. i t t ' - 1 ' ; B. F. SCIIWEIER, THE COSSTITUTIOl-TEE TTUIOS-AITO THE EITFOBCIMEJT OP THE LAVS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXII. MIFFLIXIWX, JUNIATA COUNTY, PEXXA., 1VEDXESD AY, OCTOBER 30, 1878. XO. 44. THE BEAUTIFUL ISLE. There's beautiful Isle iu the great Sea of Time, With mountains of beauty, and valleys sablime. Where Peace reunia aaprema orer aorrow and crime Tie the beautiful Iala of Content. ' With peace for ita motto, ita emblem a dove . With Hope for ita watchword emblasoned - . . labave. The hours speal away in a virion of lore In thia glorious Isle of Content. A temptestnoua see ia the Oc?an of life. Where the waves mi!y break in their billowy strife: 1 Bat beyond the wild scene where oouftieioa ia rife - - lies the petce-hallowed Isle of Content. The winds of Ambition sweep orer the mast. The headlands of Time mnst in danger be past; Bat firm at the he)m. aud we'd anchor at last In the harbor of Peaceful CoutenV. How many, in vnyajing orer the main. Turn out from the oliannel new beauties to . gain; But founder at lent amid aorrow and pain. Far away from the Isle of Content. - The glitter of wealth, glraming bright o'er the waves. Ever lures in ita wake ruauj atorm-driven slaves. Who follow in blindness to fathomless graves. Ere gaining the Is e of Content. The Two Orchards. Solomon Watts aud Stephen Green were two well-to-do farmers, and they both owned good orchards. Their fruit was mostly of a choice kind, and not only found a ready market but com manded a high price. One thing vexed Mr. Green exceedingly, and was a con tinual source of annoyance. No sooner did his fruit begin to ripen on his trees than nocturnal and diurnal marauder commenced petty depredations on his choicest grafts. "It is very strange," muttered Green to his wife, "that those scamp will continue to rob my orchard so. Only night before List old Towser tore the clothes nearly all off from one of tne villiuns, and from the marks of blood that I found on the fence, 1 should think somebody must have got severely bitten ; and yet last night some one was in the orchard again. I de clare it's enough to make one run mad." ' "It is curious," answered the wife, j " and I'm sure J cfu"t see into it. How is it with neighbor Watts' orchard?" " That's just what puzzles me. They don't trouble his fruit at all, and he hasn't got any dog, either; and what's more his fruit is some of it better than mine, and more exposed, too. Just let me catch one of them, that's all." " It's too bad. certainly," said Mrs. Greeu, for -he knew uot what "else to say. "Father!" exclaimed one of the boys, who came running into the house. "Towser's dead. Just as still as a log !" " Dead !" " Yes, out in the shed." An oath escaped from Green's lips as he leaped from his chair and hastened to the shed. There he fouud his dog a real bull-dog, tnat he had bought on purpose to bite those who troubled him dead, to use his own expression, "as a door-nail." This was the most severe cut he had yet experienced, and for a long time his mingled feelings of rage aud chagrin rendered him literally frantic, lie knew at once that the animal had been poisoned, by the froth that had collected about its mouth; and he vowed vengeance most dire on the perpetrator of the deed, if he only found him. It was several hours after the above event, that the family were seated at she supper-table. It was already slightly dnskish, yet not so dark but that the distant landscape wa visible. " By crackee, dad," exclaimed oue of the boys, whose attention had been di rected towards the orchard, "there's somebody down in the corner hooking apples." Mr. Green leaped from the table, put on his hat, and then seizing a stout whip, he hurried from the house. He distinctly saw two young fellows under one of his trees, anil having gained the road, he carefully crept down upon the other side of the wall, until he had reached a point opposite to where the two boys, for boys they were, were fil ling their pockets with the fruit that had fallen upon the ground. "Aha! my young scamps!" shouted Green, as he leaped the barrier, " I've caught ye, have 1 ?" And as he spoke, h i! nne of the unlucky youths by the collar, and commenced beating hs.m most unmercifully. " I'll teach ye !" he growled, shaking the erving boy. " O," don't ! I only picked up a few . T 'You won't, won't ye? No, I II be bound you won't. There, take mat, and that, and " Before the next word escaped his tin Mr Oreen felt himself hit in the side by a stone which had been thrown from the road by the boy who had es ' ,..,...1 tv, PTi'ited man let go his hold and sprang for the wall, but he failed to catch the nimble urchin who had assaulted him, and rn the attempt he lost the one he had caught. W hen K. r. .iii,l his house he was LUC Idl 1111 ca not only enraged, but really miserable. The ill feeling he had cherished had poisoned every fountain of feeling, and his soul was the very gall of bitter ness. Before he went to bed that night he had sworn that he would get a tear-trap and set it in his orchard. "Oiu I have aW-of your apples. '"air t" asked a traveler" of -Mr. Green. The i applicant ""s way-worn and weary, and he sat down upon a atone near the orchard wall, where the farmer was at work. . "So," returned, Green. "I don t raise apples to give away." The traveler arose from his seat and kept on his way. A little further on be cameacros the orchard of Mr. nr.... . TT- .tnnrUKl and looked OVCT the walL . There were ' many applet laying 'upon the ground, ana gv over to pick up a few, not