VOL. LYJ. HAUTER, A-UCTIONEER, REBKRSBURG. PA. J C. SPRINGER, Fashionable Barber, Next Door to JOURNAL Store, MII.LHKIH, PA. JgROCKEKHOFF HOUSE, AXLE GHENT STREET, B ELLKFONTE, - - - PA. c. G. McMILLEN, PROPRIETOR. Good Sample Room on First Floor. WFREE BOM to anil from all Trains. Special rates to witnesses and Jurors. 4-1 IRVIN HOUSE. (Most Central Hotel In the City,) Corner MAIN and JAY" Streets, Lock Haven, Fa. s. WOODS CALWELL, Proprietor. Good Sample Rooms for Commercial Travelers on first floor. D. H. MINGLE, Physician aud Surgeon, MAIN Street, MILLIIKIM, Pa. JOHN F. HARTER, PRACTICAL DENTIST, Office in 2il story of Touriiusoa's Gro cery Store, On MAIN Street, MILTHKIM, Pa. BF KIMTF.K. A FASHIONABLE BOOT .% SHOE MAKER Shop next iloor to Fiote's Store, Main St., Bot*. Shoes and Ga.ters made to order, and sat- Isfactorv work jruaranteail. Repairing done prompt ly and cheaply, aud 111 a neat style. S. R. PEAI R. H. A. MCKKK. PEAIE & McKEE, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Office opposite Court House, Bellefonto, Pfc C. T. Alexander. C. M. Bower. JFC BOWER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BELLEFONTB, PA. Office In Carman's new building. JOHN B. LINN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA. Offlce on Allegheny Street. QLEMENT DALE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA. Horthwest corner of Diamond, 11. H ASTHGS, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Office on Allegheny Street, 2 doors west of offlos formerly occupied by the late firm of Yocum M Hastings. M. C. HEINLE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA. Practices in all the courts of Centre Ctounty. Spec al attention to Collections. Consultations In German or English. F. REEDER, ATTORNEY AT LAVY, BELLEFONTE, PA. All bus'ness promptly attended to. Collection of claims a speciality. J. A. Beaver. J. W. Gephart. JGEAYER & GEPHART, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA. Office on Alleghany Street, North of High. Y°CUM & HARSHBERGER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA S. KELLER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA Consultations In English or German. Office In Lyon'o Building, Allegheny Street. JQ H. HASTINGS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA Offlce on Allegheny street, two doors west of olhce formerly occupied by the Arm of Yocum M Hastings. __ _ fie pillleii® §®iei®l DWICKT I>AY. Stay, sweet Pay, for thou art fair, Fair, ami full, luul calm; Crowned, through all lUy tfoldon hour*, Witn Love's brightest, riuhes' flowers, Strong tu Faith's unshakeu {Hiwera, Blessed ID Hope'* pure helm. Stay, what chance and at length, in one of our fr quent quarrels, I proposed a separa tion. Had a serpent stung her she would not have gazed on it as she did on me , "When you please," she finally re plied, and left the room. I stood aghast at what I had done. I had proposed a separation, and she had consented. I had said that OH that very day I would commence arrange ments for the purpose,—and could I MILLIIEIM, PA.. THURSDAY. MAY 25,1882. break my word? Could I go to bar, and bog her not to lonve mo, and tkat, when 1 niYHolf lmd proposed audi a stop? My priui again forbade mo, and I obeyed its dictates; but there still re mained a secret hope within me that, on 000 l reflection, she herself would refuse. I determined to consult a lawyer, in whose secrecy I could confide, and make such arrangements as were abso lutely necessary, I did so, and awaited results That night we were to g.> to a party. We did so. But not a word passed either of our lips 011 the way. Duriug the evening thevoiee of some cue singing attracted my attention. The tones seemed familiar; I could not be mistaken, the voice was hers. When it was finished she raised her eyes for a moment, and commenced another song—one I had never heard before—the story of a proud heart broken! Then she ceased and rose from her seat, but so white was she that I feared she would faint. Wo soon returned home. The dis tance was short, but the time seemed an age till we reached our house. I would have givon worlds to have spoken and to have told her all—all my sorrow, all my repeuteueo—but I could not; my tongue clove to the roof of my mouth; nor, indeed, until after she bode me good night., could I utter a word. Then, and only then, I stammered out a request that she would remain a few moments. She closed the door, and returned to her oliair, raising her large dark eyes inquiringly to mine, "Fanny," I said at last—l had not called her so for many months before— "Funny, will you sing me those songs you sang to night?" "Certainly, if you wish it," she re plied, and seating herself at the piano, she sang them again, in a char, calm tone. 1 had determined, when the songs were concluded,to seek a reconciliation, but the demon, pride, whispered. "Will you be less firm than she? This cannot last —why humiliate yourself?" Alas, I listened aud obeyed. I suf fered the last opportunity to recall our lost happiness to escape. Pride, the tyrant, was obeyed, and I suffered her to leave the room with a "good-night." 