TV Organ (irindor An orpan tironcth high and low Above the aonnda that ebb and flow. And faint through all the pale and din, It* plaining comes to me within. "In the Sweet liT-tnd-bv that brow We need to eing when day grew dim , Pit song to Jeer me with -whore life r.i;teotant only ia of strife. And a* I lint, I roe again Tlie pathway of an Orchard lane. Where lag* a little brook at esse t'nder the blossom-laden tree*. 1 know not if it be a dream : I almort see the winding stream. And hear one voice—oh, heart of nnne Cronch down, nor think what once war thine! The Bay of the W>ll. Whene'er we see ■ mm Who's wise beyond the rule We ask who is there can. We ask who is titer? who'll Take his place another day, Wheu his son! has ja*eil away Oat of all this world of clay— Wheu the weird fates his life-thread e.er And he is lost to us forever To ns it soerrs as though The world could scarcely stand The course of things .-carve go Without his guiding hand. Strong the wide world to d reel Hcconcilitig every sect. Keeping eil courses ohe.kod A hand that's etieal when by themselves !—sneered, " Bine china and molasses candythe young women said it was "awfully babyish;" the young men called her "a fniry," the young women "a dwarf." She was the eldest of eight children; had no accomplishment, unless singing a ballad or two passably well could be called one; was eighteen years old, poor an.l —and- -well, to tell the honest truth, rather high-tempered. And yet she had for a lover handsome, talented, proud, wealtliv Anthonv Ditto, the match that all the girls in her circle had been mak ing eyes at for a year before he, with heart still untouched, had met " wee Bab," as he called her. How he came to notice her at all goodness knows, unless the comicality of the introduction struck through the dignity which enveloped him as a mantle, aD.I softening b ; s heart, let her steal into it. and then being a burry sort of a little body, he couldn't get rid of her afterward. "Miss Barlmra Darling," said the drevoking Ned Parker, " Mr. Anthonv Dittoand we (ves. we—l'm Bab Darling) bnrst out laughing, the names were so odd following each other in that manner, yon know ; and from that mo ment we were excellent friends until the dsy we ceased to be friends sad became overs. Papa and mamma were delighted with the engagement. ami so was T. for of course I loved him dearlv ; anil yet for the life of mo I couldn't stoD what ho rolled " flirting." though I'm snre I •lidn't mean it for that. Yon aee every Vvxiv in ao v<*rv Li ml to a little woman tliatit in almost impossible for me to lie dignified. She gets nsed to beiuz trroteo like a child, and accept* pet name* and honqueta and honl>oD and gloves and the beat of everv thing, and talks and lanzh* and sings with pleasnnt people of the opposite sex jnst as a child would. Vow Anthony didn't like it—absurd fellow wasn't I going to marry him ? —and he used to look, oh ' so very grim and ogreish. and lecture me on the im propriety of my oondnct, nntil I felt my self the m<>st miserable of sinners : bnt —I don't know how to aoconnt for it—l always forgot the lecture a soon a it was over, and was in disgrace again immediately. "Well, the other evening—Fourth of .Inly evening it was—a party of ns yonng folks went to the village green to see the pyrotechnic (I had to eonsnlt the dictionary before I ventnred on that word) display, and arriving there rather late, found ourselves the last comers, and consequently on the ontide of the crowd. Ned Parker and T tried to posh our way to the front, bnt we oonldn't ; and T didn't see a thing, excepting a few rockets and blne-liglits, nntil the very last, when Ned lifted me in his arms eo that I might at last catch a glimpse of Washington blessing his countrymen and women with one fiery hand, while he pointed to a Roman candle that had jnst gone np with the other. Anthonv was a few feet .away, talking to Netta Brooke; and when I joined him, expecting to meet with a terrible frown, he greeted me with a charming smile. And all the rest of the evening he was as amiable as possible, and thongh lie had several five-minute chances to scold me, never said a reproving word—never even referred to the George W. episode, bnt he did worse—he flirted himself. That I had never dreamed of, and I mnst say that I thonght—at the time— it was a real mean thing for a great tall fellow like him to do to revenge himself on a mite like me. Yes, he flirted for two long, very long, hours; and when (the party ended at onr house) the children proposed a kiss ing game, he, my haughty, reserved lover, joined in with that bold Brooke girl, and chose lier for a "partner" every time, kissing her on the month and she has a pretty month—as he did I should have liked to box her ears, and his too for that matter—but I didn't of course not. I sauntered about with Ned Parker, and looked up into his face as though every moment I discov ered some new beant.v in it; and when Netta bade me good-night (Anthony could find no excuse for offering to walk home with her, her brother Dick being there;, I kissed her, and hoped she had enjoyed herself. " Oh ! very much—very, very much, indeed," said she, flinging a look which she meant to be tender, bnt it wasn't— she has big, black, shallow eyes—at FRED. KIXIITZ, l^ditor and Proprietor. VOLUME XL Anthony. " I never enjoyed myself m much." But a* aoon iin the garden gate closed Indian! them I t*>k my engagement ring from my finger and tiling it u|h>ii the ground, and I actually, I'm ashamed to tell it, but 1 did made my hand into a flet and slnxik it at uiy promised him band. What would maniuia, the dear, meek ilarling—l don't got my tenijKU from her—have said if ahehed seen me ? As for Anthony, he wasn't the least bit frightened, but caught tile flat, and shut it up in his strong right hauil like soiuetliing in a box. "I hate you ?" 