A SUr Behind tho Cloud. No m.ttvr bow ortunity for pursuing an honest career. \ domestic life, however, had no cliarms for the ex gypsy. After a few mouths' tranquility he decamped from the fraternal mansion one moon light night with his father's money box under his arm. He was then about seventeen years of age. Pocket picking wis th first branch of his fntnre indus try to which he devoted his talents. He formed a partnership with one Gaguis. and, between them, they were reaping a rich harvest, when one nnlucky evening Cartouche's comrade was arrested aud transmitted to Marseilles. This misiiiivi-ntare led oar hero to turn Lie tal< ut-> in another direction, and he b-ok to dice and oards. Haunting the 1 >etter hells, he used the skill ac qnired among the gypsies to such par pose that suspicions w re awakened, and M. Cartonche was kicked into the street and debarred forever from that branch of industry. B -comc at lost an lshmaelite, his hand against every one, sod every one's hand against him, it became his # mutant care to impart to the skilled desperate baud rallied around him an organiza tion and discipline approximating as clow ly as possible to the military ; he appointed lieutenants, sergeants, sen tries, rallying and passwords, and spared no dttsil to insure perfection of the in strumeut under his control. This com pleted, the campaign opened with night skirrab hing. Thus, some three or four of the l>*nd wonld pounce upon ai un wary citizen, whom a blow on the head from a loaded blu Igeou reduced to tern porary silence. When the victim re gained sufficient Onnacionsneas to give an alarm, the troop was at s safe distance, arranging the next affair. Paris was regularly apportioned into districts, one of which was allotted each night to some particular detachment of the hood. It WHS in 1720 that the terror inspired by Cart mche's hand reached its climax. They In Id virtual possession of the capi tal, *ttq>ecial]y by night Their depre dations wereoondncted with the military order and precision so mnch inculcated by their great leader. A party would assemble before some rich mansion. Then some huge fellow—very frequent ly oue Simon Onoe, a brawny ex porter —would offer his gigantic shoulders as the base of a living pyramid, which, formed of the lighter and more agile members of the gang, speedily reached the lower windows. Some panes were adroitly removed, the apartments enter ed, and the most attractive objects r*e gan to glide down a chain of ready hands till the pillage was complete. The gang banted noble game. In September, 1720, tbey invaded the resi dence of the Spanish ambassador and nearly stripped the chamber of the am bassadress, seizing a magnificent pearl necklace, a brooch with twenty seven large diamonds, a rich table service of gold, and the lady's entire wardrobe. In the Palais Royal, then occupied by the regent, they stole two of hia silver flam b< aux. At the Louvre Cartouche's brother possessed himself of the sword and mantle of the Prince de Soubise, while the regent himself was robbed one night on having the opera. Here, how ever, the hingh was on the other side, as purposely, to deoeive the robbers, he had caused his sword hilt to be richly chased —in steel. Now that the inconvenience of such a 6tate of things began to be felt in the very highest socitty, government set it self seriously to the task of reform. One Hay. morning in 1721 some laborers came upon the body of a murdered man. It pro veil to be that of an obscure poet named Vergier. What cooJd possess any one to kill a poet, and so poor a one at that, was a pnzzle, till some suggested it was the regent's work. Philippe d'Orleans was black enough, iu all con science, but rumor painted him in still deeper colors. In a series of rhymed philippics he hsd been branded with every oonoeivable crime. What more natural, said the public, than that he should employ Cartouche's band to w reek his vengeance on the poet who bad held him np to ridicule and shame. To be sure, Vergier was not the one who bad written the verses in question, bnt the Cartouchians oould hardly be as sumed to be familiar with such gentry FRED. KURTZ, Krfitor and l'^ropriotor. VOLUME IX. iu starving i*h>le, and in thoir seal hi ex ecute thoir nut-tor * orders had misUuieu the man. Stories such at these circu lating through Pari* caused the regent to IvoaUr himself, aud the authorities lotiilly demanded Carton olia; hut, of cam mo, it war much easier to ask for htm than to got him. Another murder now occurred to aild to the public agitation. Cartouche and his lend were carousing at a cabart-t, when they got iuto an altervatiou with some workmen at an adjoining table. A row ensued; * words and pistol* were freely use*!. The police rushed in. aud one of them. Monde lot, fell dead from a shot fired, it was declared, by a female Cartonchiau named Manon la Hoy. It t* at least ocrtail that tiiis dtstinguisheil lmly always carried arms, and equally so that when, some time afterward, she was arrested, she intrenched herself behind her In—i and for half an hour kept the whole |H*mc of police at bav. The murders of Vergier aud Mondelot brought the name of Cartouche proiui tiently before the public. Henceforward every audacious crime was laid to his charge. Desperate attempts were made capture the formidable thief, but his dexterity aud akillfuluees in changing his ivietume stood him good friends. The louse, half-fitting cloak, blue on one side, red on the other, and capable of being reversed iu a moment of time, owus