Safe. Rate * the battle-field of strife Seldom known * pen** in ntnfa. Every path in net by nnnren, F.vsrv JOT in crossed with oaren. Brightest morn has darkest night. Fairest bloom has quickct blight. Hope han bnt a transient gleam. Love in bnt a panning dream. Tront in folly's helpless waif. Who dare call their dearest nafe ? Bnt thon, though peril loon afar, What hast thou to do with war ? Let the wild stream ilood itn brink. There's no bark of thine to sink. Let falsehood wave itn snbtle net, Thon art done with rain regret, l'et fortune frown and friends grow strange, Thon nat panned the doom of change. We plan and struggle, mourn and chafe Safe, my darling, dead, and safe? Some Time. Soma Urns, tired hsart of rain*. You shall have a Ion)!, long rest An \ the quiet evening sun, Sloniug outward to the vest. Ore*;ling to the esK inent side. Shall look on s quiet breset. Though the bir.L shall eooauil call As the ileejxr sh iitows fall. You may rest. Some time, patient eyes of mine. You may take a long, long sloe)'. Though the early morning sun All along the aa'l .hall (trap, Wat en eyelids will not lift From the watching which they *e*|\ Though a sunbeam, overbold. Seek to part your curtain's fold. You uiay sleep. Some time, atrinng hands of mine. There trill tie a long, long peace. Lxwened from the tasks you hold Into new and sweet release. Other hands must place you close In a dumb amen for grace. Even love's touch, soft and warm, pare not break such prayerful form Of your peace. Siime tune, restless feet of mme. There will come a long, king day When you need not cross the sill From the flushing till the gray. Other iep must bear you forth To the place where clay is clay. Though 1 led ton out at light They will hrtcg yon home when night Ends our day. PRUDENCE GRAY. That's my name, for father said thero wasn't a better barge on the river than the Prudence, and if 1 was called the same he was sure there wonld never be a better girl. Poor father! He was always very fond of me. and my earliest remem brances are of sitting on the tiller and having a ride, when he stood there of an evening steering the barge, with the great cinnamon red sail filled ont by the wind, and the water foaming and bub bling by ns as we ran on up the river toward the big city, where the ships lay close together in "dock and against the wharves, emptviug their loads or waiting for others before going away across the seas, I used to think our barge, which was a very small billy-bov, if yon know what that is—if yon don't 1 must tell you that it's a barge built with rounded ends and low bulwarks, meant for carrying loads np rivers, but built also to be able to go out to sea a little while, running along the coast —I used to think our barge, 1 say, a verv, very large ship, till I grew old enough to compare it with those that passed us going tip or down the river, and then it used to seem to me that it would be wonderfnlly fine to go on board one of those great ships and go sailing away—far away across the ocean, instead of just coasting along to Sheerness and up the Medway, as we used to go year alter year, loaded deep down in the water with pottery or hops, or even bricks. I can't tell vou how my child-life slipped away, iiving with mother and father on board that barge, in a little bit of a cabin with a tiny stove; all I know is that 1 was very happy, and that I never hardly went ashore, aud when I did I was frightened and wanted to get back; and at last I seemed to have grown all at once into a great girl, and father and I were alone. Yes, quite alone, for mother had left us very suddenly, and we have been ashore at Bheemess, father and I, and came back from the funeral and were sitting on the cabin hatch, before 1 oould believe it was anything but a ter rible dream, and that I should not wake and find that she was alive once more, as blithe and cheery as ever, ready to take the tiller or a pull at a rope, the sama as I did when father wanted any help. Father was a changed man after that, and as a couple of rears slipped by the work on the barge "fell more and more into my hands, and I used to smile to myself as I saw how big and red and strong they had grown. For father grew qniet and dull day by day, and nsed to hare a stone bottle filled wben erer he went ashore, and then sit with it in the cabin all alone till I called him to come and help with the sail. Not that I wanted mnch help, for ours was only a small barge, and once start ed, with a fair wind, I could manage her well enough ; while when we had to tack backwards and forwards across the river mouth, I oonld always lock the tiller by the rope that hnng on the belaying pin, and give it a hitch on this side or that side, till I had taken a pall at the sheet and brought the barge round on the other tack. I must have passed half my life in those days leaning back against that tiller, with its end carved to look like a great acorn, and the name of the old barge, Prudence, cut deep in the side. There I'd stand looking ont ahead as we glided along over the smooth sea, passing a bnoy here and a light there, giving other barges and smacks a wide berth, and listening to the strange squealing noise of the gulls as they wheeled and hovered and swept by me, so closely sometimes that I could almost have touched them with my hand. Our barge was well known all about the mouth of the river and far up be yond the bridge; and somehow, I don't know how it was, the men on the differ ent boats we paased had al ways a kind hail or a wave of the hand for ns, as we glided by, if we were too far off for a kindly shout to reach ns. Sometimes I'd rnn the barge pretty close to the great ships and steamers, inward or ontward bound, no as to look at the ladies I saw on board; not that I cared to do so very often, because it seemed to make me sad, for the faces I looked on seemed to be so different to mine that I felt as if I was another kind of being, and it nsed to set me wondering and make me think; and at such times I've leaned against the tiller and dream ed and dreamed in a waking fashion of how I would like to read and write and work, as I had seen ladies sitting and reading and working, on the decks of the big ships, under the awning; and then I hail to net my dreams aside and have a poll at the sheet or take a reef in the sail; because the wind freshened and my dreams all passed away. I don't think poor father meant it un kindly, but he si emed to grow more and more "broken and helpless every day; and this frightened me, and made me work to keep the barge clean and ship-shape, lest the owners should come on board and see things slovenly, and find fault with father and dismiss him, and that I knew would break his heart. So I work ed on, and in a dull heavy way father used to thank me; and the time glided on, till one day, as we were lying off South end, with the sea glassy and not wind enough to fill the sails, I felt my cbeekß begin to burn as I leaned back against the tiller, and would not turn my head, because I could hear a boat being sculled towards us, aud 1 knew it was coming from tbe great loeboard barge lying astern. • He's coming to see father,'' I said to mT self at last in a choking voice; and as a "hail came I was obliged to turn, and stood up in the little boat he was scnlbng with an oar over the stern John Grove, in his dark trousers, blue jersey FILED. KURTZ, Editor and "Proprietor. VOLUME Xi. I ami scarlet cup; ami a* I saw his sun burnt face ami brown arms ami hands 1 felt my heart l*rating fast, ami knew he ws not coming to see father, but to see me. We had hardly ever spoken, but l had known John Grove for Tram now, and we had nodded and wave,! hands to oue Another often ami often as we had passed up and dowu the river. " Heave us a rope, rnv lass," he said, as he came close IU; ami 1 did it dream ily, and as aoon as 1 had dime so 1 l*egan to null it liack, but it was too late; he had bitched it rouud the thwart of his birat, and was tip and over the side be fore I couldstir; atul then be stand look iug down upon me, while 1 felt some times hot and sometime* cold, s if 1 ooold not speak. " lXi you want to see father ?" 