The Little Sailor. Baby is s sailor bow, Swing, oradle. swing, Sailing is the sailor's joy, Swing, oradla, swing. Buowt t-alla and precious frsight. Swing, cradle, swing : Bahv's captain, mother's mats. Swing, cradle, swing. Never fear, the watch is sst. Swing, crsille, swing; Stormy gate* are never met. Swing, craUie. swing. l.ittU eysdidv downward creep. Swing, cradle, swing; Another in the eve of sleep. Swing, cradle, swing. Harry.lß44 18 7S. " Hers we go down, doth, downy," I sang to yon long ago. When you wore a sweet tittle goww-y As soft and as while as snow. And now in your great long trewsers You stand and sing it to uie; And Uie strain suoh etnoiion aronees, I hatdlf believe what I see. Not whiskers already! Don't lelt me ! Yel coming cream, as we know, Cast shadows before; and so really They may he brguuuug to grow. Forgotten the wee sweet gown-y, As. stroking year cheek aad .-hia. " Here we go t down, down, downy." 1 hear you sofUy tegii. Well, finish the *ouf, and gladly j "TU nature's marvelous plan. A baby mi fit end more sadly Thau by grosring to be a man. If a shade of pain wsU tarry To Uunkof the baby that weal. What iaatit u? Ua-en't I llany f And are we not more than content ? ixv " Hers we go down, down, down-y," Wis not more sweet in the past Than, " Here we gv>" down, down, downy," As echoed by Harry at last. s V. UNDER THE APPLE TREE. oUghtly bant forward, her hands clusjW in her lap auJ her book lying • unheeded on the bench beside her, Margaret Woodford sat thinking. An easier attitude would not have com ported with the earnestness of her thought. She did out even notice that the rays of the afternoon tun hail got beneath the outstretched limits of the apple tree and were falling fall upon her. , She had come osit to thq orchanl to read the story of the live-- t h<*e born ut an antlior * brain, ajj had come in stead upon a new acette in the real drama of her owe jje. It was through no famlt of hers tliat AU-,d Carson had there sought her out ar,d poured into her unwilling ears t v j6 passionate story of his lotc and 'oeggod her for ever so little in ro hirn. She had checked him again and again; told him that site had no love to give ; that ahe feared the capacity for love lit d died within her; been frittered away in the miserable round of flirtations of fashionable society. Of course she said ahe felt honored by the love of so good and true a man : would value his friend ship, if she might still have it; but, for hia love, she could offer no return. "Do you love another?" he had eagerly asked. " No," she said, hesitatingly, and then more decided I▼, " No. I have many friends whom I love andhonor as friend*, bnt there is none to whom I could give that love which would make us both content" Then came youth's eager and eloquent Slea for that some day the evoted love ha offered might find a return. " No," she said, flrmlv, and Alfred feh that the answer was fetal, and with a choking in his throat he turned and went slowly down the hilL And Margaret sat thinking. Now that she hail spoken the irrevocable word, she queried of herself why she need have given it Why not have said "yes " as well ? Alfred Canton loved her. He offered her a homage no woman could receive unmoved. He was good and kind ; had wealth and social position. He could have kept her in the circles in which she bad always moved, and given her the luxuries custom had made neces saries. Wliynot have accepted him ? Simply because she could not love him, and in stinctively revolted from the idea of spending her whole life with him. She pitied him. Bat she did not fear that the wound she had inflicted was beyond cure. She had lived too loug in the world and society for thst She had sent other lovers away jost as broken-hearted as he, and had afterward congratulated them as happy bride grooms, while they stood beside their blushing brides and wondered in their hearts how they could ever have loved cold, heartless Margaret Woodford. Yet such scenes were painful. She was not a coquette—simply a belle. Society expected of her that she would smile, aud she smiled ; that she should be charming, and it was easy to cty; : that she should be brilliant, and ahe shone resplendent, adding mirth to beauty, and wit to mirth, and she en joyed her power. If some were dazzled, and would fain have oome nearer, she made them feel that her brightness was that of winter sunshine, light withoat warmth, and they went away with heavy hearts, bnt soon comforted themselves with the thought that they had been dazzled with an icicle, and nought a steadier though less brilliant warmth elsewhere. Sne knew better, bdt was not weak enough to break a delusiou that gave them comfort. Thia interview had stirred her deeply, and annoyed her jnst a little. She had intended to make this country visit a season of quiet and perfect rest. Why should Alfred Carson have remembered an old invitation of her aunt's, and fol lowed her? She did not mind Ralph Wentworth's coming. He knew the value of rest, and would bother her with no romance. Besides, he had a right there. He was like a son in her airnt Wentworth's bouse, being her dead husband's favorite nephew, • Ralph was a pleasanter subject for thought than the painful interview she had jnst passed, eo she let herself think of him. She remembered when he, too, was full of romance, when he came back from Harvard full of bright hopes aud Elans for a brilliant future. He, too, ad bowed before her charffis, and re ceived the same answer Alfred Carson just had. That was when Margaret was in the verv flood of her second year in society, and keenly alive to the joys of her tri umphant reign. No, indeed, she had thought, she would not settle down to a quiet, hum-drum life, with Ralph Went worth and help him carry out his odd notions of doing good and reforming society, and all that. Ralph had got over it All men