Fair. Two (hall be born th* whole wut* world apart, And apeak in different tonguaa, and have no thought Each of the other'* being and no haed ; And the o'er unknown *ea* to unknown land* Mull croaa, ooeajutig wreck, defying daath , And, all nnernertouKly, dope ever* act, And bend each ambling step to thiaona and That, one day out of darkness they riiall meet And read life'a meaning in each other a aye*. And two ahall walk sotne narrow way of Ufa 80 nearly aide by aide that. should one turn Ever so little njmoe to loft or right, They need* mul aland acknowledged face to face ; And yet, with wiatfnl eye* that nerer meet. With groping hand* that narer clasp, and lip* Calling in rain to ear* that nerar hear, They aeek each other all their weary day*. And die uuailiafled. and tht* i fat*. My Mother. Back tlirough the lapae of lonely year*, Of light and shade, and Utter tear*, I ecem to hear My mother * voice aoft, awect and low— M mother'* mice, ah ! well 1 know It* cadence dear. Oft Hitting, when the night bird wing* lire homeward flight and aofUr ting* A plaintive aoag. Tin :i rrem'ry ware* her magic wand An 1 tmnnnona from the silent land Dear one# long gone. Again, 1 ataud by mother'a knee. Again her aamted face 1 ace, A* in a dream. Then asks tny heart, with mica of tears. For her . alas the sad. sad year* lie dark between. Oh ! mother, from that sphere dmue. On wings of light cieai * realms of time, Coin# thou to me If for only a little apace. That I may took on thy dear face. One moment see, A# once I aaw, thy tender eyes. That know not tear* in hradin, Grieved no more. I watch fee thee, oh 1 mother dear ; 1 h ten. and 1 sceui to hear Thy song* float o'er That lonely river, deep and wide. Which darkly roil* tU Stygian tide From shore to ahore , Silent and deep through lonely years Swollen with bitter fare well tiara Forever more. Trusting. TU wait while life lasts here, TUI in that grand, imiauital sphcrvy Where sorrows cease. We meet, and on thy kmng breast My weary head shall be at rest la perfect peace. A RACE FOR LIFE. CHAPTER I. TBI MISS SOB. *• Mr dear follow. I am delighted to see TOO," eiciumed my friend McCausland. as he met tue at the dour of bu boose. I had gone on a visit to Uolmesdale. a little town in the north of England. McCausland was an engineer to U e water company there, and had invited lie logo down fur a week. After the usual interval for dressing, we sat d >vm 10 an exoatleat little dinner. Not un naturally the conversation turned upon the weather. ( " 1 am sorry thi* ram continue," said Mc- Causland : "it spoils tny water supply. People bully me a* if I could help it" •' .Are your reservoirs near the town?" I asked. " So," he replied, "away in the hill*. We can go over to-morrow it you like. I'm due there." The excursion was arranged. We agreed to start at eleven o'clock next morning, and e started punctually. We pursued ovsr wav an the hill, and cross ing the brow, r -ached a small inn. Here we found a couairv gtg awaiting us. Into thai we clambered, and prwwded along a wooded by road, atony and rut-fuiL At lengtli, when hope bad almost given way to led language, we pulled up at another smsll inn called the •'Reservoir." We got out of the gig gladly." An engineer foreman humedupand accosted us politely. "is all right, Johnson" inquired McCau*- land. " Tee, all right; but"— " We)', but what •• I don't quite like the south reservoir em bankment,' wa* the reply. McCausland turned paie to his very hps. •'Cos with me" no said abruptly. We homed after huu in rieuoe, and with a strange dread upon us. W# soon came in right of the extensive em bankment, erhtch coiilined the water* of the largest of the three reservoir* of the Holmes dais company. A fresh breeze was blowing the water in small noisy waves against the ptved top of the bank. Here and there a tongue of liquid spat upon t e stonework, and at one spot it trickled down into and a}>parent !y came through the gra*. I " This is the iqiot I was looking at thi* moro ns," said Johnson. '• Vou had better have a few men to puddle up this." said McCausland. indicating a tiny crack that would have escaped !a*a experienced •yea. We thn continued our inspection, bnl dttr ing our pr urres# round the works the cloud* I had massed themselves in wild .'V ■ nd-nr above I the hi Is. and 1 y beavily abovt- 1 he Apro valley in front. The railroad crossed t,# valley 00 a graceful viaduct near Ammeang junction. Tbe dark slaty clouds hung vu-pended over this district. levg tendrils of the scud came fwth from them like fingers. These clutched now a rock, then a solitary tree, now swept up again and brought down aiargrr mass of cloud to place upon the ground—ever stealing on ward and downward, leaving all tn its draithv track dark and foggy. A low moaning sound as in the air. It was not the wind, for the Ireeae had atrangelv lolled. The tree* scarcely moved, yet the water rolled up against the reservoir banks aa if agitated by an unseen wheel. We all seemed oocisciou* of the dis turbance of the atmospheric conditions, and the leave* whispered strange confidences to the motiouleaa houghs above our head*. The men had all gone up to the reservoirs. Mct 'anslaud and I sat chatting together. " Do you think you could find your way back •lone V he asked, suddenly. " Why ?" I said. '• Do yon intend to remain ben- ? In there any danger ?" "Well, acaroely that Tbut I think I ought to . be on the spot. I will return to-morrow or aext day." " Cannot I stay too?" "Oertainlv, if you desire it. We rough itup here, though." "I do not mind that," I replied. 80 it was ! settled. Fortunate it wa* that I did remain. , A* we were preparing to visit the sluices again we were startled by a vivid flash of lightning, which had liardlv passed when the rocks rang out w th a thou-and thunder echoes. Thia waa tbe signal. The windows of heaven opened, and a perfect deluge deseemted upon the devoted valley. The Tittle brook* ', „ leaped up and danced down tbe hill rides in white array. Tiny waterfall* swelled them- , •elves into cataract's, and foamed down to tbe streams. The wind rose from it* sleep and forced great rolling waves across tbe oop ing of the reservoir*, and stones and grass bo came commingled. Now the sluice valve# were all opened, and the long imprisoned water gladly dashed from out its prison to meet it* native nnr once again. The channel of the Holmesdale. one. , more filled with water, divided on the hilL Hut still the man workefl hard amid the gathering ~ gloom and thunder by lantern light, ai d nature , rested not that livelong night But I turned in and got some sleep in do fiance of the elemeutal war without At five o'clock in the morning, a* tlie grav light wa* struggling into life, McCausland came, fully dressed.: ifena room. I started up. "Dress yourself .As Mri-k a* you can sod , come down sUirVl%- #sd. I began to ask questions. " Loi&iiiv.tnpio. there's a good fel low ; I want your*asri*tance." He left the ', room. I Jumped up at once, hurried to the window . and looked out Day was Ju*t breaking through the mi*ty skv, and all the world waa raining. The water was plashing from the eaves, and mingled with the heavy drops, burst into a separata stream in every rut anj i furrow. The wind beat the tall tree# and roared amid the branches. Ever and anon a sharp snap denoted a bough torn from ita place ana whirled to the soaking earth. 