Tell Her So.
•• Oh, mv bourne, brown htrd, In my aweeUit
tie neat.
Why ailent and aad, with no laughter and
"OKg?
Of all the dear birdiee, I lore thee the beet.
And know that thy lore la at tender and
"troag."
A ripple, a trill, and a gay little strain.
With fresh raffled plumage to make her
more fair,
" It over yon aek me enoh question* again.
Look into your heart, for the answer la
there."
" Yon lore me, ret tell me eo seldom yon do,
Ht heart gets to doubling, and .adder 1
grow;
The joy that it glree me if once yon bat krew
1 think roa would elware keep te'hng m
i
Young and Old.
When we are young our boy* are avret.
They olimb our knee* and tie at oar foot;
Wbea we are old they are hard to please.
Cold a. the root and wild ae the breeae .
They kiae a* kindly end apeak a. fair,
Kal we enow their heart, are otherwhere.
Ob. my mmi' my son till he gets htm a
wife,
Rut my daughter'* my daughter all her
lite.
When we are young our day* our bright.
And full of hope from morn till night;
When we are old we alt alone.
And think of pleasant day* long gone.
When the house wss full of the children's
noise.
The willful girls and ths naughty hoys.
Oh, my son's my son till hs gels him a
wife,
Hat my daughter'* my daughter all her
life.
THE RAVEN S VOICE.
I was a very bold and fearless child,
and ray brothers and sisters often dared
uu- to go into lonely places in the dark,
or do perilous feats of various hiuds,
which challenges I never refused. Often
I hey set out to play tricks on me, but it
usually happoued they fell into their
owu traps, while 1 performed my part
in safety.
Very possibly the consciousness that
they wrv about to dupe me gave me
more cranage than 1 would otherwise
have had, for any unusual noise or ap
pearance would be attributed to one or
another coming to frighten me. But,
night or day, 1 used to go straight up to
and touch whatever seemed fearful, and
finding the object of doubt resolved
itself into very simple elements, 1 ac
quired an ease which stood me in stead
in times of real danger.
We Lived iu a large old house built of
English oak, and bearing its nearly two
centuries very lightly. It opened to
the south, and the two large parlors
looked to the east and west. The diu
ing-ball and spacious kitchen formed
the square of the house, while at the
west and back was another large room,
sometimes called the great pojch, and at
the east and back was the dairy and an
other porch. There were three stair
ways leading to the upper rooms, anil a
garret, whose ample space was broken
only by the great chimney in the oeu
ter.
Wt> had a gay and lively house, and
wore nsexi to a great deal of company
and visitors, for my parents were great
ly given to the old fashioned virtue of
hospitality. The humblest wayfarer
coming in at the porch waa entertained
kindly and bade God-speed, as well as
the guest whoee elegant carriage and
span drove round to the front door on
the son the rn side.
I am not going now to tell yon of my
handsome " gentle" parents, or my
brothers and sisters—only about myself.
There were a great many of ns when we
were all at home, especially in the win
ter holidays, but at times we were nearly
all away. Boarding schools, academies,
traveling—all claimed ns at various
times. Yet it was rare indeed that one
was ever at home alone. It so hap
pened, however, and to me.
It was a summer day, and warm,
bright and beautifoL The morning
promised a lovely day. Just after our
early breakfast, a merry party came rid
ing down the lane, in carriages and on
horseback, and calling joyously for my
father and mother t > accompany them
on a pleasure trip. They were accus
tomed to thi* mode of impromptu festi
vity, and gayly answered that they
would soon lie ready. It was only the
day before that my father had returned
from the Australian gold fields, and had
bronchi with him a bag of gold. I
knew lie had this, for I had seen him
the night tieiore counting some out of
it, and putting it into another bag.
Thomas bronght the chaise to the
door. Fitter's favorite black horse,
who** xmt looked like lnstron* v lvrt,
and who stcpix-d so proudly, wa* paw
ing the ground impatiently as be ap
peared. H" handed iu my beautiful
mother, and 1 stood looking on with
•hil iisfi pleasure at her !*auty and rich
dress that so became her. My father
suddenly turned to me and said, taking
his key to hi* iron bound box :
" Run, Aun, anil get me the little bug
you saw me put sway last night."
I was proud to be so trusted ; but
when I qnickly retnrued with it, he wa*
almtdy in the chaia-, and part way to
the gate.' He looked ont aad said :
" No matter now, Ann ; yon may put
it back again, for we are going another
road, and I will pay Harris to morrow.
Take care of the key, my dear, and good
bye."
" Good bye, and a givxi time to yon,"
I laughingly replied, aud ran back to
put th* treasure in safety.
I haste ned indoors again to see them
wind down the private way that led
through onr extensive ground*, and half
wished I were old enongh to go with
them. Heariug a slight noi*e, I turned
and saw a stranger, a figure not unusual,
a man with a bundle hung on a stick.
H ' waa leaning on the stone wall, and
apparently looking after the carriages.
He cam" forward in a moment, aud
aaked if he might *it down and rest, aud
if I woohi kindly give him something to
eat. Of conr-e I said yes, and with
light step* soon had him a substantial
lunch of bread and cheese, which he
came into the kitchen to eat. Betsey
and Hannah were bn'-y, harrying to
finish their work, for they were going
oat to tea and to s|>eud the evening.
They talked guvly about their visit, pay
ing little attention to the stroller, who
was quietly eating. He had hi*
straw bat on the floor, and I saw that
bis head was bald on the top, and the
thinni'h hair brushed np from behind
over it.
H had prominent eor, low forehead
and largo month, with a receding chin,
where grew a stubby hoard, of grizzly
black, like his hair. Idid not know why
I observed all thin, or his eyes, small
and hid nnder grayish brows, that
seemed to glance furtively about him
when DO one appeared to be looking.
His voice waa harsh and croaking, and
bad t art led me when he first addressed
me.
Wo were used to strollers of all
kinds as I have said. Perhaps I was
menta'lv contrasting his repulsiveness
with my father's noble and dignified
features'. He seemed to me very ugly.
I was glad when he had finished his meal
and risen to go. He a*ked permission
to light his pipe, which was readily
granted. He went out directly, passing
accidentally through the dining-room
and -at of the great hall, where he lin
gered for a moment or two. He had
thanked me civilly enough for his break
fast. but the giris laughed and nodded
KH he went out, and aaid they should
think I had picked up a raven.
All that long, bright day 1 waa busy
and happy iu me flower garden, or sew
ing, or reading ; and when the girls left,
I looking vt-ry cheerful at their half holi
day, I wished them a merry time, and
HJd th m not to haten home, for
™>nias should oome for them. I ex
■el mv father and mother soot: after
Kto'elock, and I told Thomas that he
go about that time, as they would
ho ne, and it Ipoked a little like
■ Heavy clouds were gathering in
■est, and the thunder rumbled sul-
FRED. KURTZ. TCditor and Proprietor.
VOLUME IX.
lenly. He t*x)k the covered wagon and
old gray, and, before lu> stepped in,
said :
"Miss Ann, I think yon had better
fasten the doors, as you maybe all alone
for a short time if Igo so soon. Would
yon not rather that I should wait till
your father comes ?"
" Oh, uo, Thomas; I don't mind be
iug alone in the least, and you ought to
go, lest it should rain hard, for it is
more than two miles to ride, and they
may not wish to leave in a minute. \
expect father and mother every moment.
Don't wait."
So Thomas left, and the wagon rat
tied merrily up the lane. 1 bolted the
door* because he had told me to, for
otherwise 1 would uot have thought of
it. It grew dark rapidly, and the thun
der lx>gan to peal heavily, while the
wind rwe, and the flashes of lightning
grew more vivid and frequent. 1 went
to the east parlor, and looked out to the
south, but the sudden _ lighting up of
the sky and the following darkness did
uot interest me long. 1 could uot see
out very well, either, as the honey
suckles covered the window . The large
mirror reflected me as I turned away to
cross the room, and I stop|ed a moment
with a natural vanity, for 1 was young
aud fair enough to look upon.
