7 TV iiiili Ifi'Ilf .Jr Two Dollars por Annum. HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL DESPEItANDTJM. 1 VOL. VI. Farewell. Farewell! tny darling 1 the words most be spohen Now we are parting for ever and aye. Tears may be flowing, and hearts may be broken Ah I let me tell yon my love while I may. Here in my arms, darling, cease your wild sob bing, Silently lie with yonr faoe on my heart. Listen, my own one, for yon it is throbbing Well nigh to banting, beoause we most part. All yonr fair gold hair about me Is streaming, And yonr soft white arms around me are press'd, Down in your gray eyes the love light is gleam ing Bright as the Jewels that flash cn yonr breast. bat oan I do, sweet? Oar love dream is over, Dark is the path I must traverse alone ; Not one bright spot shall I ever discover When I have left you, my darling, my own I Life is but made op of all each sweet seeming. Bat it has sorrows that no time can quell ; Ours has just come to us we have been dream ing Too bright a dream of love darling, fare well 1 Farewell for ever 1 no meeting to-morrow, Nothing but memory with us to stay ; Here I must leave you, alone is your sorrow, Weeping and lonely, and I far away. But you will think of me only and ever, Breathing my name in each pare trusting pray'r ; And when you bend the knee to the great Darling, my spirit will surely be there ! Farewell ny own one ! The words have been spoken, Qiven and taken the last parting kiss ; Tears may be flowing and hearts may be broken, But in the world, love, what reck they of this ? " MY MURDER." A TRAVELERS STORY. Most poople who have been to Switz erland will understand where the hotel of Les Trois Sages is situated. They will know whut is the chief hostelry of tli e large town at which the majority of tourists entering and returning from the region of the Alps usually halt, at least for a night, as from it diverge the main chaunela le iding to the choicest scenery of the little republic. They will recol lect that the inn is charm ingly placed on the banks of the lihine, and that its bal conies and windows look out upon and absolutely overhang the rushing river, not one hundred miles from its falls at Schaffhausen. Tie superfluous energy of a Briton six-acd-twonty years of age, six feet two in height, and strong in proportion, finds no better outlet than scrambling over peaks, pannes, and glaciers; and I had been doing this, on the occasion of which I write, to my heart's content for five or six weeks. It was not my first experience of the Alps by many; bat it had, on the whole, been the least enjoy able; the companion who was going with me disappointed me at the eleventh hour, and I started alone, the limited time for my onting not brooking delay; and although at times I fell in with pleasant people I was bored by my soli tude. My temper, too, always a peppery one at the best, was considerably ruffled by the loss, tovard the end of my jour ney, of my remaining circular notes. I most stupidly flicked the little case con taining them out of my breast pocket with my handkerchief as I was leaning over the side of the steamer coming down from Flueln to Lucerne, and I had the mortification of seeiug it sink into the blue lake before my very eyes. My remaining cash was only just sufficient to carry me to well, say, Les Trois Sages; so immediately on reaching Lu cerne I had to write home for more money, directing that it should await me at the aforesaid well known hotel. I therefore timed my arrival there accord ingly; and it was not an hour too Boon, for I could only just avoid overstaying my leave by starting for Paris by the first train the next day. Hence it was with no little anxiety that on reaching my inn I demanded of the concierge whether there was any letter for me, and my satisfaction was so great when that majestio functionary handed me one that I tore it open then and there, displaying the nature of its contents to the throng of waiters, por ters, and idlers usually hanging about hotel halls. It being late I was soon shown to my room a luxurious one, for an aloove, where stood the bed, was divided from the salon by a heavy portiere, thus making two apartments. I took little heed, however, of these vanities at the time. I was to be off early the next morning, and ere long I was in bed and my light out. The loss of the money tended to make me now unusually care ful of that which I had received ; so, though I left my watch, eta, on the table in the salon, I laid the packet of notes on a little stand at the head of the bed. Sound asleep 1 Sonnd is not the word for it. Dead asleep would be nearer the mark; that sort of sleep which comes to a 6trong man in perfect health and training after a fatiguing day's journey. VV hat it was that aroused me froin it I shall never clearly understand; but my belief is that it was an instinct rather than a noise which caused me, without altogether returning to con sciousness, to open my eyes. My face was turned away from the wall against which one side of the bed stood, bo that I looked straight across the little aloove, and through the half drawn vortiere into the salon. The - moon must