The Sentinel. He pure. round the fortreee wall For hour* and hmirs together ; Afar hie ringing foo*lepe fall ; Through wild sua tfintry weather He pace* round the fori n wall Hour* and houre together. 80 love doth guard the loving heart For years and year* together ; Grief cannot stay, nor augel start Whatever be hfe'a weatlier. 80 love doth guard the loving heart Years and years together. WeolsejH Fall. Fareweil. a long farewell, to all uy greatness ! Tins is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope ; to-morrow Woe some. And bears his hlushing honors thick upou him : The third day comes a frost, a kilting frost ; And—when he thinks, good easy man, full surety llis greatness is a ripening ni{n his root. And then he falls, se I do. 1 have venture,!, lake little wanton boys that swim ou bladders. This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my JejAh , my htgh-Wown pride At length broke under me . and now has left me. Weary and old with eenrioe. to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must forever hide me Vain jvuup and glory of this world, 1 hate ye ' 1 feel my heart new opened. 0. how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' fa vors ! There is, belwut that smile we would aapirv to, That sweet asjsvt of prinoee, and their ruin. More pangs and fears than wars or wctacu have. And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Sever to hope agent. .SkoJh sjvwr*. CAPTURING THE CUTTER. At the time of which we write there was an inlet on Tucker's beach, New J< rsev, called Brtgantiue inlet Iu l 8 v) this was clomxl up, aud the *tm formed another inlet, whieti exists to this day. Then- was no Tnekertown then. It was tlie Gaant farm at that'time. The only settlement then was what was kuown as the "Midille-of-the-Hhore," extending ou each aide of what was called Andrews' mill creek, tlie property originally K longing to Jacob Andrews, who s ttleil there iu the last year of the sixti e.sth oeutury and who luui a mill. There were not a great many people; but they did a great baaine** in larnKr and cypress shingles, wh eh they sent prin cipally to New Y'ork and the West India I-)inds. Dunug the Revolution the place was a rendexvoa* for Amerionu privateers, and these little sea-hornets annoyed the British shipping so uiuch that an expedition was organized, with the Zebra and other ships of war, to break np the " den." There were s>v erol p>ri\ateera lying there at the time; but they were warned by an express from Geueral Waabingtou, and esoajx-d Kfore the British came. Waabingtou sent a force under Pulaski to" meet the invaders; but they did not arrive until the euemv had done all the mischief. Part of Pulaski'/ men reached OsKira's island, and there their picket guard was sarpwised and massacred by the enemy. The invader did not escape without loss. In getting out the Zebra ground ed, and her own people burned her, to prevent her capture by the Americans. There was one privateer that the enemy managed to take a* she was coining in—tlie Saucy Jock. She was Baltimore built, very fast, and armed wiih a long eighteen p>ounder. The ad miral made her a tender to the flag-ship, added a couple of ten-pound carrouades to her armament, and put a crew of eighteen men and a midshipman aboard, commanded by a master's mate. She became a regular nuisance to the place, sailing in every now and then, exploring the harbor, levying contributions of soft tack, vegetables and chickens, and then sailing out. The people would have liked to take her ; bnt while the sqnad ron was so near the pilot* the heavy pri vate armed vessels avoided it. There was a Quaker who live J not far from the beach by the name of Ephraim Lippinooit He had the reputation of being a Tory in sympathy, principally because his son Obed, having engaged in oue or two skirmishes with British foraging parties, had been disowned and reprimanded for violating the peace principle*) of Friends, When the British parties visited there they always met with a warm welcome. But Ephraim was no Tory, after all—only a prudent man, who tried to sail as dose to the wind as possible. OM, though he hail been disowned, was always sore of quar ters at home when be chose to go ; and he went there just after the last visit of the commander of the as the Saucy Jack hal been rechristeued by her •■aptors. The father met him indifferently, but after dinner called him out to the barn. " Obed," he said, " I suppose thee's consorting with the Ridgways and the Willetts boys and such idle, disloyal fel lows, as usual." " Well, father, I go with them occa sionally, as thee knows; but they're very honorable, bard working young men and good company." "I wouldn't wonder; if th<-e knew and they knew that the B*a Wasp is mining ly lie lost. So noon a* the main party had disapiieared U-liind tlie sand lulls Obed and Willetta, covering the two men who wote seated iiu the Kiw* id the I Hints, where they were drawn up 011 the a lieach. tired. Oue of the men fell inort ally wounded, and the other dead. OKxl and Willetts floundered through the marsli to w here the men lay, and, with out (laying anv attention to tlie wound isl man, quickly stove holes in the bot toms of the boats, while the rest of the men rowed into sight. One of their own Knits tk them on Kmrd and they made for the eutt.-r. Hut the pxxqilc ou the outL-r were not idle meanwhile. They disengaged a commode, ran it out of a port-hole, and prejiared to Are. The Kme grape and oanister, loaded the Long Tom. and trailed it directly ppon the party in the water. The shot from that and one of the oarrouades did fear ful execution, and tlie few survivors that were uuwouudeil ran up the lieaeh to the nearest house, where they sheltered themselves and ultimately surrendered. Five had been killed outright and eight severely wounded, three of them mor tally. The cutter had beeu won; but to keep it was another matter. There was no crew to man it, even if it could be got to sea through the squadron. As soon as the news of its capture was known, or when some time had elapsed after its absence, there would l>c powerful boats' crews sent for it, px-rhapw one of the smaller vessels. Six after consultation, it was agreed to cut the rigging, remove the masts, and sink the vessel in the deepest hole in the harbor, to K- raised on a suitable opportunity. This was soon done, after taking tlie movable property ashore, previously tilling the barrels of the Long Tom and carrunadra with all the melted beeswax that could tie hail in the neighborhood and then storing them in the hold. Then the pins uners were carried off by their cap tors. In three days a British force came, as hail Kin expected, and they made things lively. They burned down a' number of