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<o tons
measurement, larger than the Advance,
in which Dr. Kane undertook hia former
voyage, and Was bellied t> 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 <f
Uie residence, upon learning that Uie
polite gentleman was a highly distin
guished member of the famou* Tboma*
orchestra of New York, called the young
emigrant to the parlor for the requested
interview, which did not terminste un
til the obviously admiring apologist
had a*kod and received permission to
call again. It wo* plain that he hail
contracted an unusual interest for the
humble heroine of the letter-box, aud
when, after aaceitainingher history, and
making several calls, he managed to
inform her that he was an honest suitor
for hpr hand, what had at first been
deemed an eccentric whim v a* accepted
in sentimental earnest.
The girl, as houeat, practiced no af
fectation of displeasure at the offer of a
husband so distinguished, aud, tho be
trothal being duly announced, the de
lighted musical romancer saw her raised
from the position of servant to that of
temjHirary Iniarder in her American
home, and supplied with an efficient
German teacher before be took his af
fectionate leave aud went southward an
a professional tour with his orchestra.
On his return from thia same melodious
jonrney byway of the West his affianced
wrote him'thnt her father in Englaud hod
boeu taken suddenly sick and desired
her speadicat coming home, llin an
swer was au enclosure of money and a
breken-Euglish letter of filial explana
tion to the household across the water,
and another letter to tell his mistress
that she mnst wait a few days until he
eonld oome to her and himself escort
her across the Atlantic as his wife. Hhe
waited accordingly, reports the Boston
correspondent of the Springfield f'nion.
The marriage took place last week, in
the presence and under the congratula
tions of American friends, who were as
well satisfied of tho bridegroom's ster
ling integrity a* of the bride's exem
plary worthiness, and tho last Cunard
steamer is now liearing to the English
coast as happy a psir of inabxl lovers as
ever illustrated old romance ia modern
instance.
Did not Know Its Use.
One of the stories goes that in the
last American Congress there was a
member, who was noted for his extreme
fiithinc-HS. He never wore a white shirt,
and a pnper colar on his woolen sliirt
would last him for weeks ; bnt the worst
of liini was that he would never use a
pocket-handkerchief. He Bat Wetween
two very elegant high-toned Georgia
members, who tried many ways to avoid
his nasal peccadilloes, bnt in vain.
At last they hit upon a plan they
thought wonld"do away with the nui
sance. They purchased a dozen very
large white handkerchiefs, did them up
iu paper, addressed them to him, and
lnid tnem on his desk. Both the mem
bers were in their seats, anxious to see
how their friend would receive the
present. When lie came in, ho picked
up the package, fore it open, and began
examining the handkerchiefs. Moon he
turned and said.
"Ixxik here! Did yon fellows git any
of these tilings?"
Tliey replied that they had ; that they
were part of tho perquisites of tho
mcmlicr*, and that all the members had
received them that morning.
"Well," says the member, "what are
the darned tiling* for ?"
They explained, and were in high glee
for a little while, bnt imagine their dis
gust wheu, after ho liad examined each
piece of muslin, be said:
"Oh yes! them is just like what my
wife uses sometimes."
And, as he said it, he took a large of
ficial envelope, put in the handkerchiefs,
put on his wife's address, franked it,
and threw it info the mail-bag.
A Foolish Man.—Adam Maag, an
eccentric German baker of Mrtamoras,
Pa., went to catch his horse. The horse
gave him an annoying chase. Maag be
came very angry and did not bridle his
tongue, no obtained little sympathy
from his family. Soon afterward he
went ont and was not seen again. To
ward evening tw. girls were passing a
hill on the Milford road, just below the
village, wheu they discovered him on
his knees with his arms around a small
cedar tree. Going up to him, the girls
saw that there was a rope around his
neck. This was fastened to a small
limb of the tree, and Maag was dead.
Ilow to Make lllack 811k Dresses.
