TIUJ, In the field* I met maiden. Roth her arms with tansv leden. Ah. how could • girl pre rent it. Or i merry bov avoid it ? .tout one kin* 1 took, and apent it For another close bvoide it. Oh, but how *he frowned and pouted ' Much my boldness then 1 scouted ; But another day I met her. Proffered then a fresh plucked penev. And ahe laughed : " No, I like better Jnst the eimpla, wild grown tansy I" —Bkkir, The Well Digger. Come, lieten alt while I relate What recently befell Onto a farmer down in Maine, While digging of a well. Full many a yard he dug and delved And atill he dug in vain ; "Alack !" quoth he, "e'en waler eeeme Prohibited in Maine I" And atill he dug and delved away. And aliil the well nae dry ; The only water to ho found We. in the farmer'* eye. For by tlie breaking of the haitk That tumbled from tiie etation. All rudder ly In* hopv were dialled Of future liquidal .v>a. And now hi. aativl. were running fust. And he hail died, no doubt. Bill that juat when the earth caved iu He happened to be out 1 " Alaa 1 have a happy thought!" Exclaimed tin. wicked man— " To dig away tin. ciincvi well 1 Me a pretty p an. " Til hide me straight, and when my wife And eke 11 e neighbor* know VS bat's happened to the digging here, They'll think that I'm helow ! "And ao, to aave my precious Ufa, They'll dig the wed, no doubt. E'en deeper than it aa- ai drat. Before they find me out !'* And so be t.ivl htm n Uu tm rhrongh ai. uie hungry day. To bale the digging of hi* eell In tin* deceit tin way. But hot what grit f and shame befell The fa..- v. ungr.tvful man. The whi.e he ly.y watched to see The working of Lis plan. The neighbors all, with one accord, Unto each other .aid : " Wi.h atich aw t c i with tarth above. The man is rtueiy dead !" And 'he wife, with pious care. All nee.' Icm cwt to nve, Said " bir.ee the Lord baa willed it. E'en iet it be his gravel ' Jo.\n tr. hunt. I ■. Be Mattel's Wife's Slur? " Dinner ready f" said th 1 baggage mastt r to his wife. "Ot eonrs*!" said tie wife, in a tone of astonishment. "Yea, yes," said the baggage master, " you're afraid of your glass." And then they laughed together. ••Yondon't kuow what he means," said the rosy little woman to me. " Why, when I'm in a tempter I smash things," said the husband, and went his way. " In a temper," said the wife. "Why, Tom couldn't be in a temper if he tried. Tom in temper ! G'xxl gracious! But I'll tali yon what he nut ans, if yon like —for jon couldn't get it out of him. And a- I've half an hour betore me, and my darning in my hand, and von're waiting for the stage, it won't waste time for either of UH. There was a time when I didn't think much about that, bnt that was a good while ago. " My husband was baggage master on this very line wtien I married him, aud thev said he was the most careful one ever kDown. No forgetfulness in him. Never drank a drop and never snubbed the poor, bewildered people who asked questions. Good naturt-d be was as could be, and as firm as if he hadn't been good nut tired, and I was a silly, irresponsible girl, who had been at school a mouth before that of my wed ding, and knew as much of housekeep ing as a mouae. " He had saved a good deal of money, and had built a pretty bouse with only four rooms in it, besides the kitchen, but eacU as pretty as a picture, and a big bow window in the parlor that had cost ever so much. In the window plants were set, and an aquarium. No one had a prettier parlor anywhere. It was the pride of my heart. " The great road ran just past the cor ner; it was at Lilliput Junction that we live —and down below was the depot, and the train slacked up going through the town. When Tom ate breakfast at home, which wasn't often, he kept ten minutes to get to the cars before they started, and so was never in a hurry. " Well, one morning he had had breakfast at home, aud had fifteen min utes to spare, when some one came rushing past the house on horseback, and cried out to Tom that old Hill, a brake man on the road, had just been very much hnrt by a train and he was going for a doctor. Tom liked old Hill, and he started to his feet at once. 4 Bessie,' said he, * I most see the poor old fellow. I have ten minutes or more for it I can ran to the defot in three. Now, take my keys, my dear, and have them at the door for me when I pass. Remember how important it is.' " Yon see the great bnnch cf keys was heavy, and he didn't care to carry them all with him down to where old Hill was and back. And I didn't won der at it as 1 lifted them from the table, checks and chnins and all. And I meant to stmd at the door as be came up; but there was time to spare. Bo I just ran into tbe back yard to tell Mrs. Jones, next door, over the fence, about tbe accident to poor Hill—and got talking, and the time passed as time will in chat; and ten nanntes is nothing, you know. "And our house was on the street, one of a row. There was no getting to the lck door withont going around the whole of them. And the door hail a patent lock and the big bow windc-w was fastened iion ; and while I was chatter ing like a magpie I didn't see my band flying P the road, with good three minutes before him, to get his keys and run to the d< pot in. 4 Bessie,' he cried at the gab- ; bnt I didn't hear him. 4 Bessie,' be shouted, as be shook the door—and there were my ears filled with the storv my neighbor was telling me aliout the tipsy woman nhe'd seen ran over, and yon see Tom bail tried the window by this time and found it down, and h bad two minutes and a half left; and a man that misses his duty on a railroad pays for it, I tell you ; aud it wasn't temper, mark that; it wasn't because he felt like smashing my window, because i kept him wait ing ; it was to do bis dnty, come what might of it ; and it was grand of him, I say. The next seooud Torn was through that plate glass window with a crash, and the bits lay scattered on the floor and on the ground, and some were in his flesh, bnt he had his ohecks and his keys, and was off flying. 44 There never was a man that ran a race that ran so before; and a minute after, when I, without my bonnet, and not caring a bit what any one thought of me, stood staring down the road, I saw the up tru ; n rush by, and my Tom Btandii/g on tbr platform of the last baggage car, wiii his keys and ohecks in a belt about nis waist, tying np bis k bleeding hand in his pocket handker chief ; had, in the midst of it, hnrt as he was, much as he had lost in that great window, angry as he should have I been at me—for I had been the cause Wk ot it all—my Tom nods his head to me aud shouts at the top of his voioe, so that I heard him above all the sounds of ■ the train ; 4 All right, Bessie 1' FRED. KURTZ, Kditor and Proprietor. VOLUME IX. •" But, oh! it wasn't all right with mo until 1 (ww him again, and 1 would have gout' dowu ou my knees to him to beg apd pray hiui to forgive me, ouly he wouldn't let nie, but took mo iu his arm* iuctoal, lie's that kind of groat, strong. ajfiendid man. is Tom, that ho couldn't got angry at a woman. " lint it was a ioaaoti to mo, and, an Tom says, 'l'm always ou time, what ever I have to do.' " There's no delay. There's no put ting off in my house, and I gossip when there's nothing else to do. "' You see, you're anxious alamt Tour glass,'says Tom, when he's in a joking mood, as you heard him just now. But I've got to feel that I've my duty hi do as well as Tom has, and that oue of the duties we all have ou the traiu of life, that flies ou whether we want it to or not, is always to lie ou time." The Struggle In Cuba. The following is an extract from a private letter addressed by a member of the Cuban congress to a friend in New York : CAMP JTK.AK Ho norm, September 29, lS7fi.