Tho 1JI1 Word. Creep' into tliy narrow t>o>l. Creep, n<] let no more he HA id. Vain thy on* t ' Ail ixUnda fast' Thou thyself must hresk At la*L 10-t tle long contention COAAO ; t ieese Are AW AN A, And swans sre goose. l,ot them have it how they will; Thou Art tired ; l>e1 be still. Tliey oat-talked th<>e. liism'xl thee. tore thee, Better tnon fAn d worse before tine . Fired their ringing shot And pxassoxt , Hotly charged And hrtike At last. Charge omv more. then. aod (w> dtmih! 1/et the victors when they iNxmo, When the forts of folly fall. Find thy body by the WAII. V.iffVv I moid , Tlie l.ooin of Life. i All its*, all night 1 can hear the Jar t'f the loom of life, and near and far It thrills with its ilot-pi and iuuttl.Nl sound. As the tireless wheels gx> always round. Busily, tKxaseleasly g<x>s the ltH'm, In the light of day and the midnight gloom. The wheels are turning eajly aud lat.s And tha woof is wound in the warp*of fate. Click, oja-k ' there • a thread of love woxe . t'tiek. clack ! another ef wrong and sin . What a checkered thing will this life t-e When xre see it unrol'esl in eternity ! Time with a face like mystery. And hands as hnsy a* hands can l<a. S:t* at the loom with its arm outapread. To catch iu its uit slit a each glancing UUN I. Vfben shall this wonderful wx h t-e tlorw " In a thousand years, pwrltaps, or in i'r to-morrow. V h.> knoweih Yix. :>r 1. But the wheels turn x-:i ait-J the shuttles fly. Ah. sad-awed weaver, the years are ' w, Bc.t each one is nearer the end I know ; And some day the la-tthrea 1 shall be xx ox en in. ♦led grant it he love instead of - :i. Are we spxuuiers of w.sxl for this life wrb ax 1\ we furnish the weaver a thread each day / It acres butler then, oh my friend, to -oni A Uaatuni thraad than a thread of MU. LEUY'S PROMISES. When Laurence Van Evoreii ,v. ah ".it to ami for the East Indies, he asktsl Lttx t-' walk half an hour in the orcharxt with him. which was wreathed and perfumed with fruit 11 >s aoraa. " I'xe a rtsjuesl to make you. my dear Letty." he sai l. " and I'm half afrs-.l * •! may think it a selflah thing to ask . in-leed, 1 kium u i-, hut xet, with the r< uowuad seliishness of man, 1 not xxuly ask. I U t u." What on earth can it ba?" said I-etty. milrg. "Do you want to get me to a nunnery till you ri turn, or to trau l t > t'aicutta to marrv yon ? Dr do you want tie to gixt tin cold -h.-n'der to Tom Long Worthy, and promise lit xt-r to say so much as • Hx>w do ve dor' to lie... F.v the g xssi •- had -.ud th r say in Van Evt rer.'s tar. when he returned from h:- L*t xoyage. to the effect that l.sxugworthy had taken stbatitsge of lus to Is- ss.. 1 ou IsrttT. " No, I-etty. it is n ne f thee trsd - he answered; "it i- ioearUund uiuch more imps riant to mv haixpiness." "You know I will J-i anything to plttase you." "YouwiU? Then pr *mie ni" t 1 i- thing <lemnly promi-e th t if anything should li.xo pea to mc, if 1 sliould never rtt tm, if 1 should die--promise that you will rem a; me for.ver —that you will never, nevtr marry anoUitr. Can vou promise this, darling"" "v'ertaiuly. But *tti will ..>-me back -y ■ i nxu.-t. Why. 1 should the myself if t--n failed. 1 lu-re is liu lets! f neh a promise, t-v.t 1 give, it Ui tla tune. I promise solemnly that if yon cie 1 sill never tnarry. "Tiiaaks," - iJYsaE - r*u. k ; -vug her cheek w.th an air of hat uig omtsnrd a finer. "I have exactly five :u,:i it s left in vhtcli to say g.ssl-bxc. There i- a great d al celled h-ve in this \I rid w! hl- ; r :iu ;ad' . but 0..t mustn't call it loving'. - - the I- -.! telle Us : ' x":;le ton cau love as the .wgols may, M'ith the breadth of heaven Is: .nxt lis.' And y u think y u cm, Letty / ' "1 t-.i ' it. Perhaps y i mean to commit fiiiriie loti me.' And thtn foh mod a .'-,-w nn utes of teii'ter lioastus.. an 1 Van Eti. i tore hi:.:-elf iwgy, h-xviug LeU - - in Usur-. What s 1 v.c. 1 -:.g tinn it was to hx k forward to 1 H v many wtoßns woahl K-al along tin- coast, how many -una won;J shine, rmrniags dawn, aud evening* cxtln rto th- .r cl se. bt forx they met again In the meantime h- re n s.- her trousseau to tin:-h : and she n-od to *;S at it In or by hour, with her th iglit.- away oa - mie di-tant reach of the Indian -< as. ev.vic when Tom 1-ong v. rthy loitered in to htlp> k; . Ituie Tmi tt really a comfort to her. iu spite t f Van Ex ( -reu's n.nrea-snable Jeakm-v. H- could teil her all a) oat the long Indian voyage. i>( rrrhuM. calm- rod tr.-. It x-; d*-all gts'Ut the great f *t :ga dties to rd.irh inr l n-r *.- bound, with tnetr - in -mV3 their strauge ciut'sa*. ti;c:r fantastic st iff- and eg: i trchi'ectnre till -he fe ; .s if -hi xx.re t .ere berat'f. It wis s-nr ju -tiths later that Tom Lcxnzworthy < :: v. :b a t 'or.ii -j 1;;- fa,* . " V tar- .1V sv 1 Latty, r <-rd rig him. fjM at tbmn .j n . ill a! t-asa.™ "li t'BTtiid.vvi - t .- lEetfl" "Yi . I have '.. •••:•! ft-—." " N thing a' ;Tx r r " 1 bone n. T." " Yoc fxipie not' Tor In-.x lon't yvakuua? Wlist l- i; 1 -tt i. i art j- .riu< IUV feer: g'. Y>s are only crUt ii;- " The Flying .Set; 1 ' — " I* lost /" '' lla< foundered. But t' - rt's no certainty wiihrcgwrd to Laltreuce ; he may i-e among the - - 1. Letty 1 Letty c t hide at m a- if 1 h.d hrongtit it ais it. 1 would exchartgi ptart-i ti;th htnt g'.dl* fry . . I • ;ld ladei ihe cried. S -• left her uw-dk- where P new- f-mnd it. and lidded w.ty a'.! lie s.a.r g.tnncrit i. An 1 month follow.-1 ne-nth t auxmna f -nr ldi!:_': and one 'r t*oo id s-am-wi *tr:cgl-.l home to their famii.- s, lutterei au 1 destitute, aft-r u;ny iiaxdsiiij-s. t-ut they knew nothi ig' of Van lix-eri u : ht bid not taktu the sum lost; some b.id ls-:i swept away by waxi h fore the shij' •-**- al and ;.- I; and so by sad degrees hops? and Lr.nren,-c- Evcren were given t^- It was. pierharx*. tiir—> rear* and N ttt r after the Flying Scml had -ilt-l tb .t Letty, w- xry of dee'ining Inritatmns and of Isnng a -\- 1 if sho meant to -arnflce her— If like a Hindis wi low. joined a rr.trty of friend- g i.g to • d.i their tea in the * in-' t at tire twich. tw • li •'■*' steaming down tic river. She had anderst' I that there was t<> be but a handful of ys ; l-. but she found a crowd: aud sitting • :i ihe sind. looking at the delicate sea-shell pink < f the -a-tern kv above the tiLs-.ng Heaktr*. or wait tuag the grj'lps of girl- uukinij tlie r tab!'.' of a sani and e: n tduu :t w;t i diiatk * from t!:ir I-a ski!-. others gat hertd drift xx oil an I light, la picture-pm blaze t*neath the ooff.-' gud clnni (so -. a pleasant chance from the nit notony of lor day*. Preseutly, while :•■ gaze 1, a little Iswt. with tlie snnset reddening its suils. " pui-n 'itel its sjxeest in tlie llailiy • IIKI, and Tom Icmg w.xrtby threw his aach r ashore. " letty !'* "Tom!" "I wish yon had allowed me to bring you down." " I wish I ha-i and th a tliey fell to - iug of tho moon-led tides, als.ut great "tortus and wrecks. "Do you know,"she confessed, "ttKur drift wood tire chilis me. How d" I know but it i* a bit of the spar poor Laurence - i i.ug to t" " They ere baring simps r." aaid I/uig worthv, turning away. "L t mm Mag yon something. We have been too gloomy." "No ; when X am gloomy. I am in no langi-r of forgetting. Don't you rf-iiießil>ef An fern's atory of the ]>oor old maid wjio u-e ! the Ixroken half of a bottle pucked up or tie Isa-'li for her canary'*drinking vessel, whed it was hit of the very bottle hi which her lost lover had in trutt d ate nder farewell V" " You d iu t mean to te au ol 1 maid, Is-ttv ? ' "I? The day of my destiny's oxer. Hew ghostlv the light-bouse look - ! * I used to think I should like to live in one, ohce —e tpecinliy ui Btonnv weather." "They will be lighting up presently ; we will pay them a visit if yon please." And while they cliinbtd tlie light-hon -e tower, and saw tlie fishing fleet (Standing out to -'-t, and watched the keeper light his lamp's, while he told tlieni of the sea birds that boat their lives out against the windows, of ship is he had seen go to pieces in the storm, of the times he had tilt ont bis boat to the resent, and his wife eeping the lights bright alone amidst the gale, (heir friends were gathering up the frag ments aud steaming homeward, each thinking that I-etty was xt Ui the other. When Tom and Letty came nut i: der the stars, the bench had a wild and lonely aspect: some night bird was screaming overhead, the gypsy lire smoldered amidst some stranded timbers, but the sands were deserted.. Tom's little craft was the only one in sight, mid with the wind dead against them and the' tide falling, it woujd lie useless to start for gome hours to come "We mar as well m-ike ourselveg comforta ble," said Tom, bringing fresh fuel for the fire. " I am to blame for lliis disaster." "I don t call it a disaster exvrtly.'