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<er,if lio,>|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 <m. There must 'a
been nigli cm to a humlr- l yanls o' car
pi t iii that house. I heh si Mrs. Hiteh
ner sew and color many a pound o' them
rags myself. And the dimity curtains
wis th • prettiest tilings, and that valler
.milker ooveriu'for tlie sofy end cheers
made everything look eles rv like. Then
old M'Lean, not to be lueiiituihatid, lie
sot 'em np with li > 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 <ngan.
•• Y-m so, John and in. John's the
latl at the winder —we was a sarin* only
•I * morn in' that w.- ought to be thank
ful that we bad a pIoCC to put out heads
ill this hntl weather. His father was
t*tk with the fever last spring. It's
Han pr. lty rough f- -r the babbie* since.
I>;<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 k<s p
along if if the <*<>al 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<r, alld would not
have known a character ou it if he lit#,t.
One hour lalci he rvjswti-l those ntiin
t-r in the exact order in which we called
them to hitu. We tlieti U-gauut the Uit
toni and would call two or tliree nuuiters
eorreetlv and then one n:e. •rr,--tlv, ami
h< would errs't us l iv giving the proper
nuiulter.
More levsterioiis than this to lis is tlie
fact of hia ability to give correctly the
time > 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 t<i gimt ill
IIUUIIM i" fur hi* uiiiiil ti grasp, and yet
nothing t.Hi at.- ill. lie (tin tell what thf
intension eiif cent would H-for throe
second* t tfie nit* -■( t !i per rent. |>er
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
<ieorgiaiiM the Cauea in moiinta.uccra
hung like a hung swor.l of Damiadea,
and as often a a that terrible sword fell It
tilled the aunuv vailev* - f Kukheti* with
tlw amoke of burning village*, and red
der I lit * char th- rgian arrmmw with
the be-! Christ! in hlol. Almost evcrv
fe l <.f th • beautiful country lying uortli
of the Hirer Knr was riivagisl and deao
la'-al by midiug bands of Caucamau
ii--:-win. n, wh came ilowru fn .i a height
of ltt,(*> 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
(t<si's Kike help us! The kingdom of
Georgia linnnwsil to exist; it lias IHHMI
earned away captive into the imuuitains
of the Caucasus."
ll'issin ii'kpimkxi prxmiutly to this
call for aid. JSix or seven battalions of
IliiKsi ui infantry moved up tin- Geor
gian valley from the C'aapiati MM coast,
and notice was given to tlie Caucasian
mountaiiieTs that their raids into terri
tory which now Wloiigial to the enn>erur
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 inagnitie<l ami the sutrerings of
the Georgian Christians ignored by the
English press that four-fifths of intelli
gent American rentiers were made to be
lieve that the conquest of the Caucasus
was a crime against humanity.
History sometimes repeats itself, and
Russia is now endeavoring to do for the
TKKMB: #2.00 n Y<ar, in Advance,
iippresnsl Christians of Bulgaria what
in the first half of this century she did
for the p< jsc-tiled Christians of (ieorgm.
Hlie is again opjsisod by British slab*-
uuumliip, mid iter motive# again una
replem nted by the lfrilial) press. Alneri
euiin should not l>e 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<t
Bsva:
In New York Klnti',ud tituroat otln.ro,
the certificate of two phvoiemiia 10 sufli
ci,tit warrant for linpriaouuient in an
iuHMIIC 11, V 111 111. It tM not too much to
nay thut in nt least nine rwn* out of ten
melt II certiftcutc run ln got by any vii
hduoiia husband, by uiiy scheming wife,
by any hungry li- ir, or by any aecret
enemy. It i- not na< .-usury even to eup
jHn? a corrupt or > 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 <juite a* serious,
ih tried only by two doctor*, who get all
tLe fact, from the prosecution. In tin*
hundredth ou*e, where tin* man ia said
to In insane i auiic, it i plaiu that tliia
ia an outrageous cruelty. And tin-rc IK,
an we any, no adequate rctlr-css for it.
