He Mm Leaf who Li ret Well.
Woaidat thou Ut. long ? Ths only bm art
tea*.
DOT. Oaten*, diet, or Kppncratsa':
Strive <o lir. well ; tread in the upright war.,
And rather scant thy action, u.an thy day*.
Than tlttu ha*t lived rßough amongst u
h*c#- 4*
For em? day ir.lt p*nl t count a year.
Lira nails and ihsn, Uow toon m' thou
A*. C
Tlwa art of age to claim atsrtutv.
Rnt that .Hrttivos ssator, •®' i W** I '-
To h*v. paused th. date of gray UUiu . lah a
- •' •
tf h hi* lit* to dMtij and ahi doth gtv*
I aay be oiffywa* t be did not Jivs.
* j * -dSUaooira.
•
Th# Old Iter#,
Tott toe. teily me. Pot tsot Iroo w >
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 t<rn opinion on this sub
ject, went away discomfited. His last
inquiry was:
" When is this to be, Mr. Price?"
"Ob, not this week," said the master,
assuring'y, "nor the next. Not till
Michaelmas, at any rate."
Somehow the fate that loomed before
Tito became known also to the boys,
and waa canvassed during play-hours,
and generally set down as a "jolly
shame"—not any of ns taking into con
sideration the ways and means of Mr.
Price, aad the appetite—always a good
one—of Tito Zalez, and the rapid growth
upward and sideways—for Tito kept
filling out rapidly—of the unfortunate
pupil, who waa out of his clothes again
before any one knew where he waa.
Once the bright idea occurred to ns of
getting up a subscription te pay hia ar
rears among ourselves and our parents;
bat the united contributions only
amounting, after all the harass of can
vassing, to eight shillings and three
pence three farthings, it was thought
advisable to return the subscriptions to
the Tito fund. The aeeond idea waa en
tirely my own, and consisted in suggest
ing to my father, in a friendly and per
suasive note, that Tito woula be worth
adopting, being a very nice amiable
boy, whom everybody wotttd like at
home. This idea waa dashed to the
ground by my father's courteous, but
decisive, reply in the negative; and
Tito, who bad built a little on this let
ter, said, "Never mind, Joe," and asked
whether Michaelmas-day always fell on
the 29 of September.
Oa the twenty-eighth, in tko dusky
evening, whielTsteal* upon us so early
at this date, and when the boys were
strolling aliontthe play-ground, waiting
for the bell to ring them to tea, Tito
suddenly came to me, with the bottoms
of his trousers tucked up, and his
threadbare jacket buttoned to the chin,
m way that looked like business, and
said:
"Oood-bv, Joe—l'm off."
"Off'—Off where?" •
"Hush! don't make a noise; but I
can't stand the notion of a work-house—
I'm afraid of it: and—ugh;—the skilley •
To-morrow's Michaelmas-day, and I'm
going to run away."
"You don't mean it!"
"Yes, I do."
"But what's to liecome of you?"
"I shall enlist for a drummer, per
haps, or turn farmer's boy, or some
thing. I'm off at once, through the
school window, over the wash-house
tiles, and so into the hack lane."
sudden resolution took all my
breath a>ay ; 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.
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Terms: 02.00 a Year, in Advance.
A C hapter on Washing Hay,
WSil tlaubur) Think* Sim>ll 11,
There is uo important <liff*reuee in
Monday among those families who do
their own washing. The way of ob
serving it is very similar. The flnt
j thing is to get the man up an hour ear
tier than usual to get down thelaitler.
