Sweep Before Yonr Own Boor. Do w* heed the homoly *dgv, handed Aowa from dart of yore, *' Mn yon owrep your neighbor's derltlng, sfoor the rubbifth from yonr door V Lot no filth, no rout there gather ; loart no trace* of dc cay ; Pluck up every wood unsightly; brualt the fallow lot ret away 1 If wo faithfully hare labored thu to awoop without, within: Pluckod up envy, evil-speaking, malioo, tsoh besetting tin; Wood* that by the aacrvd portal a of th inner temple grow; NaonoM weed* the heart defiling, bearing bitterness and woe ; 1 ben. perchance, we may bare leitur* o'er our neighbor watch, to keep ; JIU the work aaaigned v. finished, we baforc hia door may sweep, Hilf an Hour before Napper. to ah*'a here, your unknown Pulciaoa.—th* lady you mot on tho train,— And you reallv believe aho would know you if you wv rs to meet her again !" " Of course," he replied, " ahe would know me; there never waa womankind yet Forgot the effect she inspired. Bh* oi-uoea, hut does net forgot." "Then you told her your fore?" aaked tho elder ; tho younger looked up with a emtio, "I sat by her ride half an hour,- what elaowaa I doing tho while 1 " tVhst, ait by tho aide of a women aa fair at the sun iu tho sky, And look * uu where else hat tho daaxle flash back from Vvur own to her ay* ? " No, I hold that the speech of tho tonguo b* aa frank aud aa bold aa the fook, Aud I held up herself to herself,—that waa more than ahe got from her book." ' Yottiip blood 1" laughed tho elder ; " no doubt you ana voieiug the mode of To-Day ; But then we old fvgiea, at least, gava the lady tome chance for delay. •' There's my wifo— (you must know >—wo drat met on the journey from Florence to Some: It took me three weeks to discover who waa aha and where waa her homo; " Three more to he duty presented ; three more ere I saw her again ; And a year ere my romance boyaa where yours ended that day on the train." " 0, that waa the atylo of the auge-ecocli ; we travel to-day by express; Forty miles to the tionr," he answered, " wont admit of a passion that'* Us." " But what if you make a mistake T* quoth the eider. The younger half sighed. - iVhai happens when signs:* are wrong or **i;ehea mipLoed?" he replied. " Very well, I mast bow to yonr wisdom," the elder re turned, " but admit That your chances of winning this woman your boldness has bettered no whit. *• Why, you Jo not at beet know her name. And what it I try your ideal With something if not quit* so fair, at Wast more en ry.V and real ? " Let mv find yon a paituer. Nay, come, I m airt—yon shall follow— this way. My dear, will you not add your grace to en treat Mr. Rapid to stay ? "My wife,-Mr. Rapid- Eh, what! Why, be"* gone,—yet be said.he would come ; How nice! I don't wonder, my dear, you are properly crimson sad dumb 1" BEET HSSTK. MILLT MORITS LETTER. I'm Aunt Gunter. Job Gunter is my husband. We keep the Anchor Port post office and a store, and sell groceries and garden sass, calico, shoe*, and medi cines, like other folks in oar line, when anybody asks for 'em. When a ship comes in, an 1 the sailors come home to their wives and mothers, trade grows brisk. The housekeepers do their best and the raiaius and dried currents and eggs and batter go ofl fine ly, and it's worth while to lay in ribbons for the girls, and smoking "tobacco and long pipes for the men. Jack and his wages make old Anchor Port brisk for a while, bat at last he sails away, and all the women seem to ask for will be letters—letters, letters, when they have a right to expect them, and when they haven't, all the same. It's "Please Aunty Gunter, look over them, and see if there aren't one for me end it's "Please, Uncle Gunter; it might have got mixed np and overlook ed somehow often and often —God help the poor sonls !—after Jack lies at the bottom of the sea, and nothing will ever reach them but the news of his shipwreck. But plenty of letters come after all, and sometimes we had to read them for the folks. Job and I, and so we get to know something of their IITCS. Hilly More could read and write her self, but still I always knew when she had a letter from Will Xf asset. I knew it by the hand-writing, and I knew it by her blushes, and by that happy look in her face. When he came home, she bought ribbons and bits of laee by the npronfol; and I knew where the "pack ages of candr that ho bought were to go. And I used to keep Job from fi*hiug down in Pullman's creek of afternoons, because I knew that was where Milly ;>nd Will liked to walk. Courting time comes bat once in a lifetime, and I always like to see it prosper. At last be sailed away, second mate of the Golden Dove ; and when he came back from that voyage, they were to be married. It was a sad day when that ship sailed. Mrs. Captain Kawdon and ber girls were crying on the shore. Twenty womn from the Port and five from the Hill were there to see her set sail. It was a grim, gray day, and the voy age was to be a long one. It was under onr old sycamore that Will took Milly to his breast " Don't fret, darling !' he said. " I'll come back safe and sound. I couldn't drown now ; I've too much to live for." Poor boy ! in spite of that, the Golden Dove went down in mid-seas, and on!v three men reached Anchor Port to tell how Captain Bawdon, and the rest were lost, at dead of night, in a mo.