1880-01-02; Clare County Press

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LARE
VOLUME II.
The Clare   County  Press.
ISSUED EVEKY FltlDAY AT
Clare, Clare County, Mich.,
—by—
ALVAEO F. GOODENOUGII
Advertising- K.at«>«.
The followisg Table of Advertising Rates has
been carefully arranged according lo a plan based
on spacu kiiqimked and time continuiid. Special
care is taken to set up and arrangu advertisements
,n a systematic manner, thus making them more
attractive than when jumbled together,
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ST. NICHOIA8.
11Y EDWA11D C, HANCOCK.
BUSINESS CARDS.
E. D. WHEATON. C.W. PERRY
WHEATON & PERRY,
UlWVESS,
CLABE,       -       -       MICH.
All businass intrusted with them will recciv
prompt attention. Collections made and Ileal Ee
tateboughtand sold. Office Maynard Block.Main St
WarnTELDEN7jE"wiriirAND
dealer 111 Wall Paper, Books and Stationery, Sewing Machine Fixtures, etc., Clash,
G'TeOW. JEFFERIES, JuDGrEOP
PnonATHand Ji'sticsof the Phach, Clare.
Special attention given to making collections. Of-
ve on Main Street.
G
EO. J. CUMMINS,
AUorney-at-Law and Solicitor,
Gourt Home Building, Farwell, Mich.
Q 0. CASTERLIN,
Attorney-and-Counselor-at-Law, and
Counselor A Solicitor in Chancery,
Court House Building, Farwell, Mich.
HC. DODGE, Justice op the
• Peace and Notary I'telic, Vernon, has
Good Farming Lands for, Sale
Cheap.   Titi/bs Perfect,
Terms Easy,
H. C, Dodge, Prweld, Mich.
Q H. SUTHERLAND,
Notary Public & Insurance Agt.
Money to Loan
OTS IMPROVED REAL  ESTATE
DEALER in
Harness, Whips, Robes, & Blankets.
The best assortment of Trunks and Traveling
bags in town, and prices the lowest.
THE BEST OP MATERIAI, USED.
All work   warranted.   Repairing done  promptly
I will sell cheaper than can be bought elsewhere in Saginaw Valley.
T> UBEN SMITH,
XOTAR V PUBJHC.
Real Estate, and Insurance Agent.
MARK, SUCH.
Particular attention paid to looking land, estimat
ing pine timber, adjusting trcspsasses and paying
taxes for non residents.
Manhattan Kire Insurance Company of New York
Str,'!igand SOiind, with low rates.
flo 1 thoro at the wicket, who pounds at tho door!
itch a din in Olympus wsa ne'er heard bet ore—
would sloop—get ye gone-rl'ra alliUK, I'm sick.
What the deuce—there again—who ia calling Saint
Nick?"
"Arouse ye I arouse ye I   It's dawning again—
l'ho  star  that   ouco  beamed   ovor  Uethlehem's
plain—
The star of the Magi that shone on tho morn
When earth's blessed Savior, the Christ-child, was
born I"
"Ho 1 Ho 1 Is it no I Then I'll up and away
As soon as the goblins can harness my sleigh."
Then ho roared such a laugh as ho sprung out of
bed,
ft started the stars In tho sky overhead,
And tboy winked at each other aB much as to say,
"I'here is something gone wrong and Old Nick is to
pay."
It took but a moment to jump in his boots,
To wrap hirasolt up in the best of fur suits,
To run to the closet and drag out his pack,
Wliich ho swung with a chuckle across his broad
back;
Then off to the sfablo he dashed through tho snow,
Where the reindeer were prancing, all ready to go.
lie was up iu a jiffy, and cracking his whip,
With a "Hi, thoro, my hearties!" ho let the reins
slip.
