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It acts eently on the iiiiweU and Kidney i ui 1 correct* the action of the Liver, and is, there fore. the best preparatory medicine, whatever the sick ness may prove to be In all common diseases it will, un assisted by any other medi cine, ctVoct si speedy cure. The Regulator is safe to administer in any condition ot the system,and under no circum stances can it do harm. It will invigorate like a class of wine, but is no intoxicating bever age to lead to intemperance; will promote di gestion, dissipate headache, and gener ally tone up the system, lhe dose is small, uot unpleasant, and its virtues undoubted. No loss of time, no inter ruption or stoppage of business while taking the Regulator. Children complaining of Colic, Headache, or sick Stomach, a teaspoouful or more will give relief. If taken occasionally bv pa tients exposed to MALARIA, will expel the poison and protect them from attack. A PHYSICIAN'S OPINION'. I have been practicing medicine for twenty years, and never been able to put up a vegetable compWmd that would, like Simmons Liver Regu lator. promptly and effectively move the Liver to action, and at the same time aid (instead of weak ening the digestive and assimilative DO was of the system. L. M. HIMTON, M. L>..Washington, Ark. SEE THAT YOU GET THE GENUINE. rKETAUrD r\* J. //. Zeilin u Co., Philadelphia, Pa.. What He Believed in. t 'That's a great note of Jem's, I do think,marrying a church woman. They say she teaches a class in Sunday school, too, and has a face as fiat and solemn as a half-baked pancake !' 'What—Jem Knight—has he mar ried a reg'lar built-pious-go-to-church and-be-good women, and him one of the joliest, take-it-easy-and do-as-yau please cusses between here and Chica go ?' 'That's the talk.' 'Great Jee-rusalem ! a sweet time he'll have. Jest fancy her making him slick up to the music of slow church bells Sunday mornings and marching him off, 'stead of haying a good time at the gardens, to a straight backed pew to listen to Gospel mush !' Thus sp ke a couple of Jem Knight's familiar chums, amid a knot of the same ilk, who were seated in tlie tnj iy ment of their customary beer and ci gars in Bottler's popular saloon. Tom Winter, a third one of the party, seem ed to be particurlarly impressed by the conversation. He was as a sharp-eyed young chap of twenty three or there abouts, who'was noted for the almost reckless manner in which he went in for'having a go .d tine.' Not that there was anything really vicious about Him. Il was straightforward, manly and honest, but full of desire to enjoy life in is freest-going aspects, and es pecially liberal in his views touching the observance of Sunday as a religious ordinance. No one hid ever heard of his going to church, or that he cired a button either one way or the other about church-going or any of its straight-laced arangements. Hence it was with more than common surp ise that his chums heard him suv : 'Well, I don't undertake to know, gents. If Jem's wife is the right" wo man otherwise, i should say he'd made a good strike, getting one who goes to church. I don't go much ou churches myself. I used to go with the old folks when I was a little shaver about knee high to a'duck. But thai was when I had to. It's a good many years now since I was inside of one. As I said, I don't go much on it myself. It's too slow for my taste. At the same time, I believe in a woman going to church. I've noticed the women that go to church are generally the best sort. A man can depend on 'em. They keep things straight at home and bring the children up right. A man can feel safe when he's away having his own fun, that they won't be running into any of the blamed dance- hall and beer garden foolishness that winds up so of ten in disgrace to a man's home. Oh, you boys may sneer. I allow it may be all humbug, and too slow for men line us. But it's dead sure ; the women who go to church are the steadiest sort a man can tie to. I don't care how much you laugh and poke tun. I've seen to many wrecked homes and ruin ed lives grow out of picking wives from free dances and Sunday picnic. There's too much nonsense in it for me. If I ever marry a woman I shall do as Jem has done—pick a wife that goes to church.' And he did. To the increised sur prise and astonishment of his chums, the jovial, rollicking, devil-may-caie Tom, who had all his life gone in for ever y species of enjoyment ; made fun of parsons and what he called long-fac ed, church-going milk-sops, more reck lessly than any of