*id Letty. " Do yon see how much our b!.x -i log resem bles a crwiiching camel ? In tii* weird light I can half believe that we are in-hi ted ou the desert, and are bivouacking till day. It's rather romantic than disastrous.'' "I'm glad von see it in that light. You would make the desert blossom like a rose." "How you flatter me !" "IV We'never flatter those we love." " Yon needu't take pains to tell me that you don't love me,".she laughed. "I take pleasure in saying that I do." " That you do ! —that you do !' " Yee. Ido lote vou.'lietty," stretching his arras toward her, for she had risen and half moved away. " Ijetty Letty ! don't be angry with me for loving you. How could I help it V ' "You must," she cried ; "you mustn't love me. You don't. It's all a "fancy. You de ceive yourself. I can't allow you to love me." FHKD. KUHTZ, K.litor mul 1 'ropriotor. YOLUMK X. "V i 11 i;ht as well si* that you niitldtil allow the nv-l to | inch you, or the tain to drench * u, xso t you U'Xx> uie a little, lstty '" "Oh. d. n't i-Y lie' don't ' I can't . it is unite•! I'l-I- 1 lel -tlx e llie for saving *. \ci I)4xe \lxxax • b i si a tinnd to me." " And Always shall lv. Petty. " "I In don't let Us talk about love, nor think of it. t h*ll uexer marrx "1 .! if xv i sli. ild I'haiige yx'iir uiuid " I can nexer change it." ' Vet it such a thing should hi'|s n women 1 xe that lllXlUeu, JeU kl OXX XxU Will litlxl me always the same ' " b it you must be ure that it nexer x-anhap |>eti. ' "Si ice you deny me so ruueh, hum r this w! 111 l xif nr.: ■ . I illv, and I ri Ullsc lUe that if any tge slu ltld oxvar. you stU let me km -i '■ 1 . an safely promise that,' slie replied. ' ° I tiauk y on. I*, is not • fu n that a loxrr is obliged to im ps s - . .etx uis 'i t >• sweelhiart who has rsfiwxl Lnu. lne ti..i; ht rasi!* eaxucatxe of It aa an i ;nharr:.s-iug sjtluli li. hut It dut uot |Wx<xe > in tin case of folu slid Petty ; they spoke .a xi,iesilent, as the spirit uioxcst He tnuui ' I his 1"iat xx ith a hand as sti ady as if all h.s s -hi - had tu granted. l'hey caiunted tin c .sir Utlx<us at..! the liarls r tight*. wateh sl the stars s, (. mid the gray dawn shine U|sm tin water, and sunrise xia- just I>, inning to s x i.i tinder In,, s of is : i as ilu v reached the town, uiade Uie U>at fast, aul steppeel ashore. It xx as, six m l>,svnit>er when tatty out it I !'■ ■: a x:-;t. She was on In I WAS |t the e-Ais. when she was overtaken by I'aptam t ram a m iglilsir. Just home from a three years ermss-. •s up ahoy said be. "Hi w are the folk* .tt'-ii (air 1 s tkm me. M.s Petty Au*thing hip lulled silix'e I sallxd •• \ 1 riaj plenty of change, Captain iVain . Fxiii i'j.r' iidale d.s su t stand still xx!;!, xw u . round tin world "lii i!.r ixx. 1 fx-,'. fold of All old sweetheart of yoiiis in I'alifxxruy." •' \i> old siseetheart of mine?" • Ves. p. xeu swi<, th,xarta get old if you gixe r i tun enough. 1 raps you d ci t rtmerui tr Van Evervn 1" " tv>u i remeniKr Van Evervn !" •' Pa ore nee. Wasn't he sweet on yon. MUM Letty Imu against him, Jui hi chance, a we, 1. tefore 1 sailed .In s given up the sea, he tells me takeu to trading, aiutssb.es married Btonev. by the ltnik of things." •• Married mom y Lauren.Van Evert n' What do you mean, Oap tam Crane ; Don't y u ku. xr that he.was 1.-st at >t a lu the Flying Scud V" '• Was he ' Then the sea's given him up too ; it's a mutual affair, eh He's the sui-taii- Uilest shad ix I exer -ighted. I'he Fixing S.-ltd was lost while 1 was off whaling. Put 1 didn't know he was aloi.rd Rut, vou sex. he wa-ii't Istru t U dt wiie-.1. Van F.vrivii wasn't 1 His xxitt can't 1. Id a cainlh- to vou, Mis Petti U ggmg pardon tut I nvkou she had solid charms." Petty was in a half-stunned condition all the way to Carlsiftdale. while Ca|>tam Crane spun his"yarns. Mas it anything to her that Lau nu ewa alive m l married Did she feel all* 1 :ii< : -> t! *t he had given her s much trouble for : aught, that he had fer-.-.ke-i In r She had |'ron.is.sl never t > marry if he died tuthexx as not dead. And I'oui ioxed h,-r and she I Yes. -in- WA grateful to Paurenco After all: she felt i< it she would like to thank Uuu <xwbaring jilted her si rruellv. "Dean Mn. I.- NOW -iirur she wrote to him—"when 1 told you I should never marry, it was because t bail given a solemn promise to I-aureliOe Van l'.vereu that if he died I would rem un single. Hut he- is alive, and I hops you will pardon Lrrrt Aw>azwa." "So th • dream departs 1" sighed Pom. "The lost hero returns. she is going to marry loui after years of constancy. She need not aps-lo gire for lining him instead of me. It ends like a novel, only I am left out in the cuid. like the villain of tho piece. I wonder where IKO reuce has tseu all this while. He always had a plan-, tougne :lut if she loves him Weil, 1 had better go West and change the scene." But be fore going We-U it was necessary for him to run down to Carbotidale. settle some fiuni'v affairs, and appn-e his gran Ifather of 1-s jdans. It was a month since Petty had vritten her note before he (N<akl miko upi his mind to wee her ami Carbotidale. Then, "I h.sxi I*l -me. Mi-- laity." he 1-hindered, "to ff - my cxu-.gratu'ations and g<sal-byes at once." •*Congratulations?" que-tioued Letty, with a perpileaeil frown. " Ye*. Y-ui an looking worn an 1 pale ; Pm afi d hapxp me--- t agree witt. y -u. "llx- lum— doesn't agrie with uie I don't tin..'* 1 exer tr.-d ti.e eij, rinient." It was Tom's turn to lu,>k aun-n-esL I received your note " Thool rtreml lx-d acr---- Pa'ttv a fare, her 1— j-.ivere ?. !■ r i ve* d. sie 1. "You re--, ive 1 'r.- ga • 1- " von reewvNl it " Wa:i l it j it a little unnecessary. Iw tty . I sho :ld have heard of it soon enough. ■ How could you have heard it if 1 had uot told you V ' " Wonldn t it have l-en in everybody's mouth '.' Can a.l a-t man ne to life and no, bodv sps-ak of it'/ But I dare -.y yon meant kindly, I.i tty.' "For Hevren's sake. Torn don't yon ace what 1 meant " cru d Petty , all of a n-e-c dor. "(V-ruuitly ; v >u meant to break it to n.c gent'y that run were going to marry Van tvereu. "But Van Evereii is alri-.nl* marric>l." "M.-rrnsl! What a dunce i anil Petty' la-ttx' ' can yon fnrgive me I- i an you loa-e such a -ti.pi ! fellow Jove ! a whole month of hape ptn,-s forfeited bv a blunder. Ki-s me, Letir.'— Uttr/wr $ tlavir. Kpit.iplis. N'cur Sun T).co.>, C'.ilif inila, a tomb stone inscription tints reads : "Tins yore is snkri 1 to the memory of William Henry .Sknraken, wli > caim to Ins iletli by lxein Hhot by Colt's re volver—one of the old kind, bras mount ed, an lof sot-ii is the kingdom of heaven." A stone en Cor oriee received, from a German, the (oUowilg eptt.ij'h, to bo en graved on tlio tombs >ue of his deceased wife ; " My vifo %mn is do id ; if sho'd hml lit till next Frrl.-iv, ahe'dbeendca4thtri two weeks. As a tree falls so she must stand. All tilings is impossible mit God.'* From a tombstone in Cornwall, ling laud : Father anil mother and I Lie buried here asunder ; Fatlnr and mother lie bunod here, And I he buried off yon ler. A tombstone at Saratoga ls-nrs the fol lowing : " iiinma, dan'r of Abraham and Matil <lH C , and wife of Theodore S , died Aug. 10, lHt8, Ai 20 yrs, leaves five children--married too young against her fiithor'a will. Single women take warn ing." In the chnreliyard at Cliildwald, F.ng lati'l, is this stanza : ll' r lies the lsstv of John Smith, Buned in the cloisters ; If lie don't jump at the last trump. Call "Oysters !" Another in the same cemetery reads : "Ib-te Ilea the remains of Thomas Woodhin, The most amiable of husbands, wild excellent of men. N. II His real name was Wooliv>ck, but would ni come in rhyme. His widow On a tombstone in South Carolina : " Here lies the body of Robert Oordin, Month almighty an-1 t,-eth a<-i"rdiii'; H'riuiger, tri ad lightly over this wonder. If he ojs-in his mouth you're gone by thunder.' Time. In all the actions which a man per forms, some part of bis rife pusses. We die while doing that for which alone our sliding life was granted. Nay, though we do nothing, time keeps his constant puce, and flies as fast in idleness as in employment. Whether we play, or lalior, or sleep, or <lance, or study, the sun posts on, and the sand runs. An hour of vice is as long as an hour of virtue. Hut the different*; between gissl and bud actions is infinite. Good notions, though they diminish our time here as veil as bad tuitions, yet they lay up for ns a happiness in eternity, nn-J xvill re compense what tliey have taken away by a plentiful return at itisf. When we trade with virtue, we do but buy plea sure at the expense of time. So it is not so much a consuming of time ns an ex change. As a man sows his corn, he is content to wait a while, that he may, at the harvest, receive with advantage.