Anticipation.
Whan fciting health, ar era** araat,
Or dull monotony of days,
Hsa brought me into discordant.
That darken* round me like a haaa.
I find it wholesome to recall
Thoae chief est gooda my life ha* known,
Those white*! day*, that brightened all
The checkered aeaeona that ar* flown.
No year ha* pasted hut gave tue aom# ;
O unborn year*, nor on* of you -
Bo from the past I learn—thai! coma
Without such precious tribute due,
I can be patient, since amid
The day* that eoera ao orercaat.
So oh future golden hour* are hid
A* thoae I sac amid the paat.
I.OTP t'acxprrosed.
The sweetest notce aiuoog the human heart
strings
Aw dull with rust;
The awoetost chords, adjusted by the angel*.
Aw clogged with dn<4;
TVc pipe and pipe again our dr> ary music
Upon tin *tf-a*mf strains,
TVbilo sou; d* of crime, and fear, and desola
tion,
Come back in ra.l refrains.
On through the world we go, an army march
ing
With listening cars,
Each longing, sighing, for the heavenly music
Ho never hear* ;
Each longing, eighiug, for a word of comfort,
A word of tender praise,
A word of love, to cheer the endives journey
Of earth'* hard, busy d v*.
They love u*. and we know it; this aufSeea
For reason's share.
Why should they panee to give that love ex
jtresaion
With gentle eare ?
Why should thry pause ? But still our heart*
are aching
With all the gnawing pain
Of hungry love that long* to bear the music,
* And longs and king* in vain.
We love them, and they know it; if we falter.
With turgors numb,
Aaorg the unused string* ot lovs'*xpre*ion,
Tne notes are dumb.
We shrink w.tliin ourselves in voiceless sorrow,
Leaving the word's unsaid.
And, side by side with those we love the dear
est,
la ailecc? on e Uead.
Thru on we tread, and thus each heart in si
lence
It* fate fulfill*.
Waiting and hoping fr the heavenly music
Beyond the distant hills,
The suiy diffvrwi.iv . f ike love ia Heaven
From love on earth below,
I*: Here we love and know not how to tell it.
And there we all shall know.
UNA.
The locomotive shrieked and the brakes
tattled. "Greenland, ladies," said th
polite conductor, collecting Ihe bags, and
helping us down to tbe platform. Our
trunks were shot after us in the usual
reckless railroad fashion, and the train
moved on.
1 looked about. No "icy miuntains"
rewarded the gas*?, but pretty som a voice
"called m to deliver" our checks, and we
were aware of the presence of a wagon
and a wagoner.
"For Rye Beech P'siidwe.
"Yes'w."
•'And do you go on to Boar's Head ?*'
'"'an" (concisely).
"Ah, well, that is where wc want to
, .
So it oerell that an hour later, as we
stepped out of tbe wagou iu front of th-
Boar's Head Uoa*c, wita an uncomforta
ble consciousness of being eved bv a long
row of well-dressed people, who were
studying oat dusty habiluneuts with that
calm scrutiny which is the portion ot the
newly arrived traveler at watering places,
1 was startied by a sort of shriek. A pair
of braccleted arm* with flapping lace under
skeves were flung aroonfl mr neck, and
somebody began kissing me verv hard in
deed.
"Oh, ton darling girl, is it rvally you 1
To think o'your tarring up here! liavr
you come to stay ? What tun ! Why tee
ar* here. Pa and Mrs. Ltnox and Fred
and little Pbii aad me and—" The sen
tence coded in a fresh volley "f kisses.
Of course b, this time I recognized the
speaker. S'obodv but Ethel Lenox conld
possibly hare crowded and combined so
many words and embraces into a single
breath. I was really glad. Ethel is one
ot tboae fresh-hearted creatures who
wants every body with whom they come
in contact. She was a general favorite at
acbool: and though we hadn't met for two
years, I could see by this burs: that she
hadn't changed a bit.
A little later I didn't feel so shure.
T red as we wire, we thought it necessary
to make a toilet tor tea, tf only to show
tbo-e stuck-up people on the piazza that
we had clothes which were not dustv, ay<
which puffed aid ruffled and luop-d up
bagged out and boasted as much trimming
as their own. As we came down stairs,
roa in front with her long black tram and
floating tarlatan cap stung*, and Sue and
1 respectively in roee-culor and ps!e preen
(I don't know a prettier drcs* tor the sea
aide than white grenadine over pale sea
green silk, and so ufiiul), Ethel passed us,
leaning on the arm of a gentleman. Then
I noticed she was grown, and, though not
exactly pretty, had gained a err tain pictur
esque effect which took the place or pretti
nes*. Her hair wa always the most
beautiful I ever saw—pale, rippling brown,
very thick, ind BO long that it touched the
floor wbeuihe sat on a chair. The gitls
used to call her '"Lady Godiv a," and tn*i*t
on having exhibitionsol it at bed-time;
but in school she habitually wore it rolled
round her bead and smothered with a-net,
now it was in two immense heavy braids
down ber back, the ends tied with blue
ribbons, and fcer white dress had a bine
sash and a little touch of blue somcwlure
at fhe throat, which seamed to set ofl hir
clear pale ebeek* and brown eyes.
"What an absurd fashion your friend
dresses ber hair in !" remarked Sue, pass
ing a tinger rather complacently over the
row of impossible pinned-on riDglet* which
•mameoted her own forehead. Sue's bail
behind was a huge crispy mass, which
towered up from the nape of her neck over
the top of ber head till it met and was lost
in the aforesaid fringe ol ringlets. Mest
•f Sue's hair comes out of creen bext-s in
hi r top bureau drawer. I didn't make any
rejoinor to this remark of hers, for she is "a
little sensitive on tbe point, and likes to
foiget it comfortably whenever she can,
wbivb ser-m to be a good deal of the time!
But notwithstanding Ethel's long braids |
and increase of height and general improve
incnt, it was not quite ea>y to understand I
how she had contrived to capture the
sunerb-Jooking fellow on whose arm she j
leaned. We women are apt to think that :
a handsome man must naturally be at;
traded by beauty; and this was one m
the handsomest men I ever saw—tall, dark,
brilliant, with that sort of manly affection
ate look which all women like to see. But
there could lie no doubt ol tbe caprivation.
I discovered it at once in his eyes, in the ;
way be leaned toward her; and as for j
Ethel, she held Lis arm with that indefin
able air of possession which never comes
over a girl til! alter the engaged ring is on
her finger. I was sure there was a ro
mance on foot, and bound to find it out.
After a day or two Ethel told me the
whole story. It was one evening when
"Jack"' (Jack Hamilton, it seemed, was
thg name of the hero) had gon* to Boston,
and we two were sitting alone on the
rocks close to the twilight-tinted waves.
Here it is, and in her own words as nearly
as I can remember them :
"No, I haven't known Jack long. It is
only—let me see, two, three three
months and eighteen days since we met.
1 saw him first at Niagara. Juliet (this
was Ethel's ycuDg step mother) "was taken
with an 'enthuse' to see the Falls very
early, before people got there and spoiled
the sentiment of t.ie place. Pa said we
were foolish snd romantic, and would bo
extremely uncomfortable, snd probably
catch our deaths of cold, but he made no
real abjection; so we went. It was the
first day of May."
'•You've been at Niagara? Well, you
can't think how different, and how—well,
rather dreadful—it is out of the season.
We got In at mldaight. _ The Cataract
FRED. KURTZ, Editor ami Proprietor
VOL. V,
lloue looked all dark and iliirrlisl, but a
man opened lb® door and took u into that
Ltj: square ball, whete then? w> a huge
Morning-Glory *tova with flaming itu
gla-s ciM, I atmo) you the nan
wleoroe, lor we were hall tr ai n.
"Juliet, still under the influence of her
"enthuse.' a-ked lor rooms on the cataract
side of the house, lint the man couldn't
tire them tons. That side ol the house
wa always kept shut up in the uinttr. he
-aid, ami the room* were aot let in older,
lie made us comfortable elsewhere, how
ever, and, tar my part, I was not aortv to
tie a little further from the river. I never
hears! it sound as it did that night. The
ur (airly thro lw*l and trembled. It w*s
like the breathing and panting of some
savage animal. 1 lay awake the longest
ruue, and a!l ni\ dreams seemrd to he
ovvrabadowc I and pervaded by the near
presence of the strong, tierce thu g.
