Labor. Tofl (winyi ths n. and forests bow The seeds break out in radiant bloom ; Rich harvssts -mile behind the plow And ettie* elastar round the loom. Where towering dome* and taperins spires Adorn the rule and crown the hill, Stent labor light* hi* beacon Are*. And plume* with *moke the forge and mill. The monarch oak. the woodland * pride. Who** trunk it Deemed with lightning eoarm, Toil lannohee on the reeUeae tide. And there unroll* the flag of atari j The engine with hii Inngi of flame. With riba of braai and joint* of ileal. Prom labor'* plastic finger* came. With eobbing valra and whirling wheeL Tl labor work* the magic pre**, And turn* the crank in hire* of toll, And beckon* angel* down to blee* Indiintrion* hand* on *ea and *oil. Her eun-browned toil with ahming aj>ade, link* lake to lake with ailrer tie*. Stuck thick with palace* of trade. And temple* towering to the skiea The Ton Little tlrasshopper*. Ten little gra whopper* Silting on a vine. One ate too much green corn Then there were nine. Nine little graadiopper*. Jut the *v*e for t>ait. A lu tie hoy went fidiing— Then there were eight. Right little gTW**hopper Stayed out after 'leveu, A tit'le froat nipped one— Tin n there were *e\en. Seven little grasshopper* Lived Iwdween two brick*. There came a hurricane - Then there were all. Sil little graaahopjwre Found an old lee hive; One found a ournble bee Then there were five. Five tittle grasshopper* Hopping on the door ; Pu**y took one for a mouee— Then there were four. Four little grasshoppers Found a green pea. Had a ftght about it— Then there were three. Three tittle graaahepper* Sighed for paattire* new. Tried to cross the nver— Then there were two. Two tittle grasshopper* Sitting on a •time. A turkey gobbler passed that way- Then there was one. One tittle graaahepper Chirped good-bye at the door Said he'd come next summer. With nine million more. A NEWSPAPER FILE. It was two days after Atint Priaeilla's funeral, and Sue and I were sitting to gether by the kitchen lire, with that hash over our spirits still which follows a death and a burial. All the afternoon we had been busy in getting the house to right*, not meddling yet with the thing* which hail been her*, and were now ours, but by dint of open windows, sunshine, aud furniture dusted and re arranged, trying to restore to the rooms that familiar look which they hail lost during these weeks of anxiety and trouble. A few days more, aud we must face a future which was full of terrors. Meanwhile custom a* well as inch nation accorded a brief respite in which to think of her who was gone, and of each other, with the clinging fondness of those whose lives, never before parted, were about to separate. Sue sat on a low stool, her head against the chimney j *mb. It was the chimney of Aunt Priscilla's youth; she never would alter it—one of the wide old fashioned kind, with pot-hooks and blazing logs, and a hake-oven at one side. The soot-blackened bricks and faint red glow made a background for my sisters bead, woh its great twist of fair hair, aud lily-like slendar throat. Sne is very pretty, prettier than any body I ever saw. I recollect a picture as I looked at her—a picture of Cinder ella sitting in just such an attitude by the chimney-side. She wes equally picturesque at that moment; so far a looks go, equally worthy of a prince; but, alas! no fairy godmother was likelv to emerge from the apple-room for her benefit. Aunt Pris, who in a small way had enacted that part toward us, was gone, and her big rocking-chair, which we had no heart to sit in, swim,: empty in its accustomed place, type of a like emptiness which we were conscious of in other things, and would feel for a long time to come. Neither of us spoke for a while. We were tired and spiritless, and J dm Si.vie was ooming presently to talk over things, so we saved our words. Dr. Slade—John—was Sue's lover. Their poor little engagement had beeu formed two years ago. How many years it was likely to last, nobody could gu.-s: but they hel l on to it bravely, and were content to wait. Pretty anon, as we aat waiting, his step sounded without on the crravel, aud with a little tap—court eons but unnecessary, for the door waa never locked —he entered, guv© Sue a gentle kiss, me another, and sat down between as in aunty's rocking-chair. It was a comfort to have him do that The house seemed leas forlorn at once. "Well; children, how has the day gone r he asked. "Pretty well," replied Sne. "We have been busy, and are tired to-night I think. I'm glad you are come. John dear. We are getting lonely and dis mal, Cree and I." Lncretia is my name; bnt Sne and Aunt Priscilla always called me " Cree." John adjusted a "stick on the embers, and with one daring poke sent a tongue of bright flame upward before he an swered. Then he took Sue's baud in hi* broad palm, and petting it gently, said : " Now let"* talk over matters. We ought to de nde what we are to do, we three." That " three " was very comforting to me, but Johp always is a comfort. He was "made ao," Aunt Pris said. And he certainly carries out the purpose of his creation. "Did your aunt leave any will!" he went on. " Only this and I bronght from be tween the leaves of the big Bible, where we had found it, a half sheet of note paper, on which dear annty had stated, in her own simple form, that she left all sho had to be eqnallv divided between er n ; eoes, Susan and Lncretia Pendex ter. Squire Packard's name and Sarah Brackett's, our old washer-woman, were written below as witnesses. "Very well," said John. "That's good in law, I fancy; or if not, you are the nearest relation*, and it's your* any way. What property did your aunt own besides this house ?" " She had an annuity of two hundred and fifty a year, and fifty dollar* more from some turnpike sbxik. That'* all, except the house and furnitnre, and there i* a mortgage of three hundred dollar* on that. Squire Packard hold* it The annuity stop* now, doesn't it ?" John looked a* though he wanted to whistle, but refrained. "Youraunt was a clever manager," he said—" a capital manager. She made a very little go a great way, didn't she? I dont know any one else who could live on three hundred a year, with mortgage interest taken out Ton have always seemed oozy and comfortable." "We always have been. Bnt we had the garden, you know, and the oow ; that "gave as two-third* of our living. Aunty was a wonderful housekeeper, though. Isn't it a great deal cheaper to feed women than men ? She always said 80. " "I suppose it is. Men are carni ver mis. A diet o£ tea and vegetable* don't suit them very well; they are