A Little lon*.
I sta • llttts towwv
Oily ths*-
Cbamd sbeut t* hs*s
ly the eat
But small il I am.
Weak and shy,
I havs sharp tittle teeth
And bright eye.
1 ean tee when the great
Are in pain,
I can jnaw for a Wend *
At a chain.
Dear lion, yon are kind.
Ton are etrong ; J
But the day may arrive*
Before long,
When in vain you shall f
In a net;
Ttran yowr small monsi#vnd
Wont forget.
|
Where Rwoll the Itf t
Where do they dwell} 'Naath mT moanda,
hf (UthiM,
I.ilieac and yotlow cups of birfpH,
Near gsay-grewn walls, where ijeh tortuous
asaasa
Where iu red summer m<o|
Fresh leav.u are rusthna
Where "nraUi large auiumf"*n*
Tonug birds arc nestling
Do they dw* U Uicrc J1
Where do thsy dwell I Iu snlluß'cr*. lying
On be ts of purple sea flowmsfy sprung;
WVrer Die oust wturtnoePs vrifW reaaelvss
sighing
Frets sloping banks, by iU r cen reeds
skHwsg
Where by the torrent's svf
Crystal sltvues fitiUer,
VUk sounds the heavy b
Over the river-
Do they dwell there h
No ; ft* in these thev slumber jccay.
And their remembrance wit|>cir life de
parts;
They ha* e a home—nor dark, #*r sway—
Iheujvropcr home, withiu auwhfol hsalts;
Their happy epulis wed, J
Loving forever :
There dwell with us the <t
Farting—ah. never- *
There do they dwell f •
Notes on Nurtcxy W>t-.
Whsa Tom the Piper's siacsfP'W
Annexed the old sow's hi Us
And off with it turned #er.
Three will admit, who've bag U*sir latin.
His punish meet cams very pu
From JVpv he got psfg
ST A aaa-Lawrru
The poet rails at Marnrfra.
Who aoM her bet and uj.-irsw ;
Her seeming faint we bejmtete,
A pa Misuse ought pallia i
OT a oouax. ;
If the little man who, as JegenAi.
Sh -t the duck and drake with tptle gun
Hall re member*-d thai ducks it fatten on
•dugs.
For the pullets his bullcu he"ft>l as drugs.
OT A VtlL-riTSI* *n
When old Not her Hnbba#
Her dog in the cupboard
Found dt-ad as India rtfr.
She, her grief tmdetait,
Shockl have set up a wha
For that would make blubber.
. . i. in. j
THE HEAVY Bl'HfL
" Rather a heavy burdefi't it, my
boy t"
Clarence Spencer, to whtshe words
had been addressed, turned fi his ledger
and looked at the speaker, .mice was
a young man—not more I five and
twenty—and was book-ke for Mr.
Solomon Wardle. It was anon War
die, a pleasant-faced, kcenyd man of
fifty, who bad spoken.
' A heavy burden, isn't iterance f "
the merchant repeated.
And still the young man vftiletit. His
look indicated that he did now pre heed.
He had been lor some titpe ding orer
the ledger with his - tCAigljar away ; ,
xivl that hi* livmeßu were* pleasant
ones, Wis evident enough frftLe gloom
upon his handsome fare.
"My dear boy. the burd.s not only
heavy now, but it will grows* ier aud
heavier the longer yon earrf"
"Mr. Wardle, I do noimprehend
yon."
* Ah, Clarence! "
'• I certainly do not. 1 '
'• Didn't 1 call at your lie for yon
this morning ?"
Clarence nodded assent
'• And didn't I hear and ftnough to
reveal to me the burden tlyou took
with yon when you left! ' must re
member, my boy, that I adder than
yon are. and that 1 have beolrough the
mill. You find your bnrdeifcry; and I
hare nodonbt that Sarah's hds as heav
ily laden as yonr own."
And then Clarence Spencnderstood;
and the morning scene was lent with
hiin, as it had been present Whim since
leaving home. On that he had
had a dispute with hie wife, had oc
curred at the breakfast tablThere is
no need of reproducing the s<t Suffice
it to say that it bad come of an nothing
and hal grown to a cause of er. The
first had been a look and at; then a
flash of impatience: then a tg of the
voice; then another look: thoice rose
higher; reason was nnhin| passion
pained sway; and the twain sight of
the warm, enduring lore thap smitten
and aching down deep in theiiarts, and
felt for the time only the pas| tornado.
And Clarence remembered tlMr. War
die had entered his house, and caught
a sign ot the storm.
And Clarence Spencer that of one
thing more : He thought hWiiserably
unhappy he had been all tborniog;
and he knew not how long hiurden of
nnbappiness was to be born a
" Honestly, Clarence, isn' a heavy
and thankless burden Y "
The book-keeper knew thft employ
er was his friend, and that kas true
hearted Christian man, and r a brief
pans* he answered, —
"Yes, Mr. Wardle, it is a beburtlen."
The merchant smiled, anat down.
His face beamed with good, and an
earnest light was in his calrme eye.
" My bov. I am going to tire opon
a bit of fatherly counsel. %>e I shall
not offend." •
"Not at all, "said Clarence,' e winced
a little, as though the probigave him
new pain.
" In the first place," purl the old
man. with a quiver of emotioihis roioe,
"yon lo- e your wife!"
"Lore her?"
" That is enough. I know s von love
her."
• O! Mr. Wardle, l—l"Yon
"Yon lore her a* well a* jdid when
you married her?"
"Better! better! I lore knore and
more!"
" And do TOO think she loyou in re
tnrn ? "
" Lores me in return f "
" Are,—what do you think,nt it ?**
" I don't tkimi anything rat it,—l
nrow!"
" You haoir she lores you I
"Yes!"
" And you know that dldown in
her heart she holds your lovtnost sa
cred treasure?"
" Yes, I know it."
" Then you must admit thai trouble
of this morning came from 01-feeling
at heart ? '
"Of course cot."
"It was but a surface sqnair which
you, at least, are very sorry ?!
A moment's hesitation, and t —"Yes,
yes.—l am heartily sorry."
" Now mark me, ClarenceJ answer
honestly: Don't you think wife is
as sorry as you are ? "
"I cannot doubt it."
"Is she not probably, in thefusion of
her home, suffering more keeihan you
are? "
" I doubt that, Mr. Ward At all
events, I hope she may not iuffering
more."
"Very well. Let that passu know
she is bearing her part of the*den ?"
""Yes,—l know that."
"And now, my boy, do realize
where the heaviest part of tforden is
lodged ! "
Clarence looked upon his rlocutor
wenderinglv.
"If the storm had all blowrer, and
you knew that the sun if shine
when you next entered yontme, you
would not feel so unhappily ?'
Clarence assented.
"But," continued Wardle/on fear
that tLere will be gloom in ir home
when you return ? "
The young man bowed his 1 aa ha
murmuVed an affirmative.
FRED. KURTZ, Editor and Proprietor
VOL. v.
' Recau*,'' the merchant added, with a
touch ot parental stcriuie*# iu hi# ton*,
"you are resolved u carry it there! "
i Clarence looked up in Mtrpris*.
" I—l carry it f "
| * Aye,—you have the burden in your
, heart, and you meau to carry it home.—
I Remember, my boy, 1 have" been there,
1 and I know all about it. 1 have been
very foolish in my lifetime, and I have
I suffered. 1 suffered until 1 discovered my
folly, ami then I resolved to suffer no
j more. I pen looking the matter squarely
and honestly iu the face, I found that the
; burden# w Inch hail ao galled me had been
self-imposed. Of course such burdens
can be thrown off. Now you have re
solved that you will go hoiue with a heavy
heart and a dark face. You have no hope
that your wife will meet you with a smile.
And vvhyf—because you know that she
has no particular cause for smiling. Yeu
know that her heart is burdened with the
viiue affliction which gives you so much
uurcst. And ao, you a-e fully assured t hat
you are to find tour home shrouded in
gloom. And, furthermore, you don't
know whan that gloom w ill depart, and
when the blessed sunshine of love will
hurst in agaiu. And why don't you know?
