent berg, and a moment afterward it
began its stupeudons swaging, as if some
earthquake were iuflii?c/ui? it .^roiiv W
neath. until in one of its collosal carecnings
it fell over and seemed to bury it
self in amass of milk like foam, as if n
thousand demons were drowning in the
lashed waters of the green sea, and that
sent tremendous tidal waves tearing
across the dephs that would have engulfed
the Great Eastern had she been
near. It sank for a second only and
then rapidly reappeared with a creamy
crest that in shallow sheets of white
poured down the perpendicular sides
of the mighty glacial giant that was
trying so hard to'lind a quiet rest in his
watery bed.
"Woe to the ship that ha9 ventured too
near one of these monsters of ice just as
it has taken a notion to give a display of
its Arctic antics, for if it be broadside tc
to the tremendous tidal wave that comes
curling outward from the ceuter of commotiou.
and has not time to turn 4,end
on" to meet the rapid rush of waters, it
may be thrown upon its "beam ends," as
the sailor would say, or thrown over on
side, by the steep front of the wave, then
fill wflh water and sink. Such Arctic
accidents have been known to occur tc
careless cruisers in the iceberg region,
aud probably some of the very mysterious
disappearances of polar parties would be
solved in this way if the riddle were
really unravelled.
'"i ? - c i.:. . i ..n i__ ?
i w again 11 me uoai uas oniy sailing
power she is liable to meet the most erratic
gnsts of wind, and sudden squalls
that can upset her as suddenly as a tidal
wave. Everybody has noticed how mud
more powerful and erratic are the winds
around the base of n very high buildirv:
in a city than elsewhere in it. Aud sc
with the great iceberg. It catches ul
the wandering winds of the high heavens
and directs them downward,winding anc
twisting around its base, until it is ver)
unsafe for a sailing boat to venture ueai
thess .eddying gusts. So between th<
little icebergs popping up from the watei
below aud falling down from the sides
above, coupled with a chance of ths
colossus of them all turning a hyperbo
reau haudspring that fairly sets the old
! ocean frantic with excitement, and no!
j forgetting the twisting tornadoes thai
! tiie berg brings down to its base, makes
it. altogether an uncertain undertaking tc
, have a polar picnic too near one of thess
luuuiaaujo.
The Arctic -whalers, who are the lies
navigators of these ice laden waters, call
these little hcrgs that break off of tin
j big ones either above or below the watei
! line "iceberg calves," and they have m
i friendship for them, although they wil
j occasionally deign to pull up alongsidi
J of a small "calf" and cut enough icc of
i of it (which I suppose they ought to call
I "veal") to fill up their refrigerators oi
ice chests and have ice and icc watci
aboard until it slowly melts and disap.
pears.
Each one of these little (?) iceberg!
again sheds still smaller ones as it slowb
crumbles to pieces on its march towarc
j the equator, and the huge iceberg itself
with which we first began onr descrip
tion, v ;-.s only a "calf" that had onc<
1 broken <>ff from the seaward face of th<
grand clacier or huge, moving river o:
I ice. Si) they keep dividing aud subdi
! viding as they march along until tin
j massive mountain of ice that broke of
j from the Greenland glaceir in the Arti<
j reus really becomes merely millions o
j molehills of ice in the temperate wntcri
I of the warmer sen9, and then it disap
1 pears altogether. And every time they
j split asunder we have an Arlic acrol^i
I M^fmi)tlcc- * k
But of all the curioi?_#?pers cut by 1
these colossal nujsgg^-tu ice none is mere I
singular^jiftt-eirea their somersaults, than
oaej Saw being performed ih the entrance
' t > Hudson Strait. A furious gale was raging
that was driving a drifting icepack
before it as if it were a herd of frightened
animals. The great flat fields and
floes of ice were speeding eastward before
the whistling wind almost as fast as
our snug little ship, for we were under
double reefed sails, so furious was U-.e
storm.