-t woeiul torm. Captain Kincaid brought the news up to Mrs. Itvwdon. He stopped at our store to tell about it. A nice old man. A hiebelor still, at fifty-eight, and as handsome, with his white hair and red cheeks, as a picture. That was twelve months ago, the night I went into the store to sort some things out, as I always did Saturday nights. Through the week Job used to get every thing mixed up—letters in my tea-boxes, randies in the letter-box, eggs where they oughtn't to be, and all the place askew. It was a warm antumn night, and Captain Kincnid's vessel was in port, and he had plenty of custom. Job served the people while I tidied up. I found half the last mail in a sugar box, and clothes pins in the ground coffee canister, and I just dumped them out. "Gather up your letters Job," said I. "What possesses you, old man ?" And he laughed and piled 'em up. And I made a vow to myself that I'd keep the sugar box full after that, so that he shouldn't use it for the maiL I had twentv-four pounds of sugar kntwnas "cofree crushed," because it was prepared especially to use in coffee. H at was the finest sugar Anchor Hill folks often bought, though I had a little cut and powdered by me, in case Mrs. Raw Jon, or Mrs. Dr. Speer, or the min ister's lady should send in ; and I took the paper up and tilted it over the japan ned box, pouring it in a nice smooth stream, when who should come running into the sho > but, Milly More. She was not dressed carefully, and her eyes were red with crviDg. She asked for some tea, and while Job was weighing it out she whispered to me : "Oh ! Aunty Gunter, have yon looked to-day ? Isn't there a letter from Will ? He said he couldn't die. I don't feel as it he could. Mightn't he write, after ,dl? Do look,* FRED. KURTZ, Editor ami Proprietor VOL. V. "M v l'ot, " any a 1, " it's a year ago that the Golden Dove went down. It isn't likely. And He don't let those live that wuut to a!way*. It isn't likely, dear, but l"U look." I took the letters in my hand one by oue. Many of them would make hearts glad before the abutters were up that uight ; but none for MiHy ! It eouUlu't lx> expected, of course. I told her ao ; but I took her into piy little Iviok parlor, and made her sit down. 1 talked a* pood as 1 could to her oat w nat good does talking do * "Oh, Auutv," aays she, "I know it seems as if 1 was a tool; but I waked up hoping this morning. 1 dou't believe he is gone. I eau't, I can't. " W hen laby died—the oulv one we ever had—l thought 1 never should be lieve it,'' said 1. " Hnt 1 litm.l Job ; and yon hareyour mother and sister, Milly." At that she buret into tears, and put her head down on mv knee. "I must tell yea, said ahe. "They want me to marry Caotaid Kiueaid. He's courting me. Re fell iu love with me the night he brought the news to Mrs. Captain Kawdou ; I was there sewing, and heard it all. Oh, how eruel to fall in lore with a poor girl at such a time ! And he asks me to be his wife. And toother and Fanny shall always have a borne, he says. And you know how poor we are. Aud they'ro angry at we for saying No. Ami how can I, how can I. when my heart is in the sea with Willie ?" " Captain Kiueaid!" 1 said, and i couldn't say auv more ; she took aiy breath away. She waa a nice, pretty girl; but the Captain was rieh, elegant and stylish. An old tamily he came of, too. It was an honor for Milly More. "Not just yet," mid I, after a while. " Perhaps vou'll feel better. He's old, I know, but lie's a splendid mau." " You too !" said she. " You too ! Nobody understands. It isn't as if I had made up my mind, like all the rest. Will will always t>e a living man to mv mind. I dou't think auy one ever loved but me. Nobody understands—nobody." I ki-srtj her, and coaxed her, and said i no word about her changing her wind: i but for all that 1 kept thinking of it in a i kind of maze. "Captain Kiueaid! sneh a gentleman as that! Old as he was, could she fail to fee.the honor?" But when I told Job, says he: "Jerusalem! a young, pretty girl like Milly! Why don't he go after some winder or an oldish gal? Milly is too young for him. Poor Will! What a pifv! They jest suited each other." f couldn't help it though. Mr*. Cap tain Kiueaid would have tiling* that Milly More could never dream of: siik dresses and velvet cloaks, jewelry and stuffed chair* in her best rooms, a silver ice-pitcher if she chose, like Mrs. Cap tain Rawdon. She might have a car ri.igc too, and a pair of ponies. Aud I liked Milly. and wouldn't have envied her her luck oue bit; audi didn't won der at Mrs. More and Fanny. Once having given me her confidence, Millv didn't stop; aud