f A PUtion to Tim., Touch u* gently. Time 1 Let u* glide adown thy *tre*ra Gently —a. we sometime* glide Through a quiet dre*ra ! Rumble voyager* are we. Husband, wife, and children three (One is lout an angel, fled To the azure. overbeawful at the timehe died, poor man, before the governor did ; and then I had my dinner on, and the soup was a-burnin ." Thomas Y'aro was half up the street before Deborah had finished, and had reached tho register's office. Yes, Emily's will was recorded ; this wae written a year after the other. Then the poor soul traveled back on his recollections, and he saw, here and there, the figure of that stately man, who had been his father; he recog nized, here and there, that he must have secretly helped him from time to time; he remembered, too, that he had not helped when help might have raved Mary, and his soul swelled with bitterness. But, in the hours that death waited for the governor, he had paid this tardy debt to conscience. He had laid the paper in the old book, he had sent Thomas Yarn to the library, and he had left the reßt to chance. Miserable, vnlgar fraction of conscience money I Miserable playing with justice ! Governor Hammond, like many a dignified gentleman, uncovered his real character in bis will, and show- Ad the mean and poor thing which a fine appearance had draped and orna mented. Thomas Yarn went to Mary's grave and considered. He saw from that humble spot Governor Hammond's tall Corinthian column gleam through the trees. He thought of the change it would make in the village treatment if he announced the fact. The tavern window would cease to be his post of observation ; he would sit of an even ing on that brpad piazza where Miss Margaret and Emily received their guests : it would be his own I Ce would beoom# a man of fortune, K1 \ 151 X K I 1 \TZ, 1 Alitor uul 1 'roprit'loi VOL. VII. a power iu tho at*to. Ho looked down at hia garments. It ovou (wnrml to him that ho should haw a n.w suit of clothes ; but, us these atrv visions floatod Mom him. ho lookod agaiu in tho grass at tho stouo, and road : " MARY, WIKK TO THOMAS TAt.N, OIKII SKITKMRKIi 2.H, 1835, AOKO 22,'JL and ho decided that ho did uot waut fortune, famo, conseoueuoe, enough to take it away from Emily, his child* friend. She, nest to Mary, was tho thiug dear to Thomas Yarn. titter ho determined to buru the will, but ho did not. Ho even Knight a piece of oil silk, and carefully folded it arouud the paper lsjfore returning it to hia ragged pocket. Sometimes, when he was particularly forlorn, ho would take it out and read it, and become a rich mau f.r a few hours ; then Emily's laugh would resound through the house, or he would see her, gay and triumphant, driving off to picnics and to sleigh-rides, the successful young heiress and belle i f Moasbrook, and he would fold it awsv. Thomas Yarn watched with a jealous eve the men who approached lluuly, alii he saw to his sorrow that she be wail to blnsh aud look down when Horace Frazier came near her. It be gan to be village talk that there was to be an engagement. Now, Horace Fraaier had oouie to Mossbrook to study law ; he was not of the town. Perhaoa he brought some foreign graces witn him ; he was hand some, dressed well, aud had fascinating manners. But the tavern, in this in stance, had become an important post of observation, and Thomas Yam knew of nights passed in gambling, of drunk en bouts, of the grime and degradation of a dissolnto life. Yet what conld he sav or do ? What headway make against this young and clever man ? Before he had resolved on his course of action, Emily had come into the library, and had anuonuced her en gagement to him. •' O Miss Emily ! don't ! He isn't worthy of yon! He is a gambler, a drunkard, and worse ! Don't love such a man ; don't marry him, I beg of you!" burst from poor Thomas Yarn's lips. To describe Emily's indignation would be impossible. The suu in the heavens was not more illustrious than Horace Frarier in her eyes. To attack him—and to her ! She swept out of the library, after a vigorous denunciation, and Aunt Mar garet swept in. It had been a part ef Horace Fratier's policy (graceful good for-nothing) to win the older woman first, aud she had but to hear the dread ful news of the attack to rash to the battlements and mow down Thomas Yarn with a well-directed volley. " I hear that yon dare, Mr. Yam, to insnlt my niece, and to assail the char acter of her intended husband—yon, Mr. Yarn ! Who are you ? Why my relative, Governor Hammond, descend ed so far as to mention yon in his will, I never conld understand. Yon, sloth ful, dirty, poor, mean, insignificant— your dare to speak of a gentleman—a well-dressed gentleman like Mr. Fraz ier ? Leave this house, Mr. Y'arn (yon never ought to be allowed to come into it), and never let these eyes behold you again ! Miss Margaret held out a thin fore finger as she spoke, like a third-rate lady Macbeth. Thomai Yam rose slowly and walked out; yet, as he passed her, he fired one Parthian ar row. " I will savs Emily yet," said he. "Go, base creature !" said Miss Mar garet, furionslv. When Mr. Crazier came to tea that evening, both ladies received him with greater tenderness than ever. His waisiooat was very perfect ; his necktie and conversation delightful; he was a handsome fellow, and in love. They did net tell him how cruelly he had been slandered. Thomas Y'arn watched him for a few weeks, hoping that love might make a better man of him ; bnt no, it did not The play went on ; the drinking-bouts continued ; even Emily began to see some signs which troubled her, but, womanlike, she only loved him better. That he made her heart tremble and ache was part of the agitation of the period. Then Thomas Y'arn took a deter mination. He went to Jndge Suther land's office, and had a private consul tation with that eminent jurist ; and the next night, as Horace Frazier came np the tavern-steps, fresh from his courting and fresh from Emily's sweet presence, on his way to the card-room, Thomas Y'arn stopped him. "Mr. Frazier, Jndge Sutherland de sires to see you in Number 17, if yon please." Frazier sullenly turned toward the room. He was a student in the Judge's office, and expected he knew not what in the shape of a reprimand. Ha was surprised and offended when Y'arn entered the room and locked the door. Judge Sutherland's dignified pres ence, however, ailenced him, and he seated himself, awaiting the revela tion. " Mr. Frazier, we are about to make a confidence to you, and, as a man of honor, I ask you to give me yonr prom ise that you will not reveal it." " Certainly, sir, I give you my word." " It deeply concerns yon, as I under stand that yon are to marry Miss Ham mond ; it deeply concerns me, as I am one of the trustees of her supposed estate ; it deeply concerns Mr. Y'arn, as he is the real owner of the estate. Ilere is £ will, which you shall read ; it is a perfectly legal document, although not registered. One of the witnesses to the sigoatnre is still living. Of the con tents of the will I am not ignorant, having been consulted as to its form. I have also known for many years, as a professional secret, that Mr. Yarn was a natural son of Governor Hammond ; but I had supposed that my old friend had abandoned his project of making this will. Here It is, and in my opinion it will stand.'