1 went up into my own lonely cham ber, and sat down and pondered on the events of the evening, regretting bitter ly my folly in suffering my pride to master me. I heard my wife moving about her room, which adjoined my own, and then suddenly a heavy fall and a low moan. I rushed into her apartment, and found her extended on th floor. I raised her in my arms and to my horror blood was streaming from her mouth. The tmth flashed upon mo at once— she had broken a blood-vessel —sho would die! I sprang to the bell. In a few min utes, —minutes which seemed an age,— the servants enterod the room, but stag gered, horror-stricken at beholding, their beloved mistress apparently in the agonios of death. "The doctor!—a doctor!" I shouted. "She will die—she will die!" In a second they all went but one, who was sobbing and praying while she wiped the blood from the blue lips of her expiring mistrsss. Oh wuat agony I suffered during the interval which ensued beforo tLro arrival of the physician! I called her by the dearest names; I begged her to speak one word. I en treated Iter to forgive me—only to smile once more. She slowly opened her large eyes; a slight smile passed over her face, and she was—dead! Just then the physicians entered, and I begged and prayed of them to exert their skill to save her. "It will be useless to attempt it," was their passionless reply; "110 human power can restore life." I did not believe them. My wife was -not, could not be dead. I clasped her in my arms; I kissed her brow, her lips, and all became a blank! Several months elapsed ore I recover ed, and since that time my days have been passed iu tears and in prayers at her grave, my nights in dreaming of her goodness, her lovo, and my terrible sin. Years have rolled away since she was consigned to the tomb -years of suffer ing, of remorse, in which I clothed my spirit with sackcloth, and heaped ashes on my head. My deep repentance has, I fervently hope at length procured for giveness. Last night she smiled upon me in my dreams, and beckoned me away. I most joyfully acknowledge the summons. Ere many days I shall cross the portal of that mystic land where sorrows come not; and forgetting my crime, I shall abide with my angel for ever and ever. He that or.ee did you a kindness will be more ready to do yon another than he whom you yourself have obliged. What can a man do more than die for his countrymen? Live for them; it is a longer work, and therefore a more diffi cult aud noble one. Ailvlru to Young Littllrn. John Buskin gives the following ad vice to young Indies; "In order to in vestigate oneself, it is well to find out what one is now. Don't think vaguely about it. Take pen and paper and write down as accurate a description of yourself as is jmssible, and if you dare not, try and get strength of hear enough to look yourself in the face, mind as well as body. Always havo4wo mirrors on your dressing table, and with proper care dress mind and body at the same time. Put your best intelli gence to finding out what you are good fur and what you can be made into. The mere resolve not to be useless and the honest desire to help other people will, in the quickest and most delicate way, improve oneself. All accomplishments should be considered as means of as sisting others. 111 music get the voice disciplined and clear, and think only of accuracy; expression and effect will take cere of themselves. So in drawing; learn to set down the right shape of any thing, and thereby explain its character to another person; but, if you try only to make showy drawings for praise, or pretty ones for amusement, your draw ing will have little or no real interest for you and 110 educational power. Re solve to do each day something useful in the vulgar sense. Learn the ecouo IPJ of the kitchen, the good and had qualities of every oommon article of food, and the simplest and best modes ot their preparation; help poor families in their cooking, show them how to make as muck of everything as possi ble, and how to make little niceties; coaxiug and tempting them into tidy and pretty ways, and pleading for woli folded table cloths, however ooarse, and for a flower or two omt of the garden to strew, OB tliem. One should, at the end of exery day, be able to say, as proudly as any peasant, that she has not eaten the bread of idleness. Get quit of tlit absurd idea that Heaven will interfere to oorrect great errors, while allowing its laws to take their own course in punishing small ones. If food is carelessly prepared no one ex peets Providence to make it palatable; neither if, through years of folly you misguide your own