1L11 1 A. McPIKE, Editor and Publisher. HE IS A FREEMAS WHOM THE TRUTH MAKES FREE, AND ALL ARE SLAVES BESIDE. Terms, S52 per year, In advsncc'. DLUME IX. EBENSBUHG, PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1875. NUMBER S. I ir 1 ,! 4 Jt?-- fw. -7257 W II III I f m m v.ff h U N o RTANT TO AT.T. :i o hi it hit coram Owing tothe great scarcit ,v j' of money and tlio long con- led neglect of many of my customers to 'up tlieir indebtedness for the past year oie, I am compelled to adopt iNOTIIER SYSTEM oing businesp. Very many of my cus jer3 have allowed their accounts to run such an unreasonable length of time I a great loss to me, without any benefit , Yenisei vcs, has been the result. Hence that I find it idlk ts Coating tb Crdit IfM : Vat the same time keep up my stock Xmcct mi' obligations promptly. ';m sincerely thankful for the lileral K"age that has been extended to nie, I now earnestly af-k one and all who are sbted to mr, no matter how large or small the amount, to call aud settle, k'i- by cash or note, I XUE THE 1ST MY OF JAMARY, IS7J, t I need and must have money. Believ- t I do fiom past experience (hWi I I p paid well for) that it v. ill be better f ;e as well a.i for my customers to adopt t" "ready-pay system, ... t L r tlic FIRST of JANUARY, 1875 .Bin fully convinced that in three cases tf four persons buying goods ucver find f ' Die convenient time to pay than when I j make their purchases, and as an in- 4 iuient to my customers to buy for cash x s exchanse for country produce, I will, exchange for country produce, I will, jr the above date, ( jr the above date, i l. JOCK OFF ONE-HALF the PROFIT l jttrforo ltalized in this place on goods Jk same v lass. '. loping that my old customers will take 3ficnse at the new mde of doing busi j "S I am about to adopt, but will contin I t favor ine with their patronage on a 4 "itly cash basis, which they vi!l be sure t ind the very best for all concerned, I I ge myself to maik my golds down to L,jkwet cas-h rates. oxr: vnici: to all: OtfPETITION DEFiED! ' -t n C30DS AS WEIL AS PRICES. c eorge Huntley, j i k a i. i'ii inr ftHaita, TIawars, Groceries 'Paints, Oils, to., 6tc, i:hi:sshvki, va. 8- Matiu f;ut iirr rs and others who smiie- flti-l it nct'i --:try lo semi orders for jroo.ls Ijih th ir etf.plo. o. can inHke special ar biiicnt.. with the iiii.U-rst:in.lin Unit their will Le rai l in t ull at the eml of itch h. I Deo. II, I",. ( L i nz .tlTRST-CLASS NEWSPAPER. 1 lilj,' mid Clcl3. t r i r-.,An,4.u:Mn. t i .pendent in tvervthinfi! pendent in Everything! J Neutral in Nothing! el to nil Corrupt ninsi In Mn )lp;il, Slnte nn1 Nalionnl AtTnlrn. t t is'i'uc'lon S;irnr !.iy.the 'Stnot Ms.rch.lS75, f ry mornitiz t Ju-roaflor. NanlaT exrrptci!, f the e.itoriil direction of . li. M' lurr. M nimpncl !y fnm clear, n, w type, on laro Jlicut. I'ontainininif all tlie ik'mth of tho day, inn tlio Aori;.t Irr T Irrram. Spe felezrumf act l Vrres)inti'tcnce trotnall x.!nts Irt t. and fearless editorial discussions of all t tpie. J'ri.-e, THO CK.NTS. l ?ub-.Tiptims. jK.wfrcfjf frrr. Mi Iol!ar per . or Fiktv (usts por month, iu advance. lo AVeekly IMIMIlilS T V I I fci.ued fn Safurilav. March 20th. an, I week. reattvr. eiintaiiitny Hit Im...r:ant nrwuoftho ndcoiu,lrte Market aa l Financial Report. Je.l for oue year, p.u,.je f,u Ht the follow eg : , ,PT l.no CriF !,no p-T Copiics J6w i'tanccg ghotiH b made hv Trnn.or Pnr lllrdora Till" 1 . sNo. i South Seventh Street, I'hiiadViphia s i (Jx e rrsxf3xic fhonby KiVen, that Florence Wille- "r -iicirheny township, ramhria ennnty, irnci ,u the estata. real and l.crg .nai nf urwi 01 voluntary aKAiirnmenr. M i Florence ViMetranU. to H Ifilir. fn t:ifl ni.untv in ce W'illet'rand to li k inl.l r 'ur, in saM county, in trim, for the benefit creditor of thasaid Florence Willehrand. pia D-f anil tnn.e hsv n.r !..,.. a lake known the a me wit lion t delay L , . H. KI.NKEAD, Assignee. k Oeo. w. oAT4w,counset.i j . ttBo. W. OATSt!, Counsel. MINISTRATOIl'S NOTICE i ii - f tol're'nthj; vr.FN1 Art"1' Pj-'.-flt. henry UrJit; AUui" j Ekcutoivs NOTICE RS. dee'd. -4. l7Vt. Al-P.Vl.ON IA MYEKS. mi lor 4irt u.n.i.nl IPO h .... -uurniKDwi. oy me Ke-ter cf Cambria pen ii t I, : r. -i rn.inj, late or i( township. 