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Year: 1875

in Massachusetts, where he supported him
self by his trade as blacksmith.


This circumstantial account satisfied
people at first, but when. the letter was
shown to Robert Jcfrey's mother she
pointed out that not only was 1t written in
a strange hand, but that it was not even
signed by her son, who could write well
enough, aud was very unlikely to make
his mark, as the man who vouched for the
genuineness Of this epistle had done. This
objection naturally carried weight, and
many people suspected that the evidence
of George Hassel aud of the letter had
been got up by the captain, who was anx-
ious to prove the man to be alive, and SO
escape from the odium which attached to
him.


Finally ship was sent to bring this
protesting Robert jeffrey to England,
where he arrived in due course, and proved
to bo the right man safe enough, certain
shyness and diffidcnce which he felt in the
presence Of the gentlemen who had drawn
up his report being the cause Of his max
ing cross instead Of signing it. He
landed at Portsmouth 10 the October Of
1910, three years after the event which
had caused him to become a public char
acter. The Admiralty forwarded him
under the charge Of naval officer to Pol
perro, where the entire population recog-
nized him, and his arrival was made the
occasion Of great public rejoicing.


But before settling down in his native
place he accepted an offer from the man
ager Of London theatre to exhibit him
self for certain number of nights, and as
it became the rage to go and see Jeffrey
the Sailor" he made rather good thing
oft. These profits were presently swelled
by sum Of six hundred pounds, which
was paid him by the family of the captain
in acquittal Of all claims he might have
against that officer, who was still liable to
civil action, and in the excited state of
public opinion was likely to be cast in
heavy damages.


After the lapse of few months, when
he ceased to "draw," jeffrey returned to
Cornwall with money enough to purchase
coasting schooner; married, and, if this
were fiction, would have lived happily
forever afterwards. But the story being
perfectly true one, Robert jeffrey was
subject to all those ills which afflict ordi-
nary mortals who have never been the
subjects of popular sympathy or curiosity.


He failed to make his schooner pay, and
he died early of consumption, leaving his
wife and daughter in great poverty.
Year: 1875

The following are some Of the old Eng.
lish rhymes and prophecies Of coming
weather. Some Of them are curious, Il
not correct. Many Of them are 80 often
found true as to be now considered almost
infallible.


When the glow worm lights his lamp,


Then the air is always damp.


II the cock goes growing to bed,


He'ssure to rise with wet head.


When black snails do cross your path,


Then black clouds much moisture hath.


When the peacock loudly bawls,


Soon we'll have both rain and squalls.


When you see the gossamer flying,


Then be sure the air is drying.


A rosy sunset presages good weather;


A ruddy sunrise bad weather


A bright yellow sky in the evening in
dicates wind pale yellow sky in the
evening indicates wet a neutral gray
color in the evening is favorable Sign
in the morning an unfavonbIe one. The
clouds, IL soft, underlined, and feathery,
betoken fine weather. Deep, unusual
lines in the sky indicate wind or storm.
More delicate tints bespeak fair weather.


A rainbow in the morning


Gives the shepherd warning
That is, If the wind be easterly, because
it shows that the rain cloud is approaching
the observer. fiat sunrising or sunsetting
the clouds appear Of lurid red color, ex-
tending nearly to the zenith, it is sure
sign Of storms and gales of wind.


If the moon shows like silver shield,


Be not afraid to reap your field


But II she rises haloed around,


Soon win we tread on deiuged ground.


A rainbow at night is a sailors delight.
This adage may also be good sign,
provided the wind be westerly, as it shows
the rain clouds are passing away.


When rocks fly sporting high in air,


Il shows that windy storms are near.