I let all my hair fall loose, and wound
it iu long, shining, brown curls over my
fingers. It certainly did look handsome,
for it was very thick, and fell lelow my
waist, and curled almost of itself as it
fell. There ranie a great flash of light,
aud 1 saw distinctly reflected in the
glass a face looking in the window. It
was an instant of terror, but I neither
screamed nor moved. The face could
not see my face, and I kept my body
still, and rolled the long, shining rings
off my cold, white fingers. It was an
ugly face, and I recognised it. I had
seen it that morning, and I knew what
lay be/ore me. I prayed inwardly a brief
prayer for help.
Turning from the glass, I went steadi
ly toward a table that stood near the
wiudow, and on which I hail left my
caudle. Imo veil steadily as usual, and
took up the water pitcher and looked in
it, then took my candle and went to
ward the kitchen. The lightning kept
flashing, but the face did not tome again.
I dropped my candle on the kitchen
hearth and put my foot on the wick. I
set down the pitcher on the dresser,
and with soft, light footfall hastened
through the west room up the frout
stair>, into ray father's chamber, aud
softly closed i J bolted the door at the
head of the stairs. I unlocked bis box,
took out both tile baits of gold, relocked
it, and made my way into the great
chamber.
I heard voices; I heard the doors
tried below. I knew it wa* not my
father. I dared uot tremble nor grow
faint. I went through that room and
two others to the garret stairs. I hard
ly hreathed. I heard a window pnsbed
up; more than one person came in at it.
1 felt atxrat me in the dark. There wa"
a sliding panel iu the inside of thestair
••vay. I pushed it nd it rolled back. I
entered iuto a long closet under the
stairs, and slid the panel carefully into
it* place. I felt cautiously to .<ee if all
was safe. I pulled my dress close about
me lest it might be caught, and the door
not closed tightly. Then I waited. I
heard step* coming up the stairs. I
heard a search through all the rooms be
low. My heart beat till I thong'.t that
each bound mnst be audible, heard
voices—one voice, the Raven's. I knew
that harsh croak. It told me nothing.
The face had revealed all to me. The
man had seen the bag of gold a* be loan
ed over the wall in the morning, unno
ticed by the gay gronp. It waa al!
plain to me. He hail gathered from the
girls' talk that I might be alone. He
had returned and watched. He had
brought accomplices. Very soon thx
steps and voices came my way. I oonld
distinguish plainly the words that were
spoken.
" Drat her she mnst have seen you."
"No matter; we'll split the box open
with this ax."
I knew the sx was in the little porch.
Thomas bail set it in when he had done
chopping the brush, as it looked like
rain.
I heard the steps and voices move
awav, a dull, crashing sound, and then
stifled, angry tones. I knew they bail
opened the box, and found nothing but
the papers. I knew they would now
search for me. I heard thorn as they
looked into every room and closet, atnl
came up the stairs separate. They al!
met at the foot of tho garret stairs. A
thick board was between us. I thanked
God that the panel was close shut. 1
knew it, for no ray of light came
through.
" Bhe must lx> np here," said the
Raven, "and we'll soon have her."
"I'll warrant she is here, and I'll
wring h< r neck if she makes a noise
nbent it."
But the thorough search was ended,
and the v. io s grew very angry and fall
of frightful outiis and threatening*.
They s*t down on tb garret stair* to
u< 11 a parte). A spider ran across my
f*c. A spider pnt* me in mortal fear.
It wa* with a great effort that I kept
from screaming.
"Come," croaked the Raven, "let ns
go and get the silver ; that will be some
thing—that will le something."
" Curse the silver. It's the gold I've
come for, and I'll burn the house if I
don't find the girl! So let her look
out!"
A cold perspiration came on my fore
head. Would they perform their threat ?
"Good! Then th rats will squeak,
'Down drop the money bags,' ami
we'll choke the girl to make her dumb."
" Hold yonr noise. The old man will
he ooraiug home. We'll • e ranght here.
Be qnii-k."
" Who cares for him ! lie's oi.ly one.
A bludgeon will give him a liamly little
headache as lie comes in."
14 And his wife ?"
They spoke low, hideous word* that
male my flesh creep. I almost was
ready to call aloud, to open the panel,
to give them the gold, and bid them go.
They got np, and the steps and voices
went down. It was horrible there in
the dark. I waa stifling. I moved the
panel slightly. No light entered. I
sliil it softly back. My resolution was
taken. I would get out of the lionse,
run down the road, and meet my father.
I wonld save him. I left the gold in
the closet, shutting it in close. I stole
down two step* into the chamber below.
I knew there was a window open there.
I crept across the room, listening keenly.
I lifted myself cautiously on the window
ledge, and eeight a branch of the
cherry tree which grew close to the
bonse. Swinging myself lightly ont, I
hastily descended the trunk of the tree,
anil found myself on tho ground isfe.
No. The lightning flash betrayed
me. The Raven's voice shrieked,
hoarsely : " There she goes ! Catcli
her! Quick! This way!"
Ont at the front door came the pur
suers, hardly ten steps from me. I
dashed toward the thick shrubbery to
put them off tlie track. Fortunately I
knew the way, every step of it. They
were guided solely by the sonnd and
flashing light.
" Shoot her by the next flush !" cried
one.
My flying feet struck loose boards. I
waa pasaing directly over an old, unused
well, very deep, and it gave back a hol
low, resonant sound. Almost the next
moment 1 heard a crash, the report of a
pistol, a heavy fall, oaths and a deep
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
groan. Shuddering, 1 seed on through
liio garden, op toward tin* eider proas,
over the atone wall, down the hollow, up
the hillside, over the field*. No ste{>*
followed ; uo voice* shouted after mo.
1 r*u down to the second Imuk, aud lot
them down. It l>egau to rain a few great
dropa, thru fust, thru it pourwd. I w**
wrt to the skin. 1 nui uu, for 1 hoard
advancing whrrlii coming rapidly. I
hUkh! iu thr rood and ctrird: " Father !
father t" Thr chaise stoiqxs.l. Another
chaise lirhiud stopped also. It *m our
uril neighbor's, who lived u quarter of
a mile further on.
•• Ann, my child. Gtxxl heavens!
What is the matter I What has hap
jxuiod f"
I told the whole iu a few words, ami,!
.•ager exclamations of joy at ray safety,
of surprise, even of anger, because
Thomas hail left me alone.
" Don't blame him, father ; 1 iusisted
on his going."
A hurried consultation tevok place.
My father was verv brave. Our neigh
Ivor was verv timid. He proposed going
on to his house and returning with
weapons. In the meantime I hail got
into the chaise and crouched down at
my mother's feet, who was half crying,
and whoilv thankful to feel me there.
We rode on, and came to our gab'
under the willows. There were lights
in the house, but all was still. Nothing
moved. My father put the reius iu my
mother's hands, and opened the other j
gate that led up the lane.
"Will you go home with Nathan!"
said he,
" Aud leave you here I No."
" Take your wife home, Natliau, if j
you will, and come back. "
" We will stay by you."
" Ixd us reoonnoiter, then, a little."
They got out, leaving us sitting still, j
The rain fell less heavily. They got
something that would do for weapons 1
from the toolhouse. Ihev went all
rouud the house—all was quiet. They
wnt in. We sat still, speaking few
words, my hand clasped in my !
mother's.
"Thomas is comingf" I exclaimed,
eagerly. " I hear the wheels."
