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KELLER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA. Consultations In English or German. Office in Lyon's Building, Allegheny Street. '•*- JOHX G. LOVE, * ATTORNEY AT LAW, bellefonte, pa. . I ortlce m the rooms formerly occupied by the late W. P. Wilson. ____ _ ; BANKING CO., WAIN STREET, i I MILLHRIM, PA. . A WALTER, Cashier. DAV. KKAPB, Pres. HARTER, AUCTION Eftlß, REBEUSBURG, PA. Satisfaction Guaranteed. r - s A Big Telephone. The biggest telephonic invention yet is being hatched by a man in Yofk State. It is a plan for constant telephonic communi cation between an ocean steamer and the shore. It would take a column to give the details of the project; it is sufficient to say that it i 9 a sort of reel which lavs a kind of cable as the steamer moves along, j and when the vessel returns the wire is re wound. It seems ratlier-too much to be lieve that a steamer could staft. out with over 3,000 miles of insulated wire ip a reel that is dragged vessel, and then on returning from Liverpool wind up the line again without a break, but everything appears to be possible with the telephone. The shore end of the u ire is connected with company's offices in New York; and when the vessel drops down to Sandy Hook the wife from the sternmost; reel in the shell is connected Ibere. The vessel starts out to sea; the wire begins to release itself. When two hundred miles have been accomplisl e an automatic connection releases a leaden sinker, weighing five pounds, aud this, a9 the vessel goes on, finds its way'to the bed of the ocean, At the point where the sinker is attached, the wire is much heavier for a distance of two hundred feet. Thus, at every two hundred miles, this shell, which is full of automatic and clock work machinery, releases a sinker, thus fixing a telegraph wire on the bed of the ocean. The inventor proposes to establish a small printing establishment and issue a little daily sheet on every ocean steamer plying the seas. This right he proposes to become the owner of and issue his journal called the Ocean Wave, so that no traveler bv the sea will remain for an hour ignorant of the world's doings. Private messages will be taken aud sent. Friends can hear each other's voices from, midocean to shore, and shore to midocean. Instantaneous news of disaster can be flashed to the seaport left and as the point of latitude and longitude is told, and as the other com panies know the exact position of their ships and steamers, a hundred succoring ships or steamers can be sent with relief; and as the tracks of commerce are now known and followed no serious disaster can occur. Other results will be the constant money speculations that can go on by wire. Criminals afloat can be appreherded; the march of storms be made known; deaths telegraphed. Cargoes can be bought and sold in transit; contracts be made; marine insurance effected —and thus will life be come almost perfectly cosmopolitanized ou f very sea and shore. . f • V i, that throe persons were earnestly engaged in conversation, in a rooni of a house on Second street, opposite C-hrist ChJtrch, in the city of -Philadelphia. The dimly fiarinn light of a wax candle re vealed the group as tin y sat by the table— an old man, a beautiful young woman and* a youth attired in the Continental uniform. The- topic upon which thev conversed seeuied to agitate them greatly. The old man was especially nervous, and while lie j was speaking there suddenly.cauie a great dash of sleet against the window, and the startling crash of a banging shutter, that caused him to start with a look of alarm, and lose the thread of speech.. When lie resumed, he said tremulously: "God be merciful to its all! These are evil times ! MethoughtT heard the rattle of drums and musketfyl" May the good God defend us!" . _ . . I "Amen," said the young soldier, .rev erently. 'HJo on, daughter!" continued the old man, addressing the girl. "Tell us what this son of Belial hath said to thee !" "I will tell thee all," answered the young woman, with tears in her eyes. "This man, Robert Esteleck hath been my cross for years! He hath tortured me with his attentions—claimed my heart and ; hand, although I spurned and despised him, and doggtd my steps everywhere.* Have I not told Lim that I was thy be trothed?" laying her hand softly on the J soldier. "The wife of thee, the brave 1 Joseph Stamford! He knoweth no honor, j But to-day, he tellclh me unless I become j his wife he will bring disgrace and ruin] upon me and mine. He tauufed me—said ■ to me, 'beware of me if thou rouseth me !' 