lnstiMta. Hsavaa gars Ui bee desire for sweets, And Beavetijsenda her.flowers | The thtrstv lanA.for'mnistnrs waits, At (1 Hseven sends her showers Nor .re the instincts of the heart Lees blest with Heaven', ere. Nor would Heaven sympathy imparl Merely to perish there. The heart that yearns for kindred mind To share its bliss or pain. Thai longs to love, shall sursly And A heart to love again. t Impair* Hying. Sinks the enn below the desert, Oohlen glows the sluggish Nils , Purple flame crowns spring and temple. Lights up every ancient pile Where the old gods now are sleeping . Isis. aud Gains great . Guard me. help me. give me courage lake * queen to meet my fate! " I am dying. Egyp', dying!" I*l the Cwear's army come - I will cheat him of his glory, Th utgh heron 1 the Styx 1 roam. Shall he drag this beauty with him While the crowd his triumph emgs ■ No. to, never ! t will show him What lies in the blood of kings. Though he holj the g. video scepter, Role the rtiaraoh*e sunny laud. Whc e old Nilua rolls resistless. Thrivugh the sweeps of silvery sand ■ He shall never say 1 met him Earning, abject, like a slave - 1 wil foil him. though to do it 1 must cross the Biyg.au wave Oh, my hero, sleeping, sleeping— Shall 1 meet you on the shore Of 1' uuvuian shadows t Shall we In death meet and love once more ! See. I follow in your footsteps Scm the Cam r and his might - For your love I will leap boldly Into realms of death and night bow n below the deceit sinking Fa lee Apollo's brtlliaut car. And rxwn out the distant .sure. Breaks the bright gI vara of a star Vein s, queen of love ai d beauty, W IcoiDoe me to death's era brace, by it g—free, proud. and triumphant. The last sovereign of my race Dytug ! dying ! I am coming, Ob, my hero, to your arms : You will welcome me, I know it— .Guard me from ail rude alarms Hark ! I hear the legions coming. Hear their cries of triumph swell. But, croud i'ear, dead 1 scorn yon, Egvpt- Antony—fxfell! - T\cm xi S. CVCisr Joe Gorton's Passenger. The day was drawing toward its close, chill and raw. Lake Village was almost always gu>ty, but just now the wind was having its own way more than usual, and any passer through the long, bleak street, happening to glance in at the window of the little tavern, might well have been tempted by the bright fire and good company inside the bar. They were the usual afternoon loafers, with the exception of one small, wiry looking man, a stranger, who, at the moment, was evidently the center of the general interest. " Bnt what is it yon know, anyhow, stranger!" asked one of the group. "Come, now, among friends." " Sever yon nund," answered the man addressed, " I know enough to shut up John Sawyer a pretty spell, if not to make him swing, and 1 know how to tell it when the right time comes, don't yon be afraid for that. The day's gettiLg on," he added, abruptly, rising t and turning toward the window, "and your duekpond there don't look over agreeable jffct now. Who's a good boat man hereabouts ! for, if I'm spilt, I can't swim." "Joe Gorton's your man," was the answer; "he couldn't tip ovei if he tried, couldn't Joe." " Why don't yon wait till to-morrow, stranger, if von're afraid o' the weather I and (hem eionds over there do look kinder pes! v," said the landlord of the Lakeside House, turning a practiced e J e on the gray mingling outlines of lake and sky. "Well, fact is," said the other, " I'm acquainted over in Mi'ham, and, if it's all the same to you"—with a wiuk— "l'd rather be there than here; so, if you'll hunt npthisjue YYuat's his name. I'll be obliged '' The landlord, rest nting the wmk and the implied insinuation, opened the door and calhai out, rather sulkily, to some one in the next room: " Margy, ran down to the water and tU Joe there's a passenger here." In another minnt" the house door closed, and a tall, slight girl's figure, with a shaw! over her head, might hav< been Been bnrryiDg down to the water aide. Joe Gorton, busy abont his boat heard his name called, and, looking up, saw the girl Margy. The sharp wind \ had blown out stray locks of her crisp, black In ir from under the red shawl, but the h ctic in the cheeks, and the L 1 feverish brightness in the dilated eyes, were not ail the wind's work. She came close to tbo young boatman, who raised himself up, facing her. • ••Joe." she said, "there's a passen ger waiting up to the house;" she laid her hand < n his arm, and glanced can tiously around before adding, in a whis per: " Joe, if oaee that man reaches the other side, it's all np with father." " What's tliat, Margy ?" said the boat maD, looking wonderingly at ber. " I tell you I heard it; he'll bring it home to him; he says he's come a-pur pose. It's father's chance clean gone if you take him across." "Do you mean I should refuse to take him. Margy ?" said Joe, slowly. " What good would that do?" said the girl, iiujeitiently. " Kelley or some of 'em WODU take him fast enough; what's father's life against a fare ? No, it's you must take him, Joe, and theu, if any thing happens," sinking her voice to a meaning whisper, "nobody but me and you's the wiser." Joe started back. " Marg, what's that you're thinking T" "J ctn't help it," cried the girl, pas sionately, t listing her fingers in the shawl fringe so that it suapped; "he's my father, and never was a better but for the drink —yon know yourself, every body says so—and, if you could hear that man up there laughing and boast ing he'll hang him, Joe, you'd find it hard to keep your hands off of him; but I don't a-k you to so much as touch a finger to h m, only, if the boat turns over, he can*' swim. I heard him say so, and then father's saved, and nobody the vjsir, for tie bent boatman that ever was might have an accident on a squally eveniug like this." " There, there, Margy, be still, poor girl, 3on don't know wliat you're say ing,' int riipted Joe. "Yes I do," she said, passionately; " never you think that, Joe Gorton. I tell yon it lays with you to save father or to kill him; yes, and mr, too, for if they hang him I'll never live over the day, and that I swear, so you cboos be tween as. Hark!" she turned to listen. " I can't stay." She pressed her hand hard ou his Bhoulder, looking up pite ously iu his face. "Joe, if ever you cared for me, save that poor old man! " And liefore be oould answer she was gone, leaving him looking after her like one in a dream. The clouds were getting lower and heavier as the boatman set off with his passenger. " Looks as if we should have a spell of weather," said the