■nilii.
Truth crnahad to earth shall rtM again.
And wast* it* awastn*** on th* d***rt *lr,
tn tbnndr, lightning. ot tn rtln ;
Nona bat th* httw dawrrt the fair.
Thar* wu * nound of revelry by night ;
On bindon when th* fun w*i> low
A void* replied far np th* height.
Tall oak* from Uttl* acorn* grow.
A chang* o*m* o'*r "th* *prit of my tr**m.
Whatever is I* right.
Thing* are not always what th*y *** m ,
My native land, good night!
Real.
My ftv tar* wearied and my hand* ar* tired -
My *oul opprwod
And with d**lr* hav* I I.wig dreired
Rest only rtM.
Ti* hard to toil -whan toil i* almoM vain-
In barr*n war*;
'Ti* b*rd to to* and n**r garner grain
In hurotl ilay*
Th* burden of my day t* hard to tear
Rut Ood know* beat;
And 1 hav* prayed, but vain ha* been my
prayar,
Tor r**t tweet rent
Tie hard to plant in spring and ntvar roup
Th* antuuu yield.
Ti* hard to till—and when tit tilled to w**p
O'er fruit to** field.
And so I cry a weak and tinman cry.
So heart oppr***ed.
And eo I sigh * weak and human *tgh
For ra*t -for re*t
My way ha* wound acre** th* desert year*.
And ctn* infest
My path, and through the Sowing of hot tear*
I pined for rest.
Twa* always *0; when still a child, I laid
On mother s breast
My wearied little head, e'en than 1 [waved.
A* now, for reet.
And lam reatie** Mill. Twill soon he o'er;
For, down the waet
Life'* sau i* setting, and 1 see the shore
Where I *h*R real. •
Waiting for an Answer.
My story |my life f Oh, it has been
too uneventful, too simple in its inci
dents. I could tell you the sorrows of
others, but my can—are 11. well! as you
will. You shall bear. The wound has
never healed, aid if I put my hand
above j| the place still throbs, even as it
will beat and ache till kindly nature says
to me : "Sleep, poor weary one, and
rest." And then peacefully, trustingly,
and with a simple hope of forgiveness,
may I sleep that long sleep which they
aay so flippantly Las no waking, bnt
which has a waking, as every lesson
which we learn in bfe persists in teach
ing us.
Jack and I were engaged. It was all
such a simple homely affair. We had
known one another for years—the chil
dren of neighboring farmers. Jack—l
still call him by the simple old pet name
of those days—Jack had been away at a
good school, and being bright and
shrewd and clever be had won his way
on, takiug to engineering instead of his
farmer's farm life, and now it had come
to this that he had been staying at home
for a month previous to going oat to a
good appointment iu Melbourne.
That montli in spring, how it passed !
We had met agaiu and again, and in his
honest, manly way, he had asked me to
be his wife.
** Yooiurv, Graoe, that I have always
loved yon," he said ; *' and now I have
hopes and prospects, it cannot be wrong
to ask you for your promise."
We were walking by the river side as
he said this, and how well I can picture
it all—the soft gliding water mirroring
the trees on th opposite bauk, the
young green bads just breaking from
their cases, and, above all, the soft ten
der bine of the spring sky—the bine, he
ha<l told me, that was like my eyes."
** Do yon want me to promise. Jack f"
I ssid, simply, as I looked up in his
face.
"So, darling; I am satisfied," bo
cried, as his strong arms held m to his
broad breast, and that was all. No
oaths could have bonnd be more tigbtlv
to him. I felt that 1 was his wife wheu
he shonld <> rat to claim me.
We were Late that evening, and en
tered the house shyly, for there had
been so ranch to talk of and plan. In a
month's time Jack was to sail for Mel
bourne ; then he was to work very hard
for three years, and come and fetch me
to be his wife.
That month glid- d by, aud the last
day had oome. It was, as I told yon.
springtime—joyons springtime, with th>*
hawthorn's stiowy blossoms, the apple
trees pink and the pear trees pearly
with their pyramids of flowers. Every
meadow i passed was starred with golden
buttercups, and from every spray the
birds thrilled forth their merrj songs of
hope and love.
I could Dot feel sad, ?ven though I
was going to meet Jac* for the last walk
before he went away; bat, aa I said,
mingled with th-i feelings of ecstasy
them was a strange tearfulness of eye,
and my breath wonld come at times witL
a sob.
He was by the stile, waiting for me—
tbe stile down by the long mead, half
way l>etween tbe two farms—and as he
took my bands in his, we neither of us
spoke, but stood gazing away over
wo->< lawn aud meadow, all clad iu their
won.lrons beauty, and listened to the
bird-i. Now it was the soft tender 000 of
the stock dove from the wood, now the
twittering song of tbe linDets; then,
soft and mellow, from the thick hedge
rows floated towards us the fluty no es
of the blackbird, while far on high
trilled away the larks, singing one
against the other to their mates, sitting
in the tall grass of the golden meads.
We conld not talk, our hearts were
too full, for Jack was lo be off at day
break the next morning. But there was
no need for words. We loved each
oth. r in the simple nature-taught way
that has been since the world begun, and
we knew that every joyous song around
that thrilled upon our ears meant
love, and even in our sorrow we were
happy.
"Only three years, darling," Jack
whispered to me." "and then"—
The tears rose to my eyes as I trie 1
to answer him, but I could not speak a
word.
" And you will let me find a
long letter when I get there f" be said,
tenderly.
" Yes, Jack, I promise," I said, and
then it was time to return, for the
hours had glided by, how we could not
tell.
Jack spent the evening with us at
home and then left 11s hurriedly, for our
farewells had been said in the wood,
ami it was one IK srty kiss, given and
taken lx-foro the <4d people, acid then
good-bye."
Hut I eaw him pasa eoou after day
break and he saw me and waved his
hand, for I had Bat by the window all
night, lest 1 might let him go by and J
asleep.
And then time glided on sadly, but
pleasantly as well MiDe was a busy
life, for soon my father took to his bed,
ill—a bed he Dever left again, for he
gradually sunk and died, leaving my
poor mother in very indifferent circum
stances.
It was a hard blow for u both, for he
had been one of the kindest and truest
•f men, but while poor mother pined
and waited, 1 had my hopeful days in
vie w, and from time to time letters from
dear Jack, all so true and honest and
full of tinst in the future, that I felt as
if 1 could not repine even when greater
troubles fell upon us.
For at the end of two years 1 was
' N.
FRED. KURTZ, 1 Editor and Hropriotor.
VOLUME IX.
standing by the bedside where lay jHHtr
mother, Kinking fast. She had no par
tioular ail mot t, but bail literally pined
and wanted away. The bird had loot ita
mate o# many year*, and whan at laid
ah* kissed me and said "Goodbye," it
seemed to mo to tie in a quiet, rent nook
mg spirit, and oho spoke like one look
ing hopefully forward to the meettng
with him who had gone before.
Rut h* oonld think of mo eveu then,
and almost the last whiapercd words
were:
" Only eleven mouths, Grace, and
then he'will lie hack to fetch you."
