Flower or Weed! A foolish hope cim up in my heart, fp, like a weed on a summer day. Took root and sent out ita fresh young !e*\ oe- And 1 oould not aay it nay. I watched it spreading and growing strong, I saw oue fair little tuid, at last. And the tear* came into my eye* I know. And I know that my heart heat faat. I longed so to eee one bkwaom blow, Or little bad all open wide. But something happened or the froet erept in, And all iu a night it died' Empty and lonely I feel my heart. Hie winter time, it has come indeed! For 1 know not yet if it were a flower— Or on'y an idle weed! Moving Day. I hope von are sati.fled now. Mann; 1 hope you are pleased to-uiglit: We've got all lhe furniture lu. Marm. And every thing eeeme to he right. There * a knob, though, off your bureau. But the cabinet-maker i* near: If you will insist upon moving, I wiah you would pay for it, dear! Of course we can't have any supper— The dishes are alt packed away . Beside*, the stove prate is broken ; There are *andiehea. though, as yon say You ought to have mm iu your basket No. thank you. not any for mo When you are a little more settled. I thiuk IT! go out and get tea 1 The silver is safe in the closet. Except that the cream-jug is gone. If taking on, Marm. would restore it, I'd williugly let you take on; Bat it won't: 1 must buy yon another— IM see it's a cheaper oue, 100. Your portrait is safe a* you see. Marm - Or was. til! tbe stove-pipe weut through! Bet the children down aay where. Bridge; An armful like that tvn't light; But them to bed if they're sleepy. But don't lake their shoos off to-night: Whatever ro un you go into. Nothing but tacks will yuc meet; Every tack on its head is standing, To run into their dear Utile feet. You'd better take care of your poodle. And put him to sleep in your muff: If he happens to tread on a lack. Harm They say that one tack is enough— Look out at once for the children. For the days are uncommonly hot: Ton may like to have the dog bite you, I frankly confess I would not! Were there ever such fools as we, Marm ? We were w ell enough off last year; You liked the house when I hired it— '• It is just what I wanted, dear!** I bought new carpets and oil-clothe - What didn't I buy you. pray ? Bui nothing would satisfy you, Marm, But moving again to-day J Have you been over the house. Marm ? I have—and what did I see ? There are Croton-buge in the kitchen. And a very industrious flea! Why. the mice walk out of their bcles, Marm They are taking it mighty cool: 1 think I know what they're thinking— - Here's certainly one more fool! * Bridget, make up the bed for your mistress, And nobody sit up for me: I m going around to my club, Marm. For acmethmg stronger than tea! I've but one thing more to say, Marm, In view of you and tha day— She was born on the First of April Who invented the First of May 1 LOVE WOX HIM. Cyrus Ferriston and his mother were all that remained of tne family. They lived together in a snug farm bouse in a district so rural that it hadn't so mnch as a name ; it had only a number— Township Number One." The nearest neighbor w*9 five miles away, the only religions exercises were held in Deacon Crocket's kitchen, three miles further off, while there was ten miles between them and the doctor. Cyrus was an en ergetic fellow, who farmed in summer and logged in the winter, that is, he usually took a contract to bring the drive of logs down from the woods; therefore he hail been in the habit of borrowing Farmer Mutton's daughter Jane to keep his mother company and help her about the house, for a small consideration. Sometimes, tog, Jane staid on through the summer, or re turned for the harvesting when it was heavy ; and at such times Cyrus always observed that hiß butter and cheese found a more ready market; that the house was more cheerful and better kept—for old Mrs. Ferriston was one of the slack kind ; that provisions went further and relished better. But for all this he felt no inclination to marry Jane, as folks at Wheatfield had pre dicted when she first went up to The Numbers. Jane was called plain; and Cyrus had a prepossession that hi* wife should be rosy and dark-eved, with the smile that conquers men. Jane halted in her gait the least bit in the world— hit wife should have the step of a pan ther. IJhe always dressed soberly, like a brown leaf, as if she would like to melt into the landscape— hit wife should carry her fascination into the knot of ribbon at her throat, or the slip per on her foot. Therefore it was ut terly out of the question, if we put any faith in logic, that Jane should become the wife of Cyras. But, alas! as it often happens, she had not wintered and stimmered at The Numliers for naught. When the neigh bors had hectored her as she was about to leave home for the first season, and prophesied, " Well, Jane, I dare tay it won't be long before you'll be changing your name tc Ferriston," Jane had laughed at the notion, and had reckoned that Cyrus hadn't enough schooling to please her, and had thought that she could never be reconciled to spending her days in The N umbers. " Folks as held their heads as high as you, miss, hev bed ter come ter it," they answered her. But when she be came acquainted with Cyrus in his cvery-day life and thought, she found that he knew more than she had dreamed. He had a little library of books on a swinging shelf that he had made with bis own hands, and had carved with deers' heads and oak leaves; he could talk with her about the heroes of riutarch and the empires of the Old World,, about election and free-will, and seemed to enjoy it. Jane had a taste for those things ; and so it hap pened that as she saw Cyrus in his daily comings and goings, stripped of disguises, in his genial fireside humor, he grew in her favor unawares ; in short, his manly attributes, bis kind liness and good temper, and his hand some face won her heart without an effort on either side. He had so grown into her affections that one day when she overheard Deacon Smiley joking him about Agnes Price, her prophetic soul stirred in her with a mighty throe. Everything seemed to revolve before her eyes—the churn dasher, the tins on the kitchen wall, and the andirons on the hearth ; she was obliged to sit down on her way to the dairy and recover herself, with a tray of butter in her j ands. "It is too heavy for you," said Cyrus, coming to her relief, with his ready thoughtfulness, and taking the tray himself. " He'll make a good husband, Cy will," Baid the deacon, while the young man's back was turned. "She'll be a lucky gall that gits him ; and, between us, 1 ain't noways partial to that there Aggy Prioe. Highty tighty I—now, Jennie, why didn't you set your cap for him, and yon right here at hand? Twould hev bin as easy as lyin'!" "Would it?" laughed Jane, out of the depth of her silent misery. Of course Jane should have left off loving Cyras after this ; but she didn't; and naturally he was as blind as others of his sex, and never guessed what an ache it gave plain Jane Hntton when he dressed up in his Sunday best, with the neck-tie she had made him on his birthday, and rode off' to pay his conrt to Agnes Prioe, five miles serosa the country. She was always awake when Kll MI). Kl' U P/, Kditor nntl IV< >prittor VOL. VII. lie lot himself iu at midnight, ami weut tiptoeing to liia room, ud she lay wou deriug how it muet eootn to lo loved by a mtui after your own heart. Her life seemed to promise to be all No* vetubex weather. But though The Numbers were so isolated, they had their merry-makings. There was a quilting ut Mrs. Dea.Mii Crocket' in Number Two, or a husking at Farmer Dusenbury's in Wheatfleld, or a haying-bee at Deacon Smilev's, with dancing iu the well-swept barn, hung with lanterns in the evening ; aud there were camp meeting days, aud now and tbeu there was a wedding ; and no distance was too far to travel, and Cyrus always harnessed old Dapple, and "took Jane along with him, as Agues would be going with her brothers ; or, some times. if the road led that way, he vwuil • .