The Milkmaid'* Song. Mii.vm kin (Ringing without). Shame upon von. Robin, Mhame upon yen now! Kise me wouM TOO? with my bainls Milking the oow ? Daisies grow again. Kingcups blow again. And won rwrnr end klss'd me milking ilie oow. Robin came behind me, Kiwi'd me well I vow; Cuff him ooald I with my hand* Milking the oow ? Swallows fly Rgein, Cuckoos cry again. And you eeme mid kiss'd me milking the oow. Come, Robin, Robin. Come mid kim me now ; Help it o*n I ? with my hands • Milking the oow ? Ringdoves 000 again. All tilings woo again, Gome behind and kiae me nulking the cow. The living Trooper. Steady, hoys, stea.lv ! keep tour arms ready ! God only know* who ws may meet beta , Don't let me lie taken ! I'd rather awaken To-morrow in—no matter where, Tli mi to lie in that foul prison hols over there. Step slowly! speak lowly ! These rocks may have Ufa! ley me down in this hollow , We are out of the strife. By heavens I tlic foemau may track me iu blood. For this hole in my breast it outpouring a flood; No tno aurgeon for me—he can give me no •Hi ; The surgeon 1 want is a juckaie and spade; What ! Morris, a tear Why, shame of thee, nisu ; I thought you a hero; but since you've began To whimper and cry. like a girl In her teens. By George! 1 dont know what in thunder U means. Wall, well. I am rough—lit a very rough school. Tins hfe of a trooper . bat yet I'm no tool! 1 know a brave man. and a friend froui a foe ; And boys that yOQ love me. 1 very well know. But wasn't it grand 1 When they oarne down the hill, over sloughing and sand? But we stood, did we not, like immovable rock ? Unheeding their balls, and repelling their shook? Bid you mind that loud cry, when, as turning to fly. Our men sprang upon them, determined to die ? Oh wasn't it grand ? God help the joor wretches who fell in that light ; No tunc was there given for prayer or fur flight. They fell by the score, in the crash baud to hand, And they mingled their blood with the aiough ing and sand. Hurra ! Good heavens ' this bullet-hole gape like the grave, A corse on the aim of a traitorous knave! la there never a one of ye knows bow to pray V Pray pray 1 " Our Father, our Father !' Why don't you proceed ? Can't you see lam dying ? great God how I bleed. Ebbing away, ebbing away— The light of the day is turning to gray ' l*ray! pray 1 Oar Father in heaven—boys tell me the rest. While I staunch the hot blood from this hole iu my breast. There is sooie'hing about a forgiveness of sin— Put that in—put that in—and then I'll follow your wcnls, and say an " Amen." Hers, Morris, old fellow, get hold of my hand' And W.isou. my comrade, oh, wasn t it grand 1 When they came down the hill like a thunder charged cloud. And were scattered like mist by that brave lit tle crowd? Where's Wilson? my comrade—here stoop down your head ; Can't you say a short prayer for the dying and dead ? * Christ, God ! who died for sinners all, . Here Thou thi* suppliant wanderer's cry ; Let not e'e>n this p.or pjrru* fall. Unheeded by Thy graceoue evo. Throw wide Thy gates to let him in. And take bun, pleading, to Thy anna, Forgive. O Lord! his Ufe-iong sin. And quiet all his tierce alarms." God biers you. my comrade, for singing that hymn ; It is light to my path, when my sight has grown dim ; I am dyuig—bend down 'till I touch yon once more. Don't forget me old fellow—God prosper this war ; Confusion to enemies— keep hokl of my baud— And float our dear flag o'er a prosperous land. A WOXAN AFTER ALL. "Take off tliat hideous bonnet, Doro thy. I want to tee you sweet littlu face without it." "Thou slionldst not speak so, Cliarles. It is very wrong." * " Why, little Dorothy f Tell me why 1" '• Thou knoweet favor is deceitful and beauty is vain. We ought to tiear our testimony against the vanity of personal looks." "Ought we I Then tell me why it pleased Providence to make you so beau tiful, my small cousin (" " Hush, Charles. I will not permit thee to sfx-ak to me in this manner." And Dorothy Hick*, the little Quaker ess, put ou tier gravest air, and strug gled valiantly to turn the corners of her mouth down when they wanted to turn up. " Don t look so serious, little girl. You positively alarm me." And Charles Mayuard burnt into a merry laugh that echoed through the poplar tree* in the old garden. " Now, tell me, Dorothy —I insist upon knowing, and, a* a mem ber of your family, I consider that I have the right to be informed—are you going to marry Broadbrim 1" "Friend Epliraim ia an estimable man. Charles. Thou must not speak of him thus." "Look, Dorothy. There he is. I will quote no proverbs, but the rim of his hat turned the corner just a* I spoke. Now don't look as if yon intended to go hack to the house, for you are not going. I'll tell you a secret. When I was down by the river this moroiug I found a boat with a tempting pair of oars lying in it, and I made up my mind that Dorothy Hicks and h--r wicked, worldly cousin from the iniquitous city of New York were going for a row in that very boat this evening." " It is Neighbor Hancock's boat." " Do will let us have it t" " Y-e-s. But, Charles, I fear that it is mv duty " " No, it isn't. You know you don't want to spend this lovely evening in the house entertaining Broadbrim, and you do want to go aud watch the sunset on the river with me." Dorothy looks doubtfully toward the house and wishfully toward the river. "' Femme qui Lesite est perdue,' Dorothy, which meansif we don't hurry. Greycoat will come out aud catch us." Charles takes Dorothy's hand in his, and in a moment they are on their way to the shore. . " But, Charles, sec that cloud in tho south. If there were to be a storm !" " But there will not. Come, jump in." The oars are lifted into the rowlocks, Dorothy takes the management of the rudder into her little hands, and soon they are gliding over the smooth surface of the water, leaving a track of silvery bubbles behind them. It ia a lovely evening. The misty shadows of twilight are gathering in the east and in the west ; the clouds, blood-red and purple, are casting a rosy light all over the broad river ; a fresh breeze is blowing ronnd their faces ; and waves sjilash against the sides of their little boat like low monotonous music. Charles is talk ing abont his city home, telling Doro thv abont the aunt and cousins she has not seen for a long time, and amusing her with stories of his college (Jays, and his'efforts to make his way in his pro fession, which at Unit were so onsuooess- FRED. KI T RTZ, Editor ttiid I'roprietov. VOL. VIII. ful. Neither of thorn notions that the broeae grows every moment stronger slid fresher, tunl Unit the dark cloud in the south