have risen, for there was a much stronger light in the rooms than when I put out the candle, aud a deep shadow was cast across the opening between them. Her rays thus flooded both apartments by the single window in each. Now I was in that curious state that although I knew I was awake I thought ) I was dreaming; in fact, I was just on 1 that mysterious frontier land between the two states, which is not the least per plexing among the phenomena of a mor- 1-1 . ,1.1 7 I . T a 1 I V HU OXIBMTOOH MlBt IS IO BHJ, L lUOtlgLH J. was dreaming when I saw the figure of a man on all fours crawling out of the stream of moonlight in the salon into the shadow cast, as I nave said, by the arch and heavy folds of the portiere. But I knew I was awake when, losing sight of him for a minute there, I saw him again emerging into the rays of light which fell across the floor of the aloove where I lay. I knew, I say, that I was awake now, for could I cot dis tinguish plainly as he came slowly and stealthily toward the bed that his face was hidden by a sort of crape mask I And yet still, for a moment more, I thought I must be dreaming. I had never moved or raised my head from the pillow; I had simply opened my eyes, and I etill abstained from movement while endeavoring to realize iu what condition I was. Suddenly, however, all doubt disap peared. I took in on the instant the fact that this was nn attempt at robbery, perhaps worse; for, approaching the lit tle table, the figure without mining from the floor lifted one of its bands as if to reach the marble top. The man was within arm's length of me now, and without giving him the slightest warn ing by any preliminary movement I en deavored to spring out of bed straight upon him. For a second I had him by the collar; but not being able to get clear altogether from the bedclothes I was cheoked, and he slipped out of my grasp like an eel and disappeared in the shadow. Instantly, however, I was on my feet; but thinking that the fellow probably would bo armed I did not attempt to grope for him, but made straight through the door of the salon going on to the landing, intending to raise an alarm and prevent an escape, but before I could draw the bolt I saw him at the window opening on the balcony. His figure came between me aud the moon light, and judging that, as the casement was open, he must have entered that way, and was now endeavoring to get out by it, I once more sprung toward him, and had him in my arms just as he stepped on to the balcony and was in the act of climbing over it. He strug gled for a moment or two desperately, of course; but my hot temper was up now, and thinking of nothing but the insolent audacity of the intrusion and the at tempted robbery, I tore him away with erent violence for ho was but like a child in his strength compared to me and saying, in my fury : " Ilo, ho, you "coundrel 1 you want to get outthis way, do you? then you shall go!" I flung him, as if he had been a truss of straw, over the balcony into the rushing river below I a Then, and then only, for the first time, as my haude quitted hold of him, did I remember the situation of my looms. I had been sleeping in different ones almost every night for the last six weeks, and iu the suddeness and rapidi ty with which the whole cf the inci dents had happened I entirely forgot that below the balcony rushed the im petuous lihine. Lightning docs not ex press the swift keenness of the agony which shot through my brain as, glaring after the wretched man, I caught a faint glimpse of his falling figure, und heard the faintest cry and splash rise for a second above the rush of the torrent. Not being skilled iu describing sensa tions 1 abstain entirely from attempting to txpress what miuo were now. 1 pulled myself together in a minute or two, i ndeavoring to collect my thoughts, and to settle what I ought to do. I .vnlked to tho table where I had left my iviitch it was gone; to the littlestand my packet of notes was safe, but the hand which I had arrested, only jiist iu time, as it rose toward them belonged to some one who knew that they were there, that was evident. Then ray eye fell upon a black object lying on the floor in a streak of moonlight; it was a piece of folded crape with an elastic ban i attached. In the first encounter Iho thief's disguise had fallen off here it was I and I remembered that for a second on the balcony I had met the rascal's large dark eyes as thoy seemed starting from his head with terror. The balcony I As I put my hand on the tide of the balustradt , in the act of looking over, it touched the top of a light ladder, the other end of which on examination I could now faintly dis cern in the moonlight rested not a dozen feet down on a long but less projecting balcony than mine, for my rooms were ov.-r a low-pitched entresol, to which this lower balcony belonged. Clearly, then, it was some one en gaged about the house a waiter proba bly -who had attempted to rob me ; one of those who had seen me open my let ter aud examine the notes. 