i , S ! if I) -r J 1 'I it.! ti - 1 THE OOHSTITCTIOll THJ WHOS-AHD TM ISFOBCMCEKT OF IH1 IAWS. , Editor and Proprietor. B. F. WHWEIER, tol: xxx. . MIFFLINTOWN, TONIATA C0UK1T, PENKA APRIL 12, 1876; ; NO. 15. si ; . , ; . -. ' - . ' ' ' - A SOKG OF THE EARLY ADTDlTf. bt a. w. a. When in late summer the streams run yellow. Buret the bridges and spread into bars ; When berries are black and peacbea are mellow. And hills are hidden by rainy haze ; When the golden-rod ia golden still. Bat the heart of the sunflower is browner and sadder ; When the corn is in stacks on the slope of the hill. And over the path elides the striped adder. When butterflies flatter from clover to thicket. Or weve their wings on the drooping leaf. When the breeze comes shrill with the call of the cricket . Grashopper's rasp, and rustle of aheaf. When high in the field the fern leaves wrinkle. And brown ia the grass where the mowers hare mown. When low in the meadow the cow-bells tinkle. And hrookleta crinkle o'er stock and stone. When heavy and hollow the robin's whistle. And thick lies the shade in the heat of noon; When the air ia whits with the down o' the thistle. . And the sky ia red with the harvest moon O then be chary, yoong Robert and Hary ; Let no time slip not a moment wait ! If the fiddle would play it moat stop its toning. And they who would marry most be done with their mooning ; Mind well the cattle, let the churn go rattle. And pile the wood by the barn-yard gate ! Scrilmer't Monthly. A Turquoise Ring. ltattie Thorpe, the nursery governess, sat playing at building block-houses with bcr two little charges, Artie, aged nine, and Louis, aged wren. ihe was onlr eighteen herself a tiny girl for that age, with a sweet baby-face, and evidently so much of a child that it seemed perfectly natural to see her with younger children, nun as mucn inter ested in their childish games as them selves. A mast efficient nursery gov erness Mrs. Langley found her, as she gave the children their reading and selliu les.-ons daily, and played with theui at addition and .subtraction in a way to make the horrors of arithmetic quite fascinating.. be slept in their room at night, dressed them in the morning, and romped with them all dar, as well as. kept a gentle survell lance over them at the table, where she always sat with the family, except ou grand company occasions, when she disappeared with them into a small temporary salon a manger, where they three dined together, enjoying these meals iiiost of any. As Nelly Langley told her cousin Edward, with a laiigh, she was not even called uMin to play the part of elder sister except when she was iu the humor. It was a perfect -comfort to have a girl like Hattie. : She took all responsibility about the children off one's mind. Cousin Edward laughed, too, when she said it: but perhaps it occurred to him that a little responsibility about the children now and then would do Nelly rood, while a little less might occa sionally reliere Miss Thorjie, for Artie and Louis, though cherubs in a geueral way, were not always angels. But he felt no disposition to argue the point with the handsome, brilliant girL who always received him with smiles, de ferred to his opinions, played her best music for him m her nue&t style, ana showed in her whole manner that she considered hercousin Edward the choice specimen of manhood in the universe. Mr. Edward Montague was a wealthy young man, and, indeed, the great catch of the set in which Miss Langley was a bright particular star; and that ambi tious young lady was a cretin, to ner mamma's bringing up, and left nothing undone to captivate tne neir 01 me family: besides which she greatly ad mired hercousin, and was as deeply in love with him as any society young lady permits herself to be before mar riage or a -ositive engagement warrants an extravagant amount oi ieeung. The cousins smiled at each other as their eves met. after a mm u tea's survey of the three children playing block houses. . .Nelly put out her band as if inspired to assist at the game; and men, catching sight of her slender forefinger, she uttered an explanation. "Oh, my ring! my lovely ring, Con. sin Edward, that you gare mel'U "Hare you lost it?" the gentleman enquired, languidly. "I lioie not this time. It has been mislaid so often, and turned up again But I shall lose it some time, I know I'm uufortunat about it- You see, on account of the pearls, I take it off every time 1 wash my bands, ana men x lor crpt tn nut it on amiin." "rooh! It isn't lost, Nelly. Send Miss Thorpe to see if you have left It on your dressing-taMe." Miss Thorpe didn't wait to be sent, but ran away at once to look for the missing trinket. It wss lovely, and mauv a time little Hattie had looked OH it with almost covetous glances, long- inir for such a ring to wear on ner own pretty finrer. She returned from her nuMl in a few minutes, looking dis appointed, and saying she couldn t find itanv where- ' "Yon couldn't hare half looked," the young lady declared, impatiently, "be cause I know I left it on the dressing- table. 1 remember quite well now, and w must yon, Hattie. It w as just before dinner, and you- were there, because von dressed nlr hair. Go again-, Hattie, and look on the window-sill; it's just nossihle I niizht have laid it there. Hattie went, and was gone a long time; bnt she came back looking: more disappointed than before, fahe had looked on the dressing-table, on the bureau, behind the bureau, on the floor, on the window-silj everywhere; but not a vestige ol tne turquoise nug wuw she find. . . r - . . , , "How provoking! Was the wiudow open, did rou notice?" "Yes, Miss Helen, the window 'Ty.n it mar hare fallen out. Come with me, Edward, and we will look,' iwl tlia lutir went out together. - Mr. Montague and Miss Langley saun tered round the house, and looked in the grass under her window, but with- out success; ana men mcy .i r.ii, f nllc nelted each other with them, and very soon forgot all about what they came out for, and pro ceeded to flirt and make love in uou couimital but delightful style, after the most approved fashion made and pro vided for such cases. The new moon was glittering like a silver sickle in the sky before they thought of returning to the house; and ther were brought back to the con tern- 1 kl u t inn t BUI li an idea bv Helen re marking that the dew was falling, And sits nnr roniain nut anv longer "And I haven't found my ring! They fall furnu a a inekr stone: I'm sure I've had the wrong kind of luck with that, one . rhn enuld have taken It? Jraow 1 left it on the dressiug-table, iSome nn baa stolen it." "Oh, nonsense, Xell ; and nerer mind, anyway, I'll get you another, and a prettier one, without pearls on it, and then you won't have to remove it all the