VOL. LYII.
HARTER,
AUCTIONEER,
MTLLHEIM, PA.
J C. FCPRLNGER,
Fashionable Barber,
Next Door to Journal Store,
Mii.lhkih, Pa.
2>ROCKERHOFF HOUSE,
AIXXOHXNY STIIEKT,
BELLEFONTE, - - - PA
c. 6. McMILLENi
PROPRIETOR.
Good Sample Room on First Floor.
•srFree Buss to and from all Tralua. Special
rates to witnesses anil Jurors. *-1
IRVIX HOUSE.
(Most Central Hotel In the Cltyj
Corner MAIN ami JAY Street*,
Lock Have®, Pa.
S. WOODS CALWKLL, Proprietor.
Good Sample Rooms for Commercial
Travelers on first floor.
D. H. MINGLE,
Physician and Snrgeon,
MAIN Street, Millhkim, Pa.
JOHN F. HARTER,
PRACTICAL DENTIST,
Office in 2d story of Tonriinsoa'i Gro
cery Store,
On MAIN Street, MiLi.niM, Pa.
Br kintfk.
• FASHIONABLE BOOT A SHOE MAKER
Shop next l<>or to Foote's Store, Main SL,
TOfrMigMMLtlvlJ't
It an<l cheaply, ami ui a neat style.
C. T. Alexander. C. M. Bower.
A LEXANDER A BOWER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Office In Garman'B new building.
JOHN B. LINN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Office on Allegheny Street
QLEJiENT 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,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Practices in all the courts of Centre County.
Special attention to Collections, Consultations
In German or English.
J. A. Beavec. J W. Gephai*.
JgEAVER A GEPHART,
♦ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Office on Alleghany Street, North of High.
Y°p UM & harsh berger,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BKLLEFONTE, PA.
JQ S. KELLER, ~
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BKLLEFONTE, PA,
Consultations In English or German. Office
in Lyon'* Building, Allegheny Street.
DTH HASTINOS. W. R. REXDJC*.
JJAoTIfIGS & REEDER,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Office on Allegheny street, two doon east of the
offl'-e occupied by the late Arm of •* Hast
ing* *n-i7
PRACTICAL benevolence: An old story
is being revived of a prayer-meeting
neld for a poor fellow's relief who had
broken his leg. While Deacon Brown
was praying a tall fellow with an ox
goad knocked at the door, saying,
"Father could not come, but sent his
prayers in the cart." They were pota
toes, beef, pork and corn.
AN OLD GERMAN HAI.LAD.
A Blieplierl maiden led Her minim
Willi nitM an<l gruooful air
To greener flelih of clover sweet
\\ here daisies blossom fair,
Then heard she, in the twilight's fall,
Clear and distinct the cuckoo call -
Cuckoo, cuckoo.
She sat down on a grassy bank
Aud to herself said she -
"To pass the I lute, I'll count to know
How long my life shall oe.
A hundred—ten"- nor was that all.
For still she heard the cuckoo call,
Cuckoo.
The shepherd maiden angry prow;
I p from the grass she sprang,
Caught up her staff and rati with speed
To where ttie euckoo sang,
lie saw. and to the wood lie dew,
\\ lule echoed back his call —cuckoo!
Cuckoo.
She followed him with lifted stall
still in an angry mood.
And when she turned, she still could Hear
lbs voice within the wood.
She hunted liitu from tree to tree,
Vet still lie called out merrily.
Cuckoo.
Tired with her chase among the trees,
Impatiently cried she—
"Sing, if you like, your hateful song,
'Tis all the same to me!"
Turning, she met her shepherd swain,
\\ ho, laughing, echoed the refrain,
Cuckoo, cuckoo.
SVII.FISH JOHN CLAKKi
The mooting was a gotxi one 111 spite
of the intense heat, and there was more
singing done ly mosquitoes than by the
human spooles.
John Clark sat by an open window,
where what breeze there was came in
and kept him comparatively comforta
ble, and then he had on a clean suit
which his wife had washed ami ironed
that dav, notwithstanding the mercury
mounted high m the nineties, and its
freshness was an additional comfort.
