Traveling By MffhL I ride into a lnd of gio >, Nor moon nor Ur* uiv * y illume. The cold wiJfs w'i sil* pant mo. Thin road I've traveled > " ' ween. When langH'd the suniiglu gchh-ii shesn, And breeze* bland earn i d inc. On by tho garden dark I mo. The withor'd tree* are 1 nulling there. The faded leave* fall *1 nlv. Here oft 1 atrayed. when .>>>* 1 loomed. And love's sweet hghl all tlun ;* ilhimM, With her 1 loved so wholly. Tlie sun has f led from the sky. The roses pale and withered he. My love in death i* sleeping. Into aland of gloom I go. Where light is none, and cold winds Mow, My cloak arouud mo keej i g. Tired. O for wings, that I might soar, A little way above the floor A little way beyoud the rear A little nearer to the sky ! To the blue lull*, lifted high. Out of all our misery Where alone is heard the lark, Warbling tu tlie infinite are. From the dawning to the dark. Where the callow eaglets s ink On the bare and breezy brink, And alow pinions rise and sink. Where the d:ra white breakers t>eat I'nder cloud-drift* at vuir feet. Singing, ainguig, low and sweet Where we see the glimmering ha* Oraylr melting far away. On the confines of the day. # Where the green larch-fringe* sweep lloeky defiles. *tb! and sleep. Where the tender lichen* creep. Where the gentian-Woeeom* blow, Set in crystal stars of snow:; Where the downward torrent* So* To the plains and yellow leas. Clancing twinkling, through the trees. I'ura. as from celestial *. as. Where the face of heaven has smiled. Aye on frselom, sweet and wild. Aye. on beauty nudefiied. Where no eouud of human speech. And no human passions reach; Where the angels ait and teach. Where no troublous foot has trod ; Where is impressed on the sod Only Hand and Heart at God! THE FATE OF THE SPY, A ominous silence reigned over Se bastopol. Not a gun or a soret-tchiug shell disturbed the painful silence, which, to imaginative minds, produced a feeling of uneasiness and awe. I, only a captain, was on outpost dnty, with a revolver in hand, ready for any emergency. Cautioning my men to re port the most trivial stir that might catch their ears, I ordered them to lie down under cover of some thorny abrube. After some time I was in the act of rising from my concealed position, when a muflled footstep caught my ear. I knew not why, bat the blood rushed impetuously throngh my veins. Glancing over my shoulder, the figuie of a man rose mysteriously before me. He was mnffleti to the chin ; over his shoulder was a white something, which, in my hurried glance, 1 took to be the skin of some animal. Evidently who ever this personage was he hat! not dis covered me. His steps were bent toward Sebastopol. " Lord above !" I mentallv gasped, " what if this wretch should be one of those systematic spies, which are to be found in all armies." My forefinger instinctively sought the trigger of my revolv-r. One course I was determined upoD, at a'l hazards, this mysterious figure should not escape me. On it came gliding, so to say, more like the movement of a ser pent than a man. Snowing as it was, and with the shadows of uight falling fast and thick, there wu-. something which struck me that I had seen this ghost-like personage before. But where? That was a question that at that moment was most difficult to solve. Gradually I rose from behind a thorny shrub, and confronted the intruder with my revolver. "Who comes there?" said I, ener getically. A perceptible stare warned ine that at last I confronted a spy. " Move a hair's breadth," said I, " and yon are a dead man •" There was a sudden gleam of dull moonlight, and 1 in my turn started. The face, though partially concealed, was familiar. " Great heavens!" I exclaimed, " Brown of ours." Ers I could rightly recover, the fig ure glided past me. 1 fin d, and called loudly upon the outposts to shoot him down. Crack 1 crack ! went the rifles. "Escaped as," I mattered, grinding BT teeth. " And gone right into Sebastopol," growled the sergeant. " Listen," said I. For a Russian sentinel that moment demanded a field cry or password. In vain we stretched oar ears to catch a reply ; nanght bat the icy wind mocked as. I returned to my hiding place fall of thoughts, fall of suspicious. " CoaUl it be possible," I asked my self, "that the figure was Lieutenant Brown?" They were certainly the bushy whiskers, the full diabolical face and the thick figure. Lieutenant Brown, as I knew well, was no favorite in ours. He went by the cognomen of " foreigner," yet he distinctly avowed that he was English to the back bone. I remembered then that Lieutenant Brown was clever at sketching. I also had seen him take notes, which I play fully alluded to at the time, and in re sponse be informed me—at a dear rela tives' request—he kept a diary. It was certainly strange. A multiplicity of little occurrences rose np before me re specting our foreigner. ITis absorbing interest respecting any intended attack. His studious silence before others re specting the disasters of the Russians, and when in my hut, his eager inquirise as to how, and why, and the wherefore of every trivial detail which occurred in the camp. The commanders of the English and the French forces never rightly canght the Russians asleep; in sorties, in open attacks, they were always seemingly prepared. This was mortifying. Cer tainly some of our men hod deserted to the enemy, but this oon died out, owing to the cruel treatment which waited them. That there was a spy, who could pass the English and French lines adhbituiu, I did not for an instant doubt. " At all events," said I, half load, "if it be this foreigner lie mast re tarn," and the bare thought was in tensely delicious. '• Xnere," hoarsely shouted one of the outlying pickets, as he brought down his rifle to the charge. "Stand! The password." This challenge sent the blood gallop ing madly through me. " Now for the mystery," thought I, and my finger pressad determinedly on the trigger of my revolver, as I crept up from whence the sound proceeded. "All's well, General," I heard the sentry say, who shouldered his rifle and stood firm. For on outpost duty all compliments, such as presenting arms and saluting, are totally ignored. "Ah, Captain Wood, I believe," said the General, who was on horseback, leaning down on his saddle. " The same, sir," said I. The enow by this time had abated, and the heavens grew brighter. Be fore me was the English commander. "We attack at daylight. Captain Wood," he whispered. "If we but steal a march upon them this time, I believe we shall carry the great re doubt, which Prince Menschikoff de clares would defy all the armies of the world to capture—he deems it impreg nable ; be qui vive." lv I K T/, I'Mitor mill 1 Vopriofor. VOL. VII. He wits about to ride off when 1 atop pod him. " General," aaid I, " it's my ilnty to report a man w rapped in white, who in defiance of the outlying picket, crossed our position ami safely entered the enemy's lines." The General drew up reiti suddenly at this. "What, again? I'mpiestionably a spy. In the name of God who and w hat was he like ?" I felt an irresistible impulse to un bosom my suspicions. Hut, supposing they should prove unfounded? The character of an English officer would be compromised, and I probably cash iered for so unwarranted a charge, un worthy of an officer ami a gentleman. 