The " Why M of a ltliuh.
Two maple* by the cottAgo porch
Ore* crimson in the onncot light;
\Vt> it thoir loaves' reflected glow
Wliioli made hor perfect foe oo bright ?
I led hr gently down tho *te|w.
And down tho put hour* dickering tdinde,
lint Mill o'er tender cheek end brow
The same deep radiance tnmly playeJ.
"Enough, oh eweet "' 1 whiopered low.
"That heart in mine 1 yearned to win;
K© aunset fluid), hot love* pure dawn.
Breaks from the kiialled ooul witluu 1"
Tho Voja#rOe
A3irOHLt\
O weary dave and night*. en Milt, ao .till—
The useloas isula hang Rapping Miff ami alow.
We jane and chafe, and set our helpless will
Iu vaiu revolt at w hat to change, to kuow
Is not for ti*. We hear the strong wind*
blow
And fret a* in the cart, the west, wo see
Urvat chips and email go sliding fast and free.
itairt.
0 fearful day* and night* so dark and
The .vrift iw unvk and leap on rv.rv
fide ;
Ko ruddor pi<x i> ; no ma*t nor *;\ar can hel 1 ,
We think no ear could hear us if we cried ;
We lluuk I Vol would not miss u. if we die 1 .
We feel forgotten, helpless. cost away ;
We ebut oar eves and do not even piay.
CX SUORK
O peaceful day*. and i<eaceful night* whoso
peace
tV'inct be uttered ' O green shares of life
Beyond the body ! Shall we ever cease
To enule that through such hot anil mil*
strife
We eanie ? That doubts and fears could grow
• w nfe ?
That we could tail to see how tlod's good hand
Oar anchorman and cur dnftiujpi planned .
RLIFINTH*S WEDDINtI.
. Rugged, saturnine and cynical as to
Appearance; crwblwxl, miserly and rcti
cent as to disposition; such was Blifluch
& Co.. gvnenil merchandise brokers and
provision dealers. Fiir Blitinch was
Blitinch, and Company also, the latter
attachment of the firm Wing purely fic
titious and designed pos&ibly lor eupho
ny—perhaps to give distinction to the
firm title.
lUitinch dwelt in a ratn-sliackle, tum
ble-down eld rookery in Pearl street, au
t-slaldiahutcnt which had come to him
strictly in the way of business, having
fallen into his clutches through the fore
closure of a mortgage, by which process
an estimable but impecunious family
were summarily ejected into the street
one raw November afternoon, from
which period they vanished out of man's
cognisance.
As t-iere could be found no tenant for
th c rookery Blitinch moved into it him
self, being enabled thereby to lease his
former dwelling place, in a more agreea
ble location, to excellent advantage.
Blitinch was as universally disliked
and contemned as it is possible for a
man to be. llis hardness at driving a
bargain, his want of charity—either
for frailty or misfortune—his atwolute
disregard for the customary amenities of
life; these peculiarities caused him to be
ah a tuied by all who vvere not driven to
intercourse with him through business
exigencies. Of these* latter, however,
there were very many, and his line of
trade was so successful in its competi
tion with the rent of the business world
that Blitinch lunl amassed no inconsid
erable amount of property, which was
aecurely invested ill the best possible
securities at profitable interest.
There was, however, in regard to Bli
finch on© single redeeming feature ; he
had a daughter—Polly Blitinch—whose
characteristics were in such marked con
trast to those of her father tlint thev
shed a halo of reflected brightness and
beanty over the latter which made even
the surly meanness of Blitinch seem less
obnoxious when she was by.
Poliy was by this time twenty years
old, and as sweetly-pretty a girl as one
would will to see. Her charms of dis-
C'tion seemed to have given a special
liness to her every expression, and
her amiability and kindness went far
n the estimate of those who knew both
t J atone for the rugged and unhandsome
protuberances of character which caused
Blitinch to be so disliked.
Of course Polly had many admirers;
for. though she was not permitted to see
any company whatever under the inhos
pitable roof which covered her gloomy
habitation, there were still ways anil
means innumerable by which she could
form companionships, and through which
these could grow into aff-vtionate inter
ests. But though many pleasing and
wholly unobjectionable young men
nought Polly from time to time with a
direct view to matrimonial results, these
efforts had been invariably unsuccessful
until a period about one year prior to
the date of the present narrative.
At that time Polly had made the ac
quaintance of a young sailor, then mat©
of a merchant vessel trading with the
West Indies, and who was the brother of
one of Polly's special frien.la. Constant
association with this mariner when be
was an shore, anJ as constantly listening
to his praises when he was at sea, had
at last their natural effects ; and when
Sam Collier proponed, just before sailing
on on* of his voyages, Polly consented
to b© his wife lie fore she hail given ULi
fincli's probable reception of th<- matter
a single thought. When, after tho first
transports of the position hail snbrided,
ah© did reflect upon her father's interest
in tb© important question, her spirits
went down with startling rapidity. In
deed, about five minutes of practical
consideration of the subject resulted iu
her conveying to her lover, with many
sobs sml tears, the unqualified certainty
that Blifisch would no more 1.-t th<-ro
marry than he would present his son-in
law presumptive with a new ship. Young
Collier was of a sanguine temperament,
however, hail a very good opinion of
himself, and had never seen old Blifineli;
so, of course, he hail no doubt on the
subj ct, and insisted on proceeding at
once to communicate with the "Cap
tain," as he brevetted Polly's father in
his reference to him.
Polly oonsented finally, as the shortest
way of surmounting the difficulty; and
that same evening Sam Collier made
his appearanr" at the rookery, and,
being introduced to Blifinch by his
daughter, then and there, and in the
most seamau-likc language, proceeded to
demand Polly's hand as an accompani
ment for her heart, of which ho claimed
present possession.
Blifineli heard him through quietly,
and then, turning to his daughter, said:
" Polly, is all this true that this
young man has lieen saying ?"
"Yes, father."
" And you want to marry him, do
you ?"
"If you please, father."
Blifinch meditated for abont two min
utes; then, turning to Collier, he said,
" You are mate of a ship, you toll me,
young man ?"
" Yes, sir," replied Collier, patterning
his replies after Polly's laconic style.
" How would you like to be captain of
a ship ?" said Blifineli.
" Very much," replied the sailor.
"Very well," continued Blifinch, re
turning as he spoke to some papers he
had been examining when he was inter
rupted, " Come to my store to-morrow
at no#:i. I will get you the appointment
of captain of a ship in which I am inter
ested; she sails next week for Callao.
If you make a good voyage on her, you
can marry my daughter—when yon come
back. Goodnight."
Polly turned pale and staggered visi
bly; Sam Collier's face brightened, and
seizing Blifinch by the hand he thanked
him effusively and the two left the room
together.
Saiiorlike, Sam thought nothing of an
extra voyage, and was fairly choked up
with delight at kis new dignity. Polly,
on tit-? contrary, foreboded all sorts of
evil ; and when a week later Sam sailed
Fill :D. KITUTZ, 1 Alitor and Proprietor.
VOL. VIII.
as captain of tho Ixtrk Polly l newly
chmtcued 1, ah nrraßilMvil herself to
tho gloomiest anticipations. 'These would
proWbly not have been lcsitentHl luul *lu>
heard a remark made by Hhtitteh as the
Rtrk left her tntHiring*. He wtu stand
uig ou the dock Uwide Polly, and as he
waved his hand for the last tune tot'apt.
