Hi* hnwr'i Day.
*T itui UJ>I.
Up. when the lark* to labor call,
Jnst M the sun's first glance* ton
Lovingly on the breeding toll.
Oh MI fill the (innw form to toil ;
Sober and honest. hearty and hale.
Thrift and tndastrv never toil;
Working, otill working, till net of ton,
And mat at laat when tha toil ia done.
Contented he looks at the work of the day,
Then happily homeward takes his way ;
A light in his window shines before-
Brighter the light at his onen door :
The star of his home smiles welcome there;
" Thanks be to heaven the world's so fair !"
Heart speaks to heart, and hnsbend and wife
Merit the joy of their hnnihle life.
" Two's Company."
MIM Jeany B was born for me.
And I *nu born for Jenny ;
For any other mm 1 tee
I hardly care a penny.
Two turtle-doves yon never saw
80 fond of one another.
And yet my rapture hath a flaw
My Jenny hath a brother !
A child of eight, or under that;
* Of manner* inoffensive
Ton rarely And *0 young a brat
With knowledge so extensive.
For him two syllable* are naught.
He laugh* at long division .
lie says his lesson*, as he ought.
With laudable precision.
Due reverence for m* he shows ;
F* greets me a* a •• mister,"
The clever boy !—I know he knows
1 love hi* pretty sister.
It iy be chance -and yet I see
That more than chance is in it;
He never leave* Mi>* B and me
Together for a minnta
I can not heave the tender sigh
With any sattsfact.cn
While such an incubus is by
To mark my every acUou.
I can not bend the supple knee.
And " pop " the tender question ;
The very thought of Number Three
Forbid* the soft suggestion.
Me never meet, vre never talk.
But thoee two eyes sspy us ;
We never strive to steal a walk
But Number Three is nigh us.
In sach a sad and sorry plight
Ferhap* it would be better
To plead my suit in blsck and white.
And register the letter.
A GOOD LITTLE SAMARITAN.
Miss Betty Van Dyke had curled her
self up in the corner of the capacious
window-sill in her mo tier's kitchen
to watch Fifine flute the flounces of her
India muslin. Miss Betty was as pretty
and fresh as a rose; her eyes were of
heaven's owu blue, her hair like threads
of gold, her cheeks "like a Catherine
pear, the side that's next the suo." Fi
fine was nothing more than a bundle of
old boues wrapped in a piece of parch
ment ; ahe was a native of Lorraine,
and had lately married an Englishman
familiarly known as " George," whom
ahe had loved for many a year.
Misa Betty was romantic, and it so de
lighted her when George at last yielded
to the idolatry of poor Fifiue, that she
ooaxed her father into leasing a bit of
•crabby woodland with a tumble down
house upon it, to George, so that he
could have a garden and potato patch,
and raise some chickens, and take nice
care of poor Fifine. Miss Betty even
condescended to go to diem during the
honse-fiuiahing and the houey-moon,
and assist Fifine in her little domestic
furnishing and adorning, and advise
George in relation to hia garden, his
potato patch, his chickens aud wood
splitting.
But, truth to say, George had so stud
ied the character and attributes of the
noble Indian that he modeled hia life
upon it, so far as resigning all domestic
duties to poor Fifiue. He gave over to
his spouse the entire supervision of the
garden, potato patch, chickeu-raising
and even the wood-splitting. He was
of a dreamy nature, and would sit for
hoars on a rude bench he had placed
near the water, and there he would
smoke and meditate until Fifine had
tidied up the hoose, and fed the chickens
and hoed the potables, and washed a
couple of dozen pieces for one of her
patrons, and sp it some w-md. and got
dinner upon the table, and then George
would come ID and eat dinner sub Fi
fiue, aud tell her of all he had been
thinking about while sitting there upon
the bench under the trees.
Fifine was very happy. Slieknew that
George was superior to her in mind, but
he Tad told her time and again that it was
right he shonld be her superior, and he
loved her all the better for it '
But Miss Bettv bail her misgivings,
and one day, when she was curled up
like a lovely kitten upon the window-sill,
she said to Fifine : " What does George
do, Fifine. toward the support of the
household ? It seems to me that yon are
always slaving and toiling. What does
George do ?"
Then Fifine shrugged her shoulders,
which had become somewhat crooked
and bulgy from the heavy burdens they
had borne all these years, and ele
vated ber eyebrows, which were rather
•craggy and gray, and said, with a world
of feeling in her voice : " What does be
do, my angel f He gives to me the hap
piness which ia my all: he gives to me
the Conversation which'■ beautiful ;he
tells me of what ia going on in tbe big
boar world ; he pities, be consoles —ah,
my little one, he loves me I"
Mies Betty blushed and was silent,
and thought, foolish child, that, after
all, thia waa every thing. She left Fifine
to iron the tucks and furbelows with
which Mrs. Van Dyke delighted to adorn
her daughter Betty, and went out under
the grapevine, and walked to and fro,
and thought that if somebodv—and here
ahe trembled an I blushed at the thought
of his name—if he would read to her
•gain, would talk to her again, would
tell her of the big beautiful world once
more, if he would love her—ah, what
would ahe not he glad to give in return !
She would work for him—ay, ahe would
work her slim fingers to the bone, onlv,
of oonrse, he wouldn't let her ; he was
too noble and generous and thoughtful
But if the necessity should arise, how
glad she would be to do even like poor
Ftflne, if only he would love her in re
turn !
But, alas ! the superiority of mankind
was here also pre-eminent." He was the
new minister, the Rev. Reginald Roake.
The consistory had thought it best to
get a vonng man, v o that he could board
aronnd among the parishiouers, and
thus save the rent of a parsonage. Cap
tain Van Dyke, Misa Betty's father, had
thought it best to economize in every
way that they could, and had even taken
the young man to board at first. He
told his wife they'd scarcely miss what
the parson ate, and tbe church must be
helped along as much as was prudent
" and possible.
But the captain, after a few months,
suddenly changed his mind. Tbe voitog
minister was very fertile in imagination
and quick in thought; and his sermons
were speedily prepared, and the long
summer days hail so many sweet, ri-h
hours to fill! Miss Betty's duties were
also light; her mother was still active
and robust ; there were two sturdy
young women in the kitchen, besides
the occasional artistic work of Fifine.
The captain sight was keen and strong ;
when he was ont sailing in the bar be
oonld see a couple of figures bending
over some book in the Bummer-house,
or wandering among tbe rocks or along
the sands upon the shore. Tbe captain
would come home hot and v xed, and
tike his wife to task for this misdoing.
" I don't want any oeggarlv parsons
hinging around my daughter," said the
captain.
The good lady would look very much
shocked, and really tremble in her heart
at the captain's temerity, for she thought
it was almost tempting Providence to
cast a contemptuous wird upon the
clergy; but she had that wholsome fitor
of the captain that she never ventured
to remonstrate with him. She sighed ia
FRED. KURTZ, Editor nnd Proprietor.
VOLUME X.
secret with her daughter when the cap
tain managed to transfer the preacher to
the care of a wealthy and coincly widow
iu the neighborhood.
" He can poach all he pleases on tliat
domain," mod the captain; and shortly
after, he wna delighted to nee tlie rever
end gentleman ndiug out with tlie fair
widow, and gathering grasses and feme
in tlie pretty woodland haunt# about
Grauville.
•' W can't keep a parson single,"
chuckled tli' captain at his dinner table:
"the women won't let htm alone, do
what ae may. But the widow Benaou
owua her own house, and that will save
rent for a parsonage."
The morsel upon Miaa Betty's fork re
mained untested, and lite captain tu this
war apoiled many a meal for hut
daughter.
And ao the summer waned, and Sep
tember was at hand—September with
her aoft blue base and rich warm ami
ahtue ; and though the WHIOW had a
brilliant garden of herowu, she waa fond
of the wanton wild dower* that grew aj
luxuriously in the woods of Granville.
She aud the jouug minister Ailed the
houae with great cluster* of golden-rods
aud asters and big purple poke-barriea.
