The RwblM. Tbers'i a Mil upen th# housatep, •> **••* fram th# plat*, Tbara'a * wsrbte In the tanahiße, * twlttar ia tbartis. And thn.agh my baart, at sound at thesa, Tbnra come* a namelts* thrill, As aweet a* odor to tha rote, Or vardurw to (ha hill; And all the Joyous morning*. My heart pours forth Una atraln ; " God bleat tha dear old roVme, Who hare coma back again.'' l"ar they bring a th aught of surnmar, af dreamy, precious day*. Of king-anps in th* anmaier, making a goldan kuaj A longing for th* flow blaotna, For rose* all agio#, For (Vagrant blossoms wharf th* l>*** With droning murmur* go ; 1 dream of all Die btaalica Of simmer's golden reign, And aing, "Qbi f< gr. Love In a cottage! ha! ha! Well, I liked her pretty wed before, but f can't help think ing her attraction* very greatly enlarge ! •no* { bean I that new*. I never should have thought of anything hot a pleasant aeqnsintanre— cness I'll go Tor her now. Gooffby. old .fellow, and doa't hurt your- 1 eelf workiiigOver th>w book*" Ned nrwle no refdV, bur felt as if he would like to grind beneath bis heel one whoiMmld speak so irreverently of her who. in bis idea, combined every grace of heart and mind, ami perfection of form and feature, which should make np a per fect woitiap. Hi* thoughts turned to ac tion, and he caught himself stamping his heel on the desk stool with such force aa alnfbst fo dent a hole in it, and looking upacw Mr. Smith's steady gate fixed on him.. ...... Bark to bis work he tried to bring his thoughts, but they were not subject to hit wfll, ajvl he found himself iu great dart ger "of writing the thoughts passing through lit* mind. "She is lost to me t> hosrs of that evening dragged heavily along, and as they lengtbeied, Charley Ash ton's manner became more FRKI). KURTZ, Editor and Proprietor VOL. V. and more formal. Ho lett and Anna'* warm heart wa* and a* alio thought over the cool manner and ti e cH>ler parting No deep came to her eye* that night. " Can it he I" *he said to herself a thousand times; " and yet it must, for his mautier changed almost frotu my tell ing him of Nannie'* fortune," The next night came, and Charley w * not in his usual place, and the next also. About a week afterward, a short note in formed Miss Temple that having Kwi !l Ida savings in a had singulation, he should not think of holding her to an engage ment which would he out of his power to consummate in years. To say this did not grieve her would be false, but it did not require mail* days to teaeh her that she had not loved Charley Aahton as site should the man she w as to marry. Again our two young men met, this time on Broadway. Charley, gaily saun tering along, hailed Ned iu the old famil iar wa*;— *• Well, old boy, off ear'* to-day." *• I've been promoted, aud am not obi ig to work s>> late, though 1 often do; I aiu going riding in the park ; my head has ached much of late, and I am mere uex von than formeely." " Shouldn't work so hard; don't pet an* thanks for iu By the by, that fortune of Miss Temple's turns out to be all in my eve" *• How—what's that 1" was the eager replv. ♦•"Well, aM i-* SomelMwly Temple had about one hundred thousand dollars lett her, but it wasn't our pretty little friend." " But 1 heard you were attentive, some said engaged." "There's no telling what might hire been but for the fool of an aunt making a mistake in names. However, it's all over now. You know that. lat least can't afford to marry, if she is a Peri. I know von entertain some sort of a foolish notion that love, etc., will do, but it's all bosh. Give me the dimes!, my hoy. When pov erty comes in at the window, etc., you know. Take my advice and drop all such foolish ideas." Ashton might as well have talked to the lamp-post for all the hearing Xed Famhaut did. What he was thinking of we cannot say, but he did not go to the park that afternoon, and the evening found him in the little parlor which had so often been graced by Charley's presence. Ere the evening had passed he had explained his long absence, told her of his better nrMpect*, and offered his heart and hand. She asked three weeks to consider, he to visit her as often as he pleased. After that time he was accepted, and Anna learned what true love was. Here my story might end, but there is a sequel. Some months after the engage ment Mr. Smith tapjesl Xed on the shoul der, and motioned him to the private of fice. "Going to marry my niece I" said that gentleman. " I am engaged to Miss Anna Temple, sir, and we expect in a quiet way to he married, one month from to day. Hut I was not aware that she wa your niece." '• Neither was I until a few days since. As for your quiet way, understand me,sir. the child of my only sister can be married nowhere else hut in ray house. Come, now, no