do, she thought But he was a very differ ent man now from what he was in those days. He was rather given to sneering at things than trying to change them. She doubted if he were changed for the' better; he was more like herself. He had "done" society, and knew all about it He could pay as silly compli ments to smirking misses as the next fellow, and then langh in his sleeve to think what fools he and " the next fel low " both were. He could offer a more subtle flattery to women not too wise to be flattered (and what woman, qr man either, is ?) but wise enough to wish tp be esteemed for something more lasting than evanescent physical charms. He seemed to have forgotten bis Quixotic notions about " reform," ufi less he expected to make a reform in politics. Margaret wondered if her re fusal had had Anything to do with damping the glowing enthusiasm he had brought back from college. Some of it must yet remain with him, for he was a hard worker in his profession, FHED. KURTZ, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. VI. and old Squire ttortou bad once told her that there was not a lietter lawyer ivf his age in the commonwealth. Her rejection had not made hitu her enemy anyway. She was glad of that; for when be would (\uiSoiit to le serious -end not olxifV her ever her conquests, and liail her aa Queen Margaret, he was the most interesting man she knew. He was well read, aud had imperocpti bly led her into the enjoyment of high er literature than she had once cared (or, aud helped to cultivate her tatv in many ways. Hs teemed to Value her opinions, too. He told her once that when she grew tired of ruling puppets, she might, with her pen instead of her fan for o scepter, rule men and womou. She wuudered if he meant it. She was half disposed to try it. She was tired enough of ruling puppets, and longed for newer and better world* to conquer. She was tweuty-five now, and the Dead Sea fruits of six "seasons" had turned to ashes on her lips. It was dry as dust, and ahe was wearv of Suppose ahe hail married Ralph, she thought, would it hare been better? She thought not. She certainly would not have had anch an opportunity to aonnd mere conventionality to its dial low depths, and would not have felt her present aspirations for something high er and more enduring. Sitting thus, musing, ahe did not notice that the object of her thought* stood before her, until hia ahaduw fell ujwa her face. She looked up startled, and for a mo ment dashed with confusion. "Hail to the Queen!" was his saluta tion. "Was ever qneeu before who made subjects but to turn thetu adrift ?" His tons and manner grated harshly on her present feelings, and ahe made no answer. "Have you inscribed rour new victory on rour banner ?" he asked? "I do not understand you, air," site answered haughtily. "Y'ou don't, aye! Well, that is funny. Do too tnppoae I am not familiar euoug with vour archery to know when the animal has been struck ? Come now. Miss Margaret, don't play the innocent with me. I met young Carson going down the hill, and one glance allowed what was the matte? with him •The King f Frmuce with forty thousand ntea Wetu up the hill and ao.-satadowaagsiu.' "What, still silent! Come, don't take it to heart. 'Why let the stricken deer go weep, it will do him gcod and make a man of him. Don't mar yonr victory by mourning over the wounded.' "Mr. Weutworth, yon shall not speak in that manner to me, aa though I were one of the professional coquettes, who lead men on and then trample on their affections for idle, wicked amusement ; I had a right to expect a better opinion from you. If you nave not enough re spect for me to refrain from utteriug such thoughts, I have at least enough self-respect not o stay and listen to them!" saying which Margaret swept away withtlie mien of an offended god dess. Ralph was struck dumb with aston- j ishmeut. He had been chaffing her for year* about her conquests, why ahould she flare up so now ? He watched her j as ahe went down the hill, and then lighted a cigar and sat down on the bench ahe bad just quited to think the matter over. , "Angry because I think her a flirt." he growled to himself. "Humph! If ahe cuts all her friends who entertain that opinion she will have a slim reti nue. Ha* she aright to expect better of me. The di-nop she has? Was I not her first victim? Bnt, then, I must say she tfid not have to try any to seenre me, and so far as I've observed, she hasn't hired any of the other fellows on. They fell in aa naturally aa I did, and most of them aecm to have got ont in better condition, for they've got mar ried, while I've felt no further inclina tion that way aince the first desire was so unceremoniously nipped." "Had a right to expect a better opin ion from me," he thought '"Well, that's so, by George, ao she had. And I'll tell her so. I can't afford to have her angry. Who in thunder would I have to talk to? I couldn't get along without her. Suppose I must some day, however, for she certainly won't keep np thia refusing business forever. "Had a right to expect a better opin- j ion from me. Well, ahe must care enongh about my good opinion to make , it a matter of speculation, any way, may be after all— "But pshaw! I'm done with that. I've plaved the stricken deer once and don't like the character—" And impatiently flinging awav hia cigar to emphasize the conclnaion Ralph went to find diversion for his mind by occupying hia hands in gather ing np the croquet implements before : it was dark. Shouldering thorn he j started home, but as he approached the i apple tree he saw Mis* Woodford just stooping to pick up the book she hail left behind in Iter hasty flight. He hurried up at once to get his dis agreeable duty of apologizing over, and plunged at once into it with : "Miss Margaret, I did not think you would take what I said so seriously. 