Safe. Safe ? the battle-field of atnfe Seldom know* i pan*e in tnfa Every path i* net by onaren. Every Joy i cro*M>d with rare*. Rriffhtnui morn ha* darkest night, Fairoat hloom ha* qniekral blight. Hope ha* bnt a tran*ient gleam. Love t bnt a paening dream. Trust i* folly'* helple** waif. Who dare call their dearest rate? Bnt thou, though peril loom afar. H hat hart thon to do with war ? Let the wild stream flood it* brink. * There * no tiark of thine to eink. I set falsehood ware it* subtle net, Thon art done with vain regret. li*t fortune frown and friend* grow strange, Thon hart passed the doom of ohang*. We plan and struggle, mourn and ehafe Safe, my darling, dead, and safe? Some Time. Soma time, tired hrart of mm*. You shall hire a long, long rest; An t the quiet owning sun. Sinning outward to the wort. Ore*;iing in the casement wide. Shall look on a quiet hrnart. Though the tur l- shall e>*>and call A* the deeper .-hutos - fall. Yon may rest. Some time, putient eyes of mine. You may take a long, long sleep. Though the early morning son All along the wall jhall c-rwop. Waten eyelids will not 'aft From the watching whieh they keep; Though a sunbeam, overbold. Seek to part your curtaiu's fold, You tuay sleep. Some time, striving hands tf mine. There will be a U>ng, long peace; Loosened from the tasks you hold luto new and street release. Other hand* 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. Some time. re*tie- feet of mine. There will oome a long, long day When you need not cross the sill From the flushing till the gray. Other steps must bear you forth To the place where clay is clay. Though 1 led you out at tight They will hrirg yon home when night End* our day. PRUDENCE GRAY. That's my name, for father said there wasn't a bettor barge on the river than the Prudence, and if 1 was called the same he was sure there would never be a better girl. Poor father' He wa* always very fond of me, and my earliest remem brances are of sitting on the tiller and having a ride, when he stocvi there of an evening steering the barge, with the gmit cinnamon-red sail filled out by the wind, and the water foaming and bub bling by ns a* we ran on up the river toward the big city, where the ships lay close together in dock and against the wharves, emptying their loads or waiting for others before going away across the seas. I nsed to think our barge, which was a very small billy-boy, if you know what that is—if yon Jon't 1 must tell yon that it's a barge built with ronnded ends and low bulwarks, meant for carrying loads up rivers, but built also to be able to go out tow a little while, running along the coast—l used to think oar barge, 1 say, a verv, very large ship, till I grew old enougli to compare it with those that passed ns going up or down the river, and then it used to seem to me that it would be wonderfully fine to go on board one of those great ships and go sailing away—far away across the ocean, instead of jnst coasting along to Sheerness and up the Med way, 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, living 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, and when I did I wo* 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 ns very suddenly, and we have been ashore at Sheerness, father and I, and came back from the funeral and were sitting on the cabin hatch, before I oouhl believe it was anything bnt a ter rible dream, and that I shorld not wake and find that *he was alive once more, as blithe and cheery as ever, ready to take the tiller or a poll 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 years 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 irrown. For father grew quiet and dull day by day, and used to haves stone bottle filled when ever he went ashore, and then sit with it in the cabin all alone till I called him to oome and help with the sail. Not that I wanted much 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 back wan is and forwards across the river mouth, I could always lock the tiller by the rope thst hang ou the belaying pin, and give it a hitch on this side or that side, till I hod taken a pull 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 it* end carve'! to look like a great acorn, and the name of the old barge. Prudence, cut deep in the side. There I'd stand looking out ahead as we glided along over the smooth sea, passing a buoy here and a light there, giving other barges and smacks a wide berth, and listening to the strange squealing noise of the galls as they wheeled and hovered and swept by me, ao closely sometimes that I could almost have touched them with my hand. Oar barge was well known all about the mouth of the river and far up be- Eud the bridge; and somehow, I don't ow how it was, the men on the differ ent boats we psase-1 had always a kind hail or a wave of the hand for us, as we glided by, if we were too far off for a kindly shout to reach us. Sometimes I'd run the barge pretty i close to the great ships and steamers, inward or outward bound, so 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 used 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 wonld 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 had to set 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 s* emed to grow more and more broken and helpless every day; and this frightened me, and made me work to keep the barge clean aud 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. 80 I work ed on, and in a doll heavy way father nsed to thank me; and the time glided on, till one day, ae we were lying off Sonth end, with the sea glassy and not wind enough to fill the sails, I felt my cheeks begin to burn as I leaned back against the tiller, and would not turn my head, because I oonld hear a boat being sculled towards us, and I knew it was coming from the great lee board barge lying astern. " He's coming to see father,'' I said to myself at last in a choking voice; and as a hail came I was obliged to turn, and there stood up in the little boat he was sculling with an oar over the stern John Grove, in his dark trousers, blue jersey FRED. KURTZ, Kditor and Proprietor. VOLUME Xi. 'and scarlet cap; and a* 1 saw hi mm burnt face and brown arm* ami band* I felt my heart Ix-ating fast, and knew he wu* not coining to *ee father, bat U> see me. We had hardly ever spoken, but I had kuowu Joint Grove for rear* now, and we had maided ami waved baud* to one another ofteu and often a* we had passed up and down the river. " lfeave u a rope, mx laa*," he said, a* he came clone in: and I did it dream ily, aud a* *mm a* I had done *o I Ifgati to pull it IvaoK. bnt it was U*> late; he had bitched it rouud the thwart of hi* boat, and wa* up ami over the aide l>o fore I could *tir; and then he steal lmik ing down upon me, while 1 felt Home tune* hot ami sometime* cold, a* if 1 oould not *jwak. " Do you want to see father ?" 