His first crop of hay, much larger
than usual, had that day been put in
his spacious barms without damage by
so much as a drop of rain. He was
well, strong, prosperous, and therefore
happy. The ride home was charming,
and as the new horse took them through
Chirnley Woods, with sure, fleet feet,
he felt that life was very blight; and as
he thought of Brother White's remarks
about "wiary burdens," "feet tired
with the march of life," he concluded
that the aforesaid brother was not in
the enjoyment of religion.
John's wife sat back in the carriage,
resting her tired l>ody and turning over
in her mind the remarks her John had
made at the meeting. "Bear ye one
anothers nurdeus," had been the subject
of the evening's talk, and John's
had been listened to with evident relish.
"Your husband has the root of the
pusScil out. "i. V\t' SJilUl uii Uko
heed to his well-timed words."
"1 think of hiring Tom Birch as a
sort of spare hand and call boy gene
rally. 1 lind tliis hot weather takes the
starch out of me," John said, as the
horse trotted through the cool pine
grove, amid flickers of moonlight.
"Will you board linn?" asked Mary
Clark, in a constrained voide, with the
memory of her husband's exhortations
still in mind.
"Of course. I want him evenings to
take the horse when we come iroui
meeting, or if 1 have taken a friend
out. It is rather hard to go to work
directly one gets home."
"You are to hire him to bear some
of your burdens," said Mary, in the
same hard voice.
• Just so, wile. It stands me in hand
to practice, it 1 preach; don't you say
so?'
"I do. lam glad you are to hi we
help; as you say, it is hard to go to
work the minute you get home. 1 have
been foolish enough to have this ride
spoiled by thinking of bread to mix,
two baskets of clothes hi fold before 1
sleep, of the ironing to-monow. and
dinner to get for four hungry men, and
baby to care for."
"Don't crowd to-morrow's burdens
into this pleasant ride. And it seem.i
to me that it would be better to get all
your Louse-work done before meetiug
hime."
"if I could, but that is impossible;
milk to strain, dishes to wash, Benny
and baby to put to bed—all these duties
come together, and then I am tired
enough to go to bed myself."
"Take it easy, Mary; keep cool, avoid
all the hot work you can."
"I wish 1 could have a girl, John!"
"Mother used to say girls were more
hindrance than help. 1 guess you
would lind them so, and then they
waste and break more than their wages.
I don't see how 1 can afford a girl. Do
what you can, and leave some things
uudoue; that's the way to work it," and
John sat back witii a satisfied air, and
Mary thought of her Luhbands glowing
worils in the prayer-meeting.
"I will do all 1 can," said Mary, in
a weary voice. "What 1 am obliged
to do is much beyond my strength.
The three meals come near together,
washing and ironing must bo clone,
baby shall not be neglected, and of
course 1 must keep the clothes well
mended."
"One thing at a time is the way to
think of your duties. Pick up all the
comfort you can as you go along. I
have made up my mind to do so m the
future."
"So I see, by your thiuking of having
an extra hand."
"Yes. 1 ieel that I must take care
of my health for your sake and tlio
childrens'."
"Certainly," Mary answered in a sar
castic tone, "bow thoughtful you are
for us!"
Jolin made no further comment, but
inwardly wished that prayer meetings
did Mary the good they had once, and
wondered why his wife was so changed.
A?
"I am going wuli 'Squire Towne to
bee a reaper, lie says lie iiardly wants
to buy without my opiniou." This was
next day.
John left bis wife ironing, with the
half-sick baby sitting by the table in
the company of an army of dies; and in
spite of the home scene, enjoyed his
rule along the pleasant road, well
pleased to be seen so much with the
MILLIIKIM. PA.. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22.1883,
A
great men of the town. At supper time
lie came home with the now reaper
behind the wagon.
"By taking two we made a handsome
saving; and, as 1 intended to hny one,
1 thought 1 might us well take it now,"
lie remarked, byway of explanation.
"It will save time ami strength ami pay
for itself m a year."
Miuy made no comment, but set
her teeth tightly together when she
remembered that she had asked in vain
for something to make her work easier.
A sewing machine had been pronounced
"hurtful; better have fewer changes of
clothing than run a machine," John
had decided when the subject was dis
cussed; "a clothes wringer would be
constantly getting out of order. To
bring water into the house, would be
just to spoil the water. Nothing, after
all, like the ginul oid bucket. Mother
would never have a pump in her day!"