flinching, I've heard all about it. Bat she's poor—poor as Job's turkey ; and I've too many children to give her inore than a decent wedding." Ned did not understand the expression on Mr. Smith's face, but he felt a little angered, and replied:— " I should never have addressed her. aftd I would release her this moment if I "knew she wa* an heiress." "No you don't. I know yon. am! I know the whole jtory. You can go." Xed pondered Jong over thia singular conversation, but no satisfaction came from bis own thoughts or from Anna She replied by a smile or a kiss. Not withstanding all the urging of her new found uncle, Anna refused to leave Ijer aunt until the-time for the wedding. The event came, and the ceremony was over, then Mr. Smith called the young married couple into tbe library, and. drawiug fioui his safe a strong iron box, said : " Now young man, you're tied hare! and fast, and I'll tell you that you've got an heiress, and a rich one, too. A foolish brother of her father's, one who would go to California, took it into his head to die. not long since, and left such a botch ed up will tliat.it has taken six months to get the straight of it. We were his agent*, snd kept the mat ter to oar*e!ve*,becau& it was a large sum and might create impostors. We soon dl-posed of the one • hand red thousand dollar* to Miss Anna Thompson Temple: but the content* of this box, five hundred thousand dollars, in bonds, we used more scrnntiny in assigning, and in the course of our investigation, I not only tound the rightful owner of oU' trust, but the child of my only sister. Sir, you are worthy of her, and what is less, her fortune. The morning papers will announce you as a partner ia our house." A* Aunarrrsrso Srrr.—ln the Su preme Court of the county of Monmouth, N. J., a suit fur over 81",0W was com mceeedagainst the great huchu man, by Hudson & 31 (-net, advertising agent-", of New York. In June, 1870, the Doctor BJiuie two large contract* with the plain tiffs; in one of which it was agreed to print the Doctor's advertisement, a col- UUJU in length, in one hundred and fifty papers in the Territories of the West and tbe Sandwich Islands. In the sec ond, to publish one of equal length in I.2^onewsp:-pi raiu various State*. Each of these ndvertLscnn-nU to be inserted fl'ty-two times in the papers mentioned. The amount to be pnil 3 solate. A piokel guurd, iu 1813, peated on the Pototii c to watch for tlie exjreated British fleet, were seeking one day a place to encamp, when they eatue upou an old church the condition of whteh revealed at ouce the oomple'eneMi and tha receutnesa of the ruiu. It stooil iu a lonely dell, where the ailcuoe waa broken only by the breeze whispering through thepimsaud cedars and dense shrubbery that eloaed the eu tranee. Huge oak* standing near the walls envelo|Hsl th® ntof with their long, interlacing brunches. The doers ail stiHHl wide open ; the windows were bro ken ; the roof waa rotten aud had jmrtly fallen in ; and a giaut pine, uprooted by a tenijicst, was lying agwiust tlia front, choking up the principal door. The churchyard, which was extensive, and enclosed by a high brick wall of costly structure, was densely covered all over with tombstones and" monuments, uiany of which.-though they bore name* once held iu honor throughout Virginia, were broken to pieces or with bram bles and woods growing thick and tangled between them everywhere. The parish had bees important euough to bare a separate building for a vestrv just out side tho churchyard wall. Thi* hud rut ted away from its chimney, which stood erect in a mass of ruiu. With some difficult* tlii* soldiers foteed their way through the fine old porch i>e tweeu o!biT doom into the bhorrh. What a picture of desolation was dis closed ! The roof, rotte 1 away at the corners, had let iu for years the snow aud rain, stamina aud spoiling the in terior. The galleries. where, in the olden time, the grandees of the parish sat, in their square, high pew*, were doping and lenniug down njion the pews on the floor, and, on one side, had quite falh'u out. Tbe rem linsof the great Bible still lay open on the desk, and tilt tattered eauvas that hung from the walls showed traces of the Creed and Commandments which had quce been written upon it. The marble font w.u* gone; it w.n a punch-bowl, the commander of the picket was told. The communion-table, which hud leen a superb piece of work of antique pattern, with a heavy wahtnt top, was in its pla'*e, but roughened and stained by exposure. It was afterwards used as a chopping-block. The brick aisles showed that the church was the resort of animals, and the wooden ceil ing was alive with squirrels and snake*. The few inhabitants of the vicinity— white trash—held tue o'd church and its wilderness of graves in dear, and sea re ly dared enter the tangled dell in which they were. It was only the runaway slave, overcome by a greats r terror, fly ing from a being more awfnl that any ghost—savage man—that ventured logo into the church itself, and crouch among the broken pews.