We called to him as he came to the
gate, for he could not see us. He drove
through and called out :
" What is the matter f"
We told him sufficiently, and he It ft
lteteey and Hannah, and went in at
once, with only the heavy whip. We
did uot sit long. Natliau came cut di
rectly.
" tYhat have you found? Who is
there f"
"Nothing. Nobody."
" Are they all gone f"
" Yes, with some of the silver and a
few things. We don't know what
yet."
The horses were put under the shed
and wo all went in. Father said,
calmly :
" We will take a lantern, Thomas, and
look round out of doors a little."
I knew they would go to the old well.
I stood and looked out of the window
aud saw the gleam of the lantern as it
ciovisL Iu a very few minutes they
came back.
"One of them is dead," said my
father, "and the ot.ier lies at the bot
torn and groans. lhe third has en
caj>ed."
They laid loards across some barrel*
in the shod. and brought up the dead
man and laid him on them. nis com
rade, who fell iu the well, had shot him
iu the head as he plunged through tin
boards. His ugly face was still uglier.
It was the Haven. That night my
father's prayers were very solemn, and
his embrace was cloee as he gave me
my good-night kiss.
The robber in the well was bruised,
but not seriously hurt. The law took
him to punishment. The third escaped.
I was never left at hour* again alone.
I.lltle Tommy's Letter.
Deer Ma: I wh-hf you wood o-me
bomb. Jonny shuts rue up in the cloe
zet and pinches me awfnl cos I wont
shuv eginst for him to cut it hurts my
bans, an he sos none of the chickens is
going to le mine when my hen comes
awf cos they was his eg* what she set
on. The old black banty tride to set
but we diddent want black chickens, w*
wanted wite, so we chaste h r awf evry
day, an the wite hen woodcut set till
Jonny tide her outo the nest, an she
duzzent set she stalls. He ecd he wood
give me One chioeu cheap for 25 cents
an I bawt it. Deer Ma I miss yon awful.
Cant I have some pants of my owen au
not Jounys f That fell- r what comes to
see Ant Gad was here last night. He set
on the soft an Jonny was under thoaofy
but be diddent no it at awl. When Ant
Cad came in the feller tole her sea ht
they is plenty of rnnie here, au she set
down bye him. Then he List her, not
rite away but bine by nn she was rele
mad an got tip ami slamed the door.
When she came Uick he kist her af en
an she kep* telling him to stop, but h>
diddent til Joni.y run a shanl pin into
his leg. Thou Ant Cad roocht in an
hawlcd J nny owt, an boxt his eres an
cawled him o yon nawty boy, an Jonny
eride, an the feller sod it was no matter.
The floor what Qranma eawis serins
olnmed the other uito. Hhe strat for
evry botldy to come au see it and the
hows was fill of fokos au a lot stunning
owt on the pavement looking into the
window. They was a coming an goon
evry minuit. Thev aed it was wander
full. I th ;wt it was a nice flour, nn
Jonny whispered pick it an I piet an I
aint got over it yet. lam so soar I cant
bare to set down mutch. Onr girl ha*
got a bow. He must be a very ritch
gennelman, he wares sneh a big long
gold cbane wounded twiee around his
neck, an tiien sneh a waeh ! with too
lids to it, and he ses it is a court cro
nomyt- r waoh. When he wants to no
wat time it is, if it is iu the day time, he
just lays it onto a fents or a post au lets
the sun shine on it, ami tin l if he stuze
there til it is noou, he can toil egznetly
what time it is. If it is afternoon he
has to wato til next day. When tho Bun
dont sbino ho cant tell eny way, an when
it is nite be dont no. Ant Cad ses it is
the best oourt wach she ever Haw, I want
yon to send me too sbilen in yonr nex
letter an rite rite away. I want to hero
from yon so match 1 cant wate.
Yonr afexnnate son
Tommy.
The Turkish Capital.
The population of Constantinople,
with tho snbnrhs, is now estimated at
HOG,OOO, and the burden of vessels clear
ing the port at alxrat 4.000 tons. The
Roumcliari railroad connects th city
with the northern provinces, j-assing
through a wonderfully rieli but wretch
edly cultivated country, and bofore long
there will be a more direct railroad com
munication with Europe by a line meet
ing the Hnschuk-Yarua railroad, aud
crossing the Danbno at Gnrgieve, to
join the terminus of tho Roumanian
trnck line. Pera, thanks to frtquent
fires and foreign residents, bids fair to
blossom into a pleasant place (or u Chris
tian to dwell in. Two thirds of it was
I burned iu 1870, when 2,000 houses, in
cluding the British embassy, were de
stroyed. It is not being rebuilt on tho
former site, but a large town is raining
around the spot where the old town
stood, arid about Galata, covering a
wide area. A very important Christian
city is probably destined to grow up
here, under the auspices of the embas
sies which cluster on Pera's heights.
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, IR7R.
TIIK PATH OK YlKTl'Ka
Thr Nur? •( m \ u>a Mki'i I 11im—
thr ftCo*l lift#.
There is nothing Mulder iu the litera
ture of romance than is the story of the
defalcation in the National l'ara I sink.
It is a melancholy tragixly tu reel life,
surpassing, ill it* sorrowful details, any
thing that the novelist* can invent—*
tragixly, truly, although the sufferers
byr'llls' sin are still alive; more truly a
tragedy, indeed, Uxviuse the blow which
he has struck at the i>er*ons nearest to
him is of a kind that does not kill the
laxly.
For eighteen years this man lias la
Ixirtxl to build up a reputation which
ww worth iLifiuiteiv more to him and to
the family that he liad colled about him
thau life itself. He had tieeu diligent
and faithful in his business. He had
grown up with tlie Imuk iu which he
worked, and had become part of it*
working machinery. lie had p*xl
through all the lower grades of office
there, and was the most confidently
trusted of the bank's officers. The mil
lions iu it* vault* were Hi hi* sole keep
iug. The president and the cashier
alone were above him in rank, axul they
trusted him implicitly. In the natuial
course of event* he would ba\e ntuvoed
ed them in office. His slowly earned
reputation for fidelity hail been abuud
antly tested, and it wa* a solid and oe
cure capital for him. He hod Ixx-n "uj
to his ellxiw* in money for years," and
the time luul long xgo goue by when
there was room for doubt a* to his strict
integrity. He wa* rich; richer thar any
amount of money could make him, l>e
ratiae his wealth was ola kind th*t no
thief could steal aud no adverse fortune
oonld take ai*v fiora him. Hi* salary,
too, wa* utuple, and he liad all the
means of comfortable and even of mod
erately luxurious living.
The lust of gold seized him, and for a
tarn which to such a mail ought to have
seemed paltry, he sold all this. He
threw away his capital, throttled his
honorable reputation, destroyed the re
suit* of a patient lifetime's work, alian
doned the prosperous and happy future
which he uad so laboriously secured,
aud in one miuute change.l himself from
an honorable man, whose success in life
was already accomplished, into a thud
hiding from the officers of the law.
All this is terrible, but this is only
the smaller and less tragic part of the
*tory. This uiau L*d for hi* own some
thing more thau wealth, something I* t
ter than success. Iu his Brooklyn home
there were a wife aud five children, and
the wrong done U them w* mere tcrri
bio thau any words of oars can hint.
There is a bright boy there, twelveyears
of age, this man's firstborn sou, ami we
read in the newspapers that when that
txiy saw the t >ry of Ins father's guilt in
the journals he Mink under the blow,
and wept. Who sliall picture the agony
which brought tho*e tears f Who shall
tell, who shall even imagine the crash
ing, blighting effect of tin* man s crime
upon the life nd sonl of that boy t
L'he ohil I ha* been r'arxl to hold in
highest respect tlie principles of
fidelity to trust and integrity of cliarac
ter which had made his father u trusted
nui honored officer of a groat nietropoli
tan bank. Hi* pride in such a father a*
hi* wa* believed, to I*' must liave been
the highest joy of his life, anil his
voting ambition must have been to fol
low m his hither'a foot*tejs, to win for
himself a liko reputation, perliaps to
follow his father in the very institution in
which the f .flier's honors had txxm won.