noticing that me owner wa near. .i . . .... uwu uj, sir,-- said Air. watts, ap- pruacuing me spot. " Are you travel ing, sir?" . . "Yes, sir," returned the stranger. " I suppose a little good fruit must be pleasant such a day as this, especially if one is weary. Just step this way, sir. Here are some much better thau those." And as he spoke Watts picked up his two hands full aud, extended them to the traveler. ' "You are too geuerous," exclaimed the man, as he thankfully took the proffered fruit. "Oh, no, sir. I can never see a per son want for a little fruit while I have an abundance. That Is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment my abun dance gives me to minister to the wants of others." " Then yours must be a happy heart." "It is, sir." The traveler soon resumed his jour ney, and the farmer again turned to his work. ' "Mr. Watte," cried a little voice on the other side of the wall, " mayn't I come over and get an apple?" '.'Certainly my little man just as many as you want." And so saying the kind man stepped to the wall aud assisted the urchin a boy f some twelve years Into the "There; now pick some up. orchard. Where is your brother, John?" . " He's plowing, sir." "Theu carry a lew to him. like them if he is at work.", " Yes sir an' 111 tell him He will you sent em, sir. " J ust as you please about that," re turned Mr. Watts, with a smile ; and he once more resumed his work, and the boy trotted off with his hat full of ap ples. That evening Watts and Green met. It was in a small shed belonging to the former, standing at some distance from the house, and used in time of washing sheep, there being a brook running by it. Watts," said Green," haven't them infernal scamps troubled your orchard this season?" "What scamps?" quietly asked Watts. ' Why, those fellows that bother me so." " No one has troubled me." Well, that's curious. They're romping around my orchard almost every night. Last night they just spoiled one of the best grafts I've got. I wouldn't have taken twenty dollars for it. Oh, just let me catch 'em at it, that's all !" " What would you do?" " I'd flog 'em within an inch of their lives!" "Then I don't wonder they rob you of vour fruit." "Don't wonder! What do you mean?" I mean simply this: that you are taking just the course to bring the re venge of those boys down upon you." And so, I suppose, you would have me buy them off that is, pay them for not stealing?" Oh, no, you don't understand me. You know that these kinds or early fruit that you aud I have are great temptations to the boys and to even quite big boys. too. Now, they see the apples laying about on the ground, anu it does not appear like real theft to jump over the wall and pick a few of them up. They see them laying mere exiosed to the bugs and grasshoppers, and 1 cannot say that I Dlanie a person for occasionally picking up a few. it is certainly no palpable loss to us, and affords great satisfaction to them. Now, if you are asked for a lew apples anu refuse them, or if vou hud some one in vour orchard merely picking up a few wind-falls, and roughly drive him out. you may expect they will come when you don't know it, and then a feeling of pique will lead them to take as many as they can carry. In short, your or chard is a kind of a glass house, and the more roughness you use to keep people away from it, the more liable you are to have it broken. You kuow the nature of boys as well as I do; and you know that harsh language and "blows will make many, who are by no means wickedly inclined, do some pretty dangerous things. Now, no one troubles me. If any one wants a few of my apples to eat, I give them some; for I have plenty to spare while they are growing and dropping from thetrees. I take a great deal of real pleasure, too, in doing so, for I love to see people happy on my bounty." "But some of them pizened my dog." " I can't say that I wonder at that, either." "Well, I must say you have some strange notions of right and wrong," said Green, in a bitter tone. " I didn't say I thought it was right. On the contrary. I think it was very wrong. But then you must remember for what purpose you purchased the do", and in what manner you traineu him. I don't wonder that be was killed, for he has .bitten a number of people since you had him. Me. Green would have made some further remark, but at that moment his attention was arrested by the sound of ices from the path that ran along Dy .... .nd thinking that he heard his own name mentioned, he listened "Did vu know that some of the boys broke oue of old Green's trees last night?" asaea oue " talkers. wvn; did thev?" " Yes, and walked off with more than a bushel of his best apples Desiues. "Egad, I'm glad of it the stingy mirmudseon. He wouldn't give anvbodv an apple to save their life "That's George Grey'a roice," mut tered Green. I'll tell tou a circumstance, con tinued Grey to hi companion, both of . Knm had nW tODPCd upon io uiu bridge, that ipannad th br tack f the sheep-shed. "Yo-i remember my brother Frank ?" - "Yes." " And don't you remember, ten years ago, when he was a boy, bow he saved Green's life. Green had got into the mud-pond, and hail already sunk np to his chin, and every movement he made to free himself only sank him deeper. He had gone out upon a log to get a duck that he had shot and slipped off. There vas no way to reach him, and no one dared venture after him. He cried and groaned for help. His mouth was soon under the mud. and in a moment more his nostrils would be under, too. His power to cry for help was gone, and