Then and Raw. Whan Ufa was bright, and balmy youth Waa mlna with lunooaooa and truth, And ear* waa narer ruling ma, I k>tad a damael fair and gay, Who to my doubting word* would say, In a oaraaaing, smiling way, Indaad aha waan't fooling ma. Bha told tha truth—wa noon warn wad i Tha hooayuoon long ainoa haa fled, And now ahe'd oft ba ruling ma. Beside* thaaa matrimonial ilia, She'll dreaa in naught but ailka and frills. And whan I one thnae awful billa, I wiah aha had been footing ma. Tha Falsa Oracle. BY HURT XISMK OK YKBK. She picked a little daiay flower • With fringe of enow, and heart of gold ; All pars without, and warm within And atood to have her fortune told. " 11a love* ma," low sh* mnaiug aid. And plucked the border leaf by leaf ; " A little—too much —not at all- - With trneat'heart —heyond belief." " A UtOe—toil much—not at all" 80 rang the change 1 o'er and o'er ; The Uny leaflet* flustered down. And etrewed the meadow 'e graaey floor. " A little—too much--not at all— Withtruead heart"—oh, magic brief Ah, foolieh taak. to measure out Love * value ou a daiay leaf ! Par eh* pulled the tateat left With " not alt left," I heard her aar, " Ah. much you know, you alily flower. He'll love uie UU hi* dying day." —."*vswfr*. " Who Was My Quiet Friend ?" BV BBKT HAKTB. "Stranger I" The voice was not loud, but clear and penetrating. I looked vainly uu and down the narrow darkening trail. No one in the fringe of alder ahead ; no one on the gullied slope behind. " Oh ! stranger !" This time a little impatiently. The Californian vocative, "Oh," always meant business. I looked up, and perceived for the first time, ou the le*lge, thirty feet above me, another trail parallel with my own, and looking down upon me through the buckeye bushes a small man on a black horse. Five things to be here noted by the circumspect mountaineer. First, the localitv lonely and inaccessible and away from the regular faring of teamsters and* miners. Secondly, the stranger's superior knowledge of the ruad from the fact that the other trail was unknown to the ordinary traveler. Thirdly, that he waa well armed and equipped. Fourthly, that he was better mounted. F.fthly, that any distrust or timidity arising (rum the contemplation of these facts had better be kept to oneself. .All this passed rapidly through my mind as I returned his salutation. •'Qot any tobacco?" he asked. I had, and signified the fact, holding up the poach inouiringlv. " All right, I'll come down. Bide on, and I'll jine ye on the slide." "The slide?" Here was a new geo graphical discovery as odd as the second .traiL I hail ridden over the trail a dozen times, aud seen no communication between the ledge and trail. Neverthe less I went on hundred varda or so, when there was a sharp crackling in the underbrush, a shower of stones ou the trail, and my friend plunged through the boshes to my side down a grade that I should scarcely have dared to lead my horse. There was no doubt he was an accomplished rider—another fact to be noted. As he ranged beside me I found I was not mistaken as to his size; he was qnite under the medium height, aud, bat, for a juiir of cold gray eyes, was rather com monplace in feature. *' Tou've got a good horse there," I suggested. He was filling his pipe from my poach, bnt looked up a little surprised, ami said: "Of course." He theu puffed away with the nervous eagerness of a man long deprived of that sedative. Finally, between the puffs, he asked me whence I came. I replied from " Lagrange." He looked at me a few momeuts curi ously, but on my adding that 1 had only halted there for a few hours, he said; " j thought I knew every man between L i grange and Indian Spring, but somehow I sorter disremember your face and your name." Not particulars caring that he should remember either, I replied, half Laugh ingly, that as I lived the other aide of Indian Spring, it was quite natural. He took the rebuff— if such it was— so quiet ly, that as an act of mere perfunctory politeness, I asked him where he came from. "Lagrange." " Ami you are going to " 'Well*! that depends pretty much on how things pan out, and whether I can inake the riffle." He let his hand rest quite tuiconsciously on the leathern holster of his dragoon revolver, yet with a strong suggestion to me of his ability "to make the riffle" if he wanted to, andadded: "But just now I was reck 'nin' on taking a little pasear with yon." There was nothing offensive in his speech, save its familiaritv and the reflec tion, perhaps, that whetner I objected or not, he was quite able to do as he said. I only replied that if our paerar was prolonged beyond Heavvtree Hill, I should have to lorrow his beast. To my surprise, he replied quietly: " That's so," adding that the horse was at my dis posal when he wasn't using it, and half of it when he was. "Dick has carried double many a time before this," he continued: "and kin do it again; when your mustang give* out, I'll give you a ft. and room to spare." I could not help smiling at the idea of appearing before the boys at Red Gulch en croupe with the stranger; but neither oould I help being oddly affected by the suggestion tliat his horse had done double duty before. "On what occasion, and why ?" was a question I kept to myself. We were ascending the long rocky dank of the Divide; the nar rowness of the trail obliged us to pro ceed slowly and in file, so that there was little chance for conversation, had he been disposed to satisfy my curio*. ty* We toiled on in silence, the buckeye giving way to chimital, the westering son, reflected again from the blank wulls beside us, blinding our eyes with its glare. The pines in the canyon below were olive gulfs of heat, over which a hawk here and there drifted lazily, or riming to our levei. cast a weird and gigantic shadow of moving wings on the mountain aide. The superiority of the stranger's horse led him often fur in advance, and made me hope that he might forget me entirely, or push on, grown weary of waiting. But regularly he wonld halt by a boulder, or reappear from some chimisal, where. he had patiently halted. I was beginning to hate him mildly, when at one of those reappearances he drew up to my side,and asked me how I liked Dickens ! Had he asked my opinion of Huxley or Darwin, I could not have been more astonished. Thinking it were possible that he referred to some local celebrity of Lagran' T e, I said, hesitatingly: " You meati ?" " Charles