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fitcnrg Utiscfllatig. 
ADVENTURES OE AN ANTEDILUVIAN 
In The Land of Promise. 
BY JAMBS Jl’NBILL. 
(Continued from paste 245.) 
CHAPTER XIII. 
SOME SOCIAL QDB8TI0NS DISCUSSED. 
Mr. Glinden proposf d to me one day that I take 
a ride with him ln'o the country. His brother-in- 
law occupied a rarm some miles out or the city, , 
and It was to visit him and to give me an opportu¬ 
nity of observing country life that the trip was 
projected. 
We set out directly after breakfast one morning 
in an elegant. Utile carrtagc drawn by a superb 
horse which was attached to the vehicle In the 
manner which I have before described. Tula nohie 
animal bore ns along at a pace which to me was 
peculiarly exhllarailug rrom the mingled sense of 
fear and security whl h kept my heart In a flutter. 
When 1 looked upon the horse dashing along as 
unrestrained oyhitor bridle as it he were upon 
his native plain, my hand involuntarily grasped 
some projecting part of the carrla e ter security. 
But when l turned to Air. Gltnden sitting with bla 
arms folded across his breast as composedly as If 
he weie in his easy chair at home, reason rose 
above rear, and gave me a sense of safety. 
I enjoyed a conversation with Air. Glinden more 
t han with any other person whom I met, because 
he seemed able to adapt himself readily to my 
level. This was doubtless owing to the fact that 
he was a student or history, and familiar with the 
manners and Institutions ot people which bore 
some resemblance to my own. 
Oar conversation this morning naturally turned 
toward the peculiar customs and Institutions of 
the country, concern log which there were ever 
new questions arising in my rulud to be resolve 1. 
<• How Is it, Mr. Glinden,'’ said I, “ that these 
family portraits aud monuments of art which form 
a parr, ot the very walls ot your homes are com 
pietely preserved in your households lor so many 
hu ad reds ot years? 13 there no changing ot 
dwelling place among your people rrom city to 
country, or from country to clry. or nom one city 
t) another? Are there no fluciuauona of fortune 
among you which make the wealthy or one gener¬ 
ation the paupers ot another, and thus strip many 
a uotile ramlly ot its ancestral home?” 
•• There are neither changing of residence nor 
fluctuations of fortune among our people,” replied 
Mr. Glluden. “Every house is regarded as the 
heritage of the male line In each ramby, and Is 
handed down rrom father to son Ui a succession 
a3 unalterable as the family name. And not only 
Is each family bouud to Its home by Its veneration 
for these ancestral monuments, but the different 
pursuits aud occupations of our people are als i 
hereditary, so that a ami succeeds to the business 
or occupation ot his father with the same regu¬ 
larity t hat homes and lands are Inherited. Each 
ramlly Is, therefore, tuundto Us own Iccattty by 
the additional demands ot Its peculiar occupation .” 
• ••Yon surely do not mean to &iiy, sir,” said I, 
“ that yo ir laws or soci d customs bind a mandor 
Ilfs to the occupation of his fathers. -Must a 
ditch digger or a street sweeper plod on In his 
humble and laborious, though It may be, very 
u-eful lire, simply because his lather has tollowed 
this occupation beroie him? And Is he denied 
even the possibility of raising himself above his 
humble station, however strongly he may desire, 
and howevqr capable he may be to attain a higher 
position in society V” 
‘•Uoforiuuateiy for your Illustration," replied 
Mr. Glinden, “ there are neither dllch diggers nor 
street, sweeper’s amo g us. if you mean to Imply 
that this social custom ot ours shuts the door on 
ambition and prevents a man of superior capacity 
from fining a station suitable to ids ability, 1 will 
say In rip y, flirt, among ub a man's ambition Is 
satisfied wueu he Alls a station that Is useful, and 
ha3 made himself as competent as may be to fill 
It well. 
“Second, not even the president of one of cur 
universities receives greater marts of considera 
tlon on accouut of Ills superior station man the 
humblest member of our society. We may honor 
him for his suptrlor abUliles and attainments 
and look up to tilm as one whose opinions aud 
counsel we respect and value, out not one among 
us would turn bis back upon his servant merely to 
court nta attention. 
•‘ Third, by the Uwsof hereditary descent, those 
mental faculties which are habitually active in 
the parents will be transmitted in a corresponding 
degree of activity to their children. And as It is 
the custom for famir.es pursuing the same occupa¬ 
tion or business to intermarry, a natural bias of 
rnli.d is t bus received from both parents by the 
children of every family toward their peculiar 
hereditary occupation. 
