Indecision. Do 1 lor. her ? Dimpling ml lip* at me pontlng. Dimpling ihonMtn at me flouting ; No, 1 don't ! Do I lore her ? Prisoned in those crystal yea. Purity forever lies : Yee, 1 do! Do I love her ? Utile wild and willful (lotion. Teasing, torturing omitradioUou ; Mo, 1 don't 1 • Do 1 love her 1 With kind acts and sweet words, .he Aid. and oomforte poverty t Yea, Idol Awkward. And so she's engage.) to he m*m) ?" 1 imagined you would he ; It's e thiug I sa.v Utile about; 'Twas as iipen a ease aa well could be— " Did ahe love me ?" There wasn't a d mht. Why, she just threw herself at my head. Bill! But 1 kuew she'd no heart ami lees brains . And though money will settle a br ed hill. It wouT wash off stair s. "You're setonished ax this ? ' My dear fellow. What the deuce did 1 cere for her age ? 1 like women like apples when mellow Bui the feet was. 1 knew every page Of her history, "Flirted?" Tou'd think so. There wee Harry McKeown. atxtv-tNree; It was she that drove him to the drink so , "Am I sure?" As dsn be. She's s scheming coqaelte, and 1 know it, She hasn't the least bit of a soul Or an atom of truth. " Doesu't show it ?' Mo . her feelings are under control. Then it's nonsense to say ehe has beauty. 1 pity the fellow rhe'e caught. It must be a matter of duty With him. or he's bought. Who the deuce can it tw? Then.'* Frtd Baker; Too remember turn ? eccred for die Sine; But there isn't touch f**r that he'd lake her ; lie wanhi blue blood, aud not a gold mine. "Chicken Jouee T' No. he'* married. Tae funnr, How he ran a tie race with Jim Proot For the " class cradle," wasn't it? 11 OUST He e got. and the gout. " Tub " Abbott was sweet on her. Sandy McCtiUum —he must be the oue ; BT JOTS, it'e old " Satvdv, the dandy !" It'e not he ? I give up. then. I'm doue. le it one of our class, are you sure. That the man has seized for her prey ? Who's the tallow? let'e hate it! What! you are? The dickens JOB ear Seribntr. THE KIND Tl ItKEY-MAN. A naikaititse Kcsrv. Ik was the evening before Thanks giving. The ran had gone dowm behind the hills of Greenville, leaving them oold and bare against the doll sky. The squirrels were safe and warm in their own little house*, cracking nut* for their Thanksgiving dinner. The trees waved their tall, Irare branches in the bitter cold, but they knew that their roots were sheltered by the kind earth. The cold winter shouted a merry "good-evening" to everything, as he rushed over the frozen ground. He raced over the bare hills ; the squirrels drew closer together, and ex ulted over their crowded storehouse ; the trees bowed a stab ly good night, as he whisked away ; but he calmed down as he met a little tigure on the frozen road, and gave her time to draw her faded cloak tighter over her blue hands, before he rushed on again. A wagon wa< heard. " Rattle, rat tle !" Even the wagon is cold, the child thought, as she heard the loose spokes rattling in the wheels. She stepped aside for the wagon to pass; the driver, a pleasant-looking man, stopped his horses, anil asked her wh titer she was going. • To the city," answered the child. "To the city!" cried the man. " Why. von will never get there, unless you are blown there, or I take you." " Will you take me ?" she asked, not eagerly, but like one accu-tomed to re fusal*. lii .iß'irprwM to n-arli down bis band to help her up. " Now," said he, as he put her under the heavy buffalo robe, " what's your name I" " Mary—only Mary," she answered hastily. " >iary," said th man. softly, more to himself thau to thj child, " 1 wish it hadn't lieen that." "Why, there's Kits of Mnryt," said the child. " Yes. I know it." he said. * I had s little Mary last Thanksgiving. I—l don't like to see any one named Mary in trouble." " I ain't crying," said the child, smil ing, " because lis in trouble, but 'cause I'm so ooM. I ought to hare trouble, Gi-anny says." "Ought to have trouble, hey!" said the mau, stopping his horse, and draw ing from under the bnffalo robe a can of hot coffee. "That hasn't been off the stovnjnore than five minutes." he mid. as he filled a little tin cup and handed it to her. "Take that, and drink to yogr Granny I" "It is very nice," she said, when she hlri drank it all. She did not sav, I b.Te tasb-d nothing before to-day. Why shou'd she, when tin-re had been so many days like this in her short life ? The man replais-d the can, pnlled the robe up even with her chin, and told the horse to " get np" and "go along;" then Jie whistled awhile ; then he said; "It is mighty cold. I hope it will keep ao!' "Oh, don't!" exclaimed the child; "'OOB it makes turkey cost so much, poor folks can't have any." "Don't you care anything for me!" cried the man, pathetically ; "here's my wagon fall of turkeys." "I didn't know you were a turkey zuan," she said, gently. "Yes, I am a 'turkey-man,' and I think even poor people can afford to buy a turkey onoe a year, if they are high. The turkey-meu have been waiting a year for this day." There was a twinkle in his eye she did not s< e; be looked down into the little pale face. "I am afraid you don't care for the turkey-men!" he said, soberly. She hong down her head, started to say something, but stopped. " Well, what is it?" he said, laugh ing. "I do like you," she answered, earn estly; "but the poor people—l have known them always." They rode on for a while in silence. The hot coffee had worked wonders; the blue little bands had stopped shaking, and the child smiled as sLe saw the city lights in the distance. " Now you are a little more comforta ble," Baid the turkey-man, "let us hear where you are going, aud what your other name is." "My name is only 4 Mary,' and I am going to find my cousin." "Nonsense!" he said, a little sharply. " Of course you have got a name." "They call me 'Mary Kent,' but I hate it, and I won't have it 1" she cried, passu >uately. " Why did they call yon that ?" be asked, gently. " 'Cause my father ran away, and left me in Granny Cole's house, when I was little. He pinned a paper on my dress, that said on it: ' Left to pay the rent'" The turkey-tnan whistled, and asked if Granny Cole were good to lier. " Pretty kind," said the child, weari ly. " Anyway, Bhe didn't 'spiae me like tally