We don't uudersUml why a boiler ia
kept on the top shelf where nobody but
himself can reach it Hut perhaps it ia
not intended we should understand it
Having got dowu the boiler and taken
his place at the table, and pronounced
grace with a benevolent aspect, he ia
called into the kitchen again to lift the
boiler up on the stove. He finds it full
ol water and weighing almut three
quarter* of a ton, but be sinks bis tenth
j into hi* litis, lays his eyes oat oa his
cheek, inflates those cheeks and accom
plishes the task. After breakfast,which
is eaten hastily, and from a table that
1 is garnished with a bar of soap, a pack,
age of starch, and a blueing bag, be is
sent down cellar after the tube, wash
board, bench, etc. He puta both tuba
together aud the wash-board inside,
with a view to avoid coming down stair*
again, although he has been veara giv
ing practical demonstration that those
tilings can't !e carried stonetime. Hutbe
grasps the inside of the tubs with one
arm and takea the wash bench under
the other, and atarta for the stair*. No
one who has not tried it caa begin te
qnderstand the amount of circumspec
tion required to engineer a wash-tub
and a woab bench up the aame stairway
at the same time. He knows it, but
there is an undying hope in bis breast
that there ia a" way to accomplish it,
and he starts.
Before reaching the stair* the tabs
irtnl# around and the board slip* out. He
think* at first that he will put his heel
on it and split it in two, bnt changes his
mind, sets down the things, and replace*
the board. Then he starts again, and
when he has got as far np the stairway
as he can go without proceeding side
wars, he turns the tubs to the front, but
sa his hold to them has been gradually
yielding all the while, he finds they are
so low they strike the stair, and in an
rflbr+ to raise them the bench gives, and
to save that he twees in part his bold on
the tubs, and befoie he can recover it
the board slips out and goea back into
the cellar, two steps at a jump. He
turns round aud looks over the tahe
down st the board, which be eyes with
an intensity there appear* to tie no call
for, and again attempts the ascent. He
gets the bench started ahead, but the
cuds catches in the top step, and hav
ing exhausted Ins endurance and reach
iu getting it that far, finds himself
completely powerless to lilt it over the
obstruction. It has grown very warm
in the last minute, and bis breath comes
very short and quick, and st seems as if
the arm which holds the tuba will very
soon drop off at the shoulder aud leave
him a cripple for life, and at this junc
ture the outside tub loosens and com
mences to slip and threaten trouble. He
presses his arm all the tighter to the in
side tub, and tries to get his knee np
agaiust the outside one, but is too late.
There is a squirm or two, aud then it ia
over.
The outside tub is down with the
wai g .card, having accomplished the
trip with a noise that is almost deafen
ing. The other tub follows at once, be
ing urged thereto by a kick that near
ly throws him from Lis feet, and then
getting the door open he shove* the
bench into the kitchen and clear acres*
the room, te the apparent jeopardy of
the leg* of the entire family. After that
he gets upon the other thing*—making
no remark to anybody, but tooking
around on tvert oue in a manner calcu
lated to reflect the greatest amount of
discredit. Then he put on hia coat,
rubs hi* arms, and starts down street,
and gets out on the walk, when he i*
(tailed back to bring np some wood. If
that wood was in the shape of a
burial casket it ia extremely doubtful if
he ooald have looked more solemn in
taking it up stair*. At noon ke come*
home to dinner and finds only one leaf
up, the table-cloth in the wash, and
that hia wife has cut the bread after
rutting the soap. What comments he
oontemplatea making on this state of
affairs are never made. He i* sent out
in the yard armed with the clothes-line,
and an'injunction to net drop it in the
dirt, and in the seclusion of the space
devoted to the back yard, he vents the
spleen that lias been gathering within
bim, and whips that clothes-line around
wit* sardonic joy. After that he comes
in with his teeth* together, and lifts two
tuba full of water to the floor, and then
goes into the bed-room and pnta on a
pair of drv pants, and grimly eats his
dinner, ft may occur to him that there
i* no difference in this Monday from
any that has preceded it, bnt he can't
help but wonder what kind of misery
that is which comes up every time so
fresh aad formidable aa to appear en
tirely new.
A Minnesota Farm.