1 said at last. " No, my lass," he said quietly, " 1 want to see vott." "Me !" "l faltered, with my face b tuning. " Yes, you, my lass," he said; and his bauds, me brown face lit up, and tie h*oked so manly as he laid his hand on my arm. " Prudence, my gal," he said, "we're birth young vet, for I'm not six-ami twenty, but 1 thought it was time I spoke to you "Spoke to me?" I said, with my face burning still. " Yea, my lass, spoke to yon,for we've been courting uow a matter of four years." "Oh, John," I cried, burattng out laughing and feeliug more at my ease, "why, we've uever hardly spoken to oue another." "That's nice," ho said, drawing a long breath. "Over again." " Over again f What ?" I said. " Call me John," he replied. " Well, then, John," I cried hastily. "That's right. Prudence; but, as I was going to say, not spoken to one another ! Well, how could we, always taking our turns at the tiller as we werv ? But all the same, niy lass, I've boon always courting of you, night and day, these four years, and looking ont anil louging for the time when the Pru dence would come in sight and I could give you a hail and get a wave of the hand back." I could feel the color coming back into my cheeks again as L heard him speak, and knew how anxiously I had looked out for his barge coming up or down the river; and then I began won dering what it all meant, and soon knew. " Prudence, my lass." he said, " I've saved up £lO, alfmy own, and our owner haa just given me the command of a new bage, with as pretty a cabin as you'd wish to see; and so, "my lass, I thought I'd ask you if so be as now we've been courting four years, you wouldn't come to me and be my wife." "No," I sai'l, "no," and shook my head. " I belong to father, and I could never leave him—never." " But you'll have to some day, Prud ence," be said, looking dreadfully down hearted and miserable. "No," I said, "I shall never leave him; he wants me more and more every day, and I must stay." " Prudence," he said sharply, "you ain't playing with me, are you ?" " Playing with you?" "Yes; I mean you ain't going to take up with any one else, aud go aboard anv other barge—no, no," he cried, "I won t be so mean as to ask yon that. But, Prudence, dear, some day you may have to leave him, and when you do, will you please recollect John Gtove loves you better than aught else in the wide world, and is waiting for you to come 1" " Yes, John." I said simply. "Yon mean it, Prudence?" he cried in delight, as he caught my hand. " Yes, John; I don't know anylwdy else, and there's no cue as cares for me." " Hundreds on the river," be said sharply. "Then I don't care for them, Johu„' I said simply; "aud if you like me, and I ever do—do—leave —oh, dear ! what am I saying ?" I sat down on a fender and covered my face with my coarse, red hands, and began to cry; but he took my hands down, and looked long and lovingly in my face, with his great, houest brown eyes; and then he oouldu't speak, but seemed to choke. At last be gasped out; " Thanky, Prudence, thanky. I'm going away now to wait, for you'll come to me some day, I know." I didn't answer him. •* For the time may come, my lass, when you'll be all alone in the world; and when it does come, there's the cabin of the Betsy Ann, clean painted up, ami waiting for yon, just as her master's a-waiting too.'' He went qnietly over the side and cast off the rope, and was gone before I knew it; and I sat there in the calm afternoon aud evening, sometimes crying, some times feeling hopefnl, au l with a sense of joy at my heart sncli as I never hail felt before. And so that evening deepened into night, with the barge a quarter of a mile astern of us, and no wind coming, only the tide to help ns on our way. It must have been about ten o'clock at night, when I was forward seeing to the light hoisted up to keep anvthing from running into us, when I heard father come stumbling up from the cabin, and make as if to come forward to me. " Prne," he cried, " Prne !" "Yes, father, coming," I said; and then I uttered a wild shriek, and rushed towaroat hung astern by her painter, hanled her up and climbed in; for no sooner bial I answered than I heard a cry and a €ieavy splash, aud I knew father had gone overboard. I was into the boat in a moment, and bad the scull over the stern, paddling away in the direction that the cry hail come from; bnt, though I fancied in those horrible minutes that I saw a band stretched out of the water, asking as it were for help, I paddled and sculled about till I was far from our barge, and then sank down worn-out to utter a moan of horror, and sob, " Oh, father! father ! what shall I do!" "Is that yon, Prudence?" said a voice. "Yes, John, yes," I cried, looking out through the darkness, out of which a boat seemed to steal till it was along side, when John streched out his hand and took mine. "Quick !" I gasped, " save him,. John —father—gone overboard !" " When yon shrieked out, Prtie ?" "Yes, yes," I wailed; "oh, saveliim! save him !" "My poor lass," he said, " that's a good quarter of an hour ago, and the tide's running strong. I've been pad dling about ever since, trying to find you, for I went up to the barge aud you were gone." " But father," I wailed, " father—save him!" " My poor little lass," he said, tender ly, " Pd jump into the water now if you bid me; but what can I do, you know, Prudence, what can I do ?" I did not answer, for I did know that he mast have been swept far away before then; and I was beginning to feel that I was alone—quite alone in the world. It was quite six months after that dreadful night that one evening John came ashore from his barge to the cot tage, where I was staying with his mother, and had been ever since he hail brought me there, without seeing him to speak to, only to wave my hand to THE CENTRE REPORTER. him as he sailed by. That evening he came and looked wistfullv at me and said but little, and at last {lis time was up and he rose to go. I walked dow u to his luvtt With him, and on the way he told me that lie hail got leave t> alter the name of his barge, and it was