—because it is not now in your heart to
sweep the cloud away. You cau say to
yourself,—' 1 ean stand it as long as she
can!' —Aiu 1 not right I *'
Clarence did not answer iu words.
•* 1 know lam right, u pursue*! the mer
chant; "and very likely your wife is say
ing to herself the same thing. So your
hope of sunshine does not rest upon the
willingness to forgive, but upon the ina
bility to bear the burden, by and by it
will happen, as it has happened before,
that one of the twain will surrender from
exhaustion ; and it w ill be likwly to be the
weaker party. Then there will be a col
lapse. and a reconciliation. Generally the
fails first beneath the galling burden,
because her love is keenest and most sen
sitive. The husband, in such case, acts
the part ot' a coward. When he might,
with a breath, blow the cloud away, he
cringes and cowers uutil the wife is forced
to let the suulight iu through her breaking
heart."
Clarence listened, and was troubled.
He wa* not a fool, nor was he a liar.
During the silence that followed he re
flected upon the past, and he called to
mind scenes just such a* Mr. Wardle had
depicted. And this brought him to tlie
remembrance of how he had seen his wife
weep when she had failed and sank be
neath the heavy burden, and how often
she had sobbed upon his bosom in grief
for the error.
The merchant read the young man's
thoughts; and alter a tiine he rose and
touched hitn upon the arm.
"Clarence, suppose you were to put
your hai on and go home now. Suppose
you should think, on your way. only of
the love and blessing that might be: and.
with this thought, you should enter your
cottage with a stuiio upon your face; and
you should put your arms around your
wite's neck, and kiss her, and sofllv say
to her, 'My darling, 1 have come home to
throw down the burden I took away with
me this morning. It is greater than I can
bear.'—Suppose you wore to do this,
would your wife repulse you i"
" lb-pulse me f "
" Ah. my dear boy, you echo my word
with an amazement which shows that yon
understand me. Now, sir, have you the
courage to try the experiment! Dare
yon be so much of a man? Dare you thus
try to imitate your Divine Teacher! Or
do TOU fear to let your dear wife know
how much yon lovelier! Do you fear
that she would esteem and respect you tlw
leas for the deed f—Tell me, —Do you think
the cloml of nnhappiness might thus be
banished i O. Clarence, if you would but
try!"
• • • • • e
Sarah Spencer had finished her work in
the kitchen, and in the chamber*, and had
sat down with her sewing in her lsp.
Hut she could not ply her needle. Her
heart was heavy and sail, ami tears were
in her eyes.
Presently she hear.! the frint door
open, and a step in the hall. Certainly
•lie knew that step.'-—Yes—tier husband
entered. And a smile upon liia face. She
saw it through her gathering tears, and
her heavy heart leaped up. And he came
and put his arm around her neck, and
kissed her. —and he said to her in brokeu
accents, —
" Darling, I have come home to throw
down the burden I took away with ine
this morning. It is greater than 1 can
bear!"
And alio, trying to speak, pillowed her
head upon his bosom and sobbed and wept
like a child. O! could lie forgiTe her?
Ilia coming with the blessed offering had
thrown the whole burden of repronch
back upon herself. She saw hiru noble
and generous, and she worshipped him.
But Clareuce would not allow her to
take all the blame, lie innst share that.
"We will share irso evenly," he said,
"thnt its weight shall be lelt no more.
And now, mv darling, we will be happy V'
" Always!"
Mr. Wardle had no need, when Clar
ence returned to the store, to ask the re
sult. He could read it in the young rnnn's
brimming eve, and in his joy-inspired
face.
It was a year after this—and Clarence
Spencer had become a partner in the
house—that Mr. Wardle, by accident, re
ferred to the events of that gloomy uiorn
ing.
"Ah," said Clarence, with a swelling
bosom, "that was the most bleared lesson
I ever recieved. My wife knows who
gave it to me."
"And it serves yon yet, my boy ?"
"Aye,—and it will serve us while we
live. We have none of those ojd bunions
of anger to bear now. They cannot find
lodgment with tss. The flash and the jar
may come, as hi the other days—for wo
are'but human, you know—but the heart
which ha* firmly resolved not to give an
abiding-place to the ill feeling, will not he
called upon to entertain it. Sometimes
we are foolish; but we laugh at our folly
when we see it, and throw it off:—we do
not nnrse it till it becomes a burden.—
.Vetr York Ledger.
Jefferson's Ten Rule*.
Jefferson's ten rules are good yet, es
pecially so for those who have the train
ing of the pupils in our public schools.
They are so short and concise, and em
body so much of value, that it would be
well if they were clipped and put where
we could see them often, lbey read as
follows:
1. Never put off till to-monow what
you can do to-day.
2. Never trouble another for what you
can do yourself.
3. Never spend your money before you
have it.
4. Never buy what you don't want be
cause it is cheap.
6. Pride cost more than hunger, thirst
and cold.
6. We seldom repent of having eaten too
little.
7. Nothing is troublesome that we do
willingly.
<4. How much pain the evils have cost
us that have never happened.
. Take things always by the smooth
handle.
10. When angry, count ten before you
speak; if very angry, count a hundred.
Some one describes a philanthropist
as a who loves all mankind and
neglects his own family.
TTIE CENTRE REPORTER.
Symptom* and TrealMrnt of Itj Uro|hl*t i
A recent writer of largo e*iMrienee'
wiaii this iliMHiM* Mute* that iu uiue eases
out of tea it rosulta from the bite of a;
rabid airtual, but aoiuetituca, though |
rarely, cases urNe for which no canae ha*
yet been assigned. The notion that one
season is more conducive to the tliacaav
lhau another ta pronounced erruueouu,
as, according to the übaervutiou of thi-> j
writer, nia>l dog* are quite as frequent iu
wiuteraa iu summer. There is little i
danger of a Jog that is well taken care
of and regularly fed going mud, unlea#
from a bite, yet ntich inataucea do some
time# occur. The symptom# are very
distinct and easily observed. The Ural
ia that the dog refuses natural food ; as t
lung a-s a dog will wat a bit of good uieut
there is no hydrophobia. T he !
second is that he will eat any rubbish he j
can got, sh.tviugw, bits of string, etc., j
this is a verv marked and almost invari
able sigu. Thirdly, the bark assumes
a peculiar hoarse time that ouee lieixrd i
not easily mistaken. The bite of a mad
dog ia by no means alw ays fatal, aud is
much leas so in the human subject tSjan
iu any other animal. Of four eases of
persons bitten by dogs undoubtedly mud,
allewenped without any laid eoaxequenooa
whatever. J. Hunter say a, of twenty- j
one persons bitten only one wis attack
ed liy the discus*). Other authors pnt
the proportion at about one in twenty")
five. In a case that occurred ucar Souh-.
in France, whereby order of the Gov
ernment the most accurate imiainea
were made, out of fifteen persons bitten
fire had hydrophobia.
The treatment recommended is to have
the plmv cut out and well burnt, either
with a hot iron or a sharp stick of lunar
caustic, the latter ia thought to be the '
best. Youatt gives a case where four |
dogs werv bitten by the same rabid oue, ]
three of whom were deeply burnt with
a hot iron and one with lunar caustic.,
The three died of hydiophobia, and (he!
ou# treated with eaus'ie was never af
fected by the bite. Tlut the spastnodic
svmptoms h.ive anything of a tetanic j
character about them ia denied. They'
are quite distinct, and are almost always
accompanied by a great desire to bite,
of which the poor sufferer is quite con
scious, t.nd will frequently warn his
friends when he feels the approach of
the attack.
A Yankee Trick.
While indulging in a few retniubcen •**
of the past among u party of friends a
few Jays ago, a well-kuown ship-broker
of Boston related an incident of his busi
ness experience. A man one day eat red
his ofli.* with letters of introduction,
proposing to charter n vessel to proceed
to tne f'oatnaeoaleos river. In Mexico,
and bring a cargo of dyewood to Boston.