1 ought to have bad Seen enough to know you would be in no hnmor for joking "after such a scene. You were right to expect a better opinion of me." "I ought not to have been to hasty," she nussrered, " Tre often let yon nay such things unchecked, bnt I had jnst be. n tltUkiag of—§- "Of what, Margaret." # "Of myself—and of you. Of how we both have changed since wc first knew each other. I was thinking yon under stood me and saw something better in me than others do. I thought maybe you meant what you skid about my earn ing to rule men and women instead of pnppcts and—well no matter, I was jnst flattering myself that somebody did not think me a heartless, frivolous fool —and—your words showed me I was mistaken—that was all " Tbey were both sitting no the bench now. The tone of utter weariness and almost despair in which Margaret Raid "that was all," pierced Ralph's very heart. It poured the oil of tender pity on the smouldering fires of his old love, and he burst ogam into a fierce, con futing flame. He had held aloof from this proud, self-sustained woman be cause of her pride, and now her pride lay crumbled at her feet by thoughtless, unfeeling words of his. He trembled beneath the power of the mighty feeling that surged back a win into his heart and cried: " Oh, argaret! Margaret! were I again to offer you my love, would you again re fuse ?" • " Would it be the same love, Ralph?" she asked, with an eager look in her eyes. "The same, as nearly a* I am the same," he answered. "It would bo a spect and congenial tastes and sanction ed by common tepn, and above all eUe it will be krttr! Margaret, loVe ! Will yon accept it?" His very eagerness madehiß utterances thick and rapid, bnt Margaret understood. " Accept it I would I accept Heaven ? Oh, Ralph, I am weary aud at last I've found rest." •' Alone the bang-bird overhead Hie bsirewang cradls straining, Looking down to see love's miracle, The giving that is gaining." THE CENTRE REPORTER. The I'olarL Enterprise, \\ hot II \% a. Slort.it Out For. The expedition of Ospt. 11*11, which litis so Mgntillv fftil.nl 1V live loss of the Polaris, was fitted oat ut grest expense, i and under the personal •nperviaton of the naval official* at the NVatthingtoU Navy Yard. At the time of the depar ture of the Polaris her fate wa* prettified liy vj>erieuced uaval aratueu who have Carefully stndied tlie clisita, aiul pro nouuoed the passage undertaken by Captain Hall aa only a waste of money. Captain Hall wa* an old Arctic ex plorer, but owed hi* distinction chiefly to hia search for the remains of the Sir John Franklin expedition. The absorb ing theory of his life wit* the existence of an open Polar sea, which he felt it was peneellv possible to reach by cross ing its ice-bound margin on sledges. Captain Hall wrote and leotil(*d a g.a>d deal on the snbject of the North Pole, and, like all mcu imbued with single ness of purpose, liemadc his way in the long run to the attention of the poblie. Fiually Congress voted sn sppropristion of 85U.000 to fit ont an {fixpedition for the object of giving a practical test to the theory of llall and aiding the pro gress of science and civilisation. There was a great deal of interest felt through out the country iu the enterprise, and this became more evident when Con gress, which just then happened to be in a parsimonious mood, appropriated liberal means for its equipment. A government vessel was set apart to lie Sited up specially with a view to Arctic navigation. This was tin* Porlaris, for merly the Periwinkle, She was ex ceedingly staunch and well fitted, and Captain llall gave his days and uights to superintending her equipment. The lost Polaris was about 4t boas strong ly and as thoroughly built us wood aud iron could make her. Captain n*U wo* about five feet eight inches in height, with a compact, firmly knit frame, indicative of great vigor and strength, aud weighed probably aboat one hundred and ninety pounds. He had a large head, with a profusion of thick, brown hair and lieavv brown Imarii inclining to curl Ilia "forehead was broad aiul massive, with *a full de velopment of the temporal and coroual region*. Hi* eyes were bine and the whole expression of the countenance firru, but very agreeable, kind and pleasant. Captain Hall hailed from Cincinnati, where he was ouce engaged in the newspaper business, publishing the Oecatiunal and afterwards the/An/y Penny I*rrs. In his earlier Tears he was a blacksmith, working at tfie forge, aud his robust development, beyond question, was in some measure attribu table to the exercise of that ardent oc cupation. He was in no wise a scientific or highly educated man, but had a re markably practical miud, with a great deal of force of character. He had never studied the science of navigation even, though he waa through experi ence and aptitude, a* competent to navi gate a aliip or conduct an overland ex ploring expedition a* anv of the daring band of discoverers that luul endeavored to solve the great Arctic problem. He sailed northward in 1860 in search of Sir John Franklin, since which time his name and fame have been the common property of the world. Eighteen Demon* Eaten by Shark*. The water fairly boils with sharks, says a Florida correspondent, writing from St. Angnstiue. I counted one hundred and twelve withiu the space of an acre, none of which were less than eight feet long. Indian river people say that they have seen them twenty feet iu length. I saw one that measured over seventeen feet. They would fre quently break under the bows of our twenty-one foot sail boat, careening her to one-side and at times half lifting her from the water. They flocked about the boat by dozens, and cast hungry looks at the huge yellow dog on the forecastle. At one time I struck a twelve loot fellow over the snout with a heavy boat pole. He made a great swirl through the water a* if surprised, bnt saucily darted back to the cruft to