did.' " Who may Sally bef" asked the tur key-man. " She is Granny Cole's daughter." KKKD.KV irrz, Kditor inid Proprietor. VOL. Mil. " Did Granny Gob *end yon alone lo (ho city t" snnl ho, watching her sue picio nnly. "She told mc tlic <>thor day," said tho child, mournfully, "if I ever come homo end found hor gone, to go to tho city and And mv cousin. Yesterday slio went mo off with Sally, an' when 1 come back Bally ran away from mo, an' 1 couldn't tiud Granny." ** Aro you >|iuto euro you can And v. ur cousin I' Sho locked up in his face, and laid h< r tliui hand ou his sleeve. " I uovor saw my oouein," sho said, calmly. "If Gratiuy has run away froia mo, I haven't anybody I know." •* Why, thon, did you come to tho cityt" said the turkoy man, wondering whoro ho could loavo hor " 1 kuow tho city bent," sho saiil ; "Granny used to lite thore, till a wook ago. It is so dark iu tho country, whon you havo to stay alone! Thoro are tho market men see how bright tlioy aro !" It was tbo night tioforo Thanksgiving, in tho city as well as iu tho country ; tho markets shone as tlioy always Ao tho eveniug before the groat feast. Never wore garlands more greeu, uoror apples more red, or gobblers mote plump. The turkey man drove up and stop ped. "Here is aa far as I can go, little one," ho said, as he lifted hor out and stood her safely in the bright light of tho market. Sho was a pretty child, but pale now, with blue lips and shaking hands. " Poor little thing!" ho muttered ; " 1 wish thov hadn't uamcd hor Mary and ho entered tho market. The market men 1 teamed on every body. They rubbed their hands as cus tomer after customer vanished with tho cold form of some kind of fowl neatly covered, all but its foot, in brown paper. It was growing late ; the turkoy man hail sold out ; ho waited only to got a hot supper before starting for home. Ho had liecn thinking entirely of dollars and cents ; but as ho walked out of tho market ho thought of hut homo, his wife waiting alone for him in tho groat white house, and his little Mary safe in God s home above—ho had forgotten tho homeless child loft alone outside the market. A heavy hand was laid on his arm. " Stand Imck a moment !" whiapered a voice. He looked up, and saw a large policeman watching a child at a barrel of red apples. It is his little follow traveler ! " That's a sharp youngster !" half laughed the poltoeman, under his breath. " This sort of thiug is going on here all the time. Nothing is sale for a mo ment." The little blue hand was already on an apple. It faltered a moment, thou grasjied it tightly, then dropped it. She hid hor face in hor hands. Tho turkoy-man stepped up to her and touched her shoulder gently. She had not soon him ; but, without looking up, the child knew who it was—it was the only friend she had. " I couldn't Jo it! Oh, I couldn't!" she sobbed. " But I'm so hungry!" and she fell against the barrel. Tlie stars were ahiuuig cold and clear. The turkey-man's wife was looking out, and wishing the thermometer could go up, without the price of turkeys going down. "It is so cold for John riding from the city alone !" she said to h"r*olf. She opened the door, hoping to hear the wagon ; but the cold wiud sent her back to the blazing tire. She thought of a year ago, when she did not sit waiting alone. She imagined sln> heard the lit tle voice, though it had been Lt: lied nearly a year—how plainly she saw the sweet face though it hail ln covered so long ! She witied the tears from her eyes as she heard the rattling wheels ; John must not *■ her sad. Sue op Hied tho door, hohiiug tue lamp high above her head. The turkey-maii came in, with some thing wrp;*d iu the buffalo robe ; In laid it ou the big iliuir.g table. " 1)..u" say no!" he cried ; " let us do some thing for Mary's sake, this Tliahks giving I" "Are you crazy?" she exclaimed, a* he nncovered the j>ale face. " Wait till I t-11 you all," said the turkey man. When he had told hi' story, h said, earnestly : " How could I go to church to-morrow and thank God for II is care of ns, if I, with no little one to care for, had left this child alone iu the great city f" "Yon did right, Johu," said his wife ; "you always do." With these word*, the woman—good, soul!—fastened to wash the little girl's face and hands. Then she warmed aud oomforted her. while the kind turkey-man weut to take cure of his horse. " I remember this house," said the child, as she looked out of a large blanket before the bright fire. " I saw it one day with Granny Cole ; I stopped and looked tlirough the fence, any Henry Wat tersou, editor of the Louisville t'ouricr iournatf may be interesting. It is taken from an unpublished letter, and it should l>e rememliered that it is written by a mau who is partiv blind : I wake up at ten o'clock in the morn ing, and after a cup of coffee I write for two hours in be I. I get up at noon and have a plunge bath, and take break fast with ray family, who then have taken their lunch. Igo to the office after ward, and remain there till seven, pre pared to see everylmdy that calls. Dur ing the same time the work of the day is plauned oat and everybody begim it. I then go home and have supper, and spend the evening until teu o'clock there, usually list ning to reading by my wife, or having a little marie. At ten o'clock I am back to the office again ; where I remain until two o'clock. I am only able to write two hours a day myself, and the rest is done by dicta tion. I read lint little myself; lint glance through the exchanges, in order to get an idea of things, having impor tant articles read out loud to me. I have no time for exercise and do not care for riding, all the exercise 1 get being in walking to and from the office. Women at Hard Work. Olive Harper, in a recent letter from Marseilles, says : Women wheel bar rows filled with brick and stones; women carry great trunks and peddle goods of all descriptions, and all wear clean, white, sti flly-starched lace aud muslin caps. They walk with a briskness and force that are surprising. All are browned with the hot sun and the glare from the white cliffs and shin rag sa, till their faces look like the sqnaw that was " wrinkled and brown as a bag of leather," yet the