— Owen Feltham, 1636. " A dumber of dogs were shot in the East End last night.' — Saturday Isa<U-r. Bervcd them right. Let them keep their east ends out ■of danger.—Oil City Derrick. THE CENTRE REPORTER. TIIF Ml StOUI'K IHG AM. Wirwtittji I uitlnMilHplr Ifum tHr I'uila lu |*irrul II lu k-'ur|* -• l( I rlrlll A ■> ll I lu. \ St. lVtcv ■■ l-tirg cable dispatch t* tin l KM Ytk Hi rofd ia us follovi; Your cvort spon.! nt had an iufcrvicw rxxvnflv with a p.l iiiii.i ut Hussian iliplxxinut, w li.iM'name, for IN i fain c TUI rciuwius, 1 UU not at liberty to disci.*>•. It will b' MVU that tin- lb:* .m orticiai uitikis sxiuux stui fling itaiwrtioii.-i : I jon my asking whether HIISMII'S in tentions wer. really as il .Mlitt rested as sltx' bad Hliliouncexl til lu'r several circu lar rtotes addr.-sod to the powers of F.urxxpc, 1 \xa.s tolxl that Kuss.a iutxiidtwi to rxsUs'iu her phslge as far as the ag gnuixliretu* nt of teintory xu ut, but that, should she prove vietiriolls, then* was Ho rea-oii to doubt that she would insist UjHiii the iudejien.lelice of tlie different tributary States— namely : Hulgaria, lierxogov :tia, K itiiaiiiu, Servia and llosuia, ami she w. aid gu iraiitee those proviia* s the r injt peinleuce, no matter agiuust whit |s.wx'r. lu other wonts, she would form a defensive and offensive alliance with tin -e lila mted territ<>ri -. I pon my asking win tlier Conafanti m pie, m the event -f li issia gaining xhs-isive victories. Would be occupied by litis- .a, 1 XX. is mfortmal tl :.t It'llg before an army could be brought in front of the walla of C 'iistantiuople pxeiu-e would be ninth'. The terms 11 peace, beside those ajtokeu of alw've. would perliai's include the aurrciitler, on the part of Turkey, of a portion of her licet, and, above all, the cousummalioti of a treaty placing the city of Constantinople under the joint control of all the fore . n powers. Fp to this time a cosmojs.litan city has been frequently talked of and several tlustries Iweii brought forward for its government, but it has never Inxeii practically tried. On I' nstautiiiople, then, if my infor mant is iMrrectly inlvisetl, the tlrst at tempt will be UMule. The city w ill proba bly l>> garris metl by troops of a neutral power, whilt its virtual government will he u.v i sti -i mah g >lativ e and executive Issly of men composed of different us tionalities, and, pxorlnips, a tax or tribute wdl be pnutl Li the Ottoman empire. 1 lie plan iu itself i-t tsible atul one which hus oftenlieea sps-keti of without having seriously been adv.tented. Should the attempt to make C •iiahuitiuople a cosmo politan nty, ami, consequently, a free psrt. succeed, the advantages accruing to all nations would be immense. F.nglaiitl w- ultl l>e the greatest gainer by it; hence th re is little danger that she will tijiji -e the scheme. England need never tear, continued my informant, that Hassia will ever utt.iapt tojts.pxnr dize her trade in India nor ever try to deprive her of • no inch of her Indian terri tory. It would I*', in the tirst place, absolutely imp' -ssibie tost ml u autWci ut force of men to ilefei.t the Rnglish trtsij's, a led, -is they Would |iy the nativi s. Ilaundxal may have crossed the Alj'S, but certainly no Russian gen eral with Ins army will ever cross the Himalaya mountains. And even e >uhl tins tlifli-ult nndertakiug If uc • >tn pliahe l ami It-.lm conquered, tin* force which would have to If employed to keep that country ni subjug vttou would If so enormous that it would ;; 0-'' than counteract the If netit* dt rixt-tl from its aetjuisition, ■ -ps eiully as the Muscovite government is nt fav. rably ltstkexl UJHUI by the Molnuuinedau jsij'U lation. No. Rn-s I has no intent:.! of advanc ing into India. Her ambition is to be come the master and possess- >r of a part of tlie Celestial empe.re. Towarxl tins eu.l all her inroads into Asia are di reett-d. Chit.a, with all its res.)uree aa yet untouched, w dliita pfaeeftil but in dustrious ]>pulation, writli it.- miin ral r - sources, with its highly appro -i.tted manufactures, all these offer far more N mp'tation ti Ru-s:a than the almost exhaast- d India. And ht.w e.tsy of ac cess to U issia. With Turkestan as her vassal or tr.bufaryrit.ite she can trans port her fro 'pw t > whatever |>art of the fruitier of the Chinese . injure may If m >st advantage*in*, nud iop .werciui pre vent In-r from help ''g herself t ■ as mil -h territory as she dt - res. M lh INuistau tinopile a free <-r nat otml pstrt. ami China intersected by railroads. Hussm maveontr 1 a vast amount of commerce. It is true "iutt there is a large ps.pol lution of Miihamnie.iniiA in China ; that the country is so thickly p. pmlut. 1 that it cau pint into the field an aim ist un limited aimy, but it must be taken into consnh ration that the Chinese are not a warlike tieople ; that they are very p<*>r ly armt*l ntitl have n< lenders or gener als. All of these facts were demon strated in 1860 in tlie vxiir of Formosa, and still later in tha Corean catnp>aign. Nor would it be the interest of Htigland toopptose llus-.au atlvnnce into China, f- r naturally u great amount of trade would find its wnv to her Indian seajmrts, and though Russia may If a mre dangerous neiglilior than China, still she would certainly j>rove herself a more profituble one. In my opinion, therefore. Russia in making war iipxiu Turkey, lias a two fold object. First, by her advance into Asia t-igain tlie right of way and pas sage to China, UM<l second, by hor< peni tions in Europe to obtain the freedom of the Paiislavoni" States and make (Vin stantinople a free and >sin"js>litan psrt. She thus redeems her word in not ag grandizing herself, but nt tho same time paves tho wnv toward securing im mense benefit. For in China everything can be found that is needed in Europe., and her teas, wool, rice and cotton, not to spwak of her minerals, can l>e ex ported in su h large quantities nud in siieli nn easy manner bv railroads, that it will revolutionize the commerce of the world. I do not think that this war will be of very long duration. Turkey baa n 1 ready recognized 1IT own weakness, and as soon as Russia has coneeutratoil-sufll eient troopis on the Danube to le sure of success in an advance I have no doubt that after one or two decisive viebiries jM'ace will be mtule on the basis which I have already mentioned. Tur key has bet n too dilatory iti attacking Russia on the northern side of the Danube before a sufficient force could have been collected. It is now too late, and the final result may be safely nntic piateil. (•eneral Custer and His Officers. It bos Wen .definitely determined to remove the remains of the officers slain with Custer in the fight on the Rosebud, and with the excejition of the Isslies of General G- A. Custer rtml Lieutenant Crittenden, all will be remowl to Fort Leavenworth, and deposited in the National cemetery. General T. A. Crit tenden, of Kentucky, has requested that his son's remains be left on the field win r • lie fell,and General Caster will be buried in the National cemetery, at West Point. It was General Custer's wish, rep cutodly expressed durirg his enmptrgns against the Indians, that, hv be buried at West Point if ho should bo killetl in tho service. THE ItrssiAN ltrr.ElT's COEIITEHY. — The czar ought to be a popular sovereign for lie knows how to ride and be courte cu ito his subjects. His horsemanship 1 .s perfect; although his face is seamed and careworn, in the saddle he shows no ' sign of age. At Odessa he noticed a poor woman by the roadside, who saluted Liin as he rode by. Turning in tlie | saddle nud looking back, he bowed and . touched his enp to her as politely as though she were a princess. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO.. PA., THURSDAY, JUNE 2FT, 1H77. INDIAN S( IMS. % t ulllr lla*tl nutl it !>•* Frnai l<-|r-| fur it*r Igi (I. I'lie llrilVM A' li' MlVil 1.1 ft) lit the thou* ugi lioit •> n* (till of interest Hllil romance tlnw days. Tin' glory of War fare dl palli d, tlx ritill'llli'lln phases of savage tranquillity manifest tlx-Mist-lvi a oil ivefy Iminl. On the dnv of the sur render of 1 Mill knife's Chevenue tnlii-, the wur Mora mw miuo'lv ilininunl la foro tlx ) iii io fouixl ooi lim-ling war dubs vt 11It round roi ks mill rawhide after tlx'ir |nvultar maimer. 