VOL. 1,1 V. PROFESSIONAL CARDS OF BELLEFONT K . C. T. Alexander. C. M. now ci. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA. Ofllee in Uarman's new building. JOHN B. LINN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA. Office on Allegheny Street. OLEMENT DALE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BEI.LKFO.NTK. FA. Northwest corner of Pl imoud. y lM A HAsii.NUa," ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BELLEtOXTK, PA. High street, opposite First National Bank. m*. c. HEINLE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFOXTK. PA. Practices in all the courts of Contra County. Spec.at attention to Collections. Consultations in German or English. w II.BUR F. REEDER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA. All bus'ness promptly attended to. Collection ol claims a speciality. J. A. Beaver. J. W. Gephart. JJEAVER & GEPHART, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Office on Alleghany Street, North of High. w. A. MORRISON, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA. Office on Woodrlng's Block, Opposite Court lluu^e. S. KELLER, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Consultations In English or German. Office In Lyon'- Building, Allegheny Street. JOHN G. LOVE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEPONTE, PA. Office In the rooms formerly occupied by the late W. P. Wilson. BUSINESS CARDS OF MILLHEIM, &. pi A. STURGIS, * DEALEB IN Watches, Clocks, Jewelry, Silverware, Ac. Re pairing neatly and promptly don-i and war ranted. Main Street, opposite Bank, M llhelm, Pa. ~T OTdeininger, * SOTABT PUBLIC. SCRIBNER AND CONVEYANCER, MILLHEIM, PA. AH business entrusted to htm. such as writing and acknowledging Deeds, Mortgages, Releas- s, Ac., wlll be executed wtih neatness and dis patch. Office on Main Street XT H. TOM LINTON, * DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF Groceries, Notions, Drugs, Tobaccos, Cigars, Fine Confectioneries and everything in the line of a flrst-class Grocery st -re. Country Produce taken In exchange for goods. Main St eet, opposite Bank. Ml.lhelm, Pa. . pwAVID I. BROWN, MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN TINWARE, STOVEPIPES, Ac., SPOUTING A SPECIALTY. Shop on Majji Street. 'tMo h uses east of Bank, MUlbeim, Penna. J EJSENHUI'H, * J USTICK OF THE PEACE, , . MILLHEIM, PA. All business promptly attended to. collection of claims a specialty. • Office opposite Elsenhuth's Drug Store TtA USSER & SMITH, DEALERS IN Hardware, Stoves, Oils, Paints, Glass, Wall piper , coach Trimmings, and saddlery Ware, AC,. AC. All grades of Patent Wheels. Comer of Main and Penn street , Mlllliclro, Pt-una. T ACOB WOLF, ~ FASHIONABLE TAII.OR, MILLiIEIM, PA. Cutting a Specialty. shop next door to Journal Book Store. jyjiLLHEIM BANKING CO., WAIN STREET, MILLHEIM, PA. A. WALTER, Cashier. DAV. KRAPE, Pres. HARTER, AUCTIONEER, REBERSBURG. PA. Satisfaction Guaranteed. COMING BACK. They say if our beloved dead Should seek the old familiar place. Some stranger would be there in-toad. And they would tiul no welcome face. 1 cannot tell how it might be In other homos, out this 1 know Could my lost darling come to me. Tuat she would never find it so. Ofttimes the dowers have o una and gnuo, Ofttiiuea the winter wind-* have blown. 'llia while her peaceful rest waut on. And I havj learned to live alone ; Have slowly learned from day t j day, lu all lib s ta true ami tried ; They have their place, but hers to-day Is empty a* the day site d od How would 1 spring with bated breath, Aud joy too deep for word or si-m, To take my darling home from death And once again to call her mino. 1 dare not dream the b'issful dream ; It tills my heart with wild uuroat ; Where yonder cold, white marbles gleim She still must slumber. Uhl knows best. The Way To Win. Edward Stone stood impatiently upon the top step of Uncle Dan's stately resi dence. There was not the faintest sign of life anywhere around—the whole front part of the house was closed and darkened; and having rung several times without eliciting auy response, lie was about to conclude there was no one within bearing, when ahead was thrust out of the upper window. . "Young man, go round to the side door." Considerably startled by this unexpected address, the young man obeyed. Upon the porch, brushing away the leaves that covered, it, was a young girl of fifteen. She looked very pretty as she stood there, the bright autumnal sunshine falling on her round white arms and uncovered head. Setting down her broom, she ushered him into a medium-sized, plainly-furnish ed room which gave uo indication of the reputed wealth of its owner. The young man took a seat, brushed a few flakes of dust from the lapel of his coat, ran his fingers through lus carefully arranged locks, ami thus delivered him self: "Tell your master that his nephew Ed ward Stone is here./ A faiut smile touched the tosy lips, and with a demure "yes, sir" the girl