"Next morning the sun shone brightly.
1 lorgot my terrors and ever* thiug else
except the beauty of the The
rivci was ltd! of tee, clear green ice, which
the rapid* bow along In a whirling, tri
umphant wax, as if it were a load of stolen
emerald*, all cut ami polished and ready
for setting, lev fringed the edge* ol the
show hew and there. Men with pole*
wero trying to break it up, ao that the
water could get in aud turn the w heels ot
a mill. 1 bad forgotten that thew was *
mill. Sr tnehow the sight of it made uie
angry. Think of penning Niagara up and
torrmg it to he useful! it U as bad a*
setting Sampson to grind among the
stave*.
Tbe air tu warm with tun, but the
i melting ice gave it a itt ami sparkle like
• Obanipaignc. It exhilarated me no that I
wanted to danee at every step, and t
.-battered and rattled to Juliet till it
; t airly dbti acted her. She aas in a state
of high prtwsute romance, and I ginned
Iroru the tar-away expression of her eye*
and the way she played with her note
hook mat she was composing a poem,
iJoint writes ready pretty veraes, did
you know < I'll ahow you some, if you
like). So, after a while, I mereitully took
myself otf, and alter sitting a few minutes
by the American Fall, I started olf on a
I solitary ramble.
4 1 lorgot to say that earlier in the morn
ing we had been al! over Goat Island in a
back. It was rather bard to bud ane, lor
' the stables hadn't opened for ihe season
: cither. Think of its being hard to act a
back at Niagara, where utuallj the difficul
ty ts to get away from their gaping doors
and importunate drivers. And the shops,
too, they had barely a thing in the windows.
Iwft over fans from last year and a lew
fly-specked stereoscopic views, that was
all Don't toil Mr. Howelh, but I saw in
ooe of them the very fan which Basil
bought for Isabella on 'tbeir wedding jour
ney.' You remember it, that dreadful
Magenta one with the yellow bin! in tbe
middle J Well, there it was, the very
fan. She must have exchange.! it when
bis back was turned, and trusted to his
never finding out the difference. I'm sure
I should hare done just the same iu her
case!
'•Can you fancy Niagara with no brides ?
We met just out- girl in gray poplin, with
ber Lead on the shoulder of a new coat.
Immagitie it—only one! There weren't
any peep-shows, or boy s with spectroscope*,
cr any photographers urging us to po*e
for our picture* with the Kalis as a back
ground. Not a single pcr*o I ru*bed out
to invite us to see tbe view from their
back-door at twenty five cents apiece.
You can't tbiuk bow pleasantly our miss**
these things, though I must say I hardly
knew tbe place. But here I am running
on, and forgetting G >at Island, where I
began to take you, and where it happened
—I mean, of course, meeting Jack aud all
that.
"It had been so perfectly lowly there in
tbe moniiag while we were driving about
that, now I was left to tay own devices, 1
was seized with a desire to go over again
and sit for a gO)d long while. So tew
people were crossing that the gate keeper
rememltered my face and let rac go in free,
Toils were good lor twenty-four hours, he
said. So 1 balked over the loug bridge,
and in five minutes had Jot myself in the
woods a* tresh and wild and fragrant as
if in the heart of the Adirondacks, instead
of close to a dozen big hotels, with dinner
gongs and waiters in white aprons.
"Goat Island, in the season, Is a civil
ized sort of a place, you know. 1 here arc
carriage* and people, and benches ami
placard*, and you dout feel in the least
alone or in the country. But that day it
seemed pure country. There were no
people sitting on tbe benches, and some
how you didn't notise the placards. Birds
popped out of every bush and tree, and
chirped ami sang as if for a wager. The
ground wa* just one carpet of flowers—
anemones and spring-beauties and beauti
ful white !ily-fbaped things which 1 found
afterward were Iridiums. And all tbe
time tbe deep, cool roar and rush of the
rapids blended ami mixed with tbe birds'
songs and tbe beauty, as the minorinstru
mentsoi an orchestra mix with the vivid
scintillating violins. Juliet says I haven't
a particle of romance in tny nature, and
perhaps she is right; but some how that
rnorniug I was wrought up and exalted.
I laughed, lint I wanted to cry more than
t<> laugh. You know the feeling—a sort
of happy pafii.
"Well, at last I came to the steps which
lead to Luna Island, and went down. I
found a seat close to that lovely little
single fall which, you remember, plunges
off there. All the Great Fall was
in view. I* was a perfect place, cool
and yet sunny, and the water was so
deliriously clear up to the very edge that
I could hardly keep out of it. I bathed
ray bauds and face, and then let down
my hair, which felt dusty after the rail
road, and wrung it out and let it float ofl
witli the foam and over the bubbles ot the
fall. It was great fun, like a game of
play with some friendly giant. I wa*
sitting in the sun afterward with it hang
ing down my back to dry, and my lap full
of trilliurns, when step* sounded, and a
gentleman came down the stairs.
"You needn't pick tip your ears in that
eager way. It wasn't .Jack. On the
contrary, it was quite an elderly man,
with bushy white whiskers and hair tuoro
than three-quarters gray. He wis wtll
dressed, and looked altogether so old and
respectable that I was dreadfully annoyed*
and ashamed at being caught with my
hair down, I repressed iny firat impulse
11 jump up and run away, and sat ■till.
Oh, it I only hadn't," cried Ethel, cover
ing her eyes, with a sharp momentary
shudder. ' But then," smiling brightly,
•'perhaps in that case 1 might never have
seen Jack; so, on the whole, I ain glad I
did.
The old gentleman coasted rennd the
island with a rapid step, looking off at
the Falls. That's what people generally
do. yon know, so I wasn't surprised, and
thought that probably, having done his
duty, lie would go away. But when he
got to the place where I sat he stood
still, and pointing with his cane, said, in a
gruff, excited voice:
14 'Lots *f it, lots of it, ain't there?'"
'" Yea,' I said, and 1 couldn't help laugh
ing, his tone was so odd."
'"Lotsof that, too,' he went on point
ing at my hair. I was surprised' of course,
but I only smiled. lie looked like some
body's grandfather, and yon knew we
gins don't feel it necessary to be very
much offended when eld men say com
plimentary things to us.
•'So I went on arraging my flowers.
Pretty soon I felt a touch, and looking
up, there was the old gentleraau close to
me, and just drawing back bis hand from
uy hair. I suppose I must have looked
startled, for he said, apologetically :
" 'Excuse me—bnt I used to know a
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
girl with hair like your*. U*> loop, ao
| thick, o shiny in the i>un. I hope you
j don't put it up iu one of those mt**y
water fAUs.?'
-•No. I generally braid it,"
**' That's right,' he rrj ilned. 'UraLl
it and hake it, and mark It with T—! I
declare—What a:n 1 ayi*gf'
"Now I i> really uncomfortable. My
hair wasn't halt dry, hut 1 caught at it
aud began to twi*t a d atiek in pin* pre
paratory to immediate flight. To my
horror the old man pulled the pins out a
fast a* l put them in.
" 'No, no ' he cried ; 'no pica, no pins!
Nature must hare her own way sometime*,
or she'll explode. Your hair was meant
to hang. N>> pin*, po pitta !'
"'Don't,' I raid; for in suiting thepina
he pulled my hair dreadfully; 'yon hurt
me. Uiva me hack those hair pins if you
please, sir." Rut instead of giving thtrn
back he clutched my wrist, and tiling hi*
eye* upon tue, said, in a low, aepulchra!
voice: 'Melioda consents. She is mine,
hair and all. Hut how to Hud a priest!'
"Ob, Soidee, if you could g-.e-* bow
frightened I waa! It ws* not the word-,
only, but the wilJ glare of the eves, wliieb
told me that 1 wa iu the power <>f a ma
niac, alone ou that dreadtul i-laud. For a
minute alt grew black before uie. I *up
p>se 1 wax on tbe point of hunting arvar.
Then a desperate sort ol courage came to
my aid, and forcing a -mils to uiy lip*—l
could feel them quiver aud stiffen—l drew
my baud gently away, shook down the
hair, and said,
" 'There, than.'
