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
<d reason of my own sex, that I could
see nothing more mtlie man than 1 have
alrea.lv delivered to the reader.
I u tiie middle of an exciting atory of
adventure, of which he, to the already
prejudiced mind of his fair amlitors,
was evidently the hero, he stopjHnl sud
denly.
"It's only some ack-traiu passing the
bridge ou the lower track," explaiued
Sylvester, "Go on."
" It mav lw mv horse is a trifle uneasy
in Uie atai.de," said the alleged Kearney,
"he ain't used to boards aud covering,"
Heaven only knows wliat wild de
licious re volition lay iu the statement of
the fact, but the girls looked at each
other with cheeks pink with excitement
as Kearney arose, and wiUt quite ab
sence of ceremony, quitted the table.
•• Ain't he just lovely !" said Kate,
gasping for breath, " and so witty."
" Witty f" said gentle May, with just
the slightest trace of defiance iu her
voice. "Witty, my dear? why don't
you see that his heart is just breaking
with paUios? Witty, indeed; why. when
he was speaking of that poor Mexican
woman that was hung, I saw tears
gathering iu his eyes. Wittv, indeed
"Tears." laughed the cynical Sylves
ter, " tears, idle tears. Why, you silly
children, the man is a man of the world
—a philosopher, quite, olwervaut, unas
suming."
" Uuassumiug !" Was Sylvester in
toxicated, or hail the mysterious strang
er mixed the "insane verb" with the
family pottage ? He returned before I
could* answer Uiis self-asked inquiry,
aud resumed coolly his broken narrative.
Finding myself forgotten iu the man I
had so long hesitated to iutroduoe to
my friends, 1 retired to Best early, only
to hear, through the thiu partitions, two
hours later, entlrusiastic praises of the
uew guest from the voluble lipa of the
girls, as they chatted together iu the
uext room before retiring.
At midmght I waa startled by the
sound of horses' hoofs aud the jingling
of spurs below. A conversation be
tween my host and some mysterious
personage in the darkness was carried
on in such a low toue that I could uot
learn its import. As the cavalcade rode
away, I raised the window.
" What's the matter?"
" Nothing," said Sylvester, coolly,"
" ouly another oue of thooe playful
homicidal freaks peculiar to the country.
A man WHS shot by Cherokee Jack over
at Lagrange this niorumg, and that was
the. sheriff of Calaveras and his posse
hunting him. I told him I'd seen no
liody but yon and your friend. By tlie
way* I hope the cursed noise hasn't di*-
turlxsl liim. The poor fellow looked as
though he wanted rest."
1 thought so, too. Nevertheless, I
weut softly to 1118 room. It was empty.
Mv impression was that he had distanced
the sheriff of Calaveras about two hours.
Words of Wisdom.
He that is everywhere is nowhere.
Confidence generally inspires con
fidence.
Jealousy is no more than awkward
homage.
The greatest scholar* are not the
wisest men.
Nothing is so nucertain as the minds
of the multitude.
No excellent soul is exempt from a
mixture of folly.
To what use serves learning if the
understanding lie away.
The test government is that which
teaches self-government.
If individuals have no virtues their
vices may be of use to us.
Age make* us not childish, as men say;
it finds us still true children.
Two things the most opposite blind
us equally—custom sud novelty.
Fishes live in the sea as men de a-laud;
the great ones eat up the little ones.
A kiss ought to be a mark of honest
affection, not a weapon of hypocrisy.
Prosperity does beat discover vice,
bat adversity does best discover virtue.
Reuaou cannot show itself more reason
ably than to cease reasoning 011 things
above reason.
It is not enough to have great quali
ties ; we should also have the manage
ment of them.
Let no man trust the first step of guilt;
it liungs upon a precipice, whose steep
descent ill lost perdition ends.
The miserv of the young iuan who
courts a sparkling, fashionable lielle nnd
loses her, is only excelled by the misery
of the man who courts her and wins her.