Be produced a chart of the river.pointed
cut the exact spot n'lptv the wood could
be fomid, and mucb interesting informa
tion in regard to the rountrr and it*
productions, showing an intimate ac
quaintance with the business in hand,
file remarked that if the first cargo of
wood brought here should sell at a pro
fit he would want to charter sesrarul Tin
sel* for the triul-. A bargain was Hojord
ingly made with him, ho was furnished a
vessel, iu which he took passage and she
proceeded to her destination. On ar
riving in the river near w here the cargo
was expected to be found, the dealer in
dvewood landed and immediate]* struck
for the W<XHIS, di-appearing before the
astonished eve* of tue captain, and nev
er was seen afterwiwd. The troth was
made apparent. The fellow Iwiop short
of fund, and d-isiriugto reach that coun
try, whieJi he evidently hid visited be
fore, had resorted to one of the !>e*t
eoncoettd plans ever matures! bjr a
rogue to obtain a free passage. It is nn
neocaeAry to say that the man was a
Yankee, possessed of more than the
ordinary ingenuity of Ilia race. He was
subsequently heard from on the Paertie
coast. It wive not, however, s losing
operation to the owners of the vessel, for
she fortunately obtained a freight m the
river and made a hmnlsotue profit out of
the voyage.— Ezdttm jt.
Two IlrvDßvn AVP Firry CAHTXTDOOS
F IRED TO EACH MAS Svurt K.— Ue A'F*r
Md Gwtfr publishes some rnrimmetatis
tica of the comparative deadlinoas of the
different weapons used in the Franco-
German war. Of 345.5 Germans wound
ed before Metz, no fewer than .95.5 jn-r
cent, were struck by C'hassejiot balls;
2.7 per cent, were wounded by projectile*
from heavy gun*, and there were only
0.8 percent, of wounds from cbld steel."
As to the French wonndcd.it in calcu
lated that as high a proportion as 25 per
cent were wounded by artillery projec
tiles, and about 70 per cent by the tiro
of fhe tuntlnadi Igewehr. So fewer thsn
25,000 Frenchmen in ail were struck by
the projectiles of the German artillery.
The total number of cartridges fired by
the Germans in the Lite war is said to
have been 25,000,000 oraliont thirlrv per
man. The war having lasted—for fight
ing purposes—justaix months, this gives
only an average of five cartridges per
man per month for the whole army.
Taking the total numlier of French kill
ed and womded at 100,000, this would
give an average of 250 enrtradges fired
to enoh man struck.
FIRE-PROOF Bnimsos.—The secret
of fire-proof building is just this : It
must be mnde itnjxissiblc for the flames
to pass through the floors or up the stair
way. If jon will have wooden fl<iors
and stairs, lay a flooring of the thiiient
sheet iron over the jowls, and your wood
upon that ; and sheath the stairs with
the same material. A floor will not burn
without a Enpply of uir underneath it.
Throw a dry board upon a perfectly flnt
pavement and kindle it as it lies, if yon
can. Yon may make a fire upon it and in
time consume it, but it will require
Along time. Prevent drafts,and though
there will still l> fires no hoasc will be
consumed. The combustion will go on so
slowly that discovery is certain in time
to prevent any great calamity.
Mo nr. NKKDI.ES.— A child of Mr. Lint
ner in Rochester was taken ill about a
week ago, and on examination the point
of a needle waa observed protruding from
its stomach. A physician was called
wbo cut around the needle, bnt failed to
extract it. Other physicians were called
and the needle waa removed, but tne
child soon died from {nflntnmntinn in
duced by the operation of the first phy
sician. The needlclhad been swallowed
by the child.
No DANOEK.—A leading member of
the American Cabinet stated in conversa
tion that coine what may concerning the
English position on the Alnbnma claims
there would lie no backdown on the part
of the odministrati' n. This he snid had
been substantially agreed upon by the
Cabinet. There was no fear of a war
with England upon the part of onr gov
ernment, and if war came we would not
be found unprepared.
Josh Billings says : " Most men con
cede that it looks foolish to see a boy
dragging a heavy shsd up hill for the
'-fleetin' pleasure of riding down again.
But it appears to me that boy is a sage
by the side of that young man who
works hard all the week, and drinks np
his wages on Saturday night."
Two of Darwin's sons have been on a
visit to the Yosemite. It is said the
monkeys recognized them at once, and
asked kindly after their father.
CENTRE IIAI.L. CENTRE CO.. R.V.. FRIDAY, MARCH I. 1872.
America and England.
The first matter of auv mi tercet which
ixvuiind the Kugluli llxusc of L>or*U
Was iu an attack ly the opposition upon
i thu {ioverement for its conduct in the
iiegotbitiou of u treaty c qrlblo of giving
rie to -luch a mitumlcr.-,landing. Mr.
I>i*rm-h lot no time iu aiMMulUng the
Ministry with grant mahc**, referring to
i the rcarrTt d and ilcqdrous language of
tlie royal hjK't sh with eajjmetal aeriuiotiy.
It sua ecrtuiuly a tempting opportunity.
I He was rouMinublv euro of one of two
I mnlts. Kititer (iladstonn would lose
hf* temper aud say somethino: rush, ori
1 would keep losing popularity by it. Tliol
irancible rreuiierdul not diaapn*>iut hitn.
\ lie*made a fiery speech, avowing the
magnanimity and gtMitleness with whah
Lnglaud had gone into the treaty, trad'
the loin-like eourago vrith which she
would defend hci rights acuinst our i
'' preposterous demands." With n few i
more choleric statestuou *>n both aide#
we uiight find oursulvea fm-e to face iu u .
few days in m attitude where retreat
would lie impossible for either.
There ia u groat deal of nonsense talk
ed, ou both sales of the ocean, about <
the liability of Hepublion to sudden
storina of popular pamrion d the acre no
superiority of constitutional monarchic
-1 til UMT BUCII SlVilll Utß. Wo hopC tllilt
the le—on of the last fen- days will nut
Ibo Luwiou tho timid mitila who have boon
in the habit of thinking in this rtjl.
The people of the Cnited Stan* have
! loft the matter to the constituted author
ities. When the Treaty was ronclnded.
it was puhliahed, widely read anil
ally approved. It wua sanctioned bv the
Senate and ratified by the l'rijuili'ut, and
the Board of Arbitration formed. Sev
eral etforla wore in ulo by unthinking or
1 self-seeking politician* to rxwite d>aooti
tout ngajnst the Treaty amonji those
who, it wu imagined, might be injured
by it. But thooo efforts continually foil
ed. The agouU of our Government pre
seutad our enae, including in it all the de
mands which we had steadily made for
five years. Wo were wilting to await
i tlie decision of the Hoard of Arbitration,
trusting to their impartiality and to the
-trength of bur cause. lithe decision
had been against ua, wo should aot have
1 eon very well phased, but we should
I have submitted loyal IT.
This was the behavior of the ltewnblio.
Dot* it suffer by comparison wiin that
of the freest suid greatest monarchy on
wtrtli ? British public opinion accept
od the Treaty with twice UK- effusion
and delight which was exhibited ken
They grew almost idyllic in their ox
prosMous of satisfaction. If tlt v dream
ed that because we were reasonable, we
had renounced all our rights sod our
claims, that was notour fault. We gwvi
no snch assurances at any time. Thev
refused a lump sum to cover all damages,
in consideratum of which we hud oficred
to waive our clu-ru for indirect kwai-a
We were therefore driven to include
these in our bill, or stultify all our previ
ous action. When our case appeared,
there was a week of surly comment, which
grew at last into violent denunciation.
The tempest of vtdgar passion culmi
nated in an uucalled-for pi rag nodi in
the Throne Address and a foolishly im
publico speech from the Treasure Bench.
What the result of all this w ill lie, it is
premature to say. Every day of this
causoiess excitement m hu gland makes
the matter more difficult It is uot
probable that our Government will with
draw its case. After Mr. Gladstone'*
speech, it will be hard for the British
Government to abide by the Arbitration.
