Where b Hm t
Inh it whsrs affection Mad
Auntie hearts ia uniaa ;
Where the voleee all are kind.
Holding sweat en turn onion.
Home in where the heart can rent
Safe from darkening eorrow,
Where the friends we lore the beet
brighten every morrow t
Home ia where the friendn that love
To oar hoartn are given;
Where the blessing from above
Poretaatea are of heaven!
Tee, Hia home where amilee of cheer
Wreathe the howa that greet at;
had the one of ail mott dear
Ever somas to meet u!
The Bay and his Angel.
Oh. mother IVe been with an angel to-day,
I waa oat alt alone in the foreet to play,
Chasing the butterflies, watching the lwe.
And hearing the woodpecker lapping the tree* ;
8o I played and I pla,ved till s* weary 1 grew,
I sat down to real in the shade of a yew,
While thi bird* sang *o sweetly, high up in the
top.
I bafcl my breath, mother, for fear they would
stop.
Thus a long while I sat looking p to the sky.
Ami watching the eloads that went hurrying
by.
When I heanl a voice calling, just over my
head.
That sounded as if "Come, Oh brother fit said;
And there right up over the top of the trtw,
Oh mother an angel waa baokNiing to me.
And, •'brother, once more aowc. Oh brother,*
he cried.
An.l flew on tight piuione e'oee down by my
Slide!
Anil mother Oh, never was being so light,
A* the one which then beamed on my wonder
ing sight.
His flee was as fair as the delicate shell.
His hair down his shoulder* tn fair ringlet* frU,
While his eye* resting on me so melting with
tore.
Were a* soil and as mild aa th<y>ys of • dove ;
And somehow dear mother I frh not afraid,
As his hand on my own he caressingly laid.
And whispering eo softly and *o gently to me,
"Come brother, the angel* are waiting for
thee!"
And then on my forehead he tenderly pressed
Such kisses. Oh mother, they thrilled through
bt breast
A* swiftly as lightning leaps down from on high
When the chariot of God rod* along the black
•ky;
While hi* breath floating "round mo wa* soft a*
the breexe
That played in my troves and rustled the trees.
At last on my head a deep blessing he poured.
Then plumed hi* bright pinions, upwards he
soared;
And wp, up he went through the bine sky so
fkr,
He seemed to float there hke a glittering star ;
Tet stil! my < yea followed his radiant flight.
Till lost in the am re he passed from my sight.
Then Oh how 1 feared as I caught the !at gleam
Of his vanishing form, it was only a dream '
When soft voices whispered ocoo more from
the tree,
"Come brother the angola are waiting for j
thee I"
Oh pale grew the mother and heavy her heart, ;
Tor she knew her fair boy from this world must .
depart.
That his bright locks most fade in the dust of
the tomb.
Ere th" sntamn winds withered the summer's
rich bloom.
Oh, how his young footsteps she watch'd day '
by day,
As his delicate form wasted slowly away.
Till the soft light of Heaven seemed died o'er
his face.
And he crept up to die in her loving embrace.
"Oh, elasp me dear mother, close, close to
your breast,
On that gentle pillow again let me rest.
Let me gaxe np once more to that dear loving
And thaw Oh, me thinks I can willingly die. 1
Sow kiss me dear mother! Oh quickly, for
see—
The bright blessed angels are watting for me ' !
Oh wild waa the anguish that swept through
her breast
As the long frantic kiss on his palo lips she
pressed.
And felt the vain anarch of las soft pteadir.g
*7*.
As it strove to meet her'e ere fhe fair bov should
die,
" I see you not dear mother, for darkness and
night
Are hiding your dear loving face from my eight.
But T bear your low nabbing*, -dear mother
good bye.
The angels are ready to bear me on high!
I will wait for yon there.—but Oh.tarry notkmg,
Lest grief at your absence should sadden my
song."
He ceased, with his hands meekly clasped on
his breast
And his sweet face sank down on its pillow of
rest;
Then closed his eyes, row all rayba* and dim.
Went np with the angels that waited for him.
THE O*E DOLLAR BILL.
How it did rain that November night!
Nooe of jour undecided aliovren, with
hesitating intervals, as it were between;
none of jour mild persistent pattering* on
the roof, but a regular tempest, a wild de
luce, a rush of arrjwr drops and a thunder
of opening flood*!
Squire Parflet heard the angry rattle
against the easements, and drew Lis sung
easy chair a little closer to the flre^—a
great open mass of glimmering anthracite
—and gazed with a sort of sleepj. reflcc
trre satisfaction at fbe crimson moreen
curtains, and the graj cat fat asleep on
the hearth, and the canarr bird rolled into
a drowsj ball of jellow down on it* percb.
u This is snug." oooth the Squire. " I'm
glad I had that leaky spot in the barn roof
fixed last week. I don't object to a stormy
night once in awhile when a fellow's under
cover, and there's nothing particular to be
done, Marj!"
" Yes," Mrs. Partlet answered. She was
flitting about, between kitchen and sitting
room, with a great blue checked apron tied
round her waist. "I'm neirlv ready to
come in now, Josiab. Now, I wonder,"
untio voce, "if that was reallj a knock at
the door, or just a little extra rush of the
wind and rain."
She went to the door, nevcrthelras, and
a minute or two afterwards she went to
her husband's cbair.
" Joe. desr. it's Luke Ruddiloves" she
said, half apprehensively. The Squire
never looked up from bis paper.
" Tell bim he's made a mistake. The
tavern is on the second corner beyond.''
" But he wants to know i( you will lend
" him a dollar!" said Mrs. Partlet.
" And couldn't jyu have told him, No,
without the preliminary ceremony of com
ing in here to ask me 7 It is likely that I
shall lend a dollar or even a cent to Luke
Ruddilove? Why, I had a great deal
better throw it among yonder red coals!
No—of course, No T'
Mrs. Partlet hesitated.
"He looks so pinched and cold and
wretched, Josiab. He says there's nobody
in the world to let him have a cent."
" All the better for him. if be did but
know it," sharply enunciated the Squire.
" If he had come to just that patch half a
dozen years ago, perhaps he wouldn't have
been the miserable vagabond hs is now."
"We used to go to school together."
said Mrs. Partlet, gently. "He was the
smartest boy in the class."
"That's probable enough," said the
Sqnire. " But it don't alter the fact that
he's a poor, drunken wretch now. Send him
about his business, Mary; and if bis time
is of any consequence, just let him know
that be had better not waste it coming
here after dollars."
And the Squire leaned back in his chair
after a positive fashion, as if the whole
matter was definitely settled.
Mrs. Partlet went back to the kittben,
where Luke Ruddileve was spreading bis
poor thin fingers over the blaze of fire, his
tattered garments steaming as if he was a
pi'lar of vapor.
" He won't let you have it, Luke,.' said
she. " 1 thought he wouldn't."
" Then I've got to starve, like any other
dog !" said Luke Ruddilove, turmngmoodi
ly away. " And, after all, I don't suppose
it makes much difference whether I shuffle
out of the world to-day or to morrow!"
f Ob, Luke -not to your wife T'
FRED. KURTZ, Editor and Proprietor,
VOL. V.
" She'd be better ofl' without me," naid
Luke, down-heat teilly.
" but she ought uot to lie.''
" Ought and is are two different thing*,
Mrs. Part let. Good night. I ain't going
to the tavern, though I'll wager something
? the Squire thought I was."
* And isn't it natural enough he should
i think so Luke
j M<w -yen, Marv ; 1 don't say out what
it is,'' murmuted l.uke Huddtlovc. in the
same dejected tone he had u*eil through -
out the interview.