"My mother used to say all men are
seltisli, aud 1 begin to think she was
right," Mary muttered as she went to
the kitchen lor the plate of hot biscuit
John was so fond of for his tea.
Her husband s appetite was good, but
from fatigue and overheating herself,
Mary could not eat. His ride and the
society of the genial squire had acted
like a tonic, but there is no tonic in the
air of a hot kitchen,
"A commonplace life," she said, and
she sighed, as the cleared away the tea
dished, while John tilted back in his
arm cliair on the cool, draughty porch
and talked over things with neighbor
Jones.
"Why don't you buy Widder Patch's
cranberry rnedder?" asked Mr. Jones;
"it's going dirt cheap, and you can af
ford it." The sum was named, tigures
that astonished Mary, and she was more
surprised when she heard her husband
say:
"I've half a mind to do it. I've just
had an old debt paid m, and, to tell
the truth, affairs in the money market
are so squally, I'don't know just where
to salt it down."
No tears came into Mary's tired eyes,
but tier heart went out in one mighty
sob as she stood, dish-pan in hand, be
fore the disordered table, and thought
how cheaply she hod sold herself, really
for $2 a week and her board, to the
man who had promised to love and
cherish her until death. The beautiful
piano she hail brought to the farm was
never opened, but looked like a gloomy
casket in which was buried the poetry
of life. The closed "best parlor * bail
long since assumed the grimneHs and
um.'.tiuess of country best parlors, of
which in her girlhood she had made so
mn*h fan. J.hu was a rich man, aud
in spite of his marriage vows and bis
glowing prayer-meeting talk, was allow
ing burdens grievous to be borne, to
press on her shoulders, order to "salt
down" his dollars.
lljul she uot the ilutj ti perform?
Ought she to allow hicu to preach and
never to practice? Hail she not rights
to be respected? which were not l>y her
husband; for, she reasoned, if he al
lowed her to do what could be done by
an ignorant Irish woman for a week,
then he rated her at that price.
"Widder I'atch has had a tough time
on't," said neighbor Jones; "she is
going to the West'rd to Tom, if she
sells the med lor, and .lane is going out
to work. "She's tried sewing, but it
don't agree with her, and Dr. Snow
recommends housework as healthy
business."
""lis healthy business," chimed in
John. "Now my wife is a good deal
better than when I married her. Why,
she never did a washing in her life
until she came to the farm. I think
washing and general housework is
much better than piano playing and
reading."
"So I say to the girls, who pester me
to buy an organ; better play 011 the
wash board, enough sight, was tlie ele
gant response.
"Are you going to buy the cranberry
meadow John?" Mary asked, as she saw
her husband making preparations to go
from home.
"Yes—why?"
"Can you afford it?"
"We shull have to figuro a little
closer in order to do it, but it is going
cheap."
"You will have to give up Tom
Birch, won't you and do the chores
yourself?"
"I have thought of it, but Tom is
poor, and to give him a home is a deed
of charity. No, we will save some other
way."
"How much do you paj r Tom?"
"Three dollars and his board. And,
by the way, he says you didn't wash
his clothes. Washing und mending was
in the bargain."
"I think Tom will have to go, for I
have hired Jane Patch. She will be
here to-mglit. Two dollars a week i
am to give her. You want to practice
Bear ye one another's burdens,' as well
as preach from the text, so I will give
you a chance. I will take my turn in
sitting 011 the cool piazza after tea with
a neighbor, while you do the chores.
I think the time has come for some of
my burdi-ns to be lifted. By exchang
ing Tom for Jane you will have $1 a
week for the cranberry meadow. You
say strong, active Tom is in need of a
home; lie can make one for himself
anywhere. It is a deed of charity to
give Jane a home,'anil an act of mercy
to give your wife a little rest."
Before John could recover from his
astonishmeiit, Mary walked out of his
sight, and taking the children, went to
the shut-up parlor. Throwing open
the windows to let in the soft summer
air, with the baby in her lap, she sat
down a*, her piano and began to play
"a song without words," a piece Jolm
bad loved to hear when lie used to visit
her in her home, where she was a petted
girl. The song crept out through the
open windows and around to John as
he sat on the porch, and memory com
pelled him to give tlie song word. Not
musical poetry, but rather sober prose,
wherein washing, ironing, hard days
at the churn, hour's of cooking for hun
gry men, stoodo ut before his mind's
eye in contrast to the fair promises he
had made the girl he had won for
his bride.
