Psss-!n-Uie*rorn?r.
Two htti# hand# hiding two roguish sy# ;
Rear, tunny head that ic ever wo wis# ;
Darling is laughing and *hontin with glow.
Playing at ptiw-in-the corner with mo.
Patlor tlia prettiest foot u<v too tow .
Never wu #en mioh a pi ay ma to l-efo; #
Sly little one, its aw ay w>-t unfair.
Steal* in ra> corner WC.-IR I'm arav '
Here in our play-groUte' the annahiny i\v>t
Never ha* fallen a *d > of g! >on ;
Uarlutj; i* teaching ma uti ft little gam,
Wi**> Utile tusiiHo to t • v all t'.r inirnr
Olovor-bnd m mih hll Ic nun* to be klased ,
Silver tone.l voice how Uiat voice would be
mtatf ,1 !
A earner you've won -did you know tht* be
fore ?
B*ty in my heart, to be kept evermore
The Handful of Earth,
Tt'e sailing 1 am at the dawn of day,
Te my brother that's over the ea.
But it'e little I'll care for my life anywhere.
For it'e breaking my heart will be,
But a treaeure I'll take.for oulu Ireland', eake.
That I'll pnie all belonging at>ove;
It'e a haudful of eartli from the land of my
birth,
From the heart of the land that I love.
And won't the poor lad in hi* sxil# h* gla.l.
When beaees the brave present I bring '
And wnu'l there be il.iwer* from tlu* treaeorv
of our*
Iu the warm at the beanUful spring!
Ooh. Erin tuachreel though u'a parun wo be.
It'# a Useeing I'll leave on year shore,
Aisi your mountains and streams I II see iu
my dreams
Till 1 cross to my country once tu.-re.
AT THE KACEN.
" John r
" I hear von, mother."
" John, I—l wish to speak seriously
So yon, my son."
" Very well. I'm listening."
Little Mrs Tharlow stood np. to
give her words more weight. They did
not seem to mean anything at all to
hex ; she waa snch a very little woman,
and her back ashed so much, and her
hands trembled so that she had to
steady herself ou the back of a chair.
She suddenly remembered how John's
father used to stroke her pretty pink
hands and call her " Baby," and say DO
tronble should ever coma nigh her.
Ami when he aai'ed on his last cruise,
he said John would be her comfort un
til he came back. And now John was
breaking her heart!
" You will not go to Eppton with that
boy. to-morrow, dear. I mean yon
shall net go, John. I certainly will
have some authority over yon 1"
John was standing, too, looking her
full in the face. The angry rv-d came
into her cheeks and then died out a*
quickly, and her blue eyes were full of
tears. " You won't go" Johnny, dear •
You won't vex mother ?"
John shut his mouth tight and
shrugged his shoulders. He nail very
lately found out that women were "a
wak lot, and that men ought to control
things it: the world, and that he was a
man. His mother was so little and so
fassy, and she never knew her own
mind two minutes ! A prettv thing if
she was going to say, ** You sTball," and
*' You shall not," to him all his life 1
" Don't go to Eppton, Johnny," she
continued coaxing. " I'm sure if—if
vour father were here he would say that
Walcot boy was a very bad companion
for you."
" And what 11 I do at home if I stay ?
It's a holiday," said John, savagely
shaking off the hand she laid gently on
his arm. His voice was growing deep,
tike a man's. He was taller than she
in these last few months, and looked
over her haad as they stood together.
He stndied books and talked of things
' which she knew nothing.
And yet it was only the other day
she held Lim in her arms—her baby !
Only the other day 1 Now that his
father was away, swd ahe almost feared
might be dead, what had she in the
vorld bnt her little boy ? She always
thought God had given him to her, just
to her, to be her own. Now he was
going from her fast, fast. He came
home with that Waleot boy the other
night wjth the smell of liquor on Ins
breath. He had not let her kiss him
for days, not touch his month—the
sweet month where she used to watch
the teeth coming like pearls one by
one.
She grew pale, her eyes were wild
with terror, as she caught him by the
arm. "O, for God's sake, don't turn
from me, John ! It would be better
That we were dead together than that
you should go on this road that you
are going."
•' I'm going nowhere but to Eppton,
to see a hor-e-raoe," he replied, rough
ly. " And if I stay at home, what can
1 do to amuse myself ?"
Mrs. Thnrlow glanced from side to
side in dismay. When he could be
amused with toys or a story-book she
managed very well, but now—
" Yon might fish in the morning, and
HI take yon with me to the sewing
society in the evening," with brighteu-
mg face.
John's sow! grew darker, but ne
made no direct reply. His mother's
tears hnrt him strangely.
" Very well. I'm going to bed now.
Well talk it over in the morning,"
lighting his candle and going off ab
ruptly.
After be heard his mother sbnt her
chamber door he went down stairs, and
out to the drug shop, where he was sure
to find Tom Walcot. That gay city
youth laughed a good deal at the early
to-bed habits of the village boys. Day,
the druggist, noticed the two lads talk
ing eager.y together for a long time.
John appeared reluctant and worried.
" Don't mind her," said Waloot, on
leaving. 44 They're all alike. Weak,
weak as water. You're doing no barm.
It'a time yon took matters into your
own hands. And be sure and bring
," lowering bis voice. "It will
show the boys what class in societyyou
belong to. They are all nobby dress
ers."
44 Jack," said Mr. Day, as he put up
bis shutters, 44 I'd steer e'ear of that
Waloot fellow, if I were you. Nobody
knows anything about him. It don't
become yonr father's son to be hail fel
low well met with a lad like that."
Day said t his wife that night it was
a thousand pities Jack had not his
father to manage him jnst now. Dr.
Thnrlow was as thorough a gentleman
as there was in the nary, and John was
on the high-road to become a black
guard.
Nearly four years had passed since
the ship on which Dr. Thnrlow was
surgeon had left on thelong cruise, and
he was expected home soon.
By daylight the next morning John
and his friend were jogging along the
road to Eppton. John's face was nn
usnally red, and his eye unsteady. He
t)ok out a heavy gold watch from his
pocket now and then, and flashed in the
sun a diamond ring that he wore on his
little finger.
" That's a reg'lar old turnip," said
Waloot, glancing at the watch furtive
ly. "No notion of its value, have
you ?"
" Six or seven hundred," said John,
loftily. " It was my grandfather's. It's
i;ot the familyorest on it in jewels, d'ye
ree ? I suppose the boys will under
stand that"
" O, they'll appreciate the watch, no
fear," with a laugh.
"I borrowed mother's ring, too,"
t timing it to make it sparkle. " I don't
know what she'll say if she misses
them. But she ought to let me show
people that I'm not a beggar, when I
go into society."
"Certainly. By the way, did you
bring any money, Jack ? You know I
told you there'd be betting. All onr
set risk a little, just for the fun of the
thing. Of course they don't care to
win. Money counts for nothing with
these fellows. But it looks well to bet,
you see."
" No, I didn't bring any," John said,
flushing hotly. " The truth is, Tom, I
won't bet. It would break mother's
heart, I do believe, if X did that."
"Sab!" muttered Wslcot, with un-
KKKIX Krirrz. Kditorun.l I'lMpriot.u
VOL. Vila
limited disgust, " Break her heart, in
deed f Well, well, you'll learu to IN I a
man acme time,"
Eppton, the country town, waa
reached in a couple of ho tire, and John
wa* introduced to "the boys." Now
John, full of oonoeit aa be was, waa
shrewd enough, and waa quick to see
that the oowre face*, gaudy elothea
and sham jewelry of the youug men
were verv different from those which
ahould lelong to gentlemen'* aoti*.
