VOL. LVI. HARTER, AUCTIONEER, MILLHETM, Pa. J C. SPRINGER, Fashionable Barber. Next Door to Journal Store, Millhkih, Pa. JJROCKERHOFF HOUSE, ALLXGHSNY STKKXT, BKLLKFONTE, - - - PA c. G. McMILLEN, PROPRIETOR. Good Sample Room on First Floor. •W-Free Buss to and from all Train*. Special rates to witnesses and Juror*. *4 IRVIN HOUSE, (Most Central Hotel In the City,) Corner MAIN and JAY Streets, Lock Uavea, Pa. 8. WOODS CALWELL, Proprietor. Good Sample Rooms for Commercial Travelers on first floor. D. H. MINGLE. Physician and Surgeon, MAIN Street, Millhkih, Pa. JQR. JOHN F. HARTER, PRACTICAL DENTIST, Office ia 2d stery of Tomlinsoa's Gro cery Store, On MAIN Street, Millhkih, Pa. BF HI ftTF.lt, ■ FASHIONABLE BOOT & SHOE MAKEB Shop next door to Foote's Store, Main St, Boots. Shoes and Gaiters made to order, and sat isfactory work guaranteed. Repairing done prompt ly and cheaply, and in a neat style. C. T. Alexander. C. M. Bower. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. bbllefonte, pa. Ofllce in German's new hull ding. JOHN B. LINN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, BKLLKFONTE, PA. Office on Allegheny Street. QLEMENT DALE, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. northwest corner of Diamond, HOY, ATTORNEY AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Orphans Court business a Specialty. C. HEINLE, ATTORNEY AT LAW# BKLLKFONTE, PA. Practices in all the courts of Centre County. Special attention to Collections. Consultations In German or English. J. A. Beaver. J. W. Gephart. JgEAVEB A GEPHART, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA. Office on Alleghany Street, North of High. Y° cum & harshberger, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA. B. HELLER, " ATTORNEY AT LAW, BELLEFONTE, PA, Consultations In English or German. Office In Lyon's Building, Allegheny Street. 9. K. HASTINGS, wTw. BXIDXB. "U ASXIN GS & REEDER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. BELLEFONTE, PA. Offloe on Allegheny street, two dporß east of the offlce occupied by tw late firm of Hast ings. *A-t7 —About $12,214,000 has been placed in increasing the number of cotton spindles in the South during years 1881-1882. Georgia, has addeJ 100, - 000; Alabama, 34,000; Tennessee, 24,- 0)0 ; Mississippi, 32,000; Louisiana, 21,000 ; North Carolina, 48,000; South Carolina, 96,000. Total new spindles? 361,000. litt Pillleiii A LITTLE UOLD OWL. "Do you know what a iamous Bus aian beauty once wrote in her album? No? Let me tell you, then: 'The French man understands beat the art of talking love, the Italian of acting it, but the German rocks it to sleep, while the Pole ruins all."' "And the American?" pleaded a musical voice in the ear of the first speaker. The lady made no immediate reply. The pair stood in the wings of a tiny amateur theatre in one of our large cit ies, and the dram* of "Matrimony," in which they had acted, was over. Both were artists in that intense sentiment of excitement which stirs the ripples of private lite wheu theatricals and cha rades become the fashion. Augusta Bevan, tall, slender, and proud, had resumed her velvet walking-dress, anu toyed with a tiny muff of pink satin, which was suspended about her neck by means of a ribbon. Capt. Horn blower, easy, graceful, and elegant, bent over her in an attitude of devotion which he had assumed, with the lacility of a glove, for the past fifteen years, in the ball rooms of West Point, Sara toga, and Newport. "Your muff seems to be a sort of fairy casket," pursued Capt. Hornblower. "Give me a keepsake from one of the pockets, I beg, in remembrance of the night." "What shall it be?" retorted Augusta Beven, gaily. She sought in the tiny pockets of per fumed and quilted satin, and drew forth a glittering object. This was a little gold owl, be utifully wrought, with ruby eyes and jeweled claws. When a spring was touched, a slender pencil case slid out of the bird's head. "Here is my gift," she said, gently and the gallant Captain understood that her words meant capitulation. Was he glad or sorry? He received the little gold owl with effusive grati tude, and kissed the hand which be stowed the gift; hut it was in the na ture of this military butterfly to doubt, at the moment, if he had acted with unwise precipitation, if he had not sold himself too cheaply in the matrimonial market, and if Augusta Bevan was as great an heiress as she was reputed to be. "My children remember the Scotoh proverb. "Those who fish for minnows never catch trout," said Mr. Riddel, behind him. Mr. Riddel, who invariably enacted the part of benevolent old man, prof fered his snuff-box to Capt. Hornblower with his quizzical smile. "We are called out again!" exclaimed Mrs. Trentham. There was a patter of applause, and the four emerged before the footlights making their