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Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-08-28
ASHES.

saw the gardener bring and strew
Gray ashes where blush roses grew,
The fair still roses bent them low,
Their pink cheeks dimpled all with dew,
And seemed to view with pitying air
The dim gray atoms lying there
Ali bonny rose all fragrancies,
And life and hope and quick desires,
What can you need or gain from these
Poor ghosts of long-forgotten firesa
The rose tree leans, the rose tree signs,
And watts this answer subtly wise:
u All death, all life are mixed and blent,
Out of dead lives fresh life is sent;
Sorrow to these is growth for me,
And who shall question Gods dacree7n
Ah, dreary life, whose gladstone spark
No longer leaps in song and fire,
But lies in ashes gray and stark,
Defeated hopes and dead desire,
Useless and dull and all bereft-
Take courage, this one thing is left,
Some happier life may use thee so,
Some flower bloom fairer on its tree,
Some sweet or tender thing may grow
70 stronger life because of thee.
Content to play an humble part,
Give Of the ashes Of thy heart,
And haply God. whose dear DEGREES
Taketh from those to give to these,
Who draws the sncw-drop from the snow
May from those ashes fnd a rose.
Susan Coolidge.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-08-28
WATERFALLS OF THE YOSEMITE.
CaIiforniass Famous Cascades Graph-
icaIIy Described

CaIiformiass Famous Cascades Graph
icalfy Described
Entering the famous Yosemete Valley
at the lower end, and following up the
course of the stream, which flows mid
way between the opposing canyon walls
nearly the entire distance, the first great
wonder encountered ID the Bridal Vel
Fall, the ssPo- mo- Of the Indians.
The stream itself-about forty feet in
width-resembles an avalanche of
watery rockets, that shoots out over the
precipice above you, at the height of
900 feet, and leaps down, in one un-
broken train, to the immense cauldron
of bouIders beneath where it surges and
boils in its angry fury, throwing up vol
umcs of spray, over which the sun forms
two or more large rainboWs which arch
the abyss. The gracefully tindulating
and wavy sheets of spray, that fall in
gauze- Like and ethereal folds; now ex-
panding, now contracting; now chang
ing into one vast and many colored
cloud, that throws its misty
drapery over the falling torrent,
as if in very modesty to veil its
unspeakabls beauty from our too
eagerly admiring sight. The source of
the stream is in lake some thirteen
miles above the fall, across which a
strong wind constantly blows. A mum
Der Of Indians in ancient times lost their
lives in the lake and at the fall, and this
caused their companions to christen
them both "Po-ho-no," meaning "The
Spirit of the Evil Wind So great is
the superstitious fear Of its evil influence
entertained by the few surviving aborig-
ines Of thar region, that they cannot be
prevailed upon to pass the night in its
vicinity or even to point toward the fall
in passing. Continuing up the left bank
of the stream, the next object to attract
attention is the celebrated Yosemite
Falls, universally admitted as the crown
ing glory of the valley. A stream of con-
siderable magnitude leaps over the edge
Of the canyon wall 1894 feet above, and
continues in one unbroken descent for
1000 feet, then leaping down by Sc
ries of cascades distance of 434 feet,
it again plunges off into space and falls
into a basin formed by huge boulders
and large masses of angular rocks, at the
base Of the rocky wall, 600 feet below,
where it seethes and boils like caul-
dron. Standing near the foaming mass
the visitor is drenched with the cloud OF
invisible spray, which floats in the all
and is carried long distance by strong
breeze which sweeps down with the fall
from the brink above. Shining upon
these watery particles, the suns rays are
so DETECTED as to surround the beholdel
with halo of miniature rainbows. Al
the head Of the South Fork Of the Merced
in an arm of the valley extending to the
southeastward, are to be seen the mag
nifcent Nevada Falls, called ssYo-wi-ye'
(''MeanderingD by the natives. Ascent
from the valley to the base Of the falls i
accomplished by means Of series o.
ladder stairways built up the face Of thu
rocks, which had formerly been unscal
able except by the use Of ropes The
river pours over the brink roo feet above,
and falls in an unbroken sheet for SOC
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-08-28

e7|7l7'1S71
DEAR SIR-In answer to yours, just at
hand, would say: | know no one by the name
Of Thomas Smith; never had student; never
wrote to Brother Pennell The evening before
I left home, last July, a young man, in all re-
spects like the one you descrife, called on me
Brother Pennell-so INA %manvand 50 strange that
wondered at them. 1 intended TO write
Brother P. about this man. but neglected it
50 long that 1 deemsd it best not to write at
all. Wish now thas l had, as it would have
prsyonted the imposition which has been prac-
ticed upon an esteemed eo.worker and his
people. Yours respectfully,
&c WILMIAM BLAKF'n
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-08-28
THE SUBSTITUTE.