Dickens. Of course you've read him ? Which of his books do you like best?" I replied with considerable embarrass ment that I liked them all—as I certain ly did. He grasped my hand for a moment with a fervor quite unlike his usual phlegm, and said. "That's me, old man. Dickens ain't no slouch. You can oount on him pretty much all the time." With thin rough preface, he launched into a critijism of the novelist, which for intelligent sympathy and hearty np- Sreciatien I had rarely heard equaled. iot only did he dwell upon the exuber pnoe of his humor, but upon the power his pathos and the all pervading ele* FRED. KURTZ, 1 Editor and Proprietor. VOLUME X. rncnt of hta poetry. I linked at the man iu astonishment. I had considered my self a rather diligent student of the great master of Return, hut Uie stranger's felicity of t{uotwtiou and illustration staggered me. It is true that his thought VH cot always clothed m the best language, and often appeared in the alouchiug, slangy undress of the place and period, yet tt never was rustic nor homcapuu, and aonietimea struck me with its precision and fitness. Conoid eruhly softened toward him, 1 tried huu with other literature. Hut vainly. Beyond a few of lyrical and emotional poets, he knew nouutMT. Cuder the tu nuenoe and enthusiasm of his own speech, lie himself had Softened consid erably ; offered to change horses with me, readjusted my saddle with profes sional skill, transferred uiy pack to hi* own horse, iuaisted upon mv ahariug tiie contents of his whisky flask, and noticing that I was unarmed, pressed upou me a silver mounted lVrringer, which he assured me he could " war rant." These various offices of gissl will and the diversion of his talk le --guiled me from noticing the fact that the trail was beginning to become olv •cure and unrecognisable. We were evidently pursuing a route unknown before to me. I pointed out the fact to my companion a little imj>atieutly. He instautJy resumed his old manner and dialect. " Well, I reckon ouf trull's as good as another, aud what bn ve got to say about it ?" I pointed out, with aome dignity, that ¥ preferred the old trail. " Mebbee you did. But you're jise oow takiu' a with mo. Tina vcr tnul will bring you right into Indian Spring, and unnoticed, anil uo questions asked. Don't you mind now, I'll see you through." It was necessary hero to make some stand against my strange companion. 1 said tinnly, yet as politely as I oould, that 1 had proposed stopping over night with a friend. "Whar?" I hesitated. The friend was an eccen tric Eastern man, well known in the locality for his fastidiousness and his habits* as a reel us*. A misauthrope of ample family and ample means he hail chosen a secluded but picturesque valley in the Sierras, a hoe he could rail against the world without opposition. " Lone Valley," or " Bostou Buieh," as it was more familiarly called, was the one spot that the average miuer both respected and feared. Mr. Sylvester, its proprietor, hail never affiliated with " the boys," nor had he ever hist their respect bv any active opposition to their ideas. If seclusion hail been his object he certainly was gratified. Neverthe less, in the darkening shadows of the night, and on a louely and unknown trail, I hesitated a little at repeating his name to a stranger of whom I knew so little. But my mysterious companion took the matter out of my hands. "Look yar," he said, saddeiilr, "thar ain't but one place t wixt yer and Indian Spring whar ye can stop, and that's Sylvester's." I assented, a little sullenly. " Well," said the stranger, quietly, and with a slight suggestion of conferring a favor on me, "Ef von're pointtal for Sylvester's—why —I ilon't mind stopping thar with ye. It's a little off the road— I'll lose some time—but taking it by and large I don't much mind." 1 state*!, as rapidly aud as strongly as I could, that my acquaintance with Mr. Sylvester did not justify the introduc tion of a stranger to his hospitality— that he was unlike most of the people here—in short, that he was a queer man, etc. To my surprise my companion an swered quietly : "Oh, that's all right. I've heerd ot him. Ef you don't feel like checking me through, or if you'd rather put ' C. O. D.' ou my back, why it's all the same to me. I'll play it alone. Only you just count tue in. Say 'Sylvester' all the time. That's me!" What could I oppose to this man's quiet assurance ? 1 felt myself growing red with anger and nervous with embar rassment. What would the correct Syl vester say to me? What would the girls — l was a young man then, and had won an entree to their domestic circle bv my reserve—known by a h-ss com plimentary adjective among the " boys " —what would they say to my new ac quaintance? Yet I certaiuly could not object to his assuming all rik on his owu personal recognisances, nor could I resist a certain feeliug of shame at my embarrassment, i We were beginning to descend. In the distance below us already twinkled the lights iu the solitary rancho of Loue Valley. I turned to my companion. " But you have forgotten that I don't even know your name. What am I to call vou ?'* "That's so," he said musingly. " Now, let's see. ' Kearney" wonld be \a good name. It's short and easy like, l'har's a street in 'Frjsco the same title. Kearney it is." "But"-- I began, impatiently. " Now you will leave all that to me," he interrupted, with a superb self-con fidence that I oould not but admire. " The name ain't no account It's the man that's responsible. Ef I was to lay for a man that I reckoned was named Jones, and after I fetched him I found out on the inquest that his real name was Smith—that wouldn't make no mat ter, as long as I got the inan." The illustration, forcible as it was, did not strike me as offering a preposeeee i ing introduction, Vint we were already at the rancho. The barking of dogs brought Sylvester to the door of the pretty little cottage which his taste had adorned. I briefly introduced Mr. Kearney. " Kearney will do—Kearney's good enough for me," commented the soi di*ant Kearney half aloud, to my own horror and Hylveeter's evident mystifica tion, and then he blandly excused him self for a moment that he might person ally supervise the care of his own l>eat. When he was out of ear shot, I (irew the | puzzled Sylvester aside. " I have picked up—l mean I have been picked up on the road by a gentle i maniac, whose name is not Kearney. He is well armed and quotes