Both sides in Parliament ore working m
earnestly for victory that neither will
dare to take a position which could In
called tin-English. We can only as-rarc
our excited cousins that this is a mattci
that concert!* tin ui infinitely more tluui
it docs lis.— New York Tribnr.
A New Hume-trad MeaMire.
Mr. Picrcv, Chairman of the I'nited
States House Committee on Education
aud Labor, has introdueed a bill appro
priating $300,W10.000, and providing, in
the secoud section, as follows :
"That any landless citizen of the Uni
ted State* or person having filed his in
tention to become a citizen thereof, in a
proper Court, that desires to settle upon
the public land* and enter into an agree"
incut to comply with the provisions of
this act as hereinafter required, ami shall
have designated a quarter section of pub
lic lsnils tielonging to the United States,
shall be furnished with transportation U>
such quarter section of puliliu lands, ami
upon the location and entry thereof by
said citizen in accordance with the law,
and U|x>n due proof that lie has not suffi
cient mean* to open lauds for cultivation,
shall be furnished with articles herein
after named, not to rxeccd the amount
stated, to wit: 950 worth of lumber,
canvas or other building material ; one
plow, ono pick-ax, one shovel, one ax,
one hoe, one hatchet, 100 pounds assort
ed cut mills, 400 ]M>tinds of flour, 50
pounds of bacon, 10 pounds of coffee, 5
pounds of tea. 100 pounds of euro meal.
100 pounds of salt, i 5 bushels of seed
wheat. 5 bushels of weed corn, 4 bushels
of seed potatoes, and 91 worth of nsnortcd
garden seeds.
The third section provides that per
sons thus aided shall refund 10 per cent
in five years, and 10 j>cr cent, each your
after.
Th * seventh section is as follows :
" That anr person or persons who *hsll
svnil himself, herself or themselves of the
provisions of this r.ct. and shall wilfully
fail or iicgle< t to comply with its require
ments shall be deemed guilty of felony,
and upon conviction K- punished by a
fine of not less than 9100 nor more than
SI,OOO, or imprisonment for n term not
less than one year nor more than five
years, or both, such fine and imprison
ment in the discretion of the conrt hav
ing jurisdiction thereof."
A Hot. —If a youth ia wooingly dis
poned towards any damsel, as he values
his happiness, let him call ou that lady
when she least expect* him, and take
note of the appearance of all that is under
her control. Observe if the shoes fit
neatly, and the hair in well dressed. And
wo would forgive a man for breaking off
an engagement, if he discovered a greasy
novel hid nway nnder the cushion of n
sofa, or a hole in the garniture of the
prettiest foot in the world. Slovenliness
in a woman will ever lie avoided by a
well regulated mind. A woman cannot
always be what is called " dressed;" but
she may be always neat. And ns certain
ly as a virtuous woman is a erown of
glory to her husband, so siuely is a
slovenly one a crown of thorns.
SraiNo BONNETH —Bonnctstbat foretell
something of spring styles aro lieing pre
pared for Routhern customers. They
arc of Belgian straw, soft and white, and
are ornamented with faille, black lace
flowers. One, sent to a mnrried Jndy, has
light plnm-colored faille ribbon over two
inches wide folded around the crown and
falling in long loops behind. Fine black
dotted net with a thread edge is laid like
a scarf over this ribbon, while a cluster
of satin petal flowers is plneed directly
on top in front, nnd their dark glotsy
foilage falls over the crown.
WHAT HE THINKS. —The other Sunday
Mr. SpurgeoD, in the course of his ser
mon, " came down" on the fashionable
congregations who take no part in the
piaise of God, but leave it all to be done
ny a few voices, or by paid choirs, "It
is wretched, it is horrible," said Mr.
Spurgeon, " to sit in a church where
such a custom is observed."
A A •dentine.
Msidsu l> tiny, t-liihe, ami airy,
Jov be tbiuv In IVfjiusry,
F*erin<>rw te tbtue!
UQ*V, f..r thee, the yesis went by
In s silvery rtiglii, while I
Mat atone, and ever in- t
I If lltelr wings, the •fnWv aids!
Isilly (hey came and went,
llarGnliir my disennteut
TUI lltou made at I hem sldne.
Till tholl made'*l them aliitte, my Ileaale
Maiden winsome sweet, and - dressy !
Ma ts thoiu nliUrn with thee!
Al! the sun is iu thy curls,
ljliea greet thee, queen ofggils!
H< tien's blue i* in thy rhnv,
AH the euuuuer in thy dance.
All < arth's sweetness m thy breath ;
Mhaduna e un< alone with death.
Uvssit', live f>*r me!
Live for me. my hrari <>f lightueas.
Filling all my - ml with brightunasl
Lot mv live for thee!
Every month of every year.
Every <!#■, beyoud ami Ire re,
Ever* hi'Ur of every day,
All lie- time, and all the way,
! *u thine, and thou art mine,
What can part na Vwentme !
Two iu one are we.
A MINK ON EIRE.
1 was twenty-five years old and wa*
working as a regular pitman on the dsy
snd night shift, when I fell iu love with
Msrv Andrew*, the daughter of one of our
head pitmen.
Not that 1 dared to have told ber so, ]
thought, hut somehow the influence of
Mary um*l to lift ute up more end more,
till I should no tnote have thought of going
' to foin the other nittnen in a public bouse
| than of trying to fir.
It was about this time that I got talk
ing to a young fellow about my age who
worked iu inr shift, John Kclaey his
name wa*. and I lived to thiuk it a pity
that a tine clever fellow like he WAS, hand-
Mime, stout, snd strong, should lie so fond
of the low hshit, dog-lighting, and wrest
ling, o popular among our men.
1 tin going along otic evening past old
Andrews' house, when the door opened lor
a moment s* if *.une one was coming out,
but. s* if 1 had been seen, it was closed
directly. Iu that short moment, though,
• i had heard a laugh, a> d that laugh 1 was
Ito re wa John KeUey's.
Time slipped on, sud 1 could plainly see
one tLiujx that tioublod me sorely —John
was eiblcntlv making an outward show of
I being a hn!working fellow, striving haul
■ for improvement, so a to stand well in old
Andrew*' eves, while I knew for a fact that
he was as drunken and dissipated as any
young fellow tba'! worked in the pit.
i I omld not tell Andrews this, nor I could
not tell Mary. If she lured him it wonld
grieve her terribly, ami be dishonorable a*
well, and perhaps he might improve. I can
tell him though. I thought, and made up
my mind that 1 would; and meeting him
one night, evidently hut and excited w iili
liquor, I spoke to him qhout it.
" It you truly love that girl, John.'' I
said, " you'll gne up thi* sort ol thing.*'
He railed me a meddling fool; said he
had watched me; that he knew I had a
! hankering alter her myself, hut she only
| laughed at Se; and one way and another
|so milled me that we (ought. I went
home that uigbttmiried, sure, and ashamed
of mv passion; while ho wont to the An
drews' and Mid he had to thrash me lor
•jsaking insulting limit Mary.
I bv.vrd thi* aft rward, and I don't know
how it was but 1 wrote to her telling her
it WHS fali% and that I loved her too well
ever to have acted so.
Six months pa-sed over inv head—six
weary, wretched months—till Christmas
catnc ou. cold and bitter, but not to cold
, and bitter as was my heart.
It was Christmas Eve, and in a dreamy,
listless way I w sitting over my lm-ak
fast before Martina fur work, vrhen I heaid
a sound, and knew what it meant before
there were shrieks in the village, and
women running out aud making for the
pit's mouth, a quarter of a mile away. 1
tell yon 1 turned siek with horror, for I
; knew that at least twenty men would be
down on the night shift; and though it
was cl>se upon their leaving time they
, could not have corue up yet.
