He Mm Leaf who Li ret Well. Woaidat thou Ut. long ? Ths only bm art tea*. DOT. Oaten*, diet, or Kppncratsa': Strive If T were gf.wio your fit. won!.! ha no mora titer. St* aho hungering cm a rock? shot*. flbtpwrecKed, skins, observe* the ehh and flow Of h*|#S*#k*heh vn.ieiitttg terth balo*. And ia rem.nih.niig all that w* before. Dear, I u, at your t-troug hoar. * oer. I am th. life ; uo uwl to tail ma so. * And gat—Ah luidwed, though th. mar. rati. Mors worth year leva, and though you lovsd lit not, (EW mut.l jreu have setae different, deeper name loving dimly I seem aware. As ttwwigh yen conned old stories long forget. Hmss days are with veu—bwt—iwtere 1 eamr ■ftie mountain traveler, joyous on his way. Looks on the vale he feft and calls it fair, Then count* with pnds how far h. is from Asrs. o Asa# still aeoead*. And when my Ihtwae* stray. Dwaed with ligLi uxuminss ul a hygpon. day, I weald not has. again th# thing* that wore. I breotha their Ussaght Uk Iragrenos in the ~ air Of flower* I gathered ia my chtlJiah play. Anil thpu, my very *oul, can it loach thee ITT rcraemW her or 1 forget? Doe. the sun ask if th. while stars be set ? ss I re -all. shall many times, maybe. Recall th. dfar CW boyish day* again. The dsar old boyish passion. I.wve what then ? * > ■ * *\ cnr*. TITO. I* was nt school that I firs* mot Tit-' Zale—l waa eleven jeai* of age, and Tito, I learned afterward, was tea. We became the firmest friends before the ffiat quarter had expired. At the end of three month. Col. Kales called. We knew by that time that Tito's father waa, or rather bad been, a ootonel some where, and v full that he would have greatly obliged ua boys by coming to see his son in full regimentals. I re mem lwr that he entered the play-ground one Saturday afternoon, that Tito sud denly gave a scream of delight, broke a window of the school-room with his el bow in his liaate to leap down from the ■ill on which he and 1 had placed our selves, and went with a mad plunge at his father's long legs. Tito's father paid us a short visit, was good to me, and then went away. We expected him, Tito and I, the next qnrte*, but he did cot uie, and. ■what was worse, we hoard nothing from him. Tito told rue, confidentially, on my re turn, that he had received no letter from hia father, and that he had heard Mr*. Price say at dinner one day to Mr. Price that"she thought it strange. and that Mr. Price bad answered that be was inoliued to think it gather strange himself, and that he, lito, was sure that they hail been talking about his papa, because they hail spoken in whis pers, and looked Very much at him. I said that it must be fancv, and he tried to agree with me, but hoped that hia 1 apa would come to see him seon, for ; he was out of pocket-money, and his wan! robe was in need of considerable repair. But Col. Zalez never came, f and only Tito, his son, remained san t game, at last, of hia return. I know now, what I did not know in all its details than, that the Prices, pert et wierr,werebecoming very anxions concerning the whereabout of Tito's father ; that two quarters were in arrear ; and that the extra keep during Tito's holiday was added to the acoount; and that a* third qnarter hail com menced. I knew afterward that Mr. Price had written to an out-of4he-wav place in Central America, where the Colonel had dated his last letter, and that no answer had been returned; that he luul written to a British con sul, and elicited the information that no snch person was known within his jurisdiction ; and I heard Mr. Price speak once of civil wars and general po litical confnsion, and of the fear that Col. Zalez hail disappeared in a revo lutionary Tortex forever. Ladr-day qnarter passed, bills were paid, I'ito, waxing shabbier and shab bier, and still wondering why hia father never wrote to him, got up every morn ing with a marvelous confidence in hia parent's coming to see him before the' day was out, Tito scarcely took into consideration the expense that be was to Mr. Price: heknewnothiogof school bills | tnd Mr. Prise was too tealv*- hearted a man to show !. dlssiffsfac tion to the child himself. Mr. Price woe puzzled what to do with him, or how long he waa to allow this to last; and he looked more thoughtfully at the small enigma every dgy, and could not see his way to a solution. One day Mr. Price went to London, to the old town address of Col. Zalez, and made maDy inquiries at his last lodgings—l learned afterwards—and returned baf fled at all points. Tito's father had paid hia bill and disappeared about nine months since, without leaving a clue to bis whereabout. A telegram from abroad had led to his sudden departure, it was elicited, and Col. Zalez, packing up his boxes and putting on hia boots, probably more down at heel than 'ever, bad departed on his mission, whatever it was, to a foreign State, wherever that might be. Tito became so veiy shabby after Lady day that the waster foiipd . ex cuses to leave him at home, when the j boys went out for their airings or their