ffilie ocmocrdtitWESTMINSTER, MD. SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1881.

$2 PER ANNUM.

STATEMENTShelving the condition of the Far-

mers’ Mutual Fire Insurance Co.

of Dug Hill,Carroll county, Md.,

December 31st, ISSO.

ASSETS.Value of real estate owned by the

Company, less amount ofencum-

brance thereon $

Amount ot Loans -I d®

Cash inCompany's principal office

and belonging to the Company

deposited in bank.... •• 300. ol

Premiums due and in course ofcollection

Premium Notes •.19,116.00Unpaid assessments or calls on

Premium Notes .9.26

Total Admitted Assets $220,026.87

ASSETS NOT ADMITTED.Office Furniture ?' ;0 0°

LIABILITIES.Reserve as required by law $7,600.03

All other claims 1,3n.8. jTotal Liabilities $8,977.86

Surplus as regards Policy holdersincluding Premium Notes $211,049.02 >

Total lacome -'^l?-Total Expenditures <,004.J<Amount ettPolicie* written during

the year 1880, in Maryland 616.082.1t0

Premiums received on Marylandbusiness in 1880 374. M

Premium Notes received on Mary-land business in 1880 47,291.31

Losses paid in Maryland during1880 5,266.10

STATE OF MARYLAND,INSURANCE DEPARTMENT.

COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE.Annapolis, January Ist, 1881.

In compliance with Act of 1878, Chapter 10*.1 hereby certify that the above is a true ex-tract from the statement of the Farmers'

Mutual Fire Insurance Company of DugHill, Carrol! county, Md., to December31st, 1880, new on file in this Department,

JESSE K. HINES,mar 19 3t Insurance Commissioner.

TRUSTEES’ SALEOF

A Valuable Dwelling House,IK WESTMINSTER, MD.. AISO

PERSONAL PROPERTY.

THE undersigned trustees, by virtue of a

deed of trust from Thomas 11. Bankertand wife, recorded among the land records ofCarroll county, Maryland, will offer at PublicSale, to the highest bidder, on the premises, iOn Wednesday, the COI day of April, ISSI,

at 1 o'clock, p. m.. that valuable House andLot now occupied by the said Thomas H.Bankert, situate oa Carroll *treet. in the cityof Westminster, Md. This lot has a frontage

of about 45 feet, and extends back over 200feet, and is improved by a largetwo-story brick DWELLING,also stabling and other ouI'B3|B3JL

This property is in good condition in every

respect, with pump and other conveniences.Also willsell at the same time 2 horses and2 wagons.

Terms ofSale for the Real Kstaie. —One-

third cash on the day of sale or on the ratifi-cation thereof by the Court; the balance in

two equal payments of 9 and 18 months fromday of sale, the credit payments to be securedby the notes of the purchaser or purchasers,with interest from day of sale.

Terms of Sale of Personal Properly. —A jcredit of six months will be given, secured bythe note of the purchaser with interest fromday of sale.

BARBARA A. GREENWOOD.JAMES A. C. BOND.

R. C. Matthews, Anet’r. Trustees,mar 12-ts

PUBLIC SALE

REAL ESTATE.THE undersigned will sell at Public Sale,

on the premises, near Oakland Church

and Factory, in Freedom District, Carroll icounty, cn

Wednesday, the 6th day of April, 1881, jat 12, m., a farm containing

136 ACRES, MORE OR LESS.About 36 acres ia valuable Timber —

Hickory and White Oak: the arableSp£land is ia excellent condition. There *U~

_ia a Tenant House on the pro-

L.~?h> perty, and water in every field.This land is located in one

IwlflaCllafc' the finest sections of Carrollcounty, 1$ miles from the turnpike, and isconvenient te churches, mills, schools, postoffice, 4c., and adjoins the property of Mrs.

Caroline Bennett.Positive. For further particulars

call on or addressJ. Oliver Wadlow, Agent, Freedom, Md.TERMS. —One-third cash on the day of

sale: one-third in one year and the remainingone-third in two years from the day of sale: Icredit payments to be secured by the notes ofthe purchaser, with approved security, bear- ;ing interest from the day of sale; or all cashat the option of the purchaser.

MIRANDA STOCKSDALB.march 12-ts

NO. 2034 EQUITY.In the Circuit Court for Carroll county, as a

Court of Equity.

Theodore F. Englar and Chas. T. Ueifsnider,Trustees, vs. Francis H. Bankard aad

wife.

ORDERED this 16th day of March, A. D.1881, that the sales of the Heal Estate

made and reported in the above entitledcause by Tboodore F. Englar and Charles T.Reifanider, trustees under and by virtue of adeed of trust from Francis H. Bankard and

Laura V. Bankard, his wife, dated January24th, 1881, and duly recorded among the landrecords of Carroll county, be finally ratifiedand confirmed, unless cause to the contrarybe shown on ar before tbe 19lh day ot April,next: provided a copy of this order be insert-ed once a week for three successive weeks inseme newspaper published in Carroll county,Maryland, previous to tbe 11th day of April,next.

The report states the amount of sales of

Real Estate to be $1,476.25.WM. N. HAYDEN,

Judge of the Circuit Court.True Copy,—Test:

mar 19-3 t Frank T. Shaw, Clerk.

NO. 1 INSOLVENTS.

In the Circuit Court for Carroll county.

In the matter of the Insolvent Estate of DavidShaffer.