apt to grumble for something more solid. Well, my dear girls, our Bumming up , h-n't very satisfactory. Even without t'' mortgage, yon couldn't live on fifty dolliire a year." " No. And I've been thinking what we could do. So has Cree, though we haven't spoken to each other about it. I mi/ht teach a uit.fr ot school, perhaps. And Cree—" " I could take a place as plain cook. There isn't any thing e je I can do so well. Plain oooking, wit.i dripping and eoap-fat byway of perquisitesand I FHKD. KURTZ. Rilitor and Proprietor. VOLUME X. pave a laugh which waa mount to le merry. " It i* hard," said John, with a moody hx>k on hia face which wax foreign to its usual frank brightness. " How much a little money would sometime* do for people who oau't got it, ami how little it IA worth to otlior people, who flmg it away without a thought of its value I A thousand dollar*, uow ! Any rich mau would consider it a mere bagatelle iu hia ox{>oll son ; but if I could command the •urn, it would make us throe comfortable fr life." " How do you mean ? What would you do with a thousand dollar* tf you hud it, John ?" " I'll tell you. Lungwortliy ia going to well hia practice." "Oh!" "It ia a Urgepractioe.forthe country, you know. It brtuga him in six or eight hundred a year—eometimea more. He liaa achauoc to go into partncrahip with hia brother out Wart aotuewhere, and he'll aetl for a thousand." " But, John, some people like you Ivtter than they do Dr. Lagnworthy." " Ye*, siime people do. But the ouestiou is, will thev like me better tinui the other man who buys l>r. Lang worth v out ? If I were that man, I should command both practices. It i* a chance, don't you see f But a new mau eomiug in has his chance to xut me oat." " 1 see. What can be done?" " Nothing," with a rueful glance. "That's tlie worst of it 1 can only keep on and hope for the bent. But it is hard, when with this miserable thou sand dollar* I could double my chances and make a nice home for yon two. Sue, darling, don't cry." She hail laid'her cheek down on his arm, but she wasn't crying, only looking satllv into the tire. "If we sold every tiling, all this which aunty left us—tbe home, everv thing—couldn't we get the thousand dol lar* ?" I asked, desperately. Johu shook his head. " I couldn't let yon do that, Cree, in any case. You'll want your share some day yourself ; it musu't go into buying a practice for me. But apart from that houses sell so h-nlly uow that this wouldn't realize much over tlie value of the mortgage at a forced sole. Aud the furniture, though , worth a gi**l ileal to L cp, would go for nothing at un auction. That plan wouldn't do at all for anv of ns " " Still, theriyi ao harm in thinking about it, and seeing what we have, and what it'* worth," I urged, loath to give up any ghost of a chance. "We may Jo that, mayn't we John ?" "Of course. That is a thing Ton must do sooner or later. Look over the house, and make a list carefully, and we'll oou i salt aud fix on approximate values. Don't hnrrv about it, though. Next week is time enough, and I know von need rest." " Rest is the very thing I don't need and can't take," I cried, impetuously. '• Something to fill up the long days and keep us from thinking and getting blue is what we want. We'll make the list to-morrow, John." A little more talk aud he rose to go. " Did you stop at the post-office, John ?" " Yes. There was nothing for von." " Not even the Intelligencert" asked Sue, languidly. " I forgot to tell you. There has been a groat fire in New York, ami tne Intel ligcncer is burned out. Abner brought tiie news over ; it was telegraphed to the junction. They say the building is a total loss, so I suppose there won't be anv publication lor a while—some ilas * at least." " Poor anntr! how sorry sue would be!" sighed feue. "Annty took the paper ever since it began, forty-five years ago. She never m ssed a numln r. l'here it all is, up stair*-—stacks an t stacks of it She was so proud of her file. It's DO use at ail now, I sup PONE, is it, John ?" " Tne ragman will give a penny a iioun.i for it," I augg-nted ; " that'* -omething." " We'll weigh the lot one of those Java, and see what we can realize," said John. "Go.*l night, children." It was a ghostly task which we set out to do next diiy. The past itself, the faint, fragmentary past, neems to l wrapped up aud inclosed in those bun dles of time-worn articles with which -lderly people encumber their store room a ami closet shelves. Some air of antiquity exhales as you open them, aud, mingling with our modern air, produces an impres-ion half laughable, half sad. Aunt Priacil'a had been a boru collector. She loved old thiugs because they were old, apart from use or value, and instinct and principle combined ha te and per fect set of the Intelligencer from its first num ber, March A 1830, to present date. Any per sons able to supply * set as stated will please oommnnicate with the publisher. P. O. Box 2351, New York. " A thousand dollars! Ob, Sue ! oh, John! what a piece of good fortune I Dear aunt—think cf her file turning out such a treasure ! It is too wonderful to be true. I feel as though it were a dream and I danced up and down the kitchen floor. John and Sue were eqtiallv excited. "Only," premised uie former, "we mustn't forget that some one else may have a file of the Intelligencer, and get ahead of us." This wet blanket of a suggestion kept me awake all night My thoughts kept flying to New York, anticipating the let ter which we had written, and John posted overnight for the early stage. If it shonld be lost in the mails ! When morning came, I was too weary and too fidgety to employ myself in any way. But about noon John walked in, comfort in iiis eyes. THE CENTRE REPORTER " Why, John, how funny to aee you here at this hour! Why do you look ao I You haven't h<'ard yet; you can't, for the letter ia only half-way there." " Hut 1 have heard I I got ahead of the letter—drove over to the juuolion, telegraphed, paid for the auawer, anil here it ia." Hleaaed John! Thia waa the tele gram : "Send flle at once. Check ready to vour order." I'. H AULIUAY. How we cried and laughed anil kiaeed caoh other! How much that message meant I To Johu and Sue, too satisfac tion of their love, life apeut together, the fruition of deferred liopea ; to me, the lifting of a heavy weight, home, se curity, the shelter of my sister's wing, the adiied riches of a brother who was brotherly in very deed. And all thia for a thousand dollar*! Oh. now much monev can do sometimes! and at other times, how little! We had grown some what calmer, though Sue still kept her sweet wet face hidden on Johu'a shoul der, and quivered and aoblied now and then, when I turned emotion into a new channel by seizing a tumbler of water and propoaing thia toaat: "To the memory of the late Samuel F. Morae." Johu seized another, aud added : "The InMligtncer— may it rise like aphuwnx from its ashes !" I leave volt to guess if WW did not drink this heartily.