VOL. LYI.
HARTER,
AUCTIONEER,
MILLHEIM, PA.
J C. SPRINGER,
Fashionable Barber,
Next Door to JOUKN AL Store,
MILLHKIH, PA.
JJROCKERHOFF HOUSE,
ALLEGHENY STREET,
BKLLKFONTE, - - - FA
C. G. MoMILLEN,
PROPRIETOR.
Good Sample Room on First Floor.
ftyFrt* BOM to sod from all Train*. Special
rate* to Wiuiemee and )uror*. 4-1
IRVIN HOUSE.
(Most Central Hotel In tbe City,)
Corner MAIN and JAY Streets,
Lock Havea, Pa.
8. WOODS CALWELL, Proprietor.
Good Sample Rooms for Commercial
Travelers on first floor.
D. H. MINGLE,
Physician aud Surgeon,
MAIN Street, MILLHKUC, Pa.
JJR. JOHN F. HARTER,
PRACTICAL DENTIST,
Office in 3d story of TomUnsoa'i Gro
cery Store,
On MAIN Street, MILI.HKIM, Pa.
BF KINTKR,
■ FASHIONABLE BOOT A SHOE MAKER
9hop next door to Foote'a Store, Main St.,
lkots, Shoes and Gaiters made to order, and sat
isfactory work guaranteed. Repairing done prompt
ly and cheaply, and m a neat style.
A R. RIALS. H. A McK**.
PEALE JFC MEK EE,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Office opposite Court House, Bellefonte, Pa.
C. T. Alexander. C. M. Bower.
A BOWER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
BKLLKFONTE, PA.
Offioe In Q&rman'a new building.
JOHN B. LINN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BKLLKFONTE, PA.
om.;e on Allegbeny Street.
QLEMENT DALE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Kortbwest corner of Diamond,
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JQ XI.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Office on Allegheny Street, doors west of office
formerly occupied by the Wte tinu of Yocum A
li&fcUUg*.
M. C. HEINLE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Practices In all the oourts of Centre county.
Special attention to collections. Consultations
In German or English.
F. REEDER,
ATTORNEY AT LA W.
BELLEFONTE, PA
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All bus'n ess promptly attended to. Collection
of claims a speciality.
J. A. Beaver. J W. Gephart.
JgEAVER A 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. Offloe
'in lion's Building, Allegheny Street.
M. HASTINGS. w. P. RKJEDKR.
JJASTING3 & REEDER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA
Office on Allegheny street, two doors east of the
■ offl -e occupied by the late firm of YwflMß# Hast
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C(NTHAUY 4 M.IN.
Some men lo write when they *lo wrong,
Ami some do live who dye;
And some itre "short" when they are long,
Ami stand when they do he.
A man Is surly when he's late ;
la "round when he Is square;
lie may die early ami dilate,
And tuay be foul when "fair."
lie may las " fast" when he is slow,
Aud "liHse" when he Is "tight,"
And "high" when he Is very "ow.
And heavy when he's "light."
He may lx* wet when he is "dry;"
He may te "great" when small;
May purchase when we won't go by;
Have naught when he has awl.
lie may te sick when he is "swell,"
And hot when he Is scold;
He's skilled so he on earth may dwell,
And when he'syuung he's sold.
THAT ONK DOLLAR HI LI..
How it die* raiu that November night!
None of your undecided showers, with
hesitating intervals, as it were,between;
none of your mild, persistent patterings
on the roof, but a regular tempest, a
wild deluge, a rush of arrowy drops aud
a thunder of opening tloods!
Squire Pratlet heard the rattling up
against the casements,and drew his snug
easy chair closer to the fire—a great,
open mass of glimmering anthracite,
and gazed with a sort of sleepy, reflec
tive satisfaction at the crimson moreen
curtains, aud a gray cat fast asleep ojj
the hearth and the canary bird rolled
into a drowsy ball of yellow dow u upon
its perch.
•'This is snug," quoth the 'Squire ;
"I'm glad I had the leaky spot in the
barn fixed hist week. I don't object to
a stormy night once in a while when a
fellow's under cover, aud there is noth
ing particularly to be doue.