•'l'it's tired! pit 1 ! fired!" I heard people
,shrieking; not that th<rewas any need,
for there wasn't a soul that didn't know h,
for the pit had spoken for itself. And as I
hurried out I thought alt in a Ma-h like of
what a Christmas it would be for some
families there, aud I seemed to see a long
precession of rough coffins going to the
churchyard, and to hear the waitings of
the widow and fatherless.
I didn't lose any time, a* you msy sup
pose. in running to the pit'* mouth ; but
those who lived nearer wets there long be
fore me; ami by the time 1 got there 1
found that the cage hnd brought up part of
the men, and three who were insensible,
and that it tva* ju*t going down again.
It went down directly ; and jn*t as It
disappeared who should reune running np,
pale and scared, but Mary Andrew*.
" There's no one belonging to yon down,
is there?" I aked her.
"Oh. ye*—yes! niv father was down,
and John lvehey. n
" Now, then, who's going down 7" I
-bouted.
" You can't go down." shouted hatf-a
down voices, " the choke pot most the
better of us."
" Rut there are two men down 7" I
eried savagely. *• You're not all cowards,
are vou 7"
Two men stepjK-d forward, and we got
in the cage.
" Who knowa where Andrew was 7" I
cried ; and a faint voice from one of the in
jtircd men told me. Then I gave the warn
ing, and we were lowered down, it having
been understood that nt the first signal we
made were to le drawn up sharply.
We reached the bottom, and I found no
difficulty in breathing, and, shouting to
the men to come on, I ran in the direction
where I had Iwen told we should find
Andrews ; hut it was terrible work, for I
expected each moment to encounter the
deadly gas that had robbed so many men
of their lives, lint I kept on shouting
those liehind nie, til! at once I trippd and
fell over some one; and soon as I eould get
myself together I lowi red the lamp I car
ried, and to my gnat delight, I round it
was Andrews.
Whether dead or alive I could not tell
then; hut we lifted him among us, and
nolle too soon, for as-I took my first atep
hack I reeled. Irom a curious giddy feeling
which came over mc.
** Run, if you can," I (-aid faintly ; for
tny leg* seemed to be pinking under me. I
managed to keep on, though, and at our
neat turn we were in purer air; but we
knew it was a race for life, for the heavv
ga* waa rolling after n, ready to quench
out our lives if we slackened speed for an
instant. We pressed on, though, till we
reached the cage, roiled into it, more than
climbed, and were drawn up, to he received
with a burst of cheers Mary throwing her
arms round her father's neck, and sobbing
bitterly.
"I'm not mueh hurt," he said, feebly,
the fresh sir reviv'ng him, as he was laid
gently down. " God bless those brave
lad who brought me up! But there's
an >ther man down—John Kclsey.
No one spoke, no one moved; for all
knew of the peril we had just escaped
from.
•' My lads," he said, feebly, " can't you
do nothing to save your mate 7" and as he
looked wildly from one to the other, I felt
tny heart like in my mouth.
"Do you ill hear 7" said a loud voice;
and I started, as I saw Mary Andrews rise
from where she had knelt holding her
father's hand; "do you all hear 7 John
Kelsey is left in the pit. Are yon not men
enough to go 7"
" Men can't go," said one of the dayshift,
gruffly ; no one could live there.
" You have not tried," again she cried
pa-rionstcly. " Itichaid Ohlsbaw," she
Mid, turning to me with a red glow upon
1 her fate, '•John Keliwy ia down there dy
tug, and asking for help. Will uot you
go i"
" And you wish mv to go, then P I said
' bitterly.
" Yr>," she aald. " Would vou have
your fellow-ciesture lie there and die,wuen
God ha* given you the piwer,and strength,
v.cl knowledge to sate him P
The next minute 1 stepped up toward
ihe pit's mouth, where there was a dead
-Hence, for no one would volunteer, and, in
: a halt blustering way 1 said:
" I'll go down."
There was a regular cheer rose up as I
said (hose words; but I hardly heeded it,
for 1 wax looking at Mary, and my heart
*ank as I saw her standing, there smiting
with Joy.
The next in mute I had step|*d into the
cage, and it began to more, when a voice
called out, " liluw it all 7 Hick Uldsfaaw
shan't go alone!" ami a young pitman
tpraug in by my tide.
Then we liegan to descend, and through
ad opening I Juvt caught sight of Msry
Andrews falling hack sensi-ldts in the arm*
•if the woineu. Then all was dark, and I
wa* nerving myself fur what I had to do.
To go the way by wbkh 1 had helped to !
save Andrews was, I knew, impossible;
but 1 bad hopm by poinp round by one of
tbe old working* we might reach Iran, sod
I told my compauiou what I thought.
Turning short off as soon as we were at'
the bottom, I led the way, boidtug my !
lamp high, and idimbing and stumbling .
over the broken shale that had fkllen from
tbe r*of, fur this pert of tbe mine had not
teen worked for i ears, tfy prosing on, I j
found that we were right, and psdually
neariug the point at w hick the accident had !
occurred.
As we got nearer, I became aware of the
aii setting in a strong draught in the direc
tion in which we were going, and soon
alter wc could utake out a dull glow, and
then there wa a divp roar. The pit was
indeed on fire, and blaring iatiously, so
that a we got nearer, trembling—l'm not
admitted to own it, for it was an awful
sight—there was tlie coal growing of a
fierce red beat ; but fortunately, the
draught set toward an old shaft folly a
quarter of a uuie fnrt her ou. and so we
were able to approach till, * itb a cry of
horror, 1 leapt over heap alter heap of coal,
torn from root nnd wali by tbe explosion,
to where, done <su the fire, lay the bidy of
John Kelarr—to close that his clothes
were airvatfv •moldenng; and the fire
vcorcbed my face. 1 laid liukl of liirn and
dragged buimwir.
How we ever got him to the loot of the
shaft, 1 never could tell.
1 havv tome faint recollection of hearing
a cheer, and of *eeii*< the dim light of the
chill December day; but the only thing
that made any impression upon me was a
voice which seemed to be MaryI*, 1 *, and a
touch that aectned to he that of her hand.
And it's not mock more that I can re
collect, only of being in a wild, fevcriah
state, wandering through dark psssagc*,
with fire burning my head, aud coal falling
always, and rvsw'y to crush me; and then
I seemed to wahe from a long, deep sleep,
and to lie thinking it a weak, troubled way
•bout getting up.
It was a month, though, before I could
do that, and then there was a tender arm
to help n,c, and a soft cheek ever ready to
be laid to mine ; for in those long, weary
hours of sickness Mary had been by my
side to cheer me back to health, and I had
learned that 1 was loved.
Houj F akt Br.iow.—A party of Irish
nipu, one* upon a tune, contracted to
clear a very deep well. Having none of
Ue usual eon venienoes employed for
■nob purposes, they were at a loss how to
Ret one of the party on a little ledge near
the Itottom to assist in getting out water,
mud. etc. At lust Jimmy I'hchui, a
herculean fellow, proposed a pl*n which
wna considered juit the thing. It wm
this : Jimmy was to clasp hi* big fists
around the windlass; then another of
the party was to rhunber down and bold
on by hw leg*, and ao on nntil the* last
man should tie able to leap upon the
ledge, living slightly corned with liqnor,
the party prepared for the descent, with
out atoppiug to contemplate the diffi
culties involved in the adventure. With
lured breast, nud sleeves tucked up, big
Jimmy seised the round portion of the
windlass directly over the well aud
swung himself over. Another of the
party crept down Jimmy's body and
prasped him by the boot*. After several
more had followed suit, anfl the human
diain began to stretch far into the well,
Jimmy t>eenme alive to one great diffi
culty ; the windlass did not afford hiai
a good hold in the first place, and the
weight was getting intolerable. At last
humau sinew could stand it no longer,
and Jimmy hailed the lower link in the
rhaiu with : "lie jttbers, Pat, howld
fast below till I spin t on me limus. "
•Suiting the nrtiou to the wort]*, lie re
leased his hold, when, of course, the
whole party was precipitated to the bot
torn of the well. As lock would have it,
there was more mud llian water when*
the Hiherniaus lit, and they wisely con
sidered themselves particularly fortunate
iu escaping without actual loan of either
life or limb.