We observe with confidence the truly
strong mind, view it as intellect or
morality, or nnder any other aspect, is
nowise the mind acquainted with its
strength; that here the sign of health is
unconsciousness.
We adore graves with flowers and
redolent plants, just emblems of the life
of mail, which has been compared in the
Holy Scriptures to tlioae failing l>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|H<arauce ; while ash give*
the butter a strong flavor if kept long
and increases the liability to mould ;
, uiaple amells and cracks budly. Soak
all tubs four to six day* ill brine before
usiug.
Alonao t'raft* has found a g<M*l use
for sour cider. He had a sow with a
litter of -niue ing* winch the sow would
uot own. anil towards which she was
very violent, and but for their timely re
moval the little pigs would all \isve
lieen killed. He guve the sow two
quarts of sour cider aud in a few min
utes lie lav down evidently " the worse
for liquor. ' While she wan in this con
dition the pigs were twice put to her to
uok, aud when she recovered from her
" drunk " ahe owned the nigs all right,
anil now see ins exceedingly fond of her
progeny.
Have just examined a piece of ever
green sweet corn which was planted with
seed selected by usiug only the up}>er
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|M<lraat," shouted
from the engine, probably did not con
vey much idea to our Asiatic friends,
but the cxpbuistioQ seems satisfactory,
for the head* went iu a* the train backed
rapidly down the incline and again drew
up at Hheitaujik, where we hail to wait
two mortal hours while the damaged
pipe was replaced or mended. The train
was emptied again snd the Zeibecka scat
tered over tlie fields ar.mnd the station,
or siiuatted psticntly aUuit the platform.
The Europet.ii passengers byway of be
guiling time began another breakfast,
ranch to the astonishment of their
Oriental fellow travelers who gazed in
wonder through the window. Never
touching wine or strong drink, and sub
sisting for days aud weeks together upou
bread ami water, these abstemiuoua.sclf
deuyiug people might well marvel at the
capacity of the Giaour*. Before the
damaged engine was ready for work
again tlie suu hail act aud the hour of
prayer hail arrived. Along the entire
length of the platform, with one accord,
the Zeilieeks ranged themselves in line.
Faring toward the Holy City (Mecca),
snd devoutly pnttiug off their shoes,
they made their eveuing prayer. It was
a most striking sight A hundred pairs
of hands were raised simultaneously in
adoration, a hundred foreheads touched
the ground together. Bristling with
weapons and gay with all the picturesque
variety of Eastern costume, the long line
of pious warriors stood, knelt aud was
prostrated. It was the strangest
"church parade" I had ever seen.
La Ilah il Allah ve. Mohammed rroul
Allah —" There is 110 God but God, and
Mohammed i* the right of God." Once
more we were translated iuto the Middle
Ages. Just a* a robber baron of old
would bum hia neighbor's castle, carry
off hi* wife and then found a chantrey,
so these Mussulman freebooters of to
day will pillage a house, "find" a purse,
and then put off their shoes and pray.
The Writer's Cramp.
A paper read by M, BouiHand before
a recent mooting of the French Academy
if Sciences gives au nccount of his fur
ther researches relative to lesions of the
brain. Iu his former communications
he demonstrated flint, the loss of speech
was due to n malady of the third circum
volution of the left anterior lobe of that
organ. He now goes further, and as
serts the throe faculties which essential
ly distinguish man from other animals
—B)>eech, 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*<grand, a man of seventy-one, an.l a
well-known dhanottr of the city. Evi
dence* of suicide, in the presence of a
half emptied laudanum buttle, and a
tumbler witli the dreg* of a dose of
poison in the bottom, were at baud, and
oa the table beanie them waa the follow
nig moat curiou* memoir—a memoir
which will take it* place in the collection
of literary curiuaitie* of the century, aud
*>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 m<wt favorable;
this is a professional secret. On turn
ing the heap over where the worms are
bred, it waa very interesting to see the
worms in various stages of growth. Mr.