Looming up out of the drifting gusts
and whirling eddies of the snow, bearing
westward, came the pearly sails of an
Arctic ship?a mighty iceberg with a
superb serenity in the awful storm cut
its way directly through all the obstacles
that faced its front. It bore down in
the very teeth of the wind and bared its
boreal breast to the fields and floes,
/^rnoV?vr?rr fhom Ofl if t.VlPV WPfP .Qfl m.inV
W "-"""5 j j
egg shells, and scattering the flying
glacial splinters port and starboard like a
swift rolling wagon wheel scatters tho
dust.
This mastless hyperborean. hulk was
obeying the mandate of a marine current
down in the depths of the old ocean's
bed. Six-sevenths of the iceberg is submerged,
and the superficial current beiug
shallow in the strait discovered by old
Heinrich Hudson, while the air, being so
much lighter than water, that even a gale
an form but a small component of tho
orces that determine the track of these
Titans of the North, so we were greatly
awed and edified by the singular yet superb
spectacle of an iceberg sailiug dilectly
against the wind and forcing its
way through fields of ice that would
have crushed and sunk the mightiestmailed
man-of-war of modern times before
it could have made half a mile. It
will impress one for life jf but once encountered,
and is a curious scene that but
few have-ever witnessed.
The Laud of Pluck.
Far over the sea is a famous little
country generally known a9 Holland;
but that name, even if it meant Hollow
land, or How land? does not describe it
half so well as yds?The Funny Land of
Pluck.
Verily, a queerer bit of earth was nev
er shone upou by the sun nor washed by
the tide. It is the oddest, funniest
country that ever raised its head
from the waves jaml, between ourselves,
it does not quite do that), the most
topsy.turvy landscape, the most amphibious
spot in the universe,?as the Mau
in the Moon can't deny--the chosen butt
of the elements, and good-naturedly the
laughing stock of mankind. Its people
arc the queerest and drollest of all the
nations; and yet so plucky, so wise and
s resolute and>.strong, that "beating the
Dutch" has become a bye-word for expressing
the limits of mortal performance.
As for the country, for centuries it
was not exactly anywhere; at least it
objected to staying long just the same,
in any one place. It may be said to have
lain around loose on the waters of a certain
portion of Europe, playing peek-aboo
with its inhabitants; now coming to>
the surface here and there to attend to
matters, then taking a dive for change
i of scene and a most disastrous dive it
often proved,
i Rip Van Winkle himself changed less
between his great sleeping and waking
than Holland has altered many a time,
between sunset and dawu. All its permanence
and resoluteness seems to have
> been soaked out of it, or rather to have
filtered from the land into the people.
Every field hesitates whether to turn into
I a pond or not, and the ponds are always
; trying to leave the country by the shortest
cut. One would suppose that under
i this condition of things the only uui
troubled creatures would be turtles and
! ducks; but 110, strangest and most
> mysterious of all, every living thing
in Holland appears to be throughly
i placid and content. The Dutch mind,
so to speak, is at once anti-dry and
; waterproof. Little children run about
in fields where once their grandfathers
[ySuiled over the billows; and youths and
| maidcus row their pleasure-boats where
5 their ancestors played "tag1' among the
I haystacks. When the tide sweeps uni
ceremoniously over Mynheer's garden,
5 he lights his pipe, takes his fishing-rod,
f and sits down on his back porch to try
> his luck. If his pet pond breaks loose
I and slips away, lie whistles, puts up a
$ dam so that it cannot come back, and
I decides what crop shall be raised iu its
r vacant place. None but the Dutch
r I could live so tranquilly iu Holland;
; though, for that matter, if it had not
r been for the Dutch, we may be suro
? there would have been, by this time, no
> Holland at all.
And j'et this very Holland, besides
I holding its own place, has managed to
t gain a foothold in almost every quarter
; of the globe. An accouut of its colonics
i is a history in itself. In the East Indies
> alone it commauds twenty-four milliou.s
; of persons.?St. Nicholas.
t Jay Gould and Son.