1 merely hinted it might be a Turk, a Frenchman, or an Englishman. "Hntnphl" ejaculated the English oonuuamter, " if one of these he shall uot escape us." "Order the outlying pickets to be doubled. Throw forward a section of riflemen, under cover of the. gteat re doubt. Suffer uo one to pass, on pain of instant death. Order the riflemen to lie down, ami, should the spy ap> pear, not to discharge their rides, but either to seize or knock him down with the butt ends of their muskets." This order 1 promptly carried out. Still the same ominous silence at Se bast.n 01. I heard naught save an oc casional chant ami clock striking the hour, in the doomed town. Silently, 1 could see, with my night-glass, tho Russians relieving sentry. " if it be the foreigner, he cannot es cape ; and should he not return, my worst fears will be realized." While I was thinking 1 was dozing off". Should 1 fall asleep under this thorny brier, there would be a vacancy iu ours. Aud, above all, it would fall to the foreigner. I strove hard to rise, and to my dismay, my limbs felt stiff ami rigid. The revolver dropped from my grasp. I essayed to cry out, but my tongue refused to more. Crack, crack, crack, 1 heard, like one in a nightmare Something Lad hap pened. Sharp tiring followed. I gave a faint cry, as if in pain. The tramp ing probably saved me from an awful death. It removed the stagnated blood. 1 sat tip and instinctively placed my hand over my head aud face to protect. Was it a panic, or was I still dream ing. *• Curse him ! he's old nick himself," I heard voices exclaim ; " but for the snow storm we would have made mince meat of him." And, to my amazement, the rifles in swarms came running back to take up position. One fellow tumbled over me, and the next iustant I was surrounded by men who poured stiff 4 ' tota of grog" down my throat. Some chafed my limbs, while others took me by the arms in turns and walked me rapidly to and fro. Iu a short time I was fully restored. To my unutterable astonish ment I learned a stoutish man, wrapped in a white cloAk, appeared suddenly in the midst of the swarm of human ants. The snow at that moment was Urrriio, and driven by a keen wind, it was next to impossible to barely see your haud before you. Some say they seized the stranger by the leg. Others say lie got some ounce of load. And yet—he es caped them. "All through this storm, captain," said au old sergeant. "We are afeared of shooting • eh other." " I'll be ha: <• .1 if he ain't, or ap pear! d to go, smack into our lines." I was seated in my rude bnt a week after this terrible event, and who should wa'k in but Lieutenant Brown. He calmly seated himself, as was his wont, anil serenely smoked his short pipe. " Positively a stranger, Brown," I said. " A little out of sorts," he answered, staring me full in the face. I was ever of the opinion that men of sinister natures cotila never rightly fix their eyes upon another man's. I laughed at this fallacy, and was over skeptical upon this point afterward. " Sorry to hear it," I replied. Then I added, with a searching glaueo, "Whit do you thinlf of this spy affair?" " It's right enough. Captain Wood, I saw the fellow myself, yesterday night, enter the Russian linetC I could have swoni the tuscal had stolen my seal skin jacket." " Did he ?" said I, with a faint touch of sarcasm. He pretended to langh heartily at this; but there was a gleam in his cruel eyes, and I saw it instantly cankered in his bosom. He proposed some grog, and between us we got slightly elevated. The subject of oar conversation wns that if the Russians some fina morning made a grand attack near tho Ink rman heights, it was probable the allies would be swept into the ; this was discussed, pro and con, in our camp, and now I meant tohearLient. Brown s opinion upon it. " Monstrous V said he. " nave we not got the finest troops in the world— our foot guards—located there ?" " Look here. Brown, I know and BO do you—in fact, it is transparent to everybody, except those at headquar ters—that if the enemy during a snow storm, or a foggy morning, say, crept up from Sabastopol and fell upon our pickets before the alarm could be given, they could carry everything before them." He laughed heartily at this, and vet I thought it was a serious laugh. We smoked and drank, and I feigned to fall asleep as Lieutenant Brown took out his supposed diary. Ho scribbled soma words in it upon a loose leaf, then laid the book down a moment to light bis pipe, and tho draft between the boards of the rude hut wafted it upon the litter at my feet. The Lieutenant staggered, snatched up tho book with out noticing that the leaf was gone, and departed. J hastily picked up the note, and after much labor I read— "Attack, followed up, must succeed if made on Inkerman side ; at least, that is the opinion of English—suggest the first foggy morning—Sunday." " 'TIB as I expected," I gasped, " the foreigner is a spy." I kept my own counsel. I knew, on November fourth and fifth, I should be on outpost duty, and what should hinder me from capturing him? I did wrong in repeating the circumstance to my superior officer. The fourth of November came, and, in the meantime, I had ordered my servant to keep a strict watch on Lieut. Brown. He reported that evening that the foreigner was missing, and on in qniry, this turned out to be true. I still kept my own oounsel, but as I halted near a ravine overlooking ttebas topel, I promised promotion to any man who should cupture any person coming from the enemy's line, for I felt convinced the foreigner had gone over and would probably return under cover of night. At midnight Sebasto pol was enveloped in a dense fog. But throughout that live-long night I was on the alert, encouraging the guards on my right to keep a sharp eye and a 'cuter ear on Sabastopol. It was near the dawn wheu the bells in Babastopol commenced to ring. The men thought they were the bells for church. This continued for some time. I applied my ear to the ground. Could Ibe mis taken? The sound of wheels, as if muffled, caught my ear. Then the in distinct tramp of numerous bodies of men. THE CENTRE REPORTER. Before I hud time to rise, the report of musket from the outlying jvota startled me. Another and ati fiber followed in rapid Mteov ssiuu, the outposts fell back upou the rallying point 1 had iuvlieated, aud I determined to show u fiont. Judge tuy surprise, when a Russian offivr, in dim outline, stood before ine, and in bia rear were some half doaru stuff officers feeling their wuv. Some thing was Mid iu Russian, which I did not understand ; but the voice, there was uo disguising that. It was the foreigner. My first intention was to shoot him down. In an instant 1 thought better of it. I fell U}K>U him ami disarmed hitu. Two men bound him, and in a whisper, 1 gave him in charge of a corporal and fv>ur men. " Headquarters," 1 whispered to them, and they marched ou with their prisoner. Why sjH-akof what followed? Is not the story wf the battle of luker man and its results known to all ? On the same Sunday afternoon Lieu tenant Bsown, alias tl. - foreigner, alias Kirkoff—for it turned out lie was a Russian by birth -was tried by drum head court-iuarual. At first he denied everything, but afterward made a full confession. 