Dickens. With care, acquiescence in his views on all subjects, and general submission to his commands, he may be placated. Doubtless the spectacle of your helpless family, the contemplation of your daughter's beauty and innocence, may touch his fine sense of humor and pathos. Meanwhile, Heaven help ~'in, and for give me." I ran up stairs to the little den that my hospitable host had kept always re served for me in my wanderings. I lingered some time over my ablutions, hearing the languid, gentlemanly drawl lof Sylvester below mingled with the | equally cool, easy slang of my mysteri ous acquaintance. When I came down ; to the sitting-room I was surprised, how ! ever, to find the self-styled Kearney quietly seated on the sofa, the gentle | May Sylvester, the "Lily of the Lone Valley," sitting with maidenly awe and | unaffected interest on one side of him, ; while on the other that arrant flirt, her { cousin Kate, was practisiug the pitiless archery of her eyes, with an excitement that seemed almost real. " Who is your deliciously cool friend?" she managed to whisper to me at supper as I sat utterly dazed and bewildered between the enrapt May Sylvester, who seemed to hang upon his words, and this THE CENTRE REPORTER. giddy girl of Uie jwriod, who was empty ing the Italtery of her charms ui active rivalry UJHUI htm. "Of course we kuow his name isn't Kearney. But how romantic ! And isn't he jwrfecUy lovely? And who is he?" I replied with severe irony that 1 waa liot aware what foreign jHtoiitate was then traveling iriroj/uifo m the Sierras of California, but that when his royal highness waa pleased to inform me, 1 should lie glad to introduce bun proper ly. " Uutll Uieu," I added, "I fear the acquaintance must be Morganatic. " •' You're ouly j-olou*of him,"she said pertly. "Look at May-she is com pletely fascinated. And her father too." Aud actually, the languid, world-sick, cynical Sylvester was regarding him with a boyish interest aud eiithuaiasiu almost incompatible with his nature. Yt I submit honestly to Uie clear-head eauties whose roots, being buried in dishonor, rise again iu glory. The passions are the only orators that never succeed. They are, as it were, nature's art of eloquence, fraught with infallible rules. Simplicity, with the aid of the passions, persuades more thnn the utmost eloquence without it. Oratory, like the drama, abhors lengtli iuess; like the drama it must keep doing. It avoids, as ftigid, prolonged metaphysical soliloquy. Beauties them selves, if they delay or distruct the effort which should b produced on the audi ence, become blemishes. Health and Slow Pulse. Some interesting statements are re ported to have been made at a meeting of the Clinical Society, London, showing that a slow pulse may in no wise inter fere with health. The most remarkable case, perhaps, was that of l)r. Hewan, us related by himself. It seems that, twenty-one years ago, after prolonged study and work, his pulse fell from seventy-two tofifty-tive, and be felt very cold; from that time its freqneney grad ually decreased until about eleven years later, when it was but twenty-four beats per minute. ItH present rate is about twenty-eight. Notwithstanding this, he has not suffered from fainting, fits or cold, is capable of great physical ex ertion —of which evidence is to be found in his ascent of a high mountain—and his digestion remains unimpaired. An other speaker caid that Napoleon had a slow pulse, being about thirty to forty per minute; and another member stated the rate of a horse's pulse to be only six teen. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1877. FA KM, WARDEN AND IIOI'MRHOLD. latM NMH. • ltuuuing spring water ia far better for iw whose milk i* intended for flrst cla** butter or cheeoe, than poud water or even than well water, since the quali ty of the water influence* the milk as much aa the character of the food. Spruce butter tub* are the best ; white hemlock makes a sweet tub ; acids from the oak color the butter and in jure its np|Her ear where two grew on a stalk last year. The result is that uearly every stalk ha* two ears ou ; even five stalk* in one hill gave ten good earn, and 1 thuik tliat there were a* many aiugle stalk* witli three ear* ou a* there were with o uly oue, but the two ears to the stalk were almost universal. Now, a* we are so often reminded tliat we can improve our corn by selecting seed, let us take the more puius thus to improve this moat noble American product: - Uurut Hume. The farm if Jihn Hawlev, Hraut N. Y., who ha* practiced the soiling system of feeding for some tune, oouUuu* fifty seres, all of which, with the exception of a piece of timlier and rough land, is under a very high state of cultivation. Upon the place are about ten head of cattle, two horses aud jK-rhap* a few hea.l of loose stock at times. There are about ten ueres devoted to small frtuts, such as *trawl>erriea, raspberries, black berries, etc., leaving but foity acres to furnish feed for the horses and cattle during the vear. The cows arc many of them grade Ayrshire*, and Mr. Hawley is turuiug his whule herd, to this breed a* fast ss possible, as he think* it adapted to this system of feeding better than the majority of breeds. To adopt Una system, preparations must be L>eguu IU the fall, it ap;>earw. aa some plant must be ready to cut earlj iu spring. A piece of winter rye,large enough to furnish a month'* feed or ao, is sown in the fall which is ready to cut the Utter part of April or beginning of May : then follows millet (two or three varieties), clover, sowed corn. etc. As fsst as a crop is taken off another should Is* sown, thus keeping the land under crop all the ' while. Mr. Huwley claims that his •mil increases in fertility every year ; in fact, it looks reasonable that a lot of weeds will exhaust the soil just as much a* some profitable plant. Then the manure pile is being constantly increaa ed, and the more crops raised the more fertibxiug material i* there returned to it. Great care should be taken to save .ill the liquids.— Chaatauqwa Farmer. Ilnorbild Hint*. To PRETEXT DECAY IS MEATS.