One day thepouy-phietou stopped before
the door of Captam Van Dyke, and the
widow was led into the sitting room,
where she found Mias Hetty almost
hidden by a mosquito uettiug which she
was busily patching.
" Come, child," said the widow, " put
away that rag. and run get a pretty dress
on. I've promised myself this many a
day we should take this drive together,
and I declare to vou it shall be the rarest
one you ever haA in your life. The day
is made richlv to order for it; the
balmiest air, the goldeueet sunahine—
not a cloud in the sky ! Ruu sway, and
make yourself look as pretty as you
can."
•• You are very kind," eaid Mian Betty,
with a little trip of oold jealousy ou her
tongue; " but I must mend this nettiug
for poor Fidnc. She is sick with a fever,
and the mosquitoes are dreadful dowu
there in the wood. Mamma says I may
have this netting if I can make it do; it
is so badly torn," said poor iiettv, "and
so perplexing t But I could not sleep,
Mrs. Beusou," she added, with an air of
geutle dignity, iu which there was alao
a slight suiff ol reproach—"l could not
sleep in my own bod of luxury, and
know that poor Fifine was languishing
there, a prey to fever and mosquitoes."
If the widow had thereupon offered to
drive to town with Miss Betty and buy
for Fifine a brand-new canopy, Miss
Betty would have put the old netting
aside ; but she was at heart very glad
that the flue lady offered no such sacri
fice to charity, for she could not bear to
find her altogether perfect.
" Ten chances to one, my dear," said
the widow, "vou'll have your labor for
your pains. these poor creatures are
very superstitious and queer, and don't
knew what is beat for them. I've no
doubt, in auv case, ahe has pretended
to be sick to get rid of some clear-starch
ing for your gooo mother. Fifiue would
rather work at home, so that she can be
with that iubberlv lout of a husband of
hers, bhe is the fiueat aud beat of
laundresses, and sorry ahonld I be to
have any thing befall her ; but you
must not be lie v > all that these wily
Frenchwomen say."
The color mantled high in Miss
Betty's cheeks as these slanders fell
upon her ears, and she steadily refused
to put ber work aside.
"You are a little goose," said the
widow at length. "Must I tell you,
then, thst we shall have some charming
company with us ? We are to stop at ray
house for Mr. Roake—there, now, Miss
Betty, run away and dress.
The color fled from Miss Beatty's
cheeks, aud the needle trembled in her
fingers. As she raised her blue eyea to
the flue black ones of the widow, a tear
or two trembled within them.
" Yon are welcome to yoar charming
company," she said. " I will go on
with my work for poor Fifine."
The widow laughed lightly and went
iway, leaving poor Miss Betty to strug
gle on with her troublesome task, which
was more and more irkaoine u >w that she
kuew bow s *me other people were
spending their afternoon. As rent after
rent yawned before her, and her wesry
little fingers grew lees and less nimble,
more than once the question arose with
in her whether it was better to go on.
Since nobody cared for her, why should
she care for any body ? Bat her gener
ous heart conquered all thiwe bitter
temptations, and nearly at night- fell she
ran up stairs to slip on the pretty mus
! lin robe, all smoothed and crimped by
tbe art and industry of poor Fifine. The
netting was not a very heavy burden,
but she carried also a kettle of ice with
her and a pot of jelly. She took the
road through the woods, and though it
was growing darker, and her heart beat
rapidly, and she could not brush the
mosquitoes away because ber hands
were so full, yet she was upheld by the
thought of reecning poor Fifiue. Since
she could not save her from the stiugs
of slander and reproach, she alion d at
least be free from those of mosquitoes.
At last through the trees she could see
the cfaicken-coops of Fifine, and soon
she was at the poor wroman's bedside.
The heart of Mine Betty was fired with
indignation when she rememliered the
cruel words of the widow. Fifine lay
upon a rude bed in the corner. Always
thin and brown, she might now have
been taken for an exhumed queen of
Egypt, and Miss Betty could not imagine
how all these mosquitoes could find it in
their anatomy to prey upon poor Fifiue.
when tbe fat and unctions substance of
George was temptingly at hand upon the
bench outside, where he was enjoying
hia evening pipe. Miss Betty stooped
over the sick woman, aDd said, softly,
"I have brought you some ice, dear Fi
fine."
" Ah, my angel ! my angel of light I"
said Fittm-, "thou hast of hearts the
most merciful ; but, alas, I cannot have
the ice, I am too cold already, my little
one. There is a cold hand at my heart.
No, no ; I cannot have the ice."
*• Very well, Fifine," said Miss Betty,
putting down the kettle which had been
such a nuisance to her, "you shall uot
be troubled with the ice, but here ia
some jelly."
" Ah. my blessed one !" cried Fifine,
" thou art iike a saint from heaven ; but
talk not to me of jelly. They have
given me of jelly many years ago, after
some bitter medicine, and I have since
that lime no hunger for jelly. Ah, rav
rose of the wildwood I it makes me sick
to thiuk of it."
" Then do not think of it, Fifine,"
said Miss Betty, putting aside the jar,
that had grown In-avier and heavier at
every step of the jonrney. " But these
dreadful mosquitoes, they are devouring
yon."
"Ah, yes, my adored one, tnev are
demons without mercy ; they have drawn
all tbe blood from my body, and their
dreadful song is madnerfs to my brain.
Bnt rest tranquil; death will soon put
an end to my misery."
" But see here, my poor Fifine," cried
Miss Betty, exnltingly unrolling her
precious net; "now yon can sleep in
peace. We will spread this over you,
George and I. and not one of the monsters
can reach you. See, my poor Fifine, we
will draw this over you—so and suit
ing the action to the word, Mies Betty
polled the net over the high post of the
bedstead, when suddenly a terrified look
upon the sick woman's face stayed her
bauds, and aha cried out to Fifiue, iu
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
!
TLITFIUAY : M Don't YOU want Uie not owr
> QMe IrHllne f"
" Ah. life of my hie I" said Fiflne, " it
is sad, it is terrible! I know not how
to deuy thee, after all thou hast done lor
me ; hut, oh, my little one. 1 eau not
have it over me. 1 hare tried, I r tli.v
dear sake, to l>ear it. I told myself that
1 would say no word against >•—* l h'ust
till tliou wi re gone, when (Jeorge oouhl
null it away—but I eau not even lor one
little moment. Ah, mv angel, wait until
1 am dead. and tlien tliey can draw over
me the pail, and put caudles at my head
•ud leet, and do with me what they will;
hut while I am vet alive 1 can not he
t rented like a dead body.
Miaa liettv aaid no further word# of
entreaty or remonstrance, hut let the
iinaerahle, duusv tbiug fall out of her
liauda upon tlie fl.*>r; and haviug
smoothed Ftdue's pillow, and held aonie
milk to her lip*, and promised to oome
again in the moruiug, Mow Betty took
the woodland road home again.
It waa uow quite dark, *ud big
shadows aeemed to threateu every atrp
of her way. Her hekrt waa heavy within
her, and her poor little leet aeetued
scarcely able to carry even her light
weight'aloug. What a wretched, abor
tive attempt had been hera to alleviate
the miaerv ol poor Fiduc? It waa'aa
the beautiful widow hatl said, she had
had her labor fur her paius—the beauti
ful, mocking wtflow, who waa no doubt
ruling home thapugh the gloaming with
the Bev. Hegmad Roake.
At that very ■ouieut Mts Betty heard
the tramping of hoofa tiehmd her, and
stepped aside to let the light-limbed
pony of the widow pane by. The banket
side* of the phaeton were tilled with
wild tlowerw, and the white hands of
the raiuiater held a hunch of shy, sweet
forget-me-note aa blue aa Miss Betty's
eyes.
Tbe witlow drew up ber pony, anil
bade Mum Betty get iu by her aide, lost
the liobg >blins of the wood ahotiid
devour her ; hut the voung girl stoutly
refused, nor would ahe he coaxed from
her decision.
" I am not afraid of hobgoblins," ahe
said, thinking iu her heart there could
be none an greedy aud rapacious tu> the
lieautiful widow herself.