Ship-Building Bounty Bill.
The bill has been laid before tlie Com
mittee on Commerce of tlie United States
House of Representatives, giving authority
to the Secretary of the Treasury to offer
an annual bounty of ten dollar* per ton
for |>eriod* of five year* for the construc
tion of iron steamships of not less than
one thousand tons burden. It is proposes!
that these bounties shall he limited to
payment* for 100,000 tons )>er year, or
500,000 tons for the whole term of five
years. Reduced to exact figures, tlie bill
provides that there shall l>e paid from the
Treasury of tlie United States the sum of
9l.OOO,(ioo annually, amounting to &V
0041,000 for tlie whole period designated,
in order to aecompliidi the restoration of
American Commerce to its former state.
It is further provided in this bill that
coastwise trade shall also bo encouraged
by the payment of a bounty of six dollars
npon sailing vessel* to two hundred tons
burden, to the end that tlie fishery inter
est may become pro*|eroiis. There is a
further proposition to pay a bounty of eight
dollars per ton for wooden or iron vessel*
of four hundred ton* launched from do
mestic yards for use in foreign commerce.
These proposals for a graduated scale of
shipping bounties, ranging from 9 to 110
per ton, are accompanied by a brief state
ment from Secretary Rout well, to the
efi'ect that the actual coat to the National
Treasury would be about twenty-five mil
lions of dollars.
WHAT THE* SAT. —The London 7Vwe
declares that England has not revoked and
never will revoke the Treaty of Washing
ton. She is still ready and resolved to
stand by it; but cannot, and will not,
embark in any altercations specially de
signed to close the door on all hopes of
settlements. The Pott regrets the vehe
mence of the English press in its uttack of
the Americans, because it may stand in
the way of an amicable settlement. The
Standard sees in the difficulty which haa
so suddenly arisen u source of grave anx
iety and great possible danger, as an un
fortunate accident might at any moment
precipitate a quarrel. The Standard feels
sure the United States will not withdraw
their claims, and it advises all parties to
support the Government in maintaining
the position which Great Britain has as
sumed.
*- T.rk rvllm.
(Street suits made in Berlin are tha first
j uii|w<i tauons for spring. The fabric# are
! pongees of gray, and lavendor shades, soft
flexible woolen stuffs iu narrow atrlpes of
fawn color or gray with white, and anew
wiry pongee inlature of linen and woel in
darker buff tints. The suit consist# ofi
skirt, over skirt, waist, and double cape, j
or else a skirt aud polonaise with talma |
cape.
Tliere is a fancy for trimming the back
and front of dreaa skirts differently. For
instance, the three front breadths have
deep kilt pleating, the top of which i hid
den bv the apron front at the over-skirt,
while"the beck breedths have from (oar to j
six narrow, bias, overlaying rufllea, with
the lower edge bound and the upper very .
: fully gathered. Clutters of kilt pleating
with lengthwise straps of velvet between ;
; are alto trerv stylish trimmings. j
The plain" basque anil ia a good moiai
! for spring cashmeres, either black, pale j
gray, or mtlr-eolor, or silk akirta of norre-.
1 spoodlng color. The entire
i he handsome in black silk, or silk with j
1 hair-line stripes, for the preeenl and the (
approaching seaaou. U *lao aintple I
i enough for the serviceable black slpscas ;
' tluU require to be plainly made ts be m
good taste. These look beet trimmed with j
pleated rutftes aud bands of the same, with
fringe on the over skirt and basque, J
Capes will be fashionable wrap. The
prettiest Is the double cape, or sleeveless
-sr.jue with a roand cape. This ia aimilar
to lift* garment worn at i#r***ntq but w
shorter, nud k Improved hj !abiDg th* I
back and side seams of the eacque to make |
room for a full towrnare. The cape falls j
half war between the elbow and wrjat, j
and la a" round talma with short darts ou
the shoulders and a seam doarathe middle •
of the back, which ia left ojen below f
•bout oue-tiiird iu leogtli. Watraaul
folds are also ou many capes, especially
those with tmlonaieea, while oUtera have
the nun's collar, broad, eqaare and deep.
The polonaitea are of medmm lengrfi
and simple shape. There W
front, lite fuUnAs of the skirt liehind is
held to the waiat in great boi-pleaU, and
the waist has a postiliioo attadied. A
single talma cape belongs to these, ec elee -
a mantle that has a double eepe behind j
and resembles a vest in front.
Lower skirts are not changed. Thffj
are no longer bound with braid, but most
fabric* are faced to the knee with a course,
strong, but thin, white muslin, and a
three inch bias facing of the drees materia!
ia placed around the edge of the skirt. A
•ingle wide fioooe. gathered, headed
narrow standing rallies or bias ban da is
the trimming most often seen, but tan
moat stylish skirt# have kill pleating
three-fourths of n yard deep around ihetn.
The good, far this kilting is eat crosswise,
with wU*d|N leted together; th*
are rather scant, but are |ressed flafljr.
The top of the pleating ia stitched on the
nkirt high enough to be eoweealed by the
over-skirt, and tbenee the kilt bangs sepa
rate from skirt, a# other flounces do. A
half-inch hem finiehet the bottom, ami
about two fingers above the lower edge a
tape ia tacked beneath the pleat* to bold
them in posit ioO. ,
When IN Men Die.
Medical ex|>ericnce proves that, in
chronic disease*, the greatest number of
deaths occur just before dawn. This la
eminently trua of brain disease*, and of
all those" related eaaes where death re
sults from an exhaustion of the vital pow
er, through over-work, excessive excite
ment, or nervous prostratloo. It is st the
hour of & o'clock in the morning thst the
life-force Is at its lowest ebb, ami suc
rntnba most readily to the aasnnll of epi
lepsy, paralysis, or of the fatal lethargy
that comes in those v ivldly bcsoaful pic
ture-diearns, for whieh medical science
has as yet found no name, and of which
it has taken no sufficient cognttanee.
Nine tenth* of thoae who die in this way
expire in their aleep. In many •web
cases, if a friend were at band to waken
the sleeper when the attack cornea ov or
if he were to be wakened by some acci
dental noise, he might, by the use ef a
few simple precautions, prolong hie life
for many years: for the shock that proves
faUl to the man wrapped in deep sleep,
when the system is passive and relaxed,
wonld lie victoriously repelled were it
armed with all its waking energies. Men i
who do brain-work, and who are on the
shady side of forty, should be on their
guard against this insidiousenemy. They
should lie ware of 6 o'clock a. n,, for it is
a perilous honr. Do yon find yourself
unable to sleep when you retire for the
night, exhausted with the day's work!
Do you, in vain, tnrn from one side to the
other f Doe* your brain persist in work
ing when you would fain have it rest!
I>o your old saws and scraps of rhyme
repeat themselves in your memory with
wearisome iteration, defying your utmost
efforts to silence them f Then, I say to
you, beware! You will l>e sure to sleep
at last. It is only a question of time; for.
soon or late, nature will assert her rights.
The 1-eaten Season.
The following are the rule* ami regula
tions set forth by the Catholic Churrh for
the government of its people during law :
1. All the week days of Lent, from Ash
Wednesday till Easter Sunday, are fast
days of precept, on one meal, with the al
lowance of a moderate collation in the
evening.
2. The precept of fasting implies also
that of abstinence from the one of fle*h
meat. Bat. by dispensation, the use of
flesh meat is allowed in each diocese at
the principal meal on Mondays, Tuesday*
aud Thursdays of Lent, with the exception
of Holy Thursday.
3. There is neither fast nor abstinence to
lie observed on Sundays of I-ent.
4. It is not allowed to nse fish with,
flesh meat at the same meal hi Lent.
5. There is no prohibition to use eggs,
butter or cheese, provided the rule* of
quantity prescribed by the fast be com
plied with.
fl. I-ard may be used In preparing fiak
vegetable!, fire.
