What Dm it Hatter. It matter* little where 1 VM born. Or if my parent* were rich or poor ; Whether they shrank at the oold world'* worn. Or walked in the pride of wealth aecur* , Bnt whether 1 lire an.honeet man. And hold my integrity Arm in my clutch, I toll you, brother, plain a# I can, It matters much I It matter* little how long I May In a world of sorrow sin snd care ; Whether in youth I am called away. Or live till" my bone* of flush are hare ; But whether I do the best I can To soften the weight of adversity's touch. On the faded cheek of my fellow man, It matters much! It matter* little where 1* my grave, Or on the land, or on the *es; By purling brook. or 'neath stormy wave. It matter* little or naught to me ; But whether the angel death .ve down And marks my brow with hi* loving touch, A* one that shall sear the victor'* crown. It matters much! My Mother's lkmr. I met iu the aiist one summer morning A girl whom I hsd known from a child. And whoso bright self vw her best sd.vriung But that dark tuornmg her look* wwre wild. •Stop, little Norah !" She did a* 1 lade her. " Why are you here slone on the *HHW 7* I was sail last night, to-J*y 1 am saditer, " Reoauae I go from my mother's door." 'Why do yon go, then, and what is your sorrow ? Tell an oM man who has known you so long." "Soggstli Aroon, row will know to-morrow, And l>* first—but dout—to *sy I wa wrong. I used to I* glsd- nogirl ws gladder 1 never remembered that we were JXHW ; I was sad last night, and to-day I am sadder. Because I go from my mother's door." "What has be done to rouT " Broken my heart, air." " Aud what have you done to her now,pray ?" " Nothing hut love him. and take his part. *ir. For the poor fellow a word to say." " Then ahe got mad. and you got madder. And didn't you stamp your foot on the floor "* " 1 eras sad last night"— *' And to-day you are sadder. Because you go from rour mother's door. " You will go back, North. Give meyour hand uow." "I would rather not, *r. " "I say you wilt You will fetch him to see me. You understand now." "Your reverence knows him. It's only Phil. She looked me up. aud he brought a ladder. He love* me." " You told me that before. But your mother is sad." "She shall not be sadder— I will not go from my mother's door A Blight in Summer. 1 w# not the regular doctor —for the practice at Blurney bolouged U> Fred Garnet, au old hospital friend of mine, who ha.! taken to a simple country prac tice, while I had been rvvuuuig about the world aa a sturgeon in emigrant ships during the Franco-German war. We had met after seven years, when I wanted a month's quiet in the country, and he had asked me to attend to his practice while he came up to town to pass a degree—for he was a hard studying, ambitious fellow. A man at the door desired me to come error and see his master, who was "dying of gout." This was the announcement by the servant. Saving that I had bH>n consulted about a " ternble wherrtluf pal a" in the back of an old lady of seventy-five, this was my first calL "There's Miss Kate" a-watching for na." f I cculd see the flutter of a white dress by the gate as we drove in; but my at tention was now too much taken up with the prettiness of the place, and I was gaping idly about thinking nothing of •' Miss Kate " and her cares, when the gig stopped, and I jumped down. " Here he is, uncle dear !" she cried. " Time he was here!" exclaimed some one, with a savage roar. Alter giving various little orders, I place ! the ten ler leg in an easy position, the patient braking out into furious ex clamations thy while. Then by some hoops from a small wooden tub I made a little gipsy tent over the limb, so that the coverings did not touch the exquisite ly tender skin. At the end of half-an hour I had the pleasure of hearing a sigh of satisfaction, of seeing a smile steal over the face, which was now smooth and bedewed with a gentle perspiration; and directly liter, in a drowsy voice, my patient said; " Kitty, my darling! he's a trump Take him into the next room and apolo gize to him, and tell him I'm not always such a beast." He was half asleep already, while l— even in that short hour —had fallen into a dream —a dream of lore—l, who haul never loved before, nor thought of it but as sickly boy and girl stuff, unworthy of busy men. I "cannot tell you how that dav passed, only that Kate Anstey had iinpV.red me not to leave her uncle yet; and I—l was her slave, and would have done her bid ding even to the death. He was soon better; but my visits to the farm were more frequent than ever. I went one day as usual; but instead of Kate being at the window, and running out to meet me, the old gentleman stood at the door, lookiug very angry, and he at once caught hold of my coat and dragged me iufc> the kitchen. "Is anything wrong?" I asked, trembling. " Yes, lots!" said the old nan. "What do you oome here for ?" '"'For mercy's sake, don't keep it back!" I paid—for the room seemed to swim around me. "Is Kate ill ?" " Yes, I think she is," lie said, gruffly. "But look here, young man! what does this mean 1" " Mean ?" I said. " Oh! Mr. Brand! if she is ill, let me see her at once." " She don't look very bad," he said, peering through the crack of the door into the parlor, where I could see her white dress ; " but I say, yonng man ! you'd better not come any more. She's growing dull, and I can't have my darling made a fool of." " Made a fool of?" I stammered. " Yes!" he said, STuffly. " What do you come here for ?" I was silent for a minute, with a wondrous feelingetealing over me, as at * last mv lips "aid—l did not prompt them— •' Because I love her with all my heart!" " And yon have told her so?" "Not a word!" I said slowly. My hand was being crushed as if m a vise the next minute. 