B, F. SCHWEIER, THE 005STmm05-TEE USI05-AID THE DUOBOEMEIT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXIV. MIFFIJXTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA., WEDNESDAY, MAKCII 17, 1SS0. NO. 1-2. H. T. HELMBOLD'S COMPOUND FLUID EXTRACT BUCHU PQABMACEUTICAIa. A SPECIFIC REMEDY FOR ALL DISEASES OF TH1 For DcVtlltv, Lota of Memory. Indisposi tion tn Exertion or Bu. loess, Shortness of flr.-utn.TTOtihled wi(t Thoughts of Disease, l1iuiie4s of Vision. Palo in the Back. Chest, su.l iinad. Rnsti of Blond to the Head, Pal Countenance, and Dry Skin. l! UeM symptoms are allowed to go on, -iv frequentlv Epileptic Flu and Con. urn ption follow. When the constitution ImioiH afrected It requires the aid of an Invigorating medicine to strengthen ana time up the system which "Helmbold's Buchu" DOES IN EVERY CASE. H IS TJNEQTJAIXD Kv nny remedy known. It U prescribed by ti,V D.mt eminent pliyslclana ail over tbe world, in Rheumatism. 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In, ihe same attention aa by calling, By answering the following questional . ,a n.nie end iMxoffloe address, eoantv and state, and your nearest express Offioa T t Tour ae and sex t X Ocon nation f ! Hebjht, weight, now and 1- health f . How fong bave you been slckt ? vnnrAnmniexion.eolorof hair ana eyesv 8. Have you a stooping or erect gaiti 4t Ktfl&te wunou. all yea T. uont vour ease, inclose on. Z..tultMtlon fee. Tour letter wm JetSie our attention ; d w. wUl fUd aha nature of yonr d'sease and our eannia oplalon eoncernlrur a curs. d DLpensatoiT. W Flbert (Wlpfaia, Pa. treat, Folia B. X. WtlMBOLD, DruggM and Casmlst, FhUadalpbla, Tm OhD IT1ITWSMH EMKRlNIg. Silver aud gold, ailver and gold: For the son's doak red in the western fold le.ie that the end of a day draws niKh, And the clouds theT grow bolder aloue the W . fc - wiuci iuug tuesay. , Silver an J golu, ailver and gold ! For the n.oon in the East is a queen to Ubo'd, j As she reigns with her spells o'er the calm, ; . ,, SWrtlht' i Holding treniu.ou. sceptre where ghost, walk I wane. Kilter new-molten meets ebbing of gold. Cn a wandering isle without a foothold; A vessel alone on the lonely seas. Stirred wit'i the eigu of the fanciful breeze. Moonbeam and sunbeams, ailver and gold! And they toyed with the bark as abe idly roll.d On the silent waters thst shadowy grew. And the night-gloom fell, and the stars stole through, Silver and gold, ai'ver and gold And the sun that ts wasted in cloudiand cold 1 brows a purple pall o'er a woman's face. v h-re death s colorless fingers are smoothing j pain s traoo. j Moonbeams and sunbeams, silver and gold The younj is come in place of the old, A seal set on lips that have said their last . , Wr . . . . And lips that ne er opened before are stirred. I lights of earth, light or heaven, shower ailver j and geld. i Come abaard, the great ship is a traveler bold: I Twdight and moonUsht, in soft mantis hide.- j One that Tauiahes silentlr o'er the shin side. r SJver and golJ, ailver and gol J The s in is lost in tbe wide sea-wold. The va 1 falls over the mother's head. On a Journer new ia the traveler sped. Silver and gold, ailver and gold Ihe waves, aa if tells by tbe star rajs knolled- King of death, and of ghosts that dance all in white. Aud tbe babe's cry breaks on tbe calm, sweet Li-bt Moonb ama and snubeams, silver and gold; A life is hid Jen, a life doth nnfcld: One gceih hence to a brightness af.r. One hath found tbe way here by the light of a star. IIow He Learnt His Lesson. Oh, what have 1 done ! What have 1 ; done !" exclaimed Nellie, under her breath, as sad and dismayed she hurried up the garden path, me anv more. "He will never be kind to 1 How could I have said such ! a thing:" And her hands trembled so that she could l .1 - , . l ... .t. 1.1 V 1 . ... n.l scarce., uiiue tatcu o. tue o,u . - , uoor, anil sneiurneu aay to quiet ueu-ii a little liefore going in. x- . 1 .L- .1.1:.... ..1.1 B .... . , , i farm-house, which had been her home for: ' , nook and corner that it contained was dear j to h -r. ! "I have it, and all in it, left to me," she j said, in a soft, sad tone; "and dear father and mother, too. A happy, happy home it j has always been, and I am thankfnl for it ! j But, oh, Edward, how could you le vi un-) kin-l ? OIi. how could you ?" Stic li-rtcnetl, fancying she count bear his j departing footsteps yet. And perhaps sue , might h:ive done so. With lofty looks ami disdainful curve "f hisnther thin lips he was on his way home along the winding lain-". He was a man of nve and thirty, while Nellie was I 4carcelv twenty. She was simple and in ... t.:i.l. l...t I,., hit, I h'urnl msnv a 7." ,,.rr Z M mlteMMtiM love for her filiii-g his l.-in in the school of life ere thi. Anil , one lesson which Edward .Melville prided ; liimu-lf on havinir learnt was the value ot noiiey. He was Iwchelor, and so he aiatie up ms nunu iie.uu ieu.... . i i i t ,.,.f.l I.a : could find a woman with money who would j lhis wife. He himself was a country, loctor, antl, with a very ualL aud not in- creasing iraclice, n wouiu ucu u marry and have nothing but that to depend upon, he told himself. He had generally escorted Nellie to her own do., after their evening walks, 'ut this evening he bad left her just outside the cate. Ho was her aunt s step son. She- had known him all her young life, and had alwavs called him Cousin Edward, all un suspicious of the feeling which was gradu ally gathering strength within her heart, till this evening. And Edward, lor lus pan, had always treated her as a mere chihL "You wdl go to meet Miss Basset, I sup pose, Nellie?' inquired her mother. Oh, res, mother. Edward was good enough to say that he would drive n u to the station in his carnage, and lie win unve us both home, too. He says that a rich young lady like Mi3 Basset will not care to walk a mile along our lovely lanes, he is re." Perhaps there was the slightest under tone of sarcasm in Nellie s voice, tor ner mother glanced at her