called the Prudence, urn; ami then, without a word alsmt the past, he was saying giod-by, when I put my hands tu his and said quietly— "John, dear, I haven't forgot my promise." " And vou are alone now, lVndeuce, my laas," he crted eagerlv. " No, John, no," I sanl softly, as the tears rati dowu mv cheeks; " I never shall be while you \ive." "Nevtr, my lass, never," he cried. " And you'll le my little wife?" " Yes, John, yes; 1 promised you." i " When I come track from tins voy age ?" " Yes, John, wlieu you will," I said, and Willi one long hand pressure we parted, and I went back to wait for another month, and then I was his happy little wife. And there seemed no cliauge, for 1 was onee more on the river orjout at sea, leaning upon the tiller and gazmg straight liefore me, with the gulls wail ing as they wheeled and dipped and skimmed or settled uj*ou the water; while the soft wind gently stirred the print hood that was lightly tied over my wind-rutiled hair. Only a bargeman's vouug wtfe living on the tide, but very I happy; for Johu often points to the great ships that pass ns, with their eap- I tains in their gold-laced caps, and as he does so he whispers— *• Not with the best among them, ! Prae, not with the l>est; I wouldn't even change places with a king." And if he is as happy as I, dear Jehu is right. (YursW/'s Mayasin*. The treat Thirst Lind. We take the following from a recently published work descriptive of Southern Africa, entitled " The (treat Thirst Laud:" The sufferings endured on ac count of the drought were at times al most terrific. The throats of the oxen , were so parched that they could not low. The dogs suffered even more than the cattle. Nor are the wild animals exempt from the plague of the land. When water becomes source in these | thirsty plains, the whole of the wild animals that inhabit them congregate round any poo! that may be left, for with very few exceptions all have to drink once in twenty-four hours. The ' lions, which follow the game, thus are led to their drinking places uot only to assnage their thirst, hut to satisfy their ; hunger. To watch one of these pools at uight, as I did in the northern Slassara coun try, is a grand sight, and oue never to be forgotten. The naturalist and the sportsman can here see sights that will astonish them, and cause them to wou- Jer at the won ierful msliucts possessed by the animal kingdom. At such watering-places the small antelopes invariably drink first, the larger later on, and with them the zebras and buffalo**. After these come the giraffes, closely followed by the rhinoe- I cms, anil next the elephant, who never attempts to hide his approach—conscious of his strength—bnt trumpets forth a warning to all whom it may concern that he is about to satisfy his thirst. The oulr animal ttiat does not give place to the elephant is the rhinoceros; obstinate, headstruug and piglike, he may not court danger, hut assuredly he does not avoid it. The elephant may drink by hts side, but must not interfere with him, for he is quick to resent an insult, and I am assured that when one of these battles takes place the rhinoceros is in variably the victor. The elephant is large, of gigantic power, but the other is far more active, while the formidable horn that terminates his nose is a dread ful weapon when used with the force that he has the power to apply to it. I have been told on trustworthy authority that a rhinoceros in one of those blind tits of fnry to which they are so subject, attacked a large wagon, inserted his horn between the spokes of the wheel aud instantly overturned it, scattering the contents far and wide, and after wards iujurmgthc vehicle to such an ex i tent as to render it useless. The lion is not tied to time in drink ing. After Jt fegds it oomes to water, but it uever would dare to interfere with the rhiuocerps or the elephant. Where the buffalo exists in numbers it is the principal prey of the lion; in I other localities antelope and chiefly the ' zebra are its food. Russian Proverbs. Praise not the crop until it is stacked. Bread and salt bumble even a robber. Love, fire, and a cough cannot be hid. A full stomach is deaf to instruct ion. No bones are broken by n mother's fist. God is not in haste, but His aim is sure. A fox sleeps, but counts hens in his dreams. If yon hunt two hares you will catch neither. Lit* march on rotten legs; who lies will steal. Truth is not drowned in water, nor burned in fire. Make friends with a bear, but keep hold of the axe. Dog, why r. William A. Hammond was asked forou the bearing of .Schweit zer's esse on the much vexed queatiou of hydrophobia. Iu the (Msd-mortcm examination a small fibrinous clot was found iu the left ventricle that indicated that death was due to protracted caused, uot to sudden violence, lhta of the egg eaten by the lov shortly befot* his death were found in the right bronchus and in the r glit lutig. l>r. MacWliiuuie, therefore, de clared that death was caused by asphyxia, caused by the impaction of pieces of egg tu his Inug and bronchus. Mr. Hergh, letug asked, said that he was firm iu his disi*elief m the existence of such a disease as hydrophobia. He made a distinction between a mad di*g and a hydrophobic one. He sanl he was frequently mail himself, but it by no means followed that he hail the hy drophobia. So a dog might Is* madden ed by ill-tfeatuient. He might le wor ried into mailuesa, but he was uot neces sarily hydrophobic. He thought the principal trouble in the dog question came from its treatment by politicians, who were lint competent to dual with it. He had offered years ago to manage the whole matter if the city would only pro ride a house and a keeper. The S>sieiy for the Prevention of Cruelty to animals would scudftten aroond daily and "sc*op up" the stray dogs without charging the city for the service. "Then do yuu believe in killing these dogs t" he was asked. "1 must eoufess," said Mr. lU-rgh, " that the unfortunate animals would be better off dead than alive, and it is not right that they should rim nt large, alarmiug the community, lint Ido ob jfs of it i 11 abnormal temperature. In the real hy drophobia the temperature is always high, ranging from 105 to 110. In the false disease it i* never raised, but al ways remains normal." " I would be in favor of braving the whole question of handling the dog** to Mr. Hergh'* society," said he, in reply to further questions; " for it has done a •Ural of good, and would unquestionably deal with the dogs in the Ixrat way; but Mr. Hergh is doing a gr*at mischief by promulgating his disbelief in hydropho bia, iu spite of the fact that all the au thorities assert its existence. It was formerly denied that there was such a disease, bnt no authority denies it now. And just so far as people are led by Mr. Hergh to disbelieve in the dnnrase, iuat so far will they be inclined to neglect the proper measures of precaution when thev are bitten." " It in A union* fact," ho Raid fnrthor, " that no one has over lived after hy drophobia Into lieen developed in hie system. Thoro is no cure for tho dii**a*e known, thongh it may bo prevented by