cricket-matches ; and finally one of our : boys spoke positively to a few high words whioh ho had heard exchanged between Mr. and Mrs. Price one even ing with reference to the formers sag- j gestion that he thought he should risk a suit of clothes for Tito. The high words, at all events,> ended in the suit of clothes being provided i for poor Tito, who accompanied us in our walks again, and looked for the tall, sun-burned gray mnstached man at the oorner of every "street we passed. Midsummer and the holidays came round, Tito wan left at school, and Mr. Price's blank look at the unclaimed one assumed by several degrees more atoni ness of aspect. Once more the busy hum of school, old pupils and new ones —and Tito still on the establishment, and Tito's father nowhere. JBj degrees the story of the boy's forlorn position hail found its way among the scholars, and Tito was pitied very much by the majority, and laughed at by a few thoughtless ones, who thought it rare fun for a boy to have a father who had run away from him. Tito's position was not an enviable one, but be bore it pretty well, and often fretted to him self a little, and with not half the noise - which he had made on the night when he had missed his father for four hours. I was his counselor and hia comforter, and I kept up his hopes, at last, by strange legends of various fathers' and mothers* returns, after years of absence from their children, and was continually ransacking story books fpt parallel cases to his own. One day, Mrs. Price aqd her lord and master began to have a faw words again oocrerning the unfortunate Tito ; and Wickers, who was the boots of the set 101 by day, and a page radiant in sugar-loaf buttons at night, came to Tito with the news. " There's been a jolly row abont yon, Mapter Zalez," he said, "and they've thought it over—only don't you say that I told yon, mind—and thev think your father is a wenturer, and they're going to eend you to the workus.'* Tito stared, and finally walked away, 4 FRED. ICniTZ, Ktlitorimd Proprietor. VOL. VI. keeping from the piny ground and liia play-follows nil day. In the eveuiug he eame to nie, when I was deep in goog rwphr, and wrestling with " principal towns," and whnqiered : I "Joe, I want vou." " What is it, T.t ?" I "You heard Wicker* say that they were going to send me to the work house ?" j " Yea—but I don't believe it." " I'm going to ask the master now— eotne wiili me." I " Oh, lor !" " He'a at the desk there, looking over the * Themes," and I want yow to hear what he says." " Verv well." So I left my place, at the imminent risk of gettiug six bad marks for inat tention to my lessons, and went with Tito to Mr. Price's desk. 1 shall never forget the look of aatiiuiahni.it and discomfiture on the master's face, when Tito put the question very straightfor wardly, and with wonderful composure. "If you please, air, ia it true that vou are going to send me to the ware house r " Bless mr soul!—who—who told vou that, Tito "I would nither not say who told me, air—it'* alt sKmt the school." "Dear me—how vexing—how very unfortunate ! My dear Tito, I should like to speak to t'ou to-morrow moraiug about seven. What are you doing out of your place, Simmons?" he asked, catching sight of me at lost. " I came to take care of Tito, air." Sit bbfl marks.*" I knew that I should Wave them, therefore the promulgation of my sen tence did not take me very much by surprise. Tito might have made mat ters worse by getting himself into a scrape aad informing Mr. Price that he had a.-ked me to leave my place with him, had not a look from me silenced one who had quite enough troubles of hia own. Tito went the next morning to Mr. Price's room, meeting Wickers by the way, who told him that the mas ter and the missus had been "at it" again, and that Mr*. Price was sick of boys whose fathers never paid. Of the particular* of Tito's conference with Mr. Price, tlu.-e are the principal, as detailed to me by Tito, between twelve and two. It had all bn arranged, and Mr. Price broke the news to him in as gen tle a manner as he could, and wiped his own eyes once or twice surreptitiously with his pocket-handkerchief. He told Ttto that he was not a rich man, that the school was the support of himself and a large family, and that it was be yond his power to keen Tito any longer at his own expeuse. He had consulted with his solicitor, who had advised him to hand over Tito to the parish authori ties of Flatborough, who would pass Tito over to the parish authorities of the district in London where Col, Zalei had resided for many years. He told Tita that the parish* would use every exertion, and take far greater pains, to find his father than he could do with a great school on his mind, and that he was taking the l>eat and surest means to put Tito into hia father's hands once more. He bad no doubt that the parish would treat Tito very well, and that Tito would be very happy ; but his audi tor having his tay ; the novelty of the expe dition aroused my love of adventure, and. regardless