"Now what is to be done with this
olietiuate child ?" said the widow. The
minister had long since leaped from the
wagon and approached Miss Betty; but
she turned her back upon him, perhaps
to hide the tears of wretchedness which
were falling out of her eyes.
"Pick her up and put her in here
by me," said the widow. " I atn myself
a little afnud of the satyrs of the wood.
Come, child; do not lie a goose and get
jealous of your grand mother. The gen
tleman there has gathered a pretty nose
gay of forget-me- uoU for vou that were
left over from spring. \Ve ha\e been
looking for you far and wide, aud he has
done nothing but talk to me of his love
for you iill lam wck of the refrain."
Bettv turned a swift, melting glance
Itehimf her. Iu a twinkling the minister
had lifted ber to the widow's sule, aud
forgot to take his a-m
quite dark, aud the only star that ahune
iu the sky was that of Venus. They
drove rapidly on. Miss Betty's heart
thumping in unison with the hoofs of the
l>ony.
" I told you," said the widow, "you'd
have your labor for your paius. We
stopped at Fifine's. The poor creature
was fell of adoration for you. She
called upon every saint iu the calendar
to shower blessings upon your head.
She ssid that you had brought her some
lieautiful ice and some delicious jelly,
aud a net that was most wonderful "
But she refused them ell," said Miss
Betty.
" Ah, ve," replied the widow ; " but
George did not refuse them. He had
chopped up the ice in his milk, an I had
spread nil the jelly upon his bread, and
had wrapped himself up in the mos
quito netting, aud lay upon the lounge
when we entered, snoring, as F.fiue
said, like an augcL Fifine was parched
with fever and devoured with tuns
quitoes. but she declared to me that she
was qcite comfortable and I.tippy. I do
not understand it"
But Miss Bettv did. She nestled
closer to the arm about her, ami lifted
her flushed aud radiant face to the one
above her own.
" My sweet little Samaritan !" he whis
pered ; and although the widow could
not understand the hoppiuee* of Fifiue,
it was clear to the heart of Miss Betty.
—Harper't Weekly.
Ward* of Wisdom.
Be deaf to the quarrelsome, and dumb
to the inquisitive.
Character is the diamond which
scratches every other stone.
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty
soon overtakes uer.
At all times confidence and truth are
better preventives of jealousy than con
cealment.
Tbey who lewd shrink at the storms of
fortune are always most virtuous and
victorious in the end.
We would gain more if w lcfl our
selves to appear mich as we are, tlmn by
attempting to ap)>ear what we a e m t
He is liappv whose circumstances suit
h's temper ; but be is an>ra excellent
who cau suit bis temper to any circum
stances.
He that waits for repentance waits for
that which cannot be had as long as it is
waited for. It is obstird for a man to
wait for that which he himself has to do.
The most politic, liecatise tbe most
effectual, way of governing in a family
is for the husband occasionally to lay
aside his supremacy ; so in public as
well as in nrivate life, that king will be
most popular who does not at all times
exercise his full prerogative.
It would appear that there is a great
sympathy between the mind of man and
falsehood ; when we have a truth to tell,
it takes better if oonveved in a fable ;
and the rage for novels sliows that we
nuiv not only divert extremely without a
syllable of truth, but truth is even com
lielled to borrow the habit of falsehood
to secure itself an agreeable reception.
Read wood Death.
As I was resting in a camp on the out
skirts of Dead wood, writes a Black
Hills correspondent, a jolly-faced man
came along and asked for a job. He was
told that every tnan was working foi
himself, and making mighty poor wages
at that, when he replied :
"Gentlemen, I hnvea't had one good
meal in three weeks ; I haven't been
able to get a day's work ; I'm dead
broke, and the curtain is going to ring
down on this tragedy right here and
right now !"
He stepped aronnd the fire, pulled a
revolver from a miner's belt, and then
retreating back a pace or two, he aid :
"Gentlemen, I m going to die I I've
starved around the Black Hills for three
rtlbutbs, and if there's a worse place
than this I'm envious to see it I Excuse
me for wasting ammunition, but here I
go—crack I"
He put the muzzle of the revolver to
his forehead, and never kicked after the
report. No man rose np to restrain
him. After a few minutes the owner of
the revolver walked over and seenred it,
and, as he wiped a spot of blood off tbe
barrel, he growled out:
" Why didn't he jump over some cliff,
or go out and let the In 'ians tickle him
to death I"
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1877.
A ■OL'JfTAISEER'N EXPLOIT.
Haw a Karkr Maaatala Ktaav Uafebrr ml
Ikr OU faaklanrd Hluri Mcl Ilia Maltb.
" liah ! >n the*.< thirdola** *tge rob
ber* J" ooulwuptuouiily exclaimed tbo
ghtxly-headivl old luouulnioeer, a* he
felt around to hie hip to *ee if hia re
volver waa at ill there. " Follia try to
make out that thia Mack lfilla excite
meut ia tlie equal to the ruah to Cali
foruy, but it'a all boah. There'* lota o'
groenhoraa, he*f<* o' gamblera, au<l a
few footpada and atage atoppera, but
they ar' all third-claaa. Ye ought to
have lived ou the Slope wheu the old
Nugget State waa panning out the dut
from them thoueaud digging*, an*.when
stage robbing an" throat euttiu waa did
up iu Ant-claim atyle, day or uight."
lieing invite 1 to re lute aomethuig, lie
spread out hia big feet, braced hia tieok
agaiuat tlie hiuu wheel of a prairie
achoouer, and aaid: "Waal, it juat
uiakea me aick to hear time recruit* take
<>o an' aeo 'em grow pale over reporta
that eouie of the stage* ha* been atop
ied, an' the folk* robbed of a few dol
lar*. Why, air, I've aeeu tlie time when
a aiugle man, an' not a big uian at that,
atood in the eeuter of tlie trail, halted a
coach full o' men, each oue armed, an'
made 'em hop dowu and hand over duat
enough to aet an vUxlv up iu the baiikiu'
buauean, an' plenty left over to a tart a
circua ou ! That waa biaue**, that waa,
an' Uie victim* couldn't help but feel
like ivattiu' the feller on the back for hi*
nerve. Ye've heard o' Hank Monk, I
reckon?"
, " Waal, there'* fifty juat aa good driv
en a* he wan, and tlftv braver men, but
Hank got into tbe uewapapera, and folk*
thought him a preacher, a driver, a gn
xly, a buffalo an" a rattlesnake all rolled
inter one. Mmd ye, I aiu't aayin' a word
agin 1 vu junt thmkm' of bow
I witM Jt ptuuM-UKt'r IU bin coach ouoc
when it cunt me u bullet through the
nhpuUler to do what be could hare dune
viUioot e*eu atoppuig the coach. Thar
wan a chap called Prince Charlie, who
UIMMI to imagine that Fargo'* coaches
wan* put on the liar uu mm*** to bring
liim dust. Ht> w a flu* look in' chap,
sUndin' wlxiut six fret high, lusif Texan
an' lisw Mrxieaa, an' he had ryea like
<\*ds o' flrr. That chap hung along the
luui its in the lioeky Mountain* for
one null summer, an' 1 gum* he collect
ed hard uu to a hundred thousand dol
lar*. He didnt hawe any partner* in
the bizneas, but played a luoe hand
every time, an' alius raked in the stake*.
He didn't stop every stage—oh, no. He'd
hdt an' rob one to-day or to-night in
Apple lUoasom Canyon, then, two, three
or foar weeks arter he'd turn UP on
Scott's Hill, or Betsy Jane tlulch, or
fifty miles from the oilier spot. Folks
thought he had just about time to dig
down into Mexico, put hia dust inter
safe hands, an' then return, au* p'raps
that was the game.
" 1 reckon ye've read about dozens o"
thraarha**, aud |h'e*rfor ye don't re
me in tier tins otic; bnt 1 tell ye he gut
to be a terror. As uobdy could aay
when hi'd cry • Halt f to a stage, ereu
brave meu hated to travel in that fashion.