Poor mother! ahe would not have
pawed no peacefully away if nhe had
known that which 1 withheld—uamely,
the newa that came to me from our law
yer. For, through tlie failure of the
elite- rpnne in which my father's saving*
bad been invented, and which brought
us a little income of £6O a year, 1 wan
left pen mica*—so poor in fact that the
furniture of the cottage in the little
town, to which we had moved when we
left the farm, had to be sold to defray
the funeral expense*.
It wan very hard to I war, and for a
month I wan" terriblv depressed; but
there wan that great hopeful time ever
drawing near—the end of the three
years, when Jack would come to make
me his wife.
It waa now for the first time that I re
member feeling particular about my
personal appearance, and 1 studied my
glass to nee if Jack would find me look
ing careworn and thin, and my glass
told me truly—yen.
But I bail to be up and doing, and be
fore another mouth wan over, throngh
the kindness of pe&ple whom we hail
known, I wan placed where I could
work contentedly for the bread I most
earn till Jack should come to fetch me
away.
It was at a large West End dress
maker's, and it wan hard to get used to
the harry and excitement of the place,
where there were twelve girls living in
the house and as many more came every
dav.
There were all kinds of petty pieces
of tyranny to submit to at first, and I
Spoee some of the foolish girls were
oua of me and my looks, ao much so
that I found they nicknamed me " The
Beauty." Poor girls llf they had only
known how little store 1 set by my
looks tbey would have behaved at first
as they did later on.
The* first thing that won them to me
was when Mary Haulers was taken ill
with a terrible fever. Mine. Grainger
waa for sending her away at onoe on ac
count of her business and the infection,
bnt the doctor who was called in. a
young, impetuous, bat veiy clever man,
told her that it would be at her peril if
she did so, for Mary Sanders' life was in
danger. So the poor girl waa shut np
in her bedroom without a soul to go
near her except a hired nurse, and after
the first night this woman stayed away.
No one dared go near the poor girl
then, so I timidly asked leave to num
ber, for I felt no fear of the infection,
and it seemed so hard for her to be left
there alone.
I obtained leave and went up stairs,
staying with h r until she recovered ;
and from that day there was always, a
kind look for me and a kiss from every
girl in the place.
What was more, oddly enough, per
haps became I was so qniet and re
strained, first one girl and then another
came to make me the oonfidant of her
love secrets and ask my advice.
I gave it, sncb as it was, though heart
sore myself, for Jack's letters to me bad
suddenly ceased. We had correepondeu
so regularly ; but it had struck me that
his last two letters bad been formal anu
constrained ; they were full of businev
matters, too. and be hail hinted at its
beiug possible that he should not la
able to keep time about the three years
in consequence of some oontract.
I did not think this when I first read
these letters, for then I had kissed and
cried over them; bnt when no reply
came to my last, I reread them, and
the coldness seemed apparent
But I waited and waited, and then
news came from the country. Jack's
father, a widower, had die*! suddenly ;
and I said to myself, with throbbing
heart as I longed to be at his side to try
and comfort him in his affliction: *'Pooi
Jack, he will come home now."
But he did not come, neither did I get
any reply to my last two letters. Ano h
er month and the three years would LK
up; and as I sat over some work om
spring morning by the open window,
with a bnnch of violets that one of tin
girls had brought mo in a glare--, the soft
breexe that came floating over the chim
ney pots and so>ty roofs wafted to m<
the scent of the humble little blossoms, j
and my eyes became fall of tears, for in '
an instant the bnsy workroom hail
passed away, and I was down home by
tbe river side listening to dear Jack ar
he asked me to be his wife.
Only a month ! only a month! my
pulses seemed to beat; and as it hap
peced we were all busy upon a large
wedding order, and I WAS stitching awaj
at the white satin akirt intended for the
bride.
1 tried so hard to bear it, but I could
not; the rush of feelings was too great.
Anoth-r month and he was to have
fetched me to be his wife, and I had not
had an answer to my last two fond and
loving letters.
As I said, I tried hard to bear it, but
I could not, and stifling a sob I hurried
out of the workroom to reach my attic,
throw myself upon my knees by the bed,
and burying my face in my hands I sob
bed aa if iny heart would break.
For a terrible thought would onm
now, fight against it as I would—"Jack
has grown tired of waiting, and has mar
ried another."
I fought HO hard with the disloyal
thought, bat it would come, and I was
nobbing passionately, when I felt a noit
arm steal ronnd njy neck, a tender cheek
laid to mine, and 1 found my poor tear
dewed face drawn down upon the bonom
of Mary Handera, who bad ntolen out of
the workroom, and come up to try and
oomfort me.
" Pray, pray, don't fret, my darling,"
ahe whisjiered. " Madame will l>e so
cross. Those wedding things must t>e
in by to night, and they want you to help
try them on."
I don't know how I got through that
day and night, but I believe I did such
duties as were expected from me me
chanically, or as if I had been in a
dr -am, and at night I lay wafefal and
weary, with aching eyes and heart,
thinking of that dreadful idea that was
trying to force itself upon me.
I waited till the three years had ex
pired, and then, with what anguish of
heart no words could tell, I wrote to
Jack again—my fourth letter—begging
him, imploring him, to answer me, if
but to tell me be was weary of his
promise and wished to be set free; and
then, making a superhuman effort over
myself, I waited, waited, month by
month, for an answer, though I knew
that it must be at least six months be
fore one oould come.
I had given up expecting one in the
interim, and I was too proud to Bend to
his relatives—distant ones, whom I had
never seen, and who had probably never
heard of me. The thought had takeu
root now and grown to a feeling of cer
tainty, but I waited-for my auHwer.
Three months six months nine
months passed away, and hope was dead
within my heart. They said I had
Eown much older and more careworn,
adozne said I worked too hard, and the
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
sharp bimiuoan woman lieoama quit*
motherly in her attention* to mo. But
I would not tako any dtange, for work
wan liko balm to me; it blunted my
thought*, and knowing that 1 wan daily
growing pale and thin, 1 attll waited.
I know the girls used to whisper to
gelher abont me and Utiuk mo atrange,
but no cue knew my aeoret—not even
wadanie, who had more than ouoe nought
my ooufldeuoe; and ao twelve motitlvn
naased away - four yearn nine*) Jack hail
left me.
It was not to a day. but very nearly to
the time when he had parted from me,
and it wan almost two year* aaioe 1 had
heard from him. 1 wan trying hard to
fprow patient and contented with my lot,
or Mine. Grainger had gradually taken
to me, and trusted me, making me more
and more her right hand, when one
glorious "priug morning, an 1 wan com
lug out of the breakfant-room to go up
stair* to work, aho iwiled me iuto her
little snuggery, where ahe nat an a rule
and attended to her euntomeni' letters,
for aho had an extensive clientele, and
carried on business m a large private
mansion in Wei beck street.
"Grace, my dear," ahe said, taking
me in her arms and kissing me, " it
worries me to sec you look so iIL Now
what do vou say to a fortnight in the
country I '
A fortnight in the country ! and at her
busiest time, with the Loudon season
coming on.
I thought of that, and then, as I
glanced lotuid at the flowers and inhaled
their scents, the bright fields near Tem
plenum Grange floated before my dim
ming eyes, a feeling of suffocation came
upon me, and the room seemed to swing
round. I believe that for the first time
in my life 1 should have fainted, so
painful were the memories evoked by
her words, when a sharp knock ami ring
at the door echoed through the house,
following instantly npou the dull fall of
a letter and the sharp click of the letter
box.