7. Tlie Churoh excuses from the obli
gation of fasting (but not of abstinence
from flesh meat, except in special ca*ee of
sickness or the like) the following
classes of person*: First, the infirm;
second, those whose duties are of an ex
hausting or laborious character; third,
persons who are attaining their grow th;
fourth, women in pregnancy or nursing in
fants; fifth, those who are enfeebled by
old age. _
IMPORTANT DECISION. —The case of tin
United States* vs. the steamer MonUllo.
libelled for non-compliance with the laws
appertaining to steamers plying upon the
navigable waters of the United State*,
haa been decided against the United
States in Judge Miller's Conrt, in Wiscon
sin, on the grounds that Fox river, where
the steamer was running, is not public
navigable waters ef the United States and
that the owners of said steamer were hot
under a lawful obligation to have her en
rolled and lioensed for coasting trade, no>
hare her inspected in compliance with the
act of Congress providing for the safety
of passengers on board of vessels propell
ed by steam.
Jesse Meyars leaned against a shaft
revolving three hundred times per min
ute, in a Mnncy, Ind., slaughter-house.
He undressed in about ten seconds, but
strange to say, he was not at all injured.
Not a stitch of clothing remained upon
him.
TKBMS : Two DolUni a Tow, in Advance.
NO. 9.
What They Wave. • „
It ma- interest our lady reader* te not*
what area worn at a reoeption given by
Pnetmaster-Geoensl Creswsil and wife tu
Wuli i tutUm '•
Ma petite brunette, wa*
! w a black Lyous velvet, long train,
Xcut low, witli tali, and thread law
mug* ; hair beautifully pu*drd.
! ornamented with a pink nfunm-jawtfii
otf lawiititt pwri. Siw Nellie Grsatj a
pink tffk, Jcrai-trsfb, owrskirten oanief
1 of Umi aautr, looped tettb pink rttwxma ;
,-uraaaa Liuli ; ball lon* >Wr<a almost
curl* were ornamented with a fdnk bow.
Mr*. Secretary Fiab, pete bwafcr aettn,
' flounce and ormkiit trimmed with point
! laoa, heeded with white satin. Ow her
tbouldar* aba wore a superb black thread
hw .bawl Haw iawek ware diamonds,
.indtirr rut fur* of thread lew W te
(WU. Mrs. AiUtmtf o<nral Williams, a
; white corded silk, flounce of bine ttitiritti
, the court train. A bouffwi appearedl i
' the back, drawing ths fronts sprit. dw
'■losfqg • braadth of bftta and waits m- tin
' in pwff and shall trimming, sad bar hew
uTaaged a fa Wraps manner, with I>lm
feat hem. lira. Hen-Pred*ut (Wf*, a
•oca colored moire court train, trimmed
with black,velvet evsr a velvet petticoat,
hair Maria Antoinette, beers gcfld chain
wifh locket and diamond* Mm Senator
f'handler, a brunette, corded ailk, train
akirt ornamented with a broad flonrvoe ef
point ippliq*. banded with white illusion,
and Lends of aheery eetui; tpwralurt 4
| point applaqae, festooned with cherry
I matin to the pointed corsage in the bat*.
Mr, Hcuaior Kice, blari: heavy groS
grain, trimmed with of the wuna.
tiouttd wffti > . >1 >w*nlin; a Wrair tail orer
I this, magni&vi.tlr leepad ia bnuffsuM in
, the back, paw hang oat nod. r tha poatg
i 'ion; the tuaaosnd corsage trimu,. d with,
point laec. Mm- Senator Logan, in
bUfk embroHirred lace. Mr* Seaahrr
Sawyer, iu dink ailk, train and orersklft?
trimmed with pink tulle; a boons* of
natural flowers on the left aide ef toe eon
; mge and fcaadSMM flower* lambed this
ooHtiuna. Mrs. Senator Ames, nm Butler,
was in eial bin*-, striped aaUa polonaise
over whits illusion, profusely rnrhed and
boniliotx-d, osmsi heart .hajwd, who
blonde lace trimming! ; an elegant tur
nerttlace orusmented her neck:
er blond hair was in curia, ernamentwd
with a blue plume. 'Mas. Robert Chrittte
was in white ailk, with blue trim mm**.
Mia Robert Lincoln. tea torn colored
I talk.. Mm I'rwwea Clarke, ui jjnvemW.
I thrrad lass trimming*. Mini Du, niece
anWtsflk,
! with stMn Trimming* Mm M .da, in
| green and Mack aatm, with point trim
; i rings and diamond jewel*.
ImpreMtea an newspaper PaMltom.4
Many advertisers have s practice, even T
' when thev have hwt s small advertise-
I taent ia a paper, of getting ua puSag
> article far sutditoaal, frem tea lineaap
to a hundred or more, and then modett
|y asking the proprietor.; to insert it ag
rsadiug matter, "free gratis for noth
ing." Row, st toe moderate fates of tea
I .-cuts per line, which most papers charge
! for insetting business notiees ia reading
' matter type, the free admitting thus
I coolly requested would come to consider-'
,|,lv mors toe adecrtisreacnt which 1
they pay tor. it is • that tosre mav
j lie some great pubis, enterprise* wliish j
are worthy of a liberality on the part of
j the publisher in ths way of free notice*.
! but, as s general thing, those who ask
j this free puffing hare no greater chum on
! the public press than anyotbsr adverti
ser. A pubtiahur's advertising columns
j ara his main source of inooisw, aad no ooe
i has any more right to ask lor the ftatei- i
ttmv use. of the was than he has to re-.
i quest the freedom of s clothing store,
t that he may help himself to what suits
aim. Another imporitiou on newtpspcr
! publishers is practiced by magaxuMa,
I which expect, for aa exebanga, a notice
$ every month, at least emasi in walae to
their magarine for a whole year. Not
long ago, just after we had given a lead
ing monthly a notice wbu L, at our regu
lar rates, amounted to ju*' about a year's
subecriptiou to fhe magarine. wc re
-1 <vdved a polite eirralar from the wnbh-.h
ere, staring that their exrhaage list had
i become so large that they regretted being
obliged to discontinue sending it to many
I papers, aad we have not received it eiaca.
is it sot time that newspapermen deter
, mined no longer to submit to sack impo-'
j sitions ? fTiwilnfl Jo'tfu.if.
I 'T r.' . f] "
Firmer*' Bey*.
When I was # boy, my first saving* of
! ten cent pieces, earned by Saturday
j afternoon work—tor school kept half a
day on Saturday then—wese expended
ia "beviug a heifer caff. Then I worked
on and paid my fafeer a certain sum each
month for keening it Whan the onlf
was one year old I tended it for two steer
calve*, and now I had to put in good
and strong to pay tor ftteir keep ; but I
occupied aM ray imare time in teaching
there calve* to work in the yoke, and at
cue veer old they would gee and haw as
well "as old oxen, aad my father paid me
fur their use in leading ths team for
hretkios iu his two and three-year olds.
Again, I bad a piece of "rouad each
year after I was fourteen, C at I could
plant and work on shores; and if I
1 wanted help, why I had to give Svas
i day's ef my time to the hired manb rem
j day. I grew just what my fancy sad
reading dictated, and from the proceeds
I dreared a* well as any boys now. I
always had some time to play, time to
read, and now look back with love and
pkaaant thought* to the old farm, and
the farm hawd who taught me to aa*
every tool, and whipped me when I neg
lected to drive the team out straight at
the end of the furrow in plowing. This
remembrance of my boyhood has always
induced me to favor all items of eacOrir
sgemert at home on the term; and I
(where if it were more generally jwac
ttoed, * • should have more good farmers
aad fewer broken dowu merchants, or
loafing, hanging-on, time-aerving clerks,
ready for anything except houorable
labor and usefulness belonging to the
highest order of creation.