of future hardships, future punishment from the bands of Mr. Price, and the sin of dis obedience to my pastor and master, 1 said: "I*ll go a little way with yen, Tit, ' and come back again before tbey shut : up for the night." "But how you will catch it 1" "Yes; I know that; lint I should not i like you to start alone." "■thank you, Joe ; it's very kind of yon ; but I think you had lwtter stop." I thought so also, but I went with Tito; and we succeeded in getting from the school by the way which my small friend had fugeuiously sketched out. When we were outside the playground wall, and heard the boys' voices welling to our ears from the other side, our ' hearts sank a little at the boldness of I the step, and we hurried on, somewhat crestfallen, to the sea Bhore, and went on by long, low-lying sands, knowing i that the tide was out, and that we were not likely to meet anybody at that honr to stop us before we reathed the King's Gap. This was a cleft in the cliffs, . where I was to part with him and wish i him godspeed on his journey. Tito had . a handle with him, in which he had i packed a small great-coat, his socks, i one shirt, a cricket-ball, a large bag of marbles—the boys were always giving him marbles, byway of token of their , respect for him—a few half-penny prints, ! which he had colored, and a volume of t firy-tales that his father had given r him. The night was soon upon us, and [ we grew less stout-hsarted in the dark ness, and were doubtful if the sea might , not come np quicker than we had bar THE CENTRE REPORTER gained for, undent us off from the King's tiup before our tired logs could wade through the ileop nana toward it. Hut vre reached the Gup in safety, crept past the const guard house on the sta tion, and then paused to consider the nest step. Thia was the place of part ing ; but a look back at the dark coun try road I had to traverse, and a sudden remembrance of all the horrible stories I had hoard of travelers being usa*at uated in loudv districts, and of children beingstripped by their clothes, and turned adrift to die of ©old, de terred me from returning to llelvoir House till davlighL 1 aaid tliut I won hi go on with Tito ; and Tito, who had looked dismally in his direction also, said, "Thank yon, Joe," and waa evi dently grateful for my company. We were both becoming very nervous, but we kept up appearances for a while. We took the wrung turning, and foiind ourselves on the edge of the eliff again. We made a short cut across a field to " try back " for the roadway, aud lost ourselves completely. We went wan dering about mMadeira and tnruip-flclda in vain efforts to get off farmers' prop erty, and failed. We were frightened almost to death by a white cow that bel lowed suddenty over a hedge at us. and Tito dropped hi. bundle in hi. hurry, aud we bail to creep back cautiously fur it, but w*ro never able, from that uight, to set byes upon it again. We were overtaken by tiie rain—a heavy, steady down-pour, that washed the la*t atom of courage from our hearts. "Jse." said Tito, suddenly, "I wish I hadn't come." " 80 do I," 1 assented; and then, with onr heads very much bent forward, to keep the rain from our faces, and to al low it more easily to find its way down the backs of our necks, we, two foolish, miserable hearts, trudged on, doubtful if we were walking over cross-coffntry to liOiidon, or back again to Fiatinirough. When it came to thunder and lightning along with the rain, the climax had ar rived, and Tito burst into tears, and wished that he was ia his comfortable work-house, and that I was out of trouble; and then the friendly shelter of au old shed, with the doors off, sudden ly coming across our path, we darted into it, and huddled together in <>ne corner, praying for the daylight. How the long night passed we never knew. We went to sleep at last, witli our arms around each other's neck, and thought of " The Children in the Wood." We were Beared once more by the white cow, who came in with stately tread out of the rain also, and snorted and sniffed about us, and finally lav down across the door-way, barring our egress, aud pretending to go to slsep, Tito said, that it might take na unawares when we followed its example. We did not know that it was a cow till the morning, onr impression being that it was a bull of the very maddest description, and one to t>e especially wary of, if w. set any value on our livea. Somehow, we dozed off to sleep at last, despite our fears, and when we awoke again, hearing the hum of voices mar us, we found that it was morning, aad raining hard still, and that a r0..