salutations in the mos approved professional manner. On the stage stood Mrs. Trentham in a superb toilet, Augusta Bevan, Capt. Hornblower, and Mr. Riddel, Beyond the circle of footlights was a fashiona ble audience, where blended satin, gold, feathers, and lace resembling a par terre of flowers, while the little thea ter, built for Mrs. Trentham, made a charming background for smiling faoes, Certainiy the two actresses looked then best, for Capt. Hornblower, deeply versed in such craft, had made up their complexion with the aid of rouge and other cosmetics, moist purple worsted furnishing the requisite shadows be neath the eyes. Said Mr. Riddel, as he conducted Miss Bevan home: "You will not forget my proverb, Augu. tal— 'Those who fish for minnows never catch trout,'" She glanced askance at him, and frowned. Mr. Riddel, divested of gray wig and paternal bearing, was a digni fied gentleman of forty years, lawyer, and manager of the great Bevan prop erty. "You have always warned me of for tune-hunters and worthless suitors since I left school," she exclaimed petu lantly. Mr. Riddel remained silent, but the blood mounted to his brow. Said Mrs. Trentham to Capt. Horn blover, at a little supper table m a fashionable restaurant. "Take another glass of champagne, Captain. Augusta Bevan really did very wed to-night for a novice, except in the awkardness of her attitudes. Al low me to look at the little gold owl she gave you behind the scenes. Ah! I saw it all. A manager must be every where, you know." Very piquant looked Mrs, Trentham as she spoke, coquette of as many trea sons as her companion had posed for a TIMK'S CI'RK. Mourn, Oh rejottng heart, Tiie hours are flying, Kach oue aomc treasure takes, Each one some b;osaoiu breaks, And leaves it dying ; The chill dark night draws near. Thy SUB will aoon depart. And leave thee sighing; Then mourn, rejolciug heart, The hours are fli iug I Kejolce, Oh grieving heart. The hours fly fast, With each some sorrow dies, Wtth each aorne shadow flies, Until at last The red dawn in the East Bids weary ntght depart, And pain ia past; Kejolce, theu, grieving heart, The hours fly fast! MILLIIEIM. PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9,1882. beau, an arch sparkle in her eye, more than a suspiciou of malice in her smile; for to 800 any man admire another woman pierced her vanity, if not her heart, and she oould not rest uutil she had lured him away from his allegiance, or at least sown mischief in the path of possible lovers. Yet Mrs. Treutham was a most peculiar person and an acknowledged leader of society. Capt. Horublower resisted for a time; but the euehantross was adroit, witty, flattering, and the supper good, and in the end he yielded. The lady attached the little gold owl to her watch chain, and emerged in the streets at 2 o'elock in the morning. When she reached her own home the little gold owl was gone! She hod lost it during the walk. Next day Mrs. Trentliam sailed up to Augusta Bevan, at a crowded kettle drum, took both of her hands, and ex claimed: "Oh, my dear, I am so dread fully sorry! I am always committing some folly. I do not deserve for giveness. Capt. Hornblowor gave me— I meau lent me—your little gold owl last night, and I actually lost it in the street." The Sevres tea-cup fell from Augusta's lingers to the floor. Mr. liiddel and Capt. Horublower stooped for the frag ments simultaneously, thus knocking their heads together. "She is disillusioned," thought Mr. Riddel, "The game is lost," reflected tho gal lant warrior, with unfeigned regret. "Of course, no woman ever forgave that." At 6 o'clock that morning a youug Swiss maiden, by name Marie Hetzel had gone on an errand to the market for her mistress. Marie was 10, with a roimd brown face framed in a fringed cap, and carried a basket on her arm. Her foot struck against a smelly object; sho stooped, and found a little gold owl on the curbstone. "Himmel!" exclaimed Marie, and sped with her treasure lo the lager beer saloon where Fritz, her lover, was em ployed as waiter. Fritz happened to be polishing the row of little tables placed in bowers of evergreen. He was a prudent youth of 19, with blonde hair and hard blue eyes. He examined the trinket and put it in his pocket. Tho gold owl would look very pretty suspended about Mario's throat, even as Roman women rejoice in their hair-pius and chains, or the Genoese in their liligroe ear-rings; but money also oould be made out of it— money to add to frugal savings where with to return to beloved Cauton Berne as man and wife, and buy a modest farm. Marie shed a few tears of feminine vanity, while yielding to logical argu ment, and trudged home with her basket. Frits sought a little den of a shop in an obscure quarter, and sold the gold owl to a Jew, after much haggling, for $5. winch