••Yes,"Mrs. Pratlet answered She was
flitting about between the kitchen aud
sitting room with a great blue checker
ed apron tied about her waist. "I am
nearly ready to come in-now. Well, I
wonder," sotto voce, "if that was a
knock at the door or just a little rush of
the WUKI,"
See went to the door, nevertheless,
and a minute or two afterward she went
to her husband's chair.
"Joe, dear, it's Luke Ruddilove, "she
said, half apprehensively. The 'Squire
never looked up from his reading.
"Tell him he has made a mistake.
The tavern is on the second corner be
yond. "
"But he wauts to know if you will
lend him a dollar," said Mrs. Pratlet.
"Couldn't you tell him no, without
the ceremony of coming to me? Is it
likely that I should lend a dollar, or
even a cent to Luke Ruddilove? Why,
I'd a great deal rather throw it amoug
yonder red coals. No—of course mot.
Mrs. Partlet hesitated.
"He looks so pinched ami cold and
wretched, Josiah. He says there is no
body in the world to let him have a
cent.
"All the better for him, if he did but
know it," sharply enunciated the old
'Squire. "If he had come to that half
a dozen years ago perhaps he would not
have been the miserable vagabond he
now is."
*"We used to go to school together,"
said Mrs. Pratlet, gently. "He was the
smartest boy in the class."
"That's probable enough," said the
'Squire, "but it don't alter the fact. He
is a poor drunken wretch now. Seud
him about his business, Mary, and if
his time is ot any consequence, just let
him know he had better not waste it
coming here after dollars.
And the Squire leaned back in his
chair, after a positive fashion, as if the
whole matter was settled.
Mrs. Pratlet wet t back to the kitchen
where Luke Ruddilove was spreading
his poor fingers over the blaze of the
fire, his tattered garments steaming as
if he was a pillar of vapor.
'•Then I've got to starve like any
other dogl" said Luke Ruddilove, turn
ing away. "But after all, I don't sup
pose it makes much difference if I
skuftle out of this world to-day or to
morrow."
"Oh, Luke, no difference to your
wife ?"
"She'd be better off without me," he
said down heartedly.
"But she ought not to be."
"Ought, and is, are two different
things, Mrs. Pratlet. Good night; I
ain't going to the tavern, altliought I'll
wager something the 'Squire thought I
was."
"And isn't it natural enough that he
should think so, Luke?"
"Yes, yes, Mary; I don't say but
what it iß,'' murmnred Luke in the same
dejected tone he used during the inter
view."
"Stop," Mrs. Pratlet called to him as
his hand lay on the door latch, in a low
voice. "Here's a dollar, Luke. Mr.
Pratlet gave it to rae for an oilcloth to
go in front of the parlor stove;but I will
try and make the old one last a little
longer. And Luke, for the sake of your
poor wife and little ones at home, and
for the sake of old times, do try and do
belter. Won't you?"
Luke Ruddilove looked vacantly at
the new bank bill in his hand, and then
at the blooming young matron who had
placed it there.
"Thank you, Mary. I will. God
bless you," he said, and crept out into
the storm that reigned without. Mrs.
Pratlet stood looking into the kitchen
fire.
"I dare say I've done a foolish thing,
MILLHEIM. PA., THURSDAY, JUNE 29. ISS2.
but indeed, I eould not help it. If ho
will take it home and not spend it at
the tavern, I shall not miss my oil
cloth."
And there was a conscious Hindi on her
cheeks as if she had done something
wrong when she joined her husband in
the sitting room.
"Well," said 'Squire Pratlet, "has
that unfortunate gone at last.
"Yes."
"To the Stoke's Tavern, I suppose?"
"1 hope not, Josiah."
"I'ui afraid it s past hoping for," said
the 'Squire, shrugging hir shoulders.
Hut Mrs. Pratlet kept her secret iu her
own heart.
It was six months afterward that the
'Squire came into the dining room where
his wife was preserving great red apples
into jellv.
"Well, well, quoth he, wonders will
never cease. The Ruddiloves have gone
away."
"Where!"