Wells knows from exjierienoe pretty well
what the age of a worm ia 1 had the
pleasure of pointing out to him the eggs
of tlie worm. These are about three
lines long, and somewhat oval. They
had a sort of lid at each end, which
ipeua when the young are liberated. I
believe thai two young are sometimes
produced from the same egg.
The buainees of worm selling has been
going on some ten years and ia gradu
ally increasing AViisA Ituckland, in
Jxtnd and Water.
Who ** Sitting Bull n la.
A corrrepondent of a New York peper
at Fort Walsh, in the Rntiah Northwest
Territories, gives some interesting infor
mation concerning Hitting Ball, the In
dian leader at the Custer massacre. It
will be remembered that after the maaaa
cre of Custer's command, Hitting Rail
eventually made his wav to the British
possessions, where lie has been living
in security. Tlw correspondent says of
him ;
The mystery that ha* hitherto shrond
ed the personal Ue great Sioax warrior
has I teen removed. In conversation
after dinner with one of the police offi
cers, be said Uiat he was a native of Fort
Garry, and an Alumnus of St. John's
College there—statements which he him
self afterward confirmed. Several old
traders who have had a took at him de
clare that they remember him well as
Charlie Jacobs, a half-breed wbo attend
ed the college in its infancy thirty years
ago. This young Jacobs was of Objib
way birth, and was a remarkably intelli
gent lad, with ambition to become a
•• big Injun." He disappeared from Fort
Carry about 185.1. When asked by the
police officer if he recollected anything
slvont Fort Carry, Hitting Bull laughed
heartily, aud said he knew the principal
people there, among others, Donald A.
Smith, the Hudson Bay factor; James
Sutherland, and Father Vary, now a
missionary at the Hanlt He was also
well acquainted with the late James
Cues, Chief Justice of the Riel-Lepine
Government in 1869 70. indeed, he says
they were boys together. Ross was a
half-breed, who, after graduating at St.
John's College, went to Toronto Univer
sity, where he was n gold medalist Sit
ting Bull says his father, Henry Jacoha,
was at one time employed as interpreter
by Father Prouix on Manitoulin Island,
but whether the old gentleman it dead or
not he does not know. Sitting Bull is
thoroughly familiar with French aud
English, and several Indian languages.
He is about forty-two or forty-three
years of age, a medium sisad, athletic
built man, of no distinguishing traits be
yond those always found in the half
bree 1. He is an excellent conversation
alist, and will talk on every subject but
his plans for the future.
Murdered by Ills Bride.
A rich miller of Hankow, near Eger,
in Austria, aged sixty, lately married a
girl of eighteen, who consented hi the
match on acoonnt of his wealth and the
urgency of her parents. She was, how
ever, deeply in love with the miller's
foreman, sod consented to the murder of
the old man in order to free herself and
enjoy his wealth. The wedding snpper
waa* largely attended by the villager*,
and the festivities lasted all night. At
daybreak the miller, according to cus
tom, visited his mill and was pushed
into the stream by the assistant foreman,
who had been drawn into the plot under
a promise of money. The water not
lieing deep, the miller regained his feet,
and struggled violently with his assassin,
who was soon assisted by the bride and
her lover. The two men held him under
the. water aud the girl immersed his
head, which she kept below the surface
until life became extinct; she then took
her lover's arm and coolly rejoined the
guests, with whom she joined in the
dance.
Clear as Mud.
The following is a literal oopy of the
address upon a letter recently mailed in
this city :
For mister patriek Davy
Orarston rhode ilund
in the state of neu york
ten be Handed to bridget
o flaherity ten be handed
for to her sister ann
madigan pautneket
rhodd il&nd ten remain
in the post offis till
oalled for monday week. ,
—Boston Traveller
NUMBER 37.
luiuisu ratEn
( •Slera >f 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.