1 recapitulated what is already kuowu, and reproduced the slip from his uote- IHKIL. llis haudwriting alone con demned him. 1 was the chief witness. And almost instantly he was ordered then and there to be hanged by the neck. He pleaded to lie shot. But the court scornfully rejected his appeal, lie was tlung off from a neighboring tree on the heights of lukermau. And oil his breast, iu English and Russian, were written those brief but terrible words —" The fate of a spy." A Cut's Tail on a Booster. If, says l>r. Brown-Bernard, we put an orgau taken from a living animal in side of another animal, verv frequently this orgau will be engrafted there. The infused serum becomes the object of chemical changes, the blood is attract ed and the orgau receives circulation. 1 once engrafted the tail of a cat oil a cock's comb. A few days after it was evident bv pricking the tail that bhod was circulating in it, and it certainly would have staid there had not thee >ok had a tight cud lost its tail. Other cases of grafting leave no doubt in this respect. It is shown by the fact that oi i in animals when they are implanted on a mucous membrane take bold cf it, blood is attracted there and circula tion takes place. The mere division of a nerve is fol lowed by a gixsl many alterations, often producing atrophy uot only of the mus cles but also of the cellular tissue of the blood vessels, and also of the bones themselves. All the parts that were ani mated bv the u< rve are more or less atrophied after division. Dr. John Heed made an experiment to ascertain wheth er it was because the nervous system lias an influence on the nutrition, which is essential, or whether it was simply the lack of action, the perfect rest iu which the part was thrown, that occasioned this wasting away or atrophy. Ho al lowed atrophy to take place, and then galvanized the limb verv and found it irapr< ved. llut the prin cipal experiment consisted in prevent ing atrophy by galvanization, lie gal vanized every day, ui: 1 found that the limb dnl nut become atrophied. I pushed the experiment further. I wait ed until atrophy had liecomc C usidera ble in the limb, and then I applied gal vanism. I then learned that although the nerve had lost nerve force alto gether—as they lose it four days after dissectiou —yet there was soon a rnani fi st increase in size, and after a tune the limb was brought to th< normal size that it had before the operation. Even iu man we frequently see cases of that kind. I once hod a patient who from rheumatism had been witheut any exercise iu one of his legs for a long time and atrophy was considerable iu the thigh. When the pain bad dimin ished considerably he liegau to apply galvanism. I observed day after day a change for the bet er, and at the end of a wc?k he had gained ut the upper part of the thigh n< atly two inches in cir cumference. This implied a rapid transformation for the i>elter. It is evideut, therefore, that in a great meas ure it is owing to rest or inactivity of a part that want of nerve action and con sequently atrophy is due. His Resolutions Theodore Parker married, in Apri 1 , 183(1, MIRK Lydia I). Cabot, only daugh ter of John Catnit, of Newton, with whom he had plighted troth five years previously. The follow tug resolutions are entered in his journal on his wed ding-day : 1. Never, except for tho best of causes, to oppose my wife's will. 4 To discharge all services, for her sake, fret ly. 3. Never to scold. 4. Never to look cross at her. 5. Never to weary her with com mands. C. To promote her piety. 7. To f>car liej burdens. 8. To overlook her foibles. 9. To love, cherish, and ever defend her. 10. To remember her always most affectionately in my prayers ; thus God willing, wo shall be blessed. Bo Cats Think T A New Hampshire paper relates the following story, asserting that it comes to it " through a reliable source In a store in Exeter, a short time ago, a hogshead had been left opened, and upon going to it a company of rats were found in the bottom, having been at tracted thither by its contents, and be ing unable to get out. The store cat was brought in and placed in position to see them, hut after taking a good look jumped down and ran out at the door, shortly reappearing with nnother cat. They now looked over the situa tion and retired, soon comiug back with flio third cat. They now scorned satisfied with their force and made an attack, jumping into the hogshead. The cats had, however, miscalculated tho force of their enemy, and two were killed, the other being taken out iu sea son to save its life. Instinct of a Horse, Blind instinct led a horse belonging to Dr. Allen, of Saco, Me., to act as follows: Standing befora the doctor's office, he started up the street for his stable. At tbat time the entrance to the premises was through a double gate, fastened on the inside with a staple. The horse wa seen to approach, put his head over the gate, and with his teeth lifted up the hasp, then mov ing back a few stops, he came forward and put his shoulder agaiust one side of the gate, and pushed it open ; again backing down, he advanced and pushed open the other gate ; and then backiug again, ho went through the entrance, without injury to the carriage. He seemed to know that it was necessary for him to draw the carriage squarely through the centre of the entrance. Life is an inconceivably beautiful thing, as soon as we can reach that poiut whence we can look out upon it with a cleur conscience and a character well buffeted by experience. CENTRE 11A I.E. CENTRE Co.. PA.. Till KSDAY, JI'.VK 11, 1874. LIIUII I.IRI: IN H .ISIIIMJTO.NI. Tit* Marriage l lira HrrrUrßl'tOssiili- Ui at lire hits tlortsr. The marriage of Mis* Nellie Grant to Mr. Bartons took place in the Moat K Him of the Executive Mansion, Rev, Mr. Tiffany,of the Metropolitan Metho dist Episcopal Church, officiating. 1 Hiring the morning, and up to the hour when the guests took their de parture, the avenues leading to tlie mansion were closed to all except those invited to the weddiug, and tin-re were policemen on the grounds to prevent intrusion by outside parties, inany of whom had gathered at the outer gates to see the guests ride into the iuelos ure. The doorteliders had received strict orders to admit uo uue without an invitation. The east room, the scene of the wed ding, was tastefully and elaborately decorated with plants, flowers and ever greens ; ou the east hide was a plat foiru raised a Rout u foot from the ibnir and covered with a part of the carpet several years ago presented to the gov ernment by the Sultan of Turkey, 'ihe platform was arched with evergreen and flowers, and from its center hung a marriage bell of large proportions composed of the choicest white flowers. Punctual to the hour :he invited gtirsts entered the east room and arranged themselves in full view of the platform. The toilet* of all the ladies were of the richest description. The scene was uu tysually brilliant, tho lurge display of flowers adding to the beauty of the scene. The bridal party passing through the Blue Room entered the East Room. Their presence immedi ately hushed the company to silence. The approach was announced bv music from the Marine band. First came Mr. Sartoris and Colonel Frederick I>. Grant, the only groomsman. Next the bride-maids, two by two, the President and Miss Grant, Mrs. Grant aud her two sous. These were followed by rela tives of the family. On reaching the platform the PreM dent transferred his daughter