aee what had hit him. Occasionally boatmen plunge lily irons into them, and are towed about the river against I wind and tide for mil*#. Home of the native* declare that they are man-eater*, while others deny it, Jim Paine, of | Fort Caprwn, told me that he hod stood in the water for hoars while these big sharks were nosing abont his legs, bnt Dr. Fox, my guide, seemed afraid iof them, and declared that he hail known them to pull an estimable yaung lady from Savannah out of a Iwint while i she wa* dragging her hand Iwliind the stem. Hhe was cut into mince mest iu ! five seconds. During the war, it ia 1 said, that a boat containing fourteen ; men was upset in Jupiter Inlet, about 1 twenty feet from shore. There was a ; foaming of the waters, and in half a ; minute twelve of the fourteen men dis ) appeared. The water tinged with blood marked the spot* where they had been drawn under. Two of the sailors got ; ashore, but so bitten aud in shreda that j they died soon afterward. I was told another story of fonr men who started to walk np tho beach from Cape Florida to St. Augustine. They managed to get across New Inlet upon an improvised reft, but on arriving at Lake Worth Inlet they attempted to swim across. Three of them were gob hied np by sharks. The fourth reached the shore, and traveled on to Jupiter Light, where ho told of th fate of liis comrades. These reports certainly show thut many of the sharks are man eater*. The most of tlu-m are of the shovel-nosed variety. A* they are more lively' and viwacions in the summer than in winter, it is probable that they would attack a man in July or August when they would not touch liiai in De cember or January. Don't Run In Debt. No farmer can wfford fo run in debt. It costs agztst deal more tolifQ, fo buy Implements, stock, clothing, groceries, for blacksmithing, for labor. Ac., always if a man does not pny cash down. A cash-down farmer can always command the best in the market at tfie most rea sonable prices. If he wants to add acres to his farm he can do it more readily and at a liberal discount from the asking price if the seller knows the cash will come as soon as the bargain is closed and the papers ezecntod. Horace Greeley is reported as having once said that he had rather be a slave in a rice swamp or a convict in a Htate prison than be under the harrow of debt. The interest which is being paid by the farmers of this country on capital in vested in unproductive land is far more burdensome fo them and effects their prosperity to a greater degree than the exactions of railway monopolies. Tlii# is especially true of the farmers of the West. But then the little home debts, the accounts at the stores, blacksmith shops, shoemakers, Ac., Ac., are leeches which take from the farmer all the profits of his labor. No one sells anything fo anybody as cheap when he knows he must wait-six fo twelve mouths for his pay as when he knows the cash accom panies the order. Don't run in debt, if it is possible fo avoid it. Don'tf It n#ver aid and it never will pay, in the end, to do so! CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY. JUNE 5, 18J3. A Lute Story. Ihsnlnl knw a Maslrlsta fsll !u !. Willi su.l SsrrlKl • flu. Kugtlwh girl. Late in the last anttimn a young gill i id poor but very respectable parentage, iu Kuglaiul, exhibited symptom* of "go tug tutu decline," a* the old-fasliioued phrase is, and arrived at that stage of the otis.-ure iudi*|Mi*itiou where the medical gentleman of the day i wont to confess the inadequacy of lu* science and escape fluid responsibility for the case by counselling remote travel. Her father and mother were sagely informed by the family physician that an Atlantic voyage only could restore her to health ; aud they being, a* already indicated, iu ham Vile circumstances, tfiut ordinarily costly resort might have been hopeless ly beyond their menu* but for their ac quaintance with a certain sea-captisn, who, upon hearing what the d.H'tor had said, volunteered to give their daughter a trip upnu his vesnel to Boston and back. In consideration of thia gratuity site was to render such service aa she could L> Uie frieudly mariner's wife iluriug the voyage, and readily assented to the condition. But scarcely had Uie ship cleared port aad her health begun mending when she discovered that the hnsiue** of working one's passage serosa the ocean is anything but sineourial. The captaiu'a wife made her drudge from morning until night at all kinds of mental offices, ami although her physical condition steadily improved under the ordeal she secretly determin ed that she would soouer remain in this country all her life than return to Eng land in that ship. Heuee, upon the arrival of the latter in Boston, she took her way ashore without much eerewonv, and in accordance with a previously meditated plan U-gsii inquiring from house to house for a servant's situation. The spirit to do such a thing as this in spired her with au air of energetic ef ficiency, securing immediate favorable attention from acute housekecjiers, and very soon she fonnd herself engaged by a respectable and kind faintly upon terms whiclt, to her fancy, seemed promising of au early accumulation of the sum of money ueceasary to take her hack to Europe upon a vessel not sailed by charitable friends. A letter to the otil folks at hotue U report her restored health and brave conclusion, and the English la** wa* ready for the adventure rext to be re lated. One day soon after her Yankee domestication, while on the war to a lamp-jaMt letter-box with a second let ter, tdie accidentally dropped llie mia aive to the sidewalk, and in stooping abruptly to recover it came iuto violrul collision with * brusune, hurrying lit tle man, of befurrci grcat-cowt and foreign aspect. Gallantly taking to himself the blinie of the mishap, the stranger uttered plentiful apology in German; and, apparently