Mrs. More came ; over to t ilk abont it too, until ut last I fairlv np and sided with the old lady. "Slilly." says L "Will is gone, and yon aren't his widow, to wear weeds all your life —not that many do, if they ean iielf it, seems to me—and Captain Kiu eaid is as good as man can be, and you'll be happy with him. Yon can't help ifving him us much as there's any need to love." After that sho stopped talking much to uit*. She used to give me strange looks though. I knew all about it. I knew that ber heart was in the ses; but Will was gone and why should she refuse wit at Providence offered? The captain staid at the port three mouths, and at last we worried her intc promising to be his wife—old Mrs.More, Fanny and I. She just gave up at last. " It don't matter much after all,'" she said. "I must be going oat of my mind, for I never can stop watching and hop ing. I shall die soon I suppose whether I marry or not." After that she never spoke of Will, aud Mrs. More told me she was engaged; and she wore a diamond ring npou her fin ger. And the day before the ship Railed she was to marry Captain Kiucaid, so that she might go to fearope with him. A year and three months since the Golden Dure went down. Well, no one can tell what changes a little while can bring. I used to hope that I hadn't had much hand in it after all, when I thought it over, and remembered poor Will, and how he took her in his arms under the sycamore. Bat then, you see, Mrs. Morc's sight had failed, so that 'she couldn't do line sewing, and Faulty wasn't of much ac count except to look at It was a hard life that lay before Milly. It was good for her to marry Captain Kinenid, and have rest and comfort, wasn't it? " To-morrow is the wedding," said I to Job. "It's going to be in the church. Miss Salsbury is finishing my silver-gray poplin. It sets splendid. We'll have Ben Barnes in to keep store, and go, won't we? You'll like to see Milly off, won't von?" "I wish it was Will Mnsset," says Job. " Poor Will!" says I, and I went on tidying, though it was a Friday. I should be so busy next day. I got out my big paper of sugar, and I got down my japanned sugar box, never empty yet since that day I filled it up. And then Job, sorting the letters, looks up at me. "Never liegrtulgc-d voa anything so ranch as Ido that box,'' says he. "Best thing I ever put the mail into. This mere wooden thing with a slide is a pes ky bother." "Law me," says I, "if I'd knowed yon wanted it, you should have had it. I didn't think you had any plan in it. Jest stick 'em anywhere, I thought you would. I'll empty the box; I've got one that'll do. And I'm glad you spoke before I filled it up." .So with that I spread a big naper on the counter, and emptied out tue sugar. Tt had packed a little, and came out in a sort of cake. There it laid, white nud shiny, and on top of It, whiter and shini er, laid a ledff a letter with a ship mark upon it, and this superscription: " Mi* Milly More, Anchor Port, lfatne, United States of America." Three months ago—poor stupid!—l bad emptied my best coffee crushed in upon it, and there it was. Three months ago she had come down to me and asked for a letter, and I'd thought her half crazy; and I'd have given more money than there was in the till, to have dared to, tear that letter open on the spot and read it, though I knew the hand was Will Masset's. "This can't wait," says I. " No," says Job, "it can't, with that wedding eominc off to-morrow." Then I stopped and thought, let it lie until it is called for, and shell be Mrs. Captain Kincaid, with her silks and her velvets, and her line house and her car riage, all the sume. This comes from a shipwrecked sailor, poorer now than when be went away. "Perhaps I'd 1 letter wait until the wedding is over, Job," said I. And my old map came across the room and put his arm about my waist. "Nancy," says he, "you and I was young folks once. I used to think some thing was better than money and fine doings then. And though we old folks may get a l'ttle hard—though to be up in the world seems so mnnb, and all that old sweetness so siliv, why, it will come back sometime?. You remember how lie Vimed bar under th sycamore; and THE CENTRE REPORTER. Nanev, wo couldn't wait until after the wedding, either of us." 1 put my arms altout Job's Uoek, aud 11 kissed him; and then I got my aun* bontiet and ran over to Mra. More'*. Captain Kiticanl was there. 1 atood at the door with my letter behiud my back. "Won't you walk in?" said Mr* More. " I—l haven't tiuie."aid I. It"* on ly an errand. It's a little singular. Millv, there's a—a—" "My letter! mv letter!'' eriod Milly. "It has come at last!" How she knew it, Heaveu knows She hadn't had a gliiusc of it. It was the old sailor's story: a ship wreck, a deserted island, wretched ' months spent in hoping for succor, and a sail at last, lie would bo homo iu three mouths, " Three months!" said Milly. " Uh, how can I wait-" And theu says I : "Milly, forgive a poor old stupid goose. "That Utter has Uvn lying under mv best coffee crushed three mouths and j a day. And there's a vessel in the offing ; now." So it was Will, after all; and Job awl 1 went to the wedding with happy hearts. Aud uo need to pity Capt. Kiueaid either I for he married Fanny More beforo the I year was over. Jafsxksr Mmin AXD CrsToti*.