him for a godfather. The police would be in hot pursuit of a man iu red, who fled like a deer around a corner. When the pursuers followed on his tracks he hail disappeared, but they en countered a sedate individual iu blue -trolling quietly toward tbem, who had seen the aforesaid man in red dart iuto a neighboring house or disappear dowu some other street. On one occasion the police, hearing a row in the house of a pretty little lemon ade seller known as Margot the Nun, made a deseut. They fonud a little man, half drunk, tearing around the room, firing pistols right and left, to the admiration of a mixed company of both sexes. He was arrested, and after a while represented himself to be an hon est chocolate seller who hail unfortunate ly taken a drop to much. He was allow ed to go after depositing one hundred livres and a gold snuff bo* as security for his reappearance. No complaint was made against him, and, in a few days he aalled at jHilioe headquarters and reclaimed his property. It was Car touche. In December, 1720, he was captured and confined in Fort I'Eveqne, bnt in spite of the terror inspired by this re doubtable robber, so alight were the pre cautious taken for'gnaniing him that he three months later effected hia escape. The authorities roused themselves to unusual efforts for his recapture, and hereupon an odd incident occurred. As the officer of the criminal eonrt was nt tering the usual proclamation with the sonud of trumpet and ontcry, calling upon Cartonche to appear within eight days and answer the charge of murder, and hail come to the words "111 the king's name we do command the person called 'Cartouche'"— " Present, Cartonche 1" shouted a voice in the center of the crowd, that turned the whole body, archers, trum peters, citizens, and ail, into a frenzy of rage and agitation. It was Cartouche himself, bnt he hail vanished. Two persons now entered into a sol emu league and covenant to pursue the impalpable robls-r without rest or re spite till he sbrmld lie slain or taken; these were Hurou and Pepin, bold and clever officers in the service of the po lice. The chase opened ill for our hero; Huron tracked him so hotly as to ex change pistol shots with him, by whiclf Cartonche was said to have been seri ously wounded. It is oertaiu that, either to escape this persevering foe, or to re 1 cover from his alleged hurts, he disap peared for three entire months from criminal history, and the police exalting I ly assured the public that he was driven from the capital. They were soon made painfully aware of his return. A very large reward was now set on his heal, and Huron and Pepin again devoted themselves to their task. The zeal of both these offi -era proved fatal to them. The former had one evening tracked Cartonche to a notorious roblier haunt. Findiug themselves likely to be I surrounded, the band, like wolves at bay. turned suddenly npon Huron and hia followers. The officer received sev eral pistol shots, anil was then cut down by Cartonche himself. A few days later the robber chief, while taking a quiet stroll with Madeleine Beaulien.a woman tielonging to the gang, perceived Pepin at bis heels. Turning suddenly on their pursuer, Madeleiue attacked him with large stones, while Cartouche ran him through the body. A regular organized attempt was next made, under the direction of aii aide major of the Gardes Francais, who selected ninety of his best men and sent them in various disguises, bnt well armed, in quest of the single robljer chief. At this critical period of his fortunes occurred what was known as the affair of the Hotel Desmareta. Nicholas Dewnaret*, nephew of the great Colbert, died on the sixth of May, at his hotel in the Rue des Petit- August ina This wealthy residence Cartouche resolved should be thoroughly pillaged. A chosen liand, commanded by their chief in person, forced an en i trance, and were busily at work in the rich saloons when one of their lookouts announced the approach of an absolute army of police. The daugcr signal had hardly been given liefore the enemy ap peared. A fierce fight commenced— from room to room, from stair to stair. The robbers fought stoutly, bnt their ammunition failed, and they were over ; borne by unmlicr*. Cartouche escaped j by a chimney, gained the roof, and de scended at some distance in the garret of a good nattiri'd meclian ic, to whom be represented himself as a man pur sued by his merciless creditors. His host | sympathized with him, provided him with a disguise, and onoe more ho broke throngh the toils. The regent now doubled the n ward and offered a free pardon to any one, no matter how gnilty, who should lietrav his chief. Distnn-t now spread through the band, and two mnrders of suspected traitors qnicklv followed. Jtut the hoar of retribution was at hand. One | Duchatelet—next to Cartouche, the most ferocious of these hitman tigers—ac knowledgedto himself that the game was nearly np. Plunged, as he was, in the ; deepest and deadliest crime, he saw but one chance of Rafety, an/1 that was to de nounce his chief. He made a bargain with Prkom, the aide-major of the Oardee Francaiaea, procured a promine of pardon from the regent, and then oonducted a picked body of men to the robber'a lair. Car touche waa taken so completely by sur prise that he was secured almost without a struggle, although he had six loaded pistols ready to bis hand. He was oon ducted to the Cliatelet, and the process advanced quickly. Duchatelet, certain qf reprieve, confessed without hesita tion to certain burglaries