farmhouses, I.ippiuoott's among the nnmlier ; but the inhabitants, except those of known loyal sentiments, kept ata respectable distance from harm. Every boat upon the K-ach for miles the British destroyed. In about a year's time OKxl, Willetts, and some of the rest came back, got up a crew, raised the cotter, and found her in good order. The cannons wen- rusted some on the outside, but the becswux had preserved the inside sm xith. They re masted and rigged her, cut the wasp figurehead off, replaced it by the rudely carved figure of a snake, reehristened her the Rattler, and one dark, stormy night got off to sea with her, having ob tained letters of marque, and ran down to the West Indies, where they took • ample revenge for the burniug of the Middle-of-the-Shore. In fact, with the prizes they took, the master ami crew shared quite a small fortuqp at the close of the war. The Battler was disanm-il when peace came and embarked in a quieter business, carrying shingle* and pine Kmr.ta along the coast fur many years. 7 7ir Independent. The Utah Massacre. At the trial in Utah of Lee, charged with being implicated in the Mountain Meadow massacre, Ann Elizabeth Hoag | testified that she lived in Harmony iu ; 1859, and was at the meeting called be -1 fore Leu- and the Indians started for the i massacre. It was declared at the meet ing that th immigrants should lie de tr< iyed. An express wus sent to Brig ham Young, and leu* at the head of the soldiers started. After the massacre a meeting was called there for Lee to re pxirt. Lee ntxxl tip and said lie wanted i the IndiaiiH to rush on the immigrants, bnt they would not. He then put up a handkerchief, and a man came out from the immigrnuts. Ice propwd peace if they would give up their arms, which they ugrc-d to do, and marched out along with the soldiers who shot them down at the signal, and tiie In dians killed the women. He -aM one man hail a baby in his arms. After the first fire lau* said : " Give tip that child." The man replied: "If I die! this child dies with me. I know yon, John D. Lee, despite your paint" Lee said he liail to shoot the man nrul child. While I>xi was reporting President Young arrived and saw the children in a wagon in front *f the meeting honse. One boy eight years of age said, point ing to the Indian Joe : "That man killed papa and lias got my papa's pnnts on." L-e said not to talk to the chil dren as he wanted them to forget aKiut the massacre. A Beautiful Simile. A writer who has been visiting a ileuf and dumb school, and was much pleased with the intelligence displayed by the scholars, illustrates his idea of education upon the deaf mute very Kautifully, as follows : It was |>a**ing strange to note their readiness of reply to the sign ques tions, to hear their own intelligent con clusions concerning theories that were proposed —for the professor acted as an interpreter—and as I looked from one eager face to the other, I realised as never before wliat a trammel and clog is this human organization ujsm the divine soul within. A year ago I saw in Texas a wonderful alabaster vase. It was found thirty feet below the lied of a South American river. Beautiful in shape and of cloudless white, we all ail mired and wondered, till one of our party suggested that wo try a light with in it to illustrate the familiar simile. A wax taper was carefully placed, and a miracle was wrought, for there came into view before ns, groups of figures ex quisitely curved; garlands of flowers and groves of tropical trees. Withdrawing the light, the vision faded, leaving only ; the dead white surface, pure ami cold. Do you wonder that, as I sat in that recitation room I thought of that magical vase aud saw how marvelously the touch of education had brought out the hidden possibilities of these minds that had dwelt so long in their sealed prisons ? The Esquimaux have an ingenious way of killing bears. They shqfpxm the ends of a piece of whalelxine, a foot or more long, then Kind it double, and wrap it closely in fat meat, which is ex posed to the air till it freezes. These treacherous pellets are thrown to the bear, which Kfits them whole. They thaw in hie sotmach, the lient whalebone straight ens, and the sharp points pierce his vi tals whenever ho attempts to move. THE CENTRE REPORTER. 01.1) TIMES ON THE MISSISSIPPI. t.r>lu l*ri The I una l.lnp •>( H.m.— The Kwllraipal. Mark Twain, in one of hi* character istic *kt-telle* of old time* on the Mi*- rtiwiippi river, give* u* the followiug sketch : It was always the cu*tom for the Kiat* to leave New Orleans bo tweeu four and five o'clock in the after mam. From three o'clock onward they would K burning ruain and pitch piue (the sign of preparation), and *0 one • had the picturenjue *(xvtac!o of u rank, mime two or three mile* long, of tall, ascending column* of coal black smoke; a colonluule which mtpuoited a sable naif of the name smoke blended together ton! spreading abroad over the city. Every outward-Kmnd Kiat had it* flag living at the jack staff, and sometime* a duplicate ou the verge staff astern. Two or tliri-e miles of mate* were command ing aud swearing with more than usual emphasis; counties* proaeraioua of freight Imrrels and boxes were spiuuiug down the maut of tlie lovec aud flying abroail the stage-planks; K-tat.xl pas seuger* were dodging and skipping among these frantic tilings, hoping to reach the fureeustle companion way alive, bnt having their doubts about it ; women with reticules and lmniK>xe* were frying to ksep up with husbands freighted with carpet sm-ks and crying Iwbit-a, and making a failure of it by los ing their heads in the whirl and roar and | general distraction ; drays and baggage - vaus were olalti-ring hitner and thither iu a wild hurry, every uow aud then getting blocked and jammed together, and then during ten second* oue could not see them for the profanity, except vaguely and dimly ; every windlass con nected* with every fore hatch, from one end of that loug array of steatuKaits to the other, was keeping up a deafening whiz and whir, lowering freight into the hold, anil the half-naked crews of perspiring negroes that workxl them were roaring snob songs as De Las' Sack ! l>e Las' Sauk !—inspired to un imaginable exaltation by tlie cliao* of turmoil and rocket that wus driving everyKxly else mad. By this time the hurricane and boiler deck* of the steamers would be packed and black with passengers. The "Let belL" would K-giu to clang, all down the line, and then the ixiwwow seemed to double ; in a moment or two the final warning came—a simultaneous din of Chinese gongs, with tlie cry : " All dat ain't goin', please to git a*ho'!"