"Stop!" Mr*. Partlet called to him, as
his hand lay on the door latch, in a low
voice. " Here's a dollar, l.uke. Mr. Partlet
gave it to me tor a new piece ot oilcloth in
front of the dining room stove, but I'll
try Slid make the ohl one do a little while
1 longer. And l.uke, for the sake of old
times—lor the sake of your poor wile and
the little ones at home—do, do try to do
better.'*
Luke Kuddilove looked vacantly first at
| the fresh, new- bank bill in his baud, and
then at the blooming young matron who
i had placed it there.
"Thank you, Mary," he said, and crept
out of the wanu, bright kitcheu into the
! storm and darkness that reigned without.
Mrs. Partlet stood looking iuto the kitchen
fire.
"I dare say I've done a very foolish
thing," she pondered ; •* but indeed 1 could
not heh> it. Of coarse he'll spend it all at
the public house, and I shall do without
my new oilcloth; that will be the cud ot
it all.
And there was a conscious flush on her
cheek, as if she had done something wrong,
whan she rejoined the Squire in the sitting
room.
" Well," said Squire Partlet, " has that
ne'er do well gone at last ?"
"Yes.'
"To Stokes' tavern, 1 suppose ?"
'• I hope not, Josiab."
I'm afraid it's past hoping for," said the
Squire, shrugging his shoulders. " And
now for a pleasant eveniug. How it doe*
rain, to be sure."
And Mrs. Partlet kept the secret of the
dollar bill within her own heart.
It was six months afterwards that the
Squire came into the room where his wile
was preserving great red apples into jelly.
" Well, well." quoth he, " wonders never
will cease. The Knddiloves have gone
awav,"
"Where?'
" I don't know—out West somewhere,
with a colony. And they say Luke hasn't
touched a drop in six month*.
'• I'm glad of that," said Mrs. Partlet.
"It won't last long," said the Squire,
despairingly.
"Why not?"
" Oh, I don't kuow. I haven't auy faith
in these sudden reforms."
Mrs. Patriot was silent; she thought
thankfully that, after all, Luke had not
spent the*dollar in liquor.
Six months—six years—the time sped
along, iu davs and weeks, almost before
busy little Mrs. Partlet knew that it was
gone. The Ruddiloves had come back to
Sequosset. Luke had made bis fortune, a->
the story weo in the far away El Dorado,
vaguely phrased "out Weat"by the sim
ple Sequosseters.
, '* They do sav," said Mrs. Buckingham;
" that he's unight that ere lot down op
posite the Court House, and he's goin' ta
: build such a house as never was.'"
■' He must have prospered greatly," said
gentle Mrs. Partlet.
a And his wife, she wears a silk gown
that will stand alone with it's own rich
ness," said Mrs. Buckingham. " I can re
member when Luke ltuddilove was noth
ing but a poor drunken erector."
" All the more credit to bim new," said
Mis. Partlet emphatically.
a It's to be sure all o' stun," said Mrs.
Buckingham, "with marble mantles and
inlaid floors. And he's put a lot o' papers
and things under the corner one."
"The corner what!" uid Mrs. Harriet,
laughing.
" Floor or mantle 7"
" Mun, to be sure," said Mrs. Bucking
ham. "Like tbev do ia public buildings,
you know."
" That is natural enough."
" Well, it's kind o' tjueer, but Luke
Ruddileve never wan't like anybody else.
Folks thinks it's dreadful strange be should
i put a one dollar bill in with other things."
Mrs Partlet felt her cheek flush scarlet;
involuntarily she glanced up to where the
Squire was serenely checking ofTa list of
legal items in the bill he was making out
against some client. But the Squire never
looked around, and Mis. Buckingham went
or. with her never-ceamg flow of ch't chat,
and so tbe hot color died away in her cheek.
After all, the money nad been her own to
give, and the old ode! th in front of the
diniog room stove bad answered very well.
She met Luke Ruddilove that afternoon
for the first time since bis return from Se
qnosaet— Luke himself, yet not himself—
the demon of intemperance crushed out of
bis nature, and it's Utter, nobler elements
triumphing at last. He looked her brightly
in the face, and he held out Lis hand.
•* Mary."
u I am glad to sec you hack here again,
Luke," she said, tremulously.
" And well you may be," ha rejoined.
'* Do you remember that stormy night,
Mary, when you gave roe that dollar bill,
and begged me not to go to the tavern 1"
" Yes."
"Thatoipbt was the pivot on which my
whole destiny turned. You were kind to
me when erery one spoke coldly ; you
trusted in me when ad other faces wore
averted. I vowed a vow to myself to prove
worthy of your confidence and I kept if.
1 did not spend the money—l treasured it
up—and Heaven lias added mightily to my
little atore. I put tbe dollar bill under the
corner stone of my new house, for the
house Las risen from it an 1 it alone. I
won't offer to pay you back, for 1 am afraid," j
he added, smilingly, " the luck would all j
fiom me with it; btrt I'll tell vou what ,
will do, Mary. 1 will give money ami
wordj of trust and encouragement to some
other poor wretch, as you gave to me."
And Squire Partlet never knew what his
wife did with tbe dollar bill he gave her to
buy a new piece of oilcloth.
A LOT or Sens.—Some astronomer*
bave computed that there are no less than
75,000,000*uns in the universe. The fixed
stars are all suns, and have, like our sun,
numerous planets revolving around them.
The solar system, or that to which we be
long, has about thirty planets, primary
and secondary,belonging to it. The circular
field of space which it occupuiesis in di
ameter 3,600,000,000 of miles, and that
which it controls is much greater. That
sun which is nearest neighbor to ours is
called Sinus, distant from our sun 22,000,-
1000,000 of mile*.. Now, if the fixed stars
are a* distant from each other as Sirius is
from our sun, and if the solar system he
the average magnitude of the systems of
75,000,000 of suns, what imagination can
grasp the immensity of creation 7 Every
sun of the 75,000 000 controls a field of
space of aliout 10,000,000 of miles in di
ameter. Who can survey a plantation con
taining 75,000.000 circular fields, each of
them 10,000,0Q0 miles in diameter 7 Such,
however, is one of the plantations of Him
who ha* measured the water in the hollow
of His hand, and meted our heaven with a
span, and comprehended the dust of the
earth in a measure, weighed the moun
tains in scales, and the hills in a balance;
Him who, sitting upon tho orbit of the
earth, stretches out the heavens as a cur
tain, and spreadeth tbem out as a tent to
dwell in!
A Terre Haute, Ind., professional
ehe;p-shearer says that he has not seen
such line fleeces in the lost fifteen years
as this year's clip abows.
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
The Anti-Jewish Riot.
A orree|>onlent of the llmiltl
writing from Smyrna, says: "We have
passed through a week of great ciclta
meat and anxiety at Smyrna. A few
daya ago the report flew around the town
that the body of a poor Christian child
of four yearn of age wan lying exjHvaed at
thetireek hospital, who had been tortured
and murdered by a band of ferfteiooi ran
uibal Java, who, it ws* declared, required
the blood of a Christian eh 114 a* a sacri
fice every year at their Passover. 1 at
ouce proceeded to the Greek Hospital, an
upwarxl of 10,000 people had done before
me and, on inquiry of the surgeon found
that the death ol the child had bei-u one
of accidental drowning.