—Annex PtirOn. A Co— Ol'l RATIVE PLAN FOR FARMERS —We quote the following from an ad dress delivered by Mr. H.L Jones, be fore the Farmers' Club of Walnut Creek, Saline Co., Kansas, in which State the subject of co-operation continues to be agilateJ. with what result remains to be seen : " I will suppose there are in Sa line county 2,oft I formers who raise an uually 500.000 bushels of wheat, which amount will probublv soon be reached and excelled. N-w. by the present pro cess of marketing, fully 20 per cent, or 100.00U bushels, are lost to the farmer, and go to make up the Vealtli snd prof its of the middlemen. How to save this is the question. I would have a joint capital formed of S'iIXLOOO, made up iu shares of 830 each, making an average of two shares to each former, and only twice as mttch as the annual loss on wheat alone. With this money I would have built an elevator and store, at n coat of, say 8100,000, leaving 8100,000 as capital to do business wtli. I won hi have this money used in the foundation of a luutk. especially and only, in the interest of thb farmers who were mem bers of the nssoeiatn.n. I would hare it under the eo; trel of directors elected annually by the farmers, and their duties limited and prescribed by law. I have a place where bumer*Vnid deposit their funds and seourea fair interest, and also where they obnhl "borrow by paying no higher rate of interest then JO per cent, per annum, iu ench manner as should bo prescribed bv the rules of the associa tion. I would have it a rule that hi* ►hares should be deemed good collateral security for two-thirds their value, and that a warehouse receipt of 100 biuhel* of wheat should also be good collateral for a loan of one-half its value for n bunU-<1 time. Storage on grain should be fix.d at the lowest possible rate to pay exjx-nses, which will not exceed 1| per •ant. SEA-SICKSESS. —I. Have every prepara tinn mnile at lea*t twenty four lioura be fore starting, an that the system may not be exhausted by overwork am) want of sleep. This ''i recti on is particularly im port ant to ladies. 2. Eat as hearty a tnenl aa possible before going on board. S. Go on board sufficiently early to arrange ancli t bines as may be wanted for the first day or two, so that they may bs easy of access; then undress and go to bed before the vessel gets under way. The neglect of this rule by those who are liable to sen-sickness is sure to be regretted, 4 Eat regularly and heartily, but without raising the bend, for at least one or two days. In this way the habit of d'gesti' n is kept np, the strength is preserved, while the system becomes accustomed to the constant changes of equilibrium. 5. On the first night ont, take some laxative pills. Seidlitz, or citrate of magnesia, tak en in the morning on an empty stomach, are had in sea sickness. 6. After having become so far habituated to the sea as to be able to take yonr meals at the table and go on deck, never think of rising in the morning until you have taken some thing, such as a plate of oatmeal porridge, or a cop of coffee or tea, with some bis cuits or toast. 7. If subeequent'y during the voyage the sea should become utiuan ally rough, go to bed before getting sick. THE CACHE. —According to the Pall Mall Gazelle there exnU in England u widespread suspicion that there in om<- hidden reason for the accidents which arc now constantly occtirring to British ves sel*, and especially to iron-e'ads. Offi cer after officer is reprimanded or dis charged, but still the iron-clads |x*rniet in capsizing, dritting on rocks, or run ning on shore. Lord Clarence Paget at tributes these disasters to orders of the Admiralty, which restrict the use of the engines in order to savg coal; since with 'out steam power the vessels are not safe when near land or each other, or in had weather. Still fucb a reason as this would hardly prevent an efficient com mander frorti using coal enough to save his boat in time of danger, and further explanations are deemed desirable. THE SIMPLE TBCTH.— A gentleman was staying at a country house, when, hear ing a great clatter below one morning, he looked oat and saw a couple of grooms holding one of the servuut mauls on s horse, which they led with difficulty once round the yard. Ho asked them what it all meruit. " Well, you see, sir," said they, " we're going to take the bonse to market to be sold, and we want ! to be able to say he has carried a lady," VENTRE II V 1.1.. CENTRE CO., I'A., I'RIOAY, JUNE 7. 