just as we expected to see him disappear Frank came running down he had . started from the bouse as soon as Green fell in and threw off his clothes, and then got a mau to help him throw a long board out upon the soft mud. Theu be gave the end of a long rope he had got to the men who had collected on the shore, and taking the other end he ran out upon the board, then jumped upon the log, and theu sprang out to where Green was sinking. He soon made the roje fast under Green's arms, and then, hanging on to the bight, he sang out for those on shore to haul in. Green's life was saved." "Yes; I've heard of it often; and I remember it too, for I was quite a boy at the time." "Well, to-day Frank came home. He had been gone to Canada for n.ore thau nine years. He came by where Green was at work, and asked him for an apple, and just think, the old wretch turned him away without giv ing him even one. Of course, Green didn't recognize him, and Frauk didn't then choose to make himself known. The old skinflint must feel nice when he finds out who it was he turned away." ' I should thijk so," returned the other. " But Mr. Watts gave him as many as he wanted," coutiuued young Grey. ' That Watts is a noble man." "That he is. You wouldn't find any one robbing his orchard. Why, there isn't a boy within twenty miles of here that would do him harm, or lay a hand on anything that belonged to him, without permission. Come, let's be going. It's getting dark." There was a bright tear in the eye of Mr. Watts, as he turned to look upon his companion. "Frank Grey!" murmured Green, while his face showed the mortification he felt. The lesson that had thus been given to the farmer was not lost upon him. It had struck him too forcibly, too keenly to be forgotten, that kindness could only be secured by kindness and forbearance and a generous hospitality commensurate with his means. Flcht with Recently several young men went out hunting on horseback, and when near William Nelson's farm, In Wash ington Territory, they suddenly came upon two huge bears. They fired upon them and succeeded in killing one, but the other ran for the timber and passed out of sight, notwithstanding that one of the boys put four charges of buck shot into him at short range. As the bear seemed likely to escape, one of the party said he would ride around the thicket, which was a short one, and head him off. He accordingly started off alone, and reached the other side of the thicket before the bear. He dis mounted aud tied his horse to a tree, and had waited but a few minutes when the infuriated beast burst from the timber and rushed for him. He fired two shots but the bear was upon him. The beast rose upon his hind legs as he struck at him with his rifle, and knocked the weapon from his hands. Then with the stroke of his paw he felled the man to the earth, knocking him between two logs, and commenced to bite and claw him. The prostrate man held the beast from his throat by grasping him by the shaggy hair on each side of his head. He is a powerful young man, but he felt his strength beginning to fail, and he knew that his only hope was in the knife that he carried in his belt. He let go of the betr with his right hand and reached for the knife, but found it was gone. Thrusting the empty sheath into the bear's mouth lie give himself up for lost. The bear was maugiing the muscle of his arm in a terrible man ner, and would soon have killed him had not a dog that was with the party came upon them, ine dog attacked the bear fiercely and compelled him to leave his vict.m, who managed to crawl upon his horse and ride back to where the rest of the pai ty had stopped to skin the other bear. When he reached them he was too weak to tell them what had happened. 1IU friends carried him home, and on the way he managed to tell them he was not anxious to box with a bear soon again. The hunters went to look for the bear, but found that it had escaped. Charmed by at Snake. Mr. J. S Rogers says that while he was feeding his stock, recently, his at tention was attracted by a squirrel on the ground whose strange actions in terested him. He approached near, and the squirrel apparently disregarded his approach. He soon discovered a rattle snake, about three and one half feet long, in front of the squirrel. He no ticed that the squirrel moved nearer to the snake. Nearer and nearer the squirrel approached the snake, contin uing Its strange actions, until the make opened its mouth and seised the little animal. After the snake had partly wallowed the squirrel. Mr.' Rogers tried with a pole to kill the snake. The pole struck a limb, when the snake threw the squirrel from Its mouth and jumped at Mr. Rogers, a distance of eight feet. A second stroke killed tne snake as it was preparing for another leap. Oraaahopper InTmafoae. The iiossibillty of earring on success ful weather predictions for the Medit erranean and its shores is discussed by Uelluanu, who shows that probably a greater efficiency cau be obtained than in Western Europe; : He calls attention to the possibility 6f predicting the in vasions , of grasshoppers or locusts, which, leaving the Sahara In the Spring with southwest winds, are car ried over Algeria and Egypt, and do more damage than the severest storms. A similar duty lias been urged by Dr. Packard and others upon our Signal Service; and in this connection it may be well to call attention to a theoretical explanation of the grasshopper migra tions whichhas been lately proposed by Abbe, and which is said to explain most ot the phenomena that have