— Spruikle on plenty of pulverized lairax; rub it well into the meat, and lef it re main five or ten minutes on ice, or long er, if desired. Just before cooking wash it well in a strong solution of Itorax water, and do not rinse again. If it tsto lie 1 toiled or parboiled, add a little borax to the water in which it is boiled; a quarter of a teaspooiiful will answer. To KEEP LEMOXS FRESH. —PUce them in a jar with water enough to cover them. They will keep fresh in this way several days without changing the water. To CCRK Btnnoxs. —Rind a fine linen ' band tightly around the foot and over the bunion, sew it on if necessary, and wear it tUy and night; bathe the feet frequently in strong borax water, using a tcaspoonful of pulverized borax to a basin of water. To KID a Doo or FLEAS. —Wash him thoroughly with common soft soap, such as they use on Iniurd ships, or place him on n newspaper rub Persian in sect powder well over him, and the fleas will drop out on the paper and die al most immediately. This method is also effective with rats. To MAKE CALICO TRANSPARENT AXD VVATERI'BOOF. —Take six pints of pale linseed oil, two ounces of sugar of lead, and eight ounces of white resin ; the sugar of lead must be ground with a small quantity of it, and added to the remainder, l'iie resin should le incor porated with the oil by means of gentle I lent. The composition may then be laid on calico, or anv other such material, by meant of a brush. BRKAKINU GLASS TO ANT REQUIRED FKIUBX.— Make a snail notch by means of a tile on the edge of a piece of glass, then make the CM of A toliaoco pipe, or a roil of iron of the same size, red-hot in the fire, apply the hot iron to the notch, and draw it slowly along the sur face of the glass in any direction you please; a crack will follow the direction ' of the iron. GOOD USE FOR SOAP-HCDS. —Save your washing ends for the garden; if they arc poured over the roots of the plum trees, thev will kill the curcnlio; if turned at the roots of the geraniums, roses, etc., they will euchance their beauty tenfold. To CLF.AN COLORED SlLK.— Wash in warm soap-suds, rinse in clear, warm water, dry quickly, and iron on the wrong side while yet rather damp. If there are grease spirts on the silk, press with a tolerably warm iron under brown ! ]HI per, Exerrlse and Occupation. Exercise for tlip lody, occupation for the mind—there are the graud eonstitu entof health aud happiness, the cardi nal joints upon which everything turns. Motion seems to bo a greater preserving principle of nature, to which even inani mate tilings are subject; for the wind, the waves, the earth itself are restless, and the waving of trees, shrubs and flower* is known to be an essential part of their economy. A fixed rale of taking several honrs of exercise every day, if possible in the open air, if not, under cover, will lie almost certain to secure one exempt ion from disease, sa well as from the attacks of low spirits, or ennui, that monster who is ever waylaying the rich and indolent, "Throw but a stone and tho giant dies." Low spirits can't exist in the atmosphere of bodily and mental activity. Farming by Wholesale. The Taopi farm in Mower connty, Minn., is on the line of the 0., M. and Bt. P. It R. It extends three miles one way by two and three-fourths tho other. The crops raised this season were : 2,250 acres of wheat, 600 acres of oats. 100 of oora, twenty of potatoes, aud 200 of timothy. Thirty pairs of horses and mules an average of twenty five men are employed throughout the.season, and during harvest nearly double the num ber. The farm is subdivided into tracts of two miles in length by one in width, and at tlyi commencement of the plowing, four furrows around a track, making twenty-four mjles, ooustitutes a day's work. W I I'll THE TUHkS. tt Sol a tt *i I *rrMM*|r*i Haw ss s Tsrklak Trala Tk* tt US /rlkrrk* aertfee4. A war oorrcn|h indent traveling ou a truiu 111 Bulgaria dcacrilM-s sotue of his fellow-passengers iu UlO following vig orous ami graphic language: Arrived at the station, I found the Varna tioin already m ami tlie platform eruwtled with the usual picturesque throng of s ildieis, Basin-ltaxoiiks ami Circassians, which makes Turkish rail way station in these warlike times a study for a painter. The tram, which was of great length, ami drawn by two powerful engines, wus crammed from end to end with a regiment of Zei books, or Asiatic irregulars, tlie same gentle men whoso very irrogtdar conduct at Constantinople tuid then at Varus has resulted in their luring aiup|>od off as far away ss jMmsihle—to tlie bauks of the IHumlie, st Hutschuk, where they will tiave ample chance of exercising their peculiar talents in tlie pillaging of deserted bouses or iu marauding exjHH.il tlous illto Walloehia. At Hbeitiuijik, the next station to Hhumla, here it halt of half au lumr enabled the passenger* to gat some breakfast tha Zciliecks poured out of tile carriages t>v hundreds, and I wtut able to study them at HIT esse. Ureal, •trapping, muscular fellow* they were, clothed iu all the aolont of the raiuhuw, and with complexions varying from a light brown, uot deeper than auburu, to a ei*l black. It Üby hi* head aud legs that the Zcitieck is to IN* distinguished from hia Mussulman kinsmen iu Europe. Although since their arrival iu the coun try many of them have adopted the fex aloue aa head-Irene, a large proportion ■till retain the extraordinary cuinUre iu which they aeern to delight. It is a Com plicated top hamper of turbans aud Uandkerehu fa wound lound and twisted in many cunning aud rakish folds aud piled up in a pyramid, on the apex of which, quite clear of the head, is placed a fex, Willi a tassel reaching to the shoulder. Cue huge daudv, a man of herculean proportions, iu addition to the flowing tassel of his fex, had suspended from the pyramid a fringe of gay colored stuff, which dangled about bis ears and nmud his neek. It was a headdress worthy of—and indeed very suggestive of—a red Indian chief. As to his legs, the Keibeck is also remarkable. He wears short, baggy breeches, ending above the knee, whieii is left l*re; from below the knee to the ankle hia sturdy ltuil* ore eucaa<*l in greaves of cloth, embroidered snd worked in fsuciful colors; hut feet, muocent of covering, are protected by stout slippers. In their broad sashes the Zeihecks carry aw hole arsenal of weapon* ; •words, long snd short, straight and curved, with curious guardleas hilts, sometimes beautifully inlaid or carved; doggers and knives, with sheaths of em bossed silver ; quaint iimtloek pistols, with handles of ivory and damascentd locks ami barrels. Add to these a long gun, slung at the bock, aud jou have a Zcibcck in his war paiut. He ha* about him the means of putting to death by distinct ami separate method* a dozen