To-Morrow.
0 thou to-morrow I Mystery'
0 day that evar now before !
What hast thine R i leu liaml In atore
For mine, to-morrow. end for me ?
O thou to morrow ' whal hast thou
In store to make me hear the now V
0 day m which we shall forget
The tangled troublse of te-day !
0 day that laughs at duns at debt "
O day of promises to pay !
O shelter from all present storm '
O day in which we shall reform.
O safest, beet day for reform !
Oouvenient day for promisee !
Hold beck the shadow of the storm.
O blessed to-morrow'. Chiefeet faeod.
Let not thy mystery be lees.
Bat leed us blindfold to the end.
—dkVigwM Ifdier.
The World's Fair, IS"6.
Oolumhia, puisxlad what she should dityHyt
f true hunae-aiake on kt-r Oenteuiual day.
Asked Brother Jonathan : he eoraiceed hie
head,
Whittled awhile reflectively, and said :
Your own invention and own waking, too ?
Why, any child oouUl tell you what to do :
Show 'em TOUT civil service, aud explain
How all men loss is everybAiy's gam ,
how your now patent to increase your reuu
By (ayiug quarters for collecting cents .
Show your ehott cat to citre flaaiK-tal ills
By making paper ivdlars current bills .
Show your new bleaching prvveee cheap aisl
brief.
To wit: a jury choeen by the thief.
Show your State legislatures, show your
rings
Aud challenge Europe to produce such things
Ae high officials sitting half in sight
To sliare the plunder and to fti thine* right;
If thai dou't fetch her. why, you only need
To show your latest style iu martyrs Tweed .
She'll liud it hard to hide her spiteful tears
Al each advance in one poor hundred years."
—J. A Zauni.
THE SOL TRKAM'KK.
Atlemet te Fled aa Old Bsreaaser's i.eld.
I had a certain amount of appnsuatiou
for Ailricu tiraab. He wa* a iiandnomo
young man. some ten yean my junior,
of cheerful disposition and winning man
ner. Our manager in the insurance
office, I Uiink, had singled him out for
preferment, so when Adrien had a slight
attack, of some pulmonary disease,
Adneci was sent to the W<st Indies f.ir
the winter to look up the business of a
ahip which had been wrtvktxl oq one of
the islands.
On AdruuTs n turn 1 onticdd the uau
was ehangeil. His persomu ap}>earainv
was imi*rx>ved, but he seemed to have
lewt his flow of spirit** and wus moodv
at times. As iu liis younger days I hail
been his mentor, aud the recipient of
many of his boyish trouble*, I had no
hesitation in asLing him what was the
matter. His name 1 bail often taken
libertiis with, dropping the double a,
and calling hini plain Grab.
"Adrien Grab," 1 said, "what ail*
you i"
"Graab or Grab," he replied, "it is
all the same to me. We accept the name
according to the circumstances. When
the family was needv, we were Grabs."
"You have uot," I inquired. " been
brooding like an owl over the mysteries
of your faiuuv-trea of late, have yoO i"
" l'ea, I have." he replied, though
with a smile. " I fancy you have laugh
ed at me many a time alout it. But you
must listen to it again, for I want vour
advice. lu 1742 albs Giaab came Wo \
te New York from the Went Indies, sail- |
ed here in hi* own ship, laden with to
bacco, rum, and sugar."
" AaJ were neith<-r biilors, nor but
obers, norcurrif-ru, Imt grand gentlemen.
You have often told me that Iwfupe.
Weil, you, Adrieu Graab, are fourth
elerk in an insurance office. That is
positive. What then!"
" They were De Graabs then. When
I was in Cnracoa last winter, attending
to our business, I met an offshoot of the
family, or rather one of the parent stock.
He was the master of many miles of
sugar-canea, acres of pine-apples, and
grov<s of cocoa-nuts and bananas. He
had the family tree in all its details, not
only the root but the uppermost twig.
The departure of a portion of the family
froai Cunuxsi to Martinique had been
noted. That was in lTllfi; but all traces
of this branch, after that, had been lost
to him. This planter's name was Claes
van Graab, and he let me into the secrets
of the family. Ido not know if he was
proud of it, but, by George ! I am ; for
I think it was the brightest plume, the
gaudiest feather, that ever ornamented
the De Graab helmet."
" A. sorry hat 1 have seen their repre
sentative wear sometimes," I inter
rupted.
" Laugh aa you please ; we were free
booters, sir; buccaneers, filibusters in
the old time. TkediM known Graab
—h"> was Claes Graab—was on® of
Monthar's men, and many a Spanish
galleon has my ancestor helped to plun
der. One Graali—it seems be wn§ the
fre*>>otor' sun—vrnat back to H Jland
in and founded a family there.. In
M van Graab's house, at (,'uruca.
there 1i the copy of a picture of him, the
ginal of which hangs ia the Hague,
floe lie re, do you notice this little pendu
lons apeudage to ror earf"
" This is too absurd ! You recall,
Adrii'B, the huckh-beny and my long
lod brother," I exclaimed, out of pa
tience.
"As I lire, that portrait showed, un
der a stately ruff of Mechlin lace, old
Claes, with just such a family ear
Aurelia saw it."
" Who is Aurelia?" I inquired.
"Claes van Graab's daughter. But
no De Graab ever slid into tin- infinite
abyss of nothing all of a sudden. It was
a hurricane first that crippled the De
tiraubs of New York and devastated
their plantation. Then, in revolutionary
vines, they showed bad judgment and
aided with the king. Next, the insur
rection of the slaves, in the French West
Indies, beggared them. Graab then, I
suppose, did sink into Grab. We have
been drifting ever since."
The man was getting melancholy.
Now, I had heard Vdrien tell me as much
as this fifty times before, save the find
ing tif a possible relative in the West
Indies. '• Nonsense, my good fellow.
It is th okl story, only instead of end
ing with a lafigh, as yon use to do, yon
now close your narrative with a whine."
" I have never told you all. That old
Dub-hman in Curac<>a gave me a positive
intimation of a treasure, which I have
followed up."
"This is pitiful stuff," I exclaimed.
" When Dumas died, all Monte Cristo
was swallowed up, and the last gold Img
buzzed out of existence with Edgar
Poe."
"It is not romance. When I was a
child, when asking my father for things
he coukl nofcnfford to purchase, he would
my : ' When your ship is found.', A
sunken ship lias been one of the family
legends. Claes van Graab has the
most authentic proofs that such a treas
ure existfll In lii'lO the Sol, from Car
thagenato Lisbon, laden with ingots of
gold and silver ami pieces of eight was
captured, and taken in tow by a ship an
ancestor or mine commanded. Off the
island of Curacoa the prize sank, with
all her treasure. That such was the fet
is evident, because at the close of the
seventeenth century William Phipns
planned a scheme fof the finding of the
Sol. In 174T), one hundred and more
years after the losapf the Sol, an attempt
was made to rescne the treasure. Class
van Graab's grandfather was ruined in
the endeavor. The family now in
Curacoa have kept every reoord. Claes
van Craab told me that twenty years ago,
when there was some mighty convulsion
of the laud and sea—some submarine
earthquake—the spot where that ship,
the Sol, had been wrecked was exposed
for an hour or more, and then sank again.
As if to tempt us there has been an up
heaval just over the very spot. Seme
times in the surf of the Carribeun sea
6mall fragments of coin—gold pieces,
worn thin and abriided—are washed
on shore. Here is one," and Adrien !
drew a tarnished bit of metal from his
pocket. " More that that. van
Graab, at lost assured that I am of his
stock "
"UM aiMMat," 1 interrupted, " and
FRKD. KXTKTZ. Kditor ami Proprietor.
VOL. viir.
the daughter—will she acknowledge the
. kinship--doe* she urga the recovery of
tin* fantastic treasure i"
• • Yea—even more than her father. 1
liave received a letter from Curacoa urg
ing iuv coming to the island."
"WUI Claw Mui (Iraab furnisli tlie
meansf" I inquired. "If there i* a
million dollars Uier*>, even if uot al a-.iy
gnat depth tinder water, it will cost a
million to get it out"
The ship sank iu rooky bottom uot
ou a coral reef thers may l** a waah of
sand over it"
" la, tlien. this i'unwxia planter, to
drop from tlie imaginative to tlie prac
tical, willing t*> ri*k hi* money m the
enterprise t"
" Wliat he will do Ido uot know. He
bids me coiue to him. 1 should suppose
he was a man of large means. 1 regret
to say, however, that no draft noooiu
panted his commands. Go to him 1
must and will. There i* a vessel up for
Curaco*—she leaves iu a w<*-k. 1 would
like to sail m her."