But aa he had no money to let they
they treated him with indifference,
leaving him to Walcot during the day.
The race* were exciting. There wa*
a certain delight, too, in atanditig in a
crowd, auckiug the end of an imhghted
cigar (he knew he would be sick, if he
sniokedl, atroking the down on Li* up
per lip with the jeweled finger.
But a* the day waned even tlp-ae
pleasure* paled. The oaths and ob
scenity about him sickened the boy.
Be remembered it wa* time for his
mother to read the chapter and the
evening prayer*. The little, fussv, dear
woman ! She might be fussy and weak,
bat her religion stvmed to John at that
moment a pure and awful thing, befwro
which these men and their " world "
were vile and insignificant.
He touched Walcot on the shoulder.
" I'm going home now, Tom."
The wen around hastily glanced at
each other.
" Come, take a drink, first. " I
can't go back to-night. Jack," said
Walcot " You'll have to trudge
alone, if you will go. Better stay where
you are/'
" No. And I'll not driuk anything
more. Good evening, gentlemen."
He harried through the crowded
streets to the tarnpike leading hoxie.
The dav had been a disappointment,
after all. He might as well nave been
fishing or at the sewiug society for all
the pleasure he had had. And yet a
boy ought to have some amusement, he
thought.
He trudged on miserable enough,
with an aching head and uncertain
steps. "As for the wine, what do I
take it for ? I hate it, and it makes me
sick as death. If Walcot wouldn't jeer
at cold water prigs !"
The sun had set before he started
homeward. The road lay between hill*.
When he had gone a mile or two. he
found himself in almost absolute datk
neas. He trudged ou manfully,
though, and had reached the Narrow*,
where the hill roe on one side of the
road and the river ran ca the other,
when he observed four figures, appar
ently waiting for him. One WHS in form
so like Walcot, that be thought the
boys had changed their minds, and de
termined to go back with him.
" Is that you, Tom ?" he snouted.
The mau came quickly np to him.
He was masked.
" I want the time of night, boy," he
said, in a strained voice.
John, trembling, bnttoned his coat
tightly over his watch.
"I want to know what time it is!"
drawing a revolver and pointing it at
his head.
" The watch is not mice," cried John,
yelling, " Help, help ! 'for a moment,
until a blow on the head felled and
stunned him. lie knew, however, that
his wstch and ring weie dragged from
him before auother blow left him life
less.
When he eaine to himself a mm was
lifting him into a buggy standing on
the road. In the darkness, snd his be
wilderment from .the blow ha Lad re
ceived, he could just see that the man
was large and powerfully built.
"Are you going to kill me?" John
asked, quiet enough, considering the
importance of the case.
The gentleman laughed. " No.
You've Ld rough usage enough, poor
fellow. You are too young a boy to be
drunk and fighting," arranging tne
cushions about htm in the seat, and
taking the reins. " Now tell me ali
about it"
Tbere was something so kind and
strong in his voice that the boy ner
vously told him the whole story, with
sobs and tears.
"It is mother I care for," ho said.
'* To tbink how I turned against her !"
The gentleman looked down at him
closely, his own face strangely agitated.
He took the boy's hand and held it,
crushing it in his own until John al
most cried out
They stopped at the cottage door.
John's mother stood at the gate, where
the poorlittle woman had been watching
all day. When she saw the boy come
staggering down the path toward her.
she ran to meet him, and then stopped
short, looking at the man behind him,
with a wild cry of " George 1 George !"
" Yes," said Dr. Thnrlow to his wife,
the next day, "it has all ended like a
story in a book. The police have the
thieves and we have the watch and
ring, aud I came home just when I was
needed—in more ways than one. No
fear, little woman, of onr boy. He only
needs a man's stronger hand to gnide
bins and to make him fit to appreciate
his mother."— Youth'a Companion.
Why the Infants Die.
James A. Mo watt, in an article on in
fant mortality, has one important cause
he would assign for the larger death
rate among infants on this side of the
water than on the other, which may be
summed up in his own words, thus ;
" Oat meal porridge mush and
milk, bread and milk, potatoes and
milk, form the principal foods for chil
dren aov-ngst the rich and 4 upper ten
tbousaud' of England, Ireland and
Scotland. Here is one of the moat
necessary reforms demanded in the
rearing of children in the United States.
Plain and wholesome food ought to
take the place of beef, sausages, pies
and pastry, as food for infants. It ap
pears at first sight almost unaccounta
ble bow the habit aud custom of wiving
children all sorts of animal food, with
every class of pnddiog and oondiments
placed upon the table, ever grew up
amongst the inhabitants of this repub
lic. But, on further consideration, a
reason may be found for it, A large
proportion of the forefathers of the
American people immigrated to this
country from amongst the poorer and
more straggling ranks of the popula
tions of Europe. They hardly ever saw
beef or mutton on their tables in the
Old World. A test of prosperity and
respectability with these, as immi
grants, was to be able to 4 eat beef
three times a day.' 4 You never got
meat, said the lady of the bouse to
Bridget, 4 onoe a month in Ireland, and
now you want it three times a day.'
Bridget's reply was as characteristic as
it was forcible : 4 Sure, and wasn't that
what I came to America for?'
44 In order to save the lives of the in
fantile part of the community, this
notion of 4 gentility ' and 4 respectabili
ty will have to be abandoned. Infants
and young children ought to be fed
upon what is suitable for them, not
upon what is 4 respectable.'"
WHERE IT GOES.—Of the 1,800,000,-
000 pounds of paper yearly produced
in all partß of the civilized world, 200,-
000,000 pounds are consumed by gov
ernment offices, 180,000,000 pounds by
schools, 240,000,000 pounds in oom
mrrr", 180,000,000 pounds in industrial
manufactures, 100,000,000 pounds in
private correspondence, and 900,000,-
000 pound f in printing.
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
I . S. POSTAL DEPARTMENT.
lirrsri sf Ike I'mwaitrr tirsrral fsr Ike
I Ail t \ IMUr.
The Boatmaater General ha* rendered
a report of the work aud condition of
the Poat-offioe Department, He **ya :
The ordinary revenue* of tin* de
partment during the year ending June
30, 1874, were $24,596,568 s|, and the
expenditure*of all kin J*532,126,414 58.
For the fiscal year ended Juue 30, 1873,
the revemtea from the same source*
were 122,028,157 57, and tlie oxpeudi
ture* of all km J* $19,084,945 67. F'r
tlie last fiscal year there wa* au lu
cre* e of revenue, exclusive of revenue
from the mouey order busmen* and
from official stamps, of $1,674,411.27,
or 7.30 per cent., and au iuorcc of ex
penditure* of $3,041,463.91, or 10.457
per cent, A compartsou of the fiscal
year 1873 4 with 1871 2 *how# au in
crease la revenue, exclusive of reveuue
from the money order htiaiueas and
from official stamp*, of $3,130,576 23, or
14 58 percent., aud iu expenditure* of
$5,468,222 27, or 20 51 per oeut.
The estimated expendttur* s for the
year eudiug Juue 30, 1876, are $36,964,-
1134. The total estimated revenue for
the year eudiug Juue 30, 1876, is $23,-
148,156, leaving a deficiency to be ap
propriated out of the general treasury
of $.,815,878.