I When Jay Gould is in the city it is n.
> unusual occurrence for hitu aud his son
r George to be seen together on Broadway
> between the Western Union building and
1 Wall street. Since Mr. Gould practically
; took his eldest son into partnership the
[ two are almost inseparable, and the stnall[
ncss of stature of the Wizard of Wall
r Street is never more strikingly apparent
than when he is seeu standing or walking
. beside his stalwart son. George, although
an uncommonly handsome and well built
s young man, is not above the medium
f height, and yet he is almost a head taller
| than his father. Jay Gould's demeanor
t toward his eldest son is a charming
. study. It betokens a degree of affection
> and pride that makes the possession of
j wealth seem insignificant. One day last
f week father and son walked into one of
the largest baukiug houses downtown.
; The head of the banking firm arose and
f approached tiie man of millions with an
; air of deference. Paying no heed to
f | courtesies intended for himself. Mr.
3 Gould said: "Mr. , this is mv
. son," and his tone and manner impressed
j all of the persons present with the idea
t j that "my sou" is a very large factor in
! the Gould family.?Neic York Times.
PATENT ROMANCES.
I
HUGE FORTUNES REARED PROM
TRIFLING INVENTIONS.
Hcmors and Emoluments for the
Originators of Valuable Ideas?
The "Drive Well" Paid Its
Inventor $8,000,000.
"There is," says an eminent authority,
"scarcely an article of human convenience
or necessity in the market today
that has not been the subject of a
patent in whole or in part. The sale of
every *such article yields its inventor a
profit. If we purchase a box of paper
collars a portion of the price goes to the
! inventor; if we buy a sewing machine the
1 probability is that we pay a royalty to"
as many as a dozen or fifteen inventors
at once." Lord Brougham ofteu said
that he would gladly have exchanged his
honors and emoluments for the profits and
renown of the inventor of the perambulator
or sewing machine. We are not
wishful to lead our readers to covet what
are termed "large fortunes" as really
conducive to happiness or usefulness.
"Fortune" is itself a heathen and not a
Christian word. But "inventiou" is another
thing, and thj renumerative results
are a fitting element for consideration in
these days. Howe, the originator of the
sewing machine, derived $500,000 a year
it, and from their mechanical improvements
the celebrated .Wheeler & Wilson
arc reputed to have divided for many
years an income of $1,000,000, while the
author of the Singer sewing machine left
at his decease nearly $15,000,000. The
telephone, the planing machine and the
rubber patents realized many millions,
while the simple idea of heating the
blast iu iron smelting increased the
wealth of the country by hundreds of
millions. The patent for making the
lower ends of candles taper instead of
parallel, so as to more easily
lit the socket, made the present
enormous business of a well-known
firm of London chandlers. The "drive
well" was an idea of Colonel Green,
whose troops during the jvar were in
want of water. He concei^d the notion
of driving a* two-inch tube into the
ground until wafer was reached, and
then attaching a pump. This simple contrivance
was patented, and the tens of thou*
sands of farmers who have adopted it have
been obliged to pay him a royalty, estinf.
?.1 000 000. A larore urofit
I ' ? o *
was realized by the inventor who
patented the idea of making umbrellas
out of alpaca instead of gingham, and
the patentee of the improved "paragon
frame" (Samuel Fox) lately left by will
$830,000 out of"the prodts of his. invention.
The weaving, dyeing, lace and
ribbon making trades originated and depend
for their existence upon ingenious
machinery, the result of an infinity of
inventive efforts.