to Mr. Hsrtoris, who, with the bride, ascciuh 1 the platform, where the officiating min ister was in waiting to receive them. They took position under the floral wedding bell. The Prvsiih nt and Col onel Grant, together with Miss Harm *, one of t e bridesmaids, wt r • the only other jiersous near the b nial party on the platform, Mrs. Grant and her two boys standing iu front and the remain ing seven bridesmaids on the side of the structure. The bride wore a white satin dr<- elaborately trimmed witu point lace ami a tulle veil, and her hair was adorned with orange blosMims. There was noth ing porticulaily noticalije in the drew of the groom, which was e>f course in the latest style with the conventional white necktie. The bridesmaids were the Misses Harues, Drexel, Dent, Porter, C'otik liug, Sherman and Freliaghuysen. Ti.ev were severally dressed in white corded silk,covered with w~lutcillusion, with soft pufls and plaitiugs caught up with flower*. Tneir sashes were of the same material as the dr< ■** *. four of these ladies were distinguished by pink rosi s and the other four by pink flow (i>. All things being in readiness, the ltev. Pr. Tiffany pn ."ceded with the eer meny according to the rrn of the Methodist Epi- opal Church, livery one, as usual on such occasions, pre served a marked silence, and listci.i-d attentively t<> very word while clo-ely wu'hing the maimer and countenances of the bridal pair. The ceremony over, the minister was tin- first to ki-s the bride. She immediately turned to her luttier, who embraced su 1 kissed her. Then the mother approached and kissed her daughti r, as did also the brothers of the bride and uumerous relatives and female friends. k Smuggler's Narrative. " We shall be. my dear madam." said I to a fellow-passenger in the Picppe boat, taking out my watch, but keeping my eye steadily upon her, "we shall be in lens than ten mutates ut the custom house." A spasm -a flicki r from the guilt within—glanced from her couute na'.ic". " You look very goovl-naturcd, sir," stammered she. I bowed, and looked considerably more so to invite her confidence. " If I was to tell yon a secret, which I find is too mtieh for me to keep to myself, O, would you keep it in violable t" " I know it, my dear madam—l know it already," said I, smiling ; " it is lace, is it not ?" •Sho uttered a little shriek, and yo, she had got it there among the crino line. She thought it had In-en sticking out, you see, unknown to her. " Oh, sir," cried she, " it is only ten pounds' worth ; please to forgive me, and I'll never do it ugaiu. As it is, I think I shall expire." " My dear madam," replied I, sternly but kindly, " hero is the pier, and the officer has fixed his eye upon ns. I must do mv duty." I rushed np tho ladder like a lamp lighter ; I pointed out the woman to a legitimate authority ; I accompanied n*r upon her way, in custody, to the searching-house. I did not MOO her searched, but 1 saw what was found upon her, and I saw her fined and din nnssed with ignominy. Then, having generously given up my emoluments as informer to tho subordinate officials, I hurried off in search of the betrayed woman to lier hotel. I gave her laee twice tho vnlno of that sho lost, paid her fine, and explained : " Yon, madam, hod ton ponnds' worth of smuggled goods about your person ; I had nearly fifty times that amount. I turned informer, madam, lot mo con vince you, for the sake of both of us. You have too expressive a countenance, believe mo, and the officer would have found you out at all events, even as I did myself. Are you satisfied, my dear madaui ? If yon still feel aggrieved by mo in any way, pray take more lace; here is lots of it." When I finished my explanation, tho lady seemed perfectly satisfied with my little stroke of diplomacy, though she would have doubtless preferred a less prominent part in it. The Peach Districts, Within tho lost few weeks a species of black bug lias appeared in countless numbers iu the peach orchards near Denton, Caroline County, Md., and has douo serious damage iu that locality. In one nursery the grafted stocks of Hfi.OOO trees were entirely killed. Tho insect is evou capable of destroying large trees, as it thickly covers the leaves and prevents vegetation. Nono of the ordinary means of destroying in sects seem to avail, as this scourge is very tenacious of life, mid a liquid ap plication that will kill the tree does not affect it. It resembles tho rose-bug, and is regarded by entomologists as a similar pest to the cherry achid. Thus fur no serious damage has been done to fruit-benring orchards, though tho presence of the bug is reported iu peach districts about Middletown. Speci mens of the insect have been sent to the Department of Agriculture at Wash ington. Till: TALK OF OFVIII. Alter ftir Mill lltwr Thrill ing I'liluic uf (lie V| 1 have before me, #[i!f a oorrc niitiiiilciit from the Mill Itiver V ley, n bird's pj# view uf the vale uf il -vnstutiuii. At wy in the liuttuin of.the reservoir itself, black, ghu#t!y ami uiPimciug. The very stumps which lift llituiiplvm above the ilnik mass uf aeditueut seem t<> muck at the desolation of the valley below and at those who come to lof>k on the source of the disaster. There are lulls all urouutl except where the brook, which now uieaiulcra quietly through the black bed to the lake, find# an out let over the remains of the dike. Here two miniature mountains nearly touch each other, and were joined together by the wall and dirt of the embankment. At each side there is now a part of the wall as it originally too side. Seen from the hill above it looks very narrow, and actual measurement shows that in its strongest part it wus only live feet nine inches wide. The width gradually diminished, uinl at the Htuiiuitt it was scarcely wider thau an ordinary stone fence. Most prison walla are stronger in every way than this dam, which held prisoner for nine years 125 acres of water, llelow the dam is a narrow gorge, extending from the reservoir to Williamsburg, and almost in all instant the dike gave way and the unchained waters went rushing in wrutii and fury down this narrow de tile, heralded ouly by a dying horse man, who b..re the tidings of impending destruction and death to the doomed Villager# below the detiio. THE ruarrL rut op. The scene which followed baffles de scription. It was awful beyond the power of word# to describe. No im agination short of Dore's wonderful conceptions of the terrible could guide the brush which would put it upou canvas. The only account of a like disaster which approaches it in its awful sublimity is Charles Iteade's st >ry of the breaking uwayof the liills boro' durn in " l'ut Yourself in His Place." Even tliat account, once ao vivid U> my imagination, is dull and tame to me now—inane, indeed, after seeing what 1 wiw in the chain of vil lages through which 1 sadly and labori ously struggled to reach this sjiot. Yet in many respects the two disasters are wonderfully like. There was the same parh-y tngover the question whether t:.e dam would give way, the same playing with danger till the flood was on its way. George Cheuev, dashing down the narrow defile to \ViUiamsborg, has Ins analogy in Charles Iteade's hero. Ihe disbelief, the fright, the paralysis . f terror which met Cheney nl the vil lage wus the reception that was also accorded the mce-eUger of death of Keatie's imagination. 