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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-08

NINE. MoDIEsKA. the admirable Polish ac-
tress, over whom New York is Just now crazy,
is about 80 years old, having been on the
stage in her own country as far back as 1860.
and having a son fully 90 years old. Her debut
on the American shore is quite romance.
After seven or eight years Of uninterrupted
success i'll Warsaw she had to break her con-
tract Over-eNcrtiOn and family troubles
were followed by i'll health, and the lady and
her husband made up their minds to emigrate
to America They realized all the means in
their possession, and with their son reached
Philadelphia, at the time of the Centennial
Exhibition. They Travelled in princely style,
and this cost them all the more money, as
none of the party knew a word Of English.
1t was toward California that their eyes were
directed A large farm was purchased near
Los Angeles, and the little Polish colony set
tied there in the hope of building up new
home. In less than six months, however, it
turned out that the experiment must be fail
ure. They were defraudod in the purchase
and cheated and robbed on all sides. The
first thought of Nine. Modjeska was to return
home, but news reached her that a suit for
100. 600 roubles damages for the breach of her
contract awaited her in Warsaw. Under such
circumstances the only thing left TO her was
TO attempt a debut on the American stage.
She did not lose time. Putting herself inn
mediately under the direction of Mrs. Judah
of the California Theatre. she began to study
English, and in less than six months made her
debut in Adrienne. with the success now
known to everybody. The most striking pc
culiarities of these two creations is that Mime.
Modjeska has never seen anybody else per
form these parts. and that Camille was new
| even to herself.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-08

The PORTE, an expression so often met
with in dispatches relative to the Eastern war.
is an expression adopted by Western nations
to denote the administrative government of
the Ottoman Empire that is to say, the Sui
tan, the Grand Vizier and the great Council
of State, called the Divan. In the famous in
stitutes established by MNhomed H., the war
rior Sultan who took Constantinople, the
Turkish body polite was described by met
aphor, natural and significant to nomadic SOL
diers. as a stately tent whose dome rested up
on four pillars. The ViZiers formed the first
pillar the Judges, the second the Treasur-
ers, the third, and the Secretaries, the fourth.
In this fgurative representation the chief seat
of government was named The Lofty Gate
OF the Royal Tent" an expressive title to the
Ottoman, whose rulers, in their simpler days,
sat at the tent-door to administer justice and
give audience to suitors. The Italians trans
lated the native name of the Tuskish govern
ment into La Porta Sublma." This phrase
was modified by other nations TO suit the
form of their respective languages. In Eng
land it found acceptance as The Sublime
Porte" Modern terseness has dropped the
majestic adjective from general use, and left
the term in its present pithy form, The
Porte.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-08

A ROYAL LOVE MATcH-The wedding of
King Alfonso of Spain and his cousin, the
Princess Mercedes at Madrid on Wednesday
of last week, was the most notable European
nuptial event since the marriage of the En-
peror Francis Joseph of Austria in 1854.
Through a succession of political changes,
French Orleanist princess, granddaughter of
Louis Philippe, sits on the throne of SPAIN
and a series of intrigues revolutions and trag
edies is closed by the happy union of two hos
tile families. But the chief interest centres
in the delightful romance which makes the
story of the royal courtship as charming an
idyl as the annals of humber life often pre-
sent. State reasons apparently had nothing
to do with the alliance, for Alfonso took the
matter ont of the hands of interested politi-
clans, and despite their opposition, and that
Of his mother. the ex-Queen Isabella. who
cordially hates the Montpensier family, gave
his hand to the princess, to whom, though
she possessed no provinces or power, he had
long ago given his heart. The marriage cere
mony was performed in the church of Atocha,
which. though not of unusual architectural
pretensions. is one of the most interesting
spots in Spain from a historical point of view
All the queens of Spain who have been mar
ried there have contributed to it their bridal
| dresses, and its altar and chapels are laden
with gold and silver vessels of priceless value.
The wedding pageant was one of the most
gorgeous which Europe has seen in the CEN
tury. The king was preceded and followed
on his way to the church by squads of the
royal guards. and was accompanied by the
members of the ministry and his chief mill
tary officers at the door of the church he
was met by the princess attended by scarce
| ly less brilliant retinue. The bride was at
| tired in white satin dress, sown with pearls.
! Her train was over IS feet long, of white vel
vet, starred with silver and fringed with heavy
silver bullion. Over her entire person flowed
a superb lace veil, which was caught here
and there with brooches of diamonds of
matchless briliancy the gift of the duchess
of Galliera. The bridegroom wore the uni
form of a captain-general of the Spanish ar
my, with the collar of the Golden Fleece.
| The procession back to the palace was an
ovation from thousands of citizens of Madrid
and visitors from abroad who crowded all the
available space for observation. The process
sional effects of the day were closed with a
splendid torchlight parade of GOO musicians,
400 singers and 2OO0 soldiers. The festivi-
ties which, continued five days after the cere-
mony, We're lavish almost without precedent.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-08