1 dressed quickly and joined McCausland in the little parlor. He was studying a private , copy of the railroad time tables, which as an , official he always carried. "Will you take thu horce and ride down to Ammering junction with a message ?" ilia collected maimer assured me. Was this ! all? A rile through the rain was not much. "Of oonrse, I will go." He grasped mv baud firmly. "Are you nervous?" lie said, as he held it in his own , steadv grasp. "Konsen.se," I replied, laughing: "I'll be ready in five minutes if it's important. Is the horse here ?" I ran up for my waterproofs. When I came , down the horse was at the door and McCaus land inspecting him. I mounted. "Now." I said, "for this great message, if yon please." McCausland* tone had something very solemn in it as he replied : "Tel! the station-master at Ammering junc tion, rtid any people you nee. tlinl the south reservoir will not last three hours. It will burnt down the valley, and will destroy the vu,dnet, end carry away the bridge* on fli It ''-r-dst* branch. Stop the traffic, and a re th>-isMuvn g'l*. God 1 •!*<• you i ant! bark 1 ride for your Ufa I I will fire th algm!- iMU*n M • warning, Good-bye," ; 1 THE CENTRE REPORTER. FRED. KURTZ, Kditor and I'ropriotor. VOLUME X. CHAPTER 11. s wiii> Mini. Mre'liaiit.-alh 1 gather.d up therein*, IUHMC.I U> Met.'u! viwl, tor Ins* too tup-rte,l to re ply in w,w\l, siwl si site-1 upon im wihl ride. Three hours banc* and the water would he pouring down tbe valley through which uty vouiav lay. No wonder I had to tide for nit life, and perhaps the hi t of butidiwiU of tsiy fellow creature* dc|*'iid< dou tuiue. Auiuiet ing jmiction > some mile* away, M< nmte lay through an unknown nestn, across uioor laud Uitetweote-l by fl>*steil slnams and swept by the throe wind and rain. I must do it, 1 thought, as my here* picked hi* cautious way au.it! the 100-v stones down Hie steep by-road we bad aaocuded the previous day. 1 should need all uty strength, though, to execute nil task, so 1 pirssod ou. A valua ble shoe out of my tour had teen ei|euded wh< 11 1 reached the Iruul htghwa , and urged my horse to sjeed. 1 had to turn .IT again. I knew but 1 fancied I should easily find the path Reside, was theie not a sign post Then tore. uia-vd I > dreadful tidings, aud with the fierce wind aud biting rain by turns and all together Moaning uir, I urgrel my horse oli wart. 1 reached the turning and pulled up to read the direction 1 aliouid take. 1 nearly fainted with horror a* 1 read The fatal finger point.*! up the cross read I r> pursuing "To Hohueaalale and Seaham." Ihe oppiMtta index pointed "To lontdaa and iuonmug 1 rouUl acaroe credit uiy senses Sursly 1 w* right. We had come up the previous day, and , up the lull to the reservoir*. I had mere vto reverse tie route we had traveled. At that moment, if you will believe me, the true state of the case, and uiy < wu stupidity, dadied U|*uld Ido now ? Two hours remained, and 1 had throe up hill mil. a to rule, aud thru about seven lis my ears. Au engine moved out of the station .Another whistle slmrtly afterw rd. The train wa* safe. I watched it glide away over the via duct. Five minutes later 1 rode into the *U- Uou.aud called f.vrthe *talion-ma.-ter. As I dis mounted the clock struck - ght. The time was np. and no signal from Mctau-land. 'l'eie gnsj Umg srouU uow easy. A porter came out lu response to my snuitmn*. i '• I'm sorry ye lost the express," he began. ( " I don't wisut the iratn, I replied. "1 moat telegraph at once, though. Where u the sta ll 'ti-master ■" " Hell be here in a minute. But ye cau't telegraph. Tbe wine is blown down. We had to send a ' pilot' with the express to clear the line np to Handletgh." "Not Id-graph '. I tell you, man. I must *thr> the traffic. T'w South H"ltuc*lie ro-er voir wtlt bitrri this vv-iy bo„r. ' "' an tht* be true > inquired a covl, gentle t cnanly man at my elbow. It wa* tbe station master biiasrlf. I "True!" I echoed. "It's only too true. 1 have ridden to tell you. We must stop the ' tram*." I " The excursion leaves Hand igli at s v, o." . xue*-d the *tation-ma*t*r. "There may t , lime ; come with me." He (Tvvevl the line and entered the shed op- ' ' js'iate. I followed. Just then a lotld booming ' sopiel rent the air. Tbe sound came back from I the h i s like thunder. | "It ia the signal." I exclaimed. "The water w out. Heaven help u* now !" Tlie >tativ>n-iuast< r called out. A cleaner ap I pearevl. " I* that engine ready?" " Vea, air, wsitiug for the ■ xcursion." " Run and open the jsiiuts. Now. sir, get upi." I olvevrd u.ecliarj illy, and before I quit' reahrevl the sitidktion we luid cro--e Ito tlie uj line. Tt,e stati vn-maatar stojqvd to get a red flag and sive a few instruction* to hi- subordi- t iiate. 1 now per. - -ired that we were to race , tlie fl KL Stcaiu versus water. Which would . conquer ? A whistle wc stvrted. '• The flood ! the fi'ssl!" ali iutid the porter. J f We turned one glance up the valley. A not- j ing brown walk oapp d wuii a snowy ndgn was i '.earing down to the devoted viaduct. No time to k'se. " Go ahead.' crud the station-master. I turned on steam.put the lever over another notch, and the rare tegan IU earnest. We flew along the metals. A few minuta* i would decide it. We must get to the viaduct j aud over it fir-!, or the excursion, unwarned. ' would dash to destruction. A depression m the ground ran be-Je the railroad for a short dis- | taoce. We trusttd to this to turn tlie velocity , of theapproachi.,g water. It was an exciting , race, and one never to lie forgotten. On rolled the flood. We were running "neck j " and neck " for one terrible half minute. Now the resist lews flood bore directly to the bridge. 1 Stories were rolled before it like marbles. H Trunk* of trees, havatark*. ilrlirit of every de scription, came headlong down upon the d'*>med structure. We fled like lightning over the rails. ® Oor speed told now. v Hpark* flew from theclumney. Another notch, u The beat of the piston (pnekeued to an almost „ Inconceivable rapidity. We were on the bridge. , Hurrah ! Tlie curling wave beneath seemed to spring forward. It broke against the buttresses. c - In a second we were across. * I shut off steam, the station-master put v down the brakes. A tearing, rending sound, j that wa* not the brake- —a crasn ! We looked . back. The line drops**! Is hind us like a stage trap. The bridge gave way, and with a roar ' that was heard two mile* off. the pretty Tia- ' dnct was swept away by the boiling, furious * water. We were truly thankful for our narrow es cape. 1 And now Ui sare the excursion. Speeding for- ' ward again, whistling like a demon, our good I engine—Vigilant by name -soon came in sight „ of the excursion train. By waving otir red nag we averted another danger a collision. The telegraph posts being down, trains had to run ' upon the same line as far as liandleigh.but our t timiy action set all to rights at last. c We soon gave the bewildered passengers to : v understand the narrow escajw they had hail. Fervent and sincere were the thanks we received frem ll except ooewian. He waaescapuig from '' jiutice, and was captured. From tlie elevated etnb.iTiknieiit we could trace the eoiirse of the H fiubd for miles. The tram put liack to Hand- j leigli. whence the passengers were forwarded by another company. By the time we had arranged matters and re- t turned to the broken viaduct the water had sob- c sided. The work of destruction was complete, r but a " I>re tk-down" gang was quickly on the ,• spit. A footway was constructed serosa the muddy river-lied, and trains etopped at both j 1 sides of the stream, tlie passengers exchanging ' from one to the otlier. t . The loss or cattle and farm produce canst*! , hv that terrib's flood was very great. Had tlie i catastrrqihe occurred duritig the night, the loss of human life would have been appalling. As u it was, some unfortunate people were drowned, but some had most marvelous escapes. The as pect of the country as I retraced my steps wa* deplorable—l could scarcely recognize the places I bud paused in tbe morning. I found McCausluud and his staff at tbe reser- t voir aw aiting me. He wrung my hand fervently | and said certain words that I shall not easily „ forget. , The viadnct was quickly rebuilt, but the sti- j tion-uiaster at Aiumenng does not forget the ' race of steam versus water on the Vigilant loco motive. Nor do I. i " 11,1 t A naturalist claims to have discovaiad that crows," win :i la flocks, have regularly organ toed courts, In which they sit around and cry i offandtfa— sort of crow-bar tc t* ph. I A ( ITV IN FLAMES. *l. John, N. It., ti.llrd bv HNtbrr l l.hri I •!. Tht' iialatiiiti'ttH firs- ti nt vissti'l St. Jt'itit, N 11., is tliva'ribril it* follow * Tlio tins waa iliwuveml tu Imihttug on the south aide of York l',iintslii>, next to MclatttghluTa Kuler shop. To the latter l'ttihliug the fUtm a had aprrail Before the tlrenien had ivwlttvl the avue. The engtttea txrriviwt and did their 1> at to atop the tVimes, luit all efforts vrerri tu vaitt. Nothing ei>uld he done. The flames then spread ti the vtirtous build ing* >U! lists'* wharf, which were also ipticklv eoiiMtiueU, aad It-fore the tire ivtlld l>e obeohiil it broke out with a roar into Smith street, carrying every thing h< fore it. Trout there the llauien spread into Prttry lane and Mill street, following thut into !