We Watched Her Rroalhlng. We watchail h breathing through the night. Her hreathir." soft and low, As in her hreaet the wave of I: fa Kept heaving to ami fiw. 8 > ailently we seamed to speak. 80 alowly moved about, Aa we had leather half our povei* To eke her living out- Our very hopes belied eur fears. Our feaia our hojves belied-- We thought her dying when she slept. And sleeping whrti she died. For when tlie morn came d-tn and aa l. And chill with early showers. Her quiet eyelid* closed—site had Another mom than ours. THOMAS The lesson. 1 A beautiful answer was given by a Utile Scotch girl. When her iCass at school was cr ammed, .he replied to the question. " What 1* patience ?" " Wait a wee. aa' dinna weary.' J A village schoolroom - this the eoena Aglow w.th a slant n:l cheiry The dominie there, of youthful mien. With the rata of hU spirit sharp atnl keen, An.l ac!a*s of girls mserr-ed row ; tsvnie taller, ami some of itataie 1 w . An,l sonic, Ukc the taunting sun, allie To reach the summit of leave desire ; And. a- aye, wae unco' drear- ' "1 carina an' vv .una teach, an' y* Sao stupid the wh So I qnry Nae visum for ooht hat vanity '' With thundering rap the damiuia tv .;-biaH.xl. chafed by a orilvi gu Whose only care seemed tosukoUi a:.-1 taul Her apron streamers. " Will ouie la** klak' answer iu a° this glaikit class . The dominie sighed aweary. "Oh. ay," said a little raws. " I can tall." "Vfaal. out wit, then, ray duar.e' And the frown front the master a forehead fell, Vor the sweetest girl m the schesil was Nell " I want is to show me the meaning plain O' patience. uu' ow'r an' ewT again IYe pat it th* via* 1" Then the utile maj. With a e-guieh twinkle, soberly said : "Wait a *<e, an' dinna weary.' —Mailt & iKuwia. JIRRY, THE MISER. U was cobbler's shop, breaking the roar of tuuoii private hoawa in a shabby rtfmrtt.n street How ltoarae there nobody knew. What is aurv, nobody caivd. Near the d<x>r, on this particular af ternoon, were two tomalas, the one elder ly, tho oilier graceful and young; both in the deepest mourning. "in front of it were two Loudon street A rubs, as rag ged as mirthful; before it stood the oldest Wing imaginable—a little old man, about four feet high, with a not over clean face, iron-gray liair, on which rested a worn shin cap, shaggy brows, rather l>ow legs, and a d:rtj" leathern aprcn. In irate tones, he was addressing the t*p: * Off with Ton, you young rascals ! If vou com playing your hopscotch and Hally-oome-upe before my window sgaiu, I'll day you alive." Before tiir muscular fists the boys fled, hurling back derision. "Welldone, Jerry—old Jerry the miser! Yah !" The nobbier —for he hardly merited tie more emphatic title of shoemaker— paid no hoed, bat, ghmcing sharply up from his bent brows at the two wotneu, asked: "And what may you want ?" " We—we see," began" the younger, looking timidly t - wards the square card in the window, "you have apartments to let." "No, I've rooms—rooms. I don't know nothing of ' apartments;' I ain't np to them—nor the rooms ain't neither. Do yon want to see 'em?" " We did wish." "All right; come aloug!"—nn.l the little man swung round on his heel. The two women, hesitating, looked at one another. "We had better see them, mother," sp id the younger, with a wau smile of encouragement. " His lark ruay be worse than his bite, and all the i ther places are so dear." Following the cobbler through the shop, he led them up stairs to the rooms. There were two, communicating by a door with ech other; they were poorly furnished, but clean. As the women looked at them, the cobbler stored at them silently. "Well," he asked, "what do you think of them ?" "They will do very well," answered the widow. " It's—only—the price !" " Six shillings a week—iu advance." "Six shillings I" ejaculated the girl. " Do yon think it too much !" " On the contrary, it is cheap." " You know a lot of the world to say that. How do TOU know 1 shan't clap on another shilling?" "I don't; bat I should not faucv you wool A" . " About references''— Iwgau the widow. " Don't want any—you j>av IU RJ- Tance; and as, whenever you 1.-ave the house, it must be through the shop, you can't w 11 take the furniture without my knowiug. Ia it idtlal " If you pleas?; here Is the tir-t week's • rent. ' The cobbler took it, scrawled out a re ceipt, nodded, and left his lodgers to themselves. Seated again on his bench, meditatively, he scratched his grizzled chin, and contemplated the six coins in his horny ]lm. " Two bobs a week !o t to-day!" he remarked. " Jerry, you miser, how could you do it i" The cobbler's lodgers proved very quiet. They did not interfere with their landlord, and lie, apparently, did not in terfere with them. His rent was paid to the day. They nuvly spoke, aavcexchangiug the ordinary moruing and evening safuta tions when the daughter went through the shop. The mother never left th hous--. But Jerry, like most cobblers, was a man of obt* rvation, and he made such comments as the following : •|Blio's a beauty, rhe is; but awful white and sad. It's myopimoh it's luird times with them up stairs." Then, when the girl went out earlier and later, ever with a sadder, more depressed expression, he said : "I'll toll yon what it is, Jerry; she's seeking after work, and doesn't get it One evening, a few weeks nftor Mrs. Weston and her daughter rented the cobbler'fl apartments, the latter entered the shop Is tor than usual. Th- yellow lamp was flaring dismally, and Jerry, a boot on his knee, was hard at work. After the customary salntati m, the girl was passing <m, wlu-n the cob bler's voice arrested her. " I say, your mother's ill, ain't she ?" he asked, nursing his knee with both arms. " Yes, Mr. Crayshaw, I am sorry to say she has been for some w hile ailing. She—she"— and the young voice trem- i bled with tears—" is very sick." " Then you must give her lots to eat," responded Jerry, staring out of the win- j dow. " Tbe best tiling for wenk people is a nice fowl and a bottle of wine. Whv don't yon give them lior?" _" I wish I was able, or even to pro vide her less expensive dainties; but— but"— and the tears fell faat— " I can not. " " Ah, that's the fault, you see, of hav-i ing no money. • Good evening." He resumed his work, and the girl, scarcely cheered by this little episode, went, with a heavy heart, up stairs. Mr:;. Weston was eo ill, she war- lying on her bed. 'Hie candle was in the room, and in the parlor grate burnt a few sparks of lire, over which was a small saucepan. On the table was a tea-tray, and a portion of a previous day's loaf. It wa such a depressing welcome home after the weary, weary day, that with difficulty tho poor girl could oontrol her emotion. ii T . ii i ci... •" i it.. "Is that you, Claref" inquired tlie widow's feeble voice "Yea, mother." " Come to me, my ohiid." Cbu l> pressed her white hands to her bosom, made an effort, aud passed into the bedroom. But the mother's first words beat down all her uoblc-souled keroi: self-repression. FKKD. K Uirrz, Kditor mu* 1 Proprietor. # VOIj. VIII. " Clare, dear, you HAD hotter MIIWIW to dav I" The girl dropped ou a choir, and bury iug her fiuvon the coverlet, burst into a jvaroxvsni of weening. " N'o, mother, ' she tubbed, hywteri cully. " It's the same old, old story ; 1 can get nothing. What shall we do I 1 feci heart broken." "Clare, t'lurvi, my child," ejaculated the mother, fondly embracing her, " do not you give way ! What, indeed, will become of us then f My brave, brave girl, do not weep thus !" " l'my let me; mother ; I ahull lie bet U r after it." She, iippureiitly. was right, for tit tlie end of u few momenta *lie looked up calmer ; her tears ceased. " There," she snulovl; "lam I tetter now. •• it's good to give way at times, you know. At least, one can't help it, and our lot is *0 liard ; but wo ahull get used to iL " " Hard ! It breaks my con template it when I think of you, Clare. What a different future did 1 aiul your father intend jx-u, love! Hut who could imagine such u villain us John Rurge ever existed:" "Ah, me—ah, me ! to look round ut this place, and remember the jileoajtnt home which once WHS onrw ! Now, we are alone, and not u single friend in the world." < one ! Oh, yew, mother, believe me, one !" cried the girl, tjuiekly. "He —Clilliert will lm true—trust me, lie will " •• Why thru, ('hire, lias he not written i" "I do out know— I cannot tell," ex claimed the daughter, piteously; "but, oh, pray, pray, mother, do not take that hope from me! Let me believe in Gilbert. It is my only support in this bitter mis. try ."