After and Over. After the shower, the tranquil sun. Silver stars when day i done. After the snow the emerald leave*. After harvest, golden sheaves. After the clouds, the violet sky. Quiet winds when the winds go by. After the tempest, A lull of srsvee. After the battle, peaceful graves. After the knell, the wedding hells, Joyful greetings from sad farewells. After the bad. the radiant rose. After our weeping, as eet rei*ose. After the (light, the downy nest. Over the shady river—rest. The Balnty Maiden. Ilast thou seen the dainty maiden As site swiftly pasees liy ? Yea indeed!—her hair is goMcn, Clearest azure m her ej e. Flits she swiftly as the swallow Toward the neet where it doth hide ; Oolden hair a queeu doth r on her Ah, I would slie were my hrnlo! Thou art mine my dainty maid on, IVlu-ste and mannerly ; Yet, ah, yet, thou Uckest something Eyes of blue, w hat van it be ? IVieate tliou art in kissing As the swallow water nips ; Much too delicate and ilaiuty, kissing with such pottilad lip*. —From Ike liirtxan of ti'iWlr. THE STOLE* LETTER. One ratuy night, about half-past eight o'clock, the train hfel daahca into Mo Ribbon's Corners, and the mail had been delivered at the store and poat oflW. John Fairjohn, the postmaster, hfel opened the Kig and counted the letters. There were, as he made out, just ten, and one was larger than the others and hfel a rev! seal; and then he hfel found that he hfel left his glares on the uews }*uor in the iuack room, and without hia glasses he could iHt read a Hue; and ao, of course, he had gone after them, re turning to find two persons in the store —Farmer Roper and Squire McKibben, whose ancestors hfel given name to the place. " Wet, ain't it f" said Mr. Ftiirjohu, nodding. "Wet or not, our folka aiu't going to do without their groceries, yon see," mid tbe squire. "Mad sin, I see. That Irwin came near running into my truck, too. Wasn't noticing the fiag, and drove acrocs just iu time to save myself. Any letters for mc i" "I'll see," said Mr. Fairjohn. He turned to the little pile of envel opes, and told them over in his baud like a deck of cards. " Why there's only uiue," he sauL " I'm sure I oounted "right. I counted ten, and I thought one hfel a red aeaL I might as well give up keeping the office it I'm going to lose my senses like that. ITiere wasn't any one iu here while I was gone, was there, squire t" "Only lie per and I," said the squire, "and Roper's son. But he didn't come in, did he f" "No," said old Roper. " I don't think that Job came iu at all. He just went off somewhere." " Weil," said the postmaster, after an other search, "well. I must be mistakeu. Yea, there is a letter for you—your , folks, anyway—and something for you, Mr. Roper. And yon wouldn't mind tossing that in at the Smith's as you pass ?" " Oh, no," said fanner Roper. "Give it to me. That's from Smith that's clerking it in New York, I reckon. Can't get any of 'em to stay and farm." " Your son Job did," said the 'squire. " Oh, my son Job. He'd try the patience of his namesake," said Farmer ' Roper. "Mv >n Job, bah." Just at this moment the door of the store opened, and there entered at it a Utile woman dressed in a cheap calico, and wrepped in a thin and failed shawl. She looked timidly about the store, still more timidly at the heap of letters, and then, iu an appealing voice like that of a frightened child, said: " Mr. Fairjohn, is there any letter for me this time ?" The postmaster, who was a Httle deaf, had turned liis head away and did not know that she had entered, and she j came doner to the counter and the light upon it before she spoke again. She j was a ftt'wl little woman, and her face had signs of gnef written upon it, but she was neither old nor ugly yet, and there was something in the damp cnrfS I clustering under the faded calico hood, and iu the little round, dimpled chin absolutely childlike even yet "Is there a letter for me this time, Mr. Fairjohn ?" she said again; and this time fbe postmaster looked up. "No, there ain't; and yon're a fool for taking such a walk to ask," said he, with rough kindness. " Wouldn't I hare sent it if it had come, Mrs. Lester!" " Well, von see, I felt in a hurry to ; get it," said she. "You can't blame me for being in a hurry, it's so long." "That's true," said the postmaster. " Well, better luck next time. But why don't you wait! Mr. McKibben will take you over when ho goes. He passes your corner." "Yes, wait, Mrs. Lester," cried Mr. • McKibben, " I'll take ye and welcome." But she had answered: " Thank you. I don't mind walking," and was gone. " Keeps it np, don't she ?" naked the ' postmaster. "It's a sliame," said Mr. McKibben. " How many years is it now since letter went off 1" " Ten," said the postmaster. " I know, for it was the day I came here. She was as pretty a woman as you'd want to see then, wasn't she ?" " Well, yes," said Mr. McKibben. "Sailed in theSpbynx," said the post master. " And we all know that the Sphynx went down in that voyage, all hands along with her. The rest of the women put on widow's weeds, them that lost husbands—four in this town itself. They took what the Almighty sent and didn't rebel. She set up that her hus band wasn't dead, and would oume back. She's kept it up ever since; comes for his letter regular, and he was drowned along writh all the rest, of course, ten years ago. She must be thirty. Well, she's changed a good deal in that time." "Yes," said the other man; "but there's my son Job wild over her yet. He's offered himself twice. He stands ready Jo offer himself again any day— ready to be a father to her boy, and a good husband to her. He's better off than I be. His mother's father left him all he had. He's crazy as Job—crazy, I call it. Plenty of pretty gals, and healthy, smart widows, and he sees no one bat that pale, slim little thing that's just gone out into tho mnd; and she— why, of course, she's lost her senses, or she'd have him. Works like a slave "to keep herself and ohild, lives in a rickety shanty waiting and waiting for a drowned man to come back again. Why, every one knows Charlie Lester was drowned in the Sphynx. There wasn't a soul saved, not one. It was in the papers. Now, the l>ottle was found with a letter in it, writ by some one before the ship sunk. And she's waitin' for him yet! "Crazy on that point," said the post master. " Well, poor soul, she'd only been married a week when the Sphynx sailed; that mokes a difference." "Oh, yes," said the farmer. Then their parcels being ready, they went out to their wagons, and Mr. Fair john having stared into the rainy night awhile put an liis shutters and went to bed. Meanwhile the woman plodded on through the mud. " Walking off her disappointment," she said to herself. It was one she should have been used to, and now the abeurdity of it Beemed to strike her for the first time in all these years. " They langh at me," she muttered to herself. "I know they laugh at me. Perhaps lam mad; but they don't know what love is. Charlie wouldn't have left me like that. If he had