> vk street, taking I->th shies. lb-fore tht*, however, llio rear of the 1, nidou House itlnl adjoxes on tire, atdevl by ttie wind, prowvl a eombiuation t have the fire end there, a momentary gale took the tlamea avr ■ I'uiou atreet to the opposite honace, and then tliev recedoil; but their touch hud been fatal, and in leas than tire minutes tliese b'.uldiugs were dis'tiled to destrnc tiou. Ik-th sides of the street were s-nii m the grasp of tlie devouring element, and tlie men were obliged to drop their branch pijn*.* and run np the street, af er which thev dragg>*l the In we after them. Another l>oJv of men were working at tlie foot of Union stn-et, and by plac ing Iwiards in front of their fm-c.s tinui aged to ti.itUc with the flames until the.r clothing Ueriaie singed. Procevding along Smith street m a southerly direction, the tire H>berteou'a whuiif. anl then up the South wharf. As it gained Nels>u street on tlie south, it there ni-t the flame* coru iig up that ntrect, ami the eombiuation ma>le at err .tic lu-at that could not IK- lioriie. Allseal with the strong wind from rlie northwest, it did not take long for the entire whaif to be iu a blaze. II df a dozen w- ni lioata were at the head of Market slip, and at the end of the wharvea tin-re w. rc a'- ut the same number of schooners, llefore the tire had aasutued a formidable sha|>e ou the North wharf the men on vessel* l>egaii to (xnir pailsof water on tlie decks. The wat t was low just th- u, and some thing like thia was necessary to extin guish the sparks that were eouttnuallv ahowere-1 down on them. Those at the head of the slip were in a quarter of an hour on fire m ao many places that it was impossible for each outbreak to re ceire attention la-fore the V'-a-e\ were well on tiio. Thu flauie.* caught tin ir masts, and these aff-'rdtsl a ab-ppmg atoue to the shops on Sutt'.h wluxrf. Not one of those west of Ward street was capable of withstanding the intensi' heat and spark*, ad being of WIMKJ, and tiny went ilowu tut if felltnl by a lmrricuue. The schooners in fntit having been iiauh*i out to a place of safety, many of the occupants the atorea were off help ing their unfortunate brother merchant*, and some arrived just in time to Have their !>>>k. Others were just euabled to witness tlie destruction of all their st<*-k. Soti.e of the etnlHTs Iged in the steeple >f Trinity chureli, (t-rnaiii street, and -t!i n.'lhiuK . ■ s.iv-- it, the fire b-iug ■> Ugh us U> te> ai.u. s, bey <>u-i r a-t and west b> Ornnain, Charlotte, Duke mid Horseflelil streets, with not an engine to be had and everything going down ive fore the nnreleuting tlame*. A building >n Charlotte street, had hardly become a prey bv the tlame*, wh- u other* on each -ide followed, and in half an hour ali ex •ept the Germain stro-t side of the square was in ashes. The Victoria Hotel and St. Andrew's church were in great dan ger. aud the hotnl guests, as well as the •mployee*, Is-gan to make j>repartiou* for seeking new quarter*. Very little ; time was given them b> evillect their valuable*, and m the majority of ouu-* they had to leave with scanty wardrobes. Aiiout tbe same time St. Andrew's church took fire, and it did not stand lung. Ad joiuiug the church was n two story brick building, occupied as n tailor shop in tlie lower story and by the Beacon, Pioneer, md Biloam hslges of Odd Fellows, as -.ell as Millicets Kucanqinient of that order on the upper flat, which wait de vtroved; prior bi which, however, the member* managed to enter the building and save most of the regalia and para- , pliernnlia. Tbe buildings at the south- , ern corner of Dock ami Union streets ami , <>n the op|xiite comer cnuglit almost *imnltan>*>usly. At au early hour the Western Union j Telegraph Company V office waa burned , and its valuable batteries aud apparatus , leatroyetl. A great quantity of the , gixxls saved fell into the hamlHof thieves, | who hung around like vultures, eager to , avail themselves of any opportunity that afforded to curry off what they could lav their hands on. The ballast wharf was covered most of tlie night with thou sand* of people anxious to escape by water, as were also the railway track and , > the ground around the track between the , Isillast wharf and Courtenny bay. The | following newspaper offic * with their j " plant" and stock were compleU-ly ] swept away : 7Vic Freeman, Tht Even- < intj Olohr, The Daily Trlcyraph, The , Daily Arte*. The Watchman and The ] licligiout Intelligencer. The entire , business portion of the eily was de- j stroyed. Not a lcieling establishment > eseapeil. All tlie principal dry gissls > stores, the leading groceries, all j the ship brokers, commission mcr- cbnnts, all in the Imsiness of whtileHale liqnors, coal, flour, provisions, ] salt, lumber, tea, West India goods, > etc., were utterly wiped out. Forty > aid blo<'k*, or nearly two hundred acres - south of King street, have not six build- j ings remaining. Everv street, square ( and alley was filled with furniture, and j thousands of people were without food or shelter. Tlie International Com pany's steamer New York sheltered and fed I.'MK) person*, and the vessel* in the stream had large, numbers of people on 1 board. Thousands had to get away from the lower part of the city bv boats. A ] number of lives were lot, and it win be lieved the d struct on of property would ! amount to fi.'tecn million dollars. i i THESKVEV WONI.VHS. —Tbeseven won ders of the world in ancient times were , reckoned b> be the Pyntmids of Egypt, the Hanging Gardens < f Bemiraintß at Babylon, the Temple of Diana at F.phe. sits, the Statue of Jupiter at Athens by Phidias, the Mausoleum, the Colossus nt Rhodes, and tha Pliaroe of Alexandria. This cycle of seven wonders originntcd amoDg the Greeks after the time of Alexander the Great. Anions th graduate# at Wast Folnt thia ya t is Cmlbt Klipptr, the first colored gradual* from tha l*l(Jrotlot). CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, JULY 111. 