them, actually mar ried a member of the Rev. Mr. Grace ly's church, a woman who was noted for the solidly serious aspect of her face and stiicl observance of the Sab bath. A nice-looking woman, to he sure, and sternly, wiUi not a bit of nonsense about her. A rare good housekeeper, too, who kept herself and all things about her in the very best of 'apple-pie order.' That much was conceded ; only, as one of the boys put it, 'too thundering orderly ! A nice time poor Tom*ll have now. We ahull see him creeping about with a Lice as long as a fiddle.' This proved a mistake. So far as outer appearance was concerned, Tom lost none of his old-time jollity of speech and demeanor, and be seemed to retain all his old pleasure-loving disposition. When ever lie met the boys lie was as keen as ever to have a good time ; neither did he fall in going to church. On the latter point he re. marked once In strict confidence that it was all right, and a mighty good thing for a woman to go to church, but too slow for a man. Still, it was noted after awhile that he was not the same Tom. As the years rolled by and t hreo handsome children began to accomuany their mother to Sunday-school, and who were so neatly clothed and well-behav ed as to call forth the admiring com ments of all who saw them, their fath er grew a trifle more staid and digni fied, as one beginning to be somewhat impressed with the more serious aspects of life ; to feel that a man was made for something more serious than an endless round of careless frolic. It was seen, too, that he was more care ful not to let the good times he in dulged in, come within scope of his home surroundings. This much, at least, his wife's intluence had accom plished. 'I dont go to church,' In said apolo getically to a friend one day, 'but it wouldn't be the right thing to let those boys of mine get to know their father's free didos. It's all right enough so far as lam concerned, because I know when I've gone far enough. But it's best to let tbe children come up sort of straight ; the way their mother wants.' A most admirable woman this same mother had turned out to he, as Tom very well knew, and no little he was proud of her. Yet not half proud enough. Indeed, it was not vet in his apprehension to appreciate her full val ; UP. It did not enter his conception ! that the respect which had fallen to himself in connection with bis excell ently-ordered l.onie was entirely due to his church going wife. An especially sensible woman, too. Albe>t it had grieved her more than words can express that her husband could find enjoyment in pleasures whicn at best were empty and frivo lous, if not positively wrong, by not the'slightest petulant complaint had she ever upbraided liira or stiiven by aught save the gentlest suggestions to lead him to her own better way of life. There came a sad day, alas ! for him, and still" more, alas ! for the three beautiful children. The good wife and mother was called away from them,and they were left deso'ate indeed. The blow was a bard one. What now was the bereaved husband to do ? So far as worldly goods were concerned be was amply provided. lie had abun dance ; but not all the wealth in the universe could have made up the loss they had sustained. Even his royster ing companions confessed to eacli oth er that it was 'awful rough,you know that in his case there could be no doubt that Tom bad 'stiuck it rich' when he got the wife who went to church. What would he do ? A year la'er ho told a bosom friend that lie must se cure a second mother for her children. 'You will marry one that goes to church ?' 'More resolved on that than ever.' 'But you don't go yourself ?' 'No. The fact is, it's too slow for me. I like to enjoy myself with things more liyelv ; and when I've got one at home who pulls steady in the traces, as these church-going women do, I can feel safe and comfortable.' lie found the woman he thought would suit. A lady who had been somewhat intimate with his wife, a member of the same church, and alto gether after] the same right-going pat tern. In fact, a steady, clear-headed woman, who'knew when things were right, and was prompt and decisive to have them so. 