“ The laws cl hereditary transmission are so 
well known among us that a man might readily 
beget a child of a native ability much superior 
to his own But he Is t oo w Ise to do so. He knows 
that there Is but one preacher for every ward, of 
perhaps live or six thousand tGU.c, and that, the 
te .cher . professors and men high In the realm of 
science must, necessarily be few la comparison 
with the many who nusi devote themselves to 
providing for the creature wants of them elves 
and their lellow-men. If, therefore, the carpen¬ 
ter, the mason, or the blacksmith should say, “I 
will endeavor to give my boy a genius lor oratory, 
or endow him w 1th tne natural Capacity for a pro¬ 
fessor of any science; he woo In be directing his 
aspirations toward pursuits which were already 
as fully occupied as the best Interests of society 
demanded. And he would be making of bis son 
an Inferior preacher or man ot science when it 
would be better for ;h boy as well as for society 
chat he should endeavor io make him a good car¬ 
penter or blacksmith. According to the operation 
of the law which I have spoken of, a preacher 
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who has a long line of ancestry behind him who 
have devoted themselves to this occupation would 
be a natural preacher, and he would be able to 
transmit to his son the necessary talents for this 
avocation tn a fulness and completeness which the 
most ambitious carpenter could never hope to 
achieve So you will perceive that a man’8 sense 
of what is reasonable and right concur In making 
him contented with his hereditary occupation.” 
“Your remarks, sir,” I replied, “appearto be 
founded on reason. But I must confess that It Is 
a very difficult matter Indeed for me to conceive 
of a state ot society founded upon such lofty prin¬ 
ciples that no one of its members bas any higher 
ambition In life than to make himselt as usetul as 
he can In the sphere which fate has decreed that 
he shall occupy, where there are neither envying? 
nor rivalries between individuals of different sta¬ 
tions, and where each Individual accepts his pecu¬ 
liar lot in lire cbeerlully, and performs Us duties 
faithfully, from the conviction that his own best 
Interest as well as those of society will thus be 
subserved. There arc some Interesting queries, 
however, which naturally arise In my mind from 
your remarks. First, from what class cl tUe peo¬ 
ple are your officers of Government chosen? Or 
18 office-holding hereditary among you like the 
other oocupationsof your people?” 
“The machinery ot our government Is veTy 
simple,” replied Mr. Glinden. Public, like private 
stations are hereditary, and on the same general 
principle?. Chief among these is the native bias 
toward a particular pursuit which a child tnherlis 
from a long line of ancestors who have followed 
the same occupation and which gives him a facil¬ 
ity In the performance of the duties which the 
most diligent application of one bom to a different 
pursuit can never achieve.'’ 
“But, sir,”I rejoined, “It certainly appears to 
me very unjust that the honors and emoluments 
of public oifloe should be conferred on some Indi¬ 
viduals because they happen to be born tn an of¬ 
fice-holding family, while many other worthy cit¬ 
izens must plod on In their humble mode of lire 
merely because their fathers have done so before 
them. Besides, la there not great danger that 
those to whom the offices ot government are as¬ 
sured from generation to generation will Lake ad¬ 
vantage ot their hereditary power to promote 
theirownor tnelr families’ interests at the ex¬ 
pense of the public good?” 
“ These are objections,” replied Mr. Glinden, 
“ which arise very naturally In a mind that bas 
no higher stand point from which to judge ot hu¬ 
man nature than that, which must necessarily be 
yours from your natural relations wlih a people 
among whom the supremacy ot the Intellect, and 
moral sentiments over the selfish and animal prin¬ 
ciples ot our nature is still only a vague vision ot 
the future. Among us this supremacy la so com¬ 
plete that every citizen acquiescee in the dictum, 
that whatever promotes tue good of the public 
promotes the good ot tho Individual. While the 
humblest member of our society would regard It 
as degrading to his personal worthiness to allow 
Ids mind to be disquieted by aspirations after a 
public office which are merely the outgrowth ot a 
desire to be an object of popular attention. Among 
our early ancestors ambition often took this direc¬ 
tion. Men sought office, and spent halt their 
fortune in the most iniquitous manner in securing 
It, merely to gratify a aelflsh vanity which was 
pleased w lt,h the empy applause or the multitude. 