—Here we are, rvjoiciug over the capture of Las Tunas by General Vicen te Garcia ou the night of the '23 d mat. This is unquestionably the most glorious feat of the war. General Garcia, in a dispatch to the government, proved the importance of the capture of the place by reason of the heavy booty he took. As soon as "he bad taken the powder magazine (EI Polverin) and the church, which latter was fortified with three guns, it was easy for him to compel the surrender of those who had sought re fuge in the forts and in some of the neighboring houses. We are hourly ex pecting the official dispatch giving the details of the action. Las Tunas, to which the Snaniar'* had given the surname of " La Vic toria, " was garrisoned by over two hun dred Spanish regulars, and about an equal number of volunteers. The latter have joined our forces; of the former we have as yet heard nothing, but It is likely that not one of them is alive. A very important affair detains us in this department, which prevents us from rushing to congratulate our brothers in arms. Oeueral Garcia also states that his Kisses were quite insignificant. Wo have considerably anticipated the coining winter campaign ; wit-ess the attack ou Villa Clara by General Calvar on July 21, when he captured forty rifles "and left thirty-MX Spaniards killed, without even being pursued, as the Spaniards falaclv assert ; the attack on Morava of July 20 by ling.-Gen. M. Suart z, under orders of Geu. Maximo Gdbiez, and where an enormous booty of clotliiug, money, ammunition and provisions were captured ; the charge under Lieut.-Col. Ji>ee Gomez upon a body of Spanish cavalry at Los Paso*, in the jurisdiction of Sancti Eapiritui, in which ninety horses and thirty -three rifles fell into our hands aud (he Span iards left forty killed upon the field ; the at ack upon Las Mmas, in Carna guey, by Brig.-Gen. Benitoz, where he rescued fifteen prisoners and took twenty-six rifles, in which action with the machete alone onr men captured two fi>rts, with a loss of only three killed sud one wounded ; the charge of Col. L. Vidal up to the gates of Holguin, so close up to them that the families on the roofs of the city inside the walls could plainly see the Spanish cavalry turn to the right about face, having twenty six killed, forty-seven horses, and twenty seven rifles in our hands. Beside* the foregoing we have for the pact six mouths kept tb* enemy busy all over the country, by skirmishes, by am hashes, by unexpected attacks, which, although individually unimportant, have helped to decimate their ranks, and dis gust their ill-paid, ill fed, and over tasked men with the service. Tbe death of Brig.-Gen. H. M. Reeve was due to an impruJenoe on his part ; he led a charge against a body of the enemy, of whose force he was misin formed. He fell badly wounded in the thick of the Spaniards, and preferred to blow hi* brain* out than fall alive into the hand* of the enemy. We have likewise experienced a great loa* in the death of Lieut.-Col. Tide] Co* pedes, who also wan led to his death by an excess of bravery. The corpse of poor Co*pedes was taken into Pueblo Principe, and there dragged through the streets at a horse's tail. Ah ! these Spaniards are always the same. War Trappings of a Chief. The Smithsonian Institute received a short time ago a valuable and interest iug addition to its museum in the shap of a complete and very flue outfit of tin war trapping* of an Indian chief. The contribution oomea from west of the Rocky mountains, but no letter of trans mission or deecription has been as yet received. The suit consists of a very fine headdress of red flannel, trimmed and decorated with tieadwork and eagle's feathers. The long train which ileeoenile from the bead and over the shoulders is also fringed with eagle's feathers. Tin ri is An nuden-hirt which is worn next th akin. It is of red flannel also, with a black and white border, aud ia sewn over with elk teeth. The suit includes a pair of war leggings of red cloth, highly decorated with thick Ix-adwork in alternate squares of dark blue aud light blue beads, anil with fringes of buckskin down the sides. The war shirt, worn ontsiile, is of buckskin, or namented with tieads anil human hair, and is painted on the breast and shoul der. In addition to these articles there is a complete flowing sliabraque, which is worn over the shoulders with the ends falling on each side of the wearer. 11 is worn only when the chief is mounted, as a chief is not fond of carrying mnch weighty apparel or acoonb rment, and is of flannel, laced with otter skin. To this is attached the bow case and quiv er case, which are both heavliy oma merited with beadwurk in various col or*. There came with the suit a pair of squaw's leggings of red flaunel, very thickly and taste ully sewn with liead work. These articles could not have oc>st less than some two hundred dollars in the aggregate, and the thick orna mental bead work is very costly. Easily Done. The circular of a Chicago divorce law yer is before us. He offers to get a di vorce iu six weeks for 8100, and there need be no greater cause of complaint than that 44 the parties cannot live iu peace and union together, and that their welfare demands separation." The ap plicant has simply to sign an affidavit, By the fee aud receive the document, ia lawyer does not require the pres ence of his client, as be does bis court business in 44 a Territory where there is no Htato organization to interfere. In this case, residence anywhere in the United States ia all that is required, and affidavit of plaintiff is sufficient proof." VALUABLE ESTATES.