died he would have given me some sign; and, yet—yet, if he were alive, it would be RIIED. KURTZ, Editor and Proprietor. VOL. VIII. I ; stranger still. No, no; they are right— lam wrong. He must lx< dead." And as though the news hfel just leen whiqwred to her, ahe clnapod her hands to her forehead, gave aery, and oauk down on her knees in the road. She knelt there a few momeuts and then arose. In tins interval the wiud had blown the clouds from the aky, and the moonlight lay white upon the |>ath and lit her on her way to her poor hoiue. There at the door sat a man, a strong, determined looking fellow, who ansa* as sln< Approached and held out his hand. " Here you come," he said, "tired to death, worn out, still oil that fruitless errand. Jennie Lester, can't you give up this nonsense and think of the liviug a little. Think of me, Jessie, for just lialf an hour." "I do think of you," ahe said. "I am very sorry yon sfiould be ao good to me when 1 must seoin so l>ad to you." Then she sat down ou the porch and took her little hood off, aud leaned her head wearily against the wall of the house; and the man arose and cruased over aud sat down beside her. "Give it a softer resting place, Jessie," he said, " here ou my heart. " She looked out into the night, not at him. as she spoke: "Job," she said, " 1 begin to think vou are* right, that he went down iu the Sohyux with the rest ten years ago. But what good would Ido you I What do you want to marry me for I" The man drew closer still as he an swered: i " lb-fore you were married to Charles Lester I loved you. While you were a married woman 1 loved you. All these teu years since that vessel went down I've loved vou. A mart must have the woman he loves if he gives his soul for her." " Wliat a horrible thought!" said she. " His soul." " I should have said his life," said Job. "I dou't waut to shock you. llut you don't know wliat it would be to me to have you. And then I'd do every thing for your boy." "Yea," ahe answered, "I know you | would." There- was a pause. Tlicn she gave him her hand. " Job," site said very softly, " I shall pretend nothing I don't feel, but I know I've been crazy all this time, and if yon want me you may have me. It's very good of you to love me so." And thus it seems to have ended, that ten years' watching and waiting, and there was triumph in Job's eyes as lie turned away and left her with his first kiss upon her brow. But at the end of the green lane he paused and looked bock. " I told her the truth," he said, j " when I said that when a man loved a woman as I love her, he must have her, if the price were his soul itself." And then he drew from his breast a . letter with a great red seal upon it, looked at it for a moment, and hid it away again. | Married! Yes, they were to be married. Every oue at McKibben' Corners knew that now. Jessie Lester went no more to the post-office for her | long-expected letter. Job was furnish ing his house—hod furnished it, for on the morrow the wedding was to take place. Aud it was night again. A month from that night, when she had come for tho last time, as every one thought, through rniu anil mud, to unike her sadly foolish query, she >va- sensible !at last—very sensible. She hfel chosen the substance instead of the shadow. And now, as we said, it was night, and a wetter one than the other—later, too, for Mr. Fairjohn hfel closed the store, and was compounding himself what he • called a " night cap " of some fragrant liquor, warm water, lemons and sugar, • and was supping it by the stove, wher. there came upon his door a feeble knock, and when, being repeated, he heard it, there staggered in out of the rain a dripping figure—that of Jessie Lester, the bride who was to be on the i morrow. She was trembling with cold, and as he led her to the fire she burst into a j flood of tears. " I'm frightened." she said. "Some one followed me all the way. I heard them." " You've no business to be out alone at night," said old Fairjohn, bluntly. ; " And what's the matter f" She looked up at him piteonsly. " I thought there would be a letter," sxid she. " I dreamt there was one. I thought Charlie came to mo and said: 'Go to the office once more. I have written, I have written.' And I thought I saw a letter with a red seal." " So did I," muttered old Fairjohn to . himself. And he went to the box where the let ters were kept and brought them to her iu his hand. " Look for yourself," he said. " And now, Mrs. Lester, I'm an old man. Take my advice. Remember what your duty will be after to morrow. Remember not to go crazy. "Ten years have gone since yonr hns band left this place. If lie's alive he's a rascal, aud you are free of him by Jaw; but we all know that every man on board the Sphvnx was drowned. So be a good wife to Job Itoper and forget this folly. I'll take yon homo again this time. Don't come ngain." She made no answer, Imt only tossed the letters over in her lap, and said: " I seemed to know it had a red seal." Aud as she spoke, old Fairjohn, glanc ing at the door, saw a dark shallow there, saw it grow darker ; saw it enter, and starting up on his defense, if need be, recognized Job Itoper. He was very pale, and took no notice of Fairjohn, but crossing the store, stood beside Jessie Lester. " Yon love that man best, even now," he said. " You'd rather have found a letter from him than not, though to morrow is our wedding day." She looked up into his faoe with a piteous glance. "I never lied to yon," said she. " You know that" He grew whiter still. "I told yon a man would lose his sonl for roeh a lovo as mine," said he. " Did yon think those were idle words I" Thence plunged bis hand into his bosom, and tne next instant a letter, with a red seal, lay in Jessie's lap. "I've made you happy, and now I'll go," ho said. " Fairjohn, I stole that letter a month ago, off the oonnter yonder. I knew who wrote it at a glance;" and then the door closed lie bind him and ho was gone. Bnt Jessie had torn open the letter and looked after him. And these were the words she read, old Fairjohn reading over her shoulder: "ABOARD THE SELVES STAR. —Jessie, darling, I don't know what makes me believe that J. shall find yon mine still, after nil these years, bnt something does. "Five of as were cast on a desert island when the Sphynx went down. The twe yet alive were taken off it yester day in skins, with our beards to our knees. We must go to England first then home. Jessie, Jessie, if Ido not find you as I left you I shall go mad. Your hnsband, CHARLES LESTEU." And so Jessie's letter had come at last. And as John Fairjohn looked into her face he taw how angels looked in Para dise. And Job. Job was found drowned the next morning. Jessie never knew it, perhaps, for she and her boy were on THE CENTRE REPORTER ! their wny to Now York to meet the Silver Star when it mfe.li* port. After TkMMthh. A writer ay* : How very often it h*p ptoi iu cunlMUiun, as liernard Barton remark* in oue of hi* lotion to Onbbo, that the thing you might aud would and should have wutl