has spread over the horiiou, and is covering it with darkness. Presently a low muttering growl of thunder startles them from the dream into which they have fallen. "Turn hack. Charles, turn hack !" screams l>orothy. " The storm is on us!" Hut there is no turning hack. They have been rowing with the tide. The river is very wide, and the increasing force of the waves and the wind togetli er is so strong tiiat when they attempt to turn about the water rushes into the tiny boat. Both faces grow pale in the murky light as they see their danger. " It is nujHiseuble; you iwiuot do it." "Tell me, Dorothy, what is tiiat dark object just alioad f" " It is a ledge of ris-ka, but wbeu the tide comes in from the sea it will lie oovered;" and with a low moan Dorothy sinks down fiom her seat and covers her face with her liauda. "We will try and laud there. The tide will not turn for an hour." The effort is successful. The ledge is reached, and Charles carries Dorothy to the highest rock, and lav's her gently I down. "My love, my little love," he cries, kissing her helpless hands, " have 1 killed youf" i "Stop 1" she cries. " Listen ! There is a bout. It is coming to us." Doro thy is upon her knees, and a wild cry of thanksgiving comes from her lips. Ephraim Ford has followed them. The heavy boat with its single oci upant is strong enough to resist the waves, and as he ueara they go dowu to meet him. "Hack.'" he ones; "I will not take but one of you. It is not safe." The grim Quaker, with his stern. ■ emotionless face, wrenches away the slender hands that cling to Charles, ami clasping Dorothy tightly in his arms, lays her at his own feet in the tottom of his boat. No word is spoken until they reach the op|>osite shore. Then he takes her up again and carries her to the near est fisher hut upon the beach. As they stand witlnn the shelter of the little cabin, Dorothy looks at him with wild eyes, and a cry of torture issues from her white lips. "Go back! go back! You will go back for him I" "Go I lock for your elegaut city lover, whose ignorant carelssane* s had cost you your life but for mo'" ," Dorothy falls ou her knees and gra]> his cold hand iu an agony of entreaty. "Go back! go back!" "Promise me first that you will not marry him. Swear it as the world's peo ple do." Then he takes her luuid and holds it up to heaven, and waits for the oath. Dorothy's lips more, but no sound comes, she has fainted. The fisher-wife takes the unconscious child and lays her on her own bed, ami Ephraim Ford goes upon his erreud of mercy with murder iu his heart. The storm has lulled for a moment. It comes on so gradually, stopping every now and then as if to make the earth be lieve tliat it were doubtful of its powers. The tempest knows its strength and can affo.d to wait. Ephraim looks at the sky. It is still red in the west, the waves are rising ; steadily, but his strongly built boat, di reeled by his powerful strength, can yet make its way through them. There is i yet plenty of time ; tho tide will not turn for half an hour. Ephraim fights his battle with teni|>- tation, and wins the victory, for twenty minutes later tho sturdy last plows its way bark to the shore, and two silent men struggle against the wind up the , beach to the fisherman's hut. Dorothy is waiting for them. ll< r outstretched arms would wind them selves a! H>ut both, but the stern, fixed look in Ephraim's eyes restrains her, ami Charles turns from har and fixes his glance upon the ground. It is a terrible moment for Dorothy. She known that they I Kith love her. and she shivers at the suffering sl* sees in both faces. Then she rememWra the oath she did not sjieak, and a wild sort of terror takes pons QUI lion of h-r soul. She speaks at last, and tries to thank Ephraim for the service he has dune them. " Sjiare me thy gratitude, Dorothy," | he commands, iu the slow, solemn tone Ie-uhar to his jieople. " I know I have done thee a service. I would not h*ar of it again. I tried to make thee swear an oath, Dorothy ; I am gUd it was not spoken. Tell me now, though, dost thou love this young mau f Wilt thou for swear thy religion, forsake the faith of thy forefathers, and become one of the world's people f" Dorothy's eyes looked toward Charles with mute appeal. "He has saved both our lives, d-ar," auswi-rs the younger man, in reply to her glance, "and he is worthy of your love." Then his eyes seek the ground again. He has received his life from this man's bands, and now he will speuk no word to rob niin of his dearest treasure. "Hpeak, Dorothy," Ephraim repeats. 1 " It i* for you to choose." Dorothy's voice is choked with tears, and her breast shaken with sobs, as she answers: " It is very, very wickortmeiit rejiorta the sale of about 13,000,000 more this y er shell from the West, where houses are made of jiajier that stand the prairie storms admirably. Both crews used the |aj>er boats, and both won. It is fair to presume that paper boats will be all the rage now. The triumph of the youngest of the universities iu the college races at Sara toga was a matter of genuine surprise to the majority of outsiders. Harvard had the prestige of age ami experience, and Yale was warmed up to the work by her defeat of last year. But the strength ami skill of the crews from Cayuga lake prevailed, and the new men are the center of the ovation that follows. M ore than a thousand enterprising persons came to grief under the common delusion tliat they could edit news jiajHTH in the United Stab* lust y<-ar, but, at the name time, it must lie under stood tliat a thouaan I other people wanted to learnaudeml>arK,'<] in the same enterprise, and it is fair te presume that a thousand others will fodow the same course as each year rolls by. The legal profession in New York once ( this was a great many years ago) con sisted of one lawyer, but his nnjueai to the Amsterdam authorities for leave to practice iu the courts was granted only to the extent of allowing him to give ail vice. With a strict Dutch sense of jus tice, he was forbidden to plead, on the ground that as there was no other law yer in the colony there would bo uo one to oppose him. Harvest hands are sorely needed throughout the country just now, and there is a chance for uieu who are out of work.und who mean what they say when they announce tliat they want wotk. On every corner and alniut every grocery in every city, town and village are doily to lie found loungers and by tho score, whose delicate lunula would not be in the least injured by a little work iu the har vest field. Hut they will not go—not they—they will starve (lr-.t. Important Answers. Why iloes exercise promote health ? Because it assist* nil tin- function* upon which life depend*. It quicken* circu lation, *nd thereby nourishes every part of the body, causing the hone* to beoome tirm and the r.iuix-lc* to lieoonie full and healthy.