— A unrulier of well known estates In the James river section of Virginia have been sold lately to Northern and Western capitalists. The 44 Grove, 4 ' near the historic James town, brought SSO an acre ; " Arina," at Aikins' Landing. $30,000; Ruffins' homestead, near Port Walthall, $30,000; the beautiful 44 Ellerslie," in Chester field county, $23,000 ; aud an elegant possession just above Aikens' Landing, on the river, $86,000. THE CENTRE REPORTER A TEMPERANCE MESS ARK. A I .slier liiw Jsfcs H. Reach e Ik. V I'repl* el ike t'ewairv. My DKAH YOOKO FMIKMMI : L have le< u requested ti solid a message to the Habbat h-schools ui bolialfof tho total ah atiuaiioo cause. I wish I could write to i you all that is in my hort ou this grtwi question, but my time ami ability are limited, ami my message tuust b* abort. We are sometimes told that total ab stinenoc is uot temperance. \\ liat is temperance f Let ui give you a short reply. Tcmponuioe is a lawful gratitlca tiou of a natural apjetite. Is the sppo tile for intoxicating liquors a natural appetite f No. Therefore temperance is total abotiueuoe from intoxicating liquor* as a leverage. This principle is a sensible principle. When you are as old as l am, yon will regret many things you have learned in the past ; but you will never regret tliat you did not learn to use intoxicating liquors, i have never met a person, nor | do I believe tliat you u find a person in the world, who would say: "I aui fifty years of age, and I never drank u glass of liquo r in my life, and I regret thai I did not learn to drink it when I was young." No. When yon meet one who has never drank, he tells you: " l am glad of it," or "I am proud of it." A man once called on me, and said: i " Mr. Ooogh, l want to toll you some thing. I am not a reformer. I care little for reforms, or missions, or Hun day-schools. They are all very well in their way, bat they are not in my line. I have " I •cell an actor since l was eighteen, and I am now forty-three, and , I never drank a glass of ale, wine, or spirits in my life. What do you think of that I lam proud of it F" IVar children, you would be shocked if you could read some of the letters that lie in my desk, that have been written to me by persons in all gravies of society—young men, old men, lawyers, physicians, ministers of the gospel, teachers, mechanics, clerks, and some ladies—who have acquired the appetite for strong drink. One says : " Dives in hell never longed for a drop of water as, with all the power there is iu me, I long for a drink." Another says : "Is there any hope for me on this side of the grave i' Another says: "God knows how near l have been to self destruction through drink," and so on. Gne poor man, actually holding my feet, cried ont: " Ob, Mr. Gough ! heir me out of this hell. Drink is my curae. ' I Yes, dear children, the cry comes from the inmates of lunatic asylums: " Drink is my curse;" froai the State prisons, j " I>rink is inv curse;" innocent victims wives, mothers, children—" Drink is my cure*;" from the burning lips of he dying drunkard comes the despair Lug cry: " Drink is my curse." Then arc broken hearts, blighted hopes, blackened characters, crushed intellects, and lust souls as the result of strong drink, and not a single individual but rejoices in his escape from it. Is not the total abstinence principle j en si hie f " But all who drink do not la-come drunkards." I know tiist; but if fifty young men begin to drink, some wiii assuredly lie ruined by it. Then, there is a risk. Now we all desire safety •nd fw-curity. Suppose you desired to travel from New York to Chicago, aud there were two lines of road—one ou which there were accident* constantly occurring; on every train some disaster, passenger* killed and wounded; in short, a very risky road; and on the other, never sines it* opening had there been the slightest accident. Which road wonld yon take' If yon are sensible, and regard yonr own welfare, you would take the safe one. Suppose some one should tempt yon to take the risky road, by telling yon how much more beautiful the car* were and what a jolly company you would find on board the train. You would say; 44 1 euro not so much tor gan !v ears and jolly eomiiany as for cny aai ty. I want to lie wife." Now, it is your safety we seek, wlteu we urge you to abstain entirely from strong drink. There is no certainty that you will become victims if yon begin to in duige, but there is a risk. Some say : " 1 can govern myself ; I have a mind of my own." What would yon think of a captain of a steam vessel who would put on a full head ol steam, and then knock down the man at the wheel i Or of the conductor on a rail road, who wonld let on the steam anil then disable the engini-er ? You would say he was a reckless man. The steamer or the engine might get through without accident, but it might go craslung to de struction. So wheu a person, using that which wrakens the power of his will, de pends on his weakened will to serve him —using that which warps hi* judgment, ami then depends on his warped judg ment to guide him—using that which affects hi* self control, and then trust hi* deraug d self-control to keen him from danger—ho in reckless. Himply because some men drill and do not become drunkards, can yon 1 I once saw a man stand on s small platform outside the spire of a church, and look down on the pavement one hundred and fifty feet be low. Because he did it, can yon I Think of th se things before yon run the risk and remembej w hat the risk is. Our principle is lawful. We have been told it is contrary to the Scriptures. One gentleman said to mo ; 44 If yon can find a command in the Biblo, 'Thou shalt abstain from intoxicating honors as a beverage,' 1 will abstain ; but not till then." Dear children, wo waut you to lovo the Bible, to obey the precepts of the Bible ; but in view of the evils of in temjwrance, and in view of its cause, we ask of the Bible only a permission to let liquor alone. We lay our hand ou this blessed book and ask : May we abstain ? You do not search the Bible for a com mand: Tbon shaltabstain from gambling; from dog fighting ; from horse racing ; just in proportion to your love for the Bible will you abstain from these things, la-cause they are detrimental to the best interests of society according to Bible principles. Therefore, since in temperauoe is caused by the use of in toxicating drink ; sinoe iri proportion to the use of snch drink drunkenness in crease* or diminishes ; and nince the most that can lie said for this driuk is that it is a needless luxury, and that the world would Ix-lwtter and purer without it - therefore, you say, I will abstain, and give the weight of my influence, as long as I live, on the side of alistinence, sobriety and parity. This is in ac cordance with the teachings of tlio Bible. How many of us, who are growing old, wish wo could he boys again! Why ? Because wo see no many things to regret, so many wrong turns we have taken. To bo a boy, with life before you, with the olcan page on which to Trite yonr record, wjth opportunities! coming that yon can improve—what a position, what a privilege ! To be an old man, with a record all stained and blotted, knowing that no mortal hand can clean the page; with opportunities nnimprovod, and lost never to return— this is dreadful! A wicked man, who had been a stage driver, was, during the lust few days of his life, very uneasy, an 1 on his death bed he constantly moved his feet, and looked distressed. When asked by his wife : " Harry, what is the matter!" he said : "Oh, I'm on an awful down grade, and I can't find the brake." Dear young friends, yoar feet are on the brake. Keep them there. You have, under God, the future iu your power; your destiny in your own oontrol. Be member there ia no oneevil in the world CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER hi, 1870. U-fore which ao many fall, as the evil of in tern iterance. I most earnestly de-ore that tlie youth of our eountry, esiiecially our Hsblwth setuHii scholars, shall give all their ill fluence against this great evil. May God help you to avoid the |>crila iu life's jourtlcy, aud the