—and K'hold, the jxiwwow quadrupled ! Peo ple came swarming ashore, overturning excited stragglers that were trying to swarm aKwrd. One more moment later a loug army of stage plank* was King hauled in, each with its customary latest passenger clinging to the end of it with Ux-th, noils, and everything else, and the customary latest procrastinator making a wild spring shoreward over hi* head. Now a numK-r of the K>at* slide back - ward into the stream, leaving wida gajs iu the serrn-il ranks of steamer*. Citi zens crowd the decks of K*t* tliat are nt>t to go, in order to ace the sight. Stcame% after steamer straightens her self up, gathers all her strength, and prverutiy oumi swinging bv, under a tremendous head of steam, with flag fly ing, black smoke rolling, and her entire crow <>f firemen and deck hands (usually swarthy negroe*) massed togetln-r oo the forecastle, the Kiat " voice " in the lot towering from the midst (being mounted on the capstan), waving his hat or a flag, and all roaring a mighty chorus, while the puuting canuoua boom and the multi tudinous spxxtator* swing their hat* and huzza ! Steamer uft<-r steaim r falL into line, and the stately proeexxion goes ♦ winging its way up the river. Self-Made Men. " Burleigh " writes to the Boston Journal: New York has many men— self-eilncaUxl, self-mude—of whom any city might be proud. I calhxl upon one of these the other day. It was " Uncle John," a he L called. JohiFL. Steph enson is the gr-tit stnx-t cur builder of that city. He is now over sixty; as liale and vigorous a* w hen be w-as thirty ; umler-siztxl, stocky, robust and clierry ; a mechanic of the James Harper *rbL He makes cars for the world. No natiou can compete rr undersell him. While I WHS talking with him he was making a contract for ears for Bombay. Twelve oar* were ready for Liverpool. OMe-rs were on the wagon for London. Another lot were for Australia. Norway, Austria, St Petersburg and also America and over our Kiumiless continent. Livorjxxil cars are donhle-deckors. But Ameaicatis won't ride in them. All English cars have the window* fastened down ami they can't be sold nnless they ore. These cars the English cannot make, though they have hie I the j sit terns for year*. Nor can tliat wonderful nation make a rnldx-r-car spring. Ail arc made here. Mr. Stephenson *hl|>* no cant. He delivers all his work in New York. Each nation, company or man wK) trades for a car, pays for it in New York. No contract is taken unless the contractor has H banker ill New York who will pay for the cur when it is done. Mr. (Steph enson builds nine tars a week. He can e an ord r and have a car ready to ship in four days. Each car costs SI,OOO, 1 Mr. Stephenson is an old-time Methodist. For half a century he lias l>een a number of one church. Then he is a hwder of the choir, lender of the Sum lay-school, n class leader, a man of great wealth and of open-baniltxl liKr ality. His children and grand-children are in the trade with him, and all have to Kgin where 110 K-gan, ou the lowest round of the ladder. Pushing Through. Business success is not a loitering traveler who, of his own accord, will wander on until finally lie reaches vour threshold You must go after him, iiiiut him tip ; it may K difficult to find him, but don't give up the search, push on and ou until yon do meet him. The journey may be troublesome, but it is sure to pay, anil a handsome reward will retell from your hard and honest push. Slum all the slow stage coach ways of urging on your übilitis ; take the loco motive speed of push ; keep on the track ; avoid all tempting but unprofita ble switches, and, with fires all aglow, ami machinery well oiled, push on to tlie next station, and then to the next, and rest assured you will successfully reach the ]irq>er destination iu full time, and with a valuable load of paying freight. Half the success obtained in this life, an excliange says, is owing, not so much to luck or capital, ns to a vigorous [Kiimding away at the rough difficulties until the road to fortune is cleared of its barriers, and a straight oath opens to the traveler endowed with his share of honest, determined and energetic push. A New Bay. The Chicago Time* knows of away in which the country can be saved. It says: Huppose, without disfranchising any one, we give two votes to every man who postM-sses certain educational quali fications, two to every man who possess es a certain amount of taxable property without the educational qualifications t How then ? The poor and ignorant voter would still possess sufficient politi cal power for his own protection, bnt a good deal less power for mischief than he now wields. This, or something like I it, may become possible some day, when | the etuis of equal aud universal voting j become more glaring and intolerable I than they now are. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., TA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1875. 81 lITERRANEAN LIKE. a NlaSl *1 HxalxrM la ihv I rsr.xinl WarU f ■ V.rk Hair I. Hays the New York AWi .* Dick, the ratcatcher, was engage,l to clean the kitchen, cellara, meet house, wine, bread, and l>ar rooms of a Broadway bote! after midnight on KatimLy. Underground in a large hotel is a world by itaelf. The kitchen is one hundred f*-t long by twenty broad. The thxr 1* of brick. Three loug tables extend it* cut ire length. Shelves, cuiitxxirds, and dre*e* hide the wall*. Almost endless rows of dishes, shining pots, pans,and enormous Killers are tastefully arranged according to size at tlie end of the room., A forty foot range and a vast furnace, hugging oven* and bakeries, are red with roaring fire* inside. The French cook stands in his well starched white apron aud cap, silently watching hi* assistants. Several dainty dishes are King prepared. To each of theee he give* hi* attention. Here he jxinr* in drojxi from several lit tle Kittle* ; there a handful of flour; here a cupful of cream ; there a iqxxui ful of butter. Every dish he titles, and as it i* done, he eatduxi the pot or pan, and deftly empties its contents into tureens or plate*. At a quarter to twelve he bid* hi* assistant* to prejiaro to clean up. At midnight a major doino de soeiid*to the kitchen and shouts, " Put out the lights. The cook gix<* around his kitchen, see* that everything is iu it* place, turns down tlie gas, and then all is still. Dick the ILt and hi* assistant take potexxiruou id the lower ri'gioli*. Dick light* his bull's-eye lantern, examine* hut long iron pinchers, clocly scrutinize* his canvas lng, puts on a jiuir of light Hlipjx>rs, and stnji* for work. The raK ari evidently ba*y, a* tliev are heard from for and* near. Dick lias studied their routi-s. Before going to work he carefully remove* every obstacle in his way a* silently aa be can. Th>-u he ut ters a coll squeal, like that of a rat. Again, Dick