"Tbe terrible old gentlemen seemed
plex-ej, '.Much better, much better.' he
cried. 'That'* the way we wore it in
Paradise, you kuow. Let uie see ; 1 *#
talking— What was 1 talking about I'
'About tbe giri with long hair.' 1 an
*wered for I did not dare to remind bun
" 'No, I wasn't;* and he gave me a sharp
look, 'it was something eUe. Oh, Mcliu
da. Did *fce promise to be mine!'
,4 * I dou't know. Won't you sit down
and tell uie tbe story/' I ulcered, for I
tnaught time was my best friend, and
hoped each minute to hear semebwly coat
ing that way.
"Tha lunatic eyed suspiciously.
Thoti to my dismay he caught at my hair,
ami tiad it in a tigut knot round on* of
the low boughs o! the tree under which 1
cat.
" 'Now,' be said, sitting dawn directly
between mo anl the steps—'now you're
iixed, and I'll tell you the story.*
44 'But,' I *: .!—ami Saidee, i actually
gave a gay little laa-c'a ; Juliet said sin
cm* imagine how I did it, and neither
can I now— ' Kv didn't wear ber hsir
tied round a bough iu Paradise. Naiurt
meant it to hang down you know.*
44 'You're nghtji ou're right; so she did,'
he cried, skipping from his seat ami unty
ing the hair as fast as he kad tied it up.
•It ought to hang, and it •.hall,' aod ho sat
down again between me and the steps.
"'About Melinda,' be went on. 'She
Eroroieed. you know, but the (>ar<en said 1
ad a wife too much, or 100 little—which
was it?—and so he wouldn't route. That
broke it up. lint I kept the lock of Pair
be gave tee. It was like yours. Arc yon
Melinda V
44 • N I said, ss poitivf!y a* I rouid
speak, 'I atn no' Mtiinda.'
" ' I—don't— believe —you,' re Jo'net 1 the
dreadful creature. in a low deliberate voice.
•Anyhow, t.Si. time we won't lose our
chance fur want of a parson. Do you hear ?
tifre't one <lotr* then —whispering, ai.d
shielding his voice with hi* hand, as he
pointed over the edge of the fail."
4- Oh, Ethel, do go on !** I cried for she
had suddenly stopped.
"Oh, i don't know w b.it I said," she
| continue! 1 taking very pale, "or exactly
| what came next. It Is like some awful
: dream. I tried to calm him but be
wouldn't be calmc 1. At last be pulled me
; to tny feet, and gra-pi ig my arm, drew me
'to tbe edge of the water. How strange
that little thing* hould impress the eve
I as they do in momenta of extreme peril!
I rem.int er perfectly that as we swayed
on that fearful brink I raw below at the
! toot of tbe fall a sort of arched shell of
-now and ice, streaked with line* of brown
earth, and it struck me as looking like a
biacket fungus. At the time I was un
conscious ol the thought, but it came to
me afterward. I had seized a branch, and
was red-ting tbe violent pull which for ceil
roe on, wnd screaming with all my might,
when suddenly 1 caught a sound. Some
body was hurrying down the stejis. The
old gentleman Heard it too. A change
came over him. instead of trying to pull
me forward he drew me luck, and repeat
ing n • under the tree, he turned te the
ncw-comer, and said, with a congratu
latory voice, and the blandest, most
cunning smile. 'Rejoice with me, sir. I
was ju*t in time to rescue this interesting
young lady from self deaf taction!'
"Far a second 1 was too stupefied to
speak. Jack—lor it r at Jack—says he
shall never forget tbe picture: rnv hair
and my look, and the wily *mootbnew* of
tde old gentleman's voice. Before another
word passed, two men, very red in the face
appeared on the bank above, hurrying
down toward us. At the sight of them
tba lunatic shrank, and running behind me
he crouched down ami began to whimper
and cry like a beaten child.
" 'Ah, here you are ." cried one of the
men seizing and dragging him out, 'You
old case, you: ain't you ashamed or your
aelf.—Oh, don't be troubled, Miss ; we
sba'n't hurt bitn, only take him back to
the asylum! He's given us a sharp hunt
for these three days. I hope he hasn't
scared you much. Generally be is quiet
and peaceable enough : that's how we came
to take it easv alxiut watching him and so
he cot off. But it won't happen again.'
" Oh, how glad I was to see them vanish
up the bank! After tbe long vr.iin ol
fear ail my nerves seemed to relax at once
and for some time I could do nothing but
sit and solt in Ike most piteous way. Of
course, Jack didn't leave mi alone in that
condition; and so—and so. Well, that
was tbe beginning. 1 was so ill for three
day# that wc couldn't get away from via
gara and he came to inquire, and Juliet
aked him to call on us in town. I'm
afraid you'll be shocked when I tell you
that it was only six week* before we were
engaged! His father turned out to be
pa'a college churn, however, so that made
it easier to know him. Such .a happy
summer as we've had ! Juliet has been as
good as an angel, and scr.t to Paris lor eve
ry stitch of my ttousaeu; an I've absolute
ly had nothing to do but enjoy myself and
the country and Jack. Ah, there's the
stage at la*t!"—as a loaded vehicle rattled
up the road and somebody waved a hand
kerchief.
"Excuse me won't you, dear Saidee ?
I must go and meet him. He likes to see
me the first thing.''
And she ran up the bank just a* a gay
voice overhead Imgan calling, "Godiva!
fair one with golden lock*, where are
you?"
A FRAT OF IIANDS.—Who can put one
hnud in such n position that the other
hand can not possibly touch it ? Aunt
Oirrie, in the American I hunt Boole, tells
ns that there is but one way of doing
this (namely, clasping the elbow), and
she's right. Try it for yourselves, cbil
dreu, or if you want to make lun, sud
denly ask the above question of a room
ful of persons. Every one will trv. and
tuere'll be some ratber comical twiatinga
aid turuiugs before any one succeeds.
A Chicago reporter announces that
" the receipt of another ship load of
blackberries from St. Joe, created a
perceptible ripple in the toothpick trade."
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., FRIDAY, OCTORER 4, 1872.
Thti tattle IV*l.
Mr. O. N. Hammond write* to the
Albany /'r/>r*#s, from Syracuse : "While
lur—iug ulotig the Mohawk Valley, 1
learned with regret that u -oiitageoii*
disease of a very serious nature exist*
among the rattle there, nud that farmers
and others in tore* Ud in the raisin# of
cattle had endeavored to keep the matter
secret, leal it slioirbl depreciate the
cattle maiket in that and other motion*
of the country."
Of the tiimteanuiM of the Txm
i-:*ttt* plague iu Ohio, the Cincinnati
j CoMiHtrtiai of
"We have ißolbir Texas cattle senaa
] tit'ii on hand at the twine tune of year,
ami 11) the same locality, where, three
yea re ago, the co urn me re of milk were
alarmed at the loa* of score* of cows on
dairies out <>u the Caterain I'ike beyond
! Ouuiuunavdle. The principal lter then
was Mr. M("Cracken, who hwt every cow
iu hta possession fr >iu the disease, ue
(V>m|Mnied by ticka or con-lice, that
Prof. tiangea designate* aa the splenic
or K|Hirutlie fever. The prr-Mut instances
of the re-api>eanuie of this fatal niaUtly
are in the dairies of G W. Tullaut ami
J. W. West, both contiguous to each
other on the Colerain Pike, about two
miles beyond Cumminvilie, or iu the
immediate vicinage of Mt. Airy. A
lot of Texas or Cherokee rattle were
pastured on Mr. West's place. Lart
week thirteen of Mr. Tullaut'a cattle
died, as he thought; from the feeding
on green corn ; this week the remainder
of his stock of tweuty-niue took ill aud
have alto died. The matter coming to
the knowledge of Mr. Owen*, the City
Milk Inspector, und Mr. Hinder, Inspec
tor of M. at and Cuttle, thev repaired to
the plax and found all of Mr. West's
cattle ill, twenty-four iu number, ami all
exhibiting the symptom-* of tbesiikuic
fever—the drviug up of the milk, the
dull, stupid look of the animal, the
glassy eye and drooping head, and the
hide covered with Texas cnttle-ticka or
lice—an-l so pronounced it Further
inquiry discovered that a lot of poor,
meagre, bruised aud lm*y Texas cattle
hid leen pastured on Mr. West's place,
and ulao that Urge niimWrs of the Chero
kee and Texas cattle were being sent
here from St. Louis and Chicago. Mr.