Black silk costumes, say* a fashion
journal, are the most important part of
a modiste's importations,as sltnost every
customer buys at least one sueli suit a
vear. Among those examined at the
heat houses we fiud the lower skirt
mode Ukiiallv with two aide gore* and
one full back breadth, though there is
still a fancy for using only one side
gore and two full back breadths. These
skirt* are not lined, as it makes them
too heavy, but are faced with crinoline
three-eighths of a Yard deep, with a
narrow uverfacing of silk, and the edge
is txmud with worsted hraid in the old
fashioned way. The top of the skirt is
sewed to the licit with scarcely any
gathers in the three front breadths, hut
a deep pleat is laid under the side
seams; the hack breadths are fulled in
French gathers or gauging. The skirt
is maile long enough to lis on the floor
at least a quarter of a yard, but Freuch
dress-muki'ni have au excellent and sim
ple plan for shortening the dress for
tire street, a* Parisian ladies have too
much goud tte to wear long dresses
on the sidewalk. Their plain is to sew
a tape casting inside the skirt, begin
ning an inch below the belt on each
frout seam, extending it gradually low
er backward, so that it will be a quarter
of a yard below the belt at the placket
opening in the middle of the back. A
drawing-string is then put iu each cast
ing, and when the skirt is put au these
are tied tight behtud the person ; this
draws the akirt up in a puff on the
tonrnare, and shortens it gracefully,
without hooping or dipping. For skirt
trimming the caprice is to arrange the
front in wrapper fashion by pulling six
or seven lengthwise loss bands or puffs
from the belt to the foot on the three
frout widths, while the back is covered
with flounce*. A baud down the second
side seam does away with the use of
I bows to couceal the enda of flounce*.
Four straight breadths of silk are
enough for a flounce on the three back
i breadths. The lower edge of flounces
is finished by a bias faciag over su inch
wide, with one or two very small jhtuug
, folds put in the upper part of it; these
are sewed in with bliuo stitches. All
sewing-machine-work is injected to on
silk dresses, and the entire costume,
not excepting the skirt wam*. is sewed
by hand. Over skirts of silk, and pol
onaise skirts, should not le lined, as
their aofl drapery is their leanty; to
make them bouffant they must lie worn
over a tournure. The round apron
, over-skirl has strings h>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<B the revolution broke
out and young Agfaaionte'a pen and law
books were hastily discarded, and he
waa one of the first to' rsiae the lone star
banner of "free Cube" and to com
mence carrying on a guerilla war. The
.Spanish forces were not then ea hardly
pushed aa they are now, nor did the
Cuban patriots bold away on the same
extent of territory they now do. Skir
mishes were almost ab everyday occur
rence. Ynuv Agramoute always in
stated upon being in the front ranks,
and the contempt he appeared to have
for death waa oftiaea commented upon
by his comrades and the Spaniard*, who
believed that he held e charmed life.
The month of June, 1(570, found the
voting lewycr enjoying the position of
major-general and also member of the
Congress of the Republic of Cube from
theCentnl Department, and it is re
lated that Agramoute, by his eloquence
and logical powers, waa absolutely aide
to swav the mind* of many of the older
Senator*, who felt themselves entranced
with the vonng man's deep reasoning.
In addition to serving under the eom
mand of General Qut-aada, he also
fought with General Jordan.
While residing for some time in a
mountain fastness hi* young and beauti
ful wife gave birth to a boy. Later on ,
she managed to escape from Cube Libre j
at her husband's entreaties, who feared
for her life, and came on to New York,
where she rate birth to a second child.
She is now living at the city at Merida,
in Mexico.
Agramoute did great damage to the
Spaniards by means of his cavalry
euros, composed principally of farmers
and creole negroes, who were well
mounted and rode like centaurs. This ;
corps of dying artillery, under the com- j
maixl of Major General Agramoute, i
decimated, it ia reported, nine detach
ment* of Spaniah cavalry numbering
each forty to seventy men. When Gen- j
eral Queaada left CuheXibre on a mis
sion to the Ikiited Stakes for President
Ospedes, Agramonte waa placed in
supreme military command of the Cen
tral Department. His name has been a i
tower of strength atnony the Cabana.