'lhe analogy did !. '. cease even with this, and Haydena ville is to-day the counterpart of Pom* bridge. Never wire two tales so marveloualy similar. And in the one cu-e as in* the other the mud water* were tijHin the ojwrativea before their dull senle of the awful danger enabled mariT of them to comprehend the im pending d ■ ctcr and to escape from it. Williamsburg had ten minute* to pre pare, and Williamsburg mourn* stx'y d id. llaydeusville hsid four minute*, and it gave forty victims to the flood. I, • da ha 1 only two minutes, snd fifty lifeless forms were buried in the debrt-s dashed against the hillsides, si.d strewn over the meadows above Florence. Tin; sci-ne or DEftonxriov. On the spt where I stand I can see the black bed of the reservoir, the abutments wtiieh remain of the broken dam. and the wild gorge through which the waters rushed on their way to the villages which stretch before me in the misty distance. Though called by dif ferent names they are, in fact, ouc town —a chain of village# stretching all the way fr m Northampton to Williams burg, nt the opening of the g'Tgc. Much of the latter place still reruaius, the t wn hall being the middle of a hamlet left untouched by the waters. Smiling over it in the sunlight I saw tno village cemetery, its green sward yawning with opening graves. A little iartlu r t-> the east, and closely hugging the eastern hit!#, the work of death and desolation begun. Here the bed of the stream i h-st, and for a mile below the waters percolate in 1,000 rill* through a* many channel* till they come togeth er again just above llaydeusville. The roadbed i* gone, and for two data long lin- * of vehicles have been slowly find ing their way through the submerged meadow# where the mill* and dwelling* stood. The depot i* a mile ludow, and all above it is a waste. On Saturday the" valley vwi impassable above the depot. There is no highway even now, and a good road will bo the work of year#. The sites of the house# and mills, as well as thu buildings, have disappeared. Surveys based tijion old title deeds will bo necessary to deter mine what is whose, and where the old landmarks were. Maps nre of no use to a visitor like me, for where 1 see houses marked on the page I behold only desolation iu the valley. Here is a house toppled over on its side, but whore it was or whence it came 1 know not. There is a structure tossed nlxnit by the flood till it was left with the roof oil the ground. Hut most of the build ings murkt d on the map have not only disappeared, but all traces of them are gone. Their fragments strew the earth all the way down the valley, and the Connecticut bos carried much of the debris out to the sea. THE FORCE OP THE WATERS. And oven the Mirth, the ground, tho hank* or the conglomerate masses which pans for these are difficult of roeogni lion in tho elements which constitute them. (front rolls of cloth are inter woven with tho debris and tho aoil. Buttons nnd instruments of brass and iron nnd steam boilers nud brick and stone nnd parts of buildings and rem nants of household furniture are st rewn about indiscriminately. Everything is everywhere and uothing can Im> found. In coming up to my mount of vantage my earringe wheels passed over a beaten and battered " waiter"—it may have been of silver for all I know. A little further on they ground into fragments a triangular piece of marble from some fine lady's dressing easo. Ah I stand here I look down upon this fearful scene of desolation, too marvel ous in its audden transformation to de scribe it, too terrible in its inconceiva ble agony to picture or portray it. As far as the eye eau reach, the story of waste, of devastation nnd death is ouly varied now and then by an incident a little more terrible than the others or some mad work of destruction a little moro conspicuously frightful than the rest. The face of nature has complete ly changed in this once happy and smil ing valley, anil every scene reflects tho sorrow around it. And the rains which poured down all day long, have made this theatre of death even ghastlier than it was before. With the full un tight it was ghastly enough without tho sombre shades of this fretful day. _ I cannot now attempt to recount tho dis asters, beginning with the wife and daughter of Livingstone Burlett, who were the first to fall victims to tho fiood, and ending, perhaps, with tho little boy whose bodv I saw dragged out from the meadows below Leeds. IUTDBKBTIUJL I poinh d a moment ago to Haydens ville as the I'otua Bridge of (diaries Reade's story. It la the village iu tha centre of the valley. Immediately be low it ts Leeds ; above tt is Williams burg. It was a beautiful village. William Skinner's silk mill, which was just below the Williamsburg depot, marked the dividing line betwesn it and its neighbor village. The mill is goiio to the last brick, and the elegant mansion of its proprietor is the ahst tered monument of what this man had wrought.. Tho ojwratives at tlrat re garded the stry of the oomiug (loud us a joke, aud it was not until the mill and many houses near it were swept away not until the flood had come and almost gone that they awoke to the terrible reality. Onward swept the waters, and the mill of llaydeit, Gere A Chi. was also : swept away, utid with it the savings baiiL, where some foolhardy |M-ople hiul ensconced themselves to witness and watch the flood. At this point the, river was walled with solid masonry, but the walls were uprooted and the huge stones which colnpoaed them Were tossed about like so uiauy pebbles | dropfied iuto an eddying current. On the high ground above is the house of Joel Hay deli, built by the late Governor llayden, where the boiler from the mill now lies on the lawn. Other residences equally elegant stand iu a line with it, and though they remain, every tree ill front of them which was not swept awav is imbedded in immense masses of debris where, iw-rhaps, some of the undiscovered bodies are buried. On the other side of the river the banks were uot so high, and nearly everything went with the tl >od, a line of rubbish on the billai.h marking the height which the water# reached. And ao rolled the flood on through Leeds, oun tiuuiug ita woik of destruction till its force was Weakened in the meadows above Florence. Thus weakened, on and on it went till the Connecticut ' swallowed it and all that came with it, calmly vanquishing what a moment be fore had been a giant. My imagination has been so inueh impressed by what I witnessed coming her—the desolated valley, the ruined buildings, the houses tilled with the dead, the vehicles bear- ; iug the disfigured laaliesof the victims, the possibilities of almost impossible revelations of disaster and death—that 1 cannot overlook the scene npon which my < tea have rested without emotions which come to few men in the couiae of a long lifetime. This is no ordinary scent, even to one who liaa seen death in every shape. It is worse thau a bat tle field where the carnage has been terrible, for lu re most of the victim.