Jane Patch came i rat evening, and
at onco took upon herself many of Mrs.
Clark's cares, and no one greeted her
more cordially than the master of the
house. Nothing was ever said about
her coming, aud Tom Birch did not go
away; so Mary knew that her husband
could well afford the expanse.
She told ute how she helped to make
one man thoughtful aud unselfish, tut
we sat oil her cool piazza one hot
August night; and 1 was glad that one
woman hod grit enough to demand her
rights. If John Clark had been poor,
his wife would have borne bur burden
in patience, but she had no right to
help make him selfish, and indifferent
as to her health and comfort.
Mr. liancrott ft Itonei.
Mr. Bancroft the Historian, who resides
In Washington has a hobby. It is rose
culture. Fancy this ola man who spends
his days iu suiting up the dry bones of
facts, and breathing iuto them the life of
history ! His winter home is a double
brown-stone, and had origiually a small
strip ol ground 011 each side of the entrance.
There was one blaze of color from Febru
ary to Jaue. Such hyacinths surely never
bloomed outside of a poem; aud the tulips
looked as if some tropical bird had beeu
plucked near by, and its plumage scattered
broadcast over the over the beds. Every
shade and color iu nature's paint-box was
represented, and under the wooing sun
anil sott air of midwinter they thrust up
from the mold long be tore the leaves were
out or the spring prince Had kissed the
sleeping world to life; and in the snows
and storms thut follow such a weather
truce thev would stand erect and glowing
aun hold their ground until the green was
washed into ttie hilis, and the cat-tails be
gan to frisk ou the trees.
Hill all of this Was only a prelude to his
rose garden. He bought a large lot which
joined his property at right angles, laciug
on Seventeenth street; of course he paid a
taucy price for it, as it was iu the heart of
the West Etui. Straightway he planted it
ail iu roses.
Sitch dowers 1 They ranged in color
from the palest bioom of Provence to the
passionate heart of the Jacqueminot;
Mart-dial Niel bends 111 stately courtesy to
Marie Uillot, and sighs in perfume tor the
Cloth-01-Uod auil the memories of the
Malinatsou; Madame Melsh shakes her
petals at the \\ hite Croquet, the Attar
rosi, the pale Satrona, and the Damask
Blush, the Micratilla lifts up its white cups
to the sun, and Maria Cook mints 111 the
glow of a sisterhood whose very names 1
have torgoqgn. The garden is like H tem
ple where a thousand spices are buruiug in
tlames of as many colors, and the venera
ble historian is the worshipper.
lie is an early riser, anil many a morn
ing 1 have been awakened by cries anil
communis, incoherent as to Words, but
ringing with pleasure! i Igo to my
window, ami there, bending ( rose after
rose, would be the slight, elastic figure ol
their adorer—his white beard and hair
sweeping the freshness from then chalices,
and getting the tirsi perfumes of the young
day. He carried a book ic one hand aud
"a three-legged stool'' in Hie other, and
spent two or three hours just wandering
troin bush to bush in an ecstacy of content
—sometimes ki-sing the dowers,sometimes
caressing them with his lingers and fre
quently dropping ou his stool under some
specially odorous cluster to read his bo-k
to the accompaniment—sound seuse anil
sweet scents!
llis house at Newport is surrounded by
a sea bloom and fragrance,and he makes
his roses the calendar by wuich he tells off
his seasons, lie stays in Washington until
June and the Jacqueminots die together;
then he dies to his northern garden, where
he lingers until the hardiest of its denizens
are dead ami the ghosts of their petals fall
in snow from the clouds of November. His
house 111 Washington is stored with inter
esting tilings, the specialty being that
there is < u* of everything and that one of
the very best, liis hospitality is lavish
and elegant, aud ti is library what Husk in
would call "A tomb of tae kiLgs." In
build tbe historian is, as 1 have said,shgh
his hair aud beard are like cream colored
silk, his dark eyes tender with the fires of
thirty, and his movements are quick aud
graceful. He rides every day ou u fiery
black hone, and can tire out his young
companions in a hard trot every time.