Hi* companion in the commencement'
of the straggle was his brother, who ;
fought with him, aide by side. The I
parents of Agramonte were forced to
flv the country on account of their j
affinities with the revolution. The
brother juat aHuded to sacrificed hi*
ambition to his duty and came on to
New York to support the family. The
father soon fell a victim to this rigorous
climate and died, and the mother be
came, and ia still, heartbroken. Her i
son ia now a practising doctor and re
sides in New York with his mother, two
sisters and a brother. In concluding
this brief sketch an illustration of
Agramonte'* character ia given. On
one occasion at Havana, a friend of hi*
was insulted by a Spaniah major,
named Valero, and a duel to the death
sraa agreed upon. being
a clever swordsman, wounded his ad
versary in his face and in hi* body, and
the loss of blood canrod him to become
so weak that he could fight no longer.
Agramonte insisted that the duel should
terminate, instead of giving hia oppo
nent the ctmpdc. gmcr, which most men
in hia place would have done.
The Bridge
One chilly dtT I *• left it home
alone, end after 1 was tired of reading
Bobinann Crusoe, I caught a spider and
brougnt hii into the house to play
with. Well, I took a wash-beam and
fastened up a stick ia it like a liberty
pole or a vessel's mast, and then poured
in Witter enough to turn the maat into
an inland for my spider, wham 1 named
Crusoe, and put an the mast. As aoon
aa he waa fairly cant away, lie anxionslj
commenced running around to find the
mad to the mainland. He'd scamper
down the mast to the water, stick out a
foot, get it wet, shake it, run round the
stick and trr the other aide, and then
run back to tlie top again. Prettr aoon
it became a serious matter with Mr.
Bobinson, and he sat down to think it
over. And in a moment he acted as if
he wanted to shout for a boat, and I
was afraid he waa going to be bnngrv,
so I put a little molaasea on the stick.
A fir came, bnt Crusoe wasn't buugrr
for flies just then. He was homesick
for his wen in the oorner of the wood
shed. He went slowly down the pole
to the water, and touched it all round,
shaking his feet like pussy when she
wets her stocking* in the grasa ; and
suddenly a thought appeared to strike
him. t'p ha went like a rocket to the
top, and commenced playing circus.
He held one foot in the air, then another,
and turned round two or three times.
He got excited and nearly stood on his
hrwd before I found out what he knew,
and that was this : that the draft of air
made by the fire would carry a line
ashore on which he could escape from
his desert island. He pushed out a web
that went floating in the air, until it
came on the table. Then he hauled on
the rope until it waa strong enough to
hold him and walk ashore. I thought
he had earned his liberty, ao I put him
back in his woodshed again.
A bad Warning.
Coroner West n abort time ago hold
an inquest at Turtle Creek, IV, on the
body of John A. Fulmer, a ooal miner,
aged seventeen years, who waa found
dead near hia home. It appears that
the deoen sed left his home with* younger
brother to go to a store to buy eome
apples. Hebought the fruit and sent
the boy back to the house, while he
went on to the village to join some boon
companions. They visited several
drinaing-saloons, ana it ia said that the
• eeeased got very intoxicated. About
eleven o'clock he started to go home,
but he was found the next morning,
lying with hia head down hill, dead. It
i'a stated that the deoeased had been
drinking for some time back in the
grog-shops, of which there are s great
many in the village, where boys of his
age, and younger, congregate every
evening and drink. An examination
was made, but no marks of external
violence were found upon hia body. A
physician who was present gave it us his
opinion that the deoeased died of con
gestion of the brain, superinduced by
strong drink. A verdict in accordance
with the facta was rendered. Poor boy!
NICOTICS IN TOBACCO-SMOKE.— Exper
iments, by Dr. Heubel, do not confirm
the alleged absence of nicotine from to
bacco smoke; on the contrary, by con
densing smoke from cigars, and washing
it iu water and aloobol, he obtained a
solution which was capable of producing
the effects of nicotine ; and he also de
tected its presence, chemically, in the
form of the salts more permanent at
high temperatures. The effect of smok
ing, he concludes, must therefore be
ascribed, in part at least, to the absorp
tion of nicotine, though other subetan
cea may act with the poison.
