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THTYOICE THAT WIN'S ITS WAT.
If words could satisfy the hem,
The hearth might Sod less care;
But words, like summer birefe. depait,
And leave twit empty air.
A little said, and truly said,
Can deeper joy impo-t
Thau hosts of words who reach the head
But never touch the heart.
j
A voice that wins its snnay way
A lonely home to cheer.
Hath oft, the fewest words to sty,
But, O, those few, bow dear!
YIELD NOT TO DARK DESPAIR.
Hast thou one heart that loves thee.
In this dirk worid fill care,
9 nose gentle smile approves thee ?
Yield not to dark despa'rl
C.ie hand whose loving fingers
Are pressed tn thine alone 7
One fond, confiding bosom ,
TVhoae thoughts are all thine o*a J
One feuthfol voice to garde thee,
And bless thee in distress ?
One 1 reast, when thou au weary,
Whereon thy head to rest f
Till de:th thy form has ahroadr 1.
And cold that hear, so wai.n,
Till death the eaitb has clouded.
Heed not the parsing storm.
Thou lust one tie to bind thee.
An I little life bads rare —
Let k*e, sweet love, entwine
In this dark world of care !
THE LITTLE ONE.
VITT. XIX 13. 15.
.and is uuo what I stu told,
Trat there ere iamba wirier* the tu'ul
Of God's beloved Sow,, —
Th .t Jesms Christ with tcader care,
Will in his aims most gently bear
The helpless "Httle one V
Oytsf I've hesr-1 my mother sy,
He never sent a child away,
Th it scirce could walk or run ;
For when the parent's love besought,
That te wo eld touch the child she brought,
He blessed the "little one."
And I, a littte stravTr lamb,
May come to Jesus as I am.
Though guodne:s I have none ;
May now l e folded to his breat,
As brds with ; n the parent's nest,
And be his ■•'ittle one."
And he can io 1* this for me,
Becaa*e in sorrow on the tre :
He once for sinners hung :
And having washed their in* away
He now rejoices, day by day.
To cleanse the "little one."
Others there are who love me too ;
But who with all ther love can do
W bat Jesus Christ haa done
Then if he teaches rue to pray,
IU surely go to b'm and say,
Lord Wess thy '-little one."
Thus by flis graci-us Shepherd fe.l,
And by his mtrcy gently led,
Where bviug waters run,
My greauit pleasure a.ll be this,
That I'm a little loaib ot His,
VY bo loves the "little one."
NOT DEEP ENOUGH FOR PRAYING.
We heard, a night or two sinee, a talerable
good story of a coupie of raft-men. Ttse
event occurred during the late big blow on the
Mississippi, t which time so many rfts were
saamped, and so many steamboats lost their
sky-tigging*
A vgt't was Just etßfrgipff from lake Pep:u
ss the >quli came, io an instoct the rail
pitching aud writhing as if suddenly drop
ped into Charybd's, while the wavea broke over
with tremendous uproar, and expecting ii.stant
destruetioß, the raftamoa dropped on bis knees
and comtßCßced praying with a spirit equal to
the emergeccy. Happeaing te opcu bis eyes
an wutoat, he observed far* companion, not
engaged ;d prayer, bat pushing a pole iato
the water at the idea*f the r;t.
What's that yer doiu', Mike* said be; get
down on yer knees, now, tor there isn't a
minute botweea us and Purgatory?
Be aU-y, Pa, wd the other, as he cooily
continued to puuch tne water wU'j bis pole.'
he aisy, now! what's the use of praying when
a feller en teteb bottom with a pole 1
Mike is a pretty good specimen of a l ar 8 e
class of Chrisitans, who prefer to omit prayer
*s long sa they can teuu bottom.
ia a man iu Greco bosh—aays the
*ruy News—who believes in rota*too of crops.
Or.e year he raises nothing; the next year
.weed*.
X?"A fortune won in a day is lost in a day*,
a fortune won slowly, and slowly compacted,
seems to acquire from the band that won it a
pioperty of endurance.