The foregoing estimate* do not in
clude special appropriation* to be made
out of the general treasury amounting
to $2,008,500.
The utuuber of ordm*ry dhi>.
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The increase in the issue of ordinary
postage stamps was 3.56 per cent. ; of
stamped envelopes, plain, 11.32 per
ci-nt. ; of *tam(ed envelojves, reijaost,
12.24 per cent. ; of newspaper wrap
pers. 56 86 per cent. ; ot postal cards,
102 01 per cent.-—an average increase of
817 per cent. The nniaber of dead
letter* received was 4,601,773, repre
senting a nomiual or actual value of
$4,637,429. Number of letters deliv
ered, 1,392 245, representing 5t.909,-
8t8; number which, containing circu
lars, or, failing in delivery and being
worthless, were detroyd, 2,622,619.
The cuml>er of applimvtions for dead
letter* was 6,42tX In 2,140 of these
case* the letters were found and prop
erly delivered.
There were in the service of the de
partment on the 30th of June, 1374,
6,232 contractors for the transportation
of the mails on public routes. There
was au increase over the preceding year
in length of routes of 12,887 mile*, and
in annual transportation of 8,717,826
miles, and in cost of $1,766,716. Add
ing the increased cost of railway post
office clerks, ronte, local and other
agents, $286,585, the total increase in
cost was $2,053,301. Tht railroad
routes have increased ia length 4,277
miles, and in cost $1,332 467, against
an increase !**t year of 5,546 miles iu
length and $754 425 in cost. This dis
proportionate increase in cost is owing
to the mtdjuKtmeut of pay nuder the
act of C ingress approved March 3,
1873.
An luxtrunient of Uxrhange.
lit re is a half sovereign which I hold
in my band, sail I'rof. Price, in a
lecture at Oxford. Tiiat is a coin—a
piece of eurr> ncy. What is it ? This
coin ia a piece of gold with a mark
upon it. bat is that mark ? The
arms of the Queen Victoria, Those
arms are put upon it at the factory
where it made—the Ilojal Mint of
Kogland. Ibd they put into tins metal
anything beside* gold ? Yea; they
put a little alloy into it merely or the
purpose of hardening it, in order that
the mark may not be erased by constant
wear. Pat in England nothing is
charged for that. Yon get the same
quantity returned to you in coin that
you bring to the bank in iugote ; and,
therefore, it is a pure piece of gold.
What ou earth was this little thing in
vented for? If I were in Egypt I
should say it was something to put
around a woman's neck or in her ears,
to use as ornaments ; but we know that
this is not the application of it in great
cities and nations. Then I must trace
it, and What doea it do? If I see a
cart I understand directly what a cart
is. There are two shafts, which un
mistakably indicate a horse; the wheels
indicate motion, and the body indicates
a capacity to carry weight, and I know
ail about a cart at the very first sight.
What is this ooin for ? I must watch
the people who use it. 1 find people
buy it. They give their property for
it, and as they don't use it iu the way
of ornameut, I watch them closer, aud
I perceive this man who has given cer
tain property for it is very soon anrions
to get rid of" it. That is the next won
derful thing about this little coin. It
is bought, aud then the next step is to
get rid of it as quickly as possible. It
becomes, then, a "current" thing. It
runs. Cnrreucy is the " running " from
curro in Latin. Then I buy it to run,
and not to stay with me. My next step
is ; What is that necessary for ? When
it leaves me what has happened to me ?
I have gained other goods. It has bad
this wonderful effect npon me. I have
got rid of a quantity of goods in my
hands which I did not want, aud I have
fot into my hands a quantity of goods
did want. Ah, then, I see at once
what it means ; the operation finished,
I find I have exchanged the goods I
had for another set of things. There is
a certain quality iu human nature
which finds its way into human society,
and it is this : Wo cannot make all our
things for ourselves. There must bo a
division of employments, division of
makings. One says: "I will make hats
if you will make shoes." Another says :
"I will make coats." A third says:
"I will make carts." Aud in human
life all theso things must be exchaugod
somehow. The man is not going to
give his horse for the hat. That would
uot do at all. " Well," says the hatter
to the other person with whom he is
trading, " there is something reason
able in that. The horse oost you a
great length of time in care, plenty of
corn, plenty of hay ; so it won't do to
give it for the hat. We must have some
principle of exchange." And then he
discovers that this little thing which I
show to yon is a tool. And, gentle
men, from the first word I say to you
now to the last word I say to you, 1
wish you never to look on the currency
as anything else than a tool of exchange ;
and all the mess, and all the disorder,
and all the utter oonfosion on this sub
ject is that people will not nbmit to
grasp the idea that this thing was in
vented as a machine for exchanging
goods, and for nothing else—nothing
else at all.
DID THET STAND.—" The militia !
the militia ! Did they stand lire ?" im
patiently asked Washington of tho
messenger from Bunker Hill. "They
did, and three times repelled the enemy,
when, their ammunition giving out,
they fell back, fighting with clubbed
muskets." "Thank God I" was the
reverent rejoinder ; " then the nation
i> saved."
CENTRE HALL. CENTRE CO.. LA.. Tlll KSDAV. DECEMBER 24, 1874.
NOW SATIOSN ta:R T'ooit.
% Pamir *! Vt bui I nult~-4 anaitwiHa <o
Hm*h.
Uow do nation* got jKHir ? nk Prof,
hou.iitian. Front devouring, eousum
itig more than they make ; tlieu tiiut-
IKKIJ mut go to ttio had, somebody
must lose. Hometxkly must lose in
warmth ; aomebody must Kmc iu enjoy
ment ; somebody, perhaps, must bo
starved. That ia what la called a
"crmia," a " panic," an exceptional
aud uudue doat uotiou of thing* bo
vend the amount of thinga that aro
tuado. Thou what followa ? The farm
or aaya to hia laboror, " 1 cannot feed
row thia yoar ; 1 cannot aell uiy wheat,
liecausc othor people hare boon de
al roying an J hare nothing to give me
for my wheat," In that way the field
goea out of cultivation. There ia a loaa
of capita! which the man who worked
in the field would keep alive, 80 it ta
with the atore, BO it ia with the ahep, wo
it ia with the factory. It ia not what
the banks do ; it ia what you do that
will determ ue whether the nation ia
going forward or backward ; whether
there will l>e thinga euough made next
Tear. You hoar a man a*y of another
he has so many millions income. Do
you suppose any of as handle our in
come in dollars, paper or gold ? The
poor man, yea. The poor man, no
doubt ; he roes ITO a hia weekly wagea.
aud that he touchea iu money ; but (he
rich man who haa £I,OOO a year, he
doea not touch probably £3OO. Bo it ia
with the groat industries ; they don't
t< uch money. " Income " means thia :
Your share, your proportion of thinga
made and cultivsteti by the uuUon.
You count it iu dollars. It appears as
if it were in dollars, but there ia no
truth in it. Whether you are consum
ing more than you are making, it is
your ahare, your proportion of the
broad and butter aud meat and shoes
aud clothes that are made. Capital is
that which i# destroyed like evorythiug
else. It ia reproduced in goods made.
A beautiful picture ia not capital ; it
doea nothing iu the way of making
other good a. Yon hare loat your prop
ertT, but you have the painting.
Therefore, when men are sane and
sober and not wild, nations will create,
will increase their capital, will iuereaac
machines for making those things which
are indispensable for human ufe aud
ita enjoyment.