1 cried. " Nobody ever treated me so before," " Hut hi>w many have you treated so ?" he asked, with a smile; and I couldn't heln thiuking how handsome he looked in the silver moonlight. " Everybody lias always done what ever 1 wuutad them to do," I went on, stamping my foot. "And consequently spoileii you," said he. " Wliat did you love me for, if I'm not —not nice?" " Hecause I kn w the luoiurut I saw you, you wee thing, you were my fate. I thought you were uioe then, and want ed to take you m my arms the moment you smiled on me." *' Aud now 2," " Aud no* I think you a bad-temper ed. selfish, willful, unreasonable girl." " ImM !" anil I wreuched mv hand away, but not before lie hail kissed it with the most provokiug coolness. "Then we'll part,unless you change your opinion imuiixliately, atnl promise never to s;>eak to Netta Hrooke again. " I shall make no snoh silly promise. Barbara." Good praciouA ' the idea of his calling me Barbara ! " I have prom ised to drive her to thedepot to-morrow." " Yon return to the city together ?" " We return by the same train, as we have done a down times Ufore." "Oo," said I, almost Iwside myself I with rage. "1 never want to see you again." " Are you snre, Barbara ?" he asked— "quite sure ( I thiuk you had better wait for a Jay or two before roil banish me. If by the day after to-morrow— your birthday—yon still • hnte ' me, send me word to that effect, and I will, the moment your note is read, accept a josi tion offered me this morning, and start for a home beyond the sea. Good-night, Miss Darling." "Good-night, Mr. Ditto." Aud he strode away up the road, aud I . picked up my ring ami stole into the house. ami cried as though mv hear! ■ would break. It was so cruel of him to be unkind to a poor little tkiug like me. The next morning, as I sat on the front porch darning the children's stvk inga— dear roe! it seems to me every time stocking-darning time comes around that there never could be another family with so manv legs as ours—Anthony drove past with Netta Brookeat liissnle. I hid behind the stocking basket until thev were out of sight, anil then I flew to mv desk and wrote ns bitter a note as a woman twice my size oonld have writ tea, and I sent it to the village nost offieo that very evening bv oar little servant-maid Oar little servant-maid is a pretty lit- I tie maid, with large honest gray eyes, a small red month, bright chestnut hair, a pleasant smile, a neat, plump figure, and a remarkably cheerful disptwition. I And a clever little maid she i, too—can wash and iron and cook, and do a hun draf other things; bnt she p-ssess** one taste which interferes sadly with the performance of her domestic duties —the most insatiate hunger for litera ture, which she gratifies whenever she finds an opportunity, in season or out of season, morn, noon, or night Potatoes and stews are burned, bread, cakes, and pies baked to cinders, doors left open all night, breakfasts delayed, lunehes forgotten, dinners served too early or late—all on account of this love of reading which characterizes onr little servant-maid. She nearlv drowned babv once, while giving her her bath, by letting the dar ling's head slip under the wafer, while she devoured a story in a Ifarfrr Wcrklt/ she had taken from a table near bv. She let mv canary esospe while she remove.] his emr>Av seed cup with one hand, and held Helen's Babies in the oMier. her eves being fixed on the book. She spilled the soup one dinner-time over v>ana*s immocnlnte white vest while trying to peep at the magazine he was glancing over. She set the hot flat-iron on onr best damask table cloth, and left it there to indelihlv imnrint its triangu lar portrait, while she hastily read a murder case in the morning paper. She could scarcelv be got out of bed mornings, because she was tired and sleepy from reading the book she had abstracted from the book-ease the night before, and when she did get np she actnallv sat before the dreary-looking stove for half an hour or so, intently- 1 (ierising the various "craps of newspaper with which she should have been light ing the fire. In short, if she hail not been the most devoted, sunny, unselfish, fond-of-us-all little creature, it wonld have been utterly impossible for n° to have stood the many mishaps and disasters that, sprang from our servant-maid's devotion toliteratnre. As it was. papa said to her when she drenched him with soup: " Another oeenrrenee of this nature, and yor. go." Ami mamma said to her when she nearly drowned the habv : " Reallv, Eleanor, if any thing as dreadful as this happens again, we mnst part." And T said to her when she freed my song-bird: " The verv next wrong thing yon do while reading—" and I made a significant pause and looked. "Y'es, miss."* xaid Nellie, meekly, w th the tears in her gray eyes, which didn't prevent her, as so n as she reached the kitchen; bnrsting out with " Why, why, whv didst thon leave me?" to a tnne made up of a strange combination of."OM Dan Tucker " and "The Bus sian Hymn." Bnt with the exception of a turkey nicely roasted and sent to table retain- ; ing its crop and one or two other super fluous appendages to a turkey when roasted, on aoconnt of " Red as a Rose is She," and forgetting to put the yeast in the bread one night liecanse " East Lynne" lay beside the bread bowl, Nellie hail got into no trouble for several months, and had gladly said to me, the morning of the very day I sent that hor- I rid letter : " So, miss, I shall be with you another birthday, after all ; and isn't that " Monarch of Minking Lane " lovely f I read a little hit of it when I wns dnsting the parlor, miss." Well, to go l>nck to naughty Barbara, 1 standing by the window, and gazing oat 1 into the street. Oh, how my heart ached ! How sorry I was for quarreling with my dear, good, splendid Anthony! Tlie first thing this morning, my birthday morn ing—Last year I was scarcely through my breakfast when he came, bringing me the lovliest set o' pearls—he will get my cruel letter, and then, before I can Bend another to beg him to forgive me, he will have started for that dread ful place away off goodness knows where. " What possessed me," I said to my self, wringing my hands in despair, "silly, wicked little thing that I am, to break my own heart aud wound him so deeply ? He loves me, I know he loves [me dearly, and he never, never, never would have flirted had I not set him the example ;" and I heaved a deep THE CENTRE REPORTER nigh, which Mac immediately echoed tehiud me, and turning, 1 saw Nellie laying the table for dinner, with a most woe-begone expression iu her round rosy face ; and as 1 turned toward her, two frightened imploring gray eyas met mine. For a urroicut f forgot my own trouble. " Why, Nellie, what i-> the matter wttli you ?" I asked. "Oh dear 1 oh dear ' how can 1 tell yoitf Aud out of Hum house I must go as soon as you ku >w. And I love your ma, ami 1 almost love your pa, and I sdore all the rest of you. Oh ! 