latter, glancing from the leaden sky to the leaden water. " Hope you're what they cracked you up to be, for if I got a ducking her# I fchpnldn't find myself again in a hurry." •' Well, I'm as good as they average, ■ reckon, mister—l didn't hear your FIiED. KTJRTZ. Kditor and "Proprietor. VOLUME IX. name," said Joe, looking up inquiring ly. " Fetor Groom is iuv name, and one I ain't aahatncd of; it'll bo pretty woll known in these parts by this day wook, I'm thinking," ami tho man smiled a smile not pleasant to aoo. "How's that I" said Joo, nuiious to Ivetrav no previous knowledge. " I* TO come to give evidence iu a trial that's pooling off in your pouuty town," answered Groom, motioning toward the Mi [ham shore. "I'vo traveled nigh five hundred miles on purpose to do it, and I'd travel five hundred more if 'twas needed." "Is. it the Sawyer trial von mean I" asked Joe, carelessly. " People have heeu saying there ain't evidence enough to make a case, bnt 1 'spoae there's eumethiug new turned up t ' " 1 should rather think so; something that'll make a oaae'll hold John Sawyer as tight a.* hie ixvffiu." Joe clinched hie baud on hie oar. He was beginning to underwtaud Margy's hatrel for thie man, with hie open exul tatiou in the rtiiu he wue going to work. "I'm eorry for the old man," heeaid, after a panee, " and eo are most folks about here. Wilson was known for a bully, and, if Sawyer really uoue it, 'twae that- that sud the drink, for when he'e himeelf he wronldu't hurt a worm." " You've no need to tell me what John Sawyer ia," said the other, ehortly. " I ktiewr him before yon were txtru, before even he ame iuto parte." "Well," said the boatman, " you've a queer notion of old acquaintance* sake then, that's all." "I'll give him a swing for old ac quaintance' sake, if 1 can," replied Uroorn, with a scowl. Joe drew a quick breath. " Can yon do that f" he asked. " That or a lifer. I tell you, my man, I saw it done." " You saw Sawyer kill Wilson f" ex claimed Joe, stopping short on his oars. " I saw him strike the blow that killed him, and that comes to pretty nigh the same thing, I take it." " But how is it you've kept back all along i" " Well, it's like this," said Groom, who appeared to be in a more communi cative mood than a while before. " The day of the mnrder—to begin at the beginning—l happened to lo pass ing through Mil ham. aud stopped over a train there to see a man I hail deal ings with, lie lived a little out of the town, a lonesome road, part of the way acros* some fields. I did my busiue*-*, sod started ba. k again alone, as I had come. Halt way, or thereabout, 1 heard a k ud of cussing aud quarreling in tie next field—right close to my ear it sounded, only I couldn't see anything for the high hedge. 'What's up I' thicks I, 'might as w-11 take a peep.' Twus at uncommon line evening; moonlight you could almost see to read by, and 1 knew Sawyer as soon as I set eyes on him. His face was turned ex actly to me, and ngly enough it looked theu. The next minute I saw him strike out, and the other went down like a " And you let him lay ?" interrupted Joe, in excitement. " You uever called for help, nor nothing ?" " What for ?" said Groom, carelessly. " I thought 'twas just a drunken qnar rel—l knew what Sawyer was—and I left 'em to settle it between themselves. I had to look sharp for the next train, so I hnrried back to the hotel, nnd none too sexm, either. I never thought agaiu about the matter, till the other day 1 happened to hear that John Sawyer was going to be tried for mnrder, and, talk ing this way and that, I found the time and the geu'ral circumstances sgreed with that evening—so, then, 1 knew I hail seen the ihing done." * Groom paused a moment, and when he rammed it was in an attracted tone "'Twasn't particularly convenient for me to leave my business just then ; if it'd been anybody else I'd likely have left the poor devil to sink or swim, as might be, but John Sawyer ! I tell von," he continued, through his set teeth, as, catching the boatman's eye, he appeared suddenly conscious of a listener, "I'd let all I've got go to rack and ruin for the pleasure of seeing Johu Sawyer stand there, a disgraced and con victed man, and saying to him : ' 'Twas me that did it!"' There was something in Joe Gorton's breast on which the fierce words and manner j arret! painfully. He was no preacher, this poor, untaught boatman ; lie did not know how to tell the man be fore him that his promised revenge WHS •ruel and cowardly ; bnt yet he felt that, even setting aside Margy's interests, there was something in it which roused ail his instincts of resistance. He shook his bead as be thonght about it " That's a feeling I can't make out," he said, half aloud. •' Can't yon?" said Groom, shortly, supposing the remark to lie addressed to himself. •* Have yon got a sweet heart, young man ?" he added, abruptly, after a short pause. "A sweetheart?" repeated Joe, start ing nt the associations connected with the uurstion, and the man who put it. " Well, you've no caue to be shy of owning it," said Groom, who bad no ticed the movement. " A sweetheart, when she's the right sort, is what no man need be ashamed of. I bad one myself when was your age " —he stopped a moment—" I don't s'pose you'd often see her like, I never did. There was a girl up at that place, that tavern there, had a kind of look of her abont the eyre an' forehead, but noth ing to compare. I had a friend, too— well, it ain't much of a story," Groom broke off, with a dry laugh, "and 1 don't hardly know why I tell it at all, only, maybe, it'll help you make out what seems to puzzle yon. The long and short of it is that my friend—mind that, youngster I my friend cheated me out of my sweetheart. I ain't much to look at, I know—never ws ; but I could care for a reman ju-t as much as if I'd been six foot high, and fresh as a rose, and I'd take my oath she cared for me, too, till he come between ns with a false tongue enough to turn my girl's bead. Well, he come off first best; she left me and went away with him. I Rwore ther, boy," said Groom, looking darkly in his listener's earnest face, " that if ever my day come, I'd bo even with John Sawyer; 1 never thought 'twould, but it hax, and do you think I'll let my chance slip now? No, and the man brought down his fist with a force that shook the boat's side. " That was hard lines, sure enough," said Joe,4 thoughtfully, "but, Mr. Groom, you was speaking just now of a girl up at the tavern, there. She's my sweetheart, and," added the boatman, slowly, " she's