- faeed man, and a rosy-faced girl, with milk-paila, were looking down upon us in intense astouialiuieiit. " Lawks?" the girl said, "what arc you a-doing here ? What boys are you ?" I looked at Tito, and he re turned my glance ; ou .pint* were at zero, and it seemed necessary to give in. " We're from Mr. Price's school at Flatbon., and should be glad to get back." said Tito. " Flatborough—why, that's fifteen miles from here," said the farmer's man. You don't mean to say that you two little ones have buen a-plaviug truant —good gracious!" But we did mean it; and Tito aaid that, if they could put put hia friend Joe in the right place for the school, they might drop himself at the nearest work-house, when they went that way, as it was all the same, and be was ex pected there ; a piece of information which gave our listeners the impres sion that we were from the lunatic asylnra, five miles off. The farmer was sent for, and as he knew Jl.lvotr House well, and waa going to Flatborough on business that morning, we were in a fair way toward the end of our adven ture and its unsatisfactory result*. We drove to the school after a break fast which we were not in a fair condi tion to enjoy, and Mr. Price, his wife, the assistants, half the boys, and Wick ers were in the hall to see our iguomin ious return. " You dreadful boy*," Mr. Price aaid, "what a fright Ten" harp given me, and what a deal of trouble! The county pdice are linking everywhere for you. What made you go away ?" " Pleaae, air, Tito was afraid of the work house," I explained ; and, oa he did not know his way to London, I thought that I would just put him on his road." " I'll talk to you presently, Simmons," said Mr. Price, meaningly ; and then he turned to Tito, and said, " Yon need not have been afraid of Michaelmas day, Tito, for I had made up my mind to "risk another quarter; but your anxiety of mind was, to a certain ex tent, excusable, and 1 shall not punish yon severely." I felt a twittering all along my spine, but said not a word against his manifest partiality. " And, my boy, I am very happy to relieve you from a great suspense this morning," said Mr. Price, laying his hand on Tito's curly head. " Ilere is to-day's paper, with" a telegraphic dis patch from Central America." As he unfolded the paprrand pointed to one item of intelligence in the top comer of the right-hand column, 1 bent forward with Tito, and read, in large letters, the following news concerning a small State, that, at this late stage of my story, I need not particularly al lude to. "Great revolution in . R lease of Col. Zalez. Ilia election aa I'reni dcnt of the Republic." Tito's troubles were ended from that day. The next mail brought a letter from President Zalez, whose political intrigues had thrown him into prison, and then had placed him at the head of a government; and Mr. Price's account was settled in dne course. I met President Zalez at a hotel in New York, whither he had gone for n holiday, two years ago; and his son Tito was then a bigger fellow than his father. Wo laughed over Tito's trou bles at a princely banquet which the great man gave us ; and, as he smoked his paper cigarettes, we reminded him of our first treat together in the little town of Flatborough-on-the-Sea. I was afraid that lie would have kissed me aguin in his gratitude, but he sat down, sighed, as though the cars# of government were a little in the way of the peace and rest that he had found in England, leaned back in his chair, and lighted another cigarette. THE ARMT STANIARI.—A circular from the United States War Depart ment, requires the standard height for recruits to be as follows : For artillery and infantry, five feet four inches and npwnrdß; for cavalry, not less than five feet five inches and not more than five feet ten inches. This will not lee applicable to musicians or to recruits for coloref regiments, the present regu lations for enlisting whom still remain in force. CENTRE 11 ALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1875. Au trUli Hreach-oM'romUe Fac. The Dublin correspondent of the Lon don Tone* write*: A hreaeh-uf-promise case, ill which £5,000 damage* were claimed, has been the chief event of iuteir*t nt the Lim erick Aaaixea. The plaintiff was Mm* Elisabeth Shrshy, daughter of a magis trate of the county, twenty-six years of age, and the defendant, John Evans O'Leary, a Maior in the Luueick Mi litia and a nephew of the late Geu. Sir De Lacy Evan. There were four counts in the summon* and plaint; the firat, alleging the promise generally, then s'ating it withiu a certain time, and iu the third and fourth count* alleging that time to be when the defendant * uncle died, or when he should have wound up his affair*. The defeuee was substantially au avermeut that the plaintiff had released the defendant from his engagement. It appeared from the facts stated and deposed to that theattaehment between the parties began iu 1865, and a heap of letter*, numbering no fewer than 140, had been sent to the plaintiff from that time. They were full of terms of en dearment, aud breathed the ardor of the southern temperament. The ludv wo* usually addrr**ed as "My own darling Beaaie," a* the "loved wife," aud "heart's love," and she was assured in the moat solemn term*, often re tested, that her " fond and affectionate loverto death " would love her as long a* he lived with the *nme devotion; that there was not iu the world a man