traps that are set for your feet, so that from your place of safety you may reach out your hand to help the tempted who are struggling in their chains, and may by self-denial lie enabled to " fulfill the law of Christ," by helpiug some poor burdened souls iiito the higher life of purity and free do in. The Pretention of Suicide. It has often hern said of people slight ly insane who oomuiit or attempt aui cude, that they are moved bv unreason iug selfishness or vanity, f'.ven vanity might, and we venture to think would, l>e iu uiauy oases overborne by the recol lection that suicide i* murder, sml that tho person who commits it will be treat ed after death as a felou- his body buried without Christian rites, his faun lv disgraced ami his property lost to tliem. The man who oould make .aid sigu a disposition of his property with the intention of suicide clearly iu his miud would be more determined on self destruction than certainly a half of the {lersous who at present oommit the dread ful act. It has not, we believe, been denied by medical men that the homicidal mania is frequently restrained by the fear of punishmenL But, as the law is at pre sent worked, many cases occur iu which the maniac coolly acts npou the impu nity which will attend his crime. The same feeling may work upon suicides. They may, and often do, kuow and be lieve that under no circumstances will the old law l>e brought to bear upon their ease. Among recent examples there is a large proportion in which the suicide, however insane uuun the oue point, was perfectly sane upou every thing else, and, there being no restrain ing thought In the bar of legal conse quences, lias been left to commit self murder as an act affecting himself alone. There are many men to whom disgrace appears worse than death. Huoh a feel ing is not uncommon even among those whose intellects are considerably dis ordered. Stealing, adultery, blasphemy are quite impossible to many a man wh ) will yet commit suicide. The idea of hurting another is uften more repnguaiit than that of hurting oneself. There are many with whom a consid eration of the injury done to their fami lies would oj>erate powerfully as a deter rent, even more powerfully than the desire to gratify the suicidal impulse. Passion is thus controlled, and the man who would stick at no crime to attarn an end where hisowu longing* are concern ed is yet held tack by the consequences his rashness may bring UJHJU thoae whom he loves, or oven those with whom he wishes to stand well. It is not possible to believe that if every intelligent sui cide—that is, every suicide whose intel lect has only failed on the one point— could be shown, whether by argument or by witnessing the experience of others, that his crime would be punished by social disgrace, he might not Is* in duced to hesitate, and, as in all diseases, time gained would be life saved. The impulse is often transient, lie str-'.ned for a sufiicuut period it dies out, and every consideration, legal and moral, which can u*aed. In April the havoc is among returning birds, along our northern ast from Caje May to the shores of Maine. On the south era coast, and especially along the shores of Florida, the destruction is greatest amouir the southward flying birds in October. The numl* r and variety of these misguided night travel ers is surprising. The k.-eja-r of the uew and lofty light on Anastasia island, it St. Augustine, Fla., informed the writer that there is scaroely any dark night in the year that does not witness the destruction of numbers of birds that ■lash themselves against the light, and that often the number found in the morning ranges from twenty to fifty. I hicks, however, are the most notable victims. These heavy birds are noted for their velocity of (light. The keejs. Concealed elsewhere on her person were sprites of paper and brass, and these, it seems, were the in struments wherewith she conjured. " Make me a full confession," said the mandarin, " and I pledge you my word that you shall escape unhurt." " You shall know all übout it to-night," re plied the maiden. Bhe tied a string to a paper sprite aud muttered an incanta tion ; in about fifteen minutes the thiug of paper became a thing of life, moving, fluttering, growing, flying, until it was an enormous kite. Then she took one of the brass men; lo 1 it moved and snorted; there was a dreadful sound, like the tramp and clangor of an armed host marching in mid air. The poor man darian saw and heard it all, but he understood nothing. The woman kept the secret. The mandarin WHS scared. Tirr. DIFFKHENOR. —"Did yon ever," asks the Cincinnati Timet, "watch the noiseless movements of a pretty girl's lips as her dress is trodden upon, and marvel at the self -command which enables her to do the sitnation justice iu so quiet a manner? A dozen fonts of type wouldn't furnish dashes enough to represent the remarks of the average mu under like incitement." A Frightened Officer. The British Arctic Expedition. The British Arctic cineditioii under Oaptaiu Nares, comprising the steamers Alert and Discovery, has rata rued, the Alert having arrived at Valeiitia, New found laud, tiu October '27. The ships left England on May ItO. IH7S, and en tered the lee off (la|K) Sable on July '2' J. After a severe struggle, the uorth side of Lady Franklin bay was reached, and here the Discovery was left in winter quarters. The Alert pushed ou up to latitude eighty two deg. and twenty seven mm., and there wiutered. At this point the suu was invisible for lt'2 days, ami the lowest teiuj>erature ever recorded was exjiericnoed. The mer cury fell to fifty nine deg. below aero, and remained ao for a fortnight, and ut oue period reached l(>4 deg. below tero. Sledge |>artles were fitted out, one of which traveled 200 miles to tho east ward, ami the other went to the north, proceeding ou laud up to eighty three deg. seven tniu., and ihouoe ou the ioe to eighty three deg. twenty one win. Further on nothing but ioe could la* seen, which was so rugged that scarcely a mile of advance oould le accomplished daily. The floes iu some places measured 150 feet in thickness. Four men diet! from the effects of the cold. Finally, convinced that it was iinpussi ble to get any nearer to the .pole, and seeing that his men were succumbing under the hardships, while the Alert herself hail been much damaged by the ioe, Oaptaiu Nares started homeward, leaving Smith sound on Heptemla-r a last. Thin expedition, it will be remem Ured, was fitted out with entry aid to polar exploration which science could devise or the experience of the oldest Arctic explorers could ►-uggent. That it has failed to reach the pole is proof of the enormous difficulties to he over oorue IU that undertaking, rather than of any inadequacy to the tank of thoae who attempted it. ludeed, we may believe that, after latitude eighty two deg. m reacheil, the obstacles augment in some compound ratio. The reaulta which have been obtaiued are, however, of considerable importance. Captain NAT re has reacheil the highest northern point ever attained, latitude eighty-three deg. twenty-one mm. The A' 1 uuui rx peditioii, which eailcd ih 18?'J, toward