Politer he said— under In* breath: " Yes,
you can marry tuy daughter, when you
come liack 1'
Four months pavscd. Ave, six and
the Polly put in uo ap|xwrance ; nor v.is
there word of her nor of C.ipt. Saiu
ucl Collier, her commander. 'I ho l<ark
was an old vessel which had barely e-s
caped condemnation after her previous
voyage bv a promise on the part of her
owners that site should lx thoroughly
overhauled and re tilted. She had ivr
taiuly been is>bbled up in aw ay and had
received a third class rating ; the liad
likewise lexni heavily insured with an
extra hazardous premium ; and when
seven and eight mouths had elapsed and
no tidings were heard of her, Blitinch
did not seem to see the matter in that
light
That Polly should grow |ale and care
worn, refuse sustenance, and tuojx* her
self alunv-t to dfth generally wan uo
matter of surprise to tlmsc wh • oKsorvcd
the phenomenon ; hot that Blifincli, who
WAS supposed to have no mure heart
than one of his own firkins of lard,
should turn dejected and nervous, haunt
the exchange for tidings of his ship,
sleep restlessly at night, and Uw* and
mutter with had dreams, as Polly
averred he did that tlus condition
shouhl oppress the hard-headed rn.ui of
business was curious indeed.
Perhaps had tliose who interested
themselves iu Blitinch's coudition of
mind seen him one afternoou about a
year from the late of the Polly's depart
ure from New York, and after the in
surance had leen duly jvuvl over, said
("apt. Sam Collier mourned as dead by
his many friends, and by the one go* 1
girl who loved him ami was dying for
him—hail Biifineh been stvu on this
occasion, new light would have beeu
thrown upon his untoward Is-havior.
For, sitting at his desk, with his head
bowed upon his hands, which clutched
his tangled gray hair miserably, the old
man moaned such phrases as these: " 1
did it! I killed him!—killed both ef
them, God forgive me ! I'm ruined now
and damned for hereafter ! Poor Polly !"
—and here Biifineh broke down aud wept
There was a tap at hia door, and a ciork
announced a visitor—a seafaring man,
he said, and Biifineh cursed him ami told
him to show the gentleman up, which he
did.
That evening Biifineh came to Pnllv,
as she sat by a dim fire in the sitting
room, brooding over her sorrow, and
called her:
" Polly."
" Yes. father," she said, quietly.
" I want yon to come to my wedding
to-morrow. '
•• Your wedding, father !"
"1 said ao; why should not I have a
wedding f Is there to lie no more mar
rying or giving in marriage because au
infernal, rotten 01. bark goes to the
bottom i"
" But this is so sudden, father," s-iid
Polly, gently.
" How do you know it is sudden I"
said Biifineh, savagely. " You must do
as I tell you and don't make remark* !
I want you to go to my wedding at t i
o'clock tomorrow. Gross up in your
best and I will take you. It is to I*-
at the ehajiol on the dock; do von hear?"
" Yes, father," said poor Polly. "I
hear, and I will be ready."
Biifineh went to bed, and Polly to
weeping, as was her nightly custom.
But at half-past nine the next n ruing
she was ready to accompany her father,
and the two walked arm in arm t > the
little mission chapel on die dock, n->t far
from the house. As they ei:t red the
door of the chapel Polly was met by a
mau who stood just in.si do and who sud
denly clasped her iu his anus, revealing
Captain Sam Collier in person. There
was displayed weeping, congratulations,
smiles and other evidences of feeling of
various kinds.
There were introduction* to a respect
able and amiable looking clergyman,
and there was a wedding.
, And when Polly, after twing duly mar
ried to Gapt. Sam Collier aforesaid,
asked her father at*mt "his wedding,"
Blifincli replitxl: "Isn't this my wed
ding? Isn't it my daughter and my son
in-law, and aren't they going to have uiv
money? My wedding!—l should say so,
rather."
And so it never came out that Biifineh
| had privately hi nil a man to scuttle the
bark Polly, sud Hint he had failed to do
| it because she sprung a leak oft" Cape
Horn and sunk without his assistance.
Sam Collier was taken ofT with the rest
by an English ship bound to Liverpool;
got wrecked again ; was carried half
round the world, while his communica
tions failed to connect -and all that
time Polly was dying of love and dis
appointment, and her father of re
morse.
Blifincli liecame a changed man ever
thereafter, and as charitable and lenient
as lie had before l>eeii hard-hearted and
miserly—alterations which the neighbors
always attributed facetiously to that ex
traordinary subterfuge known as " Bli
finch'a Wedding."
A Young Man's Ketengc
" Fay," writing of n Brooklyn young
person, sr.ys in a letter: One of the
girl's acquaintances gave n party to
which she invited quite a nnmlier of her
companions. A young man who lmd a
grudge against the girl called upon each
young lady and offered himself as an es
cort. To each he said: " Don't tell that
I am going to the party with you, for I
have a reason, which I will tell yon wlr n
I call." The girl# liad new dresses made,
and their heads were dressed by hair
dressers. Each one waited in vain for
her escort, and he did not call for any,
so that the party wan minus girls ; and
lie actually had the audacity to attend
the party, that lie might enjoy the dis
comfiture of the young hostess, who
perpetually wondered why so many staid
away. This sort of revenge was so new
and startling that I was anxious for par
ticulars as to the nnmlier of thrashings
the young villain got, but, to my regret,
was told that it was thought both a
funny and ingenious way oil giving tit
for tat.
A Great Farmer.
Col. Lee Jordan owns and cultivates
20,000 acres, in Georgia, tlio Atlanta
HeraUl says, tlio original cost of which
was $450,000. He has 800 lalxirern, but
is gradually adopting the tenant system.
He raises twice n much corn as he
needs. Six overseers superintend the
plantations, and raise from 1,400 to 2,000
bale® of cotton. No fertilizers are used,
as Col. Jordan believes them to lie pro
ductive of caterpillars. Formerly he
Xnt $12,000 per annum in guanos and
isphates, but now makes liis own ma
nure. Dr. H. H. Coleman does the
practice of the plantations on the follow
ing plan: He assesses each head of a
family $3 a year, whether he is rick or
not; and thus, by taxing each man
lightly, it is made burdensome on none.
He is a good physician, and says that it
is the healthiest country he ever saw.
Only two adults died last year out of over
a tnousand souls. The preaching is
done on the same plan. There is a col
ored preacher on a $3,000 salary, who
rides about the country in his two-horse
buggy, as happy as a prince.
THE CENTRE REPORTER
THE WAR IN mil.
Tlr oi M I i *• Tl*l to
• rrr.
T>> gain an idea of t'uKin warfare one
uuv follow 10 advantage the bits of uil
venture wlnch u vitluntoor ha# to nur
rate. Ho enlisted tis a volunteer. One
morning they were inIM tii arm* by
the sound i>f tiring owning front a dis
Unit hill. The uoise was as if a thou
sand t]Kirtuuo \*ere out for a battue.
Soon crowd* of mouuteii uien appear ou
the hill, ttil.t with the aid of tiehl
their movements lire watched. Tlietr
wear drea-se, f white canvas, mnl hohl
iti their hands sporting guns tun! pritm
tive K|H'nrs. A Kills of them surround*
it thatched hut, over the roof of which
a white lianuer, K-armg a strange de
vice, a silver star on a a.piare of republi
can red, is dilating. The volunteers
move toward the hut, hut tlnd it de
serted, with the exception of a decrepit,
half naked negro, who is made a oris
oner of war. The banner is takeu from
the roof and borne off in triumph by the
iMiniuiuider, Afterward two more pris
oners of war are made in the shape of a
couple of runaway negroes.
Though there li.nl been 110 encounter
with the enemy for the last few days, the
" losses " of the volunteers were not
inconsiderable. Many of them hadKvn
attacked by those terrible and invinci
ble foes—fever and dysentery. In fact,
two thirds of the force was thus put
Aon lb- combat. The colonel is in de
sjsiir, ami his soldiers utT-ct greut disap
lHiiuUneut at the unsuccessful issue.
When he orders the retnak some
twenty men come to the front and pro
pose to search the thickets. Tliey are
allowed to go, am! they plunge Wml
long into a d nse piece of wivmls. For
an hour is heard an incessant tiring, and
finally the volunteers emerge from a dis
tant jsirt of the thicket. More than
half of them are wounded, and the ri • I
lead K-tween them no less than time
prisoners of war. These are veritable
reiiels. Two of them tire whites and are
seriously maimed; tlie third is a mulatto
youth of not more tliaa sixteen years.