I'nuco Charlie was s dead shot—wouldu't
take a word o' chin music} au' some
time* he shot down a passenger or two.
just to increase the resjicct of the rest. I
was kinder speculatiu' ar und in tboac
daya, an' it was a poor tuornin' when I
couldn't show up the half of |U).UOO. 1
waagittin'ready to k-sv# the country an*
go back to Illinoy. when on® o' Fargo's
sgeuts dropped m ou me one day, and
sez In*: •.Jim. why don't ye go to work
an* lav out that Prince Ciiarbe ?' Sara
I: ' I'll In*t ye fifty to oue I kin fix lua
biziuesa fur him in less'n a month.'
That kinder brought us to terms, an' the
agent showed op oolor strong. The
w.-re most desartod by traveler*
on aeoonut o' this oner* aid mm>t, an' the
oompauy felt that sumthiu' had gut to be
done. The a<p*nt offers me a thonaaiid
dollars in dust, aud a pound nugget fur
a breastpin, if I could give this chap's
bones to the wolves. J waau't "t all
anxious, ye understand. When a feller
goes oat to hunt a grizzly he may tree a
baror a bar may tree him. In thia
case, if I didn't get the dead sure thing
on Prince Charlie at a aeonnd's notice,
the top o' my heed wonld go flying over
the rocks an' the ole woman would l* a
widder. I thought it over fur about four
minutes, in' then say* I: ' Mister Gray,
make it lift ceo hundred, no' 111 increase
this feller's weiglit by n |*>nnd o' lead,
or chaw red sand tall spring opeus.'
i "He raised me theextiw mighty quick,
sn' I Iwgan to stiffen mv backbone, The
prince had rubbed n stag* about twen
ty days before, an' it was then abont
time for him to make another aatenainent
on tlie shareholder*. It was agreed that
nothin' shtmld b said l*mt our bar
gain, and that I was to be hooked an'
put through as a regular passenger. I
was left to maka my own preparations,
an' I kept shady till the stage was ready
to null out for the loug trip. P raps
' ye imagine that 1 loaded myself down
with guns, re vol rei a, knives and aicb.
but I lit I n't. ■II I ill ad was a good
double-l>ar'ted shot gut 1, eaeh bur'l
loaded with *hif|S—i® Oust, no baggage,
an' lOoki n' kin. 1 down in the moutn an'
played out, 'zif I hadn't made a cent.
Thar war seven other fellers in the ■tags,
an' Hank Monk was the driver. We
went out o' Marraville on the whoop,
Monk bavin' a ride an' two revolvers on
the seat, an' lookin' aa brave aa old
; Gen. Scott. It wasn't my game to say
anytbin' to anybody, an' so I didn't mix
in a great deal with the others. They were
stotit-lookin' chaps, ail well armed, an'
part o' the crowd said thev'd gin a clean
hundred dollars to have l'rince Charlie
' halt the coach. Tliey planned to peel
him iu alxiut a second in case he showed
up, an' fore long I got bins from think
in' I was to lie left out in the Cold when
the fun commenced.
" Wall, ray ly, one arternoon we was
trottin' along as smart aa ye please on a
! bit o' level road in the Itockiag, when
all to once the climax showed tip. The
eight of us were wide awake an' ready
for hizneas, when all of a sudden some
body yelled out: ' Holt!' and that
same Prince Charlie jumped on the trail
from behind a big rock. Hank Monk
pulled in the horse* to once, but instead
ofgivin' the robber some o'bis bullets, be
got white around the mouth an' hopped
j uowu from his box an' held one o the
; lead hone* till tin; chap could come back
!to the stage am! say : ' Now then, you
j gents climb down here an' shell out, an'
the first man who even winks his eye will
git a bullet ovor it I' That was Prince
Charlie's style to a dot, juat like you
would walk into a atdr<> ah' ask for ten
pounds o' imgifr. 1 ftm'lM>elieVe I'm a
coward, but when I heard him sing out
an' realized that the chap I hail sworn
to kill was right near tliar, all filled up
for hizneta, ray heart jumped inter my
gullet au' my kneea wobbled all over.
Only for a minute, though. Hays I to
myself: • Jim, old man, brace up or
Beaty Jane will put op mouruin'!' and I
braoeii. Prince Charlie at.*> 4at tlie
door, a revolver in either hand, an' the
passengers got dowu one arter another
as meek as could lie. Not a one 'o them
spoke a loud word, let alone piutiu'
their pistols at the chap.
'•Waal, I war the last one out, 'cor
din' to the plans I had laid. Prinoa
Charlie had the hull mrowd to see to, an'
he didn't have but two eyes. As I got
dowp I dtewed •the shotgun arter me,
bavin' bold o' the butt The seven men
were itfling, ttieir guns in the age, and
the robber was callin' out, 'Up with
your arms—hold 'em up,' an' for the life
o' ye don't even apeak to me!' Aa I lit
on hard grouud I jelled out like a pau
ther to throw the feller off hie guard,
an' thou sprang aruuud the stage, Then
the real biauasa began. I jelled out to
the others to go fur the rubber, an' be
tween watchiu' them an' Ann' at me, tlie
lYmoe had hia hauda full. I guca# he
ahot at me four or Ave timet under the
atage, but I wur cantenu' up an' down,
au tie didn't hit iue, I * workin' to
git him confused an' mixed up, yon arc,
au' I war right. In u minute or two he
slammed tlie atage door abut to keep the
men from their arms, called out to them
not to move, an" the blasted coyotes stood
rigid tbar in line, an'ucver moved a foot
while the robber came for me ! I wur
luokin' for him tu conic around the lead
horses, but ho took Ule other way, an'
giu me a bullet in the shoulder from over
the hind wheel. Lord ! but wasn't thut
lead hot! An', sir, aa liig aa I am, it
knocked iue tint down, though p'raps the
fall saved my li/e, as the Pnuce was
firm' from both revolver* as ateudv as
the turn of a coffee-mill. I rolled un
der tlie stage, ria up ou t'other side, an'
as true MI ye *r' a sinner I had to laugh
right out to aee them seven rnfln staadin'
in a row, arms up aud inoutha wule opeu!
1 felt tlie blood trickliu' down, and I
kinder got riled. It takea a heap to atir
me up from way dowu, stranger, but
when I get riled for good, I don't mind
uo thin".
•• That but blood blisWrin' down my
aide rii m_T hair fur me, tu' 1 wanted to
aee l'riuce Charlie wna* nor he cared to
me. He had begun tiring agin,
ahootiu' right inter the crowd, when 1
started fur hiui. A I weut around the
wheel he tired slap-dab into inv face, an'
never touched a whisker The rang.-
waa too abort fur good ahootin', and
thir'a men linn' to-day who will tell ye
that 1 let go the gun, reached out my
naked paw*, an' the fust thing that rob
ber knew he was beiu' shaken by a
yearthquake. He had let lu empty re
volver* fall an' drawed lna Uwie knife,
au' be gin me these ere trifle* on the
arms while I waa amkin' mv claws inter
him. When I got settlej au' ready, I
lifted him clean from Ilia pins, big aa he
was, jammed him agin the wheel to
Mifteu his hide, an' then flopped him
down on the aile an' choked the life oat
o* him then an' thar! Tea, au. I did,
an'it took the hull seven men to tear me
loose from him, "cause I waa nled an'
wanted pay for my injuries. That's what
I did to Pruio Charlie, stranger, an'
right down here is the nugget Mister
(iray gin me, an' here's the aoara to baek
it! Fargo wauled to hire me to drive
stage on that line at big pay, lota o" men
named raiupa arter me, the newspapers
gin me puffs, an' rations didn't coat me
a cent all winter."
The old man ahoved hia hat over on
hia left ear a little more and added :
•' Therefore, stranger, when I hear about
these third-class hencoop thieve* stop
pin' stages an' maktn' folks fork over, I
i kinder feel took—kinder feel that the
boea days are gone forever.**—.Vete Tont
' .Vim.
•
The I'nbiddrn tinrat.
Charley Ht ne waa leaning over the
counter of the Tliorndyke House, gaxtug
out of doom at the sunlight, and wishing
. he had four mdliun dollar* and a year'*
vacation. A tall, cadaverous-looking
man. with red whisker*, and a carpet
bag in hand thinner than an argument
in favor of rum-driuking, ambled in at
the die tr, meandered up to the counter,
ami slapped the carpet-bag down with
emphasis.
