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-MY TRAMP.
KY MHS. S. 8. ROBBIXS.
lifting, one rooming, oh the broad piaz
za of our summer home, with Haroerton'a
.AYendeiholme"' in roy hand, I was inter
rupted bv hearing the gate open and, in a
minute, steps on the walk. -Now nothing
be more utterly unassuming than this
mx(t home. The house is one story and
. i.nlf thft naint has seen fresher days,
a nun) - i
and generally there
.,, Kouils. we ai
is an air of absentee-
' f l 111
are out or me vuia,
and consequently removed-, from chance
visitors. When the -gate rattled on its
jli"a trick-it well understood I al
ways knew some friend was on his way
or tiemarketmerr were round on their
daily calls ; but this step, on this morning,
had a peculiarity which said to me, Tramp
lieforf, betweeiuthe low-lying branches of
the avenue of Norway spruces, I saw the
voting man coming toward me. lie was
slHit, graceful in his movements, rather
will-dressed, and lifted his hat with alto
gether a gentlemanly air as he; saw me.
Everybody has a iimiu srreai. .nine
lav in the fear of tramps, tor, as I have
said, our house is-quite out of the village,
and long French windows, shabbily fast
ened, oiler easy ingress at any hour of
dav or night, doors there are, too, every-
.bere, with and without bolts, as it may
happen. Very much at the mercy weare
of every lawless intruder. But this young
man, tramp though, he undeniably was,
had a clear, gray eye, which met mine
fully as I looked up from my book, and a
.smile, with a kind of pathos tliat had air
most a hungry pleading as I waited for
LU request. lie stopped at a short dis
tance from me and began nervously to
break off small twigs froni the tree by
which he stood, neither of us speaking.
At length I asked : '
"Do you wish anything?"
'I'm not used Jo begging, ma'am," he
broke out, in a low, musical voice, "but I
have had a long walk, and I am almost
starved. If you wonld give ine some
breakfast, and let me work to pay for it
afterwards, I should bo very much oblig
ed to you."
A fterirurd! If he had only said before,
he should have had a hearty breakfast,
and all tlie ghosts of political economy
that haunted my brain would have been
laid n the instant; but afterward there
it was, in the true, lazy, good-for-nothing
tninip style. I pamper to idle begging !
Xot if I knew myself. "If a man will not
. work, neither shall he eat," was a part of
ray 'Bible in which I rigidly believed. So
I said, turning the leaves of my book a
little impatiently :
"You are too young and too healthy to
he a beggar. Your look to me as if you
were made far-better things."
Not a word spoke he- in answer ; he just
turned on his heel, and was slowly leav
ing the yard when my heart a miserable,
weak heart, that is always at war with
my rinciples-rga've a great tug, and I
called after him; :
VCome back ! You shall have your
breakfast. I only wish you had proposed
to earn it before you ate it."
Ifc did not turn, and I called again, in
a softer tone :
"I should be sorry to turn even a dog
away hungry. Conic back ! I will tell
my cook to give you a bite."
He stopped, came back a step or two,
and said :
t"But I am not ailoar. I am poor, can t
get work, and am out in search of it. I
haven't a cent, and I don't want what I
can't earn. I would have offered to earn
my food first, but I am weak and faint for
want of it."
"Come back-! come back !" I said, now,
more cordially than I would havewelcom-
ed the Prince of Wales. "Sit down on
the piazza ; it is coot-herc ; and Bridget
..shall 'bring your breakfast ou t,"
The tone drew him ; he sat down on a
corner of the piazza at the greatest dis
tance from my chair, and I left him there
while I put my head inside my kitchen
--door to-astonish my cook, to whom my
order for the summer had been perempto
ry "No food, under any- circumstances,
for tramps with, "Get as nice a break
fast as you can, Bridget, out of what you
have cooked, and bring it at once to the
-piazza the man's faint."
"Mann !'' said Bridget staring-at me.
"Breakfast as quick as you can, on
the piazza, for one. Anything, Bridget,
only so it don't take you lonj to xet it.
Hurry!, will you!