GENUINE REFINEMENT Refinement is not
fastidousness 1t is not luxury. 1t is moth
ing of this kind. 1t is far removed from ex-
cess or waste. A person truly refined will not
squander or needlessly consume anything,
Refinement, on the contrary, is always allied
to simplicity and judicious and tasteful EN-
ployment of the means of good and happiness
which it has at command. 1t seeks to divest
itself of superhuities and aspires continually
to the utmost possible purity. Refinement
leads to personal cleanliness and elegant neat
ness, good taste and simplicity in dress.
'Loudness" or fiashiness is repugnant to its
spirit In its home and surroundings-wh
er palRtial, affluent or humble-the same
chasteness and natural grace are maintained.
The abode of genuine refinement and mere
pretender to it are very different.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-08

We should nll the hours with the sweetest things,
II we had but a day;
We should drink alone at the purest springs
In our upward way;
We should love with lifetime's love In an hour
II the hours were few:
We should rest not for Dreams but for fresher pow,
To be and 10 do.
We should guide our wayvard or weary wills
by the ciearest light;
We should keep our eyes on the heavenly bills
II they lay in sight;
We shuuld trample the pride and the discomfort
Beneath our feet;
We should take whatever good God scnt
with trust complete.
We should waste no moments In weak regret
II the day were but one,
II what we remember and what we forget
Went out with the sun;
Wa should be from our cAmorous selves set free
To work or to pray,
And to be what the Father would have us be,
five had but a day.
NdrV Lore Di-ksH-eH.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-08

old woman with a cane who passed them at
the portals, took cab, hurried to the railway
station and joined her son in n seclusion which
has not been discovered by the Dominicans or
the Valdromes the lynx-eyed police did not
recognize the sprightly young person whom
it was their duty to shadow
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-08

HAED TIMES are not confined to this conti-
nent. In England there is destitution and
misery greater than was ever before known.
In South Wales there is famine. but this is
trifling compared to what is reported from
London where the families of sober skiful
workmen are in "A terrible condition. At
Woolwich. where are the great arsenal and
dockyards, 1000 or 5000 people are in great
distress Where the cable factories and the
shipyards recently gave employment to large
numbers of men, who supported their famil-
les in comfort, the depression of trade has
caused absolute stagnation. Mos. of the fac
tories have been closed. Families have been
compelled to sell their furniture bit by bit to
give up their four rooms and content them
selves with one. The consequence has been
the crowding of the lower parts of the city,
and increased ravAges of diphtheria. measles
and bronchitis which break out in the ILL
drained and ill-yentilated tenements The
calamity in South Wales is more extensive
and apparently irremediable The iron in
dustry, and consequently the coal trade. there,
is utterly PROSTATE. Galleries are closed /;
some of them because the proprietors cannot
afford the cost of pumping out the water.
More and more iron and coal workers are
thrown ont of employment. And of course
the suffering is not confined to the worklnen
and their innocent wives and children the
lack of wages reduces the local trade, and the
whole community is at once involved.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-08