-all for Miss Agues, and Jane would sit on the back seat of the wagon and only guess at what was going on before her iu the twilight, hugging h. r [aiu in loneliness of heart. Nobody inew but Jane was just as hnppy as the others who danced "chorus jigs" and " college hornpipes " ; nobouy ever would have known. Sometimes there was a preacher on the circuit, who went about from one Number to another holding meetings, and Cyrus and his mother aud Jane put on tlieir best, and went the rounds too; and Cyrus and Agues helped at the siuging, an.l lin gered after the bcuedietiou. One week the preacher staid at Ferris ton Farm, and asked Jane to marry him ; aud though Mrs. Ferriston was sorry to part with her, yet she advised Jane to think of it seriously, and went so far as to get Cyrus to talk with her about it. This was the last straw that broke tha camel's back. Jane was sick in bed till the preacher left The Numbers. " Dear sakes !" said Mrs. Ferriston, "if it's goiug to keel Jane over like this every time she has a beau, the fewer the better. Girls didn't used to take it to heart so." "Ou the whole," remarket! Cyrus, " I'm glad she didn't take to him. It's selfish, but how could we get ou without her just yet ?" " 1 suppose you'll be bringin' a wife home one of "these days. It's a pity you couldn't hev taken a likiu" to Jane voutself, and she right handy in the Louse, and knowin'all our ins and outs, and no fault to find." •' • Choose lbs ens that rsu love beets. Suit yourself, you'll suit the rest. " sang Cyrus. " Jane wouldn't have me, either. '* " That's for you to say," returned bis mother, thinking that the girl was un born who would refuse her Cyrus. Well, at one time they Lad Miss Agnes Price np at Number One to make a visit, and at first words weren't big enough to express her satisfaction. Bat she used to laugh at Jane's old fashioned way of dressing her hair and cutting her gowns ; and when Jane and Cyras got talking upon their favorite themes, she would put on her bonnet and be off for a walk, and Cyrus would naturallv follow without delay. She wasu't happy unless Cyras was praising her dress or herself, unless there were young folks invited over from the other Numbers and from Wheatfield for a frolic, or they were going abroad to some merry-making ; and when nobody was present but them selves, she would amuse herself taking off the folks wiio spoke in the last revi val meeting, showing how Elder Prosy at Wheattb Id, eoncious in the midst of a long prayer that the candles on the desk needed snuffing, groped for them with his eyes shut, snuffed them out between his thumb and finger, and threw the red-hot ends into a brother's new hat on the deacon seat; then she would follow this episode with singing "Coronation" guttnrally like Deacon Crocket, and nasally like old Mrs. Qua ver, and relate how Deacon Crocket al ways omitted the blessing when they had pudding and milk for Urn; and Mrs. Ferriston would look at Agnes over her spectacles, and shake her head in pro test, but langh in spite of herself. But by-and-by my lady began to suggest improvements in the house; there might be a wing built oat here, the roof might be raised, the yard needed a new picket-fence ; whoever heard of a house without a flower garden ? " I thought we had one, eh, Jane ?" said Cyras. " Where ignorance is bliss!" re turned Agnes. " Nobody has such old fashioned things as marigolds, bach elor's-buttons, hollyhocks, and love lies-bleeding in their garden nowadays; everybody laughs at 'em." "1 suppose the Lord made 'em," ob jected Mrs. Ferriston ; and then Agnes openly confessed that she should die of the landscape papering on the best room, which Mrs. Ferriston had guarded from the flies for years as if it had been a gallery of paintings by the flrst mas ters ; and, for her part, Agnes declared, looking out at the window, she hated to see nice fields about a house disfigured with vulgar-looking pumpkins and cab bages. After she went home Cyras set to work quietly making some" of the alterations she had suggested—for they were to be married in the spring—ask ing Jane's opinion and co-operation as if she had been a Bister. In the first place he built on the wing, and he cat another window in Jane's room. " You'll l>e able to see to prink bet ter, Jennie," said he; "or maybe," on second thonght—" maybe you'd rather have a room in the new wing ? Take yonr choicefor Jane's parents were dead, and she had now been living year in and year out at The Numbers. " I shan't want either one or the other, thank you," she answered. " Why not, I should like to know ? Are you going to swing in a hammock among the trees ?" "I'm going to seek my fortune," she laughed, because she felt more like crying. "Going away from here, Jennie !" he cried, dropping the hammer with which he had been driving nails. " Where are you going ?" "I don't know—somewhere." He paused a moment, us if he was trying to understand her, and perhaps his eyes were opened a crack ; then he picked up the hammer and resumed his work. " I never thought of such a thing, Jane"—between the blows. "There's no need of it. At least you'll stay—till —till—spring ?" " Yes, I will stay till Agnes comes," she answered. The winter set in early tliat season, and Cyrus went, as usual, into the woods logging; leaving his mother with Jane for company, and a small boy to clear the paths and look after the stock. Few but those who live there know what a winter in The Numbars is like, when the snow hedges you about, week out and week in, and a passing team is so rare as to bring the household from kitchen or atic to watch it out of sight, and the wind whistles over miles of un inhabited country with nothing to im pede it; when there is nothing to break the monotony of the long frosty days, which the almanac says are short, but homely duties, and the promise of seed time and harvest. It seems then as if no sun were potent enough to melt the mountainous drifts, built as miraculously as the coral reefs; and at midnight you wake up suddenly, and hear the wolves howling in the woods close at hand, and find their tracks about the sheep-pen next morn ing, and remember with a shudder that there isn't an able-bodied man on the TILL-: CENTRE REPORTER. premises. Iu such efromnstauoea one no. ds to have vast resources tu oue'a self to be in harmony with ono'a house hold aud oue'a deatiur. When Brth ITioo joined Cyrus's camp he earned him s hue from Agilea, saying that alie should eipeet him down to watch the new year 111 and the old year out at the watch-mectiug, if he loved her. Esther Sun ley had offered to lay a wager that ho wouldn't put himself out so much, and even Mrs. Deacon Crocket had said it wasn't like ly, seeiug he was sure of her ; but she had set her heart upon showing them how much he eared for her. It isn't every lover who eonld resist such an appeal, aud though Cyrus didn't think it of the least oouscqueuoe wheth er other people believed in his love or act. ao loug as it was a reality to bitu self and Agues, yet he wus doubtless flattered by her earnest desire for his presence, and if it would please her, why not go? It did not occur to him that it was us much a vulgar wish to make a parade of Ins regard for her as a desire to see him. It happened very luckily, however, Cyrus thought aud perhaps most }>eoplo would agree with : iiim—that the camp had run short of molasses, aud oue of the uicu was de tailed to take a team and go to Wheat field for a supply for w hat was coffee without molasses ? He started Oil the !at day of Deoetulier, and Cyrus with him, and he dropjad Cyrus where the roads diverged, one leading mto Wheat field, and the