"I don't know—out West somewhere
with a colony. And they say Luke's
not drank a drop of whisky for six
months.
"I am glad of that," replied Mrs. P.
"It won't last long,"he suggested des
pairingly."
"Why not?"
"Oh I don't know; I haven't any faith
iu these sudden reforms."
Mrs. Pratlet was silent; she thought
thankfully that, after all, Luke had not
spent the dollar for liquor.
♦ * ♦ *
Six mouths —six years; the time sped
along iu days aud weeks, almost before
busy little Mrs. Pratlet knew that it was
gone. Tli Ruddiloves had returned to
Sequosset. Luke had made his fortune,
as the story went, far off iu Eldorado.
"They do say," said Mrs. Bucking
ham, "that he has bought that 'ere lot
down opposite the court house, and he
is going to build such a house as never
Wfffi."
"He must have prospered greatly,"'
observed Mrs. Piatlet.
"And his wife, she wears a silk gown
that will stand alone with its own rich
ness! I can remember when Raddilove
was nothing but a poor drunken crea
ture,"
"All the more credit to him now,"said
Mrs, Pratlet, emphatically.
••It' to be all of stone, with white
mantels and inlaid floors; aud he has
put a lot of papers and things under the
corner one,like they dc in public build
ings."
"Well, that is natural enough."
••I kuow, yet it seeius kind o' queer
that he should put a ilollar bill in with
thq other things. He must have lots of
money, to "throw it away iu that man
ner."
Mrs. Pratlet felt her cheeks flush.
luvoluutiuy she glanced toward the
Squire. But' he never looked around.
She met Mr. Ruddilove that afternoon
for the first time since his return to Se
quosset—Luke himself, save that the
demon of lutemperaueo tiad been com
pletely crushed, aud his better nature
triumphing at last. He looked her
brightly in the face, and held out his
hand, saying but one word:
"Mary."
Tremulously she replied: "I am glad
to see you here again."
When Luke overcame his emotion he
continued:
"Do you reineralier that stormy
when you gave me that dollar bill and
liegged me not to go to the tavern?"
"Yes."
"That night was the pivot on which
my whole destiuy turned. You were
kind to me when all others gave me
naught but the cold shoulder. You
trusted me when all other faces were
averted. That night I took a vow to
myself to prove worthy of your confi
dence, aud I kept it. I treasured it up,
and Heaven has added mightly to my
little store. I have put the bill in the
corner stone of my new house, for it
arose alone from that dollar bill."
"I won't offer to pay yon back, foi I
am afraid," be said smilingly, "the luck
would go from me with it. But I'll tell
you what I do; I'll give money and
words of trust and encouragement to
some other poor wretches as you gave
to me."
The next day Mr?. Pratlet received
from the delivery man at her door a
bundle which, when she had opened it,
revealed to her astonishmed gaze the
most beautiful piece of oilcloth her eyes
had ever beheld. This naturally attract
the Squire's attention, and when Mrs.
Pratlet told him all,he only replied, with
some emotion: "You were right, and 1
was wrong/\^
Tli* Question.
What shall we have for dessert? is the
question which is agitating the country
housewife just now, before strawberries
come. An orange shoitcake will answer
the question once or twice at least. Make
a crust as for strawberry shortcake, only
roll it cut a little thinner. While it is
baking, cut up a liberal allowauce of
oranges and scatter sugar over them.
When the shortcake is done, cut in laytis
and put the oranges between. C.nned
pineapple, chopped fine, may be used for
the filling, and even dried apples thor
oughly soaked and cooked. Mash the
apples, and 'o one quart of apples allow
one full cup of black raspberries. They
color and tlavor the apple, and if you have
never eaten it you will be pleased to note
' bow good tbis simple disb tastes.
KVMIIUX.
The seals of the North Atlantic are
not hunted for their fur, as are their
Alsskan cousins, but chiefly for their
oil, and secondarily for their skins. It
is an industry which profitably employs
hundreds of ships and thousands of sea
men, and it receives the name of
"sealing."