— Harper' liasar. Fashion Note*. Very large button* are all the rage. MOMS green is the fashionable color. Cloak sleeves are rather large and loose. Jacquard cloth is a new cloaking ma terial. Black Chant illy lace is again used on bonnets. Cleft halo brims are among the novel ties in bonnets. Cheviot tartans are among the novelty wool fabrics. Clair de luue, or niooulight gray, is the iximiug color. Carriek capes and Carrick caj* are handsome novelties. Slst>\ gray, and orange are fashion able combinations of color. Curie* ox'k's feathers tipped with jet are very fashionable. Neigeuese and bourette are the lead ing winter dress fabrics. Kilt pleats in the back of polonaise skirts are a feature of the moment. Oriental, torchon. Smyrna, and Ihigusa point are the laces of the season. The prevailing colors for cheviot tartans are combinations of gray, bine, and red. Side draperies are made of one large boi or Wattcau pleat on many stylish costumes. Cloak trimmings are large buttons, aigraffes, braids and passementerie*, velvet, silk and fringes. New styles of underskirts have flounces trimmed with open work em broidery iu Fayal designs. Bustles are no longer worn ; three flouuees on tha back breadths of under skirts take their place. Anna of Au*tria cuffs, and large Pnri tao collars of sheer hneu cambric an 1 coming iu vogue, trimmed witn tin Ane*t Valenciennes. Waistcoat fichus of Valenciennes, Oriental, ami other lares, and gatizv ma ter.ala are used t> give a ilreasy eflect to plain black or dark silk dresses. Waistcoat fruits and pompadour squares, formed either by trimmings 01 by lace, velvet and silk flchus, which simulate them, are very popular. A simple deep bias flouuee falling over a side or Iwix pleating is found to tx> the inot effective skirt over which is displayed the long elaborately triwmeu polonaises of tine season. Cloth round hats, matching the cloth of the ulster, are now in favor for travel ing wear. They have soft, round Dei by crowns, made of many gores, the rim* -ditched by the sewing machine. A little wing makes them look less mason line. _____ Little bj Little. If you are gaining a little everyday !>e content. Are your expenses lea* than your income > that, thuttgh it tie little, you are constantly accumulating tod growing richer and richer every lay? Be content; so tar us concerns money, you are doing well. Are yon gaining knowltxlge every day ? Thougl it be little by little, the aggregate of the iccumalatiou, where no day is allowed t > pass without adding something to the -t-sik, will be surprising to yourself. Solomon did not liecoine the wisest man in the world in a minuta. Little by littlo—never omitting to learn some thing. even for a single day—always resiling, always studying a little between the time of rising np in the morning and lying down at night—this is the way to accumulate a full store house of knowledge. Finally, are yon daily improving in character? Be not d sconraged because it is little by little. The best men fail far short at what they themselves wonld wish to be. It is something, it is much if you keep good resolutions better to-day than yon did yesterday, better this week than yon !id last, liettsir this year than you did lost year. Strive to be perfect, but do not become downhearted so long as yon are approaching nearer and nearer to the high standard at which you aim. Little by little, fortunes ore accumulated ; little by little knowledge is gained; little by little character and reputation are achieved. Joseph Smith's Son Joe. Joe Smith, son of Joseph Smith, the originator of Mormonism, in president of liie mouogamic sect of Latter Day Saint* in Piano, 111. He claims to hie the recipient of direct revelations from God, and the divinely chosen successor of his father. He says of Brig bar: Young: "He has been permitted to amass vast wealth, sustaining himself in an almost regal splendor. Out of the monetary affairs of the church full one 1 alf of all the distrust and want of con fidence has grown ; and it has been the abuse of monetary trusts from first to last that has been the bane that has eiisoned the springs of unity and peace, ot much else could have been expect ed where so flagrant an infringement of the law recognized as having been given of God was persiated in. It will now lie aeen whether the trust so long re posed, where the interests were so im portant and so irresponsibly placed have been betrayed." Things Not te Wo. Never believe, much less propogate, an ill report of a neighbor without good evidence of its trnth ; never listen to an infamous story handed to you by a man who is inimical to the person de famed, or who is himself apt to defame his neighbors, or who is wont to sow discord among brethren and excite dis turbance in society. Never utter the evil which you know or suspect of an other till you have an opportunity to ex postulate with him. Never speak evil of another while yon are nnder the in flnenoe of envy ana malevolence, but wait till your spirits are oooled down, that yon may better jndge whether te utter or suppress the matter. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., l'A., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1877. A BRAVE DFKB UNDONE. Arrest lr HaMrri *1 •• Kl"' **•"• „r MS* Sail .Wads Mliesrlt In ■* llrrelr fisSi wllh a llrserrets Thirl Is mm Kaerrss l sr. The Iheptitoh, of Pittsburg, Pa , receutly had the following : The in telligence reached tlie ears of tlie re porter* yesterday that George H. PriOC, the well-known express mesaenger, was arresteil in Chicago on Monday 011 the charge of stealing money from packages in his care, between this city and Chicago. The previous good character of Price, together with his heroic con duct, about two and a half years ago, in shooting a man named Biiikley, who at tempted to rob an express car on Uie Pittsburg, Fort Wsyue and Olucago railroad, made it difficult for Uie officers of Uie company to lielmve Uiat he was other than a strictly houeat man, until the moat indubitable evidence of his guilt hail been laid before them. It seetus that for more than a year parties in Chicago and points west of Uiat city have been complaining to the officer* tif the express company that packages of money received fey them were short