'l'lio day after the Crazy Hoim'aiirreiiiler eattlo were issued to them tu the usual proportion of an Indian's mtmii ; they i shed an a favor Unit the herd of wild Tenuis he turned oil r to Uieut ttllVe, no thai they eollld ri.j >y a neUaatliMl like til.it of a buffalo hunt. lhe request wan granted; uhout twenty nteera were turued Inone ujiou the plain ulid the savages aimed with ln>wa and arrown and moUlited Upon pontes obtained from lied Cloud's jx-aee I'iUid guve chase. All the thrilling whoops of battle Were ahollted an I the territlo feats of horsemanship and the nklll of the Kit age with Ilia rudeat Weapon were exhibited. (loaded by the twinge of lhe Well-milled allow, and rendered ullno-t fruiltie hv the tim-srlhiy Veils, the nw ift and long-Minded T' lulls nklpped over ridge, gully and strrnui like the wind. Kv r moment a |h r brute would receive its death wound from the un erring shaft, ami occasionally a madden ed one would turn and delight Inn pur suer- by a pltlekv rem italx'e. When the animals were neurit ail shun, three or four made a lush over a sheer pre 'ipice of some fifteen fi ■ t m height. The reek less reds were close upon their heels and turned neither to the right n.r left but folleiWed pell niell to lite Isittom. I . i the cloud of dust emerged every nav..ge firmly s<atsl and evidently gratified at the thrilling i xperieuee. In about twenty liuuuti > the iiittle were all slain, and squaw* and boys who follownlthe chose Sisin made tlx* butchery complete. A grand jsai-e council was one of the interesting eight* atToreled a couple of the visitors at l.i d Cloud lu'euov the other day. kittle Wound, one of the lliost powerful of Sum chieftains, summoned tin' other leaders of Ins nation to his grand council U |H-es, there to talk over a lasting peace and agency reforms. Two immense tepees wen- placed aide by side and made to furbish room for one hun dred men. As the delilM-rators were gathering in this gorgeously ruanieuted ehumlsT, the muster of ceremonies and an assistant were slaughtering dogs for the feast which ulwav* follows such n momentous carnival of orutorv. A raw hide lariat was wound once rout.d the neck of the animal, when a brawny SIOUX tis'k hold at Citlli r end of th fatal cord, pulled lm kward an 1 forward with a "sv-siw " lie lion, and tints strm led the victim. Then the dog was thrown ujiou a blazing camp tire, his hair pretty well singe 1 off, and then the carcass w..s artistically curved. Thus al tit a di-z-ti of tile largest of their Jicta w. Ie slaugh tered. A number of pot- were n bond, each for its sjxvial purpose. \U the heads were thrown til one, a!l the legs in another, the tails in another, and * > on. These Were place* 1 upon the lire in the midst of tie eircb sof debaters no-.i assembled. A- the guests st, pjwsl into the circle, an attendant dung a bright "c 1 " hiuket upon the sw .id liireefly m iout of Little Wound, I'l. ,*y Horse, and other prominent chieftains, while these •Mgnitaru-s motioned the tii.de men tout there. An old man opened the proceedings by an aiijH'al to the Ureat Spirt, during which the chiefs in the army were im pressively deferential. One after another of till" savage orators thill t r si-, stepped to the center, and utt- ied a forcßde harangue. This continued for two hours, when, tin* 1 g* b .ng done, tin leading chief luinouuci d that the feast would tidtt • phue immediately after another prayer. This was pr mom -.si, and all the ipiecr features of tlx Indian dog feast was at sin under v. y. lin. fert were no less greedily demolished than eailine tenderloins, a: ; tlx wiurrior who received a t-.ii! for his |Mirtioti s*'o:u ed equally pleased w.t'.i h • iieighlior who pick- i long ribs, (iiiests were treated just as royally, but t "ir opinion of dog meat is scarcely sindiNvs woiihl justify its wholesale adopt: n sail article >f diet. I>e - e iti]> and CotT 'follow. 1, all mixed and taken from the same dish. At the close of the ha' the prayer or liene 'ii-tinn was pronounced, an I the assembly adjourned iu oxcrHi lit spirits. Hundreds of squaws all lehildr"!icrow le 1 around during council a' ! feist, but were not allowed admitt m • . A striking evidence of genufosity was exhibited during the f'- ist. An old Indian, ragged, wrinkled, and fairly tottering ill his weakness, entered the eirele, introduced by n lierv v-'ung war rior. The latter said th.it lis age 1 e >m panion should be f.-4 and : ei w • e cared for, and that it was a shame that such feasting should be indulged in by the young and strong while the ol 1 were suffering. Little W. Un l puMe i off his tine new blanket and presented it to the old man. Others divested th 'in*elves of theironly mantles and h id likewise, while the stolid and relentless (Ira/.y Horse gave the venerable visitor a jMiny, blanket and oth r garments. Fashion Notes, Straw bonn. ts of the natural color of the material are most in demand. Yellow and cardinal Unmet strings are th<latest eoinbination shown. Hroemleil silk handkerchiefa have either a yellow, blue, or cardinal bur lier. Chatelaines are more ehib irate tlian ever, many having small watches at tached. MiuiMiiietnire cuff- of lace, to lie worn outside the sleeves, are fs-liionnble. Long senrfs for neck wear remain in favor. Five-button silk gloves, "kid are now the most fashionable for ordi nary wear. A novelty in fans is to have the paint ed picture of a child or friend in the left hand corner, with a lmrderof flowers. Italian Valenciennes Inecs, with the llgnres carried out in colors, • itlier buff, navy blue or rose, are a novelty fortrim ining summer dn sses. Colored erejie liase is imported for plaitings to be worn inside the neek and sleeves of dresses. It is in the fashion able yellow shades, mandarin, cream, buttercup, and the creamy green tillcul. A ltoi's Trip I'nder u Wutcr-Whccl. A little sou of James Chapman, aged live years, had n very narrow escape from death lately, says the New 1, union T> hjfram. He turn playing on the em bankment at the lower iml of Itrigg's )> uid, w hen he slipped and fell into the flume of the old oakum mill, ami was carried rapidly down the stream, being tossed about by the rushing waters like ' a chip. It was thought that when he reached the old wheel his brains would be dashed out against it, as the space beneath wns not large enough to admit of his passing safely through. Hut lie shot under it like a Hah, and went under the bridge nt Cedar street, and into the trough through which the water is eon ducted to Smith's organ factory. Here he sneoeeded in clutching a joist fasten ed across the trough, where heclung an . til he was rescued. His first words, i after he had been put in a place of I safety, were : " Where'# my top ?" FAItl, HARDEN VM 110 l SEIIDI.D. It r f!|tr. Mt rrisa. Three |Hiu)ids at flimr, one-quarter paiuud of yeast |Hiwxler, three eggs, half a pxiiiiid of sugar, three ounces of butti r. Mix the powder dry 111 with the flour ; ui another putii rub the nil gar tUld butter well together, then add the eggs and beat to a thru batter ; then add the dour and wet witii milk ; beat thoroughly ; fill the r ings and bak-* ill a quick i'Veil. These muffins are good Cold aii well as hot. 'lo COOK KI'I.NXUU Wash free from dirt and grit aud boll twenty uiiiuit s in salt and water. Add a small lumpi of sisla to give a handsome color. l>riiui well and chop as fine as powder. Add bntti-r, suit, a little jiep.pier Bud nutmeg, urn! garnish with hard boiled eggs, cut upi in various shapes. STUAWBI HHY SuoliTCAKr One quart of dour, half a cup of butter, two bpioon fuls of sugar, two teaspHxuifuls of v-ust piowder, flour t> roll. S|ilit ojeu, spiread with butter, then thickly with struw bi-rries, then s|>riiikle with sugar, then pint on tlie up'per half, crust down, sp>reiul with butter, berrie- and sugar, ami Cover all over with a large pad, t<> steam alnl soften, wlille hot. Eut with cream. Artl'aiuors.- The freslu r tlie better, and all stalks not crisp and tender should be thrown usidc. Cut off the white p.arts, tie the rest in bunches and boil, with a little salt in tlie water, for almost twenty minutes ; then take out and dram a minute, lay u a deep >! -h on slices of buttxled t :!, the ll< all oln- wax, c"v< r< i with a rich draw; ! utter. Or the stalks may In* cut iu inch pic<K* ( Isuh xl tender ; then seasoiiexl and iiKiknl for i few minutes longer in the k cream. Com i: CI'STAUIi. Roll otle quart of milk with ti x R sJM i- <uf ii Is sugar. Add one cup very strong hot coffee, four beaten eggs, one half euji corn starch, viiblssl very smooth, m a little cold milk, rilir vxell tll rmerHh. j'ut into OHM, tad when iN> .1 ornament witli th beaten whites, just bef -re serving. Auotlier gxsnl luethisl is to ertlsh the Cofifee grains c.irsely, alnl add one si oouful to the b. iling quart of milk ; then p>ri*-eiNl as in an ordinary boiled custard, and strain in'.o cup M. Yim. Lo.vr. Mincecold ro:ot v<-ul as fine ii* j* •• rible, i dd one-fourth fat hain chop) N! very fine, one cup gratcxl br'o<l crumbs ; one grubd nutmeg, two lieaten eggs, a little salt and Gsyetuu' ; mix well, form iu a loaf, glaze over w.tli egg* and sprinkle with bread crumbrt ; bake half an hour; serve with roast veal gravy, heatol, and thickr-tied with a beaten egg put in just liefore s. rviug. Rlit'liAiirx I'lE. l'eel an 1 cut the stalks quite small into . rich paste, piut a layer of rhubarb, theuadee) er ly< r of sugar, sprinkle xxith nutuieg or cumauioii, lav on several small puces of butter aud cover. VtlAI. SwUIT Rll! VDS W ITH TOMATOI'*. Set over tire lire two quarts of nuv, rip•• pi'clevi t-nuatoe*, stew half su hour slowly in their own liquor ami strain tl.l ugh a (N'arw- sieve ; then juit ill four ir five -wiN-t breaxls, we.l trimmed and soaked iu warm water ; add a little salt and r venue, and one-qu*rter of a JKIUUXI of bi.'ter, stiMsitlu 1 m three Nj>i.mfius of tl air. St- w slowly till the sweet breads arx* well xhuie, or ftliiut an hour un l a half. A few moments la-fore iishing st:r in Lie IK-.it*n yolks of ti:rie eggs. rinxii. 