XF°"What are the years but perishable
icavea blown, one by one, from the ever open
ing roae of Time, by tbe siuie breath that first
i:Teted them
A Weekly Paper, Devoted to Literature, Politics, the Arts, Sciences, A-rriciilture, See., See— Terms: One Dollar and Fifty Cents in Advance.
ARTEMU3 WARD AMONG SHAKERS.
One of our eotemporaries has a witty cor
respondent who purports to bo a traveling
showman, and of course meets with virions
experience. In bis last letter he gives some
of hi* experienee among the Shakers, in whose
"set. lenient," he had to stop over night, par
taking of their hospitality:
I sot down to the IsMe, and the female in
the meal bag poured out some tea. She sed
nothin, and for five mtirt* the only live thing
in that room was a old wooden clock which
tict in a subdood and bashfti! manner in the
corner. This deathly stillness made me un
easy, and 1 determined to talk to the female or
bust. So sex I, ' marriage is agin your rul#a,
I bteeve, omro?
"Yay."
'•The sexes liv strictly apart, i 'spect?"
"Yay."
"It** kinder singler," sex 1, puttin on my
most sweetest look and speakin in a whinnin
voice, "tbit so fair a made as tbow never got
hitched to sum likely teller/'
[N. B.—She was upward of forty, and
hetneiy as a stump fence, bat 1 thawt I'd
tiekil her.]
"I don't like men," she ed, very short.
"Wall, I dunno." sex I, "tbey'er a rayther
important part of 'he populashnn. 1 don't
scarcely see how we could git along without
'em "
"Us poor wiuimiu' folks would git along a
great deal better if there was no men!"
You'll excuse me. warm, tut I don't think
that air would w ric.
It wouldn't be rejiler.
I'm fraid of she said.
That's i-noeoessary, inarm. Van ain't in no
danger. Don't t'rer yourself on that pint.
Here we're shut out of the sinful worid.—
Here al! is peas. Here we are brothers and
sisters.
We don't marry, soil eoa?ekcat!-y we have
no <iouu?*fic difficulties, liusban* don't abooae
their wives—w:v. s don't worrit iheir husbau*.
There's no children here to worrit us. Noth
ing to wcrrit us here. No wicked matrimony
here.
Would tLou !iiC to laiI a i bao vf these Shak
en..'
No, sez I, it s.u't my stile.
1 hid now hie ted in ws tig a load of previ* li
ana as 1 could carry eomfortable, and leaoin'
hack in are cheer, corsairust pic if in my eeth
with a fork.
h f v-n.t ,ctt Uvi#' rue ail alvrut
with the clock. 1 hadn't sot taar long before
tpe eider p.-xci in* i.age Wad in at lbs door.
You' re s. hub of bid! he td, and groaned
sua went .**,.
Dire:k!v tbar euou in tw> ynog Shskercss
ess, as pretty atiu slick lookin' gals as 1 evtr
met.
it is troo tufj was dn-ssed in meal bigs like
the old one I'd met previsty, and their shiny
silky bar hid (t'. m sight by long white
cps, such as i spose female gots wear, but
their eyes spars led like uixinds, their cheeks
wa< like rose-, and they << charmio Etff to
■aka a bmd thru w stuns a*. Lis graudmother,
if they axed hiai to.
1 bey cooweest elsariu away the dishes,
eas'iu shy glances at tne all the time. I gut
excited.
1 forgot Betsy Jane ia my rapter an! ez
I, toy pretty dears, how are you?
We are well, they soluatiy sed.
W jr's the o'd man? sed I, ia % kiai of soft
;ce.
0 whom dest thou speak—brother Uriah?
i mean the gay and festive euss wbo ealls
MS man of SID. Sboulda't wonder if his aaoie
w*s Uriah.
He has retired.
Waif, my pr< try dears soz I, lets have sum
fun.
Let's play pass in the corner. What say
you?
Are yoa a Shaker, sir? they axed.
Wall, my pretty dears. I haven't arrayed
my prond form in a long wtskit yif, but if
th;y na all like ycu perhaps I'd jine 'cm.—
As it is, I'm a Shaker prctemporary.