'True,' as Tom whispered to himself, 'I expect she'll try to pull me short up into straight strings, a good deal tight er than Emily did. She is not as soft and yielding as I'd like. But she'll be all right for the children. I can trust her. When it comes to a question of what's best to be done, there ain't a bit of nonsense about bet. So I'll take her.' To his great surprise, however, he found that the second church-going woman was not prepared to accept his offer with the pleased alaciitj be had MILLHEIM, PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2., 1880. A PAPER FOR S HE HOME CIRCLE. expected. Knowing that she was in rather straightened circumstances, en tirely dependent on her own exertions for a livlihooil, lie had felt Bare that his own well-appointed home would prove a temptation the lady would not dream to refuse. But, instead of the grate fully expressed 'yes' he had looked for, she icplied : 'May I ask why you have given me the preference, Kir. Winter V' 'Because 1 want a mother for those children who goes to church. I mar ried Emily on that account, ami she managed so well that I deteimined to choose one of the same good sort.' 'I commend the wisdom of your de cision. But you do not attend church yourself ?' •O, It don't matter about me, you know. So long as tbe mother is all right to keep tilings straight at borne it don't make a bit of difference wheth er a man gois to church or not.' 'ln his own estimation, perhaps. But have you thought, Mr. Winter, that your church-going wife may be just as anxious to have a. husband whose integrity of principle may be un der the saving influence of church at tendance as you are in regard to the lady of your choice ? If you desire to feel at rest touching your wife's con duct at home is it not equally desirable that your wife's mind should he at rest touching your honesty of conduct when out of her sight ?' Here was a new aspect, and at first he thought it was a very foolish aspect, not to say ridiculous. He could not understand the idea of a man being amenable to the same 'rules of moral conduct that are required in a woman. And he said so. But to all his argu ments and pleadings the lady turned a deaf ear. She would not marry a man who did not go to church ; that much of safeguard to the clean life of th e man she would accept must bo given in return for her own wholesome puri ty and unblemished principles. At first Tom vowed to himself that he would not tie himself down to any such unmanly giving way to woman's foolish whim. As he more and more observed, however, that tire lady was possessed of precisely the excellent qualities he especially desired in a mother for his children, he finally gave the requisite pledge that he would ac company his wife to church at least once each Sabbath-day. 'Poor chap !' said his old chums, 'now he is shorn of his liber ty, tied to the apron-strings of a hard-faced, church going fanotic. He'll be in a lu natic asylum in less than six months.' They were mistaken. Certainly, a great change cune over him. That was apparrent to the least observant. He was no longer the roystering, free and-easy Tom. The old card-playing, dice-throwing, time-wasting haunts lost his presence. No maro was he seen in the noisy, brawling, tippling beer-gardens on Sunday. He now sought rest and peaceful quiet from the cares of the week's business within the blessed safeguards of his own fireside. And when, with wife and children, he walked to church, no more beautiful picture could anywhere be seen. And, I as time sped on, and he found that the influence of the church going he had always se'*n to be so good for a woman equally refining and excellent in its ef fects on a man. be blessed the impulse that led his second wife to impel him into the path of life's truest enjoyment; and. albeit, here were those of his old chums who still wondered that he could have been 'led by the nose by a woman,' most of them were free to confess that, after all, he was more of a man, a bet ter man, in fact, than he had ever been before. To one who asked hi in how he ever came to let himself be tied to a wo man's apron-strings, he said : 'lf the chiet bulK of married men could be tied to the apron-strings of wives who are anchored on a founda tation of church-going princples, we should have a far greater number of happy homes and vastly more peace and happiness in the world at large.' The Boy Was Safe. At noon yesterday a Michigan ave nue grocer made a sudden dash for his open door, and a boy who had been standing outside made just as sudden a dash for the middle of I he street. 'I tell you I won't stand this much longer,' shouted the grocer, as he shook his list at the boy. 'What was I doing ?' 'You were breaking these carrots to pieces ' 'Well, can't a fellow see if they are ripe ?' 'You look out! I'il have an officer after you.' 'The one on this beat r" 'Yes, the one on this beat !' 