other to The Numbers. There was a matter of ten or twelve i miles betwetn Cyrus and the Price farm wheu he left the team, but he had ! offeeu walked further with a load of pro duce for market. The distauee didn't strike him as being of any consequence; he had all his life been used to mile stones. It had begun to snow some time before, gently, as if it meant no harm, and Cyrus was used to suow, too. But presently the wind changed aud I blew roughly, and tossed the tlakea into his eves, and the flakes themselves grew Lugger and thicker, till tbev clog ged his steps aud blinded his Bight aud ! obliterated everv laudmark. Still ho trudged forward, cheering himself with the warm welcome before him, assuring himm 1/ that the war was as familiar as his own potato-field, till by and by he began to wonder if he were not watching the old year out by himself, if he had not been longer on the road than the distance warranted, if be had not missed the war, if it were not growing colder and Jarker every moment, lie knew about as well where he was as if he had traveled into Nova Zembla, or had been c.iat away ou an • iceberg. He paused, and rested agaiust the bole of a tree to collect his wits. There was no use in proceeding further on the wrong road. In coming to this j decision he naturally sat down by the j way to reflect which waa the right'one. j He did not reflect lung. Lovely images and colors floated before his mind's eye. He had reached the farm, and there was a great back log blaaiug on the hearth for him, and brown eyes looking into his, and tender tones in his ears. Then he came to himself with a start, and sat upright, peering into the black night, upon which the storm seemed ati inscription in an un- '* known tongue, w.ikd by the rending of some great limb from the tree above him, which had fallen and piuued him to the ground. The dangers of his situation wero too evident for conjec ture. He would be frown stiff before cock-crow, even if ho were not dead of the blow first. Tbrov *h the storm and the darkness he called for help, without daring to h;>c for it, put all his waniug strength and despair into a few implor ing cries, and fell benumbed with pain, with one leg crashed and broken. It | looked very much as if he would bear the old year company. Jane had sat up later than usual that night, cutting a piece of stuff out of the loom, which she had tinuhed weav ing that afternoon. Mrs. Ferriston was sound asleep, and the farm-boy had gone to the watch-meeting ; and as Jane raked up the coals on the hearth, she t wondered if Cyras was holding watch ' with Agnes— who had boasted that she would bring him down from heaven if she wanted him—and if he would be coming home to kiss his mother iu the early morning. Then she went to the door to look ont at the night, which was not more lonely than she, to bid adieu to the old vear ; and was it the shriek of the wind or a human voice' that smote her ears ?—a voice that sounded strangely like his. Oh, if if ' should be ! if be were needing her ! At least somebodv on that lonel waste was in trouble, perhaps dyin?. 1 If she went to her safe warm bed and waited for daylight, she might never be able to get that cry out f her cars ! 80 she raked open the coals and piled on the logs ; she set a lighted candle in the window, and pushed out into the storm, with answering cries that help was near. The wind slapped in her face and shrieked about her ears tilt she half misdoubted herself ; but des tiny led her to where Cyrus lay, not a quarter of a mile from home. She was down on her knees beside him in the drift instantly, rubbing him with the snow thai sifted about him, chating his hands in her own soft palms, struggling with the imprisoning bough, letting the brandy trickle down his throat, warming him into life, with her cheek against his, and calling to him with all the tenderness in her soul, with all the endearing names that love invents ; for in that awful moment she had forgotten that he belonged to any one but her self. Perhaps, in the gradual re awakening, he may have caught the meaning of this, but he gave no sign of it. By her frantic efforts Jane succeed ed in removing the limb that had fallen upon him, and having pnshed and dragged it to a safe distance, sho made a bonfire of it, which illumined the ghastly night fantastically, and kept the wolves at bay that were howling in the woods near. It was only then she discovered that his leg was broken ! There was but one thing to do, how ever ; she provided him with a coun terpane of spruce boughs, as warm as wool, gathered dry fagots in the edge of the woods, and extended her blaze in a circle about the disabled man, like an Indian watch-fire; then she hastened home, and, as his mother was too iufirm tgi vo assistance, she yoked the steers into the drag—for old Dapple's slender legs could not flounder safely through the drifts—and urged them slowly across the untrodden snow, guided by the lantern, to the nearest neighbor, five miles away, who willingly left his warm pillow, and, with his son of fif teen, plodded back on the drag to where the watch-fires smouldered and Cyrus waited. It was not long after this before Cy ras was safe in bed, with his mother and Jane administering 'to him, and neighbor Goodheart and the steers on the way for the doctor. But it was many long weeks before he left his bed; indeed, the drifts dissolved like magic, and Bpring had woven her spells in blade and bud, and the grass was long and ready for mowing, before he took his first step into the air, and then he leaned on Jane's arm, and walked with a cratch. The folks in The Numbers said he would always need to use a crutch, unless he preferred a cork leg. When the doctor from Wheatfleld and beyond had decided upon amputation, Cyrus had sent for Agnes. Perhaps he had meant to give her her freedom, CENTRE II 11,1,. CENTRE CO.. I'A., THURSDAY, MAY 21. 1871. with a lingering hope that she would reject it ; |>erhapß he craved the solace of her presence before his journi v to witrd the Valley of Shadows. Nobody ever knew ; it wun only known that she refused to go to him I The people iu The Numbers blamed or excused her, according to their natures and prepos sessions. "She didn't promite herself to a cripple," " It's better to live uu mated than ill-watched," "She's like to go all the way through the woods and pick up a crooked stick at last," " It's a poor kind of love that's scared at misfortune," were some of the cur rent remarks passing from mouth to mouth. And so the year wore through, and Cyrus could no fouger go up the Aroos took luuilieriug, now swing his scythe iu the meadow. He had to hire a hand about the farm. But while he sat at home with idle, impatient hands, iu spiratiou came to him as lie watched Jane laboring at her wheel, and he in vented a stunning machine. About this time old Mrs. Ferriston slipped away out of life ; and one Jay Airs. Deaoou Crocket rode over to eugage Jane for her w inter's weaving. " You won't bt" ueedtu' a housekeeper uo longer, 1 s'jHise, Cyrus," said she ; " and folks alius talk so ; so, thinks 1, Jane bed better come home with me for the weaviu'." "Jane," he said—for Mrs. Deacon Crocket used an ear-trumpet, and was no kind of hinderwuce to love-making - "Jane, you promised to stay with me till Agues came. Will you keep your promise ?" " Yes, Cyrus, I will, if you insist up on it," she answered. "Jane and I," he said, speaking into Mrs. Crocket's trumjoit, "are going down to Wheatfleld this afternoon to be married." Mrs. Crocket took the Price farm on her way home, for fear her news would spoil if kept over uiglit, i " Cyrus Fcrnston's goiu' to be mar ried," said she, " and uo thanks to you, Agnes Price. Jane Mutton's a luckv ' k*h." "Do tell!" cried Ague*. ""Never swam a goose so gray but what oould And its mate.' I always thought she