of Uie amounts placed Uierem by ths send ers. The sums missing wore generally small, ranging from $lO to SSO, and for a while it was thought that the parUea inclosing the money were mistaken as to the amounts. The complaint* at length became so freqacut that the agents at Chicago and this city became convinced that the thief had charge of a run between tlie two cities. The Chicago ageut suspected a messenger residing in this city, while Ageut Bnivoly insisted that the Pitts burgh man was innocent. It was finally agreed to try to detect the thief by mean* of decoy packages, the same to be pre pared and shipped from the office here. The decors were first tried on all the " runs" hut that of Price, so confident were the agents of hia honesty, aud as they all went through safely it was de termined to put the honesty of the some time hero to tlie same test as hail becu applied in the case of his follow umaseugeis. This was done on Sunday last, in tliis way : A money package was prepared, and among the contents were two marked $lO notes. Uow much money the package contained has not l>een ascertained, but the marked money was placed on the top of the pile for an obvious reason. Wtieu Price leached Chicago with his rtiu on Monday morn ing, the decoy package w*a examined and the discovery made that a portion of tlie money htul been abstracted. An officer was on hand and he at once t to SUI.OUO. (leorge U. Prnv is al>out thirty-five yearn of age, is marruii, and his wife and tlieir three children live in Chicago. He has been in the service of the express -*ini puny for nearly ten year*, and has dways borne a good character. His re markably heroic exploit on the Pitts burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago railioad, near Alida, 0., in tlie spring of 1875, ginned for him an enviable fame among hit associates, ami male ban quite "solid " Willi the company. Accounts >f that affair were widely published at the time of its occurrence, aud Price was lionized wherever h • weak Tlie *Uiry is, iu brief: Price had charge of HU ••xpress car on an eastward bound ex press train between Chicago aud this city, and at a point near Alid.x, 0., he liscovertxl a ma*k>*l man at the end of iiis car. He at once divined the inten tion of his visitor, and drawing his re volver, ordered the man to surrender. Thia order was quickly followed bv a *hot from the visitor's pistol, and a bul iet pierced the mesaeuger'a right cheek. The uinu tired three mora shots, tlie *coond striking Price in the shoulder, 'he third in hts left arm and the fourth giazuig his lie ul. Price fell U the floor, tiut, nothing daunted, he crawled back M one of the safes, where he kept iiis revolver, and, seizing the weajxni, I e sent a bulls' through hia assailant's brain, killing him iustautlv. Two other masked men, who hod assisted the first in sawing an aperture io the door of the •ar, through which lie hal entered, were <>n the platform daring the firing, but when the tram was approaching Forest, 0., they pulled the lx-U rope, causing the engineer to ulacken the sju-cd of tlie train, when tlier ju ped off, leaving the messenger and their dead comrade in tlie car. Whan tbe train reached Crestline, the mask was removed from the dead man, disclosing to those present the fa miliar face of Henry Binkley, who had formerly been a conductor on the rood, but had a short time liefore been dis charged for embezzlement. Although wriously wouaile.l, Price recovewl in a few months, nod renamed his dnties on the mad. Tlie express company maet pig the child had raised, and bad been devoted ly attached to, followed the hearse con taining the remains of its fnend, and in spite of the efforts to drive it back, fol lowed the whole distance from the house to the burial-ground, seven miles dis tant mot of the way between the hind wheels under the hearse. Johuujf Ma ml* by 111* Brother. Little Johnny's mother took him on her lap after breakfast and mode lum promise tlmt he would always lie kind to his little brother. He solemuly vowed to stand by luiu tuider the most adverse circumstance*, iunl even iiiteuaifled his pltxlge Willi the statement that if Brown's ugly sow serosa the way should attempt t>> atbu'k Ins infant brother, he would wipe the animal completely off ths face of the earth. Then lie went out to the barn and saw the man of all work wash the carnage with tlie hose. To his ju venile mind it teemed that there waa 110 pleasure thai Jie would more keenly en joy than to get hold of that hose and squirt waier alxiut the premises, *ud as soon as he was left to his own devices he did so. Pretty soon hia dear little brother came toddling along, and it oc curred to Johnny Uial it would t>e a good idea to wash off the little shaver as the hired man hail done with the carnage. Never once did he consult the little baby concerning the matter, but with the faithless promise of a pound of caudy he persuaded him to stand np iu the iiaru and then leveled Uie hose at him. The tlrst charge knocked the infant a little leas than ten feet uito the air, and filled his ears, eyes and nose and shoes with water, while the wtw "wieUm" filled the air with cnee of distrees. Then Joluiuy clueixl the bam door till the " tit tle brat," as he affectlouately termed him, had ceased " aqualhu'," and when his mother came to the door to see if her little ones were all right he smiled sw.etly on her and told her that Bobby was enjoying himself in the bam. Again he slyly opened the door and brought volley after vollev of water to lieor on hia near and dear little relative. Finally, after he had half drowned him, he UH-SIUS so excited witli the ajsirt tliat he neglected to close the door with his usual promptitude, and the wail of the little urchin fell on the fond mother's ear. While he was still aiming the heavy stream at the powerless victim who, overcome with emotions of distress, was dsneing up and down like a bear on a hot griddle, his mother came hurriedly up tietund itii 11 and jerked him into a Cur attitude to place across her knee, he kept firm hold at the huee, and as he wheeled about he threw ten barrels of water on his gentle parent, uio*t of which struck her in the face. As he fell scross the msteroal ktiee the liue* be came so entangled that his prostrate form rested on it and it exploded. Every sec ond his mother's hand came down on him like a trip hammer. Then after the blow his body would recoil, sud the pressure being taken off the hone the water would strike himou his little heav ing bosom. Indeed the spanks were a rebel, for only wbeu his btsiy was driven flrrnly down against the lio*c