Straight down through tho welkin tliey spod liko
tbo light,
Without pause or turn to tho left or tho right;
Iho clouds dragged their skirts to get oil of tho
track,
Tlie winds shrank alarmed—all quite taken aback;
E'en the moon drew in haste a veil ovor her face
sio quick cracked the whip and so fast was tho
pace;
And he pealed out a laugh so jocund and gay
That Aurora woko up long betoro it was day;
Oh, never such Blelprh-ride was ridden before
As that of St. Kick with his rich Christmas storol
Far down in the distance earth rolled fast asleep,
Dark night having wrapped it iu silence so deep
ITiat the children, tucked close in their snug little
beds,
Whence nothing peeped out save their cheiublm
heads,
Woro dreaming of fairies, of frolic and fun,
And other stern fact* of a life just begun.      -
It was 3 by the clock, when out on tho roof
the tinkle of sleigh belts and taps of a hoof
Mud* tbe r little henrbt bound and flashed round
tho earth
A Bnille such as welcomed tho Lamb at its birth;
Hut they woko not,   Ob, no I   Old Nidt is so sly.
Ho fastens a padlock on each prying eye.
With a "Whoa, there, my pretties," ho stops with 11
jerk,
Lights his pipe, swings hiB pack, and away to hit-
work,
Over steeples and housetops, in windows, down
flues,
So  fleet  you  would   think ho   had wings on his
shoes,
In pantries he peeps and through bedrooms he
whirls.
Now kissing tho babies, now pinching the girls,
Filling up all their stockings with goodies and toys,
Nor forgetting tho switch always lett for bad boys;
Then on through the play-room to plant those
great trees
Which,Jrow dollieB and drums with such exquisite
case.
What a jolly fat fellowl sp little and spry,
With round, dimpled cheeks and a fun-flashing eye,
Ha rjowelod with hailstones, and such aroundnoso,
It littfcte up the pathway wherever ho goes I
Then jfis yfc "
^'-afti_       „    .
foit'fimodies apace.'- Evoanowa faint ray
StrngKloB tip through tho east as the herald of day;
The winds wake in protest aud scatter the snow;
Now, listen 1 tbe signal I   I hear tho cock crow.
"Ho, ho," cried Old Nick, with his choerlost wara-
iUR.
"Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good morning I"
utrcu up me patnway wntrrover no goesi
en Vis rich, mcrxi't*i)!jhf-*hJ n«-v<r, X.tjear,  t
FOREVER!
A Story of the Heart.
M.
R. JEFFERIES,
DEALER IN
FRESH & SALT MEAT,
Fresh and Cured Fish,
Fine Groceries and General
Farm Produce,
Cheapest T E A in Town !
Cash pa id for Ji ides.
MAIN STREET, CLARE.
HOTELS, LIVERIES, &c.
-JO"EW   FURNITURE,   NEWLY
Befitted, New Proprietor.
ST. JAMES HOTEL,
V. K. BROWN, Prop.,
MOUNT PLEASANT,   MICH.
First Class Accommodations.   Good Sample Rooms
for Agents. Good Barn.
HARWELL BILLIARE HALL,
FARWELL, MICH.
FINEST-CIGARS,
Pure Wines, Liquors, Ales, Beer, Porter, Cider, Etc.
Those desiring a pure article are invited to oall.
HENRY  NEWTON.
CUMMERS & NEWTON,
Proprietors of the
FARWELL   LIVERY.
FORSES sfCARRIAGES
TO  LET.
Parties conveyed everywhere in this
section and vicinity.
ajpTcrms reasonable.
Tj^AGLE HOTEL,
Coral, Montcalm Co., Mich.
A. FRED GOODENOUGH, Prop.
A Temperance Mouse.
This is a new house, neatly furnished, convenient
to the trains, with good accommodations at reason-
thte prices.
CSOOSB JWVEK.'K- ATTACHED.
BY II.  H. LEECH.
"Promise!"
"[ do solemnly."
"Forever 'I" continued the solemn,
broken voice.
"Forever," echoed the weeping maiden
by the bedside.
Tlie wasted hands were raised over
tho heads of the kneeling figures; the
pale lips of the dying woman parted—
the tongue tried to utter a blessing;
but all brightness faded from the eyes.
The woman was dead.
Two joung girls knelt at tho bedside. Constance Owen was the name
of one, with sallow skin and large
brown eyes, and Edith Ormond, she
was called, with ringlets of gold floating around her fair neck, and whose
head waB leaning upon the shoulders of
Constance, who had promised the dying woman to be a sister, protector—
mother even—to the fair maiden at her
side.