ORDERED this 16th day of March, 1881,that the sales of Rea! and Personal Pro-

perty made and reported bv Chas. T. Reifsni-der and James A. C. Bond, permanent trus

tees of David Shaffer, insolvent, be ratifiedand confirmed, unless cause to the contrarythereof be shown on or before the 18lh day ofApril,next; provided a copy of this order beinserted in some newspaper printed in Car-roll county once in each of three successiveweeks before the 9lh day of April, next.

The report states the amount of sales ofBeal Estate to be $1,714,50; amount ofPer-sonalty, $49.03 —$1,763.53.

WM. N. HAYDEN,Judge of the Circuit Court.

True Copy,—Test:mar 19-3 t Frank T. Shaw, Clerk.

S3O Reward —Broke Jail.

VREWARD of S3O will be paid for the at-

test and delivery to me of Lewis Dell,white; about 5 feet 8 inches high, light com-plexion with black moustache; had on darkclothes an! felt hat and will weigh from 140to 150 pounds.

A reward ofslo will be paid for the arrestand delivery to me of Charles A. Yonson,white, f.bout 6 feet high, straight, dark hair,and is about 25 years old: was well dressedand b id on a broad brim black felt hat.

The above named parties escaped from theCarrol, county jailon the afternoon of March17, 1881.

GEORGE N. FRINGER,Sheriff of Carroll county,

mar 19-3 t Westminster, Md.

SALE BILLS, POSTERS and DODGERSprinted at this Office.

LITTLE CHILDREN.BY MARY HOWITT.

Sporting through the forest wide*.Flaying by the water side:

Wandering o’er the heathed fells.

Down within the woodland dells;

Allamong the mountains wild:Dwelleth many a littlechild:In the Baron’s hall of pride;By the poor man’s dull fireside:’Mid the mighty, ’raidthe mean;

little children may be seen;

Like the flowers that spring up fair.

Bright and countless everywhere.

In the fair isles of the main;

In the desert’s lone domain:In the savage mountain's glen;

Among the tribes of swarthy men :Where soe’er a foot has gone;Where soe’er the sun hath shone:

On a league ofpeople groundLittle children may be found.Blessings on them. they, in meMove a kindly sympathy;With their wishes, hopes and fears.With their laughter and their tear*

With their wonders so intense.And their small experience,little chVtifrm not XWRdOn the wida world are ye known:Mid its labors and its cares;

Mid its sufferings and Its snares,

Free from sorrow, free from strife;

In the world of love and life.Where no sinful thing hath trodInthe presence ofourSpotless, blameless, glorified.Little children, ye abide.

things Abroad.NEW CALEDONIA.

A Few Facts about the People of this Country.

The New Caledonians believe that cer-

tain magical or “fetish stones increasethe fertility of the soil. Most magic, roe-

I di;evai or savage, is based on the doctrine| that like affects like. The Kanckas there-

I fore sow, with yams or taros, stones in the

shape of yams or taros. In the same way,

when they go hunting or fishing, they rub

, their spears and hooks with stones which| rest-mblo the creature* they wish to cap-ture. The fetish sten.es are discovered by

their happy owners in the foliowing way.A native walks alone, ' shunning the pathsof men," till be hears a low cooing or twit-

! teriug, for ghosts twitter in New Caledonia

as they do in the Hades of Homer. He

hunts on the spot where the sound is heard,

and in due tiusv discovers the stone

Sorcerers are called in just as in other and

more civiliicd lands; the priest blesses thefields. The black fellows, however, do not

trust entirely to magic. They collect soil

with great industry to form their plants-! tions. and so acquire a recognizable rightin the land. Not a weed ia to be seen on

I their plots. It is pretty to watch the men

| delving on the hillside, and loosening the

jproper sort of earth, while the women ba-

i low collect the lumps of soil, crumble them,

and spread them on the garden, and the

I little naked children play or sleep under| the shade of a large tree. That the plan

latinos may not bo rifled by iodoleot tribes-men. a strict taboo is placed upon them.

In tbe cultivation of taro irrigation is ne-

cessary, and streams of water arc directedalong the various terraces on tbe sides ofthe hills. These terraces sometimes ex-

tend for miles, and thousands of tuns of

earth must have been moved in making

them. Tbe aqueducts are carried over im-mense distances; the water is led across

ravines in hollowed logs and over the large

valleys in raised earthen aqueducts. New

I Caledonia is covered with traces of ancientj aqueducts, and i: may be inferred citherthat the land was more populous and pros

! porous than it is to-day or that plantations| were allowed to lie fallow when the soil

was in danger of exhaustion.It must not be supposed that the New

j Caledonians are entirely given up to til-

. lage. They are fond of dress, which, inthe case of the men, is purely decorative.A dandy wears a bright red flower stuck

behind bis car, as did tbe dandies of QueenElisabeth's time, bat then he wears scarce-

ly anything else. Tbe skirts of the women

are scanty, but the western are shucked by| the niggardly costume of the eastern ladies.A good deal of time is occupied in the

process of tattooing. The women are the| artists. Armed with the brand, of a

I thorn tree and a small mallei, they tap the

1 prickles on the part of tbe skin where the! pattern is to appear. When this process

is ended they rub in a pungent decoction,

the effect of which is to make the warriorscream and dance with pain. When thereis no tattooing to be done, and when no

village gives one of the dances or pellew

I pelltws. the tribes pass iheir hours in bath-

i ing or in smoking over the fire. If the- ; tra.oiler traces a stream up its course into

the bush he may come upon a pleasantsight enough.

Forty or fifty natives may be dabblingabout iu the clear shallow water, frighten-

! ing the “silver eyes” (a fish not unlike thej trout or grayling,; while other men on the: bunk pelt their friends with golden-skinnedoranges. These fruits are pretty to lookat, but too bitter to be pleasant to the taste.