by the blows waa the water shut off. Finally •he three people wended their weary way into the hooae. Couipaieil with them, three drowui*l rata would have been a cheerfnl sjiectacle. Today three tncm l>erc of that Monroe street family have Uie drea-lfullest cold ever heard of, and the faithless Julinuy was the cause of it. The Chlnme Lantern Trade. During the last two or three years a large and regular demand for Chiuoae lauteru* has been created in this country, and the sale of these article* now con ntitutes one of tlie most important, if not the most important branch of the busi ness of a dealer iu pyrotechnic*. This ha* been especially ttne this season,* ben the demand for "ordinary " fireworks " lias lieeu iiiaigniflcant, but for Chineso lanU-roa it lias l>ceu larger tlian ever bv fore. Garden partus, which are booora •ug very popular, are a profitable source •if income to the manufacturer* uf Chinese-lanteru*, as i* also ilie custom now iu vague at some of the watering places of having a grand illuuiinaticu ■nice or twice each season. On two different occasion* thia summer Martha's Vineyard has called njxin Boston dewier* for l.i.OfW lantern* for a single eveuing's illnminafion. The greater part of Uie "C In newe st, tern* " are iua>!e in this country, in Uie vicinity of New York, or in Germany, and as they have been in such active re quoouful of powdered borax to a quart of hot water. If grease spots are to be removed, add more borax, and nac a brush with a very little soap; rinse off with clean hot water. If necessary, press with a hot iron on the wrong side. WAHHINO FLPID A*l WATKM. —Take sal soda, one pound ; stone-lime about half pound; water, five quarts; boil a short time, stirring occasionally; then let it settle, and pour off the clear fluid into a stone jug and cork for use. Soak your white clothea over night in simple rain water; ring out and soap your wristbands, collars, and dirty places; have your boiler half filled with water, slid when st scalding heat put in one common tcacuptul of the fluid ; stir ; put in your clothes and boil for half an hour; then rub lightly through one suds only, rinsing well in bluing water, a* usual, and all is complete. The Cars wf Calves. To feed the beet calves for the butcher i* a frequent but costly mistake made by Itoti) burners and dairy nun. The ex cuse LB that it cost* mure to raise them Uiuii they are worth when mature. Thia is wrong, but if it were not, the excuse I would not be a valid one. To raise a | calf costs more in time and trouble than i in money, or what could be made to pru ! dtice motiev. There is no necoaaity to feed a calf uu sweet milk for more than i a few days. After the first week the | youug annual mav be made to thrive i equally well on many of the substitute* for ereaun that may be made use of. What is needed for" the growing animal ia not cream, but milk ; not fat-pro duciug, but muscle ami bone making material ; and (hut is all contained in . the akimmed milk. For some time after it* birth the calf requires ita food warm and IU small quantities, frequently given. But generally it is tilled to repletion twice a ra? On wheat or oat straw, or eon : odder and grain, without any hsy '• Uorscs to do bnt little or no work auil to be kept in good condition." Itcpfft,—We have kept our horses several winters in good oondition and at hard work on the following rations, vix.: Each horse received chopped corn-fod der. well saved and of good quality, one pu> York Time*. Tsr Water fer Inserts. For the last five years I have not loot a euoumlier r melon, vine or cabbage plant. (lot a barrel, with a few pilous of gas tar in it; pour water on the tar; always have it ready when needed, and when the hugs appear give them a liberal •lrink of the tar water from a garden sprinkler, or otherwise, and if the rain washes it off and they return, repeat the dose. It will also destroy the Colorado potato beetle, and frighten the old long fnitato bug worse than threshing with a irush. Five years age thia summer both kinds appeai-iil ou my late potatoes, mid I watered with the tar water. The next dnv all Colorado* that had not been well protected from the sprinkling wore dead, nqtl the others, though their name was legion, were all gone, and I have never seen one of them on the farm since. lam aware that many will look upon thia with indifference, liecanse it i.< so cheap and simple a remedy. Such should alwaya feel Imtb their own and tliair neighbors' bugs, aa they frequently | do. — Chicago Tribune. Diphtheria has become, next to con sumption, the most fatal disease in New England. The vital statistic* of Massa chusetts, just published, for the year 1876, show that it now occupies the sec ond place in the list of fatality, whereas no longer ago than 1872 its place was the nineteenth. Laat year 2,610 persons died of it in Massachusetts, and 6,827 of oonsnmption. Hearing waa suddenly acquired by John Burt, of Crown Point, N. Y. t by an explosion in a mine. He had been deaf and dumb since his birth. He is now alowly learning to talk. TERMS: a Year, in Advance. The Magician and the Ilackman. When Heller, the magician, arrived in the city on Friday laat, aaya n late uuuilier of the Boston 7Vt mller, he di rected the hsrkaiau to drive him to the Parker House. Beaching the hotel, ho ■teuped briskly up !*> the clerk's desk and wss soon surrounded by a host of old friends, including Dr. Tompkui* of tli* Boston Theater, Arthur Chaoev, H. C. J arret t, Frank Chnulrwu and a dozen other*. Amid the hearty greet ings came a rough voice, which aoon at tracted general attention. It appears that the bookman hadn't been piud. •' What in it, my good friend ; whet are you yelling to me about f" demanded Mr. Heller. " I wants me fare. I aaw you skip awav. Two dollars for you and the lad v." This answer created a laugh among the magician's friends. "I know I paid you, you raaoal," - claimed Mr. Heller. " Not a cint" " Yon put it in your hat Hand it to me I" ami, to the oousteniation of Jehu, tlere was a bright, clean two-dollar note taken from the lining of hia eady and held np to the gane of the rapidly increasing crowd. Cabby stood transfix ed with wonder. " I am afraid of your future, my poor fellow, and advise you to alter your coarse," interposed Mr. Jarrea. "Be virtuous and you'll bo happy," waa the advice at Mr. Cheney. "Thia after all our boasted New England civilisation and moral advance ment !" added Mr. Chanfrau. " If thia thing should get abroad ! w was Dr. Tompkins' alarming exclama tion. "Think of yoor wife and children. Repent ere it ia' too late," was the kind ly-toned