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ONLY TOO TRUE.
John Vanoe Cheney to The InglealdeJ
No blushing daughter of the morn -.
Can vie with her of woman born;
No face at windows of the 8pring
Is like a virgin blossoming.
Betwixt the blue lids of the sky "
" Na orb there mates a maiden's eye ; c v
. Not mighty Mar' unfailinsc lance n
. Can match the mischief of its glance.
, Nature, how weak art thou to harm
As does a dear unsleeved arml
Thy rocks would trickle into sand
With tingles from a dimpled hand. .
What swaying shapes of sun or shads
, Approach the motions of a maid?
'What snowy curve by winter traced -Caa
take the taper of her watstf
And that soft darkness of her hair,
Thy twilight shades ah, tboir despair!
Not all the striving stars beguile
As may one memory of her smiln-
That foolish lips should speak so wise.
Make merriment from earth to skies;
Nay, Nature, drop a dewy tear
For solemn knowledge bought so dear.
RELIGIOUS OPINION.
The Examiner says: "A very intelligent
friend of ours says that Mr. Joseph Cook has
now given in bis adhesion to the general plan
an which "God is conducting the affairs of the
universe"
The British house of lords passed a resolu
tion Jafit week to the effect that "the time
has come when in the interests of religion and
education all national collections should be
open to the public on Sundays as on other
days."
The Boston Herald says: "A very sensible
and practical contest for a prize was that
lately held ir Philadelphia between theologi
cal students of the Protestant Episcopal theo
logical seminaries. It was for the best read
ing of selected passages of the praye" book,
the Scripture3 and the hymnaL A prize of
$300 was offered by a gentleman of Philadel
phia. The committee of Judges consisted of
the bishop of Pennsylvania, the vice-chancellor
of the University of the South, the donor
of the prize and nine o there. The winner
was Edmund S. Rausraanier, of the Cam
bridge Divinity school. Considering the
dreadful manner in which much of the read
ing in church is performed, it is a wonder
that more attention is not given to training
for it In the Episcopal church, especially,
the accomplishment of reading well is even
more valuable than the art of speaking well
And for scholars in the public schools who
may never have professional use for skill in
reading aloud, batter instruction aad more
practice than they now get would bo of the
highest value."
The Independentsays: ""Whether the Bible
is of divine authority, and hence binding
upon the faith and conscience of men, is a
question of fact, to be answered affirmatively
or negatively in the light of the evidence.
All must admit the possibility of its divine
authority. Every candid person will also
concede that there is at least some presump
tion in favor of the divine authority of the
Bible. What, then, is the rule of prudence
and sound discretion in the light of this pre
sumption? Our answer . to this question is
that such a presumption is, for all purposes
relating to our practice, as good as the most
absolute demonstration. The Bible being a
revelation from God, we are then in this
world probationers for immortality, hero
forming a character that will determine
whether we shall spend that immortality in
heaven or in hell"
The Living Church gays:
'An Isolated
Church womanr protests against the rubris
propos-3d in the Book Annexed which forbid
the a'iniinistration of the Lord's Supper, 'ex
cept three (or two at least) communicate
wivh the priest.' This, taken in con
nection with the rubric, which directs
tuftt none shall be admitted to tfca
Holy Communioa "except those who are
lorifirmod or those who are ready and desir
ous to lie confirmed , would debar all who are
situated as she is froni receiving" this holy
sacrament, even at the hour of death. She
may not bo aware that the hindrance already
exists, a rubric in the office of the Com
munion of the Sick requiring that 'two at
L-ast' shall receive with the priest. Wherein
is the 'flexibility' of the proposed rubric? Or
has the 'Isolated Churchwoman' no rights on
her death bed which rubrics are bound to
respect?"
"We ought not to wrong these men, even II
we ara suffering from their presence all the
evils that anti-Chiuoss agitators so glowingly
depict. -The world never yet, in theor5' at
least, was willing to sanction the docfoin
that we are only to do right when it pays.
Obligation does not cease when loss or suffer
ing begins. On the contrary, we are assured
in the Bible that it is better to suffer evil
than to commit a wrong. History
teaches conclusively that nations are
inevitably punished for their misdeeds.