'Rats i lie's a courting my sister, and you can imagine the sort of a collar he'd give me ! Just let him walk me down and Bell will shake him like an old door mat V—Detroit Free Press. A Cowardly, Contemptible Saying. "A woman is at the bottom of ev ery mischief." So say a legion of noodles who know not what they say f and who think they think, when they only re peat what they have heard others say before them. Do these faddists ever reflect that there are two kinds of people in the world, male and female, and as they generally assciate together it is prob able that every occurrence will direct ly or indirectly involve some individ ual of both sexes i But unfortunately for the faddists, there nro some conditions in life in which their theory can be thoroughly tested. In the California and Austra lian gold-mining regions they had no women, and yet,if our memory serves us right, their days and nights were not altogether passed in halcyon sim plicity; but, on the contrary, their camps were scenes of fighting, stab bing, gouging, shooting, lynching, and bloody murder generally. Ou board ship they have no women to make mischief, and yet they are not altogether lamblike in their rela tions, living iu brotherly love and harmony. The soft answer is often a belaying pin, and the hand of a fel lowship is frequently at the end of a yard-ariu. Now, if the opposite were a popular expression, that "that there is a man at the bottom ot even trouble,'' it would be much more difficult to dis prove. No, the oft-quoted saying is a false, cowardly, and contemptible one, and a disgrace to the whole male sex. It shows that men are ashamed to as sume the responsibility of their own evil deeds, and meanly try to shuffle them off on the shoulders of poor, weak women—Tex. Siftings. A Curious Calculation. A mathematical calculation which is just old enough to make interesting reading once more is based upon the following passage from the Book of Revelation : "And lie measured the city with the reed twenty thousand furlongs. The length and the breadth and the height of it are equal." This pretty little calculation, which is be ing freshly quoted, is as follows : Twelve thousand furlongs, 7,920,000 feet, which being cubed, 496,703,088, 000,000,000,000 cubic leet. Halt oi this will reserve for the Throne of God and the Court of Heaven, and half the balance for streets, leaving a re mainder of 124.168,275,000,000,000,- 000 cubic feet. Divide this by 4,096, the cubical feet in a room 16 feet square, and there will be 30,321,843,- 750,000,000 rooms. We will now suppose the world always did and al ways will contain 990,000,000 inhab itants, and that a generation lasts for thirty-three and one-third years, mak ing in all 2,970,000,000 every century, and that the world will stand 100,000 years or 1,000 centuries, making in all 2,97 0,000, 000, 000 inhabitants. Then suppose there were 100 worlds equal to this in number of inhabitants and duration of years, making a total of 297,000,0 0,000,000 persons, and there would be more than 100 rooms 16 feet square for each person." A REPORTER of the Nashville Union took a view of the Apache captives,as they went through Nashville toward Florida, and found them interesting,if not pretty. There were bucks and squaws and papooses of every con ceivable size and every condition of aboriginal liltliiness. A majority of the men, however, were fine, stalwart,, broad-shouldered fellows over six feet high, with high cheek-bones, long, black hair, and of light copper color. They were rigged out in all styles and modes of fantastic citizens' clothing, and seemed to have donned whatever they could lay their hands upon,while a large number still wore the aborigi nal buckskin leggins and gayly color ed blankets. One strapping big buck, warm as it was, was wearing a chin chilla overcoat that must have weigh ed twenty pounds, and yet he viewed things with a solid indifference that appeared cool enough for a cucumber. Some wore hats, though not a few were perfectly, bareheaded. One fel low had on a battered stovepipe, and another venerable scalp-taker had a big red bandana handkerchief wrap ped about his head. Terms, SI.OO per Year, in Advance. WOBS OP A CANDIDATE. Schemes That arc Devised for Making Politicians Oorao Down With the Caah. A young matt wearing a serious air awl it billions-looking straw liat walk ed briskly into the sheriff's office. The binding of his Prince Albert coat had loosened its hold in many places, and the lapels bore the finder marks of a long struggle with bard times. A fray Ml black tie had climbed high on an overworked