* have been women and children, too ; weak to run from the death that over took thein. It was an overwhelming torrent, rushing through a |H*aocful val ley and allowing itself a messenger of destruction, which claimed first of all what was choicest and best. That vol ley, once noted for its industry, and now historic from iva calamity, is before me, atul it* woo# may be seen wherever the eyes chance to r st_ Williamsburg, llaydeusville, Leeds are tbe names of one common misfortune which could not have hap|M*ued if n few men, con sidered the safest and best in the com munity, had guarded as carefully their own interest# and the lives of their operative* aa they had shrewdly car Ted fortune# ont of nothing. Torcauto nrctDNm And, again, the disaster was full of incidents, it con'id uot be otherwise where the story of every victim *m a tragedy scarcely less terrible than the eritiiea'of the French Revolution. The account of Henry Tilton bearing hi# mother and his little sen to a place of safety, but escaping, while both of those he loved were swept away, i# more pathetic thau Virgil's legend of .Eneas (•earing Anchises upon his shoulder* from ruined Troy—more dramatic than Henry Initio's struggle with the Hills bc.ro' flood for tbe safety of Grace Car den. But in the next breath we are told that a cow floated down from Williams burg to Florence, and escaped with only a broken horn. Poet never wrote anything finer in conception or troer to the grand and overpowering impulses of a toother's he art and a mother s love than i* contained in the l*ucut of the p H.r Irish woman who 1 '. her husband but saved her crippled child only to lose him also by a subsequent accideut which befell bitn wlulo they were War ing him to a phiee of safety. "Oh 1" cried she, " that I should livo to sec this night! An" the l>oy cried to me, ' Sure you won't leave me, mother, to lie carried iu the flood !' an' I rnshed and snatched him ont of bed, and got out between the houses, and, a# God hears me, I couldn't get farther, an' I stood there, an* the boy in my arm*, an' the water going over me. And I was Knocked from hero wid a timber that hit me on my leg and again in the breast, but I'm alive and I saved the Inly, but he'll die the mornin', an' the man's gone. Edward's gone ! Oh, but for the rainy morning, he'd been here at work and' saved ! Ob, my darling, i my darling. God help ns 1" Na lieu, save Victor lingo's, flashed with describing llio horrors of La Ven dee', can adequately describe this disas ter. Among calamities it is epic in all it# phases. I can only survey the field over which the mad water# rushed in their fury and think that if I had time ; to collect all my thoughts and oppor tunity to select the fittest words for telling all I have heard 1 might unfold a chapter which other men would read with feelings akin to my own. Sluicing llim Down. A lady had gone to visit a young conple of the better class of the poor. The husband being a stoker on a rail way, they were above the reach of want. The visitor thought they might go to church on Sundays, and she said so to tho young wife. " Will yon please walk in till I show yon something ?" was the woman's an swer, and hlio conducted her visitor to tho littlo kitchen, where her husband sat by tho fire. He had just come homo for half an hour to have his tea. He was, of course, in his working clothes, and his face and hands were of a deep, oily black, after flic maimer of stokers. " Now, ina'am," mud tbe woman, "you see that there man. That's my hus band ; and I'm bound to do a part by him, ain't 1 ?" "Surely," said the visitor, anxious to uphold the duties of matrimony. " Very well, then. 1 pass my Run days a-wsahing of he ! Never a blessed moment hua ho to wash himself through the week—out early and late, and half the night, too, and blacker nor any crow nil tho while. Well, on Sundays it is fitting and proper that he should try to leok like a Christian, if he can, so* ho sets mo to it after we cat our breakfast, with a bucketful of soapsuds and a scrubbing-brush, and I rubs at him ofT and ou all day, till my arms ache, and he ain't much better than he wor ; and then after we has onr tea he says to me—' Come, Sally, have another try—there's a bravo woman,' and I goes at him nguin, and sluices him down till you'd think a born nigger 'ud come out white, and, if you'd believe me, ma'am, when I polishes him oflf with a dry towel afore ho goes to bed, he'B only a light brown after all 1" Porms: S'-i.OO a Year, in Advance. HYDROPHOBIA AT WHOLESALE. M list a Io Old IM l'kls>(* TWlrtcsu I'titnui I niter Wtnlrnrs at IZeallt- Twa of lit• Victims Already Head. About nine days ago a rabul dog was killed ou Htar street, after he had bitten thirteen persons. One of the victims, named Frank Becker, thirteen years old, who ramded with his parents on Orchard str. et, died about two weeks ago in the moat intense agony. During the boy'a sickness Herman Van derbaach, a sewing machine ageut, liv ing and doing business at No. &81 I.ar rabee street, who had also been bitten by tho same dog. Went to See him. lie took groat interest in the case, and aaid, upon his return home, after Becker's death, "That ia tha way I •hall go shortly." Ho was greatly hor rified, and, t-ing a Catholic, commen ced to make his peace with God, and to prepare for death. ' His fate seemed to occupy his mind continually to the exclusion of all other subjects, although he attended to his business up to about a week ago, when ho manifested de cided symptoms of hydrophobia, and took to his bed. A short time previous to this Vanderbaaoh had expressed a de sire to visit St. Hubert, iu Belgium, where the Catholics have a superstiti ous belief that the hydrophobia can be cured by a touch from any of the sur rouudings ; but he could not raise the neceaaary amount of money to make the journey. lie became a prey to the most morbid imagination, aud at the lime of taking his bed he was so wrought up with excitement thst he could not bear even the indirect men tiou of water. When it became necessary for him to tin oh he would instruct hie family to bring him a cup of water, and would turn hia back to them while he t<>nk it from behind, and then abutting his eyea, he would swallow the fluid at a gulp. (Strangulation would immedi ately follow, and in the retching* he would apit blood from hi* lunga. At these times he would caution hia friends to keep out of his way, and would uae the utmost care to turn his head that the saliva might not come in ooulact with their persons. He retained his oonaciouaness up to the day of his death, except when the paroxysms were upon him, and he would l-g his people to tie him eo he eould j not injure them. This was done before the physicians were sent for. The "patient was visited by Dr. D. L. Bcbeppera, who called in council Dr*. Fierce., Uirieb, Greiger and Miller. On Friday night the patient grew alarm ingly worse, and a straight-jacket was put upon him, confining his limbs and rendering him harm less. Soothing medicines were administered, but noth ing could lie done to slleviate his suf ferings. On Fridsv afternoon an old priest called to ace and gave him a relic from St. Hubert, whicu bo had brought from there twoyearaago, bear ing the Hope's seal and certificate,writ ten in Latin, that the charm was gen uine, and the poor fellow fondly be lieved that the magical piece of brass would oerlaiuly cure him. This bad the effect of calming him down till toward night, and he clung to it with the grasp of despair. Hut imagination coupled with the poisonous- iufluence of the saliva inoculated into hia system, had done it* work beyond all hopes of [ reparation, and the victim died at half past one o'clock on Sunday morning in the must terrible writhing* of agony. The .'orm of death was verv much ths same aa that of asphyxia, the disease appearing to be in hia throat and cheat. A post-mortem examination of his heart, lunga, liver and stomach was made by Dr. Seheppers, with the per mission of the widow, and the lungs were lound congested in nearly every lobe. The heart was found nearly sound, no clots of blood being diacerni ble, though a few punctures were visi ble. The liver was perfectly sound and the stomach was entirely empty. The most important part of the subject was | left unexamined—the brain. Had that ; been exposed, in all probability it would have been fouud to be in a high stato of congestion also; but it was only with persistent urging that the family of deceased could be induced to give their consent to the examination of the lungs, snd the doctor was forced to re main in ignorance as to the 6tate of the brain and also of the bowels. Aa the form of the dead man IST in it# j coffin it prt sen ted a most horrible spec tacle. Ihe eyes were staring, as they 1 had I icon before bis death, the pnpila dilated to the ntmoat capacity, the hands clinched and the limbs cramped. 1 )eceascd was a Hollander, forty-two rears of age. and leaves a wife and four children to mourn his loss. He was alwars very temperate iu hi* hahita UH within the'last ten days, when he took to drinking, as he said, to forget the great trou< le. There is not the shadow of a doubt that imagination waa the chief cause of his death at this time, though the poison which was in stilled into his system might have woke into activity at any other time. ne had felt no effects of the bite until he witnessed the sufferings and death of the boy Becker, and then it wonld seem he worried himself into the same con dition, and the excitement brought on congestion of ths lungs and brain. There are eleven persons who were bitten at the time by the same dog, and it is possible that all mar share a similar fate with Becker and Vander baseh, nnlesa they let their good sense triumph oTer their supetstitious imagi nation. It has been said that a French physician of Taris discovered that Rus sian or vspor baths were almost a sure cure for this disease, if taken before congestion is brought on. The poor victims of the rabid animal will donbt less leave no rock unturned till they have found the mad stone which will heal them of their malady.— Chicago Paprr. A Clerical Emetic. It is not often that a prisoner i brought to trial npon the charge laid against Father Bareuins, when be ap peared before tbe tribunal at Treviglio, in Lombardy. This worthyecelesiasfio was accused, says the A til Mall (Ja zcttr, of putting a strong emetic into tho wino which some of his brother priests were about to use in the cele bration of mass, and his only defense was that he wanted to play a practical joke upon two of them who had recent ly come to Treviglio. They belonged to an opjiosite school of theology, and Father Baronius, who seemed surprised that his application of emetics to reli gion should have caused so great a scandal, thought that if he could not convert them he might at least punish them. It would have been useless for him to have denied the main facts of the accusation, as the dose was so strong that ono of the victims was ill for a week, while tho doctors at Tre viglio, possessing but a very elementary knowledge of the healing art, thought that lie had been poisoned, and sub mitted him to so severe a diet that he was reduced to a skeleton. The offend ing priest was charged npon the double count of misdemeanor and sacrilege, and was senteuoed to seven months' im prisonment. The entire population of Australia is estimated at '2,000,000. The island oontinent has an area almost as large as the whole of Europe. NO. 23. Village Libraries. A correspondent of the N. Y. 7W hunt gives the plan adopted in a certain place where she once lived by whioh a library of Iretween "00 and 800 volumes was accumulated. Each person inter ested gave ft a year or more aa he waa able, aud us the community wits scat tered over wauy miles the books pur chased were changed on Mondays when the member* of tlie association came to church. Que afternoon during the week a young lady waa at ths library to hmd to such as were not members who, for the trifling sum of six cents a vol ume, were allowed the privilege of keep ing a book for one week. In a town not far from New York City there ia a library well selected sad comprising several hundred volumes, the nucleus of which was procured by the profits of a very successful fair. Members pay $1.50 annually and with the income from this source the library is kept in fair condition. Within the la hi ten years, however, the liquor sa loons in the place alluded to have in rrested very rapidly, and the library has lost its power in proportion. It stands to reason that in a town of 3,000 inhabitants liquors cannot be sold in 70 different places and love of litera ture remain in the ascendant. In view of that fact we recommend that in front of the village library be placed a fount ain. if possible of ioe water, so that aoula thirsty in a double sense may not find the'maelvea divided in inclina tion between haunts of inspiration and of degradation. A very flourishing Western town in Illinois has a charming and ample library, the result of tlie la bors of its prominent women. Kvtfry spring and fall the members present flowers aud fruit in their season or con tribute the results of their industry in paintings, drawing*, articles of needle work, plain and fancy—all of which arc sold, and the moneys received go to swell the library fund. The frequent ers of this delightful retreat from oare find on the table all tlie magazines and new spapers of the day, and on the well filled shelves whatever their literary tastes may call for. Those who are about to move in this matter will be glad to know that pub lisher* make liberal disoonnt* from their regular prices when books sold arc to be placed in public libraries. The Harriers deduct 25 per cent, and other publisher* are probably not less liber al. The best course of proceeding would be for a committee of purchase to procure the catalogues of the promi nent publishing-houses in oar large cities, and make out such a list of books as will meet their wants or consume their funds, and either order the whole from some large jobbing house, sa Ap pleton's of New York or Lippinoott's of Philadelphia; or if they order di rectly from the publishers, have all the different orders expressed from one job bing house to save expense. Magazines and newspapers can be procured at a reduction from the regu lar prices by arrangements mode with the publishers thereof. We shall be glad to lay before our readers any sug gestions deprived from the observation and experience of tboee who have had a part in organizing and conducting these fountains of intelligence and vir tue. In the multitude of counselors there is wisdom. Wheel Velocities. The only limit to the number of revolutions which a wheel maybe made to make in a given time is the tensile strength of the material* of which the wheel is made, and ita consequent powei to resist the centrifugal force which tend* to rend it asunder. Savart, in hia experimenta on the theqnr