6li! oh 1" —bursting into sobs and tears. " Take down your apron this minute," said I, flrnily, "and tell me what you have beeu doing tills tnne." •' Well. mjr-.' aaid Nellie, giving a great gulp, and eonnug and standing lief ore me, "you know, luta*. last eve utug I went to the village, ami it was an elegant moonlight night, mtss ; and, old miss"—twining and uutwiuing In r finger* nervously -" 1 can't Isvir to go out into u colli aud heartless world What shall 1 do' what ha)l I do?" " Go mi," said I. "Audi got uiy paper— I'ht WacL'y A'oarer you know, where they're printing 'The Vow of the Glass Final ; <>r, the Glittirii)g, Gleaming Girandole.' Ami oh ! miss, what shall I do?" " Go on," said I. " And 1 opened ttie paper iu the store just to see now Stephnnyer Alveretter got out of the fugliaiited cave, and 1 came out iuto the Mbd n-readiug i'. t)h, miss, it's most awful interesting !' And Nellie, completely carried away by her subject, unola-flssl her hands, and eoutiuued iu as bass a voice as she could assume, "The dragon belched forth streams of fire." And then suddenly changing to a high, shrill tone, "Rn dolfer sprang lietwwu her aud the tuou ster-r r. 'Save.!, navt 1, navisl," she cried," cried Nellie, at the top of her voice, entirely 1 t to everything but the "moat awful uiterentiug " story. " (iixxl bmvean! Soil," saui I, "you will have ma tumbling il wii sUim, • thinking it's tramp* Fl finish your own story." I The frightened look eatae buck into i Soil's face. "Will, miss" she sod, slowly. "I pot my ljwr, and, oh! miss—" "Oo ou !" said I, stamping BIT fo.it. I hai made uj my juiik! never t > stamp . my |.*>t again. but the girl was so pro ' noting. * '"Ami. mi*s"—with deajvr.to calm ness—" 1 forgot to p >l your lottor." I tlung my arms afotiml her ami gave hor a ling ami a kiss, promised her a whole year's subscription t- • the village circulating library, ami loft her with ronnil eves ami mouth wide open iu ; wonder, wrhile I flew to the door to answer the ring of— " Barbara Darling," said lie. "Anthony Ditto," said I. tiarj'er'n Weekly. Kn*sn. " Her vast territory e-intaiiis not leas than >,7i0,000 square miles, or more than one-sixth part of all the land of the globe. Uno-ia is connected with the commerce of the world by the Baltic sea with Europe and all oountries bordering on the Atlantic; eastward to Japan, China, the Pacific islands, and the eutus western shores of oar own continent. Her vast territory ia tra verse*.' with rivers, lakes, and iuiau 1 seas, through which the commerce of the outer world mav he transported into, the verv heart of the country. A dis tinguiahed writer has said, 'lt is ap parent that nothing more is wanting but the possession of Constantinople, , and the control of the Dardanelles, to complete a territorial outline of the most imposing charmotef that earth has ever seou in possession of a single power.' "She now sustains a popnlati >n of one hundred millions. In an iutre*t iDg calculation of Sir Archibald All - >n, in which he rejects two-thirds of Asiatic Russia as unproductive, lie process to show that if Russia in Europe w. re people*! as Germany now is, it won! 1 contain 1,10,000,<100 souls: if as dense as Great Britain, the number would he 111.000,CK10. That portion of Asiatic Russia which is capable of cultivation, if populate.! as denselv as Great Britain, will sustain a population of Kki.OitO.OOO. Tims there is sufficient gt>od territory in Rusaia to sustain a population, if as dense lv settled as Great Britain, of more than 800.000.000. Her vast forests and mines will furuisb timlier for her ships, i and iron to bind them together, and fuel for her population for generations to come. The Muscovite empire is in the hands of one dominnnt race, whose ' social affinities are strong enough to produce one compact national unity.' Russia's military an.l navnl powers, her educational institutions, her rapidly ad vancing civilization, and the immense influence of the Russian Church in molding the great empire of the north, preaent the spectacle of an empire ; hardly eqnale l by any in ancient or modem times."— f-lrcharu/r. A Chinese Temple of Horror*. A traveler thus describes a representa tion of the punishment of tho wicked after death according to the Buddhist theory, which be witnessed in the sub urbs of Canton : After a walk of about a mile, we came to the "Templeof Hor rors." This is a horrible place—that is. the scenes are hideous. The intention is to represent what a bad man would suffer after death. It is composed of ten different groups of statuary, made of olav, and many of them are crumbling to pieces. The first group represents the trial of a man ; lie is surrounded by I his family and friends, who are trying to defend him ; the second, where he is condemnod and given over to the exe cutioner : in the third he is undergoing j a semi-transformation from the man to the brute ; the fourth, where he is put i into a mill, with bis heal downwards, j and is being ground up ; liis dog is by the side of the mill licking up his blood'. In the fifth scene he is being placed be tween two lioards, an.l is being sawed ' down lengthwise ; sixth, lie is under a large bell, which is rnng until the con | cussion kills liim ; seventh, the man is placed upon a table, and two tpen aro paddling him with large, wooden pml dle(j; eighth, lie is upon a rack, and the executioners are tearing his flesh with red-hot pincers ; niutli, he is in a cauldron of boiling leml; the tenth scene represents him noon a gridiron, undergoing the process of roasting. In all these scenes his family nre present; also large figures who repre sents the judge, executioners, little .le mons, an.l various instruments of tor i ture. British India. A statistical abstract, relating to Brit ish India, jnst issued by order of Parlia ment, shows that the area under Britisli administration is 909,834 miles, with a population of 191,065,445. The native states comprise 573,052 miles and a popu lation of 48,233,978. Including the French and