1 said at last. " No, my las*," he said quietly, " 1 want to *ee von." "Me 1" d faltered, with my face bttrtung. " Yea, you, my lass," he said; aud hi* hands- me brown face lit up, au-l he looked so manly a* he laid hi* hand on my arm. " Prudence, my gal," he said, "we're both voung vet, for I'm not ix-aml twenty, but 1 thought it wa* time I spoke to you," "Spoke to me?" I said, with my faoe burning atilh " Yen, my lass, spoke to vou.fer we've been courting now a matter of four years." "Oh, John." I cried, bursting out laughing and feeling more at my ease, "why, we've uever hardly spoken to one another." "That's nice," he said, drawing a long breath. "Over again." " Over again t What ?" I said. "Call me John," he replied. "Well, then, John," 1 cried hastily. •'That's right. Prudence; but, as I was going to say, not spoken to one another! Well, how could we, always taking oar turns at the tiller as we were? Bnt all the same, my las*, I've been always courting of yon, night and day, these four years, and looking out and longing 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 liack." I could feel the color coming back into my checks again as I heard him speak, and knew how anxiously I had looked on! for his barge coming up or down the river; ami then 1 began won dering what it all meant, and soou knew. " Prudence, my lass," he said, "I've saved up £lO, all my own. and our owner has just given me the command of a new baege, with as pretty a cabin as you'd wish to see; and so, my lass, I thought I'd ask yon if so be as now we've lieen courting four years, you wouldn't come to me and be my wife." "No," I said, "no," and shook my heaiL " I belong to father, and I could never leave him— never." '• But you'U have to some dav, Prud ence," ht 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 yon r' " Playing with yon?" "Yes"; I mean yon ain't going to take up with any one else, and go aboard anv other barge—no, no," he cried, " I won t be so mean as to ask you that. But, Prndence, dear, some day you may have to leave him, and when you do, will yon please recollect John Grove loves you better thau aught else in the wide world, and is waiting for you to come f" " Yes, John," I *aid simply. "You mean it, Prudence?" he cried in delight, a* he caught my hand. "Yes, John; I don't know anylnidy else, and there's no cue as care* for me" " Hundreds on the river," he said sharply. "Then I don't care for them, John*' 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, aud looke 1 long and lovingly in my faoe, with his great, honest brown eyes; and then he couldn't speak, but seemed to choke. At last he gasped out; " Tbanky, Prudence, tlianky. 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 mar come, my lass, when you'll be all alone in the world; J ami when it does come, there's the cabin of the Betsy Ann, clean painted up, and waiting for you, just as her master's a-waiting too." He went quietly over the side and cast off the rope, and was gone before I knew t it; and I sat there in the calm afternoon and evening, sometimes crying, some times feeling hopeful, au l wi th a sense of joy at my heart such as I never hail felt before. And so that evening deepened into 1 night, with the barge a quarter of a mile astern of as, and no wind coming, only the tide to help us on our way. It mast have been about ten o'clock at night, when I was forward seeing to the light hoisted up to keep anything from running into ns, when I heard father j come stumbling np from the cabin, aud make as if to come forward to me. " Prue," he cried, " Prne !" "Yes, father, coming," I said ; and j then I nttered a wild shriek, and rushed towanls where the lioot hung astern by her painter, hanled her np and climbed in; for no sooner hyl I answered than I heard a cry and a * eavy splash, aud I knew father had gone overboard. I was into the boat in a moment, and had the scull over the stem, paddling away in the direction that the cry had come from; bnt, though I funned in those horrible minntes that I saw a hand stretched out of the water, asking as it i were for help, I paddled and sculled about till I was far from our barge, and then sauk down worn-out to ntter a moan of horror, and sob, " Oh, father 1 father ! j what shall I do!" "Is that yon. Prudence?" aaid a' voice. "Yes, John, yes," I cried, looking ont through the darkness, out of which a boat seemed to steal till it was along side, when John atreehed out his hand and took mine. "Quick !" I gasped, " save him, John —father—gone overboard !" " When yon shrieked out, Prue ?" "Yes, yes," I wailed; "oh, save him! 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 abont ever since, trying to find you, for I went up to the barge and you were gone." " Butfather," I wailed, " father—save him t" " My poor little lass," he said, tender ly, " I'd jump into the water now if you bid me; Dnt what can I do, yon know, Prudence, what can I do ?" I did not answer, for I did know that he most 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 oot 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 a* he sailed by. That evening he 1 came and looked wistful!? at me and e said but little, and at last flirt time was e up ami he rose to go. I walked down to his boat with turn, .1 apd on the way he told me that he had .1 got leave to alter the name of lit* barge, e aud it was iwlhsl the Prudence, too; and ,t then, without a word a Unit the past, he was saving (pod-by, when 1 put my , hand* in hi* and said quietly - ••John, dear, I haven't forgot my .1 promise." c "And vi.u are alone now. Prudence, s my las.