It waa like an electric shock to me,
and without a word I darted into the
hall, panting with excitement and my
hand at n.y throat to tear away the
stifling sensation.
But it was a letter. 1 could see it
through the glass iu the letter-box, and
I seised it with trembling hands, in
spired as it were by some strange power.
" Jack ! dear Jack at last I" I gasped,
as I turned it over and saw it was a
strange, bine, official looking letter,
formally directed to me.
Even that did not surprise me. It was
from Jack, I knew, and 1 tore open the
blue envelope.
Yes, I knew it! The inner envelope
was covered with Austrian postmarks,
and, ignorant as I might be of its con
tents, 1 was raising it to my lips to cover
it with passionate kisses when I saw it
was open.
Then a mist came over my mental
vision for a moment, bnt only to clear
away as, half stupefied, I turned the
missive over and over, held it straight
for a moment, and then, with a sigh of
misery and despair, I stood mute and as
if turned to stoue.
'• Grace, my child! In mercy's name
tell me "
It was madame, who passed her arm
round me and looked horror-stricken at
my white face and lips. The next mo
ment I dimly rememlrer she had canght
the letter—his letter—ruy letter—from
my hand, and read it aloud : " Mr.
John ISraywood, Markboro, K. county,
Mellourue," and then, iu her excite
mont, the great official sentence like
brand upon it: " Dead !"
That was the In-ginning of my first
and only illness, during which madatoe
ten ed mo like a mother, even to giving
up her business afterward, and retiring
to live with me here in this quiet street,
where she died. and left me well to do,
as you see. I have grown old siuo
then, but 1 am not unhappy, great as
was that trial, and it has led me into
what, I hope, has been a useful life.
And, besides, why should I sorrow,
knowing as 1 do that which came to me
year aud years after—that Jack died
with my name upon his lips—died true
to her he loved i and I am but waiting
till we shall meet again.
A President's Descendants.
In the woman's department of the
Centennial buildings, at Philadelphia,
there is a case containing flowers or
fruit, or some other sort of woman's
work, marked as for sale, with the ad
dition that they are made by the de
scendants of Thomas Jefferson, who
earnestly solicit orders. Foreigners
may read in this little card a significant
commentary on the gratitude of repub
lics, and no doubt they will read it. The
great estates and titles of Euuipean
nations belong to the descendants of
men who in some way served their king
or country, won a decisive battle per
haps, or proved useful companions in
dissipation to some jolly prinoe. To
Thomas Jefferson we owe the ennobling
principles which lifted the Revolution
above the level of a mere merocnary in
surrection. His fortune was sacrificed,
as we all know, in entertaining the
hordes of admirers who came to Slonti
cello, as to another Mecca, to pay
homage to him. After they bad
literally eaten him ont of house and
home, their homage was paid in
no other way. Jefferson before
his death felt the pinch of want,
and in a letter to his daughter, referring
to the fact that the oonntry had so soon
forgotten him, he says : " Probably I
have overrated myself and the service I
have rendered." When the grandchil
dren of this man ' come with a pitiable
appeal to the public to keep them from
need, it is little wonder that meaner
men in office mnke haste to provide for
their families by fair means or foul.
New York tribune.
It's Too ExpenslTe.
He was in the morning of manhood,
his eye clear and bright, his skin of a
warm, ruddy glow, his step buoyant and
elastic, and his spirit )>onnding and
healthful. Haid a friend to him:
" Come in, Il&rry, and take a drink."
"No, Tom, it's too expensive. I
can't afford it."
"Oh, pshaw! Come and drink with me
—at my expense."
"No, Tom—l wouldn't drink at your
expense if I could; bnt that thing can
not be done. He who drinks must do
so at his own expense."
" Nonsense ! If I invite yon in to
drink, and pay for it, what's the exjiense
to you, Harry ?"
" Ay, Tom, dear boy, I wasn't think
ing of the money part. As for that, I
fancy I oould afford the expense better
tlian you could. No, no—the expense
which I cannot efford is of another kind.
The peace and happiness of my mother
I cannot sacrifice; my own health, and
strength, and mental and moral vigor,
and my self-respect, I cannot foolislily
expend and cast away. And, dear Tom,
there is another—God bless her (—your
sweet Bister, Lillie— have I a right,
since our Ijetrothment, to endanger the
heart and the life I have pledged to
her ?"
A tear stole down Tom's cheek. He
took Harry's arm, and walked away from
the gildea saloon, conscientiously re
flecting upon the better way of life.
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1870.
*FX ICO \T run CKNTKNNI.iI..
A Haliaa \% arih ll**la*--H**ulHal Mperl.
a.a* at Mrkl*--Oi her I't •darl*.
Mexico has beeu late ill making her
display at the Centennial, but now she
occupies a large space in the Main build
ing, with an ornamental inclosiire, and
everything within is arranged skillfully
and in good taste. What first attract*
attention ia a huge button of silver
weighiug about 4,DUO pounds, and worth
#72,000. This seems extraordinary; but
Nevada intends to have a mas* weigh
ing several tons more on exhibition,
while weekly shipments from silver
mine* in Utah and other Western re
gioua are in the shape of buttons of
about 500 pounds each, all of which, for
several years, have beeu sent to Gounec
ticut to lie worked into silverware.
Next are most beautiful and polished
alalia of variegated marble, with green
aa the predominating color, and blush
ing streaks and clouds through the
stone, making the resemblance to agate
almost exact. Iu fact, one might SUN
peet them to be a Slavics of ja*tnfac
tion. Some heavy sales of these slabs
hav* already been made to Europeou
ooteutates.
The Various Cities of Mf xieo, Hucil on
rabbin, L Magdalcuu and Mexico, pre
sent u great variety of manufacture *1
K<HKI, including plain cotton cloth, kit
leather and gloves, woolen fliuiuel,
blankets, coarse carpeting, cwmuurrM
of low grade, and cotton yarn suited for
domes ting weaving. There is a large
display of native *iurs, and a lair ore
of chemical preparations and extract* at
fruits and roots, borne ailk fabrics look
well, and there are stuffs woven in gold
that resemble Egyptian work. Ladies'
shoes and fancy articles look well, but
they do not present the finish given by
the French shoemakers, nor even by
those of Massachusetts. There are many
spacimens of ludiau manufacture, such
as i>ottery, braiding, and coarse cloth.
The implements exhibited are few and
poor, but the mining tools seem to lie
excellent. There is some iron in heavy
square bars, and many sjateimeusof gold
and silver ores. Samples of coal are
shown, but th-y do not indicate high
quality nor deep veins. A section of a
large mahogany tree shows that it was
hauled like a sled from the forest to Un
shipping port. There are many fiber
plants, and they ought to have large
commercial values, for they grow spun
taneoualv and the yield is heavy.
The oottou ou exhibition is uot re
markable f >r length of staple, nor for
strength; but the deficiency is as likely
to arise from aunt of good improved
seed as from advt rse climatic conditions.