1 Heaven pity me! What can Ido to avert his pursuit, his calumny ? To-day he hath. even spoken to me the evil—" "bay no more!" ejaculated the soldier, grinding his chair back upon the polished : iioor, and smiting his sword hilt with 'the palm of his hand. "Peace, Alice, peace in God's name! Ihave heard enough !—I know all! This maddens me ! This man, this monster of a Robert Esteleck shall not escape me ! lie shall not escape me ! He shall not live. No, by heavens!" "What is this ?" broke in the old man, with an expression of anger. "Mad words and malice ! Man against man! Is this thy talk ? Prithee, let me have no more of it! Leave the wicked to God. 'Ven geance is mine, saitli the Lord.'" This rebuke brought a spell of silence upon tire place for a moment. In an in stant afterwards there was a great knock at the door. "It's the wind," cried the old man, with a face of terror. The knocking continued louder and louder; Alice and the youOg soldier, running with one impulse to open the door, there entered two dripping figures. .• "Abad night," said one of them as he entered the room. "Yea, verily, friend!" answered the man, peering at the newcomers, then con tinuing, "Art thou not Captain Tamperf" "That is my name, and I present to you Corporal Best, at your service." "And your name is Abraham Shippeu, if I mistake not ?" said the officer. "True, true," said the old man; "and ; Captain Tamper and Corporal Best are welcome to shelter, God knows. Draw : near the fire, friends." j "I am sorry to say its a bad night, and bad business brings us,"' said the officer. "There was a large meeting to day at the ! Indian Queen Hotel, on Fourth Street, re specting immediate action against spies, Tories, and friends of the King. Several i were implicated. Among others, the Com ; mittee of Safety gives us the name ot one Robert Esteleck." •"Ah!" broke in the young soldier. "And one Joseph Stamford!" j A scream from Alice. A sudden out burst from the others of, "Joseph Stam ford!'' The young soldier rose up, and bowing ' to the officer, said excitedly: "At your ser vice, Captain Tamper! Joseph Stamford is present. He salutes his superior offi cer! " ! "You are suspected of beiug a friend of George III!" "That for George the III!" snapping his fingers. "George Washington for me!" "You are accused of singing 'God save the King,' in this house." | "What?" i "That is strange," broke in Alice. ' "We are true patriots all, Heaven be our witness!" ' 'Does this look like loving the King?" MILLHEIM, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1880. said the young soldier touching his military coat ami sword. "Ha! ha! It's a good Joke, Captain! A good joke!" "Friends," exclaimed the old man; "I'm a man of peace, a (Quaker, a foe of foes, an enemy of blood shedding, yet 1 am faithful to God and the American Union, and let no one dare insult the Hag of our rights in jny house. I will tight for my hearth, my country and my God! We art) friends of liberty here, not spies.'' "One can't tell friend from foe, these times, master," said Corporal Best. "We but do our duty," said Captain Tamper. "We hare orders to hold our men until the Council of Safety decides!" "But lam a friend of independence. I go to join Washington to-morrow," said Joseph. "So might the gallant Robert Esteleck allege," answered the captain. "Captain," said Joseph, "know-you this man Esteleck?" "Not 1, comrade." "Then," returned Joseph, "let mo tell you what he is like. He is like any other j sneaking, smiling, smooth-faced little vil lain you ever saw; wears his own red hair tied up with black riblton and powdered. Only he limps a little. A bullet wound they say. Oh 1 know him!". "Where is he?" asked the captain. "Everywhere;" answered Joseph, "and in all disguises—but captain, on my parole of honor as a soldier, 1 promise to appear to-morrow before the Council and take oath of allegiance if need be. Leave me alone for tins night." "So l>e it," said the captain, "but we must tlnd Esteleck. The town is incensed against traitors and spies, and will mob your bouse if you harbor him. Can you | point hint out?" "Good, sir.*" said Alice, "the man you seek hath often visited this house, but will do so no more. Though 1 hate him, I will not siander him, he is a true patriot ami no spy." "Tut, tut!" blurted Joseph, "a patriot forsooth—a Tory scamp! u renegade! Art thou mad, Alice?" | "We have no time to lose," said the of ! ticer bhisquely. "Lady, farewell. Sol dier, remember to-mcrrow. Good niirlit, master." So saying, Captain Tamper and the corporal left the room abruptly, fol lowed by Joseph, who %pened the street door for them. "11a, ha!" exclaimed the captain as he looked across the street. "Did you mark that?" A muffled figure sank into the shad**v of the great church opposite. "We must keep our eyes open." "So, so!" cried