sum he consigned to a sav ings bank. Now, indeed, was the owl lost, hopelessly lost, for it had disap peared in the beck shop of a wretched quarter, instead of reposing in the pocket of Miss Bevan's pink satin muff. It happened that the owl had never met with greater appreciation, however. The ruby eyes glowed like flames, while the golden plumage became luminous, and the ornament was passed from one dusky hand to another. Finally the Jew took the trinket to a fashionable jeweler, celebrated for skill ful workmanship in metals, and sold it for a considerable sum, Mr. Riddel, walking down town one morning, paused suddenly before the jeweler's window, He saw a little gold owl suspended by a hook, and radiant in the sunshine. He fancied the bird of wisdom actually winked at him in recognition. He en tered the place and bought it promptly. Augusta Bevan. pale, thoughtful, and with a new tenderness in her bearing, received back the little golden owl, "I have been thinking of so many thiDgs of late," she said, softly, placing her hand within the arm of this faithful friend. "I even remember your pro verb; 'Those who fish for minnows never catch trout'" Mrs. Trentham tapped Capt Horn blower on the arm with her fan at a reception where the lady was resplendent in Worth toilet of black satin and old gold. "Mr. Riddel and Augusta Bevan are engaged," she said, "I always knew it would be a match yet Their property joins, you know, and water does flow to water in that way in our wicked world. Besides, he is really the only man worthy of Augusta." Capt. Horn blower went his way, hav ing been ordered to a fort in Montana Territory, His amiability was not in creased by the discovery that his hair was turning gray, and that he experi enced a twinge of rheumatism in his right knee. SOFT SOAP. —Three quarters of a pound of washing soda and a pound of brown soap cut in small pieces; put them in a large stoDe jar on the back of the range, when the range is not veiy hot, and pour over it a paillul of cold water; stir it once in a while, and after some hours, when thoroughly dissolved, put it away to cool, it forms a sort of jelly, and is excellent to remove grease on floors or shelves, A Notd Ouilitwi John Alfred Blade, the noted outlaw and highwayman, used to wear a beaded aud gaudily colored buckskiu suit which cost $750. Blade's exploits are well remembered by ull the old-time settlers in the West. At one time ho became involved in a difficulty with a French mau named Juice, an Indian trader, who had spent the greater part of his life among the Indians of the plains. Upon the establishment of the over land line of ooaclxes to California Jules was much inoeused, as he claimed it was an innovation upon the rights of the Indians and the traders aud would briug too many whites upon the plains. He waged incessant war upon the over land line, with the aid of Indians and half-breeds, by running off stock and committing other depredations, which were continued without restraint until John Alfred Slode appeared upon the scene as a division agent from Fort Kearney west. This mau was a refugee from justice, having killed a mau in his native county of Cliuton, 111., Soon after taking charge of the division, Blade became the terror of the road, and his bold and reckless daring involved him in numerous quarrels with stock thieves and others. His quick aim aud sternly nerve sent many a desperado to a bloody grave; in fact, he sought quarrels, and to use the parlance of the times, "always got his mau." A deadly feud existed between Jules and Blale, and the former resolved on his (Blade's) death. Knowing that on a certain day Blade would come down the road upon the overland coach, Jules laid for him at the station, and as the former alighted from the coach, fired upon him with bis gun, both barrels of which took effect, and as his enemy lay writhing upon the earth, poured the contents of his dragoon pistol into liis body. Then mounting a horse, Jules rode into the mountains, fearing the vengeance of Blade's friends. Strange and unac countable as it may see alive and carriod into the station, and though lingering upon the point of death for mouths, he recovered from his wounds and laid Lis plans for the capture of his enemy, who was final ly hunted down and taken to Bovey's Station. The names of the captors of Jules were Nelson Vaughn. Johu Fry, and another mau, who is now % resident of Montana. These three persons hav ing secured Jules, sent a messenger for Blade, and the two bloody men met Again faeo to face; this time, however, Blade had the drop, being heavily armed and with three armed captors of Jules at his back. Well knowing his doom was sealed, Jules stood up and demanded half a ehance for his life. "You gave me no show," retorted Slade, "but take tins and defend