Jollify and eat up all your capital,
and in six months the American people
mnat die—sternly, absolutely die. It
ia just as easy to make an approxoma
tion of death in this temporary undue
destruction of capital. Let me men
tion one instance— war. War ia a rapid
consumer. Fine orders for iron, uue
orders for eoal, fine order* for clothing,
fine orders for all aorta of things ; gen
erals well paid, great movements;
great destruction. AH goes on swim
mingly. Hut the process that is not
seen is the destruction. Therefore war
brings on a great sense of prosperity.
You are eating your capital; the bread
of twelve mouths you are eating up in
mouths. It is the same with
railways. You make too many rail
ways. If you make too many railways
what happens? The old story, a dimi
nution of capital. You have fed the
laborers ; you have clothed them ; you
have given them tools, and when the
railway is opened you are astonished
that the nation is so pvx>r. You have
destroyed the capital of the nation;
you Lave destroyed the i>owor of mak
tug goods. The people are poorer;
they must eoustime less, go with worse
clothes to redeem what they have loat
At last there come* the panic ; every
body thought the railway was good ; j
every laxly plunged into taking share* ;
they consumed more than they ought
to l.ave consumed ; they made holes
in the ground, and ting chaunels, ami 1
they ended in poverty. There seems
to be in this consuming more than you
ought such liveliness of buying, such
a pleasant, buoyant feeling in every
store and shop, sneh a delightful
sense, that everybody helps his neigh
bor in the destruction. Then come*
the speculator and the contractor, and
all the different officials ; the man of
small means sells hi* property aud puts
it in the railway. But are dollars put
in the railway? Is a railway made of
dollars? "ffaey mean that a certain
large proportion of their capital—their 1
stock—shall !> used in makiug the
railway. Everything moves pleasantly,
aud they buy objects for ornamenta
tion ; handsome c-arpets, more bean- :
tiful sets of china. I am told that there
are heaps of rooms m which there is
SIO,OOO worth of ornamentation. Or
namentation is not capital. Capital al- j
ways reproduces. The other day there :
was great flatuess iu Chicago because j
the land speculation has dropped. If
it is a mere bet that five years hence
land will be worth so much more than
it is now, no harm has been done. But
encourage these men to buy lands, and ;
what happens ? There is a great flurry 1
in the market for land, and the prices |
advance, and what do they do? They
live in a more expensive way—that is,
more is paid upon lands; and that
leads you to live in a more expensive
way, makes you go to the Broadway
stores and bny fine things, and you
feel jolly. Don't yon see that the land
sa land has remained unproductive,
and while men were led to lelieve they
were becoming rich and comfortable,
there was all the time a large destruc
tion of uational capital,and consequent
ly they were on the road to poverty,
and that desolation follows ? Now,
you understand why it is that such ter
rible disorders as I have described hap
Pen-
legend* of the Apple.
Tlio apple, which, HH well as wo
know, in the first fruit mentioned in the
Bible, hue been tho theme of various
legends and superstitious. In Arabia
it is believed to charm away disease,
and produce health and prosperity.
In some countries tho custom remains
of placing a rosy apple in tho hand of
the dead, that they may find it when
they enter Paradise. The Greeks use
it as a symbol of wealth and large pos
sessions, thus attesting their esteem
for the fullness and richness of its
qualities. In northern mythology the
apple is said to produce rejuvenating
power. Germany, France and Switz
erland have numerous legends regard
ing this fruit. In somo it is celebrated
as the harbinger of good fortune,
causing one's most earnest desires to be
fulfilled ; in others its beantiful prop
erties are shown forth as bringing
death and deatrnction; others agaiu
speak of it aa an oracle in love affairs;
this is especially the case with the Ger
mans, not only in their numerous tales,
lmt in some surviving customs. In
England, as well as in our own conn
toy. is known among school girls the
popular use of the apple seeds in divin
ing one's sweetheart. The pooling is
also used as a test in this delicate
matter.
PAYS WKM* —Miss Cushman is said
to have made more money than any
other American actor exoept Forrest.
ITer wealth is estimated at a quarter of
u million. This may be too liberal a
rate, but it is to be remembered that
her engagements have brought of late
years at least S4OO a night. Other
stars, however, have done very well.
Madame Neilaon is immensely rich,
while Joe Jefferson, Ghanfron, and
other veteran oomediana are in inde
pendent positions,
TIIE NEW NOITHKRN FAKMF.It.
% litlrrrwllitfl Mrrwr In II HMIBI IUC, Aim.
bnuia, on Nt gro !>•>.
The scene which i* presented to a
stranger visiting Muuteville on "uegro
day," say* a oorre-qxmdeut of the New
York It rite*, i* indeed a novel and in
teresting one. The principal business
house* of the city are situated ujxin a
square which stirrouuds the court
bottae, and at an early hour in the morn
ing this i filled with colored tieople of
all clauses sud shade*. Last Katurday
there were fully two thousand of them
iu the Htreet* at •no time. At noon the
throng was greatest, and up to that
t tune fresh wagon-loads of men, women,
and children were continually arriving.
They cauie not only in wagons, but on
horses and mules, aud ou foot. Their
dress aud general appearance were very
dissimilar. I Maw one or two flue
healthy-looking men who were warmly
dad in well made HUIIS of dark gray
cloth, hut by far the greater number
were in rag*. Home were dressed in a
queer-looking garment made of piece*
of old army blankets, a few were ap
pureled iu faded military overcoats,
which were liberally aupplied with
patches of other material. Most of the
; men were without shoes, and some of
them had uo covering for their heads
; save the thick crop of hair which waa
i often plaited and twisted into fantantic
braid* and ends. The women, unlike
their husbands and other male relations,
were dressed in finery of every con
ceivable fashion. All of them were
decked out with many colored but dirty
ribbon*. They wore piuchlieck jewelry
iu large quantities. A few of the young
girls displayed some little taste in the
arrangement of their dresa ; and one or
two of them wore expensive clothes.
These, however, were "city belles,"
and found but little favor in the eyes
of thecouutrv girl*. A# the farmers
arrived thrv hitched their tumble-down
wagons and bony mules to the railing
which surrounds the court house, and
then proceeded to dispose of the cotton
and other product# which they had
| brought to town. While thi* was be
ing done many amusing incident* oe
cured. I noted the following, as it
illustrates some of the evils of the
credit system, and the difficulty which
is sometime* experienced in identify
ing negroes :
A tall, good-looking colored man
came into the city with a load of corn
and two bales of cotton. AfL-r dispos
ing of his corn he attempted to sell the
cotton, but found aorn.* difficulty in
securing a buyer. At la*t iie wa* oflored
eleven cents a pound for it, and al
though thia wa* a small price he wa*
about to accept it, when a little man
came running up to him and said:
" Wait, wait I What are you offered
for those two hales f" " 'Levrn cents
a pound, ssh," replied the negro,
touching his hat. "I*ll give von thir
teen cent*," aid the other. The black
man, after *|>eaking a few word* to a
white gentleman who appeared to be
his friend, accepted thia, and the three
went into the warehouse of the buyer.
Here the cotton wa* weighed, and nitar
a bill had lxen made ont the buyer,
turning to the black man, said, with a
bland anil awoiriug snulc, " Now I will
pay ji u cash for thia at the rate of
thirteen cents a pound ; oat flr#t 1 will
deduct the forty-seven dollar* which
yon owe me for supplies given you on
credit."