Joseph. "There is some mischief-afoot to-night. Captain, stay in the. neighborhood, for God's sake. That ! look's suspicious. Good night to ye"—and ! Joseph slammed the dr and ran shivering into the room. "Haste thee, while I hide myself behind these folding doors of the room." - Afiqe opened the door to a tall man wrap ped in a wet cloth anil wearing long horse man's lx?ots—with a faint cry she recog nized him and strove to keep him out. He pushed her aside gently and entered the parlor. Abraham Sliippen glared at Hie ' intruder a moment and then cried, "Evil jon evil! Hath the wicked night brought thee to punish us ? Away wretch, or old as I am I will myself drag thee forth! ; Away Robert Esteleck; 1 will not burlstr thee." Robert Esteleck smiled. He was always smiling, always smooth-voiced, lie threw off ljis cloak, and said— ' Peace, good sir. Listen to me. lam your friend, and.you will find it out. Do yop know - the danger you are in? The British are even now at the threshold of the .eitv. They will slay all! revenge and death awtnt us! But 1 see away to escape, I rescue, you and your daughter—" "Stop!" interrupted Alice wjtli a de fiant gesture. : "Robert Esteleck, thou hast sought to - dishonor me—do not insult me further. I forgive thee all. Yet I beg of thee leave us-instantly- Thy life is in dan ger. Already have the officers been here in search of thee. Stay not a moment. Forget thy wicked designs and save thyself. Be quick! The.town is alarmed' against thee." Robert Esteleck smiled at her, but his smile was the smile of anger now "O, my beauty, I care not for myself— nor care I for your devoted father there. I want you! 1 will have you— Come!" lie seized her hand. She withdrew with a scream, and the old father clasping his hands, cried, "God deliver us from this scourge. At that instant the folding doors flew open. There stcxxl Joseph Stamford. The villain did not forget his smile! lie drew a pistol from bis inner waistcoat and aimed it at the soldier. Fortunately the flintlock missed fire. In an instant mdre the old man wrenched the weapon from the rascal's grasp. "I arrest you as a traitor and a spy," cried Joseph, drawing his sword and rush ing on Esteleck. "Give me your sword " The coward yielded the weapon without a word, llis face became livid. "Alice, let in the officers!" cried Joseph, and shortly afterward Captain Tamper and the Corporal, who had been waiting in an alley-way re-entered. "Here's your man," continued Joseph, breathlessly. "A spy, a villain keeping up communication with the enemy—carrying on illicit trade! Murdering, thieving, dis guising himself. Take him off, I have all the proofs. To-morrow the Council shall hear me. Strip off bis uniform, he disgraces the holy cause of Liberty! Away with him!" And they took him well-guarded to the old Walnut street prison. "I did not tell thee.for fear of irking thee," said Joseph, pressing the beautiful Alice to liis bosom, and kissing her fair forehead, "that tlus mgn fired twice at me on High street.!' "Did lie hit thee?"'.'she asked with a face of fear. ' 1 "No, beloved. Thank God, 1 escaped his shot. -1 have known him long as a spy. lie will meet his desserts now. lie has been designing great evil here. 1 have ail the papers, all the evidence necessary to send him swiftly to the gallows. There are more like him hereabouts. Let bis fate be a warning to all traitors!" '■Wish him no evil save his own bitter thoughts," murmured Alice. "For thy sake 1 forgive him, love," said the patriot; "but he must meet his punish ment. The times are hard and need hard measures." Not many days after this event, a- horse galloped furiously up Spruce street, fol- lowed by a crowd shouting, "A prisoner escaped! A Tory prisoner! Death to the spy !" Some friends of the prisoner bad actually procured hi tit a horse to accelerate his es cape. A soldier in the mob happened to fire at the horseman, the steed uiade a spring and threw the rider yver his head. They ran to pick up the man. It was Robert Kste leek. The bullet hud not touched him. The fall had broken his neck, and lie was dead. Joseph Stamford eaiue back from the campaign with the titie of Captain well earned, and with a snbrv cut" in the shoulder, hut lie lived to ace' peace and union, not only in the country, but in bis isui home. With his own beloved Alice, the happy queen, ami the three merry children, life was to him an epoch of happiness aud bjigsfql rest'. How Itig in Mini! Somehow when a.man's luiud becomes really enlarged—say, like that'of Baron Humboldt, and he is able to place in focus more and more of tlie cosmos of which he forips a part, the things he at the outset of his life regarded ;ix the largest get smaller and smaller, till