cheeriness and bright ness of their smiles more than com pensate for the lack of beauty of com plexion. THE CENTRE REPORTER rSITE 11 MATES I'KNHIOMS. The Annual Un-ari al Ihv C'eaaaalaalaaer at IVtiwlwna tuil ike lalrrfallßA Flger** ke Hon 11 M Atkinson, commissioner of pensions of the United States, has completed his annual report to tho sec rotary of tho interior. It shows that the mini tier of pension era added to tho rolls during the Anoal year was 11,557, and the uumlier dropped, by reason of death, re enlist meat, remarriage, exp nation of mi nors' pensions, failure to apply willuu three years or the discovery of fraud, was 12,977, making a net decrease of 1.420. The nttmlier of |>ensiuua m oreased was 15,561. The total manlier of pensionera tmrue U|h>u the rulls Juno Hit, 1875, was 234,821, by classes, as fol lows: Army invalid* 106,47# V my widow* and dependent relatives lot Khs 8 truvore of the war uf IHlil ... .. IS H75 Widows of toiaiera of Ui war of ISt'i 6 ltd N\ luvatida 1.63S Navy widow* and de|teudati( relaUvee I'M Total U4.HXI Of the widow* of Revolutionary sol diers thirteen who were married prior to the year 1800, and 366 married subse osent to that .late, are still borne upon the rolls. They, with 1,009 half pay widow pensioners, are embraced iu the class Army widows and dependent relatives." The invalid roll continues to increase, and, notwithstanding its loss es, numbered 3,(Til more on the 30th of June, 1875, than at the close of the pre ceding Ascal yiar, and, for the Arwt time since 1563, exceeded the roll of widows and dependent relatives. Its increase largely oouutcrl>alanees the losses to the other rolls, and makes the decrease of the aggregate roll comjutratively small. Its annual rates are also steadily m-reas ing. In 1871 the average rate of jien mou paid to the army invalid penaioners annually was $89.18; in 187*2, $90.26; in 1873, $96.46; in 1874, $98.14; and in 1875, $103.91, or $8 65 jer month. The rates vary from $1 to SSO per mouth. The increase in these rates increased the aggregate annual amount of the whole roll during the year 544,738.13, although it had lessened in uutnlier, and the rate cf the widows' roll had oeeu largely re duced by the expiration of wiuors' pen sinus, Cominiaaionar Atkinson says: " With the aggregate annual amount of the invalid roll yearly augmenting but smull reduetiou iu the peuaiou ex penditures oau tie expected. This shows the necessity of a careful medical ex amination at stated }ieriods of all |n sinners whose disability is not |,crimil..cut beyond a doubt." The total disbursements of the penaiou bureau during the laet fiscal year were $29,683,116 63, leaving a ludanee from the appropriations of $371,883 31, which has been covered iu the treasury. The appropriations for the curreut lis cal year were : For army JHUISIOUS, 829.5ikt.ikk); for navy pension*, 85"0,- 000. Total, $50,000,000. The immi -loner is of opinion that, unless there is some further lilw-rahziug legislation bv Congress, a total appropriation nf 329.000,000 will IK* sufficient for the payment of all pensions during the next fiscal year. The commissioner recommend* that Congress tix some limit to the tune al lowed for the prosecution of claims for Ivounty lauds, and gives as reasons there for that so long s time has elapsed since the occurrences of which proof is re quired and the witnesses have reached so advanced an age that the parole evi dence upon which many of the*,, churns are adjudicated i* very unreliable. During the fiscal year 1,530 claims were investigated by the *i-cial agents I annum bv dropping name* frumrell.. 97 llecnver.ee ;u caeti IC J9N 7" 11.-JSC lulie 1:2.225 17 T.sal • Hi.S2AM The knowledge of the existence of such a system and liai>ility of detection through its agency DO doubt prevent* the presentation" of many fraudulent claims which would otherwise le im posed u|M>u the government. The tiene tit derived in this manner from these SJKSHSI investigations cannot be fstima ted iu money. He also recommend* the appointment of a sie-cial service for the bureau, upon a ba-i* similar to tlist of the I'ost-oltice and of the Tr.-asnry department, pro viding for the appointment of a regular c*rps of sjw-cial agent*, at least thirty in nmn!>er, at a stated annual salary and a Ills-nil allowance js-r diem for sub sistence, iu addition to their actual traveling exjs'tises. The commissioner says: "If Con gress would authorize the publication nf a printed list of pensioners residing in each county to be posted in some con spicuous puce, the jxwt-ofßoe of the shire town or the Court bouse for in stance, with a request thut persona hav ing knowledge of any one upon the list who may not le ertitled to a pension would report the name to this office it would result in bringing promptly to notice many CR*CS of fraud which would other wit; remain undiscovered." The commissioner concludes his re port as follows: "Though every effort has been made to promptly dispose of the currei t work of the office, delays have occurred which have occasioned much complaint throughout the country, but which, with the force now allowed by law, could not possibly have been avoided. I have, therefore, to r.-onm mend that the present force of this of fice be increased l>y ten clerks of class four, ten of class three, and ly four assistant messengers, two watchmen, and four lalsirers at $720 each per an num, nnd that some plan of reorganiza tion be applied to the burean which will insnre higher rates of salary to those clerks employed in its most responsible operations." Suits on the Street. Polonasiea with all tho new features are again seen in tho street, says the Itazar. Among the most elegant are those of black mstclasSe and velvet. The simply shaped polonaise has the Marguerite hack cut off across the tournure in the middle seams, and thus a basque is formed ; this basque is piped with velvet, and folded into shape. The lower part of the back is square corned, and the shape is filled in with velvet loops. The prill cease front has wide rows of velvet its entire length. Black velvet lower skirts ars coining to lie almost as generally worn as those of black silk have been of late. Those who cannot afford the entire skirt of velvet have a single deep flounce of vol vet, or else two narrower ones. Thia compels a long overskirt, as the effect is bad if the silk skirt to which the flounces arc attached is visible. Trousseaux. New wedding dresses, says a fashion journal, are of soft lnsterless faille, trim med with a galloon of white tulle wrought with pearls, and also with picot crepe lisse that is scalloped and fin ished wi'h a narrow " pur! edging" or braid. These dresses have square court trains, elaborate tabliers, and cuirnss basques. The flowers are white crushed roses and eglantine. Fichus and scarf sashes are on other wedding dresses and on the tulle dresses of bridemaids. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., RA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1875. A C'ALIKOHMA SMMV STOKM. A Finer* tlrawn bv Urn llarlr la a M**l iHlrirtilna >lntirr. Ilrel llarte iu lua new novel in .Ycrift twr't A/ofßA.'v paints a giaphto picture of a t'-aliforuia snow storm: Buow. Everywhere. As far as the eye eould reach tlftr miles, haikiug aouthward from the highest white peak. Filling ravinea and gulches, and dmppiug from the walls of the oauyousui white ahroud hke drifts, fashioning the dividing ridge into the likeness of s monstrous grave, hiding the liases of giant pines, and completely covering young trees and larches, rimming with porcelain the bowl like e.iges of still, cold lakes, and undulating in motionless white billows to the edge of the distant borixoo. Snow lying everywhere over the California Sierras on the 15th day of March, 1848, and still falling. It has lieen snowing for ten days ; snowing in finely granulated powder, in damp, i|Hingv Hakes, iu thri, feathery plumes; snowing from a lea.h u sky steadily, snowing fiercely, shaken out of purple black moods iu white iloocu lent masses, or dropping in long level lines like white lances from the tumbled and broken heaven*. But always silent ly 1 The woods were so choked with it, the branches were so laden with it, it liad so |ertueated, Ailed anil possessed eaith and sky ; it had so cushioned and muffled the riugiug rook a and echoing hills that all aouud was deadened. The strongest gust, the fiercest hlast awoke no M'fh or complaint from the snow (lacked, rigid files of forest. There was no cracking of bough nor crackle of un derbrush; the overladen branches of pmo and fir yielded aud gave way with out a sound. The silence was vast, measureless, complete! Nor oould it be said that any outward sign of life or luotlou changed the tlx. .1 outlines of tins stricken landscape. Above, there was no play of light and shadow, only the occasional deepening of .term or night. Below, no bird winged its (light across the white ex (uuise, no beast haunted the confines of tin. black woods ; whatever of brute ua turo might linve once inhabited these solitudes had long since down to the low lands. There was no track or imprint; whatever foot might have left its mark upon this waste, each Btnv.-ts.liug snow - fall obliterated all trm-o or record. Every morning the solitude was virgin and unbroken ; a million tiny feet had stepped into the track and filled it Up. And yet, iu the ivnter of this desoht tion, m the very stronghold of this grim fortress, there was the mark of human toll. A Young Lawjer. " Your cognomen, mr won 1" asked the Detroit court of a boy of eleven, who came out wiping hi** uoao with AN much vigor and rapidity ON if ho were being paid Um cents a wi|\ '• Hc'll ilea l I" sobbed the IKIT. "You don't understand taw—l mean vour name." " Bill." " Bill what f" " Bill l>avi*ou." " Well, bul, I have heard a wrr bud rejiorl concerning you. 1 aui told vou broke a window mid called a wotnuu hud names. How is it i" " I'll tell ton, aud I won't lie, mnher. I goin' 'long Congress street and a woanui axed uiu: ' Boy, will you bring m some coal I' And I mud 1 would for twenty live cent*. And she mud: * You little lazy brat ' you ought to be in the poorhouae." And 1 said 1 was much obliged, and she Set her dog on me. 1 never called her uo names, aud 1 broke the window a thru Will' at the Jog. "Is Mrs. Ski lniori hers?" ashed the court. She wasn't, and after a look around the Imy continued: " Folks has no business to c,ill lioya naun, nor m t dogs on 'eui." " Hare you been tilling uie the truth, boy " Yea, I have. I'm willing to lie struck dead as a herring if I've lied I Wlicr- s tlie wonmti f Wny don't she eome li- re anil swear agin me f Here's where the d. g bit me on the log, and I'll face he: any time !" " William, you may go, but keep out of trouble hereafter. It's pretty bard for a free American citizen to runaway from a skirmish, but you had belter dodge around the corner tliati to g< t into a wrangle with a woman. (Jo in and tlud your hat, quit wiping your nose, go to lied early, and you'll some day lie able to deliver an agricultural hj hi reus bi'fore u oouuty fair."—/'We PMU. A IMscouragcd Kdilor. A Colorado editor thus narrati-a : He was a sad-eyed, meek-faced man, ami we siqijnsi' he merely wished to give us a news item ; but when he comnienci d telling ns ibrnt building a bam on his ranch 190x280 feet, seven stories high, and ornamented with bay windows, we thought it wus time to check him, and so we commenced : " Well, we must admit that that is a pretty large bam for this country, but back in the Stub's our father bnilt a burn 325*500 feet, tiiue stories high, and furnished with steam elevators , but " " Back in the States," interrupted otir lisU'ucr. " Why, that wasn't much of a barn for the States. I reniemls'r, now, that when I was quite young, my father built a chicken-coop 530 by 832 feet. I don't recollect how many stonorary auon too, hut I would have yon die my wife. There is ret time to unite ux" The yonng girl did not reply. Bh* wa* too weak. A alight flush rose for an instant te her pale cheek; it could be aeen that joy and iiain were struggling in her spirit for the mastery. Lying upon a sofa, her bridal r l>ick inaou te proceed with the orremony. When it was time for the dying girl te say yes, her !i|# parted several limes, hiit she could not articulate. A# last tlie word waa spoken and a alight f-wim rested upon her lija The dying agony was near. The minister sobbed a* he proceeded with the ceremony. An hour afterward all was over, and the bridal chambi-r was the cliamber of death. Feme aud See Me. N.