The light is ail gone out of ttiat young
life now. The bright boy, with high
impulses and with th ' stimulus of u
father's oonspicooualy honorable career
a* a motive to earnest effort, has in a
single hour become the eon of a thief.
His little brothers and sisters are nrdor
the same terrible cloud which over
shadow* him and which nothing can
ever remove. The picture is too horri
ble to ooctemplate, anil yet it thrusts
itseii ujx'ii tl.e gaze of every father with
depressing, but Ist ns hope with whole
some i fleet Tin t poor boy, weeping
over a grief that even time cannot a*
■rang", is much more truly and much
more terribly the victim of his father's
•*iu tliau he would have been if hfl hail
fallen ite'ail under a blow from his
father's hand. Tne thought of him iu
his grief is a nightmare from which
there is no escaping; and Ellis' reward
for nil this tnqjic work was a paltry
sum of money which he may easily
waste in a single year.— .Vera York Eve
ning Pout,
Burns and Scald-.
Burn* arnl scalds are among the most
ocmmou of accidents, and peruana there
ure none for which uiorc remedies have
been suggested and employed. With
-ouie of those rentedi ait is the duty of
.ill of us to become familiar, that we
tnav kiMW what to do in an emergency*
It is a thousand pitin* to have the chance,
once in a lifetime, of playing the part of
the good Samaritan and lack the skill.
The tirat thing to be noticed ia, that in
moving injured people great care slicnld
te taken not to add to the effect of the
shock which the system has already ex
pcrioneed. In removing the clothes
there roust tie no tearing off of tho
lmriit or blistered akin, which affords a
useful protection for the injured sur
face. The next thing is to cover the
bnrnt or scalded parts with material
that will exclude the air. Floor answers
well, aud should be freely applied. Or
common whiting, reduord by cold water
to the consistence of thick cream, may
lie spread on a light linen rag, and ap
plied to cove the injured surface. The
ease it afforda is instantaneous, and it
only requires to Is l kept moist by neon
sional sprinkling of cold wat< r. Cotton
wool, if at hand, may l>o wrapped
round the injuries, or lint, or linen rugs
Htecpcd in water may be used. Those
may be covered with oiled silk. A
mixture of linseed oil and limn water, in
equal proportion", nay be applied with
rags laid over the burns. The wore ex
teiiflivo the surface involved in the noci
dent, tho greater care should tie takcu
not to expose it to atmospheric in
fluence, which increases the pain, and
nlso adds constitutional depression.
Hhonld the sufferer lie ereatly exhausted,
give brnndy or other stimulant ; if the
pain be excessive and irritating to the
nervous system, ten drops of laudanum
should be given nutil professional aid
can bo obtained.
A If indsomc Sum.
The rej ..t tiiat Mr. Delano will short
ly retire from the editorship of the
London Time.* excuses a reference to a
statement which lias lenn going the
rounds relating to the births, marriages
and deaths column of tho great journal
It was said that those were st first in
sorted gratis; but Mr. Walter, the then
proprietor, thinking that a lienedick
might very well pay a trifle for tho an
nouncement that he hud volunteered
into the "noble army of martyrs," fix
ed a tariff of half a crown u|>on each
epithaiaminm—tho inon-y to go to the
printers. One morning at breakfast
MrH. Walter suggested that tho sum
realized in this wsy wonld tit ill very
nicely to her pocket allownuce; and her
husband, seeing with the eyes of his
wife, diverted the revenue accordingly.
At. Ino subsequent transfer of property,
it was found that the triple record of
hnmau weakness aud mortality was
worth fully four thousand a year.
Only Lour Hundred Miles.
We cannot conceal a souse of diaap
poiuluieiit at the return of the English
north pole expedition without having
accomplished its direct object. Gaptaiu
Hall pushed the little Polaris, a vessel
but jxxirly adapted to its taak, to within
four hundred and sixty four miles of the
pole, and tlie Eugliah expedition, under
Captain Narea, only reached sixty four
miles further in sledges. Ilia advance
vessel —the Alert - wintered iu latitude
eighty two deg. twenty-seven seconds,
while the Polaris hail wintered iu lati
tude eighty -one deg. thirty -eight star.
Here is certatuly a slight advance; but
are we to consider that this is the limit 1
Dr. Hayes in 1860, with dog sledges,
i xplored as high as eighty two deg.
forty five see., or only forty miles short
ofCaptaiu Narcs' furthest. Parry reach
ed the same latitude north of Hpitiber
gen iu 1827, and Captain Hooresby, in
the Hpitabergeii sea, touched eighty one
deg thirty sec. in 1806, or withiii five
hundred and ten miles of the pole. The
efforts iu the direction of the Arctic dur
ing seventy years, therefore, represent
a total advance of one hundred aud ten
miles. No polsr expedition went forth
so well equipped and under such favor
able auspices as that which has just re
turned. Doubtless no !aili Were sparest
by auy person in Um entire expedition
to uccotiipliahall that could )>e achieved;
but we may here note our surprise that
a single winter's exjxriruoe was deemed
to establish conclusively their iuahility
to reach the |H>ie. Why, for instance,
was not oue of tha vessels d is) >atched
south, after lauding her stores, before
tile ioe closed, to return with the open
Water ticarilig fresh supplies? The ex
perienoe of all explorers who have
adopted the Booth sound route ha*
taught that the real < ffort tx-gius at the
eighty-second parallel, ami hence, if
Arctic exploration is not at an end, ar
rangemenls must tie made iu future ex
peditions for a journey northward on
boat sledges of four lmudred and eighty
mil< *. The termrs, the enormous diffi
culti's of such a j.raruey, are pictured in
thooue fact that the heroic nlcdge |artv
from the Alert could not advance more
than a mile a day. If this *|>eed cannot
be Ix'tU-red of orurae dwcoverv uorth
ward is at an end. The contributions
to our knowledge of the Arctic
will donhtlca* prove considerable, the
tracing of the coast line of the American
couliiicnt two hundred and twenty miles
to the west of On < ulainl and a consid
erable distance tottieea.t, in all, prob
ably, oue fifth of the circumference of
the rim of the north pole I sung especial
ly valuable. Captain Nares declares
emphatically against Kaue'a open l'olar
sea. Below the eighty second parallel
animal life aud the tuigratlun of Ltrda
ceue. lh-yond all is ioe, ice, ice.
" I'he impracticability of reaching the
pole was proved," he says. If that has
been fully demonstrated by one winter's
effort we can jx-rmanentiy resign the
north pole to the roma wrs who have
had it so long. But has it been f—AVw-
York Ifrrald
The Tarantula's Bile.
Dan Hbeppard, a workman on the
Boutli Pueblo wau r wi.rk* ditch, Colora
do, some time sines', the IX-nver Nru
say*, was bitten by a tarantula. Hhep
pard a* slee-oing iu a cabin on the
Gravback rnueii. He hod inn 1 his bed
on the floor, aud had searec'* gone to
sleep when he felt something pinch hi*
left shoulder and then run across hi*
face. Ho tried to cateh it with his
hand, but it escaped him. S< vera para*
, LM-ginuiug to sho-.'t from tl.e shoulder.
Sheppard became couvinced that be luul
lieeu bitt< ii by a trintu.*. He tin n
an up the rail nay track to M. T.