at last that first immense and overwhelmingly important thing, him self, becomes so insignificant that it is only through a process of mental microscopy he can disom his little ideality among the animalcukc that fioat, swim, or wiiggle across the field of view. How big is a man anyway? Well, he is smaller than an ele phant, and an elephant is smaller, than a mountain, and a mountain is smaller than the world, and the world is a* mustard seed compared with thesun, utid the sun itself is a nu-rc mote in the dust cloud of spheres that stretchesout I In ought he universe beyond the reach of thought. Suppose we Could make an exact model of the earth eighty feet In diameter. Eighty feet in diameter would he a pretty large bull us halls go on the face of this planet. Assume, for the sake of easy calculation, the diameter of the earth to he exactly 8,000 miles, and let us pro ceed 10 build our model to scale. A moun tain five miles high should represent on our model ft So,000;h of 80 feet or G-lo of an inch. An elephant built in proportion should be 1-4,-tOOth of an inch in height, and an average man 7-.V2,800th of an inch tall. An army of 2t,400 such rttetr stand ing shoulder to shoulder in single straight rank would require their general to gallop over the space of one inch to pass them al) under review. With a smart horse of pro portionate size, ridden at a brisk gallop, he c uld accomplish this distance in altopt an hour. Yiewe tin litis way a man is a mere mite craw ling over the face of the globe, yet he lnis had the arrqgaugj&to think the universe was formed for h m more than for other insects, and that the Ruling Intelli gence had him pre-eminently in view in bringing order out of Chang. Through Water. Currents in the very bed of a river, r be neath the surface of the. sea, may he watched, as Mr. Campbell informs UH, HV an arrangement that smugglers wed in the old days They sank their contraband car go when there was an• alarm, and tlw\v searched for it Hguiti byincans of a-so-called marine telescope. It was nothing more than a with a plate of strong glass at the bottom. The man plunged the closed end a few inches below , thq s'ltrfactv and put his licad into the other etui, aud then liesaw'clearly into the water. 'lJie glare and confused reflections' and -refractions from and through the rippling surface' of the sea were entirely shut out by this con trivance. Seal hunters- still use- if.-- -With* this simple' apparatus the stirrin'g 'Hfe of the sea bottom can be watched at leisure and With "great distinctness. So far as this contrivance enables men to see the land under the waves, movements under water closely resemble movements under air. Seaweeds, like plant, bend before the. gale; fish, like birds, keep their ln-ads to the stream, and hang poised on their tins; mud clouds take the shape of water clouds in air, impede light, cast shadows ami take shapes whigh pojnt out the direction iu which currents flow. It is strange, at first, to hang over a boat's side, peering into a new wftrld, aud the interest grows. There is excitement in watching big fish swoop like hawks out of their seaweed forest after a white fly sunk to the tree-tops to tenipt them; and the flight which follows is better fun when plainly seen. Mr. Campbell sug gests plate glass windows in the bottom of a boat: it would bring men and fish face to face, and the habits of the latter could IK? leisurely watched. llow he'd do It. , . Several men were gathered at the door of a blacksmith shop on Cass avenue, De troit,, the other morning, when a school-boy not over nine years of age caihe along with tears inhis eyes,and one of the groyp.nsked! "What's the matter, boy—fall down?" "N-no, but I've got a hard Tithmetie les son and I expect to get 1-licked!" was the answer. "Let mt see, I used to be king-bee on fractions." Tiie man took the book, turned to the page, and read: • "Kule I—Find the least common multi ple of the denominators ot the fractions for the least common denominator. Divide this least common denominntor by each de nominator and multiply both terms of the fractions by the quotient obtained by each denominator." He read the rule aloud and asked if any one could understand it. All shook their heads, and then continued: "Well, now, I think I should go to work and discover the least uncommon agitator. 