'amtria e nnty. dee'd, all per- f i F.iiu extaio are required to niaka li liate Daymen!, and t)n, " '--in' Hliirv on Th blUI. ,r r . .. n - ven.ne.Tr;'?1,,, All persona .adeU- ! n.Hrade dVl". II OW IslTTIK WK KXOW. How little we know of each other, As we pass through the jorrrney of life. With its struggles, its fears and temptations, Its heart-breaking cares and its strife ! We can only see things on the surface, For we people glory in sin, And an uu mined face is no index Of the tnreiult that rages within. How little we know of each other ! The man who to-day passes by ' Blessed with fortune and honors and titles i And ho'.dins his proud head on high, J May carry a dread secret with him, I Which makes his bosom a hell, And hie, sooner or later, a felon. ! May writhe in a prisoner's cell. How little we know of each other ! That woman of fashion who sneers At the poor girl, betrayed and abandoned, I And left to her vigha and her tears, ! May, ere the sun rises to-morrow. Have the mask rudely torn from her face And sink from the height of her glory To the dark shades of shame and disgrace. How little we know of each other ! Of ourselves too little we know ; We are all weak wheu under temptation All subject to error and woo. Then let blessed Charity rule us Iet us put away envy and pite Tor the skeleton grim in our closet May some day be brought to the light. IiLOWN IT. Can't say, I'm sure, sir. Been rsed to bilcis all my life; but woiking 'em's dif ferent to making 'em. There's something wrong, as you say, or the j wouldn't always be a-bust in'. 'Taiu't once, nor twice, uor r.ow and then, for 't's a thing as is always a happening ; and though I've never had more than a scald or two myself, I've seen some strange sights men all blown to pieces, so tnat they were picked up after ward in baskets ; men taken to the hospital with their flesh hanging to them in rags, and they'd lie writhing and tearing at the wrappings in such agony that there, I ain't above owning it I've cried like a child to see my poor mates' sufTciings. Al1 there they'd be, day after 'day, till a sot of calm came over them, and the paiu vreut, when they'd quite smile if you spoke to 'em, they seemed so easy; aud U would oe because a gentle hand was laid upon 'tm, and they were going into the long sleep. Some eels belter, but not when they're scalded badly; f r it's strange stulT, is steam. Well, no; I'm not afraid, and never do feel afraid. What's the good? One's got it to di, and there's the mouths at home to feed, so one can't afioid it; and then the odds aie p:ecious longenes against it Leing one's own bustin. Dot now so many more steam engines are coining into u-o, d.iy by day, it seems as if something ought to be done in the way of making bilcis stronger. Cheapness is cheapness ; but 1 hen a thing's dear at any price that makes such ruin as I've seen sometimes ; s. why dou't they try some toujjher metal than iron ? though, certainly, steam's strong enough to tear up anything. But there seen.s to me to be some fresh plan waulfd for making bilers. I didn't work there, but I went and had a look d'reckly after that honible accident at the Big Woiks last autumn. Well, there was about an acre of buildings, sheds and sctrer, swept awfly as if you'd batter' d 'em all down ; great fire bricks weighing a bundled and a half pitched here and there like chaff; sheets of lead scut flying a bundled yaids; tall chimneys powdered down, and the big busted biler itself jump ed rifcht out of its place ; while as to the j middle of it, that was torn off and crumpled Up am blown, like a sheet of paper, to a o'siance. i ienty ot lite lost there, and ....... pieniy 01 escapes; out wnat 1 took most notice of was the plates toin off the biler ; torn off, as I said before, like so much paper, while these sheets or plates of iron had given away to the rivets, and looked for all the w oild like torn-off postage stamps ; torn off, of course, along the perforating. 'Xow, then," I sas to myself, "that'sa thing as wants altering. You perforate the edges of your plates to admit rivets, and so take half their strength off pVaps more ; then yon puts, perhaps, hot rivets in. and thev n'r'ana rr-VRf tilliea (Via irnn only p'raps ; mind, I don't so, only the raw edges of the biler looked crystally and brit tle. Well, then, some day comes ahxtry piessure o' steam, and up goes your biler busted, and spreading ruin, and death, and misery around." "Then how are we to fasten our biler I'i'PS" says you, "if we don't livet 'em ?" " s,;ou,,d 1 now' 1 V"? a6Cif"'ifi man-1 y 8tokrs. That's for you to fiud out. But you ain't a going to tell me, are . . ' 1 lua' you scientthc men and biler-mak- ore wn'l ?.! t . , ., V - 7. ' r W maKe OUeiS onIy bY ri Vetmg them ? Say yoil bends the Plates edges over, and hooks one into the , other, like tin sarspan-makers does their I tin. They'd stand some strain that way. ! and you wouldn't weaken vm,r r,ifn, r ain't a