1872. Varieties in Fashions. Some of the newly imported batiste costumes are making their appeumuce in fragmentary state, says a New York fashion j.uirna), being used us frill* ami flouncing* U |Hilt costumes of silk. i'hey are s cuttingly combined with the *iik, that ocecnuuot cry out against the in novation, and especially not when the furore seems universally to be for nov elt v. Dolly Varvleti is rushing headlong to her fate. A fresh dress exhibited m the shop*. t tperraluof untold colors, with a Imrderiug still more brilliant, and a fringe eotilhitring all the shade*. An other noveltv in this department of ma terials i* • D. V. cost una with a deep ecru plaiting on a ground of bright chintz, the parasol being made to match the Guipure laces of the name shade a* tie dress material are among the novel ties of trimmiug, and a great deal of white silk guipure is appropriated also. This, hewever, t* never aecn in the street, though very dressy toilettes for carriage-visiting and receptions, are of black silk trimmed with black lace over wh to. I'nrurtoN of plum-bins, almost black, arc very rich, are among the favorite* o( thi< nciutiiu Thews have bamboo lmuilK't, with carved tups of itofj nr buui beautiful |w>louitiw> of er*]><>!tH of white, huff, and the" sifter tint* of wni hrowu. are being made to wear over half worn skirts of black silk. These are trimmed with of silk or with bia* folds of the material, bordering with a deep flue fringe resembling that on Can ton crape shawl*. Some very graceful toilettes for spring are ot taurine rloth, trimmed with alter nate folds of p/i*-e* of the tamise, and a light quality of black silk. Theaa ca tiimes are readily adapted to the street by uddiug a little fichu cape correspond ing to the dress, such capes being very becoming to slight figures. Jet begins to mark many of tha im ports 1 trimmings, and is particularly conspicuous on co-tome* intended for half-moiiruiug. On imported dresses, many of the richest trimming exhibit jets, always of the uutl cut bead kind ; and ornaments for out door costumes, ire brilliant with fine jat* ia / tu men t*nr. Very dreiwv polonaises, made with al ternate length-wide rows of French em broidery and Valenciennes lace, are In itig prepared fut summer wearing. Over silk bodies these arc showy, but by no means economical, as nobody but a pro fessional can do the laundry work* upon toilette* so elaborate, and so full of seam* to be straightened in the uiost careful manner. The greenish gray material seen in the shops, and called *" natural flax," i honored with much lalnir to bring it out. It* fvwt trimming i* aguiptire lace, corresponding a* near as may be to the shade, but very dressy coat nine* are pro eared by branding upon it with the Clrover machine, when the work re sembles thu imported tambour embroid ery seen upon eijieuaivo toilettes of batiste. A few ladies are affecting bouse shoe* of tbe shape of the "croquet shoe,'' hut matching the dress in color. These button up at the si Is. after the maimer of a walking shoe, curtailed, but are not an improvement on anything previously introduced. Some of the handsomest robes to be taken to the at-a shore, w here dump* and fogs will intrude, are of fine white ihtuncl, beautifully embroideredor braid ed with shaded colors, or in solid blue, •carlet or lavender. E>r young ladies, thene are made in polonaise *hn|>c, and for whomsoever it may concern, they are lady-like, promising not a little be sides as to eumfort. .Stephen Allen'* Pocket Piece. ! In the pcckelhook of Hon. Stephen Allen, who was dr<>wed on board the i Henry Clay/ was found a printed slip i apiwrentlr out from a newspaper, of i which the following is a copy. It is . worthy to he put in every ucw*pa]>er and engraved on every young mail's . j hen rt : [ Make few promises. Always speak thegruth. Never speak evil of any one. Keep good company or none. > | I, ve up to your engagements. . Never play st any game of ehanco. Drink no'klnd of intoxientins liquors, i Good character is l.ove ail things . J else. i i Keep your own secrets, if you have I any. 1 Never borrow if you cau possibly help it. ! Do not marry until you ore able to i support a wife. I Keep yourself innocent if you would r lie happy. r When you speak to a person look him iu the face. Make no haste to be rich if you would proper. Ever live (misfortune excepted) within I your income. ( Save when you are young to *i>end when you are old. ' Avojd t mptation, through fear jou > may not withstand it. Never run into debt unless you see a t way to get out again, f Small aud steady gains give compe s teney with a tranquil mind, t Good company and good conversation > are the sinews of virtne. Your character cannot ho essentially t injnred except by your own acta. > If any one speaks evil of you, let your I I life be so that no one will believe him. • When you retire to bed, think over ? what you have boon doing during the i day. Never be idle ; if your hands can't be employed usefully, attend to the culti . vat ion of your mind. z Head over the above maxims carefully and thoroughly at least once every week. SCMMKR SHOES.