* | The widow, touched with a pleading Countenance, was about to reply, when, interrupting herself, she said: "Clare, 1 hear some one in the parlor. So who | it is, dear." The girl obeyed, and started at the 1 weird scene she \>eheld. Seated before the grab', on a three | logged stool, was tho ivblder, vet iu '' leather apron and cap. On his knees , was a bellows, which he was working with consummate skill, evidently a master of the art, sending the coals into ' bright blazes that threw flushes of lurid , color over the quaint figure and the room. Upon hearing Clare, he tunied, almost I with a snarl. "How do you expect to boil s sauce pan with sndi aftrt as this;" he growled. "Never was hitter as mad as you, I'm ' certain. Now, look at that; ain't it a picture?" Clare diil look, and that not only ' were the coals increased, but that they were not from their own store. •'lt is quite cheering," she managed ; to say, "but—but I tear, Mr. Crayshaw, you have been robbing yourself." "Robbing myself—mef—not a bit. I'm a miser. Didn't you here the loys , coll me no—Jerry, tho miser?" lie sn*p|v*l. "I'd robaaybtxly sooner than , myself. lam a miser, and I'm proud of it. Some men are called painter and • poet. Well, I'm called cobbler and r miser." "Really!" said Clare, a hule amused, , j a little frightened, looking at th" glow ing is>aLs; "1 should have scarcely thought eo." "That shows your igtiornnee," re i sponded Jerry. "Can't you see, by . calculation, its cheaper to keep up one II givWl fire tlian two small oncaf so I'm going to .-.it by yours. Also, clubbing two jxwsons' tea together is cheaper than , taking it alone. It makes 'only one for the pot' necessary. You perceive, now, [JI am a miser. I want to have my tea ■ ! here." Clare looked nt the table; upon it was a new loaf, frtwh butter, eggs, and un ..t package of ton, " Oh, Mr. Crayshaw " she began. " Are you going to refuse?" he snsp- pod. " Mayn't I have to n "How could I refuse?" she began, i when he interrupted by: " Then don't lose time. See to the ■ kettle. I'll Is.;] the eggs." Similar behavior from some people might have given offense, but there was ' such a quaint, odd way al>out Jerry that robbed it of tliat power. H- was so old, t and snapped and snarled as if really his suggestion was the result of deep-rt ted i mefinne*i. instead of the contrary. Mrs. Weston did make some demur, but Jerry shut her up at once, i "I see. She's frightened at your taking tea with *h u fascinating young 1 fellow as I am," lie said. " Leave the door ajar, tln n the old kuly can tuk" a squint nt us now and then, arid join the talk. I'm a wild yomig sprig, I confess." Clare could not refrain from bursting into a merry peal of laughter. J.-rryV gray eyes twinkled with delight under his sh iggj- brows as he looked up at Iter. Well, trie two bustled about, the eob ' bier certainly the briskest, until, finally, Uijy were seated nt a very comfortable b-a. During the meal, Mrs. Weston doomed it right to inform their new i friend of something of their history. In her lmsliaud's lifetime they hud been well-tor do. At his death they • yet could have lived comfortably, had net a Mr. John Burge suddenly brought ! heavy claims on the dead man's property. 1 "I never quite understood what it was —I only know he must have been paid," ■ said the widow, dolorously. " But we hadn't some papers we ought to liave : liad to prove it. Ho ho took from us 1 every penny, and left us as yon now '! see ! ' "A confounded villain!" exclaimed Jerry, cracking his egg with a bowl of a spoon, as if it hrul I wen Mr. John Burge's bald head he had got under it. " Then all our friends deserted us " "Except one," broke in Clare, with heightened color, which was not un noticed by tho cobble r. "But one e*yet," added the widow. "He is a gentleman, Mr Crayshaw, who- who was once a great friend of my ilaughter's. Ho was in Australia at the time of our trouble, and though we wrote to tell liira, wo have not heard a syllable since. You know the world, Mr. Mr. Crayshaw!" "J do, ma'am !" answered Jerry, em j pbatieally; " and I know it's a sight Iwt tor tlian jwople would try to make it." "Ah!" cried Clare, gratefully, her face radiant, aa involuntarily ahe extend ed her hand, " you think he may bo true 1" " He'd bo the greatest villain under the aun if ho were not, my dear !" said I the old man, cheerily ; adding to him self: " Poor child—poor child; she, then, has to learn that lovers' vows are easier broken tlian shoestrings, and thonght about as little !" After this, still protesting it was cheap er for liim, as a miser, to supply Mrs. Weston's fire than burn one of his own, he frequently passed liis evenings with them. He also procured Clare aome shoe-binding to do, wliicli, though hard and difficult work, was something. At the end of the week, he was grimac ing at a boy through the boots in tho ■window, when Clare came to pay the I rent. " Take it away," he said; " let it stand over." "Ob, we could not think of tliat}" toe gau the girl. "We were going to ask you if you would not mind a portion of j it being left for next"— "Take it away I" reiterated Jerry, get ! ting into a flirv ; "I won't touch a farth- j I'LL]-: CENTRE REPORTER. mg ' 1 like living a creditor for 1 eon charge interest !' " Ttiia kindness, after all yt>u have done !" uobtiod Clare, bar lew* foiling. •' ()u away !" roared Jerry ; *" I ain't going to have a acetic here tlwy'll lw taking tno 1111 for luvnault und buttery uext! He on, aiul I'll lie up to ton in five minutes." •• Hlcsa your generous heart, which no .wwtiuied miighucaa cau hide!" ciciaim ed Chuc, gratefully, as alto hurried frviut the ahop. Sitting down, Jerry bent his heal oti the oountar, and bright l< am trickle,! fn>m hi* eves into the lioot on his lap. "Poor thing jioor thing!" he tnur mured ; •' slie's yet to barn that vow* are I token easier than shoestrings, atnl " lie wa* interrupted bv the shop dour opening. Looking up, he found tiefore him a tall, well dressed uum, with a bronted face aiul thick U nrd and mus tache. Jerry started. " I'arvlon my intruding," aaid the stranger ; " but rau you give me the ad ilreaa of Mrs. Weston and her daughter ; I be-ird t!tev were living somewhere in thus street I" "N*o!" said Jerry. "What do you want with 'em t" " Thev are fneu.la of mine." " Svreils such as you don't often, 1 should think, liave friends IU this uoigh borhood." "In the land 1 came from, frieud, the rank is not the guinea's stain p. Hut I'll seek elsewhere. *• Stay a moment; I'll inquire." Jerry, carefully cloving the door be hind liiin, sat down ou the stairs and en joyed a inula chuckle, fearfully apoplec tic in character. Ou the landing he rejaated it, with much movement of tin- legs, 'l'hen he entered his lodger*' parlor. Dropping into the chair placed ready for him bv the fire, rubbing his knees, his face oat K-ansiug smile, ho cried: "Domany one believe in man ! 1 don't! IVkvh anyone believe iu Australian gold diggers ? 