vanish ed. A few minutes later an elderly gentle man entered with intsliafiti ed features, and a shrewd hxik in the eyes, which seemed to take the mental measure of his visitor at a glance. "Well sir what is your business with me?" "I am your nephew." "So my daughter told me. What do you want?" "I was thinking of going into business, and thought I would come and talk it over with you, and ask you to give me a.lift." "\\ hat better capital uo you want than you already have? A strong able-bodied young man wantiug a lift! You ought to ibe ashamed of yourself! What have you been doing?" Edwards face flushed with anger at t his j unceremonious lauguage, but feeling that I he could not afford to quarrel. with his wealthy relative, he gave no other indica tion of it. "Saved nothing from your salary, I sup pose?" No, it's only Ave hundred; not more than enough for my-expenses. ' "Humph! You are able to dress your self out of it, I peroeive. 1 have knoWn men to rear and"educate a family on five hundred a year; and if you have been unable to save anything, you certainly are not able to go into business on your own I accouLt. When I-was at your age my in come was less than three hundred dollars, and I saved half of it. What is the business you wish to engage in?" "Stationery and books. Six hundred dollars will buy it, as the owner is obliged to sell; a rare chance. I don't ask you to give me the amount, only lend it; I will give you my note with interest." "Young man. 1 have severaL-such pa pers already. You can have all of them for five dollars; afcd 1- warn you that it will prove-A poor investment at that! I can give you some good advice, though, which if you follow will be wortji a good many times the amount you asked.- But you won't do it." "iiow do you know that," saiu Edward with a smile, who began to feel more at home with his eccentric relative. "I'd like to hear it anyway" "Well, here it is. Go hack to your place in the store, save three dollars a week from your salary, which you can easily do; learning the meantime-all you possibly can in regard to the business you wish to pursue. At the end of four years you will have the capital you seek, with sufficient experience and judgement to know how to use it. Aud, better still, it will be youis, earned by -your own industry and self denial, and worth more to you that ten times that amount got in any other way. Then come and see me again." "You'd rather have my money than ad vice, I dare say," added Mr. Stone, as Edward arose to go; but we'il. be belter lriends four years hence than if "I let you j have it . Sit down, nephew, the train you have to take won't leave until six in the evening. You must stay to tea, I want, you to see what a complete little house-' keeper I have, and niake you acquainted with her." "Polly!" he called out, opening the door into the hall. In prompt obedience to this summons a rosy cheeked, bright eyed girl tripped in. The neat print dress had been changed for a pretty merino, but our hero did not fail to recognize her, and liis face flushed pain fully as he did so. "Polly!" continued her father, "this is your cousin Edward. He leaves on the six o'clock tram, and I want his short stay short stay as pleasant as possible." "Polly is my little housekeeper"' he added, "'turning to his nephew. "I hire a woman for the rough work,and she does all the rest. When she's eighteen she will have all the servants she wants, but she must MI 1,1,11 KIM, PA.. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1880. servo her apprenticeship first. It may stand her in good stead; she may take it into her head to marry a poor man, as her mother dul before her. Eh! my girl?'' .Mary's only reply to this was a smile and blush. Our hero was considerably em harassed by the recollection of the mis take lie made, but the quietly cordial greet ing of his young hostess soon put him comparatively at rest. At her father's request who was very fond of his daughter's accomplishments .Mary sang and played for her cousin, ami his visit ended in singular contrast to the stormy way it commenced. Edward refused the live dollar note tendered to him at parting for his 1 raveling expenses. The old man smiled as he returned the note to his poeketbook. "lie's a sensible chap, after all," he re marked to his daughter, as the door closed after the guest. "It's in him, if it only can Ik? brought out. We shall see, we shall see." "A good ileal for father to say," was Mary's inward comment, who thought her cousin the most agreeable young man she had ever met. Three years later Mr. Stone and his daughter paused in front of a small but neat, pleasant-looking shop, 011 the plate glass uoor of which were the w •rds:— "Edward Stone, Stationery and Book store." It being to early in the day for custom ers, they found the proprietor alone, whose lace flushed with pride ami pleasure as he greeted them. "1 got your Card, nephew, said the ohi man with a cordial grasp of tlie hand, "and called around to see how you were getting 011. I thought it was about time 1 gave you that little lift you asked me for three years ago. \ou don t hnik much as if you needed it though." "Not at present, thank you, uncle," was the cheerful response. Curiously enough it is the same business that 1 wanted to buy then. The man who took it had to borrow money to purchase it with, getting so much involved that lie had to sell it at a sacrifice." "Just what you wanted to do."' Edward smiled at the point made'by lus uncle. "It isn't what I have done, though I've saved four dollars a week froui my salary for the last three years, and so, was not only able to pay the money down, but had fiftj" dollars besides." 