The East Huron Gazette, 1892-05-19, Page 641,
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THE INDIAN AS A SOLDIER.
*sperituents Made in the Army of the
a Untied states.
The adaptability of the American Indian
to the work of a soldier, is a of bleu horht h
has devolved upon the army
es
for solution within the last twelve months.
Lastq
headquarters in Washington to skeletonize
wc
twocompanies of each infantry and two
troops of each cavalry regiment, and then
to fatten up these skeletons to the maximum
standard of strength by recruiting the high
privates from the different Indian tribes.
Forthwith great difficulty was experienced
In inducing the Indians to enlist, especially
in the infantry, as an Indian abhors walk-
ing with an intensity greater than the dis-
gust the devil is credited with having for
holy water. There have been some compan-
ies and troops recruited and two companies
of Indian cavalry have been ordered to Fort
Sheridan, near Chicago, for their better ed-
ucation.
But without entering into the details of
this plan of 'educating the Indian under
compulsion, the question is : Can the In-
dian be made a good soldier? He can ride
a horse like an Arab, and, asmc nch disin-
clined as he is to walking, he
er
pressure, become as fleet -footed as Mer-
cury, though girdled and clinched up
against the pangs of hunger and thirst such
as Tantalus scarce ever experienced. Yet
with all such commendations it is held by
experienced army officers that the greatest
objections to him as a soldier are the qual-
ities that commend him, and without being
paradoxical in the claim. Though a good
pedestrian, he is so lazy that he would have
to be animated by a discharge of dynamite
before getting t6 move on himself beyond
" a reverse arms march to a national cem-
etery. And as capable of ,fastings as he
may be, be is always hungrier then a man-
eating tiger of India, and any regiment of
Indians can eat more rations in one day
than the ten days' allowance of a white
regiment.
Experience in the command of Indian
scents has qualified the officers who protest
against the introduction of Indians as sold-,
iers in the army to estimate them at their
probable worth, let the hope of 'their ser-
vices be of a high or to w degree.
The writer has seen the Indian as a sol-
dier in the army and as a scout. It was
during the civil war that two or more In-
dian regiments were enlisted on the Union
side to fill up the Kansas contingent. They
were put under command of General Blunt,
end were marched away from their homes
to take -part in the border warfare along
the Missouri and Arkansas line. They
much pretested against leaving without
their women and children, but were finally
induced to do so. Reaching camp after a
day's march " the Indian soldiers " had no
sooner tethered their horses and got to cook-
ing their rations that their families came
trooping over the divide " to take supper"
with then—about tbreesgnaws to each buck
end five papooses to each squaw. The first
ten days' rations issued the command were
saten up at the one meal.
History tells us how treacherous and un-
iteliable the Indians were whom the Confed-
erates enlisted during the war of the Re-
eellion to act with the Arkansas troops.
But it is out on the plains, or near his
even reservation, where the Indian scout,
a quasi -United States soldier, is seen in all
3iis glory ; made up of feathers, a blue uni-
Firm, paint, a pony, a carbine, and an ap-
petite.
It was in the fall of 1874, down on the
Wichita River in Indian Territory, that
the writer witnessed an eating bout among
number of Indians that discounted any-
thing of the prodigal gluttony that charac-
terized the hospitality of the day of Athel-
itone and Cedric, the Saxon. The Eighth
Cavalry, two squadrons, under command of
Major William Redwood Price, were camp -
cd on the Wichita. They were the New
Mexican contingent to the commandGeneral
Nelson A. Miles had in the field operating
Igainst the Cheyennes, Kiowas, Comanches,
Ind other Southern Indians. The Eighth
Cavalry had eight or a dozen Navajoes along
with the command asscouts and trailers. The
thief Niles a handsome, lithe young Navajo,
rery light complexioned the son of Delgedi-
ta, the war chief of the Navajoes. He bore a
longsonorous sounding name which had been
Anglicized into "Tom," and he was a gen-
eral favorite around camp. The Navajoes
were then, as they are now the most civil-
'tzed Indians in the country outside of
the nations " in Indian Territory.
s Tom " dressed a la cowboy, did
tot use paint, slept under home-
made blankets, and when at home
ite beef and mutton slaughtered from his
/ire's herds, and partook of apricots and
peaches raised on the sunny sides of the can-
ons of Western New Mexico. He talked
Iexican as well as any Rio Grande peon,
and didn't know a thing about "the sign
language" of the plains Indians, which was
the common and universal medium of com-
munication between all "the blanket"
Indians in -those days in the West.
