Ufa la Death.
1 or* at* in ti fa. .larliag,
Eovs ms in <t*Ui.
E'an wtisn my brsatk
'A *m to warm thsw
Ami my sold faoa
C ■* to charm Uim,
flunk of ilia day*
Whan I wan thins, darling,
if.i. ti thou were nuns, darting,
or if the gray light
Makss thse forget nn .
Come with the night honra,
(live them to me.
Make them my bright hour*.
Tlien atiali thou ha
Ml the day free.
:iay stall tie night to me,
laiiiaUe.l from the*.
Hark shall be light to me
1" weut with thee.
The Christian Life.
Life hath its barren rears.
When . ! fall uiituuely .low it
When t potted fruitage fail* to crown
The sti umer toil : when nature'* frown
I, H'k* only ou our tears.
Life hath its faitlilese .lay*.
The golden promise of a morn.
That n -med for light aud ghulnem born.
Meant only ncontidi wieck and <x>rt\
Hushed harp matsad of praise.
Life hath its valleys 100,
Where se ntu*t walk wirh run regret.
With morning rfothad, with slid ram wet.
Toward Minhght hoptw that soon may *et,
All quenched lu pitying dew.
Life hatii il* harvest moons.
Its toiw. led corn sn I porple-wsicfcled vine :
Its gathered shear.*, .if grain, the hhssed
Mgn
Of pleuteous reaping, tread. aud pure, rich
wine;
Full heart* for harvest tune*
Life hath in. hope* fulfilled .
Its glad friutiou*. it* ble*t, answered t raver.
Swee'.c r for sailing long, shoee holy air
India wu to ailem settle breathes forth lu rare
li rat d speech, by joy flililhfcl
lender* a trlifwrl.
THE OLD HOUSE.
Th old house slowly dioppiug to
pi. .v- about the young people. Y. t, for
all that, they w-ie ■** happy as though
it wr • a palace building up about .hem.
Touth requires few conditions: it is as
suffice ut to itself as Eden; it is only the
uusati-tactory middle years, to which
the loveliness of the virgin world has
become a twice-told tale, that are in
sistent.
In truth, it should have I wen enough
Ui content any of us simpfV to be Rose
Mark - - the rose no rosier, the lily no
snowier, sunshine not m>re golden than
her L.iir, more dazzling than her smile;
a lovely Little soul and laxly, enjoying
every moment of life, and making it
preei us to every one within her influ
ence. She never thought of grumbling
that the house was shabby aud the food
scanty, but couL uted herself with bread
when there was uo dainty, au.l when
the r>x f leaked, m jv.xl her lied to an
other rix'Ui where it did not leak so
badly. Every timber in the old house
was d. ar to her, aud she never asked for
a better. So w,.nder everybody loved
Rose Marks in general, and her cousin,
Rog< r, loved her in especial; not her
cousin, that is, if you demand the lite ral
fact, but her step mother's uephew, yet
always called a cousin, snd always loved
like a brother. A brother I Well, no,
not exactly. People are not so very apt
to think whether or no their brothers
will like this ribbon or that flower, to
blush damask if their brothers catch
them gaxii g at themselves intently, to
pout at an iuatt uti n from their broth
ers, or to have their hearts beat like
wildfi.. a T a touch of the brother's hand.
Tb< e two children were all alor.fc in
the b .ae now, for Mr. Marks and his
wife 1 d followed the elder children,
who lat died when the great typhus
epi.it .aie raged some ten years ago; the
old f rvui.t, who had never forsaken
them bad gone ber way too at last;
and I. uis, one day taking the ancient
plate. ha.l sold it for enough to insure
the hon>e for a term of five years, and
formally resigning all right and title in
it to Rose, had bade her and Roger
good bye, and had gone to seek his for
tune. So R*e kept the old honse a
Rhe onld, and Roger pai.l her a regular
board from his little salary as clerk of
the only store in the village. Rose
cried every time she took it; bnt as all
the r t she p sstssetl happen* 1 to b*-
the o> w and tiie garden and what the
grass sold for, there was nothing, of
courre, to do but take it. How many
times Hose had reso'ved to go *'Ut by
the day and do sewi g since she had
been -ixteen • " I (*iii!d earn two hnn
drvsl ill-liars a v >.r. easily, 14 g- r," *he
voal-1 say, as she w ..-. m tpping it out to
Roger in th • evening, at the <-ther side
of the table where h*> was studying.
"A 1 what would become of me?"
Roger said.
" Vi'hy -wbv, you c-vnld have much
>otter dinners, you know, Roger, at
Mrs. Dean's"—
"H-iagMrs. Dean's! I should have
no home, I should go to the bad. It
is missionary duty to st v as y< u are."
•' But, Roger," then R ; se said, grow
ing red and redder, "some .lay, you
know, yon will be—married, and then
you won't want me round."
**Bh i'u't I r
" Your wife won't, at any rate; for
yon know I'm not even your sister, and
your wife, when you marry "
"Cui't you wait till I do?" thundered
Roger, getting up aud stalking out of
the room. "You won't forget bow to
sew, will yon !" And Rose began to cry,
and R ger strode round the place till
bedtime like an unhappy gh--sL He
marry ! Why was she harping on that
string f Did she want to marry herself,
and have him first put him** If out of the
way? And thereat he wrought himself
into a fury. Was there a man in all the
world who would dare to think of such
sacrilege as marrying his little Rom- ?
Never, never, should he have her ! lie
would stay here forever aud guard her:
ho W( uld make it impossible! And then
be felt that he was a fool, and that he
knew l<etter; he ku~w the modest little
Rose, living her s. 'ln led life, never had
the remotest sort of a lover; he knew
now tlir.t she v* lying all in white,
wrap-.-d in h.-r inutx-ent dr> ams and
thinking <>f nothing 1.-hs while ho was
mar u ling up and down the garden
path-. He wa* v.-ry much mistaken; sh"
was !.i ling tiehiDd tne window at that
mon.*-;it, watching him lietween the
streaming courses of her ti-ars as he
went up and down and tortured himself
with angry thoughts and passionate
emo'ions. Why had f.te fixed him so ?
he via asking. Why was there no
chance for him ? Why would no open
ing offer that be might enter and gain a
promise of sufficient income to justify
iiim in telling 14 >se wbst he felt—all
the wild wishes and bitter longings ?
Now a moneyless clerk in a village
store, he had no right to bind her for
tunes with his, to bring upon her, even
it she would, the weary cares and heavy
weight of marriage with a man so des
titute.
F->r look, even should she be kind,
should they marry—ah, whit throbs his
heart gave at the fancy ! —they would
have no more than they have now, and
as the years came and brought their
burdens, it would simply bow Rose into
thegrave. And she knew it, he thought;
yes, she kuew it. That was what this
.lesire to go out into the world m* ant—
to break up their way of life, to lie off
and away from him. Aud then Roger
groat led and clenched his fists, and
asked himself the whole round of ques
tions over again. Yes, why was he, of
all men, so placed that nothing could
i ver accrue b him ? no help reach him ?
no one hold a b nd to lift iiim up ? just
saffi re I to ) h I along from hand to
month whan a i-ttle capital wi-uld put
• Mm into attch a haven ? If he had but
a cou -'e of th on sand d- -lliirs to start
with, he could open a sec ud store here.
He knew the whole structure of trade;
k there was quite business enough for sn
k other without robb Lg the first; he
■ could even make new business. He
■f- knew jr. t where be would pi Lt his
stock of goods and put up his sign.
FRED. KURTZ, E.litor ami I Vopi-aXor.
VOLUME IX..
Ami thru, in spite of himself, came th>
picture of the bliwo-il time wbi'tt, \vi>rk
done, he *boaKl g*> homo, hourto ltw,
fair, ioyous, his, by hor tiro, or lookiug
out for hiui, springing to uteet him;
the scene grew *.* real it s.xwxl to
R-tgor ho cent t feel hor sw*x>t breath on
hia face, hor warm tram about him; ho
held hor iust *>ue d.xriug moment n tins
wnktng dream, aud then ho *at down
upon the stop and hid his faro 1U his
hands a* if ho would hide too tlio scald
iug toor* that Bud havo way.