Cat ft'itUilng.
Some yt ars ago, says a writer I had
a eat whose fishing proclivities and
foililuess for the water was, to say the
least of it, extraordinary. Her eocon
tiicities, so far as 1 knew them, dated
from the lirst moment 1 saw her. A
friend and myself were fishing m a forty
acre lake, iu a large park, on a bitter
November day, with the wind a dead
nor' easter. Just as we were thinking
of desisting, about i o'clock in the after
noon, my friend called my attention to
a hall-grown kitten which stood mewing
bitterly on the bank some 80 yards from
us. We called it once or twice, and, to
our surprise, it took to the water without
the slightest hesitation and swam to the
boat. Alter drying it as well as we
could, we wrapped it up in old rug, and
gave it some of the bait from the punt's
well, which it devoured greedily. I
took it home after its very Arthurian
advent, but it never beoame a domestic
animal. Tabby's chief delight, on the
contrary, was to wander in and out the
sedges of the stream, by which my
House stands catching rats, moor liens,
or sedge warblers, and in summer to
poach in the shullows for small fish. I
have frequently found her doing this,
and my bait can was never safe unless
actually fastened, for even if the lid were
down, somehow my lady Tabby would
get it up and be at the contents in a
trice. 1 kept her some four years, and
at last was forced to slioot her, for she
took to game poaching in right good
earnest, and ended by living in a rabbit's
burrow, from which, after trying to coax
without success, she was incontinently
drawn and shot. I have often thought
she was a forest-born cat, of parents
getting their sustenance in the coverts,
and living there as cats will often do,
after the first departure lrom virtue iu
he direction of game poaching.
We must learn to infuse sublimity
into trities; that is power.
Flattery is like false money, it impov
erishes those who receive it.
It is a great point of wisdom to know
how to estimate little things.
••Ordering Dinner.•'
Society nmy be considered with re
gard to tbe joys ftud trouble* of dining,
as divided into three great zones or sec
tions, whereof one alone is for the most
part great ly exercised with the daily prob
lem :—"What shall % we eat?" There is,
011 the one hand, a privileged and much
envied class that cam eait pretty nearly
whatever it chooses, and which leaves
the taiak of selecting and providing the
dishes for the chef meal of the day to
some trusty subordinate. The unfortu
nate persons who belong to this section
have usually a chief who has found out
what are their favorite viands, and who
with a moderate share of ingenuity can
compose each day u bill of fare with
which the muster or mistress of the
house will be pleased, or at least conten
ted. Very possibly this class may not
be so large as the vulgar herd suppose,
and a glance into the interior sanctum
of some fine house might discover a
Cabinet Minister or the wife of a biuight
of the Garter engaged in the undigni
fied and unstatesmanlike proceeding of
holding a morning colloquy with the
cook. Hut the class, wehther large or
small, undoubtedly exists, and one of
the most notable specimens of it was
the great Duke of Wellington, who was
never observed either to know or care
what ho was eating, and would baye
found it fur more difficult to draw up a
menu than to win a pitched buttle in
the fielu. 011 the other hand, there is
the class of unfortunates —or fortu
uates, as the philosophers call them—
w hose fare is regulated by a very simple
rule, for it consists of what they can
get. Nofc on ly} rrs mora and pensioners,
school-boys and lodgers in seaside
boarding-houses, must put up with the
food that is set before them by their
caterers, but a large number of ]>er
fectly independent subjects of her Ma
jesty, living in their own dwellings, are
reduced to a similar necessity, and
spared the difficulty ol making a choice."
The cottager who lias invested a suitable
share of his Saturday wages iu a joint
is thereby committed to a diet which
lie cannot vary for the next two or three
days, or at least can only vary, if he
dines at home, by cutting ft different
vegetable from day to day from his
garden. Hut between these two ex
tremes lies the broad zone, including
1 eli-j of ti.o middle classes, of
those who have daily to answer, either
personally or by deputy, the question,
"What will you have for dinner to-day?"