R 'binson's, alvrat a mile distant, iu the
' hope of getting airre whiskr for UM- AS
an antidote, but unfortunately Robinson
! had no whisky on hand. Ho then re
i turned down the track and went to a
house near where he wo* bitten.
Sheppard is a stout, powerful man,
but by this time he was marly exhaust
ed. Tue pain had pasm-d from his sh rai
der down his left side, then into hia
legs and up his right side, until his
whole laxly was affected, and he was in
a etate of the most excruciating ng>> y.
A neighbor immediately mounted his
horso ar.d galloped to I'ueblo, eight
milcM distant, for a supply of whisky.
In th" meantime Bhepjiard returned
to hi* cabin, and iu a short time, from
the action of tho poison, be became al
most ins'iisib!e, and hi* Ixvly, head and
limbs brcame frightfully swolleu. In
ra*t two bonra and a half from the time
he was bitten, the much needed whisky
was received from Pueblo.
The poisoned man was now lu a very
critical condition, unable to move, a> d
evidently at tho very gat-** of death.
The whi-kv was immediately adminis
tered, and )ic speedily revived. Al* ut
a quart was given him, when, as 8h-p
--. pard himself says, he l>cgan to W him
self the strongest man in (tolorado, ami
it was with difficulty that four men
could hold him. It soon leeame i vident
that the whisky would prove an effectual
antidote to the tarantula poison.
Bheppard is now recovering rapidly,
aud though he is still weak, ami has lost
some thirty pounds in weight, there is
i little doubt tuat in a week or so he wili
lie all right again.
It is a little singular that, although
the effects were so terrible, the bite it
self left a mark so small as to be scarcely
jierceptible. Although the whole of the
rest of the liody was bndlv swolleu, the
spot bitten was scarcely affected.
An Army F.xnmiiiing Board.
Board of examiner* and victim apply
( ing for commission :
Kzamiuer —"Who was the greatest
general of aucient or modern times f'
Mr. Green—"Some say Alexauder,
noran Napoleon, others General Grant,
but I think Moses was the greatest, be
cause he carried an immense army with
women, children and baggage across an
arm of the sea, and didn't use* a pou
i toon train."
" Who is the greatest man in tho
i United States to day I"
"I)r. Mary Walker."
"Who founded the city of Sevas
i topol ?"
" F.xense mo, general."
"The city of Sevastopol, Mr. Green."
" Oh, yes I Sebastopol. Hannibal,
general."
"Now, Mr. Green, suppose you were
marching your command through a
hostile country, right in front, aud yon
were hemmed in by the enemy on both
flanks, with an impassable river in front
and th" sea in rear of you, what would
yon do ?"
"Well, I think I shonld s" down and
write to mother aud lie passed—out.
Ills Will.
A wealthy man died suddenly without
leaving any will. Tho widow, desirous
of securing the whole of tho property,
concealed her husband's death, and |>er
snadud a poor shoemaker to take his
place. Accordingly he was closelv muf
fled in bed, as if very sick, and a lawyer
was called in to write the will. The
shoemaker, in feeble voice, bequeathed
half of all the property to tho widow.
" What shall be done with the remain
der ?" paked the lawyer. " The remain
der," replied he, " I give aud bequeath
to tho poor little shoemaker across the
street, who has been a good neighbor
and a dostrviog man."
A HAI> IHHAHTER.
TSr Khllivkl t .m.I.M as Ik* Uflawar*.
I.ark,aaana aal H'*at*rs Halltaait
A frightful accident occurred on the
Delaware, Laekswoims aud Western
railroad st a station known as Lehigh
Hutnmil, on the I'eoouo mountain,
twruty miles from Herontou. The regu
lar afternoon train to New York and
I'bilodelphl*, consisting of seventeen
passenger cxiachns drawn by three en
gines, had about twelve huudrwd pas
seugers ou board, principally bound for
the benteunial Kxinbitiou. Tne train
was two hours liehind lime, aud reach
ing the summit shortly after eight
o'clock, stepjMxl to take water from the
tank. While there a heavy coal train,
drawn by three engines, ran into the
rear of the passenger train, telescoping
two of tlie cars through and through,
and breaking five others. The scenes
that ensued were heartrending, although
tiy a most miraculous circumstance the
number of killed are few.
It seems that after taking water at I
Lehigh Hummit oue engine bouame de
tached from the train. After being
coupled ou agnu auoiher start was made,
which resulted in breaking off the last
two cars. The two engines and fifteen
curs went back for the stray cars, but in
coming up missed the coupling. In
backing up again, and when at about
forty y arils from the two detached cars,
the long, heavily laden coal train came
driving ui> at a e|eed of about fifteen
miles an Lour, ran into the detechtxl
cars and shot those forward into the rrar
of the rest of the tram. The two de
Inched oars, standing between the two
traius, were, strange to say, bat little
dsuia d, and the rear cars of the fif
teen, into which these were immediately
plunged, also suffered little ; but the
fifth aud sixth car* from the mar were
literally knocked into kindling wood.
The fifth car reared and was thrown
right upon the oar in front. The rest
of the passenger train iu front was not
much injured, and even the engine of
the coal tram which hail caused the
damage wa* very little broken np.
Imagine two oars smashed into flind
ers as by a pile driver, the splinters and
blocks thrown into a heap in the most
indescribable confusion, and tne posern
gcra pitched into this mingled mas* of
wood and in n, and wedged in such s
uay that the backs of the seats had to
tie broken in order to rescue many of
thun, the air filled with the ithrieka of
men and women, and the groans of the
wounded, and one ha only * faint con
ception of the scene. Home of the
passenger* had stepped off the train to
wait for the watering of the engine, and
so fortunately escajaxL These, and the
uninjured on the train itself, immediate
ly set to work to rescue the wounded.
Borne of these were eo tightly weJged
in by the debris of the car that it was a
long time I*-fore they could be extri
cated, and their sufferings were indes
cribable. To sild to the horror of the
some, oue of the cars took fire and was
destroyed.
Hurgoua had b-eu telegraphed for to
Scran ton, eighteen miles away, and
Htroudsburg, thirty five miles. There
wns one surgeon at Gouldsboro,
two miles distant, Dr. Patterson, who
wa* soon on hand and did all he could.
But what c tild one physician, however
-kilh-1 and however humane, do with so
many wounded ? Th" officers of the
rood*did all that posmbly c uld be done
to alleviate the sufferings of the wounded
while awaiting the arrival of the sur
groua who had Ix-eu telegraphed for,
ami who, it *• emxl, would never come.
It wax at least two hours before the
Bcrantou ami Btrotiiisburg o>rjis of sur
geons arrived. They reached the piao
almut the same time, and numlx-nxl
atxrat filUwn. With them came prob
ably forty person* from the two phuvs,
ami all set to work binding up wounds.
The country m-sr Lehigh Hummit is
very sparsely settled, and bnt little aid
could be rsndercd by the few residents.
As to the cause of the accident. The
road iu this section is full of curve*, and
the grade at the place of the disaster—
which is only a watering place and
telegraph station, the t.ta*.-ng< r station
lxing two milt* this side—is eighty teet
to the mile. The passenger trai l left
Be ran ton with two conductors, tlie regu
lar conductor, Mr. Bush, l-eing on the
fronttof the train, and the extia conduc
tor, Sir. Darling, on the rear cara. The
rear car hud the usual red light signal,
but the crowd on the platform hia the
signal from the engineer of the front
engine of the ou coining train, ao the
latter claims. The curve hid the pas
senger train nutil the coal train was
• mnu-diatoly ii|H>n it, and the steen
grade required all the steam whicL
could be earri"d. The actual cause of
the accident was probably the fact that
the machinists and men lal>oring in the
yard at Scrnutou had been on ftrike
idmnt month, this Iwing the third re
duction of tin ir wages, and, consequent
• ly, the rolling st<>ck is sadly in need of
' repair*. On account of tho Centennial,
the road is constantly crowded with jvw
senger and excursion trains, and all the
*tock is in coustant demand. Two pas
eengers were instantly killed and a large
number injured. Hevoral of tho injured
died.