You may know that near the end of
winter enormous herds, chiefly of the
harp- seals, come down aiul congregate
uj>ou the floating field* of ice eastward
of Newfoundland, where the young are
born in March. These are the place and
season of the largest fishery, but the
locality is never fixed nor certain; the
fields, approached simultaneously by
sailing fleets aud steamers from New
foundland, Nova Scotia, Scotland.
England, France, German}, and Nor
way, must be sought for every year as
though for the first time. This in
the icy, tcnqu'stiious North Atlantic, at
the most stormy period of of the year.
Dreadful gales may drive the ships
anywhere but where they seek to go,
bergs may be hurled against them, the
ice may jam them "oetwecn its ponder
ous edges and crush the doubly braced
hulls into splinters, or cleanly cut away
parts of* the bottom, and leave the
vessels to sink and the men to save
themselves as best they may iqiou
broken and drifting ice. Often a field
ot thin "bay-ice" Mill he right in the
path. Then the ship dashes into it as
far us its power can force it. When it
sticks, the crew leap overboard, chop
and break the field into cakes which are
shoved under the floe or hauled out on
top: or, it it is too thick to be broken,
saws are brought < ut. and a canal is
slo.wly made for the ship's progress.
This is a tunc of great desire for haste,
and you may well believe that every
man works with all his might.
Well, when all this toil and danger
are passed,— sometimes greatly prolong
ed, and in the midst of a frozen sea
and the most violent storms, —and the
ship has the good luck to sight a herd
then begins lor the crew of hardy
sailors a season of aliout the most
arduous labor that one can imagine.
If the weather i>ermit, the vessel is
run into the ice, and moored there; if
not. it sails back and forth iu open
spaces, managed by the captain and one
or two others, while the remnindei of
the crew, sometimes sixty or seveuty,
or even more in number, get into boats
and row swiftly to the floe. The young
seals lie scattered about here and there,
basking in the sun or sheltered under
the Ice of a hummock, and they lie so
thickly that half a dozen will often be
seen in a space twenty yards square.
They can not get away, or at most can
only flounder about, aiul their plaintive
bleatings and white coats might almost
be those of lambs. The old seals are
frightened away by the approach of the
sailors, and never show tight, and the
youngsters are easily killed; so the men
do not take gnus, but only clubs, with
which they strike the poor little fellows
a single blow on the head, usually kill
ing them at once.
Having struck down all they call see
witliiu a short distance, the small
squad of men who work together then
quickly skin, or (as they call it) "sculp"
them, with a broad clasp-knife, butting
clear through the thick layer of fat
which lies underneath the hide, and so
leaving a surprisingly small carcass be
hind. Bundles are then made of from
three to seven "pelts," and each man
drags a bundle toward the boat. This
is sometimes miles distant, the ice is
rough and broken, he must leap cracks,
trust himself to isolated cakes, and often
he falls into the freezing water, or
loses his way in a sudden squall of snow.
It is limb-cracking and life-risking
work, and, to accomplish it successful
ly, a man must school his muscles to
endurance, his nerves to peril, and his
heart to bitttor cruelty;—but every pelt
is worth a dollar.
By night, after a "seal-meadow" has
been attacked, the decks of the vessel
are hidden under a deep layer of fat,
slippery pelts. After these have lain
long enough to get cool, they are stow
ed away in the hold in pairs, each pair
having the hair outward. The hold is
divided by stout partitions iuto com
partments, or '-pounds," in order to
prevent the cargo from moving about
and so rubbing the fat into oil, which
would speedily till every part of the
hold and the cabins, spoiling all the
provisions. A v ssel once had to be
abandoned from this accident, because
it had not been "pounded." The
Eur< pean ships, however, generally
separate the fat at once and stow it in
casks.
Co flee Drinking In America.
Americans are becoming a nation ol
coffee drinkers. 'I lie consump ion of ten
per head of populp.tiou has only increased
from t.Ol to 1.44 pounds since 18(57
while that of coffee in the same perioo
nas gone up from Oil to 889 ponnds.
Great Britain, on the other hand, drinki
less coffee in proportion to population
than a generation ago, while the consump
tion of tea has almost quadrupled iu forty
years, -
WHEN cooking onions, put a tin cup
of vinegar on the stove to boil, and-tliere
will be no disagreeable odor.