-rcr take " Come and see rae " as a phrase meant in earnest unlesa it is *e ooiupamed with a date. Such an invita tiou amounts te nothing at all. If a lady or gentleman desire* your company ha or ahe will appoint a time for your vifiit. " fall on me when you can make it convenient," "drop in.as TOU are passing," " niake u* a visit whenever you have an hour or two te spare," ore social ambiguities by which uien and women of tho world understand that they are not expected te do tho thing requested. When people wish te lie cheaply polite there nothing like this kind of vagueueea. The complimentary sin oil cliauge of society must always he token at * large discount. It ia never worth its face or anything like it Tet it is a convenient medium of exchange, and heavy debt* of gratitude that ought to lw requited in better coin are often )>aid with it People who have more polish than principle use it lavihly— {•lain, blunt honest men sparingly or not at all. Whoever make* a friendly visit tea fashionable house oa the strength of a mere "(Vune and aee me," will very often find that the family cir cle he boa dropped into by request ia as" ungenial a* the Arctic circle, and he will probably leave it with a chilly feeling that will prevent him from venturing nto the name high latitude again. But when a whole-souled man, whom you know to be your friend, grasps you vig oroualy by the hand and aava, "Oonie and diue with me te day—dinner on the table at three o'clock—be sure to come. We shall expivt yon," you can take it as certain tliat yoai j.resence is warmly de sired. It is pleasant always to make or receive a visit from a friend, but a nod on the street is all sufficient from a fash ionable acquaintance. Fare of Fhlldrcn. Tnfnnta are sometimes very restless at night, and it is generally owing either to eramming them with a heavy supper, tight night-clothes, or Iwing overheated by too many blankets. It may result from putting them to sleen too early. They should be kept awoke uutil the family are going to rest and the house free from noise. Undressing and bath ing will weary and dispose them for sleep, and the universal stillness will promote it. This habit, and all others, depend on the course pursued at first . AccifWtom them to regular hours. If they liave a good sleep in the forenoon and afternoon it will lie easy te keep them awake during the evening. It is right to offer them drink on going to bed, when young infants, snd more solid, though simple food, after they are two or three months old ; but they should never be forced to receive it. Never let anything hnt the prescription of a phy sician. in sickness, tempt the nurse* to give them wine, spirits, or any drug to mke tliera sleep. Milk and water, whey, or thin gruel is the only fit liquor for little ones, even when they can run about. Tlie more simple and light their food and drink, the more they will thrive. Hard to Tlease. Ijftst year a commercial tuan, generally known ii* " innner," was traveling in Kansas, and stopped at a farmhouse, wtien the following conversation took place : " Weil, bow do you like Kansns 1" " Don't like it at all," said the farmer ; i "you can't raise anything ; and when you do, the plagued grasshoppers take ( it all! I'm going te leave as soon as I can get out of it." Happening along last summer bo met the man again, and said : "Hello, yon here yctf" " Yes, but I am going to leave soon." "Whatare you going to leave fori Y'ou stlrely have raised enough this I y'ar." j "Yes, but that's the trouble. Got wor'n I want this year, and can't sell a cent's worth." Torm: a Year, in Advance. THE LEGACY OK THE PIIIC. Palter** la Ifc* rH*4 IMal** D-rts Ik* laM Ml** M*aik*. From the Mercantile Agwiey of Mraare. Dun, IWlow A Co., a have * circular giving I rejxirt of the flilum which liave thu* far occurred through out tha United HUU* and Canada during tha Trial 1876. Tha total fall lira* iu tha Unitad Htataa, for tha nina month* raiding Heptember 30, number 6,334. with liabilities aggre gatiug i 131,172,608. Tha respective "quarter* " of tba rear compare mm fol low# in raapaot to these failure*: Fud quarter, 1,982 failures, liabilities, $43,- 176,968 ; second quarter, 1,681 failure*, liabilities, $33,A(w,318 ; third quarter, 1,771 failure*, liabilities, $64,8*8,237. Taking the average for the mrmqwud ing period during the past few year*, we And that there ha* been tin* year an increase of about thirty per oent. in the numlier of failure*, although tire average mcreaae of liabilitie* in not ao very noticeable, being only about three pr rent Nevrrthrleea, the increase, both tu numlw-ra of failure* and in liabilities, * oomjiared with 1874, i not vwy aati factory mm an iudioation that the force of ttie panic of 1873 i spent. Against 4,371 failure* and $116,429,000 <4 liabili tie* during the nine month* oS 1874 we have, in 1876, 6,334 failures and $131,- 172,000 of liabilitiea—a quite notiocahle differeuce, it must be oonfeased. In New York city the failures for the iMist nine month* uumbel 646, with lia biliUe# *m*>unting tu $31,000,000. Ile ferruig to the name number of month* iu previous year*, we find the failures in 1874 were 483. with liabilities of $24,- 000,000 ; in 1873 the failures in the nine mouth* were 498, with liabilities of $69,* 000,000 ; and in 1872 the number was 315, with liabilitie* of $16,000,000. Taking the average of the nine month* in four year*, the result i* 460 failures, with average liabilities of $36,000,000. Ho that, though the above figures for New York look somewhat alarthfig, their oomparion with the average of other years indicate* that they are nut very excessive. It mut also be borne in mind that, included in the failure* of the I sat quarter, there were a 'ew of excep tionally heavy character—four ouncern* aloue tu New York city aggregating lia bilitie* of over eight million* of dollar*. This fact also more than acoounte fur the increase in liabilities resu ting from the failures for the entire country, as shown in the above comparative table. In analyzing these figure* and the general statistic* given in tbeir circular, Mow*. ]>un. Barlow k Co. hav* a calm, philosophical way of looking at tha mat ter which aemei to us extremely sensi ble. They say, and we can adopt their view* : •• While the above figure* aeein to indicate a much worse condition of affair* than was supposed to < r.