squeals louder and with more assurance. This time he is au swertxl from the breoil nxim, where a hundred txuTel* of flour and bundreda of loaven are packed. Dick had previously thrown ojieti all the door*. Like a cat be springs for ward iu the darkuens ; his strong light dance* with extraordinary rapidity along the walls, floor*, and ceilings. The ttbarp,piercing cry of a rat in |> .in an nounce* Dick's capture. His nx*i*ta!it open* the latg, ami a great rat is thrown ui. The assistant shake* tlie bog several times and tlie rat in quiet. A weak, yet shrill soueak is heard, and Dick brings out at the end of his large nipper* a |xxir little mouse, ltat ami mouse art put into the Iwg. Dick jamse* a mo ment, and again give* a call Hqiieal, which he says the rat* understand to tnt-an all is safe. Suddenly he throws tlie dazzling light upon a shelf. There, crouched and seemingly puralvted, u- a monster nit. It dix* not stir, out look* straight at tlie light. It is unable to move, lta large block ere* are ilLtiuct ly seen, while it still hold* tlie bread in its mouth that it was eating. l"jxu it Dick springs, ami hi* uipjx-rs sa-ize it. The rat utter* a piercing Mjimal, the bog is (Hx-mxl, and it is thrown in. Tlie rats iu the breoil room have taken the alarm. ]>irk (tarts out and as the bright ray danoea nj> ami down, he runs, stops, stands erect, crouches, listens, squeals, darts forward, and the light runs along pipu|. Khiml l>arn*ta, under KMinis, into IKIUO. At one moment he is in the icy chill of the great meat nxim, witii it* pounds of Ixxd and mutton, and its hundred* of chickens, and ttien in the gnxx-ry ; the wine nxim ; the larder; tlie store nx'tu ; the cusxl nmm; the gorKigc nxmi; Ixu-k again into the kiti-lii 11. and at two o'clock tlie hag con tains fifty rats. Billing Oxen. A writer in f.ippinctt'* PI VIM this characteristic sketch : Driving oxen vrtll make a Stoic philosopher of a boy, they are so uuspxiakshly difficult to manage; it is inipssuuble to manage them, insanity to turn them, utter exit* pxTution to ha*ten them; the only thing they do with any facility is to stop; yet they mn*t bo swayed by a touch 'twixt the ears from a loug, HKU.IIT blue birch gad with a leather taah. 4'o add to their value a* sources of diHeipililie, they have a spxicies of ox-diableriu aKiut tliem. They like breaking a neap; and those 'oxen which have Kx-ti trained to the convenient habit of following the boy alxiut the field while drugging will intent on following hiiu around Khind the drag when he gix>s there to adjust any thing, which causes a general upsetting. Fnrthcrniore, as lie marches Kfore their, thinking of other topiios, or IXT lmps following with his eves some neigli- Kr's carriage Kiwliug down the road, he frequently disoovers that the oxen are left far Khiiul him iu the field, where they stand stixik still eompiosedly chewing their eu.ls. And they have a disagreeable way of starting off on a trot unexpectedly, particularly ou worm April days, when wild natural impulses, mod longings for forest fnxxlom and life without toil, take psmsession of thetn at the delicious smell of the spiring green wood, causing them suddenly to lash the neapi with their tails and rush fran tically lor the wood*. When IUI old mare is lending the steers, this is almost tragedy. The mare is dragged back ward, the harrow rattles at the heels of the oxen, tho farmer and the hired man hasten across the fields to the boy's as HiKtance with "Whoa! haw there! .Stop them ! whale 'em 1 Belt 'em over the head I" and the Kiy shrieks, and follows tho gvllopiing oxen until thoy dash their yoke against a young tree Ktween them in the woods. Importation for Ihe Centennial. The secretary of the United Htatca treasury, as long ago aa October last, issued regulations governing tho free importation of gixxls for the Oentcunial exhibition iu accordance with the taw of June, 1874. The ixjrta of New Y'ork, Ronton, Portland, Me., Burlington, Vt., Hiispeusion Bridgv, N. Y., Detroit, Port Huron, Mich., Cliicago, IMiiladelphia, Ttaltimore, Norfolk, New Orleans, ami Han Francisco, alone constitute the pxirta of entry at which impxirtations for the exhibition will be made free of duty. All goods piropx-rly marked and repire sented will, without exaniination, K for warded from the pKirt of arrival by Kinded line of transportation to Pliila delpihin, there to K delivered to the col lector of that port. All article* received and entered at the exhibition may at any time, consistently witli the regulation* controlling it, bo withdrawn for sale or delivery to other piartic* tlinn the owner or agent concerned in their importation on payment of tho duties prropxwly nc cruing on the goods, according to the taws in force at the time of their impor tation. Tho attorney general of the United Btatea, the attorney general of Pennsylvania and the counselor and so licitor for the Centennial commission have given their respective opinions that goods deptoaitod and ptaood on exhibi tion are free from seizure, and are not liable to the debts of the person or cor poration thus receiving them. The regulations of the secretary of the treasury were officially sent to the direc tor general of tho exhibition in October last, and by him promulgated at home and abroad. "I With I Had Capital." Ho we heard a great strapping young 111*11 exclaim the other day in au office. We did want to tell Idm a piece of our mind so Ixul, ami we'll just write to him. You wont ivqntal, do you I And sup |M>*o you hail wfhat you call capital, what would you do with it I You want capi tal I Haven't you got bauds, aud fix t, and miux-le, and Kme, and braius, aud don't you cull them capital t Wliat more did (i.xl give to anylxxly I " Oh, they ore not money,"ray you. But they are more than money, ami nobody can take them from you. Don't yon know how to use them I If you don't, it i* time you wero learning. Take hold of the find plow, or hoe, or jack plane, or broad ax that you can find and go to work. Y'our capital will soou yield you a Lrge interest. Aye, but there's the rub. You don't want to work; you want money or credit, that you may play the gentle man and speculate, and end by playing the vagaKmd. Or vou want aplontation aud uegnx-M, tliat you may hire au over sx>r to attend to them, wliile you run over the country aud dissipate; or want to marry some rich girl who may K foolish enough to take you for your gixxl looks, tliat she may supjxirt you. Shiuue upon you, young man ! Go to work with the capital you have, and you'll soon make intercut euough upon it, aud with it to give you as much money a* you want, and make you feel like a man. If you can't make money upon what capital you have, you culdu t make it if you had a million dollars in