The discovery of the perforated substance
used for bottoming chairs and for
other purposes has made its inventor n
mil'ionaire. George Yeaton, the inventor
in que3tion,wasapoor Yaukeecane-seater
in Vermont. He tirst distinguished,hjm-_
self by inventing a machine for weaviug
cane, but he made no money out of it,
es some one stole his idea and had the
process patented. After a number of
years' experimenting Yeaton at last hit
upon this invention, which consists of a
number of thin layers of boards of different
degrees of hardness glued together
to give pliability. He formed a company,
and to-day he has a plant valued
at $500,000, and is in the receipt of a
princely annual revenue derived from
this invention. Carpet beating, from
I Kolnrvnn imfnlrl nniannfP has llCOOme a
*^-'"6 "" ,
lucrative trade through inventive genius
and mechanical contrivance. Even natural
curiosity has been turned to account in
the number of automatic boxes for the
sale of goods of all kinds, and fabulous
dividends have been paid by the companies
owning the patents. The most
profitable inventions have been the improvements
in simple devices, things of
every-aay use, that everybody wants.
Among the number of patents for small
things may be mentioned the "stylographic
pen," and a pen for shading
in different colors, producing ?200,000
per annum. A large profit has been
reaped by a miner who invented a metal
| rivet or eyelet at each end of the mouth
i of coat and trousers pocket to resist the
j strain caused by the carriage of pieces
' of ore and heavy tools. In a recent legal
action it transpired iu evidence that the
i inventor of metal plates used to protect
I soles and heels of boots from wear sold
| upward of 12,000,0110 plates in 1879,
I and in 1S87 the number reached 143,000,000
producing realized profits of a
,quarter of a million of money. Another
1 useful invention is the "darning weaver,"
; a device for repairing stockings, undcrj
garments, etc., the sale of which
!is very large and increasing. A?largc
a sum as was ever obtained for
!anv invention was enjoyed by the inven (tor
of the iuvcrted g jS-bell to hang
over gas to protect ceilings from being
blackened, and a scarcely less lucrative
patent was that for simply putting emery j
'powder on cloth. Frequently time and
circumstances are wanted before an invention
is appreciated, but it will be
seen that patience will be well rewarded,
for the inventor of the roller skate made
over ?1,000,000, notwithstanding the
'fact that his patent had nearly expired
before its value was ascertained. The
gimlet-pointed screw has produced more
wealth than most silver mines, and the
American who first thought of putting
copper tips '.o children's shoos is as well
oil as if his father had left him $2,000.000
in United States bonds. Upward
of $10,000 a year was made by the inventor
of the common needle-threader.
To the 1'oregoiug might be added thousands
of trifling but useful articles from
which handsome incomes are derived or
ar which large sum> have been paid.
j The past season was in the main favj
viable for the hay crop.
!
^ A rapid penman should write thirty
whrds a minute.
*5t ? ?;<
THE CLOUDS.
? *
Suspended in the air
Like the mountain cliffs up there,
And wrapt in the softest roseate hue,
The cloads are heaped on high,
And streaked across the sky '
With fire emblazoned on the view.
How beautiful they sail,'
Robed in a morning veil,
Like vessels on the placid blue,
Ten thousand Sunbeams tint,
Ten thousand emblems hint, -
The good, the noble and the true.
Now comes the blightsome breeze
With lulling souud of ease,
And drives the saffron dames apart,
As stealing winds have torn
And fax- away have borne
Some cherished idol of my h:art.
May trouble be as light
And virtue shine as bright
Within the fleeting life of all,
As clouds at airy rest I
With lightsome, downy cre3t,
Or floating at the Maker's call. ^ j
?R. H. Havener, in Times-Democrat.
PITH AND_P0INT.
A shady occupation?M? 'ng awnings.
,.g * u>vj
A cooper ought to be abU$b stave off
disaster.
Hides and pelts?The average boy in a
snowball season.
The refrain of the Arctic Circle?
"Freeze a jolly good fellow."
Son-struck?The gentleman who is
knocked down by his offspring.
The man who tried heroic measures
found they w.re several sizes Jno ^nrge^..
for him. ^
-A believer in signs should be cured of ^
his superstition when he entees a dime
museum. .