Reverend M. Pennell, pastor of the
First Society, Brookyille. entered his
house, one afternoon in July, with an ex-
preston upon his countenmce SO unlike
the look of weariness generally there
visible, that his wife, Noticing it, in
quired:
seWhat has occurred that affords you
such evident gratifcationY
ssYou know / was wishing that fmlght
have temporary relief from my cares,
but was unwilling to take vacation be-
cause of my belief that no church should,
even for one Sunday, be without preach
lnga"
Eyes. Ard know that you owe it to
your people, not less than to yourself, to
rest from your labors; so doing, you
could accomplish much more. Have you
decided to go away for seasonG"
ssRead that he replied, passing letr
ter to his wife.
She unfolded the missive, whose con-
tents were:
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-08-28


There are over 5000 pawnsEd
London. No wonder Hamlet
claimed: "Oh, my profttick soul,
uncle l''-New York Journal.
A Dakota editor committed suicide
the other day, but the name Of the poet
who read his inspiration to the unfor-
tunate man is not known B0st0n Timer.
Why doth the little country boy
Tear madly at his pantsa
Unthinkingly be sat him down
Upsn crowd Of ants
There are 64, 96s clergymen in this
country-about $50 more than there are
lawyers. Seems to us that IS too much
law and not enough sermon.--Nsac York
Graphic
A new journal called the Honeymoon
has just appeared at Brussels. The pro-
prietor viii be very happy for month
But wait till the paper wants aneW dress.
Boston Star.
Never strike man when be j. down.
Nine times out of ten, if you do, he'll
make rush for you with an AZ helve oF
may be pull revolver the minute be
gets up.-Burdstts.
Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1884-08-28

&C., New York, July 10, IS
DEN BROTHER PENNELI.-You will be
I'll at hearing from your former class
~ ~ TX Andover between whom and your
ss-.1siere has never been any correspondence
- few words will render al comprehensi-
" From nv remembrance of your views
Becting the duties of pastor, and from
lat have heard of your Aithfulness, i ap7
Eehend that you would rot sacrifice what
you, perhaps unwisely, regard the welfare of
your people to your physical and, of course,
mental health and strength.
ga Young man whom considered very
gifted has been studying with me for nearly
two years, and would IKE 70 preach lew
Sundays, experimentallI Provided you wish
to be absent from your harge for month or
yix weeks, my friend WI gladly supply your
pulpit during that tint for no other compe1
sation than his board. If, however, you sb.1dI
choose to make him arifing donation, it ,slH sll
be very acceptable, 8 he has to provie0 ior
himself entirely. ~, ~.
II shall be absen from home 4iiua .a.' oao
middle of Septembr; SO, II you tRli;As p,0T r Ts
n Thomas t Smith ]oston, whithe he is going
to visit friends. ID receipt q this. With
4 Hndest lest riabes Il sbe Fr.ternsey yours,
'----N-''' ''--'ies' gWnLIAM BLAKE.n
srYou will vail yirself of the oppor-
tunitv to yecupeAe your energies :"
asked Mrs. Fenp,i, having finished the
letter.
81 shall. Iyeems too much like a dis
pensation of Jovidence to be neglected. n
II am sod dadn
Mr.. PERIL went to his library md
wrote t. Mr.. Smith, mentioninf the
letter I'm 'Brother" Blake, and invit-
ino b;yto substitute for him dring the
comic six weeks.
pfee days later Mr.. Smith came to
Byokville-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-17
The Talfde S,sl,ana.