1877. A HFTHIIIT MONIiKY. Haw Mr .rt Islslird wllti a Hall at I'ilrb. That |Hor Mrs. Nu-holo. alio ha* bcru grinding u huud organ uriHind tlie uol dtcra' UUUiIUIWMt lot the U*t year, ha-l got to belli wt thut ahe OWIKH! the Hole right to play "t'aj'taiu Jinks" ami "Growing Old" in this town. The other day along came a double-tinted, heavy weighted, big-Voiced Italian who had a bran new organ and a heap of fresh tuin-~ She ground ami lie ground, and lie w.isn't halt utl hour beating her into the middle of last w*-k Stie rea lized that he wan taking tti ull the cash while ahe wan receiving all the pity ami ahe je.it her little organ on it* little cart ami drew it liotne. Something must bt dotie to recover her lost j'fenttge ami a nhari- of the public currency, aud ahe sent to Toronto for a monkey to make faees at the public and hand around the till cnj>. A monkey would offset the new organ, ami the monkey'* antic* would offsi t the Italian, ami he'd have to pack ti|>. Poor Mrs. Nu-holo came out yesterday morning with the monkey for the first time, and it wasn't ten minutes Itefore her fond dreams were being realized, ltuya and girl* and adul gathered around, her sagacity wa* aj>j her cup. The buy* MHSI dis v*'Versl that the monkey was fond af auvthiiig ami cverythuig eieept old iron kt tth auml rtMty joints <>f stovepqie, ami they Ix'Ught him eamlv, pvanula, ajqib-s ami other appetumg diet. In the midst of tlie era of good feeling a young fiend came down Monroe avenue. He was alnuit twelve years old. and in h: hand he carried a big ball vf pitoh, which he ha-l taken from a barrel where- a reader wa* at work. The crowd drew htm to the monkey, and, as he saw the little Iwast devouring whatever was thrown it, he re -neeived a wiekrel plot. Waiting !u* chance he tossed tlie hll of pitch at youug Darwin, and iu half a aoremd the monkey wa* trying to swallow it. It wa* a big d"*e. No home in town could have gulped it down without starting the tear*. It began to Soften up as the monkey gul{>ed aud aural lowed, and iu tlie course of a minute lie hod a bad job ou his hauds. When he realtzre! it he in.-wh a jump into the air, fe 1 back and then ensued such a scene as uo Turk eier dreamed of. Poor Mr*. Nicholo shrieked ami grahlx-d the beast b\ the tail ami held liuti up and thumjxxl huu arottml. The old folks fell back, the hoy* yelled and innocent children she.l tear* if heart felt sympathy. " Wat r !" cried a man. " t'amphor !" shriekrel a woman. " Police !" howlrel a jieantjj l*>v. And the monkev spit ami gurgled and guljH\l ami tiawisl ami contorted till he was all tirel up ami hia owner tunusi pale and shouted and crirel nnd gestiru latrel, ami the lug Italian with the rn-w organ smtlrel reitnplare-ntly, and remark >sl that Providence always had a cage for the fatherless and the destitute. That monkey may have swallowed that jiitch ere thia, but he hadn't got it hail way down when pour Mrs. Nu-holo grubtwd him ami mode a run for home, leaving the organ uuwatched on the street. What the moral leaaoii will le nr that m-'tikcy will t>cware of ts-ys, or boy a will leware- of pitch. You can take tour CLOMV, while the monkey wol in future prefi-x strawbermw.— Detroit Free Frntt. That Barrel of Salt. One of the firm who run a commission house ou Wuodbridge stm-t m a man of mtlscla. He can lift a barrel of ll uir a* easily as a common man lifts a bag of >at, and it ttgarcvly makes bis <-.irs grow red aa ha beavo# a Imrtel of salt into a farmer's wagon. F-r *> <-k* past he ha* Ihi-ii booattng of hia strength of muscle, ,-uid wanting to see aomeAhitig he conliln't lift, and th>-ls>ys ar >nul the store' g >t their In'iuls together the otlier day. They tts'k a salt hurrci and filled it with broken pig-irou, old weight* ami other things, jitlt two mi h'-s of salt at either end, and rolled it to the curbstone ; mid at a favorable hour a dray barked up in tlie mo-t innocent manner and an order from a grocer for u barrel of salt was handrel out. The dravman and two of the ts>v* foohd around the lutriel so loug tiiot Un strung niau got out of hi* chair ui disgust, threw off hi* C"at and said : *" You fellow* bad better get jHiroU* plnstersfor your bark*. Get out of the way ami give me a chance !" He seizrel the barrel by the chime* and lifted away. It ilidn t move. He gritUd bi* teeth and laid out to jnill the hoo|>* right off The IIH atayed right there. So did the barrel " It bike* four g"*l men to lift one <>' t!u-m barrels," said tlie drayman. "Nonwuse! I've lifted a score of them, and I'll j'tek thi* up or break my hack. I neat tlie salt must be wet." He got iu }>oit:on, dre'w a long breath, and then lifted till his eyes looked like two towel* left out <>u the clothes-line in a dark night. The laurel didn't lift. Utg-irun w.-is t<*> much for muscle, and the lifter sat down on the walk. His back used to be plumb uj> and down, but it hasn't been since that lift. His eyes arc getting back to their original j>o*itiotis. nnd the red is leaving the hack of his neck, and lie sees two men handle n bag of dried apiilea or n bushel of beans withont n wonl of com ment.—Detroit Free Frrnx. "Couldn't Lie for that Money." A story is told of a young Waterrille, Me., lawyer, who wns of convival turn, who hail in his bands a number of un settled accounts against an old farmer iu the vicinity, who never j>aid any debt* until he wa* sued, anil then only after loud outcries against the lawyers for " grinding the faces of tlie poor." One day ho canto in to sottle a bill, when the lawyer offered to discount him dollar and a half if ho -would go into the street, mingle with all the groups of people whom be might meet and lead the con versation tip t<> a point where he could incidentally re-mark that he (tlie law vet) \ was a sharp and worthy fellow. The old man wanted tlie money, but finally lie said impressively : " Squire 1 I'm a , verv old man nnd have done many , wic\ed things in my life ; but with tny views of eternity I can't lie like that for money." The dollar and a half wa* dis counted without extorting any recom pense therefor. One Woman Not Afraid of a Rat. There is a wide-spread belief, amount ing almost to a certainty, th -t when n woman sees n mouse site will nttcr a jiiercutg shriek and either faint or mount the nearest chair. A worn in in Sacra mento, Cab, is endeavoring to lead pub lic opinion in an opposite direction. She sweeps out the Mechanic's Exchange Hotel. She saw a rat. She saw him, went him one belter, and sallied after the rodent in mil earnest. Out tlie door lie went, with the broom-stick tnpjiing the ]>avemeiit close behind him. I teach ing the "street, he dodged into a hole un- | der the sidewalk on the other side of the alley, and lookers-on thought the sport w.ts ended. Not so, howevdr; tlie plucky woman ran her bare arm into the hole and drew the rat forth in tciuuijih, and dashed him forcibly to the ground before he had a chance to turn and bite. Here slio deliberately dispatohed him . with the broom-titiek, HFATII OF A II FAD* MAX. I Hans Prink, a galrl llnrllrr In Carta, I lrin In l aa Ik* Praaalaa Nanaaa. 1 Au old IIMU died Hi tlx- of eighty n few ilnsit ugo in thi dreary street of I Chateau 1 aud< "h, i'arm, aim for some • y ir* hud it a fit there absolute |y alone 1 lUltl -ink Ho* 11. Hf was stout, fcollitlv • built, Hot talkative but good iiUlliori-ii atid friendly. He was known to In* a i Iter liner by birth, but lif iliil not care to [ t ilk about himiwlf, IUIII hm < arlv history u.i nhrouitfil with mystery. lluiui Friech wu the name by which lie punaed among his neighbor*. He only went i out of evenings, mnl thru but for n short tune, exchanging n few shallM of the luuiit with acquaintances. When lie heard a (It-mum voice lif turned away or crossed tile street U 1 avoid its owner. He never read the paper* and received letters but rarely, yet he hunted himself most of the time writing what he re fused to say. He had no visitors, |>nid his rent punctually, rsc and retired early, and lived well. In fine lie was a |>erfi*t tyjie of n small bourgeois retired from business ami living on his .income. To women lie was always indite, to clill- j dreii more than kind. Not until his death did the fact tiecome public that Hans Friech had been the headsman of Iterbu. Headsman in the true sigtiithvinee of the word, not a mere mechanic puller of cords and toiu'her of springs, like Han sou or lU-li. for during the period he executed the hautct irtu rrt of Uie Prus sian ca]utal, ending in lKI", tlie ai and not the guillotine was employed for the decapitation of criminals. Hons French was an artwt, for not ouly could he re move his subject's head at a single blow, but he knew and reejvectral that subject's rights and preference* He did not afT. t the Gothic niasijneraile of black doublet and r*d how ; he wore long black silk stockings, short cluae-fil ting |unitahMHis tif black * civet, a black