Snyder, in the exorcise of his duty a
Cattle Inspector, act red a lot of 144
head, and condemned them as unfit for
hutnan food. They "were lean, scabby,
lousy, bruised and generally bad. The
Cattle liuqwctor ordered the immediate
burial of the dead cows, in order, if
l>o-*ible, to prevent anv farther spread
of the contagion, and tue most prompt
and efficient measures will lie adopter)
by tlie authorities to check the evil, at
least mi fax as this community is con
cerned."
Why She Rrfbscd.
You say you went to a party bud night,
au 1 you saw Mrs. Smith, an old friend,
whutu you had not sreu since she and
vonr sister were at school together. Yon
had a very pleasant talk until supper,
then you pave her your arm and took
ht-r to stipper. When some one came
along with a few glasses of wine on a
waiter and offered her a plans, you saw
her shudder as she said. •* So !"* and vou
wondered why Mr*. Smith, who didn't
use to lie particular alxvut such things,
not only refuted but shuddered wh n
be said, " No I" Yon can not tell why !
I can tell you why. You went on with
your talk, and hnd a little renewed flirt.v
tion, did you I 1 won't say von didn't.
She was very pay, and seemed very glad
to forget herself, aho did ? Very well !
lam piail you gave her that honor of
the evening. I ean tell you where she
went after the party wn* our. She was
glad it was late, fur her husband had not
come home. She sat and read an hour
and her husband did not come. She
wro'e f.>r sn hour, and he did not come.
Site sat at the piano for un hour, but he
did not come. At length, between three
oid four o'clock, there vu a noise nt
the door, aud two policemen held him
iu their ortns. She knew tin nt both
well lv this time. It happens ao often
that she knows every peherman on ths
beat. They bade her good night. She
brought him in. She had locked her
child's room that he might not abuse
him. She tock the abuse aa he flung
himself upou the bed. She t>k <ff his
neckcloth nnd coat, and sat there until
he should fall info hie stupid sleep. She
was tho woman who had refused a plas*
of wine with a shudder. You did unt
know the story. You thought she was
cay and bright. I know her story,
because lam her mini-ter. They have
a sort of a skeleton iu the closet, which
we nro permitted to see and you srenot.
\nd win n yon see that skeleton, do yon
wonder that we aometiuisa say pretty
sharp things about moderate drtuking
aud the temptation* offered at parti**.
—Rer. K. A*. Ih!r.
LONDON* London is spoken of ns the
largest city in the world; as covering
one hue Iml and twenty-two Mpinro
miles of ground, as being ten miles in
length, and over sis in breadth, and nt
containing nearly four millions of inhab
itant*. Htill wo have no adequate con
ception of its vastnes*. We roust resort
to comparison to comprehend it. The
(our millions of inhabitant* of London,
then, exceed the combined population of
New York, Brooklyn, 8. Louis. Chicago.
Baltimore, Cincinnati, Boston, New Or
leans. Han Francisco and Buffalo. To
feed this multitude riqniris, nmong
other items, flvo million four htindnsl
thousand barrels of (lour, and throe mil
lion four hundred thousand animals—
•ullocks. sheep, calves and hogs—for
tho London markets, irrespective of im
mense quantities of flsh. It is almost a
nation in itself, this wonderful, over
grown giant of a city.
A SKA-KHFJ.L BATHINO-TFB. — When
our little boys and girls have reen sen
shell* n foot in length they probably
have considered them yery large indeed.
But what would they say to shells so
large, that they make excellent bathing
tuba for grown-up men ? In the neon
near the Molneea Islands the enormous
clutn called Tridmna ia not rare, and it is
the shell of this elam that the native* of
the Molueean use forhathing or wulnng
tuhs. They are v ry handsome shells,
and when polished ore often taken to
Europe, and used as fonts in churches,
or as b.isin" for goldfish in ornamental
grounds. The f-sh of the TridUM
tastes something like oysters, and is
much pirized by the Molucca Islanders.
One Tridiona will make u meal for twenty
lrsona, and the shell, which has to be
cut with an at from the rock to which it
grows, is so heavy that it makes quite a
good load for a horse.
LECAZI. —A lawyer having some lega
business to transact with a widow lady,
took occasisn to inquire her age. The
matron, who had not long since doffid the
" widow's deed*," attempted to look prim
and muah younger than she really was, as
she replied : "Thirty-five, sir." Then
turning to the daughter, he said: ".May
I lie so bold, Miss, as to inquire
"Certainly; I am little past thirty-two—
meat three years younger than met her."
Years ago it was the custom for nil
vessels passing Mount Vernon on the
Potomac to toll their bells in honor of
the sacred memories of tbo place. Dur
ing the war it was manifestly impossible,
and since the inauguration of peace
again the custom has not been revived.
fluid and Nllter.
In an article ou gold and silver, Dr.
Miwkeuxio gives us the following items:
O, • in II i t.'il\ iiuv.on.' how in. ,|I
atomy, or coin, becomes duuiiiish I in
\i. ig 111 1> the -o i-'.tnl li.til■ 111 II:? It g. t*
in the way of business. 'l'hi* idea can
be naliz I by teo'lliy'tin# liow lunch
worn I>.V u-e and therefore diiuiniHhed
hi vulue, the old Spanish coins knowu as
| " levies" aud " lijia," used to Ik'.
They ceased to eirettlale s uue four
teen years ugo, and the constant wear
ami tear-of circulation had won tli-i
down, oft-tiiues, to the thiunes* of a bit
of liu. Efllgy and inscription were us
ually worn out, and at last Hit*? out of
date pieces of inouey were not worth
more than one half of their nominal
; value.
As every oue knows, gold and silver
Coiu ia not made of pure uietol. It ia
ucoisisury to alloy it, by iucorperating
with it iuiiuu portion of an inferior
metal—almost always copper. Gold,
which is the most valuable, in always one
of the softest of ail uu-tala. My mother
lined to wear a gold ring which utv father
hail brought with him from the East
Indies, and I well remember that it had
a slight tinge of red (a me of the pocta
mention " the red gold,") and being en
tirely without alloy, was so soft, tint
when worn, it did not retain its circular
form, but scoouimodaled itself to the
hape of the tiugcr U|>on which it haJ
been placed.
It ha* lieen necessary, to increase their
hardiieat and durability, to alloy the
precious metals. The gold acoilin of
Tui key and the silver florins of Hanover
stood alone, in later times, as being a)
most absolutely pure. In a state of
nature a certain qtiantitv of siDer is b
mo*t iuvaritdy found mingled with the
gold, aud where or when it is not com
to separate them, tlie silver is idlowcd to
remain, a* a natural allov.
The gold doubloons of S nitli America
have their pale apjwarance tr<m the sil
ver thus retained in them. When Sjmiu
still poaocased her Amt iiean provinces,
it was believed that, in all the silver
money coined there particularly tue
dollars—there was a portion of gold
which, from imperfect mean* of refining,
had remained in the silver.
In *omo p.<rt"> of Eurup#, where the
gold ha* been <<:tfirrlj seperateJ, and ar
alloy of cooper introduced for coining,
the money na a icd tinge—not like that
of the the gold in the 11*-1 India rtug I
hare mentioned, bnt of n coppery hue.
In the United .States Mi:it*t Philadel
phia, to which stranger* were admitted
every forenoon, the aim n to imitate the
tru<- color of gold aa clmeiy aa poaaihle,
by the u*o of an alloy of nine tenths cop
per and one tenth silver—that ia, a
thousand ounces of stand ird gold will
con-iat of nine hundred ounce* of pure
gold, ninety ounce* of co)>|er and b it of
•ilver. All the gold coin of this country
therefore, consists of nine hundred
part* ef pure metal and one hundred
|wrt* of alloy. Tliia mak*s a fltuoeas oi
nine-tenth*. which ia the " standard*
gold required by law. In the eagle,
them must be two hundred and fifty
eight grams. lu e-ctimatiug the value of
thie Uat-ud contained ui coin, nothing Is
allowed for the alloy.