life, need you ex pect Divine interference to bring around everything at lust for the best. I tell you, positively, the worid is not so con stituted. TUs consequences of great mistakes are just as sure as those of small ones, and the happiness of your whole life and of all the lives over which you nave power, depends as literally 011 your common sense aud discretion HS the excellence aud erder of a day.' ( All Ah.nit Turnadoen. There has been prepared by Gen. ilazou the Cuief Signal Officer of the county, an official paper which contains a tabulated statement of six hundred tornadoes and some generalizations from their facts. The six huudied storms cover a period of eighty seven years and the whole countiy. Their examination leads to the conclusion that tornadoes occur most frequently in the month of June. Kansas is the Stale that lias been most atll cted. The JState has had sixty two tornadoes ftom 1859 to 1881; Illinois has had fifty-four from 1854 to 1881; Missouri has had forty-four Irom 1814 to 1881; New York has had thirty live from 18:11 to 1881; Georgia, thirty three from 18;.>4 to 1881; lowa, thirty one from 1854 to 1881; Oiiio, twenty-eight from I82:j to 1881, indiaua, twenty-seven Iroiu 18§2 to 1881. The biates and Terri tories that have bad only oue each from 1784 to 1881 are Colorado, California, In dian Ty., Nevada, New Mexico, Montana, Unode island, West Virginia and Wyoming The storms occur most frequently from five to six in the afternoon, although there is no hour of the day that has been entirely frte from them The avtraire width of the path of destruction is 1,085 feet and the storm-clouds run with a velocity of from twelve to sixty miles. The wind within the vortex sometimes attains a velocity of eight hundred miles au hour, the avrage velocity being three hundred aud ninety two miles. Among the most valuable suggestions of the paper are those with reference to the peculiarity of the move ments of tornado clouds, containing rules for arriviug at their violence. A tornado cloud always has a Beulre. aud it always moves forward from west to east. It may however, sway from side to side in its pro gressive movement. Changes in motiou are sometimes very sudden. In the event of a sudden change the observer who is east or south of east of the storm should move quickly to tne south. If he is northeast he should move to the north. If within a very short distuuee of the clouds the observer should run east, blearing to the south. Tins indi cates the character of the directions which have been given lor the avoiuance of the disastrous effect of st®ruis. Child Lif# lu .lupitii. Child life appears to be much alike in all countries; and hoops, and tops, balls, battledores, kites, cat-and-dog and "the chucks" engage children here as they do at home. The land is farmed much as it is in France—in small patches aud with out feuces. Cultivation is by the h?e. The laud is fertile aud in several places two crops are got in the year. The peo ple are very industrious, and men, women and children work in the fields. Un the hillsides tea aud rice are cultivated in terraces, as the vines is on the hills by the Rhine. I have seen what the Bible speaks of as "watering by the foot." Ihe hus bandman breaas with his foot the ridge of a terrace, and permits water to run therefrom into the terrace below. When a sufficient quantity ha 9 run down he closes the aperture with iiis foot. Child ren swarm in the street, and those of sev en years of age carry those of one or two on their backs. There are good school houses, and education in "the three It's"' is compulsory. The hum of the children learning their lessons is like 1 hat 1 have heard iu old times iu our parish schools. Crazu For Tops. The lop mania has attacked the boys not in a mild, gentle form, but with ai! Ihe malignity of an epidemic. The rape of the 15 puzzle anionic adult* was nothing compared to the power of the top craze. The Ucrmau tmy is content to see his top spin, but the American boy uever rested until he had mveuted two or three lively gauies to play with tops. The primitive cheapest top is made by cutting a spool in two, driving a hard piece of wood into the hole, sud working the small end of the spool dowu to a point. These tops are spun by twirling them with the fingers. The regulation top is made in a turning lsthe alxiut the size of a pear, and pro vided with a steel point. The best are made of box wood and cost sl. The cheaper varieties vary IU price from 2 to 25 cents. The manipulator winds a string around the top, (good fishing line is best) j aud then with a sudden jerk pull of the cord sends it spinning on the sidewalk or ground. There are numerous fancy vari eties of tops. One 13 a tiu affair, almost flat on the upper end, where are attached numerous pieces of bright colored paste board. Touch these lightly as the top re volves and