# It promote* breathing, by which oxygen i* taken mto the Bjntom, and i*irlx>u thrown off, and thereby it produce* a higher degree of organic life and Mn ngth tl an would otherwise exi*t. It promotes j*'r*pintk>n, by which, through the million* of |x>n-s in the *kiu, much of the fluid of the Ixsly i* changed and puritied. Whut i* niinie part* of the laxly ix temporarily sus landed. There ar Home part* of the Isxlv that never sleep; nch are the heart, the lung*, the order of circulation, and those part* of the nervous svsteui that direct their operation*. Why do wo dream f Dream* appear to arise from the excitement of the brain during tin ex hour* when itn connection with the other piut*of :h livingorga- im i* suspended. For iestanee, a man dren n* that lie i* pnr*m-.! 1 y n ferocious animal, and the mind pa***-* through all the excitement of flying from danger; but the connec tion U'tween the moving jxiwer and the nw-hiiiery of motion being *u*]x-iided, no motion take* place. Why do wo cough I Because the ro*pimtory organs are excited by the presenoo of something foreign or uiinnturnl to them. A cough ix an effort on the part of the air tube* to free themselves from *omo source of irritutiou. And no important are the orpin* of breathing to the welfare of the hodie*, tliat the muscle* of the chest, back and alxlouien unite in tho endeavor to get rid of the exciting sulmtnnce. Why do we sigh I The nction of sighing arises from similar causes to those of yawning, but in sighing tlie nervous de pression is caused by grief, while in yawning it is the result of fatigue. In sighing, the effect is generally caused by an expiration—in yawning by an inspira tion. The mind, wearied and weakened by sorrow, omit* for a few seconds to continue the respiratory process, and then suddenly there conies an involun tary expiration of the breath, causing a faint sound a* it ]msse* tho organs of the voice. The Unfortunate Potato. The jxitato is an unfortunate tuber. In 1845 it was the subject of the most destrnctivo discnac t)iut ever attacked tho vegetable food of man. To this day the cause of tho jxitato rot is almost as much a mystery as when it caused tho Irish famine. Tho health of the plant lias not yet been fully restored everywhere, tho rot still prevailing in part* of Great Britain. But in this country tho potato was in general pretty sound, especially at the Wc-st. There its new enemy has overtaken it, and within a few years post -we have heard terrible stories of the Colorado potato bug. This insect has lieen steadily traveling on its devastating path, cross ing the Mississippi and the Alleghanies, till now we havo it in Westchester and Kings counties. Nothing but pariß green seems to interfere with its exis tenoe successfully. As all things havo their uses, perhaps the niisHion of this insect pest is to promote cleanliness in the kitchen. Prudent honaekeekers will nowadays insist upon the washing of potatoes before they are cooked. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., I*A., THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1875. How One Man Itcfled a Mob. Home nty a young man named Hunly. Then the mob demanded that U umy should leave the region, lluuly went to his house and told his aged parent* of the situation. They decided not to oliey the mob and liomcMdetl the hottite. On the next ilay the mob oarne, twenty men and number* of respectable citizen* who dare not resist. Tbe mob rode up to the house and demanded the body of young Hunly. Tbe old iuotiierap|>ered at a window and replied that her sou had oommitUxl no offence; he had situ ply aided an inuooeut woman and her children; he would uot be driven out of the county like a criminal; she and her husband were prrjwred to die with him. Then alio bowed and retired. The mob crowded forward, but there was a man among the spectator* to be heard. As the old mother ceased talking, he came forward with tears on his face, and said: " Of all fortunea in hfe there is aotluiig like its fortunate ending. A man should be esteemed fortunate who tinds an an swer to tbe old Methodiat prayer, • Is>rd give us a good time to get out of the world.' I may live a hundred year* without fludiug another opportunity to so happily end my life, i am blessed ! My prayer is answered ! 1 will die with Imm people!" Then drawing his pistol, the taun (his name was Bollard) placed his l>ack to the door and his fa- to the mob. The effect was grand. Hesitating citizens, lacking but tbe nerve to oppose ruffianism, rushed to Bollard's support. The mob tied for their lives before the desperate resolve of the men be/ore them, and Hunly and his family were saved. Bollard's name is still synonym fur bravo mania KH! in Heurv county, and hi* glorious example has done not a ! little good. Could a grander xjxfeh be conceived than this brief one of six doui sentences t Ami h not tlie story one to become immortal I Cp In the Mountain*. The highest point in tin- world where ■ arraugemeuts are made for scientific observation* is the summit of Dike's ! iM-ak. There, 14.306 feet above the loved of the sea, i* a ruilely constructed stone hi-use, where hve three men, the | observing sergeant aud hi* two aasist anta. During m veu mouths of the year these men are shut off from all inter course with other human being*. Early in N'ovetnls-r they hou*e themselves, -and live on the provisions they ltave stored up and tlie meats tliry liave bnrixl iu the snow. Whan the atmoapliere is iu a proper condition for the telegraph to work, some scrap* of news are ob tained, but they nuiuot reach the world lie low uor the world get to tin m. The observations made from tlii* lofty point AT— sent to almost every enlighten ed F.urojxxui nation. The station was establish) d here in August, IMT3, the special obj.-ct Is-ing to learn sometliing atiout tii- up|*-r curreutv of the atmos phere. The principal iustrumcuts used are the liarouictcr,thermometer,hygrome ter, anemometer, and the rain gauge. One of the need remarkable phenomena seen on Dike's jx-ak is tlie electric storm. A correejMnderit of tlie New York Trihurw recently viobsl the sum mit signal station, and to him Mr. Hrown, the olxwrving sergeant, thus de m-rilx-s these storms: Th-y generally U-gin with hail, ami last from half an hour to four hour*. The whole atmosphere is full of electri city. Sheet* of Are are everywhere. Sparks crackle about your clothe* and in your hair, ami fill the buffalo robes and the (tedding. The electricity comes through the roof, tlirougb th- windows, and up from the floor. 