" And give up your i*oeup*tion hate 1
It is the height id folly. Have you money
enough for your ex|*uia>al"
" Hardly. By selhug my trinkets,
ray watch, 1 will still want SSO. Will
you loud it to tue i"
" You may perhaiw Ih> useful to your
relative, if such a thing as relationship
is possible. You can have the money.
Return it at your leisure."
Adrian left for Curacao within tlie ten
days. Some three months afterward 1
received a kind letter from the vonug
man inclosing me the borrowed money,
and with it came the gift of a case of
native birds. Adrieu'* letter was fonr
tifths full about the Sol treasure, and tlie
.<tlier fifth was about Aureliu van Graab.
Until the next sugar crop was made.
Claps van Graab would do nothing. It
was fully eight months before any more
tunings i-aiue from t'uracoa. This time
the crop liad I sen sold. The planter
was putting in new machinery, and the
money was wanted for a Killieux apparu
tua. Adrieu was suj*>ri;itende!it and
general manager, with a iwtlary of $.1,500.
Little or nothing was said aWut the Sol.
A small package came to me, too, eon
taiuing a bit of old gold. 1 was in
structed by Atlneti to have a ring made
with the gohb and*3 was to have a (*-arl
set m it. The sixe of the ring indicated
a feminine finger. When the ring was
finished it was to be returned to Cura
coa. Adrieu hoped when u- xt he wrUe
me "to be Aurelia's huslumd. Adrian
s-iit me, too, one hundn-d weight of
chocohite aud a lsig of very wonderful
coffee. Claims van Qraab's health was
feeble (so said the latter), an>l Adrieu
had entire chargw of his business.
I lost sight of Adrieu for fully five
years, wheu one day he burst into tlie
oftije. Everylnidy, even the old mtiiia
ger, was glad to sts him, and congratu
lated him on hi* good looks and hi* for
tunes. Our president deigned to i utrou
lxe him. When we were alone, ue said
to me ; "I am here for machinery."
" More sugar works?" I inquired.
"No;it is for the Sol business. Au
relia was an heiress. My poor old father
in law must have all his life put asnle
large sums of uiouey for the purpose of
finding this Sol treasure. His will, if
not positive hi regtml to this wretched
business, at least indicates tliat an effort
must lie made."
" The Sol bamneaa a wretched one ?
Wliy, Adrien, you have changed your
tone. I congratulate you on being less
visionary than you used to be."
"Aurelia is ambitious, and lias renew
ed the question of the wreck. Sin- urge
the research. I would to God tiiere hod
never been any gold or silver sunk in
that treacherous sea. My wife dreama
of titles, the purchase of an old estate in
the Netherlands, believes we have claims
to the rank of the old van Gmabs, which
wealth would purchase. , Colonial life
has no charms fur my wife. We are very
rich ; no fortune on the island equals
hers." I noticed something of chagrin
in his manner.
" For God's Rake abandon this gold
hunting if it is distasteful to you. Have
you no children I"
" Alas, none DOW. The terrible cli
mate was too much for the poor little
child we had. The loss of onr son has
clanged my wife's character. She is
more determined thm ever to find tin
treasure. My word is pledged. The en
gagement ring you had made for me wiis
beaten out of a bit of gold washed adiore
from the wreck. Before we w-re mar
ried I had promised Atindia to ses k the
Sol. It seems that for two centuries
those Curacoa van Graabs have brooded
over the buccaneer'a plunder until it ha*
become a family taint. But to business.
I have $200,000.t0 upend. Should we
lose it, sugar will -mako it up again in a
few years. 1 have made explorations,
{•ersonal ones. Last year a wrecking
oomjiony sent me some of their mod ex
pert hands. J went down with them. I
am familiar with diving apjiaratUK. We
have pretty nearly sati-fied oiirs. lv.-N as
to the exact spot There arc triicon of
ship's timbers, eaten by tlie worms. A
dozen piecee of gold win, worn thin by
abrasion, rewarded our toil. Can yoii
doubt now that the Sol is no myth ? We
liave hooted the old Dutch ami Spanish
archives. It was not a million of dol
lars' worth of silver aud gold that went
down in the Sol, but six millions. Grop
ing for millions some tw.-nty fathoms
under water is terrible work."
"I should think so, Atlrion," I re
plied, " es|>echdly as iu your younger
■ lays your lungs were never oviwtroug."
" Pshaw. The southern climate has
restored rne. lam getting used to an
amphibious life. If the money is found,
my wife will have her for my
self, it will ho some good work of clnM-it v
I shall found. Now, would vou mind",
my old friend, helping me I My absence
from New York has been so prolonged
that 1 am ignorant of many tilings. A
life of somewhat an indolent character
has dalied, perhaps, my energy. Will
yon act for mo | It may occupy your
afternoons. let me assure you, if 1 do
not presume on ytrar kindness, that 1
should be glad to offer you any remu
neration you would think*suitable."
The projsisal was so kindly male that
I accepted the position of agent for
Adrien. Machinery was built, a tug was
purchased, and a contract made with a
company who were to send out to Cu
racoa competent persons acquainted with
submarine work. When all was ready
and the last bill paid I declined an ur
gent appeal on the part of Adrien to ac
company him. De Graab left, and my
labors ceased when the profiler Aurelia
De G. steamed out of the Narrows. I
waited after that for months and months.
The managers of the wrecking company
could only inform me that the propeller
and hands had arrived in safety at Cu
racoa. At last I received a Hhort note
from Adrien. Usually ho wrote the
neatest of hands; now the words were
scrawled and difficult to decipher. It
read as follows: " Found ! I have just
fut at Aurelia's feet an ingot of gold,
ts weight is eighteen pounds. It must
have weighed double that 2. r 0 years ago.
Poor Aurelia! I never told you there
had l>een a passing cloud between us.
Her love has returned. The work under
the eca is terribly trying. I dare not
trust the men out of my sight. It is a
delirium of wealth which ia like to craze
me. I shall write: you again. Our suc
cess is now beyond a doubt, and only a
question of time." It was with a fever
ish anxietv that I watched for another
letter, Most a year passed and no tid
ings came. At last, iu an insignificant
newspaper paragraph among the aoouty
TIN; CENTRE REPORTER
fragments of new* gleaned from Sotilh
Auicrtrau *mm, I read thi# :
'• The Jv>i exi>odiltou iu .iiri'li of
trnuuiv Hliip, a/G-r a uto-rf brilliant ojwn
iug, has (torn abandoned. The party
iuv retonuui vi. I'mmtun."
So it ended. 11M close at Uii* drain*
ran 1h belter understood by transcribing
a leltrr Adrieu'* wife seut un
" 1 mu alone now in tliw world
Adrien mDO more Kvni the poor eon
solution of seeing hi* remains ha# In-en
denied uie. 1 uevtir can have peace
agum on earth. The ingot of gold I*'
gave m 1 **'tnl you. Hw crucifix ,
luttale of It. With whatever l* left of the
gold have uiaasea mud in the citj where
he was born for the re|H>ae of hi* Willi.
Tlie crucilis send to mi', lu ray agony
praying before it, 1 will ask pardon for
uiv sins, for it w 1 who killed my hit*
I mini. "
Running a \ew.pa}Hr.
By wo me uuacot mutable misapprehen
sion of facts, there i* a large chut* of
jwople in the work I who think that it
coats little or nothing tti rtin a newsjiaper, 1
rnitl if they buy a copy of the newsboy,
when too far fn>m the office to come ami
bog one, they are regular patron.* and
entitled to uilhlttltixl fitvor.H. Men cull
. every day at newspaper offices G> get *
copy of the daily pa|* r, ;u.*t from the
press, for nothing, who would never
dream of tagging a |H>ofcetlimidkerohief
from a dry goods atore, or A piece of
candy from a confectioner, ex 4 upon the
• pic* of old aoqitaiutaiiae, having bought
something once liefore. One p*p<r is
not much, but a hundred a day amount*
to something in the course of time. But
thi* is a email drain compared with the
free advertising a newspaper i* expected
to do. Some men who have |*ud two
dollara at an early jieriod of life for an
advertisement worth four or five, appear
to think they are stockholders m the e* •
tabh.liment for etemitv. They demand
the publication of all marriage*, arid
funeral notice*, olutuaruw and family
epiaxlra, for the next forty y* a**, gratis. i
Speak of jay and thev grow indignant.