— The Japanese never smoke opium. Thoy ! have small pipes that hold three good whiffs, and of the mildest Turkish to- Imcco. They hsve a club house iu Yo kohama, of which th high Japanese officials arc member*. They have none at Yt-ddo, the capital. That is where lwakura lives, consequently he is not a member of any club. The Japanese 1 have the games of chess, cards aud dominoes. Their curds uro different from ours, but the essential principle!' of tho game are the same. Latterly they have Income large importers ol billiard tables, aud the game is fast as saining high rank there. They are great wrestlers, and every year the champion wrestler wins the embroidered apron, which he is allowed to wear one year, i'he Jap.iucse are anxious to open theu country to foreigners, but they are pro found believers in civil and religious liberty. So far as their religion is con cerned, they do not wish to be dictated to or bullied into doing right. They intend to d> right, aud in moral action are governetTby conscience alone. Thoy will not be forced to do right, but will do it because it is right. If they rise iu the scale and importance of nations they desire to do so ot their Own accord. In all dealings they are governed by what conscience dictates to be right. No Japanese is allowed to cut down a tree unless he plant* another. Under the law the mother is held responsible for the good conduct of her children. The Japanese women are held as equals, but are not as highly educated as the malop Adnltry is a thing unknown among the Japanese. After a few year*, in case n married women is childless, the husband is allowed to take a handmaid. After a child is born by her she mast leave as soon as it is weaned, and after that the real wife adopts it as her own. Adnltry, if it occurs, is punished by the death of both parties. If a trouble occurs in the street the parties living opposite afe re sponsible for it. Of course they try to make the parties move on and stop the row. SLACK SILKS. —A change Is taking place in black silks. They show a ten dency toward smoother surfaces, have more natural Instre, and are neither bine black nor brown-black, but are of deep jetty hue. Low-priced silks especially show smaller grain, because they are row free from the heavy dye formerly used to give them a meretricious lustre and weight, lustanees are known where by means of this dye 16 ounce# of this ailk were raised to 40 ounces, and ailks sold for 82 or S3 a yard wore as heavily repped as those costing S4 or 86. Buyers ot silks at S- or 82.50 a yard are ail vised to abandon the idea of getting weighty cord ed ailks, and to choose instead softer silks with small reps, and nearly the Instre that is natural to pure silk. These do not cut or crease, and their smooth surfaces endure friction far better then do those with projecting cords. Lyons silk at $3 a yard is the popular choice for street suits, and the same silk of a higher grade, sold for 84, is a* rich anil heavy as any lady need care to wear. There will be a re newed effort to bring black silk into die 'avor this winter, and owing to the variety ot rich dark colors imported, it tnay not be as universally worn as at present; hot when a lady wants the finest fabric that can be bought, and finds hat to bo black silk, she will not hesitate to buy it. Quantities of jet ornaments, embroidery, velvet, and lace are the trimmings with which black will be enlivened. Ladies who are renovating the black dres?es o last season, whether of silk, cashmere, or alpaca, are advised that they can clean tehtn beautifully with borax and tepid water. The proportions are a tea-spoon ful of borax to a quart of water. Apply with a woolen rag or a nail brush.—Jveir York Paper. AN INCIDENT.—A gentleman who came up the Hudson on the steamer, tells this story : " I noticed," he said, " a serious looking man, who looked as if he might have been a clerk or a bookkeeper. The man seemed to tie earing for a crying baby, and was doing everything he could to still its sobs. As the child became restless in the berth the gentleman tooo it in his arms nud carried it to and frk in the cabin. The robs of the child irri tated a rich man, who was trying to read, until lie-blurted out loud enough for the father to hear— "What does lie want to disturb the whole cabin with that d baby for ?" The man only nestled the baby more quietly in his arms with out saying a word. Then the baby sobbed again. " Where is the confound ed mother that she don't stop its noise?" continued the profane grumbler. At this the father came up to the man aud said : "I am sorry we disturb yon, sir, but my