Two thousand dollar* ho might jn*t
as well wish (or a silver lniuc ! Just as
Ve said th* wonts to himaolf, n soft clear
iwlisuw was welling up u*ur tho dusky
garde u, tu>d as ho raiMxi la* hoad aguiu,
after awhile, Ihort< came ttu> uioon softly
tloatiug up atot\e tin horizonof tho long
iutorvsl below. it ohoorod hitu iux
plieahlv, like au ouu-ii. a nromise; ho
shxxl up and struck one paitn into an
othor. " I will havo hor yot!" heoriod,
and weut into his dream*.
"Can you think of anything, Rose,
where we can ecououiu&o <" be said, next
dav.
" Economise !" she reii'iibil, gayly.
"For what? lit what? With what!"
"So that we can raise two thousaiid
dollars," he answered, gravely.
She sat down as suddenly as if some
gigantic hand had Ix'eit laid on her head
and hod crushed her into the seat.
" Two thousand dollars !" she gasixxl.
"We ixuildu't economised in two thou
sand years, for 1 don't kuow where we
waste a oent"
" I must get it in some way, then, if
I have to go out taw iug wood after
hours."
" Why, Roger I"
" For capital to go into business."
"The house would sell for five huu
died more than you want."
" The house!" he said. "That is not
Kokc sUxxl up, moving one tliiug aud
another nervously about the table ; hor
lips trembled, and all at once she ran
out of the room. " Oh, he cares noth
ing for me; he despises me ; he disre
gards me ; he would take nothing from
me 1 Because it i* mine, it is not his,
and he wants nothing of me."
• • She takes no interest in it; she
doesn't care a whit whither I go into
business or not; it matters nothing to
het," he sighed. "She flaahea ont of
the room aud atxmt her business as in
differently a< though I were the merest
stranger at the gate." Aud he jammed
ou his hat, and weut to his work, head
down, hands in pocket, and glo<>mv ax
the grave. All day long that rosy,
dimpled face flittiug between him and
* very customer; ail day long the awful
figures, $2,000, writing themselves on
the wall before him like a Atone, mrne,
trkel upharsin; and when, late in th*
d.iy, a cloud slowly rose and hutg over
the fields and marshes, till all the sky
was purple and all the laud was in
diadnw, and low thunders to gun te
growl in itx breast, and sharp lightniugs
i ap from it, it s* erne*! to Roger only
something in accord with his feeling*,
for it befitted nature to be as dark as
his own outlook.
It was a terrible storm, though, to*
fore another hour hat! pa**ed. l'eal
aftor jx*al the thunder craahed over the
little village, and tumbled its deafening
bolts among the hills; flash after fia-li
the ligbtniogs crackled aud unrolUxl,
and from moment to momeut wrapped
the place iu sheets of flame; and after
one report, wheu the heavens seemed
to shrivel like a bit of burning parch
ment, the l>ark of the century old elm
in the square where the little baud
played on summer nights had been torn
off in one long spiral from top to to*t
torn, anil the tree had nnswered the bolt
in a pillar of fire. A* the storm in
creased, 14oger rememliered Rose's fear
of thund* r, and plunged out into it, de
tormined that she should not to* ah-n**
in such a moment of at**olate tori or
Tbe rain met him half way, wors** than
any lightnings—a gray, stifling down
ponr, in which it was imjxwsihto to draw
his breath, snd his only refuge was to
take to his heels and run as fast as ever
any Lampa 1 ren a race.
She must have seen him coming, for
she S--t * p-U the dixir, though she sbxal
to'biml it. " What made yon leave
shelter in sneh a storm as this I" she
cried, and ju*t then there earn** an over
wb* lraing flash, the fir** of which seemed
to penetrate her brain. She clapped
her hand* to her fac* with a shriek, the
house rocked and the door swung and
-lammed, and she fell fainting npon the
door.
When Rose came to herself, she was
lying on the lounge where Roger had
placed ber, and the storm was slowly
rolling off below the horizon, with now
and then a smothered growl, and Un
rein wa* pattering only in thin sbowora,
which the freshened breeze shook from
the viiu-s and boughs. She sat up di
rectly, and presently, a* soon as she
fonnd her feet, went to the window to
look alout. The whole world s**emel
sweet and rich and glistening in the sun
set, with a soit of delicious umlerlight,
ami the birds were wild with music.
Rog*-r stood leside her at tbe window,
looking ont iuto the enchanted atmos
phere. They were both silent; and
jn.st then good old Mrs. Vance came up
the garden walk rom her owu adjoining
one, fearing Rose wm alone, and not
having dared herself to come to her be |
fore; and she staid to tea, ami wanted a
game of %rihbage in the evening; ami
when Roger came book from escort duty
to old Mr*. Vance, Rose just lifted th"
candle flame between her face and his,
und saying good night, hurriedly, wa*
uway to ber slumlter*.
Rog r went to his, that is to say to
his room. Sleep he could not. Hi-
Thought* were whirling at such a rate
with his < motions that he was wider
awake than evt r before. He stcpjied
ont on the old broken balcony of hi*
window and watched th<* slow wheeling
of the constellations, and heard the tiny
crackling sound of h-avex ami raindrop*
and pebble* in the garden, of some night
bird, maylie, tapping the bongb, or else
the dead vine branch besting on a win
dow pane, and he thought how hard and
bitter a thing wa* life, and half curmxl
it; and then the vision of Rise would
steal before him—the sweet, smiling
fac**, tho dimpled velvet cheek, the shin
ing eye, gentle motion, gvntle spirit—
and he said to himself that it wa*
enough for any one to live in the name
world with such a thing a* she.
But at length it occurred to him that
this waa enough of star gaziug. If he
were ever to be a man fit to win her,
even if unable, ho mu*t cease bis day
dreama and work, and to work he must
sleep. He returned to hia room, and all
at once, aa if aomething stung him at
every pore, he staggered back. What
strange odor was thia? what strange at
mosphere after the cool night fragrance?
Tlie room waa full of a thick pnngeut
child—it was the smoke of burning.
"Fire! fire! fire!" heshoutod, and sprung
through the door for Rose's room, only
to In* met by Htieh a strong, turbid mass
of moving darkness and noisomeneaa
and suffocation aa to stagger back again
a single m"ment before it. Bnt almost
immediately he wa* bounding throngh
it, throwing oj>eu the doors le
--twecn, and all at once, a* be opened the
third one, a great blinding glare fell
fr< m above, and there wa* the monstrous
horror of flame, towering and soaring
like an evil spirit that wiped matter from
existence.
But 'Roger uid not pause to think
what it was like; he only thought that
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
it iu.s swooping through an upper thsir,
that in a uiouioul tho do.tr must fall,
that he must roaoh li •*•>'* rooui. Tlio
house hud b on struok by lightning m
the stoim, and the smoldering spark
had K en making houduuy in the louoly
upper riKUus all tho doliciolia sumuior
ovointig, nil the tinio that he liad I teen
loaning ou his bahsmy drinking tlio
balmy air, all tlio time that Roue had
tox'U folded it! hor sweet "luiulx'r, all
the time he had been hearing that tiny
oiuoUu, aud thinking it was the mm
duppiug from the loaves upon the walk.
Another moment and orer its dull roar
came a cry: "Oh, Roger! Roger I
Oh, tuv dearest ! my dearest ! where
are you ! Do you know it i" And
11, we, with a cloak thrown over hor,
burst through her door, and was caught
in hi* arms as let leaped down the
stairs at one vault and tiore her out into
safety.
They had barely reached the gat.'
when the roof fell in, and though the
neighbors came thronging round, and
the engines were presently at play, they
st.HKI there with the rest, and saw it
wao of no use, and the blaze of tlio homo
of tlioir childhood and their youth was
ascending like a smoke of Haentlee,
11.wo stood folded in tho arms of Roger,
hiding hor eves from the dreadful sight,
as a oh lid might stand Iteside the grave
of a mother while it is tilled. " ls't it
go without tears, darling let it go,"
Roger whispered. "It i* a kindly
llame. The old house is still protect
iug us; it has lighted our way to each
otlier. Without it, we should still have
toeu groping in the .lark. 1 should
never have dared win you; you would
never lutve known 1 loved you."
