Make Tour Mark. In the qnwriss thonld yon toil, M*k* Tonr (nark . Po tou drive upon the noil. Make your maih . In whatever path roil iro. In whatever place you stand— Moving awift or moving alow— With a firm and hOttMt band. Make your mark. life ia fleeting aa a ahade Make yonr mark ; . Mark of eome kind mutt Vie made Make your mark ; Make it while the arm ia strong, In the golden hour* of youth : Never, never make it wrong ; Make it witli the of truth Make your mark. The Sewing Machine. •' Got otie ? Dost say to! Which did you get ? One of the kind to open and aht ? Own it, or hire it ? How much did you pay ? Hoea it go with a crank or a treadle ? Say. I'm a single man. and somewhat green Tell me about your sewing machine." listen, my boy. and hear all about it I don't kuow what I should dowithout it. I've owned ime now for niorw than a year. And like it so well I call it ••my dear." "lis the eleven *! thing thai ever was seen. This wonderful family sewing machine. It's none of our angular Wheeler tilings. With steel-shod leak and cast-iron wings ; Its work would Kuher a hundred of his. Ami is worth a thousand ! Indeed it is ; And has away you needn't stare Of combing and braiding its own back hair : Mine is not one of those stiif id That ►tarnls m a corner with what-nvds ami chair*. And makes that di*tnal. headachy none. Winch all the comfwi of sewing desUev* ; So rigid contrivance of lumter and steel, Ilat one with a uatural jinng ui the heol. Mine i* one of the kind to lore. An,! wears * shawl and a soft kid glove. Has the merriest eyes and a dainty foot. And sports the ehartuuiiie-t gaiter l->'l. And a bonnet with feathera, and nhhons and kxips. With any ladeAmte mitul|w. Kooe of your ptUssl narhroM for mo, I'ui; # l>*ine Xnturv tlio patentee I Uke ttie sort th*l can aiul talk. And take my arm for an avetung walk ; That will do wht\er the owner may chooM, With the slightest perceptible turn of the mtvwh. One that oau Janoo. and posaib'y tlirt ; And make a ; lidding i> well * a -durr ; One that can aiug without dropping a ttiteh, A*? ;-4ar the housewife. lady or witch lUsadi to give the sage*t advice. Or do up your collar and tilings so nice. What do you think of my machine? Ami it the lucr .t that ever was sees ? Two t a cium-y, mechanical toy. Bat flesh and Mood ! hear that, my Ivy ! With a turn for gossip, and house hold affairs. Which include, v\ u know, the sowing of tan-s. • Tut, tn: don't talk ! I ste vou re in thrall ; Igymedii: keep winking so hard at the wall; i?~<#what V, >ur fidgety fumMmgs mean ; Wen 1 you hke ysonett a sowing machine ? Wtii. get one, then—of the same design - r re w.vs plenty left whore 1 got mine, A Mountain Daisy. lVe had traveled together for many a •w eary mile. I was on my way to my u- ud summer retreat in the mountains, but even before I took the stagecoach my journey by steam hail exhausted me, s.> that 1 was in no humor to join in the hilarity of my fellow traveler*. We jolted and plunged mid crawled over the 1 ills to the paradise beyond; and while they talked and jested, and oh'd and ah'd, as travelers will, we kept an un broken silence—this fellow passenger and I—striving in vain to shut out the hubbub within by gazing upon the sweet s- i tode without; and the bond of syui j .thy l>etween this straight, stern, sol e .erly, middle aged man increased when ( found that he was determined to rid li mself of the good-humored confusion i-bont him by climbing on the top of the stage. While we were changing horse<, he clambered up among luggage so consid erable as to prevent the usual accniUDitu t u for deck passengers, and my fare must hive shone a sort of despairing CTIVT, for he looked over and said: "Tnereis room, if you will venture up here; but the evening nir grows oh ill. If you ure not afraid of taking cold ** — •• I am afraid of nothing," I said, tie perately, " but this gabble aial din." ile put down his band, and up 1 climbed. W h his portmanteau and soawl and an old mail bar he compassed me comfortably about, aid presently the stage jolted" on. 1 was alone with my mount* n*, with the night, and the SUITS, and tny fellow passenger, who counted for nothing, because he neither moved nor spoke; las side face was as r.gid as if curved from one of the bowl ders by the wayside. It must have been five miles after this tliat this bit of Imwider start ied me bv a slight movement I found that lie was beading forward, gazing eagerly, with his whole soul in his eyes, upon the window of an old farmhouse on the outskirts of the village. It wai one of the upper windows, half raised, and the head of a woman appeared there in a shadow so deep that not a feature could lie distinguished; but as we slowly pass ed, au almost convulsive sigh eseajied the lips of my fellow traveler. He raised his Lat from liis head. Then 1 plainly saw the woman's fa-e, for it seem ed to start forward suddenly, and even the dim starlight revealed a surprise u|>on it that almost partook of terror. No longer young, but still beautiful, that fare was stamjied with a melancholy so profound it hannte 1 me. I looked at that of my companion. It was sunk upon his breast, and just then I saw the sweet young moon climbing up into the sky. And I thought what a pity it would be if he should look tip and see the new moon over his left sht alder. The thought was so tormenting to me that I spoke on the impulse of the ui'>- ment. "Don't, sir," I said—"don't look over vour left shoulder at the moon. Loot over your right shoulder, and wish. It is a good omen, they say." He starte 1, paused as if to gather the meaning of what I said, then lookc 1 over liia right shoulder at the moon ; his face was full of n strong emotion, an 1 lis lips moved. • Then he turned hi me, his face melt ng into one of those rare smiles th.it are so nice because they are so few, and stretched over his hand "Thanks," lie sai l, and we rolled up to the do<>r of the hotel, where Mrs. Aiken was waiting for me, with her comfortable carry-all filled with the usual parcels and packages for the farm. But she could not find a welcome for me, so taken np was she with my fel low passenger. Her comely, motherly face was ail agape upon his straight, stiff form, as he lifted me down ami said good-bye, and disapjieored in the corridor beyond. " Wa'al," she said, drawing a long breath, " that's either Major Jacques or his ghost That does heat everything. After all these yearn—Lord o' mercy, if that don't go ahead !" "And who is Major Jacques ?" I said at last, finding myself the prey to a de vouring curiosity. "Do, please, Mrs. Ailjen, tell me who hi Major Jacques ?" " Well, child, he made a sight o' rouble here a good many years ago, but I ean't say as it was his fault. You may