'l'm not a gentleman, doctor, but I know one when I meet one. There, you may go and talk to her—if it's as you say; for if it's true, yon wouldn't make her unhappy. But, mv lad, the man who trifled with that girl's heart would be the greatest scoundrel that ever stepped on God's earth!" The whole of this part of my life is so dreamy that it is all like some golden vision. But I was at her chair, I know; and that glorious evening I was content to watch the soft, dreamy face beside me, as she sat there, with hands folded in her lap, watching the sunset. At last we rose and walked together through the wood to stop at last be nea'h an overshadowing tree, and there in lc w, broken words I told her I loved her; sod, in sweet, girlish simplicity, she la' 1 her hands upon my shoulders, looked up in my face, and promised to be my little wife. I went home that night riding in a wonderful triumphal chariot, instead of a gig. To my great surprise, on reach ing the house there was Fred Garnet. " Back already ?" I stammered. "Already? tVhy, the month's up!' be said, laughing. "You must have had good sport with your fishing, Mas ter Max." It came upon me like thunder, this return ; and I lay that night happy but miserable —for this meant the end of mv v> i And what was to come in the tuture ? I had not thought of that. I put it off for the time ; and, having obtained willing permission from Gar net, I went his round the next morning, and of course found my way to the farm. I fancy the servant looked at me in a rather peculiar, constrained way, as she said her master had gone to the"off-hand farm. "And Miss Kate, "I said. "She's down in the wood, sir!" said the girL FRED. KTJRTZ, Editor and Proprietor. VOLUME X. I waited to bwu uo more, hut ran along the garden, looped the gate, ; crossed two flolda, went through the wilderness and over the stile into tlio WOOd. " My darling !" 1 kept repeating as I hurried on, expectiug to meet ber at every turn ; and tlieu 1 stopped abort, with a horrible jmug seeming to catch my heart. I was dizzy, faint, ragiug with auger, and mad ui turn ; hut thai all paused oft' to leave a bitter, cruahiug sense of misery, as I held ou by a vouug sapling and peered at the scene lie/ore me. There sbanl, with ber hack to me, Kate, falae, false Kate— with the arm of a tall, handsome tmlitarv-lookmg man, eucircbug ber waist, ber bead resting u}a>u bis alioubler, and even aa I ga>t\l be bent lua head down and alie raised ber ariua—ber face ber Upa —to • meet bia kisses, as be folded ber tightly to hi* breast. 1 saw no more, but stole blindly awav, went to the stable, saddled and bridled the horse in a dreamy fashion, mounted and rode lack to Burn ley, throw the bridle tofhe man, walked straight to the station without seeing Fred Garnet, and weut off to Loudon. Six mouths glided by, and then I was once more called upon to take charge of the practice of a friend iu the suburbs. It was one dark night in winter. I was just going to bed, half wialuug that I had-had a call w hen the surgery bell rang sharply, and the summons I wished for came. It was a policeman with a bans m tab, aud bis oilskins shone wet and vividly in the red light over the door. " Axiden' case, air!" he said; "Pr, Barker in the next street's got in, sir, and he wants help." I learned from him that a gentleman hail leeu kuocked down by the very same cab we were in, and trampled upch by the horse lefore the wheel went over, and broke bis leg. We were there in a few minutes, snd I was shown into tbe'back parlor of a com fortably furnished bouse, where the suf ferer bd been ltud on a mattress. A brief conversation with my colleague en sued, and he told me what he feared and Liow he was situated —another important call demanding his presence. The result was that I agreed that we would examine the patient, and then I would stay until J)r. Barker's return. A faint groan from the mattress saluted us aa we turned to onr patient; and aa I held the lamp over his face and the light fell on the fair hair and the long, drooping moustache, I nearly dropped it. " Nemesis !" I thought. " Mine enemy deli vexed into my hand ! Kate's lover lying bruised snd broken—crashed like s reed—at my feet! Aud now I need not kill him to be revenged for all his cruelty to me, but only stand by supine and he will die!"— for a few brief moments told me that I possessed greater knowledge than my colleague, and that, if I withheld mine, nothing which Pr. Barker could do would save the flame even now trembling in the socket of life's lamp. The scene in the wood flashed lieforo me once again as I stood there—Kate's sweet face upturned, asking for this man's kisses—and all so vivid that my brain reeled and a mist floated before my eyes. "What do you think, Mr. Lawler?" said a voice 'at IUV elbow, and I start*. I back into the present. " That he'll be japcr are attended to well for the next two days, and tell our friend here that his message has been seen to." He promised eagerly, and the next minute 1 was in the street, running to the nearest cab-stand. I wan just in time to catch the early morning train, and half mad, half joyous, I sat inijiatieut ly there till the train dropped me at Burnley, where the fly slowly jolted me i over to the Four-Mile Farm. It was a bright, clear morning, and the sun glanced from the river upon the trees; but I could think of only one thing as I kept urging the driver on, and he must have thought me mad as I leaped | out and rushed into the well known parlor. THE CENTRE REPORTER. '• Kate !" I cried, as half blind, I rati toward a pale face lying laek ui an easy chair by the tire, " You acouudrel !" was roared at the ' same moment, and the sturdy farmer bad tue pinned by the throuk "Yea! all' that," 1 soul; "only hear me." Hi* hauda dropj>ed a* Kate uttered u low cry and fainted. "Quick 1" I said; "water and some brand v." Wito a low grow 1 of rage my old jwtieut for gout obeyed me, aud in a few miuutes 1 had her bead ranad ou mv arm. " Have vott come to eav good-by ?" alie said teebly; and there wtia a neb a look of reproach in tliat poor, wan face, that I only answered iu a whisper: "No! uo !—to ak you to give and bh*s tue with your love—to ask you to forgive me for my cruel weakness for I uiuat have been mad." A deep groan made me turn my head to see that the farmer's head sua down upon bin arms, and bia broad ahouldera were heaving. " I thought you would never come again," said Kate, feebly: " but I didn't give up hope. Ami now I shall get well soon." The Torpedo Boat's Construction. One of the torpedo launches used iu destroving the Turkish monitor near Matchin, on the Danube, WHS reoeutly carefully looked over hv a eurrespoudeut of the Loudou Iktiljt News, who mi nutely describes it The launch was only about twenty-live feet long with about four feet l>eam. The torpedo spars, of which each boat earr.ed two, were about thirty feet long. They were placed ou each aide of the boat in large iron rings fore aud aft, wliioh maintained them iu a hurixoutal position w hen not being used. The torpedo is attached, of coarse, to the forward end of the spar. The torpedoes themselves were alniut twenty luches iu length by eighteen inches in diameter, and were covered apparently Willi wood. When used, tha torpedo-bar is thrust forward through the rings until it is only supported by one, and the