occur* to you jmit u litllo too late. Ho draw* on liia own ex perietica for the record of many A long wild Animated diHcuwiiou with a friend, after which ho called to mind some pithy argument that would have aumah ed Ilia opponent's iw, ami which, affirut* the gentle Quaker poet : " 1 ahould have \xx*ti almost an re to have had at my tlugera' ends had 1 been quietly arguing the matter on |>a|Metter he could have made it. Horace Walpole opetut hia epistle with the remark that mere answers that are not made to letters immediately are like good tilings which people recollect they might have said had they but thought of them in time; that is, very lusipid, and the aprti/xt* very probably forgotten. Little Htinrv Esmond, when pointed out by Muey iVix to mv lord as "saving his prayers to mamma,'" could only look wry sifir. If he invented a half-dofeu of speeches iu reply, that was mouths afterward; "as it was, he had never a word iu answer." Mr. Thackeray's writ ings offer divers illustrations of the same kind. There is Mr. Botchelor, for instance, when impertinently quizzed to his face by that supercilious Caption linker. " ' Sir 1* says I; * sir was all I could say. The fact i*. I could have replied with something remarkably neat and cutting, which would luive trauMix ed the languid little jaekiuiajx-n, % * but, you see, I only thought of mv re partee some eight hours afterward, when 1 was lying in bed, and I am sorry to own that a great uuml>r of my beat 60/ i mot* liavc been nifele iu that way." I>r. Holmes suggestively records on the subject of mi-takes and slips iu writing, that lie never tiud* them out until they are stereotyped, and then he thinks they rarely eaca{>e him. Hon they once assigned as the reusou for his not reading for the Ixir that he was so easily discoucerted, that tin l right answer to an argument never occurred to him im mediately. •* I always find it at last, but it conies too kite ; a blockhead who s]>eaks boldly iiui Isitlle me." A state of uiind figured in a modern poem ; Rpasch, only quick to blush Us own JcUr. Made me fool, when fools had their own WY. Aim) awkword-wdeut when conceit was load." Charlotte B ran to relates haw Mr. Tbaekery met her at the door, at the close of one of hi* reading*, and frankly asked her what oho thought of it; and how, liking his naivete she wm entirely tlkpotnl to praise him, having plenty of praise in her heart, "but, alas! no word on my lij*. Who has words at the right moment! 1 stammer ed out some lame ii|itfiona " —and doubtless hit ou some neat and pithy euloginm soon after his back was turned. The good >bun<\ in one of Mr*. e beforehand to ponder and devise what to say; but " ask him on the suddeu" a simple enough question, and - " Confounded will bo i>Uu;l TiU livelier tongues from omjaicr brsds have apoken; Then on the morrow to a tiU'o know Whst abould hare boon bw answer. A Missouri Lore lietter. The Hamilton (Mo.) Xcut gives tlie following as a trtie copy of a veritable frtter written by a maiden in tlud State : May the 22, , Mo.—Dear love it tin with Much T>leaser that i take tnv pen in my hand to Drop you aflew LinA.it in order to let yon No that i am well and hope tlint when those fiew bad bends Coma to hand they will fined you the Same, well, jon henri, i want to No what is the resen you luuit ben oup. if you Dout want to Com all yon liav to Do is to write and let me No and i wont write eny More, but i would like to See yon and telle you my Miude. i lmv looked for von every anudey, but i Dont think i will look eny more till i see you a aiming, and theue i wont. well, jon benri, if you Dont want to Com, all you hav to Do is to Hay 80, and thet will Bee anouft for me. i Dont want to run after eny wone. well, jon benri, this is my last if yon Dont write or Com. now vou can Do just as yon pleao, and i will bo as i can, bnt i will never forget you as long as i hav bretb, and i will Dance arowned your go rave when yon lye cold in the erth. Now jon henri, you can jnst Do as yon think Best, not as i Cer. i would like to See yon—that is if you want to See me—and if you Dont want to Se me i will Not take onn abowut it. the world is wiide. the Bee ia Deep, my love for you i will always keep. well, jon henri, i will qnitt writen Now, and remember that this is my hist if yon Dont write or Com rite awny. if you Dont want to Com yon C-an Stay at home if yon want to, annd if yon Dont want to yon Can go where yon plese, but I want yon to ancer this as soon as yon get this, if yon pleee, and tell me your mined, derect to Jnrksouu, Mo. now yon may rememlier wliat i hav told you in this letter, for i mean what i Say, aned if you Dont Beleav it yon will fined my words true, i must quit for this time by oaken yon to write soon. SARAH to Mr. jon henri , good by for this time. True to fhe Character. " I say, girls." said a little blue-eyed, flaxen-haired boy "let me take your candy ayd we'll all play chicken." "Is it nioef" inquired half a dozen six year-olds in chorus. "Nice! yon l>et it is. Let me show yon. Now, I'll lay the candy down here on the step, and you all go down there and come up when you hear me call like a rooster." Tho girls retreated aud gathered in a group almnt fifteen feet off, while tho boy got on his knees, with his hem! over the candy, and t>egau to call and strut and flap his arms like a rooster's wings. "Clnck, clnck, rat, tat, rap, clack," and all the girls came running up and bent to pick up the candy, when tho little fellow opened his mouth and took it in at one gulp. " Oh, you moan boy," they cried, "you have taken all our candy." " That's 'cause I played rooster," said the boy; "roosters always call the hens up when ho finds a grain of corn, and then picks it up himself. A reprobate held an old shirt np by the neck before discarding it forever, bnt he wasn't monrning for the garment. He only said ; "I wish I had all the drinks again that have gone through that old neok band." CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., l'A., THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1875. THE POTATO BEETLE. ukm lie la Itttlus Is l'rnn**l sslw-.-Wsmc ihlss sbssl Ibr llrrtlr. The (Vdorado bi*etlc (or ten-lined K|Heetloa hide in the earth all the winter and appear agiun in tlie Hpring. and, a they are known to increase with iucrediblo rapiility—one acieutist esti mates that from usiugle pair the iiu*rea*o iu one season will e>|ual the astounding number of 60,000, (XX)!