1 have a horse that has pmll-eiil. What w ill cure it ? Au incision should IK- made, slanting ly, with u sharp pointed bistoury or kuife up: u the right side of tin* niN-k at tlie hose of tlie abscess. Ihe cut must not be so deep e* to oonu* in eHiUcI with the spina! marrow. The OJK ning nt the b:iM' of tlie tumor sh uihl be made sufficient iu size to allow the pus to fre ly escajMi as fa-t as it form*. A acton should l*e pnssxNl down fr :n the natural "jM-ning at th • t >p of the tumor through the artificial opening math* at it* base. Refore inserting the seton it should IK dippied in tincture of cantharidea. This will !• found the safest plan to a lopt for piromoting healthy griiitulatiou and ad hesion of the walls of the tumor. The fistulous track l Hot probably very hog inless it has IMK II T >tn • time stnu ; i g, mil the tape set*>ll will work its wav onulualiy and efficnciottaly out, by which time tlie cure is made. A stimulus is a!s > necessary to W npplied t*i the inte rior of Uie tumor, by renatuniting the eton, in tli IN -<* <>r four day* after it is fir*t inserted, with a solution made by iissolving ten grains of nitrate of silver iu one ounce < f cx>lj wnfer. This latter should be iqipxlicd twice a week until a healthy discharge appien-s. Then stop. In the I'jiemng, from the tipi down to the bottom, should be injecUxl, thre' times a we k, a stimulus Ooniposod of one drachm of clih ride of zmc dissolveil in one pint of eold water. Apply tho zinc lotion iu ha'f an hour after using f'.e eaiitharides and nitrate of silver lo tion. The cantharidea should lie used only once, and the nitrate of silver on the third or fourth day kfter, and con tinued twice a week as long ivs neces sary. V|rnsiiriri Corn, Mir. Flense publish a correct rule for meas uring com in n wagon beil ; nlso state what irt gxssl for a horse with heaves. It. F. YVu.i.s. You do not state whether the rule de sired is for corn in the ear or shelled corn ; but if for the latter, obtain the - umber of cubic inches in the lsix, or so much ns is occupied by the corn; then divide that by 21.V1.42, the number of cubic inches in a bushel ; or yon can first find the number of cubic feet, by multiplying the length, breadth and depth, and then dividing the iitiiiilier of cuiiiofeet by seven and one-fourth (or 1,224) ; because n bushel contains alamt one and one-fourth cubic feet. Corn in tho cor varies according to varieties. Of some it will tak" two bushels of ears to make one of shelled corn; but with others, one and n half bushels will yigld this amount. For heaves turn tho animal out to pasture whenever possible, nnd in winter give laxative food, such as carrots, turnips and bis'ts ; also spirinkle hay and oats, and avoid dust food of all kinds. Sedatives may also lie given, such ns digitalis, opiium and belladonna Occasionally. Arsenic in doses of five grains daily, continued for a month, is considered valuable medicine for horses. Inlurv lo Trrr* b\ lllrrdlrtff Nop. M. A. J., Qnakertown, Fenn., writea : What is the cause of sap> running from ajijile trer-H nnd killing the limbs ami trunks of the trees where it tlows. I have some trees that have been trimmed, nnd where the branches have been cut off they are partially healed over, when a sour water will start out of the center of the stump nnd will soon kill \ho por tion of the tree over whieh it runs. Sometimes tho trunk of the tree will crack of itself, and thin soar water will start from the crack. Can you tell ma th" catinc and the remedy? REPLY.—The mischief is caused by too late pruning, and by not covering the wounds with some impervious cont ing. Sometimes no harm is done, but when there is an excessive flow of sap it exudes from the wounded surface, and, containing considerable sugar, it Ik>- comes sour nnd damages the bark over which it flows. To prevent it the prun ing should be done very early in, the soring, and when any branches of con siderable size are cut off they should be cut very smoothly and even with tho bark, and the stump lax covered with ooluiuoli oil uud lead (uuiil or a costing ; of nliellae varnish. HUNT iu A|)|*lv Purl* Urrri, sail HIIW Aakin lu I'uralur*. L. II Nl. UAUH if cuuuui>n j'hirter IH as giKxi mil'. l with ports green u flour of gypsum; also, whieh IH the bent way (or using ashen for p>otat<M S, in or oil the mil? lti.i'L) Conimon plaster is the flou • of, or finely ground, gyjistitii that has been treated to drive ..ff the water of crystallisation, of whieh aliout twenty one per eent. in contained in it. When lit in in f it'll I fr-mi aatir it in Used as pilaster, and when mixed with water again it chemically iNiitibini-s with it and forms a aohd mans. It will not answer to use thin with |>ariH green, but instead of it the raw, finely ground gypsum, or ngneulturul " planter," should Is- used. A very gissl way to list- unhe* on ps<ta toes in to scatter them alsiiit the hills, now, and hoe them in when the crop, in hoed, which, bv tlie-bye, inuv be done now very use fully. Thoughts fur riiilurdai Niglit. Friendship m infinitely l>etter than kindness. There have leeu few er friends on earth than king's. Lai is a tin rue which burns ui heaven, ami whose soft reflections radiate on us. They are generally ls-ttr-r satisfied w honi fortune m xer favored tlian th'isc' whom she has forsaken. As long' ax love prevails iii the house spaiw of the breadth of a sword is satis factory . As. >"ii as it disapjH-ars sixty hand-bread til* are n-'t sufficient. L-ve teaches cunning even in inno cence, and when lie gets possi-asion his tir>t work is t > dig' deep within a heart and there lie hid, and like a miser in the dark, to feast uloue. Life, whether in this world or any other, is the stun of cur entertainment, our existence, our character. The cvm ditiotin are -.>• injury. In what other w-'.rid shsll we be more surely than we are here? There IH uot, pxerliajr*, a more whimsi cal figure in nature than a man of real imslertty who asNumert an mr of lmpiu denc<-; who, while his heart la'ats with uuxiety studies ease ami affocta gissl humor. What !• this life but tlie circulation of little actions? We In down ami rise again, drertrt and rtNiress, f-4*d and grow hungry , work and play, ami are weorv ; and then we lie dowp again and the orcle returns. With virtue, capacity and g<sl cou duct one cxiii still IK* UUHU] 'portable. The ma: ur-r*, whieh are neglentod us small things, an- often those which de cide u . n for or ag: :nst you. A slight at .teutU'.i t" til'-ni W'lllld i.:.