I'hey are attired in brown hollaml
blouses, white trousers, buff-colored
shin-s, and straw hats.
The mulatto loy, who is only slightly
wounded, is bouud hand and foot with
strong cords, and consigned to the care
of the soldiers. The otlier two nnfor
tuuab-s lie groaning in agonv ou tlie
ground, but are brutally seised by some
of the volunteers, who maltreat them in
a shocking manner, and stab them to
death with the points of their Imvouets!
When the volunteers reach tlie con
fin. s of the town again, tliey are met by
the governor, accompanied by a stiff of
officers, and a baud of music. An ox
curt i < procured, the dead and tlie rebel
banner ore placed uj>n it, a procession
is formed, and a hymn of victory is
played in honor of their trinmjihant re
turn. and. as th.-y march througli tlie
streets, the iuhnhitonts welcome them
fr.-iu their houses, quickly decorated
with liauiiera, blankets, and piecsw of
dugget, with loud chew and " i iro* ."
Next day tho jwjieni give a thrilling
d-wcrijiti'm of what might have lie.n
achieved, if the enemy had been eu
co.int rel in the open field.
Among the Mormon*.
Tl> ■ approaching trial of le-e, the
Mormon prophet, cliargisl with l*<iug
engagi-d in the Mountain Meadow ir.an
sacru, in I'tah, draws ntar, and u oonv
ajH.iui< lit scivin the Mormon* arc pre
paring for some startling development*.
It i s J question, he any#, that ii<>t
only were obnoxious Gentile* put out of
t!i 1 way in Salt Like t'ltv without any
trial, hut even many of the brethren "
were watched when out of doors anil
quietly led to a ] lise® convenient for
butel- ry, and Uiere'tad there "throats
cut f<-r the double purpo-e of keeping
th ira from "opv>*ing tl: kingdom"
a.. 1 atoning for tin ir ems of unbelief. It
i aid "f Lif li..ight, who was the
lieutenant colonel of the militia rcgi
ineut that ooaiuuttc-1 the massacre at
Mountain Mead ws, that he grew HO fa
natical and was so far removed from any
sujierviaory authority that he did as lie
pleased and diH]K:<ed of the live.'of tlio
obnoxious with all the frr losn of a
dog" of Venice. In th® little town of
('"ilar, the headquarters of his militia,
he is said t > liave k-pt two of th- bri th
ren— Stewart and MacfarUne for tliat
sjHvinl [inrposp, and to aid at odd times
in harassing and stealing from the pa*s
ing immigrant Gentiles.
No fewer than ten men were taken
down into the cellar la-Heath Haight's
house, and from there they never eame
out alive, and the only answer that was
ever made to nnv inquiry about n miss
ing person in thorn- days was th® ln
eonie sentence, " He lias gone to Cali
fornia "
To listen to the tales that are now
told by men and women of the early
times of blood one feels carried away
in reflection to dark ages and liar baric
nations, and it is this history that Brig
hata Young has good cause to dread
Ix-ing brought to light in the forthcom
ing investigation of th® Mountain
M<*ulow massacre, and Ido not sec how
h can prevent its exposure.
The investigation, when once liegun,
will be like the letting out of water—
the dam, oree pierced, the breech will
widen and widen until it all is out, and
the revelations of crime will startle the
nation. Its ultimate result will be the
breaking down of a fearful superstition
and despotism and th® deliverance of a
people who deserve to bo free.
Savings Bunks..
The summary of tlio reports of nil the
savings 1 tanks of Now York State, num
bering en Jnnttary 1, 1 875, 158, presents
some suggestive figures. Tile t 'till ro
nonrces on January 1, 1875, an compared
with those of tho same ilnto in 1874,
show an increase of $20,5184,8-12. The
amount deposited in 187-1 was $159,620,-
567; in 1874, $150,900,959. The amount
withdrawn in 1873 was $175,375,532; in
1874, $148,741,211. A still more sugges
tive statement is that in 1873 the savings
hanks allowed $14,158,075 to lie in hanks
and trust companion unemployed, and
that in 1874 this idle capital had grown
to $19,.'100,085 —an increase of $5,142,-
010.
Thre in an impression quite widely
prevalent that the savings hanks hnvo in
their jMissession vast sums of money
left with them by do|x>aitorn who t ever
have called for it and never will. An in
vestigation jint completed hy the Hank
deportment shown that the unclaimed
dejiosita of the savings hanks of New
York State have heen greatly overesti
mated. The whole amount of deposits
unclaimed for twenty years and upward
is only $310,656.60, and the whole
amount unelnimed for ten years and less
than twenty is only $538,188.12.
No! With That.
A colored man entered an Alexandria
barher shop and demanded a shave.
The proprietor seated him in ordinary
chair. Ileing seated he was lathered.
The barher then, after rummaging in a
chest, produced what must have lieen the
father of all razors, and commenced
stropping it vigorously. The customer,
half blinded by the soap, seeing him
liandling the small scythe, asked what he
was going to do with it, and when told
that he was going to shave him with it,
said he wouldn't be shaved by any such
thing, and hastily rising, seized a towel,
wiped his face and left the shop.
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., IA., THURSDAY, APRIL 15, 1875.
Natural HUtui j lu Our Public School*.
Professor Triiuay, of Williaiua Col
lego, publish.* mi interesting article on
the importance of teaching natural his
tory iu public schools. From it we ex
tract the following:
No language can hardly exaggerate
the uu|K>rtaiuvof nstund history studies,
and the uu|H>rtaitoc of teaching tho eh
meuts of these studies early, even to
children in the primary schools, as well
a, to those iu the sehools of high.-r
grades. Aud 1 have not alluded, by
name, to the fact that all the
great problems n-lativu to sup
plying the world with glass uml
all grades of earthenware with c*nd
tuid iron with lead iunl tin and cojqier
—with gold and silver and precious
stones with grain for br*ail witli food
tlsh from the streams and the lakes, and
even from the ocean itself with the flesh
of fowl and of cattle arc connected to
day, most intimately, with nutund his
tory studies, and will bo more so with
every increasing year, with every added
million to the population of the earth,
and with every rtal or imaginary physi
cal want.
Nor have 1 alluded to the fact that in
every country, our own as well us ofherw,
nullum* upon miliions of dollars' worth
of grain are destroyed bv insects every
year, both ill the fields and in the
granary, and that, if this animal de
struetiou ever cease*, as it protiably will
ts-ase, or ut least lie much übate.l, it will
le mainly thr-ugli remedies or proven
tires which will ooiue from a more ex
tensive knowledge of the insect trita-.s;
and the ls>v who is catching and study
ing butt, rriiea uii.l other insects to .lay
may become the man who through his
knowledge of natural history sliall save
the farmers of this great nation millions
of bushels of gnuu in a single year and
|M-rha|is a nation fiorn want, and even
from famine itself.
What one mau can do who has been
trained infclieelemeuts of natural history,
au.l thus led to the careful study of nature,
is w.-ll illustrute.i by what lias ls-on done
by such n nuui us l.inna-us, or such a
mau as l'asteur, or such aa many other*
who might le named, and who*.- history
has already lwsn written, and witii
whose valuable l.ils>rs we are already
familiar.
Many will jverhsp* remember that it i*
recorded that when the King of Sweden
saw the ship timber in the royal dock
yard going to decay and destruction, he
consulted Linna-us, hoping through him
to learn the cans.- of the destruction,
au.l alao a remedy or preventive; and ho
was not disapjHiinted as to wliat he
would know. Liimnui* traced the tie
ntructiou of thetimbersto insect*, learned
their instincts and habits; and by >li
rooting the king to have the tunlsTA
sunk l'U-ftth the water at a certain s-a
son of th>* y.-ar, wheu these insects are
abroad in the winged state nu.l when
they lay their eggs, he enabled him to
prevent further waste. And who can
t.-ll the millions of dollars tlial have
t*s-n saved to maritime nation* by Una
simple direction which Litiiiirus gave to
the King of Sweden 1 And it waa Lin
metis, who lut.i studietl the nature and
habits of jlatits, who first taught the
nations how t resist the encroachment*
of the sea by merely sowing a certain
Rpeciesof beach gran* (ururufo arrnaria)
which served to cover the sands snd
bind them iu their places; and to this
day Holland and other nations of the
earth have |rofit-d bv his b-a filing.