1 would then evolve a parallel according to the intrinsic deviator and punctuate the thermometer.". "80 would I!" answered every man in chorus, and one of them added; "I've worked 'em out that way a thousand times!" No one of the men, all of whom were in business and had made money, could even understand the working of ihe rule, much less work examples by it, and yet it was expected that a nine-year old boy should go to the blackboard and do every sum off hand. ' be value of land Is so depressed in Ireland that 011 Nov. 7, 1879, when seveh estates were offered for sale, but four were taken, while for two there wag no bid. Lost In the Know. Among the dangers of the winter in the Pass of St. Uothard is the fearful snow storm culled the "guxeten" ly the Gcrman'H and the tourmcnte or "tormenta" by the Swiss. The mountain snow differs in form as.well as in thickness and Hpecitlc gravity, from the star-shaped suow-llakes on the lower-heights and in tht> valleyrt. It is quite floury, dry and sandy, and therefore very light.. When viewed through a micro scope it assumes at times the form of little prismatic needles, at other times that of in numerable small six-sided pyramids, from which,'as from the morning star, little points jut out on all sides, and which driven by the wind, cut through the air witli great speed. With this tine ice-dust of the mountain snow, the wind drives its wild guiic through the clefts of the high Alps and over the passes particularly that of St. (jiothurd. Suddenly it tears up a few hun dred thousand cubic feet of this snow, and whirls it up high into the. air leaving it to the mercy of the upper current, to fall to the ground again in the form of the thickest snow storm, or to he dispersed at w ill like .glittering ice crystals. At times the wind sweeps'up large tracts of the dry ice dust, anil pours them down upon a deep-lying valley amid the mountains, or on the sum mit of the passes, obliterating in a few seconds the laboriously excavated mountain road, at which a whole company of rutners hkve toiled .for days. All these appear ances resemble the avalanches of other Alps but cannot be regarded in the same light as the true snow storm, the tormenta or guxe ten. This is*;meoniparably more severe, and hundreds on hundreds of lives have fallen sacrifices to its fury. These have mostly been traveling strangers, who either did not distinguish the signs of the coming storm, or in proud reliance on their own power, icfuse'd. to listen to well-meant warnings, and continued their route. Al most every year adds-a large number of victims to the list of those who have fallen a prey to the snow-storm. History and the oral tradition of the mountains record many incidents of accidents whiiii have been occasioned by tlu.* fall of avalanches. During tlie Bcllinznua war, in 1478, as the confederates, wjth a force of Il),OOU men, were crossing ihe St. -Gothard, the men. of Zurich were preceding* the army as van guard. They had just refreshed themselves with some wine, and were marching up the wild gorge,' Shouting and singing, in spite of the warning of their guides." Then iu the heights above, an avalanche was sudden ly -b.oM'iicd, which rushed down ijwm flie road, and in its ifupetuous tcrrent buried sixty warriors fill below in the Keuss, in "full sight of ilioee following. - (hi the 12 th of arch,Tß4B, "in the so called Plattggen, above the tent of shelter at the Matelli, thirteen men who were con veying the i>ost, were thrown by a violent avalanche into the bed of the Keuss, with their horses and sledges. Three men, fathers pf families, and nine horses were killed; the others were saved py hastily sinntuoped help. . But one of their deliver ers, Joseph Muiler,"of llospenthal, met a heroV death while engaged in the rescue. He had hastened to help his neighbors, but in the district called the "Harness" he anii two others were over whelmed-by a • second violent avalanche, and.lost their lives. In the sallie year the post going -up the mountain* from Ainfla w*as overtaken by an avalanche near the Imhibc of tin-shelter at Pontc Tremola. . A traveler from Bergamo wa klHed; the rest escaped. History tells of a most striking rescue from an avalanche ou the St. Goth&rd. in the year 1(128, Landumman Kasper, of Brahdenburg, the newly chiisen Governor of. Bellenz, was riding over the St. Gothard, from Zug, accqmpauicd by ius servant' and a faithful dog. At the top of the pass the party was overtaken by an avalanche which descended from the Lucendro. The .dog alone shook' himself' free. Hfs first care was to extricate his master. But when He saw he could not succeed tp doing this, he hastened bark tolbe hospice, and there, by pitiful bowling and - winning, announced that an accidept had happened. The 1 landlord and his servant si t out immediately with shovels and pickaxes, and followed the dog, which ran quickly before them. They soon reached the place where the avalanche had fallen. Here the faithful dog stopped suddenly, plunged his face in to the snow, and began to scratch it up, barking and whining. The men set to work at once, and