inconsolable at not being un-ierstootf, followad the startled girl, with much gesticulation and bowing, to the adjacout letter-box, and then back almost to the honae door. Not only this, bnt on the day ensuing he reappeared at the house in company with the well-known musical leader, Mr. Koppita. to resume his apologies through au iuterpreter. The family w down in the second side seam to tie it backward ; a sash loop and end made of part of a width of silk are put in each of the sec ond aide a-uun*. while larger loops with two end* are behind. There is an at tempt to do away with all wrinkled apron frouta, makingthrrv flat straight breadth* tied smoothly down; large square jioeket* are set on such aprons. Basque* have leas pleating behind than formerly, and are more nearly souare below the waist. Two tiny fohl* of piping edge the basques of elegant black silk suite that are rlsborately trimmed elsewhere with jet and lace. Instead of vest* and tnotre antique collars, the ' stylish trimming for the front of basque waists is now a Medici fraise of the silk, bias, double, and t id*-pleated, to stand upright around the neck. It stand* three inches wide jnst Iteliind where the I pleats turn and form a box-pleat, and is graduated narrower half-way down the frout of the corsage, where it slopes in to a bias band thst passes up the fronts in vest shape. This standing frnise is very becoming with the high coiffures ' now in fashion. Coat sleeves are close ' and tight, and very simply trimmed with bias bands like straps, or else with a plsin silk ruff, lined with si iff found ation. Jet trimmings on French dresses are showy and very light, lwiug mode of j silk net with fine cat beads set in the meshes; jet ribbons, galloons, and luce* sprinkled with jet are more stylish than the vine passementeries, so long in use. The goffered fringe—a kind of crimped silk tape—and the fringes that nre tied in the edge of the garment are most fashionable. Lace is used for trimming the stately princesse dresses. #6OO is asked for 'black taffeta suit* made of silk worth $3 or Ji a ysrd ; if lace and jet are added, the price is S3OO or more. Wearing a New Boot. The Danbury Arte* says: It is a little singular how well a pair of laiots can be made to fit at the store. You may not be aide to get your foot only part wsy down the leg at the first trial, tint that is because yonr stocking is sweaty, or you haven't started right, and the ahoe maker "iiggcst* thst yon stsrt again ami stand np to it, and he threw* in a little powder from a pepper-box to aid you. And so you stand up, aiul pound down your foot, and partly trip yourself np, iind yonr eyes stick ont in au unpleasant manner, and every vein in your lody appear* to lie on the point of bursting, and all the while that dealer stand* around and eyes the operation as intent ly as if the whole affair was perfectly new and novel to him. When your foot has finally struck bottom, there is a faint impressiou on your mind that you have stopped into au open stove, but he re moves it by solemnly observing thst he never saw it boot fit" quite as good as that. You may suggest that your toe presses too hard against the front, or that some of the bones in the side of tho foot are bio much smashed, but he save thia is zlways the wnjr with a now IxKit, and that the trouble w ill entirely disappear in a few days. Then yon take the old pair under your ami and start for home as animated as a relic of 1812, all the while feeling that the world will not look bright and happy to you again until yon have brained thai shoemaker. You limp down tewn the "next day, and smile all tho while with your month, while yonr eyes look a if yon were walking over "an oyster bed barefoot. When noone is looking yon kick against a post or some other obstruction, and *how a fondness for stopping and rest ing against something that will sustain your weight. When yon got home at "night you go for those old lioots with an eagerness that cannot be described, and the remarks that yon make upon learning that yonr wife has disposed of them to a widow woman in the suburbs, are calculated to immediately depopu late the aarta of wqmen and shoemakers generally. Oduoino. —A traveler coming np from the Central depot, says tho Detroit Frer Pre**, stopped for a moment fo examine a coat lisnging in front of a clothing store. The proprietor rnshed ont and asked: "Wouldn't you like to try on some coats?" "I dunno but I wonld," responded the traveler, con sulting hie time-killer, and he went in and began work. No matter how often he found his fit, he called for more coats, and after he had tried on about thirty, he looked at liis watch, again resumed his own garment, and walked off, saving: " I won't charge a cent for what I've done ; hang a man who won't oblige another when ne can do it! If I'm ever around this way again, and you've got any more coats to try on, I'll do all I can to help yon !" A young woman in Pennsylvania, who burnt her hand at the range recently, is fearful that some of the letters of the name of the maker of the range, which were burned deeply into the flesh, will remain permanently., IVarl Ftihltig In Vermont The pearl • producing, fresh • water clsiu, or munsel, is fouud in some Western streams, though few pearls have yet been discovered in them. It *ecm* that fresh water pearls are found most abundantly in the Winooaki river ; m Vermunt, not far from its source, aud in its small tributaries. Within a few years much attention has been given to hunting them, and vast quan tities of the molluscs have been dea troved by the merciless pearl-hunters, yet they are still fouud in great num bers. Pearls are more frequently fonnd in clam* that live on stony or gravelly bottoms, us a groin of sand or some small foreign substance that has enter ed the shell forms the nucleus aronud which the layera of jiearl are made, takiug au unkuown number of yeara to form even a small pearl. Bometimes they are taken from river-beds of clay suif mud. It is said clams must be seven yeara old before they begin to form a pearl. The clams move slowly from place to place, crawling edgewise, leaving a groove-like track. The small end of the clam slicks in the bottom of the stream with the large end out and open, out of this a portion of the animal pro trudes, but at the least disturbance withdraws, and the shell cloeea *o tight it caa not be opened without being cut at both ends. When open, the pearl if any, is at once seen in the amidl end, imlwdded in the "flap." The instruments u. <-.