Mr. Dslrymple of Minnesota, who,
growing tired of law some ten years
ago, pre-empted a farm of eighty acres,
and now owns nearly 6,000 acres in a
bend of the river not far from St Paul,
sold his wheat last year—4o,ooo bushels
—for $44,000, 25 per cent, of which is
said to be clean profit This season he
had 2,000 acres in the same staple. To
harvest and haul the crop required 100
mi, 80 horses, 10 McCormick reapers
and four steam threshing machines.
The hands were paid $2.50 to $3 a dsy
and board and lodging, the former in
cluding, in addition to regnlar meals,
lunches at 9 A. M. , and 3 r. M. The
grain is not stacked bnt hauled from
the shock to the thrashers, and from
thence to the warehouse at East Hast
ings, losded into cars from the wagons
and sent to Milwaukee. Soma years
portions of the estate have lwn rented,
and at other times there has lieen trial
of different cropa, bnt none of these
plans, Mr. D. sayn, paid ai well aa the
E resent system with the assistance of
is brothers, and all in wheat
APVKRTISINO. —AII who are any ac
count in a business, a financial, or in a
social sense, are benefited AS often as
their names are brought before the pub
lic. Thus the great, the immeasurable
advantages of advertising. It if the
most effective and the most legitimate
way in which to become known in a
business sense. No person, in "teither
ancient or modern times, has made his
mark in a business, a political, or social
point of view whose nsme had not be
come popular by publicity. Obscurity
is the opposite of popularity; and all
are obscure who are not generally
known, and how can a person in busi
ness become known who does not ad
vertise ?
A Lieoan Jrsnc*.—"A landlord rents
a honae for one year by a written agree
ment that contains no provision what
ever as to who shall do the repairs. The
honse is in good order when the tenant
takes possession. I hold that the law
requires him to keep it in repair, at his
own expense, daring his occupancy.
"Am I right?" 80 asks a correspon
dent. A legal paper says in reply
In the absence of a covenant to repair,
the tenant is only bound to repair in
juries occasioned by voluntary negli
gence. The law compels the landlord
to keep the hoqee in temantable con
dition merely.
NO. 39.
Anecdotes of Dtfi;
A writer it> tha I/ondoo ifnarttrly
I2tview adduces many pretty luttDCM
of affection, sagacity, an<l cunning in
dogs. A dog deserted by bis m
will take some eaat-off garment and lie
on it for day* ; the sight of cleaning
gttnap reparatory to the 12tb of August
(ill. him with rapturous anticipations
of .port; the taking ap a hat or stick
makea him leap for joy. Aa it ia pro
liable be haa dreams in which are re- 1
produced the impressions made on bia
memory, ao it ia that in waking ba may
foliow imaginary aeenea, which the
mrmorettve faculty, or bops, er fear
may depict on the imagination. He ia
said to Jiatingniab at a glance a tramp
or a swell-mob's man frotua gentleman,
even in the moat aoiled attire. Ha will
.teal away unperoeived on a poaebing
eipedition, perhaps invite a aerrieeable
companion to assist htm. and, when all j
ia ovar, ateal back into the kennel, and ,
eometimea even wriggle his bead back
into bis collar. A dog which onei saw
his master drop a gold coin o the j
flevria related to have picked it up,
and to bava sat the whole day with it!
in bia month, refusing to eat any thing
till his master returned for fear be■
should drop the treasure. A poodle
puppy, unable to resist temptation, I
stole a pigeon out of a pie, and, to aveid j
detection, filled up the bole with a
bit of damp, inky sponge taken from a j
writing-table. A dog haa been known
to stimulate a quarrel with another dog
outaide a door which ha wished to sain
admission, beeanaa a real quarrel the!