torpedo ou the eud of the spar may then l>e hoisted up and down as ou the eud of a lever. It is known that the force of a torpedo only acts within a radius of ten feet, aud us the spar is thirty feet loug, the boat is thus at a safe distance from the explo sion, except th" danger of it being tilled and Bwani|>ed bv the column of water which the torpedo inevitably throws up. The lauuch is au otdinary wooden one, covered ove with a wooden deck, sup ported by very slight wooden or iron up rights. The sides from a little above the water are protected by plates of irou a quarter of au inch thick, loosely fasten ed ou to the ujvnghts, ami si.Ri lent to stop a bullet, leaving exposed about four inches just below the deck for the crew to Are through iu case of need. Neither the bow nor the stern, however, were protected in this way, ami the launch coming on would be exposed to 1m tra versed from stem to stem by the enemy's bullets. As is well known, not a single bullet has ever penetrated the boat or wounded a man, although the launch must have been for several seconds with in twenty feet of the monitor, and the Turks had flred protwbly more than 100 shots at her at that distance. The reason was, that it hail not occurred to tlietu to down throngh the deck, which wns only of wood, aud all their bullets had been expended on the iron plates, which were of course impenetrable. The tor pedo is made to explode by contact, ami may also lie exploded by an electric bat tery in case the shock ahoud not have been sufficient to explode it. l'earU of Thought. He who surpasses or subdues mankind must look down 011 the hate of those be low. We every dav svrifl>ower by a subtle presence. When the million applaud you, seri ously ask yourself what harm you have done; when they censure you, what good. We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is uot cured by auother running mad also. Abuse, like other poison, when ad ministered in too strong a dose is thrown off by the intended victims, and often relieves where it was meant to destroy. The transmutation of nn-als is a small affair eotnpaml with changing shame to glory, reverse to success, sorrows to pleasures; yet true wisdom can do all this. Bashfillness is more frequently con nected with good sense, than we find assurance; and impudence, on the otlipr hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity. Many new years, indeed, you may see, but happy ones you cannot see without deserving them". These, virtue, honor and knowledge alone can merit, alone, can produon Summer Kvenlngs. There is an nil-pervading and diffusive charm about a summer evening any where. In the country, where the air is fragrant with the breath of honeysuckle aue uo trohble before night Having a go.nl horse under me 1 soon reschedule valley, but my horses were goue, run off the day before by the Indians. I didn't wait arouud there long, as 1 feared au ambush, aud 1 was about half way home wheu 1 heard shots and yells aud knew that my ]th of tiiem from the closet. There was a hAlf-story chamlier to the cabin, and the boy was stationed up there to look through the crevices aud watch for me. When his mother kuew that part of the Indians hail suddenly withdrawn, and when she heard the firing on the bluffs, she called him down from his post and gave him a rifie which I hail laid away to sell to some Indian. He says that she was very pale, and that her hands trembled, but she kept the Bpenrer going. Lying among the rocks, nearly a mile away, and with an Indian rifle popping at me every second, I heard that ogbiue above all the din. My post couldn't stand an Indian attack, and I knew it, as there were too many windows and doors to defend. The house and store-room were connected by a doorway, but there were no loop-holes at the end of the store-room, aud the In dians could gather there and lie safe. It was about oight o'clock in the morning when I took to the bluffs, anil when noon came I could still hear that carbine going. I was wondering all the time why the fiends diijn't set fire to the post, but they hal other plans. I had three kegs of powder, lots of lead, two barrels of flour, twenty pair of blankets, fifty jKjw ler-lionis and various other goods in there, and they wanted them. They several times called upon my wife to sur render, but she kept up the fire onil en couraged the children. About one o'clock all the Indians surrounding me, except about half a dozen, drew ■iff Bin! joined those around the (wist I wns in a safe place, and yet it was a bail place. They couldn't reach me with their bul lets, and yet they bad positions from which they could have killed me hiul I stood up or moved six feet to right or left The excitement kept pain away for an hour, bnt after that I was pretty badly used up, having uot a drop of water to wash my wounds or quench my thirst " About one o'clock," he went on. after a short rest, "all firing censed, and I believed that the post hail been captured. Half crazv with anxiety and distress I rose np, determined to dash out, but tho bullets came so fast that I was frightened under cover again. Few men ever put in such an afternoon as I did there. Pain and thirst were terrible enough, to say nothing of my mental distress. I hadn t. the least hope of getting out alive, and along toward night I got reckless as to consequences. I should have made a dash for the river, which was in plain sight and not over half a mile away, and was jnHt on the point of rising up when yells and shots from my cabin held me back. For abont five minutes there was a lively roar of Are arms, ami above all other noises I could hear that carhuie going boom ! Ustui ! Us mi ! The In dians who hod been left to watch me now opeued Are aud Itegaii yelling, ami it wasn't loug Itefore I suspected the truth. You see, us I suaitected, aud as the boy afterward related, the murderoua fiends found they couldn't capture the post by assaults ou the doors. That brave littio woman and those poor children were too much for forty or fifty Indians. After losing nine or ten killed and over a dozen wounded, the rela collected at the west end of the store-room, out of nuige, utul went to work to tear out the logs. They were three or four hours getting things readv, but when the time mine nearly all tfie end of the buildiug weut down st once. My wife and children were ready for 'eiu. They defeuded the doorway for full fifteen minutes, or until all but this lioy were ahot dead. When the Indiana Anally swartued in he was the only one left to wreak vengeance on. They toma hawked him, started to scalp him, and he was the same as dead for hours. He is sure the others were dead liefore the In diana got through the door, ami I praise thai for that consolation, while it nearly times tue crazy to think of it" There was a period of silence, the boy weepiug bitterly, aud then Greer braced himself anew and continued: "And what did 1 do? God forgive me ! but I couldn't do anything. 