-*aary for "pearl liutiling" as it is commonly called, are au inm roil, flattened at one end, with barbs cut in it to draw oat the clams, a handled basket to carry them in, a stout knife to open the sheila, and a box of flue cotton in which to put the pearls. Horuetime* the fisherman wears high rubber lioots, oftener he wades into the river with bare feet and hia breeches rolled high, with his basket on arm and sjtear in hand. He Ibruata bia spear into any open shell he may see on the bottom, which immediately clone*, w hen he pulls it ont,putait in bia basket, and look* for another. When satisfied with the number he has got, he carries them to the hank, where be sits down and open* them. The experienced hun ter can usually tell before opening if there is a js-arl inside, as only the de formed shcli* contain one. Often thon •amis of shells are opened end the in mates de*truved without obtaining a single pearl o/value, Bometime*bmarn iah ones, lustreless, and of no value are found. The white and ne-eolured ones alone have the beautiful light and desirable lustre. Probably more depends upon luck than skill! C. EL Sleveus, Esq., of Eaat Moutepelier, i* one of the moat successful pearl-fisher* of that region, and Uie une who some year* ago found flic largest pearl that ha* been dis covered in Ue Uaited States. He aay*: " The Urgent pearl I found waa in two feet of water where it ran swift It was in Uie first shell I took out, and I could see the place close to it where someone else hail taken out another. The pear! it j of an inch in diameter, reund aa a ball, and of fine lustre It is now owned by a gentleman in New York, who value* it among the Uioitsands. It waa nearly in the middle of the clam by the lunge, the only one I ever heard of be ing found there." For successful hunting a still day is neceaaarr, a* a small ripple on deep water will hide the clams. In shallow water it is not so important Upon snch a day, during a " pearl fever," it ia not uncommon to see num bers of men and boy*, aud sometimes women, standing in die Winooaki gath ering the clams, or seated on the bank opening Uietn. In warm weather some times, such number* of clam* are dee troyed that the air is tainted with their decay for a long distance. A Noble Art. Onee I remembered among my friend# a lady who hail known many afflictions, care*' and heart-griefs, and yet whose brightness of demeanor and cheerful ness were unflagging ; whose very pres ence was a sunbeam. Tin* lady talked often of her art. When praised for any striking course of action, she wonld re- Flv, with a touching simplicity, " Yea ; learned that from my art" As a child, I often wondered what this art could be ; growing older, I set myself to find ont It was not the art of music, passionately fond a* she was of that divine art, and on so lofty a pedestal a* she placed it; for, leing somewhat at home within its magic realms rovself, I knew that ahe was not sufficiently skilled thereia to designate it a* her own ; nor was it the art of painting, nor yet of sculpture. " Mis* Margaret'il inquired one day, " what is your art ?" A sweet smile flitted across her face, as she touchingly asked, for reply, " And have I so poorly exemplified it all these years that you need ask ?" " I am sure now," cried I, " that it is, after all, what has often suggested it self to my mind: 'The art of making the most of life,'" " Yon are right," ahe answered, very well pleased ; " and this I consider the greatest of nrta ; all others are sent to earth to aid us in perfecting it." The Small-pox. Dr. Janes, iu s report on "the practi cal lessons of the recent prevalence of small-pox, with reference to its preven tion in the future," read before the Na tional Health Association at Cincinnati, advocates a system of hespital-treatment which we should be glad fo see fairly tried. In order that hospitals might oome fo be regarded as "havens of rest and refuge, and even lnxury, by the af flicted," ue would have them managed less economically. With the assurance of being cared for by "trained nnrsea, and especially skilled physicians, many jiersons in good circumstances, when smitten with small-pox, would prefer them fo their own homes." What a contrast an institution of this character would offer fo the Blaekwcll's Island Small-pox Hospital ? The very thought of having fo go throngh the horrors of that place, as is well known, has killed many a patient. The orgiea of the drunken, incompetent nnrsea have been described in these oolnmns, as have also the brutal practices of the porters and other attendants. Under the new Board of Cliaritiea the abuses so fre quently complained of are pretty sure t<> be corrected ; bnt if their correction eonld be made au exense for trying the method of Dr. Janes, the pnblio would lie better satisfied, and the benefit de rived wonld, we are sure, more than balance the additional cost entailed.— N. V. Paper. Deat> on Aliv*.