*,' he cried eagerly. " No, John, no," I sanl softly, a* the tear* ran down mv cheeks; " I never -hall tie while you live." 1 "Never, my las*, never," tie cried. "And you'll be my little wife?'' I " Yes, John, yea; 1 promised you." " When i oouie back from tliis voy l I age ?" "Yea, John, when you will," 1 said, it and with one long hand pressure we jiarted, aud I went back to wait for • another month, and then I was his happy httle wife. i And there seemed no change, for I was once more ou the river orjout at sea, i j leaning upon the tiller and gating straight liefore un\ with the gull* wail l mg a* they wheeled ami dipped and skimmed or settled upon the water; • while the soft wind gently stirred the print hood that was lightly tied over my • wind-rutfied hair. Only a bargeman's ' voung wife ltviug on the tide, but very iiappv; for Jolm ofteu point* to the great ships that pass ns, with their cap , tains in their gold-laced cap*, and as he 1 does so he whispers— " Not with the best among them, - , Prue, not with the best; I wouldn't even change place* with a king." And if he is as happy a* I, dear Jehu is right. CasttlFt Maycuitur, The tlrvat Thirst l.ind. We take the following from a recently pnhliahed work descriptive of Southern Africa, entitled " The Great Thirst Laud:" The sufferings endured on ac count of the drought were at times al most terrific. The throat* of the oxen , were so parched that they could not low. The diiga suffered even more than the cattle. Nor are the wild animals j exempt from the plague of the land. When water becomes source m these thirsty plains, the whole of the wild animals that inhabit them congregate rouud any pool that may be left, for with very few exceptions all have to drink once in twentv-four hours. The lions, which follow tlie game, thus are lis! to their drinking places not only to assuage their thirst, but to satisfy their hunger. To watch one of these pools at uight, as I diil in the northern Maasara coun try, is a grand sight, and one never to lie forgotten. The naturalist and the sportsman can here see sights that will astonish them, and cause them to wou der at the wonderful instinct* possessed by the auimal kingdom. At such watering-places the small antelopes invariably drink first, the larger later on, aud with them the zebra* and buffaloes. After these oome the giraffes, closely followed by the rhinoc eros, and next the elephant, who never attempt* to hide his approach—conscious of his strength—but trumpets forth a warning to ail whom it may concern that he is about to satisfy his thirst The only animal that does not give place to the elephant is the rhinoceros; obstinate, bea*e battles take* place the rbinooero is in variably the victor. The elephant is large, of gigantic power, but the other is far more active, while the formidable horn that terminate* 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 ou trustworthy authority that a rhinoceros in one of those blind fits of fury to which they are ao subject, attacked a large wagon, inserted his horn between the spoke* of the wheel and instantly overturned it, scattering Ithe content* far and wide, and after wards injuring the vehicle to such an ex tent as to render it useless. The Hon is not tied to time in drink ing. After jt feqds it comes to water, but it never would dare to interfere with the rhiu reason. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, MAY Hi, 187 K. THE II \ DKOPIIOIIIA <|('ENTIO!L Ii Iksr* i*rk s lllMmrt Oplal*s ml lira, rs Her** ■.( Mr. Ilaaia,aal. 11l view of the -gg in his lung and bronchus. Mr Bergh, betng asked, said that he was firm m his dislielief in the existence of such a disease a* hydrophobia. He mode a distinction between a mail dog ami a hydrophobic one. He said he wa* frtqncutly road himself, but it by no means followed that he had the hy drophobia. Ho a dog might to* madden ed by ill-t#eatnieut. He might lie wor ried into madness, but he was not neces sarily hydrophobic, lie though! the principal trouble in the dog question came from it* treatment by politicians, who were net competent to dal with it. He had offered years ago to manage the whole matter if the city would only pro vide a house ami a keeper. The Siieiety for the Ihvvention of Cruelty to auiuials wonld send ftien around daily and "scoop tip" the strsy dogs without charging the city for the service. "Then do yon believe in killing these dogs I" he wa* asked. "1 must confess," said Air. Bergh, " that the unfortunate animals would In better off dead thau alive, and it is not right that they should run at large, alarming the community. But Ido ob ject to the treatment they receive now." " Do you not consider," wa* the next question, 'Jtliat the bite of a dog mad dened by worry or other means is more dangerous than that of a dog unin fluenced in that way ?" "Why certainly it is," said Air. Ilergh, and he told a story of a woman suckling a child while she wo* iu a fit of rage and of the consequent death of the j child. Dr. William A. Hamtfl.rad, on the other hand, declared, after reading Dr. Kreteehmar's history of Richard ; Schweitzer's cam- and the aceonnt of the jioat-mortom examination, that it wu* | unquestionably a case of hydrophobia. " I thought it was not genuine hydro phobia," said he, "when I read the first account* to-cause they *]>oke of the 1 child barking like a dog. In psuedo hydrophobia, which is a hysterical dis ease, snpcriudueod by the imagination, patient* often do this, but not in genu ine hydrophobia. A* to the child dying by choking, the choking wa* u symptom of the hydrophobia. l)r. Kri-tachnisr's history of the case is an excellent one aud leaves no doubt as to it* nature. I (Jue of the atrongeet proof* of it i* the abnormal temperature. In the real hy drophobia the temperature is always high, ranging from 105 to 110. In the false disease- it is never raised, but al ways remains normal." " I would be in favor of leaving the whole question of handling the dog* to Mr. Bergh's society," said he, in reply to further questions; "for it ha* done a deal of good, ami would unquestionably deal with the dogs in the Ixwt way; but Mr. Bergh i* doing a great mischief by promulgating his disbelief in hvdropho hta, iu spito of the fact that all the au thorities assert it* existence. It was formerly denied that there was such a disease, but no authority denies it now. Aud inst so far as people are led by Mr. liergh to disbelieve in the disease, just so far will they be inclined to neglect the projo-r measure* of precaution when they are bitten." " It is a serious fact," he said further, " that no one has ever lived after hy drophobia ha* lieen developed in his system. There is noenre for the disease known, though it may bo prevented by prompt m-asures taken after the bite has t>eea inflicted. Birision is probably the best of all prophylactics, aud should he performed a* soon as possible. The operation should not to* done with a niggardly hand, but every part with which the teeth of the Animal nave oome iu COD tact should bo removed, as well a* the tissue into which the txtison may have become mflltratcd. Canteriration ■mv be performed instead of excision, and i* preferred by some practitioners. Mr. Youatt, of England, used it with over four hundred persons bitten by rabid animals, and never unsuccessfully. Ho preferred the nitrate of silver, but others have used the uctual enntory, caustic alkalies. I have performed ex cision in eleven cases ami cauterization seven times, four with the nitrate of silver and three with the actual cautery, and always successfully." As to the treatment with strychnia which Dr. Koetochmer employed, Dr. Hammond said that he did not l>elieve in it, bnt would not condemn it, because iff a disease Which hod never l>cen cured a physician was justified in doing any thing which he might fancy would do gf the faith. It shelters three sects of dervishes; the Beys, the largest landed proprietors, are mostly affiliated to oflo or other of the orders; wealth ami influence belong hereto IsLsm. odple m this country are aware that that UMtially wasted sub „ "taiioe, a cigar end, i* utilized in Ocr mauy to a large extent, and with even beueflceut reaulta. We can imagine many of our readers „ wondering what C M be the object of p collecting these *uiao > ad*; and we will lf therefore briefly explain that they are sold for the pur|M>*e of lieing made into snuff, and that the proceed* of ntieh *ale are devoted to charitable purpose*. 