1 bethought ine also then that my movements in my room must have been watched, or that stealthy hand would never have been raised with such. foreknowledge toward the spot where I had placed the money. My impulse now was to raise an alarm ; but an instant's reflection showed me that if I did I mu-t bid good-bye to all thoughts of reaching Paris by the early train, and of saving the limit of my leave. And was it worth my while to do this I I decided in a moment most certainly not. Was I to expose myself to vast personal incon venience and possible professional ruin, through not meeting my engagements, simply for the nuke of explaining to the cumbersome law of the land what had happened, and to run the risk of not being able to do so to its satisfaction, and consequently perhaps of being in carcerated as a murderer f Not a bit of it I I would see the law of Switzerland at Jericho first I As it was I had lost my watch, and my temper leaped up in rebellion at the thought and easily per suaded me for the time that I should be little better than a fool to risk the pros pects of my life by an act so quixotic, Jf the rascal were drowned it was his own fault, and there should be an end of it as far as I was concerned. No ; I would be off as I proposed ; aud with this determination I began deliberately to dress and pack my knapsack, for sleep was gone lor that night. Onl; one doubt Derolexed me. Should leave the ladder standing where it was. and let the hotel authorities think what MDGWA'Y, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, they liked, or should I fling it into the river after the man ? night or wrong, with very little hesitation I adopted the latter course. Not a sign of life was visible as I looked once more ont upon the broad river ; and as I gently raised the ladder, and consigned it to its depths, l thought it was not the first secret by a good many that its impetuous current had carried away into oblivion. An hour or two later I had quietly paid my bill at the bureau, and was on my way to .Fans, and by the following night was once more in my chambers in the Temple. Argue, reason, justify, talk about self-defense, and, if I hadn't done thin, he would have done so-and-so and so-and-so, as much as. you please, you can never quite philosophize away the very disagreeable sensation which will arise occasionally if you have ever had the misfortune, however unintentionally, to kill a man. My hot temper has often given me cause for regret, not to say re morse, but since the night when I flung the robber into the Bhine I hope I can safely say I have curbed it. Whenever it comes bubbling up there also comes with it the vivid recollection of the brief struggle on the balcony, and lo I it is subdued on the instant; but the recol lection, alas I is not so speedily dis missed ; it still hovers painfully in my memory at times, though twelve years have passed siuoe the deed was done twelve years t during which no mention, that I have ever seen, has been made in the papers of any . one having been missed from the hotel. Of course I have been often to Switzerland since, but somehow I have always avoided tho town where stands the holstery of Lies Trois Sages, and I certainly should never think of going up the Bhine again. I strike the Alps now by other routes, and have a tendency to get well to the Italian side of them. In deed, I have but lately returned from a saunter amongst the lulls in the neigh borhood oi uomo. What capricious fate led me to the spot need not be speculated upon ; it was one of those strange coincidences, I suppose, which when met with in fiction excite little surprise, but which when stated as facts are generally doubted. Well, I pulled up one day at an uri- pretentious little albergo, on the 6ide of a steep declivity overlooking the " Uizy" lak The light refreshment which 1 ordered was brought to me as I sat at a little table in the garden, sheltered by vines, olive and fig trees, by tho padrone himself, a veaerable gray bearded man. Only as he set the fruit and bread down before m did I observe that he was bliud. lie had walked so steadily and direct from the house to where I sot that none could have guessed at his affliction. The sudden discovery of it, together with a sorrowful expression which his face wore, touched me, and I begun talking to him with what Italian could muster. His speech showed him to be above the common herd, and after converging for a while about the neighborhood, and such ordinary topics, I ventured to touch on his blindness. " Oh," said he, " that is very little, signor ; iJen can be more severely tried than by having to live in the dark. There are worse afflictions than that." ' Indeed," I answered ; " do you ppeak from experience f" Truly, signor, I do." " Yo i surpriso me ; I should have thought nothing could be worse. Do you mind telling me what you have found so ?" " No," ho said, slowly sitting down opposite to me; " but it is a sad tale. I doubt if it can amuse the signor ; bnt if lie is willing to listen I am willing to toll. It sometimes eases the heart to pour out its troubles even into the ear of a stranger. But stay, let us know how I lie time goes, for I have some affairs to attend to by-and-bye." Whilst speaking he thrust a hand into the pocket