—it becomes a matter of im|Mirtanoe to know how great this multiplication has Ixx-n rmu*e lost year, to what extent the bug lias injured the |K>tato plant in their State, and how the supply of the vegetable will le affected in the markets of the country. In fact, the question of tin* success of the crop all over the country is Uxximing a very aerious one, and t>si careful cou siderwtiou oonnot in* given to the neces sity of finding, if possible, some satis factory means of exU*nuiuatiug thin voracious little creature. Nor iit it Ui* (K-Uto alone that suffers. The reports show tiiat they destroy the tomato witli equal voracity. The aeosoii is unusually Ixu-kward all through the Htate on account of late frost* and ilruuth, and the " second crop " of bugs (and the moat destructive by far > ha* not yet put in it* apj>e*rauce in many platxxi, so thai, although the re |M>rt* which we publish show, utifor tnuatelv, that there has already Iwen much destruction of the tender vine*, later advices will show a still worst' con dition it is feared. The female insect reaches it* full growth in about a fort night aud begin* to de|>oit it* eggs by the thousand. These ltatch out in a few days, and the youug immediately Is gin feeding on the tender leave* of UM vine. Several generations haU-h out iu a sea son, and constant effort* at extermination arc necessary to ktsip them down. There has beeu a very strong prejudice against using pari* green on the vine* by many farmers, and it so nis to Is* an open question whether this obkctiou is uot well foiuidi d. Some uuthoriti'-* state that this preparattou of arsenic is the Is'.st to kill the bugs, and that no harm to the vines eon result, (hi tlie other ltaud, it is aanertcd that there is danger iu using this poison. Professor William Paine, of tins city, asserts that it is a dangerous remedy, and that potatoes grown from vine* which liaxe Ins-n sprinkled with this poison ore likely to Ix- harmful. The bug* do not eat the paris green, he aaya. They eat only the leave* of the viue after it* juice lias I wen poisoned by the arsenic of tlie |>arin grex'U. As the root is fed from the sap of the leave*, and as then* is poison - enough iu the leave* to kill these {wuna siu-s, he diws not s*o why the tulx*r should uot also Is- iufcctish The professor is now fX|wriiueiiting in the matter, and not re a child of mine I should spank you and tic yon into a high cliair for an hour or two, but as you nre not I shall send yoti Wok. into the corridor ami wait for your father to come and draw you home m n baby cart. Follow Bijah, bub, and if there la a rattlo-Wx or a whistle to lie found around the building bo will give you amusement." The Kiss of Brat Unite. Speaking of Jefferson Davis's recent journey a Monthem paper nays : On the return trip there were two beautiful young hull en on the train, who, when they were introduced to the Confederate chief, kissed ilia hand, and the grand old man, with princely courtesy, bowed low anil with lips which have spoken worda of stern command amid the tire of Iwittle, which have thrilled nud swayed acnatea, dictated the policies of States, and marshalled the hosts of the Confed eracy to a conflict which startled and astonished the world, touched tho aoft white lianda that lay like snowdrops in hia own, while to tho fair one'a cheeks tho blush rosea stole and mingled wuli the lilioa there, 'flio struggle of life in fierce, ami to those who are leaders of States and kingdoms too often bitter ; yet when woman bestows the kiss of Eatitude and reverence upon the hero's nd, scarred though ho be by war, broken by cares of State and increasing years, calumuiuUul by malice ana cowardice, in that uallowed moment he feels the strife, the labor, the sacrifice, was not without a sweet and holy re compense. French Reporter* aud their Way*. An American journalist writes from Paris iu regard to the manner of obtain iug reports of the proceeding* of the Cirpn LegiaUtif by the city jaqwrn. He records aa a foot that some deputies, over timid of iqx*ech, have a triek of writing out their harangues beforehand, delivering but a tenth of them, and yet handing the entire manuscript to the re iMirters for the latters' convenience. It is not rare to find iu such manuscripts that the orator has forestalled the judg meut of his colleagues, atul appended with Ids owu hand tilt* modest record of cheers anil general eutliiniosoi. One of the royal princes in the Assembly i al leged to liave goue even further. His speech being a short oue he hfel learned it by heart, but liad arranged that at a certain poiut one of his fnends should iutegrnpt, so as to furnish him with the opportunity of making a witty rebut. Unfortunately, the frieud lost his reck ouiug. The priuce {tauaed as precon certed: no interruption came; ue vert he lees his royal highuMW imperturlstbly exclaimed: "The honorable gentleman interrupts me; • • • all I can say is," etc. And in the manuscript handed to the reJKirters, tile ejaculation never uttert-d was found faithfully chronicled along witli the witticism which was pronounced. Newiqaqs r editors art* entitled for a wodAte yearly jayment to receive trie reports drawn up by the offilMr staff (which reports, by the way, are revised by the Assembly's president, who lias a right to suppress wliat he pleases); but most journals liave also a r-|>rter, whose business it is to sum up the incidents of tlie debate iu a free aud CONY style. These summaries d<-ul more with the j-ersomd j>eculiariti<*s of mem bers, their infirmities of U-mjier, the clothes they wear, and. bt-ing generally interlarde take tlie two ex tremre in opinion—make one doubt whether it was wise to abrogate the iin jH-riid law. Is reeixy-t for Uie Legudat lire much euhouissl by such humorous re porting as this! "M. X. ofexluh-d Lie* tribune iu the everlasting pair of gray trousers In* wore last session. His vuice was cracki*od ability to marshal all theae foroea into action just where and when they are met needed. How many liven hare been aavcil and disasters averted by this simple endowment! How much <4 the heroism which we delight to houor may 1 le traced to tliia potent source ! It is precisely Qua attribute of which the atneut minded man is destitute, i Whatever be his knowledge, or wisdom, or skill, however excellent liw motives and intentions, however great his power* and capacities, he luis not that control over them that insures the right ful action of each in its own time and place. He is continually off guard, sur prised, confused, unprepared. His mind may !>o of tho finest order, but it is not at its post of command, and his power* are scattered and lost like soldier* with out s leader. Much of this absence of mind might lie avoided if concentration of thought upon one subject at a time were made a prominent part of education. Children should lie accustomed to think earnestly for short periods, and then to dismiss tho subject wholly from their minds. Weariness, listlesanoss, and half-hearted attention should always tie prevented. It is far I letter for a child to play with liis whole sonl than to play with but a fragment of it. If lie be thus trained iu his youth, if work and play and study, I each in their turn, absorb hini utterly for the time, there will bo but little danger of hisgrowiug up to be an absent mimled man. Those in mature life who have unfortunately acquired this jierni cions habit may, by n similar process of self-culture, gradually overcome it. No one who indulges in it can make the most of his powers in any direction or give out to the world his full value ; and certainly r.o one in "our