On expressing my surprise that such a
: melodramatic sort of exhibition should
: be made over the body, the crowd being
! admitted iu immense cumbers to Inspect
i and overhaul the remains, 1 was assured
that there was no other way of counteract
ing the effect of the fable in circulation,
and persuading the excited populace that
the child had been simply drowned and
not pat to death by torture. Even a* it
was, the worthy surgeon expressed his
fear that the fanaticism ot the mob would
lead to serious results, and his apprehen
sion, unfortunately was too speedily ami
sadly realized. A fearful ouset was made
u|>on the Jews that very day. in vain
did the priests from the church pwlpit*
and elsewhere proclaim the truth, and as
sure the people that the child had simply
met it* death by drowutug. Everv Jew
met with was horribly maltreated, and,
after some hours of iudicisiou, in which
it was vainly hoped that sober sense might
prevail, the excited Greek mob, with U
the rascality of the towu in itstndn, made
for the Jewish quarter, sacked the houses,
murdered the inmates, and committed
other acts of brutal atrocity. Many Jew*
at length turned upon their assailants, ami
from attacked, in self defense became at
tackers. Then the fury ot the Greek rab
ble knew- ao bounds; men were fiendishly
beaten, women wore violated, children
even were not spared, and day after day
until Wednesday was the Jewish quar
ter converted into a pandemonium of pil
lage. rape and murder. Not until then
did Hamdi Pasha, Governor of Smyrna,
and responsible for human life and pub
lic order within its walls; nut until then
did he advance the troops upon the scene
and quell the mob effectually. The ap
parent inaction of Hamdi Pasha may be
explained by the fact that on Saturday he
had only 180 soldiers in the town to make
headway against 10,000 of a fanatical and
exasperated Greek populace, whereas,
brought in hurridly from all quarters, we
have now eight full battalions of troops.
The result is that the rioters have held
their hands; the mob is kept thoroughly
in check; and lamentable as what has
occurred, you need have no fear of its re
newal.
The Bird* in Winter.
What do the bird* do in winter 7 Many,
you know go South. A* a general thing,
| winter's cold does noc seem to affect those
( that stay with us. Xhe trufli is, birds arc
j rcmarkatdy well guarded against cold by
• their thick con-ring ot down and feathers,
and the quick circulation of their blood,
i The chickadee is never so lively as in tin
s-old weather. When the thermometer is
i three or four degrees below' zero, it shows
iby its behavior that it is pretty cold. On
such a morning I have seen a small flock
of them on the sunnv side of a thick bem
i lock, rather quiet, with ruffled feathers,
like balls of gray fur, waiting, with an oc
casional chirp, for the sun's rays to warm
them up ; a little sober, perhaps, but ready,
if cold continued, to get used to it. What
Ido tbey eat 1 Our merciful Father does
not leave the earth bare. There U food
enough and to spare. Tiie seeds of lite
grasses and taller summer flowers, and the
elder*. birches and maples furnish sup
plies that the cold and snow does not de
stroy ; alo the buds of various tier* and
shrubs, for the buds do not first come in
the spring, as some people think; there are
buds all winter; there are insects, too.
A sunny nook any time during the win
ter will show you a variety of two-winged
flies, and several kinds of -piders, olien in
numbers, and as brisk a ever. Then in the
crevices of the tree bark and dead wood
there must be something nice to be bad,
judging from the activity of the chickadees,
fold-crests, ami their associates. In' the
winter no nuetjief can be done ; there Is
nofrnit to steal. Nothing ran lc destroyed
now except the farmers' enemies; vet the
birds keep at work all the time. Winter,
too, i* favorable to sociability among bird*
as among people. The chickadee the
gold-crested wren, the white-bieasted nut
batch, and the downy wood-pecker form
a little winter clique. Yon do not often ,
see one of the memliers without cne or
more of the others. No sound in nature
is more cheery than the calls of a little
troop of this kind, echoing through the
woods on a still, sunnv day in wiotcr—
the lively chatter of the chickadee, the
slender contented pipe of the golden crests,
and the emphatic, buin<**-likc hank of
the nut hatch, as they drift leisurely along
from tree to tree.
THE LOTTERY BOACTESB It is esti
mated by a person fully conversant with
| it* deteds that there are in New York
! city between fivo hundred and fifty and
| six hundred places where lottery num-
IKT* are sold. The amount of money
| daily received at these places averages
520,000 per day, or $120,000 per week,
| and for the year 50,240,000. The pro
fit* of the business, if legitimately con
ducted, would be great; as it is, they
are chimed fo be enormous. It is al
i leged that the business is now simply
fraudulent. The muni tern given out to
the various policy shops, and against
which those who invest their money
play or bet, aro supposed to be those
first drawn in the lotteries sanctioned
by the States of Louisiana and Missouri,
the results of such drawings being tele
graphed each day from the places where
the drawings are held to the principals
of the lottery business io thi* city. It
is alleged that in many instauccs those
numbers have been falsified In order to
cheat those who have wagered on the
result, and in various other ways have
the credulous gamblers been duped.
Tnre HOSPITALITY.—I pray you, oh !
excellent wife, cnmlier not yourself and
me to get a curiously rich dinDer for this
man and woman that hare alighted at
our gate ; or lied-chamber made ready
at too great a cost ; these things, if they
are curious in them, they can get for
a few nhillinga in any village; bnt
rather let this stranger see, if he will,
in your looks, accents, and behavior,
your heart and earnestness, your thought
and will, what he cannot bny at any
price in the city, what he may well travel
twenty mile*, and dine sparely, and
sleep hardly, to behold. Let not the
emphasis of hospitality, bo in bed and
board; but <.ruth, and love, and honor,
and courteny, flow in all thy deed*.—
Emerson.
HOHRIBI.E. —A pig-drover, early in tho
morning, having in vain knocked for
admittance et the doors of a public house
near the gates of the Polish town Jaros
law, at last bethought himself of looking
through one of the windows, when he
was struck by a most appalling sight.
There lay several horrildy mutilated
oorpses in a pool of blood. The landlord,
his wife, three children (the eldest of
whom is six years of age), and a maid
servant, were found in the same room,
with bleeding wounds and broken skulls.
The whole house was in a state of dis
order. Ihe perpetrators have not been
traced as yet,
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1872.
I> Till! til.l) WORLD.
Swllserlamt -The Horn* of Win. Tell
Mountain Scenery A HilUtant Iliu
luiualion, Etc., Kte.
Just before reaching Pluelen, the boat
stopped at Teli a Piatte, a ledge of rock*
at the hae of A revu berg mountain, w lure,
shaded by overhanging trees, am) a)iuet
washed by the water* of the lake, stand*
the romantic chape! of William Tel). It
Coutaitia a few rudely executed frescoes
representing acetic* from Tell'a history,
and was erected by the canton of L'ri, on
the spot where the Swiss liberator sprang
out of tiussier'* boat. About live minutes
after we left the chapel the boat stopped
at Fluelen. We there took tt carriage to
Altorf, and after a quick but dusty tide of
thirty minute* arrived at the scene of
William Tell'* world renowned exploit. It
is a very rude village, and the event that
makes it interesting b perpetuated by yet
ruder art, but the spot is not less dear to
the people and interesting to strangers,
who visit it iu crowd*. A fountain in the
middle of the town, which is surmounted
by hi* statue, marks the spot where the
hero stood wheu taking his perilous aim,
and a tower close to it covered with rough
frescoes occupies the place where the tree
grew to which he was bound.
There is also another statue of Tell,
larger than life ize, made of planter,
which fttitiuls on a pedestal a short dis
tance from the fountain. It was proscn
ted to Altorfin ltsfil by the riflemen of
Zurich. We also visited the Capuchin
Monastery above the church, and it ts
I claimed to be the most ancient of Switzer
land. After taking lunch at the hotel,
we drove back*lo Fluelen, arriving there
in time to meet the boat to Luzerne, where,
after a pleasant sail up the lake, we ar
rived about 5 p. v., thoroughly delighted
with the excursion we had made. The
following day we left Lucerne at 11.26 by
steamboat for Aipuach, where we took a
diligence for a rido over the lirunig l'as*
to Krienz on our way to iuterlaken.