day before had led to that result. The
atory of the dog which, being discarded
by hia master, was seen to stand gazing
at the rushing waters of the Loire, then
painfully lift himself on bis crippled
legs, and leap into the water, and when
a stick was stretched out to him, gave j
a look of despair, turned his head away,
and floated down without az effort to
save himself, haa little poetry in it, but
we are net prepared to deny any thing
exeept the cmsciousneaas—i. a., real
deli Iteration or the intention of the act
With thia exception, there ia nothing
here, or in much more wonderful stor
ies of the cunning and affection of ani
mals, that ia at all inconsistent with the ,
theory we ley down. The combinations
of direct perception, feeling, memora
tive and estimative power, and adapta
tions to the ever-changing circumstan-1
oca of their life are only second to the
variations of operations of intellectual
life. The difference ia that in animals
the perception ia of the individual and
particular good or evil, and that the
operations that lead to the wonderful
variety of the acta which ao much re
semble men are without reflex consci
ousness, whereas the human mind per
ceives the good and evil, in the abstract
at least, implicitly, and ia capable of
eomwioos reflection in its acta. And if
we wish to realise ia some sense the
state of beasts, wa have only to remem
Iwr that many of our most oomplieated
acta, which in themselves aeem to re
quire a long train of thought, may be
performed unconsciously by the mere
force of habit What is thus an occa
sional state in us is in a certain sense
the normal stats of beasts, who have
not the power of consciousness, but for
whom nature supplies that cot catena
tion of sensitive operations which in us
minister to our iutellect, but would
have been sufficient for our animal na
ture, and are all that is given to beasts.
X Wester* Editor's Hire.
There waa a regatta at Oeom Lake,
Wis., on Monday last, and among the
Chicago spectators was Mr. Cuarlea
Wilson, the esteemed editor and pro
prietor of the Evening Journal. Mr.
Wilson haa long taken a practical inter*
••at in the charming reeort in question,
and, as may be inferred, waa prepared
to specially enjoy the festivities of the
regatta. He waa standing upon the
bridge watting for the boats to start,
wheu he was somewhat rudely, though
it appears unintentionally, jostled by a
strapping gentleman just at his elbow.
The latter individual, although total-
IT unknown to Mr. Wilaon, was really
almost aa much of I character as the
editor himself, being no less distin
guished a personage than •* Bed Hand
ed Mike," a noted bruiser in training
near Genera Lake for a forthcoming
prise fight. •
Annoyed at having been so carelessly
pushed,' Mr. Wilson turned a gsse of
scorn upon the unknown to marked aitd
severe as to stir at onoe the* latter a dis
gust
" Mavbe von own this bridge," qnoth
Michael of the nominally gory palms.
'• Well," sneered Mr. Wilson, "I pro
bably paid about as mnoh for the build
ing of this bridge ae you or any other
man. upon it"
•• Perhapa von own the whole lake,
too ? " continued he of the sanguinary
pawn.
•• I certainly have done more for its
improvement than a dozen like ytm,
retorted the somewhat justly incensed
editor.
There was a shade of sadness in the
voice of " Red- Handed Mike " aa he
replied :
" Then yon better light over into it
and ace how it ia getting along," at the
same time laying his brawny fists upon
the astonished journalist and heaving
him plamp into the water.
Friends promptly jerked the flounder
ing involuntary bather back to shore,
where, having'obtained a dry anil and
learning that he had been " chinning "
to a professional bruiser, he sensibly
saw the magnitude of the joke, ana
now enjoys a mention of it aa hugely
as any one.
Better than Capital.
The man whom* statement* may al
ways be taken without question, whose
promises are mails never to go unful
filled, whose verbal agreements axe as
good as written eon tracts, whose integ
rity is of more value in his own eyes
than any mere fortune which be could
barter it for, wKI be astonished to find,
in his hour of need, with wh*t strength
he is braced up on every side, and how
often he will stand firm as a rook when
other men tremble and fall. Five years
of such consistent rectitude will be
worth, in credit, more than a double
capital without the confidence which
such character inspires. It is a good
rnle in building up such a credit, when
s payment is once dne, never to suffer
oue's self te be asked for it twice. livery
man who aspires to honorable success
in business should remember that he
must hold to his promise as a ship holds
to her anchor, and that moment be
breaks it he is in danger Of disaster to
his fortune and wreck to his character.