tiie disarrangement of the pieces makes a kaleidoscopic change of colors seemingly never twice alike. An other is the humming top, made below with a hole in one side. It makes some such noise as an irritated hornet. The practical variety, however, is the plain, cheap top* "Wiiai game do you play with tops 7 " asked the writer of a newsboy. lie opened his big eyes wide wiili won derment that any mortal should be so igno rant and said: "Why, peg-a;-ory aud peg-er small-pox. Don't you know how to play peg-er peg-a-tory? Oh, yer foolin! Honest now, don't ver know how? Wall, it's this way: We pink for the hue. Piukin' for a line is throwiu' out tops at it, makin' 'em spin as they go. The fellew that comes furthest from the line sets lumselt iu a ring, an' the others spin their'n and peg at u8 top with 'em. If a boy's top spins aud rolls out o' of the ring, he's all right; but if it don't spin, or don't roll out o' the riug he's got to put his in the ring with th'other one. Then, if all the tops get in the ring, the first one that got in lakes his'u up aud tries to knock the others out. As muuy as he knocks out he nicks. Then, tiie ones that are moketl are all rittht, an' ihey peg at the others to knock 'cm out. That's peg-a-tory. Peg or small-pox is where one boy puts h:s top iu the ring, and the other pegs at it. Whoever Knocks it out of the riug nicks it or gives it the small-pox with his Up The feller that's uicked can then try an' knock tnc top out that's in the ring. Xickiu' is takin' a top up and punchm' so many holes in it with the sharp point of your top. A top don't stand it long. Sometimes we pla\ for 10 aud sometimes 25 nicks." The best tops will spin a wonderfully long time. O. e boy boosts a top that will go over two minutes and no uian with a 2 18 horse was ever prouder or received more proportionate flattenug offers for his property than the owner of this twj minute top. Forty Ceul*. Recently a stranger who was coming up from the Union depot, Detroit, stepped aside to ask of a man in the door of a clothing store; "My friend, can you tell me how far—?" "Do yon want to buy 101110 clothing?' interrupted the other. "I guess not. I simply wanted to in quire how—?" "I sells you a spring oafercoat for three dollar." "I never wear more than one spring overcoat at tiio same time. I wanted to ask-" "I have some wesis for a dollar "That's cheap enough, hut I don't care to invest. A ill yon let me ask you how far— "Doan' you vhaut some luutloous for twelve shillings?" "No." "Some stockings for teu cents?" "No." "Some suspenders for two shillings?" "No. I wanted to ask——" "Isell yon a hat for sixty cents." The stranger picked up his satchel and walked across the street. Then facing about, he shouted out; "I wanted to ask you how far it was from Dan to Ber——!" But the clothier dr >wned him ont right there with: "Und call and oxamiue my undershiit for forty cents!" Lucky EiKipe, On the night of October 14, 1651, a tall swarthy young man with a compan ion slipped into the George Inn, Brigh ton, auil said he would wait to meet a seafaring acquaintance. In earlier days the host had been employed in oue of the London palaces, and ho recognized in his seedy visitor Prince Charles, son of the monarch who, more than two years before, had been beheaded at Whitehall. After the battle of Worces tor the young king had experienced many adventures and worn many dis guises—theie was a price upon his head; but the innkeeper, either from loyalty or discretion, did not offer to molest the fugitive or his companion. The captain of a collier; Nicholas Tet tersell, then appeared, and took Charles and his companion, who was the Earl of Rochester, on board his vessel and lan ded them in France, for which service many things were promised. The Re storation came, but none of the gifts, and Tettersell therefore sailed into the Thames aud moored off Whitehall, where his drngy bark attracted the attention of the King, who, being thus reminded, gave the captain a ring, a peipetual annuity of one hundred pounds a year, and took the collier into the Navy under 1 the name of the "Lucky Escape." Old Places. 11l Prince George's County, Mary land near the Baltimore and Ohio Rail road stands the old Jenkins Mansion in a clearing of the forest. It Is of stone brought in Couestoga wagons, is built in the most substantial manner, says a correspondent and it seems to stand as firm as ever, though the moss lies thick upon its roof and the ivy and the arbu tus sling to its time-stained walls. The broad portico and its huge stone pillars are crumbling hero and there, but even they are resisting decay slowly. The rooms inside, with their antique por traits, furniture, chimney places aud polisod brass andirons carry you back to the days of Knickerbockers and Periwigs, and the family take great pride iu showing a room which Lafay ette onoo