men; but as his range of smooth bore thntlork Unarms and short swordaisnot adapted to modern Eurofiean warfare, be is, so they say, U tie armed and drilled at Hustclink like the rest of the army of the Sultan, and instead of carrring the lives of many "Muscovs" inliis sash he is to carry them neatly pocked away umler the spiral spring of a Winchester rifle. But, whether armed with a blunderbuss or repeater, the Zeibeek is said to be a dca|>erale fighter, absolutely ignorant of tlie meaning of the word fear. The wont*. "Biler pi|Meech, reading and writing—are each controlled by separate portions of the brain. In bis researches he discovered that the paralysis of one of those func tions could exist without the others be ing effected, and he gives as an example a case in which he was called to a con sultation on a young man, whose avoca tions compelled him to write continually. At first the patient had felt a slight weakness in writing, then a great diffi culty, and finally, an absolute loss of the faculty. The result of the elosent examination could not detect any defect in the muscles of the arm or hand, the latter retaining all its sensitiveness and power for every other purjiose than that of writing, and all his other functions lieing moral and in good condition. The conclusion arrived lit was that the source of the infirmity must not l>e sought for in the external organs, hut in the center itself of nervous action—the brain. The young man was advised to write with his left hand, which ho rapidly succeed ed in doing. The defect from which he suffered had long been known as writers' cramp, just as the loss of speech was for centuries termed paralysis of the tongue. Both designations were equal ly erroneous, both being now attributed to maladies of certain portions of the bruin. lie that waits for repentance waits for that which cannot lie tiad as long as it is waited for. It is obsurd for a man to w* for that which he himself hss to do. A LOST LIFI. M.lr al > M* Wk. 111*4 at Maveal*-Oss. lM Navar l.l* Sal *ll. A few weeks there waa found load iu hia house at Dijuu, Frauoe, I'aul l*7 which the author seeius hi have proved, very conclusively for himaelf, at least, tliat, dying at the age of aeveuty one, he hail not really lived at all: "All Buffering, pain, euuoi, despair, aorrow, dcaire and regret should be taken from otir live*," he write*, and I then proceed* to deduct those experi ence* from hi* own score of year*, and to foot up the loss. The whole memoir may perhaps be explained by one of the opening clause*: "At the age of three year* I waa weaned," it say*. "At six I spoke, but badlv; at seven year* I cracked my •kuli, and at nine was cured. 1 there fore deduct these uiue years from my , cxintence— for it cannot he called life to drink the sour milk of the nurse, to ■peak incoherently, to crack one's skull " At uiue year* I began my studies ; but having s hard head, in consequence of my cracked skull, 1 was slow of in struction. At the end of two years I knew my alphabet, but at what cost 1 The letter Z alone oust me 1,400 blows with a ruler, and thetweuty-three others martyred me. At twelve yean I could read, it was true, but ray '.xxly was wealed with those alphabetical scant. "They now endeavored to teach me Taitiu, and I forgot my French. At fif teen years I knew absolutely nothing at all, and iu couaequeuoc of a bread-and water diet waa a mere skeleton. I there fore deduct, for my school days, six years more from my miserable life. "At fifteen my father apprenticed me ss clerk to a notary. Now commenced a new species of martyrdom. I rose at six, swept tiie office, built the fire, snd wa* kicked by the head clerks, while my father, in consequence of the complaint* made agaiuat me, deprived me of my dinner. The five year* I spent this way 1 deduct off what la left of my life. " At twenty year* my father, diagusted with me, shipped me on a vessel at Chetbourg. 1 washed the forecastle, coiled the cables, climbed the mast*, reefwl the Hails, and received at leaat tli rty blows on the back with a martin spike each dar. This lasted for four year*, and at tlie end I had no back left at all. " At twenty-fonr years my father made me a mercer, and married me to the daughter of a turner. On the night of the wedding I discovered that my wife had a wooden leg, manufactured by her father. The poor woman made me a thousand excuses, and I pardoned her in consideration of her dowry, id 30,000 franc*, invested in a mortgage on a (laudaloupe sugar plantation. But aoou the negroes of Guadeloupe revolted and burned mv dowry. Nothing was left me but the wooden leg. "At thirty year* I lost my wife of s tumor on her good leg. I had passed the six years of niv married life repeating every minute : ' What a fool I wa* U> take that wooden leg 1' I therefore deduct these six years from life. " Having, like all the world, s|ient a third of my life in sleep, I didurt twen ty-four year* more, which is loss than a just estimate, as I am s great sleeper. "One year more I hat, minute for minute, in bunting for the key of my secretary, which I always mislaid. Three years vanished by my making such re marks as ' What time is it?" 'lt is bad weather to-day,' "I'm tired,' 'Mon Itrau! .Won />•>.'' etc. Six mouths spent in blacking my laxita, snd six in brushing my hat. One year lost in the Iwtween acts at the theater. Another in listening to new plava. One year again in com plaining of soups with too much salt in them, of overdone cutlets, indigestions, and hard eggs. Total, then, seventy one Tears. think, then, that in rendering up my life to God, I am not making Him a present of anything of much account." Why They Didn't Applaud. Onee upon a time " Comical " Brown —the name will readily recall the image of the substance—determined to give one of his side-splitting entertainment* in a small town not many mile* from Worcester. There was no theater building in the place, nor was there a public hall; Vint through the aid of several •• prominent citizens" the vestry of a church was scoured for the enter tainment. The sextou was a man noted all over the surrounding regions for the rigor of the decorum maintained by him in the church and for his summary manner of dealing with all offenders. When the show people arrived he as sisted them in arranging for the enter tainment, displaying more kindness than his severe countenance gave any indica tion of, and when the curtain went up he stood leaning against one of the window sills at the side of the room. At the close of the entertainment the sexton again took hold and assisted the show people in removing their proper ties. He seemed to be good-natured ami talkative; while "Comical" Brown was quite the reverse. "I tell you what," said the sexton with great enthusiasm, " you just want to bring this show here again some time," " Guess not much," growled " Comi cal;" " once'll do here." " Why ? Wasn't the vestry full, and wasn't they just tickled to death— tickled all lip in kinks, ah ?" " I didn't see anything of it. They just sat there; didn't laugh—didn't ap pland " "Laugh! applaudl" ejaculated the aexton, iu amazement " See here, mis ter; I've been sexton in this church for nigh a quarter of a century, and if any body hail dared to laugh or applaud in side that door it would have noen the first time in upward* of fifteen years."