The planters of onr Southern Btab-s
have taken great pains to cultivate and
introduce the best varieties of cotton,
aud their seed has been iu demand boUi
in Egypt and India. The Mexican
maize or Indian corn is decidedly in
ferior, though it makes much of the
bread of the people; bat undoubtedly
they should have a better seed. Fine
masses of sugar are shown, much of it
iu the shape of our old sugar loaves; bnt
it ha* a brownish color, proving that
they do not yet clarify well. The many
samples of coffee are good. Several
huudred samples of forext woods iudi
cate that they have a great variety of
valuable sort* ranging from pine to
lignumvitic. The specunri* of raw mlk
are not remarkable. The wh>-t in
really numb* r one, and oat* an t lurl-v
are good. The wheat (lour ha* a rich
golden hue.
None of thir mechanical woik i
superior. Horseshoe* mul other iron
ware are forged lit hind. The govern
meut is an exhibitor of l..thr ind
paper and the qualities aie fair. None
of the other exhibit* are exhaust iv
a* that of cigar* an J it uiay ii- pp inniiil
that the quality fin • mrot ly beexc-lh i.
Mexican wool Dev r nad a high r pita
lion and the fleece* on exhibition do u >t
change one'a opinion. Fine specimens
of honey are shown and it in likely that
Mexico i* the bust eonntry for honey in
the world.
The only countries represented at the
Centennial in which crops nin*t Is
grown wholly by irrigation are Egypt,
northern Italy, Pern, Colorado, and
M exioo. The annual rainfall is sufficient
to mature wheat m California, Turkey,
Spain, Palestine, India and in most part*
of Chiua. There irrigation is only neces
sary for gardens and orchards. In the
countries tlist named the rainfall of the
whole year, if coming at the most sea
sonable time*, would be scarcely suffi
cient to grow wheat; but as it comes
out of sec son it is of little value. In
some of the western portions of Mexico,
however, rains are more frequent; still,
there is a deficiency. The mountains
have great elevation and snow water tills
thousands of creeks and rivers. A pho
tograph of a Mexican farming scene re
presents a largo number of men and
Uams at work in an irrigated field, and I
the water comes ou abundantly. The
laws tliat govern irrigation in Mexico,
and they are severe and well fixed, were
derived from the Moors, and have been
transferred to Arizona, Colorado, Utah
and Montana.
Mexico is the southc rn extension of
the eastern Kooky mountain slope, the ,
same a* the Bhick Hills country is the
northern extension. The mountains
present a full face to the plains; every
few miles streams and rivers issue
through canyous, their floods being high
during the heat of summer ; and these
waters are conducted by irrigating canals
into ditches thst water all the gardens
ami fields. Seldom is the sun clouded,
and outside the water courses the whole
country is brown and sere, in winter as
well as summer, though it furnishes a
rich grass sufficient to snpport thou
sands of sheep and cattle.
Mexico needs nothing so much as
cheap transportation. There are mining
cities high among the mountains con
taining from 20,000 to 60,000 inhabit
ants, to which all kinds of supplies ami
goods are carried on the backs of mules;
and it costs more to take a pouud of
their silver to market than it costs an
Ohio farmer to take twenty pounds of
wool. Hut a railroad is gradually work
ing its way thither and from the heart
of the continent. The Denver aud Rio
Orande now extends nearly JHK) miles
south of Denver; it has creased that
great obstruction, the Green Horn range,
aud reached Trinidad, and it is now
ready to debouch into the valley of the
Kio Orande that forms the boundary
of Chihuahua and New Leon, regions
where the orango Always blossoms.
Killing Passion Strong in Death.
A German paper relates the following
anecdote: In an imperial city, lately, n
criminal was condemned to tie beheaded
who hed a strong itching to play at nine
pins. When the sentence was pro
nonnoed he had the temerity to offer a
request to be permitted to play once
more his favorite game at the ploco of
execution, and then, he said, he would
submit withont a murmnr. As the last
prayer of the dving man, his request
was granted. When he arrived at the
solemn spot lie found everything pre
pared, and the pina being set up and
the bowls ready, he played with no little
A Literal Application.
Professor 11., one of the oldest tutors
of one of the oldest colleges in the ooun
try, was aa eccentric as he was learued.
His judgment anywhere in the field of
natural science and philosophy was to
lie tukcu as law. No oun ever thought
of questioning it. The mathematical
knot was uever wrought which he could
not sevwr. On a certain occasion Pro
fefteor H. wanted a servant. Several ap
plicants presented themselves— were
tried, and diacarded. Finally one name
whose looks the pedagogue liked.
" Now look ye, my mau," the aatant
said, "if you can rwuwuter and ftirry
out one course of procedure, 1 think
we may get on. I cannot afford to
waste words, nor can 1 afford to find
thoughts for a stupid servant. Yon must
do your own thinking, and understand
my wants at a hint. Fur instance :
When I s*y—' Bring me a rotor,' you
will comprehend that I am going to
shave, so you will understand lliat I
want hot water, soap, towels, comb,
brush, and so on. And so with every
thing. My initial order you will take as
a cue, and of your own thought sup
ply all possible accessories and ooutiu ,
gents."
The new servant peeved himself equal
to the occasion, and his master was
more than satisfied.
One day tlie professor osme home pale
and shaky. Baiil he to his servant:
"John, I am not feeling well. Go and
coll the doctor."
The man bowed, and departed.
An hour paused—two hours—and vet
no doctor, and no servant. Finally,
however, the doctor arrived, and in a
moment more iu came the servant.
" How is thin, John 1" demanded the
lirofeosor. " Why have yon been so
ong I"
" You told me to call the doctor, sir."
" Aye, you could have done it in ten
minutes f"
" Bnt, sir, yon told me you were not
well. 1 took your simple order as a cue
to all that you might need. 1 found the
doctor absent, and left word for him.
Then 1 went to call watchers in case you
should require attendance through the
Viight. Then i called upon your lawyer,
in <v*e yon shonld desire to make your
will. And tlieu, sir, 1 had to hunt up
the undertaker, that be might have all
in readiness iu case "
'' Stop, stop, John 1 That will do.
Bless me ! you can lw> literal in- your
application of a hint."
"Yes, sir. Any further orders,
sir t"
" Not now, John. You may go."
Tlie professor is still living, and John
still serves him.
Ranted a Farm
A Detroit real estate agent was waited
on l>y a tall man with a weed on his hat,
who said he had the cash to pay for a
(arm, provided he could get one to suit.
The agent smiled him to a seat, and
brought out hi* register of descriptions.
He had several farms registered on bis
books, and lie had no doubt that he
coold unit the won Id be purchaser. The
stranger remarked :
" What I want is a farm of about three
hundred acres."
" I've got it," replied the dealer.
" I'd lik • aUut six big hills on it."
" Here she is—here's a farm with ex
scUy ix hill* ou it."
" And I'd like a lake near the center."
" Here yon are. Here i a farm with
a lake exactly in the center."
"And I want a big natural cavern in
one of the lull*."
" Here yon are. There's a cave on
this farm which can't be beat."
The id ranger drew a long breath and
went ou :
•' 1 want a fartn of three hnudred acres,
but one hundred acres must tie marsh
land."
" Here she is," was the ready reply.
" Just three hnudred acre* in the fatni,
and just one hundred in marsh laud."
" I must have a waterfall twenty-six
feet high on the farm," continued the
stranger.