The evening red and the morning gray


Are certain signs Of beautiful day.
Year: 1875

RosEwooD.--It has puzzled many peo.
pie to decide why the dark wood SO highly
valued for furniture should be called rose.
wood. It's coloa certainly does not look
like rose, SO VIC must look for some other
reason. Upon asking, we are told that
when the tree is fresh cut the fresh wood
possesses a very strong, rose-like fragrance,
hence the name. There are half dozen
or more kinds of rosewood trees. The
varieties are found in South America and
the East Indies and neighboring islands,
Sometimes the trees grow so large that
planks four feet broad and ten in length
can be cut from one Of them. These
broad planks are principally used to make
the tops Of pianofortes. When growing in
the forest, the rosewood tree is remarkable
for its beauty, but such is its value in man
ufactures as an ornamental wood, that
some Of the forests where it once grew
abundantly now have scarcely single speei-
men. In Madras, the government has
prudently had great plantations Of this tree
set out, in order to keep up the supply.
Year: 1875

The American rifle team has won a
second and more decisive victory over
the Irish team, very much 10 the
chargin of the impulsive and patriotic
people Of Dublin, who seem TO have
entertained serious thoughts of lynch
ing their own markSmen for not doing
better shooting. 1t is perhaps as well
that they did not carry out this idea,
as it would have been calculated to
put the American team In rather an
awkward situation. There seems 10
room for doubling now that the Ameri-
can ritiemen are better trained than
their Irish rivals, and this may be
taken for all that it is worth. But
putting aside the spasmOdic enthus-
iasm incidental to such contests, and
all the tiummery about International
amenities, there is nothing more III
the contest than that certain num-
ber of Americans have, in this particu-
lar case, proved themselves better
shots than an equal number of Irish


men. To conclude from such data
that all Americans are better shots
than all Irishmen, as some OF the
papers seem disposed to claim, is fun


ny, but not rational. 1t is possible
that these international shooting
matches tend to help civilization, and
further progress ; but we have no
ton that if circumstances should bring
the country to which the Irish team
belongs, into hostile relations with the
country to which the American team
belongs, both the teams would pro-
ceed to exercise this skill upon the
bodies Of their late comrades with a
cheerful alacri,y quite Inspiring to be-
hold. And though we must say that
the Dublin mob showed wonderful
good temper and gallantry in cheer
ing the suhjugarOrs of their country
men, we are of the opinion that had
they exhibited far less generous
spirit it Would have been quite natur-
al under the circumstances. The
trouble about these contests is the
trouble that attends all contests, only
one side can possibly win, and when
the strife Is international the result, of
course, is that whole nation must be
mortified just as much as another
whole nation is eLated. And whether
that is calculated to promote an en-
teJ.te cordia5e may be considered
dOubltul.-N0c. XecOrI.
Year: 1875

LATER news from the flood in the
department of Haute- GaTonne, France,
still further increases the amount of
destruction both of ife and Of proper
ty. Over $500 houses have been
swept away, and s60,0OO,000 will
hardly cover the pecuniary damage
Living close upon the right bank Of
the river (ihe Garrone), aud extending
on to an island in midstream. the city
l. quite at the mercy of any extreme
rise in the water, and the material of
the old portion (bad bricks cemented
with worse cIay) offers an easy prey
to the swift current. The destruction
is now pretty much over. and it will
at least have one good result, in build
ing up the old city after the more
solid style of the new.
Year: 1875

A Chicago journal Tecentiyremarked,
upon the statement that many persons
were returning from California dissat-
isfed, that 'the plain English of this
is that the people are leaving Califor-
MA for the reason that they cannot get
a living as they expected to, without
working for it, There is no doubt
a great deal in this view. The rest
lessness which marks various stages
Of social growth arises too frequently
from dissatisfaction with the terms
upon which the ordinary comforts of
life can be had. Our legacy from the
civil war consisted partly in this curse
Of impatience with methodical appli-
cation, and the instrumentalities that
have grown out of the conditions OF
the war-the currency, jugglery, gold