money. If you don't know how to use Kme and muscle and brains you would not know how to use gold. If you let the capital you have lie idle and waste and rust out, it would K the name thing with you if you had gold; you would only know how to waste. Then don't stand uKmt like a great hclpleat* child waiting for aometxxly to come in and feixl vou, but go to work. Take the first work you can find, no mat ter what it is, so that yon may be sure to do it like Billy Gray did his drumming —-will. Ye*, wliat you undertake, do it well; always do your Kat. If you man age the capital you already have, you will soon have plenty more to manage; but if you can't or won't manage the capital* God haa given you, you will never have any more to manage. Plucky Little Children. A circumstance tliat luq|**ned in Chicago shows that two children at least have mure tlian ordinary ooarage for their yeara. They are the children of a well known business man who resi>Uw on East Pierson stret, and their age* are seven and ten respxx-tivcly. llieir father had left tlie house uu the morning in question for his pdace of business aKmt eight o'clock, leaving the childreu together, the oldest King in her tcena. This tatter was in Un* rear part of the house somewhere, when the two young ones went into the parlor, and iwme npxm a man who was stealthily walking scraaa the floor towards the mantel, evi dently searching for something. Tlie elder of tlie two at once, nothing dnunt ed, went up> to him and, taking him by the arm. asked him what he wanted. The man gruffly muttered tliat he wont txl "gold," whercnjxiu the child mud they had none for him, and told him to leave. He said then that if he couldn't get gold that he wanted a girl, and, without allowing on inclination to Waive, oat down npxm the sofa. The smaller child ran into the rear part of the house, imiiel a broom, and came iu with it pell incll, while the other child ran to tlie hallway and calhxl to her fath er, pretending he was iu the house. '1 he intruder, fearing he would be oj ocL-d ratlicr forcibly, if not arrested, at once mode his wnv out of the house, the chil dren running after him, and tlie little line in pxirticutar giving him s punting tnpi witli her broomstick. The man had found thJ front door op* n, and had gone ua to help) himself without anv ren*- mouv, liroliably also knowing that the hcau of the family was almeut. Large aud Small Farms. # Twelve of tlx- Unitixl Htates liave farms that average less than one hundred and twenty-five acre*, in extent, which is less than the average ctaewhere, which in some Htates even runs uji nearly to an average of five hundred acres. Tlieae twelve Htates give the following oa the average size of their farms ; Wirrn Jnwxr W irrrx ltii|alllrrlri " l'TO(.flTu! .103 " Ma>MrlxuKXU..UO " li.aiu... ....11l " Kh.Hlrl.ljnl. M " Ohio 11l " CoaonOciil ... M " U :.-hl#ffcii... ....liil " Xm Y0rk....,,1U " WUC 'tain 11* " While the total value of tlie farms in the United Htates is put down at s9.'Jt>2,- 8(13,361, the value iu the alxive States fonts up $5,407,587,178, or nearly three fifths of the total—and this, too, wliile the area of these States is less than one tenth of the area of the whole country. No more conclusive exhibit of the pirao ticol superiority of the small-farm sys tem could Ixi given thou this. While this record is of interest to those engaged in farms, the following table, eollectixl from onr agricultural re ports, is of lnirdlv less interest. We give the averag(> value per acre : MOiih III.KT'UI 112.5* nam|*lilr* ... Arkiniui .. IT.frf* Vermont 17.HT hllw tfa St. 10 Wis! VirfftnU lft.Ol Hhodci 1tUiti1..,.... S4.i* Ktnitn ''jr,..,...... lA.M OoQDteUrut SS.D4 OIUo . 14.57 York 71.94 Mtrhtim 15.65 Nrw Jemy 27.W' St id Una 13.51 lvnnayhtiuitt....... St.HnjllUiMri*... ll.lt I kU* arc 1 S.'i4 Wifrtintin 11R MatryUnd .. lft.4'i|Mitinoot 11.3s Vlrpfititn lit OWE Ml N'ortli Carolina It XlMntiri.... 11.lt h|joi MlMlwtppi ..... IS/1 NmiU 44.30 LoutftUuA 12MUITh' Trrntoiim..a. *l.lO Bold Beggars. .Tame* Htcwnrt, n very wealthy and Knevolent citizen of Austin, Texas, has piiiblislu'd a niunlxT of Kgging letters received by him. They give an inkliug by inference of the experience of pilii liuithropiists of more reputation. One was from a woman, who said that, King pienniless, friendless and beautiful, she had determined to marry a rich mnn. Hhe wanted SI,OOO to enable her to enhance h.-r Kxiuty "with such adorn ment* a* a woman of her t.isto and cul ture knows how to usi l ," and with which she could hope to " marry into a for tune." An inventor of a flying machine wanted SSOO to for a model, and would repay tlie favor by nllowing the donor to " win everlasting fame by fly ing from n church steeple," when the a|ipamttis should be completed. A gambler had been informed in a dream that, by buying a certain lottery ticket, he would win a large prize; but, alas 1 he had uo money. Would Mr. Stewart send him $lO by mail ? A young di vinity student had been iuvited to de liver a trial sermon to an ariHbxwutic congregation, and he needed a new coat to wear on the important occasion. Tlioeo beggars, and many others as inula oiously impxirtunatc, signed their real uonies to their letters. At Atlanta, Go., Inst autumn, a negro built a ooop, nix feet by seven, into which ho put a dozen partridges, the Sound being first covered with grass, uring tho winter they thrived, in the spring they mated, laid eggs and hatched out several broods of youug, and tho negro now litis about sixty young pait riilgos, all doing well. They are tame, hctuthy, and scorn to bo contented. LIVING UN THE OLD MAN. Maw • Mas " Kll " hb " tar t ellra*- The Pmvideuoe Journal gives on in dignant former room to vent hia woes. The story is appropriate fur this coin ineiiaeuieut soaaoti: Mnrri'u Enirott— I hain't no eddies tiuu, aud I thank God for it—Gov. Lip pitt said in his koliego sixxx'li tliat txli catioii |mid better than mortgage at six per cent. Governor Idppitt, I oak you have you got such tilings OH three highly ediaated sons ou your hauda, wliat aan'l aup|x>rt themselves, and all living on the old man I You know you haiut, and aa I iiavr, 1 guess 1 know aa much about this odioatioii matter as you do. I cuss the day when liturray ambition broke out in my family—l fit throe sons to kollege, arid if 1 liad not had one left to stay ou tlie farm to work with me, we should all on ua K takiu a deep interest in the an nual appropriations for the poor of the town. My Hilas studied taw, and all the write he has yet seeu has been ou lliaaelf. He lias to swore out of jail three time* a week, regular trips he makes, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, like the steamer Rhode Island from Btouingtou. He has got