'lt seems a* though you are in a battery. If you go out doors, a cloud of electricity rests tin the whole |-ak. It com-* from the rocks; the clouds are full of it. The lightning plays lielow in fearful inb u sity • • • One's hair literally stamls on end. Mr. Hrowu also stated that he had seen the frost* a fcs>t deep all over the summit, ou windows, doors, rocks, and particulaily on metal*. Sometimes it gathers ou the telegraph wmw to the depth of eight inches, ami frequently breaks the wire ami stops communica tion. Such are some of tlio features of life ou Dike's p-ak. Heuare of Them. Opium in one of its forms enters largely into the oonqsisitiou of unuiy of the pain killers and patent mediciuos so freely advertised for ilomestic use iu the present ilay, and for this reason the greatest care is needed in having re courso to any of them. Taken, perhaps, in the first iiisUince, to alleviate the tor ments of ucuralgia or toothache, wliat proves to hi a remisly soon txicomc* a source of gratification, which tho wretch edness that follows on alwtiueiioe ren d-ra increasingly difficult to lav aside. The stun- must fie said of narcotics, such . as bromide of potassium ami hydrate of chloral,frequently resorted toasuromedy for sleeplessness; the system quickly be comes habituated to their use, and they can then lie relinquished only at the cost of much -suffering. Indeed, the last mentioned of these two drugs obtains over tlio mind a power which may lie conqiared to tluitof opium, and is, more over, liable to occasion the disease known as chloralism, by which the sys tem ultimately becomes s complete wreck. Why lie Kode. Leo IJCSJX-S, the brilliant French writer who died recently, never went on foot, but this custom was introduced, says Charivari, .by Count d'Alton-Hhee, ami had tlio following origin. One day he was walking in Dnri* with a young lady, who suddenly said : " Oh! what a charming bracelet! Look there, my friend." Ho he bought it. A little further on she saw a fan. "Ah! the delicious fan!" quoth she. He bought it. A little further and she sow an ebony casket. "Ah ! what a casket f" said she, " I've wanted just such a ouo ever so long 1" How could ho help buying it ? The next day the count said to him self : " Let us always take a cabriolet; it will not cost more than walking," A Hint on Healthy Press. Multitudes of persons of both sexes low health, and oftentimes life, by busy ing themselves until warm and weary, and then throwing themselves on a bed or sofa, without covering, or in a room without a tire, or by removing theirouter garments after a long walk. If you liavo to walk and ride both, do tho riding first, and, on returning, go to a warm room, and keep on all your wraps until cool, eveu if you suffer some discom fort. Races of Meu in tbe Bartflr. Aeorres|Kindeut of the Ismdou T\m's, who aocoui|iaiiiod the government ex |>editioii t> explore the islands iu the vicinity of Australia, thus desert Ikw a race of jHHiple of whom but little is known : We anchored near Admiralty island, and very shortly a number of very flue ivutoea "thirty feet to forty feet long, and with crews of front ten to litUvii, came off to the ship. The canoes were much ou the k-une pliui as thoae we had seeu iu New Guinea, but more than double the sine. The body of the ouuue is cut out of a single tree, very syui metrically formed, and really, at acer tain sense, a work of art, ami one of great patience and labor. Tbe natives are Bupuaii Meltuiesians, but, as tbe Admiralty islamls form New Hanover, New Ireland, and New Britain, it is prolathle that they partake more of the character of the luhabitants of these inlands than of those of New Guinea proper. They are a trifle over five feet ut height, ami their color i* quitedusky, but tlist may possibly lie due to their making getierni use of block pigment, for we fouud on 1 letter acquaiutatioe tlist some of their color was apt lo come off ou the clothes or bauds. 'I heir lour is black and frixxled, ami they wear it short and rarely bleach or dye it. They are quite naked, with the exoovtion of a very narrow loin-cloth, and often, in lieu of tliis, they wear a single shell, plain or elaborate!* ornamented, of the white egg cowry. The hair is sometimes tied in a knot at the top of the head by a band of tappa, and a favorite ornament for the front of the top-knot is a disk, three inches or so across, cut out of the white inner substance of the shell of the pearl oyster, which is |Hilished and then overlaid with another disk of very thin tortoise-she 11, often cut out into a very elegant pattern. A similar disk of larger ■use is worn susjwuded from the neck as a breast plate. Hie lioae ornaments are long pieces of bone, hung from a abort (Tort* piece, which jaoses through tlie septum of tlie nose ; and the earring* and the brae* lets, which tliey wear on the upper arm, ore ring* of shell, cut from a large turbo. It is singular that the arms and implements of tlie Admiral ty islander* differ completely from those of the Hapuons whom we pre viously visited at one of tlie ueighlairing islands. In Admiralty island Iwiw* are unknown. The canoe* all carried large sheaves of spear*, with heavy heads of otsudiau and light aliafts, six to seven feet long ; they throw these with groat force aiul accuracy, taking hold of the sliaft just lelow the head, where the wt ight of the KIKV wit* 1 Milan oed. They Aim * use long, siuirp knives or daggers of , obsidian, whieli they stick into an orna mental bracelet of liliuted gruMM* which . they wtvtr on the left upper ATUI. Al most every uuui had over hut shoulder A I neatly mounted httle adze, made of A Kjiijtlf piece of hoop-iron, or frequently of better and thicker irou than ordinary . hoop, with H bent hard womj hAUille ; A few still carried wliat must lutve preced ed the iron adze— lUl implement of tie same form, but with the cutting port made of a piece of A thick spiral riled] ground down in A j>artiouUr way. 1 A Scene in the Jfew Vork I'ollrc Court. •• Johnson, the officer any* tliat you were drunk, and tliat you haven't drawn , a sober breath for a week. How in that, Johnson ?" the justice atkixl of the next primmer. ! "Yer honor, M said Johnson, aa he dropped one arm over the rail and leaned back Inwvily on the policeman, who support*l him by tlie shoulder, "it's true. I've been drunk for • week, it* you say, an' 1 haven't got a word to aay to defend myself. I've been iu tin* h re court, 1 gu-sa. a hundred tirnca 1H fore au" every time I've a*k-d your honor to let tue off light. Hut thia time I don't have no fear. You can maul me up for ten days or yon can maul mo up (or ten yearn, it'a all one now." A* he apoke he brushed away a tear with hi hut; and when lu- paused lie coughed a dry, racking cough, and drew hi* tat tered coat closer about hi* throat. "When I went up before," he con tinued, "I always counted the day* an' the hour* till I'd come off. Thia time I 'll count the block* to the Potter'a Field. I'm almost gone, judge," He paused again, and looked down to hi* almost shoeless fee t. '• When I was a little country boy," he went on, "my mother used to any to me: ' Charlie, if yon want to lie a man, never touch liquor,' an' I'd answer: ' No, mother, I never will.' If I'd kept that promise, roil an' me wouldn't have la-en *o well acquainted, judge. If I could ouly l*> a l*>y again for half a day. If I could go into the old schooUkiuse ju*t once more, an' are the lx>y* an' girl* a* I used to see tlu-m in the old •lay.