"The register, please," be eakl,
haughtily, a* one who waa accustomed
to hotel ways.
The pob'te clerk turned the book
around, proffered the stranger a pen,
ami waited for him to inscribe with a
flourish the name of " Alonao Montague,
New York.,'
"I'lease handle my baggage oare
, fully," he remarked, as he handed up
the* shadowy article. "It a >nUtna
much of value. How's bunities* f"
" Fair—only fair," replied the clerk.
" Aa 1 supposed." said \be cadaverous
man. frowning. "How'a granite?"
" Hard—verr much depressed ; but
prospects good," replied the clerk.
** II—m" muttered tho tliin man re
flectively ; "tliia, then, i* my time.
I have visited your city, young man. for
the express purpose of investing largely
•n this business, knowing, from the gen
eral depression that I could do ao to ad
vantage. I tell you thia in secret," and
here his TUICC sank to a hoarae whisper.
} " I have in that satchel documents that
will oompcl the granite ring to admit me
to their midst, an.l absolutely get down
on tlseir kuees to me— ves, sir," fiercely,
"on their knees," ami he slapped the
oounter spitefully.
The clerk didn't look aa though he
waa much impressed by thia information,
aud lie continued :
"There has been at work in your
midst sn inflnence that had tended to
this great depression, but, by the great
hoop snakes, I'll show them Uiat they
have not only capital to oppose them,
but an iron will and an inflexible nature
that but laughs at obstacles. Where is
the hsnqnet hall ?" he exclaimed,
abruptly.
" This way," replied the clerk point
ing- . .
" I will proceed to appease my natural
wants, ami then—" and the cadaver
ous man nodded his basil gloomily, and
started for tha dining-room.
" Bag fiordon, air,' said the clerk, po
litely.
" Sir ?" exclaimed the lank man, stop
ping-
"Wealways require pay in advance
from strangers," continued tlie elerk.
"Pay in advance!" almost screamed
the thin man, " whv, I'll buy your little,
insignificant hotel
isn't for sale," replied the elerk,
firmly, " fifty oenta please."
"Give me that satchel," said the tall
man, in a voice of condensed rage. " Let
me get out of this one horse tavern. I've
traveled from Maine to California, aud
this is the first time an upstart of a hotel
clerk ever said pay in advance. Let me
out—the sir stifles me."
He grablied his satchel and strode
rapidly and fiercely out of the office.
Soon after he was seen begging a dinner
from a bouse in Middle street. And the
granite ring is getting ready to tremble.
—Rockland (Afe.) Courier.
A Modern Robinson Crusoe
George Hoaley, formerly f Arlington
Vt., turns up at It nw. West Coast, New
Zealand, after leing miasiag for twenty
one ywrs ami writes home of his advent
ures. He had started to return to this
ouuntry eight years ago, after aocumn
luting a small fortune in the gold dig
gings, but reports of an El Dorado, sixty
miles off, drew him away, and the steam
er ha<l sailed when he hat! only discover
ed the rumor worthless, Starting short
ly afterward with two companions for
supposed gold fields, several hundred
miles away on the West Coast, their
boat was wrecked in a terrible gale, and
he alone readied the shore by swim
ming, badly bruised and bereft of all
hia provision!, dothiDg, and sl.llOO in
gold. He was two hundred miles from
civilization, and lived on birds, berries,
and such, for six weeks when a abip
sailed ten miles from the coast, but not
noticing the smoke of his fire, left him
in despair for three weeks longer, when
a small schooner took him off to Hoki
tika, the nearest settlement. He has
been in the gold field# up to the date
of his letter, July 22. 1877.
TIIK SAM IN THE SOU*.
t'srlaa. Hitprrallllans aaS l.naraii ( Mrrra
la* (far >laa—<.raiaa mmd at liar Tra-
MM*.
A mimical tknsuperstiLious yet lingering
in the ut inila of mankind, uiiie, JH*IIUJ>S,
ia morn uuivcru! than that of the UIUI
in the moon. In Kugland bo ia chiefly
immortalised by the uldHMtioery rhvrne,
but no further details are gimi of bia
I proceedings. German legend* are, bow
ever, mure nommuii restive, and sundry
11 edition* relate bia history, varying in
different parte of the souutrv.
A Bwatnaii motber at l>erudingen
tell* her cbild that a ruau vu oooe work
ing ui but vmejard on Buudav, and after
having pruned all bia viaea, be made a
bundle of the abuota be bad just eut off,
| laid it in hia baaket and went borne.
According to one venuon the viuea were
atoleu from a neighbor'a vineyard.
When taxed either witb Habbatb-break
ing, or witb the theft, the culprit atontly
protected hia iunooeuee, and Anally ex
elaitued : "If I bare committed ancb a
crime, may 1 go to the moon!" After
bia death, thin fate duly befell him, and
' there be remains to tiiia day, ouadeiuned
to eat inulteu lead as a puuishmeut The
Black Fernet peaaautry aay that the dark
apote viaible in the moon are oauaed by
I a man beiug apell-boand there. He
stole a handle of wood on Sander, be-
I'Miiae he thought on tlmt day be ehould
' t>e unmoleated by the foreatera. But he
bad not gone far witb it when be met a
atrauger, who waa none other than the
I Almighty bimaelf. After reproving the
i thief for not keeping the Habbath day
holy, God mid be mnat be paniabed ;
tmt be might chooae whether lie would
tie banished to tlie sun or the moon.
The man chose the latter, declaring be
• would rather freeee in the moon than
burn in the aitn, and thua the ** Beeen
manule" or "Broom-man'' came into
the moon with hi* faggot on bia hack.
Different veraiona are related in Lim
burg, where the man in the moon ia be
lieved to have stolen wood on Easter
morning ; while at Hemer, in West
phalia, people say he waa engaged in
fencing hie field on Good Friday, and
had jnat poised a bunch of thorns un hia
fork, when he waa at once transported
to the moon. Home of the Hemer peas
ants declare that the moon ia not only
inhabited by a man with bis tbornboah
and pitch-fork, But likewise hy a woman
churning. They are husband and wife,
and both broke the Sabbath, the man by
fencing hia field, and the woman by
I aborning her butter, during the hours
of divine service.
All nation* eeeni to have a carious
desire to account for the spots in the
moon.
According to the Hindoos, Chandrae,
| the god of tig* moon I wars a hare in hi*
arms.
The Mongolians also believe the pou
represent tbvc. Oue of their del tie*
transformed himself into a hare in order
to feed a starving wayfarer; and in
honor of thia act of virtue the Satire of
a hare was thenoefortb viable in the
moon.
The native* of Orion have a aome
what similar legend. When Buddha
•Sjourned aa a hermit on earth, he ooe
day loat hi* way in a forest, and after
long wanderings he met a hare, who
than addressed him : " I can help thee.
Do thou take the right hand path,
and I will guide thee out of the wilder-
neaa."
" I thank thee," returned Boddha,
•' but 1 am poor and starving, and am
nnahle to requite Uiy kindness."
"If thou art hungry,** replied the
lisre, " light a Are, kill and eat me."
Buddha lighted a flre as desired, and
the liare immediately leaped in ; but
Huddtrn now displayed his supernatural
powers, and, teariug the bare from the
Aamra, he placed it in the moon, where
he etill abides. This alory is related by
a French traveler ir Ceylon, and he adds
that hia telescope wwe" often hwrrowed
by the natives, in order that they might
uiapact the hare in the moon.
Mullenhoff says that the people of
Rautum, in the f&hleawig island of Hylt,
declare that the man in the moon ia a
giant, who bends down at full tide to
scoop up the water aud pour it on the
earth. At low tide he stands upright,
resting (rem hia labors, so that the water
mav subside.
Wa now come to the superstition* at
tached to the power of tbe moon, ami
prominent among them i* the idea that
no work may be undertaken in moon
shine. The Hwalnan people consider it a
groat *in to spin or knit by moonlight,
as though cue could not do enough by
day. That ia the reason whr the moou
doe* not give sufficient light for any
work. Whoever ventures to spin, for
example, weaves a roje for the neok of
*nme relation. There are several stories
illustrating the danger of I ranagreasing
this rule.