" You are coniiug right home with
me, children," said Mrs. Vance, "till
we can turn round and see what's to tx*
done. Is the house insured? where'*
your papers l"
" They are gene," said luwe, " with
everything else. We are utterly jamiii
loas!"
It was just a fortnight after that,
when 14 >ger entered Mrs. Vance'a house
one night, lkac ran and clapped a bit
of pHjxr Iwfore his eye* so closely that
he could see nothing. Wheu he btopjxxd
Rick she was holding it over hia lij>s,
ind then half bashfully tiptoeing up and
kiixiug him through it. "Do yon see
what it is i" she said. "It is a cheek
for twenty five hundred dollars from the
insurance company, who have taken the
circumstance* into account. It is the
it surai'.ee on the buildings, and the
'.amis are still left. Th* l old house is
taking care of us yet, Roger. Two
thousand for your biiMUfs, and the
rut," she whispered, shyly, and blush
ing like a rue*' indeed, "to furnish the
uew house."— Hazar.
How a Chluamaß Itought a Horse.
The Cleveland Isiulcr tell* the fol
lowing story: Wau Lee had long want
ed a horse with which to collect and de
;v* r hi* " lnnndly " work about thecity,
•md cam" {,> the coßclusion to buy one.
While aiuil. -x!y strolling by t! *• Keu
nard House, he heard the jxxil seller
shouting: " How much for Fuilerton,
gentlemen; how much for Fuilerton f 1
am off.-red only forty dollar* for this
hone; tbe Maid sold for one hundred !
Who says forty five dollars for Fuller
tou ?"
Now Wan, in his travels, had heard
something six nit fat horse*, and ku*
that Fuilerton wa* "no slouch," ax the
saying ix. So when h* saw a chance to
buy him—as it struck hix heathen lutol
ligenc**—for only forty-five doliur*, he
concluded he had to-tter cli*s* with the
bargain ut once, and six-lire a horse
which e<uld whi-k hi* delivery wagon
around at a lively rate. With a rapid
n<xl he conveyed the knowledge to the
ell**r that he would give the forty five
dollar*, ami a* there were no higher bid
ders the purchase was made.
Wau edgtxl up to the stand ami asked:
"When 'a.* payee, and when me gettoe
boas I"
" P*y now," said the hurried clerk,
"and cm" around to morrow night for
the chance."
" Alle light," said Wan, ax he nuroll
txl hix pigtail, extract**4 hi* hard earned
money, and departed with the card
which sivurixl him tin* p*x>l an far as
Fuilerton wa* concerned.
Thursday night he was at the Kennard
.it the appointed time, and when be saw
the |*xl clerk, pushed his card forward
md saiil: " Alle light now—me wantoe
Flulleton."
" Fuilerton !" said the cb-rk. "He
Jiilu't win. Smuggler to* k the (xk>l !"
" Me oaree nothing about plool—me
waut*o boss!"
" You have no horse here. Yon paid
for your chance and lost it."
" Lost him? Me paid florty five doll**.
Me lost him ?"
" Y'es."
" Whab*e you mean ? You thlief !
You pay me florty five dolle or go to
ileeci* house!"
" Y'ou will get nothing," said the
clerk. " You bet your money and lost
it."
Wan went for a policeman, and ex
plained. When he learned that hi*
forty-five dollar* were gone forever, he
;hook his fist toward the Kennard House
and started for home, scattering Chinese
oath* along hi* path at tho rate of alieut
a thousand to the minnte.
Hood Indian, Me.
Tlie Indian chief Spotted Tail has his
good points. Hi* loved his dan. liter and
cherishes her memory. She wa* the first
born and the to*st beloved. She fell in
love with a young officer at Fort Lara
mie, and died of a broken heart l ight
years ago. Her influence over her father
was so overmastering, that he vowed on
her d* athto-d that hi* would make jteuea
with the whites, since it was her wish,
and would never again take up arms
against them. When the treaty was
made he a*ko*l to have the coffin con
taining her remains brought iuto the
council in order that her spirit might
witness tho fulfillment of the vow. All
these years th** old chief has yearned to
havo her grave near his wigwam, and
his wish has recently to-en gratifletL
The body was removed from Fort Lara
mie to Hpotted Tail agency, and placed
in a box u(K)ti four posts, in accordance
with the Indiaii custom. Tbe burial ser
vice of the Episcopal church was read,
a sermon in the Dakota language was
preached by tho chaplain, ami the box
was lower*•*l into a giavo in the ceme
tery near tho agency.
Af the Ball
At the grand entertainment given to
the Brine*' of Wales at the Guildhall of
the city of Loudon, losses of jewels
were plentiful. Among other things, the
Ducliees of Manchester l>st oue earring
of the value of £1,200, and ha* not seen
or heard anything of it sinoe. Another
lady liad the pleasure of seeing her
diamond comb, valued at £5,400, trod
den into dust beneath the feet of tho
dancers, without being able to get suffi
ciently near to rescue it A curious
discovery was made in sweeping the hall
aftor the dance. Home mouths ago
Lady Dudley, the most beautiful peeress
at present living, wa* robbed of jewels
to tbe amount of £50,000, which bad
been carelessly left in a case at a railway
station. A lieautiful antique agraffe, re
splendent with diamonds aud emeralds,
wa* found on the floor of the Gnildhall,
anil has since been reoogniz<xl as one of
tho articles which were stolen from Lady
Dudley.
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA.. THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, IK7O.
OIK CENTENNIAL LETTER.
The lit, *l< U OUl'lat -. Jupuw, llruil
illmr•#— 1.11in1*,.. l||,rrllnu,(iu. Note*.
UVI (ITlH'a.
The live st*x'k displav liegms, as lias
tox'ii noted lief* r*, on tin* nrst of Hep
toml>er, and will comprise 6,18 M head,
exclusive of pouttiy. The live shx'k
judge* will Illuke a general rejxirt OU the
origin, prog re**, development and prea
eiit tyjH* of *aeh br**Hl repreaeuted at
Un* show, Among the animals is a steer
weigluug 6.1KK1 pound*, and a mule
tweuty one ami oue half hands high, and
weighing 1,600 pounds. Both theae
W-I'll ileVelojxxl spiviuieliH of animal
life are from Teiiueaaee, a State famous
for gtxxl stix'k. S*ime of the ilogs en
tered for tin* bench show from Septem
to r4to 8, *v*st a* much as SI,OOO. The
steamship Erin left London ou tlie tenth
of August with s|xvimeus from the
lliH'ks aud herds of L>rd* Chenham and
Walxiughaiu, tho.*e of the Royal Agri
cultural sch'K'l, ami others. It is re
p*irt**l that Great Hritaui will semi a
hundred sjx't'itU' us of her blotxl* d cat
tie to the cattle t hi bit 1011.
JAt'AXBHK UEAXI OHNAMKSrri A.ND TOVS.
Kiyoto, Japan, eihibita some elegant
article* of th-ir industry in th*- shiqs*
of artificial flow. r>, hairpins, ind many
handsome article* for the coiffure. The
most c*i*tly otiiauieu's worn i i the hair
!ir*< mal*' of light col. nal totUii*e shell.
In manufacturing the article* tlie white
sjxitless part-* are cut out of the roil gh
tortoise shell, and by warming, press
ing and gluiif with the white of an
egg, they a r < xl *j" t into tourpum *if
all kinds, and ui istlv into th ■ 1 >tir
cornered pins, eight to u u lucl.-* long,
which are worn i. oi,tally through
the hair. Wheu light om! tnui*poreut,
theae pins are quit** expensive. The
brown colored tortoise shell is used for
exunbs, trays and baskets, ami is fre
•jtieutlv ornamented with gilt lacquer
paintings. From the same district is a
quaint collection of children's toys.
Fhey usually imitate animals, repreaent
iug linir aud fi'atliers with hemp ami
silk threads. Picture* are made by
pasting puce* of silk, cut to represent
different figure* of men and animals on
shet* of puj*cr.
ÜBKRIA.
Lito ria lt. s on th*' c.*t coast of Afri
'•a, mi.lw y to'twu'ii Sierra Ix-ont* ami
Cape I'almas, txtondiug 32tl iuihs> along
the coast, with iui average br* adtli of
••ighty mil* having ('iqx* M-smrado,
lat. in *l*g. iiiuft**'u mill. N., lon., ton
il* g. thirty miu. w.-*t, near the ivuWr of
its ix'axt hue. It waa founded ax a tx>l
ouy in 182 U. The government is n r*>
public, toii.g declared ind**j>eudeut iu
1847.