Sawyer's girl, his only child." "No!" exclaimed Groom, evidently moved by the intelligence. " Hetty s child," he muttered to himself, " Hetty's child I" " Yes," said Joe, eagerly, " don't for get whose child she is, aud that you'll mak>> her suffer along with the oi l man." "Ah," said Groom, "that's all very well, but I don't forget, neither, whose child she is on the other side. No I I'm sorry for the girl, and for you, young ster, since you've an interest in her, but I'd have my pay out of John Sawyer, now, if I was to die for it." Joe's grasp tightened convulsively ou his oar. Was the man crazy, thus to make a boast of the misery he would cause before one whose advantage and opportunity it alike was to insure his THE CENTRE REPORTER. silence; who had him almost as pom nletely at Ilia merer hers on this nil familiar element, as if thev two had tteeu alone in all the earth ' If he were to die for it I Kvery plunge of the dark water seemed to lie repeating those words. The tioatinaii roused himself with a start at the sound of his )>awien ger's voipe. " You're a oretty feller, ain't you, now," said the latter, resuming the sub jeot in a lighter tone, " wanting to per suade me to cheat justice after that fashiou I" "As for that," answered Joe, "you said yourself if it had l>eeii anybody but Sawyer you wouldu't have troubled to huut him dowu, and 1 can't see as that's auv tetter notion of justice than mine. "Besides," he added, gravely, "the old mau's got his death sentence a'readv, if that's what von want; what with the drink he ain't the rutin he used to tie, aud the night of the quarrel he got a oough that's tearing him all to pieces; the doctors say he can't live long, uohow." " He'll live long enough to make the acqoaiutauoe of a rope's end, 1 reckon," said Groom, with a coarse laugh, "and that's alt I care about." The brutal words and maimer mused the lurking devil in Joe Gorton's heart. He stammered out a etuvo, nuilirulate for passion. "Kh(" said Groom, catching the sound, but not the words "what's that yon say ?" Tho boatman stopped rowing, and loaned forward till he almost touched Groom where he sat. " Just put yourself in the old maun place for a minute," he begun, with au effort, speaking quietly! "S'puse there was somebody'd got the chance and tin will to get shut o' you, just as you have of old Sawyer " " What are you driving at now I" in terrupted Groom. "There ain't any body. as 1 know of, has got either- more luck for me !" he ended, with a laugh. "Ain't thtref" said the boatman, slowly. " You talk about justice, Mr. Groom," he resumed, " but it ain't jos- U.v you've set oat to do—it's mnrder. You've got the law on your side, as it happens, but all the same, as far as yon are concerned, it's uinrder—as lut of sight or help, should just put you jnietly out of the way " " Hey ! d'ye mau to threaten mo t" •ried Groom, springing up. Just theu he breaking gust struck sharp on the txiat's side, that, lefttober own gunlance, iiad drifted round ; she gave a lurch and i bound, that sent Groom, who in start ug back had lost his lat was nowhere in Might. There was noth ing now for it bnt to strike oat for the bore. Lnekiiy, the Milhsrn side w not now very distant; still, it van a hard ••retch through the numbing water, en timbered, as he was, with his heavy -iothing and the weight of Groom, who, moreover, himself completely helpless, 'ield him with a nervous clutch that half strangled him. By the time they neared :he shore, his strength was pretty well spent, bat the growing lights gave him heart again ; be rested an instant for the dual prll, and just then it was that the gust seized him. unprejwred, and whirl *nl him away from the inlet he was making for, to the rock ledge jetting into it, that canght and battered him |x>r Joe. lie was conscious when they took him up, but there was a look in his face that foretold the end, even lx-fore the doc tore did. As for Groom, he had Is-en shielded by Joe's body, and, tough and wiry as he was, was scarcely the worse for the whole adventure. Whan he heard what thev were saying n'oout Joe, he burst out with an onth, and hurried to where he lay. " Well, Gorton, and how is it with yon?" he said, affecting to speak cheer fully, though struck at once by that look of death in the face. " About as bad as it can be, Mr. Groom," answered Joe, feebly. "The old Ixiat and I 11 go down together, 1 reckon." " Now, never yon talk that stuff, my man," sai I Groom, in almost a bluster ing way, ptrhaps to conceal a certain unsteadiness of voice; "I own you a life, and I ain't one to rest till I've paid it, if it tikes all the doctors from here to Jericho. I've got means, I tell ye." "No use, Mr. Groom," said Joe, "there ain't no doctor could patch up what's smashed inside of me. But look here," and he instinctively lowered his voice, with a glance at the attendant, though there was little fear of thai broken whisper reaching any ears hut those close to it, "it's what I wanted to speak to you about—you owe me a life, yon say; mine ain't yours to give—but old Bawyer's is"— Groom's face darkened. "I swenr I'd almost rather you aked for my own," he muttered "But you'll promise, Mr. Groom!" said Joe, in his eagerness managing to half raise himself, "you'll promisef" "Well—l s'j>ose I ain't got no choice," answered Oroom,still reluctantly; "yes, I do promise, tlnro's my hand on it." A glearu of intense delight for a mo ment almost drove the death look from Joe's face. "It's all right, Margy," he whispered, softly, to himself, and laid bis bead back aguin. When John Sawyer hail lieen dis charged for wuut of evidence, when the Ijka Village gossips, wondering over the stranger's disappearance, concluded that his boasts had been mere idle talk to mnke a sensation, Margy could have told them better. She knew how it was Joe died, she knew that a life had been paid for her father's; aud in a heart softened by pain she acknowledged that her prayer had been answered in God'B own way. A Clerics! lilt. Ministers will have their little jokes like other people. " Come over and preach for me to night," said a Chicago divine to a clerical friend whom he met ou the street, not many days sinoe. "I-can't to-night," was the reply, " I'm almost down Biok with a head ache." " Well," drolly observed the other, " I guess you can do it, for if you preach as you fisnally do, you won't have to use your head any!" They they both laughed, and pinched each other in the ribs, and said it was a good one, just as heartily as though they had been tha worst kind of sinners all their lives. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY. A Yellow Feter Ntory. There was a curious incident in the (rellow fever panic at Navamiah which iss not attracted as much attention as it deserves. The hero of the mournful rtii aode was a young drug clerk. When the fever broke out at Havaiinah the whole force iu the drug store where he was al work deserted the post of danger and left the city. Hia rrieuds, who lived in Augusta, sent word to him to oouie home, hut he refused, and remained on duty uuUl tbe proprietor of the store or dered him to doee it. lie then went to another drug store iu Havauuah and worked laboriously as prescription clerk. He was kept so busily engaged that he had little time for his meals, no chauce to chauge his clothes and no op portunity for rest or amusement. His employer took the fever and died, al though the boy minted him faithfully. The (took took it, and he attended to her also and she recovered. A youug comrade was then taken ill and the stead fast druggist nursed him and performed hia duties in the store night and day. His friend regaiued hia health slowly, aud then the clerk was himself seized with the fever, but as he wan Mtroug and cheerful he sent word to his relatives that he had no fears. It wan then his companion's turn to show the kind of stuff of which he was made; and the material turued out to be pure gold. He nursed his friend from day to day, keep tug up constant couiuiuuioaUou with his uome by telegraph as long as the tele graph messengers could le persuaded to venture into the infected jiart of the town. His 1 M dispatches were : " 1 will stick to him to the last," and " 1 shall not sleep to night." Both of tbe youug meu (bed that ui^ht. We are not much addicted to what is known in the newspaper profession as gush, and have no desire to turn a com monplaoe matter into heroism by a few gorgeous phrases glittering m tlw* light of an overheated imagination; but we are inclined to think that some honor is due to the memory of these two youug fellows, and should be frankly paid. They found themselves iu the heart of a city afflicted with the plague, a place in which even brave men often quail and from which seltla). ones always shrink. They were iu no aen-e be/or* the public eye, and whatever they did was done through loyalty to their own impulses, not iu the Loi>e of reputation or reward. They had that kind of duty te perform which is the hardest that can lie put upon man. It was ugly, wearing, disa greeable and dangerous. The self-sac riflce required WHS not sudden and startling enough to win glory, but it was of that moderate, continuous and exhausting kind which only rare ]>a tieuce can stand. If these young Geor giaus had fallen side by aide in a battle tield iu the endeavor to sustain their tlag or rescue each other, no one would liave wondered at their death; but to tlud them wearing out their health 111 uurwiug the sick, and faithful to each other through weary vigils, is s sweet surprise. At a time when the national character ha* suffered a great deal abroad through the misconduct of offl eials through whom we are luaiulv known u> other peoples, and the Amen cm is pictured as a ham, angular, super ficial, unscrupulous reraouage, occur rences li'.e this at Savannah should bring us reassurance aud comfort. It iH only one incident out of many from day to day suggesting rare powers and pro penalties for good. Every skirmish on the plains, the overturning of a pleasure yacht, or the rescue of a shipwrecked crew, is su r e to bring some hint of a ca pability for heroism which seems to In in Americxn heritage. Few readers will fail to respond to the words of the correspondent who has told in a private letter the facts which we have just re (tested: ' Tbev were lirave boys, were they not I Does it make any difference which side or which flag such souls fought for twelve years ago f Can't you roach out and shake hands over any dis lance t"— World. A hia l -* maker's Kate. T LIP it* at an artificer in Itom who made of gUs* of FO tenacious a temjH'r that they were ait little liable to if broken as tbuM that are made of g<>hl and silver. When, therefore, he hiul made a vial of the pnrer sort, and such . s he thought a present worthy of Ow alone, he was adimtte.i iuto thepresence of the then Emperor Tiberius. The gift was praised, the skillful hand of the ar list applaudetl, and ttie donation of the giver accepted. The artist, that he might enhance the wonder of the spectators and promote himself yet further in the favor of tho emperor, desired the vial out of Cantor's hand and threw it with (inch force against the floor that the most solid mt tul would have received some damage or bruise thereby. Camr was not only amazed, but affrighted with the net; bni the artist, taking np n vial from the ground (which was not broken, but only bruised together, as if the substance of the glass hail put ou tho temper of brass), drew out an instrument from his bosom aud lieat it out to its former tig ore. This done, he imagined that he had conquered the world, as lieliviug that he had merited an aeqnaintauoe with Csßsar, and raised the admiration of all the beholders, but it fill ont other wise, for the emperor inquired if any other person besides himself was privy to the bke tempi ring ot glass. When ho told him ••No" he commanded his at tendants to strike off his head, saying : "That shonld this artifice oome once to lie known, gold and silver would lie as of little valne a the dirt in the street." Long after this, in 1810, we read that, among other rare presents then sent from the Bopby of Persia to the king of Spain, were si* mirrors of malleable glass, so exquisitely temjierivl that they could not bo broken. The Hood that Comes to L*. Much of the good that mmes to us through life is far removed from any of our plans or intention*. If we watch a child at piny wo shall see that his con tinual pleasures take him unawares. Gne by one they meet him titiexpeetoJlv in simple yet ever changing forms. When he grows older and plnushis enjoyments how seldom does he realize his anticipa tions ! Happiness elude* his anarch and defies hiR scnames, but comes in ways untbought of. It escapes from the am bitious schemer, who thought liis grasp upou it wa* firm, and dwells with the simple and loving hearts under the cot tage roof, who court it not. It flies from the banquet table, spread to en snare it. and itesocuds upon the frugal lioard, where health and peace and