Death slackens with the dull times, and
even the undertakers and physicians suffer.
This is demonstrable by statistics, and the
reason assigned is that the enforced modera-
ton and decrease of excitement brought about
by hard times promote longevity. This rea-
soning seems to be sound, and the fact is a
cOnsolatory reflection. Troy Times
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-08

ley warner Al tue Melnotlal herNlce lu huhV
uel BoNlcs:
"Not Dead, but Risen"
tTrom the Arabcl
He who died at AKIN sends
This to comfort all his friends:
Faithful friendsl II lies, know,
Pale and white and cold as snow;
Aud ye say, "6bdallahs deadl'
Weeping at the feet and head.
can see your falling tears,
can hear your sighs and prayers;
Yet smile and whisper this
am not the thing you kiss:
Cease your tears and let 1t lie;
1t trds mine, it is not l.
Sweet friends! what the women lave
For the last sleep Of the grave,
Is a hut which am quitting
IL . garment no more ittinR-
Isl cage from which, at last,
Like bird my soul has passed.
Love the inmate. not the room
The wearer, not the garb- the plume
Of the eagle, not the bars
That kept him from those splendid stars!
Loving friends! BE wise, and dry
Straightway every weeping eye;
What ye lift upon the bier
Is not worth a single tear.
'Tis an empty sea-shell-one
Out Of which the pearl has gone;
The shell is broken--it lies there
The pearl, the all, the soul, is here.
'Tis an earthen jar whose lid
Allah sealed, the while it hid
That treasure Of his treasury,
mind that loved him; let 1t lie!
Let the shard be earth's once more,
Since the gold is in his store!
Allah gloriousl Allah good!
Now thy world is undtrstood;
Now the long, long wonder ends!
Yet ye weep, my eriing friends,
While the man whom you call dead,
In unspoken Bliss, instead,
Lives and loves you; lost It's true,
For the light that shines for you;
But, in the light ye cannot see,
OF undisturbed felicity
In a perfect paradise,
And a life that never dies
Farewell friends! But not farewell;
Where am yS too shall dwell
am gone before your face,
A moments worth, little space.
When ye come where have slept,
We will won Ter why ye wept;
Ye will know, by true love taught,
That here is all, aud there 10 naught.
Weep awhile, II ye are fliu-
Sunshine still must follow rain;
Only not at death-for death,
Now we know, is that first breath
Which our souls draw when we enter
Life which is Of all life centre.
Be ye certain all seems love,
Viewed from Allah's throne above!
lie ye stout Of heart, and come
BrAvely onward to your home!
La-il Allahl Allah la
love divine! o love alway!
He who died at Aim gave
This to those who made his grave.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-08

number of elegant writers send MS word
about things that have been donated" to the
charities they represent If these good peo-
pie expect to be ''salvated," or to escape be-
ing ''condemnated" they should stop say
inc ''donated." when Il is quite as eas
to say the things were "given," or 'preseIn-
ed" Ifthey should say that Mr.. Brown gave"
the asylum a barrel of -four there is no danger
of misunderstanding though possibly it is not
as sonorous as to say Mr.. Smith donated" a
box of soap. PhiIddelphia Ledger.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-08
Miscellany.

The following the beautiful poem read by Charlei
Dudley warner at the Memorial service in honor oi
Samuel BoNlcs:
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-02-08
BUSINESS CARDS.

MARTIN l.. BRUCE, VI. ID,
ANl PhySicfan and SHrgeOM,
BRArTLEBoHo, VT.
OAlce aud residence Main Street, nearly opposite
hinnn cnnrrn.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-10-30
WARN SPRINGS

NOT AND COLD SWIMMING BATHS
II near the Nevada State Prison, Warm Springs Road
BUTTS g. EoRcE, Propretors.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-10-30
BIDS FOR STATE PRINTING REQUIRED TO BE DONE
At tn: STATE CtPETAI.
dds Will BE RECEIVED BY THz