A few years ago, when the nlk culture
of France was crippled and apparently
in danger of being wholly annihilated,
by the disease of the silk worm known
a* jKbrtnr, when France lirnl l.ist by
this maiatly more than two hundred mil
lioiis of dollar*, the French government
invoked the aid of Pasteur, a student of
nature, hoping thereby to learn both tlie
true nature of the disease and a remedy
or a jlll vi-uiive; and the aid was not in
vokr.i in vain. He *aied, directly and
indirectly, millions of dollar* which we
can lfard'lv estimate. And all this done,
and all this saved, I *ay, by one man. a
careful student of nature, and just such
a < uc as should be growing up iu every
school room iu our country.
The Crops of 1871.
Mr. 11. Dodge, tho statistician of tho
United State* bureau of agriculture,
give* tho footings of his forthcoming
.tat- nu-nt of the crops of 1871, as fol
lows:
On tlm i*t of January, 1574, the num
ber of swine of all ages in the I'nit d
States aggregated nearly 31,000,000, as
deduced from returns >f country corru
spondents,of which fully 17,000,000 were
in the eight State* of ths Ohio and Mis
•soiiri valleys. In September last re
turns were received snowing the com
parative numbers ami condition of fat
tening hogs. A decline from the amount
of stock fattening iu September of the
previous year was reported in every
western Slate, amounting to twenty-four
per cent, in Kentucky, thirb en in Ohio,
eight in Michigan, seventeen in Indiana,
fifteen in Illinois, fifteen in lowa, seven
teen in Missouri, and twenty in Kansns ;
in theao ei'.'ht States the nvurage dirlinr
from last year lieing seventeen |>er cent.
Their condition a. Mint date was also
low, the depreciation below a fair aver
age being eleven ]>er cent. Tin- returns
were very full, ami these deductions
doubtless represent with reasonable ac
curacy the status of swine fattening. In
September last ft preliminary estimate of
crops makes the principal aggregate as
follows: Com, 81'2,000,0(1(1 bushels ;
wheat, 290,000,00(1 bushels; oats, 270,-
000,000 bushels ; barley, 32,000,000
bushels ; potatoes, 105,000,000 bushels ;
hay, 25,000,000.
Cooked or I'neooked Food.
It has Iwen practically demonstrated
that food, when cooked and fed for the
purpose of fattening nit animal, will
make more flesh than uncooked food,
for the rixiaon that it is easier digested
ami also is more readily assimilated into
the system; but there i-i this difference
when the cooked food is fed for some
time to animals that are not intended
for the shambles, that it does not bring
into action in a natural wnv the diges
tive powers, and thus it will lie under
stood that natural food, when fixl to the
animal creation, is lest adapted to keep
in plav the bodily functions, and to pro
mote health and increase the longevity
of animal existence.
In stock raising it is vitally important
to feed food in its natural state where
such stock is intended for breeding
purposes, and the continuance in the
same line of the same method of feed
ing, for the object of securing the best
developed animals, ami, therefore, it is
an essential principle that should l>e fol
lowed, for on this hinges one of the ab
solute conditions to the rearing of fine
stocks of superiorly formed and consti
tuted animals.
Ynmber of Person* Employed.
By the census of 1870 it was shown
that in the United States 11,155,240 jier
sons, twenty years of age and upward,
were returned according to occupations.
Of this niunlier 2,500,189 were engnged
in manufactures and mining, being a
gain of twenty-eight per cent, since
18(50, or live and one-half per cent,
more than the ratio of decennial in
crease in population. The number em
ployed in agriculture was at the same
time returned at 5,151,767, and in trade
and transportation at 1,117,928.
WOMEN IN KNULISH WOKKHOINIX
!!•% itar KutflUfti I he —Umui r
ai lite >Ir It baaur I clou.
The task of ams-rtainiiig what wouwu
do ill workhouses, atiYa tile London
,V 111, ajqa-Ui-S suddeuly WUTUWed Oil
entering one of ihe long rooms at' Mary
leboiie workliouae, and discovering what
class of women it is thut chiefly jMipulate
these inetrojNihlan houses of refuge.
The room, iu addition to liemg long, is
lofty, well lighted, appareutljr well ven
tilated, and certainly very wariu. ltun
niiig through throe quarters of the
length of tho room, ly either wall, are
rows of little I nils, forty in all, and up iu
the far corner is visible an old lady far
advanced in the preliminary prepare
tiona for retiring to rest, albeit it is only
half past four o'clock. Hut the majonty
of tho oceupauta of the room ore seated
at tables at the rear end, ou to which tlie
doors ojieu, and by which a great fir. is
burning iu u bright stove. Not one is
under sixty veors of age, many are over
seventy, eigiity is by no means a rur
age, and there are some who have jui/*.. d
four-score y uns and ten. It ia evident
that these wrinkled women, with their
skinny lunula, bent Iweks, and wheexiug
breath, xui do nothing that might come
under a record of active life. It seems
that death lias forgotU n tlu m, and that
they are silting here in the firelight
waiting to lie called for, olid are, in the
meantime, drinking aa much wurtn t>u
as the rrguLtioiis of the Istard of guar
dions will jiermit. "1 suppose death
comes for them, jHsir Umigs, when he
has a sjiare miutiil from attending ou
1 u-tter folks," a young lady philosophic
ally remarked in reply Ui a casual olvser
vatioii on tho extreme old age of some
of the inmates. She was sittiug on ilie
curbstone in tho covered cart entrance to
the courtyard, iu company with another
young la.lv, who confessed to l-iug
•• seventy-tlve come Michaelmas." They
were both rigorously puffing at short
clav pijs-s, arid sat here because it waa
ratiier damp in the exercise vor.l. and
smoking is not jwriuitU-d on tlie jirem
ises.
At six o'clock in summer, and at C .45
in the winter, the liell rings, and the old
ladiea begin their toilet. At 7:30 break
fast is served, consisting of five ounces
of bread end a pint and a lutlf of gruel
oue week, and four ounces of bread an.!
a pint of cocoa the next, and so on in
regular alternation. At 12-10 dinner is
announced. Ou Sunday tlie bill of fare
comprises five ounces of boiled beef au.l
half a pound of vegetables, stewed beef
being snlmtitutol once a month whence
it may tie noted, iwir tntrt tifhr*r, it fol
lows tliat in social or lib rary intercourse
the workhouse population use the term
"dtveil-M day," where the outside
w .rid would say "red-letter ilay." Ou
Monday they dine off four ounces of
broad and a pint and a half of soup; on
Tuesday l*-.-f or lIO.MII appear* on tie-
Is sir.l. being served out in live ounce
portions, with half a imtinJ .if vege
table*; ou Wednesday, bread an.l soup
again; on Thumiay, HU OUMUI of bri-0.1,
two onncea of cheese, and "an onion,
lettuce, or otlier vegetable;" on Friday,
le f and jKitntor*; and on Hatunlay the
bill of fan- l* reduced to the sweot aim
plicity of suet pudding, of which every
one gets one pound svoinlujiois. On
Sundays, Tuesilavs, and Fridavs supjs-r,
whteli is ordainisi to be servei'l at ft -W),
consists of five ounce* of brea.l and a
pint snd s lialf of broth; on the remain
ing days of the week an ounce of cheese
is served with the bread in jilace of tlie
broth. This is tlie regulation faw: but
each inmate over sixty years of age, that
is to *ay, the larger proportion of the
women at Marylelsnte, may have for
breakfast an.l *npj**r a j'int of tea, half
an ounce of sugar, and lialf an ounce of
butter, iu lieu of the gruel, the cheese,
or tlie broth. At eight o'clock tlw ls-11
ring* bedtime, but, a* a matter of fart,
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas, the master and
matron, while maintaining necessary
discipline with a tiriu hand, manage to
mingle much O'DUI'IMWI with their treat
ment of.tlw* <>!> l jicoplfl, ami haw them
a considerable latitude in tin* nutki of
heir movement*. This specially ioilurM
n good deal of eccentricity in the matter
of going to bed. From five to ftix wvtiw
rather a (tsliioMble hour of retiring for
the night, particularly thwe lnrk cll
day*. Hut Mine ago,l female* liegin
looking out their night rap* t four
o'clock in the uftcrmxiD, take their tea
in l*xl, and tlien lajise into ft pmfounder
state of somnolency than that in which
they hare been peering al*>ut th< ir nor
row world since they iuul their first tea
in the morning.