biler.maker, or I should trv that I 'ki v , uut bu;ir9 tiJAt 3 only one out of many as could be found by ex. ment. Seems to me, sir, as if weEnglihh people ates anything new, and alwavs wants to k6ep l ht Ur fa,hers and grandfathers bad before us. They went along and made their footmaiks, and we go alongafter Vm, putting our feet in just the same spots, thinking it must be right, come what will of it. Had fo do with engines many years. Stoked locomotives and stationaries, agri cultural and manufactories, and printing offices, and been down in the engine-rooms of steamer?; and that last's about the hot- j test and worst of ail. Killing work, you know, for any "body, specially in a hot country, where every breath of air that comes down to you is already roasted, as it were, and can't do you no good. Dustins? Vell, no, only one, and that was qnite enough ; for though it didn't hurt any body it did hurt my heart, and if you happen to be a father you'll understand what I mean. It was dinner-time at our woik a great place, where the engine used to be going to pump water night and day, so that there were two of us ; one week I'd bo on day- : work, next week night-work, and so on. j Now, it so happened that our water in that part was terribly bard water that would cover the inside of a biler with thick fur in j no time. But whether it was that or not i ! I can't say ; all I know is that one dinner time I went out into the yard to wash my , hands and have a cooler, when ! heard a ; strange, wild, rustling noise, and felt something hit me ou the back of the head ; and then, turning round, I stood fixed to j the spot, for the air was black with tiles, 1 and brick, and laths, and rafters, while the . whole place seemed to be crumbling Tip together, just like if you'd built up a tall ' card bouse, and then tapped it so that one card fell on top of another till there wis a litt'e heap all lying close and snug; so that out of a tall building there was nothing , left but some smoking ruins. I I know it was not my fault, for I had looked at the guage just before, and the pressure of steamwasn't heavy. I know t here was plenty of water in the biler, and the safety-valve was all r'ght ; so that all , I could do was to be thankful for the acci dent happening at dinner-time, and also for my own wonderful escape. And then, though I wasu't hurt, something seemed to come over me like a flash, and struck me . to the ground iu an instant. When I came to, I felt horribly sick and deathly like, and I looked about from face ( to face, wondering what was the matter, ' for I couldn't make it out why I should be a lying n my back, with people round mo , in the yard one holding up my head, and 1 anof her sprinkling mj face with water. j Then it all cama back at once, and I shuddered as I turned my head and looked at the ruined works ; for I kuew what it was struck me down to the earth. I said before it was like a flash, aud it was it J was the quick thought which came across my brain, for I knew that, being dinner- i time, my little golden-haired gal would I have brought my 'lowance tied np in a ba- ', sin, and something had told me that she had gone into the stoke-hole to lind me when I had gone into the yard. "Let me get up," I says, and I ran to ward the ruins and began tearing away at the heap of brick and rubbish, while the crowd now gathered together, hearing that there was soma one underneath, began tearing away at the rubbish like fury. By and by the police came and some gentlemen and something like order was got at, and people worked well to get down to where the stoke-hole had been. had said there was some one there, but I couldn't shape my mouth to say who it was, and some said it was one man and some another; but whoever they named seemed to ccme directly back from his dinner or because he had heard the explosion. So, by and by, people legan to look from one to another and ask who it was. "Ask Wiluni," says some one, "he was hero at the time," and some one asked me. But I had no occasion to speak, for just then, alarmed at the child not going back as usual, the little gal's mother came shrieking out and crying : "Where's little Tatty? Where's little Patty ?" And then, when no one spoke, she gave a sort of pitiful moan and sank slowly down first on her knees and theu sideways on to a heap of bricks ; and I re member thinking it was best, for I could not find it in my heart to go to her help, but kept on tearing away at the hot bricks and rubbish. It was puzzling and worriting, lor one could not seem t be sure of where any thing had once stood in