blow your lungs out sometimes to boil a kettie, and then, agin, a spark from a pipe 'll set a hay riek in a blaze. Good Lord ! I wonder if he's come after Daisy M'Lean ? He'll find her a broken down humbly critter now, but a porteir gal than Daisy the sun never shone upon ; her skin was as white as milk, and her eyes like the stars up there, aud the city folks that come out here to board christened her Daisy, though her name WHS Honner—Hanner Hitchner ; aud spite of everything she would go aud throw herself awav on Hugh M'Lean. KKKI). KLJUTZ, I'M it or niiß I'ropriotor. VOLUME X. Tliey do aay that love 'll go where it's sent, but it's a pity it should lie so headstrong. tot u) 1 , Nig," tmrsuivl tlie farmer's wife, whipping up her Lor-,-*, •ml, like the dear g> ,K1 Is-ly slie was, tutor halting w itk her atorv. "She Imi plenty ' ehaii.v s to s> ttle, I needn't say. Ihivii\ Hitehlier wn- a forehanded man, and there wani't eluek nor eluld but Daisy. Judge llntivs' 'ii lie tlmt went off to ludy or somewhere afterward he'd 'a given Ids even for llanner ; and as for them paint r chaps, tliey ju-i went wild over her., and she might a Lad a dozen o' 'em, though to my mind it\l take a baker's di eu o' theiu idlers to make ene iliwtl! man. "• Hut she turned her hack on the whole kit m d Ivsslle of 'em, and stuek to Hugh M I san. It was a dreadful apitc to the H.tohuerw, for the M lawuis warn't th night much of lierealmuta; they 'll a lers lived way up on the top o' the mouutain, ar.d Hugh grew up as wild aa a young wolf. He nused a blaek colt up tin re, that, atwveu yon and me, Mrs, Smith, was a spawn o' Satan; tire used to fly iiut o' its eyea and shake off its hoofs, and not a livin' siiul could get ou ita luiek hut Hugh M'laiin. As for harness I'd like to s,v the hanieas that could hold lllaek lhoi. It -mod as sf Hugh and tliat oolt was one piece o' stuff, fiir thev -was part and parcel o' one another, ano i guess wherever one ia t'other is now ; leastways it aoema to mo only uateral. Hut aa much a lie thought o' that colt, he us,si to cuff ami kn-k it m his tantrums; and one dav, when 1 was down tii Hitchner'a a-ouiltin' that star pattern patchwork for lhii-y, 1 was look iu" out the winder, when liugli rode up, and he got mad at sutli u, and drew his whip clean across that em tor's face tit to take out h:s eyes, and 1 told Mrs. Hitch tier then that if it was me. I'd sooner set< Hanner ia her grave than In-long to Hugh M'l.smi. But, you see, lie was as gentle as a Lamb to I> c.-y, and oilers Lad been since she was a little miteo' a thing, and he usixl tii Ksial ii urn in the village to git his winter aehooliu'- for you miglit as wrell lie out >' the world as up on tlie mountain in w.'.iter; there's fresh ets there tiK in spring that shut 'em off, and Hugh was down here a good part of his time. And lie used to just own little Daisy Hitcluier. It was a pretty sight tosc him ska tin.- along, drawm' that little ap ple hi -sin: after him oil the white birch altvl he made for her. Ho w;is handsome enough there warn't no fa ilt to be found with his Uniks, only t > my mind hand some is a- handsome ,1-*'s, Mr-. Smith. Wa'id, he put in a claim to Hum r then, and no boy durst stand in his way. There was my p,H>r Zekel, lie came home with a black eye only for uliarpemn' her slate peneil, and Hugh hadn't u knife handy to do it with; but it was alters a word and a blow with Hugh M'Lean, and he held to Daisy right along through thick and thin. '• ' Why,' he says right tip to David Hitehner, *do you s'p I'd staid ar >und here u a hadn't been for Daisy? Don't yon know I'd 'a been oflfto the north or the south pole afore this? It's as hard for me as it is for yon, for I hate to settle down here worse than p nson: bnt 1 hate worse to leave little Daisy. 1 can't do it, and 1 won't." " S i they let 'em get ma-vied, for what else could they do? And for quite a spell there it did seem as if everything was goin' to turn out right. Old Mr. H tchuer he made him promise not to take Daisy fur away, and give him the old place by tlie mill, and furnished it from t>p t-i bott le-sthan thirty cows; good milkers all of 'em ; and I will sav for Hugh th.it he could get through with more work in a day than any two men I over saw. Everything went along as sli -k as c -ild be, an 1 1 busy went sing in' atsiut the house lik a medder-lark, " Ihit the second summer after she was married p.* ir Daisy took it into her head she'd Lev some b-unlets from town she was naturally thrifty, and hail plenty o' help, and she felt somehow as if that lug house was ruimin' to waste. Hugh he let her her her own way in every thing then, and was ns hnmorsonie a if she was a lathy; an I I shall never for get. if I live to 1-e a hundred, the firs' ilay I laid eyes on Major Jacques, when he come down with a lit of other board ers f run t-wn. 1 wan sittin' at Mrs. Hitehner'a front window, and the stage stopped nt Daisy's do- ir, and out got that mm ; and if it had been the good Lord's will that he'd been tr.ui? 1 d out soine where else and broken hia leg, ro's he couldn't get away, a deal o' trouble might have lieen saved. " For Hugh M'L-an kind o' scorned most city folks that isinic our way, a-id had a fashion o' sraili.T nt 'ein in a sort o' contempt. But this Jocqnea was half a Frenchman, and bad a deal <>' tire in him; he'd lioen all over the world, or pretended he had, and, if yon could be lieve him. had as many liv*s as a eat to lose. Ai,' 1 Hugh \1 sit tliere and drink a'l that nonsense in by the hour together; and. for that matter, so would poor little Daisy. The major could talk a bird ofl a bush, and Hugh got to coin in' in and fndin' his little inedder-lnrk listeniu' to some tale o' the major's, her eves jier haps full o' silly tears and lier clleeks all pale with excitement. "Soon after that, my Minimly was tmcfaiu* sehiMil anil lsiardin' 'round the village, and alie went to M'Lean's to stay, and she told me that Daisy had stopped goiu" in the room when the ma jor w as there, and got out o' his way all she could, but Hugh w.v as block us a thunder cloud, and Mirairly said that Daisy and she would both be glad when the lioard ers all went away and in ver came lack again. " Cut thin was only midsummer, and things pot from li:ui to worse, and one night the men were out lute in the hay fi'dd, and Daisy went out in the burn hi help milk the cows. It was only play to her, she'd bin used to it at home, and I •Lire say the poor eh .lj was so sick and sad she was glad to be busy. But what must that jackanapes do but billow her out there and take the pails from her hamls to bring them in ! She couldn't pet con rape, you see, to tell him to go about his business, but if he'd had an eye in his