-t, it i* apparent that the dieeaae with which the commercial community i attested ha* Iwrn one of alow development; and it by no mean* follow* that, twoxuae the symptom* are now bamming more marktsl than formerly, the recovery of the {valient i* any the more remote. On the contrary, there are many indication* of returning health and vigor. Chief among the hopeful sign* of the time is the disposition to rapidly realise upon the abnndant crop* which have been so successfully harvested, and which must greatly increaaethepurcliasingand debt faying power of a large class of the com munity. In anticipation of this move ment in crop* and currency, a very fair trade has been done at almost all job bing centers, and though business by no mean* attain* its former volume or j profitableness, the results of the autumn trade an- in the main enoonragiqg. It w tijie that uumen>u* interest* re main depressed ; that capital continue* ' timid and hence idle ; that many masn- { facto lies are only partially employed;: that some staple articles of merchandise ; show no profit, while other* can only be sold at a loss; and that there is much 1 which prevent* * hopeful view of busi- I uea* matter*. Hut, a* compared with the condition of thing* at thi* date last j year, there is certainly an improved prospect. Notwithstanding the figures . presented above, the year has been by I no means one of disaster, and. though the pnxwas seems a slow one which leads on to prosperity, it is none the less a , sure one. It is always tatter to know tho worst and meet it bravely than to put off the evil dsy by merely temporary expedi ents or icnore it entirely by hoping against hope. Hence these figures have their useful mission in suggesting to every one the necessity of eoonomy. conservatism and prudence. We have had onr high flying times of inflation and having done our dancing must now pay the piper.— Ewniny Mail. Smart Weed for Tanning. A writer in the Rt. Louis (Mo6e-/Vwu>- rraf is enthusiastic over the discovery that A variety of the smart weed which grows wild in Missouri in such profusion as to be a uuisance, surpasses bark in its tanning qualities. As its only cost is that resulting from the labor of cutting and stacking it, say $5 a ton, while tiork costs in tliat State sll2 per too. it is argued that hereafter million* of : hides will annually be made into leather I in the Went instead of being sent to the Eastern States to tie tanned, which in volves the expense of transportation both ways for the leather consumed in tho West, besides paying the Eastern capitalists aud mechanics for work which oould just as well be done at home. It is said t hut this plant yields at least ten j-er rent of tannic acid—an analysis by the Nebraska State chemist give* nearly twerty-two per cent, from the root and sevcuhxm to nineteen per coot, from the plant—hemlock and vak bark yielding from eleven to thirteen per cent. But even if the results stated by the Ne braska chemist are correct, it doe* not follow that this weed will make as good leather as bark. There are peculiar proixirtie* for making good leatlu* found iu bark that, so far as is generally known, have never been equaled in any other material. - More or lees tannic acid is found in almost every plant that grows, and in some the percentage of tannin is as high as from forty-four to flftv per cent. Yet the leather produced by "the use of these plants ha* never come into favor, and that made from some of them is bad in color. A Shoot log Case. A singular case occurred at Fairfield, 111. A man named Clark secured a di vorce from liis wife. Clark married again and his wife objected to this. Visiting him she drew from her pocket a pistol and commenced firing. A local paper says : Hail Mr. Clark been n man of chivalrous instincts he would, of course, have received a bullet in some convenient part of his person, and lain down to die, thtis giving the lady her coveted opportunity to earn applause i and sympathy as a successful husband killer. It so happened that he returned his ex-wife's fire with promptness and effect. Mrs. Clark tired but once, and failed to hit. Mr. Clark, on the other | hand, tired three times, two of his bul lets entering his assailant's forehead, and both surprising and discouraging i i her. Bhe was not, however, fatally in jured, and we are told thai Bhe " has , ] faith to believe that she will live to i again make a target of Mr. Clark at i some future time." NO. 46. Fatal (lam* of Croquet, Tb® Tito*rill® (Pa.) Herald gives the pMtumlart of (he singular aoiilflit in that wty, \>y which a gentleman lust hi life while engaged in a friendly of croquet. It aajs : Mr. Iteubso P. Ben ton and Mr. J. A). Hfcriokland ww* en gaged in a |gam of croquet in the rear of the Warmi ami Venango paeemi p>r depot. Both gentlemen ware on the moot friendly term*, and they were in the habit of playing on thane favorite ground® almost daily. Mr. Strickland made a tntoplay, and, aa oomiuonly oc cur* on *ueh occasion* axnoug the boys, he peeviahly aUempUnl to throw hia ntal let after the tiall. By aome unfuraaeeu chance dhe handle of the mallet caught in the (deeve of hi* coat and it Waa hlirl ed iu the direction of hia companion, ■itriking bun on the right temple, and felling him to the ground. The aod dent wax witnessed by a number of by ■tandem, who at the time did not imagine that Mr. Benton waa aerimudy injured. Hia prolonged insensibility, however, creatod oouaidesabb) alarm, and rmioralivt* were ineffectually applied. Mr Strickland ran In great bmd* for medical aid and a carriage, but before hia return the unfortunate B li. u waa carried to hia room in an insensible con dition. Phyuotana were on hand almcwt immediately upon hia arrival, and made a searching examination of the wound. 