a pretty little hofita as eve r Jou see, with the legal works of Hrnol •tt, Byruua, and oil of the great J uriata ranged ou shelves—the portrait of Itufus Cbote aud that gurl wliat dauces so gixxl at the Theatur, hung up on tlie walls. We furnished him with all those neees saries of tlie iegai profession, and al though he smokes and drinks beer, and doe* all a voting lawyer ought to do to win confidence and public oatix-m, it is all no go. He K'luugs to ten secret societies, and I tell him I wish to God he'd jine one so secret that hi* creditors could not find him. He buys all his tobacco in my name for fear of it* getting attached; and a* for his lieer, he drink* np> five dollars' worth at a time, and then swear* right out on it. He i* getting low-spirited now, and aays that all th* ltl*ck stone he wants to know about is the Btackstoue river, with a big stone .led to hi* heels, which made his mother cry; but 1 told him lie wo* of age, and 1 had no ouutrol over him. Poor Silas, when he graderated at kol lege Ilia oraxliuu was on "A classical (xltostiuu iudurspeuoible to nuooeaa in life." Hi* mother and I cried in the Baptist i church when we heerd him deliver it, we didn't know what for then, but bev j since found it. I tell Silas tliat the only i chance 1 set- ahead fur him is to take to ' drink strong, then reform, and mayK ! tlie teimx-ranoe folks will shove him along to ktx-p him moral and steady. My t'other Ixij, Ezra, studied for to ; le a" doctor. Th first case he had was i Hawkins, that was gored ao bad by Ol- I ney's big bull llawkina hod ail good stiff horn* abroad of hia own afore the bull muxed with him, wbich made it a bad case. Ezra wonted to be sure, so he gave him oil the medicine he had on hand at once. Just as Hawkins wo* a dying he writ on affidavit that the treat ment he receive*! from the bull was gen erous aud humane eotupxmxl with that of hi* doctor. Uawkiua' widow sued for malpractice, and her lawyer told Uie jurv tliat M. D. stood for murderous doM, and that Ezra was drunk, and that he was a doctor of many drams but few serupile*. At till* ioke the judge and jury taugluxl like split, and they gin a big verdict agin Ezra, and he hod to run off to Oaliforny. Ile drors smidl drafts on me often, so we know li* is alive, wtiioli is more of a enmfurt to hi* mother than to myself. When Ezra graderated bis oraahun wa* on "Knollege a pmrtectiou against the kelamitics of life." Hi* mother and I cried then and we have since found out wlrv. But the saddest case of all was oar poor little Calvin. At the time when unthinking youths are spx-ut iu laying stone walls or hoeing corn Calvin wa* Hwriously thinking of the more impxirtaut i work of* saving souls. He entered 001- I lege and was finally nettled over a targe puiriah at Heilburn \V a little family erf I souls of his own. Then his pxuish got tired of him and toll him to quit, and they turned him off, aa they do minister*, by pasting a lot of resolutiouH nKuit tlie puuu it give to sun der such tender and hallux! tloa. He and his hull family oome home to ns, and arter we got al>out used np with them, I got Calvin's life insured for all I could, and he sailed ten months ago as a oommissioner to a lot of ferocious can nibal*. I have prepared my mind to nee soon from the king of the tribe a letter something like thU: "Mt DEAH Hlß— Your son Calvin arrived in gixxl condition. While we regret to state that he disappointed us all sadly in regard to the amount of gravy, it gives me jileosure to add tliat he was tender and small-Kined. Hlionld any other member of your estimable family fl inclined to Christianize us, send him along. Wo can stand it as long aa you can." Poor Col tin's oraahun was on " The final results of the missionary enter prise. " My other son was not edioated, and has staid on the farm, and is the support and comfort of our declining years. He is so ignorant that he thiuks the New Y'ork is tlie ablest piapx'r in the world, and the prevailing impression on his miud is that William the Conqueror took an active piart in burning the Gos pxse. For all thai, he con snppxirt himself, and has money in the bank, which is more than his edioated brothers con say. My npunion is tliat s law onght to K passed making the corporation of a col lege liable for the debt* of *ll their graduate*. This would make them all pilagy careful not to cdieate any but them what was fit for it, # aud others might bo *|Hired what me and my pxxir wire has suffered. Advertising vs. roninicrrlal Travelers, We clip the following excellent article upxin advertising or commercial travel ers from the Milwaukee f Vrfovt, aud if merchant* and business men would fid low the advice they would save them selves a great exiieutx.: Iu times like these our merchant* more thoroughly perceive the disadvantages which have inured to them by relying solely upon commercial travelers. It has brought to thorn an enormous credit business, much larger than is gvxxl for them ; but what they want is tlie cash, and that can be best obtained lij judi cious advertising in established journals. Every merchant who has gixxls to sell appreciates tho necessity of drawing cash from the pxxikete of those who hoard it. The question is : How can that best Ixi done I We think far better aud wit h far more certainty by judicious adver tising than by a legion of commercial travelers. Some firms in this city are paying $20,000 pwr annum for com mercial travelers, while $3,000 in judi cious advertising would tiring them more cash wheu there is such a notori ous disposition to hoard currency, A mosquito, buzzing aronnd whore a young lady was singing: " Gome to me in beautiful ilreams," said he would — provided there was no bar. Term®: 02.00 a Year, in Advance. FROM HITCHES TO HALL. A PklliivlrkU *m*( Girt Merest** as Irish Matrass. A Philadelphia paper aaya : Patrick lUilerty U dead. Patrick breathed hla last away off in one of the northern 00un tie* of Lrelaud. Now th* death of I'at rick didn't startle the civilized world in general one-third aa much a it did the immediate neighborhood of 8,197 Bulge avenue in particular. Here reanie* the famous l>ibba family, oompoaed in the main of Mr. and Mr*. Dibb* and a Mixs Margaret llafferty. Tlie latter is, or rather waa until quite recently, a tomes tic in the Dibtai houachoUL Hhe had youth on her aide, and her arm WON aa well developed aa the limbs of a lion. Mr. Dibba saw Kneatb her bronzed fea ture* all of her true worth, and when she told him in her own simple, orphan-like way that she waa a stranger in a strange land, that aha hadn't any friend* ami hadn't any " suouduulix," hi* heart waa touched, for ue knew she'd K handy about the house, aud waa sure to know how to boil his 00 rued beef and cabbage. Ho