dear baby's mother is in hci coffin down in the baggage room ! I'm taking her back to Albany where we used to live." "The hard hearted man," Rays my friend, "buried his face in shame, bnt in a moment, wilted by the terrible rebuke, he wns by the side of the grief-stricken father. They were both icndiug the baby," GOOD Hansr.S. —A horse IS never viciout or intractable without a direct cause. If a horac is restive or timorous, you may be ure that these faults ariae from defects in his education. He haa been treated eithei awkwardly or brutally. Commence the education of a horse at his birth ; accustom him to the presence, voice and sight ol man ; speak and act gently; caress him, and do not startle him. All chastisement or cruelty confuses the animal and makes him wild. They are good men who make good horses. runic RATI AON. Nearly forty-seven thousand immigrants arrived in the United States during the three months ending March 31st, 1872, of whom over five thousand were fanners, and nearly the whole of the remainder were of other equally useful occupations. About one third of the wholo were from Ger many ___ Tho Swedish immigrants cf INew Sweden, Me., milk their cows three times a day, morning, noon and night. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1872. A Stubborn Duel. If you wish to know irtist luatiuer o y<'Niy man tlov. De Witt Clinton of New York wii, you have only to read the flb-ial report of the duel which be fought iu IxOfl with Johu Swartwout, at Weehawken. i Clintou was then opposing Aaron Burr, and Swartwout accused hiuiof being actu ated in hi* oppo-iiiou unit by personal and qelflah motives. " He !* a liar, a scoundrel, and a villain," exclaimed the hot-headed Clinton. A coalleugc followed, and the duel was fought. I suppose that it was tho most remarkable affair of tho kind that ever occurred—out of Ireland, The lir*t fire doing no barm to either antagonist, one of the second* aked Swartwout: •' Are you satisfied, sir f" '* 1 am not," said he, with more hlunt ue*a thau courtesy. They tired aseeond time without effect. "Are you satisfied, air I" a>ked the second. •' No !" thundered Sw art wout. The uicu fired a third time without any eflect, when tho same gentleman again po litely aked Mr. Swattwout If ho waa sett!* fled. " I am not," was the reply ; " neither shall 1 be until that apology U made which 1 have demanded. I'utd theu, wo must proceed." Swartwout't second then presented a ptjier containing the apology demanded for Oiutoa's signature, saying : '• Wo cannot speud our time iu conver sation. This paper uiut bo signed, or proc.ed." '• 1 will not sign auy paper ou the sub ject," said Clinton, with a Amine*i ami dignity. "I have no animosity ;aimt Swan wout. I will willingly shake hands, and agree to meet ou the score of 1 >i'mcr friendship." Tho fourth fire then took place, when Clinton's ball struck hi* ob-iinalo antagonist in the left leg Mow the knee. " Are you satisfied, sir P tho wounded was again asked. Standing firmly at hia post, he answered: * It is useless to repeat the question. My determination is fixed, and 1 beg we may proceed." While tho surgeon" was extracting the ball from the opposite -ide of Swart wout'* leg, Clinton again declared that he had no animosity against Swartwout, that he wo* sony lor what had passed, and was willing to go forward, shake bands, ami bury the circumstance in oblivion. Swart wout, however, standing erect at his place, insist ed upon the wntten apology. A fifth time they tired, and Cbutun's hall struck his antagonist In the same leg, but a little below the former wound. " Are yon satisfied, sir P' aked the •KOIll. '•I am not, sir!" replied Swsrtwoul; proceed." Clinton then left his station, threw down hi* pistol, ami declared that be would tire no more. Whereupon Swartwout, turning to his second, asked what he should do; to wbich the second replied: "There t* nothing iurther loft lor you •ar, but to hsve your wounds drr**veen made by one of the loading geologists of Boston, with the intent to verify the rc|K>rt of the existence of large amounts of iron ore in the northern portion of the State, The quantity of this ore rectus inex hnustihlc from recent discoveries and scientific researches. The lead mines near Holland are also very promising. A visit to nn iron ore bod in this county allowed that affairs were progressing in n favorable manner. A shaft has been sunk to the depth of forty feet, from which drills were sent,out in every direction, under the guidance of n chief miner. The drifts are walled by timbers and slnbs to prevent the earth from fall ing. At the end of each drift a miner works by the light of a tallow eandle. In one drift the yellow ochre, the inevit able accompaniment of this ore, was being removed ; in another a flue vein of ore boil been struck ; while a third developed masses of good manganese. Tho ore is wheeled in barrows along the galleries and raised to the sunlight in baskets propelled by