" Here yon are. This farm has a
natural waterfall <>f twenty five feet and
eleven inches. I don't suppose an inch,
mote or less, ou n waterfall amounts to
much."
"Well, no, but I want a windmill on
one of the lulls."
"That was put up last year," was the
calm reply.
It was aime time before the strantrer
thought of anything else, but finally
mid :
" There must be a church right across
the road from the house."
" Oue built there last summer, sir."
"It must Is- a brick church."
" Ho it is."
" Has it an organ f"
" It has."
" Then I can't buy tbo farm of you,"
said the stranger, rising to go. "If
there is anything I hate, it is s church
organ, and you can see for yourself that
I would lie iu a state of continual
misery. The farm suits me first-rate,
but I oau't go th .t organ."
Jnst what estimate those two men
placed upon on each other's veracity as
they separated will never be known.
Iteranged ny the Bite of s Hog.
Homo weeks ago IVtor llama, living
on the Bo lair road, just Iwok of the
Baltimore eem<-tery, ami iu the employ
of Mr, Chester, blacksmith, was bitten
by a wild hog, which had been roaming
abont that portion of the city, resisting
all endeavors to trap him. Mr. Harris
sufTered severely from the bite, and soon
began to exhibit* all the symptoms of
hydrophobia. He foamed at the mouth
like a mad dog, l>ooamo hysterical,
smashed chairs and lookiug glasses, ami
wanted to hit his friends. Measures
were living taken to remove the unfor
tunate man to quarters where the lives
of other people would not be endangered,
when, suddenly, he mysteriously disap
peared, ami has not been heard from
ainoe. The conjecture is that Mr.
llama has died, or he would have lieen
heard from aomewhere ere this, as he
was at the time of his departure a raving
maniac. He wasuttended by Dr. White,
who stntee that hogs, its well as dogs ami
wolves, are subject to hydrophobia,
taking the disease themselves without
having been bitten.
A Sad Fate.
There is something peculiarly mourn
ful in what the editor of the Fort Dodge
(Iowa) Mciiitctigrr, a personal friend of
Mrs. General Belknap, says: "So she
baa been aittiug at home all these
months in the bitterness of anguish,
during not to go on the street, where
she would be subjected to indecent
badinage, having no way to ho heard,
being the subject ef gossip in every
newspaper in the land and in almost
every home, knowing herself the victim
of abusive criticism and ignorant false
hood and yet having to Nit ntill and en
dure it all.'"
Egyptian* in Aby*lnla.
A special dispatch to the Lain don
/Mi/y JVtrffraph, dated from Alexandria,
nays: The fate of the Egyptian army in
Ahyaaiuia is exciting a go at amount of
comment, and various unfavorable ru
mors are afloat. There can be no doubt
tlie war ia over, hut perhaps It will never
be known at what expenditure of men
and money, A trout eight thousand
soldiers have arrived at and three
steamers are now due with troops.
Home three or four thousand are still at
Mueeowali, and these, making about
fifteen thousand who have returned, are
said to be all that may be exported.
This leaves about fifteen thousand uuao
conuted for.
Several thousand of these were doubt
less killed in the first and second bat
tles; the remainder are unable to leave
on account of their wounds and the
rainy season having set in. The condi
tion of these pour men can easily be
imagined. The fierceness aud cruelty
of the Abasinians are said to have been
(earful. The battle of November last
is descrilied by an eye-witness as a total
annihilation of the Egyptian forces, and
in corroboration of this I hear of one
regiment, leaving Hues six hundred
strung, represented by eight men on
their return. All sorts of means are
adopted to prevent the truth being told,
tuid the nakedness of the laud from be
ing known. The soldier* us they arrive
at Burz are conveyed to Cairo by train
st night. Order* have been issued in
the to wis and villages prohibiting
mourning for the dead.
I give you all thia as the common talk
of the baxaarn, and if some particular*
are exaggerated the government have
only to ajM-ak out and let the worst be
kuuwn. One thing is certain, there will
tie no more Abyssinian wars, aud the
army has been so reduced that there
will be a considerable saving in the war
minister's budget. Several millions of
money and several thousands of men
have Leen sacrificed, but much as thia
ia to be regretted per sc, the lesson
taught has perhaps not been dear at the
price.
The Irrvprcsidblf Potato Bug.
Q. A. R., New York, writes to the
rune*: From all indications the coun
try is likely to lie widely pestered this
aeasou with this wholesale destroyer of
the potato. Walking along the sandy j
1 teach of Rockaway these incrusted
aer i globular xebra striped little crea
tures are to be found by the millions,
perfectly lining the extreme hem of the
crested wave, and apparently lifeless as
they are washed ashore. It ia apparent
that some incalculably vast multitude
have been overtaken by a pitiless storm
and driven to see, and a proportion of
their number have thus oome to a watery
grave. Strange to aay, however, many
teemed to resuscitate under the potent
influence of the pleasant sunshine.
({••marks —Our correspondent has for
tunately only s partial knowledge of
this unwelcome visitor to the east In
hlinctivelr working eastward from his
origiusl home in the Rocky mountains,
lie has found a barrier to his further ad
vance, aud plunges headlong into the
ocean, win re he seems as much at home
iuid as invulnerable to fate as upon laud. ]
As they do not seem capable of drown
ing themselves they may possibly reach
the shore* of Europe, and carry terror
ito potato growers there. But although
■ lie has spent oue season with us, yet po
tatoes are selling at seventy-five cents
barrel, and w. have learned to dread
Lira as little as the Western farmers have
any time the last teu years. He suc
cumbs to paris green at last, after liav
rng escaped ttie doaen or more natural ;
enemies which waylay him ujmu his
ehoaan field of ludustrv. He will live
in history, for although we may miss
him bye and-bye, yet he is writing his
memorial in the future nlat> s and sand
stones which will be formed hereafter of
the mad and sands of the Atlantic lewch
es in which he is now being buried in
vast quantities. Future geologists will
chip him out of these rocks, put him in
cabinets, aud probably call him as we
do, decern-lineata, because of his ten
black stripes.
Build I'p a Homestead.
Tbo feeling that you are settled and
fixed will induce you to work to improve
your farms, to plaut orchards, to set out
shade trees, to inclose pastures, to build
comfortable outhouses, and each sue
cossive improvement is a bond to bind
you still closer to your homes. This will
bring contentment in the family. Your
wives and daughters will'fall in love
with the country, your sons will love
home better than grogshops, and prefer
farming to measuring tape or profession
a! loafing, aud you will bo happy in see
ing the contented and cheerful faces of
your families. Moke your home beauti
fnl, convenient, and yonr children will
love it above all other places; tbey will
leave it with regret, think of it with
fondness, come back to it joyfully, sock
their chief happiness around their home
fireside.
Women and children need more than
meat, bread aud raiment; more than
of corn and cotton spread out all around (
them. Their love for the Want if ul must
tie satisfied. Their tastes must tie culti
vated ; their sensibilities humored, not
shocked. To accomplish thia good end
home must lie made lovely, conveniences
multiplied, comforts provided, and
cheerfulness fostered. There must be
both ruuahiue aud shade, luscious fruit
and fragrant flowers, as well as corn and
cotton. The mind and heart as well as
the fields must be cultivated ; and then
intelligence and contentment will tie the
rule instead of the exception. Stick to,
improve anil beautify your homestead*,
for with this good work comes oonteut
ment.