4 lira vol my boy," cried the delighted old man, with another grasp of the hand that made our hero wince. lam proud of you! You're bound to succeed, 1 see, and without anybody's help. I told your cousin Polly that when she was eighteen I'd buy her a house in the city, and that she should furnish it to suit herself, and have all the ; servants she wanted, and I've kept my word. Come around and see us whenever you can. You'll always find the latch string out." Edward did not fail to accept the invita- I tion so frankly extended—a very pleasant intimacy growing up •>... ♦.„. „ i during the twelve months that followed. Our'hero's business grew and prospered until he # began to think of removing to a larger place, llis uncle had given him several liberal orders, as well as sent him a number of customers, but said nothing more about assisting him in any other way until Christmas eve.. Entering the room where Edward and his daughter were sit ting, be said: "1 masn't delay any longer the little lift I promised you, s hcpliew, and- which you have well earned." , . Edward glanced from the five thousand dollar check to the lovely face at his side, and then to that of the speaker. "You are very kind uncle—far kinder than I deserve —but —" "But'what, lad* Speak out! would you prefer it in some other form?" Edward's fingers closed .tenderly and strongly over the baud he had taken IU his. "Yes, uticle —in this." The old mau looked keenly liom one to the other. „, r "You are asking a good deal, nephew. Polly, have you beeu encouraging this yoUng"man iu Ins presumption." „ "Pin afraid 1 have, father," was the smiling response. "Then go, my daughter. I give you into worthy keeping, a: d if you make your husbund's heart as happy as your mother did mine during the few short years that she tarried by my side, he will be blest indeed." Hints in Regard to Liiflitaing. * It is"*never too soon to go in the house tolien a-storiu is rising. When tlie clouds are- fully charged with electricity they are most and the fluid -obeys a subtle attraction which acts at a great distance and in all directions. A woman told me of a bolt which came down her mother's chimney from a rising cloud when the sun was sliming over head. N. P. Willte writes of a young girl who was killed while passing under a telegraph wire, 011 the brow of a hill, while she was hurrying "home before a storm. The sad accident 'at Morrisania, when two children were killed,'' should warn every mother that it is not safe to let children stay out of doors the last minute lie fore the storm falls. People should not be foolhardy about sitting .on-L porches or by open win dows whether the storm is hard or not. Mild showers often carry a single charge, which falls with deadly effect. It may or may not be safe to stay out: it is safe to he in the house with the windows and doors closed. -The dry air in a house is a readier conductor than the damp air out side, and any draught of air invites it. A hot tire in a chimney attracts it, so to speak, jqd it is prudent for those who would he sure of s ifety to use kerosene or gas Stoics in summer, and avoid heating the-ehimneys of houses. People are very ignorant-'or reckless about lightning. 1 have seen a girl of eighteen crying with tear of lightning, and running every other moment to the window to see if the storm was not abating, unconscious that she was putting herself in danger. If every one would liurry to shelter as soon as a storm cloud was coming, and if they would shut the doors and windows, and keep away from them afterwards, and from wires, stove pipes, mantels, heaters and mirrors, with thetr silvered backs, which carry electricity, and keep away from lightning rods and their vicinity, and from metal water spouts, with good rods on their houses they might dismiss the fear of lightning from their minds, so far as it is a thing of reason and not iuipressiou. Wliat Itrultm Uring. Our best authors have, as a rule, made very little money. Home of them, like Longfellow, Lowell and Holmes, have an Independence without work. Emerson and VVluttier live very simply aud plainly, and I this fact explains why their earnings sup port them. Hawthorne was very poor un i til he had been