They expended money lavishly upon the adorn¬ 
ment ot their persona and their houses that they 
might outshine their neighbors In the splendor of 
their style, and excite the gaping wonder of the 
common throng over their pomp and magnifi¬ 
cence. 
•> Happily the day of this vulgar love of applause 
has long sluce. gone by; and among us, It a man 
seeks the applause ot his fellows at all, It Is for 
duties faithfully and well performed In the par¬ 
ticular sphere in which It has been hts lot to he 
cast. 
•> m regard to an office-holder using his position 
ror the purpose or promoting his own or his 
family's Interests at the expense ot the public 
good, I may say, that during the whole couroe ot 
my long life I have never know of an Instance 
where theslightest breath of suspicion has-been 
cast upon the character or conduct of a public 
officer, in fact, the worda peculation, embezzle, 
menr, fraud, theft, ere, which were foimeily so 
frequently u-ed in connection with offices of trust, 
are now obsolete.” 
Peculation, fraud and theft obsolete!” I ex¬ 
claimed. “Can it he possible for poor, frail hu¬ 
manity to attain to such a high condulon ot moral¬ 
ity that there shall be no lci a or words to give 
expression to such an unworthy class or ideas? 
“ Tnere la another query,” I continued, “ which 
your remarks have raised in my mind. You say 
that there are no fluctuations of tortune among 
your people. Now l would 'ike to know how It Is 
possible for the Immense business of this great 
couutry to be carried on without fluctuations of 
fortune.” 
“ it is not a matter of much difficulty,” replied 
Mr. GUddcn, “ when reason and moral sentiment 
combine in directing and controlling public and 
private enterprise. 
“ I will no enter into a discussion or the causes 
which in the olden time made the wheel or tortune 
revolve with such uncertain movements that the 
poor might ever live In hope and the wealthy be 
ever on their guard. But 1 think It Is undeniable 
that tue inspiring motive in those day6 was self¬ 
ishness, Wealth was then the goal of human arn- 
blUon, md men strove to reach it with a selflsh 
zeal in which the Interests or their neighbors were 
completely lost to view. They had not then learn¬ 
ed the Important lessons that the truest interests 
of tne individual lies In the direction of the best 
interests oi the community, and that in promoting 
the happiness of their neighbor men are both di¬ 
rectly and Indirectly promoting their own. 
“These lessons nave become practical realities 
with our people, and they constitute the very warp 
and woof of our social and business Intercourse. 
No one among us seeks to heap up riches to him¬ 
self, because he knows that in proportion as he 
has more than enough for the comforts and such 
enjoyments of life as the condition of society 
among us makes necessary, another must have 
less, and If all were actuated by this desire for ac¬ 
cumulating, the harmonious relations of our socl- 
lefy would be subverted, and our happiness as a 
people destroyed. 
To be continued. 
MAGAZINES FOE APRIL. 
A FFLKTONS’ JOURNAL. CONTENTS A Question : 
a Greek Idyl; Mysteries and Miracle-Plays; 0)1- 
phant’s Land of Gilead; on some of Shakespeare’s 
Female Characters, II. Portia; Greek Dinners; 
Why does the Crab go sideways? A Culture- 
Ghost-. or Wlnthrop’e Aventure; The Caliph Ha- 
roun Alraschld; The Earl of Beacons:field as a 
Novelist; itusklnlana (Ruakln’s Arrows of the 
chaee); Concerning Uic Cheerful Less of the Old; 
(tne Country Parson). Editor’s Table: Carlyle 
as a Thinker—The English Estimate of Carlyle— 
Tact not u Special Feminine Quality. Notes for 
Readers. 
It Is narrated by one of the biographers of Fox, 
that, after play lng at Almack’s for twenty-two 
hours without, intermission, he rose from the table 
a loser to the tune ot eleven thousand pounds. The 
fashionable gamblers of that negligent time were 
accustomed to find themselves occasionally on the 
side supposed to be agreeable to Cato; and to all 
of them In turn, as they staggered homeward tn 
the dawn with empty pockets, might have been 
applied the line tn the “ Fasti 
*' lude domumrodeunt, sub prlma crepuscula taasati.” 
But the losses of Fox hod been so enormous on 
t his occasion, that his friends feared le«t he should 
be prompted to some desperate act. Accordingly, 
they betook iliem-elves to bis house, and, unsea¬ 
sonable as was the hour, brushed the servants 
aside, and insisted on forcing their way Into Ills 
presence. They found him prone upon the hearth¬ 
rug, leaning upon hie elbow, reading a chapter In 
Herodotus — Appletons’ lor April. 