A SCRAP or HAUEH HISTOKT. —There
;i nlw.it A a ri'iUiu curiosity which seek*
ih incidents of the inor life* of the
harems, with an avidity which is often
fully wan-antcd bv the disclosures. Tlx
//Ml Tin t, umW dale of August 12,
' gives the bistory of the death of a tx-niv
' 'iful Circassian shite, supposed to IWTC
| Urn poisoned. She had been purchased
some time ago for the mm of £7OO by a
wealthy Mussulman of high rank, a man
well advanced in life, who has one legal
wife and a number of conctiblues, bat
no children. bhe Iwooms tlx- favorite
of ber master, who was much distressed
some darn ago at her faliiug seriously
ill. her malady Wing characterised by
thorough prostration of the system, lie
had her removed to the house of one of
. his dependents near his yuli on the Bos
! phorua, giving instruction* that medical
| aid should be procured and uo pains or
expense spared to restore the sufferer to
health. The way in which the person
to whom the precious charge w.ia in
trusted fulfllh-d these instructions was to
send for a medical man and drive a l>ar
gain with him at the rate of 20 piastres
a visit, medicines to lie included. It is
stated, and is very prohvbly true, that
the practitioner did not pay a wooml
visit. A " wise woman" was then called
and wrote aoino talismonhs words on a
scrap of pa|u>r. The patient wat visitel
daily by a uiunhcr of her fellow slaves
from the ban m. who <lisplayed much
compassion for her and a respect indi
cative of the high place she occupied in
heir master's affecli ons. For six days
she neither ate or diank anything, and
she remained in a romutoo state, appa
rently paralysed, until laat night, when
she expired—the victim, probably, of
jaclousy or of some harem intrigue.*'
TIIK LABOR OJ DFJCIUDCO. —The great
la'or of life, that which tends more to
exhaust men than tuij thing cle. is de
eidfng. There are people who will suf
fer any other pain readily, but ahriisk
from the puiu of coming to n decision.
Now. this in supposed to be wholly an
evil and disadvantageous thing for the
world ; but. like nit other t< ndeucies
of tho Imuran mind, it ia a very Iwnc
fleeut arrangement. Tliero would lie no
stability in tho world if tho making of
decision* were not a very difficult thing.
What was decided yesterday would bo
upset to-day ; and there would bo 110
long and fair ex|Mwienee of unv thing.
Whereas, in the present state of human
affairs, even if a gre.it evil exists, tun!
many people liavo recognized this evil,
it requires an immense amount of de
rision mid derisiveness lie ore the evil
can lie uprooted. Thi* bring* into play
many high qualities of huiiia* nature,
such as long suffering, patience with
opponents, and the exhaustion of reason
ing powers brought to War upon the
evil which is sought to l>e destroyed.
LAY MONKS. —In the Hotel drg Inva
lid.-K. in Paris, iwnsioners who have lost
the use of their limbs and are nimble to
take care of themselves are railed by
their brethren "Isy monks," because
they have untbing to do but dose, sleep,
eat, and drink. The Government allows
tliein money for servant hire, the serv
ants must fe |iensioners living in the
hotel, and the (Kisitions are always in
demand, although servants of the first
class of "lay monks," according to a
Into writer, receive only SI 20 a mouth,
those of tiin second only 80 cents, arid
those of the third class only <lO cents a
month. There are, it is said, sixty-three
monks now living eared for bv the Gov
ernment ; two lmvo just diecl aged re
spectively 76 and 80 ; they have fought
in every campaign of the flrst Km pi re,
uud have left on its battle fields fonr
hands and three legs.
CLAMS. —The vigor*,us and active clam
ran dig a hole and bury itself six Inches
in the sand. Fisherman any that tliey
have often left thousands ol clams on a
beach where they would lie exposed to the
air at low tide, "but visiting tbo spot at
that period woul 1 not find a shell in sight.
Digging a few inches below the surface,
there would befouud Messrs. Clam & Co.
reposing in unconscious innocence and
stony stolidity, as quiet and impassive as
the spliynx, and with no sign of clammy
sweat upon tbeir brews after their bard
work in digging their own grarca with
their acveral tingle pulpy feet.
Hllllngffiatr.
Love generally ehaugM coquctlry to
Benac, and prudery to siilyues*.
It is only a atop from cunning tow
dishonesty, and it is a atop that a man is
liable at sunvtime tew bike.
Old use ha* it* priviligea—one is tew
fiud fault with everything;
Ifaai aud viek*d are tlie two worst
thiuga that enuyboddy can be charged
with.
Ha who is willing tew trust every
buddy, is willing tew be cheated by
ever i buddy.
Whenever yti fiud a man, with* an
pxeeutricity uv euny kit.d. which he
brags ov, vu kan put that man down at
a •'<*•#," and charge it tea mi account
A wise man is never leas alone than
when alone.
A man may mistake his tollenta, but
he Lint mistake Ids genius.
Tallent must hav memory, genius don't
require it.
1 don't Ixdeave thare is a human lieing
on the f.ie ov the earth, nor an angel iu
lieaveu, who are posalively proof against
temptashuu.
When a man measures out glory for
himsely he alwus heaps the half bnsltel.
A bile ain't a very sore thing after all,
vspeshily when it is on turn othei
pbellow.
Prettv much all the philosophy in this
world is kontuiued iu the following
bracket (</ri>i and feewr s/J
1 don'i kuo hitch has done the must
damage iu this world, lasynra or malice,
but i gueas lasynees has.
If i had 4 fust rat<" dogs i would name
the liest one " Doubtful" aud the other
3 " L'adcaa."
Rumor is like a swarm ov bees, the
more yu tile them the less vu git rid ov
them.
Yirtew may koesit in never sinning,
but tlie glory ov \iftew koucit* in re*
peutancc.
Faabion make* phoolsov mm, ninnem
•v other*, and alaiea ov all.
A jest may be knx I, but a joke ntver
is.
I never l*t ; not ;> mutch tx-kause i
am slrale i shall lore, as bekause i am
atraJe i shall win.
A phooU money is like his bruins,
very oueaxr.
I don't think the height ov impudence
Has ever been reached yet, altlio meuuy
hav inade a good trv for it
The reason • hi all the works ov natore
ere o impressive, is bckause, they rc|
present ideas.
The b.xiks whitch summer touri.its
cany about with them are dmghncd
more to employ the bands, than improve
the branc*.
The man whose whole strength lays in
hi* money is a weak inau ; I had rather
be able tew milk n cow suckceasfnlly on
the wrong aide, than to be such a man.
Honm How a strawberry flavor
ia got out of Limburger cheese, or why
the >lva of ladies' shoe- should tie bet
ter than the sole# of man's boot*, are
puxxbng. Perhaps it ia the invention
••f a 1-cent khU man to put down the
five-centers That favorite syrop, straw-
Kerry, which goes gurgling *u rosy e**ol
uesa down the fair UmxiU of prwtiy girla.
has a butyric ether bane of ranc >1 butter
and old rotten cheese— ths o'dest Lins-i
burger being the m>t desirable—treated
with sulphuric acid and u macros.*
pieces rut from aid b w>t leg* a-*d the
vales of lm*lia' shoes Tsclw parts of
this compound, on* jaxrt of acetic ether
diluted with alcohol and water. Colored
with cochindal. make what wc call straw
tw-rry syrup at the leaver fonctains.
lUaana syrup la compounded of rmncid
butter, fermeatad starch, and acetic
sther ; Hirwaparilla has a base of lom
nion molasses, with a dash of wiater
grrvn added. Vasilla symp is made of
tonka bvnns and fresh hay. Ihneappla
syrup ia made of rancid butter, sulphuric
acid, glycerin* l and iwap. Peach syrup
is made of bittsr almonds and acetic
ether. Nectar contain* neutral spirits,
logwood, sugar aud rai-ina. Lemon ia
the best and moat harmless, being gen
erally compowrd of citric acid and sugar.
The aliovc will be reeogntted as the
most popular syrun*. ami the drink, as
diapvoxed at llio fountains by a large
nnmlior of sods water *lealera, costs
from one cent to one and a quarter per
Sis**, and it ia said at from five to ten
cent* per glaas, yielding a profit of from
3to to MKi per*ceoL The syrups of the
tirt-ela-s establishments are >n "parol
with great ears from ripe fruit and pure
crushed sugar, and consequently coats
more than tho chemical compounds
said for syrups. The soda from these
fountains costs proliably throe aud a
half reats per gloss.