Portuguese possessions, the total area of all India is 1,484,150 square miles, with a population of 239,970,505 Of the 191,000.000 inhabitants of British India, the religions denominations are given as follows: Hindoos, 139,343,820; Bikhs, 1,174,436; Mohnmmedans, 40,- 867,125; Buddhists and Jams, 2,832,851; Christians, 879,682; others, 5,417,304, and "religion not kn0wn,"532,227, CENTRE lIAI.E, CENTRE CO., L'A., THURSDAY. MARCH 14, 1878. IJKEKN WOOD'S MOM MMS. Msmr el llir I'rswlsrsl ltsnn Iu Ihr ( rli lu sl. tl I rutrlrrr Prserlbrd. Among the prominent monument* in GieeuwoivJ iHrooklyn, N. Y.) i" a statue of Do Witt Glltitiui, which ia turn- M.leroJ a tdrikuig likt u< -s. i'he bronze tablets mi either c\ie of the potlf.vUl .no illustraU'd with the great work of the iloooimeil stateslliutl the llltilillUg of the Erie ('..111M1. thi one tablet the muial iu been ut pnurroHrt— the survey, the exca \nt ini u'ul the ti at . i ml on th' other the canal iu full operation. I'he bust hug scene arouuil the luiatu ami the dm-k is happily coiitraatixl with the idle group of IlliiiliUb, who MHIIU to Imi I<"iutuent to Mis Charlotte Cuniltt. though eclipsed of lute years bv still more ambitious and itiag uificeut structure*, will always continue to lie an object of attraction. Time and the eh meuta have destroye 1 the lustre an 1 the whiteness of the marble, but the liesuty of the dtv-igu retnaitis the same. The tenant of the tomb had a * idly ro mantic history. H*r father fought with Napolaoa ti WiltfioQ, ud th# ln rself iu u reign.built in New York tad engaged to be married, when, on the eve of Lite wedding, the horses of her carriage ti*pe of her to whom it ta ihxlicattsl. A few of the lui< a of the epitaph run as follows: 0.. vanish*-* ihs! in. Ivor ffcir. Th niortntig .-limit in kit So iliU ou nw *v Th- I' *.lro|> fltmi tkr |>rav ; So (*.(< o falls, tin- <>|k-wiu: r> r. > tiMk l **!* lirf.***- it r!> , sink* from ij{lit rvi ■ |?>>Uit >l*l J toil In lltf *>hfT .lr! I!n> fr Yet ill ituMlh* biwht tivne 1 ! urn , Sol liouelrM iour Pbarlotte nru. In i ivh! own morn hrrort' til ri*e i Out* man {->r of Pimliw rh*ttu •■[ (Uj i MM* it, nud would [ complacency to the remark* uju-n j it by wouderiug strangers. An htttnble i tombstone, transplanted from the >l.l !>nteh Reformed church on Brooklyn Heights, K-arx the nam*- of Edward Namely, "Marnierof BBmahfp r Rhinoceros," He died in 17".i4. On Locust avenue is the singular monument of "the lujeieut sister*," Sarah \V. Cairns, aged 117 years, nrs 1 EUtabeth j Cairns, aged 100 yvnr*. The firemen's - monumert is aeonapicit >n* landmark in , Greenwood. It leeopir* a very fin. | site, and i>>iisi*t* of pyramidal column . of marble reeling on n massive ped->tal , of the name material, with a granite la*<- , ( beloiv. The llgttn* of a fireman on the [ ! aunrnit in well executed. One arm sur round* ami anpport* . child PIS' rescued fr>m the flame*. which it ill pursue :t Hi* right hand hoi.la a trumpet, the at tittiile l>eing *pirit<-1 ami the general 0(11)01 gi>od. I'pou four of the pilaster* <.n representation*, in relief or in full, of implement* and nrti idea appertaining t.th tire man" a calling —the swinging engine lantern, tin trumpet and cup, the h->se and hydrant and th" hook and ladder. One of the earliest ntraetuh-* in the cemetery w.i* mound ami a monument, which the enrioua invariably seek for. to the memory of IVehnni-mee, an Indian girl. She was n *plim'* daughter, "f the Sac tribe of Indiana, antl came t<> Washing ton witli lu-r father in a delegation of S*e and lowa*. Before reaching New York she w* married to a voting I>w cliief. Ib-re they nttrn cte IJmuch notice. Great attentions were lavished on tliem nud ball* were held for their lipoma) delectation. Poor Do-hum-tnee, nnao ottntomed to artitlcial and fashionable life, took cold at a miilnight hop and death aoon closet! her bright and brief career. Highland Revenge. Ou the elioree of Mull, one of the western islands of Scotland, a crag over hanging the sea ia pointetl out as the scene of a tradition which wouhl form nn excellent subject for either n picture or a mx-m, Some centurjew ago, the ehiei of the ibstri<*t, Macleau if Lochbnr, lnul n great hunting excur sion. 'l*.) grace the festivity* ni* lady attended, with her only child, an infant , then in the nurse's arm*. The deer, driven by the hounds and hemmed in by surrounding recks, fled ton narrow pas*, the only outlet they could lind. Here the chief hud placed one of bi men to guard the deer from pussiug, but the anim-ils ruahed with such impetuosi ty tli*t the poor forester could not with stand them. In the rage of the moment Maclean threatened the tiinu with in stant death, but thin punishment was ' commuted to a dogging in the face of his elan, which in those feudal times won considered a degrading punishment, (It only for the lowest of menials and [ the worst of crimes. The clansman hurued with anger nud a tierce desire ■ lor revenge. He rushed forward, plucked the tender infant, the heir of i Loohbny, from the hands ol the nurse, and bounding to the rook", in a moment i stood ou on almost iuaci-esaible elitY pro i | trudiug over the water. The cries of the ogouized mother ami the chief at the • awful jeopardy in which thir only child i won placed may be easily cone* ived. : Maclean implored the man to give him back hiK son, and oxt>c*scd his deep • contrition for the degradation he lnul, in a moment of excitement, indicted on hia elnnsttian. The other replied Mint I the only condition on which he would i consent to the restitution was, that Maclean himself should bare his biu-k i and consent to be flogged as he had i been. In despair the chief consented, • saying lie would consent to tiny > tlnng if Ins child were but restored. To 1 i the grief nud astonishment of the elan, i Maclean bore his insult, and when it i was completed, begged that the clmuk , man might return from hia perilous , | position with the young chief. The >! man regarded him with n smile of do - j monino revenge, and, lifting the - child above his head, plunged with hint - i into the waters belaw. The sen closed over tho.ni, and neither, it is said, ever emerged irom the tempos tons whirl pools and basaltic caverns thnt yawned . around them, un i wliicli still threaten . the inexperienced navigator on the , shores of Mull. Ages of Prominent Poets. Dr. Frederick R. Marvin, himself a poet, lecturer and preacher, lias pre pared a table, which we give below, of the ages of the poets: Wm. Cnllen Bryant .80 j Philip J. Bailer... fil Victor Hugo*. 