—Mr. Emerson amassed a fortune of
omething like $200,000.
Tlte l'ro|toMl Franco-Alt lean Sua.
The formation of a great internal sea
iu the south of Algeria and Tunis, which
has been considered by some as a pure
ly Eutopian project, lias now been offi
cially adopted by the French Govern
ment. Monsieur Lesseps, we oliserve,
is one of the advocates of the scheme.
The identification of that always active
gentleman with ull such undertaking*
would sin-in now to be accepted as pret
ty much a matter of course. There* is
very little doubt that the jHisitioii taken
by France in Tunis has not a little to do
with.the new favor with which this en
terprise has lieen received by the govern
ment. The taking jMissession of Tunis
and rapid building of railways in Sen
egal, with theereatiou of the sea in ques
tion, it is believed, would bring almost
the whole of northern Africa under
French influence. The recent report of
M. de Freycinet to the President em
bodies a resume of some of the physical
difficulties iu the way, ami the political
and other reasons in its favor. As to the
former, we are told the projwiscd sea
would bo seven times the size of the
Luke of Geneva, or about 350 kilometres
long (210 miles) by from 35 to 10 kil
ometres in width (25 miles). A canal of
240 kilometres would lead to the Gabon.
In the south of Algeria and Tunis are
immense and waste depressions of the
surface known as c/ioitH. The only work
to lie done would be to construct the
canal and let the water from the Medi
terranean in. The objections that are
made against the plan, as well us the
arguments in its favor, are necessarily
vague, and their truth more or less a
matter of conjecture. M. de Freycinet
emphasizes its use as a barrier, as it were
against the savage tribes to the cast and
south of the French jHissesKions. The
committee iqq>ointed to finally consider
the question, and which will liegin work
on the 30th of next month, w ill comprise
forty-eight members lielongiug to the
various departments of the government,
sixteen unonlxTs of Parliament, and the
most distinguished military and civil
engineers. The commercial and trans
jiort advantages of the contemplated un
dertaking are too uncertain as yet to IK 1
taken into serious consideration; but
then it must be rememliered some of the
great**t and most beuficial works of the
Romans were originally projected, as the
African Sea is projected, for military
purjsmes. French cupitid and French
enterprise no doubt accomplished a
great deal for the world at large in
building the Suez canal, and possibly
these may now accomplish something
for France and a great deal more for
Timlmctoo by introducing the waters of j
the ocean into its arid wastes.
Kxtraorrilnary JVal at St*u.
When the Mallory Line steamship Rio
Grande, from Gilveslon, reached her lierth
at I*lol2o, East river,N.Y ~recently,there
were tearful eves and tremulous lips
among the group of passengers who
leathered atiout the ttalwart, manly figure
<>f Captain Albert C. Burrows. They
were bidding farewell to a gHllaiit sailor,
whose bravery *ud skill had saved them
from fire and Bhipwreek. Captain Bur
row has accomplished a feat which seafar
ing men say is not only brilliant and un
usual, but unprecedent. W lien his steamer
was discovered to be on fire at ninety
cuiles beyond the Delaware Breakwater,
he overhauled au Italian hark, the Beppt
no A , successfully and safely, and with
out the siiehiest panic translerred his
ninety-seven passenger to her, "navigated
Ihe burning vessel to a shoal near the
Breakwater and sank her to the deck
beams. This was the only mean 9of put
ting out the fire, which was in the bold of
the ship among eight hundred bales of
cotton, li was inn ossible to reach tbe
fire on Ihe Rio Grande or to successfully
battle with it in the usual way by pouring
water through the hatches. To complete
ly submerge all of the s!earner below the
main-deck batches was the only recourse.
To accomplish til's without serious injury
to the ttesmer was no easy task. But
Captain Burrows managed it in twenty
seven hours af'er the conflagration was
first discovered; and not only this, but in
twenty-lour hours more he had extinguish
ed the flames, pumped out and raised the
ship and was once again ready to start the
engines ana steam for New York. At the
Delaware Breakwater the ltio Grande
again overhauled the Italian bark, re
transferred the passengers to the steamer
aud resumed the voyage to New York
with the steamer as souud as a dollar and
no other injury except that to the cargo.