After an interview with Mr. Morris,
consul general, to whom I am indebted
for valuabl* information regarding his
Country, at lead a territory to whose in
tercets he has devoted the lx*st years of
in* life, I feel assured an intelligent ar
tide bearing u|x>n this country would l*c
..v.tph.'d . but letter sjutce di*s not a*l
unt, hence the reader will be contented
with a skeleton akctcliof the products of
ilu* raptdlv improving country. Consul
G oend Morris ext>laine*l to me the
working* of the coff*** trade of Lito<ria.
N hull holding thr*** grams, with which
li- decorate* his watcll guarii, was n
ut.iqu** and practical aouvenir'of tha
iviff.i' interests, it s*i-ms tliat, in spit*-
of the immense r<souroea 'if Hrsii!,
ami tbe rvputaiioii of Java, that Lito'ri
an coffee is protwnnce*! the beat in th.
market by muuy **xjH*rta. What th<>
opinion of the judgtw of award will to*. 1
can't say, but the grain wni to to
large, sru**>th and firm. For the tomefit
of journalist* who barter, General M.>r
rts aays h> requires one bu*hel of coff<-
in the liulLs for a year's subscrintiou to
his paper. One coffee tr*'e at Monrovia
has Ix-eti known to yield thirty jamml*
<tf coffee. Another *jx cislty with Ijl>e
ria is jialm oIL Sixt**in hundred jar*,
hermetically sealed, an* niw #i ruu
for the Centennial. Camw<xx], re*l
w.xxl, and barwcxxl are valuable wixxl*.
Au iron *t<sim*'r was bniit eipriwalj on
the Clyde for river ti*< in Liberia, and
wax devoted to pursuing the courses of
the different stream* ami interesting the
planter* iu shipment* to the Exhibition,
which movement wa* a complete suc
cess, and the entire structure of the *-x
hibit with its management is in the
hands of General Morris, who is justly
commended for his effort* in bringing
the products of this far-off country to
international recognition.
MIS' KLDAKROfS KoTBI.
The Argentine Republic exhibit a
cuiraa* nm*le of gross, a handsome
Yienua cloak without a seam, also a
handsome Tampa girille aud a variety of
fabrics made by Lh I'iiraps Indians. A
curious collection in the Argentine ex
hibit consists *>f lmlica' headdress, col
lars, bracelet* and gloves made of bris
tles. Au unpleasant thought springs
up in th" mind* of most visitors on
viewing Argentine boots made of snake
-1 skins. And oue can almost imagine
snakes in hi* boot*, in the skin at any
rate.
There is a portrait of Rubens, panels
from Gailait, portrait of Ocnsin in Ara
bian costume, eight panels together,
representing l ight g*>*ls, from Olympus,
with all their attribute* from Audi an.
Full length painting, style Louis XVI.
The taoestry carpets nre perfectly to*an
tifnl, representing in bright and attrao
tive color* different scene* in rnral life.
An Ail x* straw hat is quite pretty
from Catamarca, Argentine Republic.
Cordoba sends handsome mats made
of feathers, also some very handsome
flowers made of hair.
Buenos Ayr*** send* a gold necklace
and medallion representing the fourteen
Argentine provinces, pretty and instruc
tive. They send from Cordelia beauti
ful flowers mode of *x*ls.
Zurich, Switzerland, has a sjieoialty
ou exhibit in tig meal. Auother specialty
is snrrogate of coffee.
The most beautiful tapestries on ex
hibition are from Belgium.
Antwerp sends a gin made from line
grains.
A wonderful exhibit from Hwitz* rlaml
is a collection of cereal* from a sandy
soil. What has I teen added to make
it productive must lie a secret, as sand
entire is not generally adajitixl to ngri
cultural purjKtses.
The Japanese exhibit beautiful leather
made of soft deerskins, printed ami
dyed. This fabric is from fokio. The
Japs are famous for their paper; this
they make from tho " Kodzti," " Kaji,"
" (lampi," the Kuwa or mullierry tree.
Hi uo-ki, a wild cherry ; the bark if all
these trees and shrubs ; bamboo is also
used ; the bamboo is cut to'fore the
leaves are out, the pulp is mixed with
a certain per rentage of tho Kodzu
liber. The pajicr called Chikushi i*
really bamboo pajier. Home of their
ornamental papers are pretty and strong.
They use in writing on their (taper a
pigment known by tlio mime of Chinese
ink ; it is used with a brush, the pen toi
ing dispensed with as unsuitable ; the
brush moves very easily, absorbs tho
ink without allowing it to npread in the
least. Their cra(>e paper shows a high
degree of artistic industry.
Among the rare ami valuable Revolu
tionary guns on exhibition in the Uni
ted Htati s government building is a six
pound French gun, bronze, presented
by Ijftfayette, forming iaolosure aronud
model* of modern gnu plant, twelve
pound siege g in, bronze, mounted on
wooden carriage with timber ; eight
inch howitxer, bronae, Mercer. Anthony
Wayne's howitaer, intended to !>e iie<l
ou horselim'k, oast in Herman town, etc.
There are alao exhibited models of the
Ooustitutiou, M iKxiaalppl, Julueatowil,
Ht. Mary's, I'orUuuouth, (kmntolUtioii,
Niagara, Merrnua*', New Ironside*,
Hartford, Monitor, Keaiaarge, Yamlaha,
I'resi.leut, Ohio, Kittorprise, Washing
tou and Fulton. Part of the original
machinery of the toipedo lx*t Hpnyton
Dtiyvel, a steam lauucli, with tlie first
t*ir|*edo maehiu-ry us*d in the llu itxl
Htatea navy. J. 14.
The Cedars of L-ltamui^
Prof. Fraas, ail eminent German pro
fessor, iu a r<-c-ut Ixxik of travels iu
Syria and Palestine, give* this interest
ing account of the fumotis cedars of
LeUiuou : The grove of cedars stand*
on s rooky spur, which has been de
tached from the f*x>t of a peak named
Makmel, and has slipped downward into
a valley. The subsoil has nothing in
common with the chalk strata presented
by the contiguous sections of the range,
but is rather a mass of pulveriaod dust
1 uldied off the summit of the Makmel,
and accumulated at it* foot by glaciers
such a deposit, iu fact, as is frequently
met writh in Upper Suhia and Switxer
laud. The ground is brokeu into low,
irregular hillocks, divided by riiallow
valleys, which form no water courses,
but hold the ruin and snow water stag
nant till evaporation lias depleted tlieui.
Th** whole grove of cedars stands ou
seven of these small undulations, only
nine tree* K ing stationed, like outposts,
11 the extreme edge of the valley. With
tlieee exceptions not a cedar far or near,
:u -cover in the immediate neightxirhood
i tree or shrub of any kind, nothing
ureen or olive, iu short, till far below in
tin* Rscharreh valley you come once
more on tlie cypres* ami the |x*phir.
The area ixvupied by the tv-darx may
cot* r 100,000 square yards, and by
actual count the trees of this famous
for* *t uumlx-r just 377, the numerous
double aud treble trunks tx'tug reckoned
but once. The youngest of the existing
tree* date ltuck for many ceuturie*, and
not a few- are primeval, or thousands of
years old. That under which the pr*e
feasor pitched his tout was twenty eight
f*<t 111 di:Uii* t< r at the height of the
br .ist. Some nine f-et above tl.. ground
tin- trunk split into four stems, b ch,
after springing vertically some twenty
{> ' t fiirth* r, th*-n divergtxl and flung
< ut their huge arms at a right angle.