appointed Consul at Liver pool ; I'oe was cJways in pecuniary distress, aud would have been pressed by cireumslau -1 i ees had liis habits been provident. Mrs. Stowe made by "Uncle Tom's Cabin," which, in the same time, has had a larger sale than any other work since the invention i of printing, not much over SIO,OOO, al though her publishers got rich by the world renowned anti-slavery novel. The most capable and industrious Utt* ra ti ur can seldom cum more than $4,000 to S.V>OO a year at the extreme, while un questionably clever, energetic fellows are obliged to content themselves with from sl, joo to $'2,000. A glance at some of our best known and most popular authors, resi dent in or near New York, will show that the ink they use is far from golden. The vete ran William Cullen Bryant was moderately wealthy; but he had not grown so by his poetry or by any of the works to which he had lent his name, but which he had not written. He owed iiis fortune to his partial | ownership of the Pvminy Post for the last 65 or 40 years. Worth probably $500,000 , or stioo,ooo at the lowest, and getting $50,- 000 to SIIO,OOO per annum from all sources, it may be doubted if his entire literary work would have yielded him S2O,(HH). ilryHiit's love of dollars is wholly dispro|ortioued to his professional capacity to earn them. He has been writing in his slow, deliberate, 'painstaking and paiusgiving way for (15 years—be did the "Thauatopsis" at 18,aud lias never quite equalled it since—and yet at no time could be have'got $4,000 or | or even $6,000 per aunuiu by the duvet use of his pen. While the publisher has pros pered the poet might have starved. Parke Godwin, Bryant's sou-iu-law, is a bnlliant litti ruttur as well as journalist, ami is pecuniarily independent. He owes his independence, however, to his interest in the Pveniny J*ost —he has had no con nection with it, editorially or otherwise, | for several years—not to his literary talent. The books he has published have returned him a few thousandsot dollars, aud his lec- i tures in the past have helped out his income; but he would have been poor deprived of what the Post has brought him. Bayard Taylor wju> one of our nmst popular authors —his books of travel have had a very wide sale-—aud he has been remark ably diligent with his pen from early youth. As a lecturer he had been extremely popu lar—lie cleared $40,000 year before last by the lyceum—having made more as a lectu rer than as author. His reputation as a traveler and a describer ot travels did not please him, notwithstanding it has been profitable. His high ambition was poetic and be was a poet; but the great public re garded liim as a traveler. We doubt if his -lA -1 ' 1 j fjoctbe, quj£f i 8 excellent, paid him lor any part of bis great labor.' A .a liberal estimate, if the times were what they have been, Taylor might have been worth $70,000 to SBO,OOO, much A which he obtained lroin dividends on his five shares of Tribune stock. Taylor drew a jour nalism 1 salary ot $5,000. Hieliard Grant \\ bite may be considered a successful 'author, lie has been before 1 lie public over a quarter of a century, and his {Shakespeare has gained him the title of scholar on bolli sides of the sea. It is un deniably the ablest work 011 the dramatist that baa been produced by any American, I and he is a man of large aud varied culture. He studied law, and medicine alter gradu ating, not with a view to practicing, but for the sake of increasing his knowledge. Now, beyond fifty, be literally wins his Iwead by contributing to the daily press and the magazines; he frequently writes editorials for the l imes and Evening Post, notwithstanding he holds a position in the Custom House at $'2,500 a year. George William Curtis, one of the dainti est and most polished writers in the Repub lic, ami yet a strong and jositive intellect, has been for years engaged on the periodi cal publications of the HarjKjr's. He writes the political editorials of the Weekly the Editor's Easy Cliair of the Monthly, and until recently wrote the discursive, ele gant essays which appeared in the llazar, over the signature ot "Old Bachelor." His salary iroui the Harpers is SIO,OOO a year, which is one of the largest paid in the city. I lie had but $4,000 until 1869, when the 1 death of Henry J. Raymond, and the desire of the Times to supply bis place, induced its publishers to oiler Curtis SIO,OOO. Cur tis declined to become editor ot the Times, preferring to remain with the old firm. Its | members heard of the offer, though not : through Curtis, and immediately advanced ! bis salary to the figure named —as much, no doubt, from fear ot losing him as from a sense of generosity. Curtis is a native of Providence, R. 1., well bred and well edu cated. Machine OUIIH at .Sea. Though the German admirality has de cided that every German man-of-war shall in the.future carry at least one machine gun, mainly for use against attacking tor