and murders, in which Cartouche hail taken part. Notwithstanding this, the latter stoutly protested his innocence, and denied his identity, calling himself one Jean Bour guignon, a countryman. The robber chief had been placed in one of those horrible subterranean dun geons destroyed in 1780 by the humane command of Louis XVI. He had a companion in trouble who had formerly worked as a stone mason; together they THE CENTRE REPORTER. succeeded iu making a breach iu the wall of their cell, thence following a ditch connected with the sewerage of the pruon, thoy broke iote tiie collar of a neighboring houee. llero, however, fortune ceased to befriend tbem ; tktr touch* was rearrested while endeavor iug to leave the house and plnoed in cloaer custody than before. Ilia trial wont forward with mux arnplod rapidity, and on Nov. "26, 1721, Oartouolie and four of his companion* were ordered to be broken on the wheel, after having lieeu previously submitted to the question ordinary and extraor diuarv, with tlie view of extortiug con f.wuona. The;>roors vrrtxtf relating to Cartouche reports the application of the question in the form uf the boot*. Theae were wooden frame* fitted to the ligs, uito which wedges of increasing *iae were forcibly driven until the leg* of the sufferer were reduced to a pulp. On the application of the first, second aud third wedge, answered that he wan innocent. At the fourth answered that he knew uot what they were speak iug of. At the fifth, that he was iuuo oeut— was dying. At the sixth, that he hail done all that was required of him ; luul done no wrong ; wa* dying. At the seventh, was innocent— no aooom plioca. At the eighth and last, was in nocent. Although ho thus refused to confess under torture, ho became ixinimuuii*- tivo ouough when ho reached th soaf fold, protesting, however, as much to his credit, that ho had ucvcr rubhed a church, although i>ftou iucited so to do by Duchatelet. lie alwolved hia owu family with especial earnestness from auv sliare iu hia misdoings. Ho re frained from denuueiatioua, even of those who had deserted or betrayed him, excepting only Duchatelet, toward whom he eviuoed intense scorn and hatred. But in revcuge he wua unsjmr iug iu respect to the spies and receivers of the guug, whom he denouueed by the score. He avowed himself the head and chief of the numerous band, so long the terror of the capital, an assertion amply continued by the confusion and ludiaci plino which on his decease became sud denly iH'roeptible in the ranks of crime. To the last two questions addressed to him, whether any person of condition belonged to his band, and whether he hail ever accepted bribes to murder, he replied empliatically iu the negative. Cartouche's was the tirst of a long series of executions; for several mouths the Place de Greve saw some unfortu nate wretch hanged or broken. His name and memory seemed to engender robbers, and it was a long time before the effects of that powerful impulse, which, by carefully organizing it, he had given to crime, had passed away. Notes on the Fashions. The handsomest Centennial mittens are in black lace, with thumlis but no lingers, are three quarters long, and have tliree frills of lace on the arm. Fashionable ladies have different jioirs of colored stockings for every suit, being very particular that the color should match that of the suit or its trim mings. Handsome sashes are of soft silk. Those of blue or cardinal red are bro coded in silver; those of white or black iu gray, aud tho-e of piuk and cherry iu gold. Lisle thread gloves in all the Quaker shades are finished like lUlhriggnu stockings, with "regular" seams; they are long enough to re.ich half way to the elbow, and are both plaiu and 0100 - ed. A pretty way of making the skirt of a dress is to have the front breadth and two side gores trimmed in any way that may suit the fancy, bnt the back breadth has no trimming, and is ma ie into a large double lx>x plait or watteau. An ecru colored chip ha', the "jaun ty" shape, has a crown trimming of ecru and pink silk bows, with corn silk lace wound between them and an unons of all nations, surmount the roof at these towers nud alrtals are of the leaves of the fern, the rhododendron, or mountain laurel, the , oak, the maple, and thn familiar forest, tree* of America. Tho walls of the building are painted brown, and the or namentation i* in gold and bright colors. The areas covered by the main build ing are as follows; A Fable. Sfwar# F**i. Act** Oronml floor 872.330 20 03 Upper floors, in pro Jor lion* 37,344 .85 Up|>er floors, iu towers 2f>,314 .60 Total 936.008 21 47 The g neral arrangemer t <>f the ground ! floor shown a centra! avenue, or nave, 120 feet in width, and extending 1,832 feet iu length. It is the largest avenue of that width ever introduced into an exhibition building. On either side of this nave there is an avenno one hundred by 1,832 feet long. Between the nave ami side avenues are aisles forty-eight feet wide, ami on the other side of the building smaller aisles twenty-four foot in width. In order to break the great length of the roof lines three cross ave nues, or transepts, have l>een introduced, of the same widths and iu the same rela tive positions to each other as the nave and avenues running lengthwise—name ly, a central transept, 120 feet in width by 410 feet in length, with one on either sido of one hundred feet by 410 feet, and aisles between of forty-eight feet. The intersection of these avenues and transepts in the central portion of the