While in the camp on the Wichita the
Eighth Cavalry had a visit from General
Jobe W. Davidson of Fort Sill, commend-
ing the Tenth Cavalry. As the command
from Fort Sill came galloping down the de-
clivity on the east side of the Wichita and
through its " breaks" toward the Eighth
Cavalry camp, it presented a most pictures-
que appearance. There was something about
the scene to recall descriptions so vividly
portrayed in "Count Robert of Paris," or
" The Talisman," civilization and barbarism
mixed, colors intermingled, and the general
glory of a uniformed calvacade in rapid
motion. The advance guard of the com-
mand consisted of two orr three white officers
in command of a Negro company of cavalry.
This advance was flanked by mounted In-
dians, feathered, painted, and bedizzened,
to the number of two hundred or more.
The main column of the Tenth Cavalry (col-
' ored troops) followed, and the Eleventh
Infantry (white troops) brought up the rear
of the command, followed by pack mules and
a wagon train under a strong guard. The
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Eighth Caya1r had been out in the wilder -
cess for fourto six months, and greeted their
visitors with most hospitable cheer, orCheer-
ing—for, as amatter of fact, " the cheer"
in visiting between the two camps was more
generously bestowed by " the Tenth Nub-
ians" than " Eighth Horse," for the= former
had come from anoint where it could be
bought in"original packages' more recent-
Iythan the New Mexican command.
But while the two commands of regulars
were interchanging hostilities, the Indian
-Scouts of each command' were engaged, in
like. efideaVeree The ' Tonkaways, l eehia,.
end Pawnees of: General Davidson's
Vgmct hadanever seen: _a Navajo, and
1ze€.4-Tom' aid_ his eleven braves had
Romero was a Mexican dude, wearing a Golden Thon:;hts for Every Day.
$50 hats a black snit of velveteen; red -sash Monday --If a man has any talent in writ -
any the other accouterments of a caballero ;ng it shows -a good mind to forbear answer-
ing calumnies and reproaches in the same
spirit of bitterness in which they are offered.
But when a man has been at some pains in
making suitable returns to an enemy, and
has the instruments of revenge in his hands,
to let drop his wrath, and stifle his resent-
ments, seems to have something in it great
and heroical. There is a particular merit
in such a way of forgiving an enemy ; and
the more violent and unprovoked the offense
has been the greater still is the merit of him
who thus forgives it.—[Joseph Addison.
He could " talk" the " sign languageef with
ani Indian on the plains, and, as the Na-
vajoes could speak Spanish, or Mexican,
he brought the two bodies of Indians into
conversation. A Tonkaway opened out
with vehement gesticulation—as plain as
the nose on a man's face, showing he was
boasting—telling of himself, his prowess ;
the number of his tribe and its wealth, the
buffalo they killed each year, and, likely,
something about the scalps ornamenting
Tonkaway -tepees. All this gesticulation
was put into Spanish dud related to " Tom."
The young Navajo then began his talk with
such rapidity that Romero, the interpreter,
inputting it into sign language, looked like
an exhibition atea deaf and dumb asylum,
Then -a. Caddo came back at " Toro" with
nimble fingers, with nodding of the head,
and swayings of his agile and lithe figure.
" Tom " then ejaculated in a good, clear
Spanish, understood and greeted by offi-
cers and men of the Eighth Cavalry, who
gathered around to witness the powwow
with cheers and laughter, " Let's sit down
I can't lie very well when I stand. up."
That night the buffalo -eaters, or plains
Indians of General Davidson's command,
invited the Navajoes to a buffalo banquet.
There were two hundred or more plains ,n -
diens pitted against just one dozen N a-
joes, more than half civilized and not accus-
tomed to the gorging orgies after a success-
ful buffalo hunt. The Tonkaways, Kechis,
and Caddos ran relays in on the Navajoes,
but the dozen of wool -growing, peach -culti-
vating and cattle -herding Indians of New
Mexico stood up manfully with the help of
their index fingers occasioeally,as an emetic,
against the odds with which they had to
contend.
The moral is that if, after years of such
civilization as the Navajoes have enjoyed,
since the days of Montezuma twelve Indians
of the tribe retained enough appetite to
contend in an eating match with two hun-
dred nomads of the plains, the rations in the
Indian regiments of the regular army of to-
day will always run short.
A Matter of Business.
It is in order just now to ask what is the
farmer's business and then, per contra,
what is the business of the farmer? This
is a distinction apparently without a differ-
ence, but of that presently. It was a well-
known fact that by intelligent management
and good judgment a majority of western
farmers could nearly or quite double their
crops on the same acreage. Is it wise to do
so ? Here is room for a very interesting
discussion and for a consideration of points
of both moment and value. It may be pre-
mised that by doubling the crops we may
not increase the net returns; in other words
if our corn crop per acre was doubled it
does not follow that the farmers would get
any more money for it than they do now.