head, he could see how things was a-poin'. Howsomever, Hugh came in at the big gate, ami saw Daisy empty fingered, walkin' along by the major's side, while he had a pail in either hand ; and as he set 'em down on the stone floor of the wide room, and turned with some ple:mant word to Hugh, the pails went flyin' out in the stuhhle, the milk stream ed at his feet, and Miruudy said—for she was standin' by—she never saw such a surprised look in n face before as in Major Jacques. Than he flamed up and got inad, ami Hugh got madder, and if it hadn't been for Daisy there might 'a been a murder there. "That night poor Daisy had her wish, for the city boarders were all scuttled away, and not a light was btirnin' in the house at nine o'ebxrk ; hut my Mirandy she couldn't sleep, and no wonder, eon aiderin' what she'd been through, and about midnight she heard the clatter o' hoofs, and just got up in time to see Black Dan fly out the gate with Hugh 011 his back. 80011 after that she heard a low sobbin' sound, and lookin' down, there she saw Daisy in her white gown, tiippiu* water out o' the pen-stock and THE CENTRE REPORTER put t tit' it toiler face, eryin' and aobhiu as it' her heart would break. "Mi Miran.ly was just goin' ilowu to her, whou she heard the click of the gate, and in walked the major, and up he went to Daisv, straight as an arrer. •• And • Madam,' said lie, trembhu all over, ami a blue like hghtnin' in hi- eye, " I've eome t • take you from tlmt brute and put you nnder your father's protec tion.' " Oh, vim haven't told my father said Daisy, holding up her hands. •••No, but I Will,' said the mjur, ' Do veil think I call look on and stand all tins'? t'urse the scoundrel 1 never ha 1 a thought of you till lie put it into my h.ad with his brutality Hut now he'll find I cure enough ultotit yon to shield you. from harm. t'onie, Mr- M Lean, put a shawl nlmut you, and come witli me to your fathers house. I'll deal with him when he comes hack. Then, if you'll Ivlieve me, that jsi r child fell to liecgtng the major not to tell her father, and declanti' she'd rather die at Hugh's hands than live away from him. •• • l>o v,m love luMi so, my JH->r bahy F said the major. "• A- tiod is my judge. 1 love hiui better than my own lift',' said Duisv. * I will stay. lam not afraid.' " Then the major, turned upon his heel and went out tlie gate, an 1 Hugh Ml a*an wos brought home the next ,tav witli a broken spme. He and Block Dsn had rolled ,1 wu a gully together, mid tliey had to slusd tile laast to get b.iiu out *if his agouv; and tl , y do say that hut for Major Jaeipies, Hugh would 'a died there, for the major was the one that found him. He was a good rid, r, you s,e, and ivuld make his way where others would be afraitL Ami something lie -aid t.> Hugh made him gentle a.a lamb. All the way home he held his hand iu his, and was with him aft, r the doctor left, Hugh fell into a kiud of faint. When he opened his ey, -, tliev fell iijHin the major; and Mirandy Mid tliat Daisv wits ou the otiier aide ~' the IHSL ••'So I'm goill' to die,' said Hugh. ' Well, I'm ready.' And then he put Daisy's lnmd in the ma, r's. ' l'ukc care of her," he saiil "'But you're not gum' to die,'said the major. ' You're to live, the doctor says." "'To live " Hoi lbu';. 'So tuueh the worse. In tli.it ous\ major, get away, for Cod's sake. 1 think it > lies'..' " ' Just as y.'ii say. Hugh,' said the muji >r. "'1 think it's tiewt,'said Hugh; and the major went away that mortiin', and from that day to this not*sly has laid eyes on him. " And the judgment of (Sol was s.-re oil Hugh M Lean. He lay in that bed for seven long years, and Daisy never left him night or day, save when he'd free her to go, and, if you lielieve me, that girl never seemed happy out o" his sight ; and my Mi ran iy stud it mod to make her cry to sv the way Hugh M'Lean followed iier about w ill h iig tlereeeves, that lin.l plenty o" tire m them yet for everybody hut Daisy. M: randy ■■- tuallv got to liktn' Hngli ; ami 1 never dnre.l say a word about that night nor tlie bruise on Daisy's cheek t" Mrs. Hitehner, though I've I'ecu that bunini to sometimes tliat I've hail to jump tip and run out o' the nsuii. An i n>w the old woman's dea l and bnricd this three years. and Mr. Hit hner lie went afore she did. Hugh outlived 'email; and it queer thing when he unsi : he want ed to lie buried by Ins It r-e Dan, and tliere they he, np on the nionittain to -other; and Mi randy says that Daisy s sw< rn to tie put c>ti t'other aide. It's tit ti> make shivers creep down one's buck, tlie hull 'o it. And tliere she's lived ever since, all alone in the old Louse, save when school is keepin'and Mirandx > there. And yon-"er may be the major's ghost ; luit if it ain't, it's Major Ja -qu t himself. Queer, uiu't it ?'' " Very queer." I sanl ; and just then we drove 111 at the open gate. The very nest morning, as I was gath ering gm-si's a mile or two below, 1 saw a tall straight form approaching me, his eyes upon the ground. I could 11 d step aside, for a ilits-li w ;is there. S 1 he r.iiosl his eyes, and his fact lighted tip witli that rare smile of his. "<}isl idess y cir womanly heart J" lie said. "It was a good omen ; and the next time I sis'- a new moon over my right shoulder, I shall wish for you hap piness. with, I h >p\ the same sneees* that I did last night for my own." H'tr j r's H'cckty. Lan ami Equity. In INTO Charles Fox, of Sew York, died, leaving alssit fifty thousand dollars in nul estate and ten thous-m i in |>er sonal projiertv. His will WHS found to give the wholi, aft r payment of his debts, to the government of the I nited States for the pantoec of as-anting to pay the war debt. The deceased left no children; but a niece and two ncplmwa, infants, his brother's children and bin next of kin, contested the snipilar will. The heirs were living in comparative poverty in Bri>oklvn. The surrogate de cided the will invalid and void as n de vise of real estate. The I'nited States appealed first to the supreme court and next to the court of appeals, arid the sur rogate's decision was uuanimouslv sus tained in both courts. By writ of error the cause wits then removed to the su preme court of the United States for re view, and was argued at Washington, the decision l>ciug reserved. Meanwhile, the personal property has been swallowed U]> and neither the United States gov ernment nor the heirs have received n dollar. Tic general opinion will be that the man who could so dispose of his property and leave three infant children, ins near relatives, in (mverty, could not have been of thoroughly sound niiud. At all events it seems like a very siiiull business for the United States authori ties to carry the case lieyond the court of appeals of the State of New York, and it is to be hojietl the State decisions will be sustained by the United States supreme court. lj it should not be. Congress should at once pass an act re storing the property to the infant heirs before it is all swallowed up by the legal advisers of the general government.