The strong, faithful, homely girl
called Constance was an adopted daughter oi the dead lady—one of those
waifs of the street, whose only hope of
life is in tho charity of some tenderhearted stranger. She, however, repaid her protector by a love and regard
as filial as that of her own daughter,
and when upon her deathbed Mrs. Ormond bade Constance Owen make her
tho solemn promise recorded, the brave
girl not only did not falter, but whispered once more to the stricken girl at
her side:
"Yes, Edith, for the sake of the love
your dear mother -gave to the orphan
will I love you better than myself—forever."
And darkness was in that chamber,
desolation in the hearts of the mourners.
*******
Two years passed—two years since
Edith the beautiful and Constance the
brave had lost their best earthly friend.
The former had grown more lovely even
thau the promise of the dawn of her
radiant maidenhood; the latter more
homely, large-featured, in face, but with
the two years an added dignity of mein,
a more intelligent light in the quiet,
tender brown eyes, and force of character better denned in every movement.
There came many suitors to Bonny-
brook—so the little country seat belonging to Edith was called—but, so far, the
little coquette did not pay much heed
to any of them. She was chasing the
butterflies of fancy around the Garden
of Eden—first youth. But at length
her beauty, grace, and perhaps high social position, brought one day to the
gates of Bonny brook one Dr. Paulding,
a superior and rising young physician,
who lived in the city oloso by, and when
he had found his way to the pleasant
country nook, somehow be discovered
patients in that vicinity very frequently.
Was it Edith's fair faoe that made him
take that blooming highway so often?
He was, indeed, fascinated by her
bright, girlish beauty, and one evening
after he had been wandering in the gardens, under the moon, soft, pleasant
words must have been spoken, for after
he had gone, Edith, with a flushed faoe,
dashed into the room where Constance
was awaiting her, and throwing her arms
around her said in a happy, trembling
voice:
"Oh! darling, 1 am so happy. Ho
has told me he loved me."
Constance spoke not a word; Edith
was held a moment to a beating heart,
a soft kiss touched her forehead, and
the next moment she was alone.'
"He loves me! He loves me!" And
Edith looked out over the gardens
from which tho dews of night were distilling all their odors; she gazed at tho
round, beautiful moon, and peopled tho
shadows with the figure of the man who
had first stirred her young life with the
divine music of love.
A month after the pleasant confession
had been made Edith was called to tho
mountains of Vermont to attend a
dying aunt, the only sister of he,r dear
mother, and she had to proceed alone,
as Bonnybrook would, have lacked a
guardian if Constance had accompanied her—Dr. Paulding's duties utterly
denying him that pleasure.
Oonstanoo was engrossed in her home
duties, and saw but little society, save
a few rustic neighbors, who only reo-
ommonded themselves by their goodness of heart, and certainly not by. tho
brilliancy of their wit or understanding. Once and a while Dr. Paulding
would ride out to Bonnybrook, as Constance told him, "from tho force of old
habit," but soon it seemed that the
man of medicine and science did not
carry on the conversation with the old
ease, grace and spirit. What*' had
come between Constance Owen and,
himself? Something inexplicable. The
noble woman found a strange, rare
pleasure in the society of the gifted
man; the scholarly man a sympathy
with the large-hearted, intellectual'
woman which ho had never known or
experienced in any of her sex. *' True,"
he said to himself, "she is not beautiful; indeed, measured by ihe. rules_ of
beauty, she is positively v
who    can   gauge^the-_. oh*rgr|eg!
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m
t*h-
slowly opened, and, they
ae ground at her feet.   All
, ''./vision of the dead woman
see»JdJHftesent itself to her mind,
»fc she .was violating struck
r heart. Was this the •'For-
. spoken.? . She staggered
|have fallen; the aims of,Dr,
ire about her bii,t;she waved
i * moment withjuch a pitting gesture that lie obeyed
,'a  word.   She  only had
1 tutor;
./..remember    Edith.'V-and
"back toward the house,
standing there, bent and
1Kȣ know how shereaohed
, tho strong woman had
Iho same momont she loved
t sacrifice and renounce.