Babe* la the Wood.
During one ot the warm afternoon.
of the first part of last week thro* Utile
children of Mr. John Foley, living near
Hillsdale. Columbia county, went out
Into the field to play. They were bear
headed and barefooted. All hour or so
afterward their mother went out to look
for them, but they were no where to be
found She searched about in the field*
and woods, calling them, but got no
tiLgTof th.m. Becoming alarmed, j
aa it waa growing dark, Mrs. Foley took
the dinner horn, and sound ad it for a
1 long time at different points, in hope
that her children might hear It, and bo
guided home by the sound. The born
had the effect of summoning the netgb
bore to the Foley farm, but nothing
waa heard ef the children. The parent*
were now nearly frantic.
The eeetioa in which they live to
wild one, and infested with beaato of
prey. Only last week Mr. Charles
Jones of Hillsdale, while passu f
through tha woods near Foley's wi a
, attacked by a Urge, hungry wildcat,
' with which he had a severe struggle.
I In the latter part of the winter a Urge
she bear and two cube were killed not
I far from the same spot. The parents
of the Foley children, failing to get any
; trace of tbem. feared that tl ey hal
wandered into the wood* and fa an a
prey to some of these animals. It ean
| now dark, and began to rain. A pariy
of farmers was organised to aoonr the
woods in search of the lost obildien.
They went in different directions, beur
tng lanterns, and calling the children
loudly by name. The oldest child was
a little one six years of age, and the
voungent a mere bale. The ram fell
j in torrents, but the search was kept op
: all night. Not the slightest trace of
the litte ones was found, although tb#
1 country had been scoured for mile*.
The scouting parties returned to the
pareots early in Hie morning with the
aad news. The belief that the children
had been destroyed by wildcats was
now general, and . great excitement
prevailed. The news spread to the
village, and business waa almost entire
-1 ly suspended. . _
* In the afternoon a boy named Inger
aoU nam# running to Foley*#, and said
that he had either heard cliildreo crying
or the ay of a wildcat, about a mile in
the woods, where he was looking for a
lost cow.
Mr. and Mr*. Foley and aome others
started at once for the spot, guided by
young IngereolL They same upon tha
children lying at the foot of a Urge
tree, coveted with deed Uuvea, and
drenched to the akin. They were cry
ing. When they saw their father and
mother they were almost wild with joy.
The meeting between them and their
parents waa most affecting. The chil
dren were carried back to the bouse,
and the rejoicing waa immense.
The oldest child said she beard the
diner born and the halloing of the
hunter*, but was afraid to *to*l away.
She answered the call, but
heard. The youngest child cried itself
to sleep and slept nil night, lying U
tweeutne other*.
Inhuman Treatment.
In Washington township iwM •
BUS bf the HUM of Warier, who ii tb*
i . large, farm,
with a two-story bouse. In one eonw
of the boitae, in the upper story, is •
little den eight by ten, in which is •
box S feet 6 inches in length end 22
inches wide. There is nothing slse in
the room bnt dirt end s few rags. A
being human being has lain in that hex
for more than fifteen year* —a girl 20
Tear* of age, the dsngbter of Warner,
bis neighbors knew be had a daughter,
bnt when asked " what had become of
her," he wonld giee some ev**ive reply.
Last week one of hia neighbor* made
information that she beliered the girl
was not receiving proper treatment, and
she had heard nobs and moaning,
which she supposed came from the girt.
Sheriff Tbmnpaon, from whom we learn
the facta* found the girl lying on her
, elbows awl knees upon a little straw m
' the box. She had nothing on her per
son whatever bat a piece of dirty
blanket, not fit to sorer a borne, MOM
her shoulder*. "Her head and hands
! were as mall as those of a child 10 year*
old. Her hair was cat abort. Of oouna
> 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.