as if in surprise with out reply irg. Edward had given Nellie, bit by Ml, and with a good deal of tact, his ideas upon the subject of money, and of the com fort to be got from a projier use of it. Outwardly the two were as good friends as ever. At heart, however, he was carefully on his guard, while Nellie, tender and gen- tle-natured though she was, could not help slightly despising him. Miss Basset was an old schoolmate of Nellie's and an heiress, and she had taken a fancy to spend the remainder of the sum- merin the old tumble-down' farm house which Nellie called home. Edward was very attentive, even speci - ally kind to Nellie on the way to the sta tion, and her heart went out to him again. "If only I had not said that to him, "she thought, as the carriage stopped, and he carefully lifted her out "I hope oh! I do hope that he may forjet it." The train steamed in. There was pret ty Grade Basset's face at a parlor-car win dow; and In a few moments she was seated in the carriage beside Edward, chatting to I and laughing with bim as if she had known him for years; and Nellie had taken the seat behind. And that was not the only drive they had, nor the only evening they spent in chatting and laughing. Nellie, her father and mother all three, and many of the neighbors besides, soon saw what it would come to. And Nellie : grew older and graver day by day. But as yet she kept her own secret, and she hoped j more and more that Edward had forgotten I.... r,.l:.,l. ,1 l. !...-:, -.lt - ..Pt.in i- , . , i. mooulight night, now some seven or eight weeks ago. At last the eugsgeinent was announced. Grade Basset had no frit-nils to interfere with her, and flattered with Edward's at- ,,,iini ,ni, r,.Hr ,,,-,-:- tw Jie W. ! ed him 'quite enough for happiness," she j bad agreed that the marriage should take ; place as soon as all needful arrangements v could lte made. The wedding was over. The honeymoon was over also, and Mrs. Melville, richly dressed, and looking very lovely, with Ed ward as an attentive and devoted husltand beside her, was receiving her guests. N.-Hic was among them. She was paler i than usual, and her free, happy, girlish t limgh was gone for ever. Yet she, too, ' looked lovely this afternoon, in her pretty blue silk dress and cottage bonnet, and w.w a jjmy jn the expression of her gentle young face that went far beyond tiny mere beauty of feature. ()nly a few weeks passed. Nellie was invited to dine with them. After dinner , , ., , . they were moving about the drawing-room, and Grade was exhibiting to Neliie some choice bouquets of flowers which had been g,.nt to i10r that morning. They had all ,K0 on one table, in accordance ... ,. ... ;r .1, with a whim of the young wife, who dc- ! clared that the the effect of their richness I and color was lost when they were scattcr ird. ' Hut Edward had not heard her say this, j "Let me put this blue vase here, Oracie," j he unwittingly began, removing it, as he i spoke, to another table. There; it shows to advantage now !" j Grade, with heightened color, deliber i ately walked to the table, and put the vase in its former position. "It is quite out of the way there;" she aid stiffly, "and this is where I wish it to be Edward." flow great a matter a little fire kind- lcth!" Ed ward's color also rose, yet he 'did not look anry. "And I wish that it should stand here," he returned, once more taking up the vase; ,)e lmlf halI i playfully, "You promised to obey me. Grade. ' i i uij tiroveo to tie ouiv tue iiemuuiug " nali aiscon.fu auJ disagreements. Many months passed. Gracie grew more imperious than ever; Edward's lace lost all hf aaa he n,, av iiy day to its bright iiess, and he seei 'grow.oM, silent and sad. i Aud when Nellie went to si.e them she found except Gracie expected visitors , .i-,.i -.t.i. i..if r.. she took very httle pains with uerscli, rtt- m:u-king sometimes lo Nellie as they went downfall s for the cveains. "1 bave not tlresued, Nellie. Ot course, you don't miniL and there nnliody but Edward. ' Nolnidy but Edward ! Ive would have made him all the world ti Nellie. "I would wear my prettiest dresses for my husband, Grade,"' she faith "As for jollier people, they might go. Vhat should j I care f ir them?' But Gracie, ou'y frowned tor reply. ; Gracie had a little daughter, but instead of rejoicing in Edwards's house, there was I'iiter sorrow, and as the young husband km '.t Itr thclxtlsideof his unconscious wife hesrt onee iiKrt-e. But what will even the tendercst love l avail in hours like these t Grade's last mo- menls's were numbered, and she passed , , , j hhe of it nownU . , , 1 Eighteen months passed awav. A man , - . j , f:irnilftlIl, . little to.,.mn,, crea- ,nre rin down thl, pR,h, her fair curls flyir.g ! .q toob htT , hig arms. "What is your name, little one?" And in a baby-voice she told him, "Gra de Melville,' and he covered her little face and hair with kisses. But who is this coming out to look for her! "Aunt Nellie," she said and slid down from her father's arms. "Cousin Edward' exclaimed Nellie, gladly, the color rising very rapidly to her usually quiet pale face. 'And he shook hands with her; then keep ing the hand be had taken, he led ber iuto the house. "And will you tell me now, once more. Nellie dearest, that you love me better than any one else in the world ?" Nellie swiftly covered his mouth with hr hand, while burning blushes dyed her cheeks. "Oh, Edward, do please forget that ever said so ! "Not likely," he returned, smilingl'. "Ah. Nellie." and he was serious now, "I have learned my lesson since that evening. I hare learnt to value love, not as it deser ves, but at ieast to set it above everything earthly. My Nellie! do not tell tue that woiie 1va f rw- ma to Art ? J nu sveav a ' a in. Bu uweu I Never mind Nellie's reolv. Two months j tUat day 6he became Edward's wife, j and he never had the smallest need to re- : ruind her that she had promised to obey him, simply because she loved him, and to . do as he wished was a pleasure. And having at great risk and cost learn ed bis lesson, Edward strove to teach it lo others, and to more than one young man he gave in confidence the advice: "If you wish to be happy, mar.