K for hours white andmo-
ig out at the sunset and
gloom of evening, with
its . ohasing   thernselves
Jirain and witb a dumb,
fin her heart; every hope
. ,    dus|, liko tho&e sweet
JmA given her.   She; laid her
C«li»hilo„upon her Hands, on
~C*»Bement of her room, and
through  tho long, long
aho  heard   the   village
tbjj hour of midnight,   She
''wud"wrestled with, her grjef
»ib4;jcosa up at length quiet
  -She' had yielded to duty
andliorjiromite.to the dead.
S«|p«feoW Constance Owen seemed
to gata^J>retijer as the months passed
by--foi||iBtWM"8ome' refining change
whiabv^niirJ uof|ening her rugged feature* ,"s*4' rounding eyery lino in her
atat«!y-fprm. The summer infco autumn
kWstfdinvand still Edith Ormond had
not^rpfeirned to Bonnybrook. Her
aunt;h$<raied, and letters came from
timrftd"tirae saying that ere long she
would ij>e home; yet sho came not.
Ooii!d-«he Buspect the disloyalty of her
lover Jjjt,!.
Itiijilftto in the fall, when the woods
had' ,Su- on  their pomp   of   glory,
chiH T*inds  sent the fallen
trough the valleys near Bonny-
'£$4 T)r. Paulding rode up to
an,d asked for Constance. She
'received him twice before
summer evening,   and had
yed by womanly tact not to
..With him—although she no
i^dlonbtcd hex   strength,   Gon-
tkiB.occasion received lier
PfGIWS OM JfOBBLlTX.
How the Orr,at lurid Owners Obtained Their
■':.■ ' .^states..
The.London J&tiho has been publishing an interesting series of articles entitled '-'Our Old" Nobility," in which the
growth of the noble families of England,
has been portrayed. In a concluding
article "the writer thus sums up his
views:
In 100 chapters we have briefly
sketched the agrarian history of a* majority of our molt notable aristocratic
houies, :In ray selections I have not
been guided mainly by the greatness of
their possessions, but rather by their
historio interest or present prominence.
Thus I have included some like the
Erskines and Panes, whoBe estates are
small, and liave altogether omitted peers
like Lord Tredegar, with over ,100,000
acres, and Lord Penrhvn, with a rent-
roll of £66j000. I have'd ealt in, all with
121 nobles, owning nearly 5,500,000 of
acres, with a rent-roll of nearly .-£5,750,-
000, an average ownership of 45,000
acres, and an average rent-roll of over
£46,000.
It certainly has not been my object
to (Seek out examples of what, for want
of a better vford, X will oall the illegitimate, acquisition, of landed property.
Yet the result is that those who can
Claim that they have obtained their
lands by money solely acquired in commercial or professional pursuits are
singularly few—perhaps about a dozei*
in all. Compared with other peoples,
we aro a landless nation, and we are a
landless nation in consequence of continued encroachment upon the rights
our ancient forefathers possessed.
Throughout the reigrs of the Hanoverian Kings landowners' Parliaments
were constantly passing Inclosore acta,
desirable for the most part, with a view
to increase production, but resulting in
ihe appropriation of between 7,000,000
and 8,000,000 acres of common land, of
which tho common people retained but
a very small proportion—not more than
750,000 acres in all. Occasionally I
havo been, "able to point out where vast
estates hftye been increased by these
acts, but generally it has been impossible to obtain exact information.
It is worthy of note that anciently the
lavish grants of tho crown were checked
by the power of resumption. Most of
the vast estates seized and rotair'M by
William the Conqueror were (* '!**Tttea
"by William Pufue, who war     c0^led
- -    £tm\h
And she, too, mused in»this wise:
" This Dr. Charles Paulding is a mar-
velously-gif ted man. What powers of
language, what treasures of imagination
he possesses! What a noble career he
has before him; and Edith"—here she
would pause and think of that clinging
tendril, not as helping the growth of
the oak, but as drawing from its
strength. Yet from all such thoughts
as these her staunch and loyal heart
would resolutely turn away—yet for
all this her speech would not come as
" trippingly on the tongue " as in the
old days, and he would oftentimes finish
a sentence in the. middle of it, and then
lose himself in vague glances at the
ceiling or out into the gardens.