HpiUbergeu, ouly reached Cape hugely in eighty-two dog. Ave mm.,and sighted Gape Vienna iu eighty three deg. It is remarkable, however, that the Polaris, ill equipped as she was, reached eighty two deg. sixteen iniu., and wintered in eighty-one deg. thirty-eight min., while Hall,"with a sleighing party, pushed on ward to eighty two deg. thirty min. Captain Nares has, therefore, advanced fifty-one geographical miles further north than the American explorer, ami has approached within four hundred miles of the pole. President Laud, usually marked on Arctic maps, has no existence. Lady Franklin's strait is really a bay; and from the fact that travel was couductod on the ice to the highest point reached, it would seam that no open jHilar sea waa euoouutered. The northernmost point seen iu lireeulaud was in latitude eighty two deg. fifty seven min. Excel lent coal was found uear the place where the Discovery wintered, and a number of valuable scientific collections and ob servation* were made. The Pandora is still in the ice, and was met by I he Alert on October 10, when she signaled "all well." A Champion better. Tlie following • tory is going around in Fo-ncli military circles. Au ufilwr, Vrnliri, wtiorlrlinti'd in hi* garrison ft r winning every bet. None of bin comrades c>nlt reallv true, Verdier, that you win iveiy bet? ' "So it is, general." " Bat how, the deuce do you do it I" "Oh, very simple, lam a physiog nomist, aud bet only when 1 am quite sure." *• Ton are a physiognomist. Well, then, what, for instance, can you read now in my face f" " 1 can"see," said Verdier, promptly, " that your old wound on the upper and tsu'k part of yonr leg is broken out again." " Nonsense," thundered ont the gen eral, " I never had a wound there !" " 1 beg pardon, my general, but " "No but! after I assure you, sir. " " Perhaps you do not like to sja-ak of it; perhaps a duel"— " I* tiialtlr ! —you won't believe me. What will jou bet f" " Anything yon please, general." " Five hundred franca." " All right, five hundred franca." " The gentlemen present are wit nessea." With these words the general at once prooee*led to divest himself, natiA yrnr a la Snwarow, of his pauta loo ut>, and a serotinous inspection by all present revealed the fact that there was no trace of a wound by sword or ball. "Yon lost the bet, Verdier!" shouted the general, pitching himself np again. "1 have lost, indeed, this once. Men may err sometimes. Here are your five hundred francs." The general put tho money with a chuckle into his pocket. After he ar rived home be at once wrote to liis old chum, the general in oommand of Ver dier's former regiment: " Dear friend —The story abont Verdier'a luck is all humbug ! He just made a bet that I had a wound on my back, for five hun dred francs, and of course lost it." The answer came back : " Your naivete is truly charming ! Yonr winning of the five hundred francs coat me two thou sand, which Verdier Iwt me oc the day of his leaving that he will make yon, on tho first evening of mooting, take oil yonr inexpressibles in the presence of your officers, and that you yourself will inform me of it." Relics of HurgojrncN Army. The Charlottesville (Va.) Jrjfcrtonian says: George Carr, Esq., informed us that ouo of his farm hands, in plowing a field on the farm, brought to the sur face a gold coin, coined more than cue hundred years ago. This farm of Mr. Carr's is situated seven miles nearly north from Charlottesville, aud is the place where the army surrendered by Geu. Burgoyne iu the Revolution were located as prisoners of war, and the coin was undoubtedly lot by one of the prisoners. The foundations of the cabins in which these prisoners lived can be seen at this day, and in the forests are soou tho graves of those who died while they wero quartered there. Wo believe the fields retain the names given them at that time, as " headquarters," etc. When the prisoners wore removed from tho county the place was purchased by the late Garland Garth, Esq., and he said there was not a tree left on tho plaoe. The forests in the vicinity had all lawn cut down ami ustni for fnol. The forests that are now to lie found on this farm have grown up sinoe the prisoners left. Quite a number of the prisoners remained aud married, and their de scendants are among our most indue trious citizens. THE (AMTAWAYH. I.llr mm m lI.Mfl Msrk, 'I'lli u tbe visual daily routine, from j which the reader will IHI able to form sotne idea of the life we led, says oue who wan (wit away oil a desert rock: I got up a)wint noron o'clock ami took the anhoM out of the fireplace, lit the > tiro, ami swept out the hotine with a I bird's wing. When the atoue pot got j heated, I put iu the grease, and if We I had eggs we fried thorn iu it, or cooked the meat ill it. It generally took about a couple of hour* to cook the breakfast, j an we could do little at a time; my ; mother looked after it sometime*. After breakfast I often went down to the gully ami had a wanh- with eggs when plenti | ful, often umug a doseu of them ; and when they could not be spared, 1 cut a pcuguiu'n throat over a piece of rag, j ncrubbiug myself with the blood, and then washing it off with water; it wan not such a good plan an the eggs, but wan better than nothing. My wanh over, I would get bird* for our evening meal, either young penguins or molly hawks, and then net to work skinning and cutting them up. After that 1 generally killed and sluuned about fifty old fkeugums and stored up the skius for winter fad. Thirty fat skins were about as much an a man in our reduced state could carry easily. I packed them iu stacks about four feet ' high. The old kept skins burnt well, though they smelt strongly, and were full of maggots ; but we were very glad to have them. 1 stored about seven hundred or eight hundred, which would have lasted us some time, as we only burnt about five or six in our small fire during the day. 1 was always glad to get my skinning over, as I had got so nick of it ; and dreadful looking figures we must some times have been—our hands and clothes covered with blood, and our faces often spotted with it. The evening meal wan generally cooked by my mother, of which I ate some, leaving a little for the morning, then got in water for the night, put the turf ou the tire, and retired to bed, or rock rather. 1 gttttt ally slept well, except when I dreamed of skinning penguins. My mother also slept pretty well, considering the dis comfort, etc. On Sunday I never did any skinning, but washed myself in the gully iu the morning. We always had a supply of f od ready for the Sunday. 