-y only a woman that loves you. Neither money, nor posi tion, nor anything else, can bear the least comparison with love, which vill outlive them all." Bras as a food has not been fally ap. Dreciated. The laxative tendency does not produce any unsatisfactory results, provided the bran is fed as it should be. A sllgnt laxative conaiuon oi me uuw els Is better than tbe constipation that a lack of such food produces. Besides, the bran U rich In phosphates, so es sential te the development of healthy stock. The Awful Majesty of the Law. One ol the ouiciais 01 justice Aiiey, ot ( iktm i w tle other rtav railed unon I)V - i.i t. i..i t , ..i .;r together with a neighbor, and outside the 1 civUization. Just think of it. There door they hitched an old half-blind horse is not a road in all of the broad expense of whose cash value was reckoned at $25. ; pop"!"" here heellarrow "You sec," explained the old far.uer j could 1 dnven c a borre led except ar-aind "navbur Jones wants to buy the old boss , Shanghai, and here the English have con out there, but he wants s bill o sale signed j ructed them. They have no cemeteries bv wife and I. We want vou to tlraw up ; o tou.Uoi.fS mark and honor their last one for us.' ! resting places on earth. Those who own The Justice reached down one of the ; private ; gardens bury theirdeatt and those printed blanks, filled it out, and then said: I of their friends therein. Those w ho have "Vow vou listen while I read this over ! " gardens or plots of ground lay the bodies and see if it is all right. All ready now: Know all men by these presents. That "Presents! Why, I'm not going to pre seut him with that hosa!" interrupted the fanner. "And we don't want any prejent from him:" added the wife. "That's all right only a legal form," exclaimed his Honor. Listen: "County Wayne first part con- sideralion sura of $'25 grant bar gain and sell party second part-i his executors, administrators ." "I haven't got any executors or adminis. trators!" interrupted neighbor Jones. "No; all he's got is a wife and two girls" " added the owner of the horse.' "All form all mere form," explained the justice, and he went on: "And assigns forever covenant and agiee defend the same heirs, execu tors and administrators " "William, I shall never sign no such paper:" suddenly exclaimed the wife as she rose np. "Nor I, either:" stoutly replied the hus band. "Why, I'd shake in my boots every time I met a constable"' "It is all mere form and according to law," explained bis Uoncr. "All bills of sale read this way." "Looks to me as if it was sort o' tangled up," said neighbor Jones. "The old boss is blind in one eye, and how can they war rant him?'' "And what has this boss-sale got to do with his heirs and covenants?" inquired the old man, I won t sign I won't have a thing to do with it!" exclaimed the wife, as she walked around. "We've always kept clear of tbe law, and we ain't going to get into ; no scrape and lose our farm now not if i we know it:" The more the justice tried to explain the bigger the words looked, and thetno finally j walkcd out. While they were unhitching j tl.e horse along came a house-painter, and when he had heard their story he picked up . a piece of paper in the alley, pulled out a : stub of a pencil, and wrote, j "c hereby sell this horse to Jonn Jones for -". cash down. We raised him from j a colt, and bis name is Andrew Jackson. ; "(Signed; The paper was signed, passed over with ! the horse, and as the fanner received the . monev he said: i "That's all there is to it, law or no law, I and it didn't takt two minutes. Why, I'd j have taken Andrew Jackson hack home j vid knocked him in the head afore I'd put mv name to that paper binding us to keep on covenanting and agreeing ai.d assigning and administrating a whole lifetime on one old boss:" ' Are W.toI..M.r.r.ll.r Those who want to see the Horseshoe Falls of Niagara must, I fancy, come out j soon, or they will not be able to form an idea of what it was, for I think it is going to change its form more quickly than it has for a ceiiturv past. Already a great change has taken place in its anptarance. two vears airo the shoe was rent in ''"';"' i twain, and it va-tt rent made in the toe of the cliff over which the great river falls. The con sequence is that instead or dnving straight down s circular wall of water, the course of the column is rudely broken in the mid dle, antl a foaming torrent collapses in a ictl gorge of the cliff, thus splitting the cacadc into two sides of a horseshoe, with a cataiact in the center. Much more mist, too. is produced by the cataract than was formerly occasioned by tlie sheer tall ot toe borsesh.ie, and the view of the falls conse quently obscured. The river might have fallen "for centuries over this solid weir of hardest sdst; but a fissure having been made in nature's masonry, it is not un likely that the river will continue its exca vation, begun near Lake Ontario, ana ao its work more quickly than of late. Now that a breach baa been made in the for tress, it seems certain that the volume of water, acting as s perpetual battering ram on the wall of each side of it, would soon detach ether portions of ti:em, and thus alter the whole fcrra and character of the famous Horschoe Falls. Hanty Burlala. We are glad to see that attention is st last being directed to the baste with which sup posed corpse are being put on ice, ana hurried away to burial There is only one cood that can result from the celerity with which people supjosed to be dead are ice packed; it is, that should they not at me time lie dead, tliey are certainly frozen to death ere the moment of interment. Hor rible as this is, it is much less horrible than being buried alive. It is the general igno rance of people, and not want of proper sensibility, that causes them to comply so readily with the usages of buryinR a body within three days alter death, in mis way, where ice has not been abundantly supplied, people who are believed by their friends to lie dead, but who bear upon them more thau one indication of lurking life, are hur ried to the tomb. We do not call attention to these probabilities from any desire lo awaken a morbid sensation upon the sub ject. We do not take the absurd ground that out of all the people uunea me larger proportion are buned alive. But we do as sert that it is not impossible that a case of cause the revives of the unfortunate crea - tureare too ignorant to detect the subtle r.r . wi,ii,, thl mlTht be reawaken - ? 