of his vest and drawing out a watch without a chain, held it toward me, adding: What is the hour, signor I we blind folk are a little helpless in these matters." I looked into his large brown palm, nn.l was about to answer, but the words stuck in my throat, for surely it was not the first time I had seen that dial I " Permit me." I said, after a rause. as, pretending not to be quite able to see it, I endeavored to turn the watoh over in my hand, that I might by a glance at the back of it verify the ide which has crossed my mind. He felt what I was doing, and said: " The signor will find the time by the front, and not the back." " Surely," I answered; "it is three o'clock. But that is an English watch you have, is it not ?" " The signor is curious; can it signify to him cf what manufacture it is?" re plied the padrone, in rather an altered tone, but not rudely. " Un. no, l answered, carelessly, not wishing to arouse any suspicions in him; " it only struck: me as strange to find an English watch in these parts. Pray let me look at it." With a return of his former sorrowful manner and with an air of resignation he reluctantly handed me the watoh, saying: " Uertainly, if 1 tell you one thing I may as well tell yon all." A glimpse of the baok revealed my own crest and initials; but I restrained the expression rising to my lips and went on: "Ah, a good watch; may I ask how you came by it I" " Yes; it will appear in what I have to say. It is all sad, and is only one of the many troubles which have made me an old man before my time. Very sad in deed is all that hangs about that watch. It belonged to my son; at least it was found upon him when he was dead." Needless to say how I winced tinder the old man s words, lie continued, as he passed a hand across his sightless eyes: " Yes, signor, he is dead these many years past, and perhaps it is as well. But, ah me i the way of it, the way of it there is my grief. Gould it have been that I had been by, and have known that there waa ever so little repentance in his heart, there would have been some little comfort for me, perhaps; but, as it was, it is too probable that he went un shriven, unrepentant, suddenly to his ocooun." " Tell me, tell me," I said, quickly, " the wav of his death !" Bnt the pa drone was not to be hurried. He seemed to like to linger on the pain his slowly uttered words brought with them, little guessing how they were paining me also. He went on: " Ever a prodigal from hi youth upward my boy grew worse and worse as he reached manhood. I had looked that he should inherit my business and good name, for they were both worth inheriting at one time. I kept au hotel at Bergamo, and for a while he was my chief waiter, but his vicious courses brought rnin on us both. He contracted debts which I had to pay; ran away in evil company, and I heard nothing of him for years. When I did it waa, as usual, with a demand for money. He was then in Switzerland as a waiter, I believe, at the hotel of Les Trois Sages the signor knows it, of course, all the English know it; and there, I afterward heard, it was that he, in the act probably of attempting some desperate crime, fell one night into the Bhine and was picked up dead as ap- E eared. Only by a miracle could it ave been that his body was not carried straight away down over the falls at Schafflfausen; but it seems that he got entangled with the chain of the feiry which crosses the Bhine, as you know, a little below the hotel. Here again by a miracle it chanoed that he was seen by some men who were early working at some timber rafts, and was by them car ried ashore, as I have said, for dead I" " But was he ?" I inquired, with an anxiety I could ill-disguise, as the old man paused. " No, signor; it was not his destiny to be drowned would that it had been, for then he would have been saved from the commission of his greatest crime I No; he was restored, to return to me and pile upon mo further anguish. " He came back to Bergamo a yr ar or two after to a smaller inn, which I was then keeping, and in a drunken brawl with some of his loose companions he used his knife with a fatal result upon an unarmed man, whose friend on the instant stabbed my son to the heart I That is all, signor; but the remembrance of his career has been far worse for me than the darkness." " And the watch," I suggested, with a sense of relief quite inexpressible, "was found in his possession T " Yes, signor ; but I doubt if he had come by it honestly, for they tell me there are a device and letters on the back in no way belonging to him. Bat still I treasure it for his sake, or rather fo- his mother's, for he was all that ro mained to me of her, and she idolized mm for the five years that she was spared after his birth ; and," added the old man, in a somewhat more cheery tone, as if the recital of his troubles had relieved him, " a good English watch is useful to a blind man. - - Most assuredly the latt thing in my thoughts was to deprive him of his treature. I was only too well repaid for my loss by what I had just heard ; only too grateful for being able after all even to look back with complacency upon what I nevertheless