They was fall or fun, i seed that at fust,
ooiy they was a little skeerv- I tawt 'em
pu-p in the corner and sioh like plase, and we
had a nice tiaie, keepin quiet of course so the
old man shouldn't hear.
When we broke up, sez I, my pretty dears,
ear 1 go, you have no objections, Lave yoa, t>
a jnaersent kiss at pat tin?
YaJ, tLey sed, and I jay'd.
A Frozen Sbip. —A whaling vessel, which
sailed from LondoD in the year 1840, found
In the Polar sea a ship embedded in the ice, with
sails furled, aad no sigus of life on board.—
The captain an-1 eome-of tbe crew descending
iuto tbe cabin, found ended upon tbe floor u
large Newfoundland dog, apparently asleep,
but when they touehsd it they found the ani
mal was dead, and frozen as hard as stone. —
ia the cabin was a young lady seated at tbe
table, her eyes open as if gazing at the intru
ders in that desolate place. She was a corpse'
and bad been frozen iu an apparently resigned
and religious attitude. Beside her was a
man, wbo 't appeared was the comman
der of the brig, and brother to the lady, tie
was sitting at the table, dead, anJ before him
was a sheet of paper, on which was written,
"oar cook has endeavored to strike a light since
yesterday morning, but ia vain; all is cow
ever.** In another part of the cabin stood
tLo cook, with the flint and tinder in haud, fro
zen. in the vain endeavor to strike the fire that
eoutd alone save them. Tbe terrors of the
seamen li the captain front the spet, who
took wtrh him the log book as tbe sole metntc
[to ot the ill fated ship. It appeared tbsfc she
| also was from Loudon, and had bspu Ittzeo ia
'that place over fourteen years-
BEDFORD. PA., FRIDAY. APRIL 12, 1861.
I Sad Picfurt?.
The foilowiog is an extract from the Valedio*
tory address of Prof. Mitchell to the recently
graduating cla& at Jefferson College, Phils.
delpkia.
; Go with me, ia imagination, id it* grave
yard of a eeantry poor bouse, in a siaier ?■©*
|m m wealth, and the spot allotted to the mor
! ta!
remains of a victim of inebriation once a
: star in the professional galaxy of his native
| State, will meet your eye. The rank weed
and the rugged brier have well nigh oblitera-"
: ted the hillock from the gisa of men, and these
are the oaly monuments that mark the spot.— \
\\ bo sleeps there ? Alas 1 1 tremble at the
reminiscences that cluster around the shapeless |
i heap of earth. Often, during uey residence in j
| the West, I bad beam the glittering prospects j
that environed the pathway of the young pro- I
j fessor. His eloqueuce and resetting posers j
i won for itiut golden opinions. In the walks j
of professional iise, too, he met on every sid" (
the approving smile and the 9aiaUtton-f j
friends who esteemed hitn a ministering angel j
10 the chamber of sickness, and who felt that!
: his skill had saved their loved cues from the |
grasp of death. The gourd seemed to be of
vigorous grow tit, and for a tune none had aj
misgiving in respect of the future. But a!
poisonous worm was at the root; and it tufu- |
sed desolation iuto every fibre of the plant.—
This man bad failed ia every outset of life .
he began wrong. Too soon, alus, was the geu
■ tee! glass of wtc exchanged for the fiercer
stimul >U9 of the brandy goblet. The victim
was tottering on a feurtui declivity, uncon
scious of the abyss that might sooa engulf him
j forever. The stone, rolling from the hill-top,
couid Out be checked iu its rush to ruin uy a
force less potent tban Aiuiighuness. Toe
warning of dearest friends were unbended.—
Oasr, beyond retrieve, was the die, and the ter
rible issue net far in the dLta&ee. The errat
ic professor lost his place in the school of med
t icine, because of indiscretion* perpetrated un
der the sway of the tyrant whose claims led
hitu io durance vile. The patrons who once
idolized him as their family visitant its the sik
, chamber, abiU'ioacd him as a hopeless outcast,
a&J the aiurkej tokens of poverty speedily
? fajlou.d fceir death gripe ua sui sad body.—
1 Di,d ha reform at the eLveuth hour ' On the
contrary, he felt that he was a doomed *ot sod
very toon ail thai had once been .uXtiiuodd hod
full of promise in intellect, went oat in utter
, dsrkue-c. He gave up the ghost am. ag sia
t dreg spirits, and where is he J Did any of hit.