time." .. , . , r- . ,, ... , , j Once or twice that evening, and again the uext day, Miss Langley spoke of her missing ring; the servants were interrogated; mamma was complained to; Artie and Louis were ordered to divulge its hiding-place, if, in the spirit of practical joking which these young gentlemen often iudulged in, they bad secreted it; but questions, complaints, threats, were all in vain, the turquoise was gone as much as if Jessica had ex changed it for a second monkey. Something over a week had passed away, and Edward Montague, in order to redeem his promise to his cousin, had run p to town, and was returning in the late evening, carrying in his breast pocket a small velvet case, inside of which reposed a lovely turquoise ring, haviug on it Helen's initial in tiny dia monds. It was such a lovely ring that the salesman at Tiffany's had smiled and given Edward a knowing look, as if to intimate that he knew it was in tended as an engagement ring; and Edward, smiling to himself as he walked up the garden path round by the summer-bouse and toward the side door, half determined to ask his cousin, as he slipped it on her finger, to wear it there iu token of a promise to give him not only that finger, but her whole hand and heart. As he passed by the summer-house the sound of smothered weeping from within smote painfully on his ear. Could It be Helen? He rushed in, and nearly stumbled over a little black bundle of something that crouched on the floor, with its head bent over its arms, crying and sobbing in a perfect tempest of tears. Edward nearly fell, and did, In fact, stumble, so that be caught the crouch ing bundle of black, and as he steadied himself he also picked it up and set it on his feet. And then, with the moon light shining on its little flushed, tear wet face, and its luxuriant brown hair all hanging about its shoulders, it proved to be poor little Hattie Thorpe. "Miss Thorpe! M'hr, I'm so sorry ! Is anything the matter?" Edward asked, gently, fearing some misfortune to the girl, or that sue had lost some relative; for he was not aware that the little governess was fatherless and mo therless, and without a blood relation in the wide world. Hattie 's tears and sobs redoubled ; she placed her two bands before her face, and sank down on a seat in an attitude of shame and desoair. Edward was the tenderest hearted of mortals, and felt infinitely grieved at such a spectacle of grief, lie sat down beside her, and drew tne little nanus awav from her face. Lo tell me what is the trouble," he said, kindly. " Oh, Sir. tdward," sobbed tne poor child, "how can I say it? Miss Helen thinks I hare stolen her turquoise ring." "Impossible!" exclaimed Jdward. shocked. "Oli yes, sir. Thank you, sir. It is imMssible, hut she thinks so." Helen can't think anrthlngso cruel I'm sure you must be mistaken." "I'm not mistaken, sir. She said so, plain, two or three times that I stole her ring because you gave it to ner, air. Edward, and thai I would like to steal you too." ' tdward laughed: dux a warm niusn stole over bis cheek. The silence be came a trifle awkward, and to break it he said : "That's worse nonsense .than the other. You wouldn't steal me either, would vou? ' i "1 wouldn't steal anything. Jir. to ward, of course: and besides" I'm not worth stealing." Edward interrupted. You are wortn anyiuing, crieu little nattie, with unnecessary fervor. "But still yon wouldn't steal me, said Edward, laughing. I couldn t you know ;" and the large innocent eyes were raised appealingly. "I'm not so sure of tliat," thought Edward, unconsciously pressing the soft little hands he still held between his own. He bent over her in a gentle, Drotecting war. and whispered,- "You are a dear little thing, and I am sure you could do nothing in the world but what is good and sweet like your self," And then, what with the moon light, which made the rirl more child like than erer, and the wet eyelashes and orettv Quivering mouth that trem bled like a babv's. and the two faces being so close together, Edward kissed little Hattie, and bade, her not to cry any more, and he -would see her put rirht in everr way. Hattie wasn't angrv. He was just like a nice big brother; but she thrilled aud trembled under his kiss, and' she dreamed all nightof afair young prince with a beautiful tura noise ring, ana ne could find no finger that fitted it till he tried it on hers just like Cinderella and the class slinner. Edward was as Food as his word, and spoke to Helen very seriously about the accusation she had made againt Miss Thorpe; bat that didn't mend matters, ror neien reallv believed that Hattie had stolen the ring, and was indignant with her cousin lor asserting the contrary. A lover's quarrel was the result, and Ed ward k-pnt the new ring In his pocket, and delayed the important question he had intended to mit when presenting iu Miss Langlev had a scene with mam ma, and insisted that the little chit of a governess, with her make-believe child like ways, and her deceit and hypocrisy, should be turned out of doors; but mamma chose to take time to think about that she knew she had a trea sure, and she wasn't going to throw it away for the sake of a mere suspicion, nossibir unfounded. Besides, she bad conscientious scruples about discharg ing Miss Thorpe without a character, and perhaps ruining her prospects in life. Mrs. Lansler maintained this virtu on resolution for several days: but out rtei-rii t What would yon have? Are evn the conscientious scruples of a good mother to stand in the way of heradraneementr : Jins. iiiigiey very soon saw that Helen was right, and that Edward was quite too much interested in the little governess; and Haitie re ceived her discharge on the following dav. bein? nermitted to nmsn ner wee. to allow her the opportunity of finding another roof to shelter her uoor home- Ipas head- . But we all know the fate of "vaulting amhirinn ' and even thecleverest mam nuts do at times o'erleaD discretion, and suffer in a similar way; and it happened so on this occasion. If, as Mrs. Langley and Helen declared, Hattie was playing a rlopn mime, these ladies threw ner rard and idaved it for her. Ed ward found the little governess crying again: and this time her despair was m.Ui for she was thrown on .