'• Dou't 1 patronise yourj>a(ei f" " Yes;
but you receive tlie worth of your money
for what you pay." "But." aav* tfie
patron, " it will not cost you anything
to put this iu," which i* jut as ridio
ulou* it* to a*k a man to griud your ax
on his grindstone, ami graciously t<4l
turn it won't cost liim a cunt. It take*
money to run a newspapers* well a* any
other buiuc; no paper will succeed
financially that carries a dead head
system Any mention of the peo
ple's affairs that they are anxious to ur
in print i* worth paying for; and wheu
printed is gem-rally worth a* much as
any other in vestment of the same
amount
The newsjiapor bamneiw i* very ex
acting on all connected with it, ai;il the
pay in comparatively small; the proprie
tors risk more money for smaller profits,
ami the editors and n |irt r< and prin
ters work harder ami ch< up. r than the
ame number uf men in any other pro
feHsiou requiring tlie given amount of
intelligence, training and drudgery.
The life lion its charms ami plcßwiit us
Mociati >ll% scarcely known t<> the out
side world; but it has its earne.-t work
and anxieties and h<mr* of exlmnsti.m,
which also ore not known to those who
think the buuueaa all fun. Tlie idea
that uewspaperdom is a charmed circle,
where the favored member* live a life of
ease and fr<e fr>Bi care And go to th<-
eireus ut night on a fp-e tick* t and to the
springs on u free pa-s in the summer, is
an iihw which we desire t > explode par
tnu'.arly ami tlieor. ti *nliy. Business is
buxiuuas, and tin- journal that auoeeeds
is the one that is run on a square htisi
neas footing, the same as Woking or
building bridges, keeping a hotel or
running a livery stable.—Ju> mphis
Aiaiainhc.
His Father's Occupation.
Preliminary to admit-ion to the public
schools of St. Louis, answer* ar<> reouir
ed to a list of questions, some of whiah
are at tiim-a too much fcr the intelligence
of the uutledgcd citizens of the "futnn
great city of the world," us witness the
following ;
A fri-md of mine, Miss J , teacher
of one of the primary classes, catechised
>i littl- raguumflhi a short time sinew witii
the foil iwing re.snlt:
" What is your father's n ime f"
" Don't know."
" lon't know your father's name t"
*' No."
" Well, what do the neighbors cull
liimf"
" Don't call him liothiu". They don't
see him. He aiu't never h0.. 'oept
nights."
"Then," as a bright idea occurred to
her, 14 wliat does your mother cull hiint"
" Why, she calls him '<> l i fool !"
At this point her research-* into the
secret history of tliat family ceased.
On another occasiou a little candidate
grappled snoynasfgHy with every qm-a
tion on the list uatd the one, " What i*
y>>ur father's occupation f was pro
pounded, when he WUH forced to admit
that he did not know what that word
meiitit.
" 1 mean, what dots he do ?" said
Mis J _.
"On : ho buihl.s fires."
"Ah ! he's a janitor, then?"
"I don't know wliat that means,
neither."
" Wliv, a janitor in a man that builds
flr<*, ami Hwt|* out, and takes care of a
building."
" I guess he ain't that kind, then, cos
he don't sweep none."
" Doesn't he? Well, where dies lie
build fires I"
" I don't know," said the little fellow,
very emphatically, and in a tone lietray
ing considerable irrit.ition ; "lie's dead."
A Man Dies of the Hiccough.
About one of the most singular cases
of death that ever came within our
province to mention is that of Milton W.
Blair, of Louisa county, lowa, who died
in California of the hiccough. Mr. Blair
was an old merchant of Louisa county,
but has not bun engag.-d in business
for a number of years He has been re
siding near Morning Hnn since retiring
from business. Lest fall he was attacked
with a fit of hiccoughing, which con
tinued for some weeks, with scarcely any
intermission, Becoming alarmed at the
long continuance of the spell, Mr. li.
came to Burlington to consult with a
doctor, who, after treating him a while,
declared he could give him no relief.
From this city he proceeded to Chicago,
and consulted the Iwst medical authori
ties there, who did all in their power,
but coufd not relieve him. By their ad
vice he went to California, accompanied
by uin sister, thinking that the change
of climate would help him, remaining in
that Htate to the time of his dentil, hic
coughing almost continually, and having
but few intervals of rest. The continued
strain and distress wore him to n mere
shadow of his former self, and recently
his sister telegraphed to friends and
relatives in Burlington ami Louisa coun
ties tliat he was dead, and she was bring
ing Lis remains on for burial
" Better put on your overcoat," aha
said, as he was starting for down town,
"it will surely rain before night." " Not
a bit, my dear." But look at those driv
ing clouds !" " Oh, pshaw, that's only
flyiug scud." " Very well," she rejoin
ed, " bnt you'll find it will be sky ing
flood before dark."
CENTRE HALL. CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER !>, 1875.
ORIGINAL BRIGANDS.
Tkft l.rti ItUrli Hull •**! A|*P*IMI OW
4gran In I mrrp Ovt Ibrlr %%rlk.
Burglars entered the residence of Mr.
Thomas H. Bedell, on the Greek road,
lies! l'oughkecpme, N. during u
thunder storm, and stole a olm-k, a sofa
bottom rvicking clour, fancy uouameuta
from ihe maiiU-I*. silver uapkiu rings, a
silver cake Itaaket, ami other things.
They also cut all the tassels from the
curtains and left a note lie hind demand
iug SSOO te be loft at u pliux* they would
a|Ks-ify or they would destroy all the
building* on tue phtoe. Mr. Bedel! a
brother found a letter writti-n on the
juige of u ledger thrust under the front
door of his house which informed him
that there was a band calling themselves
a 1 mlid of rubber*! five in miuilwr, who
ha*l visit* d his brother, but the captain
thought lct not to disturb the family,
but to levy a Git of ud if they
saw fit to pay they would molest them
no further. If. however, hi* brother
should refuse, tlie biUltl would do all the
hurtn tluy could to hi* (tenant or pnn>-
erty. The letter then coutiumsl as fol
lows :
"Now we know you are the interested,
lieing u relation, and retpuiet you G srs
him at once, and it will Is* G> your in
G-rest to as*l*t liim, should lie need such
assistance, for your own safety. We ,vun<-
lu-re U> atteud the nuvx, uu<i shall l*-ave
here as soon a* we get tlie money call**!
for. The suiu called for is a small
amount and must la* paid thi# Momlsy
evening. There is no aIG-niative, it is
only a choice bctwoati money and life,
for our veugauoe l* swift and sure. We
are no block mailers, l>ut gt>e those
whom wv visit a chance G oluaise. Now,
if you do this as requested- -Umt i*. we
desire you to visit your friend, make ai
rangements, and visit us in the road just
north of the powder-house ala>ve Mor
gan lake; there is a building U. n*
which ustsl to be a alaughler-house ;
meet u* Uierv ut precisely i-leWli o'ulK'k.
You will uot t*e harmeit and may rest as
hirn-d never to be again troubled ; we
make you as much itiierewted as him and
exjvvt not to Iki di.*ap)toiuG-d, u*> no
tricks or treachery, we are fully prepared
and never failed or outwitted. We make
him pay lluW and aak you to assist.
Should tie find the tax will Is- rou-w-il uud
ainfiher vi*it will l>e :uk*. lie will show
you how we work.
"At a certain place the hand viiuted a
wealthy family, levied a tax of sl,l>*J on
him. In* refum-d to iioticw our delUal. L
Wo paid hull a second visit, he paid
g2,(k*J and was glad U> do it. tdlie luorv
at a!K>thr time we dmiaudeil some
tuonev, the person refused, and pub
lishixl the \isit after ls*ing r*xju*t.G-l G>
keep silent, which so inorU*<d the t>aud
that they burned a large Intra filled with
grain, killed aoiuo taluable stock ; but
this saldota hajipens ; we say to you
keep this a secret, nhonld you comply
with our demand lav a sheet in your
w-i xt window this N1 <ml*y afternoon.