* Horaoe Frazier read the paper with attention. It was ruin to bim, and he looked it; but he said nothing. Once he turned and gave Thomas Yam a searching, contemptuous, and almost amused look. " You are a good-looking fellow to turn a young lady out of her property I" said he coarsely. Thomas Yarn did not answer. Judge Sutherland did. "No abuse, Mr. Frazier. Mr. Yarn is treating you most honorably. He is not ready to make this will public just yet, but he wishes you to know of it, in order that you may not be disappointed in regard to your future wife's property. If you love her well enough to marry her, a penniless girl such as she is, that, of course, is a matter into which I shall not enter. But it is onr duty to let you know that Mr. Yarn will, in the event of your marriage, produce this will, and proceed to claim liis property"—and the judge pushed up his glasses. Horace Frazier was stunned, as well he might be. Judge Sutherland was a dry, convincing sort of terrible man ; what he said must be true. "Do you think, Judge Sutherland, that Mr, Yarn has any ohance of sme ws T" "It mtv be enough to say to you THE CENTRE REPORTER. ! that I have advised him to try," said | th< judge, drylr. Yea, tii*t vu quite enough for j Horace Frasior. 110 loved Eaitly, iu hi* British way, fur he rue l( ; but ho wan not the man to do a generous deed, ami take hor without a penny. Emily nu hriias was quite another thuig from Emily peumieNa. Thomas Yarn had ! not mistakon his mau. Ho left town very shortly after, and wrote a few very lover-like letters. Then he went through the usual pro cess of pretended jealousy, coldness, and neglect ; then writing her that, aa ho know ho was not worthy .f her, ho must beg that their engagement might come to an end. He had told tho truth for ouee. Ho was not worthy of her. But it took Eoiilv some time to see that km s young dream can havo.au end. Bhe went through tho usual de luaiona ; thought he still loved her, and that somo eueuiy had done this thing. The leaf of music which fluttered off tho piano in tho evening breeze brought back tho hour when ho had grace fully stooped to pick it up for hor ; tho dow ers about the piazza still breathed of him ; the west wind brought her his whispered vows ; the moonlight seemed but to cast shadows which might bo hia. It was hard to accept life without him. Emily had never met pain be fore ; it came with its usual intensity to the young and stroug. She sought to escape it, to believe iu him, to for give him ; and she would have douo so to tho day of hor death had uot a news paper fallen iuto her hand with tho news of his marriage yes, so aoou, too ! Ah, Horace, you might have waited ! Tremblingly old Thomas looked on the surgical operation which he had performed ; sadly he watched the pale cheek and the dejected attitude as she sat, cnce again his silent companion in the old library. Ho would huve given all the fortune that he had not had, twice over, to hear her langh ; bnt it was too late. Conld he have foreseen this, he weald not have frightened Horace Frazier away. But, before a year had passed, the healthv and pros perous youug girl begun to recover from her Leart-break. The same tem perament which had induced her to throw " Thaddens of Warsaw " half across the room, in her excitement at its rapidly-changing tone of joy and despair, came to her rescue, the un mitigated worthlessuess of her late lov er's character twigan to come to her, al though she did not know the half. That knowledge sometimes is good medicine for a heart diseased. Aunt Margaret, too, was as violently dftillu tionte as could lie desired; but she never forgave Thomas Yam, nor invited him to the edge of a chair, forever mors, in her d nor mau, ami in as many cases would as plainly show the evils of intemperance and the con stant iiutuiueiit danger of loss of life. It is not a difficult task to follow iu imagination the footsteps of an intend ing suicide. The horrible state of mind iu which the uufortuuate mau or woman, as the case might be, was goaded into frenzy must have been worse far thau the most crflel bodily suffering that can.be supposed. Be suicide a cowardly act or not under any conceivable circum stances—even supposing that in certain contingencies it oould be considered as exhibitiug some shars of courage still, when the time draws nigh for the destruction of one's self, for the leaving behind even of every sorrowful recol lection of a passing honr of sunshine, the relief of ihe river cover* over an unknown something which it is appall ing to contemplate. There mti-t needs be urnin dreadful grief breaking the heart iu the case of (IVITT suicide. The proud man broken down, discarded by old companions ; the unfortunate merchant who dreads the inevitable exposure ; even the ridiculous lover, who thinks life is worth nothing because ho can't marry some particular yonug lady, each has so heavy a load to boar that despair seises him and death becomes prefer able to life. But the few last hours of all of them, while thev are creeping toward the water, looking at it and dreading it, but still irresistibly at tracted to its calm and certain depth, must be that agony beyond endurance, iu which the doom of the sickened soul is sealed. A more tender spectacle is only too often to be seen in the suicide o' the young girl who is lost to the world iu the betrayal from wbick she is suffer ing. Want, destitution, no friends, no home, no hope ; sorrow, pain aud de spair, all hers. Hko may have striven fully in the consciousness of her secret to do s little ; but what she lacks her self she gets nobody to supply, and with the tirat evidence of the shame that is upon her, she is Boomed, never pitied. So she creeps to the river,and. when all is silent on the dock, throws herself in, aud next day there is the usual announcement that, at such a place.a young female was found drown ed, dressed in such and sueh a wav, who si-enuxl to have been very lieauti ful. Everybody knows this, and still how few ever think of turning the vonug woman'a face front the grave. 