A Hriut. Wxmuve.—One of those olJ
time weddings took in roioatowu,
IVnn., a few dsy* ago. A young gcntls
man and lady, stranger* to everybody
there, railed on the eqnire to get married.
The youag man * carrying hi* shoe* in
hi* hand on aceonnt of a atone bruise and
iiad on his shoulder a long, narrow *ack.
In one end he had something resembling
wearing apparel, and in the front end he
had a /tinall dog, with it* note dirking out
ot a hole. The young lady had in her
artn* a large Maltese cat, with a pink nb
bon aroand it* neck, tatened with a neat
breast pin. When they came to the of
fice the yottng man refused to go in. hut,
•he, taking hold of hi* coat, said: "Come
en. I ain't afraid." Finally he went in.
She ays: "Squire, we want to get mar
ried." "Hold on," said the young man,
" 1 wan't to know how much this job
costs." The price wa agreed on, and in
the incantime.many had gathered,and two
of the crowd acted a* attendant*. While
the ceremony was g' : -ig on. one of the at
tendants cried oc'.. "Held on, thie fellow
ain't on the right side." Hcing properly
placed thi djulre proceeded, and the two
were made one, and left, no one knew
where, being entire stranger.
A test enso was recently tried in Berk
shire, England. The 24th of June a
farmer had a good deal of hay down and
thirty men at work. At o'oloek at
nigtyt there remained an hour nud a-knlf's
work to be done in order to secure the
hay. A portion of the workmen refused
hi "work longer, unless paid extra for it.
This was refused, and the hay was not
secured, a rain came on, the bay was
damaged, and the farmer sued two labor
ers whom he was paying by the week,
to recover his loss. The magistrates de
cided that the defendants were not bound
by their contract to go on with the work
at that time of night, and the case was
dismissed.
AN Ixsnuxcß CASK. —A esse likely to
prove valuable to insurance offices was
tried last Assizes, at Bristol,* England. A
person named Bowie obtained a loan from
an insurance company on the strength of
a policy taken out in August. 186W, and
died In November, 1871. Alter his
death, the company received information
which led them to lielievc that neither
Mr. Bowie's health nor habit* were of the
satisfactory character which he alleged,
and It was further discovered that, al
though himself tbo ngent of an insurance
company, he had not deenred it desirable
to insure in the office for which he acted.
The jury at once gave a verdict for the
office.
A eorrespondent, writing from White
Sulphur bpritigs to the Washiugtou Pit
h'iot, describes the German, which lasted
two hours, as " hugging, set to music"
—and he hit, nieely, in his expression.
EnglUh Needle women.
The needle women of Liverpool have
(•ecu holding tuoetlug*. for the purpose
of procuring an increase of pay far their
hard labor. A Mr. HUnuuti, who takes
a great interest in the working-class**,
preside* at their assemblies, and the
facta brought to light show tlwlthe eon
dition of the English needle women it,
indeed, deplorable. One woman, a man
tle maker, stated that she worked twelve
hour* a day, with au allowam-e of an
hour and a half for meal*. When the
inspector came to visit the workroom the
employer represented that there were
fewer' people in the house than there
usually were, her object being to get the
establishment under the Worksbo Act
instead of the Factory Art, so *s to be
able to keep her workwomen to a later
hour. The wages ranged from five shil
ling* to twelve abilliugs a week, and for
thoae sums the women had to keep them
selves.
The mantle makers, however would
*rm to be much better paid than the'
plain sewer*. One young woman, a
plain aswar, said she worked eleven hours
a day and received a permanent salary
of seven shillings a week, and she was
the beat machinist in the room. If this
is the wages of the beat it may t> im
agined what the bad machinist* receive.
One old woman, who said she bai been
forty year* a plain aewer, actually assert
ed that she had worked five day* for
eighteen pence. A middle-aged woman
•aid abe had worked at aaeknaking from
hslf-|Hiet seven in the morning till aix in
the evening, with half an hour for din
ner, and she got four shillings a week.
A young woman said she waa a luscltin
-Ist, and tnado youth's single jacket*, for
which she was' paid at the rate of five
pence for four. It took her half of the
day to make the four. When she came
out at night she added, after working s
heavy machine all day, olie oould hardly
stand on her feet.
fl it mm tlin statement la surpassed
by that of soother machinist, who make*
gentlemen's troaaejw, and who aaid she
was paid three shillings a doccn, or far
the TrtT Ituet f<>ur shillings. "If we
worked," the explained," "from six o'clock
in the morning until twelve at night we
might manage with the assistance of a
boater to make half-a-doacn." "That
ia," asked Mr. Ktimpnmi, "two shilling*
for workisg eighteen hoora, and out of
that kuu voo And your own thread and
silk f to which aho replied " Yes."
Another young women aaid ah* got
three-half-pen re a doxra tor making
linen enfla and collars She could earn.
five pence a day by working from nine
to seven. That' was aa much aa others
earned. A correspondent of the Liver
pool Albion, who baa been investigating
the matter, confirms many of the above
statements.
The following is a description of one
of the above establishments visited by
him: "The workrooms are two cellars
each fifteen feet by eighteen feet, the
fl.tor* bring nin* feet sx inches beneath
the level of the roadway. An opening
ha been made in the partition wail ao aa
to connect the two cellars. Workshops
teas likely io fulfil the conditions of
health it would be rather difficult to con
ceive. One of the cellars contained fire
onachinea and the other three. Ttie
proprietor informed u* that be employ
■-I sixteen or seventeen "hands.' inclu
ding bis wife and himself, bat at the time
of our visit tbeie was no work going on
in one of the cellars. In the other there
were nine girla ami women, some at
work and others takings 'tea dinner.'
The countenance of all, proprietor and
proprietor's wife, women and girla—bore
sallow evidence of the effects of spend
ing many hours a day ' in a close plaoc.'
It is but fair to add that the profits of
the ' sweater* appear to be anything but
excessive. He ia, in fact, but a ooutrac
tor for the shops, and is himself nearly
as poor m those be employs. M
How A Box or FARE Przzi.cn THE
IXIJIANS—At dinner Whitewash ia-lua-
Eve called to him a waiter.-who said
• Ugh fa a delicate compliment, and
banded him a bill of fare. The chieftain
IKtintcd to the tlrst item, and said * Ugh!-
riie waiter said * Ugh !' an! returned
with a cup of coffee. Now, even though
.i cup of coffee ia a good thing, it is
hardly a meal for a man. So the brave
said ' Ugh!' again, and pointed to the
aecond item. The waiter said • Ugh !'
retired, and returned with a cup of green
tea. A third interchange of ' Ugha T
resulted in a cup of black tea, and a
fourth inaeupof mixed tea. In des
pair. the brave, uttered an angry * Ugh!'
that tu.idc the waiter turn pale, and
pointed to the laat item on the bill, evi
dentlj being anxious to get aa tar away
from the teas as possible. The waiter
faltered ' Ugh !' and hurried Iwck with a
tumbler of iced tea. The other*, warn oil
by the example and fate of their com
rade attacked the bill ot fare ia madia
tfg. One atruck "pay cat,' under the
head ' broiled,' and had an abundant if
not varied meal of mutton ehopa, seal
•ntlets. broiled chicken, pork abopa, mr
loin steak, porter-house steak. Boston
•teak, A c. Combining their information,
the remaining member* of the partv
wander d over th* lull of fare, taking
every division by start*, and none of
them long. The result was eminently
satisfactory to the aboriginal ytomach.
which is capacious and has no prejndice*
as to the succession and relative propor
tions of soup, flsh, game, entrcea,boiletl
roast, game and deaaert One erratic
brave owed his matutinal distension to
a judicious compound of : 1, coffee ; 2,
oanteloi*; 3, ice cream ; 4, Irish stew ;
5, steak ; 6, Worcester sauce; 1, mtis
urd; 8, melon ;9, fried potatoes; l'l.
mackerel ; 11, Graham broad; 12, iced
tea; 18, fried egg* ; 14. sliced tomatoes
and 15, buttered toast, and his l>oom
was Tent wilh emotion when he found
that the wnitor shook his head when the
li
ue ncata having Irionda to dinner
will fileaae give notice at tbc office-toM
w*t* indicated. —St. Louiepaper.