present varied and complex civilization can fulfill his manifold relations in life unless lie resolutely bring all tho powers of his mind to tionr upon Mob one of them in its own appointed season. The Wits of the Press. "Ocn. Sheridan was married in his spnrs." This was a grave eirnr ou his part, for now he will go the rounds of the funny jwragraphists somewhat after this sort. Tho Itoston Advertiser will remark tliat it was proper he should have his spurs at n bridal. The Chicago Trifniw. will probably contradict the rumor, asserting that it has uot a bit of truth. The Detroit Frrr JWM will bo|>o that the general will curb his tern : |Huditura of a little money and of aome trouble, and besides that, there is the loaa of probably a couple of dollars more in the desirability of not turning tlie lawn into a hayfleld. On the other aide of the account, we confess that no dollars are to be placed ; but there are profits of another kind. The custom of measuring everything by its money value is a mistake. It ia im pressed uj* 'ii the minds of boy* and girls from their infancy, and there ia no U llxug how much evil springs from it. The farmer who teaches his boys that the garden lawn must be tinned into dollar*, would do them an infinitely greater service if he would devote that lawn and its flower beds to the culture of his rhihlrru's msthetic faculties. They might possibly grow up more honest, and they would certainly grow up less nigged and uncouth. Tlie city merchant who moves into the country every spring, and takes a ♦ort of city house*on a village lot, may think tlint he is giving himself and his family all the enjoyments of country life. He is to be* there only a few months, and he argues that to cultivate (lie little plot of ground around the hooae would not jwv. Ho he ia content to let its nakedness be covered with word*. Hut for the same reason that be sdorua bis {sudors with works of art, and cultivated the elegancies of social life in his city mansion, should he also All his garden villi flowers. His wife and children, his friends, and be him self, too, would reap the reward iu the influence which snch luxuries, cheap though tbev be, have upon the mind Fanners and permanent resident* of the country have no excuse whatever for not enjoying and letting their families enjoy all the advantages which the country affords. The few dollars they may save by their present plan are more tlian set off by the loaa which accrues to their children in education—for mental train iug is a* much a part of education a* the mere acquisition of school learning. And the sooner a desire to improve every means for attaining that end ta*oom-s general, the sooner we shall have at tained to the llrst step towar*l a higher standard of mental and moral culture. Casting off its Ureas. Speaking of the pine snake of New Jeraey, a writer toil us how it casta ita skin aa follows : On looking iu the box near the close of September the skin was found to be started from the head, and the process of denudation was steadily going on. What surprise*! me ! was tiiat there was not the hast friction iu the act ; that is, there was no rub bing against anv exterior object. As the old skin at this time was very soft and moist, any awelling of the body stretches and loosens it So aoon as tlic exuviation has reached the part of the body containing the large ribs this iloflt'ig of the old suit procec*la more rapidly, and with a singular system. It ,is done just in this way. Exactly at the place where the akin seems to be mov ing backward a jiair of riba expand. Tins action enlarges the laxly, and looaeus the skin nt that place. In this movement both ribs in the pair act at the same time, just as the two blades of the scissors open big*-Iher. Now comes in a second movement of this pair o ribs. One of them— nay tin* one on the right side—is pushed forward, and made b> slip out of the constriction, when it is inimediatnly drawn 1 nick ward ; tlmt is, against the neck of the old akin. Now the left rib makes an advance, and in a like manner presses backward. Thus the final action of the ribs is not synchronous, but alternate. This rib action produced a singular automatic movement of the serpent on the floor of its box. ami even across the folds of ita companion, which kept as atill as if it were dead. The movement of the j snake's tasty, as the skill did not follow it, gave the'ereature the appearance of : crawling out of a tubular case. The skin was turned inside out in rolling back, and the whole operation bxik thirty-five minutas. Ijirge Slxed Newspaper*. The Bt. Isin is Gtnhr and Pramrrat says of large nowi*}iapcrs : The immense uewspnjioni known as " blanket sheets " an- out of date—as antiuuab-d as silver shoe-buckles and witch burning in New England. For years past they luul been falling into disfavor; but just after the war, when greeiibacka were plenty and shoddy show was in order, they flour ished "for a time. Their race was soon run, however, when the country fairly settled down bi busineaa. While whole columns full of startling head lines of terrible battles and great victories were eagerly bought ami read by anxious poo {lo all over the country, the huge hand lili newspaper wan in demand. But now live mou cannot afford to waste hours poring over whole gonlnms of conjec tures and suppositions anil personal ar gument* to Ibid an idea or a bit of news i that might lie condensed inbia few linos. I It is a loss of time and patience. Newspapers arc like turnips—the , smaller tin y are tho more substance there is in them, as a general tiling, and tho people have found this out. Hcuoe those newspapers which give the most information in the fewest words have become the most popular and the most MiKutessful. In the days when the peo ple of America received by slow-going stages newspapers a week old, ami ex pected to receive no more for a week or a moutli, according to the condition of tho roads ami the rapidity of staling ships, they could afford to sit down and wudo through a blanket sheet, merely for pastime. Hut that day has gone by. When you go to a mau font infor mation you want it at once, without any prolix preamble or unnecessary addi tion, and the same is the case with news papers. Terms: $2.00 a Year, in Advance. The DridnirUon of Our Forests. A gentleman of Ni-ln-aatui writes a communication deploring UM rapid de struction of the forests of the country, in which lie aays tliAt railroads play an imjMirtant (tart in the d*stnieoun of tiinler, but the fences of the United Htates are really the great consumer* of our trees. This drain is almoat beyond human computation or belief, and in every Htate in the East oar farmers are tiecoiiiiug alarmed as to wliat tliey shall do for fence timber in the next fifteen or twenty years. Each one is yearly eouuo mixing more aud more his utth- store of tiiul>er, but still ha aaea it melting away and no new forests at hand to replace it It is an astonishing fact that the fences of the United Btatea have coat more than the land, and