hnilding results in dividing the floor into nine open spaces, free from supporting columns, and covering in the aggregate an area of 416 square feet. Four of those spaces are one hundred feet square, four one hundred feet by 120 feet, ami the central space, or pavilion, 120 feet sqnare. ic intersections of the forty eight feet aisles produce four interior courts forty-eight feet square, ono at each corner of the central space. The main promenades through the nave and central transept are each eighty feet in width, and those through tlie center of the side avenues and transepts tlfteen feet each. All other walks are ten feet wide and lead, at either end, to exit doors. Louvre ventilators arc over the O'Uitral nave and each of the avenues, and Hkylights are in the roof of the cen tral aisles. Bmall balconies or galleries of observation huvo been provided with fonr central towers, at different heights, and they will form attractive points of observation. One of the towers will have an American steam elovator, croet od by an exhibitor, to carry visitors to the top. The spaoo in the main buildiug as signed to the nations that have request ed it is as follows: ityuars :roi. Italy 8,167.0 Norway 6,897.0 BwsSon 17,765.8 Austria. India and other 0u10ii10a..... 34,070 N Canada . 34,070 s ureal Itrnain 1t,77(i I Franco and oulunloa .. 43. Sll 6 Hwltaerlaiul. 6,tV6.H 1 18.358 S (Irani 6.8U7.0 N oilier Landa 18 480.0 Moilou 6,504 8 Chili and ArgeiiUue repuhllo 6,(117 6 Poru 1,463 6 Orange Free State 1,087.8 Jepaa 16.666 8 China 7,804. Denmark '4,610. Turkey ". 8.0X4. Kgypt 6,0X1. Tuiita 3,015. Sandwich talauda 1,674 5 : Portugal D.NW.ft Spain 11. '453. Hunaia.... .... .... 11,00-4.8 Austria and Hungary '44.070.8 Herman empire 37,706.5 j United Hia lee of America 187,708.8 There are other nations whose assign ments of space have not yet Iwmmi issued. The revised and corrected list of tlie countries represented by national com missioners shows the names of thirty seven nationalities, a larger number than have ever beeu represented at any previous world's fair. Under the classification system that has been adopted, the foliowiug depart ments are assigned to the main building. Department I Mining and metallurgy, which include* ? Pirat- Minerals, ores, building atones and mining products Second Metallurgical products nurd Mine eugUieeriug, models, majia and •ccllous, tools and machinery. DnperUueul IL Manufactaras. which tn citldre . i'irt Chemical. Second Ceramira, inHtery, porcelain, etc. I'hAil Glaaa and glassware. Fourth Kurunuie and objects of general u in oonatrucltuu end in dwelling* fifth Vartw and woven goods of vegetable or mineral materials S.ilh Woven and felled good a of wool and cultures of wool. Seventh mlk and silk fabrics and mixtures in which ailk la the p: edomuiaUug material. Eighth —Clothing, jewelry aud ornaments, traveling equipments. Ninth npar, blank books and stationery. Tenth Military and ua-al urnameule, ord nance flioanna and apparatus of hunting and Ashing eleventh Medicine, surgery, protbeele. Tavlfth - Haidware, edge tools, cutlery. Kurteeiilh India rulibt-r goods and manu factures. four.c-nlh Carrlapcw, vehicles and a.-cee eonee. Department 111 KlucaUou and science, l'.ral K.luraUonal ayau-mr, methods and hbrariee. Second InatituUona and organiiationa. Third v-ioutitio aud philosophical inalru mente and methods. f :rth f iigineenng. architecture, charts. ma|va and graphic repteseulaUous Fifth Pbyakal, social and moral oondiUoc of man. Th" following figur. a, giving the di mensions of tho nnuu building from me - Height to too of aaIHM 48 | Height to ridge of roof 70 Side avenuea. length 1.832 ' Wi.lt I 100 Height to tup of eolumua 4.8 Height to the ridge of touf 68, K de transepts. l ength 416 tttilta 100 Height to tup of oolamns 1.8 Height to ridge of roof 65 Central aisles. tx>nglh at east end 744 I.nj gih at west end . 674 Width 4- Height to roof 30 Side aisles. I.e.igth at east cuJ 714 I.Migth a: west end 673 Width '44 j Height l-> roof S4 I Central space or pavilion. Ground plan (square) 12.7 ; Height to top of supporting oolumus 72 Height to ridge of roof 'X. Tower over oourts. Ground plan (square) . 4S Height to roof IJU i Corner towers. Ground plan (square). 24 Height to roof 76 Considering tho size of tlii* structure, it* coat lias been very cheap. Mr. Dob bin*. the contractor, will reooive for it $1 ,(>OO,OOO. One day a number of carpet manufacturers wore going through tho building arrranging for their display. Mr. Pettit asked one of them what it would oust to oar]H>t twenty acre* of ground with tlie beet carpet. "About 32 a square foot," was the reply. "Then thi* building coat lea* to build titan yon would charge to carpet the earth it cover*," he replied, after making a littlo calculation. '' The price paid for thin building per horizontal foot was about gl.Kl The Mission School Scholars. When the Lawrence mills were on fire a number of years ago— l don't mean on fire, but when the mill fell in, says Mr. Moody, the evangelist, in one of hi* ser mon*—the great mill fcl' in, and after it had fallen iu, the rninn caught fire. There w* only one room left entire, and in it were three mi*-ion Sunday school children imprisoned. The neighbors and all hand* got their nhovol* aud pick* and crowlvars, aud wore working to net tho children free. It came on night and they had not yet reached the children. When they were near them, by some mischance a lantern broke, and the ruin* caught fire. They tried to put it out, but they could not