had a hmnkerin' after him. H'pose 1 sho'n't be asked to stand up with 'em' What a figger they'll cut when they 'pear out together! I could never have borne to go liutpin' along with a tnau like that all my Jays- it diJu't look genteel." " But they Jo sav," continued her comforter, " how he's made a jtower of money out of that machiue ft his'n it's just like spiuuiu' gold. And they're talk in' about Sendln' of hint to the Leg islation, and then I s'pose Jane 'll go too, ami help represent." A Farmer Boy's Miukerj. A correspondent of the Manchester (N. II.) Mirror tells the follow sag : " I take it must of the sportsmen of Cen tral Now Hampshire tn-iW something of Hugged Mountain, the home of coon and trout, woodcock and foxes, and a few bears ; and those who know the mountain as a matter of course know Uncle John litlliard, whose cabin hides under the east side of the mountain, and who has for three score years ami ten been quite content to brave the winter snows and summer suns, resist ing all the temptations to desert his clearing and his friends of the forest for the enervating pteo-nre* of village life. John's sons are clnps of the old block —sa stalwart slid uncouth, as good shots and a* wild, aa opposed to luxury and as well acquainted with the deni zens of the woods and waters, from whu-W most of the food thev have cater, has bees secured. A year ago this spring, while prospecting upon the aide of the mountain, John's boys found a family of mink—two old ones and four young. The young were quite small, • fangless and furless,' and therefore valueless. Tho old ones were nearly as worthless, their fur being st that season both thin aud poor, and, after consider ing awhile, tho boys concluded to try ami save the lot until the next winter, when their heavy coats of glistening fur would turu into many an honest penny. They accordingly went to work and constructed a rough box about twelve feet long by four feet high and six feet wide. This they carried to a brook near the cabin. and, by placing one end in the brook. So arranged it that by boring augur holes in the sides of the box, a brook ran constantly through it from side to side. The dry end of the box was filled with earth about a foot deep, and U|>on it was thrown a mass of green boughs and twigs, which wero renewed as they wilted through the summer. This con stituted the minkery, and into it were put the six minks, and during the sum mer others were added until the colony numbered twelve. They were fed on wild meat, the carcasses of woodchucks, hedgehogs and squirrels, ami live fish which were caught in nets and put into the brook inside the box. The minks thrived and grew wonderfully, becoming as fat as pigs, and being quite as hearty. Last winter they were taken out and skinned, and their skins sold for $57. The Ixiss of the Pilgrims. The particulars which ltave just come to hand of the drowning of pilgrims ! from the steamer Loeonia shows, says the Liverpool Po*t, that the disaster is by no means ao serious as was at first reported. It appears that the Laconia left Alexandria for Tunis, Algiers, and other ports,with 943 pilgrims on board, including what are known as the j" chiefs. These belonged to several different sects or tribes, among whom an intense antipathy exists, and eonae -1 quently they would not associate to gether. The result of this was that al though the 'tween decks measured 1,000 tons of available space, and was divided into five compartments for the accommodation of the passengers, a great number refused to go down, and the chiefs lying seaaiek in the saloon, could not exercise theiranthority. Mat ters were ia this oondition when, two days after leaving Alexandria, n huge wave broke over the afterpart of the ship, and fears being entertained that some persona had been washed over board, the vessel was immediately brought head to wind, and kept so for twenty-four hours, but no one could bo seen in the water. Tlio loss, however, has been greatly exaggerated, the first report emauating from the pilgrims themselves, whose powers in this direc tion are well known. The ship's ac counts show that, of the 943 pilgrims taken on board, 922 were lauded, leav ing only twenty-one unaccounted for. This number included the losses from all causes—as iu cases of death the bodies are consigned to the sea by the pilgrims themselves,without the knowl edge of the Captain ; and when it is considered that, after a pilgrimage to Mecca and back, a great number would | be much exhausted, and likely to suc cumb on the homeward vcyuge, most if i not all of the deaths may be attributed > to natural causes. Or COURSE. —"And so they go ;" one of the Portland school committee is re ported to have said ; " our great men are fast departing—first Greeley, then Ohase, and now Sumner—and I don't feel very well, myself." A SI'KTDK'N ROM AM i:. \\ rarjrot I.lff ami ll* Manifold Mltrilta, Sixty years ago ! what a long way back it seems through the half-forgotten pathways of human life ! Ilow much of the winding, devious amy runs through desert, with here a bit of it half hidden in long grata with tall but tercups, many on a stem, aud there a stretell of auuny landscape ; but these are mostly a long way off —at the begin mg of the pathway 1 Sixty years ago ! There is a village iu the midland coun ties of England that was a village sixty years ago. It has uot changed much in the interval. Fashion has not atoleu away its rurality; httsiuess has not roblmd it of its retirement and peace. It is tie village of Ameahury. lu 1814 there was not otieof all its three or four hundred inhabitants unacquainted with the rosy cheeks, yellow hair, and prat tling tongue of Little Tom Connelly, old Tom Connelly the cooper's son, who used to roll in the shavings his father's iuihutrions arms accumulated iu heaps Iw-fore the abed where all the wooden ehurus, buckets, and tuba of the vil lage found creation. Those were the buttercup and sun shine days of little Tom Conuelly'a life At two o'clock on Friday morning an old gray-fiaiietl, pale-faced man was discovered by the jHilice, huddled away beneath a cart in Cherry street, New York city, bleeding to death. It waa little Tom Conneuy, life weary of his plodding along the pathway that had been il< ert for ao long a time. There is nothing new, nothing T err (iinrtlusg in thin miserable romance. It is hut an exemplification of what Sid ney Smith culled then the tendency of Uie round peg to get into the square hole. No doubt there woe a proper orbit for Tom Oouuellv to revolve in, if he had found it ; N field of usefulness for him where hi* brain power or hi ainew power would have availed to mold the circumstances of liia life, MO MM to make life endurable to hint, only he failed to hit upon it. Tunc* become bad in Kuglaud ; bad all over Europe, in fact. Twenty fear* of incessant worfaie hod ground down the people with taxation. There was glory and Apaley House for Wellington, the savior of the nation; starvation and the workhouse for the saved, Peace made matters worse ; a loaf of bread cost one shilling and two )>enre,|aud a man's bard day's toil was not worth a shilling. Evil davs over took the senior Connelly ; the landlord and the tax-collector levied upon the poor, humble man's shed ; out uito the wide world with father and mother and bairns, the highway or the ditch or what not for tue man who oould not psy. That was humanity sixty years ago ! All this is changed now. Wit ness Tom Connelly vesterday bleeding to death from a seff-iuflicted wound, Ixicaiise he had no friends, no work, no inonov, no home, and life had become unendurable to htm. Men do not easily lose faith in life's possibilities : •• To-day sad. To w- Trow glad." is a creed that Hope's benignant lips teach and all men willingly accept. Tom Connelly was no exception. He never married—he wo* too poor—and