The while height of this colossal tree,
which, during a hundred generations,
has shaded the race of man, now scarcely
exceeds u hliuitr*-*! fet, all the tops of
its gnat boughs having lx*-n *ua|>|Hxi
a: I rent away t y the st*>rms of ceilttirlea.
the larg* ixxl-r, which stands in the
yard of a little Moroni to church, has a
circumference of forty five feet, but
th*-ro an* many whose girth range* from
thirty thn-e to forty. Prof. Fraas care
fully measured and counted the annual
rings iu a cedar six f*x t thick, which had
lxs-u sin vend by hghtnii g .luring tie
previous wii.tor. Taking this ami basis,
he calculi t> 1 t! t u!l the ♦-> •- :i?x>v<
mentioned must lie at hast 2,18 M vears
old, win!*' th patriarch of the /<r* *t
now oversbadiiwt'g tb.e churchyaid
should dale biu-k s : u twenty centuries
lx-f re Christ ; m other wonis, hav*
wittv-secd the dawning of tlie AHavrion
■ n.p.re, Hi-d may have idiad.xl the tbx-ks
of Abraliam.
The profess* r -t .t*-s it as a fact that
*ot •of th*- * -1* t t i whi- h Solomon
tu i Cyr ,i *i Alexander sytred hav*
Ix-i o >■ * • .1 < v.r vritii the s n „ H 0 f
wi.i 'li'd toiirista, dep gashes, aoioe
tim i a ' ttu Ici.gth, luiving Ixwu cut
with ju . it *f * r the crc.iib.l4" pur
p i li ■- i s.'t, t i, that not al<w of
ill' "n'st c< .U have K* U a' tooly s.'t
*•. Bn By. I - of Igtbu
is . garde! by t. r '>* v.itli Mi, r
stitiomi ri'vereticu ; and tiicre ia a legend
that wheu Ibrahim Pasha determined,
forty years ngo, t*> fi-U the grove for a
pahux* at Cairo, and dispatched a foreign
carp*- .t* r to the mountain, at the first
stroke of the sacrilegious ax the work
man's hand withered at the root.
An Extraordinary Mill Cave.
At tin* Mtiilingar assises, in Ireland,
an action, " Pur.lon na.i others against
Earl of Longfor.4 and others," washeanl
m-outly to aanertaio the right of claim
ants to the property of tlieluto Adolphua
Csxike. Tim testator dual in March,
1876, tx-ing then more than eighty years
of age. He had never lx>*n niarriixl, and
he had been for yixir* subject t • aggra
vutod Ixxlily ailments. 11* was j oexow.
*- l of valuoid*' pnijH*rty in the county of
Westnii-ath, tho rental amounting to
idxuit five thousand pounds annually.
He tin-1 1 N*en in the army, but was gen
erally i-tat ion *>d iu remote countries, nu.l
never n>xi beyond the rank of a snhal
taru. He wax a totol dislieliever iu all
! religion, revealed or otherwise, and lt
also repudiate*! I lie existence <f a (i*d.
H* was a bcliev- r in the transmigration
of souls. He would not allow his s*-r
vant to flog a <bvg, as his notion was that
th*' soul of his grandmother was d* sign
! o*l to dwell in a dog at some period or
other. His fixed idea was that he was
destined to be a fox at some remote pe
-1 ri<xL He Ix'lioved that all animals were
• gentle unless provokixl by man, ami on
one occasion he wont into a fluid where
there was a bull. He was anxious to
conciliate the bull, but the animal did
| not understand this attention, and very
nearly demolished Mr. Cooke. lie an
nually ran-e*l sticks to lx> collected for
tli< crows, to facilitate them iu nest
building. Ho thought that tri os, when
cross out, would have no difficulty in
growing if again stuck into the ground.
Mr. Cooke also refused to allow himself
to bo buried in consecrated ground, lie
caused a tomb to tie built for himself in
■ ti. 1.1, nt a<Mt of £6O. In thai tomb
were arm chairs and lounges, which he
frequently used.
Infanticide in England
On one day, says the I'all Mail (la
zrftr, no lex* than four inquests w* re
held in Haddington on tho remains of
four small children, three of whom be
yond doubt liad to iui killed. Oue child
about throe months old had lteen found
dead on a doorstop in Ksnsiugton Hark
gardens. In this case it was proved
that death wa* caused by neglect at
birth. Auother child wa* fonnd in the
waters of the Paildiugtou canal horribly
mutilated. In these two cases, verdict*
of " murder " were returned. Another
,-axe—that of n baby whose laxly wux
picked up in Sutherland gardens—wu*
adjourned that a post-mortem examina
tion might to* miulo. The case of a ehiltl
whose tot y was found in Hyde Hark
toriaco wan also adjourned, laung con
sidered of "**> much gravity " that au
application was mado to the homo sec
retary to offer a reward of £SO for the
appr* hcusion of the murderer. Tho
victim w;. a little girl atotut five or six
mouths old, apparently just recovering
after vaooiuation. Thobody when fonmi
was "attired iu superior clothing," aud
a lady'* pockethandkerchiof was tied
tightly round it* throat.
Hf.avkn'h Own Ciiiud.—A little girl
in Beading, Ha., recently aw an old
druukon man lying on a doorstep, the
per*juration pouring off hi* face, anil a
crowd of children preparing to make fun
of him. Hhe took her little apron and
wiped his face, and then looked up so
pitifully to the rest and made this re
mark : " Oh, any, don't hurt him.
He's somsbody'a grandpa."
REN. ( ItOUK'K INDIAN ALLIES.
Itn r nffi r I fir Mbit ti litflutrs lb*
I raws ftiid Mmiliunr. !• flfbl.
Reference to (Jen. Crook'a Indiaii al
lies reminds me, says a ourrespumh-iit
with the army, that a few noU-e on lh*-n
history and |Mxuiliar traits may tw of in
ter't. Alx>ve all >ther consideration*
which h-u-t the alli*-s to participate in
tills war is that of reveuge. Looking
back even Is-voinl his childhood, the
able bodied Hhoshoue, Ute or Crow
knows nothing of tradition or exnerienee
which do-s not whisper " War to the
knife wifli the Hioux !' And the Hioux
include the uortherii Cheycnin-s and
Arapati's-s, taxwuse they sail under the
same colors in time of war. In pushing
westward into this grand central post
tion the Hioux have in a measure dis
placed and reduced in numts-rs each of
the friendly tribes named. The Crows
driven steadily northward, the Kho
shones toward the setting sun, aud the
Utea far southward, have each in turn
had their aavago pride humbled and
their wealth sadly dimiuishad by the
ruthless incursions of this powerful oubi
liiuatiou of the Yellowstone. During all
these years uo single tribe could think
to cope with that of Bitting Bull or his
southern chieftains, now sometimes
found at the agencies. They have, sin
gularly enough, submitted to annual
thrashings and the loss of thousands of
|mjuics, without ever forming a combina
tion to " wqxi out " the common heredi
tary enemy,
Tin* Ute* have a tradition in regard to
one of tlieee contests, which oocured on
the shore* of Grand lake, in Middle
I'ark, Colorado. The northern Chey
euiio* and Aru|*ahoca —whosoxlesoeud-
unt* arc fighting us now—had marshalled
their hosts, and sought th Ute* on their
own romautic hunting grounds. A
pitched battle of great fury raged around
th*- shores of Grand lake for several
day*, when finally the Utea were hurled,
tx-ateli, to the Water's edge, aud retreat
cut off. A few rafts were hastily lashed
together, and the remnant of the defeat
ed txind pushed out ou the broaii lake,
a* the last alternative. A terrible storm
arose after the Ute* were safely out of
reach of honlile bullets, and soon the en
tire tiand was drowntxl. The Ctes lie
lieve that the (ireat Spirit had a hand in
the matter, and to this day they will not
go within gunshot of Grand lake. Wa
shakie, thv great chief of the Hhoshoue*,
beside* having mauy old scores to s*-ttle
up ou tx-half of his tribe, hail a son shot
recently by the Sioux. He is here, and
w ill personally lead his eager braves in
ensuing contest*.