1 was wild with excitement, and while I was trying to plan something the reds made s dash at me. They poured down at me as if there was uo end to the number. They were right on me the first I knew, shooting, stabbing ami stnkiug at me with their guns. I got this rap on the head tlieu, and also this bullet iu the shoulder, hut they didn't finish me. I fought 'em, but how long I don't know, for i was crazy. I remember of tlietu dodging around me. of striking at them, and of fceliuit the r.ige and strength of a wounded lion. It sras long after dark before I cooled dov.u and knew my situa tion. 1 was then carrying this !s>y in my aims to the river. \VTiere I found him I don't know. After plundering my ;Mwt the Indians set Are to it. This ehihl must have crept out and hid iu the hushes, while the bodies of the dead were burned. He says he ma*conscious when 1 crept upon bun, and that wheu he Iegged for water I took bhn in my arms ami started for the river. Well, wounded as 1 was, I felt better in the cool night air. I wanted to save the boy, and that helped nerve me up. Thu cool water eased our hurts and refreshed us, and iietween ten o'clock that uight and daylight next morning I walked twenty-two miles, carrying the boy half the time. You wonder that we are not dead, hut it woau't to lie. The boy has !>eeu prettv tenderly treated, but I haven't fooled with the doctors much. They dug out some of the lead, bandaged me up, ami I'll aoou be all right again. I'm going to take Charlie to Vermont, ami then I'll go track to Idaho and kill Indians as loug as I live. I've made a vow—l've sworn by all that's good and sacred—that I'll enter into no other business ami have no other plans imt to kill Indians whenever and wherever 1 can find them ! I'll shoot down old and young ! I'll keep right on killing through war and peace !' Something in the Bed. Judge I'itmau has a habit of olipping his watch under hi* pillow when he goes U> lied. The otlier night somehow it slipped down, ami, as the judge was rest lim, it gradually worked it* way down ward toward the foot of the bed. After a bit, while he wa* lying awake, hia foot totieheil it, and it felt very oold; he wa* surprised aul seared, and, jumping from bed he said : '• Bv gracious, Maria ! there's a toad or snake or something uuder the covers. I touched it wilh my foot" Mr*. I'itnian gave a loud scream and was out on the floor in an instant "Now don't go to hollering and wak ing up the neighbor*," said the judge. "You go and get me a broom or some thing, and we'll fix the tiling mighty quick." Mr*. Pitman got the broom and gave it to the judge, with the remark that she felt as if snakes were creeping all up and down her leg* nnd back. "Oh, nonsense, Maria ! Now you turn down the covers slowly, while i hold the broom and bang it. Put a bucket of water alongside the bed, too, so'a we can shove it in and drown it." Mr*. Pitman tiled the bucket and gently removed the covers. The judge held the broom uplifted, and a* soon as the black ribbon of the watch wa* re vealed, lie cracked away three or four times with his broom. Then he pushed the thing off into the bucket. Then thev took the bucket to the light to investi gate the matter. When the judge saw what it was. he said : "I ruight've known that. Just like you women, to go screeching and fusa.ug about nothing. Who's going to pay me for that watch * It's utterly ruined." " It was yon that made the fuse, no me," said Mrs. P. Yon needn't try to put the blame dff on me." " Oh, hush up, and go to bed. I'm tired of hearing yon blather. Blaine me if I ain't going to get a divorce and emi grate. " And the judge turned in and growled at Maria until lie fell asleep.— Max Ad fler. Vindictive to the Last, A horrible atory of man'a inhuman hatred for a fellow-creature cornea from Mayaville, Ky. Levi Ball had fnmiahed the'family of James C. Owens with sup plies to the amount of S2OO, and, finding it impossible to collect, he levied on Owens' property, which was released on a claimant's boud, and on that Ball also secured a judgment. These various proceedings aroused Owens to a pitch of madness, and he swore to kill Ball. Every instil t he oould devise he east upon'his prospective victim to win some provocation, and finally he solemnly as serted hia intention of pouring the con tents of his shot-gun, which he bad charged with forty sings, into Ball's sys tem. A few days ago he met Ball and commenced his abnse again, whereupon Hall fired four shots, mortally wounding his vindictive enemy. On his death-bed Owens went into convulsions at the sug gestion that he must die before killing the object of hia hatred, and when lie recovered lie exacted with his dying breath a solemn oath from his aeventeent year-old son that hti would never res. until he had sent Ball to his grave, Upon the trial of Ball for the lie was promptly acquitted. Lake Superior. Lake Superior has, at times, not only the varied interest, but the sublimity of a true ocean. lis blue, cold, transparent waters, undisturbed by tides, lie, during a calm, motionless and glassy as those of any small, secluded lake, reflecting, with perfect truth of form and color, the in verted landscape that slop's down to ita smooth, sandy beach. But when this inland sea is stirred by the rising tem pest, the long sweep of ita waves and the curling white caps that crest its surface give warning, not only to the light bark canoe, still much used along its shores, but also to sloop, and schooner, and lake steamer to seek some sheltering haven. At such times, craft of every description may be seen running before the wind, or heating np against it, all making for the most favorite harbor on the lake, the sheltered bay of Madeline Island. TEA AND UOEI'EK. Haw Tfir* ara ASallrrair* aaS Haw la IM cavar Ike llrlrirrtaa* Wakalaaraa. A writer iu the New York AVunlined to green teas, of which, it is said on high authority, but fw grades reach the consumer in s pure state. Green tea differs from black only in its method of manufacture, and unless arti ficially colored it should not present the decided bluish-green appearance so often noticed, but should possess