Tin* doctor* who certify tin* insanity are
not answerable, it their certiticalea are
given 111 goial faith. The plotter lilUl
aelf ia not liable criminally, union* hi*
I cut motive can la* aliowa*; and it la vera
hard to ahowr. Tiie vault i tliat the
easiest pouulile iv for a villain to lie
rid of a dioagreewble relatiou or an
enemy, i to get out a certificate of Ui
sanity. There ia none of the risk alamt
tliia tliat goes with |M>innilig. We have
pr< tf enough tliat tiiere are " baby
burners." We may l* <juite a ure tliat
the gain* which tempt them will suffice
to <>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 <m* day in a sledge
on 111# st pj* >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 worl<l in which
creuture* of gigantic aire aeern to lutve
liet-n ao much commoner than ,uow.
'flaw appear* t lie no manner of reason
for doubling the very express evnh-nce
so suceiuctly and solx-rly given.
Mr. ( hitti-mji i's 1 uncling Bill.
Mr. (tiUradni'i bill uo the currency,
before the United State* Hnwr, u en
titled " A bill for )*ivnig the legal lender
debt in harmony with justice and the re
{totally pledged faitli of the government
of the United State*. " A preamble re
fer* to tle fact that the legal tender* were
originally fundable into mx per cent,
bonds, and would not bare been issued
except *>n 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 C<tigress uaaenild. d. Tliaf
tlie secretary of the treasury I** and in
hereby authorised to withdraw, as soon
ai the neneaaanr preparations emu le
made, tlie legal t-UiW note* of tiic
United Ntati*, whenever presented by
the holder* thereof, tmJ issue therefor,
dollar for dollar of face value, coupon or
registered bonds id the Uuited States in
tlie spirit of the original Is-pd tender
art; Provided, Tliat the bonds authorieed
by this act shall lie jmyable in gold at
the expirtion of forty years front tlie first
day of January, 1877, and boar interest
at the rate of four per cent, per annum,
pavable quarterly in gold.
Sec. 2 That the bonds authorised by
this act shall be available for deposit in
the treasury of tlie l'nite*l States for
liuukiug purposes under the various pn*
vistous of law relating to national lauiks.
Src. :!. Tlud the legal trader n<>uw 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 ah<ea.
Teach Uiem how to wash aud iron
clothes.
Teacii them how to make their own
dresser.
IW)i them liow t Mok a good
IIKPtu. m
Teach tliem to wear calico dress**—
and do it like a queen.
T*ach them to say no, and mean it.
Teach them bow to tlani stockings and
sew on buttons.
Teach them to regard the morals, not
the money, of lx-aux.
Hive them a good, substantial com
uiou acluxd education.
Teach theiu tluit u g<*xl round r<y
romp is worth fifty delicate consump
tive*.
Teacii thorn to have nothing to do
with dissolute young men.
Teach theiu acounplishmrati muaie.
|>aiuting, 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 <f
his obwn'Htiniw in these strong vwils :
" The most startling problem connected
with intemperance is, that not only does
it affect the health, morals and intelli
gence of the offspring of its votary, but
they also inherit the fatal tendency, and
foci n craving for the very beverages
th.it have aohxl as jsiisons on their sys
tems from the commencement of their
being." Especially so it is when both
parents nre drunkards.
Maudsley says : " Idiocy is, indeed,
.a manufactured article; and although we
are not always able to tell how it is
manufactured, still its important causes
are known, and are within control.
Many eases are distinctlv traceable to
parental intemperance nml excess.
Out of throe hundred idiots, Dr. Howe
found as many as 145 to lie the offspring
of intemperate parents; and there are
numerous olmervatioiiH proving that
chronic alcoholism in the parent may di
rectly produce iiliocy in the child. In
Norway, iu ten years of free liquor
traffic, after the removal of the spirit
duty, insanity increased fifty per cent.
Dr. Crrnc makes Home figures and in
fers flint " the intemperate have nearly
twenty-nine times as many idiots among
their children as do temperate parents."
The objective puiut of the sad inherit
ance is family extinction.
Wkat Will Happen.
The Nottingham (England) country
folk hare two Mayings relating to tha ap
pcaraaoe of aevcre weather :
If titer*'* lea In Novssnbar Ual will IMF I DA HI,
Tbml be nothing after bat clash MX< muck.
If the lee bear a man before Christen** it wiU
not bear a mouse after.
There ia a ppwerb of a aimilar rluuar
tor attached to Hallirwe'en, Nov. 1, N. 8.,
or the evening before All Hainl'a day :
If dock* do *Ude at HotlandMdc,
At Christina* Uisjr will switc :
If dock* do swim at Holland Ud*,
Ai (liristma* tbey will *lldc.