after a long and difficult labor succeeded in rescuing the Lamlam man, soon afterwards his servant; they were both alive, after spending thirty-six fearful hours beneath the snow, oppressed by the most painful: thoughts: ' They had heard the howlintr'and barking of the dog quite plainly; and had noticed his sudden de parture, and the arrival of their deliverers; they had hzard-them talking and working, without being able to move or utter a sound. The Landammairs will ordained that an image of the faithful dog should be sculp tured at his feet on his toml>. '1 his monu ment was seen till lately iu St. Oswald's Church at Zug. One Iturglar'it Conscience. Reginald was a pleasant old gentleman, with a line sense of humor. He had con siderable property, and lived on Wimble don Common. He had 0116 beautiful daughter—but that is not to the point. Oue. afternoon, as Old Reginald was reading books in his drawing room, it was announced to him that a Common Man de sired to speak with hint. He gave orders- ihat the Common Man should be admitted. And admitted the Common Man was. < He was a very common man, indeed. Tall, shambling,, ill-looking fellow, with an irresolute manner and shrinking eye. He was dressed as costermongers are dressed when following their calling. "What is your pleasure, good sir?" said old Reginald. • "Beg pardon, guv'nor," said the Com mon Man. "1 hope you won't be hard on me." "Not at all," replied Old Reginald. "I'm —I'm a burglar," said the Common Man. "Indeed!" said Reginald. "Take a chair." * "Thank you, kindly, guv'nor," said he, "but I'd rather stand." And he did stand. So far there is nothing very incredible in my story. But it gets more remarkable as it goes on. "How do you like your profession ?" said Old Reginald. "Well, guv'nor," said the Common Man, "I don't like it noways, and that's it." "That's what ?" "That's why I'm here. I belongs to a gang of twelve wot's working these parts just now. We cracks cribs by turns. It's —it's my turn to-night." Aud the burglar wept like a child. "This, I presume, is remorse," said old Reginald. "No, Guv'nor, it ain't remorse," said the burglar. "It's funk." "The suine thing," said Reginald. "It ain't the being a burglar that I object to. It's the having to commit burglaries. I like the credit of it, sir; its the danger I object to." "I see." "Now, by the laws of our gaug, we're liound to crack cribs iu turn. That is to say, one of us craoks t Ire cribs while the other eleven steps outside and gives the ottice." "1 thought burglars always worked in twos or threes ?" said Old ltt-ginald. "P'raps 1 ought to know lx*st," sug gested tlie burglar. "Perhaps you are right. Indeed, I am sure you ought. What crib do you pro pose to crack to-night ?" "This here one." . "Aline?" "Yourn." "Oh!" And Old KcgiuuUl prepared to ring the ML "l'k-ase don't do that, guv'nor. You ain't never ugoin' to give me into custody?" "I think 1 had better." "No. no, guv'nor; don't do that. Listen to me first. 1 aiu't agoin' to hurt you. It's my turn to crack your crib to-night. Now, will you help me ?" "I hardly see my way," said old Regi nold, thoughtfully. "Still, if I can be of any use " : "Look here, guv'nor, each member of our gang is bound to get fifty pounds worth of swag away from each crib he cracks. If he don't he's shot. . Now, 1 see a handsome silver salver and coffeepot and cream jug as 1 came in here. Wot might be the value of that handsome silver salver und coffee |Ht ?" "The cream-jug is electro. The coffee pnf with sugar basin and salver nucf be worth five and forty pounds." . "That's n£iir enough. I'll take em. Here's a flimsy for fifty quid." And he handed Old Reginald a bank note for the amount. , "Still I don't quite understand " "I wan't you, guv'nor, to be so good as to leave your bedroom window open to night,'and place tJiat silver and them silver trajis where 1 can get 'em. i shall have cracked my crib, bagged my swag and made mvself safe until my turn came round again. "fcertaiidy." said Old Reginald, holding up'tlir note to the light. "But, let me ask, how can you afford to pay so handsomely for your depredation f" "There was a dozen on us, sir. Each on us cracks a crib once in four montlis, and each swag's at least fifty pounds worth —often more, buf at least that. After each plant the profits are divided. Last quarter the twelve critw cracked brought us in eleven hundred pounds—that'sninety odd pounds apiece. When my turn comes 1 pay a fair price for the fifty pounds worth of swag ( for 1 have been honorably brought up), and I get's forty pound to the good. And forty jtounds a quarter is a huudred' and sixty pounds a year. And I lives on it. Sometimes it's more—now and then it's less, but whatever