collar, and his shoes looked as if they wanted to breathe away their wearied spirits on a garbage pile. In tones mysterious and deferential, and with a very-inoportant-business ex pression on his face, he inquiried for Canute It. Matson, the Republican candidate for sheriff. Being shown in to that gentleman's pi ivate office, he took the candidate aside and began : 'Mr. Matson, I have the honor to be grand worthy Begum oi the Desplaines Street Scandinavian Incorruptible Po litical and Social Club. We have on our roles the names of 500 of the most influential citizens on tire west side. We are independent in politics, but having investigated the character of 1 'Certainly —I understand—you are going to fit up headquarters for the purpose of carrying on an unrelenting warefare against corruption in politics. llow would a fiver suit you V The young man took the proffered bank note and departed. 'That's the hundreth and fiftieth club I've been asked to help,' the big blonde candidate sighed. 'Every ward has a half-dozen. There are Matson clubs, Davis clubs, clubs with fanciful names, and clubs with out names. A half-dozen needy gentlemen get togeth er in the back room of a saloon and organize a club. 'Are any other schemes worked on luckless candidates ?' Mr. Matson turned an injured, in credulous expression on the questioner. 'Look at this', he said, as he pulled a drawer from his desk. It Contained three or four dozen blue, red, yellow, lavender, or rose colored bits of paste board. 'All tickets to benefits that will never benefit anybody except the committee ; for balls which no one will dance, and entertainments that will entertain oily a few fellows in luid luck. 'What else? Well, cast your eye over that,' and the weary candidate took a religious weekly paper off his desk. I n one of the columns was a number o? cards printed in large display type : 'Vo 1 ;e for C. R. Matson for sheiiff,' was marked with heavy-blue Pencil lines. 'Vote for George It. Divis for treasurer,' 'Vote for Michael Schweis thal for treasurer,' and on through the list of candidates of both parties the advertisement ran. •Nobody escaped, you see. We'll all get the bills before election. I did not order the card, and the other candi date? were probably not consulted. Tins is the newest scheme that has been sprung on us, and it looks like a good one. 'That isn't all. Fifty newspapers have been started since the began. Either of them will .support the candidate who gives it the most money. Each ha? a large circulation among the laboring classes ; it is a family paper and reaches every home in Chicago. Then comes the illustrated papers. They will print your picture and a sketch of your life for a consid eration. Then you will be asked to purchase a thousand or two copies.' 'Do these fellows make any money ?' 'They must proQt by their schemes or there wouldn't be so many of them. Many weak-kneed candidates give up. The 'touchers' often make threats of opposing the election of candidates who refuse to come down, and scare them into buying the schemers off. A can didate's life is an unhappy one. There comes a suspicious-looking party. He probably has a child to bury, or his mother-in-law is dying, or his landlord is about to turn him into the street. He's a life-long Republican, and can help menu his ward. I'll just step out at the side door. Good-day.' Not Worth Much. During the recent election in Pulaski County, Arkansavv, one of the town ship ballot boxes, when brought to the County Clerk's otlice was found to be empty. 'llow is this ?' asked the Clerk. 'llow's what V the man who had brought the box replied. 'Why,there are no ballots in the box.' 'They told me to bring the box—they didn't say nothiu' about the tickets.' Ark Traveler. A Peculiar Power. * Now, children,' said the teacher of the infant natural history class after the peculiarities of the crab had been discussed, 'is there any other member of the animal kingdom that possesses the power to move rapidly backward ?' •Yes,' said one of the most promising of the little scholars, 'the mule kin do it.' — N. Y. Hun. NO. 47- NEWSPAPER LAVtS If subscribers order the t\irecent they are held ivspensinle ui.tiU.'.'