still call " My Murder! The Lato Alexandre Dumas. M. Alphonse ICnrr had just establish ed himself at Mice when M. Dumas hap peued to be passing through that town, and was cordially iuvited to dinner by his old friend. Next day accordingly the author of the " Three Musketeers ' presented himself at .the time appointed, m company with twenty-two acquain tances whom he Lad picked up that morning in his walks abroad, and whom it seemed to him the most natural thing in the world to bring to dinner at his tnend s house. A Russian princess was also of tho party, and everything went oil as merrily as a marriage bell. At dessert the princess drew a diamond ring from her finger, and begged Dumas to write his name on her glass, a request to which tiie great novelist gallantly ac ceded. Then one after . another of the twenty-two preferred the same petition, which was cheerfully granted, and each guest took away his glass in remembrance of the pleasant evening they had passed together. Ai. Jtarr looked on approv ingly, but he may have been meditating at the same time over the cost of twenty three handsome glasses, which had all been borrowed for the occasion. A more whimsical adventure is said to have be fallen another distinguished French writer who had lingered with a friend somewhat longer than usual over the afternoon absinthe at a cafe. "Let us go and dine," he said at length, when thirty or forty gentlemen instantly rose to accompany mm. They too had lin gered, having intended for reasons of their own to abstain from dinner that diy, when they suddenly heard those words of cheer, and interpreted them into a general invitation to dinner. M. Dumas could alone have done justice to the situation. A Sad Story. About thirty-five years ago a hand some planter arrived in New Orleans from Martinique, accompanied by his wife, a Creole, in the full bloom of youth ful beauty. They settled in a magnifi cent hous3 near Lake Pontohartrain; three children were born to them; the husband was successful in business; the wife was an attractive hostess; their life was tarnished with sunshine.' One night a gambler met the lady at a bal masque, aud she fell in love with him. Secret interviews followed, and finally she abandoned her luxurious home and fled to Cuba with her seducer. The husband followed them, but was unable to hunt them down. After his return to New Orleans his children were stricken down by a Southern plague, and he was re duced to beggary. The whirligig of time had crazed this helpless soul. He was taken to a madhouse, where he re mained for twenty-three years, and finally, when former friends had forgot ten him, and he was no longer an objeot of interest to the outside world, he waa released, helpless and penniless, to die as ohanoe befell him. In his wander ings he reached Baltimore, carrying with him, as a link connecting him with hap pier days, the New Orleans and Mobile papers whioh told the story of his wife's desertion, the subsequent death of his children, and of his oonflement in the madhouse. A THASKSGITINtt DINNER. A BUI of Far far Blunt Per.ou aid How lo Prepare It. Roup Turkey wing. Boiled ood and potatoes. I Vermont turkey, oyster sauce Broiled sweet peppers. ( Canadian mutton obops ) ( Oold slaw salad. Plum pudding. To make 'turkey wing soup (turkey wings may be purchased cheaply from poultry dealers ; the wings of four tur keys are suinoient to mane soup ior eight perron): Trim the small ends; cut each one in five pieces; put them on tne fire in a stewpan, with two ounces oi bHtter ; fry them till the butter is clear and the meat lightly browned; drain the butter off, moisten with two quarts ot beef broth and three pints of water, season with a little salt, white pepper and a bunch of parsley, garnish with penny-shaped cut carrots and turnips, white stalks of two heads of celery cut in square pieces, and a dozen and a half small white onions, lightly sugared and fried in butter just long enough to give them a light brown color; boil the whole about forty-five minutes; at that time all the ingredients ought to be done ; take out the bunch of parsley, skim all the fat off, taste and serve. To prepare boiled ood Newfoundland fashion : Have two middle sized very fresh cod J remove the heads, tails, fins and intestines ; save the Rounds, tongues and livers ; cut each cod in four pieoes ; boil them on a grate in a fish boiler, with the sounds and tongues iu salted water; when done, drain them very well on the grate and keep them warm ; boil the livers in salted water, highly acidulated with vinegar to take out most of the strong oily taste and odor ; dress the fish in a large dish ; range around some thi'-k slices of fresh peeled boiled potatoes ; season with salt and pepper ; pour over half a pound of melted but not boiled butter ; send to table with the livers served on a folded napkin iu a separate dish and garnished with parsley leaves. To prepare and cook a turkey, with oyster sauce : Dress and boil the tur key in not too large a stewpan, with salt, two carrots cut in pieces, a gar nished bunch of parsley, a large onion with three cloves stuck in, and four stalks of celery