who loved another a* lie loved her; that every one about him knew well that the day he heard from her he was quite a different man; that he could uot live a day with out seeing sr hearing from her; that he hod read her letters a hundred times; that he could never forget her beautiful face; that, sleeping or waking, it was ever before him; with many other ex pressions of the same kind, denoting great warmth if not sincerity of feeling. He pressed her in his early letters to name a time for their union; but after some time the effervescence of his pas sion seemed to have subsided, and the plaintiff, having noticed some coolness in his manner, wrote to him a very spir ited though affectionate letter, telling him s'e would not endure hi* seeming coldness, aud that she would release him from his engagement if he request ed it. This letter framed the ground of de fense. The case, however, was that, though the engagement was broken off in 18C7, he renewed it afterward. In the course of interviews with her he spoke of his pecuniary affairs, but stated that he would marry her ou the death of his uucle. After that event she asked lorn if ko wished to break off the engage ment, and he replied, " Certainly n>t " —that he knew his uncle had not for gotten him, and that when everything was settled they should be married. In July, 1972, he fixed September for their marriage, but he subsequently declined to fulfill the engagement, it was al leged that by the death of Bir I)e Lacy Evans he became possessed of from £H,- 000 to £12,000. The case for the defendant wan that he was only worth £240 a year and £!,- 000 in cash; that he had been from his early youth steeped in difficulties, ami tiled to fiud consolation in drink, and that his iutcni|>erato habits had been referred to by the plaintiff, who ued her influence to try and reclaim him. Counsel relied on the many expressions of sgoiiy ia the defendant's letters after the engagement was broken off aa a proof that it was not renewed. He ex pressed surprise that a beautiful, virtu ous, and accomplished lady ahotihl throw herself awuy upon an idle, dissi pate.!, and worthless person. At the close of the case the jury, after twenty minutes' deliberation, found a verdict for the plaintiff with £1,871} damages. The Slave* of Barbary. The number of Christian alavea was immense. For int*Dce, in the earlv part of the sixteenth century, llarrmf tlin employed no lea* than 30,000 Chris tian slaves, for two rears, in constrnct nig a pier for the protection of his ships at Algiers; anil, a eenturv later, in Algiers and its surrounding a strict alone, there were between 25,000 and 30,000 Christian slares, French, Span ish, Euglish, Italians, Htynans, and even Russians. There were three de nominations of slares—those of the State in the service of the King or Dey, those of the galleys engaged in the sea ports snd the expeditionaof the pirates, and those belonging to individuals, either employed in domestic, farm, and other labors, or dealt in as an article of commerce, being sold and resold in the snme way as lioraes or cattle. The re cords of the sufferings of the unfortu nate captives are truly heart-sickening. Immediately on their landing, they were stripped of their clothes and sold ; and then, covered with a few rags and chained, they were set to work, some in the galleys, but the greater part in the conn try, under a scorching snn—some in tilling the soil, some in catting wood and making charcoal, some in quarry ing, some in sawing marble, some la the port, up to the middle in water, for nine hours a day ; and all this under the whip of a brutal overseer. In many an instance, as described by the mis sionaries, their skin peeled off under the broiling sun, and their tongues lolled out from excrssivo thirst, which they could not leave their work to quench. But their physicial sufferings were fully equaled, orrather surpassed, by the pangs of their mental paiu and moral degradation. While many en dured this protracted martyrdom rather than abandon the faith of Clirist.others, in their utterly subdued and broken down state, embraced Islamism, which immediately procured them some al leviation of the cruel treatment under which they groaned. Driven to des peration, several committed suicide, and numbers diet! from hardship.