Margaret, after Mr. Dibba had con sulted hia wife, became aa one of the family, aud at ouce entered upon her household duties. This hapjieued three yean ago, and one day lost week found the once dejected immigrant alive aud lucking in Dibba' kitchen. Her face was aa bright aa a new tin pan, and you could see your likeuesa from a distance of five feet in the glistening beauty of her dark brown eyes. Eleven o'clock had struck, and alie waa just in the act of taking up the | xdatura for dinner when Mr. Dibba, all aglow with excitement, hamled Mar garet a letter from California. It was the first line from anybody the poor girl hail ever received, and her enthusiasm waa so great that aha dropped the "murpbeya," dish and all. Her ex citement was Kyond control; she couldn't hold the letter steady enough to read it, and ao asked Mr. Dibbs to be come her secretary. The kind old gentleman conaeifted, and while Mar garet sobbed and laughed outright at inconsistent intervals, read to her the following astonishing epistle ; HAW FKAXCIHOO, Jnly 10. Mr DEAR SISTER : I have just re ceived a letter from the pariah priest of St. Bridget * Abbey, who informs me that our uncle Patrick is dead, and baa left an estate of £60,000. We are hi* ueareat of kin, and consequently aa rich as blazes. I'll write ye agin. Hopun' this find* you as it leaves me, I remain your darling brother, Tuturav Ihrrwn. At the conclusion of Mr. Dibba* read ing, Margaret didn't faint, but sprang to her feet and rushed up stairs, vowing she'd cooked the last dinner for the Dibbs family. Mr. Dibbs immediately informed hia wife of the intelligence, and the two worthy people came to the conclusion that to adopt Mis* Roffeity would K a humane thing under the cir cumstances. They accordingly adopted her. and Miss Margaret, ftx-ling some what elated over the circumstance, re solved to be known henceforth as Miss Margaret Raffcrty Dibba. To the re ix.rtr-r Mix* Margaret wouldn't exhibit herself, which refusal of course, was 'Miss Margaret's prerogative ; Dibbs looked on the inquisitive indi vidual as he would have done upon a suitor for the young lady's hand. He was communicative enough, however, to moke known the fact that Margaret had five brothers, and that the fortune would be divided among them—" pro ratter," said Mr. Dibbs; "in other words, ac oonlin' to lor." The Foreman. Tlie duties of the foreman are (like the busy housewife's work) never done. If he is'alive to tlie interests of his em nloyero, ho ia not the tat man in tlie factory in the morning, neither is he the first one out at night. To him belong* the duty of knowing that every opera tive is at hia work in the morning. To him Klouga the duty of knowing that every operative renders unto his em ployer a just and equitable day's labor. To "him belongs the dnty of knowing that every opxiralire performs hia work to standard perfection. To him belongs the duty of arbitrating justly and fairlv Ktweeu employer aud employed, and not unfrequeutly does it become lncum- Knt upon him to settle various dis putes between operatives; in fact, he ia or must K, as nearly as possible, an om aipraaaut factotum. He know* of all tlie little domestic troubles of his subor dinates, and lias to advise and suggest means of briuging aKmt (amicably) the marital relations of more than oue of those under his control; not sufficiently burdened with his own troubles, be care rire the trouble* aud secret* of subordi nate* securely locked within his own breast. If any of the opwrotives in his depwurtment mxt with reverses, he is the first one appealed to; he is the first to add his name to the sutiscriptiun list for a certain amount; no matter whether he is pirepauvxl or not, he must, to prevent calumny, snhscribe. Tims we might spieak of him on this subject for years, and fIU volumes, without end. and then ftot finish this pxirtion of our story. All employer* or factors are not prac tical men. 111 such oases, the sncoeas of the mannfiietnring pxirtion of the busi ness devolves wholly upxin the foreman. Not only is he held" sinotly accountable for tlie "supxwiority of the work, but he must ever tire his nam resting brain in producing fresh novelties; novelties which will bring the work to n greater state of perfection, and novelties which will cheap**® the production, without lessening the wages of the operatives. If it I xxx lines utxx'ssary to reduoe force, to the foreman belongs the unpleasant task of sayings "Wo will have to .lis piense witli your aervioes." If a reduc tion of wngoa be determined upon, the foreman Ixxsomes the agent for promul gating the same, and if he is not pw erased of the isooss*ry amount of tact and eloquence to pireeent the some in such a phase M to pirevent tlie imruedi ate withdrawal of a piart or the whole of the operatives employed, his fate is anatheqni. — S'rienfifle American, Adornment of Home. Money which goes to buy a picture, statuette or tasteful bracket for home adornment is wisely spurnt. If young ixxiple, just commencing life, after they have secured the few pieces of furniture that must K had, and made sure that they are wliat they ought to be, have some money left to get a picture, an en graving, or n cast, they ought to go to work to supply this want as seriously OH they would tho other, wliich seems the more necessary, but in reality is not a bit more necessary. The general character of a home will make a great difference to the children who grow up in it, and to all whose expierienoe is as sociated with it, whether it be a beautiful and cheerful one, or only a homely and liare one, or a merely formal and con ventional one. The relation of these things to education is all tliat gives dignity or pxietry to tho subject, .or makes it allowable for a reasonable man to give much thought to it. But it has a real vital retatiou to life, and plays an impxirtaut part iu education, and do serves to be thought about a great deal more than it is. Seeming trifles like this iruke life either happy or miserable. The ltoman Catholic clergy of Troy are determinedly trying to stop round dancing at Irish picnics. NO. 33. TIIB (HIVEKXHF-HT KF.I'OKT OS CHOLERA. rtw Wimil • Ik* IHmut la It* Palta* nouw, Is I HIS— Ka—JM f Ir. Xfi'tel* lu'i U*alllM ■■ frf*ll Seu* r> l|***ia Mrs aaS llnullww Nasi. The cholera iqitdemio which prevalh4 in some part* of toe United mates in j 1U73 and which nearly depopulated many j towns in the Missineippi valley, oaosed so much alarm that Oungre— at its next saaaion passed a joint resolution direct- ! iug the mwretary of war to detail a raedi- | ail offioor of the army to visit the towns j in which cholera had prevailed, to 00l- j leat re far as possible all facta of impor- < tancw in regard to the epidemic, and to j make a detailed report to the President, i For this important doty Burgeon Ely i MoCMlan was arieoted, and hi* report, ; compietMl last winter, is now pasning < through the press at the govern merit Kiitmg office, and will aoou be ready i distribution. After giving a clinical history of the , euidemk uf 1873, Dr. McChlhin, in his ) shsptar on its etiology, lays down seven proposition* aa the result of this part of Lis investigations, and each of them ia j supported by eeveral pages of argument s and illustration. There jiroporitiona are , as follows; i, 1. That Asiatic cholera ia an infectious disease resulting from an organic poison, ' which, gaining entrance into the alitncn- I tary ccu.nl, acta primarily upon and de stroys the intestinal epithelium. 