proposition of Mr. Heller. "Look here, gintlemeu, thia ia all good enough, and yex her me tanks. Bnt may I never ace a sixpence spin but 1 wasn't paid, and that bill I Liver saw before in all me born days. I didn't hare a cint about me," and the indig nant hack man slapped hi* hands on ma coat pockets. "You have no other money on your person t" demanded Mr. Heller. "No r said the dnver, unboaiUtingly. " What 's thia, and thia, ami thia, and this?" inquired the magician, a* lie delicately pulled a bank-note first from the poor cabman's aide coat pocket, then one from his coot-cuff, another from his pantaloons pocket, and another from his boot top. "My friend," con tinued Mr. Heller, in a voice softened by swelling emotion*, the while the crowd around moaned with exceaa of sorrow over the sad exhibition of human depravity, " you are not yet lost, but vou are on the brink of ruin. We all feel for you, don't we, gentlemen r" and groans came in reepomie. "Look here, me friend*," cried the harkmau, "this here thing's played out. I'm not the worse man in the wurrld"—when. to bis utter horror, the magician interrupted him to take from hi* coat pocket*, hat, trousers and I wot tops not oolv greenbacks and plenty of silver coin." bnt pens, blotting paper, matches, blank cards and the general invoice iff stationery usually found on a hotd desk. " Man, who are TOU, anyhow ?" cried the poor fellow, a* he crossed himself and commenced to back out, " Ilawkahaw the detective •" shouted Jarrett, as he struck an attitude. " My name ia Norval," replied Mr. Heller. " Tis Clifford's voice, if ever Cliff ml spoke," added Mr. Cheney. "I am thy father's spirit," groaned Mr. Chanfrau. And by this time the perturbed driver Lad reached the street, about* of laughter falling ou hia ear, and with another surprise awaiting him. Mr. Heller had placed a fire dollar note in the man's vest pocket The Tenth of Maximilian. A Vienna letter says; Lighted by a taper in the hands of one of the brothers, we descended to the gloomy crypt in the old church of the Captions*. where Austrian royalty ia buried. In the dim light we picked our way through many metal caskets, oc casionally having* horrible sensation by tiangiug against one and being startled bithe noise of the contact with such an object in such a J>UL At the extreme end of the repulsive vault the long robed monk halted, and the French indicated that we were beanie the casket of the Archduke Maximilian, Emperor of Mex ico. Poor Maximilian 1 The victim of the man who presumed to bang the trap pings of Imperialism on the burden of the Republic ; the brother of the Aus trian Emperor, who exchanged a happy home and high position for the fatal al lusions of a monarch's title. The schemer, driven from the throne, dies an exile, and the victim, slaughtered within eight of hia throne, ia brought home to lie among hia people. The love that was borne the Archduke is evinced by ex quisite offering* of freah Bowers, tied with broad white ribbons embroidered with gold, which are constantly renewed on his coffin. Not far from where Maxi milian rests ia the plain caaket containing the remain* of the young man called Xapoleou 11. He i* cloae to hia grand father, the Emperor Francis L, and di rectly beaide his mother, the wife of the great Napoleon. The most conspicuous casket in the crypt is the oateutatioua piece of silver bronao which encloses the great Empress Maria Theresa. The vault of the church of the Oapucinee contains the bodies of the royal family ; the cathedral of Si Stephen, their bowels, and the church of St. Augnstinea, their heart*. In the letter the rows of silver nrns in which the hesrtsare placed CAD tie seen by looking through a small grating in the door of the celL As one stands in the dismal place, surrounded by the coffins of the deed, the sight erf the nrua produces a strange impression. It ia a luxury toearape from the depieasing sep ulchre and again feel the warmth of the gonial summer sun. "bo to Werkf* Thero are more young American men in the penitentiaries in tbia country iearning.tradee than there are outside of them. "Hie principal canae for thia i that are are educating our young men for gentlemen—trying to make lawyer*, preacher*, doctors and clerk* out of material that nature intended for Itlack- H until*, bricklayer*, carpenter*, tailor* and other " lieaer* of wood and drawers of water." If# a mistake, and a big one, to teach boy* and girla to believe that to labor is disgraceful, and to do nolnuig for a tivii'flf it more becoming the society in which they expect to move and have a respect. llaug audi society ! It ia rotten to the core to-day, and there are many men's eons ami daughter* who are now being educated to play the part of " loading lady " and " walking gentlemen" in the great drama of life who will light ont for a poor honse or a penitentiary before they have played their part* and the curtain drops. Go to work!— lMU isvilla Oour icr-JournaL A Swedish Moody, a young man of twenty-four, E. A. Skogsberg by name, has been conducting a aeries of moet successful revival meetings in Minne sota, He is said to be a speaker much like Moody,simple, earnest and eloquent, of fine personal appearanoe, and a gifted singer as welL NUMBER 42. LOCATISU THE IHMIUBASTH. A*M Dmilnilm at 3.6OOOO0 tart srsw-UisrltMlw *1 it* Witri Na- Taking the claaaiftod population of CO of tbe largest mtim in the Union, we mn aggregate population of 5,778,- 718, of whom, 3,807,070 are natives, and 1 967,848 foreign bore ; that is to my about 66 per emi. are native and 34 per cent foreign. Tbe entire foreign popu lation in 1870 was 5,666,546. which was about 14* per oent. of tbe population of the country, so more than 35 per cent of all our foreigners are in the 50 Urged cities, it may be net down that 41) in 100 of all immigrants are in cities and large villages. Since the Ist of August, twenty-two years ago, tha Immigration Commissioners have kept a record of the " avowed destination * of aliens landed at Castle Oardeu. It may lie taken for granted that thoso who really did not know where they would go are classed under " New Tore." The whole number questioned up to Jan 1, 1877, was 8,581,- 758, and here ia thair distribution: t WM j Nu. u NumUr 100.000 To EaaUra (Hates.l... .. IMi M To Middle Mate* I.MMII M.4* To Wmkci Htalaa. 4,106.Til M.MB To PacUte (Hates. 4AMB | IJT To TerrtUwia*. 