occupied when a guest of the family. The house is situated just off the old Washington turnpike, and dur ing the Revolution it was a convenient and favorite place of rest for many of the most celebrated American officers, including General Washington himself, when passing between Washington city and Baltimore. Its site is one charming in p'cturesque beauty, surrounded by high box-wood hedges, and in the back ground flows the blue Patuxent. The big stable and several old coaches are still there, but the stalls are nearly all empty and the grass is creeping up among the gravel of the serpentine drive. The negro quarters, too, arc deserted and the smoke curls over only a very few cabins. An infirm negro, bowed with age, limped by me, and with the politeness of the old days re moved his hat to mo and disappeared around the dairy. No other living thing was visible. The old place seem ed a symbol of departed glory. Another interesting spot near by tiie Jenkins mansion is the ruins of one of the first iron furnaces in the oountry. Iron ore is very prolific about this sec tion and the Muirkirk" Furnace is not faraway where operations are still go ing on. There I was shown a piece of pig iron with the perfectly defined im pression of a human toe in the metal. Charles E. Coffin, president of the Muirkirk Iron Company, is authority for the story of a negro salamander who worked there up to a few years ago. This man was in the habit of removing hi* shoes, and with feet perfectly bare troadiug about upon the red-hot pigs of iron. He became famous for this astonishing performance, and the negroes one aud all believed him to be in league with Beelzebub and avoided him like a pest. It is said that he oonld depopulate a saloon in an instant by entering where a crowd of sujierstitious darkeys were assembled. The local minister of the Methodist church once told the story ol the negro's astonishing feats before the conference in Washing ton aud was severely handled by his brethren for giving utterance to what seemed to be suoh a palpable impossi bility. His veracity was questioned and his position before the conference be came a serious one. At last the matter assumed such importance that they adjourned and visited "White Oak Bot tom-' in a body. They saw to their surprise what seemed like a miracle per formed before their eyes aud they re moved their censure from the story teller. The impression I saw in the pig of iron was said to be from the toe of the man, who is now w irking in How ard county at less hazardous employ ment. The neighborhood is full of historic interest, as it was closely identified with many imjrortaut events in the War of the Revolution. It was at Bludensburg, but a few miles southeast, where Uock liurn and Ross fought their celebrated. battle in 1814j just previous to the capture d Washington. Many of the old mansions are now occupied by prominent men, Ex.Gh>vrenor Oden Bowie has his home and his stables of fiue racing horses there. Admiral Amwen, Chief of the Bureau of Construction, United States Nary, his biother, Geueial Aminen, and State Senator Albertsou each occupy old family homes there. The visitor will be surprised to find a section of country so close to two large cities so little affected by the march of progress. Particularly is this true in relatioiUto the colored race. The old special holiday occasions peculiar to the anti- slavery days are still religiously observed. At these times they assemble at an appointed place in large numbers and perform their games with all the old-time vim and enthusiasim. These are not unlike the children's ring plays, except that they are accompanied by wild refrains and choruses characteristic of the race. As I boarded the train for Washington a day or two ago I was c mviuced that this primitive little section of Prince dreaming serenely in the memory of the past. Energy will do everything tliat can be dome in the world; and no talents, no circumstances, no opportunities, will make a two-legged animal a man with out it. According to Zeno, ib is a very sug gestive fact that we have two ears and only one tongue. It is better to listen than to talk, and always safe to tell no more than half we hear. Moantala roronta. Attention has long keen given to devis ing means to limit the ravag soi these torrents, which ruin the land, threaten es tates, destroy roads, and sometimes eveu compromise the existence of villages. Walls have been built along the banks to protect them, or across the streams to allay the force of the waters. The most effica cious means, however, as yet discovered, has been to mamtoin the woods on the slopes of the mountain. The effect of cutting away the trees in promoting the formation of torrents has not been doubted by the inhabitants of mountainous regions and is clearly set forth by M. Surrell, who says: "When we examine the tracts in the midst of which torrents of recent origin have been formed, we perceive that they have in all cases been despoiled of their trees and bushes. If, on the other hand, we examine hills whose sides have beeu recently stripped of wood, we observe that they are cut up by numerous torrents, which have evidently been formed very lately. Here Is a remarkable double fact: wherever there are recent torrents there are no longer forests, and wherever the ground is cleared these torrents are formed; and the same eyes that see the woods fall on the declivity of a mountain may see appear there immediately a multitude of torrents. 