yourself," handing the Frenchman a pistol which be knew would not revolve—aud the next instant sent a ball through the forehead of Jules near the top of the skull, who reeled and fell. Slade and his party then retired to the next room to take a drink, but upon returning found that the prostrated Frenchman was gone. Horses were mounted and the country scoured to no effect; but upon returniug to the station the wounded Jules was found in an out house covered with hay. He was led out and shot through the mouth, and again at the base of the right ear, which finished the job, Vaughn cut off the ears of the dead mau and gave one to Slade, reserving the other. The two worthies then came to Denver with these bloody trophies in their pockets, and wore them out at the different bars on a prolonged spree, tn slapping them on the counter as a tender lor payment of drinks. lu Rose-Water. A stranger with white long hair, a white coat, a white hat with * crape band aud other evidences of lunacy, entered a restaurant and said to the proprietor: "Sir, let me explain in advance that I am a singular man." "All right, sir. A singular man's order is as good as any one els e's. "I want six oysters on the half-shell —on the left-hand half, if you please." The oyßters were oponed and placed before him, and when he had devoured tbem he said: "Now take six oysters, run them through a clothes-ringer to remove the dampness, and fry them for me in olive oil." This order was also filled, when he called for a cup of salt and water, added milk and sugar and drank it down and asked for his bill. "I also desire to explaiu iu advance that I am a singular man." replied the proprietor. "Your bill is $2." 4 'lmpossible 1" "Just $2, sir." "But that is monstrous." "Perhaps it seems high, but that's my singular way of charging for singular lunches." ••I'll never pay it!" "Then I'll sadden your heartl" The sad proceedings were about to begin when the long-haired man forked over and walked out. The lesson seemed to sink deep into his heart, for he halted at a fruit stand, aud, without any explanations in advance, paid the usual price for a bimana and can ied it off without asking tne seller to dip the ends in rose-water, Safety in Railroad Travel. Of the 375,000,000 persons annually curried over the railroads of the Uuited States, about 1800 meet with injuries more or less severe, while 400 are killed. Of the alnive numbers, 800 of those injured and 200 of the killed may l>e charged to causes for which the railroad companies are to a greater or less degree responsible, while the rest of the casualties are due to tho careless ness of the passengers themselves. For every railroad passenger, therefore, who is killed in the United States, over 800.(KM) are carried safel>; while for every passenger for whose death the railroad companies are accountable, nearly 2,000,000 are safely transported. For every railroad passenger who is in any way iujured, 200,000 are safely carried; while for every passenger in jured by causes for which the compan ies are responsible, nearly 500,000 are transported without accident. In Mas sachusetts—where the records have been more carefully and more syste matically kept for the past ten years than in any other part of the country— the number of passengers carried in that time was, in round numbers, 400,- 000,000, of which number 581 were "injured, 122 of tliem fatally. Of the whole number 250 were injured from causes beyond their own control, the remaiudcr suffering from their own lack of care. Thus, for every passenger iu any way iujured 088,000 were safely carried, while for every passenger killed 3,000,000 in round numbers were trans ported without injury. If we consider only those who were killed or injured from causes over which they themselves had no control, the results are some what different. Thus, in Massachusetts, during the nine years from 1871 to 1879, the number of passengers carried was 303,000,000, of which number fifty-one were killed by causes beyond their own control. For every person killed, therefore. 0,000,000 were safely carried. As the average distance traveled by each person was about fifteen miles, the total distance traveled by all before death happened to anyone was 90,000,- 000 miles. In other words, a passen ger with average good luck would travel at the rate of sixty miles an hour for ten hours a day, for 306 days in a year, for 500 years, or he would go 3610 times around the earth before getting killed. Concemiug Mirror*. The record of patents granted during the last 200 years throws a curious light upon the progress of the manufacture of mirrors. Up to that time the Venetians had a monopoly of the business, but in 1634 the French began to compete, and, competing iu the art, beat all others from the held, and improved so