*, I could lay right down an' die happy- Hut it'a too lute. Send m up, judge. Make it for ten ilnya, or make it for life. It don't make no difference. One way would lo a* short a* the other. . All 1 aak now is to die alone. I've been in crowded tenements for year*. If I can lx alone n little while before 1 go, I'll drop off cotitented." The shoulder of the muddy coat slipped from the policeman's hand, and the used-op man fell in a heap to the floor. He was carried to tlie little room tiehiml the rail. His temples were lmtln-d, aud his wrisb were chafed. Hut it wan no use. Though hi* heart still lient, he wrus fast goii. ■ to join hi* schoolmates who have croak- the flood. The shutter* were I lowed, the door was closed. He might die contented, for he 1 was left alone. , Depth of the brent Lakes. There is n mystery aliout the Anieri csu lakes. Laim Krio i* only sixty or sev-uty feet deep ; lint Tjke Ontario, which "is 600 f.-et deep, is 330 feet below the tide-level of the ocean, or as low as most part* of the Gulf of St, Lawrence ; ami the bottom of Imkea Huron, Michi gan and Huju'rior, although the surface is much higher, are all from thijir vast • depths ni a level with the bottom of On- i tario. Now ns the discharge through the Detroit river, after following all the prolxible portion carried off by evajxini tion.doea not appear by any means equal ! to the quantity of water whicli the three upper lakes receive. It has been oou joctod that n siititorraneiui river may mu from Lake Superior, by the Huron, to laiko Ontario. This conjecture is not impossible, and account* for the singular fact tliat falraon and herring are eaught in all the lukes oommunicsting with the St. Lawrence, but no others. As the falls of Niagara must have nl waysr minted, it would puzzle the naturalist to say how these flsli got into tlio upper lake without some subterranean river ; more over, any periodical observation of the river would furnish not improbable solution of tlie mysterioustlux antireflux of ths lakes. An Economical Mourner. A gentleman dressed in all-black pre sented himself, one day, at the bo* office of the Theater Oomique, in Paris. " Madam," said he to the ticket agent, with tear* in hi* eyes, " I wish a box in order to place therein the body of my wife at the moment when the ' Requiem' of M. Verdi is played." " Why," cried the stupefied ticket agent, " is your wife dead I" " Yes ; I lost her yesterday, and I thought that a reqniem would cost me less here than at the church ; and then would permit me to hear the work of M. Verdi. The ** Fever Tree." The eucalyptus, or Man gum tree of Australia, wee discovered by a French I scientist, l,shill*rUer , who visited Vsm |)k iiuui' Lsud in 1792. The great nun uinl lientlty of the tree soou gave it S iilmw ill Urn bnUuitvl gwtlfiiiul Europe. ; Its medicinal . The colonists of Tnninniiin luted it for n great variety of purjmeea, but were ignorant of it* power an an antiseptic. Thia wan apparently dis covered in Hpaiu. 1 n-I HtkJ the neighbur hooil of the city of Valentin waa planted with the eucalyptus. A marked iia* iiioveuient in the healtlifulueaa of the locality followed. The H|auitarda forth ! with dubbed it the "fever In*." It wan noon afterward introduced into Algeria, the climate of which seeuied i-p.j -ecially adapted to it. It may be fairly aaid to be naturalized there, at the Cape of Good Hope, in the 1m Plata S talon of Bouth America, and in Cali fornia. After a trial for many year* iu southern Prance, it haa failed, an a rule, to be come hardy, or to suck up and destroy the {Miinonoua vapors of Uie warn pa in which it was planted. The few dozen I specimens planted within the walla of lUunc are nearly all alive, but very few of them are vigorous. Within a year or two the Truppisl tuoiika at the Trr Fon lane convent have act out large plants I tiona of the tree®, and are tending them with the utmost care. Thia may be j fairly looked upon aa a decisive expert meut. The place known aa the Tre Fon ! tan®.- tlie 1 hree Fountain*—lies some | uiiliwaouth of Home, uxid u the aeat of a magniiloent monastery. Yet ita climate la ao deadly that the splendid building*, rich in mosaics, marbles and freacoea, are wholly deserted during the summer. Trying to lire in them then would be certain death. If the blue gum tree makes the Tre Fontane healthy, it can be relied uu to do the name work any where else, Ita record as tut antiaeptic and disinfectant is alranly a good ] one. The districts iu which it i* indigenous are healthy, and thuw into which it 4ias j been transplanted and iu which it haa I thriven liave become healthy. A few i utiles from the city of Algiera there was a farm which was noted for ita dAadly fever*. Life on it in July was almost i impossible. In the spring of 1867 thirteen hundred eucalyptus wereplanted there. They were nine fart high by the next July, iutd not a case of fever ap I-cored. Nor baa one appeared since. Near (< install tine, Algeria, there wero : vast swam \m, never dry even in the hot test summers, and it*ductivc of violent jw-riodic f.vera. About fourteen thou sand eucalyptus trees dried up every •quart? foot of swamp and killed the fever. Mai>*>u Came, near llauasrh, a-as once a great market few quinine. I'he demand for that drug has ceased lince the blue-gum tree was planted there. Mercantile books are aaid to | show a similar decline in the amount of quinine consumed in Mexico and Cut si of late, and a similar cause is given for it. A very unhealthy railroad statiou in the dejiartuieut of Yar, soutlicrn France, lias beau made healthy by a grove of forty of those remarkable trees. lhc Perfection of Diet. If all the