About sixty years ago a Circassian girl
named Pertev Piali was sold in the slave max
ket of Constantinople. Her purchaser was
the chief cook of Sultan Mahmoud the Great.
Many of the Circassisn girls are very beautiful
and some are highly educated. This poor girl
was neither. Destiny, which had denied her
beauty and education. had apparently con-
demned her to remain always only a scullion
in the sultan's kitchen. Instead, however,
he was to become. the greatest lady in the
and. During a period of seventeen years
she was, more than any other person, to sway
and control the Ottoman Empire.
One day, laden down with utensils which
she was to rub and polish, she passed out of
the great door of the kitchen, and sat down
to do her work in the shade Of some trees.
The sultan at that moment was gazing from
the window Of his palace, aud his eye fell on
the busy girl. Something in the earnestness
and energy Of her movements fixed his at
tention. With the within Of an Eastern des-
pot, he said 10 an attendant: ''Bring that
girl to me; let me see IL she can talk"
Obediently she left her work and approached
the palace. never dreaming she was on her
way TO a throne. In his abrupt, aud imperi-
Gus way the sultan asked her questions and
was astonished at the dignity and self-pos-
session Of her replies. That woman, slave
or free, should not tremble ike a leaf in his
presence was som ething new. Then ensued
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-17
A AIONK-LORD.
4 Prince Who Witndre,r to a Non,

Prince Who Wifhdretc to a Monastery
No David, eager to fight the giant, this
Galeotto Malatesta, but wan, emaciated
youth, half-crazed, half-saint. In the mid
die panic, with the horror of triple sack
maddenlng with fear the miserable Rimin-
csc, this prince left the city to dwell in the
monastery Of Arcangclo, outside the gates.
There he passed his days serene, scatheless
in the midst of peril; neither for himself nor
his kingdom took he any thought.
So strange this spectacle, so awful that the
very enemies of Rimini stopped in their on
slaught amazed. The lion, il is said, will
not attack sleeping prey. Eugene, the
Pope lin his tenn poral character the deadly
foe of RiminD wrote to its lord, bidding him
remember the imperative duties of his posi-
ton. The letter reached ''that magnificent
man and potent prinee'' in the monastery at
Arcangelo, where, clad in the course robes
of franciscan friar, he led an ascetic.
starved and mutilated life. What was the
magnificence of earth TO himl So harsh were
his self-inhieted penanees that the wounds
on his body never ceased to bleed. What
had he to do with rule and governance? The
brothers of the monastery, and the young
virgin wife who dropped and paled at his
side, were all of mankind he knew or saw:
and he himself the chief of sinners Neither
pope nor armies could force him back to
earth. Thus friends and foes alike failed to
touch him there was no pity in the heart of
Galeotto the Saint.
Or rather-com mon, yet tragical transmu-
tation of the middle. ages-his pity took a
retrospective turn dead and dry to the pres
ent woes it might relieve, it rushed back in
mighty impotent tide to the foot of that
sacred, awful cross, whose divine tragedy
was the continual spectacle of the sanity
life. Pity for the dead Christ, throbbing,
yearnipg, helpless, and indignant pity for
the agonized Saviour; this surely lay at the
bottom of all crusader, fortunes, prosecutions
inquisitions of the middle ages. Living
ever with the eruciix in sight; dwelling ever
and solely in presence of that dread expia-
ton: to such fanatics as Galeotto the exam
pie OF the life of Christ was nullfed by the
terror and pity of Golgotha. Vengeance on
the enemies of God vengeance on the trait
ors who still stab and cruelty the ever new
ly-sacrifced God and victimi So ran the
tenor of medieval piety. And the contag-
ion of this fanatic sentiment slaughtered the
armies OF the east, tossed Albigen sian babies
on to lance points, aud roasted before RI
bald soldiery the pious vaudois women; the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-17
Telephonin0 Extraordinary.


The most remarkable piece of telephoning
yet attempted has been just accomplished by
the engineers of the International Bell Tel
ephone company, who success fully carried
out an experiment by which they were en-
abled to hold conversation between 81.
Petersburg and Bologne, distance OF 9, 465
miles. Blake transmitting and Bell receiy-
ing instruments were used, and a conversa-
ton wus kept up, notwithstanding rather
high indication. The experiments were car
ried on during that hight, whtn the tele-
graph lines were not at work. The Russian
engineers Of this company are so confident
OF further success that they hope shortly to
be able TO converse with ease at a distance
of f. 65.miles; hut TO accomplish this aston
ishing feat they must combine all the condi-
tons favorable for the transmission Of tele-
phone sounds. If it is found possible 10
hold audible conversation at such extraor-
dinary. distance, it is possible that this fact
will speedily improved upon, and we shall be
enabled 10 converse freely between London
and New York. and by-and-by by.ween Lon
don and the antipodes.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-17
GOOD TIMES IN THE WEST.