raoidly that in another tifty years, in 1084, a glass plate was cast in Paris which was 18 inches long and 50 broad. The su premeey then gained continues to our day of three classes of mirrors supplied to the American market—the French, the German, and those of home manu facture, Those of France aie greatly preferable. The latter are imported pure, to be silvered here upon arrival, while the German is imported ready, end that of home manufacture is compara tively little in demand. American look ing-glasses are mostly manufactured at Baltimore, French mirror plates are mainly prepared in the suburbs of Paris, while the seat of the German manufac tories is in Bavaria. Imported glasses, with rare exception in the case of special orders, are framed in this country, a very large majority in New York city it self. The size ot the plates as delivered to the dealers differs a good deal. Those from Germany run from 7 by 9 inches up to 48 by 20 and 40 by 26 ; Frenoli glass from 10 by 8 all in even inches up to 180 by 84, The beveled glass which is so fashionable to-day is prepared after its arrival, being shipped in plain, even sheets. A Pleasant Kxperlmeut Willi Silt. Do you want to grow salt and at the same time have an interesting, hand some ornament? The proceeding is a novel chemical experiment that may be tried by any one. Put in a goblet one tablespoonful of salt and one spoonful cf bluing; till the goblet one third full of water, and set it in a position where it will have plenty of warmth and sun - light. In a little while sparkling crys tals will commence foinmig on the out side of the glass, and it is both a novel and interesting sight to watch it gradu ally growing day by day until the out side of our goblet will be entirely cov ered over with beautiful white crystals. Another variation of this beautiful experiment would lie to take a goblet with the base broken oil and fasten it in the center of a thin piece of boaid, which may be round, square or oblong. After the crystals have formed on the glass, set it on a tiny wall bracket, and place a bright holiday or bii t lid ay card in front of it; this will hide the base, on which no crystals will form. After this is done fill tne goblet with flowers or dried grasses, and you will have a vase which will cost comparatively little and in reality adds to the Lrie-a-brao of v room. A Royal Hu*t>ar. At the review of the Fifth German Army Corps, near Breslau, the Crown Princess of Germany in her Hussar uniform rode past at the head of the splendid regiment of Hussars of which she is honoiary colonel. She wore the little hussar cap, with its long plume, and the black jacket, with white braid, from which the corps is called the Black Hussars. A short habit tcok the place of the manly garments of the other oliicers, and, instead of the sword, the Princess carried her riding-whip sword wise. Like all other commanding officers, she took her place at the right side of the Emperor as her regiment filed past. . BBOWN BETTY. —Put a layer of sweet ened apple sauce m a buttered dish, add a few lumps of butter, then a layer of cracker oruinba, sprinkled with a lit tle cinnamon, then a layer of sauce, etc., mating the last a layer of crumbs; bake in oven, and eat hot, with cold sweet ened cream, The Doctor's Story. It was Christmas Eve, and a dreary night it was, dismal enough, with drifting, sloet and snow to drive away all thoughts of pleasure, except to those who were comfortably gathered around their own firesides. I was just closing my office shutters, and preparing to leave for home, when there came a loud ringing at the bell, and a man rushed in, who stated, in almost unintelligible language, from the breath less state that he was in, that a man had nearly murdered himself at the Ches ter House, and that 1 was wanted imme diately. Taking my case of instruments in my hand, 1 buttoned my coat tight around me and hunied out into the storm, inwardly wishing that some other physi cian bad been called, so [ could have spent my batchelor Christmas Eve in peace. • The remembrance that the poor man was probably lying at the point of death soon drove all such thoughts from my head, and 1 hurried on aud soon reached the hotel. 