And what is true of corn is equally true of
other crops, as of wheat, oats, hay, and the
like. If this be conceded what object has
the farmer in expending more labor in the
judicious preparation of the ground, in
manuring, cultivating, harvesting, etc.,
etc. ?
Now it is the business of the farmer to
raise a crop, and to that end broad is the
gate and narrow the way, and many there
be who go in thereat. On the other hand
it is the farmer's business to so arrange his
work and affairs so as to be successful, not
only in making both ends meet; but as
well in securing that amount of profit from
his intelligent and well directed labor
which is everywhere and always the accom-
paniment of superior skill.
No good business man will overstock the
market with any particular line of goods,
knowing that it can only end in depreciat-
ing values. This, however, will never pre-
vent a merchant from getting, in variety, all
the goods his money will buy. No farmer
will try to depreciate the value of corn or
cotton, or of any other marketable commo-
dity by cultivating too much of one thing,
but he may and can bcom every marketable
product by diversifying his crops and mak-
ing every acre do its level best. This we
conceive to be the business of the farmer.
If one can raise on twenty acres of land
1,000 bushels of corn and that is sufficient
for his pnrposes, there is no reason why he
should employ forty acres to do the work.
The other twenty acres can be used for an-
other crop just as necessary to his success,
say grass, hay, or other feeding crops. Corn
is not the best bone -making, flesh -building
food, but is the best fat -making food known
to the world. In the breeding and the build-
ing of our live stock, therefore, it is to be
used with caution, while a blue -grass pas-
ture, good timothy and clover hay, wheat
bran, oil -cake meal, oats, barley meal beans,
and peas are safe, reliable flesh formers and
meat makers.
This, it will be seen, suggests a diversity
of crops, affords opportunity for a proper
rotation, to replenish rather than exhaust
the soil fertility, and build up rather than
destroy the farm and the farmers' business.
It suggests more, vastly more ; for in run-
ning the same crop, on the same land year
after year we not only exhaust the plant
food called for by one crop, but breed the
nsects which are known to destroy it.
" We have passed the pioneer age and
stage and have to knuckle down to business
and compete with the best. We are indeed
at the stage where brains win and brawn
without brains loses. Our farms must not
alone produce all they are capable of, but so
do it as year by year to produce more and
in the doing make the farmer more money.
The farmer's business then is to make a
crop, but the business- of the farmer is, as
the business of the merchant and of any
other man, to so work as that the crop he
makes shall be conducive to his own suc-
cess and to that of any other farmer in the
land."
Tuesday—
Weary of wandering from my God,
And now made willing to return,
I hear, and bow hie to the : od ;
Yet not in hopeless grief I mourn
I have an Advocate above,
A friend before the throne of love.
O Jesus, full of truth and grace—
More full of grace than I of sin ;
Yet once again I seek Thy face,
Open Thine arms, and take me in!
And freely my backslidings heal,
And love Thy faithless servant still.
Thou know'st the way to bring me back,
My fallen spirit to restore ;
0, for Thy truth and mercy's sake
Forgive, and bid me stn•no more;
The ruins of my soul repair,
And make my heart a house of prayer.
—[C. Wesley.
Wednesday—The cultivation of flowers
is of all the amusements of mankind the one
to be selected and approved as the most in-
nocent in itself, and most perfectly devoid
of injury or annoyance to others ; the em-
ployment is not only conducive to health
and peace of mind, but probably more good
will has arisen and friendship been founded
by the intercourse and communication con-
nected with this pursuit than from any
other whatsoever. The pleasures, the
ecstacies of the horticulturist are harmless
and pure ; a streak, a tint, a shade, be-
comes his triumph, which, though often
ottained by chance, are secured alone by
morning care, by evening caution, and the
vigilance of days ; an employment which,
in its various shades, excludes neither the
opulent nor the indigent, and, teeming with
boundless variety,
affords an unceasing
ex-
citement
to emulation, without contention
or ill will.—[E. Jesse.
Thursday—Let not the sun in Capricorn
(when the days are shortest) go down upon
thy wrath, but write thy wrongs in ashes.
Dirty the curtain of night upon injuries,
shut them up in the rower of oblivion, and
let them be as though they had not been.
To forgive our enemies, yet hope that God
will punish them, is not to forgive enough.
To forgive them ourselves, and not to pray
God to forgive them, is a partial act of
charity. Forgive thine enemies totally, and
without any reserve that, however, God
will revenge thee.—[Sir T. Brown.