CROP ESTIMATES CRITICISED.— The fu
tility of crop estimates is well shown in
the present harvest. I know one far
mer who claimed 15 bushels an acre,
even after be had commenced to thresh,
and another who would not have com
promised for less than 12 after his crop
was cut. Yet the first measured out
five bushels per acre, the other returns
three bnshels of wheat forone seeded as
his actual yield. This in Eastern Vir
ginia, where the average crop of wheat
will scarcely reach five bnshels per
acre. The amount of straw is unusually
great.
Mrs. Lotta Warner, one who knows,
says that girls who run awsy with span
gled circus men must expect to be beaten
by drunken husbands.
I itffff-gUMWM!.
| If*f mutate drfel! It isbnd though
to walk into it.
How to be alNta#veß with the world
—Keep your beau level.
The Princess Mr Weroieh ia the owner
of lace valued at $60,000.
A fire in Gloucester Mats., destroyed
property valued at g?&,Ohu. % %
The speeefa of one of Tmhtxmw'e
counsel lasted twenty-three days.
Three thousand people infti. Louie
own estates of S4S,OUQ and upward.
Ho city in the United Htotea has
ao few shade trees in its atresia aa Haw
York,
Three more of the ••petroleum in
cendiarifs" in Madrid have been con
demited to death.
A Knoxvilla, lowa, man and woman
got warned, and commenced house
keeping with gnwr*" —*
The thermometer stood at 100 degrees
in the shade at Walla Walls, Oregon,
for aevan days, recently.
Texas rorertved 140,000 immigrants
last I— t least 60,000 from Europe
and the Northern States.
It is now a*i<l that th# recent fatal
accident to the White Mountain stags
was largely due to overloading.
The American school system has
bean eulogised in London by Mr. Hart
ley, lately returned from the States.
The bathers at Long Branch say it in
not pleasant to be knocked down in the
aurf by the earcaaa of a dead bone.
There baa been noma loss of life and
an etdtte destruction of 8,500 "'Dative
bouses* by flood Si the province of Agra,
India
Industry isn't always rewarded. A
convict worked eighteen
months on a false key. and it was taken
away from him the day he had it com
pleted.
In the competitive examination of
nurses at the training school in the
" dressing of Misters some illustrious
noodle ask. where they get the busters?
Raise them, of oourae, stupid.
Mosquitoes used to be so had ia
Dateth that it was considered sa much
smarter of etiquette to take off your
coat and shake it before entering n
friend's bouse aa it ia now to wips the
feet.
A piece o# glare aa inch long was ta
ken From the hwl of a Rochester man
recently, in whose skull it bad been im
bedded for twenty yeara. He bad com
plained occasions lly of n "pane ia hia
A shawl factory at Bennington, Vt,
employs 200 hands, eonsamra annually
400.000 pounds of wool, and tha pay
roll amounts to $5,000 per month. The
total eoet of the mill, including ma
chinery, was over $600,000.
Tha cultivation of olive trees in the
South haa become quite a source of
revenue. In Georgia an excellent arti
cle of table oil ia made by some culti
tutors. The trees average five gallons
of oil eaob reason, with but little atten
tion.
George Grant, the wealthy English
man, who took a liking to the Western
plains, and haa bought a whole oonnty
uo the liaa of the Kanaaa Pacific Rail
road in Kansas, ia now at work getting
English families to come over awl oc
cupy it •
Describing the plague of graaahep
per. in lowa, a newspaper says: "At
rome points between Sibley and Wort -
iugton the air arems fllUd with the fly
ing plagues, and their white wings pre
sent the appearance of a brink snow
i _ a it
•torn."
The 2d of September, the anniversary
of the victory of Sedan, w ©lnterred
in Germany with great solemnity and
dimlsf this year. Mint of the great
, German eitiea preferred request* thai
the feativitiea should wear a national
and not a strictly Prussian character.