succeed. They could bilk with the children, and even passed to them ome hot ooffoe and *ome re freshment*,and encouraged them to keep up. But, alas! tho fl&mea drew nearer ami nearer to thi* prinon. Bnperhn man were the effort* mado to rescue the children; the men bravely fought back tho flame*; bnt tho fire gained fresh strength and returned to claim its vic tim*. Then piercing ahriekH arose when the spectator* saw that the effort* of tho ; firemen woro hopeless. The children ! saw their fate. They then knelt down and commenced to sing the little hymn we linvo all I>oon taught in our Sunday | school days : "Oh 1 how sweet—let others seek a home below which flames j devour and waves overflow." The flames hod now reached them; the stilling smoko began to pour into their little room, and they licgan to sink, one by one, upon the floor. A few moments more and the flre circled around them and their souls were taken into the bosom of Christ. Yes, let others seek a homo below if they will, but seek ye the kingdom of God witli all your hearts. A ' rst Experience. A young lady abruptly turned the cor ner and very rndcly rau against n Iniy, who was small and ragged and freckled. Stopping OH HOOII AS alio could alio turned to him and said: " I beg your pardon. Indeed, lam vory sorry." Tlio small, ragged and freckled boy looked np in blank amazement for an iustaut; then, taking off abont threo-fourths of a cap, ho l>owed very low, smiled until his face became lost in the smile and answered : " You can hov my pardingand welcome, miss; and yer may run agin me and knock me clean down an' I won't say a word." After the young lady passed on he turned to a oornrado and aaid, half apologetically : "I never had any one ask my parding, and it kind o' took me off my feet." J ark.<>n' Yl.lt to New York. The visit, in 18.13, of Andrew Jackson, tlicu I'realdent of the United Htates, to New York city, and the fact that ho had ou two occasions a narrow oacapr from death, is still rememlxirtwl. The I'resi dent mounted and rode out of the castle gate, intending first to review the trooixi on the battery. He was followed oluaely by bu suite, and Isdiiud them came the civic prooeasiou. lie rrooaed the bridge, aud had gone about twenty feet beyond it; then, with the weight of tboae who followed, the beams and j**rt* beneath it gave way, and the whole structure, together with the ticket houses and their crowds and the head of the proces sion, fell iuto the water beneath. Among those who went down weredeneral Cass, Major Donelaon, Colonel Karle, Ogden Hoffman, Esq., Alderman Monroe, Messrs. illoodgood aud Benjamin Hwan, aud other notable citixena. Fortunately, the water wss only waist deep, and no one was materially injured. Major Jack Downing, who was then the funny man of the day, wrote ai fol lows of the visit and the disaster : " Dkah Cm olk Josh i'a—Here we are, among au ocean of folk*, and outtiu' np pers a* high a* a cat'* track. I sjioae you'll see by the papers how we all like to got drowned goiu' arrow a little bridge between the Castle and the Gar den. It was * peaky narrow shake for me aud the President. lie was riiliu' over on a grate flue bona, an' I was walkin' along Hide of him and try in' to clear the way a little, for Uiey crowded on ua so there was no gittin' along and hardly a chance to breathe. Wheu we got nnder the arch we stopped a bit for the crowd to clear away, when all to once 1 heard somethin' rraali. Hays I: ' General, you'd letier go ahead. I'm afeard there's mischief broke loose.' At that be gov his hoes a lick an' pushed threw the crod, hut we hadn't got more'u a rod before crash went the bridge bo hind us all in a heap an' two toll house* on top of it, and a* many a* a hundred folks all splanhed into the water, all mixed up together, one on top of 'tother. The President looked over hi* shoulder, and, seein' I was safe behind him. called out for Mr. Van Huron, an' asked me to run an' see if he was hurt. I told him he had forgot himself, for Mr. Van Huron wasn't in the eomjvony, but Mr. Woodbury and Mr. Cass were iu for it, for I could see them flounderiu' about iu the water. ' linn, major,' said the Presi dent, ' tun and give them a lift. Take Woodbury firt. You know I cannot spare hint.' " Ho there was a narcel of ua tuk liMd an' went to haulm of 'em out of the water, like so many drowned rata. We got Vrn all out alive, except a few young things they called dandies, an' they looked so after they got wet all over that we couldn't make out whether they were alive or dead. Ho we laid 'cm up to dry and left 'em, and I went on to help the President review the troops on the Battenr, aa they call it, an' a grand place it ia, too. In haute, your iovin' ueffu, Majuh Jack Dowxiko." (ondueting Work In Church. A Chri-tiAU convention of mini tor* ai. I laymen a-scmhlej at the hippo drome In New York. Delegate* from oh lurches in various part* of the oountry were present, and the building was invar ly filled. After the services had lieen opened by ringing and prayer, Mr. Moody announced the first subject for discussion a* "Evangelistic Services," aiid explained that there were three way* of conducting GoJ's work in church : First, proclaiming tho Word of God ; second, by wor-Liping him by goiug to the I. ird's table, and third, oy teach ing the Gospel. The chief element no cv**ry in properly conducting revival set rices wa* common *eu*c. More life was necessary to fa rviooa, a* sometime* great apathy existed, and tlie whole worehipof G kl drifted iuto a bnriuo**- liire *jrt of groove. Tlie tbwipel must In- preached well, and when tlie preach ing was not efficient ringing should lie retorted to. Miubb ra wasitHl too much time in telling w hat could he told in five minute*. Hecteriaiiiiui should le droppeJ, and a -pint of true religion should prevail. Mr. Moody tlieu au uotino-d that he was ready to answer any qucriioi.