Ikxrumg house keepers could Is- successful iu getting auch patrons as j a man living at c'uthtiert, Ot', there'd ! Ih' more money in the Isiarding house buaim-ss than in cutting off coupons from some railroad booda. The charac ter of this Cuthbert man came to light recently through an advertisement in the rikwspapMS, where it was proposed to furoisli, fr five dollar*, a recijs* teaching one how to live ou thirty-seven oenta a week. The Cuthbert man. now j sixty-four years old, read the advertise ment and lw-oamo indignant, asserting it to be sln-er extravagance for one to j spend so much a week, and making pub- Ins the fact that his own provisions cxwt him not to exceed ten dollars a year. Ilia process is simple, and is published for the benefit of civilised humanity. He has not taken a drink of liquor for over a quarter of a century ; he never drunk a cup of coffee in his life, or ate a ! pound of meat of any kind. He has no | recollection of ever* taking a dose of medicine or consulting a physician. He can walk fifteen or twenty miles as quickly as any young man in the coun try ; i* a uati of family, and a model of ' moral am! physical health. The secret of his diet is that it is plain corn bread and vaiti-r, a diet which he asserts a man ■ becomes accustomed to and will be tlior j onghly satisfied with. Such a man is i this t leorgia model, aud such hi* acrg asserts that he never re notuiced his eitizensliip, aud argues that ltis removal from the Tuitod States was beyond his control. The ease lias been referred to the attorney general, aud is considered by him one of great import auee and intricacy. The New Postal Card. The post-office department has adopt od u new design for postal cards, pre- ! pared at the printing department of the j treasury. Ou the upper left-hand corner is the monogram U. 8., across which, in a scroll, are the words "postal card." On the upper right-hand corner is the stamp, nearly square, instead of elipti cal, the sides of the stamp beiug com- j posed of fasces and the top and bottom of the I wind scrolls, the top one having the legend "U. 8. postage," the lower , one "one cent." Iu the center of the; stamp is the profile of the Ooddess of Liberty. It will be printed in black i upon card-board of rati dr. Nile color, I and will soon be ready for issue. I Termßi: 0*2.00 a "Year, in Advance. A lllg Knake Story. f The Baltimore says that a cotiaidcrabte consternation exists at 1 preeent among the people residing in * the vicinity of Hall Springs, on the s Harford road, about two miles from Hal timore, owing to storiea about the ap r |x-rauor of a very large snake in the a neighborhood. Those who think they Y have seen his NUakeship say that he u a fully fifteen feet long, about eight inch** , in diameter, and two feet in atratm i fereuee. lis was seen, it is said, on the >- place of Mr. J. F. Lee, the owner of Uie i llive mill. The snake pawed through 1 the garden, ami came within a hundred feet of the stable. Its track was after b ward measured by Mr. Lee, who states - i iia diiuoiuaona to be eleven and a half I inches in width in the narrowest place, j and about fifteen inches in the 1 Mr. Is**'* place is a short distance lie™ k yond Hall Hpringa, and is located on t ilie east bank of Herring ltun. On the * west bank, opposite the dam, there is a - | large ruck, with a sort of cave under uealh. This is thought to be the den i of the monster snake, who lias been - | noticed ou several < KMasidns in the woods t near by. The miller in the employ of i Mr. Lee says that s few days before he i j noticed the suske lying, apjaut-ntly f asleep, under the breast of the dam. r He apprised Mr. Lee, on the latter's re r turn from the city, of the fact, who - scarcely believed the story. The visit of the snake to his place, however, thor i oughly convinced Mr. Lee that the ! suake'in reality existed, aud was one of i unusual proportions. This gentleman - 1 avers that a snake of the man described ■ has thecapscity of swallowing a calf four i or five weeks old, and that S lxy or girl * , ten or twelve years of age would be a . mere mouthful. Mr. Lee stale® that he , is willing to give SSOO for the capture of . the snake olive, or in lieu thereof $25 s to any one who will kill it. Beveral at * tempts have been made to kill the i i snake anil have failed, for the simple - { na*on that the parties making the at ? tempts, ou coming serons it sod noticing 1 its huge proportions, incontinently fled. The superintendent of the turnpike company was walking in the woods s i few day* ago when lie met the snake, s He rushed from the spot, and never r slackened his niecd until lie reached the door of his domicile. His nervous r system was ao terribly shocked that he t haa not yet entirely recovered. Beveral ; other persons have seen the snake, and 1 the stories that art- afloat about it have been productive of a great deal of ex citement and comment in the neighbor . hood of Hall Hpringa. It is understood i that on effort will lie made in a few days - to cajituro the snake. It is proposed to t fasten a strong chain, with a sharp hook - attached, to a tree in the neighborhood r of the den. On the hook will be placed a live chicken. The snake, it is con fidently expected, will go for the chicken . and take in the sharp hook as well, 1 which, it is thought, will insure its I capture. The ( athedral at ( nicest . : Of all Gothic building*, the plan of the cathedral at Cologne is the meet " stupendous; even ruin as it is, it can nut fail to excite surprise and adinira ■ lion. The legend concerning its plan may not lie known to every one. It is related of the inventor of it, that in de spair of finding a plan sufficiently great, he was walking one day by the river, sketching with hia stick upon the wuul when he finally hit upon one which pleased him so much that he exclaimed ; 1 " That ahull be the plan." " I will show you one Is lter than that!" said a voioe In-hind him, and a certain black gentleman, who figures in j many German legends, stood by him and "pulled from hia pocket a roll con taining the present plan of the catbednd. Till- architect, amazed at ita grandeur, asktxl an explanation of every port. Aa he knew,liis soul was to be the price of it, bo occupied himself, while U e devil was explaining, in eommittirg its pro portions carefully to memory. Having done this, he remarked it dul not please him, and he would not take it. The devil, seeing through the cheat, ex claimed in his rage : " You mav build your cathedral ac cordiug to this plan, but you shall never finish it. This prediction seems likely to be veri fied, for though it was commenced