'The charitable people are all in a state of pitv when they hear her description given as a tenant of the Morgne. At times we have the dead body of an unknown man or au uuknowu woman fouud drowned, and there are sueh marks upon it that those who fiud it whis|>er that there was foul play. The laxly i* taken to the Morgue, the coroner notified, a pxf-morfem held, and. whatever may be the suspicion, there is still uo absolute evidence to show that these might not have been accidental marks. But even the sus picion suggests the scene. What a fearful cry for help that must have leen from the boat out in the middle of the river, where three to one the at tack was made, and the terror of im mediate death first horrified the doomed man. How he struggled against the iron grasp that bent his head under the water and held it there till they thought he was dead ! What a qnick, distorted vision tne drownsiig man had of those he loved and thus was parted from forever ! As the boat moved away the murderers would not look st each other in the face, though they would all fain be surer still that the drowned man could not rise up from tho water and charge them with the deed. Next day, or within a few days, the bodv floats to a pier and is picked tip. The police are summoned, and from the station house word is sent to Police Head qnnrteis, thence to Mr. Kellogg, who sends an ambulance, and the body is taken to the Morgne, where it ia regis tered as " Found drowned." Iu New York alone an average of over one hundred bodies sro taken from the harbor and rivers and to tho Morgue. This yesr the record thns far shows that over 150 men, women and children have BO met death. Many of these bodies are unrecognized and go to the Potter's Field unknown. To t'aa Fro It. Use onlv fresh fruit, and that which is perfectly ripe—not too soft, just right to eat well ; fill your can full of fruit; put the cau in a vessel of cold water ; put a few iron rings in the bot tom of the vessel to prevent breaking, then put over a slow fire at first, then making it hotter after the water has be come not. 100 great a heat at first will surely crack tho cans at the bottom. Meanwhile make a nice syrup of white sugar, and when your fruit is half done cooking, ponr the syrup over the fruit in tho cans, and continue boil ing until done. Remove from tho fire and seal immediately. Some prefer cooking their fruit before putting it in cans, bnt in my estimation it does not preserve its natural flavor as well, neither will the syrup bo perfectly clear. Cooking the fruit in cans is tho proper way of canning fruit. I use half a pound of sugar to a quart jar of fruit. Cherries,peaches,pears and raspberries will do with six ounces of sugar. Cook quart jars twenty to thirty minutes, ac cording to tho ripeness of the fruit. Keep watch of your cans while boiling, and as fast ns the fruit lowers in the cans, fill up with well-ripened fruit. Next morning test your jars ; if the cover will not boar np the weight of tho can, boil over again. In ten days from the time of canning, test your fruit again, and if it holds, then it will keep for years. By this process, you will never bo awakened in the night time by a lond report as of a gun, as I have heard of some people experienc ing, and perhaps breaking some half dozen cans near it. Keep your cans in a cool bat not damp place. ECONOMY. The most economical governor ia tho Goveruorof Wisconsin, {'he Chief Justioe of that Common wealth rendered a decision some weeks ago, in the railroad cases, whieh was thought the most important decision that was ever rendered in that State. Bnt the Governor sent a message to the Oiiief Justice requesting him to cut down his opinion to about one-third or one-half its present length, Veoause it will eost too aush to print ft, TIIE MONTE KINO. lit r Hint TliiVKb lan •( Trtit kre UUr. i We are gliding through the canyon of I the Truekec river, at night, nine out of I ten of the pasaeugers are doting, when suddenly the door opens, and in with the eold uight come* the queerest apeoi j uien of humanity 1 ever saw. Due side | of the slouched hat is pinned up, and by the lamplight discloses a face that is young and not unhandsome, a pair ! of honest blue eyes, and a good fore | head. The beard is unshorn, however, i the hair unkempt, aud every lineament lof the countenance betruya unuiis ! takahle verdancy. It requires no par ticular knowledge of character to decide that the fellow is a green Misaourian, i fresh from the primitive tuocineta of Pike county. One leg of tiie corduroy pants it stuffed into the top of an old | cowhide boot, l'heae, and the woolen shirt, and the dilapidated visit aud coat, i render hia costume decidedly seedy. As if totally oblivious of the situation aud surroundings, he begins humming in a low, musical voice— •• Away down South in l>me. Away, sway." Keeping time to his weird song, he waltzes with a light, shuffling step the entire length of the ear. and in a twink ling has disappeared. He has molested no our. noticed no one, and yet every body is awake and talkiug about this strange |>croiige. lie has not awaken ed them by his humming song or ahuf ffiug dance so much as by his strange, indescribable tone, mauuer, and oon i duct. The boy on the front seat is ■ convulsed with laughter, the young miss across the aisle giggles with glee, broad smiles overspread the faces of men and matrons, snd the more serious mutter, " Poor fellow 1 he is crazy." Thev sre as nucouscions of the person at whom they have been looking as of the scenery through which thev have lieeu gliding. Ah ! that good wife would scarcely have awakened her drowsy husband to *' look at that fel low " had she imagined for an instant that it was " the terrible Slim Jim," chiefest of the monte sharps. In a lit tle time he returns, aud with the same abstracted air proceeds to walk through the car. Impelled by curiosity, several of us follow him into the nmokiiig-oar. He is surrounded by s group of laugh lug fellows, who are listening to his story. At Truckoe, he said, a lady had stepped tip to the ticket office to buy her ticket, and found that her purse was missing. She had asked him for #4O, stul hal