been observed. According to this meteoro logist, the grasshopper is an insect at home and comfortable only in a rather dry atmosphere, and possibly a dimin ished atmosiherie pressure; air that is either too dry or too moist is equally liable to make the insect uncomfortable, and iu either cae he seeks relief in flight, not knowing whither he shall go. .Now the very dry wiuds are the westerly winds, that bear him rapidly eastward to thb Missouri and Mississip pi valleys. The very moist winds are the south and southeast winds of the Mississippi Valley, that beat him or his progency in the next year back to his original breeding grounds. It will be curious to show whether this hypo thesis holds good for the African as well as for the American insect. The Shaken. An old broom. Waring the label "Manufactered by the United Society called Shakers," has sweepingqualities. It takes us over the blue hills of Eastern Xew York to Lebanon Springs and Shaker Village. In this charming val ley a quiet village lies nestled; close to the railway station a girl's boarding school, a church, a village store and post-ollice,aud a factory where tinctures of all sorts were prepared from herbs uios'ly arnica, one would judge from the smell in passing up the hillside to the shaker settlement. In this vallevj Mother Ann, the founder of the Shak ers, wandered about something morel than a hundred years; and here Samuel J. Tilden was born, and his brothers still live aud distil herbs, and their tinctures can be found iu every drug store in the country. Along this shady road have traveled many men whose names are as familiar as household words. Horace Greely, Edwin M. Stanton and many others no less famous have lsited this place to satisfy their curiosity, but no one of them probably was as much as llepworth Dixon, whose pen planted in the hedge delicious fruit trees, some of them just outride, for the passers-by to help themselves, and thus infer that the "children of light were much wiser in their generation" than other folks. A very pleasant theory. and reads well in a book, but the fact is, there is not a hedge in the Shaker settlement. It is well to mention right here that these visits are made almost solely on account of Elder Evans, an Englishman, who is the head of one of the families. He has visited England two or three times and delivered lect ures there a sort of missionary in the cause and also frequently visits New York and Brooklyn, spreading the gospel of what they are pleased to call the "resurrection life." He is now about seventy, and since, he has been a member of the co.nniunity has neither eaten meat, drank tea or coffee, or any thing stronger thau water or milk. Sugar, cream, fruit and bread are the wholesome articles of food that he claims have given him health, strength and long life. Through his influence aud example almost all the members of the community live in the same mann er, and sickiivss is almost unknown. Elder Evans being the leading spirit, visiters are usually entertained in ills "family." A description of one "fam ily" is that of all, and the "family" life at the parent settlement is the same in its general features as that at the other Shaker villages, one ot which is in the neighborhood of this city, the "brethren" and "sisters" of this village being often seen on our streets. Each family contains everything complete (or living within itself. The property is held in common, and an elder and elderess coutrol everything in the fam ily, being in fact the father and moth er, the others being but children, who receive their board and clothes and in structions from the heads of the family. All are celibates, holding this as the cornerstone of their belief. All are Spiritualists, and have been since the foundation of the society, although there are many differences between them and the Spiritualists In general. They claim that Christ was but a man : that the "Christ-like spirit" descended upon him, as it will upon all who live as they live. Labor, they say, is wor ship, and men and woman are tip and hard at work with the sun, and lie down and sleep with it, except when they hare their regular evening meet ings, occuring onco or twice each week in a ball set apart in one of the bouses for this purpose. The man labor on the farm and in the gardens in the Spring, summer and fall, and in winter make brooms, pacK seeds, make anu mend booU and shoes, cut wood and attend to their stock. The woman spin, weave, make clothes and mend, wash, iron, cook, make beds, clean house, a never-ending rouud of duties for men and women. Their only recration ap pears to be In their meetings, at which all appear in clean linen and smoothly combed hair, the men having their hail "banged" acd the women wearing close caps with a white, pointed cape over their shoulders. The men march into the ball on meeting night in single file at one door, and the women at another, forming In rows, facing each other in the middle of the floor. A few remarks made by the elder and elderess, the substance of which ia that they have labored all da, and that "labor Is wor- ' snip." TL611 two' or three women com. mence singing, the others marching in a circle while the singers remain sta tionary in the middle of the floor, those marching liftiug up and dropping their hands, in a monotonous sort of way... When the singing stops the ma chinery is brought to a stand, all facing each other as before. Theu commeuces a sort of "experience meeting," any one of the brethren or sisters talk ing, as the spirit dictates. Brooklyn