The Camden Journal, 1891-01-08

U V4 lit lUU^UWVl MiWU^kWuwij " 'Well, you are au old batch., which is just as bad. I have not heard Louise sing, but I know that she is creating enthusiasm wherever she goe3, both on account of her voice and her charming manners. She has been studying with line instructors and has a salaried positiou in a church choir.' "Hadlcy was thinking, and I knew he was recalling his youthful experience, so I let him think. Between you and me, I thought he deserved to be troubled, foY he hiri courted her persistently two years or more, and a? soon as she showed affection for him. had thrown her over, just ashe did later with other young ladies. "The whole musicale was very enjoyable,but Louise carried off the palm. I felt lladley start when she came forward, small but dignified, gracious n3 a queen and twice as lovable. And such c-yes! "Her first number was an aria, 'O Don Fatale,' from 4Lc Prophet,' and. Hartley had scarcely recovered from his dazed wonderment, when her second song was due, an English ballad called Faithful.* " 'Friendship has failed us. oid trust has gone, Love that was dawning is dead: Life and its sunshine are clouded o'er, Aye, for ti.e pa*t has fled. You will forgot, and our story will seem The dream of a summer day. But 1 shall remember its golden light. When years shall have passe 1 away. I thouiht you love 1 me once, I deemed the story true; The dream has gone. The love has flown, But still I am faithful to you:' | '^'Bnt where the world has sung yon of sorj row. Hiding its golden beam. Tbon, love, I pray that you may remember Just once again our dream! And when the Angels guide you to Heaven, O'er the dividing sea. Look on the shore and give me this wel -

ioou, unu u?u less uiau iuiu. ? uu prison population is only three-quarters of that of twelve years ago, while the population of the country has increased one-seventil. The Commissioners believe that the diminution iu the number of prisoners is due entirely to a decrease in crime, and not to any laxity of the police or of the public prosecutors. -The contrast of these figures with the statistics of the ever-increasing prison population of the United States will afford little pleasure to the patriotic resident of this country, but one or two'consideiations may give him some comfort. The increase of crime, in this country i? due iu some measure to the immigration^/ meu who have led criminal lives iu other countries, or who come .here.. with thq, idea of obtaining money by criminal means if necessary. England itscl/has 5 sent us not a few person?, w/ua have -at., one time or another formed L part of its ' prison population. Atiofcher-reason 'for-.' the increase of the number dFhSiminat in this country is the restless and rapidly r moving manner of life,ia some . of the communities, and the -rpo^hness ipse parable- from life in the-*?emote parts ' of the country. When the United States settled Ititq the comparative re?pose of the- nhciCpt civilization tbe?< prisons may be less crowded.?Ntuo York 7'riliune. Shooting Groivse, Wlieu flushed the ruffled grouse springs into the a.r with a whirr aud boom that make the dry fallen leave3 around dance under the swiftly-beating pinions, say3 the Philadelphia Pros. This is the bird's chiefest characteristic, suggestive of the power and speed of which it is alone capable. The novice, taken unawares, is often so startled at tho hurst to winor that he stands in onsn -

! inventor; if we buy a sewing machine the 1 probability is that we pay a royalty to" as many as a dozen or fifteen inventors at once." Lord Brougham ofteu said that he would gladly have exchanged his honors and emoluments for the profits and renown of the inventor of the perambulator or sewing machine. We are not wishful to lead our readers to covet what are termed "large fortunes" as really conducive to happiness or usefulness. "Fortune" is itself a heathen and not a Christian word. But "inventiou" is another thing, and thj renumerative results are a fitting element for consideration in these days. Howe, the originator of the sewing machine, derived $500,000 a year it, and from their mechanical improvements the celebrated .Wheeler & Wilson arc reputed to have divided for many years an income of $1,000,000, while the author of the Singer sewing machine left at his decease nearly $15,000,000. The telephone, the planing machine and the rubber patents realized many millions, while the simple idea of heating the blast iu iron smelting increased the wealth of the country by hundreds of millions. The patent for making the lower ends of candles taper instead of parallel, so as to more easily lit the socket, made the present enormous business of a well-known firm of London chandlers. The "drive well" was an idea of Colonel Green, whose troops during the jvar were in want of water. He concei^d the notion of driving a* two-inch tube into the ground until wafer was reached, and then attaching a pump. This simple contrivance was patented, and the tens of thou* sands of farmers who have adopted it have been obliged to pay him a royalty, estinf. ?.1 000 000. A larore urofit

I have seen but one such overturning of these moving mountains of marble, and surely it looked -as if the *'great waters of the deep were breaking up" and that the end of all things had come. Great green waves went thundering by asif a hurricane might have been howling v hours across the sea that but a few moments before had been as motionless as a mill pond. "Flying flecks of foam d-sli dowrT from dizzy heights i above, aud its slippery sides are almost covered with cascades;forraed frota the -waters that have been lifted up by the rapidly overturning berg. The first intimation wc had of the coming on of_ the conyujsion was a dull shock from under the Water against our ship's side as .lt a submarine blast had been esplotted, a shock very much like that given when the great Hell Gate ein New York haihor was sprung, sgful a nnmcnt aftcrwavfl, a hugh rising "flf the sea near one side , of the iceberg was apparent, and through this vast lake of uplifted waters broke through a snow white mass of ice that hid been detached from the hugh crystal mountain far down in the ocean's depths, and that "came whirling to the surface with a swiftness that seemed tQ.lift it half way out of the sea, and wh3|ch kept it spinuiug aud splashing for a^full fiveminutes afterward. -"p. The release of this portion from its frozen fetters far below: had disturbed the "stable equilibrium"?as the learned scientists would say?of the greater and parent berg, and a moment afterward it began its stupeudons swaging, as if some earthquake were iuflii?c/ui? it .^roiiv W neath. until in one of its collosal carecnings it fell over and seemed to bury it -