A poor woman at Breckeulialm, iu
Hwains, gained her livelihood by spin
ning, and her'diligence wss so great that
she spent whole nights at her distaff ; in
order to save the expense of oil she
never lighted her lamp when there was
a full moon. As ahe thus eat spinning
in the moonshine, and the church clock
was tolling the hour of midnight, the
door opened ami a strange man entered.
He ban his arm full of distaffs, and said :
" If thou dost not spin all these full this
night, it will be ail over with thee."
With these words he vanished, leaving'
the poor woman in a terrible fright.
Luckily she bethought herself of merely
apiuning the distaffs once oyer, and in
this way ahe accomplished her task be
fore daybreak. Tlie stranger, who was
the evil one himself, reappeared at the
appointed time and silently took the
spindles away with him. But never
again did the woman spin by moon
light. •
Soli on v erth says that the peasants of
the Upper Palantinste never leave their
certs or agricultural implements out of
doors when the moon is shining, as its
l>eams would break them. For the same
reason, linen must not be left banging in
the moonshine, ami superstitious folks
alwavs warn their friends against sleep
ing in the moonlight, and bathing or
drinking from any fountain or well, on
which the rays <>t the moon fall. It is
also unsafe to dance by moonlight, be
cause the surfeoe of the earth is then as
thin as a cobweb, and the spirts under
ground are lured upward by the music.
The moon is likewise said to hlsrkan the
complexion, to promote the decay of fish
and meat, and even to blunt the edge of
razors.
Dancing.
Dancing is very near aa old as the
world. David danced before the ark.
Socrates learned danaing from Aspasia,
The soldiers of Crete and Sparta went
dancing into assault. Dancing probably
originated in certain gestures winch in
dicated contentment, pain, joy—just M
music was born of certain analogous
sounds. Plato, Socrates, Lycnrgus, and
others, held dancing in veneratiou. We
are further informed that in old Chinese
books dancing and music are described
as the two most important departments
of public affairs
An Amherst (Mass.) farmer lately of
fered one of the young ladies who teaches
iu the public selioels there a bushel of
potatoes if she would wheel them heme
through the streets at an hour when tbo
greatest number of students were taking
their walks. He had them loaded on the
wheelbarrow ready for her, and she
pluckily wheeled them home, telling
him that when he had more potatoes to
iliuprss of in that way to let her know.
TERMS: a Year, in Advance.
" Fed Ira res " and 4 * Manicure*."
Olive I>ffu a writes to Uarpw'a
Hasar aa follows ; At the bath houae in
Peru, near the church of La Madeleine,
and which la oallad after that maguiAoent
building, I told tlie female attendant that
she might Mud the chiropodist, or, to
use the French term, " jjednmre," to
me, as soon aa I had my bath and dressed
, myself.
j "Than madam will not have her feet
j ' duoe' while ahe la still ia the bath ?"
aha queried. "It ia store convenient.
It ia thua that all our ladiws do in Paris.
Our pedicure is a good, brsva woman,
knowing well her trade."
The brave pedicure sustained her
reputation for goodness by her looks
when she appeared, aud strapped a baud
of leather from aide to aide of the bath
tub. Hhe was a plump, good-aaturad
woman of forty-Ave or eo, and the easy
manner is which ahe handled her num
erous instruments showed her to be quite
at ease iu her profession. She placed
my foot wry gently and gracefully uo
the leather support (while I luxuriously
reposed in tlie warm water of the bath
tub), and dcxtronaly manipulated the
troublesome little consequences of un
<-easing tramping and the rubbing of
ught or ill-fitting shows. She was a
pleasant talker, and while ahe wialderl
her dainty implements with tlie near
aud precision of long practice, she dis
coursed about tlie openings of the door
of public opinion concerning the pedi
cure profession to the secondary sex.
"It is some year* now," she said, since
women pedicures first begun to practice
ia the Peris bath houses. It is a wry
nice and suitable trade for a woman who
haa a sufficiently steady hand, and all
day I am aa busy as I can be, at forty
son* for each lady, put'ing her feet in
order.
•• Does everybody have troublesome
feet, then V
" Everybody," she answered positive
ly. "There ia not a lady bather comes
to these rooms who bss not got corns—
some, frightful ones. Those modern
high-heeled boots are ale mm stion*;
they murder the feet of all who wear
them."
The female pedicure gave me an eh
eaae that I felt aa if aha had furnished
me with a brand new pair of feet when I
got up and prepared to walk off on them.
"And the bands?" she suggested.
" Too would not like year finger nails
' done ?' Handsome finger nails limy
advantage great! v an already pretty
hand"
Bly flatterer ! I waa in for "doing"
of the b*nda, of coarse.
" I will give you the address of the
manicure we recommend," she said No,
I am not s manicure—pedicure is my
only trade."
In the course of the day, more from
curiosity than anything el *, I betook
myself to the room* of the manicure,
between the boors indicated on her bom
news cord for her reception of clients at
home. To my surprise I found the place
crowded, not only with ladies, bot with
gentlemen, patiently awaiting their torn
for the favor of a sitting with the mani
cure. The dreaa and bearing of all
present indicated their poeitiou, and in
almost every esse it was one of impor
tance. Grave senators, young scions of
nobility, numerous stately gentlemen
decorated with the crass of the Legion
of Honor, tastefully attired ladies with
children attended' by eerraaU, two or
three pretty American girls, sat around
the room and glanced over books and
newspapers to relieve the tedium of
waiting. The mroieore's operations
were performed in the same room, *l#l
under her skillful scissoring and rob
bing we aaw hand after hand depart w a
much more beautiful condition than
when it was brought them
After a tedious waiting my turn at
length came, and I seated myself by tbe
manicure's little table, upon which were
scattered the tools of her trade. These
were scissors and knives of a
speciallv devised for the trimming of the
nails ; dice, nail-cleaners, a small basin
of rose water with a bit of map
near it, a tiny towel of linen cambric, a
bit of lemon* and various polishing pow
ders and sweet-smelling ungunts in the
form of ruby-colored pomades. The
first step in her proceedings was toaraah
off the nuger tips carefully, then to dry
them, alter assuring herself that there
were no ink spots or other stain upon
thstuft Then she clipped and trimmed
the nails into the approved filbertahape,
neither too short nor too long, nor t<x>
pointed nor too broad; the "half
moons" at the base of the nails were
gently brought into clear light; all
"hang nails" were amputated; and
after this she rubbed a coral tailored
pomade of a delicious odor upon the
nails and the ripper part of all the fin
gers. After allowing this to remain s
little while she wiped it off again, and
scattered upon the nails a golden brown
ish powder, which she vigorously rubbed
with the whole length of her powerful
forefinger, occaaionally aided by the
palm. More pomade, more powder,
more rubbing, and then the nail# wore
shown with that beaatifnl gleam upon
them, that pearly pwkneea, aeen in the
ioterior ol some delicate sea shells. As
the pedicure had said, the manicure's
manipulations greatly " advantaged " a
pretty hand,but even' in 4 greater degree
advantaged an ugly one.
The manicure, like tbe pedicure,
charged forty sous. When ahe did the
viaiting her "price was a dollar. That
she found her business lucrative was
sufficiently indicated by her handsome
rooms and ber prosperous appearance.
She waa almost as much a fine lady, in
respect to clothes, as some of her cus
tomer*. She was very independent, too.
The r* or the LOBOB.
Aa a writer in the London Lancet re
marks, few people know the value of
lemon juice. A pieoe of lemon bound
upon a oorn will wire it in a few daya ;
i it should be renewed night and morning.