—The fashionable shoe for summer promenader*, say* A New York fa-liion journal, is the buttoned boot of French kid. cut three-quarter* high, with toe* almost square, and comfortable heel* only an inch high. They are made simple and plain, without ornamental -titcliing, depending for beauty on their ay ininetrical shape and fine material. The high curved French heel ha* disappeared, and broader *hoea begin to supersede the narrow shank that threw all the weight forward on the toe Joints, and produced painful corns and bunion*. Sometimes, byway of ornament, a bow of ribbon 1* placed at the top of the shoe in front. I'uinp fox boots, with nppers of very soft light kid, ere nlso in vogue. From 80 to Si 4 is the range of prices for custom made boots ; 81 to 88 for shoes tn stock not made to order. For country wear is the garden shoe, a low buskin tied over the instep like the brogans worn by gen tletuen. This is similar to the Newport tie of last summer. It is made of kid or morocco, and costs 85 or 86. The Marie Antoinette slipper is still retained for the house. The rosette worn with it is long and slender, made of small shells of satin, with a jet buckle in the center. WOOL. —The statistics of wool growing for tbe last ten years in the United States show some enrious fluctuations. In 1861 the home production of wool was esti mated at 55,000,000 pounds; in 1868 it was 155,000,000 pounds ; in 1871 it feh to 128,000,000 pounds, the smallest pro duet since 1865. A limning Ship. (Hi. that Nieht! can I ever forget it ? The lire was spurting from every ore* ice of the black hull, her great mainmast gone, the luit/.i-u moat lying with several great white sail* surging about iu the water, mid *hu wit* dragging it along with her. The foremast only stood, and its rigging and sail* had not yet caught A dead silt nee had succeeded uow to the couimotion in the vessel ; men were standing stock still, perhaps waiting for their orders, and my uncle** were the only eyes Unit were not strained to follow the leaping and dazzling spire* iu their an net. Every moment we approached. Now the first waft of the smoke came in our face*, now we could hear s cracking and rending, the creak and shiver, aud the peculiar roaring noise made by £ master ing fire. "A full-rigged ship," I heard Brand whisper to his wife. " Eleven hundred tons st the least." " Merciful heaven* 1" she whispered in reply. "I bone he won't blow up. Anyhow, 1 thuult the Lord that we've got Mtster iu command himself." 1 never aaw anything like the horrible bounty of that red light. It added tenfold to the terror of the toeoe to see her eomitig on so ui*j>-srically, dragging with her broken spar* and greet yartl* and sprawl ing sail*. She looked like some splendid live creature in dwtrea*, and rooked new a good deal iu the water, for every mo ment the wind seemed to ri*e, bringing up a long swell with it. The moon went down, and iu a few minutes the majestic shin supplied all the light to the dark aky and black w*ter. 1 saw the two little dark boat* iicartng her, knew that my brother was in the fore most, and shook with fear, and cried to God to take eerwof him ; but while I and all gaz*aiia, they spread themselves out like quivering fan*. 1 •i* e\cry aarl that was left in au iuttant bathed in flame* ; a second burnt came raging up from Iclow, blackening ami shriveling everything before it; then I raw the weltering fire run down again, and at ill the w reck, plunging her bows in the water, came rocking aud reeling on and on. •• How near does our old man mean to go f" whisjiered Mr*. Brand ; and almost at thai iu-tant I observed that be hod given some order to the man at the helm, and I could distinctly bear a murmur of satisfaction; then almost directly a cry of horror arose— wo were very near her, and while the water hissed with strange distinction, and stesmed in her wake, her blazing foremast fell over the- side, plunging with a tremendous crash into the sea, sending up dangeruns shower* of sparks and burning bit* of wail cloth, and covering our decks with falling Un der. The black water took in and quenched all that blazing tophamper, and still the awful bissiug waa audible, till suddenly, a* we seemed to be sheering off from her, there was a thunderous roll that sounded like the breaking of her mighty heart, and still glorious in twauty she plunged head foremost, and went down blazing into the desolate sta in one iusiaut that raging glow and all the flerre illumiuntiou of the fire was gone ; darkne** bad si-tiled on tbe fw.