1 don't ! lhx\, any one le --liove in lovers keeping their vw -i f I* r' bleas you, I don't not a syllable J" Then, turning abruptly to the astonished women, he procsi-ded: "L mk hen-; I'll give you a riddle. Sup|>uae a c<*itaui Australian should come to England; supp vK* he should come to me; unpinn ing ii> should come into this room, now would a certain party behave I Would lie laugh 7 Would she faint "Oil, mother !" cried ("lore, stalling up; " 1 know wind he means. It is Gil bert !" " My dear, reflect," interrupted tie wi low, restraining her. " Yes, site's right !" exclium-si J rry, with a eniier. " It's Gilbert—Gilbert !" Flying t- the door, almost precipitat ing himself over the bah: trade, lie shouted: " Yon Austndiau, come np ! You nugget of fidelity, come hen-!" There was the bang of a door, a firm, rapid tread on tho stairs, ami the bearded stranger shot past Jerry into the room. "Clare—my jsair, poor Clare!" L< cried "Gilbert !" she ejaculated, rushing into his arms. The cobbler, after another caper, dis erectly retired to ltis shop, mid let off his superhuman excitement by a charg>- at th-- Isiys in the street. Gilbert FernsiJe, a rich Australian cattle >wtier, proved ind -J a nugr< t of fi-ii-litr. There was a weelding, t> wlii-h Jerry was asked, but he answered lie was far too wis' u msu to make himself uni-nmfortabh'. Indued, h<- sent th • bride a pretty gold br>'!i<t a: his wedding gift —a present :UlTti- n a tody tr'-asiire I lit Clan l . Y'-srs the young wife, in lu-r home at the antip sles, rcci-ived the fol lowing charaet. ri-tic letto-r: " Mr Deiu—While writing this I'm going off. When yotigrt it, I shall have left. S-> this is to my good bye. Bios y ! lam n kiulu vs old man, and, you know, a miser; but I'IU ui-t going to give my money to you. What would £I,UOO b* to your Australian digger : A drop in the ocean. Be iid'-a, you enn do with out it. No; it's goiug to the hospital for children, to which I have long Ins u an unknown aubserilKT. Good-bye. Bless you—blesa you nil! Yo t r old friend, " Jr.Kiir, Conntr.ii ANI> MI-.R11." Tliat letter, too, was treasured; and m tli" heart of th" bright, cheerful borne, in the wealthy kind, "Jerry, the M iMir," was ever laid iu ek ei fill memory. tu Absent Minded Woman. A fiumy incident, which lately oecured in tlie gn- -office in Chicago, is described by the /n/r.'-OfT'iii.' The wife of a member of the llliu. it> Senate entered to pay her lull, carrying her portetnontmie, us was her custom, in In r right hand. Has ing occasion to write h'r aignnture, she clianged her po. h t Imok to her left hand, then started to go out. Noticing that her right was empty, she missed her ]urke.t (took, and turned to>n rough l<Mik ing individual who hod lain standing by meantime, exclaimed angrily : " I'll thank you for my jKickat-liook, nir." Two or three of the Isaikkeepera rushed out, exjH'cting to see the man try to escajie, but li" stossl still tuul calmly sriswereed : " I haven't it, ma'nuj." " You certainly have; I laid it down a moment ago here, and you are the only person who could have taken it." " I beg your pardon, ma'am," said the stranger, "but I am no thief. I have not got your pocket l>ook." " I'll have you arrested and searched," cried the irate ladv. "As you jibsiae," responded the man. And as the madaine tried to open the door to eall a policeman, she dis covered h"r nurse in her left hand. The stranger smilingly listened to a profuse and prolong- d apology. A Trick of Ills. Haynea, a comedian in the early part of % lnt century, was arrested for u debt of £lO. The Bishop of Ely happened to !>e riding by. " (Jentlemen," lie said to the bailiffs, "bete is mv oonsin, the Bishop of Ely; let rne luit speak a word to him, and lie will pay the debt nml costs." Haynea stopped the bishop's carriage and whisped iu liis enr: "My lord, here are two poor wavorcrs, who have such terrible scruples of conscience that I fear they will hang themselves." "You two men," called the bishop to the bailiffs, "come to me to-morrow, and I will satisfy you." The comedian de parted in peace, and the next morning the liailiffi presented themselves at Ely Place. The bishop ("struck, perhaps, by the comedian's ingenious device? is said to have paid the money. The Ilejs. Thuycidades Brown, a boy of promise, was compelled to stay at home from school for a few days on aeconnt of a severe cold. Neddie Preston, one of his mates, called on lnin and endeavored to cheer him up. He said: "I know how 'tis, Oid; when a fellow gits nick he's mighty lonesome, and likes to have his chums drop in on him." "Lone some !" and Thuycidades reached under his pillow and drew forth three of those blood-curdling romances,bound in yellow t paper and published by tliat friend of American youth, the diino novel man— ! "Lonesome? Not much! The fire was just beginning to crackle nicely under Bowie-Knife Bill when you came in, and 11 had to drop it." CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO.. PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 187'). Hull.Kit EXPLOSIONS. )lcIIU si ibc t nlltil Malra ( •mmlulaii Vlipwlutral la l*r.tlssls liar Kal>lril-lw. Dlaiairit. Tli oouiuusaioiier* by Uu* United Stl a government to determine tlw o*nn of boiler explosions have just completed their sexsioua. Tin' omii uu* Mull irt COUl|HMx'\l of bill lit* of tilt) itbli ht professors mill uioolutuiinl engineers it* the country, mill consists of Prof. Win look, of Harvard I'uivormty ; Prof. Thurstt.u, of th< Stevens Institute of Troh ; Isaac V. Holmes, l'h.urle* W. (kipeluml, mill J. It. ltol.iuMtiu, auc clmnioal engiue. ra. Prof. Wiulock, who presided ut nil tilt) SeaMoUS, Served U1 place of Httperviaiug (Irnrral liist'eeh'r Smith, who resigned, and Prof. TUun> ton wit* appointed to till tho place of Prof, ih'ojuxutu Uruwfurd, ditt-itsed. The session* ju*t hehl are the first niutv the eljkTiuii uU ut kuidy Hook and l'itt diuigh, Mul ailitW the appointment of the new uieuiltenv The ri|>eriiiient* wlueh liave been made have lull of v.u sidentbh* value, hut the chief object which was to Ih* th t< rniiiieit, namely, tlie discovery of what caused the exiraor dinury pressure or tuiihleu t*va*i< .11 which Caused boiler explosions wit* defeated hv the fact tluit eljK-riuieiit tli mou.itruttwl that a* yet there have Iwvn made uo irliahlo prmaurour htvalgiuigi ■ which determine the exact pressure uiul heat ma I Killer. This was illustrated ut Pittsburgh, where uov end piunsoro gauges wore uU.whed to the Halue boiler, which wa* k-utg exjK-ruueuted Upon, aiui after the pressure hoi reach) il 1100 pounds a variation of lfSl pound* discovered between the different iustru intuits. It was then dt h rtuuied tlutt lu ll to further experiment* should le made, the cfifoita of the luelulierw of (tie commission ahotild IK* directed toward the construction of a pyrometer, which should ai*cnrat*ly determine the h* ut utid pressure irtKiti a Ih'ilit. Tins was the subject dwciLsacd ut the meeting*, atid from exuenutouU which have Ikk*u maile by Mr. 11 >binton it is la-lieved that A perfect instrument can be con structed. It is characterised a* a ills corery, rather titan an invention, mul it is -.fated that it will IK* posxihle, in case tin* wuter Ls lifted fr<m the bottom uf u boiler by heat or otherwise, to indicate that fact uistanbUiiK'Usly by the low in •Irument, thus recording the rxnet U in j eratare mid furnishing most valuable information as to the cau.-t.-K of the sud den and extreme presauw which, I wing more than the r* d-aing power >i the iron, eaus-.K the rXphnioU of the holier. Slu uld the hope* ai.J expectation* in re gard to this umtniroeiit prove correct, it will lw i'laced iu tlie Smithsonian Insti tute at Washington, where it will tw used as ttie standard gauge for pressure throughout the country. It whs decided to ivmiuuc ope rut ion* ut Sandy ll'K'V. aliout the middle of June. The amount originally appropriated for the exjwri menU wa* ftIOO.iKIO. A considerable por tion of tin* stun lva* lw*n exjieaded in instruments which are of oon*idrrnblo value, but it is stub 1 that there vet re main about e-tU.UUO. Muscular Argument. Do you know Dr. I Bui 1 won't give Lis tMiav. He might not like to have it prxuUxL 1 tut Lis friends—and they are legion—will rwifturi. Lnu. lla is n dentist of Lewistcn, Me., and u.