A little lower down the rivulet the women

and children make a separate group. The

water breaks in jets ofsilvcrou their limbs• of bronze. The old men are squatting in

the soft grass in the shade of the palmtrees. At other times you find men patching canoes, sewing up the hole as a shoe-

maker cobbles a boot. The rest carve or-

naments out of shells or make fishing nets;

| and occasionally you come on a tribe burn-j ishiog its weapons of war. Each warrior

jhas a piece of slate-like stone, and by a

I most laborious process of rubbing it againstjanother stone, he forms it into the egg-likepellets, reminding one of similar Greekmissiles, which the Kauekas throw from

their slings.When the spears are sharpened, the bul-

lets polished and war declared, the NewCaledonians arc not very keen fighters.They like the chance of fighting another

day, and thay arc more accomplished as

j freebooters than as soldiers. Just as themen are not brave, so the women are not

chaste. There seems, however, to be noth-ing like polyandry, though the ideas of

martial revenge arc such as might have

been learned from the novels of M. Charles

•do Bernard. The worst charge against the

natives —a charge not neglected by theiraccuser iu the Repuhllque Franca! .—isthat of cannibalism. While they had no

animals bigger than lizards or rats, they ,were confirmed man-eaters. The pig,when introduced to the island, exercisedhis usual benign and civilizing influence.Pork has taken the place, as a general rule,of the ‘•strange meat of former days, anda case is well known in which the lives of

captives have been spared when a pig was

offered as ransom. The usual way of jtreating an enemy is to broil him on hotstones ci i pajnlfotte, with banana leaves fora wrapping. At all times human flesh was

Ia rarity, an 1 the Niw Caledonian way ofdescribing a groat victory is to declare that

i “there was plenty to eat and to spare, evenfor the women. A chief of a large in-

land clan avers that cannibalism is onlylawful between men of different tribes.Criminals are occasionally devoured byorder of the executive. Their mlsdeiuean-

”ors put them outside the pale of law.We have not attempted to extenuate the

bad qualities of the Kanckas. They are

not very industrious, brave or chaste, butthey are not needlessly cruel, they are goodhumored to their written aud children,

they are contented and cheerful. Theirreligion is not very highly organized, but

they have a confirmed belief in the exist-ence of something sunt aligi a manes, afterthe death of the body. There arc certainmen in most tribes who fall into trances,

during which they are supposed to visitthe departed. When they awake they arc

unconscious of what has been done on

earth, but have much to say about the“powerless headsoflhe dead One P. indihad a reputation for disappearing bodilybefore the very eyes of his friends, andcooiiog up again at places many milesdis-

. taut. He described the existence of the

1, ghosts as like that of moo. but more opli-

j lent in yams. The good are rewarded, thebad scourged. There is no bead chief oftbe shades, but there are gruesome, gigs a

tic and mischievous beings in Hades

1 j After one visit Poindi brought back fromHades such a strange *|>car and Wonderfulfeathers as no roan had seen before With

1 such legends the Kanckas beguile theirlime, and lay the foundations of moralityand religion They are not faultless, butthere is a good deal to be learned from them—Saturday Rm'nr.

Chinese offic*r.

When a student has ad Jed poetry to bis

l other acquirements, he knows all thatChina can leach. He stands tbe lest, and

i comes through it gloriously, gaining tbe; I immediate right to wear a high cap, sur

j mounted by a button or ball as large as the. egg of a pigeon, and in this case eon-

i j strutted of copper, gill and wrought,

r i Our graduate is now a li. L . or Bachelorof Letters, a member of tbe ninth class of

- tbe order of mandarins, and duly fitted for

. the humbler posts. But though the suc-

cessful student is now one of the upper1 hundred thousand—an elected aiistocrat

f —he docs not necessarily receive .''tale

- : pay nor pass into .State employ. There is

f a “great go,” or second ordeal to gel

; through before b< can take rank as Mag-• istrate. Treasurer, Sub-Prefect or iuspec-

i tor. Between him and the loftiest situs-> (ion lies yet another barrier, harder to

r ; scale than the two former. True, be has

t all the Chinese learning in his brain,

stored away in a crude state; but if bewishes to be a great mandarin, he must

i show the |>ower to apply it. He can

I learn, can he think? If be hopes to

' change his ninth-class button for one of

r those envied lop-knots of red coral, he- ' must show an ability to make use of the

t raw material of knowledge, and as thought

. j is not more active iu China than with us,

; few are those who reach the topmost

i branches of the tree of preferment. Im-- mouse numbers of graduates flinch Ir -m

t the second examination, preferring to veg-, egate through life in some slenderly-paid. office; where there is not much to harrass

s and trouble, and where Court favor is less• needed, aud shameful downfalls less prob-

i able. The storm that levels the lofty pop-

e lar. they say, spares the humble mush-room at it roots. But there arc numbers

!> who fail to obtain even a desk in a GuV-, eminent bureau, or a “snug berth iu the

r Customs without hope of promotion,

s Those become scribes, poets, parasites,a scriveners, (private tutors, one or all.