"For quick aud successful work," said a
sea captain WHO appeared to lie a passen
ger on the KioUraude, t4 l should like to
know where or when that has been equal
ed. Captain Burrows, sir, is a brave,
cool-headed,skillful man and a true sailor,
every inch of him."
The lllghent ltiiildhig Iu Kiiropo.
Hitherto the Hospice of the Great St,
Bernard, which stands 8.2(H) feet above
the level of the sea, * has enjoyed the
distinction of being the most elevated
inhabited building in Europe. This
honor it can now no longer claim. Diirt
ing the past year the city authorities of
Catania, in Sicily, have caused to be
erected near the summit of the great
volcano, Mt. Etna, an astronomical ob
servatory which stands 2.943 metres
above the sea level, or fully 1.000 feet
higher than the Hospice of St. Bernard.
The structure is nine metres in height,
and covers an area of 200 square metres.
It consists of an upper and lower story,
and is built in a circular form. In the
lower story there rises a massive pillar,
upon which is placed the great refrac
ting telescope. The lower story is di
vided into a dining-room, kitchen, and
store-rooms. In the upper story there
are three bedrooms, intended for the
accommodation of astronomers and
tourists visiting the establishment. The
roof consists of a movable cupola or dome.
From the balconies of the upper story a
prospect of vast extent and grandeur is
presented. The spectator is able to see
over half the island of Sicily, the island
of Malta, the Lipari Isles, and the
province of Calabria, on the niaiulan \
of Italy. This observatory is erected
upon a small cone, which will, in the
case of eruption, protect it completely
fr< m tV e lava-stream which alwavs f!o vg
own on the opp< sit© side of they ole &J.
The Alp*.
• A complete description of the Arts,on
A new plan, h&A just been concluded by
M. Civiale, a Frenchman,whose investi
gations were undertaken under a com
mission of the French Academy, which
lias now received his report with terms
of high appreciation. M. Civiale's plan
involved a large use of photography. A
preliminary study satisfied him that the
central mass of the Alps and the chaius
diverging into Germany, Austria, and
Franeo might be divided into forty-one
districts, such that, taking a central
station in each, at sufficient height, one
might obtain photographic panoramas
of the whole. The plane of comparison
for ideal surface on which the author
distributed his station is over 8,000 feet
in altitude; and in some cases he had to
climb more than 10,000 feet, taking, of
course, apparatus with htm—a sufficient
indication of the enterprise which, in
ten years, M. Civiale has successfully
carried out. It was often difficult to fix
the insturinents on account of the wind.
The line of sight once rendeAd horizon
tal in all directions, M. Civiale proceed
ed in each case to take photographs in
fourteen different directions. These
were afterwards carefully joined, buch
pauormas furnish at once the plane
mensuration, tlie relief,and the picture
sque aspect of the country, M. Civiale
alio traversed the valleys and photo
graphed . natural geological sections,
snow limits, landslips, glaciers with
their crevasses aud moraiues, and so on
—all t hat is interesting to the geologist,
the engineer, and the tourist. Six hun
dred plates are devoted to these details,
and the views given are pronounced re
markably good. It is suggested by the
commission that, in future time, it may
be possible by superposing panoramic
views taken from the same station on
those of M. Civiale, the amount and
character of secular demolition may be
estimated.
LMOK at It.
Meat is dear and a butcher says: I
often laugh at the foolish way in wiiich
people will rush for the most expensive
cats. Everybody wants to buy prime
rib roasts and porterhouse and sirloin
steaks with plenty of tenderloin. l T "ou
can't persuade them that chuck roast of
good beef, which is fropi five to eight
cents a pound cheaper than the prime
cut, is just as good eating. And you
couldn't make them believe if you took
your affidavit to it that while the ten
derloin may be tender, it is neither as
nutritious or as juicy as the round. You
have no idea how nearly unanimous is
the demand for these particular pieces.
