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Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-04-28
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The Canadian French.

These people are coming in amongst
ms in great numbers. One can scarcely
find train or steamboat without some Of
them aboard. men, women and
children. They swarm in the factory
towns. They are driving out our native
population, and even the Irish. as work.
men in the factories. In the last report
Of the Massachusetts Bureau Of Statistics
Of Labor is the following description OF
them:
With some exceptions the Canadian French
arc the Chinese Of the Eastern States. They
care nothing for our institutions, civil, politic-
al, or educational. They do not come to
make home among Us, TO dwell with us as
citizens, and so become a part Of us; but their
purpose Is merely 10 sojourn few years as
aliens. touching US only at a single point. that
of work, and, when they have gathered out of
ms what will satisfy their ends, to get them
away to whence they came. and bestow it
there. They are horde of industrial invad-
ers. not q stream Of stable settlers. Voting.
with all that it implies, they care nothing
about Rarely does one of them become
naturalized. They will not send their chill
dren to school if they can help it, but en-
dexvor to crowd them into the mills at the
earliest possible age. To do this they deceive
about the age Of their children with brazen
ef5rontery. They deceive also about their
sch0oliug, declaring they have been to school
the legal time, when they know they have
not, and do not intend that they shall. And
when at length they are cornered by the
school officers, and there is
no other escape, often they scrabble together
what few things they have. and move away
10 some other place where they are unknown,
and where they hope by repetition Of the
same deceits to escape the schools entirely,
and keep the children at work right on in the
mills. And when, rs is indeed sometimes the
case, any Of them are so situated that they
cannot escape at all. then the stolid indiffer-
ence of the children wears ont the teacher
with what seems 70 be an idle task.
These people have one good trait They
are indefatigable workers, and docile. All
they ask is to be set to work, and they care
little who rules them or how they are ruled.
TO earn all they can by no matter how many
hours of toll, to live in the most beggarly way
that out of their earnings they may spend
as little for living as possible, and to carry
out of the country what they can thus save {:
this Is the aim of the Canadian French in our
factory districts. Incidentally they must
have some amusements; and, so far as the
males are concerned. drinking and smoking
and lOunging constitute some of these.
The report puts it down that the Cana
iians are great hindrance in the way of
the uniform adoption of the ten hour sys-
tenn. They are willing to work and de-
sirous Of working more hours. and as EN-
ployers have no objections to accommodate
ing them in what they wish, they form a
bar against efforts to make the ten hour
system uniform in New England.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-05-19
Man and the Bible.

Chiefly, the Bible holds its power
over men as the record, in quaint,
simple and unconscious language, of
Life and the victories of Life. No
literary conceit or pride of authorship,
as we say. No style, long syllables,
or short syllables, studied metaphor, or
critical or linguistic machinery. Rough
STYLES, indeed. You know the Roman
Cardinel said he found it bad for his
style, so he did not read it. Nay, no
great logic; no system of metaphysics;
no com pact method of government; no
treatise on natural history; no science of
morals. Will it tell us whether there is
an ocean at the North Pole? No, it will
not tell us that Will it tell us why God
permits evil? No, it will not tell us
that. Will it tell us whether the soul of
world? No. Will it tell us whether the
body of man is derived III direct descent
from the inferior races? No.
Then what will it tell us? 1t will tell
us of the power of God, the Life OF the
Universe, over all the things which he
made and set in order; of the power OF
Man, whom God set to subdue the world
to carry out that enterprise when he 10y
ally engages III IL, Oh the power Vi the
soul, which is the life of man, to control
supreme the mind of man, and his body.
1t tells how the Spirit of God moved on
the face of the waters. 1t tells how the
inspiration of God led Israel from bond
age. 1t tells how the sense of God lifted
Israel from barbarism to command, and
how, as Israel lost God, she sank back to
vassalage. And such little history is ac-
cessory only to the history of histories;
the centre Of history; when, in the mid.
die of this book, four untaught men, in
narration whose quaint simplicity chal-
lenges the criticism and the imitation of
the world, describe some incidents in the
life of Gods own Son, who had no life
but Gods life, and obeyed no lesser law.
In those fragments, there is the triumph
of the great Personality of all time.
Lord of Life, we call him wisely. Be-
cause the Bible encloses the Four Cos
pels, explains, illustrates, leads down to
them and back to them; because so lead
ing, it shows always that life is always
master, and that forms obey-forms,
methods, law, and all the outside that
these obey and must obey; because the
Bible is the Book Of Life. and the book
of the Lord of Life-because of this it
keeps its hold upon tue world.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-05-19
The Jeanette search Expedition.