'There i* in Berlin a society called the I, " Vereui der Mauiuiler von t'igarreu j Abm-iinitteu," or the Society of Collec- tor* of Gigar-cuttiuga, whicli ha* lieen f ni existence some ten year*, and ha* dona much g<**L Every Ghri*tmas the h proceed* of the cigar end* collected by t tin* aoeiety and it* friend* are applied H to the puri-haae of elothea for some j>oor a orphan children. p In lß7ti tttomt thirty children were I clothed by tin* society, each child Ix-mg I provided with n pair of good leather . in*it*, a pair of woollen stocking*, a , warm dress and a jacket -handkerchief. ( lu addition to this, a large, well dex>r _ ated Christina* tree i* given for their eu -9 tertaiument, and each child is sent home „ with a good supply of fruit and sweet „ meat*. Altogether, inure than two hun dred poor children have lieen clothed by tin* aoeiety, simply by the proceeds of such small things a* cigar 1 enda. The auccea* of the tWiety at Berlin ha* induced further enterprise m the same direction, and it is now proposed to erect a building to be called the " Deutsche* Reich*-Waisetihau* " (.Im perial German Orphan Home), where orphans who are left unprovided for may te properly cared for, clothed and instructed. The rite propose! for tlii* institution i* at Lahr in Baden, where there ar.- a immlx-r of snuff manufactor ies, and it is therefore well s-lapted to ; the scheme, whieh we can only hope may to- successfully carried out. , fbe system of collection, which is ex tended over a large part of Germany, is generally undertaken by one or two I ladle* or gentlemen in each town, who t eolloet now and then from tlieir stnokmg friend* the end* which they have been 1 saving up. Tlioae collectors cither send • ou the cigar-end* to the central society, t or sell them on the spot and transmit . the proceed*. This latter plan, wlu-u it can Is- worked, l* preferable, a* saving . exjH-uri-a in carriage and packing. It is projioaed that the number of children whieh each town shall have the privilege , of seuding to the home shall to- regtila f led according to the amount which they . have contributed to the society. To insure the sucoes* of this iustitu . tiou, it will to- absolutely necessary for all to unite and work together; each on | must not leave it for hia neighbor, i thinking that oue more or lea* can make i no difference. To show, however, what might be accomplished by a thorough unity in the matter, let ns sro thst there I are at least teu million snio rs iu Ger i many; or, to be very much within the i mark, we will take onlv five million 1 . *m >kers who will give tliemselvee the trouble, id such it ia, of aaviug up their cigar ends; and assuming that the cigar > etuis of each person are worth only a t ; quarter Ifmnig (ten Pfennig equal oue i penny Euglish ), we have a total revenue > lor the year r>f six hundred and fifty thousand mars*, or thirty-two thousand five hundred pot.nda. Now, those thirty-two thousand five i hundred pounds, which, a* a rule, are thrown away and wasted, can tie used to provide * fiome for at least thirteen thousand |*or orphan children. Fur ther, if the five million smoker* would i Contribute but one*- a year the value only of a single cigar, say in Germany . oue penuv. tin- would make an addition al five hundred thousand marks, or twenty-five thousand pounds, which woiihf clothe another feu thousand children. Now we ask, is it not worth while to ; to- careful in small things, ami to save , up these usually wasted cigar ends, when we see what great tilings might result 1 We can only conclude by wish ing success to this remarkable institu tion, which ha* taken for it* motto the most appropriate word*, " Viclo W'enig macheti ein Viel;" or in the words of tlie old Scottish proverb, "Many a little make* a mickle."— ('hantftrrt'i Journal. A Treasury Ijidy the Victim of Alcohol. A Washington ooriswpondeut says: Ono of tto>e ingenious women whose j business it is to examine mutilated and illegible currency in the Treasury lis* ( recently come to grief. Tin* woman !ud so ably performed this intricate work for several years a* to have be come alnn-st indispensable not only to the department, but scarcely less so to numerous bunks in different part* of the conutry, who but for her yatience must have lost considerable sum* in worn cniTeticy. Her skill in restoring what looked idfe a hopeless tno** was marvel lous, aud in consideration of her i>erHC veronoe in tliis direction, some of tlie bunks have from time to time attcsUxl tlieir appreciation of the material liene fit thus derived, by handsome donations of money, ono or two, it is understood, paying her as high as SI,OOO per year. I toko equal pride in the gallantry of such men and the ability of such a wo : men. Too often are women compelled to feel that they 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 was sadly noticed that woman was mani festly falling iuto tlie insidious power of a terrible syren. Often and again, it could not lie denied, she was not qnito herself long to-fore the hour for the close of work. Admonitions, kind and gentle, and warnings, oft repeated, were of no avail. She was hopelessly J en thralled. At lost she came to the office oue morning already t*i oblivions to faithfully perform her usual task, and, a* patience hail long since ceased to Ire a virtue, a carriage was called anil she was sent, a victim of alcohol, to her home, there to find that ominous yellow envelope containing a notice of dismis sal from service had preceded her com ing. Strange to say, her predecessor in the same position, who had served long and acceptably, but for this weakness, was'discharged for the same cause. f'hlnese Superstitions. To hr<>ak a tween the mirror and ils owner's life is evidenced dentil, or other- j wise, and is only second in