Every city is full of these poor literarymen, dinnerless aristocrats, with pliant

; : back bones and tongues of honey. \\ henp a wealthy merchant's son marries another

t merchant’s daughter, they jostle one au-

other, these penniless graduates, as they; hurry to present their fulsome stanzas cn

- the happy event. When a rich man dies,

e and the paid howlers muster around the

e splendid coffin, a poet presents himself to

i exprtss the grief of the heirs in melliflu: i ous verse. The Bachelors of Letters are

• ! especially employed to “cram the sous of

t i wealthy families for examination, and

e they not only render all the services of a

s British private tutor, but now and then

i arc said to personate their dear pupil on

l • the awful day of trial, to take his place iuthe schools, and to receive his “testamur

- jfor apt erudition—a crowning aid whi.h- no Oxford or Cambridge “coach” has; I ever been known to render to his young- i friends. The little irregularities are ren-

r dered faccile by the fact that Chinese ex-

t aminers have itching palms and know no

t salve like silver. A bribe works wonders

2 in convincing the arbiters of the greatI °

i ! progress which the student has made in

t the humanities; aud iu a country where the

j founts of justice are corrupt, it is no won-- i der that degrees are to be bought. But we

i °

v ! must not hastily conclude that the whole. system isa make believe one, and that every

r 1 degree is a matter of bargain and sale.

s ' In practice, there is very little purchaseie for the very good reason that the candi-

t dates have more brains than dollars, and- can more easily fag than pay. The man-

f darins —at least the mandarins of pure

e Chinese origin—arc very seldom memberss| of the opulent classes. It is only out of

whim that a rich trader,a merchant prince| such as China abounds with, brings up a ¦

son to the service of the State. The menof money make their sons supercargoes,

i commercial travelers, corresponding clerks,

and so on. If you ask them why they

prefer—they who arc rolling iu riches,

who own fleets of junks, overbrimming

warehouses, and wealth unbounded—to

make their sons traders instead ol manda-

rins. they tell you frankly that mandarin-ism docs not pay. It Ls a harrassing life,

very uncertain full of shoals and

sunken rocks; even a \ iccroy may incur

a “squeeze, and it docs not tall to every

one's lot to inhabit a Garden of Flowers,

and call the Emperor cousin. On this ac-

count it i. that most of the haughty sa-

traps who sway tl s destinies of millions

arc men of very humble origin, not abso-

lutely of the humblest, because the poor

and numerous race whom we call “cooliescan seldom contrive to educate their off-

springs fmm obscure little shops, Irani

tooths in the suburbs of cities, or from

farms where the cultivator tills bis field

witli as clumsy implements and as amaz-ing neatness as bis ancestors when

Europe was a tangled swamp. Ieh, forinstance, a red button of tbe first class,

was the son of a petty broker, courtiermarron. as the French style it. All the

Year Hound

Japanese Kobe*.

Among some very elegant specimens of

Japatu -. art showing skillful workmanshipare a few superb wrappers or rather dress-

ing robes, of quilted s;lk. These veryrich garments come in the roost delicateand fashionable shades of mauve, blue,

dove, heliotrope, etc ,and arc lined

throughout with a silk of some contrasting

color. These are wadded with a soft andlight Japanese product resembling wool,

or with raw silk, making these doublegowns very comfortable for winter wear

Their thief attraction, however, lit*in theexquisite beauty of the embroidery work-

ed upon them. One robe especially no-

ticeable was of a creamy (war! shade, withan embroidery of apple blossoms and

sweet briar roses. Another of rich Ha-

vana brown silk, embroidered with whileMarguerite lilies, etc., was much admired.Grave blues and grays arc made brilliantwith btighlly-hued flowers and leaves inexact copy of Nature * own royal handi-

work. Bat those seem most attractivewhich display the characteristic and un-

mistakable Japanese figures of rushes,

cranes, fishes, dragons, palms, dainty aud

brilliant butterflies and golden and blackbees. The plain surfaces of these tinted

silks are made gorgeous with these brightdesigns, dotted at intervals over the gar-ments in small irregular patterns, thus

preventing their brilliancy from degenera-

ting into gaodiaess It seems almost in-credible, as one examines and admires thisdelicate and intricate work, that it ia done

bv the men of Japan and not the women

It is a fact worthy of note that beforethese robes could be made to fit our Ameri-can women the importer* were obliged to

send from this country patterns of suffi-

ciently Urge dimensions, the smallest ofwhich are “a world too wide for a Japan-ese Woman —-V i~ Frening /• a

Turning Potato** Into Cheese.

A foreign paper says that cheese is made

from potatoes in Thuringia aud Saxony inthe manner below. Possibly the processtnav bo found worth try ing, if not profita-ble in this country. After having col

lectcd a quantity of potatoes, of goodquality, giving the preference to a Urge,

while kind, they arc boiled in a caldron,

and after becoming cool they are peeledand reduced to a pulp, either by means of

a grater or mortar. To five pounds of

this puip, which ought to be as equal as

pissible, is added one pound of sour

milk and the necessary quantity of salt.The whole is kneaded together and the

mixture covered up and allowed to lie forthree or four days, according to the season

At the end of this time it is kneadedanew, aud the cheeses are placed iu littlebaskets, when the superfluous moisture es-

capes. They are then allowed to dry inthe shade, and placed in layers in largevessels, where they must remain for fif-

teen days. The older these cheese*are the more their quality improves.Three kinds are made. The first audmost common is made as detailed above;the second, with four parts of potatoesand two (aits of curdled milk; the third,with two juris of potatoes and four parts

of Cow or ewe milk. These cheeses havethis advantage over oilier kinds, that theydo not engender worms, and keep fresh fora number of years, provided they are

placed in a dry situation and in well-closedvessels. —aV. £’¦ Farmer.

Position of Women in China.