<>.t emphatically n lire mall. Of middle age (when the event liapix-ned of which 1 write), slight in build, out every cord and muscle like finely tempered fct-*-l ; light, wry hair ; feature* prominent and hand some ; with a pair of eyes like torx, Ho whs n radical nutti—radical in his friend ship, in Lis religion, in his politics, and ee |socially nulii-vd U|x>n the irabjoct of temperance. lie wo* one of your posi tive men, acting always upon ouuvic tion. The doctor writs also a dear lover of tnie, manly and healthful recreation. Of good horses lie was on anient admirer, and his team was hard to lx tit. r l he temperance turn of Lewist u were pushing things, and the docbir pit.Led with them. In fact, he ratio r hxik the lead. A inrge number of snnvptition* venders of the ardent wi re brought up and punished, and the disgusted suffi r era swore vengeance. Da (tin daily did tliey swear vengeance against tie- fan hatred, silver hingtied d< tor. The doctor's office was in lew iston, ntid his ilweliing over ujxm the other •dde of the river in Auburn. Duo eve ning, a little hit.: than usual, lie start's! far home on foot. It was .lark when he reached the bridge. U|xm the Auburn side In* was csiiifronUsl by two nijn who hod evidently Iwu lying in wait for him. They were stout, burly men, coarsely drevwil, and very marae of speech. By the light of a neighboring street lnuip the doctor recognized <>n of tliem as the keeper of a low groggrrv which luul lately Iwea cksuied out with his help. 'l'lie men w-re not utterly brutes. They gave tie ir victim a chance. Tin y told him, honestly, tlttlt they were going to liek him within an inch of his life. And tlioreU)K>n they squared oft". '* All right," Mai<i he, when the ruffians had announced their pnrjxwo. And with the quick news of lightning, mid with about the name effect, lie delivered a blow of hi* fist directly lx-twcen the eyes of the foremost aggressor. Aggressor numlver two get th<- same done iustanter. As aggressor nundxvr one got upon his feet, a second blow leveled him ngnin. And just so with nunilx-r two. "Come, coine!" cried the doctor. " Hiurv np. f can't wait here all night." Aggressor number one rained himself upon his elliow, and wiped the blood from his nose. "Yon neixln't wait, doctor. We're satistie.l if yon are." And, with nil oath, he added something alxmt "a trump," and alxmt the David that slew Goliab. The doctor, thus dismissed, wended his way homeward, humming a confer ence meeting hymn. i never heard of his being molested again. Swindling. Home rustics have just been " done " in a very contemptible way. Two well dressed scamps found out the deaf ]>eo pie in town, and then pro|x>scd to cure them for from $. r >o to gKXI each, aorord ing to their extremity, asking, of course, an advance payment. Homo paid from $lO to S2O down, and were ornamented with a wire contrivance which came over the top of the head and down Itehiiul the ears, and which they were to wear four hours a day for eight weeks, as it would keep up a current of electricity that would ultimately restore the func tions of hearing entirely. The swindlers, of course, have gone, hut some of the dupes are still wearing their foolish head gear. FBIOHTCVRD TO DEATH.—On the wall over the bed of a dying woman in Co lioes, N. Y., a cross appeared. It began with a more outline, deepened in color until the woman died, and then faded. She saw it, and superstitionsly regarded it ns a premonition of death. The neighborhood was intensely excited, and hundreds wont to see the cross. At length a matter of fact newspaper re jKirter investigated, and learned that u leak in the roof had let water into the plastering, the discoloration taking the aigniflcaut shape by chauoe, and that when the rain storm was ovor tho cross faded. It is probable that fright aggra vated the woman's disease and killed lisr. 11l At Its A Nit FA It N Kits. .1 Hint lat i lUr (iurr Iw Wutk I puu.. hitiNilht | ikr Air. An easy but en viable imiuoitality j uwuit* thut grange or fat met *' union , which will *u<v*rwwfuUy divert tho agii culturul uIU-ttUon fioin the mighty inia erica of imlrouit iuuuo|*)ly to the peltv ' fratiiU which infest our furntera' livi-s ' like YcrUliu in a beggar's galwriiuie. The farmer is more expoei il to jK-tty 1 *w.ndluig and i* more swiudlod in jK-tty \ wsya titan auy other clum> in our loiuiuii i luln a. Tin* priKVeds partly from hi* inolutioii tutd tiii* unaoplilitimlndtmaa in- ! M'jwirable from that coutliiiou; but it i* partly ilue also to uu Uilpuliuure of alow returns and u believe tu short cuts to ' wealth. Commonly the faru cr taken only one paiwr, a weekly; often lie take* none. In the former ease he reiigioualy runts every hue, uilverU*eineiiU and aIL New rKK-it* that yield ltitiKNeubly, now | hrvedh of stock and fowl*, new \ mietio* of fruit, miraculous potab'K, tstt* which stand like l>ean poh*n and iiuiver with golden harvest*, corn which produeee ' llfty ear* to the stalk -he lu-itrs of all those wealth bringing prodigies, lie OncM , them certith i! to in the mo t authentic wray, he believes in them implicitly and nvent* iu them extravagantly. If the farmer takes no |H| r at all, ' and conducts his affair entirely bv the unaided foron of natnral talent, him the j "agent" *ptos out, lu-s m wait fur, j jsuuis-a upiu, and grown fat by drspoU uig. Suy the agent u a fruit peddler: he exhibits hi* magmricently colored litho graph* of impossible pi-tti-Uea, apples and pear-, or gK*s around with rnrj* t Itags filled with samples of byj>ertftiphnKl iwliforuia fruit preserved in spirits to t* nut hi* moral and adorn his tale. 'The , farmer buva strawberry plant* by sample and fiii'l* fie baa secureii a tine growing ; crop of ciuver root*. We have kuovru an ugellt, (Miys the New York World, to make a clever living by goiug round the s country m-lling plant* of that pretty •nlatia:i-on* herb, tlie Alkr k'ttffi, a* a new and valuable variety uf wi)il-r-ri|K'ning cherry. Kwn if tlie farmer i-srvjK-s lieiug vie tumxi-d by the agent and the a*lverU*- ment, h- i* still liable to IK- caught by the insnlious a ilea of tlie local Cobgreas tuatt and tic ih-iv-itful ~kxl jiackagca of the Agricultural bureau. One cannot \ always Vm* upon thei/ui i iir, and imagine the angnisli which await* tic farmer who, giung away from home n]M>u lmai una, tin<ln on returning that hi* sou lias , ilocti >red the slioep or tic ouwa aecord- I ing to n*ci|M*s found iu the agricultural i npoii, am! his wife has sowed h<r tlewi r Ikhl# with sc4kU from tXiiumi* Mi ner Watts I It occurs to u* that the granges have here a wide field for the exemx* of a venr signal usefulness. Here are abuses wliK'h tlo-y ran successfully attack, and which the whole country will tluuik them foralisliiig. If they will ferret out thi-*e fnvuduh-ut sg- nts and swindling silver tiwuisnt* and exi*kk* them upon ail oO CAicssi*, Uiev will remit s good many sturdy knaves to hottest industry whil'- navmg the furtui'rs an annual *um of money aliaolub'ly lust, the aggro gate of vvluch would Mlfiio' to cuidoir half a doXi-n gulleges upon tin- imwt lilwral scale. If in addition to hunting down indi vidual swindles the grange* should make determined war upon the ignorance which reiidera such swindling prosjver oua, they will be <lwiug a work of itatiou al education quite out of the rcOi'll of nchool ksurU and college corjKiratiouo. It is ptvlttble that then t nothing which the collective Amerirrui jK*ople n*ed so urgi nllv to learn a* the simple fuet that, two auj two making four, two ami two cnunot make five ul any time, in any place, nor ns'h-r any conceivable circurn "toosea. Tlw dolh-etive jwople eon ouly learn tiii* bv each jK-roou reidixing it tor himself individually. Iguuraiwx) of this principle underlies pretty much all mis take*. fiuaucud, jsihticai, moral, a* well a* agt leult ural. A I'lot for a I'layw right We remember n tradition of the Mao a Clieek valley that would Is- well to eoni:n< not with. After the fight and destruction of the Indian towns in that locality, one of the volunt'-erx, wander irg ill the woo.lv, saw the hea I of til lll dtsu | >-<'ring at him from liehitid a nx-k, and without a whereas of any length and n resolution quite as brief, brought h ; s gun I i his ah<>uhh-r and tired n ahot tlud tumbled over the inquisitive ulxirigiunl. To the hunter's horror, he found the victim of the f.