the horrible con- fusion before us. One said the stoke-hole 1 had been here, and another there ; but even I, who bad worked there two years, could not be sure amid the confusion. j Hour after hour went by, and still we worked on while, as every big rafter, or beam was lifted or dragged away I was obliged to turn my head, for I ftlt sick, and the place seemed to swim ; for I ex pected to see Patty's little bright curls iorn out and hanging to the jagged wood, and that underneath there would be somes ' thing honible and crushed. ; should have fallen only the man held mo I know it wasn't manly, bdt what can I ( up, and someone brought me some brandy, say when there was a little, bright, blue- j I was myself again directly, and, stumb eyed child in the case one of those little ling over the bricks to where a knot of men things whose look will make your great ' had collected, and a policeman had his rough baud fall to your side when raised bulls-eye lantern open, and they were in anger, while the tiny thing can lead .you ( htooping to look at something that lay just about and do what she likes with you ? uuder a beam they had raised to the left PVaps I ain't manly, but, somehow, chil- of where I expected &Uo would be found. of me.3118 EOem t0 gCt Uie UJper baud "Smashed," I heard some one with his a o , , . b3ck to me say ; and then some one else. And so on we worked, hour after hour, Toor little lhi ,he must hay0 fun men getting tired and dropping off. but al- ' here I" P ways plenty ready to fill their places ; j Then, with my throat dry and my eyes while I 1 never thought of it,' but kept statin?, I crert u and thrust two I ou tearing away till my hands bled, and the sweat ran down my face ; but I turned away every time there was something large bfied, for I said to myself, "She must be under that 1" And then again and again, in my mind, I seemed to see the toin and crushed face of my darling, and ber long curls dabbed in blood. In the midst of the piled-up blackened ruins bricks, mortar, tiles, lead, and rag ged and torn beams, huge pieces of wood snapped aud torn like matches we toiled on hour after hour till the daik uigTit came, when the gas-pipes that had been laid bare and plugged were unstopped, and the gas lit, so that it flared and blazed aud cast a strange wild light over the ruined place. There had been flames burst foith two or three times from parts of the ruins, ijnt a few sprinklings from the fire-engine in at tendance had put them out ; and as we worked on the rubbish grew cooler and cooler. Some said that the child could not have beeu thcie, but the sight of her mother tearing out was sufficient, when once she ' got away from the people who had her in their house a house where bat part of the windows bad been broken by the explosion : and came running to where I was at ! work, snatching at the bricks and ood till I got two or three to take ber back, for I ' couldn't have left where I was to have ' saved my life. But I remember so well asking myself why it was that women will let down their back bair when they're in a ' state of excitement, and make 'eraselves look so wild, j By and by some one came to say how bad my wife was, and that she wanted to see me ; but I felt that I couldu't go, and kept on in a fevered sort of way, work, work ; and I've thought since that if she had been dying it would have been all the same. However, I heard soon after that she seemed a little better, and I found ot afterward t'.iat a doctor there had given the pvor thing something that seemed to calm her, and she went to sleep. J It would have been a strong dose, though, that would have sent me off to sleep, as still on, hour after hour, I worked there, ! never tiring, but lifting beams that two or three men would have gone at, and tossing the rubbish away like so much straw. 1 The owners were kind enough, and did j all they could to encourage the men, send ing out beer and other refreshments ; but the heap of stuff to move was something frightful, and more than once I felt quite iu despair, and ready to sit down and cry weakly. But I was at it again the next moment, and woiking with the best of them. j ''Hadn't you better leave now?" said one of my masters "I'll see that every thing is done." j I gave him one look, and he laid his hand kindly on my shoulder, and said no more ' to nie about going ; and I heard him say, i "Poor fellow !"' to somo one by him as he , turned away. We came upon the boiler quite half a dozen yards out of its place, ripped right j across where the rivets went ; while as for the engine it was one curious bit