water power. Within a rod of the shaft the ore is freed of the ochre l>y a revolving washer, and aflnlly drawn in long carts over a crazy road of four miles to tho furnace. POPULATION or CHICAGO. —The new citX directory of Chicago will contain 130,000 names, or 20,000 more than lost year. The publisher estimates that this will give the city 455,000. It is safe to say that there are over 430,000 people there. On the north side, where less than 10,000 were living the day after the fire, there are now 60,000. A Colorada party which prospeeted Arizona pretty, thoroughly on both the thirty-second and thirty-fifty parallels, found an abundance of rubies, almnn dines, chalcedony, and brilliant orystah, resembling diamonds, bnt they are be. lieved net to be such. Indian Hang Robber*. I do cot profess to ha a lorer of adven ture. A life of romance and oxciument may suit one of those eccentric characters who s|*ak of " roughing it" as something delightful; hnt, as for toe, the comforts of cmtijccd life are far more desirable than all the prairies, jungles, night encamp ments, and narrow escapes in the world. It was all very well for Cewper to long '• for a lodge in some vest wildernoea. some boundless contiguity of shsde;" but I am certain that if he ever had succeeded ia finding such a spot, he would have beaten a rather liaaty retreat out of it. l'erhape, my reader, you may think it rather strange that such a matter-of Cart sort of person aa I am should have aa ad venture to tell you about. But truly, " this life la a difficult riddle;" for, with out wishing to be a hero, I became one. You wish to hoar how this banpeoed I Well, then, wait tUI 1 have lighted a cigar, and ensconced myaeit comfortably in the easy chair, and I will spin yon such a yarn a* will quite astonish von, particu larly when yon remember that it ootnee from % solier individual like me. It was in the days when railways had not yet made their appearance in India, that 1 thought of taking a trip frwa Madras to Hyderabad. Of course, when I made known my intention to some friends and relations of mm*, they were quite shocked at the idea, and warned me vary •eriously ot the peril attending such an undertaking; but, strange to eay, nothing could dissuade me from my purpose; and on, after making the necessary arrange menu tor a journey by land, 1 found my self m route to Hyderabad. The first few days of my journey were spent very pleasantly? I enjoyed the sc-nerr, stopped at every traveler's bungalow, helped the eld butler—a pen sioned sepoy—to catch a chicken for my breakfast, smoked, drank sweet toddy, •hot at the monkeys that scampered along the side* of the road and, in £act, did any thing and everything that would tend to make the time pas* agreeably. I had already completed the greater part of my journey, and was quite elated with myself at having trawled eo safely, when on* night—" frahib! bahib!" cried the Oriental driver, and be jabbered away in Hindustani to tho effect that a gang of robber* were rushing down the road to attack us. The first thing I did on hearing this in telligence was to grope in the darkness for my rifle; hot To! it was nowhere to be found, and then it struck me that I mast have left it at the last traveler** bungalow. Hero 1 waa in a very an enviable predicament—the driver had dis- appeared, and I was alone, unarmed, and in danger of being murdered by rob ber* ! On came the Indian brigands; and, without auy hesitation, pounced on what SilUe property 4 earned with ma, bound my hand* log-ether, and dragged me along with thetn, uil they arrived at a miser able hut in the heart of the foreet which bordered the road. The first sight that greeted me sent a thrill of horror ail over tny body The skulls and bones of slaugh tered men were scattered all over the place. It ws* then only that I perceived the extent of my danger ; and my on* picfont regarding tho villains' intentions towards me were too well founded. I overheard a conversation, in which thoy spoke of maltMf ass a wwrylaf to their tddJ Hy the time I had reached the interior of the but I was in a stele of desperation. What Was ItoJo f How vu Ito escape i These were questions that greatly per plexed me. But suddenly hope beamed in my heart. Among the fevr thing# I brought with me in the tran-it was a pret ty large eized box of opium, which I had anticipated selling to a Hyderabad mer chant. Well, I guessed the robbers had a peculiar liking for this commodity, from the appearance of their bloodshot eyes and unnatural thickness ot speech. Here was the very thing. If I could only dia cover where the article in question was, I might yet be ell right 1 scanned the interior of the but and in particular the heap of thing* which the robbers had taken from tbe transit when, to my de light, I beheld the box of opium, 1 was looking for. Without losing a moment, I addressed the robber* in their o*rn lan guage. telling them that among my thing* there was a box ot