— AV IP York //' raid booking After their Families. A very searching investigation was car ried on a few years ago in the north of England by two families who were searching up their respective ancestry. The strife was great between them, each one determining to look back into anti quities further than the other. One of the families, whose name was Spencer, employed an artist to paint an historic scene, representing the building of the nrk and the loading up of the ship by Noah and his sons with its multifarious and various cargo. On the gnngplank leading to the deck of the ark two men were seen rolling up a large box, 011 one side of which was painted in large let ters : "Relics, inaignia and papers he longing to the Spencer family." This was considered a roup d'etat hard to beat, but the other family, determined not to l>e outdone in the nntcdiluviun pretenses of their name, prepared at a great cost and research a record of their antiquity. 111 describing the exploits of one of their ancestors, at a very early day, who was represented as a man of some authority, this remurkahlc passage occurs : " During this vear Adam ami I Eve were driven out of Paradise." CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., l'A., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1H77. \ I'ltTl KK HP PtD Kim. V I'HlUll* Kutl*ltua Twu l>, Ul> I'lHI Ul IIIIS, ■•Want to KM* a pietuia of poverty' -aid the visitin;.; agent. " No, nn-weiivl the reporter, "It -t u picture of it, but (lie real thtug." " Then eoiue up here." It was Mulberry s(i,.( Not a stone's t,..-s from Priuee, I'eucuient house- us far OS you eould see. "Does (lie Hel dens live up here?" asked tlie age 111 of a crowd of ureluiis who were sli,hug down a lull of frozen swill. They ad luulol sUSpieiollH. SHlie of tliem ]U|t their t iiigucs in tlieir cheeks. I'hey evidently -u-i • led a sell So the ii-eiit pu-he,l into the grimy hallway and up the dirty dark staircase, followed by the rejmlter. I'he steps were wet with the slti-li tliat many feet had carried up, and the cin ilers tluit had been dropped there crunch vl under (lie rcjH'ilcr's boot. The hand rail fl it greasy. One, two, three, four tliglifs. Each one darker than the other. Finally with u pain in the knees at the top. One minute under the dirty sky light to be sure that the name on (lie card i-n't Baldwin or anything but Bid den, MieU a resptelfill run in tlie gloom at the d,H>r. \ sound of snuffling, a short wait and tlie ,l,sir is slowly opcued, ami a girl with a shawl aliout her, looks lip at the visitor- woiuleriiigly. It is th, regular patent tenement den. Ten thousand of them w ,thiti a few miles ; a narrow inrjwtlesa room, with two win dow-, it water faucet and iruu basin, two broken chairs, and an old woman dowu on her knee- trying to kindle with her breath tlie three or four piue sticks Ul the little earthen furnace that is in tlie fireplace. Throe ja-ijile altogether. This .•Id woman and two children. Om of the children i* n lmy, ami sti.nda on a chair at tin- window, lb' turns lound now, but lie has Iwen Wiitchiilg tin* tl-s'k : pigeons that wheel and lilt over the r<*ifs. The girl pulls the shawl nlsmt her in such away that the intruder shall not see she is liarvf.sited. She .* four teen at least. There is a regular formula of que-- tions. Yes, ->he di.l apply to the eliari lies on Thuvl avenue. It was f>r eoal. She t> Il"t the motlier. N", she Is the rrun Imother. Tin. mother went away. "Went aw..y "is vague at tir-t. Hut the agent is adroit and gentle, and pres ently the old woman blurts it nil out. Jenny went up for thirty days. She was •t rved, ill-treiitciL desperate. S' the atitlior.ties said she was disorderly. Then it turns out that when Jenny was i*. umittel she thought -f the two chil dren iu this d. lt without it morsel of food or u splinter of fuel, and she fought the poii.vnian and hit at the keejx-r, and altogether niti-t have h. <-u quite unrea sonable. That was thre' days ago. Yea, three dtty sago. " Well, yv-ti see ahe'.l always managed to k. ep a crust among us, and when she was tuinu I didn't know what to do ia|Mtlog< tieallv), .*• 1 went to the l .-xitiea. Law, sir. I had no iha there'.! IK' such a crowd there." Then the old womiui st.ssl up un 1 sm<- tied down her old gowu, and pushtsl ln-.'-k her white hair off her pinclusl, w.m face, and triisl t-rsav" there were lot* worse off than us. sir," but somehow it was a failure. 11l her heart she didn't believe that any. Hsly could b W'-rse off. ee-Sity 1* somehow allnsl t• candor at bottom, an 1 a:.t, even when pride parnly /c* its toiiguc, luu a in..st miraculous ;<1 voii e mie fr.-tn the charities ?" " How an y --u going to supjior! ynttr- S< Ives ?" Itsktsl the bhlllt agellt. There was a look of supreme liewilder ment itt tin* grandmother's countenance. She had be n all her life putting the I'C .t face on matters. She c mldn't quite get over it now, even in this ex tremity. Si • thought they coitM kal came. Her j*or oi l blue hnn li betrayed how she h*ul suff 'red from the e 4d. Yon could g. t alou • if y,.u hail coal. Have you got plenty to -it V" The !d w >tuan stroked her dr-ws. Tlie two oli ldrcn canie an 1 bu'tres ed heron either side, aa if tl •• r instincts made them afraid of her wc akne,s. " Well, no, sir. As f,r plenty, sir, it's a long time since we've heard of it." Then she looked up in a dazed way and off into futurity, ns if the old wonder at the mystery of her lot had come over her afresh. The /girl had no such wonder. All at once she broke out. " She's not had a mouthful for two days, air. I'jsm my sacred honor. She's starving now." At that the three <>f them fell to cry ing, and between the sobs and such ex clamations tlie girl told her story. The hist meal was n pint of milk. The old woman had pawned her shoes for ten cent* and came back in her stocking foot. The girl luul guessed it. She pulled away tlie old gown as she told it. " Yon can sec for yourself, sir," she said, as she {siinbsl to the woollen st -ek ing*. " We drank it every drop before we knew it." " It's God's (ruth, my dear," added the grandmother. , "That was dny before yesterday," said tlie ag<'iit, sensible that this was a genuine case. " Well, what did you do yesterday ?" The girl went over t > the iron water basin ami lifted out a pail. lit it were half a dozen crusts, hard nnd dirty. "She was goin' to sofbm 'em with water, but she couldn't