" Supplies on credit !* eiclaimed the
negro, who waacTidcnlly greatly aston
ished. " I ain't had no supplies on
credit, and 1 doesn't owe TOO. uoffln'."
*' Isn't your name Jake Allen ?" asked
the merchant, astonished in his turn,
" No," satd the negro, " my name im
Trim Wethers, an' 1 can prove it by tins
gemmau dat 1 ain't had noffln' on credit
from you nor no other person." The
white gentleman thus ap|x-aled to tea
tilled to the truth of this, and the buyer
was obliged to iwy tor the cotton with
out making any deduction. Hubae
quently he informed mo that he had
mistaken the negro Wethers for a man
who owed bim money for supplies, and
that he had offered him two cents more
than his cotton was worth in order to
f;et control of it and pay himself; "bnt
or," said he in conclusion, " the ne
groes are so much alike that you never
can tell one from another." An >ther
incident which goes to show how ig
norant the negroes are of bnsineaa cal
culations, came ninlcr my notice. See
ing a large crowd that had collected in
on corner of the square, I went over
and found that two negroes were dis
puting about the division of their orop.
One of them had leased s small farm
and hired two men to help him work it.
As I came up he was saying, in sn ex
cited voice, " Didn't I 'gree to give yon
a fourth ?" " Yes, to be sure," was the
reply, " but now yous done gone'
promised to Rive Hill a tilth, and if yotia
agono to give him dat, 1 wants de
same." The two disputed over this
knotty question for upward of half an
hour, and strange as it may seem, it was
impossible to couvinoe the laborer that
a fonrth was more than a fifth. He
left the square muttering about the
injustice of giving Bill " ono whole
share " more than iiiru.
Popping Corn
Isn't it fan to pop corn ?—and when
it is popped isn't it good ? Most boys
iu the country grow s few hills of pop
corn to furnish them amusement in the
winter evenings. There is some skill
to be used in so simple a thing ss pop
ping corn. In the first place, the corn
should be well dried, for when too
fresh and soft it dees not pop well at
all. Then a wire popper with a long
handle is the best thing to pop it in. A
very small handful of corn, ouly about
enough to oover the Iwttom, is put in
the popper and the oover fastened
down. Then wo mnst heat the corn
gradually, holding it at a distance from
the coals,juid when it is well heatedf
through fllHig it nearer the fire, when
the popping will hegiu. Yon must
shake all the time, and the more the
corn pops the foster you must shake to
prevent burning. If the corn is of a
good kind a very little will fill the pop
per when finished. Fop ! pop !—how
the little grains bomioe about as they
jump up and put on their snowy night
caps. Look at a popped grain. It
does not seem at all like a kernel of
corn ; it is fairly tnrned inside out.
What makes the corn pop and behave
in this way ? The chemist says that
the corn contains an oil, and that the
heat turns this oil into gas, and when
the pressure of this gas gets strong
enough to burst the grain, pop it goes.
That com contains oil may lw new to
you, but there is oil iu it, and in aome
kinds of ooru a great deal. Sixteen gal
lons of oil have been obtained from 100
bnshels of grain, and very nice oil too.
It has but one fault, and that is it oosta
too much to get it out of the ooru ;
while the mineral oil lasts— petro
leum from which they get kerosene—it
is not likely that we shall feed our
lamps with com oil. When you hear
the grains go off with a " pop," and a
" spnt," just remember it is the oil
that affords yon all the fnn, and turns
the hard and flinty grains into beauti
ful masses of oorn-staroh, not only
pleasing to look at, bnt a holesome to
eat.
Who would be a turkey hen,
Fed and fattened in a pen,
Killed and aat by hungry men—
Oh! who would be a turkey ken f
Farm, Harden aud* Household.
rital Lin.
l>r. 1. P. Trimble read s paper be
i fore the Farmers' CHnb as follow* :
" A few year* ago the apple orchards
near Newark, N. J., presented an ap
pearauoe similar to those blighted one*
so ofti-u described. The leaves first
curled, then became discolored, and
soon fell off, and also the young fruit.
Iu a little while a second crop of leaves
appeared, and the trees were not seri
ously injured, as there was not much
; return of the same trouble in the next
ior *ub*et|iifut seasons. The cause wa*
; a visitation of aphttltt, or plant lice.
| By examining the under side of the
young leave* they were found !o be
thickly studded with these minute
parasite#, feeding upon the sap, and, of
course, exhausting the vitality of the
trees. A similar effect may te observed
almost every year upon certain cherry
treos, making that crop in many places
very uncertain, and especially causing
the fruit to rot prematurely. Iu such
rases the stems of the cherries will be
found coated with these little sappers
and miners. Almost every plant has
| Its peculiar aphis, which occasionally
come in such numbers as to be injuri
ous. We have a black one on the grow
ing shoots of grapeviuea, a greeu one
ou rose bushes, black sticky ones on
' certain willows, s blue one on the
groeu-gsge plnm, and a brown one on
j <ata, sometimes destroying the crops.
The young clover of a neighborhood is
sometime* entirely killed by another
! species. Potato vines will be, at times,
* greatly injured a* to produce but
little crop, the leaves being twuted up
so as to be hardly known. Corn eropa,
too, are often seriously injured by a
species of plant louse which preys u|>on
the roots, especially in a cold season
when the corn ha* Eteen planted early.
Many people suppose, aud with a good
deal of reason, that the curl of the
peach leaf early in the spring is also
caused by s species of aphis working
at the roots of the trees. Nearly all
the species of apMties or plant lice in
crease moat iu the cool weather of
spring and fall, hot weather checking
them. The suphtne of a hot day will
kill them if exposed to its direct raja
1 have never noticed snch numbers of
warblers and other small birds in the
[ rpnug, when there was sue!: a visita
tion of plant lice in the apple orchards.
1 have killed a few of the bird* at this
fowison, and found them perfectly
gorged with these lice. A* to the
proper kinds of peaches and other
fruits to plant it w uid be beet to con
sult such works aa Downing, Thomas,
and others, where the list* are care
fully prepared. As to pear blight, some
varieties seem more liable to be affect
ed than others."
Iluwk><|>lu( lllat*.
KEXOVATIXO BLACK KlDS.— luk and
sweet oil mixed, two parte of ink to
one part of oil, will also make a nice
glossy blacking for glove kid boots.
Prepare a bottle of it, and attach a
small sponge to ttieoork, as is done in
"liquid blacking." The same varnish
touched on very gently to the white
tigs and scam* of worn black kid
glove*, will make a pair quite respect
able for either traveling or shopping.
To REMOVE WATER STAI*S rnov
BI.ACK I'HVPR —Wherever * drop of
water falls npon a black crape veil or
trimming, a c >nptcu<>ns white spot re
mains. To obliterate it, spread the
craj't- on a lap board or table, and place
some weight upon it ttt keep it steady.
Then slip a piece of old black silk un
der the stain; take a large camel's
hair brush, dipped in common black
ink, and paint out the white spot:
then wipe it off gently with a small
bit of soft old black silk ; it will dry
directly and entirely remove the staina.
BAKED PORK AMD BEANS.— This New
England dish lias been condemned by
those relormers of hygiene, who would
banish every particle of fat from our
diet; but, like other good things, tins
may be eaten with impunity by the
healthy. If preferred so, the pork
may be boiled one hour and a half,
aud then twked by itself in a hot oven.
The beans, after being parboiled twice,
and cooked till uearly done, can be
seasoned, put into the dripping-pan,
with bits of butter on top, and baked
iu the usual wsv.