Teacher?"Johnny, what causes the
daybreak 1" Johnny?"Iguess it's caused
by the nightfall."
"This parrot is worth $500." "Y/hat
? -A- ?-k iMtvt/vn/lAUO ST a Inn?" t 4 Tt"
gives it BUUU u tiCiUCUUUUO iaiuvi *?
cao't talk."?Sparkt.
Miss Fish?"Don't you think a veil is *
becoming to me?" Miss Caustic ?"Ye3,
a heavy one."?Epoch.
When a "whaling bark" is spoken of, t
we suppose of course it come? from a
birch tree.?Boston Bulletin.
"Come out and take a walk." "No
the sky is gray, and gray is not becoming
to me."?Flieqende Blaetter.
Attendant (in railroad waiting-room)?
"Say, mister, no going to sleep here.
This ain't no church."?Life.
This world is vary old? .
Bat every age ?..?-+~ ?
Sees some dyspetic soold
Pose as a sage. ^Bp^' - ' ^.
Peasant (to his son)?'-Say, Han9, V;
how long will you have to kudy before
you can wear glasses?"?Fliegende Blaetter.
<
Dead hens lay no eggs, bscause they
are eaten; it can not be sung of them,
"Each in its narrow cell forever laid."
?Puck.
^4^M#P<tN*Qg^inary musician dispenses
music by the mea^N^hc bass drummer
gets off his by the pountt^-PhilaJelphiT,
Timet. \
It isn't strange that thera is trouble
when things go at "sixes anaN-aeyens."
Sixes and sevens make thirteens.? CKieor
no Pott. ?
? . '
"Did vou tell vour father that I love!
~ ? ?/ ?
you with all my might?" "Yes; but he
said that your might was too small."?
The Jester. ' >
It is queer, but true, that women will
go to the New York Commissioners of
Emigration after an imported girl when
they want a domestic.
"I don't see how people who make
artificial teeth keep out of the poorhouse."
"Why?" "They have so many
mouths to fill."?Epoch.
You can always judge by appearances.
The gas metre very modestly covers its
face with its hands; but have a care 'tis
fooling thee.?Boston Transcript.
Half a pound of glucose,
Half a pound of sand.
Make the angry housewife
And the grocer bland.
?Boston Traveler.
Belinda?"It's queer, isn't it, but
everywhere I go the young men gather
round me." Maud?"Perhaps they think
there is a safety in numbers."?Boston
Post.
When a big man in a little town
moves to a larger town he is putting
himself in a position to learn his fir3t
big lesson in humiliation.?Atchison
Globe.
A peculiarity of the rooster is this: _
That though it was simple chicken on
going to roost in the ovening, in the
morning it always turns to crow.?
Philadelphia Times.
He?"May I take the liberty of calling?en^you
this afternoon, or do you
prefer other company?" She?"As far
as that goes, no company is as desirable
as yours."?Texas Sittings.
"I had a splendid time in my vacation
this last summer. Meals just when
I wanted them, cold and warm baths, capital
wines, and no fees for waiters or
porters." "And where is this ideal place,
doctor?" "I staycl at home."?Fliegende
Blaetter.
A Remarkable Piece of Bluestone.
Probably the most remarkable piece
of bluestone ever quarried in this country
and brought safely to tidewater is
now at Wilbur. It is twenty feet long
j by twenty-four feet nine iuches, ten
inches thick and weighs over twenty
tons. It was taken out of a quarry neatIvingston,
and by its side the celebrated
slab in front of the Vanderbilt mansion
in New York, which is fifteen by twenty
feet and eight inches thick, is shorD of
much of its glory. This monster stone
is so large that it may have to be cut in
two for a buyer, which will detract from
its actual value about twenty per cent.
In its present shape it is practically dead
money to its owners, as i? is larger and
wider either way than any sidewalk in
America,?Chicago Newt.
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