Friday—
My feet are weary and my h inds are tired,
My soul oppressed
And I desire, what I have long de ,ired—
Rest—only rest.
OAIIADA'S DEgCIILEB• f Hints For The Anneal Clearing Up.
ors Feats of Loris (yr.
some of the Marvel ect was
Louis Cyr, who is a British 1 '
f
born in St. John's, Quebec,
His grandfather on the maternwhile his
bi
weighed over twenty -three stone,
mother's weight is only -a` trifle sunder non
teen stone. She is iJumenselY i.z , upa
only a few years ago was able to pick a
barrel of flour and carry' it upside goes,
steps. So far as bis mother'sett sturdy
therefore, he comes from a pretty stock. quite so
His father's family were not
colossal, although fairly big men and women.
His father, however, brings down the scale
at sixteen sone.
It was only naturr I Master Cyr when
school was master o" all the lads. Amenat
age of fourteen there were r fewy that men
who could cope with him, and
age
dinarhiys muscular development was extraor-
.
His parents were living Montreal
gas what
he left school, and the question
should they make of this young Hercules?
Well, ultimately it was decided that he
should enter the police service. and was about • seventeen at the time,
his strength had increased in a marvelous
manner. He soon showed what a valuable
acquisition he was to theOrce. He was sent
to do duty in the roughest and most disturb-
ed district of Montreal. He made so many
captures and quelled such a number of dis-
turbances that he soon received substantial
es
reco
aiddouible salary and used toido
t He work
from the author.
Po three.
Naturally he was not very popular among
the roughs. So they made up their minds
to settle him. Accordingly six or seven
picked men waited upon him one dark night
and went for him with sticks and belts. theHe
was frightfully cut and can show you
scars of the wounds he received about the
forehead now.
It must have been a desperate fight, but
in the end his pluck and superior strength
were too much for the cowards. Three out
of the six made their escape more or less
hurt. One of the others he had picked up
iii,
and dashed upon the ground rende g
him senseless. The other two he nipped
around the waist until they screamed in
agHe was just making off with the two he
had captured, when he compassionately
thought of thepoor injured fellow on the
ground. He, therefore, changed over his
prisoners to the left hand, and holding them
both firmly with one hand by the collars,
picked up the senseless man with his right
arm and threw him over his shoulder.
It must have been a curious sight to see
this marvelous man with bis senseless bur-
den and captives going down the streets of
Montreal on that dark night, the blood
from the wounds in his forehead running
down and nigh blinding him. He dropped
the wounded man in at the hospital as he
passed, and took his prisoners to the sta-
tion. Cyr, however, was very much cut and
had himself to go to the hospital. This
and many other episodes during his service
with the police made him very popular, and
after the event described he was left un-
molested.
He had been a custodian of the police for
nearly two years, when an incident happen-
ed which called attention to his immensity
of strength.
Oneday he was on duty in one of the
chief thoroughfares, when a cart laden with
bricks came to grief. The horse tell down
and the shafts were broken. They succeeded
in getting the horse free from the harness.
But what was to be done with the cart?
There it stood right in the line of traffic. It
was suggested that it should be unloaded.
" Stand on one side," said the muscular
young policeman. Divesting himself of his
coat and handing his hat to somebody
ending by, he ercuched under the cart,
pressing up with his broad shoulders. The
bricks, cart and all were lifted foot by foot
until they were moved right on to the side-
walk.
The applause of the crowd collected was
tremendous. Some gentlemen who had wit-
nessed this performance were so astonished
that they had the whole lot weighed. The
weight that he had lifted was found to be a
little over 2,100 pounds.
That feat of strength determined his ca-
reer.
He left the police and at once entered into
the ehow business. By steady practice with
the dumbbells and proper training his mus-
cular powers gradually increased to the
enormous dimensions of to -day.
The toughest customer he ever had to
deal with in lifting to the shoulder was a
Captain Burst. On one occasion when m
New Brunswick Burst offered to bet him
$200 that he wculd not lift the same weight
on to his shoulder that the captain would.
" Done," said Cyr, and the money was
put up.
This feat was not to take place at an ex-
hibition, but on board one of -the ships lay-
ing off where they were. -
Now, Burst was what you mightcall a
"whopper." He stood 6 feet 7 inches, and,
unlike the generality of giants, he was a
broad shouldered, muscular individual.
So to the ship they repaired, with the
stakeholder, referee and a few acquaintances.