\e preVCUtisl their ill judgment. Miuiuers are the shadows of virtues ; the mom. Nt: ry disp lay of tlnw** quidi tiin whn*h our fellow creatures love anil resjKvt. If we strive to become, then, whs*, we strive t • ajijK itr, manner* would often 1M rendertsl ust fill guide* t ■ the performance of oitr duties. That jMiliteness which we put on, in order to keep the preHumpiluous at a prroja-r xlistanoe, will gcin'riUly succoexL Rut it :s soiiietiraeo that there obtrusive eliaract r ar on such excellent terms with tin mselviw that they put down their very g-' •lm -s to the score of their own great merits ami 1-igll pret"tisiun*, mK't nig the rN'hlut s of our reserve with a ridicul"Uß ' :i Jess-ens: "11 of familiarity, in orvier to i-et ns ut ea*e with oanwlvcs. A Felih Manifesto Agaln-t Ru-sia. The C 'nsLmtinople central committee of Folisli immigrants lias is<-n<Nl the fol lowing appeal : "To our brother* dtspenstl in banish ment over the whole world : "The foe of our land for ceutnrie*, who has dismr'mbeml it and wastisl it witli fire and awonl, who deprived u* of our piropM-rty, nationality, freedom, re ligion, an 1 i von <>tir mother tongue, pre sumes, under tlie hvporritieal mask <>f a champion of the t'iinstians, to unfold his war stun lard and to send lit* savage hordes i. -ainst Turkey, our nlly in the time of our iudepKiulence and our mag naniinotiH prot<vtor in the time of our exile agaiust Turkey, who alone of all the j"iw< ra has refused to the prencnt day to recognize the partition of l'oland. " Shall we remain nnexineerniHt KJHXC tjitors in tliia struggle Itetwccn ile*jKxti*m ami constitutional institutions, the v<-ry do]>"tirtni which destroyed our constitu tion of t;ie tliiivl of May, which would liuvt rcmvigoratevl I'oland ? No, our place is oil the nixie of Turkey, and all friends of freedom ami intelligence will be with us. To arm*! then, to arm*! which his majesty the sultan hossoimig nanim >usly j>hictl at <>nr disposal. All Enropie I'M'krt on at thi* struggle—that siimi' Kurx|H' wliich has allowerl itself to IM rutrnppxed through the deceitful pnumaes and (in intrigues of Muscovite ps'liev. lat ns show it that we are still alive; let us show it that we are able to do Kotnethuig. " The thunder of cannon already reaches our ear*. Let ns not lose n minute. I s-t ns rend theehsin* which fet ter our white eagle. The wild horde* of ezanlom w ill not stand before our unitexl force, and we shall cr<vt our color* at the mouth of the Vistula ami the Metnel, and the month* of the Dnieper and the Dniester. Europe will recover it* equi librium lost a hundred years ago, and will owe it to u*. To arms 1 then, brotli ern, anil again to arms !" A Domeslie Ibunanee, Jainert Rov.l i* one of tlie wealthiest voting fanner* of O'Hora township, Fa. \l is* Minnie Rrown is the daughter of another wealthy farmer of the same neigldrorhood. (n the seventeenth of last August Alderman McKelvey, of Al leghenv, wo* called to unite the two in marriage. The eorennmy wn* pwrf< TIIIINI in the jxresenoe of the family only, but in a little time after the knot luul IMM-H tied 1! .yd exeumHl himself for a few momenta, and left the'room. Instea.l of returning lie sprung into hi* carriage, drove home, and from that time to the present lift* never visited nor sjH>k'ii to lu* wife. A tew day* ago the father of the nhandoucxl bride appeared before Al dermu'i McKelvey and clmrgiHl Royd with d sertion, and the latter wa* pdaeed under a IK.ll'l of $l,00t) for his appwar ance at tlieJum' session*. The p>artie* are among the most resjHK'tsble pusiple of the neighborhood, aiul the young wife and her family are heart-broken at the situation. ItoiiiiiuiiUu Discretion. The Roumanian soldiers look K< well when they are on xlres* pnrade at Rueha reHt that some of the war correspondent* have been Imguiled into the notion that tliey can fight. An incident which a correspnindent of the London A 'ewe re late* show* that they would not have offered much resistance to the Turk* if an attempt bod been nindo from Rust clink or Widdin to forestall the advance of tho Russians. There was a corps of observation stationed at Giurgevo to watch the Turks, and it occurred to tlie minister of war that it would be u good thing to exercise these troopm and nccu*- tom them to the sounds of war. So one night he ordered the alarm to be sounded. He lm* been heard to say that he bitterly repented having taken so bold a measure, for it took liiin a week to get the detaoli i inent together again, TKHMB: HH~.OO a Year, in i^dvuncc. 11l Nil AN Ds AMI WIYEN. wlanrp ( rlilt Uwt of ikr I iU ml ( rrallon WIIM' harrllrrt Without ( umrrtioolloa XSisslsgrt. " They art- juat uiarrietl," wae tlie re murk of nil the fellow p'tiMw-ngt-m of a rt-rlaiu tsuiple ou n railway train tlie other thty. Alnl wherever that Obupile Wi iit ou their journev tlie Httllie olrwer l a tion watt reju-ateiL lliere are certain tu tln-utioiia itluiut the repent!\TLewaitleti which alwa\h la-tray the hap>p>v imrtn-e e enjoying tlietr "h'otieynitaai. ,r 'luougli from time immemorial tlie aaiil'mofm lots iH-eti reguriletl tot trunaieiit, every woman who iiiarritw thiuka that her ce ut au exocjdlou, iilul that the liew lia|>])lliewi la to l>. contilined iliilcfililtely ItriVOSU the twain lllitjl death do them part. It ) uot jilt-Mount to tliink that the woman who thus confident must, in too many c tuxes, lie dlKiqiJnjllitixi. Bhe must find that the nuitor who |irof<-M>i that her coin]>auioui>hi|> was the one tiling lieeetx aury to hin hajipnui so will dxaoover that there are many other things whieh her hilslauiil deema jileasuut, and with whirl, tlie wife hat little, if uuythiug, to do. AH a rule, the lena ahe ut interested in 1 la outdoor movement* the (tetter he i.s p. leased. Court'-li))) is one thing. YVeil iled life is another. Indeed, aouie women go so far as to say that nearly every hoy or tnan ut in a condition of chronic ojp itoajtion to the girln or women in the family where he domicile*. It in charged that the hula would not "go a courting" if it did not vex their sisters; and that they would not uiarry if mothera were Hot in some cases entirely averae to their marriage, mnl in "tliera inly aulinnssive under piroL-at. The marriage of a man IH in aome sort a triumph over his own female kindred. These kindred submit, ua they aay submission is a woman's lot. Atnl they make the best of it,and sweeten the in rltable with womanly gentleness. Hut the husband—what of liim? The new husband is elide with the Oou si'touixnetM of having won tlie girl of hut choice. He has taken aw ife, all objec tions to flie contrary notwithstanding, lie takes her on his arm with all the pirule of li captor and a conqueror. Nobody disputes his victory. Mother and sisters become Ins wife's allies and indorse tlie pixiexoling with ail their hearts. He ia uiouarch of all he surveys. There are no uuire oonttffitioua, for everybody has imloraed the arrangement, six if I'VervtHKly had heartily approved aud promotesi it from the first, lie might rest on hut laurels- -but laurels Will not always k*-p green, tunl the dry leaves metaphorically choke him. He looks lor new coaipuata, and selects his wife for an antagonist. It is not that he iha*s not love her. He hired lint mother. It is n it that he would not do any and everything for her that does not inter fere with his own whiniH and caprices. He did all that for his sisters. Rut he rebelled under their control ; and hav ing, laiy like, rumored them, man like, he annoys hi* wife. Evenings at home become wearisome, and evenings shroud. if his wife must la- with him, are loudly less so. As he declined to be t.ixl to hi* mother's " npron strings," he is frettexl by his marriage tie. He has pressing business which keeps hitu fnmi tlie tea table, and which encroaches ou his even ing hours, llis wife's look* of remon strance are eonaidemi "fassv," and her claims upon him, put in w -rxis, are met by protest, Aiul so the honeymtmn fre qneutly passes its last quarter, with, unfortunately, no promise of a new tuoou at tlie same liapjiy description in the matrimoiiiid calendar. Then other siiuim come in to engross the griKim's attention—bout clubs, bil liard*. base ball, horsea, " the lodge," rnprper with aome of the "old fellows," " politics," hoteD. saloon*, and all the rest. And he just drojrs in at the thea ter, yon km -w, quite accidentally, be cause Smith told him ef a very particu lar attraction. If he had only thought of it at dinner time, he would have asked Sarah to get rea.lv. And so on. Mind these are things tint the wnioen find out, tin iugh they may be very eantvm* in sjM'aking about them. 'these axe the general heada tinder the fears they have that their huslwnda like to l awpf the dgnpany which, a* suitors, they prized above cveiy other. The men must an swer to their own couscieace* how far the suspicions are well founded, and in many case* husband*, men of some veara' standing, would perhaps do well to live their " attentive' days over again, and iqrk their wives afresh. The change from the wan and weary or the slightly martyr a*l*vt which many wive* wrnr would lxe a thing a* well worth see ing a* any advertised "attraction," and the voice of a cheerful wife as well worth hearing as any drama, npern or lect u re. l'hi lade Iph i a fsd;/'r. A Mystery Solved. About two years ago a man by the name of John Oleuheimer, a German, wa* suddenly ami mysteriously missing from his residence in a Western town. He left a family, consisting of a wife and six children, the youngest child bnt a few week* old and the oldest a girl scarcely thirto n years. Tired of xait ing, they soon mourned for their pro bvtor as dead, and the mother set about tho real problem of providing for the family. They had Ixeen left quite desti tute. Ibveiitly, as this little family were'seated at their frugal breakfast of porridge the postman left a letter ad dreßoeti to the widow of John Oleuheimer. It bore tliv stamp of the Unitexl Stat.