Let us lay up no heritage of woe for ourselves
or our children by any high-handed mjustfca
to these strangers in our midst. To the law
and to the testimony I say, and not to the
passions and the prejudices of the hour."
Hev. Wilktt on the Chinesa
Whore the Crowd i Oo.
Chicago Herald.
People wonder at the crowds which Bar
aura draws, forgetting that through all
time the showman ha3been.kinz.laorg9
III suspend"! a coancil of his ministers to
rush to an open -window aad stara at Lu
nardi's balloon, aud Jenny Lind freely for
gave the littlo boy for whom his fond
father had bought a tick st for one Of her
concerts, and who went i . stead to see the
fat hog in a side show. "Wai it," asked
with the liveliest interest the illustrious ar
tiste, "a very fat hog?" The hippopotamus,
when he first cams to London, was certainly
the most popular personage in the metropo
lis, and Sir E lwin Landseer hastened to tbe
Zoological gardens to make for royalty a
pen-and-ink sketch of tho interesting
stranger. Then came the reign of King
Jumbo, just dead. . ' .. a
TIcksbur'a Timid Newsboy.
The Vicksburg newsboy, it is said, moves
along the street with a timid air, and
almost whispere his requst that you should
invest in the morning . paper. He step ofl
slowly as though he has plenty of time in
which to cover his territory. .
Water-Proof Boots and Khosa.
A writer In Hygiene Practique states that
boots an 1 shoe may be rendered water
proof by soaking th?m for soma - boars is
thick soap water. The compound forms
fatty acid within the leather and makes it
impervious to water.
The common thistle plant is found to eon-
tain an averagu of ttt,00O seodt and the bur
dock 88,000.
Mobbd r tho' Boys.
Chicago Tines.
, Ex-Senator Sharon, of California, who r.
Cnt!y entertaind th Engli.h 8lr Thomas
and Lvly Heskth, bis daughter, rceiv4
.from hii lordship a buadle containing sata
Pi servant bvry, He seat : them to hi
residence at JUenlo park, and when oh of
the servants vestured out in the coksr and
ftocklora of Europe he was mobbed iagrafri
atjJe Ljr tfe of to naigaborhoei. :
8TYLE3 IN ARTIFICIAL: LIM S3.
Thm Old Styles Are Awkward and. Cheap.
But the New Ones Are Wonders.
New York Sun.' " "
Two signs in the show window of a dealer
in surgical appliances read as follows : "Old
Style Log" and "New Style. Leg." They,
show that there is a fashion in artificial
legs. The old-style leg consisted of a short
wooden stump and socket, which was to bo
fastened to the remaining portion of the
missing member by a stout broad strap. It
was of the same style usually exhibited in'
picture books and on the comic opera stage,
The new-style leg was a fleib -colored o py
of a human leg and foot, light and ap
parently as comfortable as a cripple would
require. '
"The-old style leg," said the proprietor, -is
a clumsy affair, and is chiefly worn by those
who are not proud-of their personal appear
ance and by poor men .who are unable to
pay, tha price demanded Xor . finer t work.
We still have large orders for them, - and
always expect to have. They cost from $5
to $23, ' according to workmanship. The
aew style cf leg costs from $75 to $2J(J. The
former price is for a leg from the knee
downward, whila the latter takes in a whole
leg, from the hip joint to the big toe. Taese
legs are very light. They are. hollow, and
are made of a great 'many layers of wood,
as thin as wall paper, cemented together.
They are almost as tough as iron. They are
comfortable to the stump, and the springs
in them give their owner an almost natural
gait. There is a spring joint at the toes, one
at the ankle, which enable the foot to band
up and down, and also a lateral joint at the
tame place, that allows the foot to turn
from side to side.
"It is in arnu, howsver, that this business
has made the most rapid advancement,"
continued the dealer. "The man who in
vented the artificial arm and hand was a
practical philanthropist. When I was a
boy a man who lost his arm was obliged to
wear a wooden stump with a screw socket
at the end. Into this be could screw a
knife, spoon, or fork to help him while eat-
ine. and a hook for use at other times. Now
we can give him a wrist, hand, and fingers.
which work with springs, and almost com
pletely take the place of the missing mem'
bers. He can put a knife, spoov. and fork
between his fingers, which will hold them
with the grip of steel, and thus ha may eat-
without discomfort. Ha can also put a pen
between his fingers, and write almost as
well as h9 could with his natural hand. Ten
years ago this would have been regarded a
a miracle. This style of arm sells for $100,
lbey make artilicial portions or a man's
body now almost as serviceable as the real
ones."