While writing those things, I should
not overlook a strange report which
comes from the north, lt is to the ef
ha't that the Crows are trading ammti
nit ion to the Sioux for poniea. In his
prexelit time of great need the Hioux
would, of course, exchange anything
hut his sualji for ammunition; but it is
rath* r a severe strain on the average
credulity to to lieve that even an Indian
would Loud missile* of death to his
hereditary enemy for great pecuniary
gam one lay, and theu fare bini in bat
tle the 111 xL
AH m< lorn equestrianism dwindle* to
nothing] • x* when com (tared to that ex
hihitod by tha Bboxliouo* and Crows,
llur ( Kul rider *e'ia grown together;
and, no matt- r whether it is up or 4uu
au angl* of forty-five, or across the level
plain, the ut* rage warrior is happiest
and meat gr.xx ful wheu hi* i*ouj runs
foxL-xt . '.< d plunges wildest. Tbe rider
pa\u lift- ctteutioD to rem or bit, but,
by swuymg hi* body to *,. d fro quickly
and easily, turn* hi* animal in any de
sire 1 diioction. In )>*rdc* around
camp iu richest war attire th* ir apjtcar
aooe i* nn-st striking, ami so full of tlie
extravagant thet we cannot but think
of son." rgixms panorama. Their iq
peitranoe ix no 1* xx savagely aKmgtnnl
than it is original. This alno often leads
ux to thiuk that an Indian is an Indian
tho world over, and that their very allies
take as supreme a delight in mangling
the liody of a victim as the veriest
Sioux that ever cominitbxl a massacre.
They are all jolly souls, too; but mort
of their humor lias a very ghastly turn,
lt generally hinge* on triumph over an
enemy, the uttor destruction of tht
sneniy, and the capture of his property.
They are merely a specie* of huniau
bloodhound, taught to run down the
Hioux instead of the white. But, at any
rate, their aid i* invaluable to such war
fare as this, providing that tin y will do
what their strongest instinct, their uniet
ardent *l* sire, ar-d not a little courage,
imjel them to do.
Horrid Heathen Custom-.
A corrcqjondent writ* sax billow* from
Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies:
I saw a sight u irtau might never see iu
liis life, and one that I don't want to
xe again; It wax horrible. A sight that
you hear rtltotit nt home, bnt you hardly
think it i* true; nevertheless, I've eetn
it with my own eyes. It was the great
religions holiday of the native East In
die*, Coolies. They look like demons,
entirely naked, tattooed, long hair, ring
in their ears, noses, toe*, arm* ami
ankles. About forty keen beating on
tom-tom* (drums'), ami all yelling. A
man dances forward, knixds, put* out
his tongue a* far as possible; another (a
priest) take* a piece of blunt st<*l and
jam* it through his upper lip, tongue
and 1> • < <-r lip, and leave* it there, and
that ! How diuioxl with the steel through
hi- 1 ■ aud tongue for an hour or two;
tin :: they pulled it out.
In gine, if you can, how that hurt;
but tin* fellow never moved a muncle,
n< v"i \> iuetxl, not a groan or erv, either
when they put it through or took it out.
Tln-y did* tho same to a girl. Then half
a d-.. uor more men liatl their bodies
pier.. 1; first they cut a hole on each
side ami then jabla d a piece of steel
right through; not a cry from one; all
the u hi!" the r< st sing aud dance and
the torn torn* plav, raising a terrible
row Then cnue the ceremony of walk
ing t! tigli fire. There is an oblong
pliuv i irked out on tlio ground, about
ten toet by twenty, the grass dtig out
and a large fire of l"g* built in the mid
dle. It burned Irom twelve o'clock to
five; four Coolie* kept stirring it all the
while with long poles.
When tin* logs wi re burnt to red-hot
coals they were raked down all over this
place t> tin* depth of about throe inches.
Then tlx* procession marched up with
their " gods," torn t urn aud ts'lls, and
the firs:, th man who had his lips
pierced, carrying a golden cup iu hi*
liaiul, naked, long hair in curls down
hi* back, painted like a demon, ami
xinging, dauc l nottinliy right through
that fire, not faat either; he went through
it slowly; then about ten walked through,
anil the rout, some of tlieui women with
babies on their shoulders, hurried
through. I hurri-d away home; didu't
sleep much that night.
A Coincidence.
A gentleman at Saratoga, aftor waving
his handkerchief for half an hour or
more at an uukuown lady whom he dis
covered at a distant point ou the shore,
wax encouraged by a warm response to
his signals to approach his charmer.
Imagine his foeliugs when, ou drawing
nearer, he saw that it was hi* own dear
wife, whom he had left at the hotel but
a short time before. " Why, how re
markable that we should have reoog
iii7.o<l each other at such a distance," ex
claimed belli in the same breath, and
then they changed the subject.
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HOW CENTER FOl'HIl T.
A .%• w (rraanl al IS* Trrrlblr Maaaarra-
Th* Ou* gnliXful laSlaat— A Thrllllas
llr*rrt|*lt*n.
Tlio following letter lis* lieeu received
lav Mt. Jam* s Mainuou, of Detroit,
from his am* Jti rues, who was an eye
witiiesi of th*- Custar massacre, lt is
the outy account of ttial V rrible affair
yet written by a witness of it, aud d<-
tails many incidents not yet giv*-n to lb
public:
Dkah Fatueh—We left camp on the
fifteenth of June and sarted for the Big
Horn river, 150 mile* north of here. We
were four days ou the march thither,
where we joined Terry and Coster, and
marched north ou the l*ank of the Big
Horn. Striking the Little Big Horn,
we followed a well marked trail aiuii£ its
liatiks, and ou Jnue 24 we came in sight
of an Indian village with about 1,800
tents, aud a fighting force of 3,000.
Major lleuo, in whose command 1 am,
oumtaau Jed the left flank and Castor the
right, sad the fight commenoril by
Itouo'a charging on th Indian village,
fighting on f**ot, having tied the horses
iu s grove a short way off. While the
fight was going on, Genera) Custer
reached the other side of the village aud
attacked it. (Jeueral Ouster and his five
coni|Ntui**s took jMisition on a ridge in
the center af the ludtan camp, cut off
from access to water, and there fonght
desperately all day long, a conspicuous
mark fur the savage marksmen all around
them.
At last, when half his command had
beeu killed, he called ou tiioac that re
main*xl to follow him, and dashed boldly
through the red devils. It waa running
the gaiuitlot of at least 2,000 title* for
the whole distance. His men did not
follow him, aud when he got through he
found himself alone with a single Crow
Indian, one of las scouts. He would
not leave his men to jx'rish alone and
turned to go back, but the Crow, recog
uiaing that such a movement would l>e
fatal, grabbed hia horse and implored
him not to go back.
Custer laughed, and, putting the reins
of bia horse between bis toeth, with a
revolver in each hand, he gave a wild
cheer and dashed hack through the
smoke and flying bullet*. Aa if by a
miracle be reached the remnant of his
command, which was now reduced to
forty men. (killing on these survivor*
again to follow him —which the example
and success of hia former charge di
pueed them to do—he led them from
their place of peril over the j*oth of his
solitary charge.
That was the last seen of them until
the battle was over, when the whole
party, with Custer in their midat, were
found stark and dead within a circular
rampart formad bv their horsea* bodies.
They had evidently at the laat moment
made up their minds to aell their lives
dearly, shot their horsea, and then, rais
iug them as breastwork, fought ou with
the vig.ir of despair until tin* laat man
was dead. What they suffered and
what they did within the fatal circle
will ev* r r< maiu locked in mystery.
Of all Ouster's men only the Crow scout
alxive mentioned ami a sergeant of com
pany I eaoapaa.
From the description* in the papers
you cannot imagine the horror of the
"*cetn after the l*attie. 1 went over it
with the artist as the dead lay in heapa
where they fell, and I shall ever remem
tier it. General Castor was found with
all his clothes upon him, but hi* two
brothers were tornhly mutilated. When
the fight was in progress the Indian
squaws would rush in among the
wounded soldiers and beat out their
brains with clubs.
A remark-ble story ia told of tho fear
ful • oene at the death of Charles Rey
nold", Coster'* chief scout, and the best
-ii.*t on the Missouri nver. lie waa shot
ou u*c l*-ck of his horse, and in falling
ennght the horse and killed him, and
making a breastwork of the beast's body
he commenced a terrible slaughter of
tlie Indians. He lay behind hia horse
dying and still shooting, and every shot
he fired his deadly aim sent a savage to
the earth. When he wa* taken off tbe
field aftor the fight twenty-two dead In
dians were found around him.