PORK STEW. — In the pork barrel we
find some thin, lean pieces, and theme
make excellent stews. Have the slices
quite thick, cover with boiling water
for s few moments, pour that off, add
more and boil one bonr, when they are
ready fur the potatoes and a crust simi
lar to that we use for )>ot-piti. Take
one and n half cups of buttermilk, a
teaspoonfnl of sonr <Woam, two
even teaspoonfnls of saleram* and a
little salt. Mix the dongh a little stiffer
than for biacnit, roll out thinly and
out into bits an inch square. Slice
jx.tatocs crosswise and put in with the
meat, with water enough to cover them.
They will cook in twenty minutes.
Hteam the crnst over the same kettle,
and when done spread on a platter:
stir into the meat and potatoes a cup of
thin, sweet cream or rick milk, with a
a little pepper, aud, it ueoessary, salt
When it boils ponr the whole over the
crnst, and yon have a dish almost as
nice as chicken pot-pie.
t 'rlbblna In tlnrsr*.
Crib-biting or wind-nocking in horses
is due to a derangement of the stomach.
Filing the incisor teeth spart, in the
place of relieving pain, very often pro
duces it; and therefore, whenever it is
successful in preventing the animals
from indulging iu the habit—which is
but seldom—it is on account of the
soreness of the teeth occasioned by the
operation. To enable a horse to swal
low wind, it is necessary for the mus
cles of the neck to contract, and the
ouly object iu applying the teeth or
jaw* to the post or manger is to afford a
fulcrum for these muscles to act from.
Paper Sot Money.
Ficees of paper are not monev, was
one of the points of Prof. Price's
late address. Of credit, he said, there
is nothing in it that is substantial.
"Gentlemen," said the speaker, "he
is a dealer in credit who goes down ysur
street ami goes into one of vonr pretty
stores and orders a beautiful hat and a
pretty coat, and knows perfectly well
that he has not the means of paying for
them. That is a dealer in credit. The
meaning of tho word credit is unintel
ligible to me. It only means that a
man lias taken goods and has not paid
for them. Nations grow up by saving.
A nation grows greater by saving, and
the word saving means "to turn that
extra stock of things into capital, which
means to turn it into the power of mak
ing a larger supply of things next year.
This is the way nations grow rich.
Don't pnt all into carpets and aueh
thi: gs. That is not capital. But if
they ueed a large number of new fields
to grow more wheat; if they got more
ships; if they make more roads where
fluids were not cultivated because the
carts oonld not get at the fields ; if they
make docks so that more ships cau gt t
to them; these are the savings, aud
then all these things so saved produce
a larger quantity of things next jear.
and the nation has gTOwn richer, and if
the population baa not kept corre
sponding pace, there is more to divide.
TV*rm: S'-i.OO a Year, in Advance.
Butter Without Cow*.
The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Mtandard refers as follow* to s
new artiole of food in the French
capital : " I mu*t briefly allude to the
new butter, called Margarine Mount**.
If we—the world in general that ia—
rightly understand the j>n ceaa by which
this substance is macle approved by
analysis, adopted by the Oonncil of
Hygiene, authorised by the government
for army use, and taxed at one rate with
the genuine article—the end of all
thiaga must le at hand. This butter is
couiposetl of cream which never dwelt
in cow. As I understand, it is neither
lard, nor oil, nor grease of any sort,
whether animal, vegetable, or mineral.
It is made of 'things' in a chemist's
shop. Studying the process by which
green grass is transformed to milk, M.
Monries-Mege has pursued the task of
simplification until he can dispense
with the cow's unscientific nrooesses.
Was it not Lord Brougham who looked
forward to the time when chemist*
would be our only butchers, when, with
the help of s few powders, a furnace, a
speetroseojie, au i an elementary educa
tion, one would tnrn s truss of hay iuto
a beefsteak iu the back parlor f That
is what M. Mege professes to have
done, or something like it, fer batter,
aud hia brother sacanls ail declare the
result perfection. Though the proeeea
is but s year old, it employ* 400 men
in seven manufactories. The butter
to which that name'is not given by the
inventor, bat by the orfrfA officials - is
sold at about Lalf the price of the real
substance in which the oow ia not
avowedly ignored.
P(tf •• Food.
Would it not be wise to substitute
more eggs for meat iu our daily diet!
About one-third of the weight of an
egg is solid nutriment. This is more
than can be said of meat There are
no bones and tough pieces that have
to be laid aside. A good egg is made
up of ten parts shell, sixty parts white,
and thirty parts yolk. The white of an
egg contains eighty six per cent
water, the yolk fifty-two per cent The
average weight of an egg ia about two
ounces. Practically an egg is animal
food, and yet there is none of the dis
agreeable work of thebutcner necessary
to obtain it Eggs ars best when cook
ed four minutes. Thia takes sway the
animal taste that is offensive to some,
but does not so harden the white or
yolk as U make them hard to digest
An egg if cooked very hard ia difficult
of digestion, except by those with stout
stomachs • such eggs should be beaten
with bread and masticated very finely.
An excellent sandwich can be made
with eggs and brown broad. An egg
spread on toast is food fit for a king,
if kings deserve any better food than
anybody else, which is doubtful Fried
eggs are leas wholesome than boiled
ones. An egg dropped into hot water
is rot only a clean and handsome bnt a
delicious moraeL Moot people spoil
the taste of their eggs by adding pep
per and salt. A little sweet butter is
the beet dressing. Eggs eontain much
phosphornn, which is supposed to be
useful to those who use their brains
much.
The Bottle or Oil.
Onoe upon a time there lived an old
gentleman in a largo bouse. He hsd
servants and everything he wanted, yet
he was not happy ; and when things
did not go as he wished he was cross.
At last his servants left him. Quite
out of temper, he went to s neighbor
with a story of his distresses.
" It seems to me," satd the neighbor,
sagaciously, "it wonld be well for yon
to oil yourself a little."
" Tu oil myself r
"Yes, and 1 will explain. Borne time
a go one of the doors in my bouse
creaked. Nobody, therefore, liked to
go in or out by it." One day I oiled its
hmges, and "it has been oonstantly
used by everybody ever since."
" Then yon think I am like your
creaking door ?" cried the old gentle
man. " How do you want me to oil
myaelf?"
"That's an oasv matter," said the
neighbor. "Go home and engage a
servant, and when he does right, praise
him. If, on the contrary, he does
something amiss, do not lie cross ; oil
your voice aud words with the oil of
love."
The old gentleman went home, and
no harsh or ugly word was found m
his house afterwards. Every family
should have bottle of this precious
oil, for every family is liable to a creak -
iug hinge in the ahaps of s fretful dis
position, s cross temper, a harsh tone,
or a fault-finding spirit.
Aunt Patty, the Dwarf.
The story is told of two girls travel
ing with a theatrical company. They
bad been oared for by a maiden annt
Patty, who had raiied and educated
them. They were honest, pure girla,
though they were in the blonde-bnr
lesque business, and they told the wri
ter the story of their lives. She learned
to love that old Annt Patty,
When she went to England she fonnd
out the bnrlesquers, and they said how
much Annt Patty had wanted to see
her, and then the confession was made
that Anat Patty was a dwarf, who,
when the mother of the girls died, had
exhibited herself as a dwarf for four
teen years in the side-show of a men
agerie and circus to support those two
firla and three others, five nieces in all.
he writer's description of the old
dwsrf ended with a dash of feeling
which wonld hsve done credit to Dick
eus. " And thank God notone of those
five girls have failed in the devotion of
their lives to that Christian woman,
whose heart was as that of a giant
throbbing for those little ones in the
coarse casket of a dwarf." And again :
" I shall find Annt Pstty, that fearful
looking dwarf, in heaven as snrely a# I
shall not find some very good-looking
people whom I know very well on
earth."