Bishop Coxe on Cremation.
Bishop Coxe, of Buffalo, writing in The
Forum on cremation, says: "But under the
name of progress we must revert to barbar
ism. The appetite which the age exhibits for
such retrograde manners and devices ought
to shock us, merely as men. of feeling and
taste. But it is the symptom of - something
muen worse than coarse and mure fined sent
went. The natures which so readily adopt
this Plutonism, even with a sort of greedi-
nesa aruifiCQrnthe graves of jheut&thers
and mothers without any sense of their
sanctity, would thrust a gentle wife or
charming child remorselessly into thev oven
te shrivel and crackle and roast, within reaca
of eye and ear. Such characters are already
less sensitive than Pagans; they less appreci
ate Virgil's line:
'Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia
tangunt;' ' -
and they are breeding a ferocity of manners
and of thought among us which, in another
generation, will be ready to erect tho guillo
tine or to re-enact the lragonnades. Philos
ophers might prompt them to the one or fa
natics to the other. A people perversely fond
of change and experiment may be destined to
punish themselves, as nations have done be
fore, by their own devices."
The Christian Advocate, of Nashville,
thinks that "if ever it comes to be thought
thai a chief function of the church is to fur
nish entertainment for the people, young or
old, it will not be long ef ore its function act
soul saving agency will e gone."
The Pet Yonur Man.
Cincinnati Enquirer. -The
young man who was raised a pat fo
becoming a nuisance. He Is seldom of anj"
g(5od. What is wanted nowadays is a practi cal
man who can do something slio beside)
smoke cigarettes and twist a cane." The
time to learn to work and to learn business
habits is in one's youth. Ha who leads the
life of a butterfly until he is 25 or 30 years oi'
age and then recogrizesthe fact that he hast
made an ass of himself, has precious little to
recommend him when he applies for a job.
This may be a chestnut, but it fits not a lew
young men of every city in the Union. The
boy3 at the reform farm ara better off if
they only kna w it, than thousan Is of the
. boys who are at large. There is nothing like
being practical, and there is but one way to
be so, and that is to be so. Acquire business
habits and train yourself to good, hone3t
hard work. D n't waste yoarjima learning
tp te a cravat You can bay cravats already
tied.
An Jtdea In Stair. ' ' -
' Mechanical News.T' ' "
Set It down that winding stairs are an
ex.jeusiva. inconvenient, dangerous and. in
artistic arrangement. Straight flght3 "are
equally ' dangerous and .more inartistic.
Flights with right angled turns at landing
ways give a fine effect, and do not trip one
up, and child ren.eannot fall far when -they
start from the -top. - Wherj there . .are
very little children or very old people,
"halved steps" are good things; that is,
the staircase is compo-ed of two separate
stairways, each half the width, each having
fall height of ri3er, but tha treads arranged
so as to alternate or.break joints. A child
or very old person, instead , of having to
t ke seven-inch steps, can walk up the ceu
ter of tho flight with the right foot on the
right band set and take only three-inch
steps; or two persons can past each other,
each taking the regulation stepa. r.rhis is
not theoretical, but it is a'good thing which
is in actual use in some old English houses.
- i - ' ... y , . .yr.; '
A Fh Domenal Brother ; A; J .vC? "
Chicago Tribune. -
I suppose it is something of ; phenome
non, but I know a man here who takes hit
sifter to all the - first night at the theatre,
and who actually gave her a monopoly ol
the opera season. I was praising him and
saying all sorts of things complimentary
over hii dutiful conduct. -Ha said.