-e of the deep. I saw a few lighted sparks floating abmt, that was all ; and I smelt tbe firs and felt Hie hot smoke rushiug past my face aa the only evidence that this was not a dream. - Frum / ih* SktUiq*, by Jem lapr/ow. A Lirru Too ViomasT. There is a man in Derbv, Pa , who purchased a bulldog, which he proposed to turn loose m bia store at night in order to scare sway the burglars. The first evening after he obtained possession of the ani mal. he locked it in the store and went away* a hsppy man. The noit morning, early, he w eut round to the store and unlocked the door. The dog was vigi hurt—the man was amp. i*ed to see how very exceedingly diligent that dog was —for no sooner was the door opened than the dog aeitod its owner by the leg, suddenly, and scenic 1 bo te ani mated by an earnest and vigorous reso lution not to let go until it had removed at least one good mouthful. And the man pushed the dog lmck and shut the d<>or on its ril*t until the animal relaxed its jaws, and then the man kicked the dog into the store nnd shut the door M if he was in a lmrry to do something. Then lie susjiended business for a week, and Hjx'iit the vacation tirinff at that dog through the window* ami down tb. chimneys and tip through the cellar ceil ing, with a shot gun, trying to extermi n.itc him. And that mercantile estab lishment did not open for trade until the man had paid twice the first cost of the dog to the dog's former owner to come nnd take it home; and then, when he got in, he found that during the bombardment holes had been shot through mackcntl barrels and molasses cans, nnd coal oil kegs, so that there was misery and ruin everywhere. Dogs bar# no more cbanus for this man. Oanprsrso.—l would recommend to every man, especially in the autumn of his life, to take to gardening, if he has not already experienced it* pleasure*. Of all occupations in the world it h the one which l>est combines rejwwe and ac tivity. It i not idtenc *s ;it is not Mag nation ; nnd yet it is ierfect quietude. Like all thinga mortal il baa its failures ami its disappointment#, and there sre some things hard to understand. But it is never without it# reward), and per haps if there were nothing but success ful cultivation, the aggregate enjoyment would be leas. It is belter for the oc casional shadows that come over the acme. The discipline, too, ia most sal utiry. It tries onr patience and it tries our faith. But even in the worst of sen sou# there ia lnr more to reward and en courage than to dishearten and disap point. There is no day in the year without something to afford tranquil pleasure to the cultivator of fiuwera, something on which the miud may rent with profit and delight.— CornhtJl Alaga tint. LAC*.— ln manufacturing the finest kinds of Brussels lace, the thread used is of exquisite fineness, and is spun in dark underground rooms, where Ihe air i* sufficiently moist to prevent the thread from separating. It i* oo delicate as Hcareelely to be seen, and the rooms arc so arranged that all the light admitted shall full upon the work. It is such ma terial that rebders the genuine Brussels ground so costly. • On a piece of Valen ciennes not two inches wide, from two to three hundred bobbins are sometimes used, and for a larger width, ns many as eight hundred on the aame pillow. Ar ULTIUUTEL MILK More than 75,000 quarts of water are daily sold an adulte ration in milk in New York city, according to a prominent journal there, at a positive loss in money of nearly, if not quite, ten thousand dollars a day, and incalculable cost of health and life. Pleasant word* ootne bubbling up in good-uaturr d heart like water in a spring. It is as easy to speak them as it i* to breathe, and they make every one bap pier who utters them. A Best Virginia Hurler. The major presented mo to Doctor Didiwick, a red headed, stuttering eccen trie individual, ah,, waa going up toward Yeokem's on a professional tour, and would rule with u*. Tin* wasfortuuate, as the road we contemplated traveling waa very ulnwure mid difficult, and the country not au agreeable oue to gat lost in. The doctor alse counseled ns to pro vide against all contingencies ou to-inwr row's journey; so we ordered our hostess to have prepared a ham, a sack of bis cuit, and some bottlea ot cold tea—this last, by the way, a most excellent bever age for wayfaring people. Aft-r upier, hearing a mighty aud continuous thumping in the direction of the kiU-lieu, i thought it advisable to look iu and give some special directions about the biscuit, w hicfi