Men and Women Cook*.
There seems to bo more natural diffi
culty for tho woman to learn thau the
man. There is a *weot tooth rnuning
through her sex which affect" her ta*te<
ami renders her less trustworthy. Hhe
is leas exact, at lmst in the pursuit of
this vocation, and doe* not reason as the
man does. If he fails be thinks and
trie* to find out the cause of the failure,
which she is less apt to do. II" gives
pounds aud ounces a* to quantity where
she gives approximate handful*. The
man is more jartieular alxrat tho food
which he consume* himself, which
makes him more careful about what he
prejsxre* for others. Many women are
content provided they have ioe cream
and sweet cake, or something equivalent
thereto. Count de Najao, a man of some
authority eouoerning the table in Paris,
avera that the interest and traditions of
the kitchen can only be confined with
safety to men, and that if the womeu
guest* at a table were not under the eye
of the stern sex they would Wgiu dinner
with the dessert. As may be conceived,
this is a painful mistake for a French
man to make, but a sense of duty doubt
less rises above all other consideration*.
Notwithstanding, even if men be su
perior to worni u in this calling, if any
widespread movement is to come alxrat
the movement must come from them, for
the kitchen is virtually in their bands.
A Business tllrl.
When a Chicago girl received n dm
patch from Wisconsin, anunuueing that
tier lover was going off with tho con
sumption, she telegraphed to his friends:
" Has jxxir Jeffrey kept up his life in
surance t" The friend telegraphed back:
" Po'.icy for SIO,OOO in your favor is
paid up till May 9, 1877. Poor Jeffrey
cannot last after the first cold Hiiap."
The yonng lady then wondered philoso
phically how she would lzok in black,
and telegraphed to Jeffrey :
" Darling, I will lie with yon on Tues
day, never to quit you during life.
" LrRIJNK."
" It will be a sail loss to yon, my
love," said her mother. " Yes, ma, '
sobbed the girl,";" bnt the loss is fully
oovered by insurance."
TERMS: S-i.OO a Yoar, in Advance.
A Lady burgeon fn the Army.
liters waa at this time at the cape a
person whose eoaentrioitlee attracted
universal attention—Dr. James Barry,
stall surgeon to the garrison and Urn
governor a inedieai adviaer. Lsrrd
Charles deacrilxxl him to me as the moat
akillfui of phyaiaiaua and the moat way
ward of men. He had lately been in
prof rational attendance upon the govern
or, who waa aomewhai fanciful about hia
health, but, taking umbrage at some
thing said or done, he had left hia pa
tient to prescribe fur himself. I had
heard so much of this capricious, yet
privileged gentleman, that I had a great
curiosity to see him. I shortly afterward
sat next him at dinner at one of Pie
regimental meaaea. In this learned
Pundit I beheld a beardless lad, appa
reutly altout my owu age, with au un
mistakable Hootch tyue of countenance,
reddish hair, high check bones. There
was a certain effeminacy in his manner,
which he al wsys seemed striving to over
come. His style of conversation was
greatly superior to that one usually
heard at mres tables in those days of
non competitive examination. A mys
tery attached to Harry's whole profes
sional career, which extended over more
than half a oentnry. While at the cape
he fought a duel, and was considered to
be of a most quarrelsome disposition.
He was fr queutly guilty of most fla
grant breacnea of discipline, and ou
mure than one occasion was sent home
under arrest, but somehow or other his
offenses were always condoned at head
quarters. In Hart's " Annual Army
Li*t" for the year 1865 the name of
James Harry, M D., stands at the head
of the list of inspectors general of hos
pitals. In the July of that same year
the Pitrut one day announced the death
of Dr. Barry, and the next day it was
officially reported to the Horse Guards
that the doctor was a woman. It is
singular that neither the landlady of her
lodging nor the black servant who ha 1
Lived with her for years had the slightest
suspicion of her sex. The late Mrs.
Ward, daughter of Colonel Tidy, from
whom I had these particulars, told me
further that she believed the doctor to
have beeu the granddaughter of s Hootch
earl, whose name 1 do uot now give, as
I am unable to substantiate the correct
ness of my friend's surmise, and that
she adopted the medical profession from
attachment to an army surgeon, who lias
not been many years dea>L
A Modern Antiqne.
There lb a millionaire here, Hn Kuang
Yung, aaya a Centennial letter, who lias
au exhibit of porcelain or china ware that
is very, very valuable, because it is
very, very old. You must know that
crackled ware is now all the rage; I do
uot know why, except that it is supposed
to be very old when covered with a net
work of cracks A jar all crackles i
worth about SSIK) or S6OO. We had in
the family a hideous tiling—l ml! bowl,
half pitcher; old—ever so old—older
tluin I e ui. Years ago it was laid away
among the archives (we keep tix>m in a
b*rr>-l iu the cellar! because grease would
nose out through tue crackle*. After a
dav among the cliinaware at the Exhi
bition, Toffy, v ho is always diving into
the musty rcooawea of the past to drag
np aome relic of kiDgiy splendor, went
down into the cellar ar.d fished that
bowl out. It was dark brown, and cov
ered with rils about half an inch apart.
Toffy varnished it and painted the ribs
a yeilow green. Then she set it in the
sun to dry. When dried, she placed it
on the front parlor mantel, where it re
ally looks hideous enough to be genuine.
Visitors come in, ey<> lbe monstrosity,
and say :
" What a—a—peculiar jar that i*J"
" Ye*; is it not ? It is very old and
rare. You may have M-eu them at tlie
Exhibition—in the Chinese department.
This crackled ware "—(taking it up care
fully, and showing the network all over
it) —" is very valuable, you know."
" Ah 1 1 see; it is imked remarkably
Iwantifal; the design is wonderful- 1
had not examined any of them before,
but I can see this is very rare."
" Yes," riiplia* Toffy, "we prize it
highly as a specimen of the antique,"
and then ahe replaces it cautiously aud
resumes her conversation.
The Jame*. Family.
Mrs. Samuels, the mother of the
James boys, the famous Missouri
marauders, has left Clay county, Mo,,
and goue to Texas. On leaving ahe
iiaid : " I hope I shall at last find peace
and rest in tne new home I hope to find.
I am very old now, and not the woman I
was thirteen years ago, wheu trouble
came upon me and mine with the war.
Mv hnsbund was hung by the Federals,
and Jesse, then a boy fifteen years old,
was whipped by the same gong until
speechless lx*canse he would not tell
where his brother Frank was. As for
ir,y family, here is all there is of it. Dr.
Samuels is old and helpless. My little
boy is unable to make s living yet. He
is the next to the l>oy killed by the de
teotivca at the time they threw in that
hand grenade. Then there is my daugh
ter. She wa* brought home from
school to do the sowing for the family
when I lost my arm. Besides these
three helpless nnraibor* of my family, I
have an old colored woman who has
lived with us on the farm over there in
Clay county for thirty years. She will
never leave us ; she is too old to do for
herself, and will u d take ber freedom.
Then t have an ld paralyzed colored
man belonging to the family. I must
keep him as long a* he lives. And then
a little child adopted by me, and old
Annty, make up my family. There,
yon see, are eight of ns, all helpless and
all barmhee. aud why we must be hunted
out of the home we have lived in for
thirty years I cannot understand."
It was Yerjr Warm.