of iron tangle rods and bars and pieces of iron and brass twisted and turned and bent about like so much string, and the great fly-wheel was broken in hlf a dozen places. I This showed us now where the great cellar-like place, the ttoke hole was, and we worked down now toward that, but still cleaiing the way, for how could I tell where the child might be? But it was weary, ( slow work, every now and then ligghigup ; shears and fastening ropes and pulley and sheaf to haul up somej great piece of iron , or a beam, and, willing as every one was, we made very little progress in the dark night. Once we had to stop and batter down a j wall with a scaffold-pole ; for the police declared it to be unsafe, and the senreant . would not let us wo.k near it till it was ( down, and all the time I was raging like a r madman at the check. But it was of no , use, and the man was right, rle was doing , his duty, and not like me searching for the I little cru.shed form of my darling in the cruel ruins. The people made mo worse, j for they would talk and say what they thought so that I could hear. One would say she might still be alive ; another would shake his head, and so on ; when I kept stopping in spite of all I tried hot listening to what they said, and it all seemed so much lost time. The engine-room was now cleared, and in spite of my trembling and horror, as every biff piece was disturbed, nothing l.aVi beeu found, but all at once as we were tiy- ing to clear behind the boiler, and get down to the stoke-hole, one of the men gave a cry. I caught at the man nearest to me, and then lights, rubbish, the strange wild scene, all seemed to run round me and T aside, right And left, when the other made way for me without speaking and when I got close up I covered my face with my hands and soaiy knelt down. The policeman said something and some one else spoke cheerily ; but I couldu't hear what they said, for my every thought was upon Tvhat I was going to see. And now, for the' first tinie, the great blind tears came gushing from my eyes, so when I slowly took down first one band and then another, I was blinded and could not see for a few minutes ; till, stoopiug a little lower, there, smashed and flattened, cov ered with mortar aud dust, was my old red cotton handkercher, tied around the basin and plate that held my dinner, dropped here by my little darling. For a few moments I was, as it were, struck dumb it was so different a Right to what I had expected to see ; and then I leaped np and laughed, and shouted and danced the relief was so great. "Comeou !" I cried again ; and then, for an hour or -more we are at it, working a way till the light began to come in the east, and tell us that it was daybreak. Late is it was, ple nty of pcoplebad stop ped all the time ; for somehow or another hundreds had got to know the bright, golden-haired thing that trotted backward and forward every r'ay with my dinner basin. She was too little to do it, but then, bless you, that was our pride ; for my wife cotnled and brushed and dressed ber up on purpose. And fine and proud we used to be of the little thing going and coming so old-fashioned. Why, lots of heads used lo be thrust Put to watch her ; and seeing how pretty and artless and young she was, we Osed to feel that every one would try and protect her ; and that was so. Time after time that night I saw motherly-looking women, that I did not know, with their aprons to their eyes, sobuing and crying; and though I dido't nolice it then, I re membered it well enough afterwards ah ! and always shall ; while the way in which some of the men worked well-to-do men who would have thought themselves in sulted if you'd offered them five shillings for their night's job showed how my poor little d. u ling had won the hearts of all around. Often and often, since, too, I could have stopped this one, and shook hands with that one, for their kindness ; only there's always that shut-upness about an Englishman that seems to nuke him all heart at a time of sorrow, and a piece of solid bluutnsss at every other time. Well, it was now just upon morning, and we were all worked up to a pitch of excite ment that nothing could be like. Wc had been expecting to cenw upon the poor child all the afternoon and night, but now there could be no doubt of it. She must be here; for we were now down in the stoke-hole, working ag-in with more vigor than had been f-hown for hours. Men's faces were flushed and their teeth 6et. They don't talk, only in whispers, and the stuff went flying out as fast as others could take it away. "Easy, easy," the