"No. There's nothing wonderful or extra
ordinary about it She is the -only woman
I know in whom I cave the. most thorough
confidence. She is always --t he same,' al
ways pleasant and aff.ntionate,. and -to tall
you the candid truth, I am afraid she'll gd
and marry same of thosa : imitation raja
around here and be unhappy all her Ufa
She has nob ly elsa to look to, and .I'll take
care she d ias not have to ; Io ik'tu aaybody
slss. ; I suppr se some day a .genuine man
will come along. . If ha'j a genuine man I
won't object Until he doe's come, oil boy,
-she's gojj enougu-ior me, and if I ever nod
good a riUsw $n z -,
MASTODONS CAUGHT
WITH A GRAPPLE, ON THS BOTTOMS
OF SOUTHERN RIVERS,
For . Fertilization, ""Sot Sclenoe Blj
. Chunks Fished Up and Ground Into . "
'' Bits An Insight Into the ;
Phosphate Business. , :
-
r ' INew York-Sun T " :
"It's hot,? said a cheerful gentleman in a
down-town office, "but it isn't as bad as it
was to' South Carolina last Sunday. I was
down there three day last week for masto
dons in the bottom of the Ashley river.
What do you "think of thattiHckingup a
gigantic molar that .weighed about eight
pounds, and was grayish blafe In color and
half tetrifiad.. . ..f -j; -" - - -
"How ; would you like to own a tooth like
that and have it -ache? If they did ache
when they belonged to the mastodons, there
must have been a fine bowling down
there .In the swamps, lor I've seen
whole bushels of jnst such teeth
taken out of the rivers, and there are tons
of them there still- And it isn't mastodons
alone that you find, but chunks of titauoth
eriums, dinocerases, teliostw, z?uglodons,
hipparions, megalomeryxes whenever you
get enough, say when chseropotamnsids,
poebrotheriums "
"When?"
"Why, in the tertiary period. And i yon
dig a little deeper, I think you would find
pterodactyl, megalosaurs, glyptodons "
"When! When!
"On!"
"Are many persons engaged in those
mines?"
"I should say so. There are four or five
big companies, and eyer so many little
nes."
"All digging up mastodons!"
"Yes, sir; not for the sake o the masto
dons but for the phospbata that the masto
dons are mixed up in. Bless you, they don't
stop to pick out mastodons and piece them
together. They throw the whole product
into crushers and smash it up, and when it
is ground it sells for from $6 to $15 a ton for
fertilization. Many a farmer 'is spreading
desiccated mastodons and archssopteryxes
aromnd his cornfield ana potato patch-
mastodons and archaB.ipteryxes that were
ah! sleeping the st -ny sleep of centuries.
"This phosphate business is a new tb
but it's a big one. Why, sir, there are let
mo see," and he pointed his nose at the mid
dle of the cjirin and shut his eyes until he
remembered that "there are 53J.000 tons of
those South Carolina phosphates dag up
every year. Tha supply seems to be inex
haustible. At least they can go on at the
present rate for twenty -five years more. Do
you see that photagraphl . That's the gun
that is used in catching mastodons."
Tho puotograih showed something that
looked like a wilted iron tulip dangling
from tho eud of a stem of rods and ebain
A man stool beside the tulip toBhow that it:-
six iron petals were as lng as he, and that
before it Was full blown he could easily
have sat in ide. the bud had there been an;
.way xu-staiAina. in, -- -"- .
"That's a drop grappla. These phosphate
beds stretch alonz the coat of North and
f South
Uaroima, onl Ro.na or tntu are
found in Alabama and Florida. Tuoy cover
mile3 of low country, and ara technically
divide L into la,nd and river rock.' The
land rock' is found on shore, anl ii minxi
by colored men with picks and wheelbar
rows, as iited by dipper dredges. The 'rivei
rock' is a crust of phosphate, six to
twelve inches thick, that forms the bottom
of a number of stream V It is especial j
rich in the R'auf ort, Stono, and Ashl
rivera Sometimes there are two strata of
phosphate, with a thick layer of mud oi
clay between. Tais phosphate, you nnder
stand, is almost wholly compotedof organic
remains the bones flash and waste of no
body knows how many animals. Whethei
this was a big. feeling grouul of theirs.
whether they were mirad in swamps there,
whether well, the fact K nobody knows
; how they came there. Tha phosphate, when
u comes out oi me river, is a gray, porous.
water-worn rock, and looks like rottousand
stcna Tho smell cf it is vile, but the worse
it smells the richer it is.