— War renter l*ren. Intelligent Eels. The oddest pets yet are some eels that a Mr. Hale is keeping in a brook near bis house in Rockport, Mass. After he had fed them several times lie oliserved that they seemed to lie waiting for hia visit, and with a little training they were induced to eat food directly from liis hand. Then they learned to plav and fondle about his Augers, held in the water, ami cnioyed his caresses. More recently, the largest one of the four, a huge old fellow, two feet long and very large around, allows Mr. Hale to take him entirely out of the water, slide him about freely from hand to hand, appa rently enjoying the novel gymnastic*. When Mr. lisle goes to the brook he calls them with a peculiar whistle, and they Boon come rushing briskly from down stream. Not long ago he brought them the usual lunch of fish and mack erel, when only the large one came. Tho eel waited a few moments, then turned down streem and soon came back brinj. iug liis turdy family to supper. This shows there is n > touch of the human in them, for any ordinary biped boarder would have pitched iu without waiting, and cleared the table,— Springfield {Mats.) Union, TERMS: a Year, in Advance. . A (THIOLS IMII STKI. A W'cra f*rm *1 NMilastaa, >l*s<— Haw W'*r*u are l'g|>l*4 m4 Mat—A tm ib Market. When at Nottingham a few days Ago, I waa much pleased at tha discovery of an entirely new industry, namely, tha rearing and education of wonna for the piifTMjaea of angler*. Mr Wella, fishing tackle maker, of Sussex street, Notting ham, carries on a business aud trade in worms. lie haa several people in hia employ who collect worms every fsvura ble night during tlie year. Be soils the following lunds of worms, namely, the lob or dew worm, the oockapur and the nug-tailed brandling. In dry weather worms are scarce; the men have to water the ground for thein. lu wet weather the worms are better and heavier. They are caught in the meadows and pasture lands in the neighborhood; the supply is not failing. The worms are sold by tlie thotuiaud or the quart. Iu a warm, moist night from two to aix thousand worms are brought in by the collectors. Home peo ple can collect worms much better than others. Tlie worms are very conning, and are apt to pop back into their boles it tiie person tread? heavily. When the worms are brought in, Mr. | Wella at once begins hia training opera tion* by plamug Litem in properly se lected moaa. Bug's horn mua* will not .do at all, it is too harsh. Oraas is bad. Field itioas is the beet. The worms are put into the moaa to scoor. A fresh ■aught worm is very delicate and tender, and easily breaks up when pot 00 the hook. When a worm is properly edn oated he is aa tough as a bit of uxlia rubber, and behaves aa a worm should when put on a book. The way to teat a worm is to take lnm up and paaa the finger gently down the length of him. If anything cornea oat of him he is not fit, aud is put back for further training. The meaning of this is that the wild worms contain, more or lean, food under going digestion. When put into the moss this food disappears. The moaa in some way facilitates this operation, but I cannot quite see bow this is. un less the worms disgorge all their former food, and practically become very little else than skin. The keeping of worms depends very much upon the weather. They will not keep well above a week. Mr. Wella haa a supply of worm* ready for his custom ers ail the year round. He goes over hia moaa very frequently, picking out the mauled slid mashed worms, and only sending to market the plump and healthy ones, which are packed up for market in moan; the I tags used ore of light canvas. Not only dues Mr. Wells collect worms, but he also breeds them in considerable quantities. In his garden ia a special heap made of vegetable matter, express ly for the purjxiee of breeding worms. I shall not, of course, say what substance for worm-breeding is mf m *■—S TMaf wfcw PMmI Mr*. MliMrk'i I'M-kM- A H IIIMWMIm IFC KIM sf llrlOw OmM* Haaatas rssSs.s. Shortly after elevan o'clock Saturday folenoon, say* the I>etroit Fres /Vess of a recent date. Mis. Mil nock and her lit tie daughter entered the Central Market. The lady had purchased and paid for some fruit and had placed her pocket book, containing tl'l eaab, back in her pocket, when her Utile girl aeked her to buy a peach, and Mrs. Minnoek pot bar hand toward ber pocket for the money. In doing so she touched the hand at Ernest Myers, who was just taking it sway from the pocket and bad the pocket book in bis grasp Of coarse Myers immediately ran and Mrs. Minnoek fol lowed, shouting: "Stop thief!" The thief ran almost into the arms at Officer Sheppard, who had dodged around the market to head him off, but before his arrest be threw the money on the • ground, where it wss found. Myers was arraigned at the police court in the after noon and was remanded for auminatioo next Tuesday. "That wss awful clumsy work," re marked a boy about twelve years old, wbo saw Myers' attempt and detaction while picking the pocket. Among those who heard the boy was a prominent law- Sat this city. After the excitement subsided somewhat, the attorney, who had kept sight at the boy, asked him what he meant when be called Myers' work "clumsy." "Jest what I said." answered the boy. " Whan a prise is placed under your nose, you'd be clumsy if yon failed to uip it." And when his interlocutor continued the boy proceeded with great eameat neaa to explain what "a big thing them outside hanging pockets iabow be "wouldn't blame anybody