2. That the active agents in the distri-1 tuition of the cholera poison are the pulation, and not by any geological ' formation upon which they may reside. 7. That one attack of cholera imparts I to the individual no immunity from the disease in the future, but that the ooo ! trary seems to lie established. In his chapter on " The Prevention of . i Cholera as Illiratrated by the Cliolera; Epidemic of 1873," Dr. McClellan fiacre the greatest stress on " rigorous quaran ' tine/' He says that it has been clearly j demonstrated that the city of New York j was in the year 1873 accural from four distinct importations of epidemic chol era by the " rigorous quarantine of ob servation." which, under the superin- 1 ten dene* of Health Officer Vand.trpoel, " ' has more nearly approached perfection than any other similar institution which the United States has known. In these instances, searching investigation was made into the history of each case; each patient was isolated, and disinfectants ' were judiciously employed. But • qnar aiitiue to be effective must be equally enforced in every port of entry, other wise, while New York is effectually clos- j ed to the introduction of the visible dia i-sse, the poison may enter at other ! places and spread all over the country, i ihe danger from infected fabrics is equally great with that from infected in- j j dividual*. The goods of immigrants from infected districts, padrai at home iind not o|>ened until the immigrant reaches his new home in the West, may transmit the poison and cause a distinct outbreak of the disease when it failed to s make its appearance on shipboard. So, iB 187S, although the visible disease was not allowed to enter New York, infected fabrics did pass to the city and were the meaus of eataldishing points of infection - from which the diivaae spread far in the interior of the United States. Dfc Mc i CleUaa suggests the disinfection of all goods arriving from an inflicted district, ami the establishment of a national sani tary bureau for the collection of trnst worthv sanitary information for the use 1 of all local boards of health. The second great preventive of ohulora j is cleanliness, and, under this head, Dr. McClellan urges attention to the con dition of each house and its surrounding premises; to the condition of the natural drainage of the town and to per sonal cleanliness. Disinfection, after the disease has appeared, is also very : neeeasarv, and care should be taken that the disinfectants used are effedtive — that they do not simply change the odor, but destroy the pouten. Disinfection should extend |not only to clothing and furniture, but to the air that is breathed and the water thai is used. Flies are popularly supposed to trans mit the disease, and every effort should be made to exclude them from the house when cholera prevails, apd especially to prevent them from coming in contact with food or dishes. • Finally, Dr. McCleUammrgee especial attention to individual habits during a cholera epidemic. In the first place, he . says, it is beet for all persons 111 whose | power it may be to do so, to leave at nuoe the infected district, and he quotes Niemoyer's rules as follows: 1. To start soon enough. 2. To go as far as possible. A Not to return until the last trace , of the disease lias disappeared. Great care should also be taken in the ' matter of dress and diet. In regard to the latter, tho doctor says that efioeeses of all kinds should be avoided) good substantial food, well prepared, tliouid lie taken. Coffee, tea, chocolate, the various condiments and spices, and but ter, milk and eggs, are not prohibited. Wine, brandy, and malt liqnons, the author thinks, may not only be allowed, but, when used in moderation, are ex tremely useful in averting those debili tating influences which so often pfevent the system from repelling the disease ; but thrir use should be interdicted posi tively whenever undue stimulation re sults. Dr. McClellan's entire report will be found of great value, not qidy to medical men, but also for popufcir dis tribution. ||MM *r Interest. Vyi'' ; f* thill tlm 'Wiiftliltet 1 ' f r in case of a war the chief food producing natrons, by combining against England, could conquer her 1 without firing a shot or landing a soldier by simply declining to dual with her. A Denver boy pulled Mm bung out of a beer barrel and qtuek ia h Mmmb ; the barrel mikd over and woke the thumb so badly thai it had to be am- Etatod ; and the father of theboy sued s owner of the barrel for f6,OW. | AOi otgia farmer has raised from on* grain of wheat one hundred uwHainety one stalks and one hundred and ninety heads. The I—gest head has one hun dred and eightylre grains. This is the most remarkable reproduction on record. The old superstitious idea that the • of dead "" is a talisman against evil, oaoc jirevaleot Southern uegroes, seems nof to have died out A vault in Greenville, Miss., was recently broken open mad a band cut from a corpse. The Patron* of Husbandry of Indiana have resolved that they will not buy cer tain agricultural implements, for tho v,.j-y reason that the manufacturers re fuse to reoognixe the grange agents, and will only sell through the old established MMhb Oattiornia is giving fresh evidence of the antiquitv erf man. Bawu logs that might have been worked at by Uie man oftue Oalavar— skull have just been dug out 1,800 feet from- the mouth of the South Fork tunnel, and 800 betew the Hurfaoe. x At Halifax, N. a, a circus has fallen into the hands of bailifls- A firm of printers seined several of ita nßScta lis debt, among the rest a fierce Hon. They announce that they are going to put this animal to use in collecting bdla of refrac tory patrons. k The ocean penny postage lately adopted waa agitated thirty years ago by toe Hon. Eiihu Burritt Mr. Burnt received, a fr. He fttfd the rest of th family arMd,-am:l k-towrt tttto swore with apparent aiacefitiy fit their Jiallari natton. They will probably to an insane asylum. , u int