-nude sex. with a papoos; Stntp|D'd to her Iwek. 11<- removed the lials-, and lie and his companion buried the mother, lb- curried the infant over a hundred miles to his log invhin, on the banks of the Ohio, ;.nd adopted the Ixiy. He grew to manhood, a ahy, wild fellow, with no toate for civilized pursuits and a love for the WtxwlA. The situation ws* unt pleasant; for the youthful I*D was expected to work for his living, and th" Labor was of the hardiwt. To make matters worse he luul the mis fortune to fall in love with hia ptitron'x daughter, a beautiful girl, with no ci J of siutora, and, as an ludi.su in those days was regarded as little better than a negro, his love-making did not prosper. His love was soon plighted to anotla r, and as the wedding day drew near the young Indian disap]x-ared. The marriage camn off with its usual rough ineiry milking, that consisted of rille shooting, rimes sml wrestling during the day and dancing and drinking at lught. The merry-ma'.ing continued rdl night. The next :n >rr.mg the two so lately united for 1.10 were called to breakfast. They did not r> sjxmd for the very good reason that lxitli were dead, Ix-ing found murdered on their bridal couch, All knew who the nvengr-r was; but to leave no doubt upon that head a wampum belt, worked by the poor girl years lve forc, was found upon the tloor nt lier feet. But ho was never heard of nfter. He seemed to vanish into night and memory. The poor father, recognizing the hand of retribution, t xk to drink, and WHS sent to Congress. The Overcrowded Cities. There is hardly a city in the United Stale- which does not contain more peo ple than can get a fair, holiest living, by lal*>r or tr.ule, in the best times. When times of business depression come, like those through which we have passed, ami are passing, there is a large class that must lie helped, to keep them from ertiel suffering. Still the cities grow, while whola regions of the country— especially its older portions—arc de populated year by year. Vet the fact is patent to <lay that the oulv prosperous class is the agricultural. We hnve now the anomaly of thrifty farmers and starving tradesmen. The agricultural class of the West are prosperous. They had a good crop last year, and hnve re ceived good prices for all their products; and while the cities are in trouble, and manufactories are running on half time, or not running at all, the WeAr-ru farmer luw money in his pocket, and a ready market for everything ho has to self. The country must be fed, ami he feeds it. Tho city family may <li> without now clothes, and a thousand luxurious appli ances, but it must have bread and meat. There is nothing that can prevent the steady prosperity of tho American farmer but the combinations and "cor ners " of middle-men, that force unnatu ral conditions upon tho finances and markets of the country. The Metropolis uf Holland. It is on* of the ]M*culiariti*** of Hoi land, says a writer in Nrribntr't maga j aiue, that we go duwu lUto it from tlie i sea, and the further iu we go the deeper j Jowu we get. The metropolis lie* on a riM r or estuary ealled (fur short) tlie U. i Into this we entered through u ponder ous granite built lock one of an u**ort ' ed Serins, or various wn-s, mijustud to vewla of larger or smaller dimensions. ! After we hod been shut into our com |strtmeiit tic valves wreivi oju-ued, and j we followed tic dinning water until it I reached'tlie level™ f the IJ, when till* gules were swung luck uud we stunned ■ uu to the city. And here we were iu Amsterdam—the mother of tic " Xieuw Anisterihun " of IVter ?*t uyvesuiit and Wuuter Van 'l'wil b*r. The guide Uiok* (to which the n ader is r*sjK*<-tfully referred) are food of Uhng this town " tin* Viice of the . North," which mislcud* tic imagination. Like Venice, it i* limit on pile* Eras mils speak* of its (K-ople living like J birds perched ou the tops of trees uud si'iue of its obscure narrow alley* ore ouly canal*, lt-vond this, tic n-sem- I bianco* are ou y difli-ren-s. The ctuiuls |M-!itrate uiaity of the princi]>al stroeU, I it 1* true, but those art- wide tliorough faios, with broaj, w.ll pa veil roadway and sidewalk, and often with four niw* at trees the water wav b iug lietwrcu i tic cenU-r rows. Carriages and heavy 1 drnys are moving in every direction, ai*k , the cgual* are but htth- used for uitermd i traffic. Canui)suits, lighters, and iu Soiue put* eveu stpiore nggt-d slii|M aie floated op]H*tlte to the Warehouse* which •re b n*c ive or to deliver their oargusa; hut tic city lias a ruar and hum that would at once destroy the dreamy charm i of Venice. There i* much iu Amsterdam that i* j inagiafii.-nt, mid iu which we were greatly inknedrd, but my present pur |*uM- is mainly eoUoccted witli those of it* feature* which aehloai engage the at tention of travelers. liisiug at ilay break, 1 strolled nut to see the street life of the early morning. Nlaxket men and market women from the country, near and far, drossK-d ui their widely vary ing i bwal oadunico, were plying their traflie ill the street* OJid oU tlie canals, aiid hoiiae muiilx were scrubbing steps and Kid- walk*, oiid sweeping to the middle j of the carriageway, or hurrying home with prayer l**>k or market IsiAket. The town alive- witli a population which s few hours later would luue way for those who are ouly known to the broader day. Coiialboats were arriving and depart 1 uig ; moving out frvuu their bt-rthfi through a crowd uf other crafts with that mysterious kind of silent help that a moving canaikat always get* from the , cr w. of it* in ighU>rs at rest—its sides j ore proihlisl with bi*t hooka from here i and from there, and it aluwly ilou's out ' from the crowd and start* on its way '• *an* mot din-;" turfbosls were 11<mU mg into tlie 1 laui llok, furling tin ir ml* and lowering their moxta ; cargoes i of cabl signs were U-iDg toscj, oiva by ouc, from men iu lsmta to men on shore; j here the ehdt* rof knivoa aud fork* was _ heard tli rough low bac*k window and ••abin lrnU-h, arid here the vrouw wss washing up tin- breakfast thinga iu a slat fliaired kitchen sink hanging from the taffrwil; strange looking people wete doing Mrange looking tlungw throughout all tin strong**-looking fleet, and ail with the air of it* Iwiug iu uo wise uuttanal or peculiar. Ou shore, a street vender wa* utlraciing custom with a watchman a rattle ; UK-U were bointuig baskets uf turf to tlie cellar, at the Un> of A high house gable ; women aud chll ! ilteu were going from a Imsement witli the sign " water en runr t** koop," with mstUy painteif iron bucket*, each having * kettb* of lsnling water at the top, aud a lump of burning ttirf ut the kit torn ; going home to make the morning tea ; ! at every quarter-hour the carillon jingled from all tlie ateeokw. Tlw* gin idioji* were ulnndy well p.dronifil, for it seem* a uuiverhal habit, in this most northern climate, bv take "ecu riwk-uw halletjc " of gin and sugar n* s fnsjucut projihylactic. At this mrlv hour, and i nkmt the canals, the gihksi beads and odil kiutiet* of the |K*a*ant women arc i more fr<H|uent tiiou elsewhere, or later in the lav. Boiler Ki plosions In hug laud. Ttie Ml// Mull ftactte snvs : The list of | ler#ouk killed by accident in IH~I verv heavy, anl under one head alone. a .ioiy, that of boiler explosions, the figures are start!rag. Mr. K. B. Mar tee, chief engineer to the Midland Stotun Boiler Lns|ection and Assurance Company, in his annual repirt for 1H74, ■ays thai during the year rtxvirds were obtaiued of seventy-six boiler explo sions, causing the iLwths of seventy oew ii and the injury of one hundred and ninety-eight jx-nwuiK. These records cannot Ixi presumed to <Mntaiu all the explosions tu the I'niLsl Kingdom, as many are not heard of beyond their own neighborhood. Of the two bun dr.