Item* of lbmU
Turkey has Ave hundred th'maand
men under arms.
Dairymen ore getting richer Uan any
l*sly else in Wisoouain.
Wonls id a dying cannibal—Writ* are
down as one who loves hi* fellow mem
Retnemlwr that one square meal ia
bettor than all the " Heaven pity the
poor " jioeme ever written.
The Lowell Courier says when a man
ia elected mayor he naturally think* ha
is getting Hon. in tha world.
Jl is ettiimato-l that not Ice* than 10,-
000,(100 tree* have been aet ont in
Miuueaota during tha j>a*t year.
The Lew Ange.lea Jlcrahl aaya that
southern California ii<el farmers and
money, and not helplesa clerks.
An exchange says that " money ia ao
tight that we actually lielieve it roust
wear ivgsete." Of corset !■**.
Yea, it was true alsmt that shower of
snakes at Memphis, but the men who
drink the hardest aaw the largest snake*.
Sweet are tha naes of adversity. A
cross eyed arhooliuarm nan keep twice the
usual unrulier of children in onler at
once.
The man with au ulster, a pair of
ixiote and a ahirt collar can w ear othet
clothes, but they are not abaoltttely nec
easary.
Judge Hoar once mud of a lawyer:
He Lie reached the superlative of life.
At first he sought to get on, and then he
sought to get honor, snd now lie is trying
to get honest."
A vouug woman in Bocheatej, N. L
ita* sued for damage* a man who kissed
her. A man who can't kiss a woman
writhoni ilamagiug her ought to pay f-ar
his awkwardness.
The Minnesota larmets have taken
hold of the btuoueaa of planting trees in
earnest. Ovej tea millions cf cutting*
were set out dunng the past year, most
of which are doing well.
A sigu in a neighboring city reads )
•' Hirkfr nuts for sails." Au intelligent
old grutleman says ho doesn't see any
joke in it, except that the fellow has
pelt 'Minis " with one t.
A female preacher is said to lie writing
s " Commentary on the Life of Joshua.
It is reported tiiat site will observe that
Joshua was successful with the sun, bat
he never mrnmuM the daugliter to lie
Mill.
It was a year ago that a pretty young
iwade lwgun to follow the oociaaioiial re
cipe* for cooking tiiat liave appeared in
this journal, and with such success that
dm baa just married her second hus-
IWIKL
" Eternity, }nd and future Ihdid be
fore mv eyes." he said, " and I aaw
where the crack of doom began and end
ed." This was hi* experience the first
time a base ball struck him ia the
stomach.
The same thing under different cir
cumstances msv produce different re
sults. Many a Cover kmies sad wears on
his heart as a priceless treasure the aaim
luck of liair that in his soup he would
regard with loathing.
An Alabama jujier says the well-to-do
private* of the late war "take great com
fort in seeing fiery generals, colonel*
and majors of other days now selling
iwwnuta, drawing Iwr or in other way*
making a humble living.
•• My son," said 3L, kindly, i > 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* <m. Teacher:
" Sow, who dm the oldest man mention
ed ill the Scriptures'?" Young scholar: "I
thtuuo. Who wra the cxn* 7* Teacher:
" Wliy, Methuselah ; he was over sine
hundred year* old." Scholar: " Golly,
what a lot"of centennial abows he must
liave seenJ"
Thank* aud a thousand id them to
that' unknown genius who intrusted a
trunk, with a hire of bow in it. to the
trader merries tf a Syracuse ixurpape
master, the other day. The com] any
will pay for tlie lw*w, and the doctor
tiutiks iiia patient will be around again
m a fortnight or so.
The bride at a wedding [recently cele
brated in Warehftiu, Mass., was a first
cousin of the bridegroom's deceased first
wife, one of the bridesmaid* was a daugh
ter of the bride aud wife of one of the
trruoma, who was a aun of the bride
groom, while Uw< other brideaimud was
ii daughter of the groom aud wife of a
son of the bride.
" Tliat story i* aalty." said Brosrn
eldest sou, a* Brown rea<l the latest
news on the Eastern question at tlie
itreakfast table the other morning.
" How so. my sou ?" inquired Brown,
"it came by cable." "Well, hasn't it
' asset! through the ocean's brine ?" an
swered the hotieful. Brown left at ones
for his office down town.
It is siud of the Rev. Plnllqv, Brooks,
one of the most po|>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."