The pleasant little rivalry between
St Loots and Chicago flharudwMi in foil
vigor. Hme are the head law* of an ar
tide in aHt Loom paper: " Too Thin.
Chicago has 4,775m0re itosineas Houses
(than St. Loots. Bat 1.197 of Them are
j Omg Sliom. She Beats tut also in Pawn
Shop* and Undertake!*."
Itutik ttw matter over.
Belt what a may ;
Bepaatem* afca a I.feuaa.
ItMfltn—— not a dav j
Justhefeeavoadon *
Think of it again,
Theit, if right, go through tt—
Sevsr tbs strain.
' The total number of immigrants into
i into the United States for the quarter m
ending December 81st, _ 1872, was 88,•
227, or verv nearly per day, in
cluding Sundays. 87,633 were from
Germany; 14.229 from England, and
9,666 from Ireland. And yet labor ia
as scarce and difficult to'procure aa
blander from Vienna. We
see by two unfortunately approximate
advertiaements in ia contemporary that
the Exposition bes awarded two rival
tewing machines each a medal for being
the beat So we are to have that Pant
humbug all over again. If that cornea
' had only struck the earth an it was
going to 1
In Madgebnrg 218 persona died of
the cholera in the second week in Aug
ust. The epidemic continues to rage
: in Stettin. J&wugsberg, and Dantric.
Hungary lias suffered moat from the
disease.' Since the first outbreak there
on July 18, 18,893 death* have been
, caused by it, and 48,150 attacks have
; occurred.
Once a careless man went to the cel
lar and stack the candle in what he
supposed was a keg of black sand. He
sat neeur it drinking wine until the can
f die burned low; nearer and nearer it
got to the black sand ; nearer and near
er, until the blaxe reached the black
sand—and m it waa nothing else but
black sand, nothing happened.
Cochise, the noted Apache chief, re
cently gave strong proof of his good
wriU toward the whites. Mr. Charles
Miller, a large stock owner, stopped at
j the reservation several days to rest, and
turned three thousandcatr e andeevsnty
bred of horses and mult • loose. When
ready to start again the band of C< ehise
gathered in his stock, not one rximal
being lost They Ad not even ads a
bonus, as moat white men would have
done.
The latest*news from the Winnebago
camp indicates that the Indians will
give serious trouble, if not as much as
the Modoc*. Caph Hunt held a private
council with the chiefs of the tribe and
told (hem that they must go to their reser
vation witnin a limited time peaceably,
or force would be used. The Indians
seemed alarm, but show no inclina
tion to abandon the woody homes of
their forefathers in Wisconsin for the
treeless plains of Nebraska.
There is nothing like a keen capacity
for utilisation such iw was lately ex
hibited by a young gentleman in Frank
lin, La. "The girl dear unto his soul
had presented him with a pen wiper
variegated and beautiful. Whether he
didn't know how to write, and so bad
no use for the article, we do not knosr
but it ia a fact tint he appeared a
church the very next Sunday wearing i
as a ueok-tiel A true kuigbt, he wa
proud of his lady's favor and was no
ashamed to let the world know his feel
inga.
An illustration of simplicity is afford
ed by the reply ef a candidate for the
office of teacher. The examiner waa
endeavoring to elicit the candidate's
idea of the market Tttlue of labor with
reference to demand and supply ; but,
being baffled, be put a question in this
simple form. "If there are in your
village two shoemakers with just suf
fioient employment to enable them to
live tolerably, and no more, what would
follow if u third shoemaker set up in
the same village f" " What would fol
low, air 7" echoed the candidate; wh
a fight to be sure,"
Thx McCartt-Mordeoai Dtnet. —The
case of Page McOarty, charged with
killing Mordeoai in a duel, was called at
Riohmond, but a doctor testifying that
Page's condition waa no bettor than
when he waa shot, the out wag ad
journed till the 16th October. MfcOar
ty ia held in 810,000 bail.