-d wn.l seventy five |ienons kilhxl or injured toil were owners, master* or IlialingiT>. tllirty-two were eugllie niell or stoker*, one hundred and eighty throe employed at works, alvont twenty of whom were women, and alxint fifty bystoiidors, some dozen of whom were women and children. Then' were in quests or inquiries in the forty fatal cases; and, five tx-ing in Scotland, the result was not mode public. In nearly all the other cases the venlict was ac cidental death, anil sometimes blame was attributed to those resjvonsible, in one case amounting to manslaughter. The explosions hapiened—nineteen at mills of various kind*, fourteen at iron works, and thirteen nt mines snd col lieries, witli the result that fifty-four persons were killeil snd one hundred and sixty injured. The other explo sions are ranged under the several heads of chemical, domestic, marine, builders, railway, clay, brewery, farm, mid "no information." A Terrible System We road <ui interesting account of the " silent system " which is in operation at the Holloway model prison in London: It is nn offense for prisoner to srn*nk one word, and ho is never addressed ex cept in whispers, so that he may le in prison two years without hearing the natural sound of the human voice. The effect of this is so terrible on the miiul tlint prisoners will sjwnk out in deaporn tion, at the risk of any punishment, rather tlisn endure that horrible silence, 'l'hey never see one another, but remain in perpetual solitude. There is a fine hole in each cell, and as the wardens wear India ruober solea they can never be sure of being unwatclied. Every day the prisoners are taken to a clisjxd ao arranged that they can see no one save the chaplain, and him only through an iron grating. And thus is the order of devotion observed. Wardens are con stantly on the watch, lest for a aingle instant tliey, through the whole of the service, depart from the rigid rule of "eyes light." They must look stead fastly at the preacher; must raise and lower their prnver-book with the elbows squared, and all at once, like soldiers at drill. They may not scrape their feet without having afterward to explain the movement. Tliey scarcely wink an eye or sigh without dinger of rebuke or punishment. In Japan wheat is sown in November in drills sixteen inches apart, and one pnd a quarter bushel of seed to the acre. Terms: a "Vonr, In Advn CAST AWAY OK AK ICE ELOE. TrrrUal. K>Krltait ml a t*rl ml Kt.fc.r turn .. Ifcr |ctr..-Tfclrfcca ml Tfcrm I*l.. The hteamaliip Nuruberg, which ar rived nt B<dnm->rv from Ilreu>en, took from the arhuouer George S. Fogg n-u flabarmen who on March 'id had left St. j Mary's, Neafnaudloud, to Ustrd a brig wldcli was ice bound two tniies from the shore. Ou their return they found the iiw had separated from the sliore, and 1 Dint they were utl<wt upon it. 'The party originally combated of thirty-four, of whom seven were fruseu to death oil's c.ild night suoooctliug the accident. Nine others Is-came iw-psratod from tlieir i comisuiions, three of whom were picked ' tip by tlie sch< mer Georgw 8. Fogg, the i remaining six having ptwtehod ou the ice. The rust of the (watawrays regained the ice-bound vessel. They found nothing to eat or drink ou board except 1 molasses. The ship drifted out with the ice, hut was in sight of the ousst six or seven days. Ou the 11th of March, after ten day* of intense suffering front hunger, thirst, and cold, the oatSawaya sighted a - -lioou- ' er aUiut four miles to the eastward. As ' tlir ice was too weak to bear a mu, they took a boat from the ship mid made fur , the schooner. It provi-d to be the George H. Fogg, Capt. Hjieune. They were received with great kindness, but j of course liad to live on short ration*. Subsequently eight of the men wore transferred to a brigautiue and throe to a brig laiunil to Harbor Grace, N. F, Andrew Moouey, a survivor, says the tee hod lieeii Arm all wiuter, and some of the villager* had gone out upon it fre quently to hunt aeabtrds. Ithadahoatj < m signs of moving before that fatal day. K-]Hirts had been received from the headland* that ■ vessel was aeeu drift ing about, and on the the A1 of March the brig was discovered two and a half ' milt* from the shore, fast in the ice. The Iartj of tliirty-fotir was quickly gathered, and they started out on the toe to her and anient the day on board. Toward evening thev started homeward; but had not proceeded tar when the ten rtble fact Is-csme apparent that the ice liad parted from the aluire, and the open ing was increasing every moment. Con- i liU-matron seised upon them as they iiaatened forward, and each threw away las outer heavy clothing as he ran, to lie encumbered as little aa puavibln. When tlie brink of the tea was reached, the Kixtce of water between them and the shore was half a tutic wide, the ice ( having Itf-okru uue mile out Irani the land, and the uuinctme field upon winch they aloud was floating stood Uy further out to s.ll. It wax cut quite dark. The (*rt v wua .rliaUKted, and but ludf dad, and they prepared fur the terrible cold which taxtu net in. At first it rained un til they were all wet to the akin. The ruin then turned t<> duet and mow. Hie wind veered to the northward, auj the Cold became intense, the fierce blasts of wind rutting them to the Ixtoe. Then oam the struggle fur life, the men -tamping their f*t and runinng madly the more sturdy encouraging the weak and faltering. The cold increased until, a Mooney says, it liad reached a degree <>f intensity not equaled befi*e in that latitude thi* winter. At midnight the cold and exhaustion b -gan to tell upon several in the little jvuty. lint our and then another of them would lie down, toying h<> could Si no furtlier. The other* would nick em up and try to keen them on their feet; but after reeling tor a abort dia tauoe like drunken men they would fall aena< ICMN upon Uie ion and die without a struggle. Timer able to keep their feet had enough to do to keep themselves from falling into the fatal letiiugy, and with -ad hearte each victim was left to hia fab-. When morning dawned seven rur|MM were counted at intorvxW npni the ice, and of the remainder none conk! b'U who wa- to be the next victim. A piece of ice twenty feet square floated near the brink of the ioe in the opeu water, upon which nine of them got, hoping that it would float toward the ahore ice, ami they could thus rave themselves. When it had floated three hundred yards from the ice upon wtixrli their comrades stood it grounded, and tlie nufortuiiates remained upon it for three days and nights, during which time six of them died, the other three being those picket! tin by the schooner George 8L Togg on the Mh of Marob. All the food they had in all Uiat time was a small whitofliib, which wo- fr >xm in the ice. This tliev divided between them. Of the three men two are badly froxeu. The eighteen men remaining after the nine floated off on the smaller ice field mode their way Itack to the abandoned brig, wiiieh w-ns tightly jammed in the ice, and was carried with her. All ex pected to die in her. and some of tliem hd lost their senses before reaching her a second time. The fishermen, who admit tliey sre uulettered, could not read her nniac, but knew she was not Kuglisli. The crew had left on the ice for Hollow Koad, a village n.