The women who fill the workhouse*
may be rotighlv divided into three
clause*—those who arc too old to earn
their living, nnd hftre no friends able
or trilling to keep them; those who are
hopelessly handicapped with a family
of young children, and single women
who enter " the house " to lx> confined.
Amongst tlie few really able bodied ma
iers 1 *nw on the women's side at Mary
lebone was a respectable, hard-working
]tcrnon who was here, and had been here
for maiir month, lsxnn.se she luul five
young children whom she could not
maintain by her own labor outside. The
numlxw of girls, chiefly domestic ser
vjiida who flee to the workhouse to give
birth to illegitimate children, is n seri
ous item in the parish lalAiiee-sheot.
The average in a vear for thi* single
workhouse is three hundred. Another
clans of inmates, thaugli their reception
is only temporary and they are passed
on a* asm as possible to the school at
rtotithall, is the foundling. I made the
acquaintance of sn odd little woman who
toddled into the workhouso sixteen
years ng<> led by a friendly policeman
who found b*r wandering nlxmt the
streets, and briefly summed up her his
tory in the formula, "Father dead; de
serted by mother." Emilv is now in
her nineteenth year, nnd ha* grown to
le as tall as four feet nothing. She is
a very willing good-natured girl, but is
hopelessly nf Hie ted with a blank mem
ory. The old women call her ' 4 Whne
key Emily," " Whackey " being a word
used in Marylelxine circle* to hint that
somebody is not endowed with as full a
measure of intelligence as the rest of us.
Amongst her favorites in the nursery,
before its removal to the school, was an
other foundling whose history is not
without a spire of romance. The little
thing, aged three years, was found at
ten o'clock on the night of June 2N,
1H72, wandering alxiut Cavendish square,
tottering under the weight of a framed
and colored photograph alsmt eighteen
inches long by one foot broad. The jxr
trait represent* a tall, well-dressed gen
tleman leaning in an easy nttitude against
a library table. All that has ever lx*cn
ascertained respecting this little waif is
tlint the tnll gentleman is its fnther, who
deserted the unmanned mother, and she
in her turn deseited the child, endowing
it, as sole fortune, with a framed ami
colored photograph of it* father.
Measured Bit.
It is old, but good : In early days, say
1850 and 1851, Lieut. Derby, United
States army, familiarily known as
" I'hcenix," took passage for San Diego.
Derby, advancing to Cnpt. Bob Haley,
asked" the price of passage, to which the
answer came: "Sixty-five dollars."
Derby—"Captain Haley, what is the
freight on lumber i" (which was worth
8100 per 1,000 feet.) Captain—" Fifty
dollars per thousand." Derby (who
was on deck and a small man) —" Well,
Captain Haley, as the freight on lumber
is less than passage rate measure me, for
I am a board."
The Last Hold King,
The UUtorv of Well lrwt present* uo
exact parallel t.i the gold pool which hue
f Into controlled the market. There
lmve Ih en hundreiU of combinations in
■t.H-kn and gold, BUY* U New York city
jni|>er, hut three have generally run on
a heavy credit ayateiu, while the gold
pool, aa far aa can he ascertained, in
engineered ou a purely caali baai*. In
the lucking up of gold hitherto the prac
tice of the cliques lraa been to make
their original purcliaae of cash gold,
pledge it aa collateral fur a hour of green
hack*, buy more gold, pledge thin ill
turn for greenbacks, and ao on iii.b-fm
itcly. Hut in thia cane the coiubuiatiou
in a hat Wall ntrect men call "aulid."
It rnuven but leaven no trail, fluid i*
taken from the nlreet by the milliou, and
•iinuppeara mysteriously; still tltoae who
hope to Bee it turn Up ill the louika ore
diap|Mtiiited. It in never hypothecated
with the 1 sinks, it duen not find ita way
Uick to the ntreet; it in hidden from
niiilit. More tlum thia, the operation of
withdrawing gold from the market ia
slowly ami mysteriously going on every
day. The premium in advanced jaunt
by |M>int at the will of the pool, and cash
gold, llt-edcd for business pur)*uaca, can
ie bought or borrowed oulv from iln
agents and at iln own rat.*., \V:dl atreet
never wan no myatilied. In former poult
there wan always something upon which
to form an accurate judgment, but in
tlna there in nothing calculated to
definitely point out the ftrrinit'U of the
olique. The street ia full of rumors and
gossip, hut when ail inquirer tries to pin
hm informer down to aolnl fact he finds
that moot of his statements are foumhxl
U)K>II conjectures more or lean justified
by circumstances.
Thin much is conceded, however, on
all Bides, that ttie JHXiI in one of the
strongest, and by long odds tlie moat
shrewdly managed of any iu the history
of monetary gambling. It wan formed
when gold was aelling between 112 and
ll.'l, Iml *o quietly were its movements
conducted that it waa many days before
the outside operators were svraru of its
magnitude. Point by jioiiit it went up.
Now and then indications were thrown
out by the artful manager* of a tendency
to weakness. Then the I tears came iu
with a rush, and the result wan junt what
the clique wanted—the fonaatiou of a
heavy short interest ll.il.iuig nearly all
the caah gold, the clique fixed its own
rates of interest, aqoeesing the shorts
on one occasion to the tune of one-fourth
jwr omit, jar diem. Knowing tliat any
sudden news of movement on their [art
might prompt the interference of tho
government, which killed the famous
lilack Friday combination, the managers
worked slowly, but surely, strengthening
their jXNUtion .lay bv day. Tlie scarcity
of gold and the condition of the finances
and mercantile affairs favored them, and
besides this their members wen* men of
inunenae resources.
'llie affair was conducted so closely
that even Wall street .ld not know who
was in it. It only knew that gold aa
as it was offered was taken, am) from
that moment .liaapiieared from the mar
ket. At an early .lay over 815,000,0110
was thus held.
X Tough Engagement.
The C*rlilo (IVnn.) Herald ww :
Mr. lavcrtv, of Kat lVanoboro',
living n.*r Booarr's mill, ws lately very
much annoyed by rat*. which carried > tf
his eggs wild uiadc sad work with hia
coru ui U>< % crih mid tln-n mvadsl hin
granary and commenced ilMtruriof a bin
of wloat. Mr. lavertv, on examination,
foutul there was but one place where the
rats pot in. He therefore r<-solved to
kill the rat* by an artifice well worthy
of the cause. He stewed corn meal
Ills-rally on the floor of the granary, and
alKiut one hour later he muled the hole
shut; he then called his dog (a Spanish
terrier) ami armed witli a club went
forth to battle. Now the door of the
granary is fastened by a long wooden
latch extending full across the door and
ran only Iw ojiened from the outside,
and Mr. laverty on enu ring the granary
drew the door shnt an.l heard the latch
fall. He I hen thought the enemy was
his, but this was an error, for the rats
were more numerous thou l.ie expected,
ami. finding no way of eaca|M>, attacked
both Mr. Laverty and his dog with
great fury. Mr. laverty laid on his
blows liard and fasl, and one blow, aimed
at a rat, unfortunately hit the dog on the
head and killed him. Mr. Laverty,
Inns deprivisl of his faithful ally, would
liave fled, but could not. He then cum
in. load calling for help; the rats mean
while kept skirmishing around liia legs,
rnu lip his Issly, bit bis hiuula, and one,
bolder than the rest, bit his nose. It is
impossible to say wlmt the result of this
unequal contest would have been, had
not a passing neiglilsir, attracted by the
uoiae and m.s, gone to the relief of Mr.
larcitr, who presented n shocking spec
taclc. his faoi- and hands bloody, and
his clothing torn into shreds. Mr.