coat and black gloves. He would not - touch the handle of his ax with his bare tailm ; not all the gold in Prussia could have induced him to such a flagrant breach of scaffold etiquette. Nevertheless, the Iterluiers insist ed on overlooking tiie fact that he Wore gloves ami aaw the bhaa] UJH'U his hands. Friech had no friends and Us> many aciiuaiutancrw. People all knew lam, and shrank from him. To enable htm to leave the hateful town he worked busily till he had tilled one of his long black silk stockings with crown-pieces, and on counting them found Ulttt he had enough money to as sure his imfort for the remainder of his life. That very day lie resigned his office and set out for Paris, where he fiuind quit t and uuixiac-rn, where the children did not po.nt him mi) with tiny finger* t.i each 0110-r, or the women who came U|MUI him shrink back in sji-ecb bss horror. So quiet was lie indeed that he lnvtune homesick for tiie scaffold and set lutnnelf to wntc his memoir*. His identity and t' e nature of the work with which he had occupied his declin ing days only came out oiler his death. iVrtl of 11 iulnm. No man should Is* a judge m his own cause. To a man fulhof questions, make uo answer. What men are deficient it! reason, they usually make up in rage. Life is a duty, and one ought to desire its preservation. Wilfully to let it decay would la* a sin. Solon being akcd why, among his btws, tin-re was not one sgamst iwrsotial affronts, atiswi red tlmt he ootid not l>e lierc the world so fantastical as to regard them. Whoever sincerely eudvvor t J do all the gvssl lie can, will protvvbly do lunch inun* than he imagines, or will ever know to the day of judgment, when the secret* of all hearts shad lie made mani fest. Houor and justice, was* n and equity, go s great way m procuring pn*|>erity t > those who use tlietn; and, in case of failure, they secure the Iwst retreat and the most honorable consolation. Ist those who are appointed to judge ■ f the character of others Iwar in mind their own iuij* rfections, and rattier strive by sympathy to soften the pang arising from a conviction of guilt, thnu by misrepresentation to increase it. The skill should lx*. SO to order the time of recreation that it may relax, and refresh the part that has lecn exercised and is tired, and yet do sonietlimg which. Unities the present delight and aaae, mav produce what will nficrwnrds l>c profitable. A passionate tenq>cr renders a man uuilt for ml vice, deprives him of his rea iiti, robs him of all that is great and no ble in his nature, makes him unfit for conversation, destroys friendship, changes justice into cruelty, and turns rll order into confusion. The fountain of content must spring up in the mind; and lie who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own diajMisition, will waste his life in fruitions efforts, aud multiply the griefs which lie purposes to remove. The governor may be deceived ; lie beareth thesword, and may strike with it improperly. Hut if, to remedy an occa sional inconvenience of this sort, yon dissolve government, what will be the consequence ? More mischief will be done by the jveople, thus let loose, in a month, than would be done by the gov ernment in half a century. A Woodchnrk'x Adopted llalrn*. A few weeks since Mr. George S. Itedington. proprietor of the Delaware House, in this village, placed under a sitting lien ten eggs of the Hamburgh pheasant variety and a duck's egg. In duecmree of time the eggs were hatched, but it was reserved for the duck hi be last in emerging from the shell. The hen with a critical eye, it may lie, won dered at the appearand* of such a strange looking bi|M*il among the brood, and lie coming thoroughly disgusted at the re sult of her incubatory labors, turned a deaf ear, and refused to earo for her progeny. W lnb* wandering about the grounds in the rear of the hotel, the little chicks, accompanied by the duckling, found their way through the gates into a cage containing a pair of woodcimcks. Neither offered to molest the tiny strangers, but on the contrary the female took to the friendless ones kindly, and that night the little Hedgliugs nestled beneath the soft fur of the motherly woodehuek, with the solitary duckling crouched close alongside. This system was kept until they had grown too large to squeeze into the cage. Now, when nightfall arrives, tliev are allowed to pass through the cage door, by the side of which tii y noxiously wait until some one comes to admit them, and HID always welcomed with manifestations of delight, by the " kind old soul," who, cuddled up in n corner, coaxes them to her side; and SIKUI ten tiny heads peep out from under her soft coat, while the dunk sentiuel-like, perches on her back with an nir < f pride. The above narration muy be relied upon as being true in each nnd every particular. l'ort .h rvin (iazcttc. Poor woman used not feel badly tf hr cannot throw a brick at a hen or sharpen a pencil. There are few trick* more eonnimutc iu klll and dexterity than the way in whioh ahereaene* bar trail from the mud with one kend. FAIil, (.AltltF* ASH HOINEHOI.It. Mrrl|r>. HKKK It Anil.— l'M) .lair bread soaked in milk <>r water ; seas->n iib Imtlrr, pepper mill suit Mill u little oil 101 l chop pud fine. Make into cukes mik till the Juu-e of Lite meat la all extracted ; then M'lutoii to the tunic. klUln. —llwt three fresh eggs to a stiff troth ami stir in live spoonfuls fluest I Hindered sugar ; flavor with letuoli. tutter u pmi arid lav in white paper ; drop the mixture on it in cakea of a tea •poullful each. Hlft sugar over olid hake in a alow oven for half an hour. Mt rriNs. Iteut two eggs with oue half clip of sugar, one generous table- H|ntoilful of butter and u little salt ; add one and a half cap* of sweet milk, and three cupH of Hour in which in nifted three teaa|HK>lifuU of good baking pow der. Itcnt well and bake ill buttered muffin-tins. CUOOOUTE K'K-CHKAM. -One quart of cream, one pint of new milk, oue jniiiiid of sugar, two well lieaten eggs, five tttbleaiMHiufula grated chocolate rubbed smooth in a little milk, flavor to hiate; heat till' milk almost to boding, {(our it by degree* 1U with the beaten egg and atlgar, and freeze. Arruß-Kuoit.—Pare and core A con vennijt number of apples, leaving them whole; till with sugar, and l-our over water; tln-ii place in una; when nicely baked take eggs, piepuied as for ome lette, jHuir ill and over the apples, and return to oven for alxiut ten minutes; grate over tlieiu nutmeg, and aerre hot. Molasses FUCITCAEE. - -Twonndoue fourth pounds rtottr, one and oue-fourth ]a>Uuda butter, oue (tound sugar, an eggs, one cupful milk, ino pounds raisins, one jxiund currants, one-half pound citron, two toaspooiifuls cinna mon, tw<> tctt*]>oonful* cloves, one tca sjss.uful ginger, rtue tcas|.Maiuful mace, oue nutmeg, oue pmt molanoea, one teaspisiiiful soda, two teitajWKrtlfuls CI CAM tartar. Houinv COOQI El'tea.—To every cup ful of cold, boiled, tine hominy mid a Lihlesptsmftll of melted butter; mix well together; add slowly a little milk; then 1M at nil to a (Htste; at tile lost one lable sjaMiuful of white sugar mid oue baaten egg; flour your hands, ami roll tlie homui \ Hit- ■ Italia; dip into I-eaten egg, then tine cracker crumba; frv ui hot butter, on l serve with currant jelly. POTATO CAKES. —BoiI some white po tatoes, mash them very flue, adding salt, butter ami nr.lk as if nard as a vegetable; then mold them iu sufficient sifto! flour to make them into a ~ -ft dough ; roll them out k slowly tunuug but ffeiee, They are nice for breakfast, or an ordinary lunch. TOMATO CATSCF. Boil one huahel of hsnatuca until soft ; aqu'-cze tiiem throngh a sieve ; add halt n gallon of vinegar, oue pint of salt, two ounces of cloves, quarter ounce of allspice, two ounces of cayenne |Hpjer, thice table sjMMinfuhi black |wpjM-r ; mix tlicac to gether, ami l'il not leas than three hours; pour in a jar or keg till cool, then ladtle ; it w ill kH*p well ; the cloves sml allspice put in whole; when boiled strain tlirough a colander. KICK Cnoqi ttrm.