3 Pis-. At the last opera ball. A young man du tnciflmr mond is seated In a corner ana does not appear much more amused than to pay the expenses of garrisoning ihe pnn does the domino who accompanies him. A dpal cities of AfchanUian. Foster, who boisterous brawler of gigantic height begins to poke fun at the etmuicd couple. tio awav. vou DOtner me, sua tne gentleman, "you are tipsy, go and mindj your own business." 'Tipsy!" screamed the brawler, "0 to grass. Dandy 1 you would not dare to say that to me in the street !" A crowd gathered around. "See here," said the young man, without moving, "you are pretty tall, you believe yourself mighty strong. Very well; there is one thing you can't do "What 1 I'll bet yon a hundred francs I" The young man drew off his boot, then a silk stocking, and rested a white foot on the marble. At this unexpected action the brawler became furiously red, and then tried to es cape in the crowd. ' "Pig!" thundered the young man du meitleur du tnonde, yoa have dirty feet.' And the brawler disappeared, followed . by derisive laughter. The Heathen Chinee at Home. There are some facts in regard to the re- suit of six or seven tnonsanu years oi t-ni- of the dead in rough boxes on the surface of open fields. The Chinese regard the souls of their ancestry as links in the length of a great chain which they say euaules them to reach up to the supreme source of life and ruler tJ the universe. Tills is the reason why these remarkably keen, quick wilted people will uot tolerate the con struction of a railroad in their country. They declare that the locomotives and rattling trams would certainly violate the sacred chann influenced in their behalf by causing the abmpt scared flight of their ancestry who are ever hovering around and over them. They have no banks in China, and no coin of value except our silver and that of Mexico. They have no lawyers, but they have a perfect, rigidly enforced system of law and order. The principals alone can pleaJ their cases. The first sm-ial rank in China can only be attained by literary merit. All Chiuamen can read and write, because education is compulsory. Every man in China is free to complete for a li terary degree, and last year 107,00ti candi dates for this honor were entered at Canton f..r examination. Those of this large munlier who passed muster then are free ag:iin to advance to the higher national grada competition at Pekin. annually held there, and when they pass this ordeal they liecome Mandarins ami live in high estate at the pubiic expense. No military man is erniitted to aspire to these literary honor in China. This annual selections from the whole Chinese people of its rulers, who re presents its best thought and mental power, lias probably been the great and potent fac tor of their remarkable vitality and preser vation as a nation, but at the same time it increases the wonder that they should have stood still on the avenue of human progress for thousands of years. ' This city stands on the Heri River, on the slope of tha Hindoo Koosh, and conse- quentlv in the northwest corner of Afghani- Btan. Due north, at a distance of about 2:J0 miles, is Merv : due east, at a distance of nearly 4oO miles, is Cabul; considerably to the southe-ist, and almost cqui-ttistant from Cabul and Herat, ia tanduliar. ft our readers want a war map which will convey a fair idea of the situation from a strategical and political point of view, let them suppose a capital L mounted on top of a capital V ; Mery will be at the top of the L, Herat at the angle, and Cabul at the horizontal extremity ot the letter, wnue C'aiulahar will be down at the angle of the V. Cabul may be eliminated from the situation, for thouiih there are direct roads between it and Her.it. the route by Maimana to the north of the Hazarch mountains is circuitous and difficult, nnd that tlirotigh the Hazarch country is equally rouudalxMit and more arduims. The mam route, and. ! is kn,w,D" !l,e 0B,- 71 i a large force could be moved from C nbul i, .. . iijmiiah Camlahar. From . , . jitTat ,g uboHt three hundred nules in a direct line; the road, however, is not very direct, and for military purposes the distance may be called 350 miles. Tbe ...... 1 f.. Tj.rir in n.i-l ctruielit . . to iwi ii'nu .'u'J " J be hs than i!.0 miles long; it is a good lw.:.. (.r.n m! ita uvtrt imrt u;)iere it "l- "f ...v- ... . , , crosses the Harat-i-Baba Pass about thirty miles north of Herat, practicable for all arms of the service. It traverses a fertile coun try, and runs for a great part of its length along the valley of the river Kushk. so that supplies and water arc very abundant. Whenever the race for Herat begins, if there is a fair start, the Russians should get down the perpendicular of the I. from Merv before the English can get up the thick side of the V from Candahar. Tbe position occupied by Herat on the high road between India and Persia, the centre spot of an extensive and fertile valley, well watered by channels made from a perennial stream, marks her out as the natural garden and granary of Central Asia It is situated in a plain about 2-HK) feet aliove the sea, and is fortified with mud walls, presenting the form of a square, each side of which is something under a mile in length. The