-i-M ith blemished reputation and the suspicion f theft attached to her. The young man overflowed with pity and indignation, and haring been .,i,.iiv falling in love with the childish little creature, her present s. hrnno-ht his feelings to a climax. fietook potion her,- bad be o consider herself his promised wife, and with many tender assurances and sev eral kisses on the trembling lips, w u i.i owr- k-nnw care or trouDie again. Then he put the new turquois p a .rwl the diamond ring on uer uuga, " ,, . . initial was Hi, little Hattie did not know it had first been intended to sig nify Helen. .: . - : ' ' Edward was no hypocrite, bnt he was anm-r with his aunt and cousin, and so he went away to town and did not confide to these ladies toe news 01 his engagement; and Hattie had little inducement for confidence on her part. Mrs. Langley. believed Edward to be really attached to Helen, and so he had been, and was still to a certain extent; she made no effort to keep him, there fore, feeling sure that he would soon return of his own accord, and she was quite as well pleased to have him away from the bouse during uattie's last uays there, for she felt convinced that his only danger from that quarter was in constant association. Hattie was a dangerous girl to have - in the same house with a young man of Edward's disposition she was such a sweet, pretty-looking, Daoy-iike tning, ana ne was so good and kind and generous. As for the little governess, her behavior was perfect, and Mrs. Langley's heart smote her often, and she determined to do her best for Miss Thorpe, who took her dismissal so well, and went about her duties sadly and quietly, with such sweetness and gentleness toward her young pupils. . "Whatever I can-' do,- Miss Thorpe, you must command me," said Mrs.- Langley, on the morning sne paid tne young girl s wages. "If you should need a reference, you Know " 1 would send to you, madam, ana you would say 1 was a thief," iiattie interrupted, bitterly. "1 would do nothing of the sort, Miss Thorpe," and a faint binsh tinged the lady's pale cheek ; "but lr yon choose to be impertinent " "I have no such Intention, madam : and for your favor I thank you, but I don't think I shall require it." The color on Mrs. Langley's cheek deepened to an angry red; she bade her little governess "Good-morning" stiffly enough, feeling justly aggrieved; and so soon as they were alone she re marked to Miss Langley that such were a lady's thanks for trying to be kind, to "that sort of person." " Hattie said, "Good-morning, Miss Helen." kissed Artie and Louis, who set up an ear-piercing wail at losing her, and then walked quietly away, leaving her modest little box to be sent after her. ' .''( At the New York terminus she was met br Mr. Edward Montague, and the two got into a close carriage aud were speedily driven to the bouse ora clerical friend, and in tea minutes more were pronounced man and wife. Edward bad now -been absent from his aunt's for nearly a week, and the good lady was getting auxious for his speedy return. She ws consulting with Langley on the expediency of sendh.g him word to come back and flnish his visit, when a letter was placed in her hands. The envelope was very elegant and betrayed the nature or its contents at once. Mother and daughter smiled, and Mrs. Langley said, breaking the seal, "1 wonder what two turtle-doves hare paired now." . ! ' ' ! A couple of cards dropped tint that solred the question at once, and not to Mrs. Langley s satisfaction, lor sue be came very pale, one silently passed the cards to Miss Langley. "I told yon so, mamma thecunning, deceitful little minx?" and the young lady flung aside the harmless bits of pasteboard as if they had burned her. "Nelly! Nelly! here's yonr ring!" and Artie and Louis burst into the room with shoots of triumph. "Where do you think we found it? Why, Grip, the crow, stole it, ana we rouna it in a nest of his, with lots of other things. Ain't you glad to get it?" Miss Heleu dropped the ring at her feet, and stamped Ticlously on It. "1 wish to hearen I had never seen it!" she said. "Lucky, indeed! But for that miserable turquois ring I would bare been his wife now." Har4 Tlane atael their Keasedy. This conntrv Was never more pros perous really than now ; the only need is a clear perception of its actual con dition, and the adaptation of its forces to this condition. The remedy I shall propose Is a plea sant one, as this sufiering country is not really ill, but remarkably well; and the verv evils which seem so heavy are the best" indication of its thrift, its prodigious vitality, according to my diagnosis of the case; and I think you will agree witn me. The condition of affairs is this : Vast numbers of men are out of em ployment. They are consuming and not producing. l ney aesire worn, nut there is no work for them. Every branch of industry. is full, and over flowing. There is a glut of every pro duct, waiting to be consumed. - Exces sive accumulation had been growing for years, until It culminated in the fall of 1873. Since then labor has been reduced to the gauge of necessity, over production no longer goes on, and many thousand men are now without work. Their work is not needed, butthey need work, for they need wages to obtain the necessaries of lite. Everything produced is produced in abundance by the workers now employed; and the accumulation of an immense over pro duction continues on hand. What is the cause of this apparent evil ? Labor- taring invention. Month after montn. year alter year, the weat idleness continues. The army of the unemployed is increasing in num bers. The amount of work they would do, and wish to do, is not done; is lost for ever, a great stream of waste. No adequate measures are taken to utilize this labor, to prevent this needless suf fering, to end this -painful condition of unwilling idleness. LaDor wnicn wouio make an enormous showing, If per formed, is not performed, and the whole nation feels the loss as well as the un employed. Labor-saving inventions in crease in number as they should; la borers diminish in number, forced out into idleness, to avoid a still greater over production; and no new, great enterprises are engaged in, although to establish tnem is clearly tne remeuy for the condition of over production in the existing Industries. 