' early psCfh&S 'eotiipftttaiis take the Wtitß
clay and honor it With a spot in Some lovely
peiuctry 1 Not at ail. Unwept and al ne he
found tiding-place in a dishonored grave.—
And in a weekly sheet the nnrianeboly record
. ins doom ran thu>:
•*Di< d oa the day of in the year
18—Dr. , weL auown a few year*
ago, as the el-quent professor of in
Medical College. lie was rained
by intemperence, and his remains repose in a
corner of a gr>vtyard of the county poor bouse. !
A WORD FOR WIDOWS.
Travelers tell us that America is the eouu
tiy where more young and pretty widows are
seen than in any oth?r—#wing to intense over
work by w'aich our men k:Il themselves, aud
die young.
As the widows are so large a class, let us
copy for tbem a passage from the book of
"Gaugooly," giving an account of what wid
owhood is in Bengal:
"The very day a girl becomes a widow, her
e lorcd clothes, silver and golden ornaments,
are ail taken off, and a mark of red powder
which every married woman wears on tbe fore
bead, is rubbed out. Henceforth she is to,
dtees ia white, and wear no ornament of any
kind whatever during her lifetime. Her daily
meals are reduced to one, aud th t i* prepared
in the simplest way possible. She is strictly
prohibited the use of any sort of animal food.
This restriction has been carrried to such an
extreme, that, if a scale of fish be found iu
the pLte of a widow, she must immediately
stop eating and go without food the same day.
Each widow is required to cook her own food,
and abstain entirely from food and drink two
day*, aka-thu&ly, iu every month. There are j
other fasting days for this class of wretched ,
women, but tbe young oues feel satisfied with
observing the two fixed ones. Who ean wit- j
neas the sufferings, the sighs of the Bengalee
widow of thirteen or fourreeu years, on tbe
fast days, without pity 1 In the warm days of
April, when tbe burning sun dries op tbe
ponds of their water, scorches the leaves of
the trees, these pour victims to tbe rigidness of
superstition, faint and pant in Longer and
thirst.
If tbey are dying ou tbe aka4huly day, a
little water will be put to the lips, merely to
wet them. In order to escape these continual
suffering?, it has been the practice with many
widows to bum themselves with the corpse of
the husband, and though the subtle Bramins
inculcated various rewards for the burning of
tbe Shutiee, yet I cannot see anything mote
weighty than the patting an end at once to all
their trouble?, evea at tbe gaiifc of suicide.—
They have no hope of ever cheering their
widowhood in tbe world."
25"The following is a copy of an advertise
ment which appeared ia a oonntry paper:
Made their escape, a husband's affections.
They disappeared immediately on seeing his
wife with hands and face unwashed at break
fast.
Don't believe any woman to be an n
--■>el. If you feel any symptoms of that disease,
take a dose of sage tea and go to bed it is
as tnnch a malady as the small-pox, and it is
your business to get over it as soon as pon
tile.
I TAKING DOWN A LAWYER.
j A story is told of a very eminent Dwysr io
; New York receiving a severe reprimand from
• a witness on the stand whom he was trying to
|br wheat. It was an important issue, and in
t order to save his cause from defeat, it was ne
cessary that Mr. A. should impeach the wit-
Qf;*' The following dialogue ensued:
; Lawyer —How old are you?
Witness—Seventytwo yeats.
Lawyer—Your memory, #f coarse is cot
' briliiiut-and vivid as it wa twenty years ago,
j is it?
Witness—l don't know but it is.
Lawyer —State some circumstance wbieh oc
curred, ay twelve years ago, and we shall be
: abla to see how well you can remember.
Witness—l appeal to your Honor if lam
to ho interrogated in tb manner; it is inso
lent.
Judge—Yes, sir; state it.