•Now, to a great many managers of
house-holds—young wives, especially,
and nervous widowers this question is
fraught with untold terrors. It is the
one great trial of the day, never fully
provided against, ever new though al
ways old, a perpetual anxiety and exer
cise for the miud, whose inventive
powers seem somehow or other to be
never in so slack a condition as at the
moment when the inevitable house
keeper appeal's with the well-known
formula cii her lips. No amount of
experience or practice can overcome the
absence of that originality which is es
sential to a good domestic caterer, but
which Nature has denied to so many
worthy ladies capable of excelling iu
all other departments the housewife's
art. Tor the epicure, or at least the
female epicure, is born, not educated ;
and no amount of teaching 111 the most
approved school of cookery will atone
for the absence of that essential quali
fication that the orderor of a dinner
should feel an interest in the work.
Thus it is that the wife who is deficient
in this natural gift may be heard among
her most intimate friends entreating to
to be posted up in some nice new dishes
wlueh will seive to ornament and en
liven her bill of fare for a month or so
to come. Fusts are then made out, or
pencil marks scored against the recom
mended delicacies in that cookery book
which the uninvcntive housewife never
fails to have at hand. Hut the entrees
nnd entremets which looked and tasted
so nice at the friend's house, present
very often quite a different appearance
aud flavor at home ; and the expected
successes are as often as not dismal fai
lures, especially wiien any particular
merit is expected iu them. This sail
result will sorni times follow even "in
the best regulated households," and
when the cook is not only competent
but honestly desirous of giving the new
experiment a fair trial. Hut how many
cases are there where this autocrat of
the lower regions is either uuablo or
unwilling to achieve the proposed feat !
Kleptomania.
M. Pierre Giflfard gives some inter
esting information about that fashiona
ble disease known as kleptomania. He
says that 110 less than 4000 women are
annually caught stealing from Paris
counters, and the number of titled
ladies seized with kleptomania while
examining the fashions is almost in
credible. Among recent culprits were
a Russian princess, a French countess,
an English duchess, and the natural
daughter of a reigning sovereign. Of
course, people of this quality never
appear in the police court, but arrange
a quiet settlement with the proprietors,
often making a round contribution,
occasionally as much as $2,000, for the
relief of the poor, as a condition of
being let off. The police authorities, it
appears, consent to such settlements.
Goo<l-l)jr sir.
There Is a young man In the county of
Wayne, State of Michigan,who is going to
be terribly astonished before the year 1883
Is more than a month old. The law will
reach out and clasp his throat just above
the Adam's apple, and he will tret such a
shaking up and mopping around that he
will seem to feel his heels beating a tatoo
on the back of his neck.
They were in to see a lawyer Mary Ann
and her mother. Mary Ann was a little
embarrassed, but the old woman was
calmness itself. When they spoke about
a breach of promise case the lawyer ask
ed:
"What evidence have you got?"
"Mary Ann, produce the letters, "com
manded the mother, and the girl took the
cover off a willow basket and remarked
that she thought 927 letters would do to
begin ou. '1 he other 051 woutd be pro
duced as soon as the case was fairly before
the court.
"And outside of these letters?" queried
the lawyer.
"Alary Ann produce your diary," said
the mother. "Now luru to the heading
of "Promises," and tell him how many
times ttiis matnugc business was talked
over."
"The tooting is 214 times," answered
the girk
"Now turn to the heading of 'Darling, 1
and give us the numtier of times he has ap
plied the term to you."
"If 1 have figured right the .total is 9254
times."
"1 guess you counted pretty straight,
for you are good in arithmetic. Now
turn to the hwadiug of 'Woodbine Cvt
tage, ' and tell us how many tunes he
has talked of such a home for you after
marriage,'
"The footing is 1 £#s times."
"Very well. This lawyer wants to be
sure that we've got a case. llcw many
times has Charles Henry said he would die
tor you?"
"Three hundred and fiftv," answered
the girl as she turned over a leaf.
"tiow many limes has he called you an
angel?"
"Over 11,000, mamma."
"How atiout squeezing hand?"
"Over 384.000 squeezes. "
"And kisses?"
"Nearly 417,000.