-seeing
her, put her
hands on her hips, a position the meaning
of which I only too well understood ; so I
shut the door and went back to my tramp.
'Apparently he had not' moved, yet I
must own, as I saw him, I noticed that the
seat he had chosen was directly in fro n
tf a window that opened to a view of the
whole inside of the house. I was ashamed
of myself to find I thought instantly of j
my bureau, that stood in . full sight, and '
iy watch, with a jewel box, that I knew j
I had left on its "top ; but this suspicion !
was only a stirring of the timid ghost and
Dot to be wondered at.
Bridget, I need hardly say to any ex
perienced housekeeper, did not hurry,
andr while we waited, I fell into a chat
ith the young man. He said he came
worn "down South :" had walk-oil nn tfin
Pther side of the Lake, hoping, anion" the
J'H'mers there, ho should find a job, but so
many had been before him, with the same
expectations, he had with dificulty done
enough to earn his food j he hadn't slept
in a bed for three weeks, and, take the
wear and tear of his clothes and the loss
of his strength, he was going home even
poorer than he left. There was some
thing about him so different from any oth
er tramp I liad ever seen, that all my
sound theories went where a woman's the
ories are apt to go, I say it with shame
and confusion of face, but I must tell the
truth at whatever cost, and I began to
feel, interested in him. ' Now, I said, if he
don't try the mother dodge, I really shall
feel like helping him j at least, I will ask
my husband to let him do any odd chores
he may have about -the place ; but if he
begins to talk to me about his mother, I
shall expect the next thing will be a re
quest for money, that ' will never do.
But he didn't. I found him intelligent,
quite up in matters of daily public inter
est, and inclined to bring them forward.
Now and then I detected his eyes wander
ing toward thedoor through which he ex
pected his breakfast to be brought; but
otherwise, no impatience until the well fill
ed salver in Bridget's relHetant arms made
its appearance. The salver was Avell fill
ed; Bridget could take a license as well
as any cook, but she knew me well enougu
tot know when it would be best not to
venture, and acted accordingly.
I have seen wild beasts fvd, but it
seemed to me, as I stole a glance now and
then at my tramp, that I had never known
what eating ravenously meant before; he
seemed literally to have been starved.
"Poor fellow ! poor fellow !" I kept re-
pearing to myself. I dare say, from our
prejudice against this class, we do them
often a grievous injustice. Just suppose.
now, I had turned a hungry man a hun
gry man as thataway unted, how sadly
I should have regretted it by-aud-by, in
that other world, where even. "our tramp
mistakes will rise upngainst us. "Because
ye have not fed the hungry , therefore ye
are none of mine."
Well, this one, at least, was getting a
good, hearty meal, and then there would
be the work yes, of course, the work in
payment. That I should insist upon; my
political economy demanded it as only
just. There was a salver of empty dishes
very soon, and the young man got up and
shook himself, as I have seen a big New
foundland dog lo after a hearty meal;
somehow his expression seemed to have
changed, the pathos had all died out; I
was not so well pleased with it, and my
determination to enforce the work rapid
ly strengthened.
"Now," I said, "I will find something
for you to do. Come with me."
"Yes, ma'am," just lifting his hat.
At the back of pur house was a large
woodpile waiting to be packed neatly
away in the adjacent woodhouse.
"TJn?re," I suggested, pointing to the
wood and its shelter, "do what yoa think
your breakfast has been worth to you,
and then come to me."
My plan had been to try his honesty in
the way of payment, and then hire him at
rather an unusual rate of wages to finish
tbejob.-.
Becoming again absorbed in "Wender
holme," I quite forgot my tramp- until I
suddenly wakened to a consciousness that
the regular sound of piling wood had ceas
ed for some time; evidently the man's
meal had been paid for, but what had be
come of him ? With a slight misgiving, I
made my way, with as little delay as pos
sible, to the woodpile. No one was there;
a few sticks had been thrown, in a sloven
ly way, inside the woodhouse door, and
that was all. As I stood looking in, I
hoard a snicker (it's the only word that
will describe the sound) and I knew Brid
get was somewhere, watching me. It was
insult added to my injury.