love preside. Complicated plans to secure wealth and power, fame aud position, may he successfully carried out without bringing halt the enjoyment which comes nnoalled to those who live simply, pure ly, trustfully and self-donyiugly from day te day, making no claim, hut receiv ing gratefully whatever blessings de scends u]M>n them. We would by no means undervalue a grand life purpose, or throw tho least shade of disrespect upon careful and well laid plans of action. They are in valuable, if we use them ns instruments, keeping them uuder a wise control and modifying them as occasion may re quire. They are only detrimental when we worship them, become absorbed in them, are bound down by them, and 8' ek good in no other directum. Like fire and water, onr plans make excellent servants but very bad masters. A Story, with a Moral. A gentleman of middle *f , who had always been a (armor, had cleared u|> and improved one of the liest farma in Maine, erected in'* autl convenient building*, reared a family, and wan u joying the blessings with which ho wan nurrouudod, lieoaiue possessed with tbo idea of selling hia farm. Friouda told him bo could livo no much oanior to go into the village, where ho could have a men bouse, a garden, keep a cow, and, if ho abode, a borne, and livo tiko a gentleman on the intereat of hia money, that ho advortined hia farm for Halo. 110 found no want of purchaser*, and the farm wait noon ilia posed of for a handnomo num. Thou the a took, forming tools, etc., wore Hold, aud the place that he had wrought with hia own hands, the buildings ho had I built for his own oobvouieuoo, and, ac cording to his own notions, the spot where he had raised his family, aud around which clustered so many assorts tionn, panned into the hands of stran gers. Vor a time the gentleman did not locate, as he desired to lock round, Hud a place to suit him, and see whore ho could ho happy for the remainder of his days. At last be found a place that suited him, purchased it, and settled down to life again. Hut things did not go right, 110 missed his old farm and house, the silent but delightful com|any of his cattle, sheep, and other domestic annuals, the scenes where he ha t pass ed so many happy yean, and the society of his old neighbors, tried aud true, 110 grew discontented, and was well nigh sick. His wife and daughters, also, were not pleased with their new home; it was half a mile from town, with a little land, and was what many would have called a desirable place. Having remained long enough in his new place—he could not he said to have lived at all—to Iwome satisfied he should never lie contested, he resolved to have the old farm back again. He went to the man who owned it, paid him five hundred dollars more than what he got, took iHWHaHaiuu again of his fa miliar tlelds and groves, and, having learned a wholesome lesson from his traiiHHTtiou, is now at work again U|MJU his old farm, a happier, wiser and bet ter oonteuted, if not a richer man. Its moral to farmers and < .tiers is, that when they get discontented snd sell out, they should be sure they are able to buy laek their old homes and business, when they find they have not bettered themselves by the change. A brand Pot latch. There was a mighty gathering of In dian* tit Saanich, savs a letter from l?rit;*h Columbia. I'pwaru of 3,000 redskins, iu 273 canoes, wore present. The occasion of the assemblage was a grand pot latch of over $15,000 worth of good* beiug given away. English blankets to the value of $5,000 were tbroan from tbe top of tbe lodges to be scrambled for by the natives lielow, who stood armed wub long poles, stuck full of nails at one end, to secure the prize us soon as it fell. I', addition to these, *oni" cnrioUH " j-r ivrro," made by the natives themselves from the wool of the mountain sheep, were also thrown. Three hundred gnu*. uuiongM whieh were some very tine doubled barreled piece* with prrraMk'n locks, were then throwu down, and caustnl a series of tremendous struggles, which la*td in sonic cases for marly an hour. Pieces of ihwrd representing sums ranging from SIOO to $&00 were then scrambled for after the same fashion. Three brothers gave 3.500 blankets as their contribu tion, winch had all been j it g exhausted tbe natives all got into their canoes and lelt, thus ending one of t'.e large*! meetings of the kind which has taken place for many yiwrtf, aud probably the I**l of any magnitude which will occur, as the rising genera tion of Indians se m to care little about pcr|)ctuatiug the customs of their fore father*. aud tins, as well as many other ancient practices, will soon be numlx-tcd among the things of Uie past. Alt was conducted soberly, and tbe Indian superintendent, Colonel Powell, and Police Superintendent Todd, who were present, were l*>lh struck with the ab sence of any sign of intoxication. \ Horrible Death. Home weeks sgo Alexander So>tt, a farmer living near Cherry 'ltll, Mary land, iudnlged iu an exchaugc of horses. The horse he secured was a flue looking animal, but at the time was suffering from disease of the bead. Mr. Boott believed it to lie •' distemper," aud did not object to running the risk. A few weeks ago Mr. Hcott'sband ttegun to inflame from a slight wound on the back of it, and Viecauie iu a few dny* a very ugly nicer, causing him a great deal of pain. He became sick of fever, and a physician was called in. He found the patient suffering from fever, but de tected nothing different from an ordi nary case of intermittent fever, and pre scribed the usual remedies. Tin- physi cian hiving occasion to 1 ave home, and the fever not almting. another doctor was asked to attend Mr. Scott. At the flret visit he prescribed for intermittent fever, having first inquired about the sore hand, and IN ing told that it had nearly beahsl. The next day, however, he found Mr. Hoott suffering with a rug ing fever, and covered with "button fnrey." The disease was unmistakably "glanders," and had been cotumum aitcd fro::, the ghuidered horse through the break in the skin of the hand. Mr. Hcott suffered the most fearful agony and delirium throughout two days, when death ensued. Oases of persous suffer ing from " glanders " are very rare, but iHVur often enough to remind horsemen that the proper way to deal with a horse suffering from this fatal disease is to have him killed at once. A horse may have "chronic glanders" and live a long time, keep fat, and work without difficulty, yet innocnlate man aud l>eat with the deadly virus that is slowly sap ping