-s trea*urer and was sealevl with wax. If coutained an official notice from the Trossurv department in Washington that A DUILH\ States consul iu Australia had forwarded to the department a trunk tilled with the effect* of her late husband, who died in that country. Along with this property was also ®4,(KW in goUL Is'tter* of a>lministmtion were taken out nnd the proper pajrers, signexl ami seal ed, were forwarded to Washington. A Four Mile Race with a FLU. The Mountain Pleasant (Ind.) Journal has the folh'wing : Fittsy Dougherty i* the Ixoss on fish. lavM Monday night while fishing at Oakland, something, he didn't know what, look holxlof his hook. It gave a terrible pull. It " yanked Fitzv from his place on the bank, aiul started toward Webster's mills, dragging along witli him. He had no time to call on liisooniraxlofor nasistauoe, for tlie " aomothiug" was carrriiig liiiu down the river iilsuit. twelve knots an hour. He stuck to it for four miles, when the monster that was hauling him let up. nnd near Webster's, by tlie as sistance of some parties who were there Ashing, he snoeoedexl in landing n cat tish weighing thirty-six pounds. Its length was four feet, and across the lieml it measured ten inches. A Haunted Clock. There is a clock in Raleigh, N. C., owned by ft gentleman who is not at all given to'siiperstition, but yet he cannot account for a curious way his old family clock is acting of late. It is an eight .luy clock, but wind it up when yon may, and at half-p'tist six o'clock on Saturday evening that clock is dead sure to stand still. It can be easily startexi by moving the pendulum, and it will then continue till it runs dowu. It has been wound up from the eighth day to with an hour of tho time, imt it never fails to stop when it roaches the half-past six hour mark ou Saturday evening. This is strange and unaccountable, but as true as gospel, according to the Raleigh OAsertw. NUMBER 22. ItOIIIH RM IN THK 1.01,U (0I NTKI. lurn* tirill * >• Frll Into (fee IIMNII* mf Tblr ••-The Mill 14am (• br Kplorr4. (hi tho fifUx-iith, Thomas A. Woollen IUI<I party, tit routi fro m lirnver to the Hill-, encamped near Rawhide Hpnng*, tli iit aide nf Fort Lanuufak MVn a cof rtwuondeut fromllit Block Hills. In the night a gong of road ngeuta rntend their vuinp tuiil stole rat valuable horse* and several umlea. The lot* *a* (Uaaovered by Mr, Woollen at .lavbreak. He awoke, four of hi* company, an.l they started iu pursuit, the trail of the Unarm being plainly visible. The chaaeoontiiiued for thirty tuih-a. A the pursuers were ascelehlu.' a hill, Mr. Wonllra being several nxla m advance of the others, one ol tl.e banditti sprang op from lie hind a huge rock, and, leveling liia ride, ordered Wualleii to halt. Tlie latter otieyed, threw up liia anus, and aaid that he waM after hia horaea, and purposed injury to no one. The robber pointed to a large herd of atock am m a ravine and aaid : "There Uiey are, go and get them." W< ail leu and hia companion* started down the slope. They had gone but a abort lindane*-, w hen, at a signal from the robber, eight men, with rifles to Uieir shoulder*, started up from behind rock a, and "covered" the live immigrant*, who were ordered to deliver up their itrma aad horaea, and to *et Uiemaelvea at a designated place. While the robbers were busily engaged in liieketmg the Lcirw*, Mr. Woollen took hi* money—a large Mini —from hia pocket, aiid pinned It under the Collar of hia coat. 11l- had scarcely dune this when a greaser ap proached, threw nn old blanket on the ground, and ordered Woollen to give up hia net, enforcing tiie demand with a leveled piatoL One of the band, a very intelligent American, approached Mr. Woollen, and eutrmi into unreserved conversation. lie aaid that the band was very strong', and having an almoat impregnable retreat 111 a very rocky eauyou, waa ahumhuiUy able to defy any force tiUat might be aeut against it. The roblwrs are rnuaUv Mexican*. The party tliat rapt tired Woollen'* stock, con sisted of four " Greasers," two Span iard* and two Ammoaua. Tlie one who converted with Woollen said that he started from Denver, where he ha* a brother who ia a cashier in ft bank, for the Hill*, a vear ago ; tliat tlie Indnuis ran off with liia stock ; and tlrnt he anl>- mqaoiilj captured a lot of ponies fnan the Sioux, but wa* afterward deprived of them by government officials. He waa so embittered by thia treatment that he joined the rvblwrs, mid determined to die an outlaw. He aaid tliat tlie memlx-r* of Ue- liaud wen* conferring whether or not the five mptuml men should be put to deatb. He added Uiat Woollen need fear no violence liecmiae be was a towns man <>( the batnlit, and he would be al lowed to depart. The prisoner* were detailed several hours, and tlwu thev w ere (vmdQctol to a high hill from which a certain laudmara thirty miles distant could lx* seen. Thev wen* told that tlieir camp wa* at that puce. Then they wen* onlereil to depart, anil wen* threatened with .b-aUi should they again institute a chose tiler the nblH*ra. Tic robbers were teen by different parte s several days later, and it h- feared that fn-iglit trains and stages will lie at tacked by them. Troop* were sent out from Laramie and Hot Creek iu search of tlie " agents," but they returned w it!-, out them. Alt expelitiou is preparing to start from Dead wood for the Big Horn. It pnrjKwe* to make aUs trough exploration of that much talk**! of region, alsmt which literally nothing is known, and to ascertain whether it does or d> H-S not contain gold. Barber Miojn ill Home. The 1 tomans wore the beaad until the llftli century, A. C. C., when Pnblms Tieinus brought over a colony of Itarberft from Sicily tocxeraae their profession on the ltonuui cliiua. Their sliopa aoou be came the common resort of loungers and idlers of every do* ription, until at length they serve.! to furnish proverbs expressive of notonetv. There the gos siping and inquisitive portion of the community sought for fashionable news and information respecting affairs at state; there the report* of tlie night'a broil and the last intrigue fonud tongues to disseminate tbem, with all their *t ten.larit ahuid* r* to the remotest corner of the city ; there the ufßm nt and the indolent consumed their time in courtly ehit-eliat ; and there, too, the industrial .-1 asses met for recreation, and discussed current polities when tlie hourw of toil were over. Even the jssirer citizens, according to Horace, sought refuge from their ennui by makiug a Mind of the barber shops. The lmrWr himself fur nished ar exeelh'ut substitute for tlie m.slcrvi n -w.pa per. He wa*. indeed, a walk. ng gazette. The shop of the higher class of barbers fonnod a good apology for the modern club-room; that of the humbler professor for the tavern or lager beer saloon. Hence the barlvr shops constituted an important element in the social eomiition and progress of the Roman people.— Troy Time*. Fighting for a llomr. A woodpecker's hole is iwieli a very eenveuient place for a nest, that many other birds are glad to find < unocv ii pied. Soinetimvsa poirof wrens will watch the motions of the woodpeckers while thev are work, until an unfinished hole is left unguanlod, when tiny will take possession of it. As aonti as the Tawftil owners return, the thieves an* driven off, but they art* so persisteut and troublesome that, although a woodpeck er is larger and stronger tlian twenty , wrens the owners sometime* abaudon tlie place, and make a now nest. Still, the wrens am not always allowed to keep the house they have stolen, for the blue birds are equally covetous of it, and sometimes tight fiercely with the wrens in their attempts to gaiu i*wwesaion of it. Occasionally, both wrena and blue birds are driven away by the martins, for these binls also prise woodpeckers' holes very highly. Trie fierce battles between these various birvls over nn abandoned hole an* very amusing, and often last several days; for they all are very obstinate binls, and as eaeli one is determined not to give up, the matter is not very easily settled.