and two leeks tied to gether; add water enough to cover the turkey; set on the fire, let boil, skim well, and cook slowly until the turkey is done it takes about forty minutes: drain it into another pan, cover it aud keep it warm; at the same time, cook about three dozen good sized oysters in their liquor, with a pint of turkey broth and two ounces of butter; when done drain them; then strain through a nap kin a sufficient quantity of oyster liquor and turkey broth and make an Allemande sauoe with it; dress the turkey in a large oval dish, mingle the sauce with the oysters, season with white and a pinch of red pepper, the jnioe of a lemon and a tablespoonful of chopped parsley; pour some of this sauce over and around the turkey and send the balance in a large bowl. Mutton chops cut across the saddle, well flattened, seasoned with salt and pepper aud lightly breaded with fresh white bread ornmbB, then carefully broiled and served with a ladleful of clear rich gravy. The mutton ought to be young, fat and stale. World. Destruction of Forests. Bailroads in the United States an nually consume for fuel alone a quantity of forest trees representing twenty- five years' growth on 350,000 acres. Bail road sleepers use up thirty years' growth on 68,000 acres. Fences to inclose the railroads clear as many acres more. Telegraph poles for 65,000 miles of telegraphs require the felling of 2;600, 000 trees, and the annual repairs 250,000 more. For matches alone there are an nually sawed up 230,000 cubic feet of wood. In 1870, 36,000 acres were stripped for brick making. Shoe pegs take 100,000 cords of white birch an nually. In 1870, for pine packing boxes and for wooden ware, vast quantities of valuable timber were used, and sawed logs footed up in value to over $103, 000,000. Add to this voracious demand that made for ordinary fences and fire wood, and to that add the wauton des truction of forests for mere clearing, when Bometimes the timber felled sub serves no useful purpose, and we begin to get some idea of the rapidity with which our forests are disappearing, and to disTover the reasons for the solicitude fur the future, felt by those who have most carefully studied the subject of the destruction of our growing trees. A Colored Woman's Taxes. As the officer in a section of Boston was abont posting a poor colored woman's house to answer the require ment of the law, previous to selling for non-payment of sidewalk assessment, he was met by the colored woman, who in quired the' cause of the notice. "It is for non-payment of taxes." " Taxes what for?" asked the poof woman. "For sidewalk." "Oh! ah, that's it, hey f Well, put him up; old woman's days most ended; one after another the good Lord's gone and taken the chil dren, the old man's gone to rest, and the old woman's left all alone. Put up the notice; put it up, I say, and sell; sha'n't need it muoh longer, anyhow. Bless the Lord; pretty soon I'll go home to reign with Jeeus, then there won't be any taxes to pay, and the poor old woman'll be at rest." The tax man said that was a different reoeption from that which be reoeived from another woman, whose house be posted at the other end oi tne street. His Reason. One of the Savannah benevolent association encountered on his beat, the other day, au applicant for aid. tie asked: " Have you a nusnand, madam I" "Yes. sir." "What is bis oc cupation I" Cotton boosier, sir" (labor ers who stow cotton in vessels, and whose wages are five dollars a day under favorable circumstances). Well, why don't he go to work ; he can get plenty to do I" "Sure, sir, they won't give but four dollars a day." That settled her amplication. Eauallv futile was the claim of s man for three dollars a day lor nursing his wile. 1876. Advice to Drinking Mm. The question is frequently asked, says the Boston Traveller, what course a drinking man should pursue to rid him self of the craving apretite for liquor. None but one who has been there knows how terrible is the appetite and how difficult it is to resist its demands. The desire for just one more drink be sets every man who has ever fallen a victim to the curse, and the cries for something to fill up the void without a return to the intoxicating cup are heard everywhere. It is a pleasure to an nounce that such a substitute does exist. A drinking man can supply him self easily with the remedies used at nearly all of the inebriate asylums and be his own physician at his own house, without the necessity, expense and publicity of visiting any reformatory in stitution. His laboratory need contain only a small quantity of cayenne pepper, a pot of concentrated extract of beef and a fow grains of bromide of potassium. When the desire for drink recurs, make a tea from the cayenne pepper, as strong as can be taken with any de gree of comfort, sweeten it with milk aud sugar, and drink. This tea will supply the same place that a glass of liquor would fill, and leave no injurious effects behind. Bepeatcd doily, or so often as the appetite returns, it will be but a few days before the sufferer will have become disgusted, with the taste of the pepper, and with the appearance of this disgust