A True Hero.
An instance of remarkable self-control
aud presence of mind under sudden aud
intense suffering recently occurred iu
Belgium. Two workmen were em
ployed at ViUe-xur-Ourthe, in fastening
a lightning conductor at the tqp of a
steeple vouty feet from the ground. ,
One man stood upon the shoulders of
the other, and a sudden gust of wind
caused him to spill some of the molten
lead he wus using. It fell npou the
baud and arm of (lie other, and ho had
the nerve to stand still while the hot
metal burned into the flesh. The
alightesl movement might have thrown
the man on his shoulders to the ground.
The hero who aaved thia life deserves to
bo reoorded, and we print his name be
low, that if there be any immigrant in |
America who reooguiaes it ho may bo
proud of his oountrym&n. To face dan
ger deliberately for the safety of others
is high courage. But to do this while
Niifleriog from intense pain, when physi
cal nature instinctively flinches, shows
u degree of fortitude as well aa oonrage
which well deserves to be called heroio.
The name of this man ef nerve and
eoarage is M. A. Karis.
TTCHMS: S'-i.OO a Year, in Advance.
The Chinese Question.
The eleventh section of the platform
adopted by the Republican* at Ofncin
usti seta forth aa follows.
It ia lire uuiaadiaia duly of < oagraa* to fully
luvMUgate tire .fleet ot tha immigration and
Imiwirtatioh of M'sigoUana on tl moral and
inatMlal inlataai* of Ilia eootilry
Mr. Fisroe, of MiiubnutU, moved
to utrike out tb reference to Mongolian
immigration, which he denounced **
departure from every Republican plet
fur io, from the principles of the Dechs
ration of Independence nod the lew of
Christian love, which makes ell men,
Jews or Gentiles, equal.
Mr. Axtell, of New Mexico, opposed
the smeudmeut. lie Mid the people of
the I'eaiflo NUUn, irreepeotive of ]mrty,
ell dee ire the investigation of this
Mongolian immigration, which is be
lieved to be not in good faith, but need
■amply as cover for (he importation of
servile coolie laborers, end by their
peg en customs end filthy hebiU to de
grade Amerioen labor.
Mr. Jon**, of Nevada, aaid the quee
tion i of greet importance to-the people
of the Pacific ooeet. He described the
degraded character of thia Mongolian
immigration—of a people who recognise
neither honeety among men nor virtne
among women. They contribute noth
ing to the churches or the achoole; they
oan work for ten cento per day in com
petition with American laborer*, who
rapport familiar, schools, chorober, and
other institutions. There ia bat oca
opinion in the Pacific tttatea ar to the
neoeMiity for an inveatigation by Oon
greaa to inform itaeif ar to the real facta
in the care, in order that it may aae j
whether aomething ia not neceaaary to
be done to remedy the evil of which j
they complain.
Mr. Curtis, of New York, urged that
in the beginning of a new ocntory the
Kepublicana of America ahoold not de
part from the principlea of the Declara
tion of Independence. Hia remarks
were received with applause.
A delegate from Tenneoaue demanded
the previous question, which war BUB
tained. The question war taken by
Btalea, on Mr. Pierce'a motion to atiike
out, and it waa rejected. The resolu
tion waa then adopted.
An lakamaa Father.
One of the moat horrible outrage*
that it has been oar painful duty to
chronicle, aaya the New York Herald,
and t>ne that has justly called forth the
righteous indignation of every one who
has heard of. it, occurred about three
miles from Allen Springs, Ky. David
White, a man who waa believed by
many who knew him to be of a brutal
nature, was, With hia little daughter,
twelve years of age, in a field some die- j
lance from the house, planting corn.
When the hour of twelve arrived, and
they stai ted for their dinner, Mr. White
forbade hia child riding the horse with
which be had just been plowing, telling
lier the horse waa poor and tired, and
that she waa more able to walk than the
horse was to carry her. The child left
the field, leading the home in the direc
tion of the barn, but after going some
distance, and probably feeling a little I
weary, childlike, led the horse to the
fence and mounted htm. Her father,
•wing what ahe had done, and being
controlled more by a spirit of malevo
lence than affection, rushed to the spot
where she was and jerked her from the
boras, and, in a manner more like a
ilend than a father, beat her unmerci
fully. The child, on arriving at the ,
house, informed the rest of the family
of what had oeeorrad, when the father
renewed his assault, knocking her dosm
| a number of times, and stamping and
kicking her in the region of the atom '
ach, despite her crits for mercy, with j
such force and rapidity as to soon cause
her to become insensible, when at last
his belliah hate Seemed satiated, and he j
stopped hia brutality. The child was 1
taken to her bed, from which ahe never
again arose, and the general belief in
the neighborhood waa but corroborated
by the last words of the dying girl, '
which were: " Father killed me." The
neighborhood ia very much incensed at
such an inhuman outrage, and it is
hoped that immediate step* will be taken
to bring to justioe the perpetrator of
this, one of the most heinous crimes
that has leen recorded for years.
Iron and Steel,
The American Iron and Steel Associ- ,
atum has received full statistics of the
production in 1875 of pig iron, iron and
steel rails, etc.; also returns showing
the quantity of pig iron in stock at the
close of the year. The following table
shows the total production fot 1875 com
pared with that of 1874 :
ties in
Prmdmn*. Tkma. j
Pig iron 2.00.413 a 2f16.581 j
All rolled iron. Including
nails 1 539..V50 1,890,579
All rollsd Iron, Including
nails, si rinding rails. 1.110.147 1.097.867 1
Hails of all kinds 729 413 793 513
I lessemsr steel nuls .... 144.944 290.86$ :
Iron and all other rails.. 584 469 501.649
Hired rails 6,789 16,340 j
Kegs of cut nails and
spikes 4,912.180 4.726 881
Crucible csst steel 36.888 39.401 |
Open hearth steel 7.000 9.050'
All other s eel 6,338 13.007 !
Blooms from ore and pig
Iron 61.670 49.343
The decrease in the production of pig
iron was all in anthracite and charcoal
nig iron, there being a slight increase in
bituminous and coke. The stock of un
sold pig iron st the end of the year wms
7(10,906 tons. The total value of imports
of iron and steel during the year was
$15,273,815, a decrease of $11,327,405
from that of 1874.
The Largest Swamp.
The surveying party sent out to sur
vey the Okefenokee swamp rejKirt that
it measures 142 miles in circumference,
and, with the sinuoaitiea, 180 miles
around. This vast formation, thirty j
miles long and aeveuteou miles wide, is
the largest swamp in the United States.
It lies in the southeastern part of Geor
gia, but partly in north Florida. Here I
is the Suwanee river, made famous by
the negro melody of the " Old Folks at
Homo." It traverses a Lirge section of
upper Florida, is liordered with valu
able cypress aud other timber, and emp
ties into the gulf st a point eighteen
miles above Cedar Keys. Okefenokee
swamp was for generations s refuge for
runaway slaves. Indians have lived
there until recently, cultivating gardens;
and in the depths of the jungles and
forests are thousands of bears, and a
great many Florida "tigers"—the cou
gar, or American panther. One curious
experience of the surveying party was to
find themselves at one time, while in the
middle of a great swamp, suffering for
water. The discovery of a lot of mounds,
"probably bnilt by a race of men exist
ing before the Indianß," is also report
ad. Several skeleton were taken out of
them, but some crumbled as soon as ex
posed to the air.