We use you as our agent and as such
exempt you from any Gix. Should the
moiiey b*i (mill, but klm>ul*l you and him
fail the tlimg will IK* differvat. We d<*~
ir' the money, we within tire* and ten*
bill- and tnor** but genuuie, it is the rap
Gun who writes this and our home far in
the Sollthwi-xt. Y'outk, ets.
"We will cauti >n you further not to,
h*r your wa sake*, try any trick*, a*
ire prepared with a largo force. Re
member M eleven o'clock, between the
corner anJ the old building near the
powder house, upon hearing a a ladle
lay the money, which mu*t !*> doue up
in a good MZ. .1 wlntu paper. in the mid
dle of the r<>od, and drive off a* soon a*
possible.
"(Signed) THE CXITAIM.
"I*. S. Do not fail to put out the
doth."
Mr. Rolrll put the matter in the lumd*
of the jxihee. thinking no more of the
threatening h-tt r. N or there he *.>
to place the package of money, the roxi
dence of Mr. William Bearddey wie
roldw-d of one hundred pounds "f butter,
thirty pounds of pork, jiillow ease*, etc,
A < hiueoe Itinera).
A Siiigajxire oorr<-*|x>nderit in writing
of a Chinese funeral, nays: Just before
leaving town 1 w,i* delayed by an im
tuerise Chinese funeral proceswion, which
' occupied a long time in |xixxuig and
blocketl up the strix-t. 'l'lie first party
was i-onifMMXsl of men carrying twinners
and playing ou gongs, life* and various
I nauii'less musical instrument*. The
sound* produce I were strange and weird
hut not very di*cordaut, and the nombi
nation of color-. made by wariag la
tiers of every shape and hue was et.ved
mgly brillimit and shoivy. The hearse
• was gorgvx'nolv • roam ented with curtail)
! > hanging* of blue and gold, and the cof
tln witli embroidered work of the same
materia!. A apecitd guard attended the
hearse, aud various in.sign in were held
up in front ; and a large multitude of
friend* and retainers followed, all earrr
mg lilue and white tinibrellos, so that it
, seemed as if the whole Chinese popu
lation had tune d out on the DOWUHI.
Bringing up the rear were a troop of
hired mourners ilrawst completely in
white, with sliei'ts thrown over tileir
heads, and lield exteudiug in front.
Their wailing ainl crying were piteous,
until we reinenilwred tliat they were
paid for it. The main procession was
followed hy n line of empty carriage* to
bring back many who were walking ont
'of respect for the dead. Wlule walking
along a street, upon another occasion,
I happened to piew a hcune where there
had evidently jnst lasm a death. A long
rod cloth wits stretched across the door
way, nnd a Chinese ceremony was going
on before a little altar raised in frout of
| the h on.se. (license was burning in
, abundance, ami offering* were making of
fruits, rice and large cocoiuiut*.
ur Haul Hoods.
Many of the new wool goods, a fashion
. i journal say, are brvderie, as the French
say, with wrought figures that look like
embroidery or brocade. Some of these
are all woo!, but the most elaborate have
silk, satin, or velvet figures. There are
gray grounds of wool cloth with silken
figures of brown ; heavily twilhsl blue
wool stuffs are overlaid with black satin
1 ttgnres ; gray-blue grounds have flgun-n
of lighter shade. Jjea* striking than
these are soft drah stuff* of fine twilled
wool overlaid witli intricate tracery of
the same shode or with bio* piids, or
! else little diamonds or small checks.
Caslirqeree, serges, and raerinoes arc
staple gisids, and apt to remain in
fashion while costumes are worn, as they
' require soft flexible stuff* for drajierieH.
In selecting those for the coming season
the reader is a<l vised to choose very dark
HhadeH of quiet colors. Camel's fiair in
invisible plaids, and the strijied limotis
one of last year, are provided for service
able winter costumes.
Those I'ln*.
Speaking of General C. A. F,vans, who
was lately relieved of a number of pins
which had lieen knocked into him by a
Millie ball during the war, the Chronicle
and Sentinel of Columbia, H. 0., adds;
It ia a credit to liim to say that he mails
I his famous memorial address, which
I breathed love and forgiveness, while
those hostile pins were in his body. A
fnan that can forgive his enemy with a
handful of pins working abont bis body
ia a Christian.
France keeps a ship of war at Ajaecio
constantly at the order of the Pope, iu
MM he should d MII S to leav# Rows.
ARONO THK WlltKF RATH,
The I'Mt \V reirhe, Wke lluel the Mleer
Kreeu.
"What i ii ' wharf rat' and whiw is
lit* to Iki found I" 1 oak"*! WW tiny of Ui
'lil aud -xjeriouoed police captain who
had aaeu twenty year*' aervirvi wearing
the blue uniform, unit wan will acquaint
" <t with all the habits atul huuntn of tlx*
outcnntn nlnt criminal classes.
"A ' wb.tr/ rat,'" li answered, "in
aoim-thing entirely iliffereut from all
others of thiwti who "U'fy or evade tlie
law. llin homo in on the docks, ami ha
n only to Ik' found on the moat lonely
and hunt frequented city pier*. How
he liven and gets hi* fmxl and clothing is
to any one who does not know the gTi-nt
eity a eurioiia problem, and a aUrllitig
i fin-t when analyaed. You liaio often
Hirolled along Uio docks, perhaps, at
-orly morning I"
" Oivamotiully 1 have viaited hoiue of
the docks at an early hour to get a
hreath of frenh air ou n summer morn
ing," I answered.
"Well," he continued, "if you go
early enough you may nee here and them
a wretched looking man in soiled cloth
mg alee i ung behind a hay bale, a pile of
bricks, or a alack of lumber. lint hair
will Im< full of atraw or hay, and liin fmx
and akin ore of tin- color of clay, aullen
•ind destitute of any high expression.
Oivufuoaally you see an overgrown boy
• >f the same'descnotion, hut tic scamp in
not yet filed inennhcally ui his fa<v of
d gradation and indifference to all things
human and divine, IYrhj>* you may
timl some of lh-se |ieople tiahing off the
end of a wooden BlrUlgpieOU, or off Slime
schooiit-r, but that is all pretense, and
serves as a cover for theft or houness.
Master* of vessels, schooner* and light
ers have to watch carefully for these
fellows, or they wall steal and get away
with their plunder quicker than a light
ning flash. '
' 1 Are they in any way connected with
lbs class known as river lliiuvea I" 1
aak-d.
"It is a fact that the majority of the
river tlnevea— the most skillful and ex
pert among them—are recruited from
the dock or wharf rate. Of course, audi
men as the ltay Knige burglars, who
were shot, do nut and could Dot have
belonged to this class. ThoSe fellows
were bold aud determined men, who al
ways fought for a heavy stake, and tliey
would despise themselves if tliey W"*re
found ly mg out all night merely to *e
care a piece of old junk, a coil of rope,
or even a piece of old iron, copper or
block lead. I believe tllt these an* the
things taken principally by the dock
rate, aa they are < asy to cuhv al, and
shipmaster* or ahtpowners do not rare
to go to UUlnxs-isary trouble to prose -
cute in coses when* the loss only amounts ;
ui detached uuftainva of from fifty cent*
to five dollars. On the llast river side,
around Hurling slip and in tliat neigh
tsirhood, there an- to lie found crowds
of wharf rats, weather Ix-aten old fellows
who have done nothing since txiyh<x>d
hut (deep ou dock* and hang an mud like
"hark* for any eatable offal in the
dMMTaI pio<-appli-H, gra|Ms, ■•ranges or
• ilher fruit tliat may Is- oast aside ou the
dis-k* from coasting or West India vea
kU."