disappears the love for liquor. The fact is proven every day. The extract of beef is to be made into beef tea, according to the directions on the pot, in quantities as may be needed for the time being, and furnishes a cheap, easily digestible and healthful nutriment, it being made to " stay on the stomach " when heavier articles of food would be rejected. The bromide of potassium is to be used carefully and only in cases of extreme nervousness, the dose being from fifteen to twenty grains, dissolved in water. This is a public exhibit of the method of treat ment adopted at inebriate asylums. Iu addition thereto the drinking man should surround himself with influences which tend to make him f org6t the de grading associates of the barroom and lift him upward. He should endeavor, so far as his business avocations will permit, to sleep, bathe and eat regularly, and obey the ordinary law3 oi health. By the adoption of this course, ener getically and sincerely, no man who has the will to reform can fail to do so, Hundreds and thousands can attest the truth of these statements. Sensation of Starving. For the first two days through which a strong aud healthy man is doomed to exist upon nothing his sufferings are perhaps more acute than the remaining stages he feels au inordinate, unspeak able craving at the stomach night and lay. The mind runs on beef, bread and other substantials, but still, in a great measure, the body retains its strength. On the third and fourth days, but espe cially on the fourth, this incessant crav ing gives place to a sinking and weak ness of the stomach, accompanied by a nausea. The unfortunate sutierer still desires food, but with loss of strength he loses that eager craving which is felt in the earliest stages. Should he chance to obtain a morsel or two of food he swallows it with a wolfish avidity; but five minutes afterward his Hutterings are more intense than ever. He feels as if ho had swallowed a live lobster, which is clawing and feeding upon the very loun dation of his existence. On the fifth day his cheeks suddenly appear hollow ind sunken, his body atenuated, his col or is ashy pale, and his eyes wild, glassy, t.annibalish. The different parts of the system now war with each other. The stomach calls upon the legs to go with it in quest of food ; the legs, from very ueakriss, refuse. The sixth day brings with it increased suffering, although the pangs of hunger are lost in an over- lowenng languor and sickness. The ii.;ad becomes giddy; the ghosts of well rornmiibered dinners pass in hideous pvocossion through his mind. The seventh day comes, bringing increased lassitude and further prostration of strength. The arm, bang lifelessly, the legs drag heavily. The desire for .food is still left to a degree, but it must be brought, not sought The miserable remnant of life whioh still hangs to the sufferer is a burden almost too grievous to be borne, yet his inherent love of ex istence induces a desire to preserve it, if it can be saved without a tax upon liodily exertion. The mind wanders. At one moment he thinks his weary limbs cannot sustain him a mile, the next be is endowed with unnatural strength, and if there be a certainty of relief before him, dashes bravely and strongly for ward, wondering whence proceeds bis new and sudden impulse. An Interruption. An English paper relates the abrupt and extraordinary termination of a wed ding party at Sheffield. All were enjoy ing themselves immensely at the house of the parents of the bride, wnen tne atmosphere suddenly became unbear able. The guests begun to cough vio lently, and rushed into the open air. Some one had saturated a piece of cot ton wool with cayenne, lit it and thrown it into the passage. The bridegroom succeeded in placing it outside, but was so overcome-that he narrowly escaped death. The polioe were not able to de tect the perpetrator. Wanted to be Remembered. " Would you like something to re member me by, now that I am going away for some time?" remarked a young fellow at the Lane nnore depot to friend. " Yes, I would, dearly," replied the friend. "Well, then," said the one who was about to depart, "lend me 810." The friend was remembering too many old associates in that way already, aud so oomplained that he hadn't a cent with Mm. The total value of gold produced in the United States from its first din oovery in California to 1868 was 81,332,- 700,000 ; and of silver, 8261,450,000 making 81,594,150,00a NO. 39. Items of Interest. Cunning and honesty do not live to gether. Tho walruses in tho Aoalunition gar den of Paris have been taught to say papa " and " mamma. Henry Word Beecher advises yonng men not to run in debt, adding: nut if you feel thot .yon must run in debt, let it be for a little home." A man in Louisiana, who lost bis arm by the premature explosion of a cannon, offers J5U reward ior tne recovery vi diamond sleeve button attached to the missing shirt cuff. The latest instanoe of " married in haste" was that of a couple united in matrimony on an express train while it was humming along at the rate of forty miles an hour. Jonesy was trying to explain to Julia's father that Sublime