Laverty being washed and rehabilitated,
sal down to reflect, when lie luckily hit
on a letter plan of warfare. He went
and Immured twelve rata, which with
his own made fifteen; these lie, in the
evening, shut tip in his granary with the
rata, and the next morning lie found,
on examination, ten dead rata, one blind
one, and two with one eye apiece. The
remaining two were unhurt, and by
actual count he found 119 dead rnts; of
the dead dog there was nothing left but
the bonea nnd hair, the rata doubtless
having eaten him while Mr. Laverty WHS
hunting cats.
X Contented Editor.
The following story will nerve to il
lustrate at once the character of Mr.
Black (who died in 1855) and the posi
tion of the Chrnniclr in its palmy dnv* :
Mr. Black TO a (treat favorite with
I mrd Melbourne when the latter was
Prime Minister. His lordship esteemed
him, not only for his groat hsuming, his
wonderfnl memory, his apt illustration
of every topie of discourse by Ml ap
parently inexhaustible fund of anecdote
derived from the most recondite sonrce-s,
but for liin siuiplieity and ttonhotnie.
John Black was a modern l>iogene* in
everything but his ill nature. On one
oci-asion Lord Melbourne said to him :
"Mr. Black, yon are the only |er*on
who eomes to see me who forgot* who
I am."
The editor opened his eyes with as
tonishment.
" Yon forget tlwt I ain Prime Min
ister."
Mr. Hlaek was about to npologizr,
but the Premier continued, " Everybody
elm- bikes esjiooial eare to rememlier it,
but I wish tliey would forget it; they
onlv rememlH-r it to ask me fsr place
ami fnvors. Vow, Mr. Black," added
his lordship, "you never ask me for
nnything, and I wish you would; for, se
riously, 1 should le most happy to do
anything to serve you."
" I am truly obliged," said Mr.
Black, " but I don't want anything. 1
am editor of the Morning Chronicle. 1
like my business, and I live happily on
my income."
"Then, by heaven," said the peer,
" I envv you; aud you're the only man
I ever dill."
Saiil a mutual frieud to the young wife
of nn old gentleman; " You would pity
your huslmnd if you saw him tearing his
hair. Come, send him ono gentle word
by me. What shall I say to him?" "Tell
him only to tear out the white ones."
TCTJIIW : #2.00 a Year, in Advance.
Stagv-Mtrnrk UlrU.
Two girls, aged about iiiUi und Tkr was once a boar, aayi Paul
eighteen years respectively, were arrest Fort, in St. S'tchola*. who wan vary
ad iu the wotcrii wrtiuu of ltolUutro lonely (la Foutsme toll* about bin iu
Tlie arrests wore kept a* quiet aa poaai rnir of his fables), and aa he grewsolder
bh- by the polios in ouuaoqueuce of the lie began to foal tiiat Ida solitary lot waa
desire of the gill*' jareuts, who live iu too much for him to bear. He had uo
Philadelphia, to liave their name* with- wife, uo children, no parents. The
held. It MWIIUI that a few weeks ago larger animal* generally avoided him,
these girls left their hotuea in Philadel and aa for the smaller creatures, such as
jihia HI the inoruutg to attend the nor tab bit* and little pig*, they would liave
mal school, where they were pupils. Aa uotliing whatever to do with him if tLey
they did uot return in the afternoon could help it He hail
their parents lioraiue unxioua alout Ho MM to leva woaa to caraaa,
them aud made inquiries, which elicited om j grtm
the fa*t that they liad uot been present many miles from the mountaiu on
at the school sesatou that dv. This w !iich the bear lived was the houae of a
waa tlie most remarkable aa they were who waa in very much the itramtr
among the most regularly attending and ( . <m<utjon . He had a comfortable borne,
furthest advanced scholars. Late in the and shad*-trees, and pillar*
evening the father of one of the girls, a Idoovee, with statues of Haturu and
prominent clergyman, received a nob- J|t< . r the real of the heathen god*,
from hia daughter atatUlg that she and Uk-s on wluch swana glided about,
her com | sum HI hail left the city with the i j n y,,, mjlll WM „ T(fr mt
mU-iitioti of goiug oil the Stage. Hhe „ff than the b.-ar, who had almost
said they had Iw-ooiue tired 1 4 the all; but he waa not ltappy.
humdrum moootooy of arhool life and u. too. had no wife, or dul l, or
wanted to sr* the world; they ha-1 talent ]MU .,. IIU . H„ {, JT oompsnionsMp
and would no doubt be saew—fit! and mmm OIM) into whose ear be coul.l j*mr
earn a good living, thereby I icving y, WJlTUfrs ud om. on
"If nue from the bunlen of their nupport. w hoac heart he could loiungiy lean,
rite father of the other girl, who l* a OtM , wlM>a VUM out w>|w.p be
wealthi retired liquor dealer, was in- f*wr. At tin- same instant the
formed, and the matter waa plaeivi ui idea struck each of these iudi
the lunula of detectives. Jlie girls had vulu als. Eftdl said to himself:
for a year or mure shown gn at aptitude •• ]'. rhape I lmve at last met my
in fiuguig and declamation, and were friend ''
qui to prejvMesng in apjsmnuioe. After a few words of ordinary aaluta
r nun ad that can be learned it npjiear* y (>u became quits at their ease, and
tliat the giris applied to a well known WM)U U p „ very pleasant acquain
l heatrical manager ui lialtim<re for as they walkt-d b <g-ther through
subordinate positions in buitoak com- yn. wood,
pauy. 1 hey were given but bttls en- bear waa a good honest sort of
courageinent, and ibrirstrwgbt dory, aa the man took such a liking
well as their appearance, disarmed suspie him UijU wb en they reached hts house
ion. rhe manager did not associate them y,,. Inar to *Uy all niglit.
with tlie other girls who had tarn - XV all night, aud also the
jyrtod as running away from Philsdel ,^ xt anJ two new frieu U got
plus. A few day* aftorward*, however, wII together that they made an
tin- detectives found that the girls had ;tmui(rW ueiit bv which the bear came to
been to ace the manager, and through Ut# wlUl Uja
this clue the capture waa effected. At w< , H<h TerT W^U
the western fKihce station they were vlth y lia 'Ph,. bad a good
given every attontion, awl supper was p, in. plmtv to rat. ami <lc
brought from a ne-ghbonng restaurant. | i(rh y ul pronnd. which V might rove
The manager referred to runted the liU)|jt lv Injul< who w a verv fond of
girls and gave them a lecture on the did not care much for
vistoiiarr scheme* they ha.l formed, hunting, or anything of that kind, found
Ihe fact of tbeu arrest was telegraphed tb e bear useful in getting sn
to Philadelphia and relatives of the dewr or'wild pvg for the family
nam** uo and took ih m
t* hoMd tliat the warning they liave had " Besides, when warn and tired after
will U- a l.ws'tu to them. working in the garden, he waa not afraid
to lie down and ga to sleep under the
nliade of one of his great trees, if the
Itear was near. He knew very well that
no wild t wast or wicked man would dare
to harm him when that true friend stood
guard.
Aud thus they lived plcaaantJv during
s great part of the summer. They con
fided in each other, they never quarreled,
and they seemed to suit each other ad
mirably.
Hut one was a man and the other was
a bear.