promised to pay him when she got aboaid the train. He let her have the monev, and now hail gone "clean through 1, the ears without find ing her. He told the story in such a droll manner that everybody laughed, even while they pitied the jnair fellow'a loss. He seemed to caru but little, however, for he drew from hia pocket a large leathern bag, fullv eighteen inches in length, tiiat was half full of shining gold pieces. He told how be had been swindled out of some tnonev by the fellows called "uionte sharp*, ' and proceeded to illustrate the manner in which thev fooled him. Believing that he had thoroughly learned the game from the rascals, he offered to bet that no one could tell the ace of diamonds, and in lees than five minute* he lost fctod to well-drraaed gentlemen who stood around, llis hands moved so awkwardly that a child eoald pick out the right card. No man ever saw SIB,OOO placed con veniently within his grasp who was not tempted to covet the lucre. Bo it was with the black-visagcd man who sprang eagerly from bis seat as soon as the greenhorn lwgati losing Iris money. Of all the men in the car this man was the moat perfect villain, if God'# hand writing in hia countenance was not wholly unintelligible. Carried away with the one idea of stealing tlie Mis souriaii's money, the fellow planked down hia cash, hia watch, hia gold chain, and -lost. All this occupied not over ten minutes, including the waltz, the game, and the winuiug. Just as the fellow turned the wrong card, a low wuiatle from ths further end of the ear announced the coming of the conductor. tjnioker than "scat" tho cards dis appeared, tho capj>era aud all hands dropped into their seats, Slim Jim drew his hat down over his eyes, and the victim, after glaring fiercely around for a moment, settled back into his seat in moody silence. The conduc tor entered and iaas<>d slowly through the ear, but not a single hint did he obtain of tho fact that a game hod leen going ou. Hardly had ho left the car !>efor the villainous-looking victim de manded another chance to l>et. From another pocket lie had drawn $2", hi# laatl cent, artd eagerly asked for a "afght." Coolly disregarding hi# im portunities, Slim Jim said, " No, sir ; 1 don't want to break you." In another minnte he had disappeared through the door, dancing and humming, " Away, away." Faith. It is said that one day, wiien Bona parte was reviewing aome troops, the brible of hia horse slipped from his hand, and the horse galloped off. A common soldier ran, and laying hold of the bridle brought back the horse to the Emperor's hand, when he said to the man : " Well done, captain." "Of what regiment, sire?" inquired the soldier. "Of the Guards," answered Napo leon, pleased with his instant belief in his word. The Emperor rode off, the soldier threw down his musket, and though he had no epaulets on his shoulders, no sword by his side, nor any mark of ad vancement, lie ran and joined the staff of commanding officers. They laughed at him and said : " What have yon to do here ?" " I am captain of tho Gnards," he replied. They were amazed, but he said : "The Emperor lias said so, and there fore I am. At Night nere is one of Thackeray's nleasnnt touches : " It is night now, ami here is home. Gathered under the quiet roof, elders and children lie alike at rest In the midst of a great calm the stars look ont from the heavens. The silence is peopled with the past—sorrowful re morse for sins and shortcomings, memo ries of passionate joys and griefs rise ont of their graves, both now nliko calm and sad. Eyes, as 1 shut mine, look at me, that have long since ceased to shine. The town and the fair land scape sleep nnder the starlight, wreath ed under the nntnran mists. Twink ling among the houses, a light keeps watch, hero aud there in wlini may be a sick ohamlier or two. The clock tolls sweetly in the silent air. Here is night and rest. An awfnl sense of thanks makes the heart swell and the head bow, as I pass to my room through the sleeping honse, and feel as though a hashed hlossing were upon it." Bills of plumbers all remind UH How they come with lies sublime, And, departing, leave behind them Hhatn work ment to break botimo ; Hh on work which of course another, Finding leaks In branch and main— Coma deceiving, faithless brother— Cevliif, itraifhtwef IUMBI again The May tfueru. iim uEti to a nacawaao aaaaov. If vuu'ro waking, call uie early, call wo eaily, mother dear. And we that uiy room ia warm, mother, ami the tire 1* burning r.ear And Ullow my maw uiioe wore, mother ouce more ere you go away, l'or 1 to to l>e Queeu o' the May. mother, 1 m to be Quoou o' ihe May. It froze ao hard laat night, mother, that really 1 oouldui break The uw in my lltlle pitcher, mother, till 1 thought the poker to take ; You'll find it there uutho hearth, mother - but, ob, let the hot brick stay, Tor I'm to be QUOOU o' the May, mother, l'tn to be tjucen o the May. 1 shall put on uiy ajua-tru'rm oulaide of my seal skin ooat, Aud two or three yardi of flannel, dear, will go around my throat, Aud you'll see that the boueeet-tea, mother, la draw'i while your child's away. For 1 w to be Queen o' the May. mother. I'm to be Queen o' the May. l.lltlo Kills shall go with me, if her now la fit lo he seen ; And you shall he thire, too, dear mother, to see me made the Queen, Provided the doctor il let you . and if it don't rain fielead. Little Johnny la lo take me a part of the way on hia sled. Ho, if youie waking, call me early, call me early, mother dear. For to-morrow may be the chilliest day of all the glad Now Year ; For to-day la the thirtieth mother, and bleaa'd if your child can say, If ehe ain't au April Fool, mother, lueteed of a Queen o' the May. —l3 tar ilun. THE OPEMXU HOOK. I ant a mining engineer. At the time of which I am writing, I waa man ager of an extensive colliery in the Bouth Lancashire district. We em ployed a largo number of men, verv various, of course, in character. It u not my purport- to describe all particu larly, but we had among us several good specimens of the collier of the laat gen eration ; men who commenced pit-life when wotnea shared their daily drud gery, who did the toughest part of their life's work when inert- were no govern ment inspectors to wslch over their in tereals ; men, now subdued and quiet, who could tell tales of coal-pit lite lu the old rough wild dajs to which the present are tameueas itaelf. These men were swjwrstiUoUa to an amusing degree, constantly on the lookout fur signs and omens, not in " the falling