The latest intelligence concerning the
governments intended search for the
lost Jeanette comes from Philadelphia,
where Chief Engineer A. V. Zane, U. =.
Navy, has received his orders to accom-
pany the expedition 70 the Arctic. He
has informed q Press reporter that the
Mary and Helen will probably sail from
San Francisco about June 1st He said:
OF course we shall stop ut Sitka or
some other point for coal, dogs, furs
and all paraphernalia necessary for an
Arctic voyage. II we do not find any
necessary at Wrangle Island, where We
shall probably first stop, or we will go to
Herald Island, where it was arranged
that Captain De Long should leave =
message in case he could not land ut the
former place.
The search along the coast OF these
two islands will probably take about two
months, when the Arctic winter will
begin. They were then ordered to find
q secure harbor at Wrangle Island, and
if this is not possible, 10 cross over to
Siberia, and go into winter quarters
there. During the winter, sledge par
ties will be organized and sent out IL
search of news of the Jeanette. Our
orders are not to stay north more than
one winter, but to prosecute the search
after spring opens and remain until
winter sets in again. Then we will re-
turn to San Francisco.
The Mary and Helen will be com.
manded by officers of % men. She will
be fully provisioned for the trip and will
have plenty of food on board to supply
the Jeanette and any other vessels in
distress.
The Government furnishes all heavy
clothing and fur clothing for the officers
and men. We will take canned vege-
tables and meats of various sorts and
Ii; 900 pounds of pcmmican, which is now
being made in Baltimore. Very little
liquor will be taken. Every man on
board is volunteer, aud detail was
made by the Department after the men
had notified it of their intention to go.
There will be no scientists with the
expedition; therefore, besides the regu
lar duties of the officers, they will be
assigned to various scientific investigs
tions. l am to look out for mineralogic
discoveries. All officers are assigned to
the special branches. A complete pho
tographic outfit will be on the ship, which
will be equipped with everything neces-
sary on a voyage of discovery.
We expect to return in about fifteen
months.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-05-19

"Oh, is that it?" I said, "Well, stay
then, dear, in heavens name, and so will
1 till the worst is over. You won't be in
congruous here, Kate; you're wonder
fully adaptable"
But she has gone away to John with
the old lady.
1t WAS terrible risk. waited in
great suspense placing what hope l
could in trepanned skull and the mod
ern improvements in artificial limbs, for
I knew from the first he wouldn't die
young men like John hold on to life, es-
pecially with temptation like Kate by
the side of them.
am writing upon the same yeranda .
year after the accident in the hay field.
The honeysuckle is in bloom, and Hates
pet mockingbird is shrieking in flood
of light that radiates the dining room.
Young Mrs. Fries has substituted nets
for the Cimmerian gloom that used to
envelop the house. Now any one with
half an eye can see to the farthest end Of
the corridor, and the bedrooms have q
sun-bath every day. The old lady don't
mind. She's all the way of twenty years
younger, and the best of company. John
didn't lose his leg, let alone his life. and
the funniest part of the whole thing is
that Kate has made quite match. John
happened to be ever 80 much richer
than any of the manageable men we
knew.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-05-19

revolution in tho trade, ss happened
when the spoonbill bonnet was abruptly
cast aside for the bonnet no bigger than
a cheese plate which lay flat on the head.
The unexpected novelty must have
thrown myriads of spoon bills out OF
wear within less than three months, and
was presumably regarded as an unmixed
boom by the operatives who were re-
quired to manufacture large stocks OF
the new article. All these violent changes
however, are now things of the past.
There are now no recognized leaders OF
fashion in Paris; and though every year
brings new modes with it, these are nei-
ther so generally nor SO rapidly copied as
they used to be- Then some fashions hav-
ing been comely and convenient, have
maintained their prestige for several sea-
sons in succession, defying all extrava-
CANT attempts to supercede them. i Lon
don News.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-05-19
How Eng EIe Once stt the lash on.