there were but weak tics to connect him with his nstive country. As best he could he picked up bis father's trade of cooper, and with that for capital and his faith in life's possibilities for en couragement, came to this country many years ago. He can tell of gleams of comparative prosperity—the streteh cs of sunshine are in his life's psthwsv as in every one's. The country in which lobor has its dignity had a welcome for honest Tom Connelly who came to it* shores to work, but ill-fortune, false friends, ill-health., and old age, with their cumulative shadows of desponden cy, deepening and darkening into de spair, have blotted out the sunshine, and Tom Connelly, infidel to his own faith in hope, cut adrift from his creed of life's possibilities, went out into the darkness of the slums in this city of many homes to seek one in death's cer tain In s. He may not die, but mav come forth from Bcllevne Ib-spito!, where he has been carried, with a re newed faith in the possibilities of life. Human kindness may yet find sunshine for tho close of bis life. -V. Fx prett. The Tichborne Estate. The Claimant has not lost mnch in being deprived of the Tichborne estates, if all that is stated regarding them be true. He would havo pome into a bar ren inheritance, and is likely to live in a far better slid an infinitely less em barrassing style whither he has gone than he oould have done in the baronial tialls for which he made so desperate a struggle. It seems that the estates will be lost in litigation by reason of the expenses attandant npon the rc ceut trials. The trustees of the estate have had to bear the brunt of the legal proceedings, the coats of which amount to over $200,000, which is more than the value of the property. The Doughty trustees, who had charge of a portion of the property, and who were not in volved in tlio suit for ejectment, ex press their willingness to agree to bear a certain proportion of the expense ; hut, as the agent of the estate insisted that they should pay more than a fair proportion, they now rafnse to pay any thing. The result will be, either that the estate will be sold, or that the trustees of the two estates of the infant heirs will enter into a prolonged litiga tion. Arthur Orion can, therefore, if he cherishes any animosity towards the Tichborne family, hug to his heart the consolation that, if he could not have the estates, his adversnrios are in au equally unenviable position. Certain ly he is iu jail, but even here he has an advantage, since the paternal govern ment has kindly given him a roof over his head, while the Tichbornes arc not ao desirably situated. There seems to be something radically wrong in that law, which permits an impostor to legally destroy those he attempts to plunder, by putting them to a ruinous expense in order that they may defend their own against the rascally machina tions. The moral of the affair seems to bo that when a scoundrel cannot gain possession of an estate that ia not his own, he can succeed in making it iinpossiblo for its rightful owners to keep it. Treading on n Snake's Tall. The latest snake storv comes from Connecticut. Home workmen building n mill among tho rocks on Westfleld river killed a and after sev ering the head from the trunk and cut ting the rattleH off the tail for a keep- Hake, kicked the head away into the aand and threw the trunk into the sun. A booted boy camo along and could nut resist the tomptntion to worry the dead snake. He trod on its tail, and the headless trunk of the reptile turned and struck tho boot as if to bite. The frightened youth soon hod an audience around him, and the experiment of treading on the snake's tail was repeat edly tried, with the same result. But another startling thing was observed. As often as the carcass coiled and struck the offending boot, so often and at the self-same instant the grim head, lying dissevered in the dust, opened its jaws, the deadly fangs protruding, and olosed them with a snap. Till: OULIMH FARM LABORER. Ill* 11**1 ■ltalian, Ud Lffarli In Ilia Uorera of England bad, for Tears, to find food ami clothing for themselves and their families on the average wage* of nine shilling* a week. To a man o situ ated, uieat was an unheard of luxury, uud an occattional awiuiah debauch formed the solitary gleam of what he called the pleasures of existence. Edu cation for his children was out of the question, because even had schools been provided, he had neither the money to buy clothe# iu whioh his ehU dreu could attend school, nor was he able to spare the pittanoe which they began to earn at tui early age by work ing iu the fields. No wonder that long years of such influences shonld have degraded the tyi>e of manhood, debased the standard of morality, aud all but obliterated the self-reapoct of the agricultural labor ers over three-fourths of England. Years ago, political economists and social reformers gave up " Hodge" as an irreclaimable lont and barbarian. Something, it was thought, might be done, after education had a chance to elevate the next generation ; but the present was supposed to be beyond the reach of any n-medy known to the social philosophy of the time. Jierw and there a more than usually energetic English clergyman gave evidence of his belief in the possibility of elevating even the adult lalnirer of the period. Men like Canon (iirdlestoue kept up the fight on his behalf for better cot tages, garden allotments, and what not; others kept impressing on the sluggish intellect of the farmer's white slave that if the labor market was overstocked iu one county, he had. at least, the liberty to move into another. At length came one resolute aud clear headed man— Joseph Aicb— born and reared among this abject class, and showed them the way by organization, by combination, I or, if need be, bv emigration, to attain something like the privileges of ordi nary working men. I'he fruit* of the labors of Mr. Arch aud his coadjutors are already manifest :n a decided rise of the scale of remu neration of English farm labor, and in the prospect of a permanent elevation in the condition of the laborer. Five ▼ears ago tha existence of a National Union of Farm Laborers would have i Ween thought a perfectly incredible thing. Yet, as the result of less than two years' agitation, that union pos tcaac* thirty-three district*, nine hun dred branches, and 100,000 member*. A few weeks ago, two hundred laborers in the eastern counties of England, whuae wages had last year been advaaoed frum twelve to thirteen shillings a week, demanded a fresh advance to fourteen shillings. The farmers took the alarm at what they thought the indefinite character of the elaims put ferward by the union men, and resolved to measure their strength with the laborers' asso ciation bef*re it ahould become too strong for Ihem. Accordingly, the farmers who, during the laat few years, have combined too, locked out some 4,000 men on the simple issue of what they call resistance to " union dicta tion." Trades-unions are guilty of ex travagances all over the world, but if any of them are hi ted to command the sympathy of every friend of the species, it is the combination of the down-trod ilen aud long suffering farm-laborers of England. Were the fanners to succeed in crushing unionism among the labor ers, it would be equivalent to the ex tinction of their growing sentiment of ludepcudcnce and self-respect, and to a resumption of the old perilous decline into dull, brutiah servility. Hnoh a disaster is hardly to lc appre hended. The National Union is able to pay SB,OOO a week toward the support of tho men who are locked out, and who fail to get employment in other quar ters. It will probably be able to do so as long a* the farmers* can afford to hold out. Htatiatics ahow, moreover, that during the last tea years the number of agricultural laborers has decreased