41,*T4 , I.W To HouUiara (Hales M.BM ' 1.6X3 Total 5.681.75S I iw.aoe We next take up the great divisions of aliens—lrish, German, Ac. and show how they are distributed over the country. Until within s few rears the sons of Ire land largely onto umbered any other race, bat now the German or Teutonic blood takes the load. The Irish numbered 1,855,779 in 1870. against 1,611,904 in 1860, an increase of 944,498, or 46 per cent The Germans and Scandinavians (ia moat reapecta one people) number , 1,932,218 against 1,373.718 in 1860, an increase of 558,500, or over 40 per cent New York, Pennsylvania. Massachusetts ami TP'Qrt,. contain the greatest number of Irish ; but the largest percentages are I in Ml—Rhode Island, Coonee i tieat, Wyoming, Nevada,Xew York, Cal ifornia and New Jersey. They are scarce iin the Booth. North Carolina numbers i bnt 1 in 1,000 whites, Arkansas 4, Ala bama 7, Georgia 8, South Carolina 11, ■rod ao on. Utah baa but 6in 1,000. The entire Irish-bore residents of tbe I Union reach 6* per oent, or 56 in every ' 1,000 of the whole white population. Ia New York City and the surrounding nnborhe nearly 250 in 1,000, or ooe aturter, are of Irish birth, and, with ieir children, form more thaa one third of the people. The States having the largest number of Germans are New York, filinoia, Wisconsin, Ohio, Penn sylvania, Missouri and Minneeota, while the largest ]>ercentsgs appear in Minne sota, Wisconsin, Dakota, Nebraska, Illin ois, Wyoming, Utah (Scandinavian Mor mons;," Montana, lowa, Idaho, Maryland and then New York, with only 7* in 100, where Minnesota has 23 ana Wisconsin j2O in 100. AM with the Irish, tbe Ger mans are scarce ia the South, their beat -dw being in Texas, (where there are Nome German colonies,; with 44 in 1,000 for the whole State ; Kentucky 28. and | no down to North Carotins, with hardly 1 in 1,000. In the whole of New England the German* show very thinly : Maine 759; New Hampshire 644 ; Massachu setts 15.027 : Vermont 508 ; Rhode I*l - 1.883: Connecticut 12,964; in all 1 31,146. Not half as many Germans in New England as there are in tbe Seven teenth Ward of New York. All other foreigners, exclusive of Irish and German, number 1,778,649, and with re gard to distribution, it should be noted that Spaniards and Mexicans prevail in Texas and Louisiana, French in Lou mi nis and New York, Hollanders in Michi gan, lows and Wisconsin, Walsh ia New York and Pennsylvania, and Canadians in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New Yerk. The Chinese and other Asi atics amount to 68.954, of whom 49,810, I or 99 in each 1,000 whites, are ia Oali ! fornia, 3,982 in Nevada, 3,390 in Oregon, 4,274 in Idaho, and 1,949 in Montana.— s AW I'oH Time*. " Hard 1>" A vrr pathetic (kucripuoo of the perils of "life in the Black Hills, is tires in the following extract from the letter of s miner to hie brother linua in Se nds : 'Tve been spending the lest week tiring to think of some plen which will enable me to get home. If I only bed SSOO I could get to Cheyenne, end then it would be easy sailing into amis isathm. If you send the money by ex press, the Indians axe sure to get it, as they split open s Wetts-Fara coach everr few da vs. If you send it or mail, I wouldn't get it for months, as the post master ia off on a drunk most of the time, and can't read anyhow. Dout send a draft on the bank, as it ia liable to bust. If you know some friend com ing to the llills, don't trust him with the cash, aa he's sore to gamble it all off at Cheyenne, or get robbed at Caster. If vou can think of some way of sending the monev that it will be sue to get here, send it right sway; bat unless ▼on are sure don't risk it Perhaps TOO had better come yourself and bring it" The brother wrote in reply: " Jusj borrowed sl*2 to settle s board bill." An Elk's RaM en a Fert. A few day* ago the military and civil - iaaa at Fori Laramie were astonished at the eight of a hnge elk, which ran oat of the mjderhrush in the Platte river bot tom and charged directly through the jmrade ground. The an tiered monster was pursued by a pack of dogs of all sixes, and after clearing the buihiings ooe canine, holder than his fellows, nipped at his heel, when the eld whirled! threw down his antler, impaled three or four of his pursuer*, then, lifting hi* handsome head quickly, he threw them many yards away. Two dog* were killed by the goring and fall, while two or three other* were trampled to death. Net many minutes elapsed before a dosen officer*, * soldier* and civilian* were mounted and in lively pursuit Several hundred cartridge* were exploded, with no perceptible effect except to increase the speed of the 'orest monarch, and after wearing out their horse* in s two hours' run, the pursuers gave up the chase aud returned to the fort, leaving the elk to seek some quiet gracing spot on the boundless plains. Judge und Jap. A Wellington correspondent gives these Canital items : Except one (Judge Clifford," who, with his wife, always boards at the National Hotel,) all the justices of the supreme oonrt have reai deuoes in Washington. Juatfop* Swayne, Miller. Field and Bradley own and oc cnpy large ami handsome dwellings. Judge Hunt lives in the honse on Lafayette square in which Carl Solium resided during his last year in the Sen ate, but I think ho rents it I observe a paragraph in circulation announcing as news that the Japanese minister, Mr. Yoehida, has adopted the American style of dress. He has worn it daring the three yearn he has been here, and probably longer, as he was in England as a member of a commission sent there by his government before his appointment here. He speaks English perfectly, and was, I think, educated in England. He haa received a flue educa tion. His wife adopted our mode of drees soon after her arrival here. Alter. Aftsr the shower the tnaqail sea Wlrer stars whan tha day is done. After tha MO*. the MMHId Wetta I After U>* harvsat gohtee ahtevsa. After the steads Ute vtolrt sky; Quiet wood*, whan ibe wind goes by. After th temp** ibe lull of teereti After tha battk, paeoaful ft**** t After tha kaeU the wadding belle. Joyful trash ngi from mi farawaUa After tha bed, UM radiant roee; After oar weeping sweat leeose. After the harden, the blissful meed s After UM furrow, the vtatng eesd. After tbe Sight, the downy nest. Over tbe shadowy riser rert. Items ef letereeC Florida's everglades are fall of wild oata, bear* and raooooM. The corn crop in the United BUtre thie year is the heaviest crcr known. Dainr, OoL, oaks that Burnley theatres and gambling be prohibited. "Hare yon faeenl my last song?" b*wi a amain writer of a gruff critic. "I hope ao," waa tbe reply. Tbe latest failure reported ie tbe fail ure of tbe weather eigne. Assets not known; liabilities. enormous. It is a remarkable fad, which we can not explain, that the boy who does