At a dinner party there were two
sisters present, one a widow who had
just emergei! from her weeds, the other
not long married, whose husband had
lately gone ont to India for a abort
term. A young barrister present was
deputed to take the widow down to din
ner. Unfortunately he wa* under the
impression that his partner was the
married lady whoeehnsbatid hail just ar
rived in India. The conversation be
tween them begun with the lady's re
marking how extremely hot it was.
" Yes, it is very : ot,' returned tho
yonng barri*ter. Then a happy thought
suggested itself to him, and he added
with a smile : " Rut not so hot as the
place to which von husband has gone,"
The look with which the widow an
swerod this "happy thought" will
hanut that young l>arriste r till the day
of his death.
To Come Back.
A man oon*iilerably more than half
drank presents himself at the police sta
tion:
Official—" Well, what do yon want ?"
Inebriate—" I want to be locked np."
Official—" Why I"
Inebriate—"Oh, I get drunk every
Bnnday and am locked up at night, bnt
to-night I couldn't find any offioer to
take me up, so I thought I would come
myself."
The sergeant reflects a moment, then
renlies, seutentionaly:
" If yon are able to find the road to
the police station by yonraelf yon are
not drunk enongh to be flocked np.
Come back in an hour or ae."
NUMBER 47.
The Power of Coaacteaee.
A touching incident, illustrating the
i>ower of oouactenoa, even in the moat
hardened criminal, recently occurred in
Washington. At dusk a wall dreamt
stranger rang at tba door of one of the
Inmaiw. and, on being admitted, aaid to
the proprietor : " Ton do not, Mr, reoag
nice my face. 'Tis well. Listen. Tour
pocket was picked about a twelvemonth
since?" "It wan, and 1 lost $12.66."
" 1 was the thief. Nay, air, apare your
reproaches. For seventeen days I bad
not tasted food, and my wife and eleven
small children lay at home on their
miserable pallets, crying with banger
and cold. The money I stole from yon
then, sir, saved them, for with part of.it
I bought coal, with part of it bread, and
the remaining portion I played upon
the eight, coppered the king, mid called
the turu till 1 ran it op to SSO ; but par
don me for intruding the details of my
humble business upon your attention.
I became an altered man, and determined
to reform and lead another hie. lam
now well employed, and night and
morning my wife and children blew
your name, though they, innocent ones,
do not know that I stole the money. I
have long since sought you, bid was un
able to find yon ; but, fortunately, my
friend and lieu elector, I recognized yon
on a street oar yesterday ; 1 followed
yon home and learned your name, and
to night I have oome to restore to yon
the money of which I robbed you." 8o
saying the oeniteut gave the kind gen
tleman a $M bill, received $7.36 change,
bkeaed his tmnefaetor warmly and left
the house. Next morning the old man
found that the bill was a counterfeit and
that the thief had, on leaving the honae,
taken the old man's hat and umbrella.
A Jfervoaa Artrem.
Laferriere, aay* a French journal, has
lieen playing " The Poor Idiot" in the
provinces. At one small town tbe stock
company was very nervous about play
ing with the great star, especially a bsp
leas woman who was cast for the moth* r,
and with whom Laferriere has the crack
scene of the piece. It is in the fifth
act, at the moment that tbe idiot begins
to recognise and distinguish the persona
that surround him; then abe rashes to
him and, folding him in her arms,
shrieks:
"My son. I am yonr mother I"
At every rrhearaal Laferriere encour
aged her. " Don't be nervous," be
would aay; " keep oooL All you have
to do ia to cry : *My son, I am your
mother 1' and mbraoe n."
" Ob, yea ; but, M. Laferriere, I am ao
frightened to play with you."
All went well through the first four
acta, and in tbe wait before the fifth
Laferriere went to the actress' dressing
room to cheer her.
" Keep up a stiff upper lip," he said,
cheerfully; " you know what your have
to do. The whole play leads np to 'bat
scene. I reckon on you. *Mysi n, I
am yonr mother!' and embrace me."
♦•'TTea, yea; 4 my son. lam your
mother!' 1 shall not forget."
Tlio curtain r.wc, Laferriere van
playing with even more than his foriou"
vigor.
•• Now, then," be whispered, enoonr
agiugly; then, taking up his part,
yelled :
" Who ia thia woman I Who ia she I"
•'My moth<r; I am your son!"
gasped the actress ; then she shrieked.
Laferriere had made his teeth meet in
ber arm ! _
Intelligeuce of Horsea.
Dr. L., of tbe New York veterinary
establishment, aaja that generally horses
seem to understand that what ia Iwing
done to them ia for their good, and they
w ill often bear bravely the infliction of
necessary pain, even* when it causes
their great frames to tremble in mute
agony. At tunes, however, they mani
fest as much nervous dread of pain as
human beings show, and then it becomes
neeeasarv either to control them by
powerful apparatus or to administer an
resthetioa. In the latter case, pieces of
sponge saturated with ether or ohloro
form an- inserted in the animal's nos
tril*. Frequently two ounces of either
fluid will lie found sufficient to plunge a
powerful liorso into utter unoonscioas
ncss, while again a pint may be adminis
tered without procuring the desired de
gree of ansfstbetization. Honws show a
keen appreciation of pleasant flavors,
and an excellent memory for bad ones.
Thv also have a very-fair knowledge of
the flight of time. When a horse ia go
ing through a course of medicine he will
ahow that be knows when the boon ar
rive at which be is to take a dose almost
as well as his doctor does, and if be has
taken a dislike to the potion which has
l>cen given him, he will stubbornly re
sist any attempt to get more of it into
his month, while on the other hand, if
he baa fonnd it sweet or otherwise pleas
ant flavored, or even simply tasteless, or
if he i* allowed to sniff at it and And
that it ia not the staff to which ho ob
jects to, he will open his big jaw* and
take it down as gracefully as a bone
can tie expected to swallow drug*.
Where Rasaia Stand*.
The Loudon 7\mes' correspondent at
Paris says there is no doubt of complete
acoord between Russia, Germany and
Austria. It can be easilyeaan that Eng
land and France will not break their
neutrality. Therefore, Rasaia has only
Turkey to face. The only minister of
the Ottoman cabinet who believed that
Turkey might defend herself and receive
European aid has fallen. The cabinet
are now convinced that Turkey cannot
count on the accord of Europe in her
favor, aud that Turkey cannot longer
maintain complete dominion of the Bal
kan peninsular. If they hesitate about
the six weeks' armistice it is because
they wish to know the condition* to
which they will have to submit. What
Russia wants ia now known, and the
Ottoman cabinet will probably resign
themselves to it Russia wishes the ab
solute independence of Bervia; the re
cognised independent* of Montenegro,
with au extension of territory, and the
annexation of the port of Spissia and
the politioal and administrative autono
my of Bosnia, Hernegovina and Bulga
ria. She wishes to strip ofl Bessarabia,
taken from her in 1856, and to have the
liberty of the Dardanelles established.
No Savey Sue.
San some street, San Francisoo, re
sounded to the echoes of a policeman s
whistle in the hands of a miserable,
miserly looking old Chinaman. A
policeman hurried to the soene, and
found that the celestial wanted a citi
zen arrested who owned him some
money and refused to pay it. It was in
vain that the officer tried to point out
with the legal acumen that the China
man's remedy was at civil law—that he
should sue the refractory debtor. No,
ho wanted criminal process.
• 1 Me no savey ' sue ;* savey, he got my
money ; savoy, me want it back."
' " Ob, come, get out of this," said the
guardian of the public peace, gently
shoving him away from his debtor, who
walked quietly off.
•' What you shove mo for. Get me
back me money. Chinaman he no pay
white man money he go to orison ;
white man ho no pay Chins man he walk
off. Yon say 4 sne, sue.' Me no savey
4 sue.' Savey yon allee same fool."