in England. This is partly due to their absorption into the working classes of manufacturing towns, and in a leas de gree to emigration. Both influences are likely to be felt in increased force during the present decade, and thus on tho mere question of balance between supply aud demand, the ultimate tri umph must rest with the laborers. : Meanwhile, representative farmers write in this doleful strain to the news papers: "We also fully believe that! should this Union get the mastery of no, (which God forbid for the sake of i the laborer as well aa tbo farmer), farm ing will become impossible in England, and we must look cut for other sources of employment for our capital, or seek •nt other lands." The present move ment will probably produce a more 1 scientific system of culture in England, • and a more judicious employment of libar than heretofore. In this way, ! also, it will indirectly raise tho indua- i trial status of the lalwrer. About a Servant Girl. A lady in this city has a stupid ser vant girl. Doubtless there are many other ladies nimilarlv afflicted, but this is a specific case. The other day the servant girl was cleaning the silver in the kitchen and a begging tramp came to the door, and asked for something to eat. The girl left the door wide open and the silver on the table, while she went hp stnirs to ask her mistress what to give the man. Fortunately the tramp was more honest or less bold than the majority of the class and did not make awav with the silver, but the lady cautioned the servant girl against her carelessness and told her never to leave the door open for such people, mid never to admit them into the house. That evening a well-known gen tleman, who had been invited to call, rang at the door and asked if Mr. and Mrs. , the gentleman and lady of the house, were in. Whereupon the servant girl, mindful of her instruc tions and classing all callers in the same category, gave the gentleman a glance full of suspicion, muttered some thing about his not getting any silver there, slummed the door in his face, and left him standing astonished and dis consolate on the piazza. Hartford Post, CONSIDERATE.— This man knew what he was about. He lived in the country, and in buying an axe the other day he was particular to select the smallest one he could find. An acquaintance axed him why he did so, and he replied, ••Well, mv wife isn't enjoying very good health this winter, and if I get 'a heavier one I'm afraid she won't be able to cut the wood." Torma: &2.00 a Year, in Advance. Cremation In India. The drive from Perambore lo Madras liea through a series of close and dusty streets and dirty " bazaars," the smell of which at times wan ao dreadful that we were obliged to bold our noses, tha atmosphere being at the same time ao dose that we appeared to be passing through the dry heat of an oven. Of course the route waa always the tame. First, through narrowatreeta of bouses, chiefly inhabited by half-caates, on the tlst roefs of vrhtob, hybrid damsels, in variably arrayed iu white book muslin with coral ornaments and black velvet in their hair, might be MM, readv to interchange glances with, and cast down billeU-doux upon tbe English officers as they rode to aud from tbe band. Next, through a native quarter, where ws were liable to be aolicited for alms by ladies aud gentlemen covered with small-pox, leproay, and other disgust tug diseases ; where we asw droves of those nice, clean-feeding, healthy-took - ing Madras pigs which turns one's blood to water, aud put a auddeu death to any wonder we may have hitherto enter tained as to the reason Jews are com manded under the Levitiaal law to ab stain from the flesh of swine; where we generally also met a Hindoo corpse or two being carried to their burial-a sight wltihb was scaroeiy more pleasant than decent to contemplate. At one time, whilst we were at Madras, the cholera made great ravages amongst the lower classes of the natives, and 1 have eeu as many as twelve or fifteen corpses carried past in one evening I Fancy an old dead, and clothed in exactly the true suit in which he entered the world, placed npou a wicker bier much too abort for him, ao that his legs have to be violently bent at the knees ; his bonea nearly through his akin ; hia brown, shriveled faoe striped with white and jullow paint, the marks of his caste ; hia Llack Lair dyed the oolor of carrots with saflron ; a wreath of large scarlet flea era round hia head ; hia month forced wide open by the gen erosity of his friends, who hive atoned it so full of betel-nut and " pann" leaves, that tin y are all slicking out in a bunch ; and his unclosed sunken eyes appearing as though they mournfully contemplated what a hideous figure hia relations had made him look like I Yet the sight ia by no means an uncommon oue for lad"os ut India. During the dry season, which lasts for nine months, the roads are simply layers of thiak red dust, whiah settles upon everything ami spoils everything it settles upon. This dust was the mort distinguishing feature of Peram bote—indeed the oaly thing for which it may be said U> be famous, if 1 except s Hindoo bury uxg-gruund, in which, ac cording to that religion, the corpses used to be burned, and from which, when the breexe set in onr way, the smell was more powerful than refresh ing. We know that there is but a step from the sublime to the ridiculous, bat the manner ui which some of these burnt-sacrifices ore carried out would seem as if those who conducted the rites had cleared the sublime at a standing ) nap. It appears that th na ture of "cold cerpnssea" whan sub jected to the action of heat, is, in con sequence of the sudden contraction of the muscles, to sit up ; so it often, in deed generally, happens that papa, or grandpapa, (as the esse may be, t re fuses to be a good boy and be burnt up quietlv, but will insist upon rearing himself upon the funeral pyre and watching tho proceedings of his own immolation. Bo that the sorrowing sons and grandsons go to the funeral armed with " sbillelaha," and as soon as the remains of the old geatleman give the least hint of rising they attack him from all quarters, in the fashion of llnnnybrook Fair, and keep up a con tinuous " thwacking," until their pro genitor is open to reason, and permits himself to he consumed in a dorent and orderly manner.— florcnrx Marry a ft. 1 spoiling of a Steamer. The North China I/rrald records a terrible accident as having taken place at Hong Kong to th • nail steamer Wan Lxmg, whioh plied between that port and Canton. The vessel started from her whnrf at 7 o'clock at night. She car ried a cargo, but account* vary as to the exact number of passenger* oa board. It ia generally believed, how ever. that there were between two hun dred and three hundred. A very large crowd of Chineee assembled on the Prays to see the veaael start. She got clear of her moorings all right, but in taking a turn to come under the stern of a small (tarman yacht lying near abe gave a roll iirwarda in the airoie ahe was describing. On her upper decks were a large number of Chinese, and at the sway they all ran to the other aide, a movement which at once brought the vessel over. The dead weight at the low aide kept her from righting herself agsin, and,her slanting attitude pre vented thoao on the top from getting to i the high aide. So the vessel went right over, and at onee sank. Just before j she went down a wild cry arose from those on board, which was at onee ; caught np by those on shore, and some hundreds of spectators rushed along the Praya to see what was the matter, and the excitement became intense. Several house boats were immediately on the scene. Inspector Stroud was prompt in getting all the police boats j available to the scene, and a large nuu- j ber were thus saved, although it is be- j lieved that about one hundred, if not