in 1248 and continued two hundred and fifty years, only the nave and choir and one tower to half it s proper height are finished. The Black Hills Country. A ixurespondent of tlui New York IfrraJd, who gives the result of iiis ob servations in a letter from Oanip Harney, Eseuts a lively picture of the Black la region, and makea it too evident that the gold houters who ijv thronging thither are the dupes of their too san guine expectations. That there is a gold tract there is quite true, hut though ex tensive in area, it is so deficient in yield that the driver of a horse car or a laborer on our public works at the present re duced wages is in receipt of a better in come than the most fortunate .if those who have gone so far and risked so much in quest of gold among the Black Hills, j The wild and wonderful accounts, by ; which multitudes of sanguine adventur j or* were set craxy, have been proved an i utter delusion, mid it is to be regretted that they aie paying so dear for this ex perience. Tb-v are still led on from place to place, but the " pay streak " is aln-nys "over yonder," and, like an ignis faluu *, it is never reached bv the delud- \ c! pursuers. There is no gold to be had by mere washing or sifting that is worth the labor of collecting, and whether the amount nnlwslded in quarts rock is suf ficient to justify a heavy outlay for ma chinery can le determined only by scien tific explorations. _ The Helta of the Mississippi. Captain Hades haa had compiled for his especial use the following interest ing and scientific data concerning the j; Mississippi rivar, the work at whose mouth he can tie said truthfully to have already lioguu : 1. Quantity of water discharged by the river annually, 14,- 888,9G0,b8P,880 cubic feet; 2. Quantity of sediment discharged auuually, 28,- | 188,088,892 cubic feet; 8. Area of tlie j delta of the liver, acconling to Prof. Lyell, 13,(5K1 square miles; 4. l>epth of the delta, according to Prof. Ridden, 1,056 feet; 5. Tlie delta, therefore, con tains 400,378,42i,440,000 cubic feet, or 2,720 cubic tuiles; 6. It would require ' for the formation of oue cubic mue of 1 the deltif, five years and eighty-one I davs; 7. For tlie formation of one square • mile of the depth of 1,056 feet, 1 one year and lfij days; 8. For the for- 11 nmtiou of the whole delta it would re- ' auiie 14,568 4-6 years; 9. Tlie valley of ' :ie Mississippi from Cape Girardeau to 1 ; tho delta is estimated to contain 16,000 1 square miles of 150 feet depth. It ' therefore ooutains 66,980,1(50,000,000 cubic feet, or 454 cubic miles. BKMPINfI Hratt Irok.—lt is now 1 possible, by the aid of hydraulic ma- 11 ciiinery, to bend iron shafts of twelve , 1 I inches in diameter to any desired shape. ; 1 Incredible as this statement may seepi >' to some, crank shafts are now so made, ' instead of by tho alow, laborious and ex- I*ensivo method of forging. The bent shafts are also said to be much better than forged ones, from the fact that the 11 I fllier of the metal runs in one direction 11 | continuously, whereas in • forged enes it j i I is often across tlie line strain. ' i NO. 31. The IViti *f (Jn, ItPhmw. t Coiuiderabto interest ha. been evincac lately relative to the manner of tlx i ; death of Oeu. Mcpherson before Atlanta. > (5a pt. IWtard, of Uia UonfaiknU army, . Dow publishes a tUUmutul relative to th matter, in which h says; We war* i j placed iu line of Ijottle about twelve oi r one o'clock in the day. and the Lwt oadtti i given by (ten. Pat. Gtebuxbe to us, w 11 to move forward, torn neither to tlw I right baud nor to the left, until we wort i within the enemy'a bmaatworha t j Hhortljr afterward a heavy and rapid i cannonading commenced, from what Wt | j supposed to be Gen. Hate's division, which aunonnoed too clearly that the hall i *m about to open in good earnest, f Under the excitement aroused lOr it, wc commenced a double-quick through • — f> neat covered with dense ondertmuh. * Here we ran through a hue of akimtiah i | era, and took them in, without the firing i j of a gun, and suddenly came up to the , edge of a little waguu road running parallel with our liu of march, and i down which Gen. McPbemon aune thundering at the head of hi* stall, and, i aoootding to my beat remiltestion, hh f body guard. He had evidaotfy just left > the laid conference that he ever mid with ' Gen. Hherman, war the Howard Honor, and waa on bin way to aee what the rapid and audden firing upon hia left all i i meant. Gun. Hherman is certainly niititakcfi. j in hia memoirs, when ha my* that h* i , waa almost, tf not entirely, alone, for 1 f estimated hia rank entirely by the sue* i of hia retinue, and in that eat made ] | • fixed hia rank at nothing teas than a norpa commander w ■ "^aiiliinlflf I staff with him, and, according to mi , lawt recollection, a body guard followed i i him. f He waa certainly surprised to find him , self suddenly (son to face with the mbei Una. My own company ami noatdbly i others of the mgimeut had reached the i isrge of the road, when be discovered, for the flrwt time r that he waa within a ■ few feet of where we stood. I threw up my sword to him as a signal to soman . tier. Not a word waa spoken. H* checked his horse slightly, raised hia ha! aa politely aa if he was nutating a lady, • wheeled hia horse's head directly to the right, and dashed off to the rear in a fall i' gallop. Young Corporal Coleman, whe II ana standing near me, waa ordered tc j fire upon him. He did ao, and it was hia ball that brought Urn. McPberson down. He was shot passing under the thick branches of a tree, and aa he ana bending over hia horse's neck, either tc avoid coming in contact with the limbs or, more probably, to aaoape the death > | dtssUug bullet of the enemy that he knew waa sure to follow him. He was aliot in the beck, and, aa Slserman aw in his memoir*, "the ball ranged npwmd acron the body and passed near the heart." A number of shots were also fired into hi* retreating staff. , I ran immediately up to where the dead general lay, just as be had fallen, upon his knees "and face There was not a ijuirvr of hia body to be seen, not a sign of life perceptible. The fatal bul let hail done its work welL He had been killed instantly. Even as he lay there, drerned in hi* major-general'* uniform, with hia face in the dust, he was as magnificent s looking picture of manhood aa 1 ever aaw. Right by his aide lav a man, who, if at all hurt, was but slightly wounded, but whose liorae had been wot from under him. From his appearance I took him to be the adjutant or inspector (federal of the staff. Pointing to the dead man 1 asked him: " Who is this lying brae I" He