pedo boats, though, of course, such a weapon would be also well suited for a multitude of other purposes for which light guns are generally used in navy warfare, the particular pattern or machine-gun to be adopted has apparently not yet been defi nitely selected. At least two German establishment have designed and construct ed machine-guns which have passed suc cessfully through a series of preliminary trials and which, it is reported; will now he tried in competition with one another and with several foreign pieces, swell is the Is or den ied and liotchkiss guns, the latter of which I has now been adopted by the navies in Fiance, Holland, Greece, the United States, Chili, the Argentine Republic, Russia and Denmark. The machine-guns of German manufacture are some of them Krupp's and others from the Wittener steel foun dry. The Krupp weapon is in form of a revolving cannon, consisting of four barrels twvnly-seveu inches long, with a calibre of one inch. The projectile weighs half a pound, while the charge consists of fifty grammes, or very nearly two ounces of powder, the whole cartridge, including the case, weighing 355 grammes, or twelve one-half ounces, while the total weight of the gun itself is 359 pounds. The Wittener naval mitrailleuse has also four barrels, and, like the Krupp revolving cannon, throws a bullet weighing a trifle over eight ounces, while the charge consists of seventy grammes, or two and one-half ounces, of powder. Gloves. Skins with hair on were frequently used iu the Middle Ages, as according to the pussage of MuseoniaiiH quoted by (!asaubon, they had been by the ancients. They are frequently mentioned as having been worn by husbandmen of England. Casaubon notes the circumstance that the rustics of our day made use of gloves. There is nothing in that passage to show that he was speaking of this country: he may very possibly have seen it in France. In Eng land, at any rate, "the monastery of Bury allowed ira servants 2 iience apiece for glove silver in autumn," (Pegge Missc, Carr., j and at a later date, in L inehain's account of the entertainment of Queen Eli/alwth at Kenilworth Castle, 1576, the rurul bridegroom had "a pair of harvest gloves as a sign of gtxxl husbandry," Upon the coronration of Petrarch at Rome as the "prince of poets," gloves of otter-skin were put on his hands, the satirical ex planation being given that the poet, like the otter, lives by rapine. The modern ladies' glove of four-aud-twenty buttons has had its prototype, for 111 the fourteenth century the nobility of Frauce began to wear gloves reachiug to the elbow. These gloves were, at times, like the more familiar stockings, which they must have much resembled, used as purses. Notwithstanding their length, it was always looked upon as decor ous for the laity to take off their gloves iu church, where ecclesiastics aloue might wear them. The custom still obtains in the Church of England at the Sacrament, though it is plain that it had not arisen in this connection iu the first instance, since iu the Roman ritual the communicant does not handle the consecrated wafer. It was, I perhaps, regarded as a pnxff and syni- I Ik>l of clean hands, for to this day persons j sworn in our law courts are compelled to ' I remove their glove. There is probably, j : tK), some relation between this feeling i and acuiious Saxon law, which forbade the Judges t# wear gloves while sitting on i the bench. The gloves of the Judges were, like those of the Bishops, a mark of their rank. The portraits of the Judges, painted by order of the Corporation of London, in the reign of Charles 11, and hanging in the courts of Guildhall, represent them with fringed and embroidered gloves. Ii was probably not in reference to the Judges : that a cant term for a bribe was a "pair of gloves." When Sir Thomas More was Chancellor he happened to determine a cause in favor of a lady named Croaker, who displayed her gratitude by sending him a New Year's gift of a pair of gloves, with forty angels in them. Sir Thomas returned the money, with the following let- , ter: "Mistress:-Since it were against good manners to refuse your New Year's gift, I am content to take your gloves, hut as for the lining, I utterly refuse it. The llxminoi K. .. hung in pears so comfortable a KV ls^. u L^K? 0 u *P hammock is uot a sign of indolence, an some who think that they have no t'nie for res', except in the night, may regard it; it is rather an index of good sense upon the part of the own -r who is aware 'hat in the busiest life there are minutes that can be best spent in comfortau e repose. Even on the farm in midsummer there are half hours and quarter hours at noonday, or in th ? evening after the heat and work of the day is over, when the rest which an easy fitting hammock affords is just so much clear gain. Nothing that will give rest to the weary body and at the same time div rt the mind is out of place i t the farmer's household. If