Witness—Well, s:r £ if you compel tne to
Jo >t, I will. About twelve years ago you
stndied in Judge B.'s uffi.e, did yon not my
frreftd'
Lawyer--Yes
V* itaess—well, sir, I remember your father
coming into tny office and saying to toe, "Mr.
D , my son is to be examined to morrow, and
1 wHK yoa would lend me fifteen dollars to
I buy him a suit of clothes." -i remember, also,
sir, tfeat from that day to this be has never
paid me that sum. That, sir, 1 remember as
though it bad been but yesterday.
I - >yer (considerably abashed) —That will
do,s-r.
Witness-—I presume it will.
SIONATCBtE OF THE v.'bo&>-— The mark
: whieh persona who are un*bl to wsite are re
i quin?4 to make instead of their signature, is
hi fottu of a aaJ thi. practice, having
befT. formerty followed by kings aud nobles,
is coistantlo referred to as an instance of the
depbjvablo of ancient times. This
signature t not, however, invariable proof uf
such ignorance ; aucieutly the use ot this mark
was not eoifined to illiterate persona; for
among the Saxoas the mark or ero-a, as sa t
--testati.iß of tfce good fail h ot ths per&jo siga
bg, "as rcqwed to be attached to the signa
tus.es of those who ccuU write, aa well as ;o
sue* in the JiLcc of the signature of those
who tould not write.
1- ihos- ikhS, U a no*a could write, or
real, bts kaow'tdge was ooaaidered proof
tt.t*am&ive. tk*t be was. .4wdPL.,
The word citricmt OF clerk was synonymous
with pen-oi -.n, and the laity, or people who were
not clerks, did not feel any urgent necessity of
the use ot loiters. The ancient u*e of the
cross was, therefore, universal, uLke by rLose
ha couid and by those who could not wri'e
it; it was, indeed, the symbol uf an oath from
its holy associations, and generally the m.rk
On this- account. 3lr. Charles Kuight, in his
Botes to the Pictorial Shakesf eart, explains
the expression of "God save toe mark," as a
; forai of * jaculaiiou approaching to the charac
ter of ea oath- This phrase occurs three or
more tunes in tto plays of Shakesp"are, but
hitherto it has been left by the
: in its origicnal obscurity.
I'BEDICTIOJtS FOE TUE YEAS 1861.- The
year of 1861 will be a very eventful one to ev
ery maiden who gets married.
Throughout tbe whole course of the yeir,
whenever the moon wanes the nights grow dirk.
If dandies we*r their beards there will be
ies work for the barbers. He who wears his
mustache will have something to snecxe at.
Whoever is in love th-i year will thiuk his
mistress an angel. W buever gets married
wili find out whether it is true.
He that looses his hair this year will grow
bald.
Lie that looses his wife wiil become a wido
wer.
If a young lady should happen to blush she
will look red in the face. It she dreams of a
young man three nights in succession, it wiL
he a sign of something.
If she dream of bim four times or have the
toothache, it is ten to one that she is a long
time m get ,; ng either of them out of her head.
If any one jumps over board without know
ing how to swim, it it two to oce that he get*
drowned.
If any una lends an umbrella, it ;s ten to one
be i* obliged to go home in the rain tor his
pains.'
Whoever runs in debt this year will be dun
ned.
Many an old sinner will resolve to torn over
a new leaf this year, but the new leaf will turn
oat bl*nk.
It is probable that if there is no business
doing, p opie will complain of bard times, but
it is certain that those who hang themselves
will escape starvation.
He that bites off his nose, ot turns politician,
will act like a fool, and this is the most ceruiu
of all.
:IF"*Billy, how did you lose your finger?
Easy enough, said Billy.
I suppose you did; but how 1
I guess you'd a lost yourn, if it had been,
where mine was.
That don't answer my question.
Well, if you must know, said Billy, I had
to cut it off or steal the tip.