At the time of the fight I was sent
with a soldier on a message to the month
of the river where the boat wa* to call
for General Gibbons' command, and he
said General Terry came just in time,
one ou each side of the river. When I
reached the mouth there wa# no way of
communicating with Gibbona on tbe
other I>ank, except by swimming, and no
one dared to trust the rapid and treach
erous current. I peeled off and dashed
in, reaching the other bank without
milch trouble, and was euabled to reach
Gibbous on that terrible day, ayd bring
him to the rescue of the struggling Reno.
He and Terry, marching tip wither bonk
of the river, did not reach the seen** of
th" Eat tie a moment too soon. Aftor
fighting from two o'clock Saturday until
Sunday, the Indian* coolly jmckod up
touts and decamped, leaving the grounds
in the hands of the dead and wounded
and defeated.
We are expecting an attack daily from
them, ami a- 1 liave got one of tbe to st
Indian ponies on the river, 1 can easily
get away with some of them.
J Aims Makxtok.
V brahman Debtor and Creditor,
A singular cos** of attempted suicide,
which brought tho Yodic superstitious
and the p ual code into eml*arra*sing
contact, ix r* ported by the Ailahaltad
c*>rr< spond* nt of tho Tim** of India :
"A Brahman of the Brahman*" claimed
* debt or a concession from an adversary.
His importuniti*** to-ing of uo avail, he
at last nvowixl hi* intention of sitting in
"Dharna" *t the door of the other until
his demaud should be complied with or
Heaven release liitu from his sufferings,
and so cast the blood of the holy ujstn
tin* hoad of tho obdurate. He accord
ingly "sat," but the ojteration becoming
t* diou* after a time, and not produriug
the di-sired result, be proclaimed hi* *to
termination to live no longer on the
earth with the stiff necked. With hi*
jaueo in one baud, and dnst from the
threshold of hi* oppressor in the other,
the Brahman forthwith leaped bead fore
most down the village well.
Heizixl with terror and remorse, his
opponent rushed to tho month of tlie
fatal well, aud, with hands clasped, iu
contrite ton*** besought Ins injured vio
tini to avail himself of the rope thrown
down to save him, snd only to come up,
when all would be well. Tliua adjured,
tin* holv niati ooDHonted to to* pulled to
tho surface of the earth again; where
upon he was seized by his adversary aud
hauded over to the police ou a charge of
attempting to commit suicide.
A Strong Objection.
" Arc yon satisfied with the jury, gen
tlemeu, Asid an Eluiira judge aftor the
jury had been impaneled.
" We are," said tlie lawyers in chorus.
A tall, gaunt figure rose np solemnly
in the jury totx and said, impressively:
" But I'm not."
" What's your objection, Mr. 8. ?"
inquired his honor, blaudly.
" This young man on my right, your
honor, has been eating onions.'
" Objection overruled; go on with the
ease," observed the judge, with a signi
ficant glance at the sheriff, and the tall
man sat down resignedly and held a
white handkerchief to hia nose as s sort
of signal of distress.
NUMBER :i5.
AKTIFiriAI.LV KAISKII FOOD.
luaMiiiiif iki ir ana • KM umi Tuk
It H Nlm.
The following horrible paragraph, the
New York World nays, we And dailv in
oar exchange* —indeed, it ia one of those
thoughtlessly scissored and pasted
Uitngs doomed to go the rounds of the
press and return in a year or two for a
(realt start, translated from the Tokio
Thutvtrrer. Here it ia:
" Wrap a trout in brown paper, put it
in the ashes with a few live coals atop,
and in fil.eeu minutes it will be a dish
fil for a king."
Pit for a king of the cannibal islands,
possibly, for when a man possessing
reason considers whereof brown paper ia
made, aud wherewith it ia colored, and
Lheii imagines such ingredients perme
ating and flavoring the delicate sub
stance of the moat delicate of fish, the
ofieration can only be fitly likened to
wrapping a reed bird in worm eaten
seed-leaf totwooo and baking it in a
limekiln. As brook trout, however, are
to-day quoted in New Yorkat one dollar
a pound, must of the familial which
might be tempted bv this pestiferous
paragraph into sin. will find the brown
I taper more easily come at than the
brook trout.
Thia "brook troot" business, how
err, ia a mere fiction, of one origin
with the diarepntable practice of dab
bing any big, bloated, watory oystor a
" aaddle-rock," the real, old-time " sad
dle rock " being at leant aa rare nowa
days aa an angel'a visit or s mealy po
tato. What with boahels of lime
emptied at the heads of streams to drive
the to the nets below, and cockle
cindering and other pot-Ashing infa
mies, there ia not a living brook tront to
day within miles upon miles of Ibe city.
The favored few to whom it has been re
v twin I under the moat solemn and awful
pledges of secrecy, know of a trout
brook or two up in New Hampshire and
Vermont and down in Pennsylvania.
Hut most of tin- tront brought to this
market are artificially rawed—spawned
and milted by hand in fishhousea, ana
thcresftet \ rought up in not over cool
or clean, shallow and springlens pond*.
They are fed almost exclusively on oold
boiled liver, chopped fine, and this food
the noor silly fish, knowing nothing of
their natural nutriment, voraciously de
vour and assimilate until their own sab
stance become# something which is
really and literally neither flail, flesh,
fowl nor good red herring.
Instead of the hard fleshed, wild fla
vored, gamy, genuine brook trout, sim
ple citisens set upon their tables a flab
by flah as soft and nearly aa tasteless as
s poud sucker. We used to bear stories
of men who were hired by the season to
flub " in the Adirondack# " for the Sara
toga hotels, while in fact Gridley's ponds
lay within a mile of the hotels, and be
had constantly on hard from 1,000 to
5,000 pood, not brook, trout of his own
raiting, and weighing from three-quar
ters to a pound and a quarter each, ac
cording to their age, of from two to
three years. lie used to charge city
Waltons a dollar s pound, the market
price, for the privilege and presumed
pleasure of " hooking out" a half doseo
or ao trout that might have been lifted
out in one's hand; for their tamenasa,
as Selkirk is made by the poet to say,
was positively "shocking." Of course
it would be unfair to class with soch fish
Beth Green's artificially procured spawn,
which, as spawn or young flab, an* con
signed to their natural stream, food and
condition, and attain table fitness in a
natural way. But for thia process, as
everybody knows, the salmon streams of
Scotland,* Wales and Ireland would long
ago have been fished oat. What oar
markets snd most of our restaurants due
play as " brook trout" are tront only in
a certain outside resemblance to the
original, for in all other respects they
are fishy franda. It is s question
whether cultivation is not ss fatal to
some kinds of food as civilization has
been to certain tribes of men, for in
stance the Polynesians. Of worse we
shall be told of the high perfection to
which crossing, culture and feeding have
brought our great " butchers' " meats,
such as beef and mutton; but even with
these the tendency has been to pile on
fst at the expense of fine fiber and fla
vor.
Artificially bred and fed fish, at least,
certainly an" a failure—n f.'ilore thus far
as cheap food, and a dead failure as
luxuries. The truth is, that all game to
be ••gatve" must have lived in its
natural state and on its natural food.
Every farmer's boy knows that quail or
partridge eggs hatched under a hen, the
wing clipped birds thereafter being
brought up in the barnyard, eventually
oome to the table with u-xt to none of
the flavor which the buds and berrvs
give to the flesh of the wild birds. On
the other hand, hens which have hid
away aud hatched their nests have pro
duced chickens whieh actuallv grew up
on forest food, and when subsequently
caught, killed and cooked, were found
to posuw the game flavor of the prairie
chicken. Sot that the prairie chicken,
bv the way, is anvthiug to boast of in
the way of a table luxury, particularly
when served up iu hotel style, with a
saucv of flue shot with which it was
killed.
A little wholesome scientific inquiry
into the deterioration and general good
for nothingness of most artificially raised
food will be touiid a good investment by
self esteemed epicures who pay a dollar
a pound for soft, slotted, pond frauds,
I'r isenly advertised as " genuine brook
trout." Such are indeed fit to lie
" wrapped in brown paper, put iu the
ashes, with live ooalv stop," and left
there, not for fifteen tuiuutee—but for
fifteen h'ura 1
A 1 dirge Family.
In the town of Washington, Ma<., on
the Boston and Albany road, resides a
family by the name of Tettro, which
comprises a large number of children.