git the tire to burn." " N<>, I should think not,' remarket] he agent, leaning over ami pulling out the fuel that was slightlv charred by n piere of burnt paper. There were two splinters of a cigar box and the rung of a chair. It was very absurd. "And these," he went on, shaking up tlie crusts ami lifting his nose ami eyebrows, " These came from " " Hhe brought 'em in ln-r po -kef." " A poor man's dog wouldn't eat them," said the reporter to himself. " We're all hungry," remarked the boy. " f can't go out las-anst 1 ain't got no coat." "That's n fact. It's (lod's truth," a lilcd the grandmother, with resigna tion. After which she snt down on the range and began to draw her dress across her wrinkled face with curious imbe cility. The reporter bwik a good look at the children. A pair of healthy, clean, in telligent babies, that liruln't eaten any thing for two days. It was pretty hnrd to believe it; because the reporter per sisb-d, with the infernal self-conscious nonsense of his tribe, in fancying that he was in New York city, ami that those were the flagstaff's on Rrondwoy that he saw from the window, nral that food was so plentiful over there that it was wasted by the ton. When they were coming out the agent turned back and said: " Well, it's irreg ular; hnt you haven't got any shoes. I'll send it up." It went up in a basket, " To-inorrow," said the agent, "I'll send n lady there, who'll do the right thing." The reporter understood by that re mark that the right thing was the imme diate thing.—AYie York World. " What would you do, madam, if you were a gentleman ?" " Sir, what would you do if you were one f" V i.k'litniug f aleulator. I A gl'eut deal has beell aalil all,l written alsuit the great matlietnatieal prodigy, " Itoub " F,el,ls, who lives at Fayette . ville, M<> , says a local exchange, and the more that is known of him the greater wonder ho heoullieS. lie doea 11* it Jsis sess the simple rudiiueiita of u lss>k cilil catiiiii -di#'-m>t know a single letter or * figure by sight and yT he can solve tlie most intricate problem in au instant, or can perform a calculation in less than a " minute that would re,pure the work of '! an hour bv the ordinary modes. For in stall,•,• : We gave liitil the day of the 1 month and tlie year of our Inrlii and lie N , told, ill le*a than half u minute, our age in second*. luinilU s, tlavs and years. ' (live him the day ot the moiitli and tlie vear of tun' event, liowsv r remote, and ' lie will instantly give tlie day of the Week. We spent two hour* with him, an,l, notwithstanding we have oftvll talkinl 1 with him niul seen liiiu display his won derful gifts, yet we always find some thing new in hint. 1 We pluee.l a column of figures IIJSIII n 1 pa|H*r, eijual in length to tlie loliiiuiis of an ordinary sif-isl ledger, and called them off to lum ill rapid succession, nml when the la-t numlu-r was called he guv the sum without a moment's hesitation, lie did not s,< the pu|a f the day 01 night, whenever calh-1 upull without any reference what, ver to a ttuiepiee, . In this place tin* tiiwjiitHVd are all r gulnt. 1 by rnilr.md or St. I. mis tune. If vou -k " Hettb the time he will say: •' i (tut fifteen itsi'l quarter minute* juist ..in- ;if \<>tt have railroad time nut luive mi ttitii so," giving the exact difference betw.ell Mill tlllie ni.d railroad tutu . Another remarkable l*:.cl is that lie ffiv. it tin exact tutu' of his locality. If he If 111 \\ Wellington 1 it % lit' ({in * Wash ington n: v tuiif, if in Km Francis.*), thf turn' thi n - . Hf mil lint i*.** 11 v d<> these thing* by itnv method -f calculating the )MIS-thlg t'lUf, f> ! It. Mill (f'Vf tllllf OS TT'- Olirately while waking fcoIU hleeji lit uight i< if it turf daylight ami the situ shilling. There iw-cui* t.i It* Untiling ter milium, :it rt-a.hlv nil an easily as we Kmld tt 11 tin niter.—! en one dollar for one vewr at the tutllle rate J* r CWlit. Hi' it iSahttl the WOUiler of wonder*. The Itee that Sated a kingdom. Here i a fillile that has never lieen h>).l in print, though it in very jaipnlar in the 15 ' c wintry : thi*'.' il| II a tune, then v-a* a hail king, and the |ie-.ple wlulled him to make u certain g.*d law. " No, said lie, •' I will not tnak" that law it l* t-*> (f HI. It Will make JH-.nee. Here is the lnw Iv*h t > liiiik' Tin ' idl lay peo pic will go to war." 'Pie two document* lav in front of him on the table all writ ton out, and which i I. r one he MgUt d would K* the lIK of the land. He took Up II big i|ltill Je, dr< w the hud In* nearer to him, lUid dipped tin' JH'II ill the ink. Just then a IM-c tie .in to luiZ.Z. It wi.a n v iae ltee. •• 7. nj N ■ neb .'.law M paXX I" thi' la-", over tuul over again ; hut no one noticed liim. "Zign w oescr—ze ojtrer ?.e otav !" Tile king V, lid not Ijwtelt : -othe Wise 1m <• lit . ii lii no- •- and *ttmg him pint a little, null Imzxmg : " Zign re oner rigu ||> oner re orrer ze orzer—ate orzer!" "Open the window," round the king, "and drive out thin bee, or kill hint 1" Tiny opened the window. Out flew the In' . mil in rr.dled the wind. it hlew in very hard. The p-q>er* flapped and flow across "the table. The had king wan mi mad that lie ntiUH]ed his foot, neiziil one of the pnpern, ami nigntvl it in a rage. There wma lua niune "Kiii!' liland. rlniMs" and nothing could alter it. Then he nan that in hi* liimte and rage he had signed tiie good law Hut he wa- too proud to own liin tniafnke. The bee hurrieil to the garden and whispered to the honeysuckles : "Zonie of your l-zt some of your la'Zt ! Tlie giH*l law is 7itlged, MHI all zliall be ami happinor.7.!' So the honeysuckles gave him all their b st honey, and the pe >ph-outside of the king'H palace built great ls>nArea atul shouted with joy : " Long live the king! Long live the gtssl king Blunderbuaa!" "Oho!" said the king to himself, "that is the beat sound I have heard for tunny a year." Anil after that, he was afraid to give way t > anger, for fear that he might sign a had law, bv mistake. The Itee did not have to liglit on his nose again. The king made only good laws, and to the end of his days his people shunted : " I/>ng live the king 1' "Jn< k-in-th< - Pulpit," St. Xirhola* for Pit. An Old Sating. Colin Logan explains the origin of the phrase : " Wnko me up when Kirby dies." lxirbv was the leading man of the old Chatham Street Theater, New York, and although a good actor of Ins tyjs- and a favorite with the Iwys, he uiiule no ■ special fame until a melodrama was produced entitled " Hike Martin," in which he played the character of "Thunderbolt." It fell to his lot to le shot on the roof of a house. When he received his death wound he leaped from the roof to the stage. In order to make a realistic elli-et, he