room, gambling, and so forth, have
tended TO increase and confirm the
evil. The development of communism
in cities like Chicago comes Of precise
" the same conditions. The operative
classes are no longer content with
modest earnings, but desire 10 share
among them the earnings of others
10 confscate in fact, the proceeds OF
the labor and skill of their more intel
ligent and industrious fellows. The
men who at this time cross the CONT
nent to California, and who 90 back
with All evil report of the land are
with few exceptions persons who ex
pecied to be able 10 to live there with
out working, and who refuse to accept
the ample opportunities that State of
fers honest industry. We have had
sufficient experience of a class of i'm
migrants who ObstinateIy refuse scores
Of advantageous offers on their way to
San Francisco, and who, arriving there
forthwith begin TO loaf until they have
spent their little capital, and then turn
round and curse the country. Il Is
further to he noticed that the people
who are never satisfied with what Of
fers, and who cannot bring themselves
TO honest hard work even though i
competency is promised them, have for
their ideal some shittlcss, miserable,
lazy mans berth, in which, if they had
it, they would probably find themselves
worse off than laboring on a farm.
There is plenty Of work 10 be had
here, bat 1t was to escape from work
that many OF these grumblerS came
here, and naturally they return dis
gusttd. Perhaps the country will
ou'grow this pernlcious tendency, Per
h%rs the law of the survival Of the tit
test will settle The question. But
whatever the process 10y which they
are eliminated, we hold it to be indIs-
rntabIe that the shirker, as a social
element Is the uglest feature of the
period.
Year: 1875

counterfeit money or defalcations. That
their expenses are large Is manifest, notwith-
standing there are people who argue that the
system works automatically, and that after
the first outlay for machines the percentage
is all profit. For Jerome Park, Long Branch
and Saratoga the bills OF the managers of
the Mutuals are very large in necessary ex-
penses aside from the salaries of the scores Of
men they must employ IN order to do the
business with despatch and reliability
Year: 1875

A Word OF ADvIcE.-Be industri-
Gus. The world is already burdened
by loafers, idlers, and nonproducerS,
all of whom have to be supported by
those who work. Begin early to teach
your children the value of labor and
Industry. Make your calculations to
be busy and usefuIly employed as long
as YOU live. The idea of living the
first half of ones life under double pres
sure, and then, after getting a com2e-
tence, retiring from all active life and
living easy upon the interest of the
capital acquired, is the height of folly.
1t is contrary to nature, and must work
disastrously both to the body and the
mind. Be industrious at some paying
branch of your business, and earn
money to use as we'll as to keep.


AS we look around among the far
mers of acquaintance, we see many
who spend most of their rainy days and
evenings at the village stores or post
Office, discussing the weather, the crop
prospects, the general news OF the VII
Iage. and sometimes little politics.


As a general rule, one bad better be at
home attending to the plans or details
of his business, or reading books or pa
pers that would teach more valuable
lessons than can be learned at the cor
ner grocery or village post-office.
Year: 1875

An incident occurred on recent trip
which made over the Union Pacific,
which may be of interest to your read
ers, as it was at one time of uncommon
interest to me. We were rolling along
between Salt Lake and Omaha, when /
made my way into the smoking car to
enjoy cigar, ! noticed group gather
ed in the centre of the car, and crowd
ing my way up found two men gamb-
lipg. One was well dressed man, but
bearing general appearance of a black
leg; the other was veritable miner,
just as he came from the mountains,
with long, grizzly beard, rough, coarse
and dirty clothes, but with lots of gold.
The play was for quite large stakes, and
heard whispers that the gambler was
about to fleece the miner, and mu uch
sympathy was manifested for him.


The game-draw poker-still went
on with hardly word spoken by the
players, till finally, when large sum
was on the board, the gambler being
called to show his hand, threw down
three aces and two queens, and reached
for the money, the miner stretched over
and held his hand and laid down two
aces, showing of course, five aces in the
pack. He then reached back and drew
a large navy revolver, cooked it, placed
the muzzle directly between the eyes
of the gambler, still holding his hand:
Not a word was spoken, but each looked
steadily into the eyes of each other.
Soon the hand began to quietly move
from the money, the form of the gamb-
Ter to draw back, and still the revolver
followed. He stepped into the aisle,
and here the scene became so uninter-
esting to me and several others present
that we dropped under the seats. The
gambler slowly backed towards the
door, with the revolver following till
the door was reached, and he passed
out. The miner cody let down the
hammer of his revolver, replaced it in
his pocket, swept the money from the
board into his pouch, quietly lighted
his pipe, and settled back into his seat
as if nothing had happened. The
strargest part of the whole business was
that not word was spoken from the
time the gambler laid his three aces on
the board till he passed out of the car
door.-Youngstown (O.,) Register.
Year: 1875