— Murphy * Terra Incognita. Precautions Against Cholera. In a leo.tnre on this subject, Prof. Forster calls particular attention to the effect of wells in spreading cholera, and gives numerous instances, not only of different cities, but of different parts ef the same city, in which cholera was epidemic, where the water supply was from surface wells, whilst it did not prevail where water was obtained from other sources, or from deep rock wells. He states that in Dresden the water in one well sank when seven feet were pumped out of another I'2o feet distant; that carcasses contaminated the water lfiO feet off, and that the nminoniacal liqnor of the gas-works at Munich wan detected in wells 70(1 feet distant. In short, wells generally seem to collect fluid matter from a space of nt least 200 feet radins ; and, since very few are re moved that distance from privies, they are liable to be contaminated by them. Indeed, chemical analysis shows that well-water in cities is rich in nitrates which could only have audi a aourje. It is plain, therefore, why rocky or im penetrable clay soils are not favorable . the appearance of cholera, while the rapid sinking of surfuce water and a p< >us soil involve a contrary tendency ; so that cholera may continue epidemic even in winter. Cholera is not only produced by drinking such water, but milk, beer, meat, Ac., treated with it, become similar sources of the disease. The Farmer*' Moirmrnt. T. It. Allen, Master of the Missouri State Orange, lias been making a two weeka' official tour through Missouri and Arkansas, lie reports the farmers j everywhere enthusiastic in the Orange cause. He fer* there will be some trouble 111 Aakausas, and perbapa iu Missouri, in regard to colored fsruiers, but trusts that it will nwt lie serious. The Patrons being orgsuited for social purpose*, the colored man, he thinks, cannot Ire admitted to the same lodges, ! but wherever a sufficient number of them desire separate organisation, he will himself sec that they arc properly organised and set ugoiug. The people iu Arkansas with whom he came iu eon tact were as intelligent a set of farmer* as he had seen anywhere, and wherever lie weut vhe greatest peace aad uunui , mity of opinion seemed to prevail. The j Order, he further states, is in the high est degree flourishing in this Htate. There are already more than 500 lodges iu Missouri, with an average member ship of 75, aud those numbers will be more than doubled in the next three mouths. There will probably be mora than 100,000 Grangers in Missouri Ims fore spring opens. The Grangers, Mr. Allen thinks, will endeavor to keep out of politics, but they cannot fail to greatly modify parties eventually. At a meeting of farmers at Kankakee, 111., Mr. H. M. Smith, Secretary of the Farmers' State Association, reiterated Ins advice to the farmers to combine as the other industrial classes did, aud get higher prices for their produce than those offered under the undiaturtied op eration to supply and demand. lie aaid one great fault with us is that we get into debt and mortgage our corn, pork, and beef before tliev are raised. Then wc are at the mercy 0} our grocer and merchant, and we must sell for any price they decide to pay us. We should get clear of debt if we have to wear our pauta until they have as many colors by reason of patches as Joseph's coat. Get out of debt and be in a condition to hold year produce until the consumers will lie willing to pay you a fair remu neration for your labor. If the pork men meet iu September and set a price on your pork, as they Jul last year, and say they will only give St for it, then meet them by holding out until they will tie willing to give you 86 There is ao rxceas of bread.ntuffs over what the world wat La to consume; if there is a surplus one year there will !>e a deficit in the aeoond or thud year, and it will all be wanted at remunerative prices. Get out of debt and keep out of debt, and assert your true manhood, and do not stand nt the mercy of every combi uatiou that ia formed to fAtten on you. The Beaton W by. Can yon wonder that American wo men so quickly lose their beauty ? Bhnt tip in houses, pipe-tenths of their tune, with either no exercise, or that which is of a limited, irksome sameness, they are, as a consequence, unnaturally pale, soft and leudei; their blood ia poorly organized and watery, their muscles small and flabby; and the force and functions of their bodies, as a whole, run low in the scale of life. A spurious fullness is often seen iu the outline dur ing girlhood, which usually melts like snow under an April sun whenever the eadurauoe ia put to the test, as in per forming the functions of a mother. The change in appearance from the maiden of one year to the mother of the next ia often so striking and en luring that it is difficult to believe we are looking ou the same person. The round, plcaaiug shajMi is prematurely displaced by a pinched angularity, and au untimely and an unseemly appearance of age. And it is all nonsense to blame our cli mate for this sad state of things; blame only their hot house, enervating mode of life. English ladies of rank, who, by tiie way. are celebrated for keeping their beauty even to a ripe old age, think nothing of walking a half dozen mile* at a time; while American ladies would think such s thing " perfectly dreadful." If American Women, so daintily and richly fed, will sit in dark and suitiy rooms the live long day, they must expect to bloom too soon, to hasten Is rough this charming period— at the longest in about ten year* —and for twenty year* after, have the grim satisfaction of being thin, wrinkled, an gular and sallow. (letting Keadj to be Married. We do not at thi* time presume to meddle