Artful Breton lrl.
Yon often in Paris meet the Breton
lads, and instantly reoognize them by
the cnt of their hair. The girls, how
ever little, all wear white caps that con
ceal everv atom of hair, which, to
gether with their wide collars, give
them a vcrv quaint, old fashioned ap
pearance. The girls are very proud of
these same flapping, wide oollars, and
a wrinkle or crease wonld be very dis
tressing.
" Bnt," said our artist and rompag
noti de voyage," yon wonld think these
pretty giris had no lovers, for their col
lars are never rumpled, and it is gener
ally oonceded that a lover in the rnral
districts always implies tumbled carls
and collars. How do you s'pose they
manage ?"
" Do without the lover."
"By no means. They just slip their
bauds under their oollars and tarn them
np like a hedge about their ears. The
custom has been handed down from
mother to daughter until the meat un
sophisticated young girl of sixteen
knows how to'flip up her collar and
keep it smooth as well as the wisest,"
" How did you find this out?" we
ask, mnoh impressed with the amount
and character of his information.
" How did I find out ? Oh, yea, I
I waa told,"
NO. 47.
WAN HE, Oil WAN HE SOT J
A ftra*a* lMr* iSal 1 mm ia l a Irmm Ik.
1 irrglndrm.
The last strange story comes from
I Florida. During ths war Fred Halmv
inann left Tampa Bar and went into tbe
tangled reserves of the everglades. He
look with him bis wife and their young
est child, • boy Ave years old. The
wife and mother got separated in some
w%j from the two others, and luckily
happened to wander back to her home.
Throe years went by. The war was
over. The older sons had returned
from.service in the army and were
working the plantation. Daring ail
this time nothing had been heard of
the missing pair. . They were mourned
for an deed. One day, in the spring of
IH7, a man, apparently about thirty
years old, leading by the baud a boy
of five, ran joyously up to the veranda D
of the plantation house, and began a
series of violent kissing, of ths aged
mother. His demonstrations of affec
tion were interrupted by the scream* of
the old lady and the blows of the old
est sou. Both struck the intruder pain
fully. He tried to speak, but was
obliged to devote all his energies to
the task of finding a Ait spot to fall
upon.. He rose, bewildered and
bruised, just in time to be knocked
down again by younger sons and ne
groes, whom the sound of tbe acnflle
had called to tbe spot. As be fell,
something tumbled from the pooket of
his ragged coat It was a picture of the
widow. The dead planter bad aarried
it with him when he plunged into the j
swamps.
There was s general outcry, and a
demand 'or an explanation. The story
of the newoomer was, in brief, this :,
He was Fred. Halsemann. In hisl
wanderings through his vast hiding- '
place, he had fallen into a foaming
spring. When he clambered out, his '
son ran away, as if in fright. He ran !
after him with surprising speed. The j
child, when caught, screamed for its
father. It was long before he could
be persuaded that the young, fresh,
vigorous man who climbed out of the
pool was the aged, decrepit, white
haired man who had fallen into it a
moment before. The fattier himself
could not at first appreciate the change.
He saw that bis hsnds were ne longer .
wrinkled, that his beard was brown in- '
stead of gray, that his step eras firmer i
and his eye keener, but the suddenness
of the transformation dixxied him. He
had fallen into the Fountain of Youth <
which Ponce De Leon sought in vain i
amid the Florida swamps ! He hasten- !
ed lieck and plunged his son into tbe
spring. It was an unlucky deed. Tbe
tradition about the fountain has al
ways been that its wonderful waters
changed age to vigorous manhood and ;
made already-existent youth immutable
so long as fife lasted. Tbe tradition
? roved true. He had become young,
he son stayed so. The boy was five
years old when the potent water touch- j
ed him, and be showed no signs of
growth beyond that age, in mind or '
body, during the three years they 1
spent lost iu the labyrinth. They lived
mainly on alligator*, which when
young are very good eating. When
they killed an old one it was their cus
tom to plunge it, while a spark of lift
was atiii left, into the Fountain of
Youth, Thus it became young again,
and their fastidious palates wi re satis
fied. Finally after many rain attempts,
the two got out of the wilderness in
which they had been so long lost
They happened to come out near the
old home, and hastened to it
This ws the man's story. It is not
to be wondered at, perhaps, that he
told it to a circle of scoffers. The pic
ture was taken from him. His aecnrate
recollection of the life of the missing
! planter was accounted for on the hy
] potberi* thst he had met him in the
swamps and had heard the detail from
j his lif*. He wss accused of stealing
the picture. It began to be whispered
that he had probably murdered Halae
! maun. He was tola to go. He went,
taking the boy with him. He reap-
I peered, a week afterward, at Tamp*
alone. The child, be said, had died of
fright and want. He began suit for the
possession of the Ualaemann planta
tion. When the tfigl earn* off, be rest
ed Lis case on three points : the resem
blance of the boy to the child who had
disappeared in 1864; bis own ready
recollection of tne minu'ir of Halse
msnat life, and his ability to pilot
anybody to the Fountain of Ponce De
Leon. The first two points were ad
mitted, but the resemblance was at
tributed by tho defense to a chance co
incidence, and the knowledge of the
pa*t to a presumed intimacy between
the planter and the pretender while
both were lost in the everglades. When
men meet each other under such cir
cumstances, they tell everything. The
most trivial details are eagerly related
and beard for the sake of whihng away
the monotonous hours. So the argu
ment ran, fairly enough. The third
point was fiatiy denied. Acting on a
suggestion of the oourt, thb claimant
went with a large party in search of the
miraculous spring. After some weeks
of wandering, they came back without
having found it. Still, this failure did
not absolutely disprove the claim. The
most practiced woodsmen have often
gone astray in southern Florida. When
the case went to a jury, the latter dis
agreed. So did the next one impan
eled, and the next. The last of the
three, however, came very near giving
a verdict for the plaintiff. This was
mainly dne to the admirable manage
ment of his counsel. The claimant's
gratitude to Henderson, his counsel,
who was a candidate for Congress, wss
the indirect cause of his death. This
occurred on the 3d of November. Dur
ing s scuffle at the polls, where he was
distributing ballots, he was shot
through the body. Somebody lifted
his head. He gasped " I am—," and
died. The present possessors of the j
estate, whose title lias been settled by
his death, aver that at the last moment
remorse overtook him, and he tried to
say, " I am not Halsemann," but was
too weak to finish the sentenoe. On
the other hand, his friends declare that
with his last breath he asserted the jns- <
tiee of his claim by trying to say, " I
am Halsemann." This, however, is all I
oonjectura. The pazsle remains with- i
out an answer. Was he Halsemaun, or ,
was he some other man ?
Teaching the Qneen.