fmunpt measure* token after the bite laa I*W inflicted. Excision is probably the beat of all prophylactic*, and ahould te performed as aoon a* possible. The operation ahould not be doue with a niggardly hand, bat erery part with which the teeth of tho animal baTe crane in contact ahould l>e removed, aa well aa the tiaane into whioh the noiaon may have become infiltrated. Cauterization may be performed instead of excision, and i- preferred by aome practitioner*. Mr. Touatt. of England, need it with over four hundred persons bitten by rabid animal*, and never nnaaecoaafnlly. He preferred tho of ailver, hnt othera have used the actual cautery, canatic alkalies. I have performed ex cision in eleven caaea and cauterization aeven timea, four with the nitrate of silver and throe with the actual eantery, and alwnva successfully." A* to the treatment with strychnia which Dr. Koetschmer employed. Dr. Hammond said that he did not lielieve in it, but would not condemn it, because iif a disease which had never l>een cured a physician was justified iti doing nnv tliing which he might fancy would do good. A Howling Heni-di. A Oallipoli correspondent of the Lon don Timr* writes : Rich in shrines and monastic institutions, (lallipolt has beeu from the early days pf the Ottoman rule in Eavope a stronghold era tions in timber and agricultural produce with success, lends money to small far mers, has a large share in a steam flour mill and bnscuit factory, and ia one of the largest contractors for army anil navy supplies. It ia impossible to be lieve that one of such practical mind as Hussam Effendi should have faith in the value, theologically speaking, of his grotesque and painful ritual; hut he owes much of his influence to his repu tation for holiness, which. Won by con stant, and efficient howling, is as snb stantial an item of his large stock in trade as the engine in the biscuit facto 2, Hussam Effendi's steadfastness to e rule of his order is thus by no means irreconcilable with bis keen pur suit in this world's goods. Cigar Ends. Probably few people in this country are aware that that usually wasted aub stance, a cigar end, is utilized IU Ger uiany to a large extent, and with even lieuettcent results. We cau imagine ninny of our readers wondering what i •> be the object of Collecting these siuao . .ids, and we will therefore briefly explain that they are sold for the pur|Hise of leing made into snuff, and that the proceeds of such sales are devoted to charitable purposes. There is ill Iterliu a society called the " Veretu iler Hammler vou Cigarreu Ahachuitton," or the Ho**letv of Collec tors of Cigar-cuttings, which has been in existence some ten years, and has done much good. Every Christmas the proceeds of the cigar ends collected by tins society and its friemls are applieii to the pun*base of clothes for some |x*or orphan children. In lM7ti alsuit thirty children were clothed by tins society, each child leing (irovtdixl with a pair of good leather ■iKrts, a pair of woollen stockings, a warm dress and a pocket handkerchief. In addition to tins, a large, well decor ated Christmas tree is given for their en tcrtaiumeut, and each child is sent home with a gooil supply of fruit and sweet meats. Altogether, more than two hun dred jHKir qrphau children have lw*en clothed by tins society, simply bv the proceeds of such small things as cigar ends. The success of the Hociety at llerlin lias induced further enterprise in the asuie direction, and it la now proposed to erect s building to be called the " Deutsche* itcichs-Waiserihaiia " (lui pertal tierman Orphan Hume), where orphans who are left unprovided for may le properly oared for, clolheit anil instructed. The site pro|x>*od for this institution is at Irahr tu Hadeii, where there are a imm!*cr of snuff timi.ufa. tor lee, and It is therefore well ailapteil to the scheme, which we can only hope mav Is* successfully earned out. fhe system of Collection, which is ex tended over a large part uf Germany, is generally undertaken by one or two ladle* or gentlemen iu each town, alio collect now and then from their smoking friemls the ends which they have been saving tip. These collector* eititer send on the cigar-ends t*> the central society, or sell them on the spot aud transmit the proceeds. This latter plan, when it cau t*e worked, is preferable, a* saving expenses in earriage and packing. It is proj*eed that the uumtN-r of children which each town shall have the privilege of sending to the home shall t>e regula ted according to the amount which they have contributed to the society. To insure the *tie***M* of this institu tion, it will be absolutely necessary for all to unite and work together; each on must not leave it for Ins uetgbl*or, thinking that one more or leas cau make no difference. To show, however, what might t>e accomplished by a thorough uutty in the matter, let tis a * that there are at least ten million auio r in Ger many; or, to lie very much within the mark, we will take only five million smokers who will give themselves the trouble, if such it is, of saviug up their cigar ends; and assuming that tlie cigar ends of each jH-rsou are worth only a quarter Pfrnnig (ten Ptennig equal one penny English), we have a total revenue tor the year of six hundred and fifty thousand mar's, or thirty-two thousand five hundred poi.Oila. Now, these thirty-two thousand fire hundred pounds, which, a* a rule, are thrown awav an I wasted, cau la* used to provide a home for at least thirteen thousand poor orphan children. Fur ther, if the five million smokers would Contribute but once a year the value uuly of a single cigar, say in Germany one penny, thi- would make an addition al five hundnxi thousand marks, or twciitv-five thousand (Kiuuds, which would clothe another ton thousand children. Now we ask, is it not worth while to be careful in small things, and to save up these usually wasted cigar ends, w hen we so** what groat tilings might result ? We can only conclude by wish ing success to this remarkable institu tion. which has taken for its mcrtt > the most apnropri ate words, " Viele \V<*nig machen ein Vlei;" or in the words of the old Scottish proverb, "Many a little makes a mickle."