it is, I lives on it." And the honest fellow took a receipt for 4he"note and departed. Old Reginald was as good as his word. He left his bedroom window open and placed the salver where the honest burglar was as good as his word, and at 2 o'clock in the morning he came and fouqd it-. So far all was simple and straightforward enough. But ttotfr conjes the curious and incredible part of my story. Thefiftv-pound note was part of the pro ceeds ot a previous burglary. The number of the note was known, and traced to Old Reginald, who had tV> account for its being in his possession. • Now the twelve burglars lwul in the meantime been arrested by the police (this also is incredible), and were condemned to penal servitude for life. t>o.O!d Reginald bad no hesitation in stating the facts as I have stated tliem. No one believed him, as no one will me. So lie appealed to the honest burglar to corroborate his story. But the honest burglar, having discovered the.whole tiling, colfee-pot, salver and all, was the commonest electro, was so shocks! at Old Reginald's dishonesty, that not only did he decline to corroborate his story, but actually, and I think very properly, identi fied him as an accomplice. And Old Reginald was also sentenced to penal servitude, and he and the honest burglar worked for years together on the same works, and had many opportunities of talking the matter over from its moral, social and political point of view. Horf lb'b Miserable. _____ Sit by the window and look over the way to your neighbor's excellent mansion which he lias recently built, and paid for, and fitted out, saying: "Oh that I was a rich man!" Get angry with your neighbor, and think you liaye not a friend in the world. Shed a tear or two, and take a walk in the burial •ground, contimially saying to yourself: i*"When shall I be buried here?" Sign a note for a friend, and never forcret I your kindness, and every hour in the day whisper to yourself: "I wonder if he will • ever piiv that note?" Tlunk everybody means to cheat you. Closely examine every bill you take, and doubt its being genuine until you have put the owner to a great deal of trouble. I'ut confidence in nobody, and believe every one ■ you trade with to be a rogue. I Never accommodate if you can possibly help it. Never visit the sick or afliicted, anil never give a farthing to assist the poor, i Buy as cheap as you can, and screw down to the lowest cent. Grind the faces and hearts of the unfortunate. Brood over your misfortunes, your lack of talents, and believe at no distant* day you will come to want. Let the workhouse i be ever in your mind, with all the horrors of distress and poverty. Follow these recipes strictly, and you will be miserable to your heart's content —if we may so speak—sick at heart and at variance with the world. Nothing will cheer or en ; courage you—nothing throw a gleam of sun shine or a ray of warmth into your heart. Any father who would go out and j put tar on top of his front gate after 1 dark must be lost to all sense of hu manity and ordinary respectability. Old Fashioned Gardening. A learned writer under this bead makes a plea for the old fashioned flowers and modes of planting that have gone out in the prevailing new taste for carpet beds, of uniform color, leaf plants and masses of smooth scarlet, purple and white, of solid ly planted flowers all of a kind. It con trusts these with the old walled garden, with its crooked peach and plum trees, with here and there a shady corner for lilfes of ihe valley, and the sunny exposure where the autumn violets were the first to bloom. There was a wealth and variety of pot-herbs; one wall was crowned with a patch of yellow sedum; another was fringed with wall flowers, and the old bricks were often covered by a network of the delicate and lcautiful creeper, "the mother of millions." There was the delightful smell of newly turned mould to mingle with the fragrance of a hedge of sweet peas, or of a bed of clove-gilly flowers. Sweet William and mignonette filled the vacant spaces, and the bees from a row of straw hives were humming over all. The lark spur and the lad)-slipper, the double pop py, double daisies, French marigolds, "with their strong heady scent and glorious show for color," in short the whole suc cession of flowering plants in the same bed. these made all the difference between the old flower bed and the modern "landscape" planting. An old Etfghfih author, Parkin son, who writes, himself "Apothecary of London, 1629," sets forth this .succession !of plants, "that doe so give their flowers i one after another that ail their bravery is not spent." In Parkinson's day it was too early for the immense variety of roses; the damask and the briar rose and a few single roses were all that found a place in his list,, but not the cabbage and most roses which seem old- fashioned to-day. There were almost a hundred sorts of daffodils, which the "Apothecary" insists shall all be'called; by their Shakespearian name and not some ; of them "Narcisses, when as all know that know any Latine, that "Narcisses, is the La tine, ami Daffodil the English of one and the same thing. 