01 it was a dangerous time for both
of these awakening hearts. But thoy
glided on this treacherous stream, and
seemed only conscious that the hours
were sweet and that the sun shone on
the waves. There was no thought of
disloyalty in either heart. He was
above all a man of honor, and she of all
else a loyal woman. Yet how hearts
delude themselves. In the very pride
of his strength Samson was shorn of
his locks.
Ono quiet evening in July Dr. Paulding had taken tea at Bonnybrook, and
Constance—his "hostess" only she
called herself—strolled down to the
gate with him. His impatient horse
was biting the rough old hitohing-post
and throwing up clouds of dust with
his fore feet. He had been kept there
four hours, and he seemed more eager
than his master to leave Bonnybrook
behind him. The doctor idly plucked
some heliotropes as they strolled down
the rose-bordered paths, and mingled
with the flowers some dainty miguon-
nette and a pale bud or two of the tea
roae. At last ho placed the bouquet in
her hands and said dreamily:
"Bead the emblems, Constance—you,
who are a priestess in Plora's beautiful
temple."
She quickly looked over them.
"Ah," sho said, "you ohoose well. Sir
Botanist. Here you have 'beauty in
retirement,' 'constancy'—that is good—
and 'I am not a summer friend'—that
is better than all. But you flatter with
your flowers, nevertheless."
"Not you," he replied eagerly, almost
tenderly, and in a voice that somehow
frightened her.
She replied almost coldly—although
her heart was strangely beating and a
warm, unusual color was in her face:
" My best friend will tell you, doctor,
that I am ugly and commonplace. Believe them, I beg of you, and. do not let
your imagination invest me with any
charms."
He seemed all at once carried away by
his passion. He leaned over her, and
replied, warmly: " I say you are beautiful, Constance Owen. I feel your
beauty in my very soul." But he said
no more.
The face of Constance was a study;
the flush that before had crimsoned her
cheeks died out, and she became ghastly pale. Her lingers, which had clasped
^^ftiJ^Wr]j- ,s«enicd-»- strange
,^«^t3STrrrrllilb'-ruaTiSifeit-''Mtcr*
/L&L fi*t greetings were over, he said:
''Constance, I havo much to say to
you lo-day. Do yon think yon can listen to me calmly?"
"Yes," she replied, "if it is upon a
subject on which you should speak
and "—she added, tremblingly—" to
whicll I should listen."
"Both," he said.   " When first I saw
2fc
subsequently to resume tho <• ??5, - *
heiackmade. AbOnt.them S0;,
i^i*^i^bj^r^pin^.^ajr^ tM*t-<qri^
the" iaofylhers, in attemptuig" to obtain
for himself a large tract of crown lands,
which had been previously granted to
the Bentincks, occasioned tho passage
of what is known as the Nullus Tempus
act, which secured the grantees of crown
lands against any resumption of their
properties. It is obviously impossible
to reckon up acre by acre the quantity
of land which has at various times been
Edith Ormond I was captivated by her I °? «nu wmon uas at various times beer
beautvandffirlishpWs: I thought I   obtained otherwise than by purchase,
beauty and girlish graces; I thought I
loved her—"
Constance would have stopped him
by a gesture, but he gently begged her
tolisten—" for you can do so now," he
said, "in all honor and reason."
He continued:
"I had never had my heart stirred by
the full knowledge of love, however,
The agrarian history of many of the
great houses is complicated by the acquisition of property by marriage. I have,
however, traced the previous history of
such lands in a sufficient number of
cases to show that we may safely presume that, as a rule, they havo been acquired in much the same way as the rest.
After a careful consideration of all the
until I know you and discovered the , houses I have noticed, bear in mind the
breadth of your sympathies ana the j modern Inclosure act, and the increased
wonanhness of your character. I never I value of ]ands due fco tlle improvemeut 0f
restected you more than when yon rejected me, knowing I was the engaged
huBiand of Edith. But fate has been
kindjio us both."