1 he Galaxy. Hebrew LUerstwre awd Phltaaophr? The Hebrew Under says: The Hebrew lanmafe is of Semitic origin. Its al phabet consists of twenty two letters, of which five are considered as vowels, each divided into a lone and short vow el, to which may be added others called semi-vowels, which serve to connect the consonants; the number of accents are nearl v fortv. some of which distinguish the sentences like the punctuation of our language, and others serve to deter mine the number of syllables. The He brew character Is of two kinds, ancient or square, modern or rabbinical. In the first of these the Scriptures were origi nally written. The Hebrews in their different sacred writings, have trans mitted to us the best solution of the an cient philosophical question on thecrea ion of the world. During the captivity, their doctrines were influenced by these of Zoroaster, and later, when many of the Jews established themselves In Egypt, they acquired some knowledge of the Greek philosophy, and the tenets of the sect of Essenesbear a strong re semblance to the Pythagorean and Pla tonic schools. a BT WILLIAM BALL. Various are the sweet and hallowed Influences of tliat dear spot. But the particular charm of that name lies not bo much in the home itself a la the cherished objects which there reside. A mother lives there. Ah! what more need we say ; that were enough to make the dreariest spot on earth a happy one. That were enough to make home the most charming, the most beloved, of all places. Towards that spot a wandering and erring child can bend his steps, while it looms up before him as th "Star of Bethlehem" did to the shepherds. There can he come and in humble pen tinence coniess his faults, and be Is welcome, ever welcome; all his way wardness is forgotten; he is a son, a member, of a happy home agalw. The same kind mother who clasped him to to her breast when an infant, now yearns over him with all the tenderness she displayed then, and with a sense of peace he pillows his heavy head on her bosom.- The toiling man, as his home comes in sight, when retnrning from his dally task, feels a swelling iu his manly bosom, and when at the thres hold his fond wife meets him with a smile, aud bis children cluster around him, bow ready is he to exclaim with the poet, "There is no place like home." The wandering sailor, as he climbs the giddy mast, turns with feelings of pleas ure to the cot on the seaside where dwells all on earth that's dear to him. On that sandy beach his youthful bands first picked the pebbles from the sea, and memory hallows all the scenes of bis infancy. How sweet' is It to retire from the neise and bustle of the world outside to a quiet home, there to sit among our loved ones and listen to their kiud voi ces and prattling tongues; to hear their merry laughter and participate in tiieir chidish sports. Tis indeed like a revi ving cordial to the wearied spirit, made harsh aud irascible by the strife of the world at large. . rhilosopbers may say that the sentiments and disposition of a nation are developed by schools, colle ges, &c, but we point to the home as the place which gives a bias to the mind the mind of a nation. . The lessons of religion and morality which are incul cated there guide through life therecip lent of them. It is the lesson of piety from a mother's tongue that causes him to shun vice and all wickedness, and choose the better part, of virtue and godliness. These serve through life as monitors to chitck the rising passions, to rule the stubborn spirit, and develop at every point the goodness and consci entiousness of a youthful home-nurtured mind. . In the lives of all great men we trace the moving power and energy of their character to the early period of. their life, when the fostering care of a mot tier aud the loving sternness of a father formed their habits and controlled their actions. In fact, wherever we turn our eyes over this vast world we find ample aud conclusive evidence that, why one nation differs from another in power or in civilization is that the home influ ence has been exerted upon its citlzeus in their youthful days. Uid space per mit, we might sieakof the church as the Christian's home, but we will con clude by breathing the fervent prayer tliat we may all attain to that home on high, which above all others is the most delightful. The most pleasant home on earth is liable to change,' and the dear ones hi w horn rest its charms are often separated, the one front the other; but in that perfect home on high no change will ever mar the happiness which reigns supreme, and no separation will erer take place among those who are counted worthy to. inherit IU ineffable and fadeless joys.' . , . Kaaae Trmlta r Bcwthtavea. Beethoven used to sit for hours at the piano. Improvising the thonghts which he afterwards lotted flown on paper, and subsequently elaborated Into the music with which he astonished the w-orld. If he discovered that he had been overheard at such times as hap pened once when Cipriana Potter called tinon the great composer and was shown into an adjoining room he was incen sed to the nighest degree, in anotner mood, especially after he bad become deaf, while working out a subject in hU mind, he would leave bis house at nignt or id the earlv morning, and walk for manv hours through the most remote - . and solitary places, through woods and by lakes and torrents, silent and aDstrae ted. : In this .way he sometimes made the circuit of Vienna twice in a day, or, if he were at Baden, long excursions across the country. . w hen engaged in his magnificent Sonata Apastionata he one day took a long walk with Ferdi nand Kies, bis pupil. 1 hey walked lor hours, but during the whole time Beet hoven spoke not a word, nut Kept num ming, or rather howling up and down the scale. Jt was tne process oi incuoa tion. On reaching home he seated him self at the piano without taking off his hat. and dashed into tne spienuia nnaie of that noble work. Once there he re mained for some .time, totally regard less of the darkness, or the fact that be and Kies had had nothing to eat for hoars. His appearance became perfect ly well known to people of all classes, who exclaimed, "There is Beethoven,' when they saw him ; and it is related that once, when a troop of charcoal burners met htm on a country patn, heavily laden as they were, to let him pass, for fear of troubling the great mas ter's meditations. When composing in his own room at home, he would some times walk about in a reverie, pouring cold water over his hands alternately. from jug after jug till the floor of the room was Inundated, ana tne people came running up-stairs to know the cause of the deluge. At his death bed he left, besides his finished works. quantity of rough sketches, containing doubtless the germs of many more works, which never passed the stage in which they appeared mere, ine nrsi draughts of his well-known composit ions snow tne- successive alterations which their subjects suffered before thev pleased him; and these form most interesting study, as exposing his manner of working. One or nis sketcn books bare been published fa txtemo, and besides a host of matters of minor interest, it. containes three separate draughts, at length ef the finale of his Srmphonles a sinning prooi oi tne patience with which this great and Her renins neriectea nis masterpieces. Even when ' completely finished and perfected to his own satisfaction, his manuscript presented many dflicultiea to the reader. and bis eopvisu ana engra vers are said to have had a bard time of it. ' In one of his letters, in which he gives his publishers the correction of some proof oi a stringed quartet, ne concludes by saving that "It Is 4 o'clock I must post this; and I am quite