—Take half a cupful of rice; let it ►-ak two >r three hour* in warm water enough to cover it; then drain it dry; odd one pint of milk; cook this in one pan set into another of hot water until the no- is soft; then add one tahlcsiM H.nfnl of sugar, one of bntter, ami a little ault; 1< t it ctaik slowly for s few moments; l-eat well two eggs, re move t!„e rice from the fire, and aiowly mid tiie eggs; turn it out tooool; when e*ild, flour your hands, roll the rice into hallo, punch a hole half-way through with your finger*. fill it up with jelly; then covi r up the o|>ening with tlie rice; dip it into IH-aICU egg, then in cracker crumba, mid fry in bntter. (.'ALE's ili-AU CHEESE. —Procure n prepared hem! and put in warm water sufficient to entirely cover it: if any part is out of the water it will become discolored; put in with it one carrot, four onions, half a pound of sweet salt jsirk, six cloves, a bunch of jairslev, a teaajsx >ll f 111 summer savory, and tiiree bay leaves, and one lemon; l*>il until the meat leaves the lxnes, when skim out nml mimv flue with the salt pork; taste. And if md salt enough mid n little, and any oilier spice; place in a Strong lxvg that has leen WTillig out of ImillUg wa ter, tie tightly and place a moderately heavy weight on it; when oold cut iu slices for luucii or breakfast; the broth is nice strained mid used as soup. Yeai. Son* (excellent. —A vessel urns! for making soup should never lw taken for cooking anything else, and should lie carefully cleansed after each using. Into it put a knuckle of veal (the size Enowrn as a ten-cent one is large enough), three quarts of cold water, A small quantity of salt, ami one small table* poonful of un cooked rice. Boil slowly, hardly alvive simmering, four hours, when the liquor should bo reduced to half the usual quantity ; remove from the tire. Into the tureen put the yolk of one egg, and stir well into it a tencupfal of rreara, or, in hot weather, new milk ; mid a piece of butter the aire of a hickory nut ; ou this strain the soup, boiling hot, stirriug all the time. Just at the Inst beat it well for a minute. This soup is economical, easily made and delightful. Cbaralns- A correspondent in the Scientific Far mer says that the churning of cream to make good butter is not so simple a pro cess ns some may Uiiuk. It must be churned t the prn)>er time and at the ! proper temperature, and the churn should be stopped as soon as the cream is broken, but before the butter has gathered iu large balls. In warm weath er it is of gnut importance to watch the process closely, and to notice just when the change is to take place. At this time add enough cold water to reduce the temperature of the moss to about fifty-six or fifty-eight degree*, and then complete the churning, watch will IM> ns soon ns the butter is in i granulated form, with imrticlcs about the size of peas. Then draw off the buttermilk and wash incold water, repeating the wnaiuug until the water draw n off" apja-ors dear. Now take out slayer of butter into the tray, and sprinkle ou finely-sifted salt at the rate of about nn ounce of suit the pound of butter (more or less us tlie consumers may wish). Then take ont another layer of butter nml snlt as be fore. After the butter is wilted set it •way for about three hours "to take salt '" and " liarih n the grain." Now work it a little with n wooden paddle, and set it away again until next day, when it will need but little working lie fore preparing it for marketing. If the butter is soft and white it is from lack of proper cooling before elmrniug, and it inny le hardened by putting in about three times the usual amount of salt aiul working it a little for two or three morn ings. Farm Topics. Givo your hogs a rubbing-post iu some accessible part of their inclosure : it facilitates their keeping clean and wains to afford them much satisfaction. Several correspondent* write to nn uounce the complete extirpation of rats .• - TKRMB: ~ &2.00 a Yoftr, in Advance. and mice from tln-ir <'<> stalls and pig geries iimw the adoption uf this simple lilah : A mixture of two ports of wsll bruiscd Qiwnmon squill* and three pari* •>f finely-cbqijied lutoou u mad* into a -tiff mass, with aa much nn-al aa may be required, ainl then baked into small eakea, which are put down for the rat* to eat. The carrot nop la rendered useless Hi many garden* by grub* eating into the rt und lime over the aurtaoe of the ground lief ore forking it over for the carrots. This works it into the ground, and keeps the soil free front all sorts of grubs for the whole season. The next tiest way is to sow the lime and auot between the rows and hoe it into the ground. As early as the middle of June, some times lief ore, we hare practiced opening the hay harvest, and find when feeding that the earliest rut ia preferred to the later by all the stock. ■eel *Mrlr< Major lliUlett, iu the fVarrfimvi' ' hronicle, says: " Very eloae obwerrw llou during many years has led me to the discovery that the variations in lit* cereals whicli nature presents to us are not only hereditary, but that they pro ceed upon a flie.\ principle, and from them I have deduced the following law of development of cereals: 1. Every fully developed plant, whether of wheat, oats or l>arler, presents an ear superior in productive jsjwir to any of the rest on that plant. 1. Every audi plant cou taaia one grain, which, upon trial. Proves more productive tluui an v other. 3. The l>ent grain m a pou plant is found in its lieat ear. 4. The superior vigor of this grain ia transmissible in different degrees to its progeuy, ft. Bv rejieatcd careful selection the superiority ia acru tnulated. ft. The improvement, which is at first rapid, gradually, after a long scries of years, is diminished in amount, and eventually so far arrested that, practi -allv iqw-aking, a limit to improve ment m the desired quality ia reached. 7. Br still continuing to select the im provement is maintained, and pracLiaally a fixed type ia the result" -•sail gratis la (oHleu. But few people seem to know the value of small fruits to a family, when grown in their own gardens. Yon commence nth strawberries; they continue about a Month. Yon pick, jierhajia, from six to .welve quarts' a day. You have them on your table aa a dessert, if you please st noon, and your tea table is loaded with them at eretnng, and you want little else but your I'.'cad and butter. Your family consume, in one way *or another, about eight quart* a dav, "and while they last no medicines for wwiiir sihnent* are re quired, aa a quart of strawberries daily will generally dispel all ordinary disease* e it settled permanently in the system. After itrawtierries, raspberries come to continue altout three weeks; then w# have blaekliemr* where the climate is uot too cold for cultivated varieties; then the currant* ripen, which remain until the early gnqie* mature; and taking the season through any family with half an aere of land iu a garden can grow small fruit* that make country life delightful, and at the same time hundreds of dollars can Is- aaTed in the supply of tlis tabis, Chautaut/iui farmer. ■ ( omblnxtionnof Fodder sad Grain. As the object of very farmer ahoold 1> to push his young stock forward aa fast as the best food, in proper quantity, w ill do it, lie must not lie content with a ration of fodder which tliey trill eat, but our that will furnish them the nutriment requmvl for rapid growth. While he sh<oiuids wheat blowings, three cent*; five pounds oats, six aud one-quarter cent* ; five iviand" com, five cent* ; i one ]vmnd flaxseed, three cent* ; grind ing, two and OM-qWUter cents ; total, twenty-three pounds, nineteen and one half cent* or §16.94 |>er ton. This com bination possesses many excellent qualities. The flaxseed