— < 'hamhrrs'i Journal. A Treasury ljdy the Victim of Alcohol. A Washington correspondent says: One of tbokc ingenious women whiww busmen* it is to examine mutilated and illegible currency in the Treasury has rart!uent, but scarcely less ao to numerous banks in different parts of the country, who but for her patience must have lost considerable sums in worn currency. Her skill in restoring what looked li*e a hopeless mass was marvel lous, and in consideration of her perse verance in Una direction, some of Uie banks have from time to time attested their appreciation of the material Iwuie tlt tlina derived, by handsome donations of money, one or two, it is understood, ■laying her aa high aa SI,OOO tier year. I take equal pride in the gallantry of such men and the ability of snch a wo men. Too often are women compelled to fi'el that thev gain nothing by marked fidelity. These gift* from the banks were, of course, in addition to the regu lar salary paid by the treasury, of $1,200. For a considerable time it wn* sadly noticod that thi\ woman was mani festly falling into the insidious power of a terrible syren. Often and again, it could not lie denied, she was not quite herself long before the honr for the close of work. Admonitions, kind and gentle., and warnings, oft repeated, were of 110 avail. She was ho|>elesslyJ en thralled. At last she earoo to the office one morning already too oblivions to faithfully perform her usual task, and, as patience hail long since ceased to tie a virtue, n carriage was called and she was sent, a victim of alcohol, lo her home, there to find that ominous yellow envelope containing a notioe of dismis sal from service hail preceded her com ing. Straugo to say, her predecessor in the same position, whp had served long and acceptably, but for this weakness, wastfischarged for the same cause. Chinese Sii|>er*tltlon*. To break a tween the mirror and its owner's life is evidenced death, or other wise, and is only aecond in ominous por teut to breaking an oil-jar. And thifl superstition of a connection existing l>o twecn mirror augurs a separation from one's wife by also by its use in eaaes of sickness to form the head of a sort of figure made of one of the sick man's (vmts which, suspended to a bamboo with the end-leaves still on it, is carried about 111 the vicinity of the house in the hope of attracting the departing soul back to its body. * * * Who has not noticed or beard of the bizarre ar rangement of Chinese gardens and rook eries ? The motive for tliia laying out the pleasure-grounds attached to large houses is not simply ornamental. No doubt the Chinaman is one of the most ingenions of landscape gardeners, hut the crooked walks and abrupt turns not only economize space but are " lucky," inasmuch as they discourage the advent of evil spirits, who like the " hrnad way " in China much as they are reputed to do in Europe.—/tW fore of China MA It It It'll MY DEATH. The TrrrlStr MISr on a KollrooS tlasS tar % goarlsl Mo* rasa. A moat horrible affair t**k place re cently on a branch line of the radiating road tunning from the great iron artery of the P. W. and D. railroad, up through the pleasant valley of Chester county, Pennsylvania. It was near Ohadd'a Kuril, tuid at a lieuiitifully romantic spot, There is s turbulent stream running lielweeu high batiks, on whieb stunted willows grow, wlale further down, at the water's edge, the weeping variety of the same tree dips its greenish tresses in the musical water, which has hushed its riotous uuise to almost a requiem since the death of ()corge ltickHts and Mollie Dolbell— "as fine a young man aud as pretty a girl," the farmers say, " as vou will find in all Chester county." This is how they met their death : Mollie was one of those pink aud white dairy maidathat you sometimes meet in the grazing re gions of Pennsylvania. Her hair was bourne brown, hut with just a glint of black tu it, as if it had been gently touched by a raven's wing. Hhe was light hearted and as merrv as tin*lurk with which she arose—the lark that car olled above her head as she looped her neat dress, and skimmed into the stone dairy where the painted pans were ranged in rows, and the yellow pots of butter flecked the cool water. The trouble with Mollie was that she had two lovers —one. George iticketts, s stalwart farm hanJ, and the other Hugh O'l>onuell, asulh n, red-whiskered man, employed on the small drawbridge over the Kol Hun that we have apokeu of. This draw was seldom used save for a lazy schismer that came up to get terracotta pi|>* from a manufactory above. The two men knew that tliey were rivals and Mollie knew it too, being surely troubled in Iter white soul as she stood oue Saturday evening in the porch of the house where she lived and prom ised to take a ride on the tuorruw with George—uot a ride in a buggy, nor tu a sailboat, but a rattling ride on a hand car, a practice which is frequent on these lonely lanes, whose rails vibrate hut arlJom under the crualuug advance uf the engine. It is uuneccewaary to describe the hand car, that fits ttie rails, is worked by a crank, and when started goes like the wmL The car had been loaned George by a baud of laborers who were making repairs about a nine above. He had dusted it neatly, and when the pretty girl reach ad him bv a short path through the woods, he had arranged the vehicle no cleverly with a cushion for Mollie thai it did not seem unlike Cleopatra's barge. Hhe was in her Hun day Iwt*. and she laughed lightly in the sunshine as tieorge swung her lightly into the aeat and then leaped to the handles. There were no Sunday traina ; there wa> u<> danger. Mollie crossed her tiny feet, felt the exhilaration of the movement, ** George's swelling arm* produced the U-rnble momentum, and MW her neat skirt* blown lUmt by the rushing wind beimitli the platform. On, on they went, the glistening rail* ringing. the bonny brown hair blown alniut and the Fox-run bridge near at hand. On that bridge Hugh O'Donnell sat sniokiug hi* pii>e. The draw wan open, although no drifting aehooner WM in eight. Some evil bird had wbi*pered to Hugh the Sunday trip of hi* rival with Molhe. He determined on murder at onee. Tin* i* the roaaou the ruty draw wa* open, while Hugh eat in hi* *entry bo* on the other aide smoking hi* pipe and w*trlimg up the converging line* of metal that seamed like iwtui ribbon* tied in a bow bv tlie perspective. He did not liave to wait long. Firat came the rumble—the faraway sound | that die* away while it increa* -and then, swiugmg suddenly around a carve, the handcar. boaringthcgirl he loved anil the man he hate*!. He drew another whiff of smoke and looked calmly at thetnmbril of death, with it* arm* whirling wildly, aiuoe George had trusted to the steep grade and the appalling acceleration he hail given the machine to aooumpliah the passage of the bridge, and hail aat down alongside of Molhe with hi* arm around her waist. Just a* thcT neared the draw, which wwi never legally allowed open on Hun day, he turned his head and hi* face ln-came white. Mollic felt the chill circle her wiust a* hi* blood froxe in hi* arm*. He sprang to hi* feet and tried to seise those revolving handles, which were only a blur and a niit. He thought of throwing the girl off. but before lif could think of anything else the car took the leap, and as Hugh O'lbinnell sat smoking in hi* sentry lox he saw the upturned faces, pallid with agony, but presm-d close together, go down with the band car TO the deep IKIOI* and cruel rocks of the Fox run, and as he did so he ssid : " Curse von !" and lighted another pipe. They found him there, but mad—mot raving mad, but in that lymphatic state of mama which is beyond reach. On the shore below, held by the gnarled roots of a willow, were discovered the hodiee of George and MoUie. In the moment of death she had thrown her nrms about him, and aa the sunlight filtered through the surging-branches and fell npon the upturned faces, they seemed like bride anil groom in the sleep of happiness. So they were married, but death had been the minister. Cincinnati In quirer. The Armies of the World. Three years ago Major-General Emory Upton, with credential* from the United Stntes Government, started on a tonr to examine and report u|Ku the condition of the armies of Japau, China, Persia, Italy, Russia, Austria, Germany, Franco and* England. He was gone nearly two years; and the work embodying the re suits of his observation* lias jast lieen issued. The armies of the countries he visited are tlma represented : Ptacr H'ar footing. footing. .Upon 31,410 chins soo.noo 1.000.0n0 India 190,000 500,000 1'rU"" fin,o(lo 130.000 | U I T 230 000 869,816 llussi* S'*>.ooo >-640.000 Austria 300,000 1,040.000 (lermanv 421.000 >-340,000 Fnnce. 