Argus. Aw Old-Faahlonrd Klection." Election day in Salem, sixty years ago, was a carnival of four days. Key, author of" 1 he Star-Spangled Banner," while a prisoner on board an English corvette, did not more anxiously look up to the flag at Fort McIIenry, sigh ing, " Does that flag still wave?" than we looked south on election day morn to see if that flag waved over Mr. Col lins Ingalls' election-house, In I.each Street, South Salem. Armed with fourpenee-ha' penny, we juveniles from six to nine resorted to that fam ous, and I must say, for all that 1 saw, well-ordered election-house. The large parlor, which still remains, was de voted to dancing. ' In one corner of the room was a circular bar, at which I never saw any strong liquors sold, but. as often as a prudent disbursement of my six and one-fourth cents would al low, went up, and from the fair hand of a winning young lady received in exchange for one cent a wine-glass full of egg-pop, the flavor of which waters my mouth to this day. The dancing commenced at an earlv hour iu the af ternoon, and was kept up till, well I grew weary, went home to bed that long summer day before sunset; and that's all 1 know about it. The dancing was principally done by sailors in their short blue jackets and duck trowsers. There were two girls one rather dumpish, the other tall, slender pretty and graceful who did the ladies' part all through the day. 'Those who dance must pay the tid dler" was the maxim of practical im port; for, at the end of each dance, the sailors walked up to the white-headed negro fiddler in the corner of the room and placed fourpence-ha'penny in his hand, at which he bowed, drew his bow and prepared for the next set. The dancing consisted of that active, sailor-like kicking of the heels opposite his female partner, the feet separating them, nor did I notice any meretricious smirking on the part of the latter; on the contrary, their dull, downcast feat ures might have done honor to an in quiry meeting. At the trial of a girl brought from a north-end dance hall of that city, that sensible magistrate, Chief-Justice John W. Bacon, of the Municipal Court, now of the Supreme Court, catechized the girl, who said dancing was her occupation ; by that she got her living; at which the Chief- Justice discharged her, saying a girl had a right to get her living by danc ing. Now, the girls above referred to danced for the eiuolumeut. They no doubt were hired for the purpose and no smirk or lasciviousness met the gaze of the ever-changing gallant salt-water partners. They danced with spirit op posite their partners, four only consti tuting the quartet; and you may be sure that if any of the modern cloe- quarters methods, called polka, schot- tische or waltz, had been attempted, we young critics who eyed them hour after hour from the side benches would have retired in disgust. You may ask what became of these dancing-girls. They were from the neighborhood of High Street, and at other times and afterwards fol lowed diligently their week-day occu pations. Oue of them 1 heard of years afterwards as a valued domestic in one of the best-ordered families in Salem. These gaieties, with others such as ten pins, now monopolized by summer va cation clergymen, lasted from Wednes day morning till Saturday noon, when we watched the constable of the tow n march up what is now Lalayette street, with his staff, the badge of liberty in his hand, aud, presto! the flag of liberty was lowered at twelve o'clock noon, and preparation made for the New England sabbath. Vagaries ef Wild Aaimaia at Sea. It is a fact perhaps uot widely known that most of the w ild animals procured for the menageries and zoological gsr- dens of Europe and America are brought from Africa maiuly through Jorth Germany. It seems they are collected in Africa, (mainly cubs) brought to Trieste, and then to North Germany, and from there are distributed to the countries where they are needed. It thus happens that the North German steamers frequently carry these ani mals to the United States ; and it is in teresting to hear about their habits on shipboard. The lions, tigers and hye nas are great cowards in a storm. They also suffer a great deal from sea-sick ness, aud whine about it. The elephant has little to say when he is sea-sick, but he looks " unutterable things." It has been described by Charles Reade bow the sagacious elephant, in storms at sea, saves himself from being washed off the deck by throwing himself on his belly, with all his four legs and trunk spread out with suction power upon the plank. Captain Neynabar, being interrogated upon this point, remarked with a wink not to believe all that we saw in print. He said that no ship master would undertake to carry a loose elephant on deck. A loose ele phant tumbling about in a gale would be more dangerous object than the loose gun told of by Victor Hugo. The ele phant, and all the other wild animals transported by steamer, are confined in the strongest kind of boxes, and the boxes themselves are secured in the firmest manner. The horse, It appears, is the most nervous and sensitive ani mal that goes to sea, and a hen shows the most utter disgust with life when sea-ick. It cost the English government $50,000 a year to repair the damage to Insalarors and telegraph wire by itonev throwlng boy. Florida la Summer. Florida ought to be a summer para dize for srtsiiieii. But there are drawbacks. The air is black with mos quitoes, aud swarms of sandflies annoy the hunter. Jiggers are not unknown. Ticks of all sizes and colors, and Sedi