there are children in the family, there is nothing that can give them more amusement ami comfort than a ham mock. and the guests, whether of an hour or a da}*, will not object to the pleasure which it affords. Hammocks are uot ex pensive, at least they do not now cost the price that they once did, when they were imported and fh -ir use was less general. Two or three dol ars w*ill now buy a very serviceable plain one; those that are elabo rately madi of course c * placed fu the shade, either between two trees up >n a lawn or upon the piazza hung by hooks or screw-eyes placed in the colums or posts. If more particularly f r children it should be somewhat lower than usual. For grown persons ti-e hook which supports the head end i-houd be six feet high a* d that for the foot four feet; this well afford the most desirable position for the occupant. The body of toe hammock should be nearer ihe higher hook than it is to the other, and this may be secured by using a Hioiter piece of rope OH the head end. There has been introduced recently a hammock hung to a portable frame ; this frame holds up and occupies but very little space wiieu uot iu use. Of cour e, like most go-.xl tilings, the hammock may be abused —the comfortable rest which it gives may induce persons to remain too late out of d ors, thus exposing them to the chilly or damp air of the uight, but this is uot tiie fault of the iiaumioek, ana no argument against its more general introduction as one of the wholesome comforts of the fanner's home during the hot mouths of summer. 1 lie Actum HI a CaiiipmeetiDi;. Two actors from Detroit arc negotiating with a person in a white necktie. "Who's the manager i" said the leading man. "A committee has Charge of the arrange ments." "Well, who's at the front ot the house ; who's in the box otlice ? We'd like to see him." "i don't think I comprehend exactly wlm r -——' "We're after two seats in the left side parquet circle, D. 11., see ?" "Keally, gentlemen, 1 can't " "Oh, it's all right'; we have season passes with Booth, and AlcVicker's aud of course ?" "We want to get in D. 11., you know." said tlie other actor impatiently. "What may D. H. mean?" "Why, dead head, of course; we never pay to get in any show." ' 'On, if you mean to go in, you may take seats where you please, free. We charge nothing." The actors looked amazed. "How do you pay your company ?"' asked the low comedian. "Our company, as you term it labors without fee or reward." The actors turned away, and the leading man said, contemptuously: "Borne amateur snap, 1 guess." Into the Darkneua. The ghost of a millionaire appears night ly unto a widow and her daughter iu the sacred ness of their own apartment in San Francisco. When the spirit made its first call it attacked the furniture, tore down the picture and groaned tor an hour, while the mother's hair stood on end and the daughter buried her face in the bedclothes. After wuiting during what semed an eter nity for an interval of the disturbance, the widow in fear aud trembling struck a match. Her amazement was unbounded. Everything was as she had seen it at retir ing. The table thut had apparently been turning flip-flaps for several hours, was standing in the middle of the room with the innocent expression it had worn when she last saw it. Every chair wore its tidy with the stiff dignity of a recruit on dress parade, and seemed to resent the suspicion thut it hud liecu assistiug in a supernatural ; high-jinks. Not a vase or picture was broken, notwithstanding the fact that the air had apparently been filled with frag ! nients of pottery and tatters of canvas. There was no sleep for the family that j night, though the day broke without any repetition of the strange disturbance. Pre cisely at 9 o'elock the next night the mys terious kuock was heard agaiii at the back door, and again the mysterious visitor iu bare feet walked through the house. llis misery had apparently grown more acute, for at every step he heav d a sigh ami occasionally groaned so wofully that the widow, iu the fulness of her womanly commiseration was tempted to ask, "What is the matter with you?" The reply, it is alleged, caiue in the unmistakable voice of the departed millionaire, "Oh my soul! Oh! uiy soul!" The widow went to her Bishop and asked him to pray for her, but he insinuated that she might be out of her head. When she went home a fresh sur prise awaited her. ller rosary beads, which she had left hanging on her bed were gone. No one had entered the house during her absence bit her daughter, and the young lady denied all knowledge of the missing article. That night, however, mother aud daughter, as they lay in bed with quivering nerves beard their supernatural visitor tell ing the beads as if in prayer. This was too much for the widow 's patience, and hastily striking a match and lighting the gas, she searched for the missing treasure. There was no trace of tlie beads or the mysterious