1 was shown immediately to the room of tbe wounded man and found him lying on tbe bed just breathing, and such a sight as would make a man's blood run cold. The landlord said he was a stranger, who had been slopping at the house but a short time, and the night before he had com3 in intoxicated, and gone to his room. In tbe morning when tbe girl came to the room she bad found the door locked on the in side, and no one answered to her knock. In the afternoon his door was tried again, with no belter success, and when evening came, and there were no signs of any one moviug in his room, they burst open the door, and found the occupant lying on the floor in such a slate as made them start hack with horror. He had tried to cut his throat, but his hand was so unsteady that he had only succeeded in horribly mutilat ing himself He had fallen on the floor, bis bead was in such a position that the blood from the wound in his neck had flowed over his face, making a ghastly spectacle. Finding that he still lived, they placed him OD the bed, and sent for me and when X arrived he was just breathing. Had it not been for the congealing of the blood on tbe wound, the man could never have lived half tbe time be did, and it was very evi dent from the faint and irregular beating of his pulse that he could not possibly last longer than a few hours. I sewed up and bandagoßßibly survive till morning. Contrary to ray expectation, for I feared 1 had done wrong in speaking so plainly, he sedlned pleased and told me to sit down bv bis bedside, as he had a loig story to tell me, and it he could but live and have strength to finish it, it would relieve his mind of a burden that had borne down upon bm for many a weary year, an J he could die happy. Sending ail from the room, 1 sal down beside him to listen to the story of his life, for such it proved to be, and I will now repeat it, only in my own language, and supplying one or two lacts with regard to the personal appear ance and social standing thai came out after it was known who he wa. His name he said was Hoyden—John Hoyden—and he was born in Boston. His father was a wealthy ship-bullder, also owning several ships, trading between this port and several cities in Europe, dally atlding to his large fortune, to which John was the only heir. At eighteen ne entered college, and his handsome face, line form, aud plenty of money always at command, made him a pet of the class. At twenfcy-iwo he started with a parly of wealthy young men for Europe. Everything that money could buy was theirs; they travelled in the most expen sive manner, and had the best of every thing. At Baden they visited, as all do, the gambling rooms, aud here it was that Hoyden acquired that taste for play that ruined him. Every day and night found him at the tables, ana always fortunate. Hut the princely way in which he lived, fairly throwing away money, did not leave him much on hand, when one of his friends in duced hlra to leave Baden, and both of them continued their trravela. They re mained in Europe two years, and, return ing to America, Boyden was taken into partnership with his father, and settled down as a business man. The highest society was open to him, and no enter tainment, however elegant and fashion able, was complete without the presence of the rich and handsome John Hoyden. A year passi d in this way, when the old fever of travel aud excitement came over him, and as one of. their ships was then about to sail for Cuba, be resolved to go in her. Tne business acquaintance of the firm with some of the largest houses of Cuba gave him sufficient introduction to its best society. It was at a grand fete at the house of one of the best families that Hoyden met a young Cuban lady, with whom he became desperately in love. The attachment was mutual, and though he intended to stay in Cuba but a short time, he lingered along until four months had passed away, and found him still loth to return to home and business. Having obtained tbe consent of ber father, it was decided that he should return home first, to prepare for ber reception and the wed ding, and she and ber father were to follow on the next steamer. Everything passed off as intended, the family were delighted at their son's choice, and gave both her aud her father a hearty welcome. The wedding took place a short time after this arrival, and the bride's lather again returned to Cuba, though not until Mr. and Mrs. Boyden, senior, had promised to visit him at his home. An elegant mansion had been prepared near the homestead for the reception of the newly married couple, who now took posses sion of it. For a long time the attractions of his new home kent Hoyden away from his former associates and pleasures; but at last tbe old love of gambling came over him, and he was less frequently at home evenings and more at his club. One night, about a year after they had been married, he went as usual to the gamb ling rooms of the club, and commenced playing with n young man. a member, who had been admitted on account of his wealth. They played heavily, John win ning steadily from the first, until his op ponent, maddened at his ill luck, and the 'oea of a large sum of money accused Boy of cheating. The words had scarcely passed his lips when a pistol ball closed them forever. Everyone rushed forward to the wounded man, thus giving Boyden a good chance to escape unnoticed, which he did, and