his existence. Not Contagion*. The following incident in mentioned in an exchange in proof that the yellow fever i not contagions in the sense in which Hmallpox or scarlet fever is, and that, unless a place is in a condition favorable to the spread of tho disease, there >s no special danger that the pranenco of a patient who has contracted the fover elsewhere would cause a well person in contact with him to take it: About twenty years ngo the yellow fever desolated Norfolk, Virginia. For a time the alarm in tho country round about was very great, and every village and neighborhood instituted a fort of quar antine, which shnt tho poor Norfolk people closely in their stricken city. Ilenry A. Wise alone of all the people in the neighborhood retained at once his courage and hia humanity. Seeing how sore the neod was of a refuge withont the walls of the city, he invited the sufferers, sick and well, to come to his plantation in Acoomac connty, just across the strait from the city ; and do fying the threatened violence of a ft ightaued mob, he brought them tlioro in considerable numbers, and not a particle of harm came of it; not a siugla person who bad not been exposed to the infected air of the city took tho disease. If this fact is correctly re ported, there is something in it deserv ing the oarefnl investigation of thought fnl physicians. NOVEMBER 9, IH7H. A Bar Incident. At the I tattle of Gettysburg, while commanding a company iu the Eighty second Ohio regiuieiit, July 1, an ufflocr, Ca| it. lev, Was wounded and left for dead U| H in the fleld at utghl by his re treating comrades. One of Julial Early's aids carried httu off the fluid, with other wounded, and deiK>sttod them in an oluicure farmhouse, whence he had no uieaun of communication with his regiment or friends. The news of his death reached hi home iu Ohio. ills obituary was published, and I'rof. Mo Oat>e had prepared an eulogy upon him, to be delivered July 11, the Mttuday of commencement week, iu connection with other exnrciacs appointed, fur the day. An immense crowd weie gathered iu the church. After the opening of the ex ercises, Capt. Lee, pale as a ghost, hob hied in on crutches and took a quiet Heat among the worshipers. He had been lelt behind by his oapjors, aud, not knowing himself reported dead, he had come quickly home to l>rlaware to recover, reaching there unannounced late ou Saturday night. Those were days of intense dramatic experience, days of death in life, and life in the midst of death, and though every, heart of those who knew him leaped for jojr at seeing him, the decorum of (Jod's house was preserved. The meeting was turned into a missionary anniver sary. liev. Dr. Harris, the then mis Blouary secretary, but now a bishop of hut church, presided. When donations to the missionary fund were in order, this young soldier, s |<>or man, pale aud falteringly, rose on his crutches, and said, briefly : " In token of gratitude to God for having spared my life upon the fleld at Gettysburg, put me down for j $100." Hotel ltllls. Were you ever in tichwalbach t This is the bill with which s party of four aud one half—viz.: three ladies, one gentle man, and a servant—had to j>ay at the Deutachan Kaiser Hotel in that place in July last : IV apartment* Four txxlriKima ami a anting-room, dvt day®, tou franca SO fo breakfast— Four pataona, 1 25 franca each, fire daya. >5 Tu dinner Fuur jKsreone. three franca each. Ave day*. 60 To eln five bi tl.ee Ilocbbe.lner IS To tea four petaona, LK each, fle daya *5 To servant a bard and roots. Ave daya 25 Total . 'JUS Call one dollar Ave franca >4O Were you ever in Saratoga r This is the bill which s party of four—viz.: two gentlemen, one lady, and two servants —had to |>ay at a hotel there in Auguet last: To board >4O per day, fire dava fiOO (Three bedrtxima and one small aiding - room . servant* noma ) 1 o meal* in room 10 j To bathe 1 Total * 21S In accordance with a custom at hotels, a servant l* reckoned as half a quest— two S4 rvarils count for one. Now at Sohwal l>fu h each guest had to pay bee thau two dollar* a day, while Saratoga mulcted them iu the *um of ten dollar* apiece aud over. What is the reason, a*kn the New York Titnm, for this difference lie tuern the cost of living at the American and German watering places i It Uidn't Suit. A Detroit boy, after finishing the la*t chapter of a Inxik called " The Plea* lire* of the Deep," pleaded with his father to let bun ship aboard a lake schooner. The old mau smiled a grim smile, took the case under considers Hon, and in a few days the boy was ou the rolling deep, having shipped its a greenhorn on vessel in the lumber trade. He Nailed to Haginaw, came dowu and crossed to Toledo, aud next day be appeared iu Detroit, Lame and stiff, hia throat sore, one eye nearly shut and a feeling of humbleness miming all through blm. •' What! lutrk again I" erid the old man. as the Itoy entered the house. '*Yea, father. I want to saw I*ll the wood for winter, bring in all the coal, clean out the cellar aud patut the bora" and you needn't give me but two meals a day. " Don't you like sailingf" "Father, you don't begin to realize anything alniut it. The captain sailed right along ou Sunday, the same as any other day. and I believe be swore even harder. He wouldn't give me an um brills when it rained, he made me sit up most all night, aud two or three times he oalled me up at midnight and made me haul on rojiea and drag old sails around. There wasn't a single nqjbt when all of us got off to bod at nine o'clock, and there wasn't a day that he didn't bos* ns around aud break in on ns every time we got to readiug any thing good 1 I like land, father, and I wish yon owned a farm I" A City of lnuranee. By the last official report ij appears that 212,467 people hifve their lives in sured in the insurance companies of Hartford, Conn. If each of these repre sents a family of Ave, then more than a million people are looking to the city as their refuge in the time which the in surance agent, himself s Hartford pro duct, can so jmthotically deecribc as cer tain to le, for the uninsured, of acute financial as well as domestic distress. These lives are iusnred for $450,000,000 altogether, and the property insured in the Are companies of the Name city is $645,646,000 more, so that the total i isk which Hartford carries is in round nnm bora $1,100,000,000. The Chicago fire wiped out six of the large number of fire insurance companies in the city, and took $10,000,000 of property away from the place. A singular