490.000 1,780,00 Kngland 139,034 541,634 Totals 3,991,064 9,326.990 Excluding from consideration the first fonr countries, we find that the peace footing of the nations more or less in tcrcsti-d in the Eastern question is an aggregate of '2,(>W,600 men. while the war footing is nearly 7,fioo,ooomen. A Young (Hani. The " fat. man " whom I mentioned in my last letter, writoa a coi resjionder.t in England, is now exhibiting himself at the Egyptian Hall, in London, and making a good thing of it Fancy, if you can, a young man only twenty-two years old, weigliing 728 pounds, and measuring eight feet round the shoul ders. He seems in perfect health and is very chatty, a peculiarity Rhared by his wife, who accompanies him and who seems proud of bnving the biggest hus band of anv womau in England, perhaps in the world. TERMS: 52.00 a Year, in Advance. A Deaf lute Prodigy. The Jhttn in um Monthly says: We will conclude this article by men tioning one instance of the extraordinary intellectual caliore of a congenial deal' mute a prodigy—whieb has uever been iu print )>efore. Home years ago a benevolent gentleman found a red-head ed, ragged, little, deaf mule in the streets of Glasgow, aud took him to the school for deaf-mutes in that city. He showed extraordinary intelligence, and the gentleman thought he was a rough diamond, hut capable of Imiug highly is dished by education and training. I)uriug the first session at school the boy shot ah etui of every other pupil,and there were then more than s hundred, many of them having been there seven or eight years. The rapidity with which he learned was amazing; indeed; his memory was so reteutive that what he once read he uever forgot. Huch was the culibre of his mind thai nothing was too difficult for hia compre hension. He read books on mathe matics, methaphyMca aud the like whether thev were printed in English, foreign or dead languages, which he also read with ease. When school was over he wonld rush to the library, take out a lot of books under his arms, aud make his way to the nearest fire to read them, while hts school ma tea directed their steps to the play-ground. Huch was the force >4 habit that he would sit near the fire even during summer while he studied. No (binder, with a mind so w*U stored with knowledge, he was a capital story-teller, and he never used signs since the day he could ejieil on his fingers. He was appointed an aas.stant teacher at the school, but he foand the task too irksome, and he left tha institu tion to become a common laborer in or der to make money more rapidly to pur chase I looks, and neglected his bodily wants. His books increase. 1 in number very fast, and "they formed his table, chair and bed, nv being piled one upon an other in his lodgings. Thev were his only articles of furniture. TLe extraor dinary learning of this deaf and dumb laborer attracted the attention of many gentlemen aud his employers, who thought that he waa not ut his proper sphere. They determined to give him a tw-tter position, so that his fund of knowledge might be pat to some one. They visited his lodgings for this pur pose one day when he was not at his work, knd found him dead on Lis bed of booka, having literally starved hi* body to death to feed his hungry mind. He hail everything ready for writing a book, which be said would astonish the world. There were several reams uf paper and a large bottle of ink, allowing that he fully intended to enter upon the work, but then* was no indication of wlurt work it would be. His stuck of book* wen* printed in several languages of the high est kind of literature. He wsa sixteen or eighteen years old when he died. He had a florid countenance, red hair, green ish eyes, inclining to blue, which gave htm a"peculiar expression. A Might* Hunter. Capt. (himore relates, in hi* late reounl of travel in South Africa, a re markable story of the prowess of a liauter, who, lees knosrn than Gordon Gumming, rivaled him in courage and skill. Mr. Fmnety. the hero of the tale, was one day traveling over the unculti vated! plains near Ramanwath, riding one horse and leading another. He had watered hi* animal* at a pool, or •ley a* it i* there called, and, pasamg on a little way beyond, "Two bona ■prang from the bush ou either aide of the road, each seizing a horse. The mount that he was on fell in a mo ment and shot him over it* head, but the hunter wa* on hi* feet in a trivet. With the right barrel he killed the as sailant of the horse ke wa* riding, with the left the brute that attacked the led horse. So quickly wa* the whole done that neither of the nags was injured." Another exploit, told of the same hunter, is lees brilliant, yet attest* hi* singular coolness aud accuracy of aim. A* night closed in, he shot a large white rhinoceros, and left the game to be attended to in the morning : "At break of day he started alone to find his quarry, anil, after going a mile or ao, found il dead, with three lioti* around it. Mr. Finnety strolled up within a short distance of them and killed the trio—each requiring only a single bullet. Soou afterward, having discovered an elephant-spoor, he fol lowed it np, and after noon overtook the herd aud bowled over a couple of tuskers. Retracing hi* step* to regain j his wagon, he bail to pans by the dead rhinoceros, and, wheu doing so, foand two more lions leaide the carcaas. These he alio killed. In the morning, Mr. Finnety went out with hi* people to secure the ivory of the elephant* slain the d*y before. On their route thev passed a pool in a drv river-bed, 1 and by it were two lion*. He left hi* peoule, and, unsupported, walked up to tfiem aud killed them right and left. Thus seven lion* fell before hi* gun in little over twenty-four hours." A I July's Fight With Burglars. In the slwiene* of Mr. A. A. Hopkins, of the American Kural Home , says a dispatch from Rochester, N. Y., an at tempt was made to burglarise liia honae about one o'clock in the morning. Mrs. Hopkins haard the burglars, took a pis tol from nnder her pillow, searched the honae, disco rem! one burglar pacing in the front hall, tries! to enter the sitting room to alarm a gentleman who was sleeping above, but was apprehended by a burglar, who fired at her. In the meantime one of the burglars escaped by the back door, and the other songht his exit Mrs. Hopkins followed him as cloaclv as the intense darkness per mitted. He seized her several times by the hair, but