hoarse with stamning and swearing." JVtu-nu Jna's Matfizine. ' ' - i A Maatet Mbevtav A letter from Siberia says: "Our din ner party in the evening and it was really a. dinner" party was extremely merry. Each one hud his stores nnder contribution. Some brought out fro zen bread, others frozen caviare, others still frozen preserves, 'other again Ma ss gee, which could not be bent even if put against the knee and polled witn au the strength of both arms. Can you im agine without laughing the appearance presented of seven half-famished people sitting at a table with thirty different jishes before them, and unable to touch one of them except at the risk of break ing their teeth? Nothing could be done except to wait patiently for the dishes to be thawed.' Gradually, as each art! cle of food softens,' faces brighten, and when at last a knife entered one of the dishes, there were shouts of triumph, which announced the beginning oi tne meal. "At the close of the dinner we ate excellent fruit, which had been kept frozen. Throughout Siberia, as soon as very cold weather sets in, all fmit is placed out of doors with a Northern ex posure, that the sun may never toucn them. They are frozen through and through, and retain their flavor as com pletely as If they had just been piuciteu from the tree. When placed on the ta ble they are as hard as wood, and when they fall accident ly on the floor thev make the same noise that a wooden ball would do. The heat of the dining room gradually softens them, and they reas sume their original form. While eating some game one day I, out of curiosity, asked how long it had been killed. I was told 'over two months ago.' When cold weather sets in, nearly every butcher kills all the meat he requires during the Winter. Fish become so solid that in all the markets they are seeu leaning against Die wall on their tails, no matter what their length of weight may be." ' " The iHkl r Lltc-raw Wwnaea. An exchange says: Very Intellectual women are seldom beautiful ; their fea tures, and particularly their foreheads, are more or less masculine. But there are exceptions to all rules, and Mrs. Landon was an exception to this one. She was exceedingly feminine and pret ty. Mrs. Stanton likewise is an exceed ingly handsome woman ; Dut miss An thony and Mrs. Liver mors are both plain. Maria and Jane 1'orier were women or high brows ana irregular features, as was also MUs Sedgwick. Anna Dickinson has a strong mascu line face; Kate Field has a good look ing, bnt by no means pretty face, and Mrs. Stowe is thought positively homelv. Mrs. Burletsh. on the con trary is very fine-looking, Alice and Phttbe Cary were very plain in feat ures, though their sweetuess of dispo sition added greatly to their personal apearance. Margaret Fuller had a plendid head, but her features were Irregular and she was anything but handsome, though sometimes in the glow of conversation she appeared al most radiant. Charlotte Bronte naa wondroiisly beautiful darkbrown eyes, and a perfectly shaped head. She was mall to diminntiveness, and was as simple In her manners as a child.- Julia Ward Howe Is a nne-!ooklng woman, wearing an 'aspect of grace aud reUue ment, and great force of character in her face and carriage., Olive Logan is anything but handsome in person though gay and attractive in conversa tion. Laura Hollow ay resembles Char lotte Bronte both in personal appearance r.d in the sad experience or her young lite. Neither Mary Booth nor Marion Harland can lay claim to handsome faces, though they are splendid speci men of cultured woman; while Mary Clemmer Ames is just as pleasing iu features asi her writings are graceful and popular, . i . - , ; Paw art m Mawmw. ' ' til One of the dangers 'of house life is this habit of disrespect that which it bred by familiarity. People who are all beauty and sunshine for a crowd of strangers, for whom they have not the faintest attecHon, axe all ugliness and gloom for their own, by whose love they live. The pleasant little prettiness of dress and personal adornment, which mark the desire to please, are put on only for admiration and goes for noth ing, while the bouse- companions are only to the ragged gown and threadbare coats, the tonzied tiarranu stuDoy oearu which, If marking tne ease and comiort of the "sans facon" of home, mark al so indifference and disrespect which do so much damage to the sweetness and delicasy of daily life. And what is true of the dress is truer still of the manners and tempers of home, in both of which we find too often that want oi respect which seems to run side by side with affection and the custom or familiarity it is a re gre table habit under any of 1U9 CU11UIL1UI1S um J1C1CI uiuivsv "vii It Invades the home and endangers still more that which Is already too much endangered by other things. Parents and np brtngers do not pay enougn at tention to this in the young. They al low habits of disrespect to be formed rude, rouzh. insolent, impatient, ana salve over the sore with the stereotyped excuse "They mean notning oy it, hich If we look at aright Is worse than no excuse at all ; for if they really mean nothing by it, and their disre spect is not what it seems to be the re sult of, strong, ; anger oncontrolable teniDer. but is merely a habit, then it ought to be conquered without loss of time, being merely a manner mat nurts all parties alike. . , IMd asasen. Tis a rule of manners to avoid exag geration. ' A lady loses as soon as she admires too easily and too ranch. - In man or woman, the face and the person lose power when they are on the strain to express admiration. A man makes his inferiors his superiors by beat. Why need you, who are not a gossip, talk as a gossip, and ten eageriy wnai tne neighbors or the journals say ? State your opinion without apology. The at titude is the main point, assuring your 1 companion that, come good news or bad, you remain in good nean ana minu, which is the best news you can possibly communicate. Self control is the rule. You have in you there a noisy, sensual savage, which yon arete keep down, aud turn all his strength to beauty. For instance what a seneschal and de tective is laughter. It seems to require several generations to train a squeaking or a shouting habit out of man. Some times, when in almost expression the Choctaw and the slave have been worked out to him, a coarse nature still betrays itself In his contemptible squeals or joy. The great gain Is, not to shine, not to conquer your companion then you learn nothing but conceit bnt to find a companion who knows what you do not; to tilt with him and De overthrown, horse and foot, with utter destruction of all your logie and learning. There is a defeat that Is useful. Then you can see the real and the counterfeit, and will never