The husband, Isaac, was born in Cana
da, iu 1819, but has been a resident of
the United States for over twenty years.
When about thirty-two years of age, he
was married to Lydil lioras, a widow
with three children. Sinoe that time
she h ia borue him twenty two children,
making twenty-five in all which she has
brought into the world. She was fifty
six years old when her last child was
lawn. Of this enormous progeny there
wis ouly one died in infancy ; seven died
after attaining their growth, and sixteen
are living. Tan were boys, and fifteen
girls. The second crop, or the grand
children. at present nnmber thirty-three.
The mother of this great family was one
of sixteen children, by the name of
Shepard, she was married when she was
sixteen, and widowed five years after,
iu which state she remained three years.
Her married life, therefore, comprises
thirty-seven years.
Terrible Atrocities,
A letter to the London Daily News,
dated Philippopolis, says : An investi
gation int > the recent atrocities in
Bulgaria is proceeding. It will prob
ably be reported that sixty villages have
been burned, and 12,000 per- ons killed.
Mr. Schuyler thinks the reports of the
atrocities committed by the Bulgarians
are unfounded. There are horrible
scenes at Batok; 7,000 bodies have been
lyimr there rotting in the sun. No
crime invented by Turkish ferocity has
been left unoommitted. There is ur
gent need of assistance for starving
families.
hen.
I ocmntad ell Ihs sonny days and faeaa
My Ufa had known.
And fc-nixl they guhorod ronad Us frte. ly
funs
1 sailed my own.
Ah. can a Ufa havs any joya or (Jtow
That haa no frtanV I
Whan fades tba baaaty of familiar fear*.
Ite glaiUaaa soda.
ItCM Of IhtßTWf.
THr right man una* r gets in the wrong
plac*.
The Mormons have been in Utah
twenty-nine year*.
The heat a man can do for hia State ia
; to be a good citixen.
Bathing dresses are "till made with
blouae aud trooaem, mt in one, o# bine
flannel, with red or white trimming*.
An inmate of a Michigan poorhonae
put hia gold watch and WOO under hia
pillow, and while be alept they were
stolen.
Samuel L. Evans, of Salt Lake, haa
withiu three months married the mother
■Old the aunt of a wife that be already
pomi'sarnl.
Who ever aaw a piano that haa nat
been reoomraendrd br Babimtdn, or a
aewing machine that haa not taken a first
premium f
Colorado produces |i5,00() in silver,
§IO,OOO in gold, and §I,OOO in other
metals every twenty-four hours, or $9,-
490,000 yearly.
The usnlnaa waste of money on wed
dings and funerals calls for reform-
Extravagance makes yonng men dread
marriage and death.
The wife of a well-to-do man in West
Harriaburg. Pa., doee gratia the week's
wash of her pastor's family, "Just to
spite her man," she any*.
A late English biography aaya that
Lady Byron onoe coldly asked br poet
husband when be meant to give up hia
bad habit of making verses.
A Kentucky father married the
divorced wife of hia son. it wn a re
bake to the young man for putting ao
good a woman out of the family.
In an toe factory at Galvaston, Texan,
the workmen go about draawd in the
thickest woolen otothes a* they more
about among the column* of aolid toe.
" Ton an a nuisance. 11l eomnut
yon," naid an offended judge to a noisy
pt raon in eouri. " Ton hare no right
to commit a noiaanee," (aid the offender.
A writer, in deacribing the laat scane
of •' Othello," had thia exquisite pas
aage : Upon which the Moor, aeuing a
bolater fall of rage and foiy, amotli.ua
her.
The Dutch core a laxy pauper by put
ting him into a deep astern, let in the
water, and provide him with a pomp
th.i by bard work will just keep him
from drowning.
The number of vessels on the regis
ter# of the British empire in 1875 was
37,136, oi 7,744,287 tons and worked by
342,335 srsm-r The increase over 1874
was 201 vessels.
A Ban Franoeeo theater manager has
ruled that " no lady shall occupy a seat
in the boxes, dress circle, or parquet
of his house if she insists upon wearing
a bat or bonnet."
James Converse, of lowa, gave hia for
tune to poor and needy people, as-uA
ing over 1,00 diffe-ent ones, and when
sick dying no one would even sit be
side him.
On hearing a clergyman remark that
" the world was fall of change," Mrs.
Partington said she ocmld hardly brirg
her mind to believe it, ao little found its
way into her pocket.
A young Highlander, taking leave of
his sweetheart one Saturday evening, re
marked : " I'll see yon the kirk the
morn if we're spared, an" whether or
no. 111 see ye on Monday."
A Hartford chemist profeaaes to have
discovered bow to get tlie fertilising
properties out of stable manure so that
it <an be transported in very small balk,
vhil" the residue makes first-class paper
stock.
A Kentucky schoolmaster whose wife
was one of hia pupil* hadoocasion to
punish her one day. The next day the
scboolhouae door bore this inscription :
"School closed for one week; school
master iIL"
The Fulleritos constitute a community
at Petersham, Gonn., numbering twenty,
living on faiinaoeous food, dressing
plainly, and profewing to have direct
divine guidance. Their belief is similar
to that of the Advcutu t*'.
When the train in within two miles of
the depot everv American dtisen rises,
crowds to the door of the car, makes a
wild pi mm* for the ferryboat, and then
stands leiurelv, with a toothpick be
tween hi* teeth, to wwich the procession
of sensible people that follow* after.
M. Gruner, in aailing attention to the
probable exhaustion of English coal
mines, eatiniated the maximum produc
tion of the collieries for all time at
250,000,000 tons. As it has now reached
130,000,000. be assume* that the mines
can be profitably worked for eight cen
turies to come.
Senator Sharon, in applying for the
reduction in the valuation of his Palace
hotel, San Franciso >, which was put at
$2,000.000. said that it was not paying,
nor soon likely to. It ooet, he said,
$5,000,000, bat labor and material were
then high, and it oonld not be soid for
half that sum.
In the Loudon Lancet Dr. Spencer
Tbomeoo colls attention to the use of
gelseminniD sempernrens in neuralgia,
in does* of twenty minims for an adult
every hour and a half. He has rarely
had hi order a thir l doee in any of his
forty cwsea, aud he has never found any
inconvenience result from the dose.
Whan corn arrives at full roasting ear
state, it can be most profitably fed by
being cut and fed stalk and ear together,
since at no jwnod is there more sugar—
which is necessary in fattening—to be
tound in the plant, and then hogs eat
every part with an appetite that shows
their appr> cidi 'n of the dainty food
provided for them.
Pa!" exolaimed Elmathan Dorkins,
Jr., to his respected sire, " pa, what's
the difference tween an elephant and a
treef" Mr. Dorkins said something
abont both having trunks, bat was
scornfully interrupted by his offspring,
who shouted : " 'Cause the tree leaves
in apring and the elephant leaves when
the menagerie leaves.
There are a good many illustrations
nowadays of the story about that man
who went through bankruptcy. He had
owned a flue horse and bugtiy, and the
team disappeared for a time, bnt by-and
live it wan doing service for the same
owuer again. On being asked what this
meant the man's reply was : " I went
through bankruptcy, the team went
round."
The man who brought the latest
tidings, as it were, of Charley Ross, has
disappeared. Mr. Ross lost his temper
during an interview with him, and ex
claimed, excitedly : "If I but made the
effort I could have you hung I" The
mau was either frightened by this strong
language or weary of repeating his lies,
for he failed to keep his appointment
the next day, and has not been seen
sinoe. It is said that Mr. Ross is con
vinced that the man saw tlie child after
the abduction.
Another Mastodon.
The bones of a mastodon have been
unearthed in Pike, Wyoming county, N.
Y. Among many broken portions of
bones there have been found in an en
tire state the tusks of the animal, five or
six teeth, a shoulder blade, numerous
sections of vertebra, and also what is
supposed to be a portion of the skull.
One of the tusks measured when taken
out about ten feet in length, and two
feet in circumference at the base. In
taking it up it was broken in three
pieoes. A portion of the stump of the
other tusk crumbled sway, leaving six
or ae.en feet well preserved. The teeth
vary in measuremi nt from three inches
square to about four by six inches. One
of them weighs about four pounds, and
all of them are iu a fine stateof preaerva-
I tion.