"That drop grapple has pointed Wada s.
It weig'. s fourteen toils; anl when it is
dropped on the river bottom it knocks
hole in tha layer of phosphate. Then a 150-
horse power engine puckers it up so that it
takes a globular sbaps, the tlades folding up
together and holding the phosphata that it
has loosened, it i3 raised, swung over a
boat, and emptied into tho boat There the
phosphate is washed, to take out the sand,
and it is sometiznas leaded aboard ship,
chiefly for export to England, but it is more
commonly turned into a crusher that take:
a rock as larga as your body and bites it
up into pieces not much bigger
than your fist If is washed again
and dried, and then ft i ready
for shipping. It is sold chiefly as a fartiliz r,
but it is also sold to chemists, who extract
phosphoi'ic acid from . it fcrdye vtnfifs and
things like that The phosphate miners pay
to the .state of South Carolina a royalty of
$1 a ton net for every ton dug, hut for
every one shipped but they are n".t getting
poor for all that; and as to -South Carolina,
there's a nice little plum $ jUO.OOj a year-
falling, into her month without raiaia s
"tm-gnr-tcrpictlfe , The only machinery that
will pull that stuff out of: the watr is made
in this country. One company "spent $95.-
000 for a Clyde-made dredge, but wnea
was down - there a crew -Of Scotch swiloiv
were packing it into the hoW of an Eaglist
steamer to take back. Amarican machinery
does tny boy, every taroe." ,
". THE PARTING; iH rV,;
- -.
lErlo a Bobertson.l
Hare have I laid me by my Love tbst'j
- dead: - ' - - -
' An hour ago she shuddered, "Sweet be
brave 1" - -
Then sighed and died in the last kiss she
gave;
And all the music of the life we led
Sinks like the anthem sinking overhead
- Upon the car ven sleepers on a grave,-
- Cleaving in stone tozathsr as they clave
In the life endad where they once -were wed.
. "Be brave?" .What then's the bravest way
todi - ' , V - : ,. ..
Nay, 'twei tha noblest dyin for her sake
To spend my heart-blood slowly, . through
longyeaw, . . -And
wile my in-atiate mier-soul doth make
Its. dark, dear heard of her sweat memory,
Smil for the world, and serve it keep my
roars.
" : Kesurreeted '49-ers.
- " .Chicago Thne3.J "
... TThiB soma workmen were rdrsdging at
the foot of a wharf in. Sau Francisco the
ether day they " brought up from under
twelve feat of mud a number o ; glass jare
"with lead coveTk -whioh whea. opaned were
found to contain eg?v - As;: it was In this
m inner, thit eatrn , egs 'ware shipped
try California- in '49 and. .'53, ' there is no
doubt of -, thee specimens having- formed
car b of one of the old-time shipments. r- Th
-yolk and white has pbriveled up into a small
bud ball, waicu rattles about in the shell
in a manner not suggestive y epicuroaa at-
THE STAMP CLERK:
GOVERNMENT EMPLOYE r TO
PITIED, NOT ENVIED. .
He Must Be a Mathematician.' Athleta
Aeoouatant, .Encyclopedia and Mittd
. Header And Needs Patience and -
an Iron Conatltation. 1
Chicago Tribune.
Tke employment of the clarks in the ra.
tail stamp department of the jfo-stomc,''
said one of them he other day,- "is generally,
regarded as exceedingly easy, indolent and
mechanical, bat it is exa ctly the reverse. 1
In my opinion it U the toughast and" most
Intellectual 300 under the-roof of the 'trov
ernment budding. The. bare fact that they
.wait on so many custoxari shows it .The
work of one clerk; In the money-order de
partment is regarded by some as the harde-tt
place, because he ha3 to conduct 1,009
money transactions a day. B ut the retail
stamp cieik deals in dollars, cents and
mills, has to do all bis ciphering in hi3 head,
like the lightning calculator' on the street,
and has from to 4,000 of them a day.
That number may Feem large to you, but
we often wait on as many as a dozan people
a minute, and will average from saven to
ten a minute during the seven or eight
hours that we are on duty."