• Aboard the vessel was an anchor weigh-
ing exactly 800 pounds. Burst picked up
with this pretty little toy and placed it ap-
parently riot much difficulty onto his
shoulder. It remained there for about a
minute, during which time the wonderment
and applause was great. The anchor was
then taken from bis shoulder by six men and
replaced upon the deck.
Then came Cyr's turn, and the betting
was two to one against him. He had never
attempted such a feat before. Yet, nothing
daunted, he grasped the anchor and after a
desperate struggle managed to get it onto
his shoulder. It was anear thing, however,
and nothing like so easily done as by his
opponent. Never mind, he got it there.
" Now," said Cyr to the captain, " just
you get up and straddle across my shoul-
ders."
After some persuasion he was induced to
do this, and Cyr, to the blank astonishment
of the crowd, especially his opponent, walk-
ed around the deck. This so astonished
Burst that he shook him by the hand and
said, " Well, now, you're the first man I've
ever gic en best on that feat." And the $200
was paid to Cyr.
'Tis hard to toil when toil is almost vain,
In barren way;
'Tis hard to sow and never garner grain
In harvest days.
The b*den of my days is hard to bear,
But God knows best ;
And I have prayed, but vain has been my
prayer,
For rest—sweet rest.
—[Anonymous.
Saturday—Tell us, ye men who are so
jealous of right and of honor, who take sud-
den fire at every insult, and suffer the
slightest imagination of another's contempt,
or another's unfairness, to chase from your
bosom every feeling of complacency ; ye
men whom every fancied affront puts. in
such a turbulence of emotion, and in whom
every fancied infringement stirs up the
quick and the resentful appetite for justice,
how will you stand the rigorous application
of that test by which the forgiven of Go
are ascertained, even that the spirit of for-
giveness is in them, and by which it will be
pronounced whether you are. indeed, the
children of the Highest, and perfect as
your Father in Heaven is perfect ?—[Dr. T.
Chalmers.
White spots can be removed from fur-
niture
by holding a hot iron over, but not
on, the place.
The yolk of an egg in half a pint of tepid
rain water, with a little powdered borax
adde I, with a teaspoonful of spirits of
camphor, will take spots out of black goods.
Teapots should be washed thoroughly
with strong soda and water and then rinsed
well and perfectly dried each day if one
would prevent the curious haylike smell
often noticed in a teapot.
The usual average in reckoning the cost
of living for each person in the dining room
is $5 a week.
Nothing is better for restoring the bright-
ness of polished tables than rubbing them
with a linen rag dipped in cold drawn lin-
seed oil.
t,
neverneverd encountered one of those tae east
Indian Territory denizens. They . were
toseeeach other, all of the Indians,
hf th tom nds " loving the _ pale I•aee
r Fa r ' They could not
'however. Ha " it tere
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_ y,
aaa nlfe preter"in she- command,.a-little
rex can of the name: of Re
Eyed ;;equal to the occasion.:
On Beauty.
" Beauty is only skin deep." What's the
sense in that saying? What good would it
do a person to -be beautiful—say, for an
inch in depth ? He wouldn't know it unless
he was skinned. Moreover beauty is not to
be measured with a pocket rule ; it is an
indefinite sort of quality that needs a new
definition each time it is found. " What is
beauty ?" asked a belle of her circle of ad-
mirers. " What all women think they
possess," answered the cynic. " Ask your
mirror," said the Frenchman. But the
philosopher replied : " It is that which
every lover sees in his sweetheart whether
she possesses it or not." How many times
we have said, while passing a homely wo-
man : " What on earth did Mr. X --ever
see in her ? She's as homely as a rail fence."
Not to him, though.
We know how it is ourselves. When we
were young and susceptible we met a girl
whose appearance made us very sick. She
was short and we liked tail girls. Her
mouth was of the pie order, while the rose-
bud variety had always taken our fancy.
Lastly 'she had a lisp that sounded like an
escape -valve. Well, we don't know how it
happened, but we fell in love with her, and
all her imperfections immediately vanished.
We found that her head just reached the
right place on our shoulder, so her height, or
" lowth" was all right. Then, her pastry
mouth enabled us to kiss .without knocking
noses. That's one awful bother with straw-
berry -lips. As for the lisp, we thought it
the cutest thing in the world, and tried to
cultivate one ourself, but our employer
asked if we had been buying some new mis-
fit teeth, and we desisted.
We don't believe that everyone thinks
himself handsome, but we do believe that
everyone wishes to be. Theophrastus called
beauty " a silent ,;heat " and Theocritus
says it is " a serpent covered with -flowers."