71 | .lumen R. Lowell.. .58 H Longfellow 71 Walt Whitman 5S Whittior. ...70 I Julia Ward Ho wo. 57 Alfred "onnynon .. .67 I K H. Stoddard... 52 Oliver W. Holme*. .67 I Bayard Taylor 52 Alfred B. Street 66 I Matthew Arn01d...61 Robert Browning.... 64 i "Till: HEX TLB t ltAir." Sliara, (arlral and llmlriu what niakrra W bi> tlavrbrrsMr fsmuu*. Slioes dateJroui a very remote period, atnl the shoemaker is u relic of autiiputy who lived uinl had Inn being in very early tiinev. The Jews wore wooden ahiiea long before the ago of Augustus, aud iMimetliues leather shoes are men tioned. The Jewish soldiers covered thair feet witli copper or with iron. The shoes of the I'gyjitinus were of />ajii/rus; the Chinese and the llidlaas uiauilfae tnred the:rw of silk, of bark of trees, of brass, gold or silver, according as their fortune |>ermitted or tlieir fancy dic tated. At Rome, as in (Jretx>e, leath er was the material which covered the feet of most every one. In classical times the Romans wore eork soles m the shoes to secure iheir feet from water, especially iu winter, and ai high heels were not then introduced, the* R iman ladies, who wished to ap|M-ar taller, put plenty of isirk uu ler themselves. Tiie 11 unnn ladies wore white slioes; the OolntU -11 people wore lilaek, and the mngistrat*-s ami those of exalted rank set their fei-t off with risl shoes aud em ploy eil the erescent as an ornament they were often very costly. The cus tom of making shoes right and left was common in classical times. Only one instance is drawn of an ancient monu ment exhibiting sh.ies with separate heel pieces. The Streets of Rime in the time of Domitian were blocked up by cidiblcr's stalls, which he therefore caused to Is- removevl. The fashion of limits sud shims has undergone innumerable change* Under William Hufus, son of the Duke of Normandy, who eouqueml at Hastiugs ill lOtVt, a fashion was introduced by wearing long pointed shoes with up turned tos curvisl like a ram's horn and stuffed with tiw. In the fourteenth century they ouuudel tln-se jsiiut* with ttie knee hy chains of gold aud sil ver—they wrere called cra-ows. Buckles wi-re also woru iu this century. The latioriiig clnsjn-s wore them of copper. Other (H-rnouH had theni of gold and ulier. Not long after shoe rosettes came iu fashion. Iu the last century, the high heels of ladles' shoes liecame a I monstrosity. In our day the general disuse of the sin*' proper, and the in troduction of short ankle-boots, form the chief change of fashion. Alxnit a century ago it was no uncom i mon prsctios on the part of " fast men " , to driuk biimjiers to the health of a lady S nit iif her shoe. The Earl of Cork, in an amusing pajwr in the (hnnoisarur, relate* an incident of this kind, and to ivrry tiie compliment still further he states the slu* ws ordered tii I*' ilnvtMsl and to lie servsl for supper. " Thf cisik set himself seriously to work ufou it; he pulled the ti|'iier part, which wax of fine damask, into and tosscil them up in a ragout, mmce.l the soles, frusl them in hatter, and place.l them rotiri 1 tiie ve all oth ers. While Au.leraonville deVtdoped ex -1 all)plea of as noble heroism and s.-ll n sacrifice as the world probably ever ; witnessed, it serve.l also to bring out upon th* part of some of the inmates f many of the most abhorreut and .lespic r able traits of human nature. The great - est luxury that could lie enjoyed by u - | prisoner was a warm blanket. Yet men 1 were found among the prisoners base 1 enough to rob their fellows of these com i fort*. A gang of robbers was organized , who went around the cainu at night ux.d - tore blanket* 11 lid clothes off from i sick and dying meu, kicking and beat t ing those who made any feeble attempt at resistance. Money was also taken from the prisoners, or auytlnug of value that Could be found upon them. In a little while the robberies liecame ao frequent as to lie the worst of onr trou bles. A perfect reign of terror existed, and we did not *n >w what to do. Filially, after consultation, we asked permission of Wirtz to investigate aud ae who Were the |xg|ietrntora of these outrages, aud puuish them. Wirtz granted it, and 1 thank htm fsr it to this day. We picked out HIX men for trial before a tribunal of onr own selee tion. It sat outside of the abtckmle under a Confederate guard. A judge, jury, prosecuting attiruey aud clerk were appointed, together with a oouusel for the defence. Evidence was heard from many of the prisoners, and the ao -used were all ideutifie.l as among tiie parties guilty of the robberies. A ver dict of guilty was found, and they were sentenced to la* httug, and the entire proceedings approved by Wirtz, who ordered the lutulier to Im< furnish'"! us for a scaffold. We built one sufficient for our purjKise in a few hours. It con xisted simply of a cru**-lieati.,sup|*orted hv two upright*. A platform was con structed aliout three feet from the groiiud, tiie first plank, laid at right angles with the upright* and parallel with the cross I team* directly above it, I wing so adjusted that it eouid IK* with drawn from it* position at a moment's notice. The six condemned men were escorted to this scaffold by a guard of alsiut three hundred prisoners, armed with sticks and clnba. They were placed on tins plank. In lion of the customary black cap wo encased their heads iu flour B!Uk*. Notwithstanding this abaence of cer emony tiie scene wa an impressive oue. The gallows stood near tiie top of the hill, and nearly all the thirty-eight thou sand prisoners were gathered to witU'-as the execution. They maintaimxl per feet silence, refraining from any insults to tin* condemned. I Hit their hollow eye*, pale, pinched face*, their savage expres sion of couutenance, were a sufficient indication that not one shonld oaca|>e. The rojM** were carefully adjusted, with tin* kind in each cane under the left wr, and, liy a signal, the board witlnirawn from beneath them. There was a drop of two feet, and the Ikklio* swung aliout a foot fnm tiie ground—all