Bis voice was trembling with emotion!
"jS-ead the last part of this letter."
Ha handed a folded paper to Constance, who took it as one in a dream.
"Jirom Edith?" she said.
""&S."
Tie portion she read ran thus:
"Jo you see, dear Dr, Paulding, it is
betejr I should tell you now that I have
metone here—my Cousin Eay—whom
I fel that I love better than anybody
in jhe world. I have promised to be
his wife, and I am sure you will forgive
me,for you are so noble and grand, and
all iiat; and I should feel, I know, that
I nsyer could fill worthily tho exalted
sphife of Dr. Paulding's wife—"
Cbhstance could read no more; a
misi|gathered over her eyes, but this
tini<JA strong arm was about her, and
a voce, deep and melodious, whispered
to hi:
"jtearest Constance, will you be mine
atlst?"
Tipir lips met, for the first time, in
onelong kiss of love, and her answer
was:|
'Tes, thine—Forever 1"
I
j    A Sudden Awakening.        t
M Oil Citizen of an enthusiastic nature became convinced of the error of
his ways and determined to reform.
He joined the church, but found it extremely difficult to give up all his bad
habits. Among other things he had
beea; an inveterate swearer, and his
tonjiie would persist in slipping quite
fre^iently. One Sunday he went to
church, and, being sleepy, began nodding Finally, lie got his cane in
front of him, and, resting his head on
thefiandle, went to the land of Nod.
He Wts sleeping aweetly and serenely,
wheft some sinful cuss kicked tho cane
outSnd the newly-converted Christian's
heqefrcame down on ihe back of the
BqaVi in front of iiim like a pile-
drir&r, causing him to ejaculate with
unnecessary emphasis: "Great God!"
tenants, I cannot yet arrive at the conclusion that not one-tenth of the estates
in question have been acquired for
value received. All the rest, in one
way or another, has been obtained for
nothing.
Tellovr Fever.
Tho committee appointed by the
President to proceed to Cuba for the
purpose of collecting information in relation to the yellow fever has submitted
a preliminary report to the National
Board of Health.   The report says:
" The most general result is that yellow fever habitually prevails in every
place in Cuba from which reports were
received, provided these places were of
any size or commercial importance, and
contain any considerable number of
unacclimated persons to furnish food
for widespread poison. In this particular the medical authorities, as well as
the intelligent residents of Cuba, have
for the most part misled the profession.
Before leaving the United States most
absolute assurances were given by natives or ex-residents of Cuba, and even
in Cuba itself these assurances were
confidently repeated, that yellow
fever never occurred in this, that or
the other place. Diligent inquiry was
made for all such accessible places, and
diligent investigation invariably proved
that these assurances were false, and
that they were founded upon the comparatively slight prevalence of the disease due in a large measure to the small
number of unacclimated visitors or residents at such places. Detailed reports
of these facts are possessed in abundance. It is very certain that the prevalence of yellow fever is not equally
marked in all places. This varies greatly
in different jilaces, and in different
years at the same places, and this variation is at times independent, apparently, of the amount of unacclimated ma-
erial."
Keep on Courlin'.
The young folks were talking about
mistakes in courtship, when Uncle <k>hn
broke ir. with the declaration " that
there was not any such thing, for," said
he, " nobody ever makes any mistakes
worth mentioning in courtship.    It's
after the courtship's over and the lovera .
have been married that tlie hurtful mis-;
takes begin." •
' " Well, uncle," said one of his pretty
nieees, " what's the moral of that?"      ,.
" The moral!" exclaimed Uncle John.'
" What's the moral?   Why, I s'pose the
moral is, keep on courtin'!"
The Probable Cradle of Our Kace.
The most probable conjecture has
fixed the oyadle ctf our race in that corner of land which lies westward the
steep range of the Beloot Tagh mouritr
ains, an offshoo't of the Himalayas, and
northward from the high, barren land ,
of Kabul, This; country, the ancient.