After leaving Lucerne it began to rain,
and continued until we arrived at Aip
uach, when it cleared off, the sun came
out and it continued pleasant the remain
der of the day. We had secured the
" banquette," which is an outside seat
back of the diligence, and ever it was a
moveable top, that could be put on in
case of wet or hot weather. It gave us an
excellant opportunity of viewing the scene
ry without unnecessary exposure. After
a delightful day's ride through some
charming Swiss scenery, we reached
Brienz about 6 p. vi., where we took the
steamboat and crossed the lake to Gieaa
bach. After arriving at the hotel and se
curing a room, we took a walk to see the
Fall*, which are the attraction of the place.
The Falls are seven ip nttmls-r and precip- j
itate themselves from a height of 1,1 At* leet i
above the lake. One thing gives an ex
quisite charm to the Falls, and that is the
richness of the foliage and brilliant green j
of the herbage, which is owing to the con
tinued spray which prevents it Iwing burnt
or withered by the heat of the sun. In
hot weather it must be perfectly delight
ful to rest under the shadow of the lofty
trees ami enjoy the coolne** of the breeze
produced by the Falls. The landlord ot
the hotel treats his guests cv cry evening
during the season to a grand illumination
of the Falls for which we were charged
twenty cents for the first night and after
iliat there is t*> charge. While at dinner
the landlord inlormed us that if we would
go to the terrace before 9 p. vi., the Falls
wonld be lit up at that hour. We w'ere on
hand at the apixiiuted time, and when the
signal rocket flashed in the air, our sonls
were thoroughly ripeuod for the coming
wonder by those few minutes of tremb
ling expectation. The rocket flashed up
—the Bengal lights blazed out crimson,
green, purple and blue, and each of the
most beautiful shade of color. First the
dark firs and foliage on each side of the
Falls were all ablaze with light, then the
waters gleamed oat stream after stream
of the brightest of reds, the most emerald
of greens, and the lovliest shade* of violet
and bloc. I.apid end fitful the ever
changing hnc flitted up and down the suc
cessive leaps of the Falls. The effect was
magical, not to be forgotten by any one
w ho had seen it; worth seeing at tho cost
of many n dollar and ever so much trouble.
When it was over wo were all like Oliver
Twist, "asking for more." I would advise
everyone going to Switzerland if it i* pos
sible, to see the illumination of the (tie**-
bach Fall*, it is in every seme of the
word "a success," and to use a favorite
quotation, "a thing of heantv, and a joy
forever." Next morning we left by the
boat for Interlaken. and after a fine sail on
the lake arrived there at noon.
The day was cloudy, and everything
betokened a storm, and by the time we
were in onr room* in the Hotel Jnngfrau
it commenced to rain, and continued nt in
terrain during the afternoon and evening.
When we arrived, the Jnngfrau could be
seen in nil its beauty from the windows of
our room. Framed as a picture between
the monntains that come down to the
plain on either side of the valley of the
the artist has but to take
hi* place on the balcony of the Hotel Jung
frati, to find his composition ready made
to his hand. For a foreground he }>a* the
active life of the promenade, bordered
with noble trees; beyond a broad green
meadow, dotted with cattle; and beyond
that again, skirts of wood, with the smoke
of unseen dwellings curling above the
tree tops; and then the grand framework
of the mountains at the entrance of the
valley, and between them, eminence ris
iug above eminence until the line of snow
is reached; and finally the Jungfrnti, tow
ering in its shining garments to the heav
ens. It was ono of the handsomest
sights we had witnessed in Switzerland,
and the hotel Jnngfrau one ol the best we
had seen anywhere in Europe.
During the afternoon we walked through
the village stopping to look in the windows
of the different stores, nearly every one
of which is filled with Swiss carvings,
stereoscopic views, and photographs of
alpine scenery.
The remainder of the day was spent in
the hotel, the street* being to muddy for
walking, and before retiring for the night
made arrangement* for a carriage to goat
9 A.M. nest day to Grindclwald, and
Lanterbrunen, and visit the Fall* of the
Btaubbach. Hut " man propose* and
God dispose*." When wo awoke tht> fol
lowing morning the rain was falling
rapidly, and continued all the forenoon.
Seeing no prospect of it* clearing off, we
concluded to leave Interlaken, which we
did by boat at 1 P.M.
Lake Thnn is about fifteen miles long
and three miles in width. The approach
to Than is singularly picturesque. The
chateaux of the wealthy and the nobility,
some of them bsaring the marks ot centu
ries, and others constructed in the very
best style of modern architecture, are
placed in the most favorable localities,
and, a* the little steamer winds along, a
combination is presented that is really in
spiring. Thun itself is an old and roman
tic town. The appearance of one street is
very remarkable. In front of the houses
a row of shops and cellars abont ten feet
high, project; and on the fiat roof of
which is the pavement, for foot passengers,
and the approach to the shops. The west
ern portion of the town is situated on an
islet, formed by two branches of the river,
and traversed by a single street, the Ro
sengarten. By the time we had reached
Jbun the storm had ceased, the sun came
<>ut bright ami warm, ami the view of the j
mountains from the deck of the tr*mr j
was one which tor natural grandeur was
nowhere to be surpassed even in Swilier- j
land.
Prom Thou to Heme It was but a short
ride, ami by 4 r m. we were comfortably J
located in the Hole) Berner llof one of'
the tiucst in Switzerland. We had been
/rum one end of Switzerland to the other, j
and now saw, ouce more, the mighty |
mcuntaili* with which we bad become'
familiar, collected ill one grand landscape, >
before losing sight of them, |>erliap* for- j
ever. Aa in some ol the Italian eitief, the
principal street in lierue, oil the creat of j
the ridge whose base sweep* the Aar, is '
Hue 1 with an vies ; emerging from these, j
we crossed the Aar by a handsome stone
bridge fo the opposite side of the river.
Not far from the bridge is the Barengrs
ben or Hear garden, which ia a walled pit, j
sunk some twenty feet below the pave-!
tuciit, in which were several lwars, ami
around the parapet were a number of
men, women aud children watching the
animals.
The ancient Kgypliaus had not a greater
veneration for tue Ibis, than the modern
Bernese have fur the Bear, which would
seem to bo the tutelary deity, aa well aa j
heraldic emblem of the canton. Here .
Bruin iu propria pcrsewa it supported, ac
cording to immemorial usage, at the ex- j
penae of the municipality; and great ia j
the amuseiiiuul he affords by hia cumbrous
gambol*.
The architecture of the old houses Is
> most quaint and grotesque. Crossing the
; principal street is a large clock tower, in
front of which stood a crowd of people
waiting for the hour to strike A few
before five o'clock, a wooden cock
' gave the signal, by clapping its wiuga and
| crowing: a minute later, several bears
walk 'round a seated figure ; tbe cock then
repeated his signal and when the hour
>tmck five, the seated figure, an old man
with a patriarchal beard, turned an hour
glass and counted the hour by raising hit
sceptre, and o|>ening his mouth, white a
t>ear on his right inclined his head: an
odd looking figure strurk the hour on a
hell with a hammer, and the eork con
cluded the per onnar.ee by crowing for
the third time.
Near the tower was another of the
sights of Berne, known aa the Fountain
of the Ogre, or the Kindlifreeaer-Brunnen
aa it is called in German. It is a singular
looking figure, on the top of a pedestal in
the centre of the fountain, in the act of
devouring a child, while several others
doomed to the same fate protrude from
his pockets smi girdle; below the figure
is a troop of armed bears.
We stopped a few momenta at the
Cathedral, but found nothing there of any
interest. In the o|>en apace at the west
part of it we saw a fine statue of Hudulph
von Krlach, the conqueror at lau|>en, and
at the corners of it were four very healthy
looking tear*.
We had a delightful drive through the
environs, entering the river at Pont de
Wydsek. and then following the ascend
ing road on the left, to the labia land,
commanding a fine view to the north, and
stopping at Hchanz'i, where there is an
excellant cafe, from whose terrace, while
enjoying "a small bottle," we bad the
same grand view which we had from the
window* of the Bemer llof Hotel, with
the addition of the city itself as a fore
ground on the opposite bank of the river,
leaving the Sehanzli, the river was
crossed lower down, near the railroad
bridge, and after driving around the city
in ever? direction we returned to the
hotel. later in the evening we had a
charming vifw of the Bernese Alp* by
moonlight. V. M.