-ar Ht. Murr's, the Ist of March. The brig moved with the ioe for a week in sight of land, and the fishermen wen* on her b'U days. To n question as to how the news would W received in St. Mary's, Mooney replied: "There is now mourning in everv household, for they do not know any of us are saved." He said he liad six children, and tlrnt some of those who had died lud families equally large. Capital TS. Labor. The cotton masters of North Imiea shire, Kngland, held a meeting and re solved "on a gi'nersl lockout nnless the operative* of Pickering's mill, in Black burn, who are now on s strike, returned b> work unconditionally." Taken as a question of dnty Ixtweeu man and nuui, it is hard tliat the ojHuwtrvre in all the mills of North Lancashire should he turned out of employment simply Inc rease those who work m Pickering a fac tory will not consent to the UTIUS irn poocd upon tliem. We can see no justice m such a resolution, aava the New York Herald , hut we se infinite danger in this policy of retaliation. It is the array ing of cliv-s against class, which was seen in Franco Is fore tho revolution, and which was among tho impelling causes of that tremendous movement. When capital combines for the offensive or de fensive against labor it brings an issue so terrible, MI painful, fraught with so many disastrous consequences, that we cannot think of it withont the utmost concern. I.uano not an Excrement. The long received opinion that guano in the dojK><rit of myriads of sea birds, accumulating through long ages, is ren dered untenable by the recent investi gations of I)r. Ilabel. After treating the guano with an acid, microscopical and chtmioal examination revealed that the insoluble residue was composed of fossil sponges and other marine animals and plants precisely similar in construc tion to such as still exist in tlioae seas. The fact that the anchors of ships in the neigliltorhood of the guano islands often bring up guano from the bottom of the ocean is quite in opposition to the preva lent belief. Dr. Habel therefore oou siders thut the deposits of guauo must be the result of the accumulation of fossil plants and animals whose organic matter has been tranfonned into nitro geneous substance, the mineral portion remaining intact. NO. 16. HOW TUKY LIVE. Tb. lan* Niaktr ai M.w b. Vmt Ab.nl tb. Miwti Hi 4m Nat bio*. No one can observ* carefully the con dition of the Street population of a large arty or any of the towns in ila vicinity, without noticing the groat number of penults who are ott of employment We do not refer to the crowd* of pro feasiona) beggars, and those persistent schemers who pewter buainens men ami worry housekeepers. On sB thorough hires, especially in the buaintws porta of the town, there ate numlMtrw of aMe bodied men doing nothing, but lonnging about wtUt an air rather of apathy than anxiety* They gather cm the corners, crowd'about certain favorite places of mudexvous, obstruct the sidewalks, and are chiefly recognizable by their stub born listlcmmeM. They arrrvidenUy on bad terms with the world about them. They are teunldcd with the thought that society is dotug them injustice. They endeavor by their appearand* to convey the impr-*--ion tlud they are suffering from some moral injury. How they ' live, we do not know. That they do live, and that they do not a-eu to do any work for their living, ore the only facts in that direction which am at all certain. But they add very materially to the ap pearance of want in the city, and they appear to justify the worst that can be ■aid about the Kupeaabuudiuirr of labor, t In the ooauiry towns they are to be found in shout projKirttonaf* munbera, especially in those towns where the manufacturing interest is temporarily depressed. Here, of course, their iden tity as wail as tluwr movement* are leas mysterious, though it might he extreme- It difficult to sultc the 'location about their living. A part of Ui solution is possible, aa mddeute in the vicinity of such towns can testify, particularly if they own well furnished hen roosts. But aa fur the rest, we aao aa much in the dark as in the case of the idlers of the city. Petty deprodsiiona can at U-st afford but a very partial sustenance. Families are not supported through ihein, and yd these id go on from week to weak and month to month with out any legitimate or visible empioy , meat. But an* they obliged to do so f It they were asked the question they would, of course, affirm that they are. But we should he very much disponed to doubt them. We are not fur a moment denying the difficulties which hare had to lie eucountaml during the past win bar. The subject has been noticed by us so frequently that our views in regard to it cannot well be misconstrued- But a! the same time we are well assured that there are many of the unemployed who could get wurk if they chase to take it. Possibly they would have to go out of their favorite occupation ; possibly, too, they would have to accept lower wages than they hare been accustomed to con sider themselves worth. But still they could get week. In the nodule of the winter, asya the New York Punt*, a gentleman applied at Cattle Garden for a maa to go upon his place about ten miles cut of the wty. No s]wtal qualification* were required A few days afterward, he received a \iait from a stout, able-bodied young fellow. For seven months, oe the man himself stated, he had been unable to procure, work. Hence his application at Castle Garden, and hia reference by the super intendent there to the gentleman re ferred to. After some oo&rersation 1m was offered tho situation, with sixteen dollars n month during tho winter, and twenty-five dollars a month during the summer, and. of eouraa, residence and board. lie rejected the offer indignant ly, and ww* almost insolent at being offered hue than eighteen and thirty doT lars respectively. Many instances of a like kind liave'oome to our knowledge during the but few months, and yet those people who refuse such offers are satu ii-d to haug around tho street cmsaa. and to whine atiout the difficulty of get ting work. Tlie time is now at hand when there will tie plenty of work in the suburban didriet* if there people will take it at a fair price. It will go undone if exorbitant wages are demanded. At the firet opining of spring, there is much to do in garden* and on the land generally ; and very much lire to be left undone,* while strong, able bodied men in the cities are complaining that there is no work. 1"1) remedy is, therefore, largely in tlieir own hands But they must desert the stm t corner* and the city, and be content to labor for a fair equivalent. Whether tlim- will do this we very much doubt. If there is not oc cupation for all there, certainly there is for a vury large number. If they would rather grumble and starve, or bve upon their neighbors than get an honest liv ing, it i* their own fault. They have no right to complain of the want of employ ment as long as there is any work to be done anywhere within their reach. And if tlicy do. they cannot expect to reoaive much public sympathy. Thought- for Saturday Mght. Vice digs its own voluptuous tomb. A proud man never show* his pride mi tnnch as when he is civil. Grimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too late. Hie great misfortune of all is no not to be solo to liear misfortnne. He tliat will watch Providence shall, never want a Providence to watch. It is but one atop from companionship to slavery, when oue associates with vice. Active natures are rarely melancholy. Activity and melancholy are imcom pstible. Toil, feel, think, hope. A man is ' snre to dream enough before he flies, 1 without making uriaugemanta for the | purpose. Every event that a man would master J must be monnted on the run, and 110 man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped by liitn. Virtue seems to bo uothuig more than I A motion consonant to the system of things; were a planet to fly from its orbit, it would represent a vicious man. Men are often capable of greater thing* than they perform. They are sent into tho world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their Ml extent. No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a pro per opportunity, a patron, and even the praises of a friend, to recommend them to the notice of tlie world. It is uot so difficult a task to plant new truths as to root out old errors, for there is this paradox in men—they run after that which is new, bnt are prejudiced in j favor of that which is old. To do an evil action is base; to do a good action, without incurring danger, is common enough; hnt it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, ! though