they are to-day the moat valuable class of property iu tlie coun try except rail reads and real estate in the critics. Our fences are now valued at fit,Ht 10,0H0,000, and to keep in repair costs $9W,000,000 annually. In niinois it is estimated 92,000,000 is invested in fences, si fly per cent, of which are boards, post and rail, and forty pre cent wire and hedge*. These fences coat 9175,000 annually for repairs, and yet Illinois is one of our new States. The effect of treoa upon the rainfall it no longer a question. I nee meteorolo gist* aud giologul* do not as to the connection between tho rainfall of a country taken in gro* and tho diminu tion or increase of its forests. A peach tree gives off eighteen pounds or abont two gallons of moisture every twelve hours. Tin- evaporation from the earth through trees is immonso; tho routs often draw from springs themselves and throw off through their branches great volume* of humid air. Thoae who have watched the effect of forests on rainfall say tliat by commencing at the edge of any dry belt the forests and ooneequent rainfall may gradually be extended across the whole of the dry belt. That we have wantonly and shame fully destroyed our forests, I think must now be erident to every ♦ tli riP n ff man. We cannot undo the pest, rent we cam still provide for the future if we set about it in earnest and with sense. What, then, should be done ? Let every man remember when he fella s tree thicker than hia body that he does an act which he can never undo and de stroy* that which in his short life he can never replace. Fanners should plant more hedges, and avoid aa for a* possible the cutting of young timber few rails. I>ivision fences lx*twr*en farm* ought al ways to lie made of b*dgwo. Strong herd law* should be passed ui the Htate*, and slock not allowed to run at large, thus doing away with the necessity for so many fi-ucca. A million ut dead capital in many of the Htate* might thus be utilized and brought into use for other purpuaea. States ahould make appropriations aud foster the replanting of forest*. Congress should enact strong law* for the protection of timber on the public domain, and we ahould have a cutnmiwiunnr of forestry. Overseer* of rood* ahould bo made to plant tree* along the high war* at the public ex pense, Railway* should be compelled by law to plant "tree* along the whole of their line* on either side of the track. _ We cannot in one or even two genera ' tioua undo all the damage that has beeo done, but by beginning at once we may null be able*to avert a timber famine in the United State*. liOts of Ptne l/Of*. The Midland (Mich.) Inthpmtdmtt than lUwcribni a jam in the Tittatia ■ ■ < river: Can oar it*dera oataiile the limits of the lumber region raaliae what it is to ace a river, from twenty to forty five roda across, filled, rammed, jammed fail of pine loga for sixty miles I Tea, if they have a mind to travel up thin way just now and view the TiUabawaaaee, filled in just that way, with a heavy donble and triple jam of noble pine logs, from Saginaw to above F.denville, a distance of about sixty miles by the course the stream pursues. Just en deavor to imagine the stupendous thing, and then consider whether or not any work waa done in the " dim old aisles" of the lumlter forests daring that cold winter. Sixty miles of loga 1 Sixty miles of loga,* and probably, on an aver age, four million feat of lumber to the mile, so the lumbermen inform us, or approximately, '250,000,000 feet of nine lumber in the whole jam! Can you take all that in f No, not yet. Well, let n* figure a little further: Four loga to the thousand feet is about a fair average; then in each log would reside two hun dred and fifty feet of lumber, or to make 250,000,000 feet f lumtier, it would re quire one million loga! Oau you com prehend that figure f One million pieces. Probably sixteen feet is about the aver age length of those logs—it will not at bust widely vary from thai—and then the distance those million pieons would extend if placed end to end in one con tinuous line would lie 16,000,000 feet or a little above 3,000 miles, the distance across the American continent from New York t> San Francisco. If sawed so that all the waste would be worked up, this would make almost a sufficient amount of inch lumlter to build a sidewalk two ! feet wide completely around the globe. All About Consumption. Consumption is not "a disease of tlie lungs, bnt of the system, showing itself in the lungs. If you fully comprehend this you are ready for the common souse treatment. A willing all local treatment, by inhnlatiou, all tha jwuiaoeas, includ ing whisky and cod-liver oil < fashionable to day, explode*! to-morrow), employ those natural method* alxiut wliich wise doctors have never differed. L Walk in all kinds of weather, two or three times a day. If too weak for this, lwgin with the saddle. 2. Hang by the hands in rings suspended from the muling, six ipet above us floor, swing backward and or ward, sideways anil in a circle. The effect upon the walls cf the chest is vcrv remarkable. The writer has known such swinging to reduce the pulse sensi bly in a week,. In such exercise con tinue until slightly fatigued. 3. Wash the entire skin with tepid water and good natural soap every morning on re turning from the first walk, and rub the skin to redness every night ou going to bod, with sharp liair gloves. 4. Sleep much, retiring before nine, adding a nap iu the middle of the day. Never forget that good ventilation during the hours of sleep is vital in every cose of diaeaaed lungH. 5. Eat for breakfast and ditiuer oat meal, crackers, wheat, mut ton, plain bread, potatoes. Use no pas try or other trash. Eat no supper. 6. Cultivate jovial people. laughter is the most precious of oil possible exercises for chronic affections. Beet Sugar. The production of licet root sugar iu Europe has increased with quiaxiug ra pidity during the past ten years. It has now reached sncli a point, and the flow of the article and trio syrups ex tracted from it into England has become so abundant that tho sugar refiners have protested against the further free intro duction of those articles into the coun try. It is stated tliat Frauee, Belgium, and Holland are manufacturing such im mense quantities of licet sugar that they are underselling England in her own markets. The total increase iu the an nual sugar product during the last fifteen years is put at 1,200,000 tons, and of this increase 775,000 tons are said to have been supplied by the beet-pro dncing nations and oountries. NO. 28. A Colsui] Hutu*. The Berlin oorrespomlent of the LOB don Daily Newt writes to that journal; Hpeaking of Wmtpbalin, I ought to bo *tow * U w word* upon so artist, e native vi that prwviuoe, whuea ttknt and per wrmuo' barn just completed a wry remarkable work. Bora* thirty ur forty year* ago, when the Unity movement bad barely commenced, Herr Ernst von llatutel, a Wostphaliau nobleman de voted to tbe aculptor'aart, conceived the imtriotn- idea of erecting a gigantic