1 then paid visits to some of the other shanties, and got all the news, such as a new yarn ; and dreams were a great source of amusement—we dreamt in such a realistic manner. Having dreams was quite like a Utter by post, for they took our minds off the island, and enabled us to forget for a time our miserable circumstances, and any interesting ones I retailed to my mother. In the night when we awoke we invariably asked each other's dreams, which were often alsjut something to <-at, often about being at borne and the ship that was to take us off the island— alwayt pleasant. Dreaming, in fact, was by far the pleasauU-st part of our existence ou that miserable ndand. Manv were tbe prophecies that were made about when we cUuuld get of!. At first we anxiously paid attention to them ; but when one or two turned out wrong, no one took much account of \ them. Explorations iu Palestine. Iu thane daya when every spot of ground made interesting by the secular history of mankind is undergoing the most careful survey and study, it will be far from creditable either to the Chris tians or the Jews of Kim pe and Ameri ca if the explorations in Palestine, of which an attractive account w.is given at the meeting of the American Geogra phical Society, should be feebly ami in adequately prosecuted. The Uerman government has appropriated, as art rort informs us, a sum of 540,000 marks, in addition to the 120,100 marks alrea !v expended, for the prosecution of the gewt excavations rnakiug at Olympia; and it i not brilliantly satisfactory to l>e told, as we are, that while Kuglaudis spending only 815,000 a year on the ex prorations in Palestine, the American investigations ujxm that sacred soil have been practically brought to a standstill for the lack of ftmdr. The ; imprecation of the sweet singer of Is rael, "If I forget thoe, oh, Jerusalem, uiay my right hand forget her cunning," would seem to be chanted in vain by the Indie vers alike in the old and in the new dirqtenaation. Not to theologians only nor to devout persons, nor yet to arrhieologisJ* and historians, should the prosecution of those enterprises be a matter of lively interest. The artist and the student of architecture are deeply concerned in them. A great deal lias been done for our knowledge : of Palestine as a land of Scripture and ; of story, bv such writers in our mother | tongue n Robinson and Stanley, Prime, i Porter, Kitto and Thompson; but the s magnificent work of tbe Count De Vogue, and the more recent monograph I of another admirable French savant and traveler on tbe French castles in the Holy Land, open fields quite untouched by English and American explorers. Of these a glimpse, though but a slight glimpse, was afforded us by the gentle men who addressed the Geographical Society, and we trust that practical steps mav hi- taken to bring Amerioau science and enterj rise fully abreast with Euro pean investigation in this arena, so ; crowded with lofty recollections and the scene of incidents of such transcendent importance.—Mac York World. For the laud Time, There is a touch of pathos about do ing even the simplest thing "for the last time." It is not alone kissing the dead that gives yon this strange pain. Von f>el it when you have looked your last time ni>on aomc scene you have j loved—when you stand in some quiet i city street where you know that von will never stand again. The actor play ing his part for the last time, the singer whose voice is cricked hopelessly, and who after this once will never stand bc i fore the sea of upturned faces disputing ; the plaudits with fresher voioes and l fairer forms, tho minister who has I preached his last sermon—these all i know the hi lden bitterness of the two words " Dover again." How they come to us on onr birthdays as we grow older! Never again yonug; always nearer and nearer to the very last—the end which is universal, "the last thing i which shall follow all lust things, and tnrn them, let us hope, from pains to joys. We put away our boyish toys with au odd heartache. We were too old to walk any longer on onr stilts - 100 tall to play marbles on the sidewalk. Yet thero was a pang when we thought we had played with onr merry thoughts for the laat time, and life's serious, grown-up work -was waiting for us. Now we do not want the lost toys back, Life has other and larger playthings for us. May it not be fhat those too shall seem in tho light of some far-off day as the boyi h games seem to our mau hood, and wc shall learn that death is but tbe opening of the gate into tho new land of promise T Do you ever load the newspapers f No 1 Have you auy opinion upon any thing I No I Do yon know your right hand from your left ? No ! Do you consider yourself a speciee of born idiot Yes! Tlisn you are fit for a juryman, TKKMH: $2.00 a Year, in Advance. DEATH IX A M'HOOLKOOM. What (•• ml fastatlsas MOMIII** Utile Mar la • Mefcaal. Herbert Booth, sou of Mr. George Booth, of Milwaukee, Wia , a lad seven years of age, came to school rather late, and was hurried larck home to get his slate, having forgotten it In his haste to get to school. Nothing unusual ooeurr ed after this until about eleven o'clock, a little over au hour from hia return W> his desk. Then his teacher, Mtn* (Sarah W. Chapman, observed that le was making a uoiae, and that it diverted tbe attention of the ahildreii from their | studies. She called him up ou disobe dieuoe of an order to keep quiet, and had given him four or five blow* with a light rattan, when he fell into a fit and died. Mr. Booth, the father of the child, 1 said he was of a tender, sensitive nature, f and it was the general opinion that his death was the result of the excitement lucidt-nt to his attendance at school dur- i mg the forenoon. Herbert had risen ' as usual, partaken of breakfast with the family, and had assisted in crossing a J younger brother or sister before going to school. His race for his slate and the nervous disturbance consequent apou punishment by tbe teacher had re sulted iu an apoplectic fit and death. The family had no fault to find with Miss Chapman, and viewed the oocur j renoe as one that might bsve happened in tbe home circle under no greater provocation than that at school. Mr. Booth had carefully examined the hands of the deceased, and had failed to dis cover auy marks upon them. There was a slight abrasion of the skin on the upper side of oue of his thumbs, but ' this might have been caused at some j time previous to his death. Miss Chapman said she had detected the little fellow in the act of rnakiug uoises with his mouth, to the annoyance , of those about him, and bad called him to account. He laughed, and, very carelessly, it aoemed to her, repeated the noises. Thinking it ueoeaaary to punuh him fur his disobedMuoa, she summoned him out into the hall and ad ministered four or five light blows upon tbe iuaide of one of nia hands. He made no resistance, but cried more out of j mortification than of pain. On his re lease he walked to his Seat, sobbing all the way, and the teacher observed that he settled down into a seat near the one he occupied and assumed a recumbent position. Bhe hurried to hia side and found he was iIL A boy near by ex- ! pressed au opinion that the child had fainled, and word was immediately sent up to tbe principal, who appeared and assisted in lathmg the boy's temples with oold water and applying ammonia. A physician was sent for bat arrived too late to be of service. The little one died in a few moments after he reached the seat. The parents were sent for, I but as Mi . Booth was too ill to come, tbe remains of her poor boy were taken home m a hack. The pupils of the grade tin ier the care of Bliss Chapman were dismissed and the room closed