a pale olive color. Green tea is also converted into black by chemical treatment; in fact, these metamorphoses have given rise to s special and regular branch of business, notably in this city aud Philadelphia. The pigments most ued for coloring green teas are Prussian blue, indigo, turmeric and china clay; the peculiar gloaev apjwaranee they frequently pre sent iseing produced by metuia of black lead, talc and soapstone. Other and far more dangerous substances, such as arsenide of copper, chromate of lead and Ifutch pink, are said to be sometimes employed. When hot water is poured upon "a faced tea, the coloring matter present often becomes detached and either rises to the top or sinks to the bottom of the liqnid, forming a sediment which can lie readily recognixed as a foreign 1* *ly, especially by aid of a mag nifying glass. In many instances this test will be sufficient, but the safer plan is always to avoid this use of teas posses sing a metallic luster aud a bright green color. Coffee i* very extensively adulterated. When Mild in the ground tatc it almost invariably consists of a mixture contain ing little or no coffee and a fit oat deal of chicory and masted grains, aueh as peas, lieans, rye and wheat. The addition of chicory ta frequently defended on the gmund that it improves the fate and quality of the coffee, bat owing to it* comparative cbeapnea* three is a great temptation to use an undue quantity of this substance, and unless the amount oi the addition is specified on the |>ackages (an is requiml in several European coun tries), it undoubtedly constitutes a true adulteration; moreover, chicory itself i very often mixed with foreign aubtances. Piofessor Sharpies has recently exam ined several varieties of package coffee, including the " drat quality Mocha and Java coffee," an "extra quahty French coffee," a " Frehcb breakfast coffee," an '* English breakfast coffee," and "pure roasted and ground Cape coffee," hut wa* not able to detect the presence of the veritable tiean in anv trf these prepara- ! turns. A very popular and, in compari son with the' altove, superior brand of j " prepared Java coffee," received by the writer for analysis, had the following composition : Coffee, thirty-seven per centum; peas, fifty-two per centum; rye, two per centum; chicory, eight per centum. A simple method for detection - Mime of these snlmUnee* consists in slightly stirring the snsperted sample with cold water vid otiserving the color of the liquid and the gravity of the pow der. Pure coffee will remain floating upon the surface of the water for some time, and fails to impart a perceptible color to it, whereas chicory and tieans (especially the former) at once sink to the Is it torn and color the liatud decided- Iv. Other snlietanoes which also rise to the surface of the water can be easily distinguished fnun coffee by their ap pearance and taste. Another simple teal; is to spread the coffee out on a slip of glass, slightly moisten it with water, and then touch the layer in different parts with the point of a needle; in this way the presence of soft non-resisting foreign ingredients can be readily de tected. If on opening the ]>ackage the contents are caked, or show a tendency to cake, the presence at chicory is indi cated. Four Widow*. A South Carolina exchange has the following: At Prosperity, a station on the Oreen ville and Columbia railroad, dwell in reach of the sound of the whistle four widows. No. 1. This ladv, as all the other*, lo.it her husband (luring the war, and was left in straitened circumstances. Did she sit down and grieve at her fate f By no means. She has raised four children, l>esides flue crops, and to-dar she has much of last year's cotton and flour on hand, is free from debt, and is able to par-canh down for what she wants. No. 'J looks complacently on all of her last crop of cotton, aud with a sense of perfect rest and absolute fulness on 8,000 pounds of flour, neither of which she lias sold Iwcause she had no use for the money. The onlv tiling which disturbs her rest now is wlint to do with her new fodder, everv place being occupied with ♦he old. She. too, like a true woman, has raised children and set them up uu der their owu vines and ftg trees. No. 3 struggled through the year* whieli have rolled on since the late un pleasantness, raised six children, giving each at majority flfiOO in cash. Last vesr she 1 siught n tract of land, for which $1,400 in good money wns paid. Has corn fodder, and other things in abun dance. No, 4, like nnto the other*, has made a splendid tight, and brought up a large family in the way they ahould go; has of last year'a crops abundance, pay* cash in trade, and loans her earninga out on interest. A Thunder Slorm in lrsonH in the neighborhood. A child named Frost, who was running from one house to another, was struck with some of the liquid and severely burned. The flre-ball then struck a telegraph wire, which passed over the street, completely burning it np for a distance of 500 yards. For ten minutes after the fall of the thunder-bolt the whole neighborhood was enveloped in a thick blue and yellow fog. TKRMH: S'-i.OO a Year, in Advance. Fashion Notes Bunting is the seaside dress. The uew shade of pink is rose (re mit re. The latest notion in kid gloves is half Augers Ivory white beregr is in favor for even ing wear. The latest uovelty in printed cambrics is IndUnne*. The Herbiait costume is the rival of the Breton. Black lace mitts are worn with all kinds of dmaims. Embroidery appears on nearly all sum mer dress toilets. Phuded and plain hosiery is more fash ionable than striped. Lace ficlius aud collerettes, with cuffs ' to match, grow in favor. Grenadine is full dress for matrons, bnt not for young girls. The French twist is still the moat fash ionable morning otaffure. Black satin shoes covered with em broideries are Tery fashionable. The most fashionable lawn drosses are m sinligbt blue and sorrel green. Handkerchiefs and neckties fur morn ing wear are trimmed with colored torchon lanes. Narrow bauds of black velvet ribbon worn around the hair in Grecian style are coming in vogue. Navy blue percale, trimmed with white embroidery and Gloria lace, is the oos tume of the moment. The prettiest seaside list* are of white Panama, trimmed with white bunting scarfs and deep red roses. A stylish costume is effected by trim ming colored cambric with salmon col ored torchon lace aud salmon ribbon bows. Ivory mohair braids, embroidered in , black or in oolur to suit the materials, appear on many of the most stylish sum mer suits. 