should lie well lien ten and thoroughly baked to prevent their getting mouldy. • Opening a door, 1 stepped out ou the back porch, aud to my astonishment, caught the doctor pelting and pounding at a bach of dough. Tiie dough looked rather dark, to be sure, and the doctor slightly embarrassed; but, not to be cer emonious, 1 said—" Really doctor, tills is very considerate iu you to make the biscuits for us vouraeli." " What b-b-b-bia uit?" he stuttered mirjiri-ed and offended. "Uo to the c-c-c-cook. I'm making blue-pills for my patient* to morrow " ""Iu the name of JSirulapiu*, how wauv do vou make at a lime ?" "Ob," stud he, "a p-p-p peck, more or less. Practice in these meunletu* i* different from your city practice. I make my ronnd* only one* * mouth, and it take* a week's riding through, so that 1 have to-provision a whole district to last until 1 come again." In the morning we were on tlia road berime*, all in fine spirit* exo*pt Cock ney, who was not a little sore from yes terday's ride, but did hi* beet not to miud it Tha country was wild and rugged enough, but more jntmlous thsn we had iu.agisod. Tha doctor calhsl at every h. ate transportation so wet), five it grest value Tbe orange grower ha* at lrat tire months in which he may market his crop, and Loe An teles oranges have been sent to Boston, overland, and arrived in good order TERMS : Two Dollars a Year, in Advance. English Criminal*. lu Hi* criminal court* of London it i* th prat-lire logical mercifully with new offender*, ami *crj severely with those who hate undergone numerous enuvie tin. The tuau in the dock who *iand* up to receive hi* aenteno* for an offence which, if be ia not known, will ensure him ail or aeven month*' airnple impriaonmeat, gete instead of this mild punishment a* many year*' |*enal aervituda if it ia *hown that lie haa frequently made hie appear ance in the character of a criminal. The important-* to tha magi*tratea of being ahte to produce legal evidence that old offender* brought before ihein had suffer ed under previous sentence* haa led to the introduction ot a new claa* ot court offi cer*, known aa identifying warder*. The** are mm employed a* turnkeys in the different Jail* of I-ondn, who make it their business to keep a record of the criminal hiatory of every convict who cornea under their charge. They not only make it a point to impret* on their mem ory the featureeof all criminal* committed to priaon, hut they have adopted a *y*tem of bookkeeping by double entry, with rogue* for the item* of tlteir account, to aid them in the work of identification. When a prisoner ha* been convicted the identifying warder *tep* into the vrituea* bit* to testify to hi* previous record...The warder'* firt care i*to remenilier the face of hi* mm; the neat to recollect one ot the aliaae* of the owner. Any one will do, for a reference to a single alia* i* a ref erence to all. The wrarder'e book ia then opened at the name, and be baa before him the nr.lira career ol the pri#ooer, if the latter t* a habitual criminal. Then the warder infuim* the Court, for exam ple, how John Jone* begun at twelve year* ot age by dealing a book from a stall; how at fourteen, under the name of Smith em, he had been convicted of picking pocket*; bow *t sixteen, • MeDeraoU, be had advaured to robbery with violence; and at twenty-one, was the WtUiam Wil son * ho, with other*, helped to dear out a jeweller's shop. Thus tlie warder read* off the record of the man* crime*, the particular* of hi* various imprisonment*, and * description of the mark* on hi* per son, with such other detail* s* can add to th* certainly of identification. These | criminal record* are kept in the mod **•- lernatic manner, and are of great value in a citv where the criminal population i* mi extensive that iti* impossible for the mag Utrate* to retain in their recollection more than a email proportion of the offender* brought b*fore them. At times, hower tr, the warder*, with all the assistance bat their record* afford, are mistaken in their conclusion* in reUtion to indentity. It ia related that on one occasion * man who wa* a new offender wa* very nearly confounded with a very old one. They bore the same name, and what wa* more strangw, bad the MUM personal mark*. Mrange*t ot *ll. on the wune day on which lb# c*w man wa* to receive a sentence of transportation, principally on account of the evil record of hi* double, the real old offender turned up in tb same court, on a similar charge, just iu time to save the other. The Orange Brave. Sixty orange trees are commonly plant ed to the acre write* a correspond cot from the orange field*of Lo Angela* California They may be safely transplanted at three or even foor years, if care ia osed to keep the air from