but one. The sixth tnoii. a former sailor in the navy, i< perceived to have fallen to the ground. The rope had broken. In an instant he was on his feet. He started to run down the hill. The crowd, oomprelieuding his intention to escape, followed with a wild yell in pursuit. It was a (light for life. He had the start hv a few seeoud* and he made the mra< Unpublished Letters of Washington." and among the letter* there for the first time printed is one written by Washington himself, hut for and in the name of hi* wife. In it he playfully sj*>oulate* upon the time of hia own death, and curiously enough guesses within sixteen days of the nctnal date, although the lettei was written in the year 1797. We oopy the passage : " I am now, by desire of the general to odd a few word* on his behalf ; which ho desire* may lie expressed in the terms following, that is to say,— that despairing of hearing what may lie sud of him, if ho really shall go off in an apoplectic, or any other fit, (for ho thinks all fit* that iasuo in death are worse than a love fit. a fit of laughter, and many other kinds which he could name) —he is glad to hear lieforehand what will he said of him on that occasion ; conceiving that nothing extra: will happen lietween this and then to make a change in hia character for I letter, or for worse—and besides, a* he has enter ed into an engagement with Mr. Morris, and several other gentlemen, not to quit the theater of this world before the year 1800, it may be relied upon that no breach of contract shall lie laid to him on that account, unless dire necessity should bring it aliont, maugrc all his exertions to the contrary.—ln that esse, he shall hope thev would do by him ** he wonld by them—excuse it At [ireaent there seems to be no danger of lis giving them the slip, a* neither his health, nor spirits, were ever in greater flow, notwithstanding, he odds, he ia descending. .Alia* almost reached, the bottom of the hill ;—or in other words, the shades below." Long-Sighteil One*. It is an interesting fact that there are very few persons in the world jsMtsesaiug a peculiar keei ncss of vision enabling them to see certain planets with the un aided eye. People with the ordinary power of sight nanally see six of the stars of the Pleiades: Kepler mentions one person, who, with the naked eye, could see fourteen, and Littrow another who saw sixteen. Dr. Dawes, an English olergyman and astrouomer, was remark able for his powers of distinguishing very faint spots of light; and Mr. Q. M. Ward, an amateur astronomer, iu the north of Ireland, is known among scien tific men for having viewed two of the four moons of Uranus with so small and simple a help as a four-inch telesoo]H}. In this country, Mr. 8. W. Buruliam, of Ohicago, is noted for the particularly acute vision which reveals to him donble Btars. The astronomers of other lauds often call upon him to decide vexed questions relating to theso Btars. TKRMB: BU.OO a Year, in Advance. i. ! A 1.1 EE OF PERIL. • TtirUllaa A*.sailers ala trirraa IMtrr l.r.>i>, sk.rlu, aa* Oibrr "übiusrlsr U llarrara A ItaS It lib llralb. The assistant superintendent at th" •* (Milice headquarters in Toledo, Ohio, is ' "Old Jack" Camptiell now nearly sixty-five te.trs of age, and who has ' been, and still propp and lay there flappiu' their fins aud louking. it seamed t<> me like the very eril oue himself. Finally we devised away to scare them off that never failed to frighten them ao that they would stay away an hour or 1 longer l*fore they dare to come back. The armor that we'wear is air-tight, you 1 know. Our jacket sleeve* were fastened around our wrists with an elastic, ao that the air oould not escape. By run uing illy finger under the sleeve of my jacket t could let the air out, aud a* it rushed into the water it would make a sort of biasing noiae and a volume of bubbles shoot up. 80, whenever those sharks would come prowling around me 1 would hold out my arm toward them and, putting my finger under the elastic uf tny jacket-h-' ve, 1 wonld let a lot of air out and send a stream of babble* into the shark's face, with a hissing noiae like steam from • gauge-cock. The way that those sharks wonld go scooting off was funny to behold. " I have had several narrow eaca|>e frmi drowning," said Jack, a* he re lighted his ancient and much-tanned pipe, "but about the closest call wa when 1 was workiu' in the waterworks crib in Cleveland. Yon aee, much de pends on having a good signal-tender. I can tell wheu some one else bceide* the regular signal man steps up and take* hold of the line. Ho can any good diver for that matter. There was the diver that worked for the ladle Shore Railroad Company when they were building the anutment* of their new bridge here across tiie Mamnee. He, by tiie wav, wa* paid S4O a dav for 100 day*. He was working one ld of the life-line, shook it and asked me what 1 wanted. I had just sirrngth enough left to give two hard pull*, which meant ' Pull m<- up quick.' George, I after ward heard them tell, yelled to tiie signal man and told him : * Help m* to pull in that life-line, and pnll for all you're worth. fir Jack is drowning.' Thev hauled me up out of there mighty quick, now I tell von, and it took lot* of strength to do it. *l>eeau®e my armor wa* full of water. When they got me to the surface I was clear gone, and it wa* more than an hwr before I came to enough to sjKwk. " The decjiost water that I wa* in wa* ltW fe t, W hen one is down ao low it is hard work to get air. I have hod the air-pump manned by six men working with all their might, aud still I've been oblige! to keep pulling on the life-line and calling for more air." Jell) Tar* on a Land C'rtii*e. During tii" autumn of 183>, a first class frigate wa* paid off at the Washing ton navy yard—an uuusnul thing, lie cause it wa* hot a depot. The city wa* taken by storm by the discharged men, and oue may say "that business was sus pended for a week. A party would hire a hack, fill it, aud two or three climb upon the roof, or a* they tenuis! it. the deck, and ride about town occasionally stopping at a greggery to "stow ballast." Of course thev attended the theatre. Die old National, now no more, was then in its glory. One evening the play was ** The Bleediug Nan." When she come upon the stag)', and, alludiug to the raurdeier, exclaims: "Alas, he has es caped!"