A Down Easter advertiser for a wife in the
following manner :
"Any girl what's got a cow, a good feather
bed aud oxen, five hundred in hard putur, and
one that's had Ae mease Is, and understands
tending children, can have a customer for life
by writing a billj dux, addressed Z R——
and stick it on uncle Ebenezer's barn hind side
1 jinin the hog pen.
| it €hest !■ the Swallow'? Nest.
j Near the town of Heidelberg, iu Germany, is aa
s ohl ruin called the '-SwsHow'g Nest," which many
i years ago'waa the resort of. a band of lawless free
| hooters. Some travelers who recently passed a few
i days in the vicinity of the "Swallow's Nest," came
i across an old man whose long, grisly locks, stray
ing over his shoulders, his flowing beard, his hag
gard face and decrepid form, made him seem like a
lorgotten representative of the old race of men,
that knew the robber knights in the height and;
; glory of their power ; and when be spoke, his voice
sounded like a call from the kingdom of the dead, j
it was .o feeble, so hollow, and so vacant ot all \
life. Having heard of bis wonderful familiarity
with the ghostly realms, they questioned him about j
his experience, and gradually drew him into an j
animated conversation. Sitting dowu on a moasy ;
stone, and leaning bis gray chin on his strfl", he j
tofci story after Story of ghosU and strange ap- I
pariuoas which had appeared to birn at night in '
those melancholy blunts. And he told them all in ]
such si unaffected, serious kinner, that they !
couldn't help believiog them as firmly as he did. .
One of these stones was a very rvn:rkable one, ,
and was to the following effect :
About five hundred years a to, the daring free-1
boo r wh tlien made Swa low's Nest the terror rff!
all good and peace- oring citizens, rode one day, j
at the head of a brv of armed retainers, into the
very couti of the Heidelberg castfe, and abducted
a beautiful yon * : uiy, a princess, tilliag t.er faith- \
ful maid and wounding several of ber attendants, j
The pursuit was hot; but the freebooter regained ;
Hs castle in sa 'ety, taking with him his noble cap ;
live, it was an act as foolish as it was audacious ; j
for it rou.ed apiinst the pe*petrator the wrath of!
his soverf' m, amd brought him under the ban of '
•_o empire. The robbing of Jews and common
traders we* a venial crime ; the kidnapping of a
pr ncess was an unpsntomible offense against the
priv.Wges of toyal blood.
The freebooter's castle was besieged by a*i over
whelming for •. For a while be defied his ene
mies; bat oce morning a white fiig was flying from
the high tower, the gate was thrown open, the draw
bridge lower. J, and the {besiegers marched in—to
find the freebooter gone. Heaven only knew where !
He bad disappeared some time ia the night, with
out the knowledge ot any of his men. It was cur
rently reported that he bad been carried off by the
Evil One, with whom, in the popular belief, ho hod
ruade a very hard bargain. But the princess 7
She, too, hd disappeared ; and, as she was never
afterward seen, it became the popular superstition
that she had been rescued from her en-my by the
Queen of Heaven herself
Thus matters rested for more than five centuries. .
One summer nigh', this old man, sleeping, as nsual, j
in a sheltered et rner of the castle yard, had a '
vision of a beautiful tidy, whose face bore traces of
suffering and trouble. Bhe walked en the air, as il j
it were a solid floor. Proceeding to the narrow i
trchway that ouce l-d to the dnageons, she entered f
the dark passage, which immediately became il
hitninated, as-lf !!gi:ted by a torch! As the old I
man knew tfce passage was entirety blocked np to j
ordinary personages, he felt prompted to follow.— ,
She led the way to a Urge apartment, am! stopped ;
ower spot twtess aidfe* of the floor, where ah* •
stood, appearing to we- p. Looking np at length, j
she saw the oM man. who hd followed a few steps 1
behind. Fixing =>. Taoltßcholy gare on hhu, as if .
to gain his attention, she pointed to the floor t her •
feet, and tfcew retraced her stei*s, walking, as be
fore, on the air. At the archway she twddeuly
disappears*!.
Next morning the old man found everything as
usual about the cavern : even the passage, through
which he had walked the night before, ws entirely
blocked up. But the succeeding night the soma
adventure was repeated ; and the third aight it oc
curred again, with the addition that the i >dy gave .
him a costly ring ill parting. Strangely enough, >
the first thing that attracted his attention in the
morning was a bright ring lying among the loose t
fragments of stone at his side.