rounnlel ill his sleeve a small sponge walked with rial p.nnt. When tlie shot was fired he in stantly clapped this Hjsmge to his fore head, and the red drops running over his faee gave the appearance of a ghastly wound, and that, coupled with his hold loan and well-acted death, made a great sensation. He was nightly encored and compelled to die over again. The boys would often drop to sleep in the early part of the play with a request to a com panion to wake theni up when Kirhy died. BriinlM-ating a Witness. Some time ngo the licgislnturc of Massachusetts had under consideration the question of enjoining certnin chemi cal works as a nuisance; an eminent chemist was brought forward as a witness on the side to which Renj. F. Butler was opposed. The lawyer by turns abused, insulted and browbeat the professor, and, at last, asked him if he had not, on a certain day, and in a certain place, ac cepted a certain mini of money for his professional opinion? The assemblage was simply horrified. The witness was a gentleman of high social standing, un blemished life, and worldwide renown. A white haired senator ventured to in terpose that the witness was Professor So-and-so of Harvard University. " l|ro fessor of Harvard !" thundered Rntler, with cruel disdain. "Yes; we hanged one of those men the other day." Prof. Webster hud lately been executed tor the murder of Dr. Parkinun, \ li:i KNSK tit 111 NM HUM* ul ilir t.nsll*# I'rr** The KUMU (lri'HMimi 11 ar-.-OtPiiiiKit* lii,u* ,1 us l.ss lUb lulurmsllun. 1 wish, OS a lover of fair pluv alid a I'riclid of the Kils iaii lieoplr, to joiu Ml . Hurritt 111 la gging tlie readers of the J'rilmm not to mvepl 1 eigh-h stutemeiiUi of Hue ,111 motives alld 1111--il.il iswur reue*- n# either fair or trustworthy. It is the lllisfol i une of Hllss U to have II language which is so difficult of u,*|iiire ineut that few West-Furoje-.ui-or tim-n --oans ever lewru it. Her periistirul litera ture, tliel ofeirn, is ]tracticwlty I i nil the rest of the Will'ld a sealed bis k, alld tin scanty information which Am, . icons get with Tegald to ItilSMUll affairs follies through the medium of an uiisympa tlietie and prejmlns-,1, if not a h,affile press. No other Furo| im nation lulsirs under this great ,lismlvautagt-. Allieri cau opinions IIJMJU Hti— an T 'jues, such lis the Polish ijueslioii, Siiieriun exile, tlie Central Asiiui (piestioii, mid tin Cuu easian war, are based l.jsill iilforilintion which has IH-eli obtained exclusively frolu Knglish sources, aiid they are imwvurate and unfair, as only opituuus fotimhsi on x jmrfi statements eon lie. Kven when i'.nglish journals intend to be reasonably truthful liinl i m par Lull ill tin ir comments ll|Ht!i Itilrv-lali uftiars, then rejire-ents tioiw are more or less tiug<*l witli par tisan prejndi,*'. " Ths Smithate of truth" to UM a tin tajilior of Oliver Wendell Holme* ** is never the same as the Itiowunte of truth," uu,t a Itils-iali fact dissolvi-d ill the Itritlsh Ulitld ateius ti luajiure nlinos! iuevi'ablv new projtci tisi, so that when it ervstailixes again in expre-aion it luM an entirely new tof facets mid angh-s. A- an illil 1 ration of tlie gri-at wrong which is done Russia, in accepting Eng lish a.-et.uiits of her iintv eitseiita, and English interpretation- of her motives, let tue rival I for, a uiouieiit ltr famous wot Willi the luouutuineer- of the Cau casus .; war whoa- origin, hisLiry mid results, 1 have -tlldii-l ,n the gntUlt'L How Was that wal lejue- Med ni Ameri ca ? It Wile ilfclutfd lie English new s p:i)ierw to Im> u cruel ami unjirovoke,! as sault upon u brav,-, itohle alld illdejs'U , lei it |a-ople, whose only crime vu their love of lilwutv. It wa* prompt. 1, they mid. lor tluit Ulna tint.' ambition wild that lint of (MO HHt*! which nre the guiding principle* ot HIUMUII jmltey, anil it wns camel on with the brutality and obstinacy which are die dtM lictlinhllig traits of th- Jbl*- . cf:::!. i In .on I i:e " brave hut unfortunate Circw -..lis, driven frotu one uiouiiU.ui j>enk took refuge njnttl another ; they were pnmiie 1, Min.mn.ied, and ex terminated with relentlews ferocitv." Their tin*) subjugation ma, according to the ISriti*li pn->M. a cru-.e against which nil Chi -ttendom ought to prutowt. Sow, Villi* ate the f.a'U frolu the Russian point of view? At the H'giu ning of the present century the Can cm.inn w.ittiituu range wa* inhabited by 2,0>*1,1*50 or umre hardy, brave, cntel Mohammedan brigand*. They had lieeli at war among tboii-.ltiw er with their neighbor* for a thousand yearn. Fend* were their only inheritance re tahatioii nil. i lllood revenge tin :r "Illy legal remedies, plunder their prinripnl mean* of subs.stettfie,. Immtvlmtely aouth "f tin* lu .uuUiti rnuge lay a aerie* of fertile cultivated vwljey*. inhabited bv a embteil Chriatian |teop!e iuown a* the fho-giaiiK. Over the In. i* of these ft. t like a mountain storm, sw.-pt tie gris u volleys of Uie Kur and the Aliiznu with lire mid sword, and then vanished up st.uie dark ravine, carrviug with the .1 st sol wretclted eaptvca, and leaving la-Jiaid them nmhiug but the su .iking ruin* of tie irgniu f.-inn liotiscw. llnn li U ~f Christian famili< * were annttidlv earn.si tip iut > the mountaiiis of Dagin stan as > Lives, and the young est and most Iteaut.ful of the somen were |IUKMII along tie- RANGE to the Block sea Coast, where they were Sold to tin 1 agenu of Turkish harems. S> t-r --ri- a —-ourge did UHWS raids of the t'.itleas an motiuUums-rs Ivminr t<> the inhabitants af the Geurgiau valleys that the last <■ irgiHli king, after repeatedly iinplorim the assistance and prot etion of the Russian empress, Catharine 11.. finally in IH-1 aisles t'-d his throne in favor of her smveaaor, Paul 11. He wrote t J the latter a mournful letter, re counting the misfortune* and sufferings of h.s Unhappy people, pleading tin claims of Cunsti.m lictlierliooil. ami ending with the pathetic cry : " For (terur must cease. Not the sliglitis-t atten tion was paid to the waiiiitig. The high landers continued to swoop down like mountain hawks u]s>n the Georgian vil lages along the base of tie' range when ever the latter wen" left ungarris.>ns|, ami it soon IHVUIIIC evident that, in or der to prohvt Georgia. Russia must at tack the mountaineers m their native fastnesses. War was declared in IHDI, and liostilitiea contimusl with only occa sional intervals of ju'iie ■ for more than half a century. After the sacrifice of millions <>f money ami tens of thousands of lives the mountaineers were finally compter d, and hainssisl Christians of Georgia, for the first time in n hundred years, could come out of their fortified ehnndies and hs>k up to the white peaks of the Caucasus without a thrill of dread. 