Mouug Edwin, a Burmese, who hasbeen educated in this country with theview of sending him as a Baptist mis-

sionary to Burma!), lectured lately in Bal-

timore. Speaking of the deplorable con

dition of woman in the East, owing mainlyto peculiar religious teachings, he says:“Girls in China are believed to have no

souls, and to kill them is not murder, andtherefore nut to be punished. Wherepa.enls are too poor to support the girlchildren, they are disposed of in the fol-lowing way : At regular intervals an ap-pointed officer goes through a village andcollects from poor parents all the girl ehild-

i ren they cannot care for, when they are

about eight days old. He has two largebaskets attached to the cuds of a bamboo

i pole and slung over his shoulder. Six! infants are placed in each basket, and he

carries them to some neighboring villageand exposes them for sale. Mothers whodesire to raise wives for their sons buysuch as they may select. The others are

i taken to the government asylum, of whichthere arc many all through the country,

i Ifthere is room there they are taken in,'j ifnot they are drowned.

©ar ©lio.THE WINTER IN THE WEST.

Graphic Account of the Suffering of the Peo-ple There.

A despatch from Dubuque, lowa, March25th, says A story told by Joseph Stcr-

rette, of Big Lake, Dakota, who just man-

aged to break through a terrible snow

blockade in that section, gives only a fair, statement of the troubles fastened upon the

settlers of the northwest by the severe

winter. Mr. Sterrette preempted ICO

acres of farm land at Big Lake two years

ago. and at once moved on it and settled

down to work. At the end of a year lie

was in farming shape and had a comforta-

ble cabin for bis family. Last year he

harvested sixty acres of wheal, twenty-fivebushels to the acre, and realized $1,200

clear. He laid iu a quantity of fuel and

p|C(>ared for the winter, but it proved se-

verer than he or his neighbors had calcu-lated. In fact, Stcnretle'a better preparatioo for the rigorous season turned out to

be the only means which prevented him •self, family and neighbors from starving

and freezing to death.In February he found it necessary to

rescue the entire families of two neighbor

ing farmers, who were not so well housed,

from perishing by the extreme cold, bytaking them all into his owu house to live.

The cold was so steady and bitter that

before the season was half over the fuel

which Sterrette had gathered to last until

spring was all consumed. Then the men

staying with him went out and took dowu jfences and out-houses and kept from free*mg by breaking them up and burning

them At this time the heavy snowfall

which blockaded the railroads fell and it

was piled in such drift* about the house,

in which he and bis neighbors were domi-

ciliated. as to absolutely cutoff all commaa icat ion with the outside world. Themercury fell lower than ever. The winds

grew fiercer, and the surrounding snow

caked and solidified.At this time the men dug their way or

rather mined it through the blockade to

the railroad near by nd dug out lies,

which they chopped up into stove wood

and took home nd burned to cook their

scanty food to ave their wive* and chil-

dren from starving, W hen all the tie*

and telegraph polos that could be reachedby the most desperate exertion* were con-

sumed, it was decided to dig through to

the cabins of those sheltered in Sterrette s

house and break them up for fuel. This

was done and every stick burned. The

bitter cold still continuing Sterrette s fur

oiture was next sacrificed, even to hisbedsteads, trunks and children * toy*.

While the cold imprisoned pioneer* were

on their last supply of fuel, a consultationwas held and it was decided to make the

1 desperate attempt of driving through the

deadly blasts upon the crusted snow for

relief. John Becker agreed to go. Atietgh ws prepared, and with five horse*

hitched to it, Becker started. The roadway

1 was beaten to the top of a drift, and Becker

succeeded in getting to the top of it nddrawing it over ibe enut. U w a terribleundertaking, and when the bravo man left

there were tear* frozen upon hia cheeks

Becker persisted to taking with him a fine

shepherd dog He gave as hi* reason, “I

don't know what will happen I J ratherbury Carlo in my belly than have him

freeze to death.” Sterrette and his cam

' jpan tans became alarmed when, at the endof two days, Becker did not return, and

they started out for him They had uot

gone far when they came across a large

hole in the drift where Becker had brokenthrough. The man was found curled up

. iu the bed of the sleigh frozen dead. The

faithful dog was lying huddled up againsthis breast, also dead. The five horses were

standing lifeless upon their feet all frozenstiff. The men carried Becker s bodyback. They made a coffin of the sleighbed. nailed the corpse up in it and placedit iu a cornerib until the weather should

I permit of its burial. Soon after this and

just a* the parly were on tbe point of de-

spair, the weather moderated sufficientlyto break tbe snow blockade and Sterelteeand his friends found relief. The neigh-

boring family during this lime had no

other food than soup, made ftvui an oxi; rpelt, which happened to be in the house

j when the blockade began. Notwithstand-ing all this Mr. Sterrette says the people

’ like the country and say they will stay,

aud in the future be prepared for severe

winters.s

Sulky People.

r Did it ever occur to you that sulkiness. in its finished state is a rare accomplish-

j rnent ? It implies the possession of va-

ried gifts among others that of completemastery of the five senses. It is for a

man to be blind when it is desired that heshould open his eyes, dumb whenever

’ words would be acceptable, deaf to all al-• luremcnts or submission, insensible to

every effort at conciliation. It can create

' i gloom, and having created it, it can per-! petuate and deepen until it becomes a

‘ clinging atmosphere as unwholestmteas uta-

¦ j laria. It comprehends an absolute control

J j over the facial muscles, so that no softness

1 I or sign of yielding, not a ripple of a smile or

e an expression of pleasure, may replace

1 even for a moment the sullen apathy or

¦ illuminate the habitual scowl of the con-

¦ ! firmed sulkcr. In a word, it is the faculty

' son shall appear to be blind, deaf, dumb,

‘ j stupid, paralyzed, ill or dead, whenever and

e i for as long as he chooses. IVhat better

0 jillustration of misdirected energy can be

s given than that shown by the sulky person,e !

e j Garner up pleasant thoughts in youru I mind: for pleasant thoughts make pleasanty lives. Strive to see all you can of the

e good and the beautiful, so that bright,It cheerful pictures may be impressed on

’. memory’s tablets, and give you materia si, of which to think sunny and lovely

thoughts.