he risks everything. It Is Said. A tea made of chestnnt leaves, drank in the place of water, will cure the i j most obstinate case of dropey in a few days. A tea made of ripe or dried whortle i berries, and drank in place of water, is a sure enre for a scrofulous difficulty, ► oqwever bad. A tea made of peach leaves is a ware cure for kiduey difficulty. A plaster made of fresh nUnlmd lime and fresh tar is a sqre cure for cancer, which, with all its roots, will come out A tea made of willow leaves - is a sure , cure for fever and ague. <*f with •mt salt. * mm lX*w* the in motor of the **wing-ma rhur, was ibwtifraV- At thirty, a million ■ire lis year* The new edition pt the " Encyclopedia Britannica" is iw tip with the type com jMminflr mwliinw. ♦ Hit neurit of Hum Ward's mkwm • ihe fed that ha never bores a man. Com ■ mit thst to memory. A Colorado aiula-woe presented a " musical pm-lwnr " with a gold fhhlle an inch Kmg, and S4O. . AVbat it that which every na tmi ill vile, lmf an one ran aw whew it has been divided f Water. A malting trade a wait* the hooara thai now ad vertiao liberally and let peo | tie know what they are doing. Kentucky dogs are charged with de stroying over 200,000 sheep in that State within the laat two years. The flne wool aheap, formerly the pride of Vamant fanners, aa well aa a source wf evealth, bare si moat disappear at from the State. It is shown by eeientiho analysis that guano is not the deposit of sea birdm but is oowptsmd of fossil of apongwraiwl other marine ammnis and plant*. A petition was reoenfly piwsented to the Maiaachiw-tH I.egudaiure. asking that the sentence of banishment against linger Williams, paaaed in 1635, be re voked. It is said that nothing will cure a poet'a affection for his idol sooner than to <atdh In rat the '&£*** table excava ting the kernel of a hickory not with a hairpin, f Ihwn Swift said: "It is with narrow sonled people a* it is with narrow necked bottles; the less they have in them the more noise they make in pour ing it out." A Southern eftiaau who bore the rank of general in the Ooufadavwt* acrvicc re •-,-nt.v joined the United Btates army in New Oricaaa, und Uiday auric* a mus ketas a private soldier. Forty-eight aavinga banks in the State of Ngw York report a total of unclaimed tk-powU amounting to $846,£44.72, of which $316,656.60 has remained un claimed for over twenty yeura. Pork packing in the United States this season has turned out about 1,100, ttIO pounds of hog in various forms; or 555,000 Urns—enough to load 55,500 ewt, and 3,700 railroad trains. It is wad thai the well brwd ladies of Paria never by any chance are seen wear ing diamond* in U daytime. A great many American ladku m-ver offend good teste by wearing them. They cannot afford to. K New York paper nays: You ought to hear the king line of young men. while freesing Lbair toes in waiting for their papers at the puslroffiee, talk about what they 'd do with Congress if they had the way about it. "Number* is what doeathebaaLneas," shouted a man who lives cm Mechanic street " When ray wife is alone I can reason with her end run things to suit myself, but when her mother is around, I am md even a atorkholder in the con cern." The Grangers of California have formed a chartered business asaocaatiou, with a capital of §1,000,000, to deal in all kinds of agricultural produce, lire stock and federal merchandise to charter and load remda, and to stop grain to foreign A Providence woman who had ae curad a good plane to *ee the fit Pat rick pruoMsion, reported to a policemen that she had lost her child, and be aongfat Mm to find it, aa abe did not dare to go in search of it loot abe should "tore her place." A Mue tonal man suae a grocer for ob three dollars and fifty cents of him on false pretenses, the grocer having sold liim seven dollar* and tea cents worth of butter, which the buyer alleges shrank fifty per cent, when warm, 00 ac count of anew or ioe in ik A horrible piece of erweltj waa perpe trated at Guard, Fa. Home miscreants entered the barnyard of a farmer, where a vouug calf was tied to a stake, and de- MheMMty cat the animal in two, running awwv with the hindqwartem When found the forequarteas ware still alive. Mm. Oliver Pernr Biee, of Indian spoils, has received from George H. Pendleton a legal opinion that she is heir to an estate worth §68,000,000. The estate lies in Alleghany county, Pa., and it* heirship has been traced in direct line to the late Gideon Kitrhic. father of Mrs. Bice. A young wife in Pottawatomie county, lows*. aw<>ke about midnight and asked her husband a quantum. Receiving no answer, she placed her hand on his head Ito awake him and found him cold. He was dead. When be retired that even ing lie was in excellent spirits and ap parent health. f The weather, unhappy man, is now ]4easant enough for you to beat the car pets. In the ruormnff when you ret up aud see your wife Ajing arouml the room with a handkerchief on lwr head, a tack hammer in her hand, and fire in her eve, you want to etuub into your garments and drop out of the window and make tracks for the office. A Philadelphia womii remarks in the JWm ; Where are tlve poor who seek employment ? Vainly hare I searched for a fortnight for a woman willing to go cightwn mues into the country, at high wages, to ti*e in a ©omforUble, warm kitchen, with plenty of food and kind treatment, and cook for a small family, doing her duty as a faithful servant. The Mexican Barter. It ia impossible at present, says s Washington dispatch, to anticipate what measures will be take a to protect the Texan frontier from further incursions of the outlaw* and banditti infesting both* sides of the Braaos. The fre queuey of these raids lias been the subject of extensive diplomatic corre spondence between the State department and the Mexican government. A few weeks after PostmasteMienera.l Jewell entered upon hie duties he had occa sion to officially call attention to the in terference Mexicans with our mail service, and asked what could be done to prevent a recrurrtjoa of these troubles. The Heeretery of State in formed him that the Mexican govern ment complained of depredations com mitted ou its soil by Americans, accom panied by tmch evidence as to make the charge appear reasonable. It was his impression that lawless men of both countries were engaged in these preda tory raids. The Mexican government was anxious to give the needed protqp tion, but as often as troops were sent to the locality infested the banditti would have fled, and it wits a impossible for that governnint aa it was for our own to protect so long a -stretch ef frontier with the few troops at the yi}>osal of the commanders on either side of the river. It was a difficult question and one in which tha correspondence seemed to show that Mexico had as much right to complain of our dereliction as we had to aoouae the Mexican, government of permitting the oatlity to disturb the peaoe of the people on the American side. The Mexican minister, Senor Mariscal, says that it ia certain that the borders troubles are as tyuch the work of Americans as Mexicans, who frequent ly raid upon the Texm Bettlers dis guised as Indians and Mexicans, and, in discussing the-remedy, he said that people who live m a malarial country could not expect to oscqpe the disease incident to that section. . It was impos sible for Mexico |t> kt*p a standing army along the border to prevent the raids from the Texaa rid#. So, too, he did not see whytheUnißfed States should be put to the enormous efpense of keep ing its border aliye with cavalry. It was to be deeply regretted that this was the condition of affairs, fiut both sides suffered alike-, aof*fcs*ha the misfor tune ot thoae whodmbftv to live in s<i exported a UttO- itay should be at the mercy of reckkw* jmjliWH. it is said that the more daring of the parties engaged in mids are ex-sotmera, who, rained by the war, prefer the life they are leading to earn-
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