for going through Vm." "Why, says be, "they're the biggest temptation on deck,* and must have been invented to tease fellers wbo are hard up." Deeply interested, the lawyer went on with his* inquiries, which at last led to an exhibition by the boy on the promise that be should not get into trouble. He strolled through the market with his in quisitive companion, and on the way took four ailk handkerchiefs and a diary from the pockets of Are different ladies sad put them back again without being observed by any person beside the law yer. Then they walked up Michigan Grand avenue to" the Russell House cor ner, and on the way the boy "nipped," as he called it, a pocket-book from the pocket of • young lady and handed it to the lawyer, who courteously lifted bis hat and returned it the owner, as if it had fallen from her pocket Near the Russell House cornet the boy attempted to " nip " a silk handkerchief from one of these "outside hanging baskets," as be termed the pocket, but the article srould not come out, and the young expert turned to his companion with : " It's pinned 1 Now watch me do a good job." Glancing hastily around, the boy took a position just back of the lady—who was waiting far a oar—and to all appearances was busily engaged in looking at a lightning calcu lator, who was lecturing to a street audience a few feet away. He stood there about half a minute, when he saontuml carelessly toward the lawyer, slyly exhibiting the handkerchief. Not aatiaflad with his work, the boy winked and again took his position near the lady. In a few seconds be attracted the atten tion at the lawyer and exhibited the handkerchief partially in the pocket, as though it had been pulled nearly out At the boy's request the gentlemn ac costed the lady with - " Madam, are you losing Tour hand kerchief." " Thank you. but it won't fall entirely out," answered the lady, aa she pulled upon it to show that she bad taken the precaution to pin it into her pocket Thus ended the experimental trip, made in the moat public part of the city, and in broad daylight and as (he boy re ceived for hia reward a silver quarter, he shuffled off in the directum of the city hall, saying to his late companion: " Them "pockets ia the easiest thing in the world to atrip, and I hope the fash ion will hang on forever. lfeatk fa >*l(4 " Ifflia." The Sidnev (Australia) .Vwi says: Mr. W. M. H. Davenport, one erf the brothel* whose performances sa illusion ists have created for them a world-wide reputation, died at the Oxford Hotel, King street, on Sander morning, from pulmonary consumption. Tie brothers arrived at Sidney three weeks ago from New Zealand, where they had been giv ing a series of performances, bat while there William Davenport broke a blood vessel, and name to Sidney under the ad vice of his medical attendknta. He seemed to be recovering his health after his arrival here, and was in excellent spirit*, bnt broke a second blood vessel again last Thursday week, and another one yesterday morning. This last proved falsi He was attended here by Dr. Marker, who, however, with Dr. Hal kett, held out no hopes that be would ever recover, the disease having taken a firm hold on his system. He haa been suffering from phthisis far same years. He leaves a young widow, having been married five months ago. His funeral took place yesterday afternoon. Deceased was a native of Buffalo, and waa well known here and throughout the country aa a "spiritual medium," whose busi ness it was, with his brother, to give what Spiritualists term "physical dem onstrations" A Little Off. A Detroiter called at a livery stable to secure s rig to take his wife out for s ride, and he made it a point to ask for s docile animal. While the horse inter d ed for him was being hitched up she reared up and acted very nervous, and the proprietor explained: "You needn't be a bit afraid of her. Site's simply a little off, to-day." The citizen got into the carriage, was whirled around the corner, and nothing more was seen of him for two hours. Then he came limping back and asked : " That horse was a little off, wasn't she?" "Yes." "Well, she kept growing offer and offer "till I ooncludea to get out, and then the way she got off altogether waa bad for the buggy. Go and get the pieces, and we'll settle up." AN OIJ> TOMBSTONE. —Workmen laying the foundation walls of the new Boston post-office, dug up seven feet below the sorfsee of the street, an old-fashioned blue slate headstoue, with the follosring inscription : Here Iveth buried Ye body of Joshua Heweti aged 66 Years depsred His life ye 2So Day of January 167 ft. Ttie Queen of Madagascar has by public proclamation liberated the whole of the slaves in the island. By a treaty with England in 1865 she engaged that the practice of buying and selling slaves should be discontinued, but her subjects having evaded the treaty to a great ex tent by pretending that their slaves were f>urchased before th entreaty came into oroe, the decisive step taken by the queen has been rendered necessary. JAY GOULD* LAIR. VmmmLHl* Plflk Irnmt A N* York ptpar gives lb* following interesting information concerning the greet financier's office end bow it ia ran: Jy Ooukl ia i special partner in the firm (if William Balden A Co., the other members of the Arm baingWilliam Bel den, Charles D. Ibidem W. E. Connor, who ia the member u< Stork Excbauge, and Hmury Belden. In the struggle be tween the Atlantic and Pacific and Western Union stuck in that Uitrkei, last fall, William Balden made each a brilliant raid on Western Union, that Gould, whose interest in the rival stock were great, at ones formed a business connection with him. The offices of the Arm, at AO Broadway, are characteristic in their arrangement. They occupy the whole of one side of the first story at the building fronting on Broadway, and overlooking in the rear Exchange Plaoe, the eoane of the meant assault upon Mr. Gould. A afoot door-man stands half-hidden in the doorway, so that when a visitor who does not match direct to the windows of some at the clerks most halt eyt give his name, sod the name of the member at the Arm be wishes to see before he aan enter. Then if he ia to have admittance at all, be is per mitted to enter into the front recep tion room, where one at the younger members of the Arm, Obark-s D. Belden is. The room is richly carpeti-d, and has for furniture large, goefostable Shaker chairs, a lounge, and an office table, Mttwwn