accept the counterfeit again. Y'ou will adopt the art of war that has defeated yon. You will ride to battle horsed on the very logic which yon fonnd Irresistible. You will accept the fertile truth instead of the solemn cus tomary lie. When people come to see us we fool ishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conrerpallon are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what yon say to the contrary. A lady of my ac-oualntaW-id "I don't care so much j Jatthey say as I do for what makes them say it," The law of the table ia beauty a respect to th common soul of all the gueate. Everything is unseasonable which is private to two or three or any portion of the company'. Tact never violates for a moment this law ; never intrudes the orders of the house, the vices of the absent, or a tariff or expenses, or professional privacies; as we say, we never 'talk shop" before company.' Lovers abstain from cares ses, and haters from insults, while they sit in one parlor with common friends. Would we codify the laws that should reign in households, and whose daily transgression annoys and mortifies us, and degrades our household lire, we must learn to adorn every dar with sacrifices. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. Ralph W'allo mer- ton. . , , . ,! Maattea;. It is not so very long since we had the pleasure of conversing with one of the best sdotcn-'deer-taiker and most succesful of chamois hunters. Accord ing to this gentleman's experience, get ting a shot at a red deer is mere child's play compared to getting within range of the Ivnx eyed and keen-scented cha mois. No one need to sleep out an night upon an icy mountain ledge to kill a red deer; bur, in order to circum vent a chamois, the sportsman is often compelled to adopt this coarse for many nights at a time before he even sees his quarry. Then, again, deer-stalkers crawl up the mountain side as a rule, while the chamois hunter's object Is to attain a high altitude first and creep down towards the object he wishes to "draw a bead" upon. At gray dawn the chamois hunter is on the alert, and by the aid of bis clear-eyed Swiss guide and one of Steward's best deer-etalker's glasses, be sweeps the rocky peak and ledge within .his ken. If he is lucky enough to spot the sentinel chamois perched on some pinnacle of rugged granite, the party separate in order to circumvent the flock a proceeding which in nine case out of ten ends in miserable discomfiture. - Sometimes, however, the party above the chamois get a crack', at others those below. Even should the bullet take effect, not a bone of the quarry may be even picked at the camp fire. Sometime the death struck chamois topples off the giddy ledge, and bounding from projecting crag to crag, as he falls downwards, eventually lodges in some inaccessible ere vice, a mere pommeled mass of shape less skin and bone. At other times the hunters find it impossible to get at the ridge upon which the chamois has fallen. Should the party,, however, succeed in catching the old goat, great is the rejoicing and horn blowing, and mauy toe nip of old cognac indulged in. The flesh of the chamois eats mure like goat's than deer's meat, and from a gourdmans point of view, is a dead failure. The wild, sterile, and roman tic scenery, the dead silence of the Al pine heights where the dangerous sport is pursued.and the extreme arduuiuoiess of the pursuit, all have charms for the true sportsman and lover ' of nature. Sportsmen we mean the genuine ar ticle, not the base resemblance but now too common love sport for sport's sake, and it is not the prize they value so much as the whining of it The Swiss mountaineers are ardent chamois hunt ers, and many of the goitre affected in habitants of the Alpine hamlets lose their lives yearly in hunting the wild goat. London llluttrutnl Sen. Haw t Blake Marriage BeaatUal. In the first place,' let people defer to the laws of health, of sanity, hereditary soundness; let them obey restrictions, consult wholesome seasons, respect the limits set np by the sense or nature. Mutual ignorance on these points is Di li nr marriage with unneccessary evils; they not only spoil the well being of a family,, but spoil Its disposition. Let the work In every house be reduced, by a reduction oflu ambitions, till all It tables, all the clot lies, exactly represent the current condition of every family ; not a bracket or a ribbon for exaggera tion, not a single room for parade, nei ther sewing, washing, eating, scouring, company giving beyond actual needs, and all done by the least elaborate methods. Then, in the second place, reduce to the lowest possible point the disturbances which arise from ignorance and vanity, from artificial training; you simply liberate marriage for more effective discharge of its spirtual pur pose. The men and women mignt sus pect that they were ill-mated till life itself pronounced the banns. Teach children that marriage only prolongs their school hours into the future or sterner discipline, and less perishable attainments. Warn them against those affectionate extravagances which under mine respect, against the physical er rors which so sap the will that it Is humbled and enslaved by annoyance which health and freshness laugh at. And teach them simplicity, make vul gar habits and ambitions appear odious to them, ply their Imagination with au stere and noble forms, tempt them to fall in lore first with spiritual beauty, whose service makes them free, then they will be better prepared to discover tnat marriage wunnoius ieiicity unui it has been earned. - Defecta la Warns Oealaa. I have thought an Interesting and instructive essay might be written on the defects in the celebrated works of genius. Not for the mere purpose of pointing them out, Heaven forbid !" Dut to snow or now nine consequence thev are. One mightthink such a lesson altogether trite and unnecessary ; but every once in a while the community is subject 10 tne aisturoanceot some noisy tyro who has found "defects" in Dante, or Shakespeare, or Milton, or Michael Angelo. or Raphael, or some other man not so famous, Dut wnose artisue per sonality the world likes, and likes for good reason. The fact is, that there are tew or no perfect wonts oi art; anu tne grander the work in physical and spiri tual dimensions, and in Its impression upon mankind, the more apt are defects to show themselves. In a sense, surely the mightiest creation we know any thing about the thing that we call Creation itself is full of and loaded down with defects. Minds that dwell unduly upon the defects, great or small, in works of art. betray thereby their own narrowness and lack of power. The successive generations of gentle and discriminative souls that we call "the world" find no stumbling-block in the defects of genius, and take uo in terest in those of mediocrity. Scribuer't Monthl. , ; A alnsale MMttm Www. In one of the early comic annuals there are some amusing lines of Hood's ibnu-ribinff how a country nurseryman had made a large sum out of the sale of iimni little nower wnicn ne wi rh.n.mrof th"Rhodum Sidus. i-i.i. rii.rmlnv nuna had proved quite an attraction to the ladies, and the flower had become the rage of the sea son. At lengui permit. who found that the nower was noi u uncommon weed, Insisted on knowing where the nurseryman- naa gos nis name from. He elicited the rouowing reply. 