is added to give oil, as well an nitrogenous material, and makes it just laxstive enongh, but add* only slightly to the cost. We And that wiirk horses do excellently well uuou it, j as well as all stock. We nse this to supplement other rations, such as aliove mentioned. We have often found flaxseed a most profitable addition, but never add more than one jmrt to twenty of other hwl. n it renders it too laxative. —(buntry (frnttrman. The Embroidery of History. One of the bits of history moat familiar to Americans is Jackson's battle of New Orleans, where, from behind his breastwork of cotton bales (a material which the enemy's cannon could not pierce) be repulsed writh prodigious (daughter Packenliam's veterans, fresh from their European victories. This story of the rampart of cotton, aa related ui both English and American histories, is, however, purely apocryphal. Its origin seems to nave been the fact that, many days before the battle of January H (for Jackson's troops had lieeu work ing steadily at the iutrenchments since Christmas) about flfty cotton bales were taken out of a neighboring flat-boat and thrown into a lino of earthworks to crease its bulk. About a week Imfore the assault, in a preliminary skirmish, as Walker tells us in his " Jackson at New Orleans," the enemy's balls, striking one of these bales, knocked it out uf the mound, set fire to the cotton, and sent it flying about to the great danger of the ammunition. All the bales were conse quently removed. " After this," con tinues the account, "no cotton bales were ever used in the breastwork. The mound was composed entirely of earth dug from the canal and the field in the rear. The experiment of using cotton and other articles in raising emhsek- , . meet had been dlaoarded." NUMBER 25. IIEMCY BKXfiK AMI WIFE. IJtlu Twrltr \ rmra la a fraaitar Imt MHkaal niakl •/ a llaaiaa Can. A Ti']N-ka I Kansas) pajxf, the (bt/i --tiKJHwtnltrt, tell* a story of the " fto marksbh* bufferings and Adventure# of Hmry H. Ilengc utid Liu Wif" which ia suAlrieutlv sensational to tx- Irui', fur the lift* of fH** ]>lkiiiH twenty y car* ago wm violent and vctdureaome beyond any it Ira uf Utr proscuit generation. Mr. Hurj 11. lk'iir it a man uf forty-four, and *a# oonuUipaniod trti his recent visit to the lata I by hi* wife Elisabeth, a strong, healthy, aun browned woman somewhat hi* junior, AUtl their tlklighter Milly, a girl uf eighteen. Lu 1887 Mr. llciige aita a prosperous JutUig merchant j uf Philadelphia, newly married, whuae iir|M*rty was all swept away by the (insnrial rraah. 1>-H]>aintig uf ever re covering liia broken fortunes he started, with the email remnant uf hut |mmiw aioua, fur the far West lu May uf the follow iug year. They —fur hta wife ae (v>ik|MUiinl hiiu—pruoerdcd by rail aa far 11* the then terminus of the iryn lines Jcfferaou City, Ma), whence they toak buat tu Leareu worth, Kansas. There Mr. lleugc made the acquaintance of arvrral young meu about tu fit out a train for " Pike'a Teak," m the whole of (Colorado waa then railed, and or ranged to join them. The party, nine men and four women, left Leavenworth June 10, 1858. and inuved byway of Toprkn and Council (iruve to the old Hauta Fr trail, where they rauiped on Cow Creek. During the first night of their ramping aotne of the mule* aUmpt-led, and early next morning three of the rueti aiartad in search of the ani mal*. Thw men, William Manning, .fumes Rraaherni und Henry Hpillman, all resident* of the Btate of New York, were never afterward wen by any of the party. Alx ul four o'clock that evening aotne t went v Lorwetneti, all white urn, leisurely role into Ute camp from the direction taken by their comrade* in the morning, dismounted and ordered them to surrender, rlatming that they were deputy United Htatoa marshals, and tliat they had or\l-r* for their arr*t for steal ing government mules- Mr. Brage #tepped forward aud demanded to aee their warrant*, claiming at die same tune that there must be some mistake. He had hardly spoken the words before a burly nif&en struck him n terrible blow over the head with a navy revolver, saving at the *ainc time : " Tins is our warrant. ** He fell as if dead, and Jhe other five men, Jamea Marshall and KUiutt Jot.ea, <4 east Tennesaue, and John Harvey, David It. benbnvr and Ik* a ton Fungrthe, uf aouthera Illinois, sprang to tl 5r weapon* and a desperate conflict ensued, wliich ended only when 1 three d the aaaaflants had boat lulled and four badly wounded aad all then u>anbrs uf the tram overpowered and murdered. Aa aunu a* the last man waa .11* peed of, the helpless women, modies <4 the siniu, and Leaped the earth over them in a rude motm 1. Among , the <■fleets in the wagons they found a -mall keg uf brandy, of the oufatsnU <4 which they took immoderately. In lees than an hour all were in a beastly state f intoxication. Meanwhile klr. lteuge, wbtaie dead < body had not lieeu, by some fortunate and fortuitous intcxpuaitiun wholly us- ' uncounted for by the reporter of the To]>eka COmmonircalUi, huddled into 1 th<- shamble#-wagon am! buried in Ute trench, had reouvemi from the effects of his blow, and found on riaiug to his ur xteady feet Uiat he *# alone. On every hand were the evidenocs uf Ute frightful crime that had l*en committed; uloud was everywhere: he saw the trail of the wagons going down the river, and de- , term mod to follow -it, About ton o'clock he had managed to crawl toward the 1. camp, near enough to aee and hear all that vw going on. There he waa com- Clod to lie helpless and listen to the irtraudtng craw oi ths poor wotne 1. Toward morning verything became quiet, aud he crept into the bivouac of the banditti. By good fortune tbe first woman he encountered was bis wife, and she was so surprise! and terrified on ! seeing the apparition of the linstiand whom she deemed dead that she gave a [ wild, unearlhlv scream. Mr. Benge wired her hv the arm reassunnglj, and disced b r after hint. Her sen-am awoks the robbers, who sprang up with fearful oaths, ami aim-* of them started in pursuit, but owing to the darkness of tlie night, the dullness resulting from their drunkenness, and the anpechnmau , effort* made by Mr. Benge and his wife, who were now thoroughly anuised, ther managed to el vale pursuit. Tbey fled, they hardly knew how, and certainly knew not whither, and after much toil snd suffering reached tbe mountains, where they took up their abode in a cave. Mr. Benge improvised traps for game, which furnished them with food and clothing, and so tbey contrived to exist for twelve years, without seeing another human face save that of their daughter Milly, who was bom to tliem in IH6O. In July, 1871, a party of miners prospecting for gohl discovered them and took them to their camp, some ten miles distanW Mr. Benge and lu* family remained with these men some time. *He then made his wsv to l>enver, where he has remained until he ' recently made tip his mind to again visit ths Kavt, having accumulated a hand some little sum in the uiinss. Such, ac cording to the Commonwealth, is thy o'er-strange and o'er-trne talc i 4 Mr. Henry Benge, who, with his wife, was rut off from civilisation during twelve years, in which the world lived a century, the greit civil war began and ended, tlie map of Europe was remade, France turning repnblio and Germany empire, lite East and Wcr.t were linked by iTon bands and tlw two hemispheres joined liy cables, aud all civilisation took in knowledge and experience a cycle's ml vanoe. About the Dobrudsclts. The Dobrudsohß ia everywhere tiint in by natural barriers—on the north and wotft by the Danube, on the east by the Black sea, and on the south by the river and lake of Knra-su, which may be said to separate the peninsula be tween Kusteiuljieand Tcheruavoda from Bulgaria. Here, where the country is divined by a valley iuto two large sec tions, " the ruins of the fortifications of Trajau still present a hnge