for ; the daT. Miss Chapman thought tbe boy's death was the result of great ner vous excitement and bis effort to re strain his grief. He gave one or two sobs at tbe rluee and fell back dead. Ho was quite heated when be returned from his eliase after his slate, and was very restless np to the time that he was called. His actions of the forenoon j were in strange contrast with his usually quiet deportment, and this leads to the supposition that he was subject to some functional derangement War as ■ Mivdonaiy. And now, we are told, the barbarous Turk is to be subdued; a Christian mis- • sionary is to be sent to take possession of his territory; that missionary is war! Pious people rejoice that all things are U> work together for good: as if red banded c iruago were the meet handmaid of the cross! The Turk may be barbarous; no doubt he is. Notniug can le more bar- j baroua than war. The civilised world has experienced a gr- at shock at the cruelties of the Turks toward the cap- ! lured Servians. A little different, per haps, but essentially the same, we ap prehend, is too apt to be true history of every conquering army. Wherever j shooting, killing and destroying are in order, wrongs, which still spare the life ' of the victim, almost inevitably follow ' in t heir train. We recall to mind a letter written many years ago by a brave and dashing young officer on the staff of Gen. Zach ary Taylor, during the conqnest ot Mexico." It was addressed to his wife, and gave an account of a battle in which he had been engaged shortly before. He referred to the outrages perpetiated by the soldiers, and concluded with the - exclamation: "If this be war, God de liver me from war!" Gen. Win field Scott, whose proudest title was that of "Apostle of Peace,'' oouferred upon hir by the Rev. William Henry dunning, although he had been pronounced by tbe Duke of Wellington the greatest captain of the age, onoe re marked: " I hope never to see another battlefield." He then described, with deep emotion, the horrors of war, as be had witnessed them. We trust the day will oorne, in tbe history of the human race, when there will bo no more wars, and peace will reign throughout the earth. — lsdgrr. How They Manage in China, A psjier in Chin* says : We learn that one of the mandarins here, who had swindled the government of a largo sum of money when making purchases of warlike materials at Hong Kong dur ing the Forroosan affair, was brought up for trial before tbe reJoubtable Ting and the FanUi. This degraded official was subjected, as an introduction of something severe in store for him. to a flogging of one hundred blows on the palms of his hands. Ho was to have been bam booed in tbe usual way as other criminals on tbe breech, bnt for his bitter crying and vehement entrea ties, coupled with tbe fact of live not be ing in very good health. The default ing official is snrunmed Man, nud is re lahnl to a Taoutai of that name who wss degraded at the same time with the Viceroy Ying Han in the Waising affair. A I.ong Search. A young man named Collins went to i Cherokee county, Ala , and after making love to the sixteeu year-old bride of a sixty year resident, eloped with her. The* old man procured a carte de visit© 1 of Collins, saddled his horse, and for i two year < tracked the oonplo over the States of Mississippi, Alabama, North ' and South Carolina, and into Georgia, ' where he met Collins at Jonesbjro and had him arrested. Collins refused to say where the wife was, and was sen tenced to the chain gang for twelve - months. The old man is still scouring ' the country in search of his •' poor ' Mary." _____ s "Is there an opening here for an in v telleotnal writer ?' said a very red faoed yonth, with tho oork of a bottle stick ing out of bis breast pooket. The edi t tor, with much dignity, took the man's - intellect in, and said : "An opening I t yes, sir ; a kind and considerate oarpen- Q ter, foreseeing your visit, left an open ing for you, Turn the knob to the right." NUMBER 48. CEI'HHED TO DEATH. A TertiMa AaeMsM si (he Karat Cfctaaaa TkMUM. At about twelve o'clock at night a frightful accident oorarrwd at the Royal China Theater, Ban Francisou, which in its horrible details and scenes of terror was onequaled by any event which baa occurred in the Chinese anarter lor many a day. In the neighborhood of 8,000 men Lad crowded into the place, quite a number of Chinese females hemg present, but only two or three white men. At eboot twelve o'clock e small fire in some matting in the gallery, which bed caught by the sparks from a cigarette or atgar in the hands of some careless Chinaman, was discovered. The man who made this startling dis covery, regardless of the consequence* even had he foreseen them, sounded the alarm immediately in his own tongue, which everybody understood to mean destruction and death by burning. The utmost confusion prevailed and a pamo ensued. The large numbers of Chinese in the auditorium rushed Iran ttcally for the door, while those packed in the gallery did the same. Borne twenty five or thirty man from the lower pert of the house reached the dour first, end were almost simultaneously over whelmed by the frightened crowd surg ing down from the gallery. The doors, which are double, ami each about twelve feet high by MX feet wide, were closed, but a reeistleas torrent of yellow humanity ponred down the stair* through tbein without attempting to open either, and the consequence was that the foremost crowd, about thirty in number, were scarcely out before the stairway broke sod the uuusuve door fell upoo anfi crushed them to the floor, while over it crowded and Jostled tin dense audieuoe without a thought of the consequences. In the msentime, the premature tire, which bad made no j headway, was summarily quenched by a i ChriaUaii Cliir aman. named Adam Quinn, who, teaidee stamping upon it, look off bis ooet and covered it. lse actors upon the stage were entirely ig not ant of the cause of the panic, and did not atop to inquire oonowmiiig it, but ounticued their performance, which had the effect of staying many of the frightened Chinese, who were trampling everything down in their efforts to effect au exit The pannage of the dense crowds through the entrance and the heartrending shrieks of the washed and dying under the doors alarmed several polio tmeo, who immediately endeavored to effect an enUanee into the theater, and sent to the police station for aaaut auor. Half a dozen stalwart polioetnr:. from the watch which was just about to leave the station for duty oi their re spective beats, repaired uuickly to the aceue, and the combined efforts of a doaeu officers were necessary to atop the outgoing Chinese. The work wan a<* complbhed by knocking several Celes tials about, and the remainder, realizing that the danger in the theater, whatever it was, had diaapp* art*j, fell back on the crowd and checked their frantic com panions. By this time Captain Douglas with a dozen or more policemen ar rived, with large crowds of white men, who, bearing the alarm, had rushed to the spot The railing of the stairway leading from the gallery to the lower floor had given way, sod several of