1 tilling all this tunc where were the ayiupathi) sof Knglnnd ? With the ja-r --secilb'd, battle wast- 1, almost extermi nate i t 'liri-o inns of (h-orgiii ? Far from it. Then, as now. the guiding principle of British statesmanship seemed to be " with anylasly against Russia." The sjw-etaele of a On list ian people strug gling vainlv for existence in the midst of hostile Mohammedan powers, and Isirne down at last by overw helming odds, did not extort from Kuglumi a single expres sion of sympathy or pity. Hut the "wrongs' of the " unfortunate moun taineers," who were not allowed to prove t heir nobility and maintain their freedom by sacking Christian churches, burning Christian villages and outraging Chris tian women, were trumpeted through English newspapers to all the world ! Journals like the /'nil Malt (iazrltc, which could more easily impute selfish motives than understand noble one.*, de nounced the interference of Russia in the ('.turastiH aa an unprovoked nggrea sion of tyrannical jsiwer, and so persis tently were the " wrongs" of the moun taineers inagnitiee ugaui misled. As a ('liriwlian nation, as a fair-play loving na tion, tln-y sin ml,l try to do at "least justice to a great and noble people,alio are main taining the i ghts of Oiimtiuu kins men, ami defendii.;' as Ame raw would defend tile altars of t <• Christian cliureii. (i no no a K***AN. I lie In-line. In a lengthy article on lunatic asylums and their mmati-n the New York I \'orl grossly iimumut physician. I'hyaicmua get lit Un-ir (bag nor ia in tastily uihaeUt* from the symp tom* it, described by the patient. In luentid ailments they must take their aytuptoma from the description of those whom they suppose to lie tin* |ntient'* friend/ It taken rut extraordinary physi elan to liini out from a hurried enimiua tloll of a eanuu! pnt;>-lit thut the patient's friends have lieeii stuffing him with lie*. The ordinary physician make* out the certificate of wilttt lie lion l*u told. In tune caat-N out o! ten Una works well, (wrhajni in ninety-llllie eases out of a nitidred. for the remain tliat ninety-nine |Nn|>)e out of it hundred ure not haled or feared by tl •ir kindred and aoquaiut ance. Itiit it I* tiie hundredth caae tliat is pitiable, ill which there la 110 cosy eu ftijie from a life of misery, and no ade quote redress for it. A| r--n iwvuaed of eriuie i* tried by a jury, with couuacl. A JH m u aeriin* l of niiafortuiie, of wlueh the jieualtn-a are innilig. We have pr< tf enough tliat tiiere are " baby burners." We may l* invert the owner* of aorne private lunatic asylum* to fartuera of men and women. One case of falae imprisonment iu a mad-house ah >nld lie enough to make tu> revise our method* of ooinnut lueiii. There urea vniTe of recent cases, and no lcriulutor has even suggested a re\ aiwi of those method*. Kvery mtch ease la a new incentive, also, to acoim drela, to wiium it point* out the eaan-at, the ureal a.id tin au'oat way of being rid uf an eiieiuv or on obstacle. An 01*1 Story Uettild. \ woman. aceotnjnuied bv three of her children, were f Knwn* when they were attacked by wolves. On this she put the horse iut l a gallop, and drove toward her iutuie with till (tnwihlf speed. It would not avail, ho* ever, fur the forackNM ani mals gained upon her, and at last were uu the jH>uit of rushing into the nbslgc. Fur the pm n*tiuu of h r own life ami those of her otlu r children tiie poor frantic creatine took OM of hit twin* ami tiuvw >t to t.. bloodthirsty pur suers. They Htopjasl their course for n moment, but after devouring the little innocent, they renewed the pursuit, and a second time name up witli tin* vehicle. Tlie mother, driveu to desperation, re sorted to the sane terrible expedient, and threw het furious assailant another of her offspring. To out short the melan choly story, her third child was nvri ftmi m a similar manner. Soon niter this the wretched l>cing. whose leelmgs it would Is* iuu ssjlile to descrtl*-, reached her lion.e in snf< tv. Here she relabsl what had happened, and tried to palliate her own eundtict bv describing the diviulfnl alternative to which she had Ims h ledmasl. f A peasant, however, who was among the bystanders ami lcard the recital, t*ik up an ax, and with one blow split her head in two. saying at the same tunc that a mother who could thus sncri flee her children for the preservation of her own life was 110 longer tit to live The man'was committed to prison, lint the ent|>eror snlsssjuently gave liim pan lon. Hot Water for Injuries and Brut**. I'lt.' New York Mrtiicnl Journal re |>lts this ease ; Tlie patient was eti gngid in a machine shop, and while his hand was u]siu the anvil of a trip ham mer, the hammer—weighing seven hun dred i>nnds —fell. It so happened that a file was on the anvil, and IB this way the force of tlie hummer was a created nls.ut half an inch lief on- it reached its bed. When the hand was examined it was found that the whole JMIIUI was a mass of pulp. The metacarpel tames were txmtmiuiitod extensively, and then' woa apparently but small chsuce of sav ing the hand. It was. however, placisl ill hot water, and kept theiv for two or three weeks, au>l then taken out and dressed. In three mouth* tin* jwtient was suffi ciently will to leave the hospital. nod now nine month* niter the accident— he is able to mow the fingers, and has quite a useful hand. Brniwn and in juries do much la tter when treated with hot tliaii with oohl water. Ihe tempera ture should tie ttlntut lull degree# k. An other ease in rcjs>rted of eoinjsuiiid fracture ami tlinlivati"n of the ankle joint, in -which the proximal end of the first metatarsal lame protruded from tin foot. The dialo<-ation ai ami the foot placed in hot water. At the end of a week it wns taken out and dressed in the onlinnry manner. The foot is now doing well, and promise* a good result. A Plucky Captain. The schooner Hanioia, of Booth Ray, Me., discharged a cargo at Ponce, Porto Rico. The customs authorities there de rlan-d that there was nil informality about the matter, although no fraud was e barged, and a line of $4,300, gold, was levied against the vessel. No time was given the captain to consult with the owners at home, and the officer was in trouble. A H]vanish gnnlxiat lav along side the schooner and threatened at any moment to take possession of her. The captain of the schooner not appreciating the position in which lie was placed, slipjied her chains and at halfqiast eleven o'clock A. M. went off like n bird, and be fore the astounded aiul dumbstruck offi cials on the gunboat could collect their senses. She got all sail set, and was three miles away in the briefest possible time. As she went off she sprung her luff and saluted the port with her colors