leaf, the snapping twig," exactly, but in the strapping and falling treacherous roof of the mine ; in the accidental ex tinguishing of lights; in the simmer ing of gas-babbles, working their way through the wet "face" of the coal; also in dreams, whether their own, or any one else's. 1 used to laugh at their sometimes expressed fears ; but the time came when I conld at least sympa thize with them. I was Kitting in the office, near the pit, one hot immtner'a afternoon. It wu a hot plaoe, being adjacent to the boiler*, and a noisy one into the bar gain, being situated over a steam aaw bench. My temper had been a little diaturlted by the iwrtinacious endeavors of a traveler in iron to draw an order from me, a process which, having no n<-ed of iron, 1 particularly objected to, and which he, needing orders, particu larly insisted on. 1 had shown niv gentleman ont four timca, bnt, with the brazen effrontery of hia tribe, he would permit in returning, till I waa obliged at last to ahnt and bolt the door, thereby effectually stanching the flow of hia blandishment*, but alao making the office more and more like a drying-stove. I'reaeuUy 1 peeped out of the window—my persecutor was gone. I opened the door ;in front of it, about to knock, stood old Jemmy Taylor. Jemmy waa one of the patri archal colliers 1 hare meutioned above ; in api>oarance, a skeleton, dressed in s light auit f parchment ; gaunt, grim, and gray-haired ; no model for Apollo, or even in hia beat days, for ail liia limbs hail undergone fracture once, or oftener, which process is no tteautifler of the human frame. There he waa in hia skull-cap, failed blue shirt, and ragged old velveteen coat and trousers ; a- lie had stood many a time before when he had desired an interview with me upon questions of ventilation ; for Jcminy was our head " waeteman." 1 may explain here, that, in pit lan guage, the waste means the old work ings, that district of the mine from which the coal has been removed. Most parts of the waste are left to take care of themselves, which they speedily do by closing again into solidity; bnt through other parts it is often neces sary to maintain air-roads : passages to carry on the stream of air from one part of the mine to another, or out to the vent, the upeAst shaft. The office of the watchman is to keep these roads in order, aud see that they do not be come blocked tip by fallen so as to impede or stop the ventilation. It is impressive, eveu to one accustomed to them, to travel along these waste roads. Von mar walk hundreds and hundreds of yards along the low, nar row passages, far away from the work ing-places of the colliers ; and more complete isolation yon could not feci, 1 believe, in the middle of a desert. It would be an awkward thing to loae your light, too, on one of those jour neys. If well acquainted with the roads, it would l>e possible to find your way back to occupied ground, or for ward to tho upcast shaft, whither the current of air is hurrying ; bnt it would be a nasty journey, of much excoriation of legs, arms, aud bead against the rough tunnel ; and shonla yon by chance be so unfortunate as to wander out of the main current of air, your safest guide, you miitht very possibly have to resign yourself to fate, and sit down in the forlorn hope of being dis covered by a search-party. I invited Jemmy in. It was some thing out of the ordinary way of busi ness which could make him look so scared through his oovering of coal dust. He seemed so upset, that I thought of asking him to sit down, but remembered in time, that a collier sit ting in a chair is as comfortable as the proverbial cat on a hot plate. Your collier can kneel, can lie on his side, can sit on his heels, cau stoop in any excruciating posture you may please to name, by the hour together ; but ask him to sit in a chair, and you propose an impossibility. Thecauseof Jemmy's perturbation did not come out quickly ; it required much questioning, alto sev eral applications to a flat bottle to get his not very connected story from him. 11 appeared that, in the course of his work he had remembered that some for gotten props had botn left in a oertain road midway iu the waste. Thay were lving near an " air- door," a tight-fit ting, wooden door placed in a roadway, to prevent the air from passing along it. Ho accordingly set off in searoh, found the props and rat down te rest while deciding upon their merits. He placed his lamp upon the floor and was just pulling out his pipe for n smoke (irregular Jemmy), when his at taU?u wa draws to tho door through Ti'rmi: HR2.00 a Yefir.in Advance. which he hml juat paaaed. It waa alowly ojteuiog t Well, there would be nothing wonderful in thet, pro vided the opener had paaeed through and made himself viaibie ; only, aa none did pas* through, and as the door, after opemug to nearly ila fullest extent, alowly and silently cloned again, there certainly waa a little foundation for Jemmy'a astonishment. Then, "A. 1 aot theer," said Jemmy, " thinkiu' what oould make it oppen, it slurred agen, and kep' cropin and crop in, wider and wider, till it wur reel oppen agen ! I ne'er touched it; I wur three yards off. I wur no' no mieh feart t' fust time, but aftherwarda " After the second opening, Jrmmv was greatly horrified, to toll the truth, and wished to l>eat a rrtrest; but to do ao ho must repass through the door itaelf ! lie managed to sarew up hia courage for thia, opened it, ahook it, toaee that the hinges were firm, closed it after him,and on the exureas engine of trepi dation, commenced to retire. In the fascination of terror, however, he fell oum J wiled to look back and hoped that the sight of the door fast closed might rcasaure him; but no sooner did he turn round, than, lo ! open cornea the door again, in the same toady style aa before, and closes in like manner. "Three timea 1" thought Jemmy. "I'm done for !" lie, a moat oooi and clear headed fellow in all matters connected with his special business, was, aa such men often are, very accessible to feer of the unknown. What he had witness ed waa, of oourte, a " sign," cxpreaaly sent to warn him of approaching dan er, prolably of an untimely end. fheu he had tiuiahed hia tale, I natur ally pooh-poohed Ike whole matter, said he must have been dreaming, sent him home to recover himself, and told hiui I would meet him in the mine next day and go with him to the dubolioal spot, and see it the phenomenon oc curred again ; not that 1 aaid "phe nomenon " to Jemmy, aa it might Lave increased his fears, but " words to that effect," I had rather a long round to *tnake neit morning in a part of the mine we were just opening, and it was noon when 1 met Jemmy in the "gal-stable." (All horses are "gals," down Lanca shire vita ; above ground young women are " UMBOS.") It was with some little difficulty that I persuaded him to get off the provender-box and aocompany me on the proposed expedition ; but at last we set out, and were presently traveling along the silent road in the doecrted waste. 