streets are ill-built, narrow and dirty; in deed, the common saving of the place is. "If dirt were to kill, where would we be?"' "Only man is vile" at Herat, however, for nature has done everything l"r tue city and its environs. The climate is the finest in Asia; only two months of the twelve are hot, and even then the mercury rarely rises stove 85 (legs, in the shade. The nights are alwavs cool, often cold. The Ilernts have a proverb, "If the soil of Ispahan, the cool breezes of Herat and the waters of Khwarizin were in the same place there would be no f-ueh thing as death." The waters of the Ilori. Conolly descrilied in 1831 as the best he ever tastid, ami the fruits as the most delicious in flavor. Peo ple enter the gardens and eat at will, being weighed as they pass in and out and charged for the avoirdupois gained; a sim ple system, which that sane wag Nasir Ed din once defied by filling his pockets with pebbles and cnsling out ballast as he took in lading, so as to bring the astonished pro prietor into his debt. The soil is extraor dinarily fertile, and the orclianls, gardens, corn-fields and vineyards stretch to the mountains, fo-.ir miles away on the north and twelve on the south, and along the valley as far as the eye can rcaclu There are exten sive mines of iron and lead, only worked at the surface, and the scimitars of Herat are as famous ia Central Asia as its horses. 1 1 Urgely, and carpets of J wool and silk are manulactured. The 1 other articles of export arc manna, assaf.e- tida, gum, saffron and pistachio nuts. nue of fWooa, and Malleson declares ; that under UriHaii nile ilie income to the j uovemmeni irora tne tnsinci wouiu miner visited Herat in 1 1 b j, aescrinea me ciiy as far surpassing Candahar in the extent of lis maraeis aim mc iuiuuic ui iu uaic Christie, who spent a month there in dis guise in 1810, is as loud as Conolly in his praise of its delightful situation, brisk busi ness and phenomenal fertility. He placed the population at UK), 000; Conolly's esti mate was 45,')00, and the present number of inhabitants is believed to be something under 40,000, though the encyclopaedias call it '"about o0.000." Herat, however, is only a shadow of its old splendid self. Its on gin and early history are unknown or little known. There was a town there be fore Alexander, and the modern City stands on the site of one of the four dties of Arri an'i "Aria" Artakoana, Aria Metropolis, Candace and Sousia Akhala. The Persian chronicles not so very much later speak of Heri, the capital of Aria, as a place of con siderable Importance. In 1 157 the Turco- mans captured and sacked and probably j... it, ... i leqe n.nch UHUVJBU , J, mvm " " Khan took it after a siege of six months, it was a city of 12,o) shops, 850 schools, 144,000 occupied dwellings and 6000 baths, caravanserais and water-mills. Of the In habitants, 1 1)0, 000 are said to bave been slaughtered at this secmd sack. In 13i8, Mirau Sliah, aud in 1147, Jehan Shah, smote it severely, and twice ic the sixteenth century it was attacked by the L'sbecka who were once beaten back alter a siege of eighteen months, and once succeeded in capturing and pillaging the dty. When the Persians soon afterwards toot me city, which thev had always claimed as one of the four royal places ot the Khoraasan, it was "not only the nchest city in t-entrsl Asia, but the resort of the greatest divines, philosophers, poets and historians of the a"?'. African Salutatloae. A very interesting account is given of the ceremonials observed by the Tubu people, Africa, in greeting one another. A most elaborate performance is gone through when two strangers meet in this wild coun try. Each of the performers covers all his face but his eyes with this turban, seizes his spear and throwing-iron (a curious boweriug-like weapon wilh a long project ing prong on the concave margin), and thus prepared, the two approach one an other. At a distance of about six steps from one another they squat on their heels with spear upnght in one hand and iron in the other. The one then asks "How do you do ?" about a dozen times by means ot four diflerent words baving that meaning used alternately, the reply being varied of the use of two words Laha, or Killala. Then one of the two loudly sings tbe word "ihilla," which is returned by the other In a similar tone, ihe word is exchangee again and again, being commenced in a loud high pitched note and gradually run down the scale until it reaches a low baas murmur. When it has become so slow as scarce! v to be heard, on a sudden it is shouted again in high key and the gamut is run through as before. This goes ou a very long while, the perfonnera going through it as a strict matter of ceremony, and taking no interest in one another all the while, but looking round at the horizon or elsewhere during their vocal exertions. After a while vanous forms of the question "How are you ?" and the answer "Well," are introduced ; at last questions or other topics are brought, forwanl. although now and again the "ihilla" bursts out in the midst of them, but the serita of notes in which it is shouted becomes shorter and shorter. At last the ihilla is got rid of al together, and ordinary conversation be comes possible. Strangers do not shake haiida, but acquaintances do. the cover ing of the face when greeting or meeting strangers is considered as a most important matter of etiquette. This Is Business. Checks or drafts must be presented for payment without unreasonable delay. Checks or Oralis should De presented during business hours; but in this country, except in the case of banks, the time ex tendi through the tlay anil evening. If the drawee of a check or draft has changed his residence, the holder mast use due or reasonable diligence to find him. If one who holds a check, aa payee or otherwise, transfers it to another, he has a right to insist that the check be presented that day, or, at the farthest, on the day following. a note indorsed in blank (tbe name of the indorser only written! is transferable by sk-livery, the sanw ss if payable to bearer. If the time of payment of a note is not inserted, it is held payable on demand. The time of payment of a note must de pend upon a contingency. The promise must be absolute. A bill may be written upon any paper, or sutatitute for it, either with ink or pencil. The payee should lie distinctly named in the note, unless it is payable to bearer. An indorsee has a right of action against all wlh ise names were on the bill when he received it. If the letter containing a protest of non payment be put in the post office, any mis carriage docs not affect the pari? giving notice. Notice or protest may be sent either to . the place of business or to residence of the party notified. The holder of a note may give notice of protest either to all the previous indorscrs or only to one of them; in case of the latter must select the last indorser. and th last must give notice to the last before him, and ao on. Each indorser must send notice to the last before him, and so on. Each indorser must send notice the same or the day following. Neither Sunday nor legal holiday is to be counted in reckoning the time in which notice is to be given. The loss of a bill or note is not snfncie't excuse for not giving notice of pritest. If two or more pc-sons, as partners, are jointly liable on a note or bill, due notice to one of them is sufficient. ot M uca fireworks. In India the husbandman, being averse to toil "that asks tough sinews, prefer to tickle the surface of his fielils with a stick instead of plowing them. To convince him of ltis error, an English plow was once im ported by an enthusiastic official, and a number of the.cultivators of the neighbor hood were invited to witness the great deeds of the new implement. Bullocks were so lemnly attached to it and urged to proceed. They refused, of course, and so moic and more were added, until at last the plow be gan to move : but whether from the Inexpe rience of the plowman or the conduct of the bullocks, or both combined, in such er raric fashion that tho nozzle was one in stant planned "deep into the ground and in the next jerked up violently, sending showers of earth into the air; and the ex hibition was finally brought to a premature conclusion by two of the bullocks joining in a sinzle combat. The peasants assern bled were very much impressed by the be havior of the plow as a plow, but confided to their entertainer before leaving that they not ,hmk much of lt-M fireworka- Cod Liver OH la Disease. The fish from which the oil thus named is obtained is said by the British Pharma copeia to be Gadus morrhus, Lin.; but in the United States Iharmacopseia it is said, with stricter accuracy, to be derived from that fish "and other species of Gadus." The following are the species of fish from which the oil is obtained: the codfish, the ailfeli, the turbot, the ling and the dorse. The chemical substances which cod-liver oil is found to contain are margaric, stearic and cetylic adds, all of which are white solids; oldc add and volatile acids, which are liquids, glycerine and biliary matters, and gaduine. These are shown in the rela tive proportions in which they exist in the n; Rockies ihw horiiea. cod-liver oil eon- oiL Besides these oodles, coa-iiver ou con tains minute quantities of iodine, bromine mnA nhnsnhnnia. To each of these its med- idninul nrcnerties have been referred, but the minute quantities cxmtained in the oil, the difference of opinion among authorities, and the fact that other animal oils are found to nroduca similar effects, are regarded as ! proving sufficiently that cod-liver oil la use- fn) rhUflv as an eaallv dhrtated fat, ( J " The Hyacinth. The Hyacinth U a universal favorite in the most extended application of the word. The number of its varieties is now fully equal to that of any other florist's flower. They are not only desirable for planting in beds in the flower-garden, but for forcing lr to flower in tne dull, cheerless montlta of winter and early spring, when their bright colored blossoms and rich fragrance lend a charm not otherwise to be found. For grow ing in the conservatory or draw ingro. mi the bulbs should be potted, as early aa they can be obtained, in small pots of rich, light earth, and placed in a cold-frame, or some protected place in the garden where they may be secure froru heavy rains, cover them with at least one foot of newly -fallen leaves and being once well watered soon after be ing potted, they may remain fot a month at least, to lonn their roots, when they may be secure from heavy rains; cover them wilh at least one foot of nearly fallen leaves, and being once well watered soon after be ing potted, they may remain for a month at least, to form their roots, when they may be uncovered, aud the most forward brought out and repotted into large pots, and placed in a moderately warm room. The size of the pot will depend mnch uimn tbe size of the bulb; aa a rule, the first pott ing should be in fair anil the second six inch pots. Sme care is necessary in the application and increase of heat, or the flowers will be abortive. For the first three weeks it should not be above fifty de grees at any time of the day; after that the heat may be increased to whatever degree is desirable in the room where they are to bloom. Water should be slightly warm when applied, and given in proportion to the development of foliar and flower; in no case should the earth in the pots become dry, neither soddened, an excess of water being as injurious as drought. Hyacinths succeed best in a humid atmosphere, which is not easily obtained in the drawing-room; and they are particularly sensitive to cold draughts of air, which may and should be avoided. Hyacinth in glasses are an ele gant and appropriate ornament to the drawing-room, and for this purpose occasion but little trouble. To those contemplating these interesting branches of floricultuie we make the following suggestions: 1. if you choose your own bulita, pay more at tention to weight than size, and be sure that the bulb is sound at the base as well as at the top. 2. Use the single kinds only, because they are earlier, more hardy, and as a rulo perfect their flowers in water better than the double varieties. H. Use rain or soft spring water. 