11 appear* that the blow, which waa "truck on the right temple, waa not uflUnent to aauae a fracture of the ahull at that point, but aa ia often the ca**, produc ed an effusion of blood at the bane erf the brain. Bach an injury ia almost in evitably fatal, and the patient lingered on until au o'clock p. when be ex pired without recovering oooedtmatieaa. Mwlif Horace la Arabia. OB g<*ag to bare a borae ihod, ia Arabia, lh mMtor inay take the aboa* with him, or be m*y out, la the former naee be i*ya nothing, and only aaya : " Clod ha* givtm yon ability >, then inave*. 11 be doe* not bring the aboaa, he par* a certain pnea and leans*. They ahoe uoraea with ooid iron in the Sahara, for they think it injure* the home'* feet to have them heated. The *ko*w are very light, and of aoft iron. BMW pot ouly three nail* on each aide, aad leant the'tuna free ; fur they aay that having the toe* confined inakea the home feed** a"" with tight aboe*. The Arabian blackamith* never para or cut the horn of the foot, bat allow it to grow *a it pteaaea. The atoov ground wwn it down suScuntij. When the bun* baa been rtei-b"g a long time beforethe tout, the Aral* *oinetimea cut the bran a lit tle themselves. Thii method ha* one advantage : it cauae* the foot to become very hard; and if the bora* kaama aboe. be can continue hi* journey without "OJ trouble. They never allow a korae to go with one front foot unahod and the other nbod. If a borae loaea a aboe off one of the for* feet, they will take both a]>oee off the hind feet, and put one on the for# foot. If a borae ia going on a long journey, and haa to be shad before starting, they generally put a piece of leather between the iron and bis foot They train the borae from the tune he is a colt to lift hi* feet in order to be shod, and he very seldom resist* or make* any fo* during the of >eration. The Arabs think our shoea too heavy, and aay that they fatigue the huraea on a long jour ney. Tailed State* Treasury. It in understood that anion* the moat prominent features of the forthcoming report of the treaaurer of the United Stafcw the following recommendation*, affecting the redemption of national tiank notM, will bo made : First—That the National Rank re demption agency be made a separate bureau in the oftioe of the secretary of the treasury, under the charge of a su perintendent, who shall gfee bond for the faithful discharge of the duties. Heoond—That the ft TO per ornL re dcmption fond ahall be keptm the treae ury, but subject tc the checks of the superintendent, and that her be payable in currency or drafts 011 New Tara, Bos ton, Chicago, St Louis, and other sub treasuries. Third—That banks, or others sending national bank notes for redemption, be r>-quiroe allowed to deduct from their next semi annual return of tax upon circulation, the amount of any assess ment that may b made, as also in their next return the amount of aaaessment heretofore made. A Terrible Plot. A case in Lincoln, Out., illustrates the liabilitv of courts and juries to cruel mistake. A few months since Mathias Konkle was found guilty of felonious as sault upon a female child of tea year* of age. He was convicted and suutenoed to be hanged, but the sentence was afterward commoted to imprisonment for life. It now sppear* that there was a conspiracy to get rid of Konkle, in which hi* stepmother was the principal mover, her motive being to obtain pos sestion of property. She took into her confidence the grandmother of the little girl, and a servant These together ar ranged the plot against Konkle, the child being brutally maltreated to fur uiah evidence against an innocent man. At the trial Mrs. Konkle " posted " all the witnesses for the government She, with her fellow conspirators, have been arrested, and the convict will be brought from prison to testify against them. The little girl ha* turned Queen's evi dence, and her statements, which are verv clear, leave no doubt of a malig nant plot to put a troublesome heir out of the way. The In I ted States Three-Sixty-FiTf Bonds. Rome time since the commissioners of the District of Columbia addressed a let tor to the President making certain in quiries as to the liability of the United States in providing for the 8.65 District bonds authorised bv Congress, under the act of June 20, 1874. Attorney-Gen eral Pierrepont has given an elaborate opinion, directed to the President, con firming the decisions heretofore render ed, that "the faith of the United States is unqualifiedly pledged for the payment of the interest and principal at matu rity." Charles O'Conor, of New York, also coincides in this decision and re gards the bonds issued by the authority of Congress as governmental bonds and should be so recognised. Illegitimacy In Scotland. Illegitimacy in Scotland has attained an extent that will surprise those who popularly contrast Continental profligacy in such cities as Vienna and Paris with continent Puritanism in the land of Knox. According to the last annual re port ef the Sootoh registrar-general the number of illegitimate births daring the past year waa 11,077, or 9$ per cent, of the total number—a number sufficiently large, though the percentage is the smallest recorded for ten years. Among tle poorer and more ignorant classes in the rural districts the rate of illegiti macy rises to 11.4 per cent. The fact may in soma measure be accounted for by "the payment by the pariah of a small allowance weekly to the mothers of these children for their support. The Pmapklu. Llni* folks are anion teholdvc % J ft 1W dt* pumpkin fair and gotten j f?; Who. "Will* a pampkin akell. V 1 Put hlkwilato kMp ter well/ Peter, Peter wee the men | Omenta* fellow. tf von eeo I Omrferelle, tar her oarrwge, Oiodereila, for ber merrter. To the pumpkin tmd e debt. Hm eke paid it, think yen, yet f Jaek-o'-Lealera te beholden % To the pompkin feir and golden ; lint the shell te hie alone, For the paddle gle our own t And. If w# the atalk eea taho, Wo a pipe to play M make —Jhr Jtarmry. —L —.l JL J~U—XL-'.' Items tf Istercet. A smart thing—A moatard piaster. Order of court— •* Band one doaen jury, carefully packed." Gold hi the fool's curtain which hides all his defeat* from the world. Wyandotte ia said lobe ends a bu*y place that people date their letters YA. It ha* been