1 roans mm wnvr ! ioe nwi ormtuo - Bo 1 tarWd M th BhodMia Bidus." lOCTHIP COLtm. '. !.. 1 1 . ' 1 i.' oar long it tatei to wmke a Slice of. lirma.jn. 1 m so hungry! ' ened Johnny, running in from play, "give me some bread and batter, quick, mo ther!" - -"The bread m baking, so yoa must be patient" said mother. Johnny waited two minutes ami then asked if it was not done. - "No," answered mother, "not quite yet." " : j "It seems to take' a long while to make a slice of bread, said Johnny. "Perhaps yon don't know, Johnny, bow long it does take to make a slice of bread," said mother. "How long f asked the little boy, "The loaf was began in the spring.'' Johnny opened his eyes wide "it was doing all summer ; it could not be hmshed till the autumn." - - Johnny was glad it was antnmn if it took all that while ; for so long a time to- a hungry little boy was rather dis couraging. . . "Whyt" he cried, drawing a long breath. - - i , 1 "Becanse God is never in a harry," said mother. "The farmer dropped bis seeds in the ground in April." she went on to sav, partly to make waiting-time shorter, and more perhaps to drop good seed by the wayside, "but the farmer could not make them grow. An inge nious man could make something that looked like wheat Indeed, you often see ladies' bonnets trimmed with sprays of wheat made by the milliners, and at brst sight you can naruiy teu tne au- ference." "Put them in the ground and see," said Johnny. . t -,- - - "That wonld certainly decide. The make-believe wheat wonld lie as still as bits of iron. The teal rrain wonld soon make a stir, because the real seeds have life within them, and God only gives life. The farmer, then, neither makes the corn nor makea the corn grow ; but drops it into the ground and covers it np, and then leaves it to God. God takes care of it It la be who seta mother earth nourishing it with her warm juices. He sends the ram. he makes the sob shine, he makea it spring no, first the tender shoot, and then the blades; and it takes May and June and July and August, with all -their fair and foul weather, to set up the stalks, throw ont the leaves, and ripen the ear. If little boys are starving, the corn grows no faster. God does not hurry his work: he does all things well." v Bv this time Johnny had lost all bis impatience. He was thinking. 'Well." be said at last, "that a wny we pray to God. 'Give ns this day our daily bread.' Before now 1 thought it was yon, mother, that gave as daily bread; and now I see it was God. We should not have a slice, if it weren't for God, would we, mother V The Deacon at tads an old Saying. I like Ieaeon Green. He goes straight to the heart of things, and is not led off by moonshine. The other day. when a very oottitive and loud-voiced lady was talking with the little school mistress and himself about a certain troublesome child, the loud-voiced la dy exclaimed: "Pooh ! good influence isn't what- she needs. A bird that cam sing ami trout sine must be made to sing: that's my doctrine." w '" - With these words the lady glared at the schoolmistress who made no reply, and then with an air of conscious vic tory she turned to the Deacon, repeat ing: "Yes, sir, that's my doctrine." -"-- "A capital doctrine." said the Deacon with a bow, "bnt there's a flaw in your illustration, ma'am." "Bnt!" almost screamed the Jady. "There's no but about it. I tell yoa there no ether way. A bird that can siug and wont sing must be matU to sing. You'll admit that I hope t It is true as gospel. "Granted." said the Deacon, wun a voice as soft as the swish of a water- lily, "most certainly, a bird that can sing and wont sing must be made to sing; bat how are you going to do it t "The fact is, my dear maaam con tinued the Deacon, "some of these old sayings sound very well, but there's nothing in them. I'd like to see the person who can taae a oiru uuw wout sing and niaKe nim sing. ,o, your bird that can t sing and win sing, is easily dealt with, lou can at least qiiet him. But, for my part, I'd rather undertake the management ot an tue brass bands in the country than to force music out of the tiniest canary when he chose to be silent," 8t. Aieh- ola. . A Talk with tk Xoug Folic about Leap i ear. As a year has . days it should be divided into 7 months of 30 days and five months of 31 days each. but instead of that it has 4 montns oi 80 days, I month of 38 days, and 7 of 31 Knt tne veai is nearly six uours lon ger than tt days, so in every four vetirm a day has to be added in r ebra- ary to make all right, aud that day baa come this year. Bnt the rear is not quite three hun dred and s:xtv-hve days and a quarter. fenougn minutes are gainea every lour years to make one day in a hundred years, ana tnereiore mere is uo leap year in the years iw or iw or any even hundred years. This is a pretty nne calculation, out only think of the wonderful skill which makes our earth go round the snn eve ry year in exactly the same days, hours. minutes and seconas, witnoui making any mistakes at all. We could not make the best watch keep time for a year without losing or gaining some hours or minutea. "Too much II or. John wanted a kite : nobody gave him one, and it was too much tcork, he said, to make one for himself. So he went without He wan ted to have his examples in arithmetic done ; but it was too much tcork to ci- Elier them ont, so he copied tbem from Is class-mates. So he never knew much about figures. It was the same way with his grammar and geography; "fci much a-ori," he thought, to learn "them hard lessons." So they went nnl..Fnl. Later he tried to carry on a little But his old complaint "too much awl" came on. He soon got tired and gare it np. etiii ia to. on an old man could be seen in the country poor house. It waa John. Three little woraa orougni mm th. Do voa know what they were. Hsrplsfl aa say tHwcatap. We expect young men, young wo men, aud old -Frenchmen, to write mostly about love; but this everlasting "harping on my daughter" on the part of mature fathers of families in Eng land and America is simple effeminacy. A man who comes Into contact with the world as it Is. with all its great, social, religious, and political questions iu