1 he disastrous consequences of removing the woods from the Alps began to attract attention m the last century, aud have since been discussed in many publications and official reports. In 1858 the Prefect of the Department of the L>wer Alps said in a report to the Minister: "If prompt and energetic measures are not taken it will be almost impossible to designate the precise moment when the French Alps will become a desert. The period from 1851 to 1853 will produce a new diminution in the uumber of popula tion. In 1861 the Minister will remark a continuous and progressive reductiou la the uumber of hectares devoted to agricul ture; each year will aggravate the evil, and in a half century France will count more ruins and one department less.*' The departments of the Upper and Lower Alps actually lost 80,000 inhabitants or one-ninth of their population, between 1851 and 1876. A law for recovering the mountains with wood, which had been prepared by M. Fore ide do Rouguet, Di rector General of the Administration of tne Forests, was adopted by the Legisla tive bodies in 1860 and was put in opera tion shortly afterward. To Be Sure. The time appointed tor the marriage ceremony in the church was 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Borealis Brown, the bridegroom, and Aurora White, tue bride, were in a close carriage fen blocks away at six min ites before 3. •'We shall get there right on time," said he, looking at his watch. Now, it is dreadfully unfashionable to get to the church promptly, and Aurora would have felt just like dropping through the floor, don't you know, if she had walked up the sisle on time, "Don't you think, my dear, it would be better to be Itn minutes late?" said she, ieanmg against him in a kind of harmless hug. "No; I pride myself on punctuality." "Five minutes, then?" "Now, my darling, don't coax." "Just as you say.'' She put her hand carelessly on his shoulder, and then let it drop slowly along down over his coat to a small pocket 8A in at the waist statu, where it lingered for a few seconds. "You have the ring where you can find it readily." she remarked, laying placidly back in her seat. "Tnere is nothing so awkward as to fumble for the ring at the altar, you know " "On, I've made sure of that point as I told you," he said confidently. "I slipped the ring right iuto this handy little pocket where I—Good Lord in Heaven!" "What, Borealis—what ?" "The ring is lost!" He thrust his fingers into his pocket madly, again and again, but the ring surely the ring was not there. He made wild conjectures, felt in all his other pockets, and concluded that he must have left it at Aurora's residence. He ordered the coach man to go about. Wheu they had gone back almost to the house a public clock struck 3, 44 What is that?" said Aurora, pointing to the bottom of the carriage. The ring lay glittering in a corner. "1 must have dropped it," Borealis, said picking it up, "but I swear 1 looked in that very spit not two minutes ago." He had looked there, as a matter of fact, just before Aurora threw the ring down. ••Well," he remarked, looking at his watch again, "you will have your way, after all. We can't get to the church before ten minutes late anyhow." 44 To be sure " The Mourner s Boueh. Evangelist Barnes, the Preacher of the Mouutains, has been laboring late ly at Frankfort, Ky. In that place lives John Rocketty, whose life, though not a bad one, has been without the fold. Happening to meet Mr. Rocketty the other day Mr. Barnes urged him to mend his ways. Mr. Rocketty scouted the suggestion, whereupon the Evangelist was nettled. "I will bet you ten to one in fifties" said Rock etty, "that you can't convert me. ' -Done," said Barnes, "I'll bring you to the mourners' bench within ten da; s." The pool sellers of the town are reported to have opened pools on the result. At first it was 85 to 15 that Rocketty would withstand the eloquenoe of the mountaineer. The odds rapidly fell, however, until the betting was 98 to 2 against Rocketty, who on the eighth day walked up to the mourners' bench. The best people need afflictions for trial of their virtue. How can we ex ercise the grace of contentment if all things succeed well; of that of forgiv ness, if we have no enemies? NO 21.