Among the benefits which the world
owes to the establishment OF Republic
in France must be reckoned the marked
imp ovements which have taken place of
late years in the fashions for ladies'. 1t
will be acknowledged that ladies now
dress more prettily, if not more sensibly,
than they used to do, because fashions
have become less absolute now than they
were, and ladies are freer to choose what
suits each of them best. 1t was not so in
the days when the beautiful Empress
Eugene shared the throne of Napoleon
Ill, and set the fashions to all Europe.
In those times Partisan dressmakers
used to spend the season of Lent in won
dering what new style of garment Her
Majesty would appear in at the annual
Easter outing of Longchamps; for, as
everybody knows, it was at Easter, when
the whole Of the great world" used to
stream toward Longchamps in their car
riages, that the fashions for the coming
year were shone forth.
The Empress, by way of doing equal
Justice to all the tradesmen of the capital,
used to have her dresses ma % at home,
keeping o staff of twelve expert seam
stresses for the purpse, and costumer
whose business il was to sketch models
for new dresses and bonnets. This great
man labor was not performed in jealous
secrecy, for his sketches were examined
and debated upon by the Empress and
the principal ladies of her court; SO that
when some novelty was adopted two or
three of the leading milliners of Paris
always had cognizance Of it, through the
orders given by these la,lies. But TO the
mass Of milliners, as we'll as the public
ct large, the new fashions always came as
. surprise; SO that Immediately after
Easter there would be grand rush Of
ladies', clamoring to their modistes to
trick them out a. fast a. possible in that
''swset new thing" that had looked 30
becoming on the Empress, the Duchess
de Mouch, the Marquise de Gillifet and
others.
II Was grand time for dressmakers.
The Easter orders they received were
sometimes Of kind to set all the silk
factories in Lyons working double tides,
and 70 give lucrative employment 70
Thousands Of Parisian working folks Of
both ssxss. Sometimes, TOO. the capri
ciously sudden Introduction OF sOms
startling novelty. would opsrsAs = .
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-05-19
nyp0dermlc Inject lons OF Morphine.

A number of persons more or less
prominent in different walks OF life have
died in this city within few months
from the direct effect, 1t is said, of hypO-
dermic injections of morphine. Most Of
them had, according to report, begun
the injections in order to relieve them
selves from pain caused by neuralgia,
rheumatism. or some other distressing
disorder. The effect was SO pleasant, SO
delicious, indeed that they were grad
ually seduced into such use of morphine
when they had no need of it, and, soon
yielding completely to the habit, were
destroyed by it. Physicians say that this
has grown to be far from uncommon
among persons of wealth and position,
particularly among women, who, after
having tried it a while, have not had the
strength to reliLquish the delightful ano-
dyne.
The effect of the morphine under tho
skin Is described AS peculiarly and won.
derfully agreeable. A delicious languOr
steals over the frame. the senses are
wrapped in o voluptuous waking dream,
and most joyous consciousness of perfect
yet fascinating repose softly overfiows
the mind. Even strong men and women
have frequently found it hard 70
resist its allurements, and have not
been able to surrender its beati-
tudes without arousing all their will.
On this account some phi ysicians will not
administer or prescribe morphine under
any circumstances, fearing the conse-
quences to their patients. Not few
women Of the finer type have been
wrecked by the habit, and many men,
professional and commercial, are steadily
running themselves by its indulgence.
1t was hailed as a great blessing once,
and so it is, properly regulated; but.
like so many blessings, it may readily
be converted into . CURSE New York
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-05-19
Horace Greeley and the T cket Agent.