ntattuj to Hermann, the vanquisher of Variu in the Teutobunr forest. A grand national monument, the statue waa to roach tit* . t tortuous proportions of one bundml Utat, not to apeak of pedestal and base; and aa it waa to b placed on Urn too of a hill, the oil* of victory, the difficulty of gutting it in poattfot not a little added to the magnitude of the tin dertakiag. la apits of ail obrtnrtc*. what appeared a chimera thirty year* ago baa now become a reality. Assisted by wealthy friend* and oooaaional pub lie subscription*. Herr von Bandel baa completed the figure, ami in two month* expert* to witueaa the aoientn inaugura tion of hie monument by the German emperor. The atatoe ia of cmbuaaed copper and baa been wrought by the band of the man whooe brain created it Hi* whole life ha* been consumed ia this one object. When he had done model ing—no small tank in theoaae at a figure with hand* five feet long --be took to the hammer and forge, and literally formed the immenae surface with hi* own un aided strength. A good deal of it waa dune at the foot of the hill whereon it stands, the ecoiptor having built himself a forge and a hot clove to the chosen lo cality. If tire whole ia aa imposing aa the head, which I aaw tan year* ainoe, Germany will posses* not only the larg est, bat alao one of the best statu.* u ' Europe. Tin* eighth wonder of the world will tower over the famous oak I wood* mar li.-tniold, the capital of the principality of Lippe. A Farm trtwl A writer in Srribner'i tar July gives t gives an interesting aooouut of a farm > school be visited in Frame. The insti tution ia the property at a Mr. Rodin, a large agricultural implement manufac I turer, who thus geta the aravioee of twenty-four industrious voung men on I hi* farm. The school, which ts a gov ! ernmeut institution, was intereating, and, allowing tar the difference of eaa ; tome, may have some good suggestion* | for our own feeble institutions of a aimi i IST cfiarartcr. Twelve apprentieaa, who mart be at least seventeen yean old, are i received each year; the course is for two j yean; the object to to train competent farmer*, f*rm superintendeota, garden ! era, and nurserymen; the apprentice* ! work like farm Ist orent for the benefit of the proprietor (who to alao the direc | tor of the school). In addition to the : director, there are a gardener and narMeryman, an instructor in mathronat ! tes and farm bookkeeping, a toucher of {tractical agriculture, and a veterinarian; the pupils (or apprentice*) are under ; constant Hpervimon, and are allowed to leave the farm only for a certain time on Sunday; the hour* are from four to nine j in summer, and from five to nine in win ter, which time to almost entirely oocu < pied by work and study; the regime*) to very simple, but nourishing and ch-ut. At the end of the ooorwe, the graduate* are examined by the commit tee. The Itert receive from the State three hundred franc* and a certificate. Those who an not found worthy of a ccrtifioato receive, uevrtip>leaa, two j hundred franca. A Lorg While on its Travel*. The Danville (N. Y.) Adrrrttaer says ! that on Mav 28, of this year, Momw George, of that village, a veteran of the war of 1812, who haa passed hi* eightieth year, extracted from hi* groin a bullet, which wa* buried there by the rafie of an ! Indian at the battle of Cliippeww, am the sth day of Julv, 1815. The bulls struck ■ the inside of the right leg near the groin a* the soldier ww* wheeling into line, and badly shattered the thigh bone. The bullet weighs a full half ounce and to concave on one aide, showing the im prern of the bone which it struck. It to somewhat blackened, but beneath a thin i coating the lewd to aa pure and bright a* it waa over half a century ago. The limb haa shortened six indie* or more, and below the thigh and reaching nearly to the knee to thickly scarred, where pieces of shattered bone, over fifty in all, from i time to time, worked out. The bullet did not return by its original entrance, but came to the eurfaoeabout four inches above, and was taken out by the veteran himself without the aid of instnuneuta. Notable Igneraace. The Boston Otobe has a good can- I ten nml story from its Washington corre spondent. According to this veracious ; chronicler, a party around the breakfast ; table were talking of George Washing ' ton. Among them sat an Euglidi gwn- i ■ tleman, a recent importation, but. a man 1 uf extensive travel, whose intdligeuce Znt all urdioocy topic* was uuqneetion e. tiuddtmly, like a bombshell, there ( fell among us a query from our Britisher: "Abb! Ak-hl Mr. L.; this Mr. Warirington" (sha.loof my grandfather); I I "to he dead f There was a aeoond's silence, but the evident and unsuspect ing innocence of the Englishman was too much for American good manners, and somebody exploded " Christopher Oolumlma" Imagine some Atrnvioaa of < good social position sitting under the shadow of an English flag and asking if Queen Bess were dead ! A Fatal Cigar. If a gentleman must smoke while rid ing with a lady, he ought be be careful ' not to let sparka from nto cigar fall upon the lady'w dress. A recent fatal aoci ■ dent iu Winooski to supposed to have originated in this way. Two young | ladies were riding with a lrtend, when one of them remarked that her feet were ; warm, and shortly afterward jumped 1 | from the carriage and ran down the road i with her clothing on fire. She waa soon t overtaken by her companions, and the ' tlame* were subdued, but not until both I | of the ladies had been eo terribly burned that one of them, Miss Mary Daily, has since died, and the other one, Miss Honors Daily, to still confined to her lied. It to snppoeed that the lady's j dress was set on fire \>y sparks from a cigar which the gentleman had been ; smoking. The Book Agent Plague. When he got to Webster City, the traveler didn't understand at first why all the doors were locked, the first-story shutters barred, and no sign of life In sight, save a few frightened eyes looking j fearfully through the half turned slat of the attic blinds, and an oocaatenal dog ; that peeped cautiously forth from under j a porch to growl and dive back again into obscurity ; but when he turned a comer and "came suddenly upon six j female hook agents trying to climb up a , lightning rod to an open window on the second story, he took it all in, and with the speed and silenoe of unmanly terror, fled for the woods. But they pursued him with Mdeons howl* and talked him to death on the run, finishing him np in just a mile and three-quarters. Tune, 1.37}. Why to a compositor like a cripple f Because he can't get on without a sack. Item, of latent. What plee of carpentry becomes a gam aa soon aa ftuiahsd f-A-gate. 1 Albany, N. f., now ha* double the latum of the State uf Hew fort in The man who ia too poor to take a newspaper ia to poor too have a wife and 1 childixm. There vara 800,009 to 800,000 atran , ger* in Boston the day of the centennial oclehrattob. Jenka says a blacksmith raises a row . liu the alplmlirt when ha make* a poks - j r and above L Japanese law reqniiua that when a per son cuts down a tree be ahall'at once plant another, A pigeon moat haa been discover < A at >n, Minn., nine tuilaH in length and three in breadth. Alum and plarter of Peri*, wall mixed in water and need ia the liquid state, ' forma a hard cumpooation and is a anfd cement. The region around Lake Superior la ™ : i overrun by aspkwiag parties in search of • j stiver, which said U> abound in large 9 quantities. t PhiL tjbaridan'a bride ia nearly half a f bead taller than be. Bat be coaster- I ; balances this advantage by kee ping bia , hair cat abort The Celestial Order of Hi Pi liad a • wiling match at the Pagoda, Jersey jjtJity, S. J., at which only Chinese words r ' were given ant l itis a pleasant to ana roaea and lilies glowing Upon a voting lady's c heek, but a bad sight to aee a man's face break > out in hlomom*. 