MISTAKES MADE.
"What are the chances for making mis
takes!"
"iney are unrivaled. We have seven
kinds of stamps two kinds of postal cards,
and about twenty kinds of envelopes and
wrappers to sell. These are dispose i around
the clerk, not all of them within reach, and
when he begins to serve customers he look-i
like a champion bell-ringer playing 'Fisher's
Hornpipey with variations. The valua of
each envelope and wrapper is so many
cflnts and decimal fraction, and when
ever he eils nve or seven or. them
he must estimate the price within a
hundredth of a cent; and if the amount
is so many cents and a fraction he
must charge the next higher number of
cents. This is extremely interesting. S iuw
of the envelopes are 2.24 cents apia.ee; and,
if a cnstoiBer wants tan of them, it is com
paratively easy to tell what to charge hiai,
but when be asks for 20 cants worth of
them the clerk feals lika resigning hi3 posi.
Hon. Of course, when very busy, he ie
liable to make a mistake about It
"Then the sale of stamps is very danjsr
oui Some people want ten stamps and
others 10 cents; worth of stamps, and the
clerk constantly confuses these two trans
actions, and gives ten 2-cent stamps for 10
cents, or fifty for 60 cents. Under favor
able circuni3tance3 these calculations would
not mislead him, but he has to make them
with twenty people at his window watching
him and waiting impatiently for their turn,
and ho-has to make them after having made
2,000 other' calculations and when his facul
ties are completely jaded. Sometimes whan
I have gone through this hrirly-burly for
four hour-J on a stretch, suddenly jjll my
senses leave me, and I couldn't take a nickol
out of a dime to Fave my life. I . Just have
to hold my head .with, my hands for a
minute until reason returns, and then pitch
in again."
CARELESS CUSTOMERS.-
Do the customers always state their
wishes clearly i"
"O, my no. A man will slap down 2
cents, and then give the clerk a contemptu
ous glance,' as much to say, 'Can't you un
derstand, you dolt, that I want two 1-cent
stamper But the clerk does not know
whether he wants that or a 2-cent stamp, cr
a postal-card, or two postal-carls, or a
newspaper wrapper. Another man will
elan down a nickel, and crv rsnt 'fiTa.'. H.-
may mean a 5-cent stamp, or five l-oent-H510?'
stamps, or five postal-cards, and it take?
a parley to find out Sometimes i
will take a foreigner a whole mi a ate to ex
plain what he wants for his quarter. ' You
would hardly believe it, but very frequently
a well-dressed person, generally a woman,
will "come to the window and say com
posedly, 'Give me foma stamps, plaasa,' and
then leaning on her elbow gaza out into the
streets dreamily until the clerk asks har
what sort of stamm and how manv sue
ftfant A large number of customers asi
for 'letter-stamps,' as if that was putting o
very fine point on it"
"Are these all your duties?"
"No, these are only a small part of thera
The retail stamp clerk is a weighmatar. H&
weighs hundreds of letters and parcels &
day, the weight of which must be detarminjd
within half .an . ounce. Then, the contents
being learned, he must estimate tha postage
according to the nature of the contents and
according to the destination and maka up
the amount in stamps. This h very trying
to the patience and, 1 may add, to tha eyes.
So, likewise, is the counting of postal-cards,
which stick together so tightly that mis
takes are veryeasy. WhUe the clerk is
tending to all these duties he .is acting as a
general intelligence office. People ply him
with questions concerning the other depart
ments of the postGfSce, coaearnia the ar
rival and departure of mail -trains and mail
steamers, and even concerning tha location
of the streets and ths express ofiloos.
- - '. HARDEST OF ALL.
"Theliardest work is yet to be spoken of,
and begins when the clerk shuts his window,
and . when the public supposes that he is en
joying , a , season ot well-earned - repose.