A reformed ticket agent, man now
engaged in mercantile pursuit, and
who looks back with profound melan-
chOly and remorse to his wicked career,
rs he sailed in as ticket agent, told
me at once, in his sinful days, he was
employed at Chicago on Il through line
from that incorporated Boreas on the
lake to New York City, which, made
up of a new combination. was buck
ing" against Vanderbilt. TO extend its
custom the combination had at Chicago
q corps of able bodied runners to seize
wayfarers by the throat and fetch them
up to the ticket agent, where the inno-
cent traveller was to be talked into a
ticket over the combination.
One day an able. bodied rufiian came,
leading up rough looking customer
who wished to purchase II ticket to
New York by the way of Cleveland.
The combination did not touch Cleve-
land. But evidently the old white
hated, loose coarse-booted
countryman, with his white head and
goggling look, did not know what he
wanted. 1t was for the ticket agent to
care for him: and so he ratified on with
ticket in hand until the venerable.
goggle-eyed old shuttle toes had ex-
tracted from fat wallet the price and
shambled awkwardly away.
"Say, old fellow" asked an old friend
who happened to be in the office, do
you know who you sold your ticket to
then? ?"
"Some old tool of corn cracker"
mot a bit of it, that was Horace
Greedy"
Ger Mhillican! and he wanted to go
to Cleveland"
"Yes, he's billed to lecture there, and
the Tribune will give yonr combination
the devil for the swlndle."
''That's so. Here, you pu. your cheek
to this hole till l find him."
Away ron the ticket agent. 1t was not
difficult to find the hotel, ut which the
venerable philosopher lodged. The ticket
agent found him in the reading.room
porting over late issue of the Tribune.
He tapped Horace on the shoulder. and
the philosopher looked up with the child
like expression of his that seemed to
come out from open eyes and mouth.
81 beg your pardon" said the agent,
"but sold you II ticket to New York
while since, and made y mistake"
I'm the money, l suppose ?" replied
Horace dryly. mo, sir; in the route.
/ remembered after you had left you said
Cleveland. "Now the ticket gave you
will not take you to Cleveland"
1.-The hell it don't" cried Greeley,
starting up. well, young man, | can
tell you that would be great disap-
pontment to Cleveland
II don't know anything about that;
but l don't want any man to miss his
way through any fault of mine. So I've
been in every hotel in Chicago after
YOU
1.-The devil You have"
81 have. There is the right ticket It's
over rival line. But my honor, sir,
rises above trick. l bought the right
ticket for you, and if you give me the
old one we will be even."
young man." said Horace, fishing
from his capacious pocket the ticket OF
the com bination, ''you are very good,
come to think of it, too damned good for
ticket agent. Leave that, good young
man, before yonr innocent nature is cor
rupted, or yonr damned Patent Screw
and Pop anger line is busted up. Go
West, young man; go West"
20 ~
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-05-19
Agricultural England.

1t is now asked in England whether it
is better to be an Irish landlord without
rents or an English landlord without
tenants. In all parts of Great Britain
the farms are thrown upon the hands OF
their owners as fast az their brief leases
expire, and where there are no leases the
process is still more summary. In some
parts of Warwickshire four-tifths of the
lands lie inlet, while in others reduc-
tons of from 80 to 80 per cent. in rent
have been made. In one estate in Ok
fordshire there are 1900 acres idle, while
in other parts OF the shire land it is let at
a half-rent or a merely nominal rent,
Just to secure care. taker. In Bedford
shire the reductions in rent range from
IS to 25 per cent, according AS
the old rental approached or fell below
the former market value Of the land.
In Essex there are reductions on the same
scale, many farms being let ut mere
nominal rent. In Shropshire great num-
bers of tenants have given notice Of in
tention to abandon their farms, and to
conciliate them reductions have been
made as high as 80 per cent. In Hunt
ingdonshire, Leicestershire and Nork.
folk, there have been similar reductions;
large sections lie idle, and rents in some
instances are down to what they were 40
years ago. A review Of the whole island
would probably show q state OF things
similar TO that in these purely sgricul-
tural shires. The pressure of American
competition is crushing the heart out Of
the English land system. Good judges
Of the matter say that England has raised
the last crop that will pay. This means
"the last crop that will pay for the sup
port OF the three classes now living OF
the land, viz, the agricultural laborer.
the capitalist farmer, and the owner Of
the estate. ~ Philadelphia American.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-05-19