1 | •' That beat's all I" aa the man aaid whan be aat down to bia first dinner In ' the new houaa an moving day and found the anpply abort. ; Coffee, says the Springfield firpub't- I eon, should be browned at least twice a week. Bat how many brownings will it ,! stood beforw it born# up t i! " Why, Jennie, you look good enough to eat,*' aaid a loving husband to bia i wife one morning at breakfast. "Wall, i > I'm eating aa fast aa I can, ain't I f" I | It ia said that the wealthiest journalist in America ia A. 8. Aboil, of the Haiti >' more whose property to <*timated ■ ] at from seven to ten million doilars. A man is aaid to be absent-minded when he thinks be haa left his watch at home, and takes it out of Ma pocket to , j aaa if be haa time to run home and get it. [ j When a reporter atanda three hour* 1 i watching two painters at wart on a acaf ! fold, and waiting for a rope to break, it i. may, indeed, be called native journalism, "lam having myself taken in oil," aaid a well kuown phmoan, complacent jjly looking round. "Cod-Uvw, I aap • pone," gruwkd an experienced patient. In August, 1887, Mrs. Mary Church' of Newport, K. L, deposited SBO in a savings bank. In 1961 she draw S3O, and a week ago found $866. 01 to bar credit. 1 An " honest" man, when 1 caught in the act < f diahlling, the other 1 day, explained that he waa jnat making a little for Ma lick wife, merely twenty . gallons. District visitor, blandly- "Wall, dame, and bow do you find thing* nowf" Crusty old cottager—"How do I find things i Why, by looking arter 'em, to , beanie." A Newark girl hastened the departure . of a lingering gentleman caller the other evening by remarking aa she looked out of the window: ** I think we shall have a beautiful vannae. A Kansas City man has written three affecting letters announcing hi* suicide, and is waiting for his father to sand on some money for funeral iTunaaas, which will enable him to begin life anew. A Long Branch beauty una weighed in bt r promenade costume, and tamed the scales at one hundred and ninety-five ■ pound*. In her bathing dree* abo ' : weighed one bundled and five pounds. ; I A prosecution haa been begun against | a Nuremberg paper tor inadvertently in serting aa advertisement apparently ia cypher, which when tend backwards, .. cuustoted of reflections on Prince Bis marck. At Yonkem, N. Y., Henry Bates, aged nineteen, was sentenced to the Albany penitentiary for one year on his o>mf<*- won of having broken into 84. John's church and rued the poor box ot its contents. An adveatorong aeronaut in London has expressed his intention of bring far a week in a balloon. It will be captive, but the ropes which confine it are to be unusually strong, and his serial home ia to be moored at a good height above the earth. Gen. Sherman assured a reporter of the Chicago Thnet that it was at the ' i " urgent personal aelkstataon of George Bancroft, combined with that of the his torian, Dr. John Daper of New York," that be allowed his recently-published memoirs to aee the light. How sweet is a perfect understanding between man and wife. He waa to smoke cigars when he wanted them, but he was to give bar ten cants every time he indulged m on*. He kept hia word, and every tune she got fifty cunts ahead, he'd borrow it and ray cigars. And so they were happy. Among the divers and sundry import ed articles consumed in ibis country during the year' 1874 were 1,636,335 jHwnsd* of-arwnic, 789,787 pounds of onrapber. 116,avt pounds of jalap, 26,- 202 jmanda of ipeoac, and 287,'213 pounds ot nnx vomica. The only won ; |>er m thatauybody is left to tell the tale, j , A young lady died in New York, whose death is said to have been caused by having her hair bleached from black to a bright golden color, the poisonous bleaching material, it is rappoeed, affect ing the brain. The safest way ia to let nature dye the hair aa she thinks best, and bleach it in her own way, when the proper time comes. A young man appointed to a clerkship in the Treasury department was con ducted to his desk and informed what his duties were. Hie chief of the de partment discovered him comfortably reposing in his seat with lna feet charac teristically resting on the desk. "Hello," said the chief, "didn't you expect to do any work t" " Worn !" exclaimed the astonished youth, " I had to wort hard enough to get here." Jay Oooke is credited with this mode of fishing *t Put-in-Bay, for a description ; of wtooh all l**j fisherman will be thank ful: He had a'laige glass jar filled with minnows, in the place which he fre quented. The big fishes would swarm i around the jar, seeing their coveted pray, and hungry for the exported feast, lie would drop his hook among them, and haul out the victims of hu novel de lusion with the utmost ease and readi ness, until tired of the unsportsmanlike sport. | On a street car the ottwr day a boy i made a sudden grab among the straw, j caught something, and, as he straight ! ened up, ho inquired : " Who's lost a fifty cent pieoe! Seven men held out their hands to him, and four wanted to but felt afraid. There was a painful pause, and then the boy nndnsped his hand and exhibited a panto bntton. Seven men suddenly sank back to medi tate, and the other four indulged in ' winks. The London Laneet, discussing foot ball as a college sport, says that while it ia perfectly safe when engaged in by boys who are sound and healthy, yet with grown up men the case ia different. Foot-Mil is essentially a rough-and-tum ble game, and -a man does not fall a* lightly or as clever as a boy can. A col- I limon which simply " knocks the wind t out" of the latter, may seriously injure or even rupture some important organ ! in the former. There are but three persons who are in possession-of life poSscs on the Hud son River railroad. One of these per son* is John B. Jarvis, ol Rome, N. Y., who was the first engiae| of the road. His wife is another who possesses a life KHis wag issued hs 1856, hero in The third prison is Governor Kimball, of W<*t Point. These passes are composed of solid rilve*. upon which are engraved the name of the possessor, date when given, occupation, etc. v - .