double wall, which would uot be without military importance in tlie event of a Russian invasion from the months of the Danube." The Ottoman government liaa for some time endeavored to es tablish a loyal Mohammedan population in the Dobntdsclia as a check ou revolu tionary elements in Bulgaria. An oppor tunity of doing this was afforded by tbe immigration cu IUUSHC of the Tartars in the Crimea. Many of these settled in the Dohradscha, aud did their—best to cultivate the land; but they are not a warlike people, and it is doubtful whether tney would present any effectual raiiitano* to a Ruswan invasion 1 leans *f Interest. An editor my* h* never drink, yet wa w (xiopb petting np bar* for than. A I'itUbarg* l papar observe* that there not an Dnaaarrtxl woman in that city who rr member* tha laat eewtitaeo-year locnat*. TU polio* of Sanaa* towns haw ordar* to ■hoot all potato bog* found nuuting at iaiga Without a wtunl* cat, Thi* la Important, if true. A printer# liaby took tha Ant twias, 975 in Kuid, at th* Chicago IxUiy #bow. That wa* a " fat lake," and tha commitUa wa* justified " In awarding it. Th* aMrtft Mexican BOW rim* t-Umee, poke* hi* head out of the window, and <*B- Uc.usij inquires of th# first JWaarr 1#• " WW* fi mutuant thi* morning T A strep-walking 70am lad; to Cottonwood, Cal., while panaion through her father a sleep ing chamber wa awaken#*! Vr bin band span bar abooldar. hha fall down dead. By Ihd law* of Florida no mart who haa lost an arm or a leg, no matter bow or winwe. or from what oanaa, ean to Uxad for an; b3*- nee* he ma; enter Into, aJwa;* exoeptiug It# U<|tkic tnKixiK A luao never *0 fomaM; feel* the ineoo rautenou of bring imdt-r-aued unttl hi* wife inform* him that If he had been two inches taller hi* old pant* would have made two new iir* for hi* sua. A great philosopher un In the aooaom; of nature nothing 1* bart. The inatde of an orange ma; refraah one man, while the owtetde of the mauM fruit me; aarxa a* a medium fur breaking another man'* lag. " Cant yar girer feliar ttft V remarked a red-noaad tramp, poking his bead in the door of a ouuutry store. - Well, I reckon I can, answered the proprietor, as Im lifted turnabout ten teat, with th* aud of hi* hoot. There waa a weird, waiimg maud beard in It leeoMte recant!; like tha sough of >ha north wind through a puw forest, but it waa only tha .Kuban tunam of a few btlikw gramhoppsm burying their dead after tha late mad. " Which ks tht at raluaUa—aipet ietice or instinct r wa* tkr aubjert np far dtaeueuun at a de bating acKort; reaortU*. On* memUrr said experience trachea us to he(A np to a hot stove • bm wa ar* eoht, bat whan our coat-tails eatrt lira InWirwt la but A factor* item aayar A bonnet much worn connate <4 a brtm and ean* of f aeonne ikraw, with a soft crown made of coarse mtu- Mn. Aud a buy straw bat *' much worn " con sta of a ragged crown, half the brim gone, and no bandaroum) it. "My am, aaid a toother to a little boy four year* old, "whom shore all others will you wish to see whan you parn into the spirit world 7" "Oohaht* 1 shouted tha child, with a Joyous anti-n|ati(-n ( *• unlswa," !• quickly added, "that** stagger follow there." A safety envelop* Ve prerrut tam;rtng ha* baandevlaad On th* dap the words " attempt to open" u Minted with a double aet of ciitioavsls, Un firnt j n ior moienesed ia any way Use magic printing wlfl appear. * On* who claims to knew ears that old United fttetm mm., dated fro g l"t to law. if they are in good eoohtitm, ar* worth from firente to forty or tits j if tbry are sharp, or juat aa they came trim, the unnt, than they arc worth #2 each Cmled Ntate* Mirer d i'n dated 17M, life*. im, !-, IWS, I*l, |H',4. |s.'4. IDM, if in good omdrti-u, ar* worth A3, it they ar* sharp they atw worth mora. A man could stand the flies and ami lose his Un)er. If the* would oulv to oootcotad to In boned where they f alb tut when a fly a* big as a gram of noMaa fall# on it* back on a flan of hotter, turn* oear anderawla out and goea iimptmr acxoa* thv plate. straocbag and wooing through e* crythuue ft can And, and Anally cre mates itself in a oath at hot ooSbe. good gra cHiua, bat it doo* make a ponmi nmd. Th# pufmknoa of firrat lbs tain baa inner UO) umnl from 10., 00 to and the Lou** Time* estimates that it will be doubled in fifty-four vaara. How to fred it wilt he a great diftcuhy, for a leading British agn cultuast mtd m a tweaut spaech: It appsar* to ma, and it ha* been beer-red by many of our leading men. that a shady dchnuraiKU ia going on in the 1 break the bread tido atnall pteeoa. lIiMT W put* into a bowl and pouiw hot water over tb.-m. The Crease then develops tblsj a gravy, and the wbote farm* a nmj 1c kind of aowp. * An Etditffnwr'i Harv, The roar ol an appruechiag tornailo would jinaiiK* no grunior iv*trniation on the atrvetaof DuUott than dona the iippunram* ol ex-Governor llegrler and iua blank liorwe, aooonlinfr bo th* Frre /Jeer. Mr. *r tie a good pr>li- Ueiaa, a aharp linnnrw-a, eot a genial, nhole-aouled man, bat ha can't ut of the way, hat down he gnee if he ia ;ii the path. Delivery wagon* mart crowd the rarbrtone or go to the shop for repairs. Some day, in driving home, the ex-governor will* run over a band wagon, kill an aklerman, take the corner off the high ecbooi building and aproot timwi or foot gaa-lamps, and then an in dignant populace will stand np and demand that he either ride a velocipede or hire an ice-wagon. (Jnlrk Time \round the World. The Otnalia (Xeh.) Rn'obiiran prints m letter from Dr. F. 3. te Ham. Ameri >wn consul at Jorasalmn, in which he gives an account of a tour he has lately made around the world in aixiy-eight days of actual traveling time. The let ter is dated at Jerusalem, May 10, 1877. The outline of the journey we quote, greatly condensed, in the follow ing: " Having safely returned to my jxst,l take pleasure in furnishing your readers, agreeably to promise, with a brief notice "f my quick and wwcoensfnl tottr around Ute world. Not counting the time 1 lay over at different points, as these breaks in the journey could all have been avoided, I made the entire circuit of the globe in exactly sixty-eight dava, and hut for heavy weather on the Paciffc wonlit hav* miale it in sixty-two days. The journey from Alexandria, Egypt, via Brindiai and Paris to London, and from thence to New York and San Francisco, was accomplished ia twenty davs.and we were just me sainenmnlwof atyagoing from San Frauciacofo Ydu.hatiuv,Jrtpiiu. Crowing over from here to Canton, in Clpua, took six days. A sail of ten days over the China sea Mid through the strait Of Malacca, hutching at several poiuts we liave not time to notice, brought ua to Ceylon, off the southern (\>aat of Hindustan, tuid one of the rich -Isi of the Fast India islands. Thence We sailed dlrivtly to Snez, in Egypt, whirl 1 h>ok twelve* days,and from thence, in a few hours, by rail to Alexandria, our starting point, making the entire distance of 25,(100 miles—l6,ooo miles bv water and* 9,000 on ltmd—in sixty eight days, witlwnt any accident or de tention of any kind." Eating Fruit. When fruit does harm it is because it is eaten at improper times, in improper quantities, or before it is ripened and fit h>r the human stomach. A distinguished physician has raid tliat if liis patients would make a practice of eating a couple of good oranges b-tore breakfast, from February to June, his practice would be gone. The principal evil is that we do * not eat enough of fruit;* that we injur its finer qualities with sugar; that we drown them in cream. We need the medfouiuifAetiou of the pure fruit nci u ia our system, aud their coding, cor recti ve influence.— Medical Journal. The only uniform and perpetual cause of public happiness is public virtue. The effect of all other things which are considered a fulvantages will be frwr.u casual and trunrntory, Without t irtue, nothing can be seen rot y ponaeaand 1 r properly enjoyed,