Fashion >ote*.
Haya a New York fashion journal:
A dainty hat of white chip, with a
carf of psde blue tulle, a rose with just
the faintest blush upon it. and a trailing
vine, which falls with the scurf at the
back, is one of the gems of the season.
Another charming little hat of Italian
straw, with a cluster of golden-headed
pansies, a hand and loops of two shade*
of pale violet ribbon, and a long scarf of
black tulle edged with Cbanliliy lace, i*
attractive enough to suit the most fasti
dious teste.
The pointed veils of black Spanish
lnco are very fashionable, and are gen
erally la-coming, which is, of conrse. the
very best reason for their ltcing la mod*.
However, the veil of real Chan till r still
holds its favor with ludies o( requisite
taste.
Two or fhti-e fichus of either black or
white Inco are now quite indi*|<ensible to
n lady's wardrobe. They form a very
heavy addition to a toilette, and may lie
made to harmonize with any dress by
the simple change of ribbon bows.
Among the novelties in suit* which
we have noticed lately is a dross of blue
silk. Upon the bottom of the skirt is
placed a very deep flounce, which flounce
is trimmed first with a narrow ruffle,
next with a bund of salniou-colorcd gui
pure insertion, above this a double box
plaiting of silk, and still another which
covers the seam where the flounce is put
on to the skirt. The polonaise of blue
silk, which is cut in the princess shape,
is trimmed with two rows of the salmon
insertion, and a deep fall of the same
colored guipure luce. A small double
tnluia, open at the baek ami trimmed to
correspond with the rest, is worn with
the polonaise. A IKIW of bine gros grain
ribbon with long ends ia placed upon the
back of the tnlmn.
A dress of foulard, striped in two
shades of grey, has the underskirt cut so
that the stripes run bias. This is trimmed
with three narrow ruffles of plain silk of
the darkest shade of gray. The polon
aise of the striped foulard is cut straight
way of the goods, is made with a Wut
tenii plait in the back, and; i trimmed
with a narrow ruffle to match the ruffles
upon the street. The sleeves nro small,
flowing, trimmed with n ruffle which
extends to the elbow, w here it is finished
with a bow. A bow is also placed nt
the back above the Waftean plait, and
bows are used to fasten the front of the
jiolonaise.
A WORD TO LANDLORD*. The New
York Standard in referring to the cummer
flight of no many American* to Europe,
taken the occasion to say a few word* to
the landlords, who, it declares, are actually
driving away renumerntlTe customer* by
their greed. While there are place*,
within two or three hundred mile* of ou r
large citie*, p<**ae**ing abundant attrac
tion*, thou Hands go abroad a* a matter of
economy. They aaaert that ao high are
the hotel charge* at onr own watering
place* and mountain re*ort* that they can
not afford to aeek health and a cummer's
pleasure at home. It is cheaper to pay for
a week or ten day* on the ocean and pna*
two or three month* in England, France,
Germany, Switzerland, and Italy, than
to cliinb the White Mountains, sketch
the lunar bow at Niagara or taste the surl
at Long Branch or Newport. Europe offers
more for the money, so thither our citi
zens go, taking very considerable amounts
of currency which they would much
rather spend at home, provided it conld
be made to go a* far.
THE FRANKING PRIVILEGE. —Before the
last U. S. Congress adjourned, Mr. Faras
woith introduced the bill abolishing the
franking privilege, which was defeated
early in the session. The vote stood 128
n favor, to 29 against.
The word love in the Indian language
is "scbemlendamonahtcwageretar."
Ilatr Botcher Talks.
The following extract in from a Hun day
ai ruion of Heury Wanl Bencher :~-Feu
Ido who were never sick could never
lolii-ve that am 1 to.lv flaw u sick | hut
t any man get an autumnal catarrh, and
before he geta through he will find that
nearly every other man he merta haa got
an autumnal catarrh. How few there
were w ho remembered the young gentle
men at picnics paying their polite atten
tion* to the ill-favored and the homely
!adit-n of that party ! What an artistic
eye those young men *e-uied to have !
How they seemed to have (tingled out the
girla with pencilled eyebrow*, the deli
cate profiled, and the aparkliug eyes, and
how few of them bratowed a word of
kiudlineaa and thoughtfulueaa to the
poor girl who waa half crippled ! We
should therefore make a habit of bearing
burdens iu this way, aud our piety would
bo something more than a sentimental
pleasure. Then there were a number of
i'lf jH.Mteeaed people, who were alwaya
living in a groove of comfort, and who
had never been out of it If ahirUeaa,
thrift!eas, ne'er-do-well people went to
them fur aaaistance, it waa ao much
easier to aaj to a man, "Uo West, go
Weet! " than it was to think and act on
hia In-half. Why, if it would please
Divine Providence to make time self
ixMiicesed people shiftless and thriftieaa
for a mouth, it would do them a sight of
good. They would find out then bow
much good telling a man to " go West"
would do him. (Lauighter.) Poverty ia
a good tiling and a had tiling. We' all
say, " Blessed are the poor," and if there
is one blessing more than another that
we do not wish for ourselves it is that
It seemed a marvel to some people
what hove were created for. If you
could get a boy shot from the bow at
birth clear up into manhood that would
be all very well. But a boy, wbat a
plague be is ! What a blessing at one
time of his life he ia to his mother. Was
there ever s iieigliltorhood tbst had s
laid boy in it that that lx>y was not the
worst boy in the world J You see two
men coming aleug the street, and they
know him when they see him. One of
them puts out his foot towards the boy,
and says : " Oit along you little onus ! "
But the otiter man talks to him aa though
there might lie some latent good in him,
and asks him whether he would not like
to be a lietter Itoy and do some good fur
sometiody. Which of theae two ia bear
ing the Imy'a burden ?
Then there was away we had of talk
ing about our frienda. or the people we
know. It was a bad thing to *|ieak evil,
but it waa a much worae thing to think
evil one of another. It waa thia auix-r
--ciliona Pharisaism that tnu ao difficult to
deal with. It waa said that New Orleans
was the worst city in the States and that
Boston waa the beat. Well, he (Mr.
Becehar) would rather undertake to cure
tbe bottom section of New Orleans than
lie would the bottom section of Boston.
Tho good people coalesced, kept to them
selves, had no fellowship with the erring,
were ao far above tbe bad peojiie, that in
Baton it w.mld lie difficult fo raise tbe
bottom section of the population into
sympathy with the good. These latter
wore very apt t* think that they had
done their duty, when they had" sent
rente poor, half-starved missionary to
preach a little bit of the Gospel of Christ
to the Ul torn aeotious of the pojuilation
of their city.
The Boat Race.