with the fashions, but desire to apeak a word to those unfortunate datn *••l* who are lalioriously "getting ready to lie married." We lately tried to pot onmelves in the place of an acquaintance who was pass ing through this ordeal, and we came to the conclusion that if men were obliged to submit to so much shopping and matching and advising and "trying on" they would break promise oitimer than they do—the rascals. Now, girls—this is confidential—is it not taking too much thought for the morraw to work and worry yourself into leanness of body Rnd soul in order to astound your acquaintances by the va riety of yonr bridal apparel ? We con fess*—no* it is not a sin, we boast—that we have an eye, two eves, for that roost charming vision, a beantifnl woman richly and boeomingly dressed ; to fem inine loveliness we grudge notliisg with in the bounds of taste and of a purse which ia open at one end for charity ; and we think a little modest exlravn gance, even if it has to lie planned for, may be pardoned on the day which should be the fairest in a maiden's cal endar. Bnt to make up garments for years and years to prepare a trousseau ten times as elaborate as ever was need ed iu flirtation days—girls, what are yon thinking of? Don't you know that an unruffled face will please the bridegroom more than forty ruffled skirts ? Wouldn't yon respect yourselves more were vou to "get ready" by learning new ways to be really useful than if you make your selves incompetent for anything but to exhibit now dresses ?— Christian f Viion. Accidents from Heaping Machines. Borne of the deaths occasioned by reaping machines are terrible. The country pnpors have been pretty full of them for a mouth past. The following from the H'f Jirtui (Wisoonsi) /Vw --t rat is an example of what we read al most everr day; Theodore Klunke, of the town of Farmington, met his death on the 22d inat, in the most shocking manner. The particulars are as follows: Kluuke was sitting on his renper on his way homo fromai wheat-field where he had been at work. One of the wheels of the machine struck a log which threw Klunke from his seat and he fell before the sickle-bar ; nt the snmo time the hoises became frightened and dashed across the lots. Klunke, in trying to save himself, canght hold with both arms to the liar, and in doiug so, the sickle guards entered both sides of his breast and literally tore the flesh from his body so ss to* leave the ribs bare. Some children who were plnying in the field at the time of the accident man aged to stop the runaway team and call the neighbors. The mangled body of Klunke was picked up and curried to his house, where he expired in two hours thereafter in the most intense agoay. He was fifty-six years old at the time of his death", and leaves a wife and four children to mourn his sad loss. Hints t a louuy HalMJoer. Be very careful not to pull down your shirt-sleeve#, or up your collar, or, in fact, to do anything to your coat tune a# you enter the ball-room. It implies nervousness or utieasiueaa with your self to do ao ; aud your on* great en deavor iu all societies should be to ap pear thoroughly at your aase, aud sat isfied, without vanity or coxcombry, with your dreSa and uppeiiranee. Do not stand idle ; but do not dance over much. The one implies a small num ber of friends ; the other waste* valu able time, and prevents vour keeping that constant look-out alt round you which is essential to success. He in troduced to kuowable people quietly ; there it uo neoeaaity to advertise to by-atandera that you did not know them before. Never talk much k a woman you Lave only just uuate the acquaintance of, nor eagerly. She may be allowed to suppose you wished to know her, but not that her acquaintance is any particular aquisition to you. Above" all tliinga, mv dear boy, I en treat you net to stand iu the doorways, nor herd with other men upen the land ing. It ia aimply advertising yourself a failure. Tie yourself to the veriest wallflower, gossip with the dowdiest mother, dance with Die most disappoint ed of maideuhood, rather than sink to this. Sitting in corners comprises a very large subject, or, rather, array of snhiecta. To know bow to ait in corners well and prudently requires a vaat ex perience and a steady head ; so, until you have much extended your acquain tance and your knowledge of humanity, I would recommend you to avoid that most agreeable of the pleaaures of ball going. It is not for s novice at once to penetrate to the inner depths of fash ion's mysteries, and I shall therefore put off my advice on this subject until 1 come, in a future letter, to the great subject of flirting, which, of course, comprises the art of aitling iu 00 me re. London &wcfc/y. Lure Life of George X. Sanflera. It is not generally known, sava a Cin cinnati paper, except to our older citi sens, that the late George X. Banders formerly a resident of onr city, or its immediate vicinity. About the year 1838, and for some few years pre vious, George X. Banders was one of the 1 