not Alow that the gun ia loaded is never theless alwsys to be found at the safe end of it. What is the difference between a ahoolhoT studying his leason and s farm < r watching hta cows ? Answer : one ia stoekmg his mind and the other ia mind ing bis stock A machine tor the effectual destruction of potato bugs hsa been invented in New York. It is mounted on and deluges the ground with the smoke of burning chips and sulphur, holding it down long enough to suffocate every potato bog, locust, or insect that may within tta reach. It ia estimated that 90,000 oil wells have thus far been dog in Pennsylvania *nd Wert Virginia, at an aggregate cost of 9192,000,600. They hare yielded about eighty rtght million barrels of uiL valued at tha walla at three hundred millions of dollars, or four hundred mil iums of dollars at the seaboard. The owner of a building in which a dram-seller of Bloomington, 111., sold liquor which caused a man to lose his life by falling before a railroad train, waa ouudemaed several days ago to pay Um widow 92,600, the seller of the h- S>r being himself a bankrupt and an e to respond to the judgment of the oovri 4 prise of 9500 will be paid by tha Msssarlmnntte (Society for the Preven tion of Cruelty to Animal* to the person or persons who shall do mart to leases the suffering* of animals in transporta tion Ire rail during the year which will end July 1, 1878; the money having been given by one of its directors for this purpose. A Ferger*s Career. A Washington correspondent has the following toiler in the New York OrapAie : William R. Oooper, one of the Cooper brothers just now attracting ao much of of the attention of the detectives on ac count of forgeries committed, bed quite a romantic career in thia city during the year* immediately following the war. By means of forged letters he obtained from Secretary Welles an appointment in the Nary Department, and aooo be came quite a Ikm He repre tcnUri himself to be s scion of the British nobility, who, through a freak and a denize to aee varied phases of life, had temporarily left England, and for reasons of hia own, plausibly pat, desired to enter the Civil Service of the United Stales. He affected a dainty style of dram and mode at life which, together with a handsome person ingrfchating manners, soon made him a favorite among Ladle* in the mast fsnhionable circles. He did not hesitate to pay more thn gg|o Washington lady of nigh con nections sehoos attentions and engage her hand in marriage, sad would con tinue the betrothal until forb time as he saw fit to break it off, or until be found that no ! HUpPO VOQMBII t is his finances would result from the martisg*-. I know of one at these instance* where no one sooaected with the lady's family sup posed until after the denouetmmt which followed his martiage with the niece of Mr. Defrees, then, as now, the Public Printer, that Mr. Cooper was guilty of aught worse than the fisUenees of s young and pleasure-loving nature. Be fore hia marriage to Mue Motherehead, Mr. Defrees's niece, the detective* were shadowing him an aooount of forgeries commuted government and those employing them knew of the intended marriage, vet took ao step to cave an in aooeot gul fnwa the misery and disgrace of uniting hetsalf to s villain. I%e mar riage took place with her uncle's ooo sent, be, of coarse, knowing no mason to oppose ft, and the coupie started on tbsfr bridal trip, intending to reach Philadelphia before night and remain there s few days. The detectives fol lowed the carriage containing the bride and groom to the depot and left the city on the same tain with them, but made no attempt to arrest the forger until the tain was mossing at Havre de Once, and be left his bride for a few moments. Then he was informed of the charges •gainst him and shown the warrmnt for hi* arrest He implored permission to take hia bride to Philadelphia and see her comfortably settled at the Conti nental Hotel before the arrest was pub licly made, and his wishes wen- re spected. Hie officer* of the law remained in the car with him until reaching Philadelphia, and kept him in sight until he an J his wife wars shown to a private room in the hotel. There be left her, merely saying that he wished to speak % to a friend in the hotel, and she never saw him again. Her lonely hours of watching for the return of her bridegroom mid the over whelming misery which came upon her when she could not choose, but believe herself to be a deserted bride, need not be depicted A telegram brought her uncle to her next day and then they both knew the truth—that Cooper was a bade scoundrel and had been placed in prison to await a trial for forgery The bride returned with her uncle to Waah uigton and was soon legally divorced, , while Cooper was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary. All this occurred about eleven years ago. The lady baa for some time been happily married to another; and the same can truly be mid at yet one more who was once thejtanoeeof the fascinat ing Cooper. One of the peculiarities of the lady killer was tike bumneee-like and methodi cal treatment of nil the love letters he received from fair ladies. After hi* ar rest, when the papers at the Navy Department were seized the billets doux of more than one who had been betrothed to him were found neatly folded and filed awy as if they were business documents, indorsed after this fashion: " Bess. June 10.** " Dear little Bess; how much she loves me!" The latter sentence would be placed under the ruled lines usually headed "Remarks " on filed papers. lam glad to say that Secretary Welles was able to restore to some of the ladies their letters and screen then from further publicity. Antiqiitj of Petreleum. Petroleum haa been known and used for four thousand years. It was em ployed in the mortar at the building of Babylon and Nineveh. The Egyptians used it in embalming their dead. From time immemorial the bituminous matter of the Dead Sea has been known. The petroleum springs that ooee upon the banks of the Is, a tributary of t! e Euphrates, attracted the attention tf Alexander and of seven of the Roman emperors. On one of the lonian islands there is a spring, which has been known for more than 2,000 years. In Zaute, in Ecbatana, in Sicily, in Italy, on the Caspian sea, in Perma, on the banks of the Irawaddy, in Bavaria, France, Eng land, Scotland!, in the Indian arehipellago, and n the Island of Trinidad, petroleum is found. It has bean imported into Liverpool from Africa, and oven Chins, with its universal resources . and inven tiona, lays claim to unlimited enppb'esi oleaginous wealth.