y IDS WILL BE RECEIVED BY THE
ID Board OF Printing Commissioners Of the State IF
Nevada up and including the 18th day Of November s,
for performing the following specified Printing, Carson
City for the years commencing January lst 1879 and
ending January LIST, 1881:
Bill Printing, Blanks, Roll Calls. Headiegs Endorse
ments and such other needful work may be authorized
by the Legislature
All Forms and Blanks required in and by the various
State offices and all suc Orders ProcamatiCns and adver
tisements may be require.
Bids Bill Printing be for Composition per thousand
ems, and Press Work per token Folding and Stitching
when required, per page.
Bids Blanks Roll Calls Headings and Endorsements
authorized by the legislature and Forms Blanks Orders
and Procamatons ordered required by the State Officers
TO be by the thousand copies
Bids for all Printing for the Legislature and State Officers
properly coming under the above designation be for
Composition plain, and for rule and figure work, per one
thousand ems, Press Work per token, and folding and
stitching, when required, per page
Bids for advertising to be by the square of 300
pare type for first insertion and for each subsequent in
for the time that such advertisement may be
dered.
For full particulars bidders referred the Statutes
of Nevada 1877, page l6l to l64.
Satisfactory bonds will he required for the faithful
formance OF the contract when awarded.
Bids be addressed the Board Of State Printing Com
missioners, Carson City, Nevada
J. D. MINOR,
W. w. HOBART,
JERRY SCHOOLING,
Board of State Printing Commissioners
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-10-30
MAGNOLIA
&3z1zzAAMD
BALM

The MAeNoLrA BALM is q sure device for creaIlhS
pure and blooming complexion.
1t conceals all natural blemishes in the most sur
prising and effective manner.
1t removes all roughness, eruptions, redness,
blotches, freckles, and tan with magical power.
1t drives away all evidences of fatigue and e1-
citement.
It makes the plainest face beautiful.
words the complexion a dazzling purity and
,,,,ch daleck, face, and arms appear graceful
no DOUBT rearon of 35 or 40 look not more thar
changes the rustic maiden into a
DEPARTUIe Ielle.
. Aha Balm removes all blentiShes and con-
stage 'i'o IUbdck to beauty: and, teiiie ii is as
Traceuter, al is so hfe-like in ats effects that
a. Trace ver cannot deiect its use.
Friend, Frvant to make themselves attractive
~, .,o,, absolute certainty of it by using
lhoihPSoh' Ia BALM, and we know Of no Other
Dufv p Echeapest preparation in the world,
D"'''' .ered, aud may he had at any drug
man.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-10-30

This splendid hing Institution and well known place
of resort has bee thoroughly overhaued newly furnished
and is in pont cleanliness and comfort surpassed by
none on the Goa THE BATHS undergoing thor
onh repar and vii receive great addition to their size
THE BAR is sup lied with the best Of liquors procurabe
MEALS bv First lass Cooks served to order at all hours
The Springs Carr runs constantly orders left at the
hotels will be promptly attended TO.
b ATHS oo tetsts
Carriage Free. nov7u
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1878-10-30

Board of State Printing Commissioners.
Carson City, Nevada, October 7th, ISIS.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-03-28
CHAPTER III.

1t was the first day of the Easter vacation ;
the half yearly examination was over, and
pupils who had graduated, or who were to
spend their holiday in their own homes, bad
either already taken their departure, or were
preparing to do SO. Mary Eustace, with her
trunks packed and standing in the hall, was
herself waiting, in travelling dress and bonnet,
for the arrival of her guardian, whom she
was expecting every moment. Adelia, who
who was not going home, lowered around
her, impressng upon her the distress this sep
aration caused her and her anxious hope
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-03-28
fro BE Continued

The VALUE OF MoNEY.-Ask of each
ringing dollar in this word its history-how
it came into life. Some of them will tell you
they represent the tears of widow, the bar
tered honor of man, the jobbery of a ring,
and the thousand of other stories which you
would be told, need not relate. Benjamin
Franklin said the road to wealth is as plain
as the road to market. Yes, it is the good
old.fashioned road to honest toll. We some
times say that the day of miracles is passed.
There is one miracle still existing-the mi
raculous result of hard labor that is accom-
plshed by the dripping sweat of the brow.
The value of money is not what it buys, but
what it costs. Some mems money cost them
much, others too little A man who makes
bis money at the expense of his health and
honor, pays too much he that gets his money
by lucky hits pays too little. If he pays too
much he cheats himself; if he pays too little
be cheats mankind. The golden mean be.
tween these two extremes was we'll expressed
in the prayer Of Agar, who said, "Give me
neither poverty nor riches" If a man would
bring Arcadia, let him abolish poverty and
wealth,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-03-28