she broke away, and when near the side door raised her pistol and fired at the thief. He retreated to the book door, but the plucky little woman followed, and just aa he wa* about to fire again alie emptied another barrel into bis right arm. The burglar dropped liia pistol, exclaimed, "She's hit me in the arm," and disappeared. Nothing of value was secured. The burglars made an ineffectual attempt to chloroform Mrs. Hopkins and her little daughter. Mr. aud Mrs. Hopkins have practiced pistol-shooting considerably, hence her brave defense against the two burly burglar*. Mrs. Hopkins narrowly es- CSJKVI the two shots fired at her. A Noble Animal. Of the late Lord Itavensworth—the gentleman who defended George IV. against Thackeray—Mr. Edmund Yatea tells this amusing story. He was a man of no little personal vanity. One cold day in wiuter, some years back, having wrapped himself in a fur coat, he went to call on some neighbors in Northum berland. He was ushered into the draw ing-room, and left, aa he thought, aloue. No sooner was the door closed thau he mounted on a chair in front of the mirror over the fire-place, and, after surveying himself with intense satisfac tion, gave vent to the ejaculation : " Well, a man in fur is a noble ani mal !" Unfortunately for the baron, a lady was seated in a corner of the room in the recesa of a screen all the time, and not only witnessed the exhibition, but overheard the soliloquy. NUMBER 20. PARI, UAKIDI AMD HOIHKHOI.D. Kara IMM. Do not plant trees deeper than to necessary to oovar the roots well. Never place the roots in contact with manure. Wanting need nondent tUla ibat he kept a plum trer from ourealioa by sprinkling the ground under the tree with oora meal. This induced the cluck on* to scratch nod search. The meal n strewn twT morning from the time the tree* blossomed until the frnit wee large enough to be out of danger. The oou aeqnence wee, that the fowls picked np the enrenhoa with the meal, and the tree being eared from the presence of the insects, wee wonderfully fruitful. Br*rllu Nurk so Ikr Farm. In new of the market for choice stock lately thrown open to oar farmer* by the exportation of cattle and meat to Europe, it behooves them to pay in (-reamed attention to the raising of tu- an i mala on the farm. A late report on the American trade, by Pro fessor Sheldon, of the Ciriwvater Agri cultural College, England,after famish ing a mass of information on the subject, comes to the oooduaioa that, despite some fluctuations, the deed meat trade will rapidly increase, and that appli ance* for its successful management will be multiplied here and in Europe. The profits of the traffic will be in a great measure, proportionate to the excellence of the product, and the limit to the quantity shipped will be the stowage capacity of vessel* crossing the Atlantic, for, owing to the falling off in our im ports, the nnmber of ships engaged in the transatlantic trade will be too small to afford room for a large export of moat together with other merchandise without advancing the freight to a figure that will prohibit further exportation. The experience of many thriving farmers all over the country,proves that a better run of animals is obtained by breeding them on the farm than by pur chasing them. More care ia bestowed in selecting the likely offsprings of tried animals, they will go on fattening more rapidly and uniformly than strang ers picked np here and there, for it 1 takes some time before theae get ac quainted and become contented enough to lay on fleah kindly in their new home; and moreover, the tendency of prices for young stock ia npwarda, and the proba bility ia very strong that ere long it will not pay farmers to go into the market for young animals. In any case, it ia,aa ' a rule, more profitable to breed the stock one handles than to purchase It. Mas*arJ)u*ctU Ploughman. Vlarawr Msklsa- The apples should be crushed and the juice expressed and put into good tight barrels, with the bnug left cut. Fer mentation will follow quite rapidly, and continue for days or weeks, according to the weather. After the the first fer mentation ceases, draw off the cider carefully, in order not to disturb the sediment which will have fallen to the t sit torn. Rinse out the barrel, put the cider back, and set in a warm place, adding a pint of liquid yeast, or a half pound of yeaat cakes previonalv dis solved in two quarts of water, 'if the cider ia rather weak, two quarts of mo lasses may be added to strengthen it; j but usually the cider will be strong enough to make excellent vinegar, ana sometimes too strong; in the latter case dilute with rain water, two, three, or more gallons to the barrel; at the cloae I of the second fermentation, the cider will generally have become excellent ( vinegar. If what ia called mother of vinegar can be obtained, a small quanti ty may be added with advantage. What an Egg In* To the reflective mind the egg consti tutor one of the pro*test marvels of na ture. At first view it wonld seem that it ie an especial cliaraotenstio of birds; but when we observe that fishes, so dif fereut from birds in their organization and their mode of life, have also eggs, we see that it mnst be the same in one sense with all kinds of animals. A pul let's egg is a very small germ, posses sing at first only the moat essential or gans for the actual sustenance of its ex istence, and the gradual development of its other parts inclosed in a box, with its provisions for the time it must actually remain in seclusion. The animal is the little whitish circle remarked in the membrane which envelops the mass of the yolk. The house destined to protect the young animal until it has acquired all of its own organs, and all the ueoes sary strength, ami jet allow the air and heat to penetrate, is the shell. Hence the size of the eggs of animals is, not necesaarilv proportioned to the size of the animals to which they belong. All animals, whatever they may be—from the elephant to the humming-bird—are nt the moment when they begin to feel the principle of life nearly of the same size. That which varies is the provision of nourishment they require. The cro codile, destined to attain ooloasal dimen sions, can take care of himself very well in the river where he was born when he has attaint*! the size of a lizard; so na ture places in the box where he is con fined food sufficient to enable him to reach that size. The same with fishes; there are some enormous ones which have only very small eggs, because, how ever dimiuutive they may be on leaving their envelope, they oan already obtain their own living in the bosom of the river or oaean. >. flMi ef litmrt. Hud to bnak-tbe spring mrpot Buckwheat to root* eaten here than in uiy other land. TheOWooufor "adieu" to very ap propriate " cAin-chin." There ere nineteen thouaand female Patron* of Husbandry in Texaa. Everyone to in one thing at least orig inal—in his manner of aneeaing. A picture frame juet completed by a New Jeraeyman, contains 1,682 kinds of wood. SrigruM silk* have snowflake scatter ing* on dark groaada. The effect to at tractive. London to going