4. Set the bulb in the glass so that the lower end is almost but not quite in contact with the water. 5. When the bulb is placed, put the glass in a cool, dark closet, or any con venient place where light is excluded, there to remain for about six weeks, or until the roots fill the glass; which they will do sooner than in the light, as they feed more freely in the dark. 6. Fill up the glasses with water as tbe level sinks by the feeding of the roots or by evaporation. 7. It is not necessary to cliange the water, if a few pieces of charcoal are placed in the bottom of the glasses. 9. When the roots are freely developed, and the flower-spike is pushing life, remove bydegreea to full light and air. The Jaeksom Bertnltase. In s conversation with Mrs. Jackson. 1 asketl her incidentally when and where she met her hushamL She smiled at tbe ques tion as if all the romance of her youth re turned to her, and said: "Why, I first met him in Philadelphia, on the streets. I was with a lady friend, he with a gentleman. As we passed I turned it was not exactly the thing f ( T a young lady to do and looked at him, only to find that he bad done the same thing. He cr.Hed that evening, and so began the acquaintance which ended in our marriage. That was during father's (meaning General Jackson, whom she al ways speaks of affectionately as 'father') first administration. We went directly to Washington, and the White House was our home as long as father was President. " This little reminiscence seemed to brighten tlie lady m a little. She was seated in a cushioned arm-cbaii in a ratlier gloomy looking room, immediately back of tbe one :n which General Jackson tliciL Her eves are bright and black, bcr raven hair show- ing few silver threiids and her complexion retaining its purity which, in her youthful days, made her a dazzling beauty. It has always been un.liTStotxl by those who knejv them licst that when the youth ful Mrs. Andrew Jackson went to the White House there arose a question as to whom the honor f-lmil.l hclongof presiding as lady of Ihe While House. Mrs. Andrew J. onelain ilia already in that position and had tilled It acceptably and gracefully. General Jackm desireti that she shoul 1 still preside, and the younger lady yielded any claims she might have hail. In rav conversation .nrs. jarKSon re marked that she first visited the Hermitage "nefore the birth of her eldest son, whom she named Andrew Jackn, and who is now Colonel Jackson, the stay and support of her declining years. ''None of vour children were born in the White House, I believe, Mrs. Jackson?' "No. they were all four in numlier honi here at the Hcnmtage. When ti e terms of Jackson expired and hi repaired to the Hermitage, Mrs. Jack son, her husliand, Andrew Jackson, Jr., and their family constituted the household. afterward increased by tbe admission into the family circle of Mrs. Marion Adams, sister of Mrs. Jackson. In the course of time General Andrew Jackson passed away and was placed in the mausoleum he bail long before pro vided for himself by the side of his wife, to whom he was so fondly attached. The years flowed peacefully on, the young peo ple had grown up and many brilliant scenes of gaiety awakened the echoes in the build ing and were reflected in the long mirrors. The marriiige of the only daughter of the household, named in honnr of the beloved and long-departed wife of General Jackson, Rachel, was an event that broke into king, ranq.ul ycaia Then came the distracting times of the war. Three voung men two of the Jack- sin sons and one Adams went into the Confederate service. Only one returned, and that was the oue now living Colond Andrew Jackson. The latter went through the vicissitudes of war with honor, but was at the close of the same, a prisoner at Camp Chase. While here he first heard, through a chance paragraph in a newsp-tper, of his father s death. It seemed that while in dulging in his favorite pastime of hunting, Andrew Jackson, Jr., had shattered his hand; the wound produced lockjaw and death. Said Colonel Jackson: "Ihe day on which I read that paragraph was the blackest, gl jonuest one of the whole war. I thought of my sorrow-stricken mother in her lonely home, and mysclt unable to go to or help her. Ia a few months the unhappy struggle was ended, and Colonel Jackson returned to the Hermitage and to his widowed j mother. Life now flowed on in a listless ( way. It had taken on a quiet, subdued tone, shadowed by the newly-mada paves in the corner of the garden, only a few I steps from the mansion. Mrs. Jackson and Mrs. Adams, toge'her, were going, hand in hand, through the remainder of the vovage of life. No bustle and stir of the busy out side world broke in upon them now, either with its cares or its gaieties. I torn time to time, when the cvenincs grew long, and the, with Colonel Jackson or some of the bright young grandchildren, gathered around the blazing fire, a visit to their rela tives in Philadelphia would be discussed. Both ladies desired once more to visit their native city and mingle again with their kinsmen and friends of long ago. The pleasure of the trip would lie canvassed. the cost counted up, and, alas! tbe slim nurse was aiwavs found too attenuated to admit of the expense. Then the bnght anticipations would fade, the trip be given up and the humdrum life flow on in its un broken channel. But there agaiu came a change in this quiet life, and a satl one. Mrs. Jackson for years had been sustained and cared for by her less feeble sister. Mrs. Adams, but to the latter came a long and serious illness. Slowly she began to recover, and when con valescence seemed