NUMBER 28.
Uow People 1UI He Swindled.
"Address with at am pa," ate.
This mm pie form ot wordn in found at
Uk and of mora than balf the adwrtia
ment* thai are priotod nowadays It
haa beoume una of tba grand formulas
of the modern epoch. Momstimaa it ia
varied with "Bend stamp* for circular,"
but the desire for stamps ia always ex
pressed. There ia always a oartidn
amount of spare credulity in the world,
over and above what is needed for tbe
ordinary transections of life, that cannot
remain latent. It baa got to find vent
somewhere. In the years gone by it
spent itself in religious superstition, but
now it goes into postage stamps, for
j warded for pamphlets and circulars which ;
tall how to get rich, how one may take 1
; his future into bis own hands, how to re
new one's youth, bow to escape tha ter
rible results of youthful indiscretion, j
ate. All tit tee things may ba very da j
•arable to know, and what ia tha loss of j
a few cents in postage stamps, anyway I j
Not long ago three French journalist*
were- discoursing of human credulity in i
a cafe, and the question, Where ia ita
limit! waa raised. One of the three
maintained that human credulity had no
limit It was finally agreed that each of
! the trio should insert in tbe newspaper"
an advertisement the moat eccentric,
improbable and absurd that it waa poaai j
hie to devise—each advertisement to U j
aooumpanisd with a demand for stamp*
—and watoh the result; The first of the j
trio published the following exirsordi- j
uary* announcement:
TOE HAND IN THE HAUL (tied oca i
* 11 ane fifty osntimea in jMsUg* sumps for i
:ha theor* of an entirely new eatmalion. It 1
Ifivee lore ami f reehoeee. Address A B , poet- I
of&oe.
The second conspirator, taking ad van
te of *ii old and familiar tuperatition, .
advertised as follows:
RKTCKS FBO* THE OTHEIi WOULD. |
Bend one franc Aft; oulimss In passage •
■nap. Aeon rale new* from tba bettor laid j
Hvwier.ee revealed Everything mads t.nu.
xAdreef B. C. [>ot-office
The third, abandoning all subterfuge*, ,
advertised boldly aa follows:
IJ'ftOM USE NOTHING J I ENGAGE TO
perform nothing. But eend one franc j
cfiv oeuumre in puetaga stamp". Perhaps
there ia a little eurpnsa in "tore far too.
Who knowe > Addrem C. D . post-office
These advertisements produced a re
sult far greater than the conspirator* had t
hoped. Postage stamps rained for,
several days. And whan tha people
found that they were not receiving their
pro yuo they sent on more postage
KUmpa. And the moat successful of the i
three adv*ftisermenta was the hurt.
Finally tbe three journalists turned over
their ill gotten gains to a charitable
society and told their ato. y in a news
paper, in order that the dupes might
know what bad become of their postage 1
stamps. They had satisfied themselves
that human credulity had indeed ao.
limit
Hew to Eat Asparagus.
A bashful young gentleman fnend of
ours makes inquiries of us aa to tbe
proper mode of eating this sacculent
esculent Well, in the first place, yoa
must take your seat at a dinner table i
well surrounded with strangers, and fix
your eyes upon some one of the young
ladies cm whom you desire to make an
impression. You Uieu gracefully on- ,
fold your napkin and pnqiare for nation. ,
Grasping your fork you impale a j
healthy looking " spear " upon this use
ful instrument, and, bending forward, ,
with open mouth, yoa—find it will
quietly slip off and resume its primary
position vritn a mild admonitory splash j
iu the gravy. After more fruitless at- j
tempts of this sort, by which yon can j
only soil your hitherto immaculate shirt
bosom and distribute two or three stalks
upon your vent and unmentionables,
you grow sensible and slightly embar
rassed.
Yon now re-pair damages, and with a '
flourish which is intended to show that 1
"it is of no consequence, I assure you,"
and which ia also intended to make j i
known to tbe lady next yoa that you are
sorry for having epodt ! her dross, and
that you will not do so again, yon curl <
your little finger to the proper angle,
and grasping the diabolical chwjroyer of i
your pesos of mind by the stem with
dexterous digits you proceed to besJob I
Is-r your chin, make wild passes at your j
now, ami well grease your fingers, and |
then discover that you are •• not very j |
fond of asparagus, anyway, and just < j
tried it to show that you understood
the ooiToct way to handle the article !" j'
Fish fnttare.
An important suggestion has lately
been made in regard to the utilisation of
certain waters in the cultivation of fish
hitherto supposed to be unavailable.
The articles refers to oertain ponds
along the Rhine, connected with a
variety of manufacturing establishments,
which are intended to receive the water
condensed by steam engines. One of
these {Kinds is 120 feet in length, with a
depth, at the sides of four feet, run
ning down to sixteen feet in the center,
and is supplemented by the dike whioli
runs around three sides of the manuiac
taring establishment. This dike in the
aggregate is alxmt I.ROO feet long by
twelve feet wide and six feet deep in the
middle. The entire water area u about
'24,000 feet, with * depth of six feet hi
the dike and sixteen feet in the center
of pond. The dike and pond are simply
excavated ont of the earth, and are
neither bricked nor cemented. They
are simply made to curry away surplus
condensed water, which* runs into the
pond at 110 degree* Fahrenheit. The
temperature of the pond jant where the
water ran* in is about ninety degrees,
and the oooleat part *evecty-aix degrees
Fahrenheit. Three about
five inches in length were introduced
seven year* ago, and now the young can
be see all the year round. Fish weigh
ing four to five pounds are quite com
mon, and one hundred pound* may
easily be taken in an hour. Goldfish
also thrive excellently in the same water.
It appear* that the fish like best to be
where the water is warmest, especially
the younger ones. The locality referred
to is near Bonn, on the Rhine.
A LONG Fmnow.—The Fargo (Cal.)
l\m** asks: What do you think of an
unbroken tut row aix mile* long? That's
what you can sec any day by going to
Elm river, where M-eara. Dairy tuple
and tirandin are breaking prairie. The
teams start in the morning and make
one round across an entire township and
back (twelve miles) before dinner, and
the name in the afternoon—twenty-four
miles' travel for each team every day.
All for wheat next year.
PERHAPS —" James, my love, per
haps—what do you think f—perhaps,
maybe, yon know, dear—it just occurred
to me that it might be cheaper to get a
couple more silk dresses this summer—
because, you see, the mulberry has
blighted the silk in the south of France,
and the crop will be short and dress
goods awful high next year."
jlan it af Christiana ta Balf aria
41 Fwouchitaa, a villa** of two thou
1 and inhabitants, at tba fool of tha
Rbedop* rtdga, tba population bad
I given no a%n of disaffection. and bad,
on tba contrary, aant word to the
j antbnrltlm at Philippopoli, to solicit
protection againat aotna Maaanliuan
naighbora who evinced onfrtaodiy inten
tions. Ho notion waa taken of I hair ap
i plication. Noma of tba Mussulman
mountaineers of tba neighborhood aoon
assembled round tha village and called
• : upon tb Ohrutiaiii to delive# up their
' anna. Upon their refu-t a stinggh' be
gas. which ended in tba complete de
struction of tb vUUgi.