— "No!" sang ont n sailor in the pit, "there he is liehiml that door 1 we'll catch him for you I" aud with that, leading a forlorn hope, he rushed on, captured, and dragged the trembling disciple of Thepsis to the footlights, and the interference of the manager only prevented them from summarily punish ing him. President Johu Qtiincy Adams was a warm friend of the dram*. At thin time lie im u nightly attendant. The tars found out, aomo how or other, that he was in the houae, and cheers were pro poeed. The cLeeriug lasted an hour; when, lo 1 a commotion was heard at the. door, and in comes .Tack with a waiter covered with cakes ami aU sorts of oou fectiouery—after him another, with a waiter of ices— theu four or five, hearing waiters with every kind of liquors, all of which were passed up to the Presi dent's box. The old man declined as long as he could, but had to partake. Then the provisions were passed around the audience; the play was disregarded, and loud cheering for the crew of the followed. Mr. Adams slipped out as soon as possible, but the theatre was not closed until three o'clock in the morning. That evening the dan souse came very nigh making her fortune, from the showering of gold pieces on the stage. She tlanced between (Jic pieces, and was encored thirteen times! The night will never be forgotten in Washington. NUMBER 11. FAltfl, MAKDHX AM) HOI'NEHOLD. The Dairy lalrrM. Fiotn the address of Mr. J. Real), urn under his nose. BLEEDING AT THE NOSE. —To atop bleeding at the nose, says an exchange, exercise the jaws as if in the act of mas tication. In the case of a child give it something to chew—a pieoe of paper, for instance. The motion if the will soon stop the flow of blood. It is a* sure remedy, simple as it seems. CraE run IXCUIEKT Coxsrinriox.— Live temperatelv, avoid liquor, take a daily s|Kinge batli, wear flannel next the skin, and take every morning one-half pint of fresh milk from the cow, mixed with a wineglass of the expreaaed jniee of green horehound- A person who has tried tlii* remedy says: Four weeks' use of the horehouod and milk, relieved the pains of my breast, and gave me the ability to breathe deep, long and free, strengthened iaul harmonised my voice, and restored me to a better state of health "than 1 had en loved for years. The remade to be effective must be eon- tinned for some time. To Clrai Rlark Tkrrul Urf Te lla. Mauv a person baa spoiled a compara tively good black tnroad lace veil in trv ing to clean it. Such a veil can be made aim oat aa good aa new if TOO mix bol lock'a gall with anftcient hot water to make it aa warm aa Ton own bear your hand in. and paas the veil through it. It muat be aqoeaaed, not nibbed; and it will be well to perfnme the gall with a little mtiak. Rmae the veil through two cold water*, tinging tho la*t with a little bine. After drying, put it into acme stiffening made by j>oaring boiling water on a very small piece of glne; aqneexe it ont, airetch it. and clap it. Afterward pin it out on a linen cloth to dry. laying it very straight and even, taking care to pin the edge very nicely. When dry iron it on the wrong side, having laid a linen-doth over the iron ing blanket. Any article of black lace may be waahed in this manner. Some people prefer to use spirits of ammonia, and it cleans very well. Wonder* of the American Continent. The American Enquirer thus cata logue* a few of the wonders of the American continent: The greatest cata ract in the world i* the Fall* of Niagara, where ihe water from the great npper lake* form* a river of three-fonrth* of a mile in width, and then being suddenly contracted, plunges over ihe rocka in two columns to the depth of 175 feet. The greatest cave in the world is the Mammoth cave, of Kentucky, where any one can make a voyage on the waters of a subterranean river, and oateh fish without eye*. The greatest river in the world' is the Mississippi, 4,000 miles long. The largest valley in the world as the valley of the Mis sissippi. Io contains 5,000,000 square miles, and is one of the moat fertile re gion* of ihe globe. The largest city park in the world is in Philadelphia. It contains over 2,700 acres. The greatest grain port in the world is Chicago. The largest lake in the world is Lake Supe rior, which is truly an inland see, being 430 miles long and 1,000 feet deep. The longest railroad at present is the Pacific railroad, over 3,000 miles in length. The greatest mass of solid iron in the world is the Pilot Knob of Missouri. It is 350 feet high and two miles in circuit. The best specimen of Grecian architecture in the world is the Girard college for orph nus. Philadelphia. The largest aqueduct in the world is the Croton aqueduct, New York. Its length is forty and one quarter miles and it cost $12,500,000. The largest deposits of anthracite coal in the world are in Pennsylvania, the mines of which supply the market with millions of tons annually, and appear to be inexhaustible. Item* ef litfmt. The first thing in a boot in the laat ChiMgo paper* aay that no man'* Ufa w aafe in that erty. Stanley** AfHeaa nam* ia ' The Lit tle Van with Mnoh Face." The flmt boon of .lumber am the *wwtit. If ever a man aleep* the ■loop of the Jimt, it ia wham be** i n *t aaleep. , •# , A Michigan paper aaya Tramp* oof ♦hi* way lire on the choioeat meat*. Bvery ono of than gots warm tongue at moat every hooaa. At Tracy City, Tens., recently, John Manga*, a baker, etotod himaolf np in hi* own oven and waa baked to death— cremated to a cinder. * Tfca Atlanta OtmalUuHon think* that tha gold yield of Georgia, which ia now half a million a year, may be raiaed to the aame amoant monthly. Immena* bed* of copper hay* boon found at Bine Bill, Ma., and in the neighboring town of Bedgwiek mlver vetus of much promiae bare been un covered, the ore aeaayjng from |IOO to JOOO a ton. The former private aecretary of Preai dont Polk baa been diaoovered, old and poor, in Hanta Fe. He waa well acquainted with Andrew Jaekaon, and rclatea bow he ono* aaw him praying at the grave of hi* wife OB* of the Imrgtwt shoe firm* in Boe tou has just concluded BO arrangement with the Peruvian government to far niab 85,000 pairs of men's shoes. The firm had previously filled so order for