saints and its scamps, Its grand re alities and shams, its needs and its strifes, aud still can find nothing of in terest to write alout but petty things and pretty things, and the relatloos of young life from which he ia forever re moved, may conclude that the ele ment of virility is seriously lacking In his constitution, and that the beat thing he can do is to wipe bis pen, put the stopper in his Inkstand, lay away his paper, and go into the millinery busi ness. Hcribner. RW8 Ef BRIEF. Secretary of War Taft is a native of Massachusetts and a graduate of Yale College. The Chattanooga Commercial nomi nates Frederick Douglass for Vice Pres ident. - A salmon was caught recently in Washington Territory that weighed 126 pounds. The lead district of Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin covers an area of 3.U00 square tulles, 'r A man in New Tcrk has been ar rested and shut up for stealing umbrel las to the amount of $20,000. The Massachusetts House of Rep resentatives has voted to abolish the Bureau of Statistics of Labor. Grasshoppers have made their ap pearance in New Jersey, to the great consternation of the Inhabitants. Of making many books there is no end. Only 8.072 new ones were copy righted in this country last year. Dinners of the future. There were 1,363,747 hogs slaughtered in Chicago last season, and 63,783 cattle were salted and barreled. "Millions in it" The total capital employed in gas manufacture in New iorK is S1.7.0.UU0. and the averasre ividends are thirty-five per cent. Professor James J. Sylvester, of London, is to be offered the chair of mathematics in the Johns Hopkins University of Baltimore. Governor Connor has appointed ex- Governor Chamberlain, now President of Bowdoin College, as Centennial ora- . tor for Maine at the exposition. A a extensive vein ef amethyst has been found near MonticeUo, Ga. Some of the stones are very large and bril- nant, anu seu ror iiou a pound. A party of Lowell capitalists pro pose to go into manufacturing at St. Louis. They are out there examining the facilities and looking tor a location. The Sunday JTorW estimates that not less than 3,000,000 will visit Phila delphia this Summer, and of that num ber at least 1,800,000 will come to New York. , , An English stock company are buy- Ins up all the wild nine lands in Geor gia. They will send over Immigrants, get ont tne turpentine, and then sen the lands. ' Two women of Michigan hare sent Mrs. Grant two dollars to help toward paring off the national debt, aud now it only remains to resume specie pay ments at once. " The savings banks of New York and Brooklyn now owe their depositors $232,535,000 and have a surplu-t of protiu over and above this amount of about $26,000,000. The decline of the granger move ment in the northwest is partially at tested by its condition iu. Iowa, where there are .o fewer lodges than there were one year ago. ' Professor Baird. United States Fish Commissioner, will import a stock of the eggs of the sole and titrhot from - Ln gland and try to hatch them on the Massachusetts coast. . The Supreme Court of Illinois has ust decided that one party to a mar riage contract cannot dictate against the will of the other the time, place. manner or ceremony. Dr. T. C. Duncan, of Chicago, says that the mild winter is likely to be suc ceeded by an epidemic of . some kind growing out or in nuenza, and he pre dicts a very unhealthy spring. Horatio Harris, recently dead, was accustomed to throw open his beautiful grounds fn Roxbury, Mass.. to the use of the public, and he never had to com plain ot vandalism or want of grati tude. A woman in Lansing, Ia., has been sent to jail, in default ot the payment of a fine of $25 and costs, on a charge of malicious mischief. Her peculiar van ity consisted in enveloping herself in a sheet aud playing ghost. Bishop Bedell, who Is now travel ling in Egypt, has sent a cinerary urn, taken from a Greek tomb near Alexan dria, to Kenyon College at Gamhier, Ohio. ' It contains some of the ashes found in it when disentombed. Silver mining is likely to become popular in Texas. Over one million acres of land have been located in Mason County in three months. Two shafts are already sunk, and one is yielding at the rate of $1$ per ton. Prof. Hitchcock, of Dartmouth Col lege, is preparing a model of the State of New Hampshire intended to show its topography. It is on the scale or one inch to the mile horizontal, and one inch to the thousand feet vertical. It will be completed by next January. The testimonial taken before the Congressional Committee on Patents upon the application or A. if. Wilson for an extension of his patent for sew ing machines, brought out the fact that the cost of manufacturing a sewing machine is not more than twelve or fifteen dollars. A two-year old bull attacked a train of cars near Stockton, Cal., one day re cently, and attempted to butt the loco motive off the track, wnen it struck nun on the head, breaking his skull and throwing him into the ditch, about thirty feet distant, where he died in a snort time after. A tank in which 5,200 barrels of oil were placed five years ago, was re cently emptied at Petroleum Centre, l a., and only 3,00 barrels or mercan tile crude oil were obtained, showing that 1,500 barrels had been lost by evap oration, sediment, and other causes, a loss of nearly 20 per cent. The Grand Division of Sons of Temperance of Pennsylvania are mak ing arrangements for furnishing, free ice water to visitors on the Centennial grounds. They will put np a fountain, to be fed from a reservoir of a capacity of 5,(iO0 gallons, supplied with water from the .Belmont reservoir. About two-thirds of the Presidents of the United States have received col legiate educations. The two Adamses graduated from Harvard and Frank Pierce from Bowdoin. The other New England colleges have not been repre sented. William and Mary college in Virginia hss furnished three Presi dents. Qnarters for General Grantare being prepared at the centennial- They nuwf rr birire frame new. with two compartments, and are neatly furnished with trougns, nay-ncss, anu uui modern Improvements. General Grant i th largest steer in the United States, and ia the property of L. H. Ransom of Chester county, Pennsylvania. He weighs 4,000 pounds. . The wealthiest railroad engineer in the country is Mr. Lloyd Clark, who drives an engine on the Pennsylvania road, lie is reported worm a rounu $100,000, having made a large amount of money in gold speculations during the war, A few years since he pur chased a house in ew lorx and at tempted to abandon his engine, but soon found his new life irksome and took to the road again. 1 -i ii v -1 ' 1 ' :H3 r j i.'r. i i :.1 ' .4 I n "ii i 1 I- ! ' ' 'I
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