A Hekihiiuc Yoitwo Max. —A young man
who sends a communication to the "Mas
•ackuaett* Ploughman " describe* him
self as cme of those youag men of Maine,
who tea* fooliah enough at twenty-one, to
leave borne, a good farm, where he w
needed, and start tor the cite
bis fortune, with bright anticipation* of
city life, and an easy fortune in vieW;
But after one year's experience be sear
things in a different light. and found that
a cramped life In a ty boarding houae
was no place for him. On the old farm,
he could hi toll up * horse, and take a
drive, afternoon or evening, and no lost
tunc, no ••five-spot" for team; and when
it oome to social enjoyment* be found"
hi* down-East acquaintances much bettor
than any he ooula get in the city. So on
the whole he concluaed to be a free mm in
the country and not a slave in the aite,and
be packed up and started for horns, a
wiser man than whea he left. He found
all glad to see him back again, and a
friend offered to assist him if he woold
buy a farm; so on the first of April, 1868,
(he being twenty-two years of age) he l
bought a farm all stocked and tooled,;
commenced farming down-East style-
Since that time he baa been hard at it,
aad is much better off and happier than
he would have been, if he had beon in
the city.
Th* trial of Oskins, the Philadelphia
. murderer, terminated in his aoquittal,
toe court aooepting the plea of insanity.
prast, ! '
Efßi'Wff wlflMMMt tfcww*. h
l>*s
tTblehaKll.Olimej^m, 1
AMttia loagar mast yw wtargsl Uspi
And lei rear tela sfcsil rise* at ammingk rim
'i' 1.1 - ##s#l
ma pries ths flagging current wtthcut ernes t~
When you s few b<i* mors hat# J#ywl fri*t
psn. 9
** • OomshMr.! * 4\r a
amrnptiMW, vmsy msiU
hfasrtla the path 1 ■■ >,<* k 5 *
lay down the fi.wby ahr.wd lW timrh tb
gsal—
I Thw (ln< t /
—w i w"*
fasts mi faadm.
GsatMude is the memory of the heart.
Tbi idle hottr is the derU s oppor
tomty.
Zero, of iH riiUJk nude Ms cboiee of
aditurs sod rmaewer* is Psrn.
ima
I, the way hinge of business,
and them is no method without puurta
ality. * "' ;
A, WU. has pawed
Wiaooiuan L. gudatore making ebvti m
day a legal hoHday.
gouUcnwn want eomforiem
It i.jastaow.tb.M habits
-0 When thw# iatsee ia ths heart, there
All eflurU to aawe thc_ Cohratto. o*
bfc aad will p^TTtotal
Good natasw lika a bse, eottsda toney
swsetsst
long ru, a tried sadproTed
eliamcter tor towth, honor, nod hoaeaty
Is the Mfl capita!, aad giwas the IMiM
in tarsal Qma, ag
M.gth-wmt- . „
Vom thing," m* ®jjHV
tbaU*Ob^kii^of *WAy oaegs**
•asaSfC
An lows chicken Um* was bitten by a
rattlfliake wppd its fife bj stasdiiiß in
mnd-pud<fle hw two daya. mcA dipping
ft.bcalto theJ* "TZL
*<# latum. Aim attacked to a #?
eSESSSBsr
Why Is toe tetter *wy
Bgcammst is always j trouble, wredi
sratrai^J
peace ianoersee or h>*e-
Xbe flilW'flP aid Society has sscd
19 Ui rclicringtoettoiweol
-•ux- 3,RS lamiliea, of whkh 3,810 am
abkrbodied, 2.3Tb widows ad deeertco,
ZTIjV: alck, tged, and mftrw.
SriS'rr*
P * .
run ato fWJ bands line,"
aridageatoniw. to hie lady Issa.
p<*xr Mid toe. "SB yoswoaidaay if
Ten did not think ea* "fadao jot. d
ihlnk," he aptwetwd, "MI did sot any
so.'.' • ♦
A% eachange assaseees at ,ts appro
prto'e t Zfin. a ghm. otwdM-
H -rc"a what makes ua wear old dothew
That's the moat aenaihle toast Wk barn
heard for aome timc-H'a a tewperaaee
tectum ia aems words.
EST. Peter Cartwright, the noted
Methodist dWne, was stntoen with
paradywa. at baa home is Pieaant MiUa,
Sa,ngaißOS Cosnty. ML. and wspeech
lcea." ia eighty years e# sge,
and has been rirtj-eight ysua in toe
mini# try.
Profanity newer did any man toe lesrt
good. So mas is the richer, or happier,
or wiser for it It commends no one to
society. It disgusting to the refined ;
abominable to the good; inaulUnc to
tltoae with whom wsaesoemto ; dc ? tnfb
iag the mind ; unprofiteblc, needteau,
and injuriosste aoewiy.
the fend Btototewtowppper was put
liabed in ITU3, and Peter ton Great was
toe sMunr editor. The imperial auk
erst not only look port profimaiosanT iu
its Sditorml cn-p wiunn, but re correct
ing proofs, at appear* from dons still
in existence, on which are marks sad
alterations in his own hand.
A minister at a colored wedding, wito
iui, to make acme humorous remark*,
Jd, "Ob curb occasions as this it is
customary to ktea the bride, but in this
1 case we will omit it." To this ungalknt
j remark toe imMgnaat faridewroom very
| pertinently replied. -Oa such OWSMC®*
as thia it is cutaomuy to gire toe minis
ter flO, bet in t ti* caao we will 0t ih
A pretty, bright littks iareufle friend,
ome thre* years of age, named Boss, was
teased s good deal by a gentleman who
visited the family ; he finally wound up
he saying, "Rosa, I don't love you
••W tours got to tore me, md the
ehiM. ' "How so? " asked the tormentor.
"Whv." mid Ron, " the Bible asy* that
you must love them that hate you, aad I
am sure that 1 hate year
A Hwt TO Ganmrats. -"What a
uotor world tills is f" croaked an old
frog'as be squatted on the margtoof the
poeL "Do you hear those geese, how
thev scream . aad bias.? What do
they do it for?' "Oh, jod to
,m— thomselvea, answered a nttte
mouse. "Presently, w* shall have the
owb hooting- What is that for V "It's
the music they like the best," said the
mouse. "And those grasshoppers, tio y
can't go hams without griiidmg and
, chirping. Why do they do that VI "Oh,
iSw so happy, they can't bejp it,
•aid the moose. "YooH find excuses
, for sH ; I believe yon don't understand
! music, so you like toe hideous noises."
| " Wei!, friend; to be honest writh rou,"
said toe moose. *I doo't greatly admire
i ,mj of them phut thev are all speet in
mv ear* eoaspared with constant creak
log of a frog."
A Faiogxmn. Dmaanm. —A pgmenger
train going to St. Louis on the Boyfard,
Bock Island and SC Louis Railroad,
when about * three-qnsrters of 4 mile
bel.iw upper Alton station, came in eol-
Usion witp a freight train going north.
The bnggngl #4r and first coach were
teloKcoped, aad than almost instantly
took firs. The scene that ensued was
most appaling. The unfortunate passen
gers were, mpet of them, caught between
toe car seats, and egress -from toe oar
was nearly iinpoasible. The .flames
enveloped the doomed care almbet in
stantly, and the terrified psssengefs were
left to be slowly roasted alive. The
charred: and blackened remains of four
victims of this fearful accident were re
covered, ami some thirteen more were
seriously injured.
tJimro Rtates Kayi.-The Senate
Naval Committof had under conridera
tioa'tae Constrnction of iron ahiprbuild
ihg yards and docks for naval and oom*
mercrii turpow-s, as proposed IffJHw In
tetnationai C'ompany, anfl recommended
by the Secretary of Mm Navy is his two
last annual reports. The president of
,the International Pomp&oy, and th# pres
ident of the Wtetern Iron Steamboat
Company each gave informationlahow
'ing that iron vessels can be bnflt ou the
Eastern and Western waters ijf the
United States on terms of equal 'advan
tage with those of any other eowxltry in
the world. The committee expressed
themselves ss greatly interested by the
facts sad arguments presented, and took
the matter under advkement.