A Milwaukee Grain Eleyator.

In order to begin at the beginning—get !to the bottom, as it were, of an elevator— jouo must climb to the very top. Thebuildiog is perhaps one hundred and fiftyfeet long by seventy-five feet wide, and,like all its class, it rises eighty feet or

more to the caves, above which a narrow

top part forty or fifty feet higher, is perch-ed upon the ridge-pole. It is built of iwood, sheathed with corrugated iron a

little way up. and then slated the rest ofthe way.

Entering one end, where two railway jtracks run into the building, we find a

narrow wooden stairway, and begin our ;ascent. The flights are short ones, but Ieighteen are stepped over before we emergeinto the topmost attic. Alongside of us ,

as we climbed, has been running the strong

belt which carries the power from thegreat engine on the ground floor to thegearing in the roof —a belt ofrubber can

vas four feet wide, and perhaps two hun-dred and fifty feet long.

When grain is brought—perhaps a hun-

dred carloads from the vast fields of Da-

kota or the wide farms between here and

St. Daul—the train is backed right into

the elevator, and stands so that oppositeeach car door is a receiver, which is a kind

of vat or hopper, in the platform. By the

help of steam-shovels, operating almost

anatomically, two men iu each car will. iu ten minutes or less empty the whole

train.As fast as the grain is dumped, the re-

ceiver delivers it to iron buckets holdingabou< a peck each, which are attached to

endless belts, and travel up a sort of chim.

oey. called a “leg, to this roof chamber.

These buckets will hoist 6,000 bushels au

hour at their ordinary rate of speed. That is

equal to one bucket going up 24,000 times

at the rate of 400 limes a minute—tolera-bly lively work! To day up here in the

topmost loft there is nothing doing, aud

we arc saved strangulation. The light

hardly penetrates through the eobwebbedwindows, and the most pulverous of dust

lies everywhere half an inch deep, showing

tbe marks of • few boot soles, many foot-

prints of rats, and the lace-like tracks of

hundreds of spiders and bugs. lou step

over and under broad horizontal bells a* you

make your way gingerly from one end of

the attic to the other. They run the fans

that winnow tbe grain a* it comes up in

the bucket*, after which it is dropped into

the hoppers, ten feet wide, and twice as

Jeep, that open like hatchways every few

feet in tbe centre of the floor. Now all is

perfectly quiet, we are so high that even jthe clamor of the wharves doc* not reach jus. But when the machinery starts inmotion, then fearful roars, and clash of

cogs, and whipping of slackened belts, as

sault the garret, until this whole upper

region rocks like a ship in a gale, and chaff

and dust cloud the eye* and stifle the throat. jDescending one stery. we find another

garret, with nothing in it but the square

bodies oflhe hoppers. Going down a secondflight shows us that the hoppers are sm-

pended not upon pillars, but loosely on ironstirrups, so a* to shake a little, and the

iron gate which lets on or shots off the

fall of the grain through the tubular ori-

fice at the bottom is operated by steam

There are twelve of these hopper*.Sticking up through the floor underneath

. each one gape the flaring mouths of twelve

spouts or sluices, all of which point direct-ly at the gate in the hopper, as though

earnestly its bounty of grain.

Every one of these 144 spouts leads iulo

a bin, near or distant, and all are number-ed, so that the superintendent knows which

( spout conducts to any one bin. and can

, distribute his cargoes accordingly, the re-

sult of Its choice being recorded in cabal-, istic abbreviation* upon * blackboard close

by. A movable conductor is swung into

, place between the hopper and the spout,

the gate pulled open, and dowu slides the

, wheat, with a musically rushing noise, into

I the grateful bin,

j To see the bins we descend again, this

j ' lime reaching the lop of the wide part of

the building We walk very circumspect-

ly, in the half light, amid a mate of beams,

, stringers, and cross-pieces of wood and

i iron. The whole interior of tbe elevator

j below this level is now seen to consist of

( a scries of rooms, between which there is

, no communication. They arc ceiliugless,and the only exit from them is through a

spout in the bottom. Peering over theedges from the narrow foot-walks, we can

only guess how far the person would fall

who should lose his balance, for the eyecan not reach the bottom; it is sixty-fivefeet below, and hidden in darkness. Of

these deep bins there are 144. some twice

9 the size of others. Sometimes they are

all full t once, and hold eight or nine

| hundred thousand bushels, weighing fitly

millions of pounds, and good for over two

hundred thousand barrels ot flour. Har-

per* Magazine for April.

Some time ought to be taken at home

0 to talk with the children about what they

e : are learning and doing at school. Buch

' jtalks arc what children naturally expect

II and like. Your children are not turned

' i away to school to shift wholly for them-

-1 selves, or to be taken care of wholly bys the teacher, without any thought of your

r own for them. You ought to know what

e they study and how they get on. No

r matter if you find out something about

their plays and playmates, and the way

f they spend their recess. No matter cither' if the teacher finds out that you know’> something of what is going ou in and about* the school house, and if they come to un-r derstand that with out your keeping any

e close watch upon them, you have an eye'• at least for all the good work they are

doing.

t j To Clean Cakpets.—A few drops of

e carbonate of ammonia in a small quantity:, of warm rain water, will prove a safe and

a easy anti acid, and will change, ifcarefully

s applied, discolored spots, whether producedy by acid or alkalies. If you have carpets

injured by whitewash, this will remove it.