X Miners Needed In Nevada.
Tlie Virginia (Nev.) Flrrj>ri*r ad
vises jiernoits seeking employment to
keep sway from tliat locality. It says;
The Kujieruitendeuta of leading mines
luive hundreds of applications every day
fn.ra men in search of employment. All
• i these men insist most strenuously
UIMIU lieiug act at work immediately
upon something, they do not much care
what. They are willing to do anything,
underground or UJKID the surface. All
of the superintendent! an*, even now,
employing more men than they can work
to odvaiitagi', and these new ajipLicants
for situations, coming a* they do in
swarms, almost wornr the officers of the
mines to death. Tney not only them
selves go to the superintendents, but in
some instances thev send their wives *o
pleat I for them. Men are flocking here
fmm the Atlantic States, who amve
witlioat a dollar, and who exjieet to be
net to work at from to $5 jwr tlay Uic
moment they land. They have no idea
of mining or of the kinds of work to lw
done in s mining country such as thia.
They appear to think that silver ores are
shoveled un front the surface of the
earth, as gold was gathered in California
in the early tiara. Put these men into
UH* lower fevela, and nine out of every
ten would lie on the sick list in lews than
s week. Men of means may do some
thing here, but poor men will And it a
har.l place in which to get employment.
Iu tin* Atlantic states tliey apjwwr not to
understand tliat the rich silver mines of
the Cotastock are few in number*, and
are confined to a belt of country but five
or six mile* in length and leas than a
mils in width. The greater part of the
ground lying within these bounds, even,
is mow the home of great expectations
than of The Comstock does not
cover the whole State, nor does the bon
anza extend through the whole Com
stock. Wo uow have minersen.mgh snd
mow than < uougli to work all of our
mines, Initli paying and jm*pcctiro.
le-t this le understood abroad, snd let
moneyless inrn give the Comstock s wide
berth! Hettcr crom the Sierras and
seek employment on the sheeji ranches
of Southern Californi v, tlian to stop here
to starve while walking over the millions
tliat lie buried deep iu the rocky boaom
of the big bousuxa.
A Joke on a Supervisor.
Somebody, savn the Hudson Star,
played a practical joke on a candidate at
the l*te oaucuf at Stockport. After Mr.
Van Buren had been nominated, and
while the caucus was <l*lil*-rating on the
remainder of the ticket, some facetious
person passed outside and informed hia
opjonent that his fellow-townsmen liad
again lionored him by the choice of hi*
name to head the ticVct, and suggested
that it would be proper for him to ad
dress the convention. Fully alive to the
requirements of the occasion, and with
out stopping to make that preparation
which usually characterizes lii* forensic
efforts the gentleman presented himself
to the caucus, and, in a few well choseu
words, express.d his thank* for tlie
honor conferred upon him. He liad ad
vanced so far as to allude to his continu
ous and lalHirioiis efforts in preceding
Iwtar.is, and stated that, while his elec
tion would entail great personal inconve
nience, and that he would much rather
IHI left to the quiet retirement of his
rural home, he was in the hands of his
friends. Having reached this point, and
when he was alnmt ready to declare that
he would endeavor to honestly represent
his constituency, some charitable friend
pulled bis coat"and informed hira that
lie was laboring nnder a mistake, tliat
Mr. Van lluren was tlie nominee. Im
agination cannot depict the embarrass
ment of the veteran but defeated super
visor. Suffice to say he retired as grace
fully as any one eoiild under the circum
stances, and the caucus proceeded in the
regular discharge of its duties.
Banishment of Lepers.
The banishment of lepers is rigorously
carried out in the Sandwich islands.
There was a recent official search for
|iersons affected with the incurable
malady, many having been secreted by
their relatives. Hundreds were found
and put into a vessel for transportation
to the leper village, to bo kept there un
til they die. Their families gathered on
the liench and expressed their grief in
loud lnmentations. A talented lialf
hreed, called Bill Itagsdalc, has long
held n high place in the regard of Sand
wich islanders. He is an orator of great
natural power, a loader in the district of
Hillo, ami a man of notoriously had
morals. He discovered that he was lop
rons, although the indications were so
slight that he had escaped official netice,
and at once gave himself up to the au
thorities. A procession of natives, sing
ing and c irrying llowers, escorted him
to the vessel which was to taka him and
the others to their living graves. He
made a speech to the assembly, urging
submission to the measures for eradica
ting leprosy by banishment, and ex
i pressing his hatred of missionaries.
NO. 15.
The Twn Friend#.
The I war M T cry strong and good
nstured, but be did not know much. Of
course be wn not to blame for that; but
liia c-ktrame iguorauce did not hare a
good effect upon hia companion. It is
very seldom that we are benefited by
intimate association with ignorant peo
pie.
One day the man waa asleep under a
tree and the boar waa watching him.
Then* waa nothing to moleat the ak-eper
but flies and punts, and these the bear
carefully brushed away ao that bia dear
friend might reat at ease.
There waa, however, one jwrtmaciona
r. who would not be brushed away,
huxaed about tlie man's bead and
alighted on hia now. He whisked him
aelf here, and he whiaked himaelf there;
the more the Imar bruahed bun away the
more be caine bark again, barring and
bumming like a little winged demon.
The bear lost all patience.
"Mr dear friend mat get a decent
nap for that wretched gnat! 11l kill the
malicious little insert. It's the only way
to do with such stupid creature*."
So he took up a i ig atone and hurled
it at the gnat, which bad just nettled on
U e nose of tin- sleeping man.
The bear killed the bothersome gnat,
but he afaio crushed the head of his dear
friend.
Two or throe u*y* afterward the hear
was Kitting under a tree in tlie forest
thinking abont all thi*.
*• The trouble waa," he aaid to hirn
arlf, " that the man ought to have been
careful to choose a fneml with more
sense tluui I've got." Which proves
that the I tear waa not altogether an idiot.
The <el4 Speculator.
If the hearty detestation of all meu en
gaged in honorable business could check
tlie dosperat# operations of the gold
gamblers, the Now York Time* tells na,
they would soon be checked. tJnfor
tuuately, this cauae Una little influence.
The men who are engaged in tlie present
combination to control the price of gold
are men to whom tlie < pinion of respect
able men in legitimate business counts
for very little. They do not associate
very much with this class of men ; they
do not live for the same objects ; they do
not feel the same restraints of honor and
mutual consideration. They are isolated
bv their occupation, much as other gam
blers are, aud mow callous in tlie excite
ment of their feverish calling to every
thing but the hope of profit and tlie in
none passion for their peculiar play. A
modern essayist, now the writer of the
" city" article of the London Hrnr*,
wh.."has spent many years in close study
of the men on the Stock Exchange, draws
a very striking portrait of tlie claas to
which those spemiiators belong who are
now " fixing " the gold market. Refer
ring to the typical member of this class
(wo might give him the names of iw
well known New York operators if it
were worth while), Mr. Crump aavs: He
is generally a man of rather singular
habits of thought, who thinks it quite
legitimate to start a juggernaut and drive
it over the crowd, if he can do it profit
ably. Perfectly legitimate processes of
working a market with him would be
considered little better than cheating by
the orilinarv run of men. He employs
systematically all sorts of devices for
getting the lietter of others who are
ignorant and leas sharp in foreseeing
events than he. He partakes a good deal
of the nature of the baadit, who prepares
the way for forcing concession to his de
mands" by firing a volley into the carriage
of a traveler to whom he is going to give
the choice of hia money or hia life. * *
Such a man must have a concrete hard
ness of indifference through which noth
ing can jienetrate to hia heart. It ia
necessary to the success of his opera
tions that ho possesses no more regard
for the feelings or pockets of other peo
ple thnn a hungry tiger would for him if
he were airing himself unconcernedly in
a Bengal jungle.