I have only a few words to add by way
of moral reflections :
Never allow your heart to get the better
of your head! Believe in political econo
my! in your Bible! in your ."firmly-established
prejudices! Lay no ghost! Pre
serve intact your natural timidities ! re
cognize them as your guardian angels!
and, above all, beware of tramps !
That night I went as usual, to wind up
my watch, but I didn't do it. Alwaays
orderly, I sought to put my jewelry away
in its pretty case, but P didn't do it.
Aud yet my tramp had not spoken of his
mother.
Tlie United Presbyterian An an article
entitled "Picnic Relisrion" speaking of
camp-meetings and other arrangements
for summer services savs: "All these
plans of religious ruralizing are of doubt
iul credit to our Christianity, in some
spects they are injurious. They subject
the church to the charge of seeing sensual
; pleasure under, the guise of piety: and
more than this there is, in many instances
a shrewd financial operation in the con
1 venticle surroundinjrs. A man wishes to
make money piously, and invites his fel
low-believers to eome together to work
and worship, the main chance all the while
overshadowing in his thought the devo
tion he ,is professing. Among current
scandals none are so scandalous as these
wordly policies, coated with a thin varn
isb."
I TIie Concord Register tells of a quilt be
longing to Miss Maggie Wmecoff, of
Rowan county, which contains 9,209
pieces
LETTER FROM SPAIN.
BY HENRY DAT, ESQ.
LA MANCIIA.
Many a lover of D:x Quixote, or Don
Quijote, as! the Spaniards call him, would
go to Spain for the sake of viewing the
scenes where the famous knight and his
doughty squire gained immortal renown.
On our wa from Toledo to Grenada we
pass through the province of La Muucha,
which alone the genius of Cervantes could
have made; famous. It is a treeless coun
try, its soits impregnated with salt, with
a few squalid villages, with a race of poor
but industrious people, of whom Sancho
Panza is a good specimen. At Menzeuares
we are in the centre and in the capitol of
the province of La Mancha. Here we are
within a few miles of the little inn, Venta
de Quesada, where Don Quijote was
knighted, and occasionally we pass one of
those wind-mills or a flock of sheep which
furnished an opportunity for the display
of his martial prowess.
The peasants of Spain have the most
implicit belief in the existence of this re
nowned knight. He is a reality to them.
His marvelous adventure, and those of
the Cid, are the great fund of song and
story at the village inns of Spain. About
fifty miles further on we reach the station
of Baeza. Here there are mines of lead
aud copper worked, and worked in the
same manner as they were under the Ro-A
mans two hundred years ago. Here Scipio
the youuger fought a great battle with
Asdrubal, about 200 b. c. Here you may
see the ruins of the palace of Himilee, the
wife of Hannibal? But the crowning
honor of this place is that it is the birth
place of St. Ursula, who so heroically end
ed her life at Cologne with her 11,000 vir
gins, whose bones we have many of us
seen there. Itris generally bad taste to
spoil a good story, but I must be allowed
the explanation of this legend, which
is that it arose from a mistaken reading
of an old manuscript which was "Ursula
et XI. M. V.," meaning eleven martyred
virgins.
From Toledo to Grenada our way runs
nearly south, crossing the headwaters of
the Gaudiana and the Gamlalquiver. We
strike the latter at Menjibar, from whence
it flows southwesterly to the Atlantic,.
passing in its course Crodova and Seville,
two of the most beautiful cities in Spain.
It is not the beautiful, clear, poetic river,
sometimes described in song. In winter
and spring it is swollen aud turbid, cnt
tiug away its banks and overflowing
them. In summer it dwindles to a shal
low stream, winding through wide, tree
less meadows.
GX THE DILIGENCE.
At Menjibar we leave the railroad,
which is very circuitous in its route to
Grenada, for the diligence. If we wish
toee real Spanish life, customs, dress
aud the people as they live we must take
the diligence through the small villages,
stopping at the posadas and ventas, as
the village inns are called. On a fine
uay, with a oeautmil mountain scenery,
mounted on the driver's seat, with six
horses or mules, each having bells, the
diligence is the very poetry of travelling.