" Can nothing W doue with these fal
lows I" 1 inquired. "Cm they nut la
put til some use iu HUUM'ty i"
" Notlung iwn daw with tlo m
whatever. They are a hopeless, shift
less lot of wretches, whose utb-r inxig
ntficauoe pr vents the law from dealing
too aoven-ly with thctn, and they are so
•lirty, reckless ami lazy as well as dis
honest tliat tliey are fit for nothing ; a*
one of those told me himself one day 111
a fit of deajHur, only to bo made manure
of. I snpjxise tlint there may Is- prob
ably 2,500 or 3,000 of these fellow*,
boy* and meu, who come under the head
of dock rats in tlna city. When want* r
comes they oanuot sleep ou tlie docks as
a matter of raum', and then tliey have
Ito seek shelter in the police station
house*, wondering from one to another,
night aft r night, without hojie or care
for anything, lhit it is strange th.vt even
iu midwinter, if you should choose to
walk down hi the river fronts, you will
find some at these rats luuigmg around,
liaunting the phe- where he Bjieinl* his
summer vacation, for it is mention all
the year around to him, and proliably
some cliaritutily disposed woman on s ,
canal tmrit, or siime mate of n coasting or
foreign schooner will give him a pn-oe
of bread and meat and some potatoes for
doing an mid chore, such as *wi<e|iignp j
the deck, or the like, or for going to
market t > get some meat or other provi
k.>na far a voyage; that is, if the dook
rat will bike to the work, which he gen
erally doe* not.
I could cite numerous instance* when*
g**l Isiys, who Were wont to be regular
i iu their attendance on school, and olshU- '
ent to father and mother, have born
ruined finally by their lieittg sciluced by
older and more vicious companion* to •
visit the docks to idle nwy a day, and !
finally to sjx-nd night aft r night sway ,
from tln-ir homes, and at last they turn
• nit to lie nothing but confirmed young
blackguard* and hardened thieve* and
criminal*. And for that reason I am
greatly iu favor of the truant law, which
make* it compulsory for children to at
tend school, and thus they are kept
awav from the dock* and the depravity
of these assis-iatii'iiH and bad company. |
I found in a boy's pocket one night, and
who hod onlylweii nbsent from klkmil a '
few days for the first time in his life,
S2OO in $lO bills, which he had taken
out of a drunken man's pocket* who hnd
gone to sleep on th< ilock iu a stupor of •
unconscitmsnt w. I took him home to
hi* parents, and found the man wlio
ownel the money. The lal was only
eleven years of age, and hod Ix-en in
dnced to rol> the drunken man hy a con
firmed wharf rat older than himself, who
ran off frightened, while the smaller I*>Y
took the money. None of these dock
rats ever bathe ; and as their live* are
spent in the neighlMirhiMMl of so much
water, they have no excuse for lack of
clmnline'Vi. JVr-tr York T< try ram.
Personal Influence.
We have tlm following illustration of
|>er*omil influence and personal devotion
in the history of the Napoleonic cam- •
paigriM: When the al'ieil army entered
France, a company of ]Milish soldiers
forming a part were engaged in the
pillage of private property. A grnv
liaired old man remonstrated against
their action, saying : " When I was a
soldier the rights and property of peace
ful citizen* were respected." 'flie Polish
soldiers rudely demanded : " Who are
you that dares to reprove ns?" The old
man answered : "I am Kosciusko."
Immediately every cap was off, and on
their knees they lagged the pardon and
blessing of that conquered hero wliose
misfortunes in the cause of his country,
even more than his valor, were embalmed
in every Polish heart.
Mail Itch.
In Tipiiecanoe county, Ind., ens hun
dred and forty animals died in great
agony of this malady. It is a cuta
neous disease, affecting the head and
neck mainly, anil causing the animal to
rub the affected parts against trees and
fences to obtain relief, but the pain in- 1
creases until the animal Vieoomes raving,
refuses food and dies. No remedy is
stated in the report. A strong decoction
of tobacco juice, rubbed in with a brush,
has always proved an effectual remedy
where we have seen the disease prevail,
though wo have knowu melted lard ami
sulphur assd with effect. \
lightning and Howe of Its Kffeet*.
The last two motitlis have been re
markable for the number of immune who
have I* en killed or injured during than
by lightning Statistics in regard to this
I mint axe not complete, but those tliat
isve lieeli gathered show alsrtlt one jier
sou each day struck hy this subtle and
1 powerful agent in various pari* of the
Union, aliout half as many iLaving been
killed a* tiave I men merely injured.
1 >nalh hy lightiuug is not at any time no
rare an occurrence as it is commonly
thought to le, but electrical disturb
aiices during the present summer have
beeu greater alnl more frequent than
usual. The heavens have beeu at war
with the earth with water and fire, and
have Hin-o-eded iu doing much injury to
their old antagonist. Flood*, htirricanes,
and cyclones, hail and lightning have
wrought uncommon di-aster, and, iu not
predicting the immediate destruction of
the world, persons of s prophetic,
seventh seal, and Millente tendency have
not shiwri themselves fully aware to the
i op|M.rtuiiitim of the time. The " freaks
of lightning" has become a common
phrase, no other force than electricity
ever la-ing guilty of such enormous and
wonderful yet common departure* from
their ordinary workings with such ter
rific e fleet.
If it were possible for gravitation to
iudulge iu such freaks ■ if there were
ixsuutcal storms ui which the worlds
*it sent whirling thr<nigh on the
nislaut, knocking their heails together,
and tlieu the ciMimical sky should clear
off, the uebul roll awav, the central
Muu shine out and all be lovely again—
if this we juMHible we should have to
ark homes in Mr. Proctor's "Otlier
Wortda than Ours " for tmace and quiet-
Unas. LightliUig cau never W counted
on to act iu anv given way ; souietinms
it apjmam as a ball of fire rulliug along
tin- ground and exploding with a trrrific
uoine or going quietly into the earth ;
sometimes it hovers and flashes close to
the earth or water ; again, in a zigzag
line it leap* from cloud to aloud or di
rectly to the earth ; nu-Uuies a man is
-truck aud uo lightning w seen ; some
time* it touches * man and gently melts
his watch, doing no other harm ; anon
it strike* a house, runs down the chim
ney and, finding nothing of mure im
portance to do, luudlv sends a poker fly
ing through the window, nu-lts a copper
kettle aud then runs down a rat bole.
Its favorite maneuver is to tear off the
sole of a watt'* boot OO lis passage to
the < arlh. It lias a peculiar effect in
hastening the decay of animal tisaue,
and not infrequently the person who is
killed by it is almost instantly so far pu-
Irefal that he ha* to be buried at once.
It is mud. though with what truth w
know not, that in the eye of a person
struck and killed by the discharge there
is always a peculiar spot on the eyeliall,
produced by the extrsvszatiou of blood
caused by the sudden expansion and
rupture of minute blood vonaela It was
rrnce snppoMil that wighlMinng treos
were NowelttnoH ph<it< graph*l ou tlie
Imhlv of the person struck, but recently
it h:u ben shown that tlie appearance
<>f tie tree i* but the <x>Uimou abonxa
tiou of electricity which every ou* who
ha* noticed a highly charged Leydeu
jar has Mi 11. o the elcctrwity canape*
into the air or lick* arotnid to the tinfoil
on the outride. The same effect may Iw
obtained by diachargmg lightning over
a *h"-tt of gtaea on which sUam has
lawn ooude'.iiM-d. The safest place dur
mg a thutid< r storm is in tl- center of a
room, and if one i* very uervoti* he may 1
put tumbler* under the leg* of the chair
on which he sit*, for electricity always
necks the path of the least reMtanoe.
The Story of hi- I<ovc.
it has l>eell publinhed in some of tlie
umuerous biographies of ex Preaidenf
Johnson tliat his first love affair was |
one of flirtation upon tln> part of the {
lady in question, and tliat her treat i
tneiit of Mr. Johnson was abith-r disap
pointment to lum formany year*. Kuch ;
do not hapjwu to be tlie facts Only so
late a* the Sunday before lie died, says •
sui exchange, in after dinner convents-,
tion witli his m>u ainl lus tirivate secre- :
tary, Mr. Juhnson Jctailei the circnm- '
Htaiices attending the affair as follow*: 1
After nearly serving out hi* j*i>retitioe- i
ship st Raleigh, he vi*it-d and eugagesl
at jiWirney work at I .aiireus Courthouse, |
Soutii Carolina. Whil* here he met
and lovod a hand Mime and accomplished '
lady of exix-llent family. She returned 1
In* affection with equal warmth and they
livame eiigg*l to fe married. When ,
the subject aa* brought to the att ntion
of her parents th*y objected to the
match, on account of Mr. Johuson's
youth and povertv. He immediately
went to the yming lady, stated the result
, of his proposition, and said to hor that
tlie only course left to them was to part
and drop the whole matter as completely
as though it had never leen. f lTi this
proposal the lady did not seem well dis
posal, and she "told Mr. Johnson that
she hail every confidence iu him, aud
was willing to intrust her life and their
mutual fortunes to his cam H believed
that honor demanded tlie course he had
indicated, ai.ii lie so aud. He feared
hi* motive* might lc misconstrued, awl
this was someUiing his priile could not
brook. And thus they parted. Mr.