ominous por tent to breaking an oil-jar. And this superstition of a connection existing he- j tweeu mirror augurs a separation from J one's wife by also by it* use in cases of j sickness to form the head of a sort of figure made of one of the rick man s i coats which, suspended to a bamboo with the end-leaves still on it, is carried about in the vicinity of the hoase in tlie hope of attracting the departing soul back to it* body. * * * Who ho* not noticed or heard of the bizarre ar rangement of Chinese gardens and rook eries? The motive for this laying out the pleasure-grounds attached to large houses is not simply ornamental. No doubt the Chinaman is one of the most ingenious of landscape gardeners, but the crooked walks and abrupt turns not only economize space but ore " lucky," inasmuch as they discourage the advent of evil spirits, who like the "broad j way " in China much a* they are repnt-d I to do in Europe. Folk lor* of China ' MARRIED MY DEATH. T*. Terrible Kl*e u ■ Itellrea* lla*4 tar -t Fearfal lleirii*. A moat horrible affair took place re ooutly on a branch line of the radiating rood running from the great iron artery of the I*. W.aud B. railroad, up through the pletuiaiit valley of Cheater county, i'eunsylvaiiia. It wo* near Ohodd'a Font, and *t a j beautifully romantic (>ot. There l* a turbulent stream running between high bank*, on which Ntuuted willow* grow, while further down, at the water'* edge, the weeping variety of the some tree dtp* it* greeniah tresse* iu the musical I water, which ho* hushed it* riotous noise to aluioat a requiem riiioo the death of George 1 Urkt-11* and Mollie Dolbell— "a* fine a young man and a* pretty a girl," the farmer* say, "a* vou will find in all Chester county." "Ylus is how they met their death : Mollie wa* oue of thooe pink and white dairy maid* that you sometime* meet iu the grazing re- I gums of Pennsylvania. Her hair wo* boume browu, but with jut a glint of , black in it, a* if it had been gently ' touched by a raven's wing. Hhe wo* light-hearted and a* merry ** t lire lark with which *he arose—the lark that car ' oiled above her head a* ahe looped her neat dress, and nktmmed into the shine dairy where the painted pan* were j ranged ui row*, and the yellow jx>t* of i butter tteeked the cool water. The trouble with Mollie wa* that *he bad two lovers— one. George RicketUi, ' * ntalwart form Loud, and the other ' Hugh O'Dounell, a sullen, red-whiskered man, employed on the small drawbridge over the Kol Run that we have spoken of. Tins draw wo* seldom used save for a lazy schooner that came up to get terracotta pij>e from a manufactory j above. The two men kuew that they were | rivals and Afollie knew it too, being sorely troubled in her white soul a* *he stood oue Saturday evening in the porch of the house whare she lived and prom ised to take a ride on the morrow with George—uot a ride in a buggy, nor iu a sailboat, but a rattling rule ou a hand car, a practice which i* frequent on • these lonely lanes, whose rail* vibrate but seldom under the crushing advance | of the engine. I It is uuneeceeaary to describe the | hand car, that fit* the rail*, is worked by a crank, and w hen started goes like I tlie wind. The ear hail been loaned George by a baud of laborer* who were making repair* about a ume above. He had dusted it neatly, and when the pretty girl reached him by a abort path through the wood*, he had arranged the vehicle so cleverly with a cushion for Afollie that it did "not seem nulike Cleopatra'* barge. Hhe wa* iu her Hun day Iete, and she laughed lightly in the sunshine as George swung her lightly into the seat and then leaped to tlie handles. There were no Sunday train* ; there wa* uo danger. Mollie crossed her tiny feet, felt the ' exhilaration of tlie movement, as George'* swelling arm* produced the terrible momentum, and saw her neat *kirt* blown about by the rushing wind beueath the platform. On, on they went, the glistening rail* rmgtng, t liar bouny brown hair blown about and the Fox-run bridge near at hand. On that bridge Hugh O'Dounell sat smoking hi* pijx*. The draw was open, although no drifting schooner wa* in aigbt. Home evil bird had whispered to Hugh tlie Sunday trip of hi* rival with Mollie. He determined on murder at once. Tins i* the reason the rn*tv draw was open, while Hugh sat iu hi* sentry box on the other side smoking his pipe and watching up the converging lines of metal that seemed like satin ribbons tied in a bow by the perspective. He did not have to wait long. First came tlie rumble—the far-away sound that die* away while it increases—and then, swinging suddenly around a curve, the handcar, Ixwringthe girl he loved and tlie man he hated. He drew another whiff of smoke and looked calmly at the tumbril of death, with its arms whirling wildly, since George hail trusted to the steep grade and the appalling oco'leration he had given the machine to accomplish the passage of the bridge, and had sat down alongside of Mollie with his arm around her waist. Just a* the? neaml the draw, wliich 1 WHS never legally allowed open on Bnn -1 day, be turned his head and his face Ixxiame white. Mollie felt the chill i circle her waist a* his blood froze in his arms. He sprang to his feet and tried I to seize those revolving handles, which wereouly a blur and a mit. He thought of throwing the girl off. but l>efore hA could think of anything else the car took the leap, and as Hugh O'Dounell sat smoking in hi* sentry I six he saw the upturned faces, pallid with agony, but pressed close together, go down with the hand cor to the deep pools and cruel rocks of the Fox run, and a* he did so he said : " Curse yon !" and lighted another pipe. They fonnd him there, bnt mail—not raving mad, but in that lymphatic state of mania which is beyond reach. Ou the shore below, held by the gnarled root* of a willow, were discovered the bodies of George and Mollie. In the moment of death she had thrown her arms about him, and as the snnlight filtered through the surging branches and fell upon the upturned faces, they seemed like bride and groom in the sleep of happiness. So they were married, but death had lieen the minister. Cincinnati /- tjuirer. The Armle* of the M'orld. Three year* ago Major-General Emory Upton, with credential* from the United States Government, started on a tour to I examine and report ii|K>u the condition of the armies of Japan, China, Persia, Italy, Russia, Austria, Germany, France and England. no was gone nearly two years; and the work omlxidyiug the re suit* of his observations has just been isMied. The armies of tlie countries lie visited are thus represented : Pmncr War footing. footing Japan St, 440 tfi.oSO China