—AY. Nicholas MagaiXne. Au Interesting Relic. There will shortly lie offered for sale at Lancaster, England, an article of great interest to tlie American nation. Air. Jos. Sly, of the King's Arms and 1 toj;il Hotel, Lancaster, has for many years devoted himself to the collec tion of rare and valuable pieces of furniture and antiquities of various kinds, and among bis collection which he offers for sale, is ouo of tlie three clocks invented by Dr. Benjamin Frank lin, of Philadelphia. This clock strikes the hour, and has only throe wheels, and ou many occasions Air. Sly has received tempting offers to part with it. The dial is arranged to mark the time on tlie system of the land watches in days gone by. On the face is tlie inscription : " l)r. Benjamin Franklin, Philadelphia. Inventor." It is one of the three clocks invented by Dr. Franklin; tlie others arc in the possession of the relatives of i the late Rev. George Wliitefield, who, along with Dr. Franklin, conceived the idea of making a clock, for which pur pose the former found the money for etrying out the invention. j HOW IT FF.FLS TO FRECZF. A *f PffMHl KUWfIMMI M lb* lIFMU Plata* Ratrrlalalna M radio* far Saaan Wralkar. A writer in the New York Sun gives a granite account of his experiead* during a trip in February aero** one of tlie great plains of British North America. He wa* accompanied by a stalwart French half-breed, and had for convey ance® two sledge* .Uswn by eight dogs. At first the journey wa* pleasant enough, and unattended by much inconvenience; but tlie weather gradually became cold or, and ou the afternoon of the sixth day they were 4<iimpel'ed Ui halt on tlie liari- plain, witli no tree* or other shelter bandy. The writer goes on to say : It wus alsmt sit o'clock in the evening ■ when, after scoo|iinga hole in the snow, . aud building sis mt it a miniature em- - ! bankmeut of sleilge* and baggsge, we 1 lay down in <mr overcoat* *nd cap*, with ' the thermometer allowing thirtv-one de grees below zero. Yet I luul IK> fear, no Uionght even, of freezing to death. Lying down, ss wo did, with stiffened limbs and blistered feet, sleep came to u* by the sheer force of fatigue. I did ti'A awake until alxiut eleven o'clock, when I waa a rousts 1 by a sliarp blow from the half-breed, La vie. He told me that it wa* growing much colder, and that the wind had veered. Hastily rising, we shifted about, niul then crept back under the blanket*. La vie on the windward side. 1 soon feel asleep. I awoke again, a* nearly as I can judge about lialf-|iost twelve oclock, to n gen, eral consciousness of increasing ixibl. I found myself shivering ail over. Upon •{making to my eonijmnioii, I discovered that be was with- awake ; be had tmeii unable to aJeep. He told me lie had en deavored to ooax tb' aledge iloga upon the blauketa ; bnt, having been repeat edly driven from that ooinfortablejKiai tiou on prerioua nights, they had refusetl hia overt area. The gale seemed to have increased in violence, and the minnte jiartielea of allow interfered ancomfort itlijf with reapirotion. The cohl waa so intense as to produce s stinging sensa tion in the nostrils and a dryneas of the limad whenever the heanl ws expisaxi. I took tlie thermometer from the snow by my head,and found it indicating, a* well a* 1 could make out by the uncertain light, forty-four degrees la- hear zero. Covering ourSt-Hea up a* snugly a* pos sible, an J lying close to each other, we talked for a time alsmt the severity of tlie storm, and its probable duration ; then gradually reiajjaenl into silence. I recall fee hug ibe skin on my anna and limba ;it was cold to tb touch. My is irna, too, were cohl, aud I seemed to feel their articulation distinctly over every portent of the body. They gave me the unprearion of a foreign substance which bad been introduced somehow into the ffiwh, and which hod not a* yet been raised to au equal temperature with the bodily tmsure. Boon I wa* conscious of growing colder; my limbs, especially, felt heavier and chillier. A peculiar sensation, as if tlie tlesb for the de|th of a quarter or half an inch was ftozeu solid and the •vugesdment rapidly extending to the bone, liegan to creep over me. The I Minus Uiemaelvea at tim* felt like red hot iron liars; then as sudd'-i.lv liecame cold ftgftiu. I noticei, also, an increased labor in the action of the heart, and could distinguish tho pulsations very isiaily. At evory throb I seemed to feel the blaxl strike the end of the veins and arteries iu the exti unties. This after a time produce 1 a alight dizziness in the head, and a labored reajiiration. As the h-odeu IMMIN went oti, tlie sensation of surface freezing, felt lief ore iu the limbs, extemied to the trunk of the body. My thoughts, hitherto so veraxfilo, grew leas connected, changing frtxrtientiy from subject to subject, and finally narrowing down to my own aufferingH. 1 noticed that Larie spoke to me more frequently titan before, and Nliook me repeatedlv. Yet even then I had no thought of ({anger. Daring Uii* whole time, covering z period of two hours or more, I waa xhivermg and ahokiug without iutermi*- idon. I rejieatodlv endeavored to coo trol my nerves, and lie quietly in one pomtion ; but the effort, although de termined, ww* of no avail ; iu a few uiinutmi i was shaking a violently oa lief on*. At loot i notijed that I waa becoming qutt-U-r, but that the mental suffering wa* greater. My only thought now was to get warm. No earthly j**- amrion waa too dear now to lie sacrificed for host. After the 'apoc of on hour, I U*gan to get worm—that is, I had the sensation •if returning warmth ami comfort. Pinching the flesh in Severn 1 places pro duced only a numb, prickly feeling, •-imihu" to that when a limb ia asleep. But I was comfortable and happy now, becawte I was warm. I grew angry with my companion because at tri* unwearied thumps and the answers he required to his questions. He Ixwod me. I wanted to be let alone. I wanted to lie quite still and dreum. Fully conscious that if I went to sleep I should never awake, I was perfectly willing, anxious, to go to sleep. I even recall picturing drowsily to myself how I should look in the morning when I was dead. A* I grew warmer, I ceased to pay at tention to the thnmpings of my com panion, ar to hia quoKtiaus. I gathered myself up and lay thinking how com fortable I woo. Pretty soon I began to doze, then to awnke suddenly, when I received a more severe blow than usual. I awoke once more, to see the half breed Hitting up and U'tiding eagerly over my free—and then I was dead. Sensation, volition, all intelligence, had left me. In thirtr or forty minute*, an hour at most, the paralvws would extend from the brain into itie spinal system, stop- Ennr the function of respiration, and the iving action would cvat-i* for good. From tliis living,death I was aroused by what seemed to me n most unpro vufcad assault. The powerful half breed, holding me in an iron grasp by the col lar, waa engaged iu kicking and cuffing my limp 1 nuly in the moat savage manner. Several times I liecame conscious of undergoing this severe treatment, only to drop down and fall asleep again the moment he relaxed his hold. At length, however, he persistently kicked and cuffed me until, annoyed beyond en durance, I lieg&n feebly to retaliate. Yet it was fully half an hour before I began in the least to onmprehend that anything extraordinary laid occurred. True, I saw a tire blazing brightly, ulxrat which I was curled in a semi-circle. I saw La vie examining my hands and feet carefully. I saw that the bedding, with the exception of tlie robe I lay upon, was thrown aside, yet 1 felt no surprise or curiosity. After a time, however, I regained con sciousness sufficiently to understand that, finding me fast freexjng, and not to le awakened, tlie half breed had hast ily mode a fire of one of tho sledges, the heat of which he had augmented consid erably by feeding it with the pemmican, which was more than half buffalo fat, ami burned readily. He luul then drag ged me, totally unconscious, to the fire, and proceeded to beat and cuff me back to life. An lowa Fish Storv. The Dubuque Time* tella the following storv: " Two young gentlemen who took a fishing excursion down the river liav ' ing fallen short of bait, commenced using the eves of the dead fish already caught. One of the fish caught on this bait strug gled so hard tliut the hook {accidentally fastened iu one of its eyes and tore it out . Tip* paiu occasioned by this accident made the fish struggle o'ill more, and at last it slipped from tlie brihermau's hand t and escaped to its natirg element. The disgusted fisherman reuie *d the eye of the fugitive, applied it v i tlie hsok, and again launched his line otto the water. Only a short time elapsed and he had a bite, and jerking his line ont 4)1 the water he was surprised to find the iden tical fish which had eluded his grasp a . few minutes before, and which perished by swallowing its own eye." "" If you have the feeling of hate or re venge, subject it to s severe process at _ mental chemistry ; examine into its na ture, its uses, its philosophy ; and, be fore you have finished the scrutiny, it will probably vanish like s volatile es ! sen re into the air,
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