Johnson was, indeed, disappointed, but
| not by any action of the lady whom hi* j
i had addressed. He met her only onoe j
after, in 1H55, on a subsispient visit to j
Laiirciiß Courthoiw, when oho was the |
uiotlii r of an interesting family. So j
. much for the truth of history.
Inlrodiicing Yellow Fever.
The Pension)la correspondent of the j
Atlanta tfrrald writes as follows, con
i corning the ravngca of the yellow f'ver j
t Fort Harrnncas : The dii>"a*e haslvsin •
definitely ascertained to have hnd its
origin from the bnrk Von Moltke, whicli
put into the imrt in <listrens, ln-r creV
Ix'ing down with the fever. She, it
sivni*, ns is customary, was Ixmrded '
while out of sight of land, by a pilot, j
and by him brought over the bar. I>i- j
covering yellow fever on Isiard of her, j
lie slipped off and went ashore, and |
' ther.ee proceeded to his house, im
: mediately a.ljoining Harmuena. Having !
leen in close contact with the siek crew
for a nunilier of hours, he of course car
ried the disease to the land in liia cloth j
ing. As soon a* it was ascertained that :
he had been on lx>ard the Von Moltke '
he was straightway sent to quarantine, ■
where lie will remain until frost comes. !
Seven 1 Joke on his lloy.
A member of the class of 1875 at j
Harvard College returned from the sea j
shore to his home iu the suburbs of
Huston a night or two ago, and while ho j
was enjoying the pleasure* of the home j
circle hii father stole unobserved from
the room, and taking lii* position under
one of the windows pnswded to play
upon a lorrowed cornet the well known
mr so dear to tho hearts of all Harvard
men. Instantly the youth was fully
aroused, the gas was turned up, pre
paration for a collation begun, ami an
abundant welcome extemporized for the
supposed company of classmates who
were secreted about the grounds. A
| search for them, however, was unsuc
cessful, and the paternal impostor was
at length detected just as he hail l>eguu
serenade number two.
To eall a woman a piano, is deemed
an actionable slander in Canada —proba-
bly because it seem* to imply that she's
1 fori*.
Term*: 02.00 a Year, in Advance.
THE AMATEUR ENGRAVER t
Or. Ikf MraAiaa I* aa AtirrdMam.
A few year* ainca the writer of the fol
lowing sketch was one of tlie <eliturs alitl
proprietor* of a daily aud weekly new
l*|e-r, pul'lnthed in one of tlie large
town* m western New York. Among
tlie numerous patr -um of the pafwr waa a
man whom I ahalt dearrilia as Levi
Lapp, a carjienter by tmle, and a vary
clever man in his way, Imt aa the sequel
shows, entirely unacquainted with the
art which claims lis it* sinning lights Hie
names of GutteiiWrg and Pa*t.
Having ixuiniderable itigeuatty as well
as buauasM qualiLiea, Mr laipp had re
cently purchased the right to nuuiufae
turi- a |latent pump, vliidi he was very
desirous of introducing to the public
through the columns of our ja|>er. In
other words, he wanted to advertise it,
and, in the course uf conversation about
the pnoe and other details, mentioned to
me that he would like s cut of his new
pump inserted as a 1 leading to his adver
tisement. I replied, " Very welL" and
immediately asked, " Hsve you the out
here t" He reut>eil, " No, but 1 have
got one *1 my house, aud will bring it
in."
Hf mud to aie: " Now y<tt can p*H in
my cut, and do ao at unw, for 1 wish to
] aro it tb prmt iu y<ur pwx-r. *
" Whero u your cut t' 1 *k-d.
" Ou tltc bul." he rrplind, With all the
anriouautwa of a j*st captain.
I then told hint that it wotid require*
| block of wood cat by an engraver ui the
>dni)M4 and likena** of a pump ; that tlua
wwm caitr>d a cut or engraving, and that
it would have to be uand ui th- press in
oouncctiou with the typea, to make up
such an advertiacment übe desired. I
' told him who oonid do the and the
p reliable expctiae—aunw fifteen or twenty
dollar*.
A bright idea appeared k> influence
Mr. law>, aiul he informed 1 me that he
' thought lie could do the job jnmxetf, and
nave just ao much outlay. I told him if
' Ha could it would ■ uit me equally aa
well; but 1 thought he would find it a
trifle difficult.
We ae panted, ami I Haw no more of
Levi Lapp for several weeks. In fact, I
| had forgotten all about the matter. One
.'Doming, bright and larly, aa I waa busy
at the desk, in came Mr. happ m a groat
I blunter and hurry. H ouiSLiy explain
-d iiiniAelf, ami mud he had lua cut flu
-1 lahed, and had brought it as a heading
to his advertiaemeut.
1 mud —" Very well ; where is it t"
Me answered —" Downstairs."
Without giving the matt, r a moment's
thought, I said to him : " Bring it up."
And he instantly left the room for that
purpose.
Hu. liack was hardly fumed, b <w
eviv, lieforr the thought struck me that
be had rather a huge engraviug for a ]
jwr of lnmUvl sine like ount And call
lug hi the foreman to see if 1 was not
correct in my opinion, 1 turned again to
the dusk.
The foreman waa back in an instant,
and I was soon aware that Levi Lapp'a
bright idea had grown into giant propor
tion*, and tliat the engravu g or cut he
had brought for our press was no leaa
than a veritable wood pump of full aire,
even to the pump-log, chain, crank and
water-spout.
Lapp was proceeding to bring his ]
" extended cut" into our establishment,
but at thai very moment waa deterred
from executing his plan hj llie ah<>uta
and laugliter of the entire ririntiug office
fori*, including the devil himself, who
ntood at the window making m< rry at
hi* experae. I
The true condition of affair* alowly j
dawned upon Mr. L*pp'* viaiou ; and j
when informed that be hadtaade a much
larger " cut" than the present condition I
of the art preservative wouid justify, he '
hurriedly replaced hi* " migraving ' on
the wagon that brought it, to our door,
and drove off, evidently making a great
er impmimoti in this way than the pump
could, by any possibility, &ve made iu
our limited establishment. !
Halo Around the Sun.
Newspapers printed in Syracuse,
Utioa, Schenectady and TVoy, X. Y., in
Hut hunt, Vt., and Laemiiu N. H., make 1
mention of a remarkable hul" around the
sun which was seen ou a lake Huiulay.
The Syracuse Journal thus descrilH* it :
Shortly after teu o'clock a complete
luminou* circle around thx* sun, of the
colors of the raintiow, was seen, and at
tlie name time, in the oast a segment of a
brilliant rainbow, with another scarcely
less distinct in the south, and, directly
overhead, several concentric rings like
their counterpart, the main circle about I
the sun, were also visibfc*. This phe- j
nomenon continued in mch brilliancy
for alxmt half an hour, ami for an hour J
the halo alwut the sun was distinctly,
though lees brilliantly, viable. During
a part of the time, the sun's disc **
traversed by a vertical liand of white,
and the circle around the sun inclosed j
an elliptical band of white whose ex
treme length extended from one inner I
aide to the other of the eifeks northerly |
and southerly. With the aid of a
sniok.d ghiKs these various bows were ,
distinctly to lie seen, but to the naked
eye the spectacle was oppressive. The
IHIWS in the east and south were in oppo
sition to the ring abont the sun (like the
ordinary raiubow), but only a small part
of either of the arches were visible.
Exportation* of Wheat.
The quantities stated below are the
number of bushels of wheat exported
from the United States to all foreign j
countries. The years end June 30 :
vw Bmaksli.
iSu ..." ... 8. (WilllS 1
1860.... tlM.l4*'
1861 * 51.338.UTi7
ISS-J 97,886 079
1868 - 88,100.414
1*64 33.6*1.7)2 i
JB6-, . 9.937.153'
1W.;.,: 6,579,101 I
1*67 - 146 *ii i
186* ....... 16. M 0,699 I
IMI ;;;; 17,557,*30
I*7o 5C.5*1,115
I*7l .. 34..301,900
1*73 ' 36.439 o*B
1*73 59.9n4.335
1*74 71J139.928
j*7s S#oo,ooo
The quantify stated for 1875 is partly
estimated. Ity the official rr]K>rt of the
bureau of statistic* of commerce and
navigation the exports for the eleven
months ended May 81 were 47,28*2,589
bushels. _____
lie of Hood Cheer.