—There is a rumor enrrent in London that a very wealthy baronet, long of unsound mind, and represented to be still living, really died years ago, but that some affection ate relatives, to whose care he was com mitted by the legal authorities, have in vented, with the view of retaining the ample allowance made to them for tak ing care of him by the Court of Chancery, a lay figure, au admirable likeneas of the deceased gentleman, which, seated in an easy chair and cowering over the Are, they show to the official inquisi tors, with the intimation that Sir H can't bear fo be approached or disturb ed. Terma: #2.00 a Year, in Advance. Ludicrous Scene. The Hsu Frsucisoo Morning OnU gives sn am using account of a tub ri.es " which recently came off near that city, for which three brave mariner* entered themselves, and entered their washing utensils. Undeterred by the reoent disaster te the Atlantic, they dared the crinkled waters of the bay inaa hoots, vests, and ouata ; but one of them hail no sooner settled himself in bia tub than he slid gracefully therefrom into the water, while the tnh hopped merrily j away, bottom up, upon the tide, amid the eutbuKiaatio cheer* of the erewd. The tub was recovered ; the dripping mariner waa reinstated; and at the word "go," the aculla were dipped in the water, and the '* race" began. The excitement at this point was tremendous. About fifty persons were crowded upon a balcony attached to Costa's saloon, directly over the waters of the bay, sltout four or Ave feet deep, and ere loug the whole assemblage found itaelf floundering in the water amid the frag ments of a wrecked balcony. The scene was lndicrons in the extreme. A colored citizen, dressed in Uie height of fashion, was seen emerging from the mud ; and a youth suspended from a derrick filled tne air with frantic shrieks of "Have me ! save me F But worst of all, one fellow had the misfortune not to provide himself with suspenders, and in the fall of the balcony hia baggy Cantab sin* were ruthlessly torn off him y the falling timbers. He bad not the pr.aenoe of mind to remain in the friendly water, but graaped a beam and drew himself np. The effect upon the ; crowd was immense. The yonng man's person was n< t symmetrical, and it was the general opinion that the bath he had just had must have been the first for many month*. Aa he bnng from the beam, his shirt waving in the breeze, and hut limbs writhing with their owner's effort* to climb to a place of security, he waa a fearful sight for a Sunday afternoon in a eiviliarel community. A man of a Fallstafflan contour evidently thought that be had fallen into about sixty feet of water, and atrnck out des perately for land. He bad swam but a tew jarel* when cramps of fright disabled him, and he sink with a ciy of despair, apparently believing that fie had seen the last of thia fair world. When he found himself in about four feet of water, be came scrambling ashore, the moat sheepish-looking indmdaal ever seen. After the momentary consterna tion caused bv the disaster had sub aided, the crowd on diy land nearly died of langhing, and had barely strength to assist their drenched fellow citizens out of the mire. When all bad been extricated, it waa fonnd that abraded nosea and spoiled clothes were the most serious casualties. The Tlchhorae Story. Aa the Tichborne claimant, otherwise Arthur Orion, ia once more the sensa tion of the English law-courts, the fol lowing summary of liia famous eaae, from the Englisn Utter of the Boston Pott, ia of geueral interest: Roger Tichborne, oldest son of Sir James Tichborne, after being educated in France and at SUmyhnrnt, and serving for a while in the army aa an officer of carbineers, set sail for South America iu 1851, after which he waa never seen •gain in England. His travel* and hia life ended, or was supposed to have ended, when the ahip Bella, on which he set sail at Rio de Janeiro for New York, foundered at sea. Hia mother refused to believe him dead, and adver tised for him for several year*. At last ahe waa rewarded by hearing from Aus tralia that her son wa* alive aad well; and she got letters purporting to be from him, in which he stated that he had been picked np at aea and carried to Melbourne. In 1866 the would-be Sir Roger, in the person of the claimant, reached England. Roger's father waa dead ; the claimant waa recognized by Lady Tichborne aa her son. In a year or two she died, before the ease cams to trial; meanwhile almost every other member of the family denied his iden tity. The trial ensued, and la* ted nearly a rear ; witnesses by the score identified claimant aa Bir Roger ; witnesses by the score declared him to be an impostor. Finally, the testimony of Lord Bellew, that lis had tattooed Roger when at school, taken with the fact that the claimant could show no tattoo marks whatever, induced the jury to say they had beard enough, whereupon the claimant practically withdrew bis case br submitting to a nonteuit. Tbereujxm he wa* at onee arrested a* an impostor, detained at Newgate, bailed out by en thusiastic partisans, and daring the year which has intervened, hsa been going np and down the country making speeches and trying to raise money to sustain his defence. Pothers and his Dog. Last summer, in the dog days, Soth ern played a joke on hia Scotch terrier. Jack, to cure him of making acquain tance with other dogs when out for a waik. When he saw another dog, .Tack would rush up and rub his nooe against that of tho stranger, aad indioate in doggish ways that he would like to be his friend. When the season fo# muz zling came, Sotbern put a muzzle on Jack and took him ont for a walk. Somewhere near Union Square be met Florence, and as the twain stood in con versation Florence noticed that when ever Jack applied his nose to that of another dog the latter went howling down the street, leaving the terrier very much astonished. Florence could not understand it, and finally asked : "Ned, what's the matter with Jack, that all the dogs run away from him to?" "O, nothing," said Hotliern, "except that before I started ont I fixed a conple of cambric needles in his mnzzle ao that they atiok ont about an