th roots. They grow from seed; and it i* believed that grafting doe* not change or improve the fruit. It be gin* to bear in from six to eight years from the sen), and "yields a crop for mar ket at ten years. With good thorough cul ture and irrigation, ll ia a healthy tree; if it i* negl-cted, or if the gopher has gntwed iu roots, the scale insect appears; hat a discs ed tree is very rarely seen In the orchards. It is a tretnendou* bearer. At l*w Angelas ! eaw two trees in an or chard, one 17 years old, from which 2.800 oranges bad been picked, and it still con tained a -few; - tbe other, three years younger, had yielded t,OOO oranges. At f-om 10 to 12 year* from the seed the tree usually bear* 1,000 oranges and they are selling now in San Francisco fiw from |ls to f35 per 1.000. I have mti-fied mvself, by examination of nearly all the (.string orchards in tha Southern coun ties, and my comparing the evidence of their owners, that at 15 years from the *ecd, or 12 year* from the planting of three year old trees, an orange orchard which has been faithftilly cared for. and is favorably situated, will bear sn average of 1,000 orange* tq the tr a, Thi* would give, at #2O per 1.000-a low average—a product of $1,200 per acre. One mn ran care for 20 scree of *uch an orchard: and every other expense, it eluding picking, boxes, shipping, and commissions in San Francisco is covered by 05 per 1,000. The net profit per acre would, therefore, be a trifle leas than 8900. To show yon that this ia not an overstatement, I will tell yoa that I have been in au orchard of less than nine acres, which has produced it# owner for eeveral year# in succession a clear profit of over fS.OOO. An orchard of 40 acres in Us Angvles is reported to me to bring a clear rent of tlfi.OdO per annum; and the lessee is believed to Lave made a fortune ftw himself. You will probably talieva after all, that I have . xafgvrated the profits of th s buslne#*, but the orange-growers of Los Angvles will smile at the extreme moderation ot my statement " People tell large stories about oranges," a#id one such man to me; *• but the truth is big enough— at 10 or 12 years trees may be aafvly counted on to average 510 jse i clear profit, *.ith g the bar***' trot; With dia tha 1 1111 l lin or etdBTJ Star* . And mains Hka this wash a*? da# 'spa- There i* a Methodist church which ' stands on the. 'boundary fin* 'batsmen <>bio and fronaylnMste. in* sdeh away • thai the pulpit la ia the former Mate sad the pews hi the lariat A ffawpsylvaais i (taper thereupon takes occastoc to state j that while the bearemsrs in one State | the preacher is in another State discours ing on the future State. A Detroit black lwar got loose the oth er day, and cautiously approaching a 'man loaning again*! a hitchipg !**. rose np and gave him a hug. Thinking it to be a man. he cried out: ** What are yo doing there? Ota off m* 'beck, or I'll knock yon into the middle of next week!" Be'waa greatly •♦moved" when be found out who the man was, and stood not upon the orde* of his going. A Fans*, Faros Swam.—An extraor dinary branch of promise case ha* been tried in England The plaintiff was a young lady of twenty-three, Mdawgktar of a respectable widow lady. The defen dint was a farmer, aged twenty-nine. The peenliaritv of the suit was that it waa brought, not for the braeek Of a single promise to many, bet fartaeMuf on# promise and afterward making another and breaking the!also. The fieatengage ment wm made ia Wtt. While tbia en gagem-ot existed, the ptaatiff was one .lav startled ly the intelligence that the oefaadant had actnafiv married another young lady. She submitted quietly to this treatment until the fottewmg year, wheo the wife of -the defatfdart died. After the tepee of several metrtb* his at tentions to the plaintiff were renewed, and die, woman like, forgave him bw former treachery, and they, became su gared a second time. After, a while the defendant again relapsed from his devo tion to rim plaintiff, and finally married another. She now sought th* inimffieient * redrew for wounded affections to be af- . t forded by a court of inrtie*. and the jury pave her a verdict of #3.too—mote, we think, than each a fickle fellow would have been worth as a husband, although a very poor oonrotetiou for her disappoint- meat Turn WOBLB'S Pairs -Jtaiusa.—This memorable event in the musical world, in spite of the recent destruction of a part of the Coliseum, is now decidedly fixed to take place at the time originally specified; everything bwng already so far advanced a* to warrant i public an nouncement to that effect. It tibow defi nitely arranged that the festival will open on June 17th. to last tilUuly4th. and lost the grand JuHitee ball is n* take-place on the 2