A mnn who acquires a luibit of giving
way to depreasiou is on the rood to ruin.
When trouble comes upon him, instead
of rousing his energies to combat it, he
wiiakrns, and his faculties grow dull,
and his judgment becomes obscured,
and ho sinks iu the slough of despair.
And if aiiylxidy pulls him out by main
force and places him on solid ground, he
stands dejected and discouraged, and is
pretty sine to waste the means of help
which have lieeu given him. How dif
ferent it is with the man who takes a
cheery view of life even at its worst, and
faces every ill with unyielding plnek !
He may be swept away by an overwhelm
ing tideof misfortune, but ho bravely
struggles for the the shore, and is ready
to make the liest of the help that may be
given him. A cheerful, hopeful, coura
geous disposition is an invaluable trait
of character, and should be assiduously
cultivated.
Miss Agnes Livingston, the oldest
daughter of the explorer, has just marri
ed a brewer—Alexander Uruee.
NO. 36.
KU.A* HIYIKU BEE*.
It*w k u i> it. ui il fcs ;
UMa'i IN It.
Tht- old gentbuiMi'a name uHiltla, and
thai of hlfl eldest m ia George ; hi* wife>
name is Matilda, atui hi* thr- pretty
daughters are named Helen, Alton and
B*a* , there i* a little Htl*, too, and an
older boy whose name la too queer to
mention.
The bees had alighted in a great
Ima oh. mi larg* a* a hall bushel measure,
on the limb of a poach tree m the vara. .
You all know how it i* done. A table ia
placed under the overhanging limb,
mj treed with a clean white cluUt, and the '
hive placed thereon.
Then one u! the bo/a, on. thai i* good
fur nothing viae, ia rent into the tree
with a aaw to aevar the limb ; the limb
come* down *lowly and ready, and the
old garni below, dreaaed in a great coat,
biuskakin gloves, cowhide boot*, and a
bad quilt tied around bu head and fam,
elyly manipulates a twig from the teae,
and* in two minutes baa safety ABWttl j
every bee to Miter the hive,during all ofi
* which time Mali tie and Hateu and Alice
and Hume pound the bottom* out of just
t four tin paun, little Hilas does hi* prrt
tieat yolluig. while the bov with the
queer name i* iust old enough and aharp
enough to ahpVx-hind the bouse and wait
for the thing to aome to a point. That
ia the way :t ought to hare gone off ,
but that um'lthe war it did. Bliss. the
eider, wa* very comfortably bundled up
fur so warm a day, and be had hie suit
well arranged, oulv he forgot to tie
strings around the bottoms of hie punt*
1 *lh bees had settled on the limb of a
peach tree, and BOae. when hia tobk and
white cloth and hive were all ready,
commanded :
I •' how, Gwovge, grab that old runty
aaw and climb ; 1 guoae you run rt thai *
auall limb off easy enough.
George was just home from a six
month* 7 term at school. and he fall a
great tend* lie we for bis father, and
woaid have gone through a patch U Una
the barefoot to please the aid gent, and
yet he had a particular dread for thej
•' bomaree end' of a bee, Mid partial
larly of such a crowd of them. But 1M
obeyed, and began to fiddle away u j
tiouslr upon the particular limb. One „
little bunch of bee* dropped off and wen*
regod ; another and another smalt bunch
dropped, and the prospect rermed good,
when Buddeidv an <44 honey - maker, who
bad been in the business before, soared
upward. George abut ap one eye quark,
gave one terrific surge on the old rasty j
aaw, got out of that tree at one jump,
and hia anxious mother oaugh* one
glimpse of him as be flew around th s
corner of the hern twenty roda away.
Hot poor old Stia*! The beea came
down, and he thought the bunch wa* as
lug as a haystack now. They did cot go
into the hive, but they went through hi*
overcoat and bad-qtuH a* if these had
only been mosquito bars, and they
climbed up the uiaide at his pants logs,
and the old gent danced aa he had never t ,
danced before ; and he alapped hia leg*,
a* he never allowed any one else to alap
them, and hi* voice towered high above
the clatter of the tin pane aa<l the shrieks
of little Hi la* a* he veiled :
M Throw water on me 1 throw water oo t
me ! soak me, wet me down I"
lie rolled three or four time* over in
the gran*, and sprang op, shouting
" Slap me! (dap me! Can't you d*p
met" in the midst of which little Silas
crept np Ixdnnd hi* iufuriated pa and
dealt lum a Lively one with a ahingfe ;
bat poor little Silas landed the next (
second against the milk house, for hia pa j
took him and hi* ahmgle for a thousand
been, and gently brushed them off.
O, the agony of that three minutes'
jig. He apjwwled to his wife.
"Matilda, for Heaven'* sake, bring
me another pair of breeches, won't yon 1
But these things dent last alwajm, any
more than any other bawpimwa, Mid
after a few minutes the old gent came
limping out of the cellar with the t
breeched on that Matilda brought him,
feeling much easier, but certainly much
fatigued, just as George got lock from ,
the barn and the boy with the queer
name slipped around the corner of the
house. Both boy* were very anxious to
know how matter* stood and naked ;
" Did you git em hired, pu V j <
But the old man was too mad to,
answer or even look at his boys. He j
turned to little Silas and said :
" Little one, you meant all right, and
I'm sorry I coned you so; next time |
don't slap so hard."
Then to hia wife : " MatiUla, to you 1 ,
owe everything. Accept my heartfelt
gratitude. We ll take no more stock in
bees. I have made up my mind, and it's
settled. May our quiet, peaceful farm
homo never ha so stured up again, >
Seems to me I never had so much of life
crowded into s few short minutes be
fore. Hun after the cows, now, boy*;
be off, for it's almost dark." •
The French Zouaves.
Those regiments serve in Africa and
nowhere else. They may, in thv event
of war—■ wa* the case in the Italian ,
and the Franco-German campaigns—he
called upon to take the field elsewhere,
hut only for a season. So soon aa peace 1
is proclaimed Lbey have a right to de
mand lieiug seat bark to Algeria. The
men are nearly all volunteers. The offi
cer* oan exchange with their comrades
in the tine corps, but as a rule it is found
that hi *ll ranks those who make the
best soldiers for Algeria are of little or
no use in home garrisons, and g< naralty
reek ere long to return to the wilder life
of Afrioa. Tn the ranks of these French
Algerian corps are to be found a class of
volunteers who *hun service in Fiance,
but who make the very beet scldiem for
the work they have in Africa. There are |
men who have failed iu life— youug men
of good (amity who have run through
their means, who cannot Jig. who are
ashamed to beg, and would be almost
more ashamed to enlist in a regiment
serving in their native laud. Aa a mat-,
ter of course a certain portion of these
men go from ld to worse; but as rule
they reform, throw all their energies
into their new career, and after some
Tears obtain commissions in the army, j
Very few year* ago there wss iu the
French service no fewer than two mar
shals, six generals of division, ten gen
erals of brigade, and aome sixty colonels
who had gone through this ordeal.— t
/Voter's Magasin*, t
The Turf.
The free for-all race at Rochester, N.
Y., brought out Goldsmith Maid, Loin,
Nettie, and American Girl. The betting
was four to one on the Maid, and, with
her out, fifty dollars to forty dollars on
American Girl against the field. Lulu.
broke up badly on the scoring. The
first heat was won by Goldsmith Maid in
! 2:154, *ith American Girl, who had the
lead at the half, a good second, Lulu
third, and Nettie fourth. The second,
heat was wou by Lulu in 2:164, beating
the Maid by half a length, amid the t
wildest excitement, Nettie third,
American Girl fourth. The third heat
was won by Lnln in 2:164. Bh® crossod
the wire a length and a half ahead of the
Maid, Nettie third, American Girl just
saving her distance. The fourth heat
and ruoe was won by Lnln in 2:17, lead
ing the Maid by a head only, American
Girl third, Nettie last. These are the
beet four consecutive heats on rooord.