A free uae of lemon juice and mgar wul
always relieve a cough. Moat people
feel poorly in the spring, but if they
would eat a lemon before breakfast
every day for a week—with or without
sugar, as they like—they would And it
better than" any medicine. Lemon
I juice naed according to this recipe will
sometimes cure consumpWaa: Put a
dozen lemons into oold water and slowly
bring to a boil ; boil slowly until the
lemons are soft, then squeeue until all
the juioe ia extracted ; add sugar to
your taste and drink. In this way use
one dogen lemons a day. If tbqy
i cause pain, lessen the quantity and only
use five or six a day until yon are better,
and then begin again with a doxen a
day. After using five or six dozen the
patient will begin to gain flesh and en-
Joy food. Hold on to the lemons, and
still use them very freely for several
weeks more. Another use for lemons
is for a refreshing drink in summer, or
in sickness at any time. Prepare as di
rected above and add water and sugar.
But in order to have this keep well,
after boiling the lemons, squeeze and
strain carefully; then to every half pint
of juice add one pound of loaf or crashed
sugar, boil and stir a few minutes more
until the sugar is dissolved, skim care
fully and bottle. You will get more
juioe from the lemons by boiling them,
and the preparation keeps better.
A blighted female in Ban Francisco,
sixty-five years old, has brought a suit
for breach of promise of marriage against
a gay deoeiver of seventy, the damages
being laid at SIB,OOO.
NUMBER 40. *
A ffOllV* TERRIBLE itiVET.
raarfW liei ia* DeukM af a MrSr*.
nhiWn VlrJ.
The deethaf Mrs. Ltesi* Webber from
, hydrophobia m the Ronton Hospital waa
.attend**! by moat horrible symptom*.
'On the Slat da/ of July ■*> waa
bitten through the nail of the middle
Anger of the right band by her pet dog,
• a blank-and tea. Home boys in the
ntreei were worry log and teasing the
•log. until at laetthe animal, goaded h
anger, turned and bit ail peraooa, four
adult* and two children, five of them
promptly had the bite eeateriied, end
the aixtb ia unknown. Mr*. Webber, to
punish the dog, grasped him and coifed
Ilia ear*, when he bitber Anger aastated.
Turee hour* after the infliction of the bite
she went to the Man—ahuaett* General
Hospital to have the aame operation per
formed, but the doctor* told her it waa
{ too iaie to be of any carries. Bbe
thought ne more of the matter, mm] aqwti
euced no ill effect, until a leomrt Friday,
| ♦ when ahe had a severs headache, and
the next day she experienced a severe
pain extending from to* aght ahoulder
down to the baud -ahieh ahe thought to
be a touch of rheumatism. Chi the suc
ceeding Sunday ahe waa ehilir all day,
and at night experienced a violent liaart
beating, and great difficulty in hrmHuiig
—the breath iximiug in short, quicx
gasp*. Two prominent physician* were
m attendance, but aha ooukl not take
their medwane. Tliej decided the rase
to be a bad cold. Monday the patient
kept her bed —the breathing difficulty
increasing, with great ueresusnre*.
The Klightori noise, much as the closing
of a door or the moving of a fan. or
sound of a footstep, would cause her to
jump violently to the floor, and tare-'
quired the united effort* of her attend
ant* to quiet her. She began bo abow
great avenrieu t water; but the doctor
had no suspicion uf the real nature of I
the disorder, which gradually grew'
worse and worse. She expressed a de
sire fur varioaa article* of food and drink,
but whan they were offered to her she
found herself utterly incapable of eating
or drinking anything; in fact, from Bun
, day morning until the hour of her death,
Tuesday afternoon, she ate and drank
nothing. At tunes, Tuesday afternoon,
aha fait quite easy, end the next mo
ment the eevere 'gasping for breath
would come on, and she would jump op
and down and dash wildly about. She
' would grasp bar attendants by the dram
and thrust ee mush aa ahe could into
bar mouth, telling the— el the same
time, however, thai she would not bite
them. She waa next aeixed with severe
and unmistakable convulsions, aeoatr- j
panied by frothing at the mouth. Mor- ■
phtne was given. Then a pail of scald
ing hot water wan procured, and the pa
, beat's feet pUoea iu it. One of the j
, lady attendants poured but water apt—
the bead of the victim, all of which ahe
bore without flinching, in fart she de
clared it made her feel battel. At times ,
•dm would stamp her feet upon the floor
so tepidly and violently ee to shake the
bouse, and in the meantime her difficul
ty in breathing increased. Another trial j
of the water pail caused her to bound j
back to the other side of the bed. ssd
experience e severe convulsion. She
• waa taken to the hospital, in a sort of
ambulance, held by fastening* around ■
her body. On the way she made s growl
ing or hvkiug noise. At the hospital,
' where, about three-quarters of an hour ,
after her arrival, she was lying appar
i cully comfortable, she suddenly gave
Iter 'arms and feet a violent twieh, her
oonntenanoe tamed black, and ahe
breathed her lest. After her death a
vipaultatiou was had by the physicians
at the hospital; the best authorities upon
' the subject of hydrophobia were loosed
up and quoted, and it was unanimously
decided by the physicians that it waa M a
genuine cage of hydrophobia." *
Cleed Sews Car Humpbacks.
"Thank God, the days of the hump
back an end**!," said Dr. Sa/re, St a
' recant meeting of the Cork branch of 1
die British Medical Association. His
method of treatment of spinal town
j ia to give complete and continued rest
j day and night at the point where the in
' flam mat ion exists, perfect freedom from
! compression and at the same time aheo- i
' lute ia—obiHty, ni enabling consolida
tion to take place. Hie process invdrre 1
die temporary suspension of the patient j
in a peculiar apparatus by whish the
weight of the beadand shoulders ia taken
' off the spine, and the application of a
vkin-fi ttrag shirt coated over with plaster .
of Paris. A sufficient vacuum for the
patient's food ia aecnied by laying s cot- j
, ton pad or India rubber bag beoratfa the '
shirt, over the stomach, until the outer t
case i* hardened, after which it ia re
moved. Dr. Havre exhibited a patient,
a young man dt nineteen, who had auf-
I fared fr>>m an aagntar curvature of the
i apiue, the angle of this curvature being
about 190 degrees, and was only able to
' move about by putting his hands on his
' knees or catching at the furniture. Af
ter six weeks' treatment the patient was
! perfectly erect and had gained three- '
quarter* of an inch in hight. be bad tuk-}
en, unasfuntod. a walk of four mile*, and
the bone was rapidly developing, la the
case of another sufferer, a line boy of
seven, affected with curvature of the
lumbar vertebne, marked benefit had j
followed a very brief treatment
Drowned iu a Crock of Water.
A moat singular fatal accident occurred
at the town of Oroton, near New
Pennsylvania, the other day. Ann Elixa
Weisocr. a young mi— of eleven years,
started to go to tea spring-house at her
mother'a residence, lor batter and milk
for supper. She did not return as soon
as expected, sad her mother followed to
aee what detained her. Arriving near
the spring-house, Mrs. Weiwier was sur
prised to And her . laughter lying flat on
the ground, with her face boned in a
crock of water, and waa terribly shocked
when, on raising her up, the /ouag girl
was found to be dead. Mim W eianer was
in perfect health, never had s falling At
of any kiad, and the only manner in
which the sad accident can be accounted
for is that ahe stumbled and fell, her,
head striking the crook with ech force
that the blow rendered her insensible and
powerless, and that her face being buried
in the water ahe was drowned. The
wound, or mark of violence was a bruise
cm the nose, which, while not sufficient
to oanac her death, might have stunned
her so that she was unable to help her-
Belf, The crook in which Miss Weisner
was drowned was an ordinary flat two
gallon crock, and had been set under the
cave of the spring-house roof to catch
soft water.
Eleven Flies and One Wasp.
The wasp is frequently s disturber of
the pesos, although s '.over of sweetness
and light He lately acted in both, rolps
within five minutes in Belgium. Two
peasants, while in an inn, desiring to
gamble, hit upon a novel method. Each
melted a lump of sugar in water and
poured the syrup on s table. A multi
tude of fiiee were upon the walls. Money
was bet as to which pool of syrup the
first dozen of flies would gather around.
Soon there were eleven flies around one
pooL and, While its owner waa anxionsh
scanning the air, into the room boteed a ,
wasp, and began feeding by the aide of
the eleven. The wasp was
claimed as a fly, the claim was declared
absurd, a warm argument followed, then
blows—and*then the police marched
both men off to the station-house.