We often have difficulty in selling the
other portions of the beef, which is just
as good at half price. Even when we put
it down to less than it costs us on the
hoof, when we have a large stock to
carry, we can scarcely sell it. Beef is
going to be still higher, and if you'd
take a hint from me you can save money
by buying chuck roasts of good beef
which has been kept ten days in the ice
house, and steaks from the tender side
of the round or from the end of the loin.
It's just the same with mutton. Every
body wants the rack for broiling. Now,
there's only about ten or twelve pounds
of rack in the whole sheep,and of course
it's dear. We can't give away the neck
and end pieces of the ribs sometimes.
A Uw-RrrakiuK Governor.
Governor Mattocks found himself late
one Saturday night in Guildhall, VL,
forty miles from home. It was against
the law to travel on Sunday, except to and
from church, and, as the Governor had
mauy enemies, he knew that, should he
violate the law, he should be called before
the court. However, he wanted to go
home, and drove to Concord, where he
stopped over night, and, after an early
breakfast Sunday morning, he resumed
his journey towards Peacham, studying up
his defense for the suit as he journeyed
along. On arriving at Barnet a happy
thought struck him, and, ou his way out
to Peacham, he drove up to lisv. Dr.
Goodwillie's church, at Barnet Centre,
hitched his horse, and, in sight of some
body's house, raised the latch of the
church door. But it was locked, there
bglng no meeting that day. From there
he drove ou home, and accomplished his
object.
The next day he was taken into the
presence of a Barnet Justice to answer for
violating the Sunday law. His defense
was that having spent a week with the un
righteous men of the Essex couuty bar he
felt the need of church influence, and as
his friend Goodwillie was the most right
eous man he knew he desired to place
himself within the sound of his voice ou
the sabbath. Having traveled with that
end in view and found the good man's
liouse closed he thought, being within a
few miles of his own house, that it would
be more scriptural to go home than to
spend the lest of the day traveling back
to Cuucord to take a week day start for
home the next morning. The plea pre
vailed, for the Governor had bis wit
uesses from the house near the church to
prove that lie tried to get into the church,
a point much needed, as he was at that
time n<>t in the habit of going to church
very often.
It is easy to look down on others; to
look down on themselves is the difficul
ty-
A man's character is like a fenc*
it cannot be strengthened by white
wash.
He who puts a bad construction on a
good act reveals his own wickedness of
heart.
Truth is violated by falsehood, and
it may be equally outraged by si
lence.
Fly Fishing.
The family of salmonidae, espscially the
sal mo salar, the common salmon and the
salmo fontinalis, familiarly known as
brook trout or speckled trout, are the es
pecial objects of the training and skill in
casting the fly ; but the percidae or pcroh
family also furnish excellent sport, par
ticularly the black and striped bass Sal
mon fishing, while a noble Jsport, has of
late years become nearly impossible to
many, owing to the fact that sal mm are
only to be found in sufficient q lantitie* to
repay the quest in distant and remote rivers.
They have nearly disappeared from the
waters of the Mistern States, a few iieing
still annually taken from the more north
ern streams; in Canada wherever they are
still plentiful the fishing is farmed cut to
the few at stiff prices. Still the chance
of sport is good, especially as there are
nearly always plenty of brook trout in the
neighborhood to make up for any failure
with salmon, that a trip which is both iu •
expensive and delightful is recomm- ndcd
to almost any of the waters that empty
into the SL. Lawrence below Q lebec Of
course, in speaking of this sport tbere is
no reference to tfie streams that debouch
on the Pacific coast, as they are accesub'e
only to the few whose command of money
enables them to indulge in expensive luxu
ries. In fact, in alinoet every locality now
salmon fishing is not to be bad without
considerable outlay of money. It is a
noble sport, however, per se, and both
from the magmficeut sport, it aif jrds, us
well as from its commercial value, let us
hope that the re-stocking the many rivers
thai emj ty into the rea along our northern
coast, once visited annually by thousands
of this splendid fish, may prove a success
A few fiae salmon have recently been
taken in ihe Delawere in nets, but it is
doubtful if any baye been killed by fair
augliug with the ily.