We don't recall the personal appearance of
these gentlemen, but we are willing to
wager a large sum that their" pictures never
graced a photographer'sshowcase. Homely
persons are always saying that beauty is a
snare, just because they -can't, snare any of
'it themselves.
One peculiarity cf extremely beautiful or
handsome persons is that they are seldom
noted for anything exeept their looks. Who
ever thinks of beauty of feature, or lack of
it, in connection with Washington or Lin-
coln ? (I don't care to give examples of the
women,) The minds that guide the pro-
gress of the world make their owners far
superior to any physical charms. That's
where we come in. - We wouldn't be hand-
some for anything.
•
A good handful of salt should be added
to the water in which matting is washed.
The salt keeps the matting in color. Do
not use soap.
Grease stains on wall paper way be re-
moved by mixing pipe clay with enough
water to make a sort of cream. Spread
This rather thickly on the stain, leave it on
for twenty-four hours, then take it off care-
fully with a knife and dust and brush the
paper thoroughly.
A capital wash for stained boards is
made by boiling one-half poend of slacked
lime and one pound of soda in six quarts
of water for two hours. Let this settle,
then pour off the clear part for use.
You can tell it a bed is damp by laying
your hand glass between the sheets for a
few moments. If the sheets are not prop-
erly dried the glass will be clouded.
Oranges and lemons with green leaves in-
termixed make a pretty dish for decorative
purposes.
Pearl knife handles should be rubbed
with a salt rag dipped in fine table salt,
then polished with leather.
A little soap and warm water applied
frequently is better for cleaning your lac-
quered brass than all the cleansing mater-
ials in the world.
MISCELLARBOR,
There will be fifty-three Sundays thiel
year.
Madagascar has
a standing army of 20,•
000.
Of the foreign merchants in China, only
wenty-seven are Americans.
China, with all her 400,0h0,000 people,
has only forty miles of railroad.
It is said that more money is spent for
eggs than for flour in the United States.
The pressure of the atmosphere on the
man of average stature is about 15 tons, yet
it is not felt.
A man breathes about eighteen pints of
air per minute, or upwards of seven hogs-
heads in a day.
It takes eight times the strength to go up•
stairs that is required foi the same distance
on a level.
The Columbia, with its vast schools cf
salmon, has yielded more wealth than any
river in the world.
China has 419,000 square miles of coal-
fields, or more than twenty times the ag-
gregate of the carboniferous strata in
Europe.
The new Parisian fashion in stockings is
made with separate compartments for each
toe. This is said to be a sure cure for
corns, which are caused by the rubbing of
the skin against that of the neighbouring
toe.
The baya bird of India ingeniously illumin-
ates its nest. It catches fire -flies, and,
without killing them, with rnoist clay sticks
them to its nest. On a dark night the
baya's nest is like a bright beacon.
For the past three years Mdlle. Rosa
Bonheur has been engaged on the largest
animal picture ever painted. It repre-
sents ten horses of full size trotting over a
threshing -floor, and the artist has already
refused; welve thousand pounds for it.
Poems in Petticoats.
The prettiest articles of attire about just
now are the petticoats. They are poems in
themselves. Some of them are made of
black watered silk, striped with narrow
lines of pink and blue and yellow, and have
three ruches of the different colors set
around the hematintervals of two inches.
These ruches are either of fringed silk or
of satin ribbon. Other petticoats are made
of shot satin with a. gathered flounce of
satin round the hem, and over this falls a
flounce of lace sewn on with a double bead-
ing, through which are run "baby" ribbons
to be tied into rosettes here and there.
This notion carried out in heliotrope shot
with pale green, with the lace very fine
and of a holland hue, and the ribbons to
match the satin, is altogether lovely.
The delicac =`-of our'`dry`goods Merchants
• is inex resaibl 'sweet.. One of them has
this sin over a lot of shop worn muslin
nightgowns : "Dream robes, eighty-nine
cents." Another enterprising clerk has a
stock of garters labeled "Novel de. igns
knee -girdle§."
Children's hats have the same features as
last year, ailat crow_
n wide -brim in front,
narrow back, -and' king =streamers in the
Modern Mothers and Their Daughters.