Tfe contest between the Atlanta* of
the United .State* and the London Row
ing club, was won by the latter in an
easy manner. A London eomwpoudeot
says: Roth crew* being in readiness,
the gun for the start *m find at 6:23,
and in an instant the water flashed aa
the car* of both crew* dipped, and both
lioaU sprang from their position a* if
impelled by one common power. To
the anrpriae of all who bad witnessed the
practice of l>oth crew*, the Londoners
ware the first to show in advance, and
in about two hntulrcd yards had forged
a clear length, and acre gradually taking
the Atlanta's water. At the head of the
ritrr, close to llarnes Bridge, the Lon
don men liail increased their lend to a
length and a half, amid deafening shoot*
of "Go it Stout,"' "np with her Witheta."
according as the feelings of the crowd
dictated, and bravely did both crews re
sin mi to the cheers and enthusiasm of
; those on the shore. Doe Withers here
{ called upon his men for s spurt, and no
bly did thev answer his appeal, gradually
lessening the gap which existed between
the Ktais, until they almost lapped the
Ixindon boat. The fearfnl exertions
they had made to do this, however, be
gan to tell a tale, and the Americana al
ready began to exhibit slight signs of
exhaustion. Despite the gallant effort*
of the Atlanta* to hold their position,
when Uiey reached the waterworks oppo
site Cbiswiek Mall, the Englishmen wrre
rapidly gaining on them. Stout, the Lon
don stroke, pulling a long and steady
stroke which did not appear to distress
his crew in the least, and which yet in
creased their lead bit by bit. Going
down Corner Reach, the Englishmen
gained still more rapidly ; the distress of
the Americans being so great that th y
were obliged to slackcu their ]>aoe. At
Hammersmith bridge the Londoners "led
by twenty boat lengths, and the race
was practically at an end. The Ameri
cans pulled ou, however, but below the
bridge tliey were run into and had to
stop for an iustant; this had no effect
npon the race, as it was already lost.
Crossing to ('raven Point from the soap
works the Londoners pnt on a spurt and
regularly walked away from their rival*
and arrived at Putney bridge at 6-W
nmid enthusiastic cheering. Tne Atlan
ta* followed and nulled the entire course,
but were fearfully exhausted on tliey
stepped out of their boat, when tbev
were as heartily cheered for iheir pluck
as were the Londoner*. The time given
as official was 21.16, overs course of four
and a quarter milea. Thus finished one
of the pluckiest and most determined
stern races ever pulled by a defeated
crew over this long and trying course.
There is no donbt that they were out
weighed and completely on trowed.
A StNorLAB Ax—We learn from the
Whitowrter, (Wis.) Kfyuttrr that C. M.
Clark recently fonud the bodies of twelve
of his beat sheep piled up in a corner of
the fence near the railroad. Their
throats had Wen cut and the pelt* taken
off. Mr. Freeman lost seven sheep in
Lima the same way, and another farmer
not far from Whitewater lost thirtv. At
the present high price of wool goo<l pelts
aro worth three and four dollars each.
No clue to the perpetrators of this villain
ous act has yet been discovered.
ANOTHRR QVKER WAT OF MARRTINO.—
A pair were married at Plainview, Min
nesota, in an unusual way lately. The
ceremony was performed In a dancing
hall, the floor of which was filled for
dancing, except one set. Then the happy
couple followed by three newly married
conples, stepped forward and formed the
lacking set, the minister stepped into the
oentre of the cirole and performed the
ceremony, the music struck up, and the
dance went forward as if nothing had
happened.
SENSIBLE IDEA. —The board of agricul
ture of the state of Maine have decided
that one-fourth of the money received
from the state by the county agricultn
(ral societies shall be devoted tp the or
ganization of farmers' clubs.
la a Uraabrrrj Patch.
Homo veal* ago Mr. Hackett was
uc<N-*ful merchant in Uhieagu and being
known u * ■ man of gcDoroua and aportl*
1 alive turn of uiiud lie was requested by
two friends of his to invest with iht-ui an
quai ndiarc in the purchase of western
land with a view to it* rapid increase in
price. More aa an accommodation to them
than regard for the profit, be oonaetitod,
and furnishing hia part they wont West to
make the purchase, while* be remained
at hia bttaineaa in Chioaoo. Sow thee*
enterprising frienda of hia found that
they could buy up a large tract of land
near Berlin, Wia., verv low by including
in it a portion of worthless swamp. They
cluaed the trade and in making the divi
sion among themselves they took each a
third of the fine land and* left the mud
and water for Mr. Hackett, who had never
seen the land and accepted the division
on faith in hia frienda and for some time
he continued to pay the taxes until he
failed in Imaineas and thinking to real
ise on the sale of it, he went West for
that purjxiae, when to hi*, dismay, he
founa that far from being able to sell it,
he could not even give it away. Kighing
just a little at the duplicity of hia frienda,
who had ao divided the valuable and left
him the worthless, he wandered over the
Hwainji, he almost disdained to call his
own and splashed through its mud and
water in dea|*erate hopelessness. Poverty
and want, stared him in the face, whan,
10, something else stared him in the face
PHI ; he fonnd something upon hia laud.
What was it ? It was not California gold
nor North Africa diamonds, neither was
it oil, iron or eoaL It was wild Cran
berries. " Presto change !" Now mark
the result; that land is worth SHOU per
acre, and he ia worth half a million dol
lars. He was a shrewd man, with an eye
to business and he saw at once a fortune
in those Cranberries* and went to work to
realise it by cultivation and systematic
labor, and now he lias a regularly trained
brigade of children and bands to pick
and prrjiare the Cranberries for market,
for which be realises aa high aa £24 per
barrel, while the men who intended to
play a joke on him now mourn over their
own uu valuable land and sigh for the for
tune their joking lost them.
This ia true, and if it is not aa romantic
aa fiction, it has a better moral
Bennett and VYrtib.
The late Mr. Bennett twice suffered
Ktrort-aitacka from Mr. James Watson
Webli. The first attack was made on
Wall street in the month of January,
188 ft. On Uiia occasion Mr. Bennett was
knocked down and struck with a stick.
He told the story in the Herakt, saying ;
"General Webb, by going up behind
me, cut a slash in my bead, about one
and a half inches in length, and through
the integuments of the skull. Tho.
fellow, no doubt, wanted to let out the
never-failing supply of good humor and
wit, which has created such a reputation
for the ttrrmld, and appropriate the con
tents to supply the emptiness of his own
thiek skull. He has not injured the
skull. My idsas in a few days will flow
as freshly ss ever, and he will And it ao
to bis cost" The result of this report
was thst the Itemid containing the ac
count of the fracas sold 9,000 copies.
On the 9th of Mar, 1836, Mr. Bennett
was again assaulted pj (h-norml Webb in
Wall street, very near the scene of the
former attack. As wan the case with the
first assault a newspaper controversy led
to this second exhibition of anger on the
jwrt of General Webb. The jiartirulars
of this affair were also duly given in the
Herald br Mr. Ib nuctt. In his autobio
graphical account of it, after describing
the mode of General Webb's attack he
said : "My damages is a scratch, about
three (quarters of an inch in length, on
the third finger of the left hand, which
I received from the iron railing I was
forced against, and three buttons torn
from my vest, which anv tailor will re
instate for a MX}mce. itis lass is a rent
from lop to of a very beautiful
black coat, which fact the ruffian S4O,
and a blow in the face, which may hare
knocked down bis throat some of his in
fernal teeth tor anything I know. Bal
aace in my favor. #39 94." Thus was it
that even oat of his misfortunes did Mr.
Bennett extract nourishment for hia
straggling paper. It was by such direct
gossip with the pnblic, upon all imagin
able subjects, light sketches of city life,
and half earnest aud half cynical refer
ences to events In which be himself
figured, that in the earlier rears of the
Herald was laid the foundation of its
ultimate success as a new*paper.
A Word to Father*.
We have read a story of a little boy,
who, whan he wanted a new suit of
clothes, begged his mother to ask hit
father If he might have it. The mother
suggested that the boy might ask for him
self. "I would," said the hoy, "but l don't
feel well enough acquainted with him."
There is a sharp reproof to the father in
the reply of hia son. Many a father keeps
his children so at a distance from him
that they never feel confidently acquainted
with him. They feel that he is a sort of
monarch in the family. They feel no fa
miliarity with him. They fear him and
restttct him. and even love him some, for
children cannot help loving somebody
about them; but they seldom get near
enough to him to feel intimate with him
They seldom go to him with their wants
and trials. Tbey approach him through
the mother. They tell her everything.
They hsve a highway to her heart on
which they go in and ont with perfect
freedom. In this keeping off plan fathers
are to tdame. Children should not be
held off. Let them come near. Let them
lie as intimate with the father as mother.