devotee, however, though the ladies could still hear the beads and the sound of bare feet moving slowly through the door and into the darkness. Suow at Great Attitudes Duea T.'ot .Melt. The reason why snow at great elevations does not uielt but remains permanent, is owing to the fact that the heat received from the sun is thrown off into the stellar space so rapidly by radiation and reflection that the sun fails to raise the temperature of the snow to the melting point; the snow evaporates, but it does not melt. The summits of the Himalayas, for example, anrotnitwH~ianp. than teu times the snow that falls on them notwitnsiamiru & which, the snow is not melted. And in spite of the strength of the sun and the dry ness of the air at those altitudes, evapora tion is sufficient to remove the suow. At low elevations, where the snow-fall is probably greater and the amount of heat even less than at the summits, the snow melts and disappears. This, I believe we must attribute to the influence of aqueous vapor. At high elevations the air is dry and allows the heat radiated from the snow to oass into space; but at low elevations a very considerable portion of the heat radi ated from the snow is absorbed in passing through the atmosphere. A considerable portion of the heat thus absorbed by the vapor is radiated back on the snow, but tlie heat thus radiated, being of the same quality as that which the suow itself radi ates, is on this account absorbed by the snow. Little or none 01 it is reflected like that received from the sun. The conse auence is that the heat thus absorlwd accu mulates in the snow till melting takes place. Were the aqueous vapor possessed by the atmosphere sufficiently diminished, perpetual snow would cover our globe down to the sea shore. It is true that the air is warmer at the lower level than at the higher level and by contract with the snow must tend io melt it more at the former than at the latter position. But we must remember that the air is wanner mainly in consequence of the iufluence of aqueous vapor, and that were the quantity ot vapor reduced to the amount in question the dif ference of temperature at the two positions * ould not be great. Xo Buiien street Mogador, a Moorish town of Morocco, presents few "tourist sights.' But an Eng lish writer describes a negative one, the non-appearance of businf is in the streets. The windowless street J are all narrow, some long and straight. Private houses, merchants' warehouses, hostelries, all are of one generic type, save those found in blind alleys and slums. Iu binuess quarters there is little or no appearance of business. A caravan of camels is seen bringing mterchondise from Timbuctoo; the proces sion, which moves slowly, gravely, with silent foot, heightening our sense of mys tery, suddenly turns down a gateway scarcely wide enough to admit it, into the central court of a warehouse, and is out of sight. We follow through the archway, to find these ships of the deserted moored to the quay with freights of almonds, gums ivory, gold dust and ostrich feathers, which might be of little value, for thev are tied much as we tie up bundles of waste paper, letting the paper be its own covering. The outer feathers of the bales are brokeu aud dirty. Imagine London with all its drays out of sight in invisible warehouse squares; j'uch is the coudition of commerce in Mo gador. These camel trains are the poetry of trade, a living link to patriarchal and modern times. They have a look of im mense sadness, as though willing to close their long-enduring history. Steel Plates. It is reported from Sheffield, England, that heavy orders are daily coming in from Scotch and East Coast ship-builders for light steel plates. The introduction of 9teel into ship-building is causing an important and growing trade, to meet the requirements of which Sheffield manufacturers are intro ducing improved machinery in the large nulls. _ _ —The estimated population of Ohio by the new census is about 3,200,000 —a gain of about 540,000 since 1870. Money l>y Telephone. "Say, miss," said a rather hard looking i customer to the young lady in charge of the i central telephone office, one day last week, t "say, miss, I'd like to talk with Mr. Joseph i Snooks a moment." i The lady called Snooks and turned the s instrument over to the guest. "Hello, hello! Mr. Snooks 1" Snooks answered, and in the ensuing coi i I loquy the lady could of course only hear the hard looking customer. "Snooks, old boy, I can't come up for that money to-day; I'm too busy." "Kb?" "No, can't getaway." "1 know, but I'm sorry; I've got to meet Brace about your affair." ' 'But I'd jeopardize all your interests, i positively can't come. Can you send the money down ?" "Down here." "1 don't believe she'll do it, will she?" "No, I don't know her. She's a hand some girl with blue eyes and light hair. Kuow her?" "I'll ask her about it. Wait, keep your ear there, miss, Mr. Snooks wants to pay me