AT WENT Pot NT. —Among the jrecnliar
institutions at West Point are two maiden
ladies named Thompson, who eniuy cer
tain privileges not possessed by any
other ladies in the land—namely, the
right to board twelve students of the
senior class of cadets. Their father,
Col. Thompson, performed some special
service during the It-volutionary War,
for which a novel (tension was settled ou
hn widow—via., the us® of a house at
West Point during her life at an annual
rent of six ornte, to which was added
the above boarding privilege. Ot the
death of the widow the pension was con
tinued to her throe daughters, and for
sixty years the family have held the
privilege, and maintaired themselves
handsomely from it. One of the daugh
ters is dead, and the remaining two are
very aged, one soventy-two, the other
eighty. They are very aristocratic and
diguifled, and if the cadets "carry ou "
too much, tliey find a polite note under
their plates intimating that they can
depart. They have their pick of cadets,
and it is considered a great favor to get
there.
It is reported that there has been
a tight between two factions ef tbe Creek
Indians, in which 6cven were killed and
several wounded. Tbe quarrel is'said to
have grown ontof tue election of a negro
te the chieftainoy of the Creek Nation,
TERMS : Two Dollars a Year, In Advance.
Tbf Horror* of a IMlr,
Inspector Meßrlen, of New York, who,
with nil wile, was on bord the Metis,
U*lto the story of hU -<-Jpa aa follows :
M I went to my wife ami quietly aid that
, f lrred We were in danger, ami naked her
to arise immediately. Hbe got out of the
b> rtl> and aoked ma to be culm. I e*id,
"Ye#, it ia oar only hope." I opened the
•Uteroom door to admit the light, and I
, procured two life-preservers tod threw
j them on the floor. At that moment soma
] onr oame through the passageway aud
•aid there wee no time to areas. lat
(once pat one of the life-preservers on
my wife and then another. 1 took a aheet,
tore it in two, ami tied a piece of it
| around my wife. Then I pulled the eur
-1 lain oord off the hook and my wife took
that and tied tt over the life-preservers
| around her body. 1 then put on a life*
: proaerrer and aaaiated her to the main
> Midoon. She woe at that time vary <•
jsiek. I returned to the atoteroom, got
! her eboea and pot them on. At that time
1 the passengers were crowding toward the
■ atern of the steamer. Home men were
praying tn the main aaloon, and all were
intensely agitated. One woman wildly
cried out, "Where ie the Oaptatu if
Wbere are the life-preeerrem ?" Will
nobody help me ?"
We then went through the
to the window opposite our*, and I aJil
my wife to get out of the window. Bite
felt unable to do 00. bat finally succeeded,
aad we went to the gangway byway of
the saloon deck. I said to my wife, "fi
afraid it will soon be over." ! Hbe raid,
"1 pray not" I kueod her. thinking it
would be our last kirn. I aosteted her in
the water on a sbelf on which I bad bound
her witn two pieces of a sheet, and imrae
i diately followed ber. After taring in the
| voter a moment I said, "Louise, I'm
I afnud I made a mistake in leaving the
wreck," and I immediately made on c 3 rt
I to reach it, and aneoeeded in grasping the
netting of the gangway. In an effort to
' get on deck 1 lost my hold on my wife,
1 and she cried out, "Oh, save me, has
hand, save me. I answered, "Yea. Lou,
j I'm here." It waa ao dork that I could
not see her, but I knew lior voior. The
j dashing wares earned what I supposed
; to be phosphorescent light oo tbe water,
and by it I saw my wtfa with the red
oord and tease) that I had tied around
her. I grasped lier tod assisted her oo
' the saloon deck. After getting her u
her Let we moved to the bow of the
boat. The Captain said. "Coire this
tray," ami be lowered a ladder by which
!we reached the humcane deck. I placed
my wife on the skylight where some
ladies sad piweogen were grouped, and
we remained there until we could see the
breakers. I thoaght that the roof of the
: burrictne deck would be raised by tbe
waves and would fall flat on the beach
and that we might tins get ashore.
As the steamer struck the breaketw the
I part that waa nearest to the* Ho re doubled
I up and fell back with the IMri • ou the
people on the deck, bat I still lenutined
1 near the skylight. Tbe second mate
tore the skylight ironmtbe deck, to kmg
| it turn a complete somersault, end throw
ing toy wife and myself partially un let
the frame work, tfy great efforts I got
out and released my wife. 1 mmediatwij
ifter regaining my feet I caught the
bodies of en infant and a colored man,
i and clasped my wife's left bond. My
| wife cried out, "For God's sake let go
]my hair." A French woman had caught
;my wife by tbe back hair. I raised tbe
j babe in my left hand aud it waa taken
from me by some one. 1 caught the
French woman by the waist, saying,
1 "Let go, let go." Then n stalwart man
caught the French lady and seemed to
I lift her as if to throw ber over his shoul
; der. and carried her to the beech. Home
one caught me by tbe hand, but st this
turn my strength tailed me. I saw my
wife a few steps in advance. A man
caught me by my nght bond and said :
| "Now make an effort to get on your feet."
I could make no replv, for 1 was com
pletely exhausted. Be said again,
'."Make one more effort !" I looked neck
and saw a breaker coming. 1 made tbe
effort, and they drew me on the sand,
wbere I found my wife."
Tt* A ST- Bor sia.- -The expense of board -
ing hired men is too great for any former
! t<> assume. It to done at the sacrifice of
1 the comfort of his family. The money
expenditure needed to accommodate them
by themselves to far leas than wou'd he
Mipposed. Two hundred dehors will build
a rerr comfortable house, large enough
: for a desen people when necessary. Three
deeping rooms, one kitchen, and one eat
ing-roem will furnish space and privacy
j for a large family, or for several numarried
men, quite equal to that enjoyed *by the
average of our formers. A frame house
I of tiro stories thus divided, with plastered
trails and ceilings, built substantially,with
s floor sixe of 10x24 feet, and height* be
tween floors of nine and eight feet, a cellar
and an outside shed for cooking in sum
mer and weod-shed in winter, may be
Knilt for the amount mentioned- If the
farmer is handy and can put up a balloon
frame, inclose it, roof it, and lay the floors,
and employ a carpenter only to pat in the
door* and windows and a mason to build
the chimney and plaster the house, and
stone up the cellar walls, the meney outlay j
will be materially reduced. The comfort
! gained by the fanner and hi* family in
freedom from domestic annoyance# will
lie a frond a return for the investment the
very first year; but the gain to tie farm
|in having:" a better and, more trustworthy
| kind of help will be much greater, and
will rome each season in the pleain*lv
tangible shape of profit# derived fim
lietter work and crops more readily se
cured. The employment of married men
will then be pnedble, and they are found
to be worth several hundred dollar* a
month more than thoee not thus "an
•bored."
HTTDTTCO A POST BILL.—A new anec
dote is told of Benjamin Franklin which
can hardly be true, for he was a bright
boy in the Boston schools, and must
have learned earlv to road and spell.
But it will do to tell, and the moral is as
good : Bat there ia one anecdote which
I have never seen in print, it was told
me by a gentleman of Boston, who re
membered the old house in which Frank
lin was born. " Often," said he, " have
I looked at the old tumble-down building
iu Milk Street, and imagined the bare
foot boy sitting on the door step, learn
ing to spell from an old post bill." A
young miss, daughter of a distinguished
citizen, passed him-one day while thus
engaged, and the boy overheard lier
words of ridicule as she spoke to her
companion, laughing at the eagerness of
the poor lad, and derided his " beautiful
spelling book." But there came another
day, when Franklin was our embassador
at the court of France. A wealthy
American lady, was once present at one
of the festive occasions made in honor of
Franklin, greatly desired an introduction
to her distinguished countryman. It
was obtained, and great was her surprise
to bear bim say, " Ay, ay, we have met
before." She could not remember when ;
and Franklin added. " You do not re
member the barefoot little boy in Milk
Street, studying his lesson from the
muddy post bill !"' Although spoken
good-huinoredly, the fair lady was much
disconcerted at the remembemnce of
the incident. It is to be boped she
learned a lesson therefrom, in regard to
the importance of treating everybody
with respect.