1 would willingly, therefore, tnat all would grow judicious and call everthing by his proper English name m speaking English, or else by such Latine name as everthing hath that hath not a proper English name, that thereby they may distinguish the several varieties of things and not confound them." It is Often asserted that vegetables formed a small part of thp diet of Englishmen in preceding centuries—but it apjiearsthat they had all tire vegetables now in ordinary (English) use, and more variety of salads. They used sorrel for sauce, and made tarts of spinach as well as of rhubarb aud gooseberries, lied lettuce, red onions were grown in the garden, and a Spanish. oniony which is "very sweete and eaten by many like an apple," was described. -There is a curious mixture in the old book of fragrant scents from the garden, . und the "vertues" of plants and herbs and the apothecary of Charles 'he First's time Relieved that "the flowers of the white kind (lily of the val ley) are often used with those things that help to strengthen the memory and to pro cure ease to apoplectic persons." At those great houses, "where head gardeners are kept at a salart which would support two curates," the modern carpet beds of flowers are as much an appendage of style as the liveried footaien or the stables of sleek horses. But the home-care of flowers, in the windows or in the yards of cities, as well as in the country plots, can gain much by a study of these old varieties in their blooming tangle among the grass-grown alleys, and whose very names bring back their fragrance to people who knew th'iui in their youth. J*ot to be Fooled. A young man . of about twenty-three years of age, with- neither money nor the prospect of getting any, came to the con clusion that the best thing he could do would be to marry a "rich wife" and live on her money. Among his many acquaint ances was a widow lady of about twice his age, with three chil iren, but with a steady income of two thousand a year. Her he resolved to marry, and, in order to culti vate her friendship, betook her presents of flowers and fruit, and gave the children books and rides on his horses. The lady kindly received his attentions, gave him the liberty of her house, and treated him like a younger 1 brother in every respect. The young fellow, interpreting her kind ness "to suit himself, and believing he had nothing to do but u&k licr, ventured on J evening on the subject in the following manner: • "1 wonder very much why you don't re marry, Mrs. L "Simply because no one wants a widow with three children." . . "I know oue who would be proud 'to have you and your dear children;" said the w r ooer, feeling the worst was well over. "Indeed, you are most flattering this evening." ".No, lam not flattering. I love you, and would be proud to be your husband." iShe looked coldly on him; then replied; "You inean you would be proud to own my money, sir. 1 have been vastly de ceived in you." Then pointing to the door, she continued: "Leave my house, and while I live, never dare to reenter it." Where the Apostles Rest. Church authorities state, that the remains of the Apostles of Christ are now in the following places: Seven are in Home — namely, Peter, Philip, James the Lesser, Jtule, Bartholomew, Matthias and Siiuon. Three are in the Kingdom of Naples, Mat thew at Salerno, Andrew at Amalfi, and Thomas at Ortona. One is in Spain, James the Greater, whose remains are at St. Jago de Compostella. Of the body of St. John the Evangelist, the remaining one of the twelve, there is no knowledge. The Evan gelists Mark and Luke are also in Italy— the former at .Venice and the latter at Padua. St. Paul's remains are also be lieved to be in Italy. Peter's are, of course, in the church at Rome, which is called after him. as are also those of Simon and Jude. Those of James the Lesser and of Philip are in the Church of the Holy Apostles; Bartholomew's in the church on the Island in the Tiber called after him; Matthias' are in the Santa Maria Maggiure, under the great altar of the renowned Basi lica. JELLY CAKE. —Take one cup or sugar, four eirgs, one cup of flour, a half tea spoonlul of sweet milk, and a teaspoon ful of cream of tartar, mixed in flour. Bake in one long tin, then spread with jelly, roll up, and cut in slices, NO. 13. .