tions of red bugs bnrrow in a man's flesh. Scorpions visit his tent, ai.d venomous snakes may lie in wait for him. No exaggeration can equal the truth about the mosquitoes. Natives assure us they have raised their guns to shoot, and the barrels and sight were covered before they could get aim. At Turtle Mound I have landed and seen mosquitoes rise like a cloud aud approach me. In ten seconds my clohes were so covered that my com panion could not distinguish the color. Dogs spend hours lying on the barely covered sand bars with nothing but their noses above water. They have been known to run round a cabin all night long to clear themselves from the annoying insects. Horses on the sea coast are so pestered that they fre quently break loose and run into the piney woods for miles w ithout stopping Cattle cluster together at night for mu tual protection, and those on the out side light till broad daylight in their efforts to obtain a central position. Poultry fly from the roost in the morn ing with combs, legs and toes as white as the riven snow. The insects draw the blood from them at night. Families have been driven nearly to insanity. The bars are made of unbleached cot ton cloth, and there can be no ventila tion. Iu close nights it re impossible to sleep under them, and the victim would rather run the risk with the mosquitoes than smother. In some cases bars within bars are used, for the insects are so thick that millions steal in while the persecuted man is crawl ing to cover. Nor is this all. Fleas, horseflies and deerflies annoy the hun ter. The soil seems to be composed of fleas, and the air seems to be made of insects. There are thousands that do not sting and hundreds not mentioned that do. Of course there are days when a strong wind gives the sports man comparative freedom from these annoyances. And at such times, if he can wait fcr them, he will find such port as in his hours of sleep he never dreamed of. Why the Benedict Family Did ut (to to the fonnn. The whole family had planned to go. Even little Annita had beeu promised to be sllowed to go, with the strict un derstanding that she was tositttill.and hold up her head and not go to sleep. Of course she could do all this, and she meant to show them, so she just sat down in her own little chair, and sat perfectly still forfive seconds. "There." sne said, jumping np again. ;'Can't I, can't I? I guess I've had a birfday, and I'm not a baby at all !" Btt Annita did not go to the concert, nor any of the family. I think they would have gone If Annita had not made mud pies that afternoon, or if they had not used silver-plaited knives altogether for the table, or if they had uot had straw-berries for tea. You see, Annita could not be cured of making mud pies. "Time will cure her," said her father contentedly.hnnt ing for a decently clean spot on Anni ta's face to kiss. One does not like to kiss dirt, even on the faceof one's ow n child. But Annita's mother and sis ters w ere not satisfied to wait for the time cure, thinking of the washing and the dirty face aud hands. Above all. thinking of the carving knife. That was the greatest trouble. Four mud pies cannot be made w ithout a knife to dig dirt with, and AnniU never re turned the knives she borrowed. So one after another of the kitchen knives went out to the mud pie bakery, and uever came in again. At last there w as left only the carving kuife.and the plated table knives, which could not be borrowed, being wisely kept on the top shelf of the china closet, a region An nita had never been able to explore. Tea was ready at six o'clock, all ex cepv cutting the bread, the cheese, and some cold ham. Then the carving knite could not be found, and Florence Benedict, who had been preparing ta went out to look for it. The bakery had been moved, and so, evidentiy, had the k'tife, for it was nowhere to be seen. Then Annita had to be found, of course. She was under the large fir in the front yard, dressing a dolly. 'Where is the carving knife, Anni ta ?" asked Florence. ''I know w here it is," said Annita, without looking up. "Well, where?" said Florence. 'Tell me quick, dear." "Vell it's only a little kind o' lost Florence," said Annita, gravely. "It is up In the garret or down In the cel lar, or else out by the barn, or else in the front yard or the back one, or or ahind the wood pile." "Good gracious! Annita, do you supDose I can go to all those places in a hurry, and tea wailing. Come and help me to find It." "But I'm 'fraid Charlotte Henrietta will be spoiled if I leave her." "Oh, that old doll, without any head or legs or arms, no she won't dear. Come along and help me," said Flor ence. Annita slowly left her play and be gan to look for the kn We with Florence Just then Hattie came out to ask why tea wag not served, but seeing her sis ters hunting she also joined in the search at once. A fe7 minutes later, Johnny, being hungry, came out to help the girls. When Mrs. Benedict saw them all wandering about through the shru'ibery, looking intently at tne grasstshe knew immediately what had happened, so she came out and began to look too. Sam and Henry came along just then and as these family promenades in search of the carving knife had often been taken before, they knew just what was wanted, and also that they could have no tea until the knife was found. So they joined in the search, though I do not think their help would ever bay found anything, for Sam bad new boots and had to look at them most of the time, aud Henry, whose name was William Henry Harrison, and who was to be a