The Louisiana census makes the pope-'
lalioii of New Orleans 206,090.
M
Hem* of Interest.
A sardine factory has been started *
Bsstport, Maine The sardines will be
manufactured frem young herring.
The feet is watt grewUincd that there
are im'* held in Europe over #260,000,-
000 Of
bonds. <4'
A thousand flashes of lightning were
counted tn'at hour during 8<" .t
storm on the 7th of July t Oenovj,
Switzerland.
Bathing in ttowk* I* getting to lie a
! sea-side fashion. But keen otnwrm*
notice that tba mask *m Nmounto a
liandsome figure.
Why Is s church bell more affable
than a etrareli organ t Ben***" <>n will
go when It is tolled, and the other will
be "blowed" finfi.
The MM Harmon rnnnnN 1 it-ty
j passing threagh Glimsg i are deecrtbed
i so dirty, mgged, asd mwittypnddlc aged
j nam and ttouiim.
f Wh*|Qnw< after Tf" naked a tt-ach
sr of aaw-': j-uptl who was learning the
alphabet, Bo ftesired lb* bewild. ring
! rt:jply : " Y.m da—to w* 'idea. „
The man who msfiw ahoed
feake in a IJhicago re*tui*t was so un
entitled ill bM tvfisinrea tlutth* r# ivwl a
, Ksiaiy i4*m par weak during the sea-
MO, [•[ , , f
A father hxs fllcl a notic under the
Adair law *i|h the olrk of ChiilMxitbe,
Ohio, warning saloon keeper* not to aell
. hqndr* to bis daughter and
] |wil gty&v.
A servant girl In Philadelphia, who
never had an offer of murriagt- before,
I ha* had sixteen aiaoe *hn fell le-ir to
gtiO.OOO a month age. Lore ia mighty ;
so is oaah-
HnanlUwf ia all the surroundings of
s family mansion, pays richly in many
way*, in good health, moral el. vation,
personal comfort, and dollars sad w nts
Umidtii,
A dMsndoot old man In New Orleans,
njx/Ti hearing his tarn asy that work ■•**
scares and poorly paid, went out of the
• bouse sad shot himself, so as to remove
one harden.
Acoording to the JbUfr-Ocean tiers
are 25,0(jU young men in Chicago who
otai't afford to many. And we ve no
doold tlist 45,000 youug women are all
the happier on that account.
Why is the letter R very unfortunate
Because it is uhrey# i trouble, wrett h
edneni, and miatwy, ia ths beginning of
riot and nun, and is never found in
i pesos, iuOMfatt, OX love.
The Baste® editor aaid ho wrote as
plain as could be, " TV sacred Vavens
around, him ahine," when the blasted
printer wnt and made tt. "The seared
hyanaa around him shine!"
Late .advices from the Handwhicli
island* state that whisky, onium and
.vmcnbfeitg.-sre <*rrying off the |kj|!.-
iaUn ao rapidly that aativw will be few
and fhrtortween in a abort time.
tn Britain, a thonaandyear* ago, there
I were two tuuiis of eurreoey ; known ax
' '* hviug money " and " dead m.mey,"
the former ouaauttng of alavre and oat
i tie and the latter j qgocs of metal.
There ia aoentenmal bed rope. Cha-.
Crosamao, of Brunswick, Me., has it. It
i* rna.lv of whale's sinew*, and has never
"been taken out of the bedstead since it
was first art up, a hundred years ago.
He was a mean man wtio, when a>iked
far has money or hi* life, requested the
burglar to take the life of hi- wife, as
Mba could not paanlitylive if he died,
i but ha amid worry ana* without her.
A migmtory sheep maw in Beatrice
Neb., haaa floek of eight hundred ahivp.
Hia home ia on wheels, and with hia
family he moves from place to place,
wherever be can find good grazing land*.
" There's SWk) of hard-earnf-l money
in that draaa," aaid Smith, a* be watch
ed Mr*. H. mmrnig akiug, before him.
" Which explains, remarked hiafri.-nd,
why money ia ao tight." Smith wept.
Mip Joseph Cuater of Worcester,
Penn., stnng by a lee. fied a tew day*
after, her arm dwelling to the ahoulder,
and * vsUowiah liquid bt-ing diaeharg.-d
from it tfi several piaoes where it brc.su
out.
The sugg.-etu u of a fear that Stanley
Lave been canght and eaten
byu cannibal, nrowkee fnm the Louis
ville (\mrier-Joamat tba reaponae that
nobody eares what tmppeusto a canni
bal.'' . .
Tba kiat by dertruction of crops
through the n-oewt fioqfis and rains m
the United States will amount to about
the same a* the km by the Chicago fire;
in round numbers, two hfindred tailliotu*
of dollars.
The Mffwankee circuit court has done
something of whk-b it aa? well be proud,
having cheerfully cuasente-d to ahaagw
the name of Mr. Charles Ignatius Syt
)vej'aukltcww*, of that city, to Charles
Ignatius FhgeL
The United Stales Centennial com
mittee has resolved to refuse space to
private exhilutors whose government.,
like those of Russia and Italy, have ue
clmt-J to take official recognition of the
mtematinnal erhibition.
The fTanrmt Farmer says the question
now to be heard on all side* is: *' Where
<mn *e f?Pt tn feed ottr own to t"
The Vrree thai haws gone through the
season'a work oc graaa food are ia better
oooditton than they were last year by
grain.
Another instaare of the decline of
' British justice is fdtmdhi the fateof an
ErigHsftrnun who reasntly appropnatel
: another auk UOilwella on a miuy day,
and haa, ainoa been aentenoe.l to three
month* imprisonment by a London
There an over 2,700 varieties of
applea known by over 1,800 names, 2,200
of pears, 200 of cheiriea. 150 of plums,
300 of our native grspea, fifty of currant*,
eighty of nspbrrius, and thirty of
blackborrieo, according to a counting up
of wautebody.
Mary Saffurd-Blake, in a letter from
Halt Lake, ssvs: 1 met with a woman
phvrician here-who i* doing a thriving
practice. The specialty here in medical
practice Ims always beeu entrusted to
women. Now % elm* of twenty-five
girla an- studying metUcine,
preparatory to a more complete course.
Twenty-six years ago when a Bohemian
Jew wished to stop at the mining towu
of Pritbram, in Bohemia, he ooul.l atop
Urn two bourn only. He oouhl not stay
longer without obtaining official periuiM
aton. At present thure is in the town a
well-oonduoteil Jewish congregation,
which has the good will of the christian
i mid onto
i i
Ckealcal COBStltnents of the Brain.
Some interesting investigations recent
ly made by M. Gofiley into the chemical
1 constitution iff the brain, show that th<>
human cerebral swbstiTwe contain* about
eighty per cent, of water; and that two
albuminoid matters. anr jweseut, one not.
differing from albwunyi ami soluble iu
water, whilo tlu> ofii&t i? insoluble, and
' for this the invPstigutOr propos<>s the
name of ceplmline. The fatty eulwtaucc
! of the brain, hte finds, is formed prin
cipally of chplasteria, lecithin and cere
bin, also oleiu and margarin, aud the
organ contain* likewise certain salt .
some soluble in water -and in alcohol,
other* soluble to water an I not in alcc-
I hoL During decompeeition, the oere
bral pulp furnishes acid products,
among which are oleic, uiargaric, phos
pho-glyceric atid phosjmoric acids.
• ' ■ '
*"* * Crops and Floods.
The damage done to the crops by the
late floods amounts in many cases to
i half their valuer 'ldaNew York Herald
aaya; la it not tiigo that some w cou
sidered plau were adopted by the nationul
, government to tvanedj fhe oril which iu
most eases is tho resnlt of defective
| drainage or a badly constructed system
.of levees ? The increased value of th >
crops would sopu pay t " e outlay.
Ta* Hoiuanw las are AsTwrn.—
It having been chsig-1 that the txr<l
of dirsctork of the State Homeopathic
asylum for the insane, at Middlotomi.
Ni Y., designed to change the treotmevl
there to allopathic, the boaiil, at a me< t
ing held, Fletcher Harper, from New
York, mesiding,. adopted a draft of s
a circular, deiiviug. tlip. accusatiou, c*
- . -oniihriil ns
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