Either then or at some time before he opens,
his -window the next day,' he has to eount
his cash and take a full inventory of all his
stock, estimating the value of every stamp,
card; envelope and wrapper in his posses
sion in dollars, cents and mills, and aiding
it all together , make it come out $610 or
$900 according fo the amount of stock he -is
carrying.: This he never can do. Though
he makes 10 or 15 onts a day
by odd mills charged on envelopes, h
always loses 'enough in maciug change to
make his account somewhat, sh .tL and ,he
has to go dovfn into his .pocket for the short
age. The best of clerks wdl have an average
loss of $1 a week, - and inexperienced- clerk
have been known to lose from $30 to, $40 a
month. Very often some' "mistake in 'his
figuring, especially when done after a day
of exhaustinworfc. will bring out aa ap
parent shortage of $15 r ?20. and then the
work of taking stock has all to be clone ove
again; to fiud out where the mijtaka is."
.: 5 "But then the salary must be -good :C
"There is rijht where yon are lame. The
pay of the different clerks employed in the
retail stamp departmaut is diif jrsnt in each
case, and ranges from , 18 - to $21 a week,
too 1 o-se3 reducing- tt at least il a week.
Hqw any young man -with life bafore hisa
can think of seexing such emp'.oymaat I can
not understand." " -. - ' '
. .. --. i i -. . i i . i T . ii - .... n
- ..Touched w'-th Wty. -
London Truth. .
Flocks of Americans are to be met every
where, and the hurried mannar' in whics
they rush through JBSurcpe strikes one wlfci
wonder and pity.- " r -
1 '. , EauOy Explained. " '
- (Pittsbur? Chronicla.
"Mr. Notes and. Comments," writes Kva, J
whv ia dvine called 'kickmg ih; bucketf 1
Don't know, 4arjinkss'daLA is tho pail J
THE MUSCOVITE.
A TRAVELER'S CLOSE 6TUDIE3
or a
VERY PECULIAR PEOPLE.
eapergtltlon and Subserviency Em.i
"pation of the Serfs A Copious and
i Grotesque Mythology Dishonesty
. of the People Cleanliness.
. XReview.of Hare's "Studies In Ru3sla."J .
. In extraordinary contrast to the stories so
generally told of the dangers from which the
CEar shrinks, and which wa- kuowto have-.
basis of fact is Mr. Hare's assertion of the
stupefaction with whioh the people as a
whole consider his person.' - "It ; is certain
that no position of temptation can-possibly
be more terrible than that of the czar, who
nourished in sejtMolatry.conslantly h'ea
his lnfalKbility reclaimed; by 82f,000,003 of
ais suDjects. And it is extraordinary, that
m spite or such temptation, all the sover
eigns since the time of Peter the Great and
the empire have lived in various degrees ac
cording to thj light for the goooiof tkair
pegple.- They, have not, howeverT always
continued the liberal policy of Peter, and
under several 01 the sovereigns wno suc
ceeded Catherine II genius was always con
sidered a sure passport for Siberia. It
did not create : surprise when - one
day at the council of censure a high
official declared that every writer is a bear
who ought to be kept in chains' . Under the
Emperor Nicholas none, even of the books
published under his predecesrors, could be
brought out again- unless submitted to
changes, so vigilant was the censorship of
the press. ;. ,.
Men of letters were somewhat freer under
Alexander IL The conservative Russia
the government which administered the
country without the participation of the
peoples-seemed to be passing away. The in
fluence given by freedom to literature was
speedily felt and one of its direct conse
quences was the emancipation of the serf a
But it was dua still more to the impulses of
tne emperor himself, ana it was not appar
ently due at all to the serfs.
They scarcely hailed it with enthusi
asm. When they found that, although
they had free land, they had also
to pay government taxes, they were not dis
posed to look upon emancipation as an un
mixed boon. Mr. Hare affirms that a con;
siderable proportion of the serfs still regret
their freedom. In serfage they ware pro
vided for in old age, thair doctor's bills were
paid when sick, they had an hereditary in
terest in their proprietor and bis belongings
and he in, them and if their lord was too
cruel they had a remedy. They assassinated
him. There is something very grand in
the name of liberty,", said the philanthro
pist "But can it feed one?" asked the serf.