more, have been drowned. The saved were brought on shore as they were ; picked m>, and the police had the am bulances ready to carry away the dead. Prom some articles that have been j picked np it is supposed that at least ' one European has been drowned. How to Utilise Hones. Take a water-tight box or eaak of suitable sise, and in the lxittom put a layer of aohes, nay three inches in depth, then on this a layer of bones, and so on alternately until the oask is nearly or quite full, the last layer of bones being well oovered with ashes. Have the family pour npon this all the nrine from the bouse every day, and on washing days pour on a quantity of the strong soap-suds. In a few months tiiis can bo token out with a shovel, all dissolved, except it may be the large enameled joint bones, whioh may have to be broken and put through another sweat in the like manner. It ia under stood that the ashes must be good, hard-wood ashes, unltachcd, or the job will prove a failure. Snuff-Dipping. The Dover (N. H.) Enquirer makes tho following statement relative to a practioe which has been generally un derstood to be oonfltied to one or two Southern States: " While in an apoth ecary store, recently, we heard young girls and boys calling for snuff, scented with checkerberry, etc., to be used for eleaniug the teeth. It has no virtues for cleaning the teeth, more than the brush without it; and it is simply an other way of using tobaoco —a dirty way—injuring the health and weaken ing the nervous system. A physician recently informed "us that he had, in one or two cases, seen convulsions from its use. This pretended cleansing is not confined to once a day, but is done •crcca! times," NO. 20. NilClim ADKOITLT PLiNSED. KilfuHlurX l).ii o( maw UM. Kx-Congre**maa Obadiah Bowne, once one of the moat influential resi dents of Htaten Island, committed sui cide trader remarkable circa instances id the hir.hmond County II all, in Itich moud village. The ect seems to have been the result of calm and deliberate thought, and ail the details were care fully planned. Mr. Bowne ceiled at the office of e city newspaper and asked that the beat reporter should be de tailed to meet him at the Htaten Island Ferry-house to " work op a sensation." Thence, be said, he would accompany the reporter to Htaten Island, where the event waa to occur. Mr. Bowne waa assured that his request would be complied with, and left the office. A few minutes before 5 o'clock he wae met at the ferry-bouse by acquaint anoee, who, being on thoir way to the Island, asked him to go down with them. Be declined the invitation, giv ing a e an excuse that he had ** an en gagement with a business man." Ait* r the boat had got under way his friends aaw him sad a stranger together. After a short time he left his unknown com panion, came to them, and opened a conversation. The talk that passed bet seen tueni waa of a general charac ter, but before they parted he told them that he would die before 12 o'clook the next day. On landing Bowne and the stranger took the cars to Richmond, tad engaged a room in the Richmond County Bali They ordered supper, and alter eating entered the bar room. Bowne drank freely, and in the course of the evening again remarked that he would not be auve on the morrow. Between 9:30 and K) © clock he and hie friend went to their room. At II o'clock the stranger, wbe it waa subsequently learned was a reporter, entered the bar room hastily and said that Bowne had committed btucnla. The proprietor of the hotel hurried to his room, and found him lying on the bed with a hail-emptied bottle of laudanum beside him. The reporter states that after they went up stairs Bowne gave him a history of his life with political reminiscences, and when lie bed finished, produced e bot tle of, laudanum, and before be could interfere drank heartily of it, causing his death about midnight The de ceased was between 55 and 60 years old. He represented the First Congressional District of New York Btate from 1851 to 1853, and declined a renoiaination. Be was one of the first Quarantine Commissioners, and selected the ait* fmr the station. Soon after the expira tion of his term be became intemper ate, and his wife procured a divorce. Be inherited a fortune of about |400,- 000 from bis parents, much of which he squandered. Subsequently his di vorced wife rejoined him, and now sur vives him with two sons. A Stroke of Forte ae. The employees of the Pennsylvania j Coal Company, at Pittston, are happy over a stroke of good fortune growing ■ out of their terms of settlement with ' the company at the cloae of the long strike of 1870. The circumstances are as follows: Prior to the strike the miners were giving the company A24Q pounds for a grows too. One of the de mands made by the company when the men were about to rename work was lhat 2,540 pounds should constitute a gross ton. This the men looked upon as being rather too mnoh, but after a ' few days' reflection, they conceded, with the proviso, however, that if this i number of pounds should be found to ! exceed the net weight of a ton. all the surplus should be returned to the men. This was mutually agreed upon in May, 1871. and at the close of the year end- j ing May, 1872, it was found that instead of there being a surplus the n*t weight i fell abort of 9,000 tons. The company . then demanded that fifty pounds mora j i l>e added to the gross ton, making it j 2,590, and the men again acquiesced with the proviso before mentioned, that; any surplus over the net weight should < 1 go* to their credit This seemed satis- j factory, and everything went on smooth ly. A committee representing the Pennsylvania Coal Company's miners, j were informed that a surplusage of 29.- 233 tons had already been placed to the ■ credit of the men in the company's em ploy, equivalent in round figures to about 130,000. The news was an aston ishing surprise, and was discussed with an avidity that gave rise to the very beat of feeling. The prevailing senti ment so far is that the money should be deposited intact aa the nucleus of a fund for the relief of orphans, widows, and crippled miners. The company encour ages such a scheme, and, it ia under stood, will render it material assistance. A fund for the relief of disabled miners, and the benefit of the wives and orphans of such as are killed in the mines would be of incalculable value, and any honest scheme that would give it s substantial assistance ia laudable and deserving of the encouragement of the entire community throughout the coal regions. A Moral. A nnt dropped by a squirrel fell through the opening in the middle of an old millstone which lay npon the ground, and, being thus protected, grew into a thriving sapling that shot up through the opemug. In s few years it hsd iuoreased so thst it filled the space and was firmly wedged to the sides of the heavy stone. Stall it grew, and in a few yean more, little by little, it lifted the cutire weight clear from the earth, so that a man could ait beneath it. All was done by atom after atom, borne bv the tap to the growing trunk. Think of thia, my little man, puzzling over " long division "in arithmetic ; little by little of thinking and working will take you through fractions, role of three, ana those terrible problems at the end of the book, by and bj; but be sure thst the little by little is net ne glected. And you, ban! working; lad on the farm, or in the shorn, look at Franklin, Watts, Morse, Field, and thousands more who have lifted the weight of circumstances that would hold them down like millstones, and who have by their steady perseverance risen above their fellows, easily bear ing their burdens; and " keep pegging away." Cure for Meningitis. A Michigan correspondent pronounces what ia known as the oerebro-spinal meningitis, now prevailing so exten tenaively and fatally in many parts of the country, as the same epidemic which raged in Michigan abont twenty five years ago to such an extent that it actually broke up the Legislature and carried to the grave every one whom it attacked, until the " old-fashioned hemlock sweats wore adopted," after which every case was saved. He says; Our people sent about twenty-five miles distant and procured hemlock boughs, and they sent for it from all parte of the State. There wa§ a company called the Hook and Ladder Company, and for weeks did nothing else night or day but go from house to house giving hemlock sweats, and it never failed to save every case. Thorough sweats might do, but there is no mistake about hemlock sweats being a specific. item of Uteres!. Sweet are the vara o f advcitisementa A school boy's aaprthtioh—'*! wiih I wore A fountain, that I might be always playing." When is sugar moot profitable to gro cers?