1 questioned him closely ; but though be was now 0001, he persisted in the accuracy of his story. I eonhl onlv conclude' that hie memory had failed him iu some im portant particular, or that he had been too frightened to notice something which would at onoe explain the appar ent mystery. Half an hour of awkward stooping through half a mile of very low air-passages, and clambering; over fallen roof, brought us to the spot. The passage, just where the air-door stood, was in tolerable preservation, and was comparatively wide and high —some six feet by four. The door was some four feet square, set in a brick framework ; a good substantial door of thick deal, tolerably heavy for spiritual influence*, I thought. Jemmy had bung bsek as we approached it, and it was only by half dragging him along that I got him through. We anchored upon the prostrate props. "Now, Jem my," I said, " let's just see if vonr door will play any such tricks to-if ay." I was certain that, if the manifestation was not a figment of Jemmy's imagina tion, which sevmed only too probable, I should, on seeing it occur myself, be able to explain it. We lighted pipes ; against the rules, I must confess, below ground, but an indulgence which I could allow myself with oertain trusty meo who never abused liberties. " He's going to dis appoint us," I said ; " you have made me lose an hour for nothing." Hero Jemmy's pipe fell from his mouth, and he clutched hold of me nervously. •• Look, UxOt ! Master Thomas !—look —it's openin' now !" Sure enough, it was, and in the manner in which he bad described it As if drawn by an un seen hand, gently, almost impercep tibly, it came open—just a little streak first, and then wider and wider, till one oonld peer through it into the dim darkness beyond, half expecting an earthly visitor, half fearing a ghostly ->ne. Then slowly, as it had opened, did it shot, closing np silently with a perfect evenness of motion. A little bewildered, I started np, to make s good examination round it, to see if the movement was explainable by any of the snrronnding circum stances ; but Jemmy begged me to stay where I was, and see "if it would do so again." I did so. In two minutes the phenomenon was repeated ; in an other two minutes it was again repeated; bnt although we sat still on the props for a quarter of an -hour longer, the door opened no more. Poor Jemmy was in s fearfully nervous state by this time, and I myself did not feel alto gether composed. The dead, op. roasive silence—tomb-like silence—of the place we were in; "the darkness visible" which surrounded ns for a few yards ; the darkness unfathomable which closed in sronnd us beyond that ares ; the feeling of isolation, too, and the intent waiting to see whether the mys terious occurrence would be repeated, all helped, with the puuling over the thing itself, to upset one's equanimity. As 1 say, we waited a quarter of an hour loDger, and the " sign," as Jemmy persisted in considering it, did not come again ; he rather wished it wonld, I believe, for the number three was a fatal one in his dictionary of omens ; and say what I would, nothing could make him shake off his fixed ides that it was a "death-warrant" for him. " Now for a good look at the sign- worker," said L A careful ex amination I made of the door, side posts, lintel, brickwork, surrounding walls, roof and floor; bnt nothing oonld I discover at all capable of ex plaining the apparent self-action. A .luick subsidence of roof, or npheaped floor, as frequently happens in the passages of a mine, might explain the opening; but no such movement of the snrronnding strata had taken plaoe while we were there ; and, besides, though such a disturbance might open the door, it wonld be hardly likely to close it again, especially in sac.ha slow and steady way. IWM puttied, and more than puzzled, I will oonfees. I did not believe that anything bnt a natural foroo could move that door; but what natural force did move it? My reader may ask why I should feel more nervous and strange at seeing this door movcnnexplainedly, than I should at seeing a tree fall unexpectedly, or at hearing a voioe from an apparently empty room ? It would be, I think, because, in the case of the tree and the voioe, the mind would almost directly fix on a sufficient natural cause for the occurrence ; and fear would hardly have time to make itself felt. Prolong the interval before yon fix upon a sufficient cause, and fear has time to assert it self. In the case of the door, the in terval of suspense was prolonged in definitely, for I could find no sufficient reason at aIL I left the mine, as I say, puzzled, more than puzzled. That evening, however, I thought I had found an explanation, and, of oouroe, instantly all aerrouenoM left my a!ad, and 2 laughed heartily at the NO. 41. matter. I hunted up Jemmy from the public-honae, where he waa relating to a spell bound eirele of fellow-workmen hia experience of the laat two day a "Jemmy," I aaid, " I've found it out" " Fun it eight,ban ye, Mauler Thomas ? What ia't, and what makea it three timea F* " Why, don't you sea," aaid I triumphantly and perhape a little contemptuously, " it ia an air-door,and the preaaure of the air inereaaing a little now and then, it get. strong enough to blow tbe door open I" But alaa fur my theory—in two ininntea it waa demolished by Jemmy, wboae face again loet lie momentary cheerfulness. " Cannot be that, 'oaa re ace th' door opens agin the air, be it much or be it little, ia a'waya preeain'it to." I had to give in to jemmy's practical reason ing ; what be aaid waa true ; the pros aura of air oould not explain it, for how could the door open of itself against the current, whether strong or weak? For several days I perplexed myself about the dreadful door and it* opening and abutting,till I wished it at Jericho. I found that several of the meu went, also two or three together, to aea the phenomenon, which waa daily repeated; and it waa further noted that it always occurred at or oaar on# o'clock ; that the door aiway i opened