Here the offloer made a grab for John,
who effected his escape.
Items r lutwreat.
UuUm| ilrtfHw Ihntr thildnn in riobtr
material* than do *he English women. g
Two Bagliahman mode
journey of7Bo mike on bicyclesln aboni
a fortnight
Pnr— —— and Bavarian* ara vol on
teerin* largely into tba Servian army,
aa mum Bnaaiana.
linrtng it* I*o jaam at existence. Um
Presbyterian church aiOianberry, N.
baa had bat six minister*.
Tbara ara an onaaoal nam bar of *ild
turkeys this aoaaon in UM mon:iUinoaa
part* of Pennsylvania.
Up to fir lof iaat March, England
bad expended no ia*s tban $25,000,000
on bar now coast defenses.
Tba Indian Nationi* tbaOrataaGreen
for fngitiva lovers from Texas. Mar-
I ri*gs in tba Nation ara valid.
A mother'a pratty saying: "Which
of your two children do yon love moatf'
1 " Alwaya the one that ia absent."
Eggs and batter are generally, baft
frro jeoaaly, regarded a* perishable arti
dm, for they gain in atreegtb aa they
grow old.
In the Franch inaaae statistics for
1875, 152 men are reported aa having
tieoome la nation through love, and on j
tbirty-eevea women.
A lake in Lower California which
covered 150 square mile* in 1878 has
now almost disappeared. In drying np
it ha* left a large deposit of salt.
Inauguration day (Marsh 4) fall* on
Monday in tba yaara 1821, 1840, 1877,
1917, 1045, 1978, 2001, 9020, 2060, 2006,
2125, 2168, 2181, 2221, and ao on.
Tba last native of Tasmania has died,
at the age of aeveniy-three. This island,
which Became ao Engtiah ooJony in
1806, had 6,000 nativaa in 1825; in 1*47,
forty five, and now the race ia extinct.
Here ia a modal verdict of a coroner's
jury: "We do beiievo. after doe
utqaiiiM, and according to onr bed
knowledge, that we do not know bow,
when, and where the aaid infant came to
it* death."
Ike has had an irritating akin disease.
Mrs. Partington my "the chariot*
raw broke oat ell oror him, end if be
hadn't ware tbe Injun beads ee en ome
let, it would donbuen here culminated
fatally."
A breve end good little Ohio boy net
on the fanae two hour* in the frewing
oold of deed winter, watching e broken
ru on the isfkn* 1 truck, eo ee to oerry
tbe lat-4 news of the impending ac
cident to biefetber. wbo was local editor.
In 1790, not one hundred, yeere ego,
et tbe Beck of lemed, tbe RaMnece were
•a etroctoos toward the Turk* ee tbe let
ter ere towerd tbe Servians ; end Bower
row put 3,000 persons to death, as a lee
ion to bie soldiers in the art of maa
aacre.
" Why didn't yon pot on e clean ooi
ler before yon left borne!" celled out en
unperUneut young fop to en omnibna
driver. " 'Uutae your mother hedn't
eent borne my weebing," wee the ex
tinguiehing reply.
An old women who in crowing tbe
street bee e narrow escape from being
ran over bye hearse. "I em not et all
superstitious," ebe eeye to her reecoer,
" bat U )■ always seemed to me that it
would lie unlucky to be killed by a
heeree."
"To have ideas is to gather flowers,
to think is to weave them into gar
land*," eeye one uewaoaper. "It's
rather let# in the season, hot still not
too let# to advise our neighbor to
gather some flower*," sarcastically adds
soother.
A Scotchmen being asked by hie
trimeter "Whet kind of a men wee
Adam I" replied : " Oh, jaat like lther
folk." The minister in is ted on having
a more special description. " Weel,
neebody got anything by him, end
many lost"
The name Hell Gate, it now appear*,
ia older than the Dutch settlement of
161A In a very ancient map of this lo
cality, found ia tbe library at Munich,
Met hstten island is repfentsaled ee eov
m-d ly Hohicene, but " Hoik Oette "
i* indicated in the East river.
Prof. Loomia concludes, after comper
ing five hundred case, that rtorns move
at tbe rate of twenty*:* mite* an hour
on land in this coontry. and a little over
nineteen over the owi'u An I'lpwa
train or a fliet-da* ►tcamship could
,anlj keep ahead of a common storm.
In London 153 children die annually
ont of 1,000 before they attain their first
vear ; in Denmark, 156 ; Scotland. 156;
England, 170 ; Bel pi m, 186 ; Holland,
211; France, 216 ; Prussia, 220 1 ? pain.
226; Switzerland, 252; Italy, 254;
Austria, 313; Russia, 311 ; Bavaria,
372.
Calculations have been published
showing that or or twenty-three millions
of animals and bird* were wounded,
without t eing captured, by the licensed
sportsmen and poachers of the British
islands during the year ending March
81,1878. The vivisectiowsta are oom
pletety eclipsed by this cruelty.
If yon put s hot ooal in your pocket it
will bum its way out. Aye, so will a
bail deed, that is hidden, make itself
known. A fault concealed ia a fault
doubled ; and eo you will find it out,
all through life." Never hide you
faults, but confess them, and seek
through God's help to overcome them.
"How do you do daar aunt do you
love poor Vicky dearest aunt this a pre
sent for you Victoria." This autograph
letter, written by Queen Victoria when
she was an infant, has just been sold at
auction. Probably Julius Cssar wrote
just such epistles when be was small.
It shows that any of us are liable to be
born great
A strange story if told of s horseman
on a white charger, who, in the thick of
a battle between the Turks and the Ser
vians, rode in front of a Servian regi
ment, and abou'ed to them to retire, aa
the Turks were in the rear. The appari
tion was not eeetr again, and proved to
have been a Turk who had naked hi*
life in the ruse.
It seems probable that the elephant
will soon become extinct According to
a statement made at a recent meeting of
the Parish Geographical Society, Eng
land imports annually 1,'200,000 pounds
of ivory, to obtain which it is necessary
to kill 30,000 elephants. The total an
nual destruction of theae animals is esti
mated at 100,000.
Two Oomack women have attracted a
r l deal of attention by starting from
Petersburg to join the Servian army,
in which they desire to do yoeman ser
vice. Tbev * are sisters, their family
name Lukjaaow, and the elder is only
twentv-tliree ; but they possess unusual
physical strength, \nd theyoungerisaaid
tohave taken part in many a bear hunt,
in whieb she displayed extreme boldness
and anduranoo.
The Bushmen account for the origin
of the milky way by relating how a girl
of the ancient race wished for a littJe
light, so that the people might see tc
return home at night. She therefore
threw wood ashes into the sky, which
became the milky way. This name girl,
being vexed with her mother for giving
her too little of a certain red edible root,
threw up portions of it into the sky,
where they became stars.
The First he'd Heard or It.
A blacksmith having failed in busi
ness, a friend, to enable him to 3tart
onoe more, loaned him some iron,
which a creditor attached at the forge.
The friendly owner sued for his
iron. Choato appeared for him, and
pictured the cruelty of the sheriff's pro
needing as follows : 4 ' Ho arrested the
arm of industry as it fell toward the an
vil ; he put out the breath of his bel
lows ; he extinguished the fire upon his
hearthstone. Like pirates in a gale at
sea, his enemie swept everything by
the board, leaving him, gentlemen of the
jury, not so much —not so much as a
horseshoe to nail upon his doorpost to
keep the witches off. The tears came
into the blacksmith's eyes at this affect
ing description. One of his friends,
noticing them, said to him : 44 Why,
Tom, what's the matter with youf
What are you blabbering nbctatt" 44 1
had no idea,'.' was the reply, in a
whimpering time— 44 1 had no idea I
had been HO much a a-a-abnsed !"