inch beyond the end of bia nose." Well, the result was that in a day or two Jack was afraid fo go near any other brute of his kind, and all thoee who had been interviewed with those needles were careful to keep away from him. Sot hern says he will take' out a patent for hia invention, provided Bergh does not have him arrested for crnelty to animals. , New Head Light for Locomotives. The introduction of silvern! mica re flectors into looomotive head-lights, has proved a complete success. An engineer on the West Jersey railroad, who has been using them, savs he can by their aid, distinguish the features of a person, at a distance of four hundred yard*. They are uow being teatcd on the Read ing," North Pennsylvania, and other railways, with the most encouraging prospects aa to their adoption on ac count of their eoonemv, durability, ef ficiency, and saving of labor. In case of accident they are but little liable to injury. A case is mentioned of a loco motive on the North Pennsylvania rail road, which recently exploded, and the amoke stack of the locomotive fell heavily on the lantern, completely de molishing it and bending the reflector almost double; when relieved of the pressure, it sprung back to its shape, and with the exoeption of the displace ment of one or two small pieces of the silvered mica, it waa uninjured ; where as, had it been a metal reflector, it wonld have required replatingand bend ing, involving an expense of at least twenty dollars. NO. 23. Kketrh ot Iguaetc A frumenty Ifoido da Agremote, the Cuban gen eral killed in a late engagement, was lrn at Puerto Prineipe, la Cuba. of highly r'|H?ctable and well-to-do pa rent., in the year IM3. He wae sent, while comparatively young, to Havana, where he entered the University. He paaaed a rigorous examination and waa admitted to practice aa a member of the Havana bar. Fortune favored the young lawyer with practice and renown. He rwiolved to marry and did so. In the f-arly part of IH she was in an idiotic condition. She actual!r ate her own offal in the pres ence of the sheriff, thus showing that ! she was not sufficiently fed. She was crippled so that she eoald not stand np : straight. The place was as filthy, the air so fool, and the whole scene so sick ening that the sheriff eoald remain in the boose only long enough to make the proper order* for the future c*re of ] the wretched being who, for more than ' fifteen rears, has been confined in that earthly hell The iether makes bnt httte excuse for , not taking better oata of her, mying i that be caald not be vilh her all the time. Be has been living with his * second wife ten years, —FottmiUe (low) | Review. Indian Village Life. Poring the graaa season, eays Geo. 1 Coster, nearly all Indian village* are migmtorv, seldom remaining longer : than a few weeks at moat in any one : locality, depending entirely upon the supply of grass; when this becomes ex hausted the lodges are taken down, and ; the entire tribe or band move* to somo other point, chosen with reference to the anpplT of grass, water, wood and game. The distance to the new loca ;tion is nsually bnt a few miles. Daring the fall, when the buffaloes are in the beat condition to furnish food, and the hides are suitable to be dreased as robes, or to furnish covering for the lodges, the grand animal hunts of the tribes take place, by which the supply : of meatsiue the winter is procured. This being done, the chiefs determine upon the points at which the village gbaU be located; if the tribe is a large one, the village Is often subdivided, one portion or band remaining at one point, other portions choosing localities within a circuit of thirty or forty miles. Except during seasons of the most per fect pesos, and when it if the firm in tention of the chiefs to remain on friend lv teems with the whites at least daring the winter and early spring!months, the localities selected for their winter re sorts are remote from the military poets and frontier settlements, and theknowl ! edge which might lead to them carefully ' withheld from every white man. Even during a moderate winter season, it is barely poambk for the Indians to ob tain sufficient food for their ponies to keep the letter in anything above a starving condition. Many of the ponies actually die from want of forage, while the remaining ones become so weak and attenuated that it requires several weeks of good grasing in the spring to fit them for Samoa—particularly such service aa is required from the war ponies. Joined twins. Persons who have seen from time to time the well-known Siamese twins, or the two voung colored girls joined from the shoulder* to the hip, that have been exhibited in this country and Europe since our late civil war, have found it difficult to refrain from disagreeable speculations as to what may be the cir cumstances of the one or the other of the pairs when the final dissolution of death of either shall come. There is an instance an record in the I'Every Pay Book of Home," which shows the fate of what were known aa the Biddenden maids, born at Biddenden, England, in the year 1100, and who were joined at the hips and shoulder*. They thus lived 84 years, when one of them died. The other was advised to he separated from her at once, but answered, "As we came together, we will also go to gether," and was taken ill and died aix hours after. Their names were Elisa beth and Mary Chulkhursi -*■— l m Gov. Smith, of Georgia, h-* addressed a letter to the farmers of the West, if which he saya that the four States on Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and South Carolina use every year 50,000,000 bush els more of grain than they pjoduce. They must look to the Western farmers to supply this deficiency; any attempt to raise corn for themselves would be at the expense of their cotton crops, and would cause them s lose of st least 150,000,000 a year.