fiOii.noo 1.000.0(10 India 190.000 500,(100 Persia 60,000 130,000 Italy 250 (100 *69.316 Russia 520.000 1,640.000 Aurtria 800,000 1,040.000 Germany - 421.000 1,340,000 France 490,000 1,730.00 England 138.624 541.624 Total* 2.9*1.064 9,226,090 Excluding from consideration the first four countries, we find that the peace footing of the nations more or leas in teresUsl in the Eastern question is an aggregate of 2,096,600 men, while the 1 war footing is nearly 7,fioo,ooomen. A Young Hiant. The " fat man " whom i mentioned 1 in my lost letter, writes a ooi re*i>ondeDt in Euglaud, is now exhibiting himself at the Egyptian Hall, in London, and ranking a good thing of it Fancy, if you can, a young mail only twenty-two j years old, weighing 72R pounds, and i measuring eight feet round the shoul ders. He seems in perfect health and is very chatty, a peculiarity shared by his wife, who oooompanics him ami who seems proud of linving the biggest hus band of anv woman in England, perhaps in the world. TERMS: a Year, in Advance. A Itoaf Mule Prodigy. Tlie Aw /Mjtninion Monthly say*; We will conclude thi* article by men tioning one instance of Uie eztraonlinarr intellectual calrore of a onugeutal deaf mute prodigy whieh ha* never been in print jiefore. Home year* ago a to-nevoletit gentleman found a red-bead ed, ragged, little, deaf mute in tlie Hlreet* of Glasgow, aud took him to the school for deaf-mute* iu that city. He allowed extraordinary intelligence, aud the gentleman thought he waa a rough diamond, but capable of touug highly polished by education and Iraiuuig. During the flrat session at school the boy ahot ahead of every other pupil,and there were then mora thou • hundred, many of them h*vmg lieen there seven or eight year*. The rapidity with which he learned was amaxiug; indeed; lu* memory we* so retentive that what he once read he uever forgot. Hudi wa* the ailibre of hi* mind that nothing was too difficult fur his compre hension. He read books ou mathe matics, methaphyria* and the like whether thev were printed in English, foreign or aeod languages, which be also read with ease. When school Wit* over he would rush to the library, take out a lot of book* under hi* arm*, and moke hi* way to the nearest fire to read them, while hi* schoolmates directed their tep* to the pUy-grouud. Buch wa* tlie force <4 habit that he would rit near the fire even during summer while he studied. No #ouder, with a mine no well stored with knowledge, he wa* a capital story-teller, and he never used sign* since the day he could iqiell on his finger*. He was appointed ou eat-.stout teacher at the school, but he found tne task too irksome, and he left the institu tion to become a common laborer in or der to make money more rapidly to pur chase iKKik*, and neglected lita bodily wonts. Hi* book* increased in number very fast, and 'they formed ht* table, chair aud bed, by being piled one upon an other in his lodging*. They were his only orticlea of furniture. The extraor dinary learning of this deaf and dumb laborer attracted tlie attention of many gentlemen and hi* employer*, who thought that he wa* not in his proper •pbere. They determined to give him a U-Iter puaition, ao that hi* fund of knowledge might be put to aome use. They visited hi* lodging* for thi* pnr poee oue day when he wa* not at hi* work, and found him deed on his bed of books, having literally starved Lu body to death to fenl his hungry mind. He hod everything ready for writing a book, which he said would astonish the world. There were *everal ream* of tuper ami a large bottle of ink, showing that be fnily intended to enter u|mn the work, but there was no mdicatiou of what work it would be. His stock of book* were printed in several language* of the high est kind of literature. He wa* sixteen or eighteen year* old when be died. He had a florid countenance, red hair, green ish eyes, inclining to blue, which gave him a"peculiar expression. A Mighty Hunter. Copt. Gilmore relates, in his late record of travel in South Africa, a re markable story of tlie pruwea* of a hunter, who, lea* known than Gordon Gumming, rivaled him in courage and skill. Mr. Fmnety. the hero of the tale, wo* one day traveling over the unculti vsbil plains near Bamanwoth, riding one horse and leading another. He had watered hi* animals at a pool, or sley as it is there called, and, passing on a little way beyond, "Two lmna •prang from the bush on either side of the road, each seizing a horse. The mount that he wa* on fell in a mo ment aud shot him over its head, but the hunter wa* on his feet in a trivet. With the tight barrel he killed tlie as sailant of the borne ke was riding, with the left the brute that attacked the led horse. 80 quickly was the whole done that neither of the nags was injured." Another exploit, told of the same hunter, is less brilliant, yet attests his singular coolness and 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 hia quarry, and. after going a mile or so, found it dead, with three lioua around it. Air. Finnety strolled up within a short distance of tbem and killed the trio—each requiring only a single bullet. Soou afterward, having disoivered an elephant-spoor, he fol lowed it tip, and after nocm overtook the herd ami bowled over a couple of tukera. Retracing his steps to regain bis wagon, be had to poos by the dead rlnuoceroa, and, when doing ao, found two more lions beside tne carcass. These he also killed. Iu the morning, Mr. Finnety went out with hi* people to secure the ivory of the elephants slain the day before. On their route thev passed a pool in a drr river-bed, and by it were two lions. He left his people, and, unsupported, walked up to tfiem and killed them right ami left. Thus seven lions fell before his gun in little over twenty-four hours." A I.adj'x Fight With Burglar*. In the absence of Mr. A. A. Hopkins, of the American Rural Home, say* a dispatch from Rochester, N. Y., an at tempt wss made to burglarise hia house about one o'clock in the morning. Mrs. Hopkins heard the burglars, took a pis tol from under her pillow, searched the house, discovered oue burglar pacing in the front hall, tried to enter the sitting ! room to alarm * 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 liack door, and the other sought j his exit Air*. Hopkins followed him a* closely a* tlie intense darkness per mitted. He seized her several tiroes by tlie hair, but she broke away, and when near the side door raised her pistol and fired at the thief. He retreated to the hack door, but the plucky little woman followed, and just as he was about to fire 1 again she emptied another barrel into i his right arm. The burglar dropped his pistol, exclaimed, "She's