A PROPOSED L1BER1AN RA1LwAY.-Con-
gress has been asked for an appropriation of
$4,000 to make preliminary survey from
Liberia, one or two thousand miles into Gen.
tral Africa, and to report upon the country,
it's population, productions, and the practica-
bility of the road. Should the report of the
survey be favorable, company is to be form
ed to build the road, who are to commence
by putting on a line of twenty steamers from
Philadelphia or New York to Liberia, which
are to carry out railroad material, goods suit
ed to the African trade, and to call at Nor
folk and Charleston for colored railroad la
borers and colonists, and bring return car
goes of palm oil, coffee, sugar, ivory, gold,
and other African products, the trade in
which, it is believed, will be vastly increased
as it reaches the interior.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-03-28

The TRUE SEcREr.-How many take a
wrong view of life, and waste their energies
and destroy their nervous system in endeav-
oring to accumulate wealth, without thinking
of the present happiness they are throwing
away. 1t is not wealth or high station which
makes a man happy. Many of the most
wretched beings on earth have both but it is
radiant, sunny spirit, which knows how to
bear little trials and enjoy comforts, and
thus extract happiness from every incident in
life,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-03-28
CHAPTER II.

On the same morning that Colonel Dacre
opened his letters at the breakfast table and
took walk afterwards to help him digest
the contents of one of them, Mary Eustace,
sitting schoolgirl fashion in one of the
dormtory windows at Miss Anderson's Semi.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-03-28

TRUE STRENeTH.-We must measure a
mans strength by the power of the feelings he
subdues; not by the power of those which sub
due him. And hence, composure is often the
highest result of strength. Did we ever see a
man receive fragrant injury, and then reply
calmly? That's man spiritually strong. Or,
did we ever see man in anguish, stand as if
carved out of solid rock, as if mastering him.
self? Or one bearing a hopeless daily trial
remain silent and never tell the world what
cankered his home peace? That is strength.
We often mistake strong feelings for strong
character. A man who bears all before him,
before whose frown domestics tremble, and
whose bursts of fury make the children of the
household quake because he has bis way in
all things, we call him strong man. The
truth is, that he is a weak man it is his pas
sions that are strong-he, mastered by them,
is weak.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-03-28

11- A man from the lower walks of life en-
tered drug store and inquired the price of
an ounce Of arsenic. Being informed, he
drew paper from his pocket consulted some
figures, and said:
"That's two cents more than they asked me
in Columbia"
"Well, those are my lowest figures" re-
piled the druggist.
That man took out stub of q pencil, fig
ured for three or four minutes, and sagely
observed.
"It's time to practice economy, and l might
as we'll begin here. Two cents on an ounce
is thirty cents on pound. Thirty-two cents
on a pound is $32 on hundred weight, or
$6,4O0 on q ton. Great heavens but do you
think I would recklessly throw away six
thousand four hundred dollars"
The druggist could make no reply, and the
man looked terribly indignant as he went out.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-03-28

RELATIVE CosT OF WATER AND STEAM
PowER.-It having been stated in the Jour-
nal Of the Franklin Institute that "the cost of
raising water by water power at the Fair
mont Works in Philadelphia was but 2 cents
per one million gallons, raised foot" Mr.
Henry P. M. Birkinbine now says that the
2 cents referred to were expended for simply
running the works, that is, attendants, oil,
tallow and ordinary repairs; it did not, how.
ever, include the entire cost, but left out Of
consideration the extraordinary repairs in
cidental to water power-these maintaining
the dam, head race, gates, etc. Had the CAL
culation been properly made, it would have
shown that the cost of raising water at Fair
mont by water power was from 10 to IL cents
per million gallons, one foot high.
Mr.. Birkinbne makes the correction be-
cause it was asserted that had steam power
been employed instead of water, it would
have caused an additional outlay ofS13,000 to
$19,500 per annum. Theconclusion at which
Mr.. Birkinbine arrives, on consideration of
the whole subject, is that, since the steam en-
CINE has been brought to the degree Of perfec-
ton in simplicity, efficiency, economy, and re-
liability as we now have it, and as there are
few locations in the thickly settled portions Of
our country where fuel cannot be procured at
a moderate price, steam is preferable to water
power. This is particularly the case where
the water power is unfavorably located, and
when the trouble incident to droughts, floods,
etc., is taken into account.