It is reported in Paris that the trial of
Marshal Bazaiue has brought to light
facts of great gravity.
Farts and FtwH
Ciiui are sold la Hamburg three to a
cent.
Fall sate of dead gold *re the last ia
| maecnliu# jewel ry.
Kaiwjw aversged $43 1* per sere,e*b,
i.u crofahtetyear.
I Missouri IsawlndM out of 5A0.000.000
worth a year by the bog*
Undressed kill glnvos still seem to ba
very mnoti worn on the street.
Wedding carda next winter ara to ha
nmmrlM, white* MRS and plain.
It ia aaid that next winter a hmg dreaa
on the street will be a thing nakaowo.
The kte*t in handkerchief oases ia
made of oanvasa, trimmed with Bosnia
leather.
Young lad ie bow bare their mono
grama embroidered on the instep of
their bootftfaao.
A load of brioka pawed over an lowa
Ijoy last weak without hurting him. Ho
was under a bridge.
Mr. Jones being aaked by Mr*. Jones
to buy a thermometer, aaid bo would
wait ootil they were lower.
Coate of arma of "new and 'original
dtejiV* aril breaking out with grants r
virulence than erar this Fail.
Tinted earda and note paper, light
lirviwn, dark graenlah grey and atona
oolor are pronounced "oorroot."
An Snglhbaian who lost hia right ay#
at the bsti.ls of a oaralaa* aportamao. a
ronpl* of years ago, baa jwt recovered
12,500 damage*.
In 165* a iw" waa proaeeated in Lon
don for selling eoffue, j4 then intro
dtUMMl, a* " outosnoa and prejndia# tn
the neighborhood- "
John Wealey preached 42.000 aeraont
—fifteen a week. He never had elergy
man'a tore throat, or a veer's lasve of
absence with expenses nnid.
Watermelons were naed to extinguish
a Are which occurred in a store at Oan
ton, TIL, by tit* overturning of an oil
lamp.
The Empress Ehasbrth of Austria
offers n prise of luO florins to anybody 4
that saves n human Ufa ia Austria or
11 angary.
NO. 40.
Ant* Mooring to tl spedss Apbeoo
? gtaSrr. in storing seeds tor food, bite off
; the radical to prevent the germination
of to* a**!
} Tiw whoim Emily Gnlum was
a wrecked ou Prince E Sward Wand, nod
nine perrons fort,and eight of th* steam-
I ship Ehtb Emily'* crow mere drown*!
* by tiw nwl'i rnaning ashore.
I The rattle of the rattlesnake i* for the
- purpose of imitating tbe sound of the
Cioula and oOwr iuroet* thai form the
1 food of bud*, and so attract tlie latter
e withb fee reach of the aarpent.
1 A oodbpit near HarmtaJ, • the Meoae,
* wa* emdetually fl-wded white the men
9 were at wuriL The IwutdOtoo wa* ao
* sudden that twenty-dee mitten were
drowned ia the bottom of the ptt
i A terriW* mortality, wboae eamw i aa
f yt ®nex}il*it*ed. ia reported on the Xor-
I wegtao bark. from
, Peruambnoo fortisa B*ltr. Nearly all g
] the erww ban died cm the voyage.
J The Marquis of Bote ie said to haw*
made a vow never to nd* on bone bath,
'iia Ctaawyimifieof a prediction nude to
" bim by H gypsy pgDgMHCTb*! He would
1 meet hia death % * tall front a hone.
| A Swedish girt in Mhmcapolw waa
badly baroed a few #9* *h by *•
1 erne. The niggard for **• • h* worked Jj
* charged her tT L 00. fio.tr. etc , nted §
s to eaee her suffering*, and wtit hcraway.
s A raw of kidnapping a Chine*# child
1 occurred at TU Tdn on the American
Meaner SiiaweL Themlprit, a To T*u
; tnan, waa delivered to the American Coo
-1 wil, and by him to the OHkteae euiboeittes
; wbo at onee beheaded him.
The imnortari.m* of a single Beaton
. honm ahw flee thoaaand dten of brown
1 trior**. Pal* MBWI la vender, peart and
* ehantoia boll will be wn with drewy
1 carnage toilrtt**, while rtiU fainter ticta
J and immaculate white kids appear for foil
, evening dress.
Thia odd adwtiaemeitt h from an Ea
r gßah paper: "My tuwband • cat on a
1 strike. Be prefer* that to work. He
t ain't anv ne to ma. f rae* work to keep
the children MM) myself. Hl* ton shillings
. gueainbesr. ITlawapttiy harttand whUe
he'* on a atrik* for a aawing machine."
One ef the feature* of a tendon theatre
1 ia a woman etvttog heraelt the Mexican
? albelrte. Sbe'heWe anapended by a rord
' from her teeth two 190 pound bulla, and
? at the aame time a 100 nouod ball In each
I band. She alto shoulders a 900 peend
r caneoa. and holds it while a round ia be-
II lag fired.
Alaska appears to be in a very wretched
. condition indeed. Reports from that
delightful land of aeeteand anow indicate
' that tiw province, secession. or whatever
[ it he ceiled, ia lamentably destitute of
anytiiiikg like government, except: in the
jmimediate vicinity of Sitka. Elsewhere
life mad property are at the mercy of the
Indians.
A poo* but pious young man apolo- #
giaed the other evening while making a
call for the muddinew of his boots, say
ing be had not taken a carriage, bnt had
" w!ked up srith corameodahte econo
my." He waa grieved when the lovely
being whom he ndotes inquired why he
didn't "aak Mr. Economy in."
"When waa Rome built?" asked a
school committee-mm of the first class in
ancaeot history. *' la th* night." an
swer*! a taught littte girt. "In the
night!" exclaimed the astonished es
-.miner. " How do voa make that ont ?"
• Why. I thonght thas everybody knew
1 that ' Rome wasuH built in a d <y.' *
I The Petersburg Index give* a rope
forth* making of-a Dotty Vanlen pie.
Tsko about four yards of light dough,
gather it up in tucks and flounce*, crimp
the edges and fill up with fruit, then lay
on the overakirt, fasten it with buttons
of dough, connected with frills of the
same, and yon sriH have a taste'ul and
elegant pie, only you must eat it, not
wear it
A Breton peasant, on hi* way to Paris
stopped at a barber shop in lUmbou'blet.
While the barber was strapping his
rasor, th* pcaeout noticed .0 dog sitting
uear his chair, and staring at him fiecec-
X" . 44 What ia the matter with that
*g ?" The barber answered with an
unconcerned sir, 44 That dog is always
there. You see when I cut off an oar—"
••Well?" "Well, lie eats it."
No married man in Illinois can get his
"tod" without the following "permit"
from his wife: "Permissionto hereby
I granted by me, the lawful wif of ■
' and I declare and witness, by my own
signature, that my husband h .p the per
fect right and liberty to drink, and as
often as he chooses to drink, and what
he chooses to drink, and 1 hereby re
linquish all the claims arising there
from."
A California convict, just discharged
from the State Prison, la set about ful
filling a TOW made at the time of his con
viction—that of successively shooting
the twelve jnrymen who decided the ease
against him, Ia pursuance of this vow
he "laid" for Wo. Bias the other day,
and shot at hun. If his vendetta ia suc
cessfully carried out, it will have the
effect of rendering professional jury duty
unpopular in California.
A MIKBTKE's SWEAT. —A Michigan
paper tells an amusing stoiy of a minister
of that State who took an old-fashioned
sweat, and was wrapped up in an old
fashioned patch quilt of many colore In
due course of time he waked up to flud
himself all over spotted blue, black and
purple. Believing that mortification
had already set ia, he began to settle up
his eanhly accounts and prepare for his
final dissolution, while the men.tiers of
the flock gave themselves up t<*uncon
trollable grief. The arrival of a physi
cian and the examination of the faded
quilt gave another explanation of the
spots, and turned the house of mourning
to one of laughter.
The longed bridge in the worl I is
said to be on the Mobile and Montgom
ery Railroad over the Tensas and Mobile
rivars. It is fifteen miles in length, and
has ten draws, one for each navigable
channel The bridge itself is of wood,
but the supports are iron cylinders. The
structure cost $1,500,000, snd bss lw*an
three vears in the course of eonrtruct^M*..