* which theaa*emblv would put to him on the subject. Trie first quiriion proposed wa*: "Would yon alrie Urtinc of revival in * communi ty whi-r < the re was no s]M-cial interest mnnifested for it I" Mr. Moody re plied : "Yen, certainly, no barm can follow." Another question was: " Wh*t would you do with a miuistor who preached almost the same sermon and offered the name prayer* on all oc carions, and at that take* up a oonplo of hours, almost netting his auditor* asleep f" Mr. Moody said be would canon with a man, and, if that did not make a change, he would take measures to get another na*b>r. The next qne* lion wa* : "What po*tnre or position i* mo*t miited for jirayer* I" Mr. Moody replied that any pieition wa* acceptable to the Ixird, provided that the heart wa* lin prayer. The question of prayer meeting* wa* then taken np, and the discussion wa* joined in by agnvt uum lwr of delegates, several advocating that the whole services should be conducted by ministers, while Mr. Moody said that he believed in member* taking part in the proceeding*. A great many good thoughts are evoked by allowing mem liers of a congregation to speak ! and to pray. A good many prayer meeting*, as at preaent oondueted, were, however, an abomination in the right of | God and man, a* sectarianism and pet ty jealousies pervaded them and the | Lord's workwa.i neglected. To Catch the Fools. An enterprising firm iu Marion, Ohio, issues a circular which sets forth its readiness to transmit on the receipt of one dollar a lsdtle of some sort of secret mucihigc, or powerfully condensed hair oil, from which one hundred Don nils of No. 1 butter may be mode without fur ther cost and without the slightest in tervention on the part of the cow. In fact a herd of cows are delineated upon the circular, and repr vented as standing around a printed placard of the firm, which they are regarding with erect tails and other signs of astonishment. Whether they rejoice nt the prospect of escaping the attentions of the daily milking maid, or tremble at the thought that henceforward their utility is to be restricted to the single particular of leef, does not cl ally ap|xur from the expression of their countenances, which may mean anything; but they are ob viously agitated with violent emotions. Perhaps they are wondering whether there are nny fools in the world who will take such n low view of butter as to send their money to the firm and try the con tents of the bottle. No intelligent cow would put faith in any suck assumption. The nnimal is too well assured of its own fixed I'iid invariable relation to the phe nomena of dairy products. And yet it is quite likely that there are such fools, and that they send their dollars to the iniqnitons and beguiling firm in suffi cient number to justify the continued issuance of their swindling circulars. They are of a sort, however, who might bo brayed iu a mortar without getting the oorrect theory of butter; and so nuy effort to guard them from their folly would doubtless be thrown away. The oouutry is full of schemes of this sort, but not iuauy of them arc so transparent as this. TEHMS; 82.00 a Year, in Advance. 4 LIFF PIITUKE. Tk. m.r> mf m H'rau irk* kt< M (JiMMW. Th 11 woman of whom we *|**k went to I'hiladeliihia to lay in stock ; who kecpa a small dry g>ds and trimming store in a thriving town. Hb wont ont to look at the Centennial buildings, at the d<*|mrliur-(it for wumwi'i work, for which women alone hate paid ; ahe aaw, too, eotne of the executive committee of her own ax at work. Noticing her wistful face, one of the busy ladies aaid : ! " (Jan yon not do aomethihg for na ir. your own town f Women of intelligence and patriotism ought to come to the frout now to help their oountry." " I aan do nothing," replied the viaitor, " 1 am not a woman who aan oome to the front. My daughter ia at work for yon, however,' ahe added, with a alight glow of pride. Hhe went home with a bitter aetiso of humiliation. Hhe was born, ahe thought, a generation too aoon. If ahe were a voung girl now, what aaroerw were open for a woman of ability—and ahe knew ahe had ability. There were chauoee now on every aide to develop oneeelf and to help other*. But it was too late for her. Hhe ritual die a ahe had lived—nothing and nobody. There ia a plenty of such morbid maundering among woman nowaday*. Mr*. White, let ua aay, went home to her village and her shop. It waa a ahop where ahe aold the plaineet of wane— ahe had neither money Ut buy the pic turca or bric-a-brac for which her aoul longed in the city, nor cuatomera to whom ahe could aell them : the village waa an isolated one, where the flropa and goaai|V supplied subject* for all mental exercise. Home day perhaps facts and thoughts from this wider outer world would penetrate its dull atmoe phere, but not while she lived ; she had too nearly run her course for that. The history of the woman was this. Hhe haoy conquered at last He ia now the lean ing physician in his native place, a man of great force and stability of eliaracier, and he ia fond of telling hia boys how that all ho is he owes to hia mother. There was the oldest girl, too, who had spinal complaint, and for jeers