certain she met with an accident, causing relapse, and she suc cumbed to the inevitable. Her death oc curred about two ami a half years ago. After the death of Mrs. Adams. Mrs. Jackson's daughter, .Mrs. I-awrence, be sought her mother to leave the sad hermit age and make her home with her, but Mrs. Jackson sadlv shook her head and said: No; it will not be for long now:" It would not be long ere she joined those gone be fore. Here at the loved Herniitaire she had heard her children's infant prattlings re echo through the long hallwavTiIud listened to the patter of their young feet in and about the doorways. They hail grown to man hood and womanhood lieneath that roof, and bad passed out from it to the duties of life. All her joys aud all her sorrows had been witnessed here, and in its peaceful solitudes she desired her own life to glide awav. The servants at the Hermitage now are an aged couple "Gracey" and "Alfred" and any one visiting there rinils them of fering themselves as escort to the tomb. ria-ir youth was siient in the service of the Jackson family, and now in their oldage they do not care to leave it. It is upon this faithful couple that Mrs. Jackson relies for household assistance. Speaking of them she said Gracey had been her own hand maiden, and had been with her during all her married life. She domesticated herself with the Jacksons by marrying Alfred, body servant of General Jackson, after they came to Tennessee. Mrs. Jackson sard: "I don't knr.w what I would do without Gracey. She knows my ways and my needs, she anticipates my every want. She is stout and well, and I do hope that her liie will last longer than mine." Utorejia Lelll. When Christina of Spain was about twenty years of age, a dwarf named Giorgia LeiU was presented to her. He was full of wit and intelligence, and pleased the Queen so much that she attached him to her ser vice. Thanks to her liberality, the dwarf was able to accumulate a small fortune which he left when he died, recently, to two sisters married and living in Aquila. The heirs sent two persons to Paris to re ceive the gold pieces and hand bills which the Liliputian relative had left behind them, and these innocent countrymen on their re. turn to Rome were fellow-travelers with three persons who became very friendly with them. The feigned travelers, were going, they said, to Alexandria, for busi ness of tbe greatest importance, and were delighted to have found such agreeable companions. hen the men of Aquila told them that they earned the heritage of $10, 000 in a small valise, one of them saitl they also had a large sura ot money with them, and proposed.putting it all together. The countrymen agreed to this novel arrange ment, and oue of the three travelers took chart? of their united treasure until arriv ing at Turin. There the pretended friends left the train, giving the precious valise into the hands of the Aquilinesi, and promising soon to return. But they never did, and the deluded countrymen found on examin ing their valise, that the treasure had been replaced by some lumps of leads. When they related their adventure to the Police in Rome, it seemed so improbable that they themselves, were Ih-I ! in custody until the) truth of their st rv was proved, and some trace of the real culprits discovered. Fractions Floored Him. A High street woman was trying to do some nmring recently, "Let's see," said she, "seventeeu yanls at a quart, r a y:ird. 1 wo quarters wuid be a half, wetting ber pencil with the tip of her tongue "two quarters would tie a half, and two halves would tc four quarters, that's four times three di. dear! no, it isn't." Then the pencil was wetted aain, and another start was made. "Seventeen yards at a quarter a yard. How much is seventeen quarters f Two quarters and a half. Seventeen quar ters would be how many halves? Two quarters one half, six quarters three halves. that's one and a half, seventeen quarters woeld lie six times three are Here a pause occurred, and the pencil went up to the tongue again, while the forehead of the mathematician corrugated aud was bedewed ith perspiration. She turned the paper upside down, downside up. looked at It several times, sighed, and was about to commence all over again, when her husband entered. "John, how inuch ia seventeen yarils at a quarter a yard." "rour into li. 4 and 1 over f 1.25, promptly replied John, that s what I had it," said his wife, "but I wasn't sure I was right." "Figured all over tha: paper to get It ?" queried Jonn. "No, sir ' bhtf. OH. TTDrm 1 inrlifrn.nltv ...... "" , red as the red, red rose. growing as "I guess I studied mental arithmetic at school, and," cnunpling the paper up and putting it in his pticket "have just got as much sense as some people who think they are so awful smart, John tlidn't say anything but when be found that piece of paper, a few hours af terwards, he w histled. The hsbit off Faimine;. There is not so much fainting in public as there was thirty years ago. Sound health which necessarily secures the firm nerves and muscles, is the surest preventative of faiutness. An exchange remarks that the majority of vigorous men go through all kinds of severe and painful experiences without fainting, while delicate men and many women swoon at trifles. American women, who used to faint continually in crowds, at bad news, at scenes of distress now faint comparatively seldom, aud the fact is ascribed to their relinquishment, for tbe most part, of the habit of lacing, to their increased exercise in the open air, and their better physical conditions. Not one American woman faints to-day where, thir ty years ago, twenty-five women fainted, and the diminution of the disorder, always the result of direct causes, is an unmistaka ble evidence, which other things corrobo rate, of the marked amelioration of the health of the highly organized, extremely sensitive, but flexible and enduring women of our complex race.
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