A gentleman who owns q sheep ranch
in Western Texas and is very wealthy,
went to Galveston with friend, intend
ing to remain over and see Mardi-Gras
On Sunday he and his friend went TO
church. The clergyman gave out his
text, "A good shepherd will not leave
his sheep" The sheep man from Wese.
ern Texas nudgcd his companion and
whispered:-"Let's 60, Bill; he u hit
ting st M" and out they went. When
they paid their bill II the hotel they told
the clerk that was not the way to build
mp he wool intsrssts al Texas NOR 70 -.
cure deep va4er on 0alveseea bar.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-05-19

A young fellow once offered 10 kiss .
Quaksrsss. Friend" quoth she, thee
must not do It," ION. but BY Jove. /
must, said the youth. well, friend, -
thee hest sworn thss may do Il, bat thss
nus1 no& naks . psae(ies 81 It."
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-05-19


the flies. Haven't we done her enough
injury already?"
"Speak for yourself, my DEAR" said.
and ct that moment the poor little old
lady ran in, crying and wringing her
hsnds.
He isn't-isn t." stammered, while
Kate became white as the wall she
leaned against. The old lady went up to
her and grasped her dress. Packing
your trunk? Going?" she said, in hol-
low whisper.
''She don't want to go, ! said, coming
to the rescue. ''Shed rather stay, but
don't think it best. /"
The old lady turned TO mo. keeping
her hold on poor Hates black and yell
low trimmings. II don't care whether
you go or not, she said TO me, but II
you've soul in your body you won't
take her with you. He's asking for her
now; she may save his life. Let her
save him Arst; for Gods sake, let her try
to save himl'
There was more force than politeness
in the old lady's appeal, but it was NO
time for platitudes.
Mrs. Fries" said 1, ''there's one
thing about lit she stays now she
must stay forever"
Kats uttsrsd little soft cry aud put
her arms about the old lady. Bhe looked
over at me, with wonderful hight n her
eyes, and sudden sotlsning Of hss -
Tire bsiag.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-05-19

ION, not I'd Oe OutOOue, tOOk from uer
belt little triAe Of lsee and linen, and
also waved it. And heaven knows how
long this little psntomime might have
go on If Miss Hetherington had not
heard behind her q peculiar cough; it
was an apologetic cough--a cough that
begged to be excused for intruding-
and it came from Mrs. Fries, who was
also looking ct Miss Hetherington, but
not like Jonn, or the spider, or the
many well-known ways of looking at o
pretty woman. There was something
in the gaze of Mrs. Fries that went to
Miss Hetherington's heart without ella
ting it.
GOOD morning." said Miss Hether.
ington-"G morning, Mrs. Fries.
You tell me without speaking that I
must not interfere with the shining
hours Of haying time, and you see that
IL Ia just a. If I went within doors
not bit Of me is to be seen, and I
promise you won't be till the tedious
sun goes down."
Miss Hetherington had put herself
and her draperies quite behind huge
Japanese honeysuckle, and now sank
into one Of the big red easy chairs,
and reached book from . convenient
and sheltered nook which was crammed
With paper literature. She yawned
alightly. The compact mass Of summer
reading took : somewhat wearisome
shape.
Daily Republican., 1881-08-16
Notes From the CaD,,.,

WAsHINGToN, Aug. 10, lssl-TH
ceipts from internal revenue to.dau
1892, 1885 from Customs 1851 az az
James j. Hudnall has been annn|
for the Second District of Alaharm'
Will II. Young Storekeeper f%,|
Fourth District If Indiana.
The Division supsrintel dents A
United States Railway Mail NJ
met today In conference al the
Office Department Building to di|
matters pertaining to the service 4
devise methods OF improving the
Superintendent Thompson presided
the meeting. The first matter takl
and one Of importance, was the
tion Of providing some method Of
ing postal cars In Winter that vii
endanger the burning of tho car /
Of an accident 10 the train. wi
reaching any definite conclusjoI
this and other questions which
brought up, the meeting adjouru
meet Tomorrow. The coniereno1
probably last several days.