One postillion rides one of the leaders
from eight in the morning till eleven
o'clock at night, eighty miles without a
rest. It is said that these postillions, be
fore the days of railroads, rode from Mad
rid to Grenada, a journey of two hundred
miles, in two days and a night. We had
another attendaut who seemed to be a
conductor, and went the whole journey.
Another, called the Mayoral, drove the
team, -having reins only lor the wheel
horses. He would drive only from one
station, where horses were changed, to
another, and always came with and left
Lis tfiamJ and had the entire chanre of
them in the stables aud on the road. He
carried with him a bag of stones, which
he would, throw with great skill at the
leaders which his whip would not reach.
The driver talked and shouted to the
horses all, the way, and at a certain sound
at the toot of a hill they would break into
a run About every eight miles, the dri
ver, with his horses, would leave, and a
new driver and a fresh team would take
their places. The postillion carried a
horn sluujg around his neck, with which
hp heralded our approach to every vil
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lage, j
Leavinjg Menjibar, we wind onr way
for a short distance along the banks of
Gandalqijiver, which we soon cross on an
iron bridge, and make our way up out of
the valley on to the high, treeless plains,
which are bare and muddy in winter and
hot and parched in summer.
I THE SPANISH TOLICE.
For fifteen miles we see not a tree, not
a fence, not a field of grass, scarcely a
house or ja person, except the guards who
patrol the roads. These guards civiles
are stationed on most of the travelled
routes of Spain, for protection against ban
ditti. They are sometimes mounted and
always well armed, dressed in military
uniform,! with cocked hat. They are
found at every railway station, in every
village, and at regular distances upon all
the roads. They are fihe-leoking men of
good character. We found them miles
away from any dwelling, two together,
patrolling the roads over which we pass
ed, always armed with a musket. They
have rendered travelling safe in all parts
of Spain.
SIGHTS AND SMELLS.
A ride of fifteen miles over plains which
have every appearance of barrenness,
gradually rising, brings us to the ancient
city of Jaen, which is beautifully situated
among the hills. It is the key to Grenada;
from the north, mountains rise around it
in every direction. It has a cathedral
and a number of fine churches and some
famous relics. As we have no partiality
for old bones, teeth, finger nails, locks of
hair, or old rags, we spend no time upon
them. Here we made, our first trial
at a venta, or country in n. As we were
to travel till eleven o'clock at night with
out anything to eat, my guide brought me
a most delicious morsel of veal, fried in
vinegar and, garlic, whicji, with bread,
was all the venta afforded. We were
contented with oranges and bread for our
day's provision. Our fellow-travellers here
provided themselves for the day bread,
sausages seasoned with garlic aud fried in
garlic. During a shower we were obliged
to ride in the coupe, shut up with two of
them. Every few minutes they would
partake of the sausage and politely offer
me some. After indulging in this food
for some time they became thoroughly
impregnated with odor. They breathed
garlic from within ; their pockets emitted
garlic from without. Garlic was every
where. The air was filled with it ; and
such, garlic who can describe? Shut up
in close coupe with these two bodies, the
odor was terrific, and sea sickness is a
comfort to what I felt. I was obliged to
open the window, put my head out and
pretend to look at the beautiful scenery.
At Jena we are about fifty miles from
Grenada. , Our road lies through winding
valleys, along which mountain torrents
rush in winter and the beds of which are
often usel as roads in summer. We as
cend gradually through pass after pass,
where, hand to hand, the Moors aud the
Christians fought every inch four centur
ies ago. We are now among the Sierra
Susanna, which bound the Vega of Grena
da on th north. Their lofty snow-capped
heights look down into one of the
most fruitful aud lovely valleys under the
sun.
THE Al'l'KOACH TO GHEXADA.