hit me in the arm," and disappeared. Nothing of value was secured. The burglars made an ineffectual attempt to chloroform Air*. Hopkins and her little daughter. Mr. and Mr*. Hopkins have practiced pistol-shooting considerably, hence her brave defense against the* two burly burglar*. Mr*. Hopkins narrowly e caped the two shot* fired at her. A Noble Animal. Of the late Lord Ravensworth—the geutJeinau who defended George IV. against Thackeray—Mr. Edmund Yates tells tliis amusing story. He was a man of no little personal vanity. One cold day iu wiuter, some years back, having wrapped himself in a far coat, he went to call on some neighbors in Northum berland. He was ushered into the draw ing-room, and left, a* he thought, alone. No sooner was tlie door closed than he mounted on a chair in front of the mirror over the flre-plaoe, and, after surveying himself with intense satisfac tion, gave vent to the ejaculation : " Well, a man in fur is a noble ani mal 1" Unfortunately for the baron, a lady was seated in a corner of the room in the receaa of a screen all the time, and not only witnessed the exhibition, but overheard the soliloquy. NUMBER 20. Fißl, HIBM9I lID IIUI SKHOI.iI. Vmrm IMM. Do uol plant tree# deeper than ia ooocutrT to oovar the rnnti vail. Mover place the rooia in contact with manure. limiting need not be harried. Whoa tree* arrive from the narery, unpack theiu. keening a sharp eye to the label*, and " hae' in " at once. Watering moat be attended to, and when the aoil get* peeked and crusted lietveen the row*, break it np.or mellow 1 it with the Anger, or a pointed stick. Drafting I* beat done jaat ae vegeta tion Mrnrt* A tree that produce* poor fruit ia easily ounvertad into a profitable tree. The operation ia a aimple one, and any intelligent boy ma perform it Htakra, where tree* are properly I planted, are not needed, aulaaa in ex j posed localities where there are strong wind*, aud in sorb oases 'the orchard should lie protected by a screen of some quick-growing tree* that will aarre ae a wind-break. ' j Drains should be cleared of waste matter, such as leaves, and other trash [ that will interfere %itb the flow of water. In digging open drains, the earth shoo Id ' be thrown out upon the aide opposite to | that from which the surface water nomas. It ia now that we require rapid, vig- I oroua growth, to send np strong spears from the tillering roots. A moderate | dressing of some active fertiliser, rich in ammonia, and with a good supply of phosphoric acid for the needs at the grain, ia precisely what is needed. Laying out the ground may be done in squares, the trees in rows, and oppo ' site each other, a common plan for ; small orchards, but where the ground is to be naed to the best advantage, the piinrunr method ia adopted, in which each tree stands at the corner of an ; equilateral triangle, and ia equally dis tant from six others. A Milesian farmer haa adopted a method of imparting to batter an aroma as delicate as that aarured from cows pastured in the most fragrant meadows. He suspend* in the empty churn a aalioo hag filled with fragrant herb*, keeping the ' churn carefully closed. When churn ing, he snlsititutes four smaller bags, ! attaching them to the beater* of the churn. The result ia thus secured in a I perfectly legitimate and harmless man ner. A correspondent states that be kept a plum tree from curculioa by sprinkling the ground under the tree with corn meal This induced the chicken* to scratch and search. The meal was strewn every morning from the time the trees blossomed until the fruit waa large enough to be out of danger. The con sequence waa, that the fowls picked up the curealms with the meal. and the tree being saved from the presence oi j the insects, was wonderfully fruitful. Hrvrllu Surk Ike Farm. In view of the market for choice atoek lately thrown open to our farmers by the exportation of cattle sod meat to Europe, it behoovea them to pay in creased attention to the raining of su pejgor animals on the farm. A late report on the American trade, by Pro ' feasor Sheldon, of the Oiriweat** Agri cultural College. England.after furnish ing a mass of information on the subject, comes to the cti elusion that, despite ' some fluctuations, the dead meat trade will rapidly increase, and that appli ances for its successful management will be multiplied here and in Europe. The profits of the traffic will be m a great measure, proportionate to the excellence of the product, and the limit to the quantity shipped will be the "towage oapacitv of vessels crossing the Atlantic, for, owing to the falling off in our lm- j porta, the number of ship* engaged in < the transatlantic trade will be too small to afford room for a large export of meat together with other merchandise without advancing the freight to a figure that will prohibit farther 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 is bestowed in selecting the likely offsprings of tried animals, the; will go on fattening more rapidly and uniformly than strang ers picked up here snd there, for it takes some time before these get ac quainted and become contented enough to lay on flesh kindlyin their new home; and moreover, the tendency of prices for I young stock ia upwards, and the proba- j bility is very strong that ere long it will : not psy farmers to go into the market ; for young animals. In any case, it is,as ' a rale, more profitable to breed the stock one handles than to purciiaae It. 1 —Ma**ar.hu*(tU Ploughman. Vlaocmr Uaklaa. The apples should be crashed and the juice express**! and put into good tight 1 barrel*. with the bung left out. 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 tc disturb the sediment which will have fallen to the Imttom. Rinse out the barrel put the t cider back, and set in a warm place, adding a pint of liqnid yeast, or a half pound of yeaat cakes previously dis solved in two quarts of water. If the cider ia rather weak, two quarts of mo lasses may be added to strengthen it; but usually the cider will be strong i enough to make excellent vinegar, and sometimes too strong; in the latter case dilute with rain water, two, three, or ; more gallons to the barrel; at the cloee of the second fermentation, the cider will generally have become excellent rinegAT. If "what is called mother of vinegar can be obtained, a small qnanti- 1 j tv mav be added with advantage. | ' * What an Egg K To the reflective mind the egg consti tute one of the greatest marvels of na ture. At first view it would seem that it is an especial characteristic of birds; but when we observe that fishes, so dif ferent from birds in their organization and their mode of life, have alao eggs, we see that