* u*m r Inter—t.
-
Pennsylvania baa tbs largrat nambsr
0# IWtity bools UMO| tt* 1111
7,480.
. A young lafl, waom teach— ri to*
with the reff, remarked th# oth— day
that "theyhad too many bollerdaysat
toeir aobooL"
A tall man twin# rallied * friend on
the ahoitntiw of hi* leg*, toe friend re
plied : "My lags ranch toe ground—
what mora ecu you** do?"
A convict u pot into stock* in Willi*,
T—sc. H|a cries for mercy, " Take m*
down," "I am dying," w—e not b—dad,
and ha dtad and— the torture.
What! Tartar m*W Turk.
With (Mr mntiaal
Than kwrtta*—fc?-
0—*• th* In# of atrorttira—JPtnMft.
Nathan Minard. <4 Bslem, Omn., a
nan ninety year* old, and a rich miner,
haa had hw coffin in hit room for twenty
yaara, and haa dog hto own grave to rare
fltiT'pSEMlNtl.
The total number of immigrant* to
thia oountry during to# last fire yrara,
>a 1,706,1*. Mince 1846, the number of
German tmmigranta tor 9,345,486: of
Iriah, 1,009,447.
The largest jet jewelry aatabliahment
m the eonntiy ia located at Pawtucket,
it, L Thirty person* art employed at
preaent, and moat of the glass uaed is
imported from France
A " gentleman "at a leading hotel in
Hamilton, Ontario, *pok<> disparagingly
of one of the lady guest*. She heard
of it, invited him into the parlor, pre
sented a pi.tol at hto brraat, and naked
him to epoiogina. Ha aequkeeed.
I At Memory, ia Tsylor oounty, lows
: recently, Dr. Hnodgrass, if that place,
• while endeavoring to separate some small
\ pigs from s mom old mm, waa attacked
I by the infuriated animal and lacerated
- m a allocking manner. Two ribs were
' broken is against vita! parts, his hands
war* torn and otherwise be was so in
' jured that be died ia s few hours.
i Beaten At Work.
' Jn almost any stream in the mountain
' j ou* part* of Wyoming Territory, you
'' mar mid more or tern braver* or braver
dam*. But Green riser and this whole
region, writes s member of Hsy b n's
surveying party, swpsssw any place I
II know of as e resort for those animals,
j now so aonioe east of the Mireiwippt.
j In the rocky canon higher up, this creek
' was thirty or forty yarito screes, nor
• I would it have been much wider in the
more open vailev below had to not bran
frefMM." Hot for a doses miles the
brevets had as dammed it sod choked it
, with their house*, that the water yd
oni to a mile or mor>- iu width, and hun
>' dimls of dead or firing frees, once far
back frite Hie margin, were standing
eqealiv far out tor the water. Home of
| the dares mann ed 100 or more feet in
• length, and ware built on s curve, with
the hollow of the curve up stream, yet
' so aubstentiallv that thev were standing
the beating the frrehct with slight
damage. All along the baok of the
stream the teltoida was bare at aspens,
and their stump, cut off dare to the
ground, showed what had destroyed
them. Soms of top stump were of
trees toe or twelve inches in diameter,
and seventy-Are yards from the water,
C there was no doubt that tore* rodent*
felled those tress, trimmed off the
brancbea, pealed away the bark, and
then dragged the log dl the way to the
water to put into a new dam or repair an
old one. Indeed, we surprised some of
the— at work. Most of toe dam* were
shorter than there I bare mentioned,
and tan from cue to another, eo thst there
was a net-work of them supporting a
growth of willows, and each rack—tig a
little be—n of deep, still water, in which
would rite like an island the domed top
l of their home. But the how*** of many
ware under the bank, and of others be
neath the dams, as we could eee, by the
paths to them, which showed pltunlr
, through the water. Wherever the wil
lows grew closely |o the water's edge
j for some distance there would be roads
through team at frequent intervals, the
; stems gnawed off and the weeds trodden
down smooth. " Bust as a beaver " ac
quire* a new force when we think bow
ceaselessly he must work to get his daily
food, collect his winter stares, keep hie
• house hi ardor, repair his •"d
guard against sue—a. We saw none
of tee animala themeelvra. They are
; rarely seep by say ooe, bring able to
detect jour approach by the jar of the
ground. If not otherwise, and hide them*
fclvc#. c<t
An Eccentric Wife-luiderer.
A letter from Zsnesvillc, Ohio, gives
the account of a wife-mniderer near test
town named Jam— : "Further develop,
meats in the undertaker's tragedy, nine
■ites fro— here, indwuls thsSthc wife was
first fired upon from the beck, the ball
entering toe spine. The husband then,
supposing her to be dead, shot himself
through the heart, but her wound not
bring fatal ahe map to him, took pos
i a—rias dl Mm revolver, and sent a ball
through bur temple. Thia is evident, so
ahe is shot in toe back, which she eonld
not hare done, and toe firearm was found
clinched in her death gr—p near the
head wound. Mrs. L—sock, mother of
j*Mra James, would not allow toe xasn's
4 body to aster the tense; uonacquratiy
>he was laid out to Mm bans. They left
home by the Muskingum Valley rosd,
left the train st Del Oerbo, and started,
walking together. On the way they met
1 persona whom James told she had deser- •
tcil him,*to which she replied she neither
would nor eacdd tare wrih him. James
was exceedingly eooentne, and, it is be
lieved, mean*. About a year since, st
the burial of his flrat wife, s airier of the
murdered one. he Selected female pall
bearers. sad walked into the church with
'a feather duster under his arm, with
whtah he dusted the coffin, and, beside*,
generally superintended the funeral. He
! was a master workn an, and had prepared
an elegant coffin for hintaelf, which had
set in bis shop tor many motrtha, he tol
ling the story tost it was for himself.
<ln hi* memorandum book were found
non—rous newspaper cutting* of wife
whippings, etc., be appearing to have a
mania for collecting them. It is highly
prnbsble his eccentric ware were unbear
able. leading to the witeV leaving, and
ooonaeqssst terrible double death.
Jam— was about fifty-fire and his wife
, tweiity-ftyp."
A ftehsel tor Thlevta.
James Ward, a man of middle age,
: was tried st the Middlesex (England 1
session for having stolen a jacket 'Xtie
, rase exposed one of toe dark features ot
criminal life in London. The prisoner,
who had been several times previously
< ooovtorid of petty thefts, and was already
under polios supervision, said the police
had unmercifully hounded him out of all
chance of obtaining honest employment,
having gone to the places—one of which
he named—whereat he was employed,
and informed the. employer that he had
a thief at work for him. that,"
said the prisoner, " isn't the worst on't,
one offioer, he offers me more money
than another to help in his thief-catch
ing, and then, when I oooktn'i serve him
the ninety-ninth torn, after be in' all
over Loutlan with him at qig ht ftfter
thiffkea, he turns round on me, and he
says, saya he: ' Now I'll lag ye,*" At
the same time the prisoner solemnly de
nied thst he hkd taken toe jacket here in
question. The jury convicted him, and
thou the detective said the man had long
been a systematic trainer of thieves,
there being now several boys In criminal
reformatories who had been brought
there by Mm. Only since be had come
out of prison, he hail got into liis power
a lad of respectable parentage, but
rather weak mind, whom he had nearly
ruined. The assistant judge sentenced
him to seven years' penal servitude, with
seven years''police surveillance to fol
low. _________
• An Interesting Pari.
In Hfldreth's '* History of the United
Btates," it is stated that Manhattan
Island—afterwards railed New Amster
dam ; now toe city of New York—was
bought by the Dutch from the Indians
for sixtv guilders, or twenty-four dollars,
and this only about two hundred and
fifty yean ago. And yet, ii the pur
chasers CM Uid hit re securely placed thst
twenty-four dollars where it wquld have
added to the principal, annually, interest
at the rate of seven per cent, the accu
mulation would exceed the present mar
ket value of all the real estate in the city ,
and county of New York.