Let their little hearts tie freely opened.
It is wicked to freeze op the love ftiun
taios of little ones' hearts. Fathers do
them an itJt"7 by living with them as
stranger*. Thisdrives many a child away
from home for the sympathy his heart
craves, and often into improper society.
It nurses discontent and mistrust, which
many a child does not outgrow in his life
time. Open your hearts and yoor arms,
oh, fathers! be free with your children;
ask for their wants and trials; play with
them; he father* to them truly, and they
will not need a mediator between them
selves and you.
BR ECONOMICAL. —Look most to your
spending. No matter what come* in, if
more goes out, yon will always lie poor.
The art is not in making money, bnt in
keeping it; little expenses, like mice in
a barn, when they are many, make grrat
waste. Hair by hair, heads get bald ;
straw by straw, the thatch goes off the
cottage ; and drop by drop, the rain
comes in the chamber. A barrel is soon
empty, if the tap leaks but a drop a min
ute. When yon begin to save begin
with your mouth, many thieves pats
down "the red lane. The ale jug is a
great waste, in all'other things keep
within compass. Never stretch your legs
farther thsn the blankets will reach, or
you will soon be cold. I n clothes. choose
suitable and lasting stuff, and not tawdry
fineries. To be warm is the main thing;
never mind the looks. A fool may make
money, but it needs a wise man to spend
it. Remember it is easier totailu two
chimneys than to keep one going. If
you give all to back and board, there is
nothing left for the savings bans. Fare
bard and work hard while you are young,
and you will have a chance to res t when
you ere old.
Slag answers admirably for road-mak
ing preparing concrete,
TERMS : Two Dollar* a Year, in Advance.
Trau
There U a plotort lof sale in * s^fb
boring dtj with which there U connected
a curious story. Ou the back is scrawls*!,
"T. A., Oblit 1M5." Tbs artist died by
itU own band, for a cans* of suicide mora
ootniaon Uian love, or religious mania, or
despair; and a* poor Tom was wail known,
and near akin to many of our readers, the
I history of Lis picture and himself
Mfias to us worth telling. As for the
picture, it Is in execution nothing hut a
| crude, strong dash or two of color; only
la bit of sandy beach, a dead woman
! washed ashore, a man keeping watch over
i Iter, and a bird, the solitary living thing
! in the world, disappearing in tb stormy
j sky, leaving him alone with hie dead
But there is the subtle something In it
which touches us, as do all great otter*
an res of truth or human feeling; it is one
! of the inspired word*, painted, or spoken,
|or written, that are strong ss love, or
i grief, or death, and share their nature.
There was something about UM painter,
i too, from the time be was a hoy, that set
| him apart from oUier men as one who bed
a message given him to utter. After all,
i God does give nowadays to certain men
special errands to their fellows: and
whether it be to make them cry or laugh,
Ito call them to be heroes or saints, to
| show the stupendous joke of misery or
comfort under lite, or to explain fishes, or,
I like Bezel eel, to be ''filled with the spirit
j of God in working with irpn and brass,"
I they carry about them the signs of tbskr
commission as plain as the shining on Mo
res'* face when be came down from the
j mountains with the tables of stone. Even
as aboy, Tom knew that be had an errand.
It might be but a petty thing, a picture to
paint, or a crayon sketch or two to finish.
But it was hia work, which no man could
do but himself. He caught hints of U ev
erywhere in the glass of water flickering
i in bis band, or the stone under hie feet ee
: touch as the song nobly sung or the life of
: noma other man greatly loved. It was
dear enough to him; but flickering light
or eonge and loves of others would not
make it clear to the world. There were
times when the desire for its utterance
was so strong upon him that if lie oould
Lave accomplish ad hie work be would
hiYe been ready, shy, hearty, young fat*
I low as he was, to cry, " lord, now let
I Thy servant depart in peace." He did
: not fall into the usual mistake of genius aa
!to the ease of delivering his message. Be
i bad a slip-shod dependano* cm ainged
l'egaaus to carry him, or draughts from!
Helicon to give hiss divine strength. Slow
and inoeasant work, and unflinching integ
rity to hie errand, he knew only would
i carry him safely to his journey's end.
I and he set out on hie carem moat* gal- i
! lent ly.
But Tom was poor, and—Tom married;
married a women who thoroughly reeog
nixed him and hie errand. They lived in
a shabby little bouse in the suburbs of
New York, where their first baby was
born; a bouse where the roof leaked, and
where the floors were carpet] ees. But
going there, you foand their talk furnished
with such high end noble thoughts, their
daily lives so rich in love, so gey in jests I
and fancies, so sweet and admirable in
temper, that the background of want
seemed only meant to throw into relief
throe sunshiny figures. Books, too, mu
. sic, nature, and art meant so much more
: to them then to other men and women;
| they drew sncb strength and wealth out
j at even the blades of graae at their gate or
the sunlight on their bare floor, that one
; op old not but envy the rich heritage that
they would bequeath to their boy. It wee i
about this time this picture was painted, j
Men found in it w> me thing of a message
from the gods struggling to be beard;
they looked curiously at Tom end said,
44 Presently we shall have a great man
among us." But they did not buy the
picture. They did not boy any of Tom's
pictures.
As year* went by this fact forced itself
closer end doeer upon the painter. The
more he liked his tyro upon the stars the
more hie empty pocket took life and gnaw
ed like e fox at his vitals. He and his
wife oould have always found food and
royal clothing for themselves in their 000
eriootaess of their great work for man
kind, but for their boys they wanted
broadcloth, beet and potatoes to equal
these of their neighbor e children aoroee
the way. One day a picture auctioneer
offered Tom a piece as "hack." "Give up
this Flemish accuracy and this peculiar
fancy which struggles through all your
work. You can dash me off two or three
bold studies a day; something to catch
the public ere. Coarse as you please.
You need never put your name to them."
The wages offered were a competency.
It wee an everyday transaction; the man
had simply to make a choice between
poverty with hia own work and wealth
without It. To Tom however. It seemed
a choice between God and Mammon. It
threatened to rench soul and body asun
der. But the children had their
upon him. Should they not hava their
•hare of the world's comfort gentility,
style f Tom went into the road where all
hack* tramp together their treadmill
round which leads nowhere in life or death.
He had meant to be deaf and blind if any
Voice summoned him out of it Bot he
never beard again tha heavenly Call. Hie
body is alive yet goe* about with those
of tils wife and children, well fed and
well-to-do. Their floors are carpeted
with cheap Brussels, and in their clothes
they follow the fashions scrupulously and
promptly. But Tom, finding this old pic
ture exposed for sale the other day,
scrawled on its back, "T. A. Oblit 1865."
There are so many Toms in stndkv, in
newspaper offices, in the pulpit, that we
have thought it worth while to tell his
story. We do not know whether he ever
nnrations what the loss in his choioe has
been to himself, his children ot the world;
but it may not be too late for some ot
them to pause In theirs, and ask them- J
selves, " Was this well done!"
TH* WOMSX or UTAH.— The petition
against polygamy, signed by women of
Utah, has created a great sensation there,
anil the papers are full of it. The ladies
who drew up and circulated the petition
my in a card they have published :
Think what regard for womanly purify
and delicacv must prevail in a family
where a mother and all her daughters
hold the relation of wives to the same
man. Think how much Mormonism
has done to elevate womanhood, when
it has sanctioned the marriage of men
to their own nieces and even their own
half-sinters. Think how womanly deli
cacy is fostered in households, (and there
are'inany such iu this Territory) where
thtfhoma consists of a cabin with but a
single room which is occupied by a man
and his three or four wivra with their
grown daughters. Is it any wonder that
true women everywhere, virtuous ma
trons and pnre-minded girls, should en
ter their indignant protest against a sys
tem which has produced such results?