The Days Of Stage Coaches, Cotcboys aud
Hog Drivers ora the Frontier.
Brought up on the banks OF the Mononga-
hela river, in western Pennsylvania, 1 re-
member when Ohio was a frontier state,
writes correspondent of the New York
Times. Among my earliest recollections are
those Of the stage coaches Of Stockton and
Stoke on the old national turnpike, being the
express line between Baltimore and the west
southwest. Trains OF the white-covered emf
grant wagons en- route to Ohio and Indiana
were never out of sight. Later I remember
vividly what Juror the accounts of the won
derful fertility of the prairies Of Illinois ere
ated and the exodus Of settlers from western
Pennsylvania. few short intervening
years, still a mere boy, journeyed on horse
back from the Monongahela 70 the banks OF
the Illinois river, bearing on my person the
money to Tay for three hundred head of cat
tie. The money was in bills Of the MOnon-
gahela bank, of Brownsville, and the Far
mers' and Drovers' bank, Of Wayuesburg,
Pa. The issues Of those banks were current
In Illinois when the bills OF eastern banks,
and OF ali but one bank In Pittsburgh, were
at discount AT Wheeling, w. Va, l Sc
cured Ohio bank notes to pay my way across
the state, and repeated the exchange for In
diana The three hundred head of cattle had
been fed on the cheap Illinois corn then
often used as fuel by the farmers Of the
prairie country, and were driven to Philadel-
phia.
From the time the grass was, as the farm
ers used 10 say, ''knee high to duck" in
the early spring, till late in the fall when the
corn was ripe, droves Of cattle, sheep, hogs,
mules and horses made an endless process
sion along the old drove road across Gre enc
and Fayette counties, Pennsylvania. The
cowboy of those days was a humble indi-
vidual who trudged on foot either in the lead
or bringing up the rear OF drove. He was
armed with long whip made Of plated
leather strips fastened to a short hickory
stick. The whip lash from half inch in
diameter at one eud grad u2lly swelled to
more than An inch and then tapered TO an
eighth, of an inch and terminated in a silk
CRACKER" The hickory whip stick was
about two and a half feet long, tapering from
an inch at the butt to a half inch at the top.
How an expert cowboy could handle one of
these instruments of tortured Many Of them
were ambidextrous. Swinging the long lash
above thei- heads with u quick Jerk they
would produce a report as loud as that Of a
huntsman's rife. Indeed the similarity of
sound gave rise to the saying; ''Whip-like
report Of the Kentucky rifle" The ordinary
drive Of drove of cattle was from six to ten
niles day. A long and tedious journey
from Illinois TO Philadelphia But the cow
boy was a superior being 10 the hog driver.
The latter was a despised creature. The
farmer boys always saluted them with
''S'long! Forty cents daY and no dinnerl"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-17
Electrical Progress.

Perhaps We have arrived at that stage in
our study OF electricity where our instruments
are too coarse to enable US to extend our in
vestigstions. Yet how delicate and efficient
they are. Compare the instruments en-
ployed by Franklin, and even by Paraday,
with those which are in constant use TODAY
In our physical laboratories. Franklin, by
the utmost effort of his imagination, could
not conceive, probably, OF mirror galvano-
meterthat can detect the electrical action OF
drop of distilled water on two so called
chemically pure platinum plates, or Of a ma
chine that can develop from the feeble mag
netlsm of the earth current sufficiently
strong to light the City of PHILADELPHIA. Let
him who wanders among the historical ply
steal instruments of many of our college col
eetions stand before the immense friction al
electrical machine Of Franklin's day, or gaze
upon the rude electrometers and galvano-
meters OF that time and contrast Frankln's
machine with the small Toepler-Holtz elec-
trical machine which with a tenth of its size
gives spark ten times as strong as Frank
Inns; or the eiectrometers and galvanomet-
ers OF Faraday with the mirror ga!vanomet-
ers and electrometers Of Sir William Thorn
son. Yet, at the same time, let an observer
think Of the possibilities of the next fifty
years, for the advance Of science Is not in q
simple proportion to the time, and the next
fifty years will probably see far greater ad-
vance than the one hundred years since the
date of Franklin's electrical work has seen.
Is not the state of our Imagination like that
OF the shepherd boy who lies upon his back,
looking up at the stars Of heaven, and try
ing to imagine what is beyond the starsi
The only conclusion Is that there is some
thing far more than we have ever beheld.
Popular Science Nontslg.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-17