" One of the signs of the_age," says an
66difficultygrown
is the
observing woman,
daughters find in adapting their ideas to
intolerance of the mothers who will not
share in the progress about them. This is
especially true where the daughters do not
marry early, and either remain at home or
go out to pursue some one of the many oc-
cupations now open to woman. In either
ot the latter cages the home cords are not
much loosened—not nearly so much as when
the daughter establishes herself by marriage
in an independent household. The gap
between the mother educated twenty-five
years ago and the daughter abreast of these
glowing times is wider than it ever will be
again, and it is a trying one to the filial
child, whose widening reach of things only
increases her sense of what is due to her
mother and eagerness to bring the well -
loved parent within the scope of the falling
blessings. To many women motherhood
brings an autocracy that is never wholly
relinquished ; for years her lightest, wish
has been the daughter's law, and, if what
Thackeray calls 'the tyranny of the parents'
is modified in many instances, in equally as
many others it painfully exists. I have in
mind at this moment a wise, calm, filial
woman of 35, whose capable work in a li-
brary gives her widowed and otherwise
childless mother a pleasant home, in which,
alas, its provider has no home feeling. All
her plans and ambitions are thwarted, or, if
perforce accepted, it is with scant grace ;
her friends are not welcome, her bobbies
are not tolerated, her theories and princip-
les are not respected. She is merely to the
mother a big edition of the little girl whom
she told to put on her school frock to day
and to -morrow her church gown, and whose
ungrudging hospitality she accepts with no
smallest sense of obligations."
The dolphin -is said to be the . fastest
swimmerin the seas. It has been observed
twi to dart throe the water at a rate com-
puted
eater than twenty miles
inch gr
to be i
an hour, and is often seen swimming
round and tom d a vessel which is sailing
speed.
at highest oes not depend
•
The 'size of your- offering does pend
upon what you take out of Tour pocket, but what you leave in it.
In Hindostan the marriage ceremony is
short and simple, and no courting precedes
it. The arrangements are all made by the
friends or relatives of the principals. When
the bride and groom are brought together,
in many eases they see each other for the
first time> The bride playfully ully skips
s to-
ward
him and seats herself beside him. The
priest ties a corner of the bride's veil to the
groom's shawl, and they are made man and
wife.
Gipsies have been a wandering race ever
since history first noticed them. At some .
time they were supposed to have come from
Egypt, but new scholars have ascertained
that they were originally an Indian tribe or
group of tribes, making their first appear-
ance in Asia Minor early in the middle ages.
A remarkably interesting document has
just been published in Paris. It contains
statisti's concerning the use that has been
made during the past year of the Free
Libraries in the French capital. The num-
ber of volumes read at these institutions
during 1891 amounts to 161,636. But that
the French bourgeois prefers to take his
ease at his inn appears from the fact that
no less than 1,115,800 volumes were lent
out. One half of the total number of books
borrowed were novels.
Pretended deafness is readily exposed by
a simple device, which is often resorted to
by the Parisian authorities. Six men
there recently tried to escape conscription,
but they subsequently betrayed themselves.
One man was informed that he might stroll
about the barrack yard, a portion of which
was paved with stone. A few minutes
later a coin was adroitly dropped behind
him, and its musical jingle caused him to
turn to look for it. The same tri:k was
tried with each of the other five, and suc-
ceeded in every case.
A new wood pavement is being tried in
Paris, It consists of pieces of oak about 4
inches long, split up similarly to the ordin-
ary firewood, and laid loosely on end in
fine sand on a bed of gravel from 4 inches to
41 inches in thickness. A layer of fine sand
is then spread over them, and they are al-
ternately watered and beaten several times.
In about forty-eight hours the humidity has
completely penetrated and caused the wood
to swell, and it is claimed that the mass
becomes thus absolutely compact and homo-
geneous, and capable of supporting the
heaviest traffic. If such a pavement be not
exceedingly well laid, it will soon be like
an old broom.
Fascinating Period of a Woman's Life.
At what age under the old regime a wo-
man was considered passee it would be dan-
gerous to say—presumably soon after she
had quitted her teens. Swift wrote with
cruel candor of Stella's fading charms, and
sent her as a birthday gift a rhymed "Re-
cipe to Restore Her Lost Youth," at a per-
iod that we should consider the prime of
life. The caustic Dean of St. Patrick's
wondering
"How angels look at thirty-six "
proves a sharp contrast to a more modern
writer, Mr. Lewes, who, in his " Life of
Goethe," speaks of 33 as a fascinating per-
iod of a woman's life, being that in which
he considered her to have reached the full
development of her powers of mind and
body.