Porte meant a big gate. " Now," said the old man, "jest you take the sublimest kind of a port out of this, will you?" When three good little boys get to gether of on afternoon the chances are that there will either be a fight, a win dqw broken, or florae stray dog will have a pan tied to bis tail. Nevada never held 60,000 people. It contains one desert which alone covers 30,000 square miles. None of tho moun tain Territories will average one acre in twenty fit for cultivation. Cider plays a great part in a Norman wedding. A young girl is seated upon a full cask, and she must drink both tho first and the last glass it contains in order to be married within a year. We can't understand why it is thnt a married man can't go into a store to buy a new rolling pin without blushing to the tips of his ears if anybody happens to giggle when he prefers his request. The man who has been Bitting all sum mer in a publio square looking for a job of work lately transferred his observation to a warm barroom, where he can see just as much and be more comfortable. "I meant to have told you of that hole," said a gentlemen to his friend, who, while walking in his garden, stumbled into a pit of water. " No mat ter," said the friend, "I have found it." The Scotch people are horrified to find that the whisky sold in the little villages of that country is adulterated with vitriolio acid, and committees of investigation are everywhere appointed. The territories of Russia in Turkistan cover 460,000 English square miles, or a space as large as the Austrian empire, Germany and Belgium combined. But the population is only 2,500,000, or less than that of Switzerland. A man was hung at Tanna-Fort, near Bombay, India, for a horrible murder, and made rather a notable observation in Gujerati. Standing under the drop, he whispered to the executioner : " In one minute what a lot I shall know." A man just returned from a prolonged stay in the Black Hills doesn't give any very encouraging account of the amount of gold to bo found there, bnt says it is one of the grandest fields for a young men's Christian association or a temper ance society to open business in he ever saw. The total number of Irish proprietors is 19,228, representing a valuation of 10,182,681. One hundred and ten per rons hold one-fifth of the soil. Ulster has 6,767 proprietors ; Leinster, 5,350 ; Muuster, 5,691 ; Connaugbt, 2,480. Only 1,443 proprietors are returned a rarely or never resident in Ireland. Silver in Nevada was first discovered very strangely. A woman picked up a 6tone to throw at her husband. It was so heavy that she examined it, and it proved to be a lump of silver ; 5U, 000,000 was the result of this to the country. The women nv.st remember that there is no silver in this State, so no experiments. The life of au Australian squatter js a struggle 'twixt drought and flood. He is now terrible distressed by the former. The rivers are ohoked up by the car casses of sheep and oxen which have died of thirst, and they are obliged to kill the lambs to save the Bheep. un one station 2,000 head of cattle have perished, and on onother 10,000 sheep. The number of oonviotions for mur der in England has been gretter in 1875 than in any preceding year, the exact figures being, since 1870, respectively, forty-four, fifty-six, sixty ond sixty three. Shooting, wounding and stab bing have also increased, the number of convictions last year having been 897. Crimes against property, and pauper ism, are, however, steadily decreasing. The buildings of the Paris exhibition of 1878 will cover a space of 1,350,000 square yards. They are to be of iron filled in with bricK worn, ana win nave the form of a Pythagorean table: i. e., if passed through in one direction the similar productions of different countries may be inspected, while if crossed iu the other direction the various products of any one country may be passed in re view. The American Woman. The special correspondent of the Lon don Times writes from Newport : There is in the well bred American woman a friendly frankness and fearlessness of manner of a kind which, as far as my experience goes, is not to be found in any other woman in the world, and whioh iiresistiblyiuvites the merest stranger's confidence. It is due, I sup pose, to the non-European way in wmun, as a girl, she has been brought up, and when, for want of perfect breeding, tne manner oversteps the right line, bo that frankness degenerates into forwardness and fearlessness into boldness, it be comes as exceptionally painful as, in its. perieouon, it is exceptionally pieaeHut. She is, too, almost sure to be quick quickness is essentially an American characteristic, though whether due to climate or education, or both, I cannot say so that yon feel she will see at once what yon mean more clearly, perhaps, than you can say it; and even if she makes wicked fun of you and your country, which, I grieve to say, she is somewhat fond of doing, the fun is so good, and so evidently not fun of malice but of merriment, that a man must be sadly priggish or vain who can feel anything but amused at it
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