opium, and that, as I did not feel very well. I should feel obliged if they would hand me a small quantity U> swallow. A* soon as they received this piece of information, the whole gang of them—there were ten altogether—rush ed to the box indicated, and attacked ite content* in tbe greedieet manner poetible. It was quite evident that they had not touched their favorite narcotic for a long time. One by one tbey gradually fell back in a state of stupefaction, at first smiling quite benevolently on each other, and finally sinking into a deep slumber. Now WAS the time to ant. Caotloosly rising from my seat, I contrived, by dint of searching to find a knife, with which I riddled myself ef the ropes which bound me. In one corner of the hot I found a clumsy iron instrument, resembling a ham mer ; this 1 picked up, and with it aimed a Wow at th* strongest of the ercw. But 1 had not been cautious enough. Another gang ol robbers—evidently com rades of tlioaa 1 had been captured by— happened to pass the hot when I delivered my blow; and seeing what I waa about rushed in, brandishing their awordt, all bent on revenge. Although I was aware of my peril, I determined to make a stand and defend myself. Wielding tha iron instrument about, I struck right and left, at every blow knockingdownonaof my assailants. But they seemed to muster strong, and 1 felt that I could aol hold out much longer. Gradually my strength failed; and, with one final' blow of my ponderous Imple ment ot warfare, I sank down exhausted —my head wasswimming—l felt the sharp edge of a sword on my back, snd then knew that all would baovsr, when—bangl bang! I recollect nothing more—only waking suddenly as if from a dream, and finding myself in the residence of tlie police inspector attached to the illstrict I had been traveling through. A doctor was standing near me. "Ihm't move," said he. "You have been severely wounded; but, by careful attention will soon be all right." Presently the inspector himself csme up, and then 1 learned from him that, on the very night f had been attacked, he was searching KIR a gang of robbers who had been disturbing the district at that time, murdering and robbing every one they found ; and that, while he was prosecuting the sesreh, my transit driver came run ning up to him, and explained the partic ulars of my capture. On hearing this, the inspector, accompanied by a dozen policemen, followed the tracks of the rob bers, which were easily seen, till they arrived at the hut where I was defending myselt. The inspector had seen the dan ger 1 was in, and fired a shot at one of the robbers who was in the act of stab bing me. Immediately the whole gang dispersed, bnt were captured. I was found in a state of insensibility, with a wound in my back, and had been forth with conveyed to the inspector's house. I msde a lengthened stay at the honse of my kind preserver. Medical treatment finally tended to the perfect restoraionof my health; but I suffered a long time after from msnt*i ahock I received that night I thanked the inspector very warmly for his bravery and kindness to wards me. Five of the robbers were hanged and the rest transported for life. Of coarse 1 figured very much in the papers; and on TEKMS : Two Dollar* n Year, in Advance. 1 1 my return to Madras, instead of bring etßMiicd for not following the advice ot wiser friends. I was weieomed as s hero. I am now in a pleasant up country to tioc to fioaihern India; and often of an evening, a* I think over the events Of the past, I remefhher with a shudder my ad venture with India gang robbers. Queer Punishment la (tormaay. A curious work on "the humorous element in German law," by O. Otoake, baa just been published at Berlin. The author dmcribea the pun tab moot* which were inflicted in various parta of Ger many, in some casce up to a very recent period, with the object of humiliating the culprit, and exposing him to public ; ridicule. A common punishment was i that of going to procession through the streets of a town or Tillage to a drees covered with imagee of swords, vkif. rods, and other implements of corporal chastisement In Hease women who had beaten their husbands were mode to ride backwards on a donkey holding his tail, on which occasion toe animal was led though toe streets by the husband, flu* custom rfitted to Darmstadt ap to the middle of the seventeenth century, and was so common that a donkey was kept always ready for the purjguio is the capital and the neighboring villages. If the woman struck her has hand to sari) a manner that ha oould not ward off the Wow. the donkey was led by the maa who had charge of him ; If not, then by the husband himself. At St. Guar a miller was allowed a. certain quantity of wood from the forest belonging to tha town, to reiaru for which he waa bound to supply a donkey to the municipality whenever required for the chastisement of s scolding wife Another very old custom was that of punishing a hen-pecked husband kgr re moving