*^-'"6 "" , lucrative trade through inventive genius and mechanical contrivance. Even natural curiosity has been turned to account in the number of automatic boxes for the sale of goods of all kinds, and fabulous dividends have been paid by the companies owning the patents. The most profitable inventions have been the improvements in simple devices, things of every-aay use, that everybody wants. Among the number of patents for small things may be mentioned the "stylographic pen," and a pen for shading in different colors, producing ?200,000 per annum. A large profit has been reaped by a miner who invented a metal | rivet or eyelet at each end of the mouth i of coat and trousers pocket to resist the j strain caused by the carriage of pieces ' of ore and heavy tools. In a recent legal action it transpired iu evidence that the i inventor of metal plates used to protect I soles and heels of boots from wear sold | upward of 12,000,0110 plates in 1879, I and in 1S87 the number reached 143,000,000 producing realized profits of a ,quarter of a million of money. Another 1 useful invention is the "darning weaver," ; a device for repairing stockings, undcrj garments, etc., the sale of which !is very large and increasing. A?largc a sum as was ever obtained for !anv invention was enjoyed by the inven (tor of the iuvcrted g jS-bell to hang over gas to protect ceilings from being blackened, and a scarcely less lucrative patent was that for simply putting emery j 'powder on cloth. Frequently time and

was to be married the next week, and she i bad leave of absence for a fortnight. ; She had said very little about her family, i but I knew she had sent them n Christ- J inas box, so if I thought anything of her ! emotion, it was for the joy of going j home. It was surprising?the vacancy she left in our house, and you inay be sure we welcomed her return with much Waimtb. But though she evidently appreciated our feelings toward her, I observed that s"hc was making a great effort to control herself. Thinking she was suffering from homesickness. 1 rapped at her door in the evening to ask if she cared for my society a little while. She was weeping so violently that she could scarcely speak, and when I put my arm about her she burst out: "O, Miss Vau Zandt, if I could only ^ ?talk to you?to some oue?who would help me?to bear it?and tell me?what to do! O dear! O dear!"' By soothing words and pats, I assisted her to something like calmness, and while 1 did not urge her to talk, she understood that my sympathies were . with her. Finally she told me that she had had J warm feelings toward a young man two j years her senior, since she was sixteen, | but that he had tired of her apparently, or being influenced by another young lady. Fot a year she suffered torments at home, and then came to Hubbard to see whether time and absence would not kill her affection or briug back his. It seemed to have done neither, for she had met him at the wedding she had just attended, and although he had express^

I a pond or not, and the ponds are always ; trying to leave the country by the shortest cut. One would suppose that under i this condition of things the only uui troubled creatures would be turtles and ! ducks; but 110, strangest and most > mysterious of all, every living thing in Holland appears to be throughly i placid and content. The Dutch mind, so to speak, is at once anti-dry and ; waterproof. Little children run about in fields where once their grandfathers [ySuiled over the billows; and youths and | maidcus row their pleasure-boats where 5 their ancestors played "tag1' among the I haystacks. When the tide sweeps uni ceremoniously over Mynheer's garden, 5 he lights his pipe, takes his fishing-rod, f and sits down on his back porch to try > his luck. If his pet pond breaks loose I and slips away, lie whistles, puts up a $ dam so that it cannot come back, and I decides what crop shall be raised iu its r vacant place. None but the Dutch r I could live so tranquilly iu Holland; ; though, for that matter, if it had not r been for the Dutch, we may be suro ? there would have been, by this time, no > Holland at all. And j'et this very Holland, besides I holding its own place, has managed to t gain a foothold in almost every quarter ; of the globe. An accouut of its colonics i is a history in itself. In the East Indies > alone it commauds twenty-four milliou.s ; of persons.?St. Nicholas.

~ ? ?/ ? you with all my might?" "Yes; but he said that your might was too small."? The Jester. ' > It is queer, but true, that women will go to the New York Commissioners of Emigration after an imported girl when they want a domestic. "I don't see how people who make artificial teeth keep out of the poorhouse." "Why?" "They have so many mouths to fill."?Epoch. You can always judge by appearances. The gas metre very modestly covers its face with its hands; but have a care 'tis fooling thee.?Boston Transcript. Half a pound of glucose, Half a pound of sand. Make the angry housewife And the grocer bland. ?Boston Traveler. Belinda?"It's queer, isn't it, but everywhere I go the young men gather round me." Maud?"Perhaps they think there is a safety in numbers."?Boston Post. When a big man in a little town moves to a larger town he is putting himself in a position to learn his fir3t big lesson in humiliation.?Atchison Globe. A peculiarity of the rooster is this: _ That though it was simple chicken on going to roost in the ovening, in the morning it always turns to crow.? Philadelphia Times. He?"May I take the liberty of calling?en^you this afternoon, or do you prefer other company?" She?"As far as that goes, no company is as desirable as yours."?Texas Sittings.