Of ita inhabitant* only it hunt nina
i hundred woman and children were
I "pared, who lira now "haltered at Phihp
. popoli in a abita of utter wretrb due**
and diMtitntiuu. Five bomlr.it woman
and children of tba village of Areratsisn,
which baa met the name fata, have also
j nought tba same refuge. Tboaa of
ftailak and otbar localities are oq.ialiv
■ burnt out of Uwur homes, bereft' of their
1 fat beta and bnimit.K and starving in
tba atreeta of Tartar Baaudjik and Out-
I lookkciu. Baud" of MBIWI Mussulman
—chiafly Circassian* —hare lw*<n arpnn
-1 iand, who carry on havoc and d-a<.b.tiou
from village to village, and who do not
' even ap*r the livaa of inoffensive way
farer*. Murder* are #o fre.ju.-nt that
MOW of the Uxiire are left to rot nn
-1 buried in the flokß Twelve of ilw
fugitive* from Paronobitiu, women and
. obil.lr.-n, have been mavaiscvd at the
vary galea of PhiiippopoiL
Anarchy reign* in oua of the richest
provinoaa of toe empire, and only at two
daya' diatanca from tba capital. In the
town itself of P ilippoj*>li tba alarm ia
naturally very great, iinuior* circulate
of hostile intention* harbored by the
Mnaaulntaua against tba archbbibop and
the Bulgarian notables of the place, who
i are pointed out aa the instigators ot tba
1 inaurraetion, ate.
A Braaabapper'a Piddle.
M Wa lay ninety-num agga; if we laid
■ ona hundred we ahoald devastate the
: earth." It (a a Mohammedan legend
that tba prophet found Uiia motto writ
ten ou the winga of a locust, an inaaet
aa nearly related to tba grasshopper aa
tba Mohammedan ia to tba Yankee.
Laat May, tha farmer in eaatern Kan
| aaa who aaw lan acraa of oorn entirely
> eaten between tau o'clock Saturday
i morning and four o'clock Sunday after
| OUQB, and who caught ninety eight
graaabopjwfw with one awcap of hi*
Land, must have thought tba hundredth
I egg waa hatched at laaL Bnt the hum
I of the vaat eromns waa aooo lost to tba
i northward. 'iWn bird and pum-ite, and
j Minneeota boys and girl*, who were paid
t for gathering them ao much a buabal,
soon ended the brood of jumping fid
dlers; for m truly as tba crick, t Kings,
ao truly doaa Use grasshopper [day tba
| fiddle. Any bow—if badoean t play the
j fiddle, be doaa aamething like it, m each
of you mar prove if you will watch him
when you bear him playing his man ohm
use tune. When he begins to plsy •' be
i bends the shank of one bind b-g be
neath th< thigh, where it ia lodged in a
furrow designed to receive it, and than
draws the leg briskly up and down sev
eral times against the projecting lateral
edge and vein* of tba wing cover." A
' learned naturalist, named Harris, once
wrote this, and wa repeat it It is plain
j enough if you remember that tha front
wing* are called wing covers, aa they are
used for protection and not for flight..
j Grasshopper* play the fiddle on each
' aide alter-iately, supporting themseivre,
j meanwhile, *s they can. Who knoars
i why they do it t—SL Nicholas for July.
The Warriors ef the Plain".
( The Sioux arc probably in better
fighting condition to-day than any other
tribe of Indiana in America. It is not
. going beyond t-e bounds of truth, says
tba San Francisco Bulletin, to toy that
they have long expected a conflict with
the whites, and with military sagacity
have placed themselves on a war footing.
They own a tract of conn try between
the Missouri river and the Union
Pacific railroad nearly 400 miles square.
The Missouri, above the month of the
Yellowstone, where it flows eastward
from the mountains, may he said to form
the northern boundary of thetitoux ooun
try. It would be bard to fix the western
' boundary aa defined in the treaty, but
1 one thing ia certain, the warrior*,'if de
fasted on the plains, oonld take refuge
in the moontahus without danger of
meeting a foe in that direction. They
are in position to raid on the border
-fttlementa of Dakota and Nebraska,
with little exposure to danger from
pursuit.
There are about five thousand effec
tively armed and well-mount)-! warriors.
Their weapon* are chkflv Winchester
rifles and needle guns. Their supplies
of ammunition are not very large, bat
with the Indian's caution against throw
ing away shot, the supply ia thought to
be suflLjteitt to last a year. The Indian
chiefs, notably Lone Wolf, express
great contempt for tbe fighting quali
ties of tbe soldiers, and apeak of liicra
in derision aa squaw*. A year ago there
waa no concealment among the chiefs
that they had procured ana learned to
use the improved g.na, to better defend
their own country.
San* of Temperance.
At the annual meeting of the national
Sous of Temperance of the United
Stale*, F. W. Bradley, 11. W. P., in his
address said: In some of the commer
cial and manufacturing centers we have
met with heavy losses, yet these losses
are more than balanced by the gains at
other points, and we have the privilege
of reporting a net gain for this year of
one national division, one grand divi
aion, and nearly two thousand nr rubers.
The membership of eastern New York,
New Jersey, ana Pennsylvania, three of
oar large and influential grand divi
sions, has been reduced in five years
from 41,000 to 20,000. lam unable to
account for these heavy losses.
The report of the il. W. 8., Samuel
W. Hodges, was received, and recited
that the number of the divisions in the
United) States was 1,974, for the term
ending Deo. 81, 1875; number of mem
bers withdrawn. 10,594; number sns-
Cnded, 17,435; total number of mem
ra at present, 89,319; total receipts,
$151,263.06; paid for benefits, $lB,-
197.99; cash on band and invested,
$265,044.01; public meetings held,
3,733; the net gain of membership last
year was 8,322, and the net loss 7,105.
Naming the Babies.
The Sioux Indians name their pap
poose* after events transpiring at the
time of their birth. As illustrative of
this peculiar trait, Red Cloud is known
to have taken that name from the fact
that the Western sky was overspre:ul
with red clouds at the moment of hi*
birth, while the bringing of a captive
horse with a spotted taxi gave the now
great chief the singular cognomen of
Spotted Tail. Sitting Bull received this
name because a buffalo bull was, by a
lucky shot, thrown upon its haunches,
in plain sight of his mother's tepee at
the natal hour, while the cavorting* of a
tractions pony furnished a name for the
redoubtelde Orasy Horse.
A BTOOK OOMPANT.— By the rules of
the United States House, says a Wash
ington correspondent, the doorkeeper is
allowed 875 per month for carriage hire.
Fitshugh conceived the idea oi purcha*
ing a pair of horses and a carnage and
hiring it ont to himself at government,
expense. Not having the wherewithal,
however, he organized a stock company
of one hundred shares, at five dollars
each, which were taken by his subordi
nates, and purchased an outfit. This
was early in the session. The stock com
pany was a suooeas, so far as Fitihngh
was* concerned, but no divide riw w. re
ever declared.
Froxsn blue is a new style of evening
silk. Yon can get the exact absdr tn
flavoring your loe cream with a little
indigo.