the old story over again-the story Of King
Cophetua and the beggar maid, only in this
case Il could not be said, ''Sae was more fair
than words can say" The slave girl became
the sultAn's favorite wife. Three years after
she gave birth 10 a son, who is known 10 lat
er history as Sultan Abdul-Aziz, and her as
eendaney over her imperial husband became
complete With the stormy politics OF Nah
moud's reign she bad nothing to do, KEEPING
aloOf from all state questions and devotiug
herself only to her son.
In 1899, when the Prince Abdnl-Aziz was
years old, Nahmoud died, and an elder
son, Abdul Aedjid, succeeded.
The new sovereign sept Pertev Piah and
her son under the st-ictest surveillance. and
the two remained prisoners isolated from the
world till Abdul Medjid died, IN 1861. Dur
Ing those TWENTY-FIVE long years no mother
could have been more devoted. Her every
thought was centered in her son. Ignorant
OF books, &c is said not knowing even how to
read, understanding no Language save her
own, she was nevertheless a woman Of great
shrewoness and OF remarkable native force of
mind. As far as in her lay she did her best
10 protect the often endangered life and to
develop the character of her son. Her ma
ternal love was not uurcwarded. When at
last be mounted the throne his mother truly
reigned with him. His constant flial devo-
ton was the brightest feature in Sultan Alb
dull Axis career. All matters Of state policy
he discussed with her, aud it Is believed that
he never decided any question contrary TO
her adyice.-HdrpsT'S BGzdr
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Taking a Chinaman Homo.
TOmaha Herald.I

Yesterday morning solemn looking China
man went west on the Union Pacific train.
He was escorted to the depot by half dozen
OF his Acknowledged eountrymen, who parted
with him with envy in their hearts, for be
was bound to his old home in the FIowery
Kingdom, while they are doomed for a while
longer to msngle the Mehcan's mans linen.
In the pocket OF the traveller was a check for
q leather grip-ssck, which he was careful 10
see loaded on the baggage-car before he
boarded the train. There would be nothing
peculiar about this were it not that the leather
grip contained the bones of good Chinaman
being transported back to the Celcstiars para
disc free of expense
Nine years ago, Ching Lee, then 9 new ar
rival from ChinaIand, strolled into Blendorf,s
bakery and tackled his first dish of ice cream.
Ching found It ''belly good" and ordered a
whole quart, which be ate on the SPOT. The
day was opressively hot, and, not q chill
proof lining like the average Omaha girl.
Ching found his load very uncomfortable.
While passing from the table TO the street
there was a Greco Roman struggle between
the iceberg within aud the furnace without.
and Ching was thrown. He fell to the side
walk, and in five minutes he was a dead Chi
namsn.
After Ching had been buried two wears
party of Chinese officials who we're en- route
home stopped in Omaha to get his BODY and
take 1t with them. The grave was opened and
the remains taken out, but they were not in
shape for shipment, and VfTe reburied. Sex
ton Mediock. at the requesfDf the mandarins,
took from the easket at that time handmir-
ror. an empty wallet and about so cents in
money. which had bsen buried with the
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corpse The three SUITS Of clothes iD which
Ching was dressed were also taken on and
planted under tree in another part OF the
cemetery.
Sunday morning ChIng's grave was op-
ened the second time Five or six Of the
deeeased's countrymen were present with a
Joss man, and a number Of Americans
watched the ceremony from 4 respectful dis
lance. After considerable bowling and
seraping, basket Of eatables was produced
aud goodly dinner spread about the head Of
the grave A chicken roasted with the head
on occupied the post Of honor, hanked on
either side BY large pieces Of boiled pork and
liver Tea was made in a curious little Chi
nese caddy, and a number Of cups poured
out and placed on the ground. Then, after
more bowling aud scraping. several packages
OF cigarettes were strewn on the grave, and
innumerable sticks Of incense lighted More
incantations b. the Joss man followed,
and when the mOurners had bowed them
selves tired the casket was opened and the
remains shoveled out The bones which were
free from the flesh and perfectly dry. were
rolled into piece Of coarse sheeting and
sewn up, after which they were placed in a
valise- While Medloek was. packing Chine's
remains for shipment two Of the Cinnamon
jumped into the grave and paved over the
earth at the bottom with their fingers in or
der TO make sure that nothing belonging to
the deceased mans anatomy was left be-
hind.
Satisfied that they had secured all of
ChiDg's bones, the Celestials drank the tea
that had been standing about the grave,
gathered up the eatsbles aud came back to
town. ehattering like msgpies, and smoking
the cigarettes they bad offered up to their
dead countryInRn. The valise was taken up
the journeying Celestial to his lodging and
put under his bead, where 1t remained until
the custodian started with 1t for China Mon
day noon.