Bactriana, is the mos<> habitable district
to be found anywhere in Central Asia;; <
There the hills stretch out in gentle'
slopes toward the west, and inclose fer- *
lile valleys, whose innumerable streams,
-fed by the mountains east and south,
all go to swell the wafers of ffche Oxus,
now called the JilioPi Partner north
lies another fruitful country, watered -
by the Jaxartes, separated from the first
by a range. of hills much inferior to
those which divide, both lands from
Yarkand and Kftshgar on the east, and »
from Kabul on the south. Both the .
great rivers empty themselves into the
sea of Aral, between which and the
Caspian, -sTiarply cutting off tho fertile
country from that sea, stretches the
Khiva desert, a barren . land affording a scanty nourishment to
the herds of wandering Turkic
tribes. There is good reason
to believe, however; that this desert did
not always exist, but. that in times not
extraordinarily remote the Capsian sea,
joined to the Sea of Aral, extended
over a much larger area than it at
present covers; it is known even now
to be sinking steadily within its banks.
With such a contraction of tho great
sea the desert would grow by & double
process, by the laying bare its sandy
bed, and by the withdrawal Of a neighboring supply of moisture from the dry •
land. So it may well have been that
the fruitful territory wherein in remotest ages were settled our Aryan ancestors stretched so far west . as to
border upon a large inland Asiatic sea..
It has even been conjectured that the
turning of so much fertile.-land irito
jdesort was the proximate cauflo of those ■
migrations whioh sent the greater part
of the Aryian races westward—to!.people, at lafit, all tho countries of Europe*
The root which is common totheJBtt-
ropean languages for the n'ames-.djt tbe
sea means,in tbe.Indian.and JjraniSaa
conEfc Tfor^tfulf *s$6
supposing that after the European nations had left their early home their
brethren, who had remained behind and
who, long afterward, separated into the
peoples of India and Persia, came to
know as a desert the district which
their fathers had once known as the
sea?—The Contemporary Review.
The Pnthan.
Por mere brutality and roughness the
people of Afghanistan have no rivals in
the world. Though they may be the
most pious of Moslem, they discriminate among the injunctions of the
Prophet. To exterminate the infidel is
a duty welcomed with enthusiasm, but
the command to bathe is quietly
ignored. It may be regarded as an invasion of private life not to be tolerated
by any independent Pathan. Accordingly, he does not wash his face in a
month, his body never. His great head
has never known a comb. His clothing
of felt or sheep-skin is generations old.
No savage half-human is so dirty, none
so shameless in vice. Looking on these
ferocious giants, one must shudder to
think of their forefathers' part in history. Imagine their foul rush nrion the
delicate peoples of India, like a swooping of fetid vultures on a sick lamb!
Imagine the sack of Delhi by these
brutes 1 I have seen the worst savages
of every continent, and I aver that there
are ndne so hideous as the Pathan. In
his eye,'large but furtive, his marked
features and set mouth, the gentle feelings of humanity have not a trace of
expression. The child scowls and
strikes; the man has no thought but of
plunder and blood. His kugh is ready-
enough, a rough, hoarse guffaw, which
shows the black fangs through his unkempt beard; but no one ever saw the
Afghan peasant smile.—All the Year
Round.	
The strides of the Telephone.
A new agreement has been made between the Bell Telephone Company
and the Western Union Company. All
the telephone patents owned by the
latter company ore to be transferred to
the former. This also includes all tho
Bell, Gray, Edison and Blake transmitters and all other instruments connected with the telephone service. The
Western Union will be paid the cost
price of all the instruments that it
turns over, and will hereafter receive
one-fifth of all business returns. The
capital stock of the Bell Telephone
Company is increased from S850,000 to
$8,000,000. There are at present 100,-
000 telephones in use in the United
States, and 4,000 have already been introduced in London. It has beon patented in the United States, Canada,
Italy, Austria, Prance, England, Spain,
Portugal and Australia, and protection
has been asked in Russia, Denmark,
Norway and Sweden. Messages can
now be sent over only 100 miles of
submarine cable, but Prof. Bell announces that he has overcome this difficulty, and that before many weeks a
person in this country can converse
with a person in England,
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