celebrity, turned round and round in the garden walk and scratched his head. That was the way he al ways hunted his hat. It was not long before Mr. Benedict came iu through the front gate bring ing with him some boxes of strawber ries for tea. These he put down on the piazza, iii order to help the rest to hnd the knife. Of course every body looked in the same spot. Annitaand Florence went out to a bare spot on the north side of the house where the bakery was generally located, hunted care fully, but the knife was not to be seen. Then Mrs. Benedict, knowing how carelessly the children always looked, followed them. Mr. Benedict could not think of any place else to look, so be followed his wife. Then Sam and Henry, thinking there must be some reason for everybody looking there, came and looked to. So it happened that the whole family began to follow each other in a circle, hunting over the same places. At seven o'clock Mr. Benedict looked at his w atch. "It is now too dark to find the knife without a lantern, and ours we lent to Uncle Job last week." "Then let us go in to supper," said Mrs. Benedict. "To tea.mamma,"sug gested Hattie. "You know there is nothing to eat but tea and sugar and milk." 'And butter," said Johnny, who was never known to forget the butter. "There are also some straw berries on the front piazza," said Mr. Benedict. "Hattie and Florence, you will have to hull them first," said their mother. The family sat dow n in the dining- room, w here Mrs. Benedict bad lighted a lamp, to await the straw berries. It was a large family, ami Mr. Benedict had provided four boxes. Of course it took the girls a great w hile to hull so many straw berries. At nine o'clock the family sat down to tea, and ten o'clock when they rose from the table. Mr. Benedict looked at his watch and said "I think we will not go to the con cert this evening. Annita is already asleep, and as the tea things are to be cared for. it might be too late when all were ready." The next morning when Johnny went to the pasture after the cow, he found one of Annita's dolls, very stiff looking, standing up straight in the ground near the pasture bars. It had a smooth. Ivory face, without eyes,nose or mouth. On taking ofl its clothes it proved to be the carving knife. "I tohl you 'tw as only a little kind o' lost," said Annita. A Wily Washington Lawyer. There is in Washington a lawyer of some prominence whose chief charact eristics are an overpowering pomposity of manner, and a dislike to paying his debts. The other day a couple l cli ents from out of tow n were sitting iu hisoffice, and Mr. D was consulting with them in regard to a suit in w hich they were parties, then yending before Judge Carter. A young man came in to the room, and taking from his pock et a bill file, handed Mr. D aslipof paper. But the crafty lawyer motion ed him away with a dignified wave of the hand, saying, "Young man, you see 1 am engaged. Dou't Interrupt me now. J he young man noweil politely and retired. I'retty soon another came in and. stepping cIoe to the lawyer, said in a low tone, "You told me to call again this morning. Judge, and you'd settle that" "Oh! yes, yes. 1 forgot; but you will have to call again. I am very much engaged at present," and, with a profound bow, Mr. D escorted the collector to the door. Not long after the door opened again, and the lawyer, evidently recognizing the person who was about to enter, steped towards him, saying, "I am privately engaged, sir, just at present; vou had better call again in a week or So." The lawyer then, with a motion of impatience, locked the door and return ed to his seat, remarking, as he sat down, "People here in Washington think I've got some influence, aud they are always calling on me to sign their petitions. The UMnKk Indians. The Bunnock, or Miake Indians, who are committing acts of hostility iu south-eastern Idaho are scarcely worthy of the name of a tribe. There are nu merous bands, from ten to fifty in number, wandering through the coun try, and subsisting upon roots and ber ries, and fish. It is estimated that not more than live hundred are fighting men, and they have but few horses, and are far inferior in many respects to the Xez I'erces and the Sioux. The Catna prairies, the scene of the recent opera tions, is a valley, or series of valleys, watered by several little brooks, which run from the Salmon river mountains in a southerly direction and form the Malade river. The Malade. so called by the pioneer French Trappers on ac count of the supposed unhealthiness of the locality, is a sluggish stream for about seventy miles of its course. Then it turns abruptly from east to south, running throu jb lava beds a part of the time under ground, and, increased in volume by the waters of the McArthur river rushes in a torrent to the Snake river a branch of the Columbia. The Camas prairies are a fine agricultural region of about 1,500 square miles, wall. ed on the north by the wild and rugged Salmon river mountains, and hemmed in on the east, south and west by al most impregnable lava beds. Such are the Indians who, having no choice be tween death from starvation ard fight ing, have chosen to fight, aud such Is the region In which the petty warfare is carried on. Near Fort Osborne, Manitoba, is a dwelling-house sheeted and roofed with tin obtained from old oyster and fruit can. All the Joint are perlcct, and to house la water-proof. Aaeedotea af Watches. Sixty years ago, Jock Gibson, a far mer's son, t dd his old father that be must have a watch. "Aweel, Jock, there's my grandfather's he wore at Drumclog, I'se gi'e ye't," and so Jook was infeft la the auld heirloom. For a few days Jock's attention was centered on his new acquisition to the exclusion of every other thing x;ep; his parritch. His joys were short-lived. One after noon the ticker cease 1 to beat, so Jock unyoked his team, and after putting up his horses, went off to the clachan to consult William I , the horologist. On reaching the watchmaker's, sweat ing, and excited like, he shouted out. "Neebour, ye maun leuk my watch." "What's wrong with your watch, John?" said the mechanician. "Idinna ken ," said the clod hopper ; "she stopped this afternoon, au' when I leukit inside o' the crayther I saw a hair, sae I pu'd it oot wi' my teeth." "A hair, ye gawke! Ye ha'e torn away the hair spring of your watch and spoiled it." 