The supersTitions of the people are largely
paganish. The mythology is copious and
grotesque, and the homage paid old heathen
kh deities is transferred, it is said, to the
saints of the Russian church. So absurd is
the belief in the supernatural' that, for ex
ample, in one part of the country it is for
biddenHo break up the smoldering ruins of
fagots with a poker; whoso -commits "such
an act runs the risk of causing bis nearest
deceased relations to fall into hell. Their
image worship- has- undergone no change
during c?nturie3. Every, house has its
shrines ad its statues, and whenever the
Russian enters a new dweling for the first
time he salutes first the statues-, then the '
company. . . ' . " '
The spirit of obedience to all in authority
appears to be carried to excess. On one oc
casion, when a boat was upset en the Neva,
the order was given to rescue especially the
officers of the guards. "Are -you officers of
the guard cried out the rescuing party to
individuals etrugeling in the river. Their
were
too full of ' water to answer,
and the poor fellows went down. On another
occasion a detachment was sent to water
the parade ground. A heavy shower sud
denly fell, "but the watering proceeded ; "it
was so ordered." , " "
Whether the fright:nl punishments in
flicted on disobedience have aught to do
with this blind docility llr. Hare does not
pretend to ascertain. But he is certain that
these punishments are not so appalling to
the Russian who suffers them as they ap
pear, to us, from whose discipline barbarity
is so rapidly disappearing. Flogging, which
is still used in Russia and which used to be
Inflicted for religious as well as civil
offences, is said to be esteemed "only a little
stronger than good brandy and pepper."
The Tartar punishment for. debt seem?
somewhat worse than even northern Siberia
.can be. The unfortunate debtor is beaten
in public daily by the public executioner
upon the shin bone for an hour at the time.
Why that particular bone was selected ij
not explained. - Perhaps the locality of the
torture was meant to stimulate the sufferer
to greater zeal in finding the wherewith Jx
cancel his obligation. But the frequent ap-
derny effort impossible, and it is pleasing
for once to learn that a Russian official can
be bribed. The shin bone can escape . some
thing of. the agony if the debtor pay the exe
cutioner for deftly insartinj an" iron plate
where it will receive tho wor.t of the blow.
6o nniversal is the dishonesty of the peo
ple, according to the conviction of Mr, Hare
and numerous others whom he quotes, that
it is said popularly of the peasants by them
selvas: "The peasant may be t-tupid but he
wouldjmake only one-mouthful f God him
self." Their superstitiousness is called on to
detect crime, although it does not appar
ently 1 repress stealings When a house is
robbs-I the mistress summons the suspected
persons and a witch. The witch, or Babushka,
takes a piece of bread and kneads it in ta
as many little balls as there are persons
present, then she places a vessel.of water in
front f, her and ; makes all present stand
around in a semi-circle. . Taking one of tha
balls she looks fixedly at the first person and
says: "Ivan Ivanovitch," if -you are guilty
your soul, will fall into hell as this ball falls
to the bottoni" Ivan Ivanovitch, if guilty
knows that the Tiall will fall to the bottom;
and rather than risk the implied conse
quences he generally owns irp. ; ;--5 1 - .
It is likely that the flood was the last gen
eral bath in Russia. 2 Personal cleanliness is
all but unknown... The food -of the peasants
comprises many things rejected as unclean
or offensive to the resttof the 'world and
their sanitary' cOndiMon 13, one of - hopeless
ness, whose effects in any climate hnt their
own would be appallmg.' ;:The .-temper-of
te' people is very sad.:- They . sing melan.
choly songs, drink much, talk little, and feel
small concern about life. .' -t.
"' r -; Old AS9 in Florida. . .. .
- " " . " IChicafi Herald.
v For a single county, in Florida (Jefferson
oounty) the census ? enumerator reportsi
Leah Rouse, 100 years; Nellie - Ell pa trick,
JCQ years; Prince Washmgton, ,100 ., years;
ireit AlsftOn. J04 years: . Prince Ash, 101
years; Joe HilL
109 years; ' Silva, Zeigler.
ye ara
' At tho Tomb of Dickens.
"-- - . Chicago Tribnna.
Joaquin Miller tells - how he and - 2re
Harte stood at the tomb- of Dickens,- His
left hand, sought : mine :in ' silenee," mj
MillerV in describing the ' momentous "occav
sioo; "his eye3 fiiled with - tears, We -had
never been friends before." . - r 1 -
Trie First Sigri ,
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