He told his story in the village, where, at first,
no oce thought ot attaching the least i nportance
to it; but he insisted so strongly that there must
be something In it worth searching out, that at last
a few of the most substantial villagers obtained
permission :o e'ear out the passage. It was a
labor ot many days. At length, however, it was
crowned with success; a large apartment was
reached, wb'ch the old man immediately recegcized !
aa tfce place wh*re the appariaen had stopped.— j
They .cr ped away the mould and dost from the
store floor, but couid discover no signs of a trap, j
After an hour's search they gave up iu despair,
rating their own folly in having allowed themselves
to be made the dupes of a bali-witted old man.
'• We might have known, as usual, before be
ginning," exclaimed one of them, striking the
stone flier with his spade, to give emphasis to his
words.
To the astonishment of all, the smitten floor
opened, and disclosed a narrow staircase, leading,
apparently to subterr-aean dangeons. After a
pardonable hesitation ot a few minutes, one of the
villagers descended, lamp in hand, to explore the
underground place, and the rest followed. The
staircs e proved to be short. At the foot lay two
skeletons! Between the ribs of the larger one a
rusty dagger was sticking! The superstitious
peasants took a single look, rushed up the steps,
and I the daylight with the wings which
terror iJways adds to the clumsy heels of untutored
humanity.
But a few days afterwards the castle was again
visited by a more courageous (because larger) com
pany. The secret chamber was indeed found, but
the two ske'eteus had ci ambled to dust. There
lay the dinger, and near it were found several
r.ngs, a bracelet and a silver c~oss.
The mystery was, if po aiUe greater now than
before. Were the bone those of the Princess
and the Baron i But how came he there 7 The
dagger suggests one solution. He probably found
her unconquerable, and shut her op in that subter
ranean prison. Going down one aight to see
whether she was tamed or net, be threatened her
with tie dagger, she seized it, and iu a frenzy
stabbed him to the heart. Then, unable to open
the trap-door, she perished of hunger. But why
was net the existence of this chamber betrayed by
the Baron's retainers 7 In one corner of it was
found an iron chest, containing a few old Coins,
rings, bracelets, chains, necklaces and other costly
articles. This renders it probable that the chamber
was the Baron's private treasury, and that its ex
istence was known only to himself. The truth
will probably never be known.
[IFThe Mountain Demociat b responsible
for the following:
A disappointed candidate called for so l eje
opener' in the Otleans Hotel, Sacramento.—
The barkeeper speedily completed a cocktail,
aud was topping it off with abaynth.
What's that? what's that demanded the
man ootside of the counter.
It's absynth, sir. It'll give joa a good
appetite.
Appetite! Bab! take that stuff out; take it
out! 1 don': want no appetite— what's a fel
ler want ot so appetite when he hain't got
mosey enough in all, to pay for his break
fast?
VOL. 34, NO. 15.
ilgriraifnral.
Sorghom—Hints on its (allure.
7*o lie Editor of the American Agriculturist :
Permit me to make a few suggestions to those
who pntpose cultivating the sorgho pi*ct the com
ing season. There appears to be a great many
varieties of seed in the country, and a great many
of them worthless. I do not know them by their
names. The only way to secure a good variety is
to procure seed of some one who las had a good
yield of sugar and molasses from his cane. I
believe that the people ot America have been hum -
tugged roust awfully by the irrtrsdaetiM of the
wrong varieties, and that most, if net all the good
seed came originally throegh your office.
The tetd most be matured to grow weH. Pre
pare it for planting by soaking it, say in a weak
sol ution of equal part* of chloride of Kme and
copperas, if practicable. Prepare the ground well,
ana mark out with a chin instead of a plow. The
gem el the seed should be just visible. A little
3 our should be mixed with it while wet, to prevent
sticking together and enable you to see it readily
in cov ring. For planting with a machine, the seed
must be dry. Sprouted semi should be covered
about | of an inch—less would te sufficient if the
weather is moist and warm. One of the varieties
of the Itnphee I hare found more readily con.
verlibie inta sugar than the sorgho. This may be
planted the middle of May, but the sorgho should
be planted just as soon a* the ground is dry enough,
certainly not later than the first of May. -- "
Do not let the weeds get the start. Keep the
ground well tilled and clean nntii in July, or until
the cane joints. The cane should be got farther
along before mid- summer than is usual. For this
purpose, some of my friends plant in hot-beds .m-i
transplant, ami with good success—the labor oi
transj lanting not being so great as the first boesng
out of the sorghum from among th<Jkreeds.