of sound, made wheels to revolve from one thousand to two thousand timet per miunte: but this baa been sur passed by Foncait, who invented an apparatus tor measuring the velocity of light, to which a small wheel with a mirror waa attached, which might be made to revolve oiler." The preaent year m noted abroad for the large number of public buildings that hate been destroyed by fire. ' It ia aUted that over 500,000 Cirou aiana havo emigrated to Turkey ainoo the conquest of their territory by Uua aia waa completed. A large coal merchant in England, who ia a teetotaller, decline# all order* from brewera or distillers, for fuel to be used in their business. There are said to be about 1,800 mi lea of narrow gango railroad in tlie United Htate* and t'anada, and over 1,200 miles in process of construction. A Freneb wit aaid of a man who waa exceedingly fat that nature only made liim to show bow far the hnman akin would stretch without breaking. It ia aaid that the farmer* in the eaat of England, where a general lock-out of the laborer* baa taken place, propose to import farm hands from Belgium. Pern thinks alie will be able to pay off all her debts aud have a handsome sur plus out of the rich guano depoaita which she ia now known to poeaesa. Beginning of a Judge's charge in lowa : "Gentlemen of the Jury, you must now quit eating peanuts and at tend to the case," If forty rods make one rood, bow many will make one polite ? If twelve dozen make a gross, how many will make a grocer " Kissing your sweetheart," ssys s trifling young man, "is like eating aonp with a fork ; it taken a loag time to get enough." Another remedy has been discovered for rheumatism tn London. It is a hot sand bath. This makes 7,348 remedies —ail infallible! A young lady in IndiAola, lowa, hav ing contracted a bill of sl2 for chewing gum, her on reasonable peps refuses to liquidate the same. It ia suggested by a merchant who, we fear has a stock of the article on hand, that gunny-doth is a very appro {.riato material for artillery men's uni orraa. The only responsibilities which s weak mu ever accept* are responsibili ties which can be perpetually pointed out to him as testing exdnaively on his own shoulders. Petroleum has gone down to sl.2s per barrel in the Pennsylvania oil re gions, with prospects of going atill lower. Immense quantities are being shipped abroad. Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in on advanced age; and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade * when we grow old. The most trying circumstances under which a boy can be placed is when an other boy'in the alley ia winking at him, and hie father is offering him a nickel to carry in a pile of wood. The favorite method in which the President of a Board of Alderman in s Hudson River town pate a question, is m follows : " All ye that are opposed to the motion will aay aye—it s car ried." Wild coffee bushes are plentiful in Amador and other counties of Califor nia. The berries are known to the set tler* as " eat berries," but are ia every respect similar to the ooffee of com merce. A Dublin journal observe* that a hand bill-announcement of a political meeting in that city states, with bound less liberality, that the " ladies, with out distinction of sex, are cordially in vited to attend." " VHir don't yon give us a little Greek and Latin occasionally ?" asked a eonntrv deacon to a new minuter. " Whv, do yon understand those lan guage's r* "No ; but we pay for the beet, and we ought to have it. ' A prospective mother-in-law np in Maine, joined issue with a young man who declined to fulfill bia marriage en gagement with her daughter. When she got through with him, there was no longer any breeches of promise. Landlord Keith, of Silica, was ones notified ly s gentleman to please re serve him a seat at the table by tipping np a chair, which he did. When the train stopped for sapper a rush was made for tne tabl-, uu soon all were seated except a good-sized Dutchman, who was about taking the reserved seat, when -Mr. Keith told him that it waa reserved for a gentleman. He replied: " Mine friend, be lias come." An Accident Did It. Mrs. East, the wife of an English paper maker, is aaid to have been the first producer of bine tinted writing paper. Going among the vats while the workmen were away for their dinner boor, she let a blue-bag fall into one of them, and horrified at the mischief she had done, aaid not a word about the matter. The spoiled paper was hidden away in his warehouse by the angry paper maker for fonr years ; then he sent it to his London agent to be sold for what it would fetch. The novelty was admired, and the agent not only sold the whole stock f blue paper at a high price, but asked for more. Then Mrs. East unbosomed herself, claiming a new cloak as the reward for her for tunate earelcsness, and her husband waa enabled for a while to reap a rich . harvest, until the demand became so great that other makers devised means far the same end, and manufactured blue paper as a matter of course. Even those now neoewsnry utilities, envelopes, originated accidentally. A Brighton stationer took a fancy for dressing his window with pilee of writing paper, rising gradually from the largest to the smallest aixe in use, and to finish his pvramids off nioelv, he cut cards to bring them to a point Taking these cards for diminutive note paper, lady customers were continually wanting some of ** that dear little paper," and the stationer found it advantageous to cut some paper to the desired pattern. But then there was no space for address ing the notelets when they were folded ; and after much cogitation, he invented the envelope, which he cut with the aid of metal plates made for the purpose. The sale increased so rapidly that he waa unable to produce his envelopes fast enough; so he commissioned a dozen houses to make them for him, and thus set going an important branch of the manufacturing stationery trade. HiQts on Education, In Bavaria the law is less intent on the time spent by boys and girls in school than in insisting that a certain amount of the proper results of actual learning shall be actually attained. It insists that both at the age of 16 shall be examined, and if they do not pass satisfactorily they must Ve sent back again to school. In Prussia education is compulsory, the peri oil beginning for boys at eight years and for girls at sev en. The N. Y. Legislature has also passed a like law, wnich the Governor has approved. The late Edward Everett condensed into a Bingle brief paragraph his esti mation of what constituted a good edu cation. Here it is: "To read the English language well, to write with dispatch a neat, legible hand, and be master of the first four rules of arith metic, BO as to dispose of at ouce, with accuracy, every question of figures which obmes up in practice—l call this a good education. And if you add the ability to write pure grammatical Eng lish, t regard it as an excellent educa tion. These are the tools. Yon can do much with them, but you are hopeless without them. They are the founda tion ; and unless you begin with these, all your fiasby attainments, a little geology, and all other ologies and oso phies, are ostentations rubbish." This description of a well educated man is like Stanton's sketch of a good soldier: " It is not the gun, but the muu behind the gun."