0 White brrtyr evening dresses are pret tily blighted up with colored ribbon bows, such as ruby, Mandarin, or tur quoise color. DatUfle)Uet is a new, durable lace, of the character of guipure d'arf, which, to some extent,is taking the plaoe of torchon for underwear. Fine white torchon laces edged with color—blue, red, pink, tilleul, *>r black ~ is made up into fichus, collars, and cuffs of various styles. Bome of the newest balageurer are of white plaited muslin,embroidered on the edge in oolor to match the dress with which they are worn, or edged with col ored torchon or Ckma lace. There is a run upon green; we have had Holbein, sage, myrtle, willow, bronze, aud mom green, and now we have Oreille cuite (cooked sorrel), s yel lowish green shade, which combines with singularly stylish effect with either jale blue or pink. The mousquetaire cuff* of lace to be worn outside the sleeve have lawn her alded for some tune, and are now found among the importations. They are six inches deep, sad square, or else they are closed in gauntlet shape for the band to be slipped through. At present they are only shown in the white and colored torchon laoes that are "worn with sum mer costumes. Accompanying these are broad collerettes that fasten behind and have long jabots in front i Curies* Family. Tb 7VmN and Drtpateh of Reading says: Albany, the township of snakes and catamounts, possesses one of the most canons families in the county, whose history is quite remarkable. Kunkel is the* nunc of the fsmily, which consists of five persons, four old bach elor* and one old maid, brothers and sister, who are hound together by the most affectionate ties and refuse to be separated. The sister is in her seventieth year, and is noted for her excellent man agement, wielding s great influence over her younger brothers, who range in age from ftftv to aixty-flve years, the yonngeat lieing upward of fifty years old. Tliev are ail over six feet tall, pos sessed of herculean frames. The form u|K>u which they live has been handed down over a hundred years, and was se qiiired by their ancestors over a century ago. Their house was erected more than one hundred years ago, after the style of the first settlers, split logs tor a floor, filled up with clsy. They do all their own work, and are neat and clean in all they do. Their farm is in excellent con dition, and produces annually large crops. They do not liave their horses shod in the winter, only in the summer. In winter the shoes are removed, and the horses are not taken further than to water. They carry all their grain to the mill and back on their shoulders, never using the horses for this purpose. The barn roof, and a number erf the out buildings are thatched with straw. The fsmily is much respected, and is reported to be wealthy. A sister, who married a number of vears ago, has been utterly discarded, Ler singular brothers and sister having paid her the portion to which she was entitled out erf her father's estate, and will have no further inter course with her. This curious family resides near!,Wesnesrille, in Albany township, and have never been out of the county, and it is believed never oat of the towushijp. They are said to have relatives in Philadelphia whom they have never seen nor visited. Drowned In the Surf. Moore Beatty, a wealthy builder of Philadelphia, WAS drowued at Atlantic City while attempting to reecue Mr*. Matilda Phillips, of New York city, who had gotten beyond her depth. Juat be fore the accident Mr. Beatty, with hia wife and little daughter, were aitting in the Surf House watching the bathera. Suddenly Mr*. Beatty exclaimed: "I Iwlieve that woman ia 'drowning," point ing toward Mm. Phillips, who waa some distance beyond the other bathera. Answering: "I believe she is," and throwing off his coat and boots, Mr. Beatty plunged into the wster and swam out to her/He got hold of her and made a desperate attempt to bring her to shore, but the drowning woman seized his legs and dragged him under. By this time a large crowd hail collected on the beach and boats nut out to their aaaistance. The two did not sink, but were hauled on Board one of the boats. At first it wna thought life was extinct, but when the boat reached the shore both liegan to gaap. A physician wna sent for, and nieaus were taken to resus citate them. But though they con tinued to gasp for nearly an hour, both died. (•ray's Elegy in a Churchyard. Two stanzas hare been added to Oram's famous elegy, in order to do away with ita one reproach of having no woman in it except "the busy housewife." They are to appear after the fourteenth stanza of the original and to take precedenoe of the men altogether. Here they are : Here sleeps some fair, whose unaffected charms Bloom M with attraction to herself unknown, Whoaa beauty might have blessed a monarch's arms. Whose virtues cast a luster on a throne. Whose modest beauties warm'd a humble heart, Or cheered the labors of some homely spouse ; Whose virtues form'd to every duteous part, The healthful offspring which adorm d her NUMBER 29. THAI* HKEtMKUS UETEf TED. Hew • fsllifsl tiKgtorvr Weal Saws le file Ileum-. "I ( ssMhave JeearrS aad Hewed Mreetf, bet the Tenia tt.aH have UssS Oavrn." The cases of Leroy Oliver, George B. Gibson, James Loug, and Allen M. | Greenstrect, the four dropersdoro who ! are held as the wreckers of the Texas ex press upon the Hi. Louis and Han Frau tnaoo railroad, on the night of June 2, were called before a grand jury at Dixon, the county seat of Pulaski county, Mis souri, s special erosion at that body hav ing been ordeifid. The details of the sf fsir were slow iu developing, owing to the suppression of the facta up to the time iif the capture of the four men. On die night of June around, when the Texss exprros entered the gloom of the Oxark mountains, a terrific storm of wiud sod rain was raging. The storm was s tempest in force. Little streams had swollen to torrents. In the cab of the engine, Frank Caton, the engineer, stood with his hand upon the throttle ' and peered into the tempest, keeping a sharp lookout for any obstructions that the storm might have thrown upon the track. By bis able was Ham Ktohardsoti, ' a lisnjy young fellow, the fireman at the engine. There was one other msn on the eugiue, s friend of Galon's, Dr. E. L. Atkinson, who had stepped aboard to ride a few miles. The train was on a fill. Forty feet Mow was the tevel of the ground.. The engineer observed a beep of rubbish sod leaves upon the track. At the same instant his eye, aocasuxned to dark