four dollars, and says for you to let me have the money. I'll ask him again to make sure. Snooks, did you mean for this fine young lady to pay me and charge it to you?" "Don't hear you." "Yes, yes, all right. He says, miss, for yon to take my receipt and let me have the cash. You aie to put it in this telephone bill. All right, Snooks, good bye, see you to morrow," and he hung the mouth piece on the hook. •■Fine fellow, Snooks, he continued," looking pleasant at the manageress. "I never heard of seudiug money by telephone, did you ?" "No," responded the lady. "Perhaps you haven't the chauge I handy?" " res," said she. "You'll trust Snooks, I presume." he went on in a faltering manner. "Certainly," she replied, "if he says to lot you have it." ou don't think the telephone would lie, do you?" "Assuredly not I'll just ask Mr. Snooks." *:Ne, no. He's a sensitive man; he wouldn't like to have so much fuss over a sina.l amount. Make it two dollars and I'll give a receipt on account." "I'll pay anything Mr. Snooks says. I'll call him " "Bather than bother him again, 111 make it a dollar. Give me a dollar—" "Hut I prefer to call him." "Miss," said the man, "don't go near the wire now. There's a cloud coming up. Y'ou're going to lie struck with lightning. Kather than that, I'd take filty cents, a qu rtcr." "Oh! I'm not afraid," and she ap proached the instrument. ' Keep away from that wire'!" he howled, "don't call Snooks. He might be struck. If you don't care for yourself, have mercy auiuunv __u u V- rxaxr til* all the money in Brooklyn." "i shall either call Snooks or a police man,'' said the girl firmly. "Make it a policeman and I'll go for him myself," shouted the tramp, as he jumped over the rail. And then she called Snooks, who had been swearing at his end of the wire in the hope of making some one bear him, and told him it was all right, she hadn't paid the mouey. Only One orlnfc. A good-natured Griswold street lawyer, iu Detroit, left his office unoccupied for au hour about two o'clock the other afternoon, ami some of the jokers in the block went iu and built up a rousing hot tire in his coal siove. He came back with his hat in his hand and almost dead with the heat, and was met on the stairs by a lawyer, who said: "This is the hottest yet. The ther mometer in my room marks 120 degrees." "Don't seoui possible though it's a scorch er," replied the other, as he went to his room. He threw down his hat, took off his coat and began fanning himsell; but the harder he fanned the hotter he grew; Two or three lawyers came in and spoke about how cool his room was compared to theirs, and were greatly puzzled to account for it. Several offers were made him to chauge rooms, and pretty so in he grew ashamed of appearing so overheated, an 1 sat down to his table. In five minutes his shirt collar fell flat, and in ten he hadn't any starch in his shirt. The perspiration ran about in every direction, and he seemed to be boiling, when one of his friends looked in and remarked: "Ah! old boy, I envy you You've got the coolest room iu the block." "Say," said the law yer as he staggered over to the door, "I'm going home. I never felt so queer in all my life. While I know that tne room is cool and airy, I'm so soaked and boiled that I'can't lift a hand. One drink of brandy wouldn't act that way on a man, would it ?" ''That's just it," whispered the other. "Brandy always acts that way, especially if you drink alone. You ought to have known better." ' 'So I had —so I bad. Don't say a word to the boys—l'll make it all right. I thought something must ail me. and I was a little afraid 1 was going to be sent for. I'm glad it's nothing serious— I'll be back in about two hours." The History uf the Tomato. It is a popular fallacy mat the luscious and health preserving tomato has its origin as an article of food in this country. But while there is some reason to believe it was first found in Sout h America, it was evidently cultivated centuries ago iu Mexico and Peru. Dodoeus the Netherlaud herbalist, mentions the tomato as early as 1583 as a vegetable to be eaten with pep per, salt,and oil. It belongs to the night shade family and was used in cooking by the Malays more than a century and a half since. It is extensively raised in South ern Italy, and employed there as an accom panient to nearly every dish, particularly to macaroni. But neither there nor any where else in Europe, is it commonly eaten, as it is here, separately and in quan tities. In England it is sparingly produced, requiring a hot bed in the spring, and in consequence is high priced. The Italians formerly called it golden apple, and now call it love apple as it was once designated iu this country. The appearance of the tomato on the table has greatly increased in Europe within a few years; but in no land is it a regular dish-much as it is used for a sauce abroad-as iu the United States, where it is also pickled, preserved and mfected. NO. 39.