lay a hopeless cripple in the little chamber over the shop. Everybody in the vil lage mmemlwrs how ilaiutv and cheer ful a place the little chamber was, and how, no matter what drudgery or anxiety waited for the poor mother outside, she never entered its door but with a smil ing face. Everybody know* the hard work and saving and stinting she prac ticed for year* to ednoate the other chil dren—to g.ve a son a start in Kentucky, and buv a danghb-r a house and outfit when she was left a widow. They are nil married or happily aettled now. The poor cripple, after hier years of pain, is at rest iu tlie green hillside. The mother lives alone, with such grand children as can be spared to her now and then. ITw youngest girl went as a teacher to Ohio, then entered a college where both sexes were admitted; dow she is in New York city earning her liv ing by drawing, writing for one or two weekly lepers, etc. It i* she who is working for the woman's department of the Centennial. Hhe is a brilliant talk er; ahe glances over tlie current sub jects of the day in a light touch-and-go way, which lie wilder* her mother with tlie profundity and extent of her knowl edge. "If she had hul Betty'si hanoe!" she thinks, she too might have played a great and worthy part in life. There are many women of her age and class who have this morbid discon tent, jnst now. But tlie Jadge who shall weigh her work and her danghter's, and that of each and all of us, has other scales than ours.—AVtc York 7Vi6tow. A Whisky Bunch Changed the Weather. The widow O'Flaherty was rich, and she was known far and wide for her be ' novolenoe and deeds of charity. On a cold and stormy evening in January she summoned her servant man to her pres onoo, and told him to load np thewhoel barrow with wood and take it over to the widow Wilaby's shanty to keep herself ami the three dear little children from freezing. " But," said she. "stop a bit and make me a gloss of whisky punch before von go." That boiug done, and the punch having been disposed of. the kind hearted widow countermanded the order, remarking that the weather had moderated and changed ao much that there was no immediate danger of anj one freccing thai night. Moral. —Chan ty ia sometime* like a weathercock, sub ject to changes. A Deabtful Storv. Mr. Howard, of Pandas, Canada, took home a strange cat which had been presented to him by a friend, and dur ing the evening, after his little boy had been put to bed, the attention of "Mr. and Mrs. Howard was attracted by a strange noise proceeding from the bed room. whither they at ono proceeded, and found to their horror that the cat was lying on the little boy, with it month covering the mouth of the child, who was laboring under great distress. The cat was at once driven off, and not a moment too soon, for the little fellow was nt almost his last gasp, and was with difficulty restored to consciousness by the application of writer, which was dashed on his face. This should be a warning to parents to keep an eye on their cats as well as their ohildieu. A tiood Time. It is a good time to reoall some of the excellent advice long ago given by John Adams : " But let us take warning, and give it to our children. Whenever vanity and gayety, a love of pomp and dress, furniture, equipage, buildings, great company, expensive diversions, and elegant entertainments, get the bet ter of the principles and judgments of men or women, there is no knowing where they will stop, nor into what evils, natural, moral, or political, they 1 will lead us." NUMBER 17. Gee. < uster'a Towtimony. General George A. (Juater, when ex nmincd by the oommitteo on expend* turns in the War department, testified that ba bail bean in command at Fort Abraham Lincoln lor throe year*. Ha aaid: J. A. Dickey wan pool trader; 1 room red a letter from the secretary of war, dated January 5, 1874, stating that the President had been informed that Dickey bad introdnoad liquor into the fort and that the place wee really bald by a dialoyal man named Wilaon; i investi gated the subject and foand that Dickey had not nolatnd the internal revenue law, bat bad introdoced liquor in the Indian Territory by military authority ; 1 reported to the secretary of war that Dickey was not a fit person to bold the ixjaL On May 2, 1874, 1 received a letter from the secretary of war, atating that Hubert C. Hrpa bad been appointed. Wilaon, who was a partner of Dickey, published a letter written to A. C. Lay ion, in which ba aaid be waa satisfied that the secretary of war waa in (created with Hipe in the post traderabip ; his letter, which "was published, waa sent to the witueaa, aooompanied by one writ ten by .Secretary Belknap, in which he brauded the accusation aa a lie; Bipc at one time made a written complaint to the secretary of war, mating that no offi cer ought to have a right to buy or bring any goods to the poet except through him; I forwarded Bipe's letter to Secre tary Belknap and received in reply a circular which aaid that no one had the right toaell goods bat the regular puat trader ; the secretary of war also added that the circular waa plain enough to be understood and meant what it aaid ; Captain Poland, one of the officer*, had protected against Bipe'a prieea and had introduced goods, bat thia WM atopped; after the ltelknap exposure I aunt for Hipe and asked him what he had been paying to hold his poet; he aaid ha esti mated his profits a 115,000 annually ; one-third of it was paid to General lied rick, of lowa, and one-third to Geoeral Bioe, in