'Guid sauls!'' said Jock, "my father wull be mad, but I'll no tell 'im." Shortly alter that event a number of farmer's sons and farm servants made a run on Mr. I for new watches, so that, in a short time he bad orders for about a dozen, which were anxionsly waited for by the youths referred to. Among the purchasers was Bob, Cie niuler, but within two weeks he was sadly disappointed with his bargain, and wi.hed in vain lor his old one, which was given in exchange, as part payment for the new one. Oiw fore noon, when he pulled bis massive verti cal from his fob, she was silent, and Bob was crestfallen, not having any knowl edge of the complicated machinery that constituted a watch. When nlghtcame, Bob was off to the clachan, brimful of wrath at having been taken in by the watchmaker. After the ordinary saiu- tations were exchanged, Mr. 1 said, "Well how is your new watch pleasing you ?" No, ava, slie'e ta'en some tira vee and stoppit a'thegither." Taking the offered watch in his hand, the watchmaker opened the cases, and in answer to "What's wrang wi't?" said, while a twinkle shone in bis eye, aud a laugh played over his countenanca "Not very much wrong, Robin, but your watch is the fourth of the new lot brought back this week." An' can ye repair't?" said the owner. "O, yes," said the watchmaker, "you can repair it yourself." "Hoo can I dae that?" queried astonished Robin. "Just as I have done frtqueiitly ; take the key and wind it up." A few years ago, L B a mason's waiter, residing in C , purchased a watch from Mr. S . whoe proMty aud straightfor ward manner of deaiitig were proverbi al. 1'roud of his purchase, old L took a pride in showing his watch to every one he met, but was sadly crest w hen a wag among the masons said, 'Your watch is pretty good at the price but I did not think S would have put that watch in your hand." The ambiguity of this speech roused L 's suspicion ; he insisted on knowing M ' opinion as to what ailed the watch. Showing a marked reticence on the subject augmented L 'ssuspiciou that something was wrong, and he pressed the matter so that M said. Weel. she's a guid watch, an' worth a the siller, but " "But what? Come oot wi't." "Weel, tae tell ve the truth. she's julst twa days ahiut the ricbt time." O, the rasetl ," shouted h . Waking up Uie ltahy. Just at dusk the other dismal day three children the eldest of whom did not seem to be over ten years old, were huddled together on the ricketty steps of an old house on Beaubien street. A pedestrian peeped over their heads to read the number on the door, and the children looked so frightened that he asked : "Children where are your father and mother?" "Father's been gone off for ever so long, and mother goes out to wash and hasn't got home yet," answered the oldest, a girl. "And are you all a!one?" "Yes, sir, but the baby is on the bed. He's been asleep an awful long time aud we can't wake him up. If we could we'd play hide and seek and let him find us." "Is the baby sick ?" asked the man. "We don't kuow, sir, but -.ve can't wake hi in up; I touched him and touch ed him, and Charlie he tickled his feet. but little Sandy never moved once. I guess he is awful sleepy. Dou't you think you could wake him up?" "I'll fy," replied the man as he went in, and when the girl had lighted the lamp he followed her into a bed room in which there was neither car pet nor furniture. Pushed bick against the wall was a poor old straw tick and a single quilt. He bent over to look at the child, and the first glance showed him that little Sandy was dead. 0:i the window-sill were some pieces of bread and a cup of milk which the children intended to feed to him. The dead child's hand clasped a rag doll made of an old calico apron, and its fhin l.ttle feet and pale face were evidences that it had known sickness and hunger throughout its brief life. While the c'dldren waited for him to open his eyes and romp with them and drive the gloom out of the house, the angels had whispered to him and his eyes had un closed to behold the splendors of Heaven. "Won't he wake up?" asked one of the children, standing back In the shadow. "Children, you must not come in here till your mother comes !" he said as h left the room. "Won't he be afraid to wake np In the dark ?" they asked. "He will sleep for a long time yet," he whispered, not daring to tell them the truth, and as he went out they put the light on the bed-room floor, that little bandy might not find the darkness around him when his sleep had ended. Poor things I They knew not and they could not see the crown f glory on the dead child' brow a crown whose light all the shadow of the carta can. 1 never darken in the least. at ft :!i
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