sergeant of the police kept saying, as he aud tivo of bis meu kept us will lit with tho strong light of their lanterns. But the men tore on, till at last the place was about cleared out, and we had got to a mass of brick wall sloping against one side, and a little wood-work ou the ether side, along with some rubbish. And now was the exciting time as we went, four of us, at the brick wall, dragged at ir, and raised it, when some woman above shrieked out, and wj stood tiembs ling, for it had crumbled down and lay all of a heap where wo had raised it from. "Quick!" I shouted, huskily. And we tore the bricks away till there was hardly a scrap left, aud we stood stain ing at one another. "WThy, she ain't here, arter all !" says a policeman. "I'm blest," says another. But I couldn't speak, for I did not know what to do ; but stood staring about as if I expected next to see the little darling come running up again unhurt. "Try theie," says the Sergeant. Then he turned on his light into a dark corner, where the bits of wood lay, and I darted across and threw back two or three pieces, when I gave a cry, and fell on my knees again. For there was no mistake this time : I had uncovered a little foot, and there was the little white sock all blood stained ; and I felt a great sob rise from my breast as I stooped down and kissed the little read spot. "Steady," said the Sergeant; and then quickly, as I knelt there, they reached over me, and lifted piece after piece away, till there, in the gray light of the morning, I was looking apon the little motionless figure, lying there with ber golden hair, as I had fancied, dabbed in blood from a cut in her little white Forehead, where the blood had run, but now lay hard and dry. Covered with blood and scraps of mm tar, she lay stretched out there, and I felt as if my heart would break to see the little, peaceful face almost with a smile upon it; while, as if out of respect to my feelings, the men all drew back till I knelt there all alone. And now far up in tho sky the warm light of the rising sua shone, and it was reflected down upon that tiny face, light ing it np with almost heavenly beauty ; and as I knelt there in the still silence of that early morn I could bear again and again a half-stifled sob from" those looking on. With tiembling bauds I leaned forward and raised her head ; then, passing one be neath her, I rose on my knee to bear her but, wbn I 'stopped as if turned to stone, tben let go, and clasped loth my raw and bleeding bands to my blackened forehead, and shrieking out, "My God, she's alive!" I fell back insensible ; for those little blue eyes had opened at my touch, and a voice, like the faintest sigh cf the wind iu sum mer, whispered this oue word "Father!" That's ber, sir. Fine gill she's grown, ain't she? But she was beautiful as a child. Hair ever so many shades lighter ; and uniess you went close up you couldu't see the mark of that cat, though it was some time before the scar gave over look ing red. But lea'ly, you know, sir, there night to be something etftne about these bilers ; for the rate at w hich they're a bustiu's fearful. The Yeli. of a Frog. Every boy who is acquainted with frogs, knows that their croaking "song" is not all that they can do in the vocal line. An English gen tleman thus records his observations on an interesting, though not generally appreci ated member of the rana family : The fact that the common frofr isrrpa ble of ciyiug out lustily, when he feels him self in danger, does not seem to have been frequently remarked. Iu my small wailed garden there is a common fi"g, wbe 5s persecuted by three cats. His residence is a heap of slates at the foot of an ivied wall, and here he is safe. But if h ventures far abroad, his tormentors soon espy him; and, though they seem nearly as much terrified as himself, they cannot resist the tempta tion to touch him with their paws. He immediately opens his mouth and utters a prolonged cry, which appei rs to be very -surprising to the cat, who diaw bak for a few moments, and then paw him again--apparently out of mere curiosity to be again scared by the same unuMial sound. This Round is a shrill and rather suppliant wail, like the note of a small pen ny trumpet, or the cry of a new born in fant. There can be no mistake about it, as I have repeatedly touched the frog with my own baird, after driving the cat away, and the same cry has immediately followed, tho lower jaw beiug dropped so that the mouth standi open about a quarter e-f an inch at the tip. What must have been the uproar in tho big C'retoiicean swamps, during