answeml, with tears in hia eyes: "Sir, it is Gen. McPhereon. You have killed the brat man iu our army." This was the first intimation that we had a* to who the officer waa and aa to his rank. _ A Filing Insert. In all the allusions in your paper tc the potato bog—the Colorado beetle— asys a Tribune correspondent, I have not seen it stated that these insects fly in great numbers like the grasshoppers of the West It is a fact, and I know not why they cannot swam over the whole country. In the summer of 18 statement that Commodore VtiMerbiß . —: UArtA AAA ML. * *-* has gireu grtOO.OOO to toe ednratiooal ° institution in Tsnnuaasn which bears hia 1 A Kansas paper rays: A male kicked ' e an insurance agent in this place on the I cLeuk the other day. The agent's cheek „ was nninjured; the mole's hoof waa h It appears that the terrible eptdemio i. of measles in Fiji wa an early resoß of I csviiiaatioD, as the disease waseommuni- II rated to the nstivm from a British man- M of-wan.. h The aevKu-ct'iii postage stamp has ? bran abolnihcl, and the too oent stamp > will he printed in vermilion, that it may H * be distiugniohed In color from the two- ra 1 cent stomp. I|l * ' Dora giant fanning pay 1" asks the SGbkago TMWK. If toe Tribunr really wants ibforumtiou, it ought to go and talk to the giants themaalvea. Tbeagri t cultural papers can't know everything. 4 A person of Pike's peak, writing to T Minnesota journal, says that the minera f. are very diaccmraged in that region : i they have to dig through a solid vein of a ritecr tour fee* thick before they reach p thegotiL i Bamam has secured another fat e woman. Her name ia Hann*—plain >t Banna— and when she ssta down on a t, chair the elephant moves around and r hrams hta legs for the ooming earth- Li <|ake torak 0 At the Grand fiapida fire, a woman ° threw a irathar bed oat of a asoondtaoiy * window and then looked for her baby, n but she could not find it until a man * discovered the missing infant in the bad * thrown out. £ A Grand Trunk freight train was de [. tainednear Koekwood, CWda, far half * ® bom by graashoppew. They were ' 1 over an inch thick an the rail, and „ caused the wheels to slip as if running j on grease. • e There are in Berlin 1,906 manufacto ries, of which 777 are worked by steam 0 power, twenty-eight by gas engines, as van by air enginea, and the motive a power of the remaining is supplied by hand power. * There was* gold mine in Cherokee, Ga., a tew days ago. Alter a little of the excitement subsided somebody dis -1 covered that the deposit orsaswted of [ gold foil stock sronna on the rocks with macaisge. f It is estimated that daring the months of July and Aogw* there will be every t clay torn i, 00 to 8,000 Amerioana srat t tern! akNig the water from Niagara Falls r to CUiooctiute, the bead of navigation of i the Hagnenay river. 1 Who ran refrain from smiling at the * story of tiie young lady who, after deliv ' ering s lecture in Bpringfu Id the other * on " Drees Reform," went to s at down, and couldn't get within six * inches of the chair 1 Turkish authorities hare called the at -1 rentioe of the English embassy to the law of the Ottoman empire, prohibiting the introduction of fire arm*. It is rather hard on traveler*, who are thus at the mercy of the numerous brigands who infest the country. White a man was standing in a drug store in Providence, B. L, the other dsy, a bottle containing soda water ex ploded, and a fragment of tbo glass struck his throat cutting a small artery. The bleeding was no profane that a serious | result was at first anticipated, i This ie the season whan the careful , housewife cute last week's paper into strips, mounts them on top of a broom | handle, and gone through the darkened . dining room like the dertsoying angel, | murmuring " sb-ah-eh," and waging death and diMoiatio& to fifes. L The Connecticut House has passed a bill providing that all theaters, public ; hall*, churches, school buildings, fac tor**, eto., where fitly or more persons congregate, shall have all of their exit doors open outward. A similar tew should be passed in every State. An important decision was recently ren dered by the supreme court on the impor tant question—What constitutes public waters hi the United Btates t It was held that navigability was the true test. All navigable streams are, therefore, j subject to governmental regulations, j The roles of the New York public hatha permit but one bath a day, and that of but twenty minutes' duration, and consequently the street boys are hard preaaed for devices to deceive the sharp-eyed superintendents. The most' common " douge" is to wipe the hair perfectly dry and daub mud on the face, making them unrecognisable. A new trick has been devised for the idrertinment of patent mowing and reap ing machines. All the agents in a cm tain range of territory dub together, after a good dgj of sales, give s grand dinner to the buyers, and arrange a pro cession through the principal streets of u huge town, hi which the sold machines play an important part. In plaoea where it baa been tried the plan ia said to attract as great • crowd as a circus. That was a funuy instance of the nbwuioc of mind on the part of the Toledo editor quoting from rival paper one of his own artiolca, and heading it "Wretched Attempt at Wit." Such instances of absence of mind are not un common. Only a few days ago a Johns town editor wis In New York, and pre sented a check at Hie banking house of Drexel & Co, aad upon the cashier patting the usual question. " How will you have itf" replied: "Gold, without "sugar." A rather good story is told of Miss Annie Louise Gary by s Portland paper. During a reoent stay in the city Miss Gary was induced to enter s church choir for a single evening and assume the so prano part When: the. congregation passed out, commenting on the voice of the unknown singer, a lady who prided herself on her musical taste' said, in an swer tothe question of a friend : " I think it ia one of that —— choir. She hae a pretty good voice, but it lacks cultivation sadly." >, . i;ro , In 1849 Harmon .Jang#, with fifteen or twenty citizens of New Orleans, started for California in search of gold. The vessel they sailed fa hal never been heard from. Recently, however, Mrs. Jones' attention was called to an account iu an English paper of the fiteoovery of an unknown island iu the Pacific. In the list of persons found there was the name of Harmon Stones? frrnb New Or leans. - -The man netted* to leave the i *iaad,jaiytetipi thsfisikfi)tifEF family ties w*re probably brojifa, sn&lhey did not propose tiTjfarnite fC wliok Ijoat load of ■ KdwSHSytioq 9 -.lv