and shut three times, no inore, no leaa, and at about the first obaerred intervals. They could none of them explain it. While theories were started by the yoniger and three lt d men, such aa, that air poaaeaaed certain powers of auction, aa well aa of p mature, and that, when it wanted to paaa through a door, it waa equal on a pinch to opening it for iteelf I But the older meu shook their head* and pro nounced it uuoanny, something to do with the next world, a genuine omen. They were unanimous alio in the opin ion that the warning waa intended only for its drat witness, poor Jemmy! The fame .of this opening door even got ae far aa the neighboring town, beooming, of course magnified on the journey; and I waa written to by some friends there to say they had heard there waa a door at the* oolliery which rapped oat answers like a medium's table ! The enterprising editor of that town even proposed to me that be should send down a special to interview the case; but I declined, not wishing any facti tious interest to be given to the matter. It will aeem strange to my readers, but it is a fact that the door-mystery repeated iteelf every day for three weeks, and waa witnessed daring that time by doxens of workmen, without any feasible or probable suggestion be mg msde as to the cause. Many a night 1 lay awake thinking over it, going carefully over all principles of me chanics I was acquainted with, to see if there larked in soy of them a possi ble explanation ; but withont result I discovered the natural cans* in time; but 1 cannot claim that I rea soned it out A simple coincidence gave me a cine tolerably easy to follow. Before publishing the rationale of the matter, however, 1 took it into my heud to give Jemmy aud others convincing rroof that I bad discovered the secret gave it on I, that on a certain dav the i>ht nomenon would take place half an hour earlier, and would be repeated five timas instead of three time*. Sure enough, the thing happened according to my prediction. Jemmv's faoe cleared up a little when be found that there was s Being of fiesli and blood by whom the mystery was explicable; indeed, 1 rather think that in his mind, and in the minds of others, I waa regarded aa " somebody extra," dealing with the powers that should not be. Here is the explanation, as shortly aa I can put it to non-mining readers. The mine had two shafts, aa i usual—the downcast, by which fresh air was up plied to the' working; the nposst, up which the foul sir escaped. The down cast waa the ordinary working-shaft; but the upcast waa furnished with a winding engine and a traveling oage for occasions! tine. Now, when this cage was used, its peassge downwards would nsturally check the v-oending volume of foul air, and would for the moment press it back down the abaft, and con sequently would, to some degree, drive back the'air which was in the ordinary way rushing along the air-roads. Now, retnrning for a moment to our old friend the air-door, we shall see the effect of this. We remember that the balance of air pressure iras against the door on the aide on which it opened—the handle aide ; bat when the cage descended the upcast, it wonld reverse for a moment the Datura I direction of the air-current*, and then the balance of air-pressure would be on the aide of the door oppo site to the handle, and wonld open it When the cage stopped at the bottom of the upcast, the natural order of things would gradually restore itself, and the door would gradually eloae. The opening of the door would, of course, be repeated each time the cage descended the upcast Its recurrence, three tims, at a particular time each day, was explained by the fact that a set of men, just numerous enough to fill the cage three times, were then work ing near the upcatt, and were lowered to their work at that particular time each day. They were aleo drawn npand down at other periods of the day, and the air-door would hare been seen opening and shutting at those times also, had there been any one there to observe it. Happening to be at the sp csst when these men were descending, I was struck bv the coincidence of the time, and of the nnmber of deeoents of the cage, with the circumstances of the door opening, and this led me to unravel the mystery. When I explained it to Jemmy, the poor fellow seemed to get rid of a night mare ; his parchment face became lustrous witu relief. The other men, who bad been quite as much " struck of a heap" AS Jemmy, anathematized themselves for not having seen it be fore, declared Jemmy to be s fool, and did not cease to joke him for a long time about his" opening door." But he took it all very good-bumoredly. He was, I have no doubt, as rejoiced to get that incnbns off hia mind as Sind bad WAS to get rid of the old man of the sea ; and I waa not sorry myself 1 In Trouble. Near Exeter, England, a de serted from an artillery regiment. He waa pursued so closely on every hand that he plunged into the river. He couldn't swim, and was near drowned, when a man in a boat came to the res cue and dragged him onk Bat he did not deliver him to the paiauen. He landed him on the other aide, and the deserter got away. Then the man in the boat waa brought np on a charge of aiding the escape of a deserter. His defense was that he yielded to immi nent peril, as the soldier threatened hia lifo. All this is now on trial. If he kad not picked the man np, perhaps some other process of law wonld have got at him for constructive manslaugh ter in oonsenting to a death he oould have prevented. According to the Freeman'* Journal, Gen. Sherman is not a Catholic, but when he oourted Miss Ewing he was required, before Father Ryder oonld marry them, to promise as an officer and a gentleman that he would never interfere with his wife in the prnotioe of her religion, and that her ohildrea should he brought up Catholic* Fart* and Fancies. Flow to be wise -think thit JOB don't know everything. Bntter down ! m th# font IMuM to UimMll mho ut the fanner's wife crossing the field. China ha* street* paved with granite block* laid over 300 years ago, ae good aa new. The oontraotora are dead. It ia annonnoed that Hoyt, Borsgu# A Co. will pay their creditor* fifty per cent, and that their UabiUUea are 99. • 000,000. Cotton factories in the Bonth, in i almost every instance, where well man aged, pay from twenty to twenty-five per cent. Dr. Ayere, of Lowell, will lflhve hia han lsome daughter 83.000,000 in green backs. There's n sugar coated pill worth taking. The daughter of Gen. Hhennan will begin her career as a housekeeper with 1 tbe outfit of " twenty-three doaena of silver spoons." 