the old ge ological days, when a million of frogs each about the size of a caif, when all opened their mouths together ? The tLundcis of their croak must have been tremendous to say nothing of their yelling when they ;rot mad. An ExTitAORDiXATty Cask. Sotpe years ago The Lnncci published the following, vouched for by good authority : The wife I of a Mr. iligdins, a farmer cf Baltousn ! borough, near tllatonburg, having brought I him three daughters iu succession, and no ' son-, he -was so disconcerted at the repeated i disappointment that he vowed that if his i next child should be a daughter be would never speak to her. To his great j'y-Jiis ' wife gave biith to a son. and nothing oc curred to lessen bis satisfaction until the child began to speak. To his astonish- , ment and distress he then found that while the boy would readily address his mother ' and Mstets, and indeed jmy female," nothing . ouhl induce him to utter a word to his ', father, or any male person. This singti- ' larity continued during the whole of the father's life ; pntreaties, threats and prom- ! jses were of no avail, and the unhappy man ' frequently bewailed, with teai-s, the dis- tressing consequences of his rash vow. On the death of Mr. Higgins, the young man, to the astonishment of all who knew bi:n, began to speak fluently to males, although for thitty years previously he had never been heard to utter a word to any of that sex. Mr. Higgins had no other son. A Sea Stopy Somewhat E autht. The crew of an English man-of-war was down with scurvy, and there lcing rone of the usual remedies at hand, an old sailor suggested the trying of one which had saved a ship's crew in some land of the tropics. This was simply to bury the nien upright as far as their chin, un' il the earth drew the poison out of their Ixidies. Six pits were quickly dug in the warm alluvial soil, tud when the sun went down, the men were placed in them, and tbeeaith shoveled in nroond them. It was ab?auti ful moonlight night ; and tho ojeration completed, the invalids chatted galy to gether; their shaggy heads jiist bursting, through the earth, in the fitful moonlight, made them look like men coming up to judgment ; their voices sounded wei-d and ghostly, as of another world. After awhile, one byoimthey fell asleep, and all was still. Their comrades then stole away and sought their cabins; When they arose in the morning and went to see hw the buried men fared, they found that the wolvt.s came down in the night, and bad eaten off every bead level with the ground ! ATocyn lapt of Troy,' N. 1 ., received about Valentine's day. a box by exprcssi She found in it abeefs lieait pieiced with a golden arrow of elegant manufacture, set with jewels "d estimated to be worth at least seve.ntyvfive dollars. It is probably intended to be used either as a nock-pin t r as an ornament for the bair. There was not the least intimation who is the giver, nor can the lady or her family imagine who sent it. For the donor of so munificent a gift he shows a strange taMe in sending such a remarkable valentine to a lady. A pet dog had the heart for his dinner, but what to do with the pin the lady can hard ly delermine. The gift surely eaimot be intended as an insult, and is probably the result of somS odd conceit. i , " i The Indianapolis Journal tells this as a true story : "Mr. L. Bair, an employe at one of our tolling mills, is said to lie one of the most pivcr7ul men west of the Alle ghenies. He often picks up a conplo of rails weighing 1.121 pounds for a small com pensation, at.d can handle a 5!50 pmiml r.nl f easier than most men can handle a fair-sized stick of wood. He is credited with having lifted 1,475 pounds not long since. This modern Samson wears his hair shoit, is six feet in height, magnificently proportioucJ, j and has bright black eyes." PRESERVATION, A writer to the London frcnu CopfnhrijjeTi, says: Timet writing "A Norwegian p ipor is relating a tile 'cf an almost miraculous preservation. Tha captain of the schooner Amazon, of Sta ran ger, recently arrived at Borgen with a car go of salt, rjpoits that in tossing the Brit ish Ch.innel ho had the opportunity cf sav ing a Briifih lad of &ftoen under very pacu liw circumst tncos. The Amazon was about twelve geograjlucal miles from the British shore when the ciptain thought he observed through his telescope something Coating oa the water. He altered his ex u rue so as to get nearer, and soon discovered tliat it was a suual boat, in which a lad was lying fast asleep. "The shouting from the schooner dtl not awaken hiin, but when a log was thrown over