VOL. XVI.-NO. 20.

Intoxicated Geese.

When geese take to drink the result ispreposterous. For nature never meant

geese to get intoxicated. In the first placethey have no hands to hold on to lampposts with; while at the best of times theirbalance is precarious. Even when sober,a fat goose, if traveling on uneven ground,constantly cants forward on to its beak,orbackward on to its tail; but wheu inebria-ted it is utterly helpless. A short whileago a farmer’s wife iu Germany had beenmaking some cherry brandy, but as shefouud, during the process, that the fruitwas unsound, she threw the whole mass

out into the yard, aud, without lookingwhat followed, shut the window. As itfell, a party of geese, good fellows all ofthem, happened to be wadling by at thetime, and, seeing the cherries trundlingabout, at ouce investigated them. Thepreliminary inquiry proving satisfactory,these misguided poultry set to and ate thewhole lot. “No heel taps” was the order

I of the carouse, and so they finished all the

| cherries offat one sitting, so to speak. Theeffect of the spirituous fruit was soon ap-parent, for on trying to make the gate whichled from the scene of the debauch to the

| horse pond, they found everything againstthem. Whether a high wind had got up,

| or what had happened, they could not tell,but it seemed to the geese as if there was

; an uncommonly high sea running, and theground set in toward them with a steady

| strong swell that was most embarrassingIto progress. To escape these diffculties

some lashed their ruders and hove to, otherstried to run before the wind, while Jierest tacked for the pig stye. But therewas no living in such weather, aud one by

; one the craft lurched over and went downall standing. Meauwhile the dame, theunconscious cause of this disaster, was a:-

j traded by the noise in the fowl yard, andlooking out saw all her ten geese behavingas if they were mad. The gauder himself,usually so solemn and decorous, was bal-ancing himself on his beak, and spinningaround the while in a prodigious flurry offeathers and dust, while the old graygoose, remarkable, even among her kindfor the circumspection of her conduct,was lying stomach upward in the gutter,feebly gesticulating with her legs. Others

of the party were no less conspicuous forthe extravagance of their attitude and

' gestures, while the remainder were to beseen in a helpless confusion of feathers inthe lee scupper —that is to say, the gutter

by the pig stye. Perplexed by the specta-

cle, the dame called in her neighbors, and,after careful investigation, it was decidedin council (hat the birds had died of poison.Under these circumstances their carcasses

were worth nothing for food, but, as the' neighbors said, the feathers were not poi-

| soned, and so they set to work then and' j there and plucked the ten geese bare.

Next morning the old woman got up as

usual, and, remembering the feathers down

1 stairs, dressed betimes, for it was market

1 day, and she hoped to get them off her‘ bauds at once. And then she bethought

her of theplucked bodies lying in the porch,‘ and resolved that they should be buried

1 before she went out. But as sheapproach-' ed ll e door, on these decent rites intent,

aud was turning the key, there fell on hercars the sound of a familiar voice, and thenanother and another, until at last tbc as-

* tonisbed dame heard iu full chorus the* well-known accents of all her plucked and

1 poisoned geese. The throat of the old

r gander was, no doubt, a trifle husky, andthe gray goose spoke iu muffled tones

suggestive of a chastening headache; but

1 there was no mistaking those tongues,

- and the dame, fumbling at the door, won-

dered what it all might mean. Has a

1 goose a ghost? Did any o;e ever read or

8 hear of the spectre of a gander? The keyturned at last, the door opened, and there,

* quacking in subdued tones, suppliant aud

1 ; shivering, stood all her flock. There they> stood, the ten miserable birds, with split-

' ting headaches and parched tongues, con-

trite and dejected, asking to have their

¦ jfeathers back, again. The situation was

s painful to both parties. The forlorn geese

8 saw in each other’s persons the humiliat-ing reflection of their own condition, while

1 the dame, guiltily conscious of that bagful¦ of feathers and down, remembered how* ! that one lapse of Noah, in that “aged sur-

-8 prisal of COO years and unexpected inebria-

-1 tion from the unknown effects of wine,j has been excused by religion and the

8 ' unanimous voice of his prosterity. She,and her neighbors with her, however, had

* hastily misjudged the geese, and findingr them dead drunk, had stripped them, wilh-

> out remembering for a moment, that if> feathers are easy to get off, they are very

5 hard to put on. So she called in her

3 neighbors again, but they proved onlysorry comforters, for they reminded her

> that after all, the fault was her own; that

8 it was she, and no one else, who had throwu

¦ the brandied cherries to the geese. As it

e was with Job, these “oblique expostula-tions” of her friends were harder for thewidow to bear “than the downright blows

e of the devil,” and so, turning from her

neighbors she gathered all her bald poul--0 try about her around th kitchen fire, and

0 set down to make them flannel jackets.—a London Punch.

Louisiana planters have great hopes of a

b recent invention by which bagasse, thee refuse cane stalks left over from the pro--- cess of manufacturing crude sugar, cache8 made into paper fiber of good quality ande that bleaches well. These stalks haveIt been used to heat the evaporating pans in-- which the sugar is boiled, but they will

3 - yield a ton of fiber to every hogshead ofsugar.

iv

s It is about as hard to find a girl whose

r. marriage is announced in the newspaperx who isn’t “beautiful aud accomplished,” as

it is to find a mau who has just died whowasn’t “honored and respected by all who

!'

knew him.”¦8 ¦—

s When the trees begin to leave in thespring the flowers begin to come

Pearls and Their Origin.