with ftbm at financial journals. In one oorner of the room ia a gold and stock telegraph instrument, which runs out a printed slip containing the gist at the current aasra—the winning horses on the race course and their time, the price of consols in London and rentes in Paris, the latest advances about the Ros aia war, whatever Washington news there is at ituimrtauee, failures, suspen sions, anil SO forth. The reception room at the end at the building is ceey enough at aoocas, but the office at the other and of the narrow ball into which out steps on entering the office ia closed to the outside world. " That ia J. G.'s private office," a young man in the office said. J. G. is the only way Mr. Gould ia spoken of in his office, except when he is in hearing. The private office ia closed by intricate patent locks, and Jay Gould carries the key. He generally pursues a circuitous route byway of the front room to get to it, so that enraged antagonists can gain nothing bjf foUoaiug hue. The clerks are all in stall*. Three apartments are fenced in, in tbe center of the room, with wire mash, and tbe entrance to each is in the rear by means of a door fastened with a patent kick. Communi cation between tbe different depart ments ia practically cut off. Tbe cus tomers are received at the front opening in tbe wire fence, and hastily (imposed of. Behind the iadosare where the deries! work is done is a passage three feet wide, leading from the front office to the roar. It ia dosed id both ends with patent spring hick doom A half doeen neatly dressed boys tit on a bench does to the wall in the passage, to ran about the offices or to the exchange, when tbe telegraphic alarm beside them is sounded. In anothernarrow bag, with glass surroundings instead of wire, a telegraph operator sits in front of four instruments. Whan Mr. Gould ia traveling tbe messages crane in thick and fast all day kmg, and he is informed by telegraph of everything that is going on. When Mr. Gould is in his Fifth avenue house he rile beside hie operator there and confers with some member of bis Arm wbo ia in the office, A window omma into the private office, and when there is a secret conference it ia closed and fastened oo tbe inside, so that even the operator oar not hear what ia said. The office has two beautiful French walnut desks in it, each with a soft leather chair before it. Rich furniture Alls the room. There are news and •took telegraph instrument* in each oorner, which all day kmg unwind their printed tape. The place ia Ailed with the roar and bellowing at tbe Block Ex change, just across the street. Gould ran stand at one of the windows and see the bmmb of madly acting man hustling each other about the Exchange floor, sod *hr%*rfT their like boys with burnt Angers. His dude is Ailed with few papers as moat at his work which brings his papers into use is in hi* house. There was at noon, when the writer was in the office, a table spread for lunch. Its linen was spotless and gioasy, the glassware delicate, and the silverware rich. A black walnut sideboard in tbe room was open, and revealed many jan aad bottles that are treasures uf good things for a lunch. Tbe food comes from a restaurant near by. Gould saves time by having his meal time served, and eat without being in fear of an as sault before be gets through. A door next to Mr. Gould's private desk! was observed to have a key in the lock. "That opens into Jim Keene's office,* aaid a young gentieman. "He can come right in here to see J. 0., that ia, when J. G. chooses to let him in." A stair way about a foot and a half wide leads from the narrow passageway, which con nects with tbe front and rear offices, down into tbe basement and out into Broadway. It ia Hie meat secret at all the arrangements of foe office, and would prove highly convenient in ease a maddene 1 mob of brokers should be siege the offices. In Mr. Gould's Fifth svenue house he has four operators, so thai what messages be eends bv one are not known to the others. He has a private office there too, where he works early and late. He keeps a set of hooka m which he records information shout the stocks in which he deals. He ia aaid to own $12,000,000 in Union Pacific stock. Every day he jots down the estimated earnings of the road aa they are reported to him by telegraph, and no eye but his sees that American Girls. Thia is what the American Register tells the Parisians, perverted by the libels of " L'Onele Sun f " Your true American girl is • very charming being. Like all creatures reared in freedom, she possesses an untaught grace and vigor of mind aa well as of body. She is no helpless puppet, as is her* European prototype, pulled about by hidden wires, and kept perpetually in a box. Bred amid the healthful at mosphere of a social system of excep tional purity, respected, honored and guarded from babyhood by the chivalrous natures I 1 '** surround her, she learns to think and act aright. It is well-nigh impossible to over-estimate her influence on our social system. Beared at her aide, the American youth grows up with an instinctive reverence for, and desire to protect, helpless iraoeeooe and maid enly purity. The mlotm to which she lends the charm qt her winning graces and vonthful sweetness are more potent for good than were the salons of Re camier or De StaeL The love that she inspires is s young man's best shield against temptation. Bhe does not her self understand, the-smiling maiden, what good she has done ana is doing every dnv. Yet her white image has waved back many a yonth from the pathway of temptation, her clear eyes lent light to the comprehension of better things." The Children. "Isn't it always so?" exclaimed a mother, in despairing tones. " Can yon ever get a child to show off when you wiali it to?" And there sat her obdurate toddler, outwardly serene, in its enjoyment of a candy bribe, bnt all aflame with inwasd determination not to sing "Bobby I Shatter." He simply represents "a large and growing class of the com munity," as the newspapers say ; and so his ewe is worthy of consideration. He's the average child, and we may all learn a lesson from him, for the benefit of the present race of Utile ones. We can resolve that all precocious development is hurtful; premature ability, premature politeness, prema ture goodness, even! Heaven shield them all from aught that will stiffen them too soon into little men and women ! Woman's province—The Isls ef Mas.