rush ing to the depot saw a train just leaving, and jumped aboard, bound he knew not whither. Riding, till the train reached its destination, he found himself in a city some ninety miles from home He stayed there during the day, shaving his beard and moustache, and otherwise disguising himself, and the next day took steamer for California. Here he engaged in every kind of low dissipation, trying in vain to drive away the remembrance of his former life, and to forget the act that caused him to fly from home. He did cot dare to read the papers, fearing he should read something regarding himself. A common gambler, and with his usual good luck, there was no lack ef money to carry on his life of debauchery. Drink, play and dissipate as he might, he could not still bis conscience, and at last, resolved to travel, hoping in vain to leave his sin be hind him. He went to England and France, visiting those scenes he remem • bered to have s< en first when full of life and hope. No gambling place, however low, but knew bis face, and he soon be came the terror of all professionals, and the wonder of unlucky amateurs. One day in Pans, some ten years after he had left home, he was eating his dinner at a cafe, when he noticed an American paper lying near, and thought he saw his old name (be had assumed one while away), m print, and taking it up, he read: Died—"in this city, Mary, the wife of Francis Boy den." The paper dropped from his hands, and the man who had left his home ten years ago in the prime of life, now brat down and grown prematurely old by dissipation, bent his head upon his bands, and wept as bs had not done since a little child. Re solved thai be would end his days in the land of his birth, he sailed for America, and arriving, went straight to his native city. Here, by adroit questionings, he managed to obtain unsuspected, the history cf his family since he had left them. His father had been so shocked when the news was brought to him of the act his son nad committed that his mind was unsettled Iron that day. His business, for want of his old tact and judgment, became involved, and he finally failed so badly that, after settling with his credit ors. there was scarcely enough left for the family to live upon. This final blow made him totally insane, so that, from the time of his failure until his death, which oc curred about two years after he had been an inmate of an insane asylum, his mother had liyed.upcn what had been saved from tbe wreck of ner husband's fortune, a broken-hearted woman whose only hope was in the hereafter, and she had died a short time before, as he bad seen in the paper. His wife had returned to her former home, and after waiting five years for his return, or any news of his whereabouts, had given him up for dead, and married a wealthy Cuban, witn whom she was then living, happy in the posses sion of a kind husband and one lovely child. Each new particular of the dread ful story only added to the weight of re morse that bore down upon the conscience stricken man. After first hearing the truth he had wandered about the streets, always intoxicated in his endeavor to si lence the still small voice that was contin ually repeating. 44 You did 11! You did it!" Crazed at last by tha terrible visions of the past, that were cofllinually haunting him, he had resolved upon taking his owu life, hut being as ususl intoxicated, he had succeeded only to the extent mentioned. Tue poor wretch had hardly strength enough to finish the sad story ere he breathed his last. The next day, when his death appeared in the newspapers, and it became known who he was, hundreds who had knowu him in his pride, came and begged to see his face, but humanity (.'•inanded that he should not thus be made a show of, aud be was buried by the side of his father and mother, the stone bearmg the simple inscription, "John Boyden." Plants Wlisn Traveling. Many of our readers in their sojoumings by the mountain will desire to carry home some floral relics of pleasant days, and by the following simple method they can be easily transported i All that you will need is a piece of cotton cloth, colored or white as you prefer. Take up the plants so as to leave some soil about their roots, aud if they are thoroughly wetted before removal the earth will cilng tightly to them and keep them from wilting. Tear off a strip of the cotton and wrap it closely around the earth and roots, leavinn the branches exposed. Cover with half a dozea thick nesses of the cotton and pin it tightly in place, or sew the ends together. Put the roots and cotton inio a dish of water over night. Next morning wrap up in dry cloth, and you caa pack the plant m your trunk or in a basket where it will go safely with out any injury to its roots, and if they ore wrapped up in a cloth for a week or ten