—At the bottom of their niolnssea measures. . J.j...... , s . " Tm having a change of air," a* Mr. Jenkins, the oty broker, aaul, whan ha put on a new wig. A child ia often tba hyphen eoaneot ing the uncongenial hnabsltd hod wife, ao common about yon. A dyapeptio who baa triad hydro pathy, allopathy and homeopathy, find* f rt-at relief in antipathy, A good action hi naver thrown away. Thia ia the raaaan, no doubt, why wa find ao few of them. Wendell Phillip* aaya thatawifo who can cook a good dinner will haver be > without a fashionable bonnet. Two men undertook to tea whioh could ran the fastest. One waa a con stable and the other we* a thiei A couple of aailow were roeently ar raated for throwing backets of tar over each other. It was a pitch-battle. If a flock of geeae see one of their number drink, they will dru>k too. Men often make geeae of themselves. Homebody flies the standard of news papcr value at ten time* the amount of its average net earning* for ten years. Illinois farmers are posting up signs to the effect that they'll murder the first agent who come# upon the premi se*. There la a chanoe for curious reflec j lion in the fact that a diamond recently exhibited wae worm 5,000 ber ! rela of flour. Tails berths* are fashionable for evening drees. They should invariably be made over foundation of stiff Isse, neatly faced. " Will some on# mom that I amy take the chair T said Sheridan, when he went to e crowded meeting before it was organised. It ia said that the Illinois Btate militia consists of fourteen brigadier, and forty superannuated muskets, with nobody to carry them. Brotherly lev* ia ol the only kind they cultivate in Philadelphia. For 15,782 fond hearts were made to beat as 7,891 in that city last year. An Indiana man has just received notice of a 84,000 dividend on an oil well which be had given up as a total loss. Oil's well that ends weJL According to the Memphis (Tatw.) papers, that city ia one of the moat hcentious,corrupt, and geaerally vicious of any town in the whole Broth. A Western agricultural editor aaya it makes "good garden sees" to let your hens and chickens into your neighbor's grounds to take an Easter holiday. Canine reasoning powers an a favor ite tspic with Natural lata, but there is no denying that nine-tenths of the dogs one area, are miserable poor thin-curs. Klcrveless jackets of velvet ud silk, i in fin* aatin-stitcb embroider/, seeded with brads, are still worn, and will con tinue fashionable for aome time te oome. advice is: "Don't drink at all: second, if yon most drink, let it be of the rifrfct kind, at the right tune, and under the right circtim , stance*." Suicide wat committed in an extraor dinary way by a young mn * Paris, j Utah, lately. He deliberately drove a nail into his head, and died in a few hours after. In Switzerland there in a law which I compels every newly-married couple to 1 1 plant aix trees immediately after the j ceremont, and two on the birth ef every child, birch ? A barber, having a vary intemperate man to shave on Sunday, begged him to keep hia month abut, aa it waa a punishable offense to open a rum ahep 1 on the Sabbeth. A Missouri jury, in the eace of a man ' found with ten bullet* in hit head, de -1 cided that "he had been afaot or met | with some accident in come manner not ' jnat now known." i Taking care of a baby and sewing buttons on a wife's shoes were adduced ,; in a trial as evidence tending to ahow j a husband's affection for a wife whom | ! he subsequently shot A Chinaman on trial in California for , j larceny proved that be wasn't within half a moe of the property when it waa i j taken, and they sent him np for a year > I for contempt of court, i " None knew him bat to trust him, nor named him bat to dun," ia the pathetic sentence with which a Dela ware merchant doses an advertisement for a missing customer. A Plattsbnrg paper apeak* of a gen tleman of that vicinity who recently i sold hie wife and children to one of his j neighbors for a coat, a pair ef second ; hand pants, and $5 in cash. An lowa Judge has decided that it is } more of a sin to steal a horse than to | elope with another man's wife, because there are 8,000,000 women in the United States and only 3,000,000 homes. A storyis told of a person asking another one whether he would advise him to lend a certain friend money. " What! lend htm money I Ton might land him an emetic, and ha won ldn't return it." But few persona have been both Governor of Massachusetts and one of its Senators. These are Christo pher Gore. Caleb Strong, John Davis, George 8. Boutwell, sad now Wm. B. Washburn. John Bp inks, barber, of Council Bluff, whose shirt, saturated with blood, was found concealed in a shed near hia residence, has been heard from by his creditors. Be ia in Nevada, and not in the other place. A Lutheran minister in Freedom, Wis., refused to conduct the funeral service of a farmer belonging to hia pariah because the man had been a granger. His society promptly re quested his resignation. Our wives, mothers, and sisters are wearing vests—real masculine waist coats, to be more explicit. They are made of bright-colored silk or satin, and are intended for evening wear. All kinds of trimming can be used. A Mormon bridegroom was simulta neously married to three blushing brides in Salt Lake City recently. Some oonfuaion was created after the ceremony by eaeh bride penisting on her individual right to the first kiss. An act passed by the Legislature ef Maryland prevents the manager of any place of amusement from marking seats reserved—unless they were sold be fore the entertainment opened—under a penalty of $5 for each seat so marked. It is the solemn thought connected with middle life that life's last business is begun in earnest, and it ia when mid way between the cradle and the grave that a man begins to marvel that he let the days of yonth go by so half en joyed. The fellow who declared he oould name any liquid blindfold " gave it np" when he was handed a sip from the pump. "It reminds me," he said, "of something I have tasted in my yonth bat for the life of me I can't now te 1 what it is." On the last trip of the steamer Sibe ria to Boston, among the steerage pas sengers waa a family of Italians aged as follows : Fatner, 47 ; mother, 43, with fifteen children, aged as follows: 23, 22, 20, 19, 17, 16, 15, 14, 11, 11. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6. Twelve were boys and three girla. Everv man'a past life should be his eritio, his ceneor, his guide. He who lives and is done with life the moment it drops hour by hour from hii hands, is not half a man. He ia like a plucked plant that, stands in water without roots of its own, and can have no growth, and soon fades and passes away. j* To Extemiwatb Roachus. —Roach- es may be exterminated fay taking flowers of sulphur one-half pot ash fonr'ounees. Melt tn an eartbern pan over the fire ; pulverize aid makq, a strong solution in water, the places they frequent,