into the boat he awoke with a sudden start ; an end of a Lne was thrown to him, and he was jiust able to fasten it when he swooued a.id hod to be carried on board tl a vessL In the boat nothing Was found but a pair of oars and a Bible. The Ltd, when brought back to life and strength by the tender core shown to him, gave the follow ing account of his fate : He was sitting on the bhore, reading his Bible, when some of his companions tame down to him and teas ed lriui with the msrtif r in which he spent his leisure time. To escape from their ban ter he got into a boat an 1 kept on reading, when suddenly he dise-over-jd, to his great dismay, that his per. valors had cut the line and left his frail boat to the power of the qruYk running ebb. "II tried to use the oars, 'tt struggled in vain against wind and watir, and, as a denr,e fog set in, he soon lost si-ht of land. After several hours of alternate strrgglo and powerless despair he fell asleef , and 6leep remained in fact Us 'only 'comfort against hunger, cold, and the deep pangs cf ! his isolation daring the three days and two nights which he had n?nt in his frail boat when he was at last Seen and saved. Un happily, neither the name of the lad n?'r :ct the place whire Ms parent3 live is given, but that will, I suppose, not be difficult to get at when the fact obtains your wide pub licity. 'l"h ft? rn.c cf the captain of tinj Am azon is Thompson." ELti'UAM LABOiiUlA It would be t-:o lor.j to relate all the uses to which elephants are i;ip!iel in Burinali. Let us watch them at work among tt woodyards where the trunks of tkfrWool tree, wh'chcoroe floating duwn the river, are piled. Every working-elephant is mounted by a driv. r called a "coriiac," whose prin cipal business is rather to excite the iral than to direct it. In the sea-a when the roads are cut, tho trunks coa-e down the bar much faster tlian they can be disposed of in the saw mills, and tin. y accumulate in vast quanti ties all along the banks. It is necessary therefore, to drag the tr. e3 cut the wa ter and aiTunge them in piles until sucli time a3 they con bj cut up. There are on ly thrte sorts of piles, varying v.ith Ihe 6ize of the trees. Fiist an elephant in tho water clears the l"'gs fiom the iaa3 and rang-js them one by one upon the river b-u.k. He carefully exauiines theeb vos cf legs knd pr-xjoe-ls with tu bs and trunk to disengage the tree he hnj selected on I which he intends to carry to land. As soon as the tree is place I on the tan another elephant is harn .se 1 to it an 1 drains ii to the woodyard, where he leaves it. Two other elephan s now come up, and one of thttn tak-8 one end "of the log upon his trunk and drags it to the ile tipcri which, in view f i. s size, it ou-ht to be placed, while his companion assists him by pushing the log with all his might. As soon as they reach the pr p-.-r pile the fir't elephant bfts the top of the log upon tha pile, then ha forms a kind of ring around the log with his tiunk, wLJe tae other with a vigorous blow of his heal shoots the log into its placv. The intelligence displayed by these animals is almost incredible, anj wc should scarcely have believed it if we had not seen their movements as described above. Til E SLANG OF THE STOCK EXCHANGE. Ganvolera of every grade, says a con temporary, liave their slang terms to con vey to the initited just what they mean ; nd however blind it may be to the Unini tiated, it is perfectly intelligible to thoee possessed of the hih civilization (r) ne cessary to "manipulate et'cks." Four dif ferent forms of contract are known under the general term fit stock privileges. Tho "put" and "call" are single privileges. A straddle" and "spread" are double privi leges. A "pot" is a eoritr.ict giving the holder the right of delivering a certain amount of stock within a definite time at it stipulated price. A "call" is exactly the reverse of a "put." being a contract giving the holder the right of callirg for the stock insteed cf dehvriiig it. A double privi lege is a "put" and "call" on the samo sfoek in one contract. When a double privilege is drawn at the market price ci the stt-ck, it is called a "straddle," an I costs from two and a half to five per cent, premium; But when drawn at a'distancj of from one or two and a half per cent. alore and bolow the market price, it ia called a "spread," for which a fixed prem ium of two per cent, is paid. The distance from the market at which a "spread" is drawn depends on the class of stock and fie activity cf the market, - ,. . a MiKAcrixrs ITT
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