Such aaentiment would once have been
considered rank heresy, yet 33 was the age
at which Frau von Stein proved dangerous
to the heart of the poet who had survived
the more youthful charms of a Gretchen, a
Charlotte, and a Lili. Mr. Lewes's view
seems to be based on the old and honorable
position and limitations. No people,
perhaps, appreciate more perfectly
the innocent flower-like beauty of ado-
lescence than the French. Like the love-
liness of childhood, it is to them a joy and
delight to be made much of while it lasts,
and, like that period, it is expected to has e
its definite limits. The line between jeune
fille and vivelle fille is in that polite land
drawn with a sharper and more merciless
hand than in our own ; yet it is the glory
of the French life, with its clear and prac-
tical limitations and its adoration of youth-
ful beauty, to have presented the finest
flower of courtesy that the world has ever
known to women who had lost the charms
of early youth and ruled the minds, and
even the hearts, of men by their wit and
their wisdome their vivacity, and their
grace. It is impossible to read any des-
cription of saloon life in Paris without real-
izing the immense power that such women
as Mme. 1e Rambouillet, Mme. Deffand,
who could tolerate everything but the com-
monplace ; Mme. Necker, her brilliant
daughter ; Mme. de Stale, and her cherish-
ed friend, Mme. de Houdetot, exercised in
literary and political as in social matters.
One Woman's View of Missionary Work.
A woman missionary in a talk before a
woman's club the other afternoon sought
aid to bring civilization to some South
African peoples, among whom she had
been. She described them as gentle, trust-
ful folk, honest, affectionate, and moral,
not wanting in fact in the simple elements
of character. TO her earnest appeal for
their rescue from heathenisni,and savagery
a witty woman present replied, with per-
haps as much of philosophy. • as wit : "Why
should we take - these people out gf such
Arcadian simplicity? Is it to give-:thent.
corsets and the catechism?
A man's best friends are his -tete -fingers.
The !abbath Chime.
Jerusalem ! high tower thy glorious walls,
Would God I were in thee !
Desire of thee my longing heart enthralls,
Desire at home to be :
Wide from the world outleaping,
O'er hill and vale and plain ;
My soul's strong wing is sweeping
Thy portals to attain.
0 gladsome day and yet more
hoer!
When shall that hour have come,
Wlienmy rejoicing soul its own free power
May use in going home ?
It;elf to Jesus giving
Intrust to His own hand,
To dwellamong the living
In that blest Fatherland.
A moment's time, the twinkling ofan eye'
Shah be enough to soar,
In buovam exritation, through the sky,
And reach the heavenly shore,
E:iinh'schariot bringing
- The heitie and traveler Liiere
filed troops of angels winging
It onward through the air,
100,000 Lilies in One Field.
This is a sight to be seen only on the
picturesque island of the Bermudas. There
these flowers are raised as a regular field
crop. In value and in the esteem of the
inhabitants they come next to the potato,
though both are less esteemed than the
onion, which is the staple crop of the islands.
No more beautiful sight can be imagined
than at this season of the year greets the
eye of the traveler as he comes suddenly
upon one of these fields, hundreds of yards
square, and a mass of most fragrant white.
Unfortunately, the lily fields are not in
the most profitable state. The beautiful
bloom represents to its owners waste, for
the lilies should be marketed in the form of
buds. They are cut from the stems and
packed in cases, sixty-four in a box, and
sent by express all over the United States.
If kept in a cool, dry place the buds will
remain without opening for several weeks,
while by being placed in water they can
be brought to perfection in a day or two ;
or, if the water is slightly warmed, in a few
hours. This fortunate peculiarity of the
lily has made it possible for it to be trans-
ported, notwithstanding the long journey.
The culture was introduced only a few years
ago upon the Bermudas by an American
gentleman, Gen. Hastings. Some ot the
largest fields are still owned by this gentle-
man, and it is said that on one of them at any
time in the season over 100,000 lilies may
be seen in bloom at the same time.
Mr. Gladstone's Sabbath.
The "YoungMan" thus describes the way
in which Mr. Gladstone passes the Lord's
day : "Mr. Gladstone has often been heard
to remark that had it not been for his Sun-
day rest hsecalluldnot now be the man he
and spiri-
tually
PhY y, intellectually, his Sunday has been to him a price-
less blessing. Any one who entered his
room in Downing street on a Sunday during
the height of the session could not fail to be
struck by the atmosphere of repose, the
signs and symbols of the dry, the books
lying open near the armchair, the deserted
writing table, the absence of papers and
newspapers. From Saturday night to
Monday morning Mr. Gladstone puts away
all his business of a secular nature, keeps to
his special Sunday books and occupations,
and never dines out that day unless to cheer
a sick or sorrowful friend. He never trav-
el on Sundays, and it is well known that
when her Majesty invites him to Windsor
Castle on Sunday for one night
kes
arrangements to stay in Windsor the Satur-
day night to avoid Sunday traveling. Two
services at least see him at worship on
Sunday in Hawarden Church. He has a
poor opinion of those whom he humorously turns as ' once-era�''
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