-Ju*ua.iAfc*ltt4~. the bills ai.il ordi'i t d Ihein efii.u If subscribers move tootle i 1,141 U0 26 CO 4T> 00 One Inch makes a square. Administrator and Executors' Notices ii/tf). Transient sulvei lisemenis and locals 10 cents per line for llrst insertion and o cents per line for each addition al inset tio.ll A Desperate Fight with a Snake. Jake Beiman, an employe 011 Conn's ranch, went up into the hills to get some cattle when he encountered a snake. The reptile was close to a huge rock when lie found him, and the rock was flanked by a log. Beiman noticed a huge hole at an angle of the rock and log, for which'tiie snake made on being surprised. Seizing a large rock he cast it at the snake, grazing its body. On receiving tiie blow it turned like light ning and sprang at its antagonist. Bei man stumbled over some lushes, and the snake coiled about him in an in stant. A piece of wood was close to the man's hand, and reaching tor it he struck the snake several sharp blows on the bead. The latter turned and ran his head into the hole, dragging Beiman close to it. The man braced his feet against the snake, but could not extiieate himself, as the snake had twisted half liis body around his left leg,and, as he afterward said, "Was just squeezing the life- out of it.'' Beiman was nearly an hour in this predicament, until he finally thought of his knife, and getting it out of his pocket, jabbed it into the snake's body. After a few cuts tne snake be came enraged, and began to wriggle its head out of the hole. Beiman saw that his time was short, and made a lively attack on the snake's neck,severing it. The instant it was severed the neck rose convulsively in the air and a spout of blood came full iu the frightened man's face. At this point he fainted away, and he thinks he must have remained in that condition over an hour. When he came to the snake was still coiled a round his leg, but dead. Lie brought it home, and it is now on exhibition at the ranch. It measures ten feet eight inches without the head.— Carßon[N"ev.] Appeal. Accident to Senator Wade Hamp ton. Coli mbia, S C. Nov. 24, —Senator Wade Hampton, while deer hunting on his Mississippi plantation on Mon day, became separated from the rest of the party, who, toward evening, supposing that the Senator had left the field, returned home. At 8 o'clock last night General Hampton being still absent a searching party started out and found the old General a short distance from the house, much ex hausted and painfully hurt, but mak ing his way homeward. About 3 o'clock in the afternoon, as he was riding through a thick wood where vines were numerous a ;< Supple Jack'' vine caught his gun and discharged it, the load of buckshot entering the head of his horse, killing the beast instant ly. The animal fell on Senator Hamp ton, and in his maimed condition it took some time to extricate himself. He had been walking through the woods for nearly five hours with only one good leg. Ahead of the Egyptians. "Talk about Egyptian embalming," said a Chicago undertaker. "Why, it don't compare with what we do nowa days. These old Egyptians didn't know what art was in the profession of undertaking. There is too much non sense afloat about the lost art of em balming as practiced by the Egyptians. In the first place their climate is of a kind to preserve dead animal tissue whether it is embalmed or not. It is very dry in Egypt and the temperature is even. The boasted mummies of Egypt are simply dried up specimens of skin and bones. To-day we can em balm a body so that it will preserve the fulness and hue of life and it will ne.y.er dry up at all. If the modern process of embalming had been known to the Egyptians of several thousand years ago, those old Kings who were laid a way in the pyramids for us moderns to look at, instead of presenting the ap pearance of tanned leather, would liaye the kingly dignity of form and feature which was theirs when their bodies were laid away for the last long sleep." The First Watch. At first the watch was about the size of a desert plate. It had weights, and was used as a "pocket clock." The earliest known use of the modern name occurs in the record of 1552, which mentions that Edward VI. had "one larum or watch of iron, the case being likewise of iron gilt, with two plum mets of lead." The first watch may readily be supposed to be of rude execu tion. The first great improvement— the substitution of springs for weights —was in 1560. The earliest springs were not coiled,but only straight pieces of steel. Early watches had only one hand, and, being wound up twice a day, they could not be expected to keep the time nearer than fifteen or twenty min utes in twelve hours. The dials were of silver and brass ; the cases had no crystals, but opened at the back and front, and were four or five inches in diameter. A plain watch cost more than $1,500, and,after one was ordered, it took a year to make it.