During the earliest periods of which we

’ have authentic history, the oriental pearli appears to have been known and appreci-| ated. Job, who is supposed to have lived| about B. C. 1520, or according to others,

B. C. 2130, speaks of it as being in his time'of high value, and much esteemed. Solo-

mon frequently refers to them, and Jere-miah, speaking of the Nazaritcs of Jerusa-lem, makes use of a beautiful simile in

} describing them as more ruddy than pearls,i In tae New Testament we frequently meet

with them, as inferring great riches andj splendor. In Rome, pearls were ext. n-

! sively used and of great value. Plinytells us that in his time the ladies were not

content with using them as eardrops andrings, but had them embroidered on theirdresses and sandals. They were obtainedfrom the Red sea, or brought to Rome by

tbc Arabian merchants from the Indian

Ocean. Among the ancient philosophers,effects were continually attributed to ;causes the most contrary to nature —in |

1 fact, merely wild guesses. The general jopinion appears to have been that they jwere formed by drops of dew falling into |the shell, for which purpose it periodically ;rose to the surface ; and Pliny gravely in- jforms us that if the atmosphere was thick |at the time, they were dark and clouded

—if it was clear, they were white andbrilliant. Of the pearls of ancient times, |those belonging to Cleopatra are certainly ;the most celebrated , and though there is !reason for believing that the account of Iher dissolving one of them in vinegar anddrinking it to Antony’s health at supper is

an historic fiction, yet that a pearl or pearlsof great value were in her possession ispretty certain. In Pliny's lime the two ihalves of a magnificent pearl, said to have

been the fellow to the one destroyed, were

hung in the ears of the statue of \ ecus

Genetrix in the Pantheon. This author

estimates the value of it at a sum equal to !$373,000. Julius Caesar gave £48,437

for one which he presented to one of his

mistresses. There was so much difficultyin obtaining pearls of exactly the same

size and color that the Roman ladies, aboutthe time ol the Jugurthan war, gave themthe name of I'nioncs, which appears to

have been the first occasion on which thisword, now so well known, was applied to

shells. In Rome, if sold, a guarantee of

their identity was required—a very wiselaw, which might now with benefit be re-

enacted.The pearls and shells used at (he pres-

ent day arc chiefly brought from the Is-land of Ceyleo. In the Atlantic Oceanthey are chiefly fished for on the coast ofTerra Kiraa in the Gulf of Mexico near

the Island of Cubagua, and on the Mar-garita or Pearl Islands. In the Pacific

they are plentiful on the Island of Gorgo-na, along the coast of the Bay of Panama,and in the ocean around California, and in

the adjacent islands. la 1306, the Spaniards carried on a large pearl fishery in

the West Indies. About the same limaadventurers flocked to California from allparts to enrich themselves with these jew-

els, and in the beginning of the eighteenth

| century, numbers from all the Westernparts of Spanish America con-regaledthere for the same purpose.

Baby ia Dead.

"Baby is dead!” Three little wordspassing along the line ; copied somewhereand soon forgotten. But after ail was

quiet again 1 leaned my hand upon myhead and fell into a deep reverie of all thatthose words may mean.

Somewhere —a dainty form, still andcold, unclasped my m. thcr s arms to-night.Eyes that yesterday were bright and blueas skies of June dropped to-night beneath

' i white lids that no voice ran ever raise

1 again.Two soft hands, whose rose-leaf fingers

were wont to wander lovingly around> mother's neck and face, loosely bolding

white buds, quietly folded in coffinedi • rest.

Soft lips, yesterday rippling with laugh-ter, sweet as woodland brook falls, gay as

, trill of forest bird, to-night unresponsiveI to kiss or call of love.

A silent home—the patter of baby feetf forever hushed—a cradle bed unpressed.

' Little shoes half worn—dainty garments, —shoulder knots of blue to match those

i eyes of yesterday, folded with aching heart

; away.i A tiny mound, snow covered in some

I quiet graveyard.; A mother’s groping touch, in uneasy

* slumber, for the fair head that shall never

f again rest upon her bosom. The low sob,; the bitter tear, as broken dreams awake to

s sad reality. The hopes of future years

! wrecked, like fair ships that suddenly godown in sight of laud.

> The watching of other babies, dimpled,- laughing, strong, and this one gone! The

present agony of grief, the future empti-ness of heart, all held in those three littlewords, “Baby is Dead! ’

’ | Indeed, it is well that we can copy and

1 soon forget the words so freighted with woe

t to those who receive and send them. And

I yet it cannot harm us now and theu to

¦ give a tender thought to those for whom

¦ j our careless pen stroke is preparing such a

r weight of grief.t i —•——¦ ——

> Byron wrote “The Corsair” in ten days,l at the rate of 200 Hues a day; Lope de

1 Vega wrote 300 dramas in 100 days; Vol-

r taire composed “Zaire” in three weeks

r ! and “Olympic” in six days; Drydeu wrote

t | his “Ode to St. Cecelia” at one sitting,- \ and Mrs. Browning’s “Geraldine’s Court-

r i ship” was the work of (welve hours.

3 Shakespeare, Dickens, Wordsworth aud

3 Moore, on the other hand, were slow

workers. Hepworth Dixon rewrote his“Two (jueens” eight times, and King-

* lake's “Eothen” was rewritten five or sixtiroes.

I To clean a porcelain kettle that has be-

-1 come brown with use, boil peeled potatoes

3 in it. It will become nearly as white as

. when new.