"There's our case!" said the mother, as
she deposited basket and diary on the law
yers table. "Look over the documents,
ana if you want anything further, 1 can
bring iu a dozen neighbors to swear to the
facets. We sue lor SIO,OOO damages, and
we dont settle for less than au eighty acre
farm, with building in good repair. We'll
call again next week —good-day, sir!"
Cost oi Jtuitniug Churches.
New York's total church expenses foot
up about six million fivehtuidred thous
and dollars each year. The figures in
clude the pay of pastors, the building
lund, the cost of rnnniug the various
churches and the outlay for missions
aud all benevolent purines. Tue Eo
lnuu Catholics lead the list. They haye
some seventy-five churches, and their
total annual out-lay is estimated at two
millions two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars, half of which goes iu charity.
The Episcopalians come next. They
have seventy-nine churches and chapels,
with twenty-five thousand five hundred
communicants. Their outlay is one
million one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars—six hundred thousand dollars
for church expenses, and five handred
and fifty thousands dollars for benevo
lent purposes. Alter the Episcopalians
come the Presbyterians, with sixty
churches, having a membership of
twenty-one thousand five hundred, and
an txpense of seven hundred and ninety
fiv<j thousand dollars something over
halt of which is for church purposes."
The Methodists liavesnty-five churches,
but their membership is only thirteen
thousand three hundred, and their total
expenses are set down at two hundred
and forty-three thousand dollars—two
hundred thousand dollars being for
church purposes. The baptists, with
thirty-six churchs aud a membership
of twelve thousand seven hundred, ex
pend nearly one hundred thousand dol
lars moredhan the Methodists, their en
tire outlay being three liundred and
twenty-eight thousand dollars. The
Hutch Kelorined aud the Hutheran com
bined have forty-one churches, with a
membership of sixteen thousand, and
their expenses foot up three hundred and
sixty-three thousand dollars, Tlie Con
gregationaltsts have only six churches,
with two thousand four hundred mem
bers. audit total expense list of uiuety
sie thousand dollars. EYxt come the
Jews, and they make a very good show
ing. They have nineteen tabernacles,
with a declared membership of three
thousand v l * lo regular attendance,
though, is at least four times that num
ber) and an expense of over three hundred
thousand dollars.
Sympathetic Justice.
A gentleman was arraigned before an
Arkansaw justice on a charge of obtain
ing money under false pretenses, lie had
entered a store, pretending to be a cus
tomer, but proving to be a thief. "Your
name is Jim Lickmore," said ihe justice.
"Yes, sir." "And you are charged with
a crime that merits a long term in the pen
itentiary?' "Yes, sir." "And you are
guilty of the crime?" "I am." "And
you ask for no mercy?" "No, sir."
"You have had a great deal of trouble
wiihiu the last two years?" "Yes, sir,
1 have." "You have oifcen wished that
}ou were dead?" "1 have, please your
Honor." "You wanted to steal money
euougd to take you away from Arkan
saw?" "You are right, Judge." "If a
man had stepped up and shot you just
as you entered the store you would have
said: 'Thank you, sir.'" "Yes, sir, I
would. But, Judge, how did you tind
out so much about me?" "Some time
ago," said the Judge with a solemn air, "I
was divorced from my wife. Shortly
after you married her. The result is con
clusive. 1 discharge you. Here, take
this SSO bill. You have suffered enough."
A cheerful face is nearly as good for
an invalid as healthy weather.
The greatest evidence of demoraliza
tion is the respect paid to wealth.
All the scholastic scaffolding falls as
a ruined edifice l>eiore one single word.
The Lumber Region on the Kuulto
River.
The mouth of the river, when we had
gone near enough to have a good view
of it from a headland, made a very
noble picture. The green hills on the
south slope gradually to a well-turfed
base, hiding the beach, but showing a
long sand-spit running out almost across
the very entrance of the little bay, be
hind which are calm shadows. The
northern headland, on the other hand,
stands in bold outline—a point of sheer
cliff jutting between the ocean and the
river. Yet the charge of those waves
rolling from the spicy archipelagoes of
the great South Sea, or from the bleak
coast of Tartarv, is met, not by this
mole, but by an outer row of gigantic,
isolated rocks, overtopping the tide as
the stones of Carnac rear their heads
above the level plain, and the imagina
tion can easily believe some giant of
old, more powerful than the Druids, to
have planted them as a breakwater
guarding the harbor. Around their
base curls the angry foam of swift
charging, impotent breakers, and they
gl vin the snowy clouds of spray that
euveiop their flanks, for thus the rage
of the ol oceans, is proved
ineffectual, and the tamed waves sink
behind them into sullen peace upon
the weedy shore.