wans of Cincinnati society. Of commanding presence and fine education, he vraa destined to shine in any position in life. But of this it is nt our purpose to speak. We rather will deal with the tenderer aide of his nature. He aought the hand of a beau tiful young lady, now the wife of one of our principal dry-goods merchants, and wa rejected. He was not, however, to be baffled so easily. He took consider able pride in aotue fancy stock he was sclliug on his farm near the citr, and aa a compliment to the young lady above mentioned, and proliably to advance hia interest* in that quarter, named a fine young Alderuey cow for her, aud, at considerable expense, had a celebrated artist of that day (#-1 a portrait of the bovine creature, and presented it to the object f his affections with his eompiimrut*. It did not have the de sired effect, though, for the lady return ed the picture, and, as a retaliatory measure, named a fine Berkshire boar, raised on her father's place, " George N. Banders." For a year or two Mr. Sanders was quite uuconsolable, and to mention a Berkshire pig in bis presence was sufficient to amuse his ire and cause s sns|iension of acquaintance with him. He shortly alter sutiscnbed to a journal, or magaiine, entitled The flmter, published in New York, and became so deeply interested in the edi torials, which were of a high order of merit, that he opened s correspondence with the editress, Miss Heed, which eventually became a courtship by letter, and eudtd ia their union, although up to the very day they were married they had never laid eyes on esch other. The MM and Mode! of the Ark. A writer in the Xational Gastti* dis cusses this subject at length, taking both the Bible account and that recent ly discovered in Assyria fort basis. He says that, reckoning the cubit at eigh teen inches,the arkwss 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, aud 45 feet deep, and would register about 15,000 tons, if measured as a sailing ship, or about 12,000 bins, if measured as a steamer, by British rules. It was thus smaller than the Oreat Eastern. It had three decks, and was divided Into numerous compart ments by longitudinal and transverse bulkheads, for the safety and order of its occupants. It was built of gopher wood, a species sf timber resembling the pine in length and- strength of trunk, and the white cedar in lightness. In model, says the writer, it was all that a great carrier could bis, chestlike, with lines straight and angles square, but the bottom and top were elliptical in outline, pretesting convexity to the earth and to the sky. After giving the dimensions and the model of construc tion of the several parts, this authority tells ns, as if he were equally certain on thin point, that the ark "is now in a good state of preservation, bnt lying under an eternal mantle of snow, hund reds of feet deep, at an altitude of 17,- 500 feet above the level of the sea. Ever since the flood dried tip, the climate of Armenia lias been colder, and snow al waj a covers the top of Ararat, render ing it impossible for ativ of Noah's de scendants to go up and find the ark." Decidedly Cool. A Baltimore paper tells of a seedy looking individual who entered the of fice of one of the leading lawyers, a dignified ex-Judge of that city, a-day or two ago, and said: " Give me the price of a good dinner; I hare had nothing to eat to-day." The Judge told him he had nothing for him, and the man re plied: "Ym most be mistaken. Yon are dressed well, are evidently fed well, for you look sleek and happy, and yon are surrounded with every evidence of thrift ; yon must have the price of a dinner about yon." The Judge ordered the man out of the office. The indi vidual, however, stepped forward to the tatde where the Judge had laid his valuable meerschaum pipe, and, taking it up, placed the mouth-piece in his mouth, saying, " Well, if [you won't give me a dinner, let me smoke your pipe." lie made a hasty exit from the office, the irate lawyer "expediting his progress to the sidewalk. Singular Electrical Effect. During a recent storm at Whitcville, Va., the lightning struck the telegraph wires near the rail rend depot in that place, and traversed a thousand yards in a flame of fire. I was in a position, writes a spectator, te observe about one thousand yards of the wire, from right to left, when a flash to the left was in stantly succeeded by a prolonged amncking noise, like the fusillade of a thousand fire-crackers. This was in stantly followed by a like sound to the right, when the whole wound up with the usual explosion again to the left. Evi dently the fluid hud attacked the wires, whicli was found tme upon examina tion. About every third post was rifted und scarred from the upper wire-arms to the earth, while the wires remain wholly iatact in their insulators. 0 Terms: 02.00 a Year, in Advance. A C hapter on Washing Hay, WSil tlaubur) Think* Sim>ll 11, There is uo important tha I/ondoo ifnarttrly I2tview adduces many pretty luttDCM of affection, sagacity, an