nights and the distinguishing at objects in dim light, aaw the form at a man stealing into the deeper darkness, away from the light at the engine's bea con, far down at the base of the hilL He suspected foul ptey. With ooe band he polled the com, and the engine gave a warning shriek. Then be seised the re verse lever, and, with s desperate pull, reversed the engine and applied the air brake. Too late I With nia hands yet I upon the lever, he went to hia death. The engine reached the seeming obstruc tions. A trap had been laid. Two nula had been loowr-ned at one end, and their course diverted. The intention of those who did it was to plunge the train into the depths below. The engine passed over the brow of the hilL It rolled down the embankment to the very base and stopped with the wheels in the sir. The three occupants of the cab were beneath it, crushed ami mangled. When the engine left the track and started upon the path made by the mis placed rails, it gave a wild plunge and bound. The coupling between the ten der and the baggage ear gave way, bnt not until the heavy oar turned upon ite side. The remainder of the train aame to a dead stand still, safe upon the track. There were but few passenger* on board. The traffic ia generally light on Saturday night Home of them were dur ing in their seats. Others est looking out into the gloom, listening to the bow ling of the storm. When the warning shriek of the engine was followed by the sudden and violent stoppage of the train, the passengers sprang to the windows to ascertain what was the matter. AH. Wilson, the conductor of the train, was seated in a rear cor. He seised the lan tern. and jumping from the platform, started forward. He had struggled through the mud and weeds at the side of the track but s few feet when a pistol shot was heard. A bullet panned through his hat The bullet came within an eighth of an inch of his scalp. The sen sation stunned him partially, and he fell to the ground. Hia lantern WM extin guished. Seven more shots were fired in quick succession, and than everything arms quiet. The shots came from the ra vine upon the side of the fill down which the engine had plunged. One passenger, with his tec* clone to s window, saw by the flashes of the pistol five men. hud dled together in the shadows. It be came evident that the parties who had j don* the firing had fled, and the paasan j gera came oat of the can. Walking for ward, they row at a glance how the rails had been tampered with. One man racked up a new monkey-wrench, a claw hammer, and a common laborer'a pick axe. These had been need to tear the rails from their strong fastenings. All hands groped down the muddy bank to where the wrecked engine lay . emitting angry volumes of steam. Word iMMsed that there wrae men beneath. Willing hands set to work. The body at the fireman was taken out; burned, scalded, and mangled. He must have died instantly. Next the searcher* ae cured the remains of Dr. Atkinson. Then they came to poor Frank Caton, the engineer. He was burned, scalded, and crushed, but he was still save. He clang to life with s tenacity that teas wonderful, and it was full two hours be fore death put an end to his sufferings. Speaking slowly and with an effort that was agon "ring, "he told thoee who gath er*l SIKIUX him how he had noticed the obotructioua, how he had tried to save die train, and how he and his oompan -1 ion had gone down to death. When he had told his story he feebly gasped: " I could have jumped and saved myself, but the train would have gone down." These were his last words. Intelligence ef a Mocking Bird. A correspondent from a city in Arkan sas writes: Deeds of personal valor and heroism, when brought to public notice, are always applauded, and generally find their vivacious and enthusiastic his torian. Now I propose to perform this friendly office as best I can, for several members of the little feathery tribe, in relating a little occurrence recently brought to my attention. A gentleman residing in this city has the yard front ing his residence adorned with shrub bery. One shrub having a small post support, it seemed a small mucking bird had utilised for a nest, in which, on this {■articular occasion, reposed five little birdhngs to fill the fond mother's heart with joy and gladness. One evening the lady of the house had her attention at tracted to the spot by a violent fluttering and shrill screams of distress from the parent bird. Ooing to the place, what was her astonishment to find a large snake coiled about the poet, seemingly intent upon having a " game " supper. The lady at once called a servant, who promptly dispatched the reptile. Now for the singular part of the transaction. No sooner had the good lady appeared upon the voene than Mrs. Mockingbird disappeared in the direction of the woods; but, in leas time than it takes to record it, she returned, accompanied by five of her feathery neighbors, with s war cry issuing from their tiny throats, evidently intent upon the destruction of the ruthless invader of their homes. A reeonuoissanoe in force was at once be gun, but the " enemy " had disappeared. The search, however, was continued un til, at last, his remains were discovered, when the now happy songsters set up, as it were, a shout of triumph and con gratulations, and dispersed to their sev eral homes. . ■ TWIN COLTS. —A very uncommon phenomenon of horse-flesh has recently come to notice. On the fourteenth day of May a marc owned by Mr. Joseph Hussey, of North Garmel, Maine, fooled ►twin colts. They have been healthy, growing well, and are now real beauties. They are of light bay color, which will of course beoome darker, with black points. Alike in form and movementa, marked the same, they now promise to make a beautiful span of perfectly matched horses. Items f latere*. Gold ia an eighth of a mnl Join*. Noai.Ua time tog* jmt troth filled. Jenny Liad aaja thai h husband ia bar true* fnend. Bwry woman'a ought to ba. Tba empress of Austria ia said to ha tb moat beautiful royal lady in tba world, Ferik Aaid noweommand* tba Turkish army. That ia, ha tells the boys when to rate eat. SKf" ] M TbaTnrbd." mm m roefaange, " ara aw" *<&—■" WIU) WX), A woman in Bslliiisifs baa bean fined 9100 aad eoata for sanding scurrilous poatal card* to ladies, Man wastes hi* morning" in anticipa ting his afternoons, and wastes his after noons in regretting bia mornings. In tba United States shoot tbraa-fiftbs of the cereal production ia Indian corn, white in Europe cats predominate. ( Tba historical oak under which, it