As we emerged from this mountain val
ley and descend into the Vega, a new
world bursts upon us. The flow of the
waters, diverted from the mountain
streams for irrigation, is everywhere heard
like music. You exchange sterility for
verdure of living green ; the orange, lem
on and fig-trees everwhere abound, filled
with bloom or fruit ; the air is fragrant
with flowers; beautiful villas setting back j
from tlie road, surrouuded by gardens, be-
frill ir
appear.
Through this wealth of living verdure,
the road, broad and lined with trees,
makes its way up to Grenada, like the
approach to the city of a great king. The
night is upon us before we reach the gates
of the city. Two old Moorish towers
frown upon us from above the gates as we
enter through the massive walls. We
wind our way through the narrow and
dimly-lighted streets, until we reach the
eastern side of the city, aud ascend through
a grand avenue of trees to the height of
the Alhambra to the Hotel Washington
Irving, which is just without the walls of
the ancient fortress.
BLUNT BUT TRUE.
There is said to be a young man in the
Missouri penitentiary whose parents at
their death, left him a fortune of $50,000.
There is where his parents made a fatal
mistake. If they had taken the precau
tion to invest that sum in a small dog,
and shot him, and then had simply left
the young man a jackplane or a wood
saw with printed instructions how to use
it, the chances are that, instead of being
in the penitentiary, he would,- to-day
have been gradually but surely work
ing his way up to handsome competency,
honorable old age. But ever since the
days of Adam and Eve, parents have
made it a point to toil and struggle all
their lives in order to realize a sufficient
sum of money to purchase, when they are
dead and gone, their sons each a first class
through ticket to the devil, aud it is not
much to be wondered at that so many of
their sons, reared in vice and idleness, as
too many of them often are, have no high
er ambition than to invest their inheri
tance in jost that sort of transportation.
"GONE."
How significant this solitary word upon
a tombstone ! Like a bird of passage,
the little stranger had lighted upon this
planet, had tarried for a brief day, and
then had flown forever.
And this is with respect to us all. Soon
shall we all be gone, and the places that
have known us will know us no more
forever.
And where 6hall we be ? Whither shall
we have fled ? We shall still exist. We
shall continue in being somewhere. And
where ? Whether or not in some blest
abode will depend on our improvement of
the passing hour. "Behold, now is the
accepted time : behold now is the day of
salvation!" H. s.
Mt. Gilead, Montgomery county, gave
$62.50 to the Orphan Asylum.
EFFECT OF MUSIC ON ANIMALS.
TRANSLATED FROM THE FREXCn, FOR THE
N. V. OBSERVER, BY RUTH POOL.
Music has different effects upon differ
ent men, and those effects depend much
upon the impression received and the
habits formed in childhood. A harmony
which would entrance a cultivated ear
would leave a savage unmoved. It is
not, then, surprising that music acts vari
ously upon the different kinds of animals.
The sound of instruments impresses them
and often very keenly. Wind instru
ments, for example, have a singularly ex
citing effect on dogs. To these they sel
dom become accustomed; the first sound
which strikes them call forth frightful
howls. Herdsmen and shepherds, in some
countries, calls their flocks with a long
horn, and, notwithstanding the dog hears
from it every day the same air, it draws
from him each time cries of distress.
There is, however, an instance of a dog
sufficeutly fond of harmony to allow his
master to give him a certain degree of
musical education. This animal belong
ed to a German composer of a name very
few tongues can pronounce, but I will
venture to write it. It was Schneitzhoeffer.
Well ! the man of this astonishing name
succeeded in teaching resual la to a dog.
The animal retained the lesson, and al
ways after, at the command of his master,
would raise correctly the note.
The liorseiinlike the dog, takes pleas
ure in music; at the sound of it he raises
his ear; he is animated by a martial air;
at a slow movement he slackens his pace.
In the days when regiments of cavalry
had their own bands of music, the per
formers, when upon the march, were seen
playing quietly their parts, giving little
heed to the animals they rode, who ad
vanced in perfect order, and without mak
ing the least mistake.