A CtTßioarrr. —A curiosity from the
marine world is now to be seen in the
shop of Here Thenins, chemist, in Dres
den. It is the skeleton of a giant sea
spider in an exceedingly good state of
preservation. The body, which is a
quarter of a vsrd long, rests upon eight
legs, which, when stretched out, cover,
with the body, the space of a yard.
Crab-like claws, or long arms with joints,
rise above the head, and give the whole
a ghastly appearance.
IKON WORKERS.— There are one hun
dred and forty thousand men working in
iiou in the United States, and eight hun
dred thousand persons who get their liv
ing out of it, •
Fuel* aati Fairies,
Minnesota vbWky kellerr bar# b*
fined *SO for Mtttog liquor to habitual
drunkard*.
A new bug h#s arrived fas tha Wiataro
Stat##. H# bvrra into grape vines and
kill* them. . •
An Indiana patriarch baa lirad to form
Tim Britiafa iron product is about
5,500,000 ton* a year, and the American
about 2,000)000 tons.
Virginia baa toird a constitutional
amendment striking out the usury
clause.
Locust# are in Temwuaee in imamnaa
ntifobere, and the wood* are alien with '
thorn.
A Janreville, Wia., girl frightened bar
aamwdara away by /ailing oat of the
window.
Dr. Bartol says the real thief of Urn
world is be who consumes more than ha
produces.
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NO. 26.
. The convicts at tie wemgan *uiw
J Priaon are building a new wall around
themselves.
An inaana aayiam at Troy haa a mail
ir tbeatfe attached where amateurs give
, performances.
Soma of Urn largest steamships barn
If right bandred kmc of coal crossing the
e Atlantic Ocean.
a Texas papers report that ten Indians,
J who roeentJy raided into Wise ounnty,
a ware all tailed by the eberifl and bia
r nssistents
f An examination of oandidstaa far ad
r mission to the Military Academy a* Wart
Point, resulted in the rejection of twenty
-1 our oat of ninety one applicants.
e Borne jocoea fallows to Newborn, Ind.,
robbed a friend in tbe night for a joke
r and paid a heavy fine the next day in
earnest. The friend had no eenae of
bnmor.
t "One who knows" makes it a point
I o select a cow with a yellow akin. One
, whose skin is pale or colorless is not, he
a says, half so likely to produce goed
i batter.
' A yonng man in Angnste, Wia., re
t> eeotly kilted a companion while intend
r rated, and the father of the murdered
V voath bee sued the saloon keeper for
t §IO,OOO.
The St. Petersburg Qktbe aays that the
r personal expanses of the Grand Duke
" Alexis, during his Uavete'in the United
* States, amounted to upward of #300,000.
Ranrian agriculture. is o a very p." 1 1 *
j mitive character, They use the same old
wooden plow that had served their an
j orators before civilisation came to them.
lodge Hoar onee said of a lawyer:
I "He baa reached the auperiative life; at
* first be sought to get on, and then he
f sought to get honor, and new be is tey
* rag to get honest."
[ Startling devetopoumis have coma to
. light in SL Pan! Minn., exposing an at
-6 tempt by a Mrr Robinson to brihe
j members of the grand fury not to bring
j in any indictment agvinct her.
No person con enter the Banian do
t minions without en accurate description
1 being taken of bis pesxon. His age,
s employment and the object of his viatt
* rag the country are all recorded.
1 Those beat acquainted with the topo
: graph jof the Colorado desert ere confi
dent that a larger subterranean stream
' runs under it, and that the entire desert
may be reclaimed fay artariaa watte.
The OaHforaia Rtfwblmm is incorrup
tible. A man sent the editor a basket of
; strawberries and a leader. He ate the
v berries end sent bark the leader, which
a shows that his morals are all right.
{ It is ao pleaaaat to know that Agassis
J haa found a few species of gasteropoda,
1 fourteen kind# of chittederas. including
; an ooryeal, fifty specimens of ophiurana.
j and, to erown the whole, a large beliea
r tor.
* At a boarding house in Chicago, com
3 man fish oil is used to the Lumps. The
* proprietor, who evidently haa a sharp eye
f to business, says that "it to good as the
* to bed quiek 'cause he smell
8 so bad."
* A band, which serenaded a young
married couple, to one of our suburban
r towns the other enuring, selected ape
, culiariy happy and flattering piece
1 known as -The Mookry Married the
1 Baboon's Sister."
' An attorney to that deligfatfal oenn
. try, New Mexico, gave weight to his ar
' gument before a jury by threatening to
; put a bullet into the brain at any man
f who should dare to intimate that his
„ client-was guilty.
The figures to the absolutely latest
f style of Dollr Varden are so delightfully
, large that it takes two young tedwi to
show one of them property. They have
. to go arm to am ana keep step or else
, tbe effect is spoiled.
I The first Jewish ceremony ever wit
nessed in Portland was performed lately.
■ A priest of the faith came on from New
I York, and went to the slaughter house,
I attired in his official robes, to kill an ox,
t for the food of the faithfuL
Walter, a five-year old, was surprised
at breakfast by tbe presence of a diminu
tive egg, served tor his special delecta
tion. Be thue accounted for the egg's
Hastiness: "Mamma, I think the
chicken was learning to lay."
It la estimated that there are AOO
saloons and groceries to San Prancwao,
, which dispense annually 30,000 barrels
i of lager, 900,000 gallons of wine, and
2,000,000 gallons of the mora stimnla-
I ting fluids, the total value of which is
t $10,000,000.
A young lady to New Hampshire baa
i just secured a position as school teacher
■ upon the following certificate: " This
is to certify that Tomer Noyce stands on
! a medium with other girls of her age
I and sex, and, fur what I know, is as good
. as folks to general."
Billy Brennan. while jplaying cards to
San Antonio, Texas, said, as the game
' turned against him, "May Christ para
rme! —a favorite expression of his.
sooner had the words escaped him
than he fell down in a fit, from which at
1 last accounts he had not recovered.
Little Johnny Moore, away out in
Monroe, Mich., went to a picnic, and
like a foolish little boy that he was, tried
to smoke a cigar. It made him sick, of
course, and he threw himself on the wet
grass and lay there a long time. The
result was he' had congestive chills and
died.
A physician waa called te see a dying
infant,'in Mobile, and found that the
parents had previously engaged the ser
vices of a Voudou woman, named Ellen
Drake, who scarified the child's back,
and made it swallow the blood that Sow
ed, mixed with a quantify of the
mother's milk.
A Boston bride, whose groom rem on
strated with her at the wedding for in
dulging in a rather indiscriminate be
stowal of her maiden kisses on s number
of her male friends, remarked with natu
ral naivete that the gentlemen in question
had been in the habit of kissing her all
her life, and she didn't see why they
should stop now.
The last of the Marshals of France whe
have undergone a capital sentence was
the best known and most celebrated of
them all, Marshal Key, shot on the 7th
of December, 1815, for fidelity to his old
and treachery to his new master. Mar
shal Baxaine is the first Marshal of
France arraigned on a of bad
conduct in face of the enemy.
The great pyramid weighs 12,760,000,-
000 tons, if anybody wants to know.
According to Herodotus, it took the labor
of 100,000 men twenty years to build
it To hhow the mechanical value of
modern improvements, Dr. Lardner af
firms that 480 tons of coal, with an en
gine and hoisting machine, would have
raised every stone to its position.
Here is a good thing on the " tater
bugs." Three men comparing notes:
One says : " There are two bugs to every
stalk." A second says :'' They have cut
down my early crop, and are sitting on
tbe fenoe waiting for the late crop to
come up." "Pshaw 1" says the third, /
" you don't know anything about it j
passed a seed store recently, and tha
bugs were in there overlooking the books
to see who had purchased seed pota
fa>rt"