to build a new bridge over the river Thames, and to pay $lO,- 000,000 for it. A Ave-year-old girl was actually whip ped to death in Marshall town, lowa, by her drunken mother. (tortchakoff is in hie eighty aesond , year—beating Lord Palmeraton, wbo 'died in barnaas at eighty. The ltla-book just toeoad ahowa that there are 86,880 aivii employeea of the United tttafaw government A girl working in a peper mill in Orange county, 5. T.. reeetitly ripped f 24 in gold ottl of en old buatle. The present mlere of the to we of eti q net to have deculed that it to only good style to bow after the lady bee bowed. Anatria'e peace establishment is pnt down at 287,086 men and 47,972 horses; in war, 780,090 men and 148,120 horses. The geographer* tell us that the earth to aompoaad entirely of land and water. H<**ae to na then are a few rocks thrown in. Five of the sweetest words in the Eng lish language begin with H, which is only a breath: Heart, Hope. Happiness, and Heaven. A poor woman in Danville, 111., while splitting k"dimg wood, lulled bar little three-year-old eh ild by an accidental blow of the axe. There to a man only twenty-five jeers of age who has already married fourteen women. He to a clergymen, and mar ried them to their husbands. In Pennsylvania seventy-one per cent, of the farm* am cultivated by their own ers, twenty per cent us worked on •karea, ana nine per oenk sre rented. Haul n young doctor to s lady patient: 'Ton must take exercise for your health, my dear." '• All right," said she; " 111 jump at the first offer." They were married about six months afterwards. An organ of the tobacco trade asserts that if the tobacco consumed annually, about 4,000,000,000 pounds, could be made into a roll two inches in diameter, it would encircle the world sixty times. "Jons! Jens! Jons" Los croon t The brown baas to the slovsr: •• tiwsat' asset' swsstl" Kpg Tb* robin*. Meted over. —Sot* Orry ta Seribmrr. Mr. F. D. Millet, an American, was the only correspondent wbo went through th. Balkan* with Gen. Gourko. The cxar presented him with the decora tion of St Ann, which to the highest decoration given to any correspondent. Hie " agony column* " of the Turkish newspaper* ere filled with advertise meat# for lost relations, giving painful evidence of the dispersion of families of the Mussulman population which bee taken place in the district* ravaged by war. : The sea bold* 00,000,000,000,000 tons l of salt Should the sea be dried up, there would be a deposit of salt over the entire bottom of the ocean 450 feet deep, and if the salt were taken and spread cm the land it would oover it to a i depth of 900 feel Because voc flourish to worldly affair*. Hon t bs haughty and pot on air* With mutant pride of station. , Dent bs proud and turn op year no** at poorer people in plainer doth** ; But laarn. for the sake of your mind's raposs. That wealth a bebbto that wan and gc* ; And that all proad fleet, sheressr it grow*, 1* subject to irritation. " Marie," obaerrei Mr. Holcumb, as he was putting on bis clothes, " there 5 ais*t no patch on them brooches yet" "I cant fix it now, no way ; Fm too busy." " Well, give me the patch, then, an' I'll carry it around with ma. I don't want people to think I can't afford the cloth. How strangely joy snd sorrow are , interwoven in this world. Pain chases pleasure like a champion pedestrian, and the sweet tears shed by the maple tree in spring time, crystallised into sugar, will give an infant the stomach ! ache equal to a doctor's bill of nine dollars. Henry Goodrich to a music teacher. He baa traveled from place to place until he has taught music in every State in the Union. It to said that he" has married seven of his pupil* and most of the States sre yet to be beard from. In Clarksburg, Vs., be outdid his former matrimonial exploit* by marrying two girla in the s*me village. He is now in jaiL In the Concordia Turnverein Hall, St. Louis, there is a gymnasium for girla. There are eighty girla in the class, and they wear a regular gymnasium dress of blue and gray cloth. Besides the lighter gymnastics, they are taught the heavier exetcteaa also# such as climbing, jump ing and swinging. The girls are said to beoomt* very strung, active snd healthy by these exercises, A Vienna mechanician has succeeded in constructing an apparatus for working sewing machines. Electricity, steam, or water power sre, an the score of cost, dnmestioatly inapplicable, so the iaven tor of the new machine was restricted to gravitation or elasticitv, and he, prefer ring the totter feroe, has contrived to male springs strong enough to keep an ordinary meed machine in motion, it to said tor" hours. A system of cog-wheels s arranged underneath the surface of • the table upon which the machine is fix ed, and by a handle at the side the spring is wound "up with facility. The velocity at which the machine works is entirely at the option of the person using it, and can be easily regulated. The NCTCS Meep >rs. A lady in Brooklyn asks ns what ware the names of the "Seven Sleepers " and where the will find their strange story recited. The legend is attached to a gtoUo on the soatheast aide of Monnt Prion, which is.a place of pilgrimage not only with Christiana, hnt with Mos lem*. It is a deep care filled with sta lactites. The Christian tradition is that seven noble youths of Epheeus, named Malchas, Maximilian, Marti man, John, Serapion, Dionysiut* and Constantine, being and a such threatened with death under Eraperr Diocletian (A. D. 238-So4>, fled from the city with their dog to this cave, and there falling asleep, woke not for 230 years which, on their waking, were to them as a watch in the night They ventured down to Epliesus, where to their amazement, tbey found the cross everywhere in honor, new coinage in the shops, new coetumee in the streets, new faces, and a new tongue. Thus displaced and mistimed they soon died, and their bod ies were taken to Marseilles where a huge stone coffin is still shown as con taining their remains, in the chnrch of St. Victor, the oldest church in the city, and once a Benedictine convent which dates as to its earliest parts from the eleventh century. Mahomet believed * in the story and lias embodied it in the Koran, where it is told in " the Chapter _ of the; Cave." The) Turkish names of the seven sleepers are Jemlika, Meshi lina, Mislina, Mernoos, Debbernoos, Shszzernoos and Kepbestetjoos. Their > dug, named Ketineha, is held in equal honor with themselves. All these names the Turks think of good omen. Thev put them on. build ings by wsy of ire insurance, and on swords to prevent their breaking. Ket meha has a place in Mahomet's para dise, and at the bazaar in Ayaaolook, on the site of Ephesus, you can now bay talismans engraved with his name and the names of* his masters. The central idea of the legend is of all ages, from that of Diogene Laertius, who incarnat ed it in the tale of Epimonides of Crete, to that of Washington Irving, who .em bodied it in the story of Rip Van Winkle. One of its most poetic forms is that of the legend of the monk Felix so grace fully put in verse by Longfellow.— New York World.