Lipfincott’s Magazine — contents: A Peep at 
the North ot Ireland; characteristic Dances of 
the World; Zoological Curiosities; On a Califor¬ 
nia Ranch; At N ght; John Henry; Present Ten¬ 
dencies of the French Drama; 'J he Zour of the 
A merlean Loyalists; The Wounded Singer; sister 
Wetden’s Prayer; Wash Lo; After Betrothal; 
Nineteenth Century Notes; Our Monthly Gossip ; 
Literature of lire Day. 
Tu erk Is no account of the origin of danctng, 
but, combined with music. It Is practised by every 
nation on the globe, and the inundations ot it He 
in the human constitution Itself. Its earliest form 
was probably a rhythmical march, Blnoe the In¬ 
nate leeUug :or rhythm would instinctively Induce 
men when walking to regulate their song and 
steps to a certain recurring order or measure. 
Again, a superabundance of animal spirits leads 
naturally to one roan of dancing,—a motive we 
see constantly exemplified in children, aDd even 
In animals. All savage nations dance primarily 
from this mol I ve. Captain Stedman. In hla “ Nar- 
railve of an Expedition In Surinam,” says chat ho 
has seen a nc-gio, for want of a partner, figure and 
foot It up for nearly two hours to his own shadow 
against a wall.-Amelia E Barr In Llpplncott’a 
for April. 
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Gbiselda is b pattern maid, 
Whom nothing can excite, 
By all her slightest word’s obeyed. 
She's always tn the right. 
Her prompt decision is superb. 
She knows no wicked spite; 
Her calmness omight can e’er disturb, 
She’s always in the right. 
No breeze that blows cau rough her hair 
To rude unseemly plight. 
Nomud to soil tier dress would clnrc— 
She's always in the right. 
Her steps she bends where she should go, 
She scorn’s the world’s delight; 
She answers “ Yes ” she answers *' No”— 
She's always in the right. 
Her figure’s tall, her eyes are pale. 
Her form Is spare and slight; 
Her thin, red Ups no faults bewail. 
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Her sayings sages cite. 
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Should I wed her, they eay. my Ufa 
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POINT LACE MAKING FOR GIRLS. 
Friends There will probably be some time 
yet, before the warm breath of Spring will warm 
flhe earth sufficient tor commencement of work In 
your flower garden, so tn the mean time why not 
make yourselves a good supply of laces ? The 
cheap imitation lace that many of you are wear¬ 
ing does not wash niedy, and Is often tnrown 
aside and replaced with new during the season; 
the money thus spent., if It was used to buy point 
lace braids and thread, would supply you with the 
most beautiful and tluruble collars, cuffs, barb 
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time, or trouble ot making up, provided you are 
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with a little care In learning the real lace stitches 
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Fashion Magazines often contain beautiful printed 
patterns or many articles. 
Modern lace workers use a fine, closely-woven 
braid which very much shortens the process, and 
Is a close Imitation ot the ancient hand-wrought 
web that tonned the design of the pattern. These 
are made of pure linen, and are basted firmly to 
toe pattern lollowirg the figures and outtiues, 
being folded down neatly so as to make the points 
and square corners of the figures. In follow tug 
curves or circles baste down the outer edge of the 
braid, leaving the tnuer edge to stand up lull or 
ruffled. This must be gathered down to fit the 
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the threads as the work proceeds, The next thing 
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braids are connected by Irregular threads, they 
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la England. These threads are often twisted to¬ 
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The most common “ filling tn” alltch Is Point de 
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CORRESPONDENT'S CORNER. 
Will some of the Rural ladle3 write us a chap¬ 
ter on girls graduating dresses? I have a daugh¬ 
ter who will graduate in June, from a popular 
Female College. Of late years the graduates have 
all dressed rather expensively; but the class, 
(20 In number) tula year want a dress that will 
be useful after commencement, something that 
can be laundrled. Will not some of the Rural 
sisters advise me aa to material, make.etc ? 
Can any one tell me wbat Paris muslin Is ? 
What color would you advise in silk for a young 
lady, something suitable for most seasons of the 
year and that will not lade or loose Us freshness. 
By answering all these queries, you win oblige a 
Blend or the Rural. Mrs, B. A. 
Purls muslin la mull. Space In present Issue 
will nor allow of answer to the other questions. 
We would be pleased to have the Information 
from the source requested. k. o. 