The London World has tsken to
teaching Queen Victoria good man
ners. Its first lesson touches the pro
prieties with regard to the visit to Eng
land of the Empress of Russia, and is
as follows : " Supposing yon were an
elderly lady and your son had married
the only daughter of the richest, grand
est and most important of yonr neigh
bors, by whom every possible attention,
had been shown to you and yonra ; and
supposing on the oocasion of yonr
daughter-in-law's confinement her
mother came from a long distanoe to
stay with her in her London house,
don't you think it would be merely
deoent and polite—we would say noth
ing of politic—behavior on yonr part
to come np from the far distant place,
where you persist in buiying yourself,
to the great confusion of the business
which it is your duty to discharge, and
show some personal civility to yonr
guest f"
Itens ef latarif*.
A pdtiee apart la Lawrence, **•"'
hud a fftthCWif*h*, •. •* daugh
ter together lor iatoxkkt"*®
Thft RUUr-!Trt#|>rftOOft Alliance of
California bM determined npon the
establishment of ft sold water qpoUtioal
party. . ..., *
The Oregon Legislature h|naw^
amomita^H^^
There ia ft ftmftrt woman in Knighto
iowa, lad. Hb oao put out a big waeb
• iog and get dinner while he* two
daughter* ftte pleyir* a fame of aro
q An editor says tb. only meson be
knows of why bis bouse w*i not blown
; awsy tbe other d*y, daring a severe
gsle, was becsuso there tu a beery
mortgage npon It
A Oeorgi* eftiwM tried to increase
' tbe weight of bis cotton by packing in
it ft lot of old iron—end now It ie nil be
nan do to raiae money to pay biairayont
of tbe penitentiary.
One man eaid of another who wee un
popular, and wae fearfully dilapidated
physioaily, that he looked as though
he were walking about the streets to
•are funeral exponas*. •
It ie aaserted bye well known chemiet
that moat wiU not putrefy in com
pressed air. and ereo when pnteafeetten
baa liegnn it may be arrested by planing
the meet In eompreeeed air.
Several oonrieta baring escaped from
tbe Jail at Weet Point. Mieeleeippi. the
judge of the oonnty eoart has tried the
experiment of patting the jailor into
one of tbe vacant cells.
If a penam in e boose on fe*|flMhf
preeenee of mind to apply e wJTwotb
to bis month or noetnls a passage can
be effected throogb the densest smoke
without any serious inconvenience.
"Can yon spare me fire minutesP*
said a friend, entering oar sanctum.
•• Not if two will answer your purpose,
we replied. He occupied but one, end
thanked us kindly for the intimation.
There are in tbe Catted States to-day
750,000 adult white men who can
neither read nor write, while of adult
white women in the earne illiterate con
dition the number amounts to 1,150,000.
A writer in the Montgomery (Al*.)
Advertiser ascribes the troubles at the
Booth to cheap shotguns, powder and
lead, He says tbe shooting of insec
tivorous birds has this year oost Ala
bama alone mora than $10,000,000 In
the ravages done by the cotton cater
pillar.
A gentleman at a public table, who
bad exercised his jew for some fifteen
nunates upon a small morsel of steak,
turned to a neighbor and aaid : "WW
a pity to kiU this animal." "Wbvr •
responded bia friend. *' Because," re
plied tbe other, "it would have made
such a good working animal."
In South Boston a building four
stories high, and covering an area of
four thousand squire feet **• raised
five feet from its foundation*. The
tenants were not disturbed, and no
machinery or merchandise had to be
removed. Forty men working with
four hundred powerful screws did the
job.
The Grangers and Sovereigns of In
dustry in Kansas are discussing the
raising of means conjointly for the con
struction of tanneries, oO milk, pkw
factories, etc., by which the skilled
labor of tbe order shall furnish tbe
producers of the others, and eke terse.
A considerable amount has been
pledged.
A man sent to jaß in Plainfldd, H. J.,
for lareeny, thought he would like to
write to his wife, and was permitted to
do so. This is what he wrote: " Dmr
Wife . If they keep me in the jail,
make them keep you tn the poor-house."
Unfortunately, that letter was not sent.
Her reply would have been interesting
reading.
A Bridgeport (Conn.) man, who wi
chopping wood, ueidtsttlij cut one of
his finger* badly, and u so fflru-oi
that be deliberately laid bit baud on
the chopping-block and chopped the
finger entirely oSL The hand, which,
but a few momenta before, had been
cold and numb, toon began to wins
up, end the man began to bowL
It ie told of e man poorly dteeaed,
that be went to church seeking an op
portunity to worship. The aahfflr did
not notice him, but seated, scrotal well
dressed persons who presented them •
selves, when finally the man addieeat I
the usher, saying, " Can you tell t e
whose church this ie T •• Tee, thi; ie
Christ's church.•' "Is he in?" was the
next question, after which a seat was
not so hard to find.
A liquor dealer ordered a barrel
whisky from Portland, Me., some time
tgo. TTMJ barrel came, was tapped, and
its content* freely drank of. By-and
bve a dance was given near by, and
such inroads were made upon the bar
rel that the fronting after the danoe
found it exhausted. That evening the
gentleman received a letter from the
Portland house from whom be had pur
chased, saying : Bend back the barrel
we sent you Let weak, it our expense,
immediately. By mistake we emit you
burning fluid instead of whisky."
Vrnpuloas Highwaymen.
A stage coach was stopped by hifb*
wsvmen in Northern Torn, way a Vir
ginia ty paper. While " goiog
through" the passengers, several of
whom were ladies, and one a preacher,
they protested that they were " gentle
men, and did not intend to molest any
of their victims who made "an honest
living." Under this head the preach*,
the ladies and the driver were classified,
and escaped being plundered. So
paoctilionaly scrnptilous were they in
their vocation that they refrained from
swearing while pursuing it They were
lacky in gathering in a rich spoil.
Thst feature of the affair which is par
tionlarly worthv of notice iw a letter
written by the gospel minister describ
ing toe robbery. It concludes in this
way: "They*were so polite toward
me that perhaps I should ssy no more.
Iteally, I did not know but they would
request me to pray for them ; and if I
had only had 'toy wits about me, I
should have asked them for a contribu
tion for Indian missions, as our cause
is suffering immensely for lack of funds
just at this time, and,l am sore they
have more greenbacks on hand than
they can use with oonvenien a * *
Should they see this, and I know they
read the papers, they will favor me
greatly (as one good turn deserves an
other) by forwarding by mail, to my
address, a hundred or more dollars for
the cause of Indian evangelisation."
Hind Pressures in the Human Chest.
The new Physical Society of London
seems to have extended its attention to
the dynamics ol physiological pheno
mena, Dr. Stone having recently read a
paper before it on wind pressures in
the human cheat during performance
on wind instruments. The author's ob
ject was to ascertain, first, what was
the extreme height of a oolnmn of wa
ter which could be supported by the
muscular act of expiration transmitted
by the lips. This was found to be
about six feet Second, what was the
actual pressure corresponding to the
full production of a note on each of the
principal wind instruments. It was
found that with the majority of instru
ments the pressure required for the
high notes is considerably greater than
that required for .the low not?*, each
instrument having a pressure ratio of
its own. The clarionet is an exception
to the rule.
Win MrRDiK. —Barney MoMahon,
living near Burkeville, Monroe county,
lIL, is under arrest for murdering his
wife and burning the body. The mur
der, it is charged, was committed on
Aug. Bth last, at whioh date Mrs. Mo
ld ah* a disappeared. For two weeks
afterward MoMahon had a log heap
burning, whioh emitted a terrible
stench. Suspicion being aroused, the
case was given into the hands of detec
tives, and the looation of the fixe being
plowed over, disclosed hair pins, bones
of the hand, and a fragment of the
BPter jaw.