freak of fate, says a writer iu Srribnrr for November, made the loss seem even a bit worse than if it had eome on any other date. In Hartford insurance stock is taxed at its market valnr, and tbo tax lists sre sworu to, October first each year. The fire came on the uiuth of the month, and so the holders f the worthless or fallen stocks had for that yoar to pay toxc* ou tbe highest valuations the stocks had ever known. If the flie had oecuxml ten days earlier, the difference in favor of the individual losers would have been very considerable. love and Devotion. Sandy Melville endeavored to swindle an old man in Omaha by selling lnni spurious gold coins in exchange for greenbacks. After his arrest he at tempted to escape from the officers and was dangerously wounded. A lovely maid haunted the corridors of the jail until the sheriff took pity on her and permitted her to enter the prisoner's coll and dress his wonnds. She nursed him and gave him brandy and water and piloted him out of the valley of the shadow. When she had restored him to health the courts took him in hand and sentenced him to five years' im prisonment in the lowa penitentiary. Affecting spectacle ; justice of the pmoe called in ; marriage ceremony in the jail i witnessed by all the prisoners ; bride groom carried off to chew tobacco in the penitentiary ; bride returns to her hum ble home to take iu washing and to wait; beantifnl essay in local paper on woman's devotion, with appropriate references to Diana and Mother Eve. TERMS: 02.00 a Yoar, in Advance. strange hounds At Night. Every one has noticed how many singular nouuda are heard at night noises apparently iinexplaiuablc, aud consequently mysterious. Many ghoat tory has sprang up from an on aeuountabie noiae; many ■ person terri fied beyond measure by an uucfpeeked otind at midnight. Hir David Brew liter gives ail excellent account of a mysterious night sound which would have frightened many jteraoua, but which proved Innocently harmless when tested by a steady observer. A gentle man heard a strange sound every night noon after getting into bed; hia wife , heard it also, but not at the time when h retired, a little earlier than be. No probable cause could be assigned, and the effect upon the imagination became rather unpleasant. He found some time afterward that the sound came from a ward rota* which stood near the bead of Ilia bed. He almost always opened and closed this wardrobe when uudreaaing; but an the door was a little tight be could not qnite close it Tbe door, pos sibly affected by gradual changes of temperature, forced lUwlf open with a Mort of dull sound which wan over in an instant. From the lady not being in the habit of using that wardrobe, the mystery became associated with her husband only. Had they given way to imagination, and never investigated the affair, another haunted house would have been added to tbe long row already standing. The Cruder Fight. Little Buck Elk has stated to ludian i Commissioner Mitchell that he was in the fight in which Gen. Caster and all his mefi were slaughtered, and that eleven different tribes were engaged in the fight. He said that the Indians were as thick as bees at the fight, and that there were so many of them that they could not all take part ; that the soldiers were all brave men and fought well ; that some of them, when they found themselves surrounded and over-, powered, broke through the lines and tried to make their escape, but were pursued and killed, miles from the battle ground. One soldier, who had a faster horse than the rest, made his eaoape into the Bad Lauds, and after he had rideu seven or eight miles accidentally ran into a war party of Indiana and was killed by them. This soldier rode a big home with flaxen mane, and had a government saddle and gray saddle blanket, but it was not known whether he was an officer or not. He aiao said that they captured six battle flags, and that no soldiers were taken alive, bat after the fight tbe women went among the dead bodies and ribbed and mutila ted them. There were plenty of watches and mouey taken from them which the youug warriors are now wearing in their shirts and belts. Another Indian Fight. News from Fort F©Herman states that a haying party of twelve men and seven ox te,. - were attacked by a band of twenty or thirty Indians, twenty-five miles from that post. John Ottena, wagon master, was badly wounded and |toasubte. Hie owner aat the box down near the ticket office white attetuung some other matter, and it attracted little attention. By-and bye a young man, who had got bred of standing up, seeing f what appeared to be an empty fruit box hsmdy, de|K*ited himself upon it with a sigh of relief. A bystander who under ■stood the " Mtuation," stepped up quiet ly and with hi* cane begun punching the porcupine. It waa but a few sec onds before the animal became " fret ful," as it were, and be got hi* "back up. " The reader may at some time have admired the alacrity with which an individual haa ariassn from a chair out of deference to a bent pin which had some how got there before him, but on this occasion the man shot np aa though he had wit down upon a full paper of bent pin*, all hot at that. A Dure of Death. The Hon. Evelyn Ashley, step-grand son, biographer, and formerly private secretary of Lord Palmerston, writes to * London paper to explain, by means of * private letter be haa received from a very authentic source, the meaning of Mr. Baring's denial of the statement that forty Bulgarian girls were burned. The statement was founded on a misun derstanding of a colloquial Turkish phrase. To born is yakmak, a verb con stantly need in the sense also of rain. Thus s debtor will say: "Do yon wish to burn me f" meaning to ruin me. The truth as to these girls is that they woe carried off, and have never been beard of since. Mr. Ashley's correspondent, s consul, farther tells him that after two hundred men had been mnrdered in a certain village, the Turks found some more in hiding places, and told them that if they would danoe one of their na tiona! dance* they would let them off. Bo the poor fellows begun to danoe. It was a danoe of death. The ruffians shot them down while at it. San Francisco Millionaires. II seem* to be a penchant among the millionaires of Han Francisoo to squan der their money on hotels and opera boose*. Senator Sharon has a aeven storv palace hotel, on which be is losing about SI,OOO * day; Senator Jones runs a newspaper and a Roman bath estab lishment; K. J. Baldwin, another mil lionaire, has