A good time to cut cane is when the top of the
seed panicle has ripened, bat it should by all means
be cut be tor o frost. Let it be shocked upon some
thing that will raise it from the ground, and not ia
too large shocks ; let it have air. Grind and
evaporate as fast as cut, when possible, and this
may be done if frost holds oil*.
Ft sure to have aa evaporator oi sufficiewt ca
pacity. Great mistakes Lave been made by a
whole neighborhood depending upon one machine
—while the cane has waited for its turn, it has
moklcd or soured, sod the syrup made from it,
diacruiit ugoa the whole sorgho experi
ment. And while upon evaporators, let me say
that herein lies the great secret of success. I
know of but one adapted to the business, out of
nearly a doaen I have tried, and that is Cook's
•*£aby Kocket." as it i jocosely called. I never
could make sugar in kettles, hut with Cook's ma
chine, have made as nice sugar as I ever saw.
To secure crystal satiou, a temperature of 80
deg. is required, and that mast be regular. Ia this
township we have made 4000 gallons, and our
County (Kichland) saved #30,000 during last
season alone, ly the introduction of sorghoan
Richland Co., O. H. Massvuxd.
EARLY GEEMINATIOX OF SEED COEN.—
The Eepubiican of Princeton, 111., gives an expe
riment of Dr. Chamberlin, which goes to show that,
by the use of chloride ot lima and copper*.?, much
time may be saved in the germination ot corn. Ia
his office, Dr. C. had four boxes, ia one of which
the corn was planted without soaking, and the seed
hai not germinated ; in the second, the seed was
soaked ia warm water, and bad just commenced to
germinate ; in the third, the seed was soaked in a
solution of lime, and the green blade* were just
peeping from the ground; in the fourth, the seed
was soaked in a solution of chloride of lime and
copperas, equal parts, and the blades were nearly
three inches above the ground. All the seeds were
taken from the same ear, were planted at th* same
time, in the same quality of soil, and bad an equal
share of light and heat. The copperia wiil keep
the birds and worms from eating the seed. Ons
pound each of chloride of lime and copperas will
soak seed enoogh for 20 acres.— American Agri
culturist.
EN'FOECE THE BIED LAVfS.-The LegisU
turns of several States h uve enacted stringent game
laws for the protection of animals, birds, and fish,
and it becomes faimets particularly to see that th y
are stiictly enforced as far as pertains to birda
Scientific men of high authority very generally
agree that the alarming increase of destructive in
sects, which cause the loss of so much grain and
fruit, is mainly in consequence of the wholesale
slaughter of their natural enemies, the birds, that
had previously kept them in due bounds. Let
every cultivator post conspicuous notices upon bis
tarm, forbidding ail persons to enter the fields with
a gun, under penalty for trespass. This may be
done, and the offenders punished, where no game
laws exist. Let every bird murderer be dealt with
rigorously, in this State, the law imposes a pen
alty of eu cents tor each bird of the following
species killed, or trapped, between the Ist of Feb
ruary and the Ist of October, viz. the robin,
bobolink, nightingale", night bawk, blue bird, Bal
timore oriole,* finch (yellow bird,) thrush, lark,
sparrow, wren, martin, swallow, wood.pecker, or
other harmless bird.—lb.
HFTbe coQvicts in the penitentiary of Mis
sissippi are engaged o manufacturing tea is,
lor the army of the State.
A Bab Boy. — Daddy, I want to ask yon a
question?
What, tny son.
V-by is neighbor Smith's liquor shop like
a counterfeit bill?
1 can't tell, son*
Because you can't pass it!
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iGr*"Wky don't you ask your Sweet-heart to
marry you?
; i have asked her.
What did she say?
1 Ob, 1 ha?e tbe refusal of ber.