HAPPY HUsBANDs.-It is mans
own fault if he is unhappy with his
wife, in. nine cases out of ten. 1t is a
very exceptional one who will not be
all she can to an attentive husband,
and more exceptional one who will
not be very disagreeable if she finds
herself willfully neglected by her hus-
band. 1t would be very easy to hate
man who, having bound woman to
him, made no effort to make her happy,
and hard not TO love one who is con-
slant and tender; and when a woman
loves she always tries to please. The
great men of this world have often been
wrecked in their domestic relations,
while men, and common men have been
exceedingly happy. The reason is very
plain. Absorbed in themselves, these
who desire the worlds applause were
careless of the little world at home:
while those who had none of this ego
tism, strove to keep the hearts that
were their own, and were happy in their
tenderness. No woman will love a
man the better for being renowned or
prominent. Though he be first among
men, she will only be prouder, not fon-
der; and if she loses him through re-
nown, as is too often the case, she will
not even be proud. But give her love,
appreciation, kindness, and there is no
sacrifice she would not make for his
content and comfort. The man who
loves her we'll is her hero and king.
Year: 1875

FoRGorrEN.-Generation after gener-
alton have felt as we feel, and their fel-
lows were as active in lite as ours are
now. They passed as q vapor, while
nature wore the same aspect OF beauty,
as when her Creator commanded her to
be. And so, likewise, shall it be when
we are gone. The heavens will be as
bright over our graves as they are now
around our path; the world will have
The same funeral winding OH It's way,
and the attractions for offspring that
she once had for ourselves, and that she
has now for her children. A little
while, and all this will have happened.
The throbbing heart will be stilled, and
We shall be at rest. Our prayers will
be said, and the grave-clods will be
thrown in, and our friends will all re-
turn, and we shall be left behind to
darkness and to the worms. And 1t
may he for some short time we shall be
spoken of, but the things of life will
creep in, and our names will soon be for
gotten. Days will continue to move
on, and laughter will be heard in the
very chamber in which we died; and the
eyes will glisten again with joy; and
even our children will cease TO think of
us, and will not remember to lisp our
names.
Year: 1875

Intemperance-This is the fro that
old Nick built


Moderate drinking-This is the fuel
that feeds the fire that old Nick built.


Rum selling-This is the axe that
cuts the wood that feeds the hre that
old Nick built.


Love of money-This is the stone
that grinds the az that cuts the wood
that feeds the FIRE that old Nick built.


Public OpiDion-This is the sledge
with its face of steel that battsrs the
stone that grinds the ak that cuts the
wood that feeds the fire that old Nick
built.
Year: 1875

Sin is ashamed of sin.


TO step aside is human.


Pleasure and sorrow are twins.


Above all things reverence yourself.


Honest men are the gentlemen of ma
ture.


Memory always obeys the commands
of the heart.


Man is the weeping animal born to
govern all the rest.


There is even happiness that makes
the heart afraid.


A wise man will make more oppor-
tunity than he finds.


The thought OF eternity consoles for
the shortness of life.


Sad is his lot who, once at least in
his life, has not been apoet.


Solid love, whose root is virtue, can
no more die than virtue itself.


Cultivate not only the cornfelds OF
your mind, but the pleasure grounds
also.


Nurture your mind with great
thoughts. To believe in the heroic
makes heroes.


AS turning the logs will make a dull
fire burn, SO change OF studies dull
brain.


A good discourse is that from which
one can take nothing without taking
the life.


When man can look upon the SIM
pie wild rose and feel no pleasure, bis
taste has been corrupted.


1 should say sincerity, a deep, great,
genuine sincerity, is the first charac-
teristic of all men in any way heroic.


If you wish success in life, make
perseverance your bosom friend, expe-
rience your wise counselor, caution your
elder brother, and hope your guardian
genius.


A man ought to carry himself in the
world as an orange tree would if it
could walk up and down the garden
swinging perfume from every little
censer it holds up to the air.