Such was the broad landscape of the
region where we cast our lot these
pleasant June days, and watchod the
cutting of the big trees.
Tradition says that credit for the
very first attempt to make lumber with
a saw in this region (for the Bussiaus
hewed all their beams and planks) be
long to John Dawson and Bodega.
Dawson wus one of three sailors who
abandoned their ship at San Francisco,
as early as J, preferring ihe iree
and easy life of the Calfornians. In
two or three years they became citizens
under the Mexican government, and
took up granted ranches hereaway,
Dawson marrying the daughter of a
Spanish dragoon oflicer. She was only
fourteen when she went to live as mis
tress of the Canada do Pogolome, and
only seventeen when she found Herself
the richest widow in Northern Califor
nia. Dawson's lumber was cut over
pits by means of a rip saw, which he
handled without help. Not half a
century later, steam mills iu this dis
trict are turning out two hundred thou
sand feet of lumber daily.
Animal ts Agamm Forests.
The destruction of tress and shrubs
and consequent bare, bleak, dfy, un
productive and unliealthy present con
dition of tlie islands and districts of
Greece and the regions around, once
famous for their charms and shade, ver
dure, fertility and popuiouiwess is
charged to the browzing of goats. The
new government of Cypruss is consider
ing bow these animals can best be re
duced or conlined. Goats were intro
duced iuto another Eughsh island
Saint H leua, within a century, and
the trees and shrubbery suddenly and
rapidly died oil' so soon as they began
to lie numerous. Tue same obstacle in
a difiorent and less degree is a rock of
stumbling iu our attempts at forestry.
A chief item of expense in many situa
tions is that of fencing in the ground
plauted, uutil the trees attain a size
unattactable by cattle. For best re
sults, close planting ami entire exclu
sion of animals are preferable* On
most farms pasture is at times an ut
most necessity. Every rod of ground
that will yield any at all most be util
ized. If there is no grass the foliage
and even the stems of trees must serve.
Hence, with the best of intentions for
conservation, some unlucky day or
pinching season occurs, when the hith
erto well nursed plantation is browsed,
broken aud greatly iujured, if not
ruiued.
Venus 111 January.
Venus is morning star throughout the
mouth, Though she has had to descend
from the proud position she occupied at
the time of the transit, she is still tl*e
fairest aud brightest of the starry throng
that makes the mormng sky tremulous
with brightness. Venus makes a superb
appearance now in the easthern sky in
the morning. Every lover of the stars
wha beholds her beaming face about the
9th of the month will be fully repaid for
the trouble of getting up early, the price
demauded for exhibition. She then
reaches her period of greatest brilliancy
on the western side of the sun. She has
two of those periods, one thirty-six days
before inferior con junction, when she is
evening star, and the other thirty-six
days after inferior conjunction, when
she is morning star. In the former case
seen nuthe telescope, she appears as a
waning crescent, like the old moon,
Iu the latter she appears as a waxing
crescent, like the new moon. On th£
19th Venus is in conjnuctoin with Eta
Opliiuchi, a star in the constellation of
the Serpent Bearer, being two degrees
north. The planet and star will be at
their nearest point at 11 o'clock in the
evening, when they are below the hori
zon. They will be sufficiently near to
be worth getting up to see on the morn
ing of the 20th, when Venus rises not
far from 4 o'clock. Venus rises about a
quarter before 5 o'clock in the morning;
at the end of the month she rises a few
miutes after 4 o'clock.
Shark Jewelry.
Industrial art now employs the skins
of certain sharks for sleeve buttons aud
the like—these, when dried and polish
ed, almost equalling the choicest stones,
and greatly resembling the fossil coral
porites. Tne yertebrss of the shark are
always in demand for canes. The open
ing filled with marrow duriug life is for
this purpose flitted with a steel or iron
rod, the side openings are filled with
mother-of pearl, and, when polished,
the cane is decidedly ornamental,
NO. 8.