11 Brigham Yonng dies, tha scramble for widow's thirds will drive every Judge of Probate in Utah to tbe nearest madhouse. " A few days ago Lewis Fletcher, of Newtown oounty, contributed an arm to a thrashing machine," is tha way thay mention it ont West. Practical and philanthropic ladies in Chicago have opened a restaurant where business mea gat wholesome lunohee and the poor get the profile. The New York School Journal recalls the fseta that there are 221,000 sobool teachers in this country, and 14,000,000 children of school sge who come, or ought to come, under their tuition. This averages one teacher to about 86 scholars. To support oar schools we spend 805,080.000 annually, or about 86 50 for each child. A prospective mother-in-law at Mo hawk, N. Y., who wanted to find ont what sort of a fellow ehe waa going to have for a eon-in-law, went to a ball disguised as a yonng fop, got into a fight with bin and had to be Uken home in a hack. The yonng man rec ognised her when too late, and hasn't been round to see the daughter since. A telegraphers' newspaper, spanking of tbe employ meat of woman aa opera tors, aays that their power ia already felt in tbe higher style of conversation between male operator* over the wires. ' Low jests and vulgarity have grown leae frequent, and an intimation that there is a female operator on a circuit puts a quietus on the most viruleot of blas phemers. A "claimant" has convulsed the quiet neighborhood of Freeport, 111., by attempting to palm himself off as a long loet husband. He satisfied the widow Gaylord and her children of his indenti ty, bat a skeptic in the family brought the matter before the Grand J ury, and the result wee that tbe fellow was found to be an impostor end sentenced to n three years' residence in tbe peniten tiary. No two leaves ia the forest ere exactly tbe same form and texture. No two grains of sand taken from the seashore or the great African deaert are indenti on! in balk and outline. Even the two drops of water the most alike in the universe will exhibit some marks of dis tinction when submitted to n powerful microscope. The law that excludes duplicates from the visible kindom of nature is also a law of the moral world. A Cheese htery. The greatest ammunition that we have heard of lately waa used bv the celebrated Commodore Coe, of the Monteridian Navy, who in an engage ment with Admiral Brown, of the a Buenos aenrioe, fired every shot from his locker. "What shall we do, air?" asked the first lieutenant; "we've not a single shot aboard—round, grape, canister and double headed all gone." " Powder gone, eh . asked Coe. " No, sir—got lota of that." " We had confounded hard cheese— a round Dutch one for dessert at din ner to-day ; don't you remember it ?' said Coe. " I ought to—l broke the oarving knife in trying to cut it, air." " Are there any on board ?" " About two doxen—took 'em from a drover." "Will they go into the eighteen - pounders V "By thunder, Commodore, that's the idea ; I'll try em," cried the first luff. And is a few minutes the fire of the old Santa Maria (Ooe's ship), which bad ceased entirely, was reopened and Admiral Brown fo.ind more shot dying over his head. Directly, one of them struck his mainmast, and as it did so it scattered and flew in every direction. " What the deuce is that the enemy are firing f" asked Brown—but nobody could leJL Directly another one came in throngn a poit hole and killed two women who stood near him ; then striking the bul warks burst into flinders. " By jove, this is too mnch ; this is some new Paixhan or other—l don't like 'em at all!" cried Brown ; and then as four or five more of them came slap through their sails, be gave the orders to fill away, and actually backed ont of the fight, receiving a parting broadside of Dutch cheese. This is au actual fact; our informant was the first lieutenant of Ooe's ship. —Monitor. A Fast Tmur. The New York correspondent of the Boston Journal says in hia last letter : Trotting horses are to New York what race horses are to London. If a horse has speed he will bring any prioe. The arrival of a fast team produce# an im mense excitement on the street The men who keep the market in a turmoil are the men who buy the fast trotters. It is not difficult to buy a single team that ia fast The story that Vanderbilt kept a standing offer of SIO,OOO for a first-el ass horse ia a canard. He oould get speed at any time, if he wonld pay for it The "old Commodore wants something besides speed. He wants s fsst horse—a horse kind snd quiet— thst will drive on slack rein—one per fectly safe—and at a low figure. But to get a fast double team is a difficult matter. It is so difficult to match horses in the spirit snd motion and bottom. There ts one team in this city thst always producess sensation on the road ; one of these is the bone Con nors, owned by J. F. Merrill, of Bos ton. This horse is black as jet. The other horse is 8k James, belonging to Rochester. He ia mahogany in oolor. The two horses are of the same height, about fifteen hands. The recorded time of the the teaxu ia 2:22j. Oon nora's record is 2:19 J. 8k James's reoord is 2:18. It is said be baa shown the speed of 2:17. This team was sold reoently, and Bodd Doble was the pur chaser. Everybody knew that he did not buy it for himself. It turns out that the real buyer waa a California miner ; he made an immense fortune in abont ten days by the rise of the Ophir mining stock. It is said on the street that for an hour or more he made a million a minute. The prioe paid for the team was $40,000. The team has been expressed to the Pacific Co ask Breaches of Trust., In pronouncing sentence upon Phelps, the defaulting New York State Cashier, who was sentenced to fifteen years' hard labor in the penitentiary at Albany, Judge Westbsook made some very timely strictures upon the loose way in whioh it is becoming the fashion to palliate or cover up such offenses. He remarked that " the enforce 4 bor rowing of another's money by "an un lawful taking against the owner's will, hoping, by subjecting it to the hazard of gambling speculation, to return its equivalent, is just as reprehensible in wholesome morals and sound public policy as the taking with no suoh in - tent." Judge Weetbrook pronounced the defense of simple " breach of trust" to be as unsound in law as it is false in morals, and accordingly in flated upon Phelps the maximum penalty of tbs lew under all thrsc in*