1t is said that jealousy is love, but |
deny it; for though jealousy be procured
by love, as ashes are by fire, yet Jeal-
ousy extinguishes love as ashes smother
flame.
Year: 1875

Affairs in the Pennsylvania mining
regions are not settled yet, though in
a state of comparative quiet. All is
serene in Carbon county, Pa, and the
miners say if the operators will give
them the 81 basis they will resume at
once. At Tamaqua Oh Monday last four
hundred strikers visited the mines but
found no one at work. They discharged
their revolvers in the air and told the
proprietors they had no objection to
coal being mined for the towns own
consumption, but none should be shipped
abroad. At Hazleton all ID quiet.
Year: 1875

Central America literally fighting for his
existence, He had traversed the mines OF
California and Nevada, where weakness and
cowardice invited murder. But, down IN his
heart, planted there perhaps BY mothers
lore, lived the lesson that stealing was
crime Of which every man ought to be
ashamed, and one demanding the exclusion
Of the guilty from the countenance and re-
spect of all people whose respect is worth
having. Hewas aware that all bis predeces-
sors lived and Aourished, and were magnates
in society, pillars in the Church, and rulers
in Government; still he had not the courage
to initiate their boldness, nor the courage to
brazen out, as they do, the mendaclty OF
their acts; and SO, to avoid the shame that
should attend such men as he, he sought
death and eternity as preferable to worldly
prosperity, execrated and despised even by
hinea1f
Year: 1875

Chicago is soon to be treated to month s
sight of the finest collection Of American art
ever made in the world This sweeping
statement is not exaggeration. It is simple
fact The policy adopted by the Art Com
mittee of the Exposition has proved thor
ough success. The Committee placed itself
in direct communication with the artists, in
stead OF depending upon picture-dealers, and
so exciting the prejudices of very sensitive
class of men. The result of the extra work
assumed by the Committee has been hearty
cooperation of all the leading artists Of the
country in making the gallery of 1875 bet
ter than anything ever exhibited even in the
East. The Exposition has now become
one OF the features Of the Northwest Every
one of the thousands who visit it goes
through the gallery Of paintings, and many
persons visit it simply for the sake of seeing
the pictures. Last year al effort was made
to have the gallery opened on Sunday, but
the suggestion was too late to have due
effect. This year time has been taken BY the
forelock. A similar proposition is now pend
ing before the Executive Committee. The
Committees evident intention to popularize
the whole E1position-an intention shown in
the reduction Of prices, etc.-gives reason
to hope for the success Of this sensible re-
quest. We understand that tho Art Com
mittee favors the project.


The matter could be easily arranged Let
q temporary fenced passage be constructed
between the main entrance and the art gal
lery. If this is done the services Of dozen
ticket-takers, policemen, etc, will be all that
is required. Il it is deemed best to do 50,
the gallery could be kept open only on Sun
day afternoon This would avoid all conflict
with church services. We should Like to see
the price of admission put as low as 10 cents,
but this might result in overcrowding the
art-rooms. The best plan would probably be
to begin at Is cents, and then lower the fee
if it could be safely done.


Sunday is the peoples dny. It is the only
day upon which the workingman is at leisure.
He is usually too weary to go ont in the even
ing that follows day Of exhaustive toll
Hitherto, when the time carle when he was
able to enjoy the treasures Of color in the gal
lery, he has found its doors shut This policy
should no longer be followed. The public
peace and the Sunday quiet have not been
disturbed by the opening of the Public Library
on Sunday. They would not be disturbed
by the opening OF the Public Art Gal
lery-we call it so because it is
built on ground owned by the public and
transferred to the Exposition Company for
pnbic purposes. The triumphant success of
The Sunday Lecture Society has shown that
the people are ready to avail themselves of
6rst-class means OF instruction and entertain
ment on the first day of the week. The
doors Of our 5000 saloons are open all day
Sunday. Why should not the doors Of the
art gallery swing open to the people too, and
lure men from iquor7 Let us try the ex-
pertinent of fighting Bourbon with Beauty.