Washington; out of his profits of $15,000 he only received $2,600; be aaid lie did not know bat that he under stood a portion of it went to the secretary of war; llaymond subsequently aaid that he had paid Grant SI,OOO for getting the place; the witness said that Thumb, the trader at Fort Peck, was about to be re moved when be obtained aome affidavits showing that Orvil Grant and the Lay ton brothers were mixed op in Indian frau'is; General Caster aaid an object of General Belknap's visit to the frontier was to perfect arrangements whereby whisky ooold be brought across the border at a reduced rate, and increased advantages given to post traders. Gen eral Comer related various instances in which grain bad been stolen from the government, post traders taking it into their mores. Ilot Pudding. The student* in one of the oolleges being ooustantly annoyed by the noo turnal and inquisitorial visits of a pro feasor, who suspected then of playing cards, one evening prepared a kettle of mash—otherwise called "hasty pod ding"—and by the time it was boiled, had seated themselves around the table in the attitude of card playing, waiting patiently for the well known footsteps of the professor. It was no sooner beard than a large outside pooket of one of them was filled with hot hasty padding, and all were seated as before. As soon as the professor had opened the door, the student who was loaded with the mush made a sudden sweep over the table with his hand, as if to gather up the cards, and, with another motion, apparently put them in his pocket con taining the mash. These movements oonld not help being noticed—as they were intended to be—by the professor, who, considering them as a pretty strong evidence of guilt, broke oat with the following: " Well, young gentlemen! I've caught TOU at it at last, have If" "Why, yes, sir; we are all here." "Sol see you are 1 And you have been playing cards, too!" " So, sir; it's not so!" "It isn't, hat What have you got in your pocki-t, young man I" " Hot hasty padding, sir I" "Hot hasty padding, ha I Hasty pudding, have yon f I'D hasty pudding yon i" said the professor, at the same time thrusting his hand, half-way to the ellrnw, in the hot hasty pudding. The dolorous looks, the, shaking of fingers, the groanings and capers of the professor, are better imagined than da scribed. A Kobherj Frost rated. Last May a man giving hi* name aa Major Koliins arrived at Clramberaborg, Pa. He represented himself as a wealthy Bouthern gentleman, and, bj hm fine social qualities, won the esteem aud confidence of a large uumtior of the solid ritisens of the town, among them the cashier of the First National bank. One night Rollins called on the cashier with a friend lie introduced na Johnson, who, he said, desired to make a deposit ot *30,000 until morning. The cashier accompanied the men to the bank, and while he was placing a package contain ing $30,000, which arrived by express after {tanking hoars, in a private safe with Johnron's bogus deposit, the men made a desperate assault on the cashier, gagging him and seising the thirty thousand dollar package. As they were going toward the front door to esoape the Itauk ofiicer partially removed the gag and gave an alarm. An inmate, who had been np stair*, come to his rescue, locking the front door to cut off their retreat Rollins drew a pistol on him and commanded him to open the door. The man refused, aud the robbers made their exit by ar. ar door. Iu going down the steps Kolluis fell, and a mau, who had Wen in the buihliug, jumped on him and hold him until assistance ar rived. The stolen money was all found on liim. Johnson had meanwhile es caped on a horse stationed on the out side. The next morning he was cap tured about twenty miles from Cham bersburg. Both are iu jail. Force of the Wind. The force of the wind when traveling at high velocities is capable of producing the most extraordinary effects on ex posed objects, such as' buildings, trees, animal*, and even bodies of water. Iu March, 1875, a series of destructive tornadoes visited North and South Caro lina and Georgia, and Sergeant Calver, of tho signal service, was ordered to in vestigate their character and effects. Among other remarkable instances of wind force he reported that "a rock weighing eighteen thousand poin ds and having thirty-fivo square feet of exposed surface was moved 6even feet." "A pine log, weighing twelve hundred pouuds aud with thirty five square feet of exposed surface, was carried a quar ter of a mile." " A pine board was driven through a telegraph pole." "A bale of cotton weighing five hundred pounds was carried a quarter of a mils." Tho sergeant observer calcu lates the following degrees of force for the relative velocity of the wind: Pressure, 26.9 pounds per square foot of exposed surface, velocity, 73.3 miles per hour; 30.5 pounds, 78.1 miles; 77.7 pounds, 124.6 miles. He further estimates that some of the results could not have been produced by a wind traveling at a less velocity than seven hundred miles an hour. Told in CmMmm Tow JPOOII Mw, never Mi htm ! FrMategWat now guttering furthest. fairseto* tb t If he WOoJXM,' Not row ooideet cruel ray Or o o my Be found>ore>hUl sndHtmwflilm.than t Iwar you'll ae*er,;ne**r toil him ! Wm rod 11moot lining jww oh y fsoee to the If be win ms. Blusbtyoor sweatee* la hit tight For hi* dahght, Hit ImoUmsweet,msweet•• yon Itemi'of Interest. Motto "for the Arab*—Dp and Be douin. „ An empty pocket isj'nu Aignjof an empty head. A man moat take the chances if be aa find them. Look