Of the brook trout, however, very
different things cau btf said Before ihe
ingenuity and necessities of man had vexed
and impaired the purity of many spr.og
born streams tnat wash the hills aul
mountains of the more northern and east
ern States one couid hardly fail to be sure
of a day'B excellent sport in any locality,
and even now they may be taken, in more
or less numbers, where tuey once abounded.
Few whqje boyhood days were parsed
among the rugged mountains and grceu
hills of the Eastern states but can recall
this beautiful fiali—linked with the purest
memories of youthful hopes and aznus
menus. Beautiful in shape, wonderfully
rich in delicate colorings, covered with a
velvety embossed skin, it appeals by its
beauty not less than by its gaineuess, to
the love of the angler and the student of
nature. Its pursuit leads the angler in o
nature's pleasamest retreats, by hill or
mountain or On wild, piciuiesque lakelets,
bosomed among primeval forests where ail
the surrounding*, are unartificial, wild and
free. Look for them here, ye followers
of sedentary pursuits, bilious and dyspep
tic. pursue them through the rocky glen,
tickle and enthuse the fiexors and exten
sors by climbing the mountain side or
bending to the oar over some placid lake,
and "me judice," your reward shall be a
thousand fold. * But pursue them, as they
by many noble qualities deserve nutsulr,
with skill, with patient science, aud wnh
cultivated enthusiasm, remembering that
they ard 4 'better bred" au 1 higher en
dowed, so to speak, than their congeners
—the cat fi h, perch, or dice. B * not
particepts criminis to the d<'.ii of one of
these beauties save only in legitimate an
gling with the fiy, and number not in your
list of friends the man who needlessly im
pales a worm on ho k or seeks to compass
their fate in any of the ways of snare or
net or other murder.
Brook trout vary in size and weight
greatly, in accordance with the nature of
the waters they fnquent, In Northern
New York, among the Adirondacks, where
the streams generally empty into some of
the little lakes, and in Mnue and Canada
they have been taken to weigh as high as
eight to ten pounds. Tuere are, how
ever exceptional sizes, as the usual run of
fish will average ftoin one-quarter to one
and a; half or two pounds. Careful
examination has convinced me that, des
pite the belief of many excellent anglers,
the large fpecimens taken in the northern
streams and lakes are the genuine salnxo
fontinalis, and not, as they affirm, a dif
ferent variety of the spee.es. D Tellers in
the pure and large waters of tne north,
they attain a size impossible in the small
brooks and pjnds, and there is doubtless
much due also to superior possibilities of
food iu the larger waters
in the family of percidae, the bass, both
striped and black, affords excellent sport
with the fly, and not being so dainty as
the trout frequents almost any of the
rivers and lakes of the States. Both in
the Delaware and the Schuylkill, above
tbe city of Philadelphia, this sport can be
enjoyed with little expense of time or
money, aud is excellent pastime for a
begjnuer to acquire the peculiar tact of
casting a fly adroitly, aud mauagiug goou
sized fish with the light tackle of the fiy
fisher's outfit. The first rush of a rwo
pouuu bass is someth:ng to startle uuac
customed nerves, and the rapidity with
which he makes off with thirty or forty
feet ot line is something to be remem
bered. •
Our ISodleM After Dtmtli.
Within a very near approach to truth,
the human family inhabiting the earth
has been estimated at 1,000,000,000; the
annual loss by death is 18,000,000.
Now, the weight of the animal matter
of this immense body cast into the grave
is no less than 634,000 tons, and its de
composition produces 9,000,000,000,000
cubic feet of matter. The vegetable
productions of the earth clear away from
the earth the 'gases thus generated, de
composing and assimilating them for
their own increase. This circle of
changes has been going on evermuce
man became an occupier of the earth.
He feeds on the lower animals and on
the seeds of plants, which in due time
become a part of himself. The lower
animals feed upon the herbs and grasses
which, in their tarn, become the animal;
then, by its death again pas info the
atmosphere, and are ready once more to
be assimilated by plants, the earth or
bone substance alone remaining wuere it
is deposited.
NO 20.