A Pretty Experiment,
Some of our younger readers mav like
to try the experiment of making a hang
ing garden of sponge. It ia a pretty
novelty. Take a white sponge of large
size, and sow it full of rioe, hemp, grass
and other soeds ; then place it in a shal
low dish, in which a little water is con
stantly kept, and as the sponge will ab
sorb tlie moisture, the seeds will begin
to sprout before many days. When this
has fairly taken place, the sponge may
be suspended by means of cords in the
window where a little sunshine will
enter. It will thus become a mass of
green foliage, and should be refreshed
with water daily so as to be kept moist.
Mgk ..Ham r lot mi,
H u better to be lto than MW •
*•* apposition*, cremation
i* itci 1 i ketjfKi prevail.
A Baltimore haggar ltas retired frem
btudn<NM with a fortune of §26,000.
UUMU has only OM iiorjr paper. and
that doren't give a cbrotno to aubaeriber*.
The United State* already pay* twice
u much in iH-iitfioiut m any other tuition
in the world.
A ilreaamaker** appimtn- spoke of
her etnas-eyed lover a* the fellow who'*
look* are cut bis*.
A minister said 1w never of any
UM until T found out that (|od did not
7>-i bm for i |tni rt)|n
Diwpite eta of Itarl lament English
women and girl* of tender year* continue
to lata* in the brick field* like elaree.
It i**aid Egypt in tKri home of th
fragrant onioa. There I* thia about the
onion, you can alway* tctl where it in.
Whatever eta* way be doubted, it cer
tainly aannot be gainsaid that the oast
winter luw been a •' big thing cm W*.
Newer in the history of the horse, it
i* aaid, baa the market b*m ao dull or
the prices ao low at at the peasant time.
A baby with twenty-eight Www he*
bean bora in Mo. What a
character fur ooras he will be.
A Coaneticut girl married a Chinaman
to apite her mother, but after the third
thrashing she returned home to apite the
Chinaman.
•' There! that <jptai where my
dotbea line went to!" ejriWuwdau lowa
woman m ahe found her bttabaud hang
ing in the atable.
It i* more >"*" two hundred year*
ainoe the atyle ef address wa* adopted—
by a decree of Pope Urban VIII. in 1630
—giving the title of cardinal.
The Meat Eastern abng with which to
come down on a long-tongued bore far.
••Writ* the reat down on a piece of
paper and well read it Sunday.
A Cleveland man puta waate paper*
into hi* letter*, ao aa to make thera
weigh all that will p mm for three c- uta.
He dona thia to revenge on Uncle Sam.
It hi eatuoated that four out of every
MS dollar* waated in this country in
cornea from tbuae who de
pend upon their daily tail for udadww.
We are all living too feet. The man
who ia always in a hurry gwienlly baa
lua own work to do over again, beside*
being liable to trip up and dad himself
sprawling in the mud.
An Illinois grange ia negotiating for
the leaae of §,BOO acre* of land in Monroe
county, Miaainhppi, and fifty Illinois
families are ready 'to move la and occupy
aa iawm aa the negotiationa are com
pleted.
Mia* I>. aendeeas a poem, aa exchange
.**, entitled, "I Cannot Make Him
Htnile." We cannot publish it unima
ahe give* ua the name of the young
m.n All the young men we know
••■mile."
Northern lowa amnaemeota—a nam
ple, from the Bronx City Journal :
That WM a cold joka the girls at the
Depot Hotel played on a young man the
other night. They filled his piflowakp
with anow.
An excited Watertrary workman caught
up a pail of water to extinguish a fire in
a factory the other day, but, perceiving
that the water am* hot, he emptied it,
filled the pail with oold water, and put
out the fire.
At Bridge Crrek, Brit Ms Columbia, a
bottle of good brandy and a bottle con
taining two pounds of mercury were put
out aa a teat on the night of the 14th of
Fclsruary. la the morning both were
found fruxca.
A poor, ill-dad wife in Montreal *aid
to her husband just before she died :
•'I accumulated such a store of love for
you daring our courtship that tax years
of negleot and eoWnefcon your part hare
failed to exhaust it."
A Western paper tWia a story of a
aulwcriber who rode into town, sixteen
miles, through a frightful storm, to pay
hia subscription. He waa badly frozen,
but oared nothing for that, the editor's
heart was ao happy.
Wlen a common J ipaneae goes into
the preaeuoe of an officeholder be must
saw: " tiroat and dc'jaguieh • c: >. i of
the sun, deign to pat your loot upon nv
neck." There's some plcaaore in hold
j-y an office in that country.
A negro girt of Oglethorpe county, (ja.,
was married when eleven years of age
and had a child when she was twelve.
At theagwof twelve that child was a
maher, making the woman a grand
mother when ahe was twenty-four years
old.
We learn with great pleasure from the
.VrfenMjir Atwr*em that the manufac
tun* of porcelain is carried on iu this
rouutrr, and that the ware now pdnwd
in the neighborhood of Xew York is in
many rcepecfcs equal to the best im
ported.
Ennv biiuess that k lawful iz bono. -
abet, and ao bixneas. simply, ever made
csiny one leapeektabei. Buty is a
woman's prerogative, but buty in a man
ii the next kalamitv to being a fool.
The man who kan think kan never get
ItMMI
Senator Andrew Johnson ridicules the
idea that he asrared his election by the
payment of *IO,OOO, and aay* that sines
the failure of Jay Cooke A Co., b - '
which be loet $70,000, he ha* never
tuooey enough to pay for an electron '.4
the usual rates.
The pret season, 841,057 barrels f
apples were shipped from Wayne r 'or.
ty, N. Y. It ia eatiinated that MB.fKfc
barrels were used for drying and making
cider, and 100,000 barrels were packed g$
for home use, which would make the
crop of the county 541,067 barred*.
A farmer at Troy, N. Y.. reaently bet
$lO with one of the sport it* fraternity
that hia hone would weigh mAre after
drinking a pail of water than before.
The sporting gent was not alow to take a
wager made by a msn from the country,
and the tost on the horse was made, aud
true enough, the animal weighed thirty
pounds more after drinking the water
than he did before.
A mystarloua and painful tragedy M
reported from Chateanroux, i 1 France.
A newly married couple, yonug, happy,
mid in a ruooeaaful way of buaine-w, were
found doad in their hedrooflk. They liad
dined with their parents the previous day,
aud were then in the bast of spirit.*-'.
The cause of the sad event is at present
a mystery. No traces of suicide have
been found, and the o ijsctnre is that
their d at lis were the ngxlt erf apoplexy.
The statistics of the famine in Persia
are truly appalling. In Damglian, a
tel.-graphic station east of Teheran, only
290 families remain out of 1,000, and in
Teheran itself two hundred persona died
weekly of starvation and typhus. The
district of Turbet Hadri lout 20,000; the
district-of Selzwas, 24,000; olNischapur
at least 20,000; Hamiulan lost between
25,000 and 50,000; anfl in Kirmansche
alone 50,000 perished of hunger. Nes
chid, out of a papulation of 45,000, lost
20,000.
HlsJßevenge.
Helen Bodius waa the belle of Selnia,
Texas, and John Kincaid, a planter, was
her unaccepted lover. Two years ago,
after again asking her to marry him and
again hearing her refusal, he told her
that he could no longer bear to live near
her. "lam going to Mexico," he said,
"and I forbid you to marry anybody
elae. If I hear of your disobeying this
injunction I will come back and kill
yoa." He went away, and Helen thought
lightly of hi tlireat After awhile she
fell in love with a druggist named Faust,
and married him. A month ago they at
tended a public ball, and Mslen was as
tonished to see her rejected lover there.
He wae affable at first, but the night
wore on he drank excessively.of brandy,
and then disappeared.. Faust took bis
wife home, and then started for Houston
on busineee. In the morning she waa
found stabbed to death in bind, and Kin
caid has not been seen in Skips since.
Ha MlGHT. —There was a waspish wwt
of sincerity in the young woman's
answer to the departing bofr's remark
that he must be might
have gone before if yon bmlnly spoken
alxttitlt. t lit