figured out that we are to have twenty-six enow storms this winter. Oh. fltfat autumn ttma. How like to good old apple mm thoo art Half eweet, half tart. Will Settle ia the name of a Wiscon sin bankrupt Hia creditor* hope be will. The United State* imported 30,000,- 000 day pipes, mostly from Glasgow, last year. Ohio propoeaa sending a youth of one hundred and sixteen summers to the Centennial. Two persona, the other day at Flat brook-rille, Pa., with rod and line cap tured 3X7 flah. Young women are adviaed to let good esamplea, because young men are always kuiiowuig them. The height of a man is equal to the measure uf his extended arms from tip to tip of finger. The cry " Go Weat ** ha# changed. An editorial in a Western paper ia head ed " Hop Yeast " A mutual insurance society against hail storms is a new bnsuanaa venture st N euf chattel, 8 witter land. That writer does the most who gives Ida reader the most knowledge and takes from him the leant time. *• Poll on this rope," wrote Mr. Wine gardncr, of Willianisport, Pa., "yem will find me in the canaL" Kerosene ia aaid to be ftheaper than gaa aa aa illumination. Ton can't aave a scent in ong it, however. At Jacksonville, FT*., recently, five abarka were seen swimming after a boat ia which • man bad cut hi* foot California will this year hatch out 0,000.000 at young salmon, 7,000,000 of which am to ooma to the Eastern Btatea. Than ia a man ia lowa who can honestly aay that be never opened another man a letter by mistake. Hi* name ia John Pfsfaelkaeffingarr. In 1871-75 the total number of pil grims going to and returning from Mac ao amounted to 15,342, aa increase of nearly 6,000 ovor th* previous year. The youngest Jeaae Pooaeroy on re cord is reported from Digby, N. S., where a boy aged eighteen months ueorly beat Ina baby sister to death with a euritng-irou. The crowu prinoeoa of Ganaany com mands aa colonel a regiment of huaaara, aad during reatat maneuvers before the emperor she appeared mounted at th* head of her cavaliers. A New Hampshire paper state* aa a singular fact that " the town hat never had* mill ia her midst.'' This probably account* for the advertisement m another aulamn of a miU-in-ber wanted. A lady in listen*, N. I'., herself ninety one years of age, haa a sinter living aged eighty-one, and four brothers who are eighty-nine, eighty-eevco, eighty five and eighty-three years old respect ively. A pair of ateira thai ordinarily are solid aa a rock will straddle in the joints and creak and crack together with all the fervor of a thunder clap when one ia at tempting to climb them noiselessly at night. Thev tell of a man in Maine who kioked a can of niiro-glyoertn* out of his way. The tstory ia a shocking one, as the stetr of the vain search for the scattered fregmeata of a human being always is. The Minneapolis Tribune is puzzled about the approaching hard winter. It aaka: " Will Indians work" Tea, and with very little capital. Ten oeot* worth of plug tobacco will set one at work for a w'k. A. R. Snow, of Medina, N. T., adver tises that he will prosecute say woman who stefM foot on his premises, and long lines of women inarch around his house and talk to him from the outside of his teaoe. A man naaxly seventy year* old blind and infirm, ha* been aeutenoed to death for murder in Bed River county. Ark. His crime was committed twenty-two years ago, but he was not until re cently brought to trial. The superintendent of the Passaic tine mines, at Ogdensburg. N. J., a few days ago found a large garnet in the mine, for which he haa been offered 550. There hare been several smaller ones found, valued at from $lO to sls each. In washing oalicor* in which the color* are not fast, be careful not to hail them; but wash in the usual way with soap, and rinse in hard water. For dgrk colored goods, add a little salt to the water; for light, a little vinegar. Darting I am growing tat, Adipoaa among aay bans*. It ia an aoooant of that, 1 now protest in earnest tone*. Wo more bring op the coal ean I; Neither eaa I chop ap wood. To do the** donee picas* to try, My gentle wi*% prey be eo good. Billy Emerson, the negro minstrel, makes $26,000 a year. Ralph Waldo Emerson, the philosopher, makes S9OO. The latter has f req uently deplored the fact that he couldn't get his head to hit a tambourine right in the middle. A doctor of France haa invented a machine by mean* of which an over-anx ious mother may assure herself from day to day, or even "from hour to hour, that the baby ia doing satisfactorily as re gards its increase of weight. To know how to keep a tidy house and well aired apartments; to know how to select the beet kinds of food ; to know how to prepare them in the best manner —these are first things, and every daughter should tears them before marriage. , Boms time ago a little girl in West field, N. J. f whfle playing dropped her mother's silver thimble into a chicken coop. Borne day* afterward two of the chickens were killed, and in the gizzard of one of them was found the test thim ble, finely polished but not injured. In these days of labor-saving devices, lsiy rustics will rejoice to know that a 1 Vermonter ha* invented a churn which 1 can be so adjusted to s wagon, that all a mas has to do is to pick up his reins, drive a mile or so, and preeto—the batter's made. The supreme court of Wisconsin has recently decided that the whipping of a child by a pnblie school teacher is au assault "and battery, and that an offend ing teacher may be mulcted in damages as well as held answerable for violating the dignity of the law. Warren Shailer, an old captain of Deep River, Conn., feU overboard in the sound, the other day, but, catching the rope, was towed along on his back under the veoßel's bow for over a mile, when he was hauled up in safety, still smok ing his pipe. The rudeness of Dr. Parr to ladies was sometimes extreme. To a lady who had ventured to oppose him with mo a warmth of temper than eqgeney of rea soning, and who afterward (apologized for herself by saying that it was the privilege of woman to talk nonsense : "No, madam," he replied, "it is not their privilege, but their infirmity; ducks would walk If they oonld ; but nature suffers them only to waddle 1"