is ■aid, Wealey preached bia first sermon in America, ia still standing at Frede rics, Oa. " Are thaaa soaps all one scant f" in quired a isdy of s juvenile salesman. " No. ma'am, they are all tan cants," re plied tba innocent youngster* The fashionable male shirt collar is gradually decreasing in height. A young man ran now paes under a telegraph wire without ducking bia bead. As General Tebartbamistem*b*adoff was tearing fur the wan, bia sweetheart remarked to him, in tear*: " Though I no more behold thee, yet ia thy name a spell." A man who had prartjroi twelve years with s revolver, and who eonld drive a nail it sixty fact with s ballet, was kilted by a slab in the hands at an Arkansas man who couldnt shoot s barn. We suppose that when the entire Boa man army went marching over the pon toon bridges it didn't nudta one-half the clattering tbet a ten-year-old boy does when he walks down one flight of stain. A little girt, where a minister bad been invited to dinner, was privately placed on her good behavior. Finding a lull in the conversation at the table, she folded ber hands and said: "Ob, God, pfeaat pass the batter." When a small boy with a prejudice g.iu* yellow dogs observes an old <>vstr esa in s eonditsoa at inactivity be at ernes begins debating the question whether it was created to point a moral or adorn a tail. The dug gets the first news of the deetsaan. Just because Western hucksters stick their thumbs into the measures on veil ing berries sod then withdraw and tetein those portions at their anatomy , the Chi cago Journal sake in a towering rage: "Shall we, as American cttixeus, pay far thumbs by the pint and quart and not get them F" A trump in Peoria, 111., connoted of vagrancy, was set to work on the road, lie refused to do a stroke ; they oros man ted him with a ball and chain, whereupon be sat down iu the road aad stared at the crowd all day, aad the crowd stored at him. They were still staring at test accounts. A child charmed by a black make in Jqfferson county, Tcnn., fed the snake duly for over a week. The father dis covered the snake coiled up in the child's lap and killed it, whereupon the Utile one went into spasms of grief and reflteed to rot food of any kind. Shecr.es almost continually, exropt white asleep, and physicians state that she will live but a short time. A rheumatic old gentleman, whose son was careless shout shutting the front door after him, called oat to him one raid day, when he had left the door swinging wide : " See here, young man, vou leave that door open too much!" ""Do I Y* was the response. " Then boj much open shall I leave it T "I mean vou leave it open too often !** thundered the old gentleman. " Oh, well, how of ten shall I leave it open J" politely in quired the son. The father aid not dare trust himself to reply. Here is a classification of kiaaes in rhymes: "There is a formal to— at fashion ; And s burning kiss of passion ; A father's Idas, And s Mstor's kiss to move. Thsvw's a traitor's hies tor goid. Libs a sarpaat's clammy fold. A first kiss, A irlnieo kiss. And the thrilling kfcs of km*. A meeting kiss, A maiden kiss. A kiss when food heart's sever. Bat the esddeel lose On earth is this— A kirn to pert for ever r Trying to Starve to Death, gu months ago • gentleman and bis wito registered their names in the bast hotel in Honors, California. They made few acquaintances; they seemed to court seclusion; they wandered up and down the gnssr hills: oeeaakmaily they were seen sitting under a tall pine, anon the man carried a pick-ax on his shouluer and had the air at s miner who was hunt ing for a pocket rain; they were eeeeo trie and mvutarioua. On Jane 80 they liiMappeaml, and after their fellow-board ers had gossiped ahout them for a da v or two search was made fur them. The queer couple were found on the top of Bald mountain not far from the town. Thee had been oat doors about ninety hours; they had not lost their way ; they had pone out into the woods with the deliberate purpose of starring to death; thee had eaten nothing; they had a four ounce bottle filled with water, with which they had moistened their parched lipa; they* were dying by inches. The neighbor* carried them to a cabin, and induped them to eat something. The husband is a graduate of a Pennsylvania medical college, and owns a homestead in New Jersey. Once he was very wealthy, but he lost everything in stock (•peculations in San Fisncisoo. He had been waiting for remittances from that city; his last penny had gone; he was in debt to the hotel proprietor ; he resolved to go up the mountain and starve, and his wife went with him. Preserving Elephants in Ice. Some Russians lately found in Siberia another elephant, perfectly preserved ; in ice; they were able to eat its flesh. M. Bayle, in announcing this fact to the Zoological Society of Fiance, said it did , not prove that elephants had lived in the country, but that, in a time of great cataclysm, their bodies may "have been transported by a very strong current from the Himalayas on to Siberia, where they were stopped by the ice; the time necessary for such transport is much less than would be generally supposed. The elephants, very nnmerons at that epoch, had not been all earned to Siberia, many had been stopped en route, and ; nothing had been left of them but their bonce and tusks; it was the latter that had been long used by the Chinese for their works of cut ivory. With regard to the cataclysm carrying elephants to northern regions, Count Hugo has point ed out that every year English and American fishermen have brought up elephant's tusks iu their net. The num ber of these got annually may be esti mated without exaggeration, at about a thousand. . The ( xsc's Dally Life. The Emperor of Russia has been lead ing a very simple life at Ploiesti. He worked without ceasing, signing hun dreds of documents daily. Every docu ment must be read over to hin., tor lie will give no signature which is merely mechanical. To the entreaties of las servants to take things more easily he has always the same answer: "I am , neither old enough nor ill enough to re lieve myself from my obligations." The czar leached his fifty-ninth year on the twenty-third of June. H s dinner is served regularly at twelve o'clock noon, after which he takes a drive, usually with'the crown prince. Lightning never strikes twice in the same place, it generally happening that there is nothing there tne second time to hit The population of the globe for the last two centuries was estimated to be over one thousand millions.