the frightened men had fallen down, only to be crushed under foot by their equally terror stricken companions. Hie tide baring been checked, the officers nuaed the prostrated door and removed the dead and dying from beneath it Borne were atone dead, while all under it were more or leas injured. Nineteen were conveyed to the street dead, and seven others' who were rapidly dying. The bodies were ranged along the sidewalk. The entrance to the theater, a hall about forty feet in length by some twelve in width, oocupied on one side by a couple of Chinese fruit venders, was cleared away, and the panic stricken audience allowed to pass out The news of Uie accident spread like wildfire, and over a thousand Chinese, men and women from all parts of China town, thronged to the scene, and the sidewalk was completely lined with half nude Celestials, gazing with blanched faoea at each body aa it was carried out into the streoL One stalwart Chinaman, weighing about 170 pounds, was brought out and lata upon the walk, his clothes torn and his body lacerated by the many feet that had trampled relent lessly over him. His face was black with suffocation and the crimson fluid was running in a stream from his nose and eirs. Life had not yet left him, bat in his dying agoaisa he writhed and crawled about the pavement, twinging his hare arms in the air and shrieking for the relief that could not come. At the right of the doorway, and at the foot of the four or Ave steps from the door to the floor of the hallway, ia a stairway descending into a dark alley. Several of the foremost Chinese of the crowd that were crushed under the fail ing door had been precipitated down these stairs, and two were brought up with broken limbo. One was placed at the front entrance in a sitting posture against a box of trait, and the other, a young man of high degree, was taken into an office. A few momenta later a physician arrived and examined him. As the nnfortunate fellow lay upon alow bench covered with matting at one aide of the room he was turning over and | over and groaning in agony. As the doe tor felt his limbs to ascertain the nature of liia injuriea, he yelled: "Oh, no, no; me no hurt," as if fearing that his ex cruciating agonies were to be increased. The other man, somewhat older, who had been placed near the doorway, sat in stolid silence, his pale face, under the flickering rays of a gaa jet, recording the most excruciating suffering. About fifteen minutes were consumed in the passage of the crowd of Chinese from the theater, and the acting of the play by the company was continued until the last deputation had departed, when the actors snd actresses rushed in a body to tlio doorw y to discover what had trans pired, indulging in many guttural ex alamations of terror at the long line of dead bodi s plaoed upon the pavement. Vinetoen of the twenty-eight taken from the hallway and removed to the street were found to be dead. Several betray ed no ont ward signs of injury, and seem ed to have Ixwn suffocated to death. Eight or ton bore marks of violence, several bleeding st the nose and ears, 1 the crimson stream running across the walk into the gutter, while tho faces of three or lour others turned upward iu tho light weio black and disoolored. Several of those taken from under the door lived a few moments after being removed, their agouixiug shrieks Ailing tbe lir and exciting the lamentations of adlaocnt Chinese, who witnessed the writiling contortions. One Ohinaman, who broke frantically through the line of policemen, and passed one of the dying men, threw up his arms and yell ed iu horror at the agonies of bis coun trymen as soon as the bodies were taken from the hallway, and the wounded who could walk had been led into adjoining 1 houses. IN AFRICA. —In the elevated regions of tho interior of Africa, where there are no dense primeval forests, extensive swamps and pestilential jungles, cattle and horses show no sign of infection or poisoned state of blood. They flourish in nnoonnted herds. And in thoee re gions men are healthy, vigorous, and in telligent. The rage for buttons inereseee. Sealskin is alowlj losing ground. Ail biv fans we of medium rise. Ribbed stocking* we fashionable. Terry velvet to oomii g it style again. For will be need for ans or tails, having pockets across tbe bark of them, and coat- opened over a waistcoat or vest, all Covered with em broidery. Tbe bodice, which fits the figure closely, fails to resemble in cut a man's oust. Aa Army Without a Flag. The London Pall Moll OazetU mjn tViMi the French army ha* no flags, and that on the seeond of June, 1871, the war minister issued aa order fat the standards then in ace were to be handed over to the artillery, in exchange, email flag* without any inscriptions wre served out provisionally. The artillery destroyed the silk of the old standards and sent the eagles and the gold fringe to the domain office, where they will probably remain until we have another empire. The provisional flags, which have now been in one lor five jemre, pomem a great advantage as far as t-eonotny is concerned ; Uiey only cost I went v five francs apteoe, while the stanesrds coat *2BO lno. It is not, imrhaps, s question of expenditure which hinders the war office from bring ing this provisions! state of affaire to a close, but doubtless a difficulty about replacing the eagle. The Aeurs been miuopoLixl by the Oi leans family ; the lady in Phrygian cap who symbolise* th< re public, nod which is playfully cali would onlv increase ber p-pht enrrency one fifth, and probably oitfjf traise the agio on gokl twenty per ofthtam, which, as America has shown us, t oan be borne without a paralysis of industry. It is a most ruinous expedient, but Russia has resorted to it twice already, and each time has survived. Ike Hold of the World. Au exchange says: '' An English writer has been engaged in estimating the amount of gold in bult in the world. He says that it could, if melted in a lamp, 'bo contained in a cellar twenty four feet square by sixteen deep. A small lump, indeed, to cause so much crime and sin and misery. It may seem singular that snoh recklessness should really exist, and yet we think that v e could lay our hand on a man who would bo perfectly willing to have that lump stowed away m his cellar and stand his chances with the sin and misery. It is strange how men will consent to sacrifice themselves, but we believe this friend of oura would do it. His address may bo procured by writing i to the editor of this paper and inclosing ! a sample of the gold. An Atom of Love. During the course of the Edwards gwinp breach of promise suit in Han Francisco, the stock broking defendant was asked to explain the following love letter, which he had written before the spring rise in stocks : "If one atom of the deep, deep lovo I feel fo. you is scattered throughout the whole world, I oouid stake my life it will till, if allowed to do so. the entire humau race, and thenc® will derive the word commonly used as love. Good-bye, my dearest dear. Yours, till death and beyond it and eternity." TLe unfortunate was somewhat atuuned, and could noi tell just what he had meant.