The regiment horse learned to under
stand perfectly the different calls of the
trumpet. Many have heard the anecdote
of the countryman who had bought an
! old horse of a retired soldier. One morn
ing he entered a towu as a regiment of
cavalry was passing. Suddenly the trum
pets sounded, when the horse instantly
started, joined the troops, placed himself
in the ranks, and followed, in spite of the
cries and efforts of its owner. The ass
and the ox experience equal pleasure in
listening to melody. The ox advances
his head as a sign of satisfaction; the ass
raises his ears and shows unmistakable
evidence of enjoyment. Mice are also
among the quadruped lovers of music.
The birds are melomaniaes; artists them
selves, it is not strange that they love
music, it is easy to teach tunes to some ot
them. By hearing them played on a bird-
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organ, they rememoer anurepeat tnem.
All birds, however, do not have that taste.
Among those that are distressed by music
may be reckoned hens. The sound of a
violin causes them to fly away with cries
of fear. If shut up in a place where mu
sic is made, their demonstrations of terror
are most comical and curious.
Reptiles and insects appreciate the.
charms of music. If one wliistles before
a lizard that is running away, it suddenly
stops, and, if the air is agreeble, it listens
with evident pleasure. When an Ameri
can Indian has the ability to whistle pleas
antlv. he can approach the iguana aud
capture this gigantic lizard, whose flesh
is said to be good for food. Liie all
other lizards, -the iguana listens to music
with such attention that he forgets to care
for his own safety and allows himself to
be taken. The charmers of serpents, by
means of certain melodies, slow and cap
tivating, can control perfectly these ter
rible creatures. They call them, direct
their movements, allow them to surround
their limbs with their powerful coils,
without the least danger; the serpent is
completely subjugated.
Who would believe that music could
affect the spider T Nothing, however, is
more true. A captain of a regiment had
displeased the Minister of Louis XIV,
and was imprisoned in the Bastile. He
obtained permission to take with him his
lute, which he played with much skill.
After a few days, the prisoner was aston
ished to see mice come out from their
tioles and spiders descend from their webs,
and surrouud him to listen to him. His
surprise was so great the first time that
he stopped playing, when his singular au
dience retired. When he began again, !
spiders aud mice returned. They at last
became so numerous, that he was con
vinced they informed their friends in the
neighborhood, and, in order to indulge in
his diversion, he was obliged to have li
cat in his prison. Still some mice, too
music-mad, would not be stopped by that,
and became victims of their love for lyric
art.
This fact is not a solitary one. Leclere,
a celebrated violinist of the time of Louis
XIV, who was assassinated in the street
by a young man, his rival, passed several
months in prison, for what reason is un
known. A warrant of arrest was suf
ficient in those days to send a man to the
Bastile, where he was sometimes forgot
ten for years. Leclere had permission to
take with him to prison his violin. One
day, as he was playing the sonata in C.
minor of Carelli, he observed a spider
which had come out of its hiding place
and rested motionless on the edge of its
web. The sonata finished, it returned to
its retreat. Leclere executed several other
pieces, but the insect was insensible to
these and did not appear until the aftist
played the sonata, and never failed to
come whenever it heard this. Even the
sound of the human voice suffices to charm
the spider. The story of Pelisson and
his spider is well known. Pellsson, in
his prison, sung religious hymns? his
voice attracted a spider which he trained
to such a degree that it came invariably
at his call.
It is generally believed that the cat is
insensible to the charms of music. Some
facts, however, Beem to contradict this
opinion. Every one has had occasion to
see a kitten amuse itself by walking over
the key-board of an open piano. The
animal has an astonished look and seems
to ask herself what it menus. Is it the
sound of the instrument that surprises
her, or the movement of the keys which
yields beneath her steps f It is uncertain?
A promenade of this kind gave occasion
to a German composer, well known among
musicians, Jean Fuchs, to compose a
Fuge, which still bears the title of "the
Fuge of the Cat." This cat of Fuchs', in
runniug over the board, touched notes
that formed a musical clause, which the
composer seized, and which he had the
skill to expaud into a complete and very
remarkable piece.