built an opera bouse and hotel at a oost of $2,600,000. John St one, another millionaire stock broker, has given Strakosch a $30,000 lot of ground, upon which ho promises to build an "Betalian opera boom;" and Jasper McDonald, a leading bear, has inst taken poasaiwion of one of San Francisco's leading theater* for moneys advanced. It would seem as if her mil lionaire brokers intended having a monopoly of all the luxuries sf life. Elbow hrrase. "Awful Gardiner" was once a wall known pugilist and sporting character in New York. On one occasion he went to Newark with a " select party " to give a sparring exhibition. The man who had oharge of the hall where the show was to take place was of gigantic stature, and one of the party wagered a bottle of wine that " Awful Gardner " could not knock the fellow down with his fist They all waited in the hall for the com ing of the janitor with lights. He ap proached with s candle shaded in his Lands, and as bt came within arm's roach the "Awful " measured him and atruck square from the shoulder. The mau hardly winked. He simply turned his head round toward the pugilist and said : " Gentlemen, please be a little careful of your elbowK " 11 ts Epicurean Taste. "hpeaking of epicures," lately re marked a young Chicago society swell, " I'ye got a brother who ia the greatest epicure I ever saw." " Indeed," chorused the circle about him. ••Yea," continued the swell, " why, be eats everything in the line of victuals he own lay his hands on—he doesn't care whst!" Then when everybody got up and rolled around and laughed, that young swell got mad, and wanted to know if any one supposed that ho " didn't know what un ' epicure' was I" WihD P*ACm.—The editor of the Wallapai Enterprise, published at Min eral Park, ArL, has been presented with a box of wild peaches, and says of them: These peaches, though wild, are equal in flavor to any we have ever eaten, and some of them measured as much as nine inches in circumference. The trees upon which they grow were discovered some twelve or thirteen years ago by the first whites in this section of the conntry, and at the time of the discoverer the main tree looked to be as old as it does to-day. The fruit, in appearance, resembles "the fin est Jersey peaches. A NoTaßim OiiOCK. —In the Kansas building, on the Oent innial grounds, is a clock whose peculiar excellence is that it requires winding but once in a hun dred years. It is said to keep the most accurate time, telling the month of the year, the day of the month, the day of the week, and the time of the day; and yot the inventor claims that it does all this with much less power than is re quired with any other dock escapement ever invented. Who would like a cen tury clock ? Sight Heat. Owiikq Ail U[attU. 'MM MM MI lop*. oaiaa M nd placed on the pantrv shelf. A Pulaski (N. Y.) woman recently caught several of the mischief makers in one night by this method. A traveler in Egypt in 186 visited a number of Arabian school*, in almoto all of which be noticed they kept a silk cap. Upon —king why this was dona he wm told that it was the severest pun ishment that oould be inflicted upon any of the ohildren to be compelled to wear it It was Pope who usca to swear "God mend ma," and, • wearing hia favorite oath one day in the presence of a tittle boy, the boy looked at the diminished mil misshapen 'rm of the great poet, and mid: ." Gcxl mend yon, indeed t I think it woold be a good deal easier to make a new one." One of the Krgest droves of cattle ewer seen in any plaoe was driven from Texas * few vaeks igo from Oapt. King's ranch. Nneoes county, to Kan ma. The herd numbered 90,000 horned osttle, and was attended by 700 droves*. The outfit alone cost $50,000, and the herd brought $630,000. "Mr. Tompkins, "said a young lady who had been showing off her wit at the expense of a dangler, "yon remind ma of s barometer that is filled with nothing in the upper story." "Divine Julia, meekly replied her adorer, " in thanking yon for that oomphment, let me remind yju that you occupy my upper story." The miner* of South Yorkshire wen dieestisfled with their wages, and at tempted to become colliery owners them selves. An association bought a colliery, the profits of which were to be shared among them. The capital raised was about $400,000. The enterprise has proved unsuccessful, and the money in It has been proposed to establish penny bnk in connection with the public schools of New York. The candy shops and chewing gum vender* might suffer, but good results would be ob tained. The experiment haa been tried in London, where, in a few months, 5.266 children had deposited no leea than $5,620. Visitor* to the Centennial ait gallery will be sorry to learn that the little sta tue of "Playing Cat's Cradle" wsa broken by the point of a parasol one day recently, and the tiny bars of mar ble replaced by threads. But the lady who unwisely meddled with it feels probably jnore sorry, as report says she Lad to pay $500! The ire of a St Lome paper toward the editor of a Chicago journal is let loose in this way: He stands np and lies, site down and lies, eats lies, drinks lies and dreams lies. There is no other name but lies for his preposterous and unprincipled assertions. If there is really a place prepared for liars, the smell of sulphur already arises to his nostrils. General Fadeeff, a Russian, is of opinion that Germany will not willingly expose her flank to Russia when she could protect it by raising up a Polish state between herself and her great enemv on the north and east. It would suit Germany marvelonsly, moreover, to have an independent Poland, which, in its movement toward the east, it might colonise with its superfluous population. No tool is more essential on the farm than a good grindstone. They were formerly all imported from England. Then the Nova Scotia ones were found superior. Ohio grindstones are largely used by Western farmers. But now Lake Huron grindstones are superseding all others; they have s fine sharp grit, and leave a fine edge. The stone-should be kept clean and dry, and free from grease and rust A mercantile agency in Toronto pro fessed to make, through its system of espionage, a correct statement of the status of a retail dealer. The presumed knowledge was sold to a wholesale deal er, who sold to the retailer on the pur chased hypothesis that he would reoeive the money for his goods. The retailer absoonded, and the wholesaler recover ed $524 at law from the mercantile agency, and a higher court Ha* affirmed the judgment