the same government for 10,000 pairs of shoes. What a beautiful example of aimnlici tj in drees is shown some of the follow ers of (sshion bj that domestic soimsl the est. which rises in the morning, washes its face with its right hand, gives its tail three jerlu, and is ready dressed for the day! An exchange says s good way to man- I age a fiero* dog is " to sains htm by the under jsw, with s stiff thumb under his ungw-." As an amendment we would ( suggest that the dog be a very small one, ana not old enoagh to have any very | definite ideas as to the use of teeth. ! Oilmantou, N. IL, has a lady farmer, Mrs. J. D. Piper, who, though over sixty years of age, owns and manages a farm of seventy-five acres. The past sum mer rite has herself doeeall her fanning, i planting, hoeing, harvesting and other farm work, with the exception of hay tug. TWO axsaoxa. WbTO 1 Ids* Lbs* on thy lips, Tt Bay own lw to impart; i or U4asn those swsst roaa-huds Li** the doorway of thy hssrt, WhrtO 1 km tbae oo thine ores, "tS to bid thy Vore-thks roll ; Par ten—Si thiwe velvet ltd* Am the foanteuna of the mat. A arlioalboy bstcg requested to write a composition upon the subject of pins produced the following : " Pins are very useful. They have saved the lives of a great many men, women and children— in fact whole families." " Bow so ?" asked the puxslad teacher. The boy replied : " Why, by not swallowing them." " Does this razor go easy V asked a harber of a victim who was writhing un der a clumsy lndrument, whose chief reoommendation was a strong handle. •' Wall." replied the poor fellow, " that depends upon what you call the opera tion. If you are skinning me, it goes tolerably easy, but if you're shaving, it goes ratker hard." In 1876 cnk* and wild animals in India killed 19,278 persons and 54,830 head of cattle. There were slain 28,549 wild animate and 212,371 snakes, rewards ' to the amount of $62,287 being paid for their destruction. There were killed be auakm 15,946 persons, by elephants • 52, by tigers 917, by leopards 156, by t>aar> 123, by wolves 887 and by hyenas 49. The ""'■ destroyed were : Ele phants 4; tigert 1,693;" leopards 8,768; bean 1,352; wo!res 5,976 snd hyenas 1,585 1 WalterS. HarW and Robert Fish bone, of WaHerboro', a" C., were brothers-in-law. They quarreled in consequence of some opprobrious hm gnsge addressed by the former to the latter. Piahtmrne sought to make Har ley withdraw the offensive words. He declined to do an, and a challenge fol lowed; t hey met at a point a few miles from Saranah; Harley discharged his pistol in the air, and Fishbnme sent a bullet into Hariey's body, inflicting s mortal wound. A narrow escape from a singular sod dent occurred m the hunting field in England the other day. The Atherstone hounds, a celebrated peck, were in pur suit of a fox, which tried to escape by leaping into a stone quarry, eighty feet deep, but was killed oy the fall. The leading dog of the pack also leaped in sad was dashed to pieoes, and the others would hare followed had not the men employed in the pit, seeing the danger, formed a line upon the brink and driven the dogs hack. Cotton seed some years ago was con sidered worthless, snd immense piles of it accumulated on the Southern planta tions. For s number of years it has been utilized, however, .nd has become s valuable source of income. It yields per ton alxmt seven hundred pounds of cake or meal and thirty-five gallons of oil. The meal is worth $lB per ton, the " cake " from $24 to S2B, ana the oil in its crude state, thirty-eight cents per gallon. Much f the " cake "is exported Por maiyr years past in an eastern city a letter addressed to " Philip Gregory, Esq.," has been dropped every dsy info the mail, with no indication of the place of residence of the person for whom it was intended. All began.'' My own darling Philip," and ended, "Tour faithful affl affectionate Mary," and ex pressed the writer's undying love and confidence that her lover would return. Now suddenly the letters have ceased, and the clerks in the dead latter office at Washington really feel lonesome and sad. Cooking by meaus of solar rays has been tried successfully at Bombay, and an apparatus has been contrived to eonk chops and steaks in the open air as well and expeditiously as over an ordinary fire. The apparatus consists of a copper vessel, tinned inside and painted black outside, with a glass cover enveloping the vessel with an inch of hot air, and fixed on to the bottom of a conical re flector lined with common silvered sheet glass. If pwparly covered over it will retain the heat for full three hours and • halt Mrs. Angela Podesta-Onetta died re cently in Cincinnati at the remarkable age of one hundred and nine years and one day. after being confined to her bed only "three days. For about three months previous she had been ailing somewhat, but she did not take to her lied until the Wednesday preceding her death. Her last hours were painless, and her death came as calmly as if she were going to sleep. Mrs Podesta- Onetta was born Jan. 10,1769, in the village of Yignoio, Italy. Ai the age of twenty she was married to Podesta, by whom she had eight children, four boyß and four girls. Her second marriage was to a wandering mosioiau named Onetta, wlieu she was eighty-six years of age. When 100 ypars old she danced all night at a ball in Cincinnati. The Rain Tree. Among the many virtues of the euca lyptus or blue gum tree is the property of absorbing moisture, and instances are related in which moist and marshy places have been made comparatively dry by planting trees of this species upon then}, although the method of draining Mu> not yet come into general use. Thafe is another tree whose prop erties are as wonderful as the blue gpm. It is the rain tree of Peru ; and it is said that moistorw drops from its leaves and tjraaohes all the time, and that in some instances the ground around it becomes a swamp. It would appear from these facte that by a judicious use of these trees, which* are so opposite in nature, the wet places of tee earth can be made dry and the dry place* wet—that deserts may bo turned into swamps and swamps into deserts. The rain tree, whose pe culiar property is said to increase in the dry season, might be made useful for inigation in thia State.