An artist friend of mine had a cat which
appeared very fond of music. Often when
he plaeed himself at the piano, the animal
came, jumped upon the stool and thence
to the shoulder of the pianist, which he
did not quit so long as the former made
the chords of the instrument resound be
neath his fingers.
The fishes, can they preceive sounds,
and does music affect them ? Here isa
question which I would not dare answer
too postivelyy I"will cite but one fact, to
which I have, often been witness. I do
not know whether it is general; but the
experiment-can be so easily made that
many -may give themselves the pleasure
of verifying it. My friend, of whom 1
have just spoken, had not only a cat, but
also a globe containing a little gold fish.
This globe was one day accidentally plac
ed upon tlie piano. My friend, having
seated himself to play, observed that the
fish had rested motionless from his first
chords, and it remained thus to the end
of the piece, after which it began to swim
as before, to stop again when the sounds
were reuewed. It cannot,' however, be
proved that the fish was affected hy the
harmony. Perhaps the vibration of the
; instrument may have frightened it and
rendered it motionless.
Among the great flesh-eaters, the lion,
bear and wolf particularly seem to fear
' music. In a travelling menagerie was a
huge lion. The effect of the high notes
of a piano placed near him w"as toexeite
great wonder; but scarcely were the low
notes touched when he rose suddenly,
eyes darted flames, be struggled to break
his chains, lashed himself with liis tail,
and seemed inspired with such fury that
the women present at the spectacle were
overwhelmed with fright. His roaring
was terrible. But as soon as the music
ceased he became almost immediately
calm.
As to the wolf, the sound of the hunt
er's horn is to him singularly disagreea
ble. One can easilv put him to flight by
ringing loudly a bell, or playing the vio
lin, and still more easily the douile bass.
The bear also has this decided autipathy
to stringed instruments. This is a fact
established long ago, as is proved by the
following anecdote of no recent date. A
Polish fiddler returning from a fair where
he had performed his part at a ball, was
passing through a forest. Toward mid
night, being tired, he sat down under a
tree, laid his violoncello upon the ground
and began to eat some provisions' which
he took from his bag. The odor of the
eatables attracted two bears, who, to the
great alarm of the poor fiddler, came and
stood before him in the attitude of solici
tation far too plain. The fiddler began
to throw morsels of bread and meat.
The two companions enjoyed the play,
but unfortunately the food in a few min
utes had all disappeared, and the bears,
after having absorbed the dinner, were
guests who would, over and above, eat
their host. In his terror the unhappy
fiddler mechanically took up his instru
ment aud began to play. At the first
sounds the bears flew away as fast as pos
sible. The fiddler breathed. "A pleas
ant journey to you, my lively fellows,"
said he; "if I had known how fond
j'ou are of music, I should surely
have given vou the concert before the
dinner."
Mrs. Sherman ox Round Dancing.
Mrsv-Sherman, the General's wife, has
written a letter in which she expresses her
self freely about round dancing. She says
her soul revolts agaiust it, that very soon
women of self-respect will blush at.it, and
that public opinion will eventually drive
it out of society. She adds : "The ad
vocates of this dance have had their own
way long enough absorbing all enter
tainments sneering upon and ridiculing
those who quietly decline to participate
openly and constantly insinuating of those
who decline it that they are therefore
evil-minded, &c, or quoting impudently
and insinuatingly their only weapon .
'Iloni soitqui nial y pense,' and then throw ing
themselves in men's arms to prove
their own purity of miud."
THE FAMINE IN INDIA.