three times three. The gunboat was sent in chase as soon aa she could get up steam, but the schooner was out of sight in a vary abort time. NUMBER 8. The Ileal Sea Serpent. The London spectator aaya: In the Mrnite of Malacca, the sea monster MO repeatedly seen, and ao repeatedly de clared to be mythical, iiiqiearH at last to have been carefully observed by com petent witneoacM. Tlie creature was . bv the passengers and crew of the shin N'eator, ou her voyage b. Shanghai, ami on her arrival n( Huangbai the mus ter of the sLip < Mr. John Keiller Web ster) ami thu surgeon (Mr. James An derson, made a statutory declaration of what I hey had evu before a magistrate , us a uiode, we sup)***-, of formally at testing that thev spoke in gissl faith. The creuture (which rcM-iubhd a huge salamaiuler, otdv that mstcad of being alsiut six or eight incite* loltg, these di mansion* must la- multiplnd by at least seventy-five or one hundred, the Issly liemg fern forty-five to fifty feet in length, tlie head twelve feet, and the tail, it is said, no less than ISO feet) was first seen at half-)aist ten ou the eleventh of Hepteiuber, liftesa milea t*irtlivit of the North Hand lighthouse, ill tlie straits of Malacca. "Hie w.-athrr was fine, the sea smooth slid the airprrfeetly clear. The Clum-se on .leek were terri bly alarmed and aet up a howl. The whole wah'li and three nulooli passenger* haw lite creature ch-nrjy, ami observed its movements. It Iraveled for a loug time about as last a* tlie steamer, up |M-a/iug to Jiuddle itself by tin* ll'-lp of "an tuiditlatory motion of ita tail in a vertical plane.'' The Issly and tail were marked as those of tlie salantauder are marked- with alternate Iwials. black and pale yellow iu color. " Tlie head was uniut-dmtely connected with tin* Isalr, without any iiais-ation of a neck.' B >th wi menses state positively tiiat the only resemblance was t> some creature of tbr frog or newt kind, while one of them (the surgeon) says that the longer he ob served it the more he was struck with its resemblance to a gigantic salamander. It- back waa oval in form. So eye# or fill* were seen, and it did not blow or sjstiit in the manner of whale. Tlie grenter part of ita head wm never seen, ls-iiig lieiieatli tlie surface. Probaldy the creature is of race which sum v. * from tiiat very different worln that consideration ; recites that the amount of jmjer money now in cir culatiou is in exo*e. of the demand* of trade ; that it is now apparently practi cable to fund the note- int* foriv-year four j>er cent. l*ond*. and tint the United State* must like all other delit trs pro vide for its honest obligation* or le dis eroditcd. The bill itself is as follow* : He it enacted by the Senate and House of RrpKMoUtivM of the Unite*! State* of America, in Cuw re n-ivivl in exchange for hwdi utwler this act shall tic destroyed, tinder such regu lations as the secretary of the treasury may prescribe. Sk\ 4. That all laws inconsistent with this act an* hereby repealed. The Way t Treat Women Wiuit to do with our daughters ; Teach them self-reliance. Teach them to make bread. Teach theiu to tuake shirt*. Teach them not to wear falsa hair. Teach them not to paint and powder. Teach theiu to wear thick warm ahaiuting, drawing—if you have time and money to do it with. Teach them i*> cultivate a garden. Teach them that (hxl made them in his own image, and that no amount of fight hieing will improve the model. Teach them that a Rood, steadv me chanic. without a cent. i* wortli a dor en oil puled loafers in broadcloUi. Teach them the essentials of life— truth, honest v. uprightness -and at a suitable time let them marry. A Sad Inheritance. A writer in tho /V.yo/iotejyioo/ Journal, ti llritifth periodical, (rivi 1 * tlis result a*t year. The Lew Ange.lea Jlcrahl aaya that southern California ii his von thiol heir, " accustom yourself to "be jvdite to the |wrter, the servant girl, the coachman, hi all tlie servant-; thu* you will come in time to be oour'eXM to nil people, even to your parents." Horace Greeley aaid thai of the thou sand* he tent thu tnust be ever received liack was a five dollar note inclosed in a letter, and upon tracing out the writer of tIJb letter he found it c?.me front a lunatic in the Utaea aavium who neve* owed him a cent. Some from the m-lio 'ln* ular Episcopal clergy men of Boston, that on uoe Christiana ilay he received twenty-aix pairs of slip pers, and that he is the one of whom it is said be lias two barrels in lii* studio, and whe.u la.be* bring liirn their offerings of slippers, ho aavm: " Lefts ill that bar tel, madam ; righto in this." A man named John CI. Dawes left Keru River, Cad., recently with 2,000 sheep for tlie north. While crossing the alkali lands lam I* near Tulare lake he camped for tlie night, and in tlie m< > ruing whetf he awoke he saw his sheep all lying down but one, and on examination found that there was lmt tliat one alive. They had all quietly did in the niglit. A Connecticut beau scut a telegram to his girl, who wa in New York, wishing hcra"Merrv Christmas," but omitted u pav tlie charge. It cost her twenty five emits to find that she was rrmemlHT ed, and iu her gratitude she expressed him a package containing several coal chunks, which coat liirn fifty-tive cento to get He is carrying his confectionery to a new place now. The evidence is accumulating that the Ashtabula horror was fraused by train wreckers for plunder. The lxxly of one m:ui was certainly robbed of $7,000 in money, and other bodies were de spoiled of watches iuul jewelry. One wounded man, in climbing the bank, was knocked senseless by two ruffians, who robbed him of watch and money. Other similar rases are reported by sur vivors. An advocate went to visit his client, who was in prison, waiting to be tried on a charge of robbery. The prisoner, in describing his case and protesting his en tire innocence, was overcome with emo tion, and wept piteously. At the end of the interview, as the advocate was leav ing the cell, he turned round anil, hold ing the handle of the door, remarked, naively, to the prisoner; "Above all, don't forget to cry like that when you appear before the jury." The Rev. Mark Traftou says that the reason of the falling off in Methodism is the abandonment of circuit riding. He exclaims : " Israel was ruined because she would be like the people of the land. Methodism is weakened by the same cause. Other orders have a stated min istry; we must have one. Other churches have pews to sell or rent; we must have them. Other ministers read sermons; ours must do likewise. Gome! oh, ye chief shepherds in your wisdom, put the work into the circuit form again, and bring back the glory, power and success , of former days."