the roof of his house, an the ground that " a man who allow* his wife to rule at home does not d#eere any protoetios against wind and weath er. If two women fought to public they were each put in a sort ri posed sentry-box, which only left tbif bead exposed, and then posted oppotflte to eac j other in the market-place, where they remain for an boor face to fa ha, but unable to use their bauds or feet j A common punishment for aflbratng women was the •• shameful stooev'fwtuah wae hung round their necks. T hia atone was usually in the shape of a bottfe. At libellers and slanderers ■'* compelled to stand on a block and strike themselves throe times on the mouth a* a sign of repentance. This enstran still existed thirty or forty year* flgu. In some towns toe "shameful stout" war to the shape of a loaf, whence the Ger man saying, "a heavy bit of bread" (eto achwerer bissen brod). At latbeok it was to tbe shape of an oral dish, and in other places in that of a woman put ting out her tongue. Huch s '.ottos wet# usually very heavy ; uncording 'to the law of Dortmund and Halber*tafl (1S48) tbey were to weigh a hundreff weigh Those who were wealthy could tprchwe exemption from this punishment with a bag full of hops tied with a roWribbon. PLANUS Daws GOODS, —figured goods are eonapicioaK amongfktl ira portationa for suits. Tbe rieLemfabric* brought to the country era yorervd with arabesques danundi fig irefrO# the same, or a lighter tint than the around. These show what is called toeoa at goods —that m. with the figure wiosgbt by the loom; brocbe goods with fc de- n like embroidery done by sepailte bob bins ; and raye figures, damask Wrought is stripes. Sieilienne, a reppef fabric of silk and fine woal. introduced last year, is again brought out in the quaint brouxe, reseda, and peacock colors, bul is too eostlv ever to become common. It is intended for polonaises af street Kuita, and is also in pale tints for even ing over dnsM*. Plain Bicillenne is shown, and airo Sieilienne fnetxiDC, overwrought with arabesque* and intri cate tracery. Another novelty is Sieilienne crape, with the ground crinkled like China crape, and. partij covered with damaak figures wrought to lighter shades. A soft, rich, antique looking silk, called grot d'Eccaae, is im ported to the dark stylish colon for Knits. This also shows heavy damaak figures. OLD GSKMAX Law.— A work by IT err Gierke on "The Humorous Element to German Law* 1 was recently published at BcHto, and contains, among other inter esting matter, deacriptioa* of the punish ments to which delinquent* were subjected in old tiroes. However ludicrous some ot these inflictions may eeem to toe Germans of Bismarck's day, they mutt have been anything hot funny to those who suffered them. ITp to toe middle of toe seventeenth century it was the custom in Hease to seat a woman who had beaten her goodtnan on a donkey facing the tail, which the was made to grasp firmly, and to this po sition she went through the town, her hut-band leading toe dby the sstuers, who killed three ofriem. An Albany mjofWer has three times bad a banota— H> even Wees bar for wring the Smiths to this country." There are 80,000 lew cattle in Main# now than ten years ago, cauaedbya sne isaiihn -f light hay crops. This par there to a good crop in that State. Connecticut should be credited with the toxics fisherman. Hie indiridoal in question tins Wi fl*h line to hi* dog. and wben be gets a bite, kicks the dog. In the open air when a thunder storm is progressing, and no abetter near, the beet course to to ptae* one's self at • moderate distance from some tall trees. Joseph McEtooy, a gambler late of New Orleans ww shot dead by Paul Kens, a prominent vine grouwr of Los AngCloa, Col. in a quarrJ about poli ties. Emma; "Father can you my what Mr. Beddsaidto Wa tittle girl ?" Tatber ; Of oonwe I can, what was it f" Em m ■ •' He aaid ban's * kirn and thaw's a dollar. Bouse tngeutooa observer hw discover ed that lharo torn twulMe*ee®Waee between a baby sad wheat, siaee it w fira cradled, thee tfarwhed. and finafly qaoomes the flower of the family. A man and his four boy* ware lately . wpstscd on a harg* near Wheeling. Western Virginia, and the father kept hi* four sou* tip until they were rescued, and then iafl beek and ww drowned. A party ofbuigiawsaciaeasfully robbed lbs Third National Bank of Baltimore of a wy large eum, the exact amount of which has not yet been ascertained, " though it to placed at about f 103,000. A modest hseUetor says all he should ask in a wife should be a good temper, sound health, good understanding, agreeable physiognomy, pretty figure, good connection*. domestic habits, re source* of amusement, good spirits, convermtiosal talents, elegant manner*, and money. S? Heart dfoesac, osialysto. and nervous exhaustion aw the diseases that make havoc on the Pacific ©oast, .and break down men apparently in the prime of life. The climate a stimulant, lead ing men on to do their utmost, and