Well-informed persons in Madras, where
the famine has been most prevalent, esti
mate the nnniber of deaths directly or in
directly by starvation at half a million,
and the opinion is expressed that it will
amount within the next three months to
at least ten times that number, or five
millions of the people of the country. In
regard to this fearful state of things the
London Times of the 31st says;
"We may shrinkJVom so ghastly a cal
culation, and it may be hoped we shall be
able to avert some of this destruction of
life ; but if we take into account the indi
rect as well as the direct influence of the
Famine, even this estimate may be none
too high. Our correspondent reminds us
most truly that behind and besides the
actnal-deaths from starvation comes a
vast number from itsafter effects from,
the disease, the constitutional feebleness,
the undermining of the whole strength of
the population which such a Famine en
tails. To what a pitch tlie misery has
reached may be guessed from a letter we
published on Friday. One ofthe mem
bers of the Mysore Revenue Survey stat
ed that in Bangalore there was a regular
service organized, in addition to the Po
lice, to keep the streets clear of the dead
and dying. Outside thamunicipal limits,
dead bodies, he says, are lying m all di
rections ; 'the lower castes are cooking and
eating the bodies. Two days
ago, when riding past the Husaar stables,
I saw a-crowd of wretched women and
children routing in the dung-heap, and
picking out the undigested grains of corn
to eat.' The people who are reduced to
these miserable expedients are, as anoth
er correspondent describes them, . ordi
narily apathetic in tlie presence of death ;
bujt.it seem to come upon them now in too
portentous and cruel a form for even their
powers of endurance. There are horrible
and miserable scenes enough in the world,
no doubt; but question whether anything
so terrible, could be witnessed at this mo
ment as this speetaclw of the population
of half a continent thus perishing in the
agonies of starvation."
Notwithstanding so many thousands are
perishing daily, the Viceroy has interposed
to re p ress publ i c ch a ri ty a n d ad v i scs agai net
holding public meetings for the purpose
of collecting subscriptions. He is said to
have stated that the Supreme Govern
ment is determined to avert death by
famine so far.as the resources of the whole
Empire would enable it to jlo so. The
importation of grain Will be left to private
trade, but tlie Government will reinforce
the railways and arrange for other, means
of transportation. It will give subsistence
and relief wages graduated according to
the prevailing prices, and it hopes to con
struct great and permanent works by
means of relief laborr- It will buy grain
locally and give gratuitous support in
various forms to the helpless poor; but.it
deprecates -appeals to private charity as
having a tendency to interfere with pub
lic organization and to increase the panic.
The wisdom of this action on the part
of tlie Viceroy has been called in question,
but botli the home" and the Indian gov
ernment naturally feel a deep responsi
bility toward this conquered province..
L President Clark, of the Massachusetts
Agricultural College, has been spending a
year in Japan, superintending the estab
lishment of a Government institution in
that country similar to the one over which
he presides. In a recent address at Am
herst he made an interesting statement
of his impressions of the people. He nev
er saw a quarrel in Japan, and never saw
nor heard of a Japanese student in Ameri
ca or Japan accused of immorality. He
selected from a thousand young men the
students for the college there, and never
knew one of them that would willingly
offend his teachers. He spoke of the
Japanese as well disposed toward Chris
tianity and as ready w hen, convinced of
its truth, to make, a bold confession. They
have great capacity for usefulness in the
conversion of the world, and are the men
of all others to be missionaries in China,
He gave an account of the theological
school founded by Joseph Nee Smia, yhicb;
has upwards of" (JO students . who are
Christian young men studying to be mis
sionaries among their countrymen, a large
number of them already preaching every
Sundav. After Nee Sima had started his
school with the consent of the Govern-
linent, complaint was. made that he was
teaching the Bible, and the ministers of
the Government told him he must stop;
he might have a theological school, but
he must not teach. the-Bible in the school.
So Nee Sima bought a house, across the
street, and the students go to his private
house to study the Bible andstidy the
science at the school building, their th
logical school going on just the s-...
as before.
Self government is good, if those who
exercise it know'how to practice it. - It is
supreme folly to expect any number of
persons to govern each other if they have
never learned to govern themselves. Put
ting a mau in a state house, to make laws
before he has been placed in a school
house to learn how to study, and before
he knows the science ofgovernment, is as
much foolishness, as it would be to per
mit a man to navigate a vessel, who
knows nothing about navigation. The
right of universal suffrage is based on the
duty of universal "education. .
Dishonest and uneducated persons
should never be permitted Jo make our
laws. Teacher's Monthly.
The Pennsylvania oil wells are estima
ted to have yielded 83,000,000 barrels
worth $300,000,000 on the spot.
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