it must be the same in one sense with all kinds of animals. A pul let's egg is a very small germ, poesee siug at first only the most 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 i* the little whitish circle remarked in the membrane which envelops the mass of the yolk. The house destined to protect the yonug animal until it has acqnired all of its own organs, and all the neces sary strength, and yet allow the air and heat to penetrate, is the shell. Hence the size of the egjpi of animals ia, not necessarily proportioned to the size of the animals to which they belong. All animals, whatever they may be—from the elephant to the hnmming-bird—are at the moment when they begin to feel i the principle of life nearly of the same size. That which varies is the provision i of nourishment they require. The cro- i eodile, destined to attain oolosaal dimen- i sions, can take care of himself very well i iu the river where he was born when he \ has attained the size of a lizard; so na* I ture places in the box where he is con- i fined food snffloient to enable him to I reach that size. The same with fishes; t there are some enormous ones which t have only very small eggs, because, bow- 1 ever diminutive they may be on leaving ( their envelope, they can already obtain t their own living in the bosom of the f river or oqoan. >„ J Ttwi ef latere*!. Hard to beat— the apring carpet. Hark wheat ia more eaten bare than in any other land. The Chinese for " adien " ia very ap propriate —" chin-chin. ** There are nineteen thousand female Patrons of Husbandry in Trxaa. Everyone ia in one thing at least orig inal—in hie manner of aneesmg. A picture frame jnet completed by n New Jersey man, contains 1,6*2 kinds of wood. AWgrues ailka have annwfiake scatter - inga on dark grounds. The effect ia at tractive. London ia going to build a new bridge over the river Tkuunea, and to pay $lO,- 000,000 for it. A five-year-old girl wa* actually whip ped to death In Marshalltown, lowa, by her drunken mother. Gorlehakoff ia ia his eighty-aeemd , vear—beating Lord Pabneratcm, who died in barneaa at eighty. The llloe-book juat leaned shows that there are 86,880 civil employees of the United State* government. A girl working ia a paper mill in Orange county, 5. Y., recently ripped 924 in gold oat of an old baatle. The present rulers of the laws of eti quette nave decided that it ia only good style to bow after the lady baa bowed. Austria's peace estabiiahment ia pat down at 267,006 men and 47,272 horeea; in war, 7*0,0211 men and 148,120 horaee. The geographer* tell na that the earth ia eompoaed entirely of land and water. Hasina to na there are a tew rock* thrown in. Five of the sweetest words in the Eng lish language begin with H, which la 1 The fofataa neated erar. —An W lirry in Hortomtr. ' Mr. F. D. Millet, ao American, wae 1 the only correspondent who went through the Balkan* with Gen. Gourko. The cxar ptaaented him with the decora ' tion of St Ana, which ia the highest ' decoration given to any correspondent. The " agony oolnmna " of the Turkish . newspaper* are fflled with advertise ; menu for lost relation*, giving painful evidenoe of the dispersion of families of the Mussulman population which baa taken place in the districts ravaged by war. The sea hold* 60,000,000,000,000 tons of salt. Should the sea be (hied up, I there would be a deposit of salt over the entire bottom of the ocean 450 feet deep, ami if the salt were taken and spread on the land it would cover it to a ; depth of 000 feet. Bacaaae run nourish in worldly again. Don't be baogfat* sod pet cm sir* WMb uwuleut prida at smitou. , Don't be proud sad torn up your noes At poorer people in plainer clothe* . But learn, for the sake of year mind * repass. That wealth's s babble that cease* and goes ; And that all proad flash. wherever it grows, li subject to OTttabon. " Maria," observed Mr. Holoomb, as he wae putting on his clothes, " there i aiat no patch on them breeches yet" 44 1 cant fix it now, no way ; I'm too buoy." 44 Wall, give me the patch, then, an' I'll carry it around with me. I don't want people to think I can't afford the cloth. How strangely joy and sorrow are interwoven in this world. Pain chases pleasure like a champion pedestrian, and the sweet trara 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 is a music teacher. He has traveled from place to place until be haa taught an air in every State in the Cnioo. It ia aaid that be has married seven of bis pupil* and most of the States are yet to be beisrd from. In Clarksburg, Vs.. he outdid hie former matrimonial exploit* by marrying two girls in the Name village. He ia now in jaiL , In the Concordia Turnverein Hall, St. Louis, there ia a gymnasium for girls. There are eighty girls in the class, and they wear a regular grmnasmm dress of blue and gray doth. Besides the lighter gymnastics, they are taught the heavier exeteims also,- such a* combing, jump ing and swinging. The girls are said t<> become very strong, active and healthy by these exercises. A Vienna mechanician has suooeeded j in constructing an apparatus for working sewing machines. Electricity, steam, or water power are, an the score of coat, domearioally inapplicable, ao the isven j tor of the new machine waa restricted to gravitation or elaaticitv, and he, prefer ring the latter force, has contrived to make spring" strong enough to keep an ordinary sized machine in mob on, it is aaid for hours. A system of cog-wheels a arranged underneath the surface of • the table upon which the machine ia fix ed, and by a handle at the side the spring is wound "up with facility. The velocity at which the machine worts ia entirely at the option of the person using it, and can be easily regulated The Seven Meep r. A lady in Brooklyn sake us what were ' the names of the " Seven Sleepers " and where the will find their strange story recited. The legend is attached to a grotto on the southeast aide of Mount Prion, which is .a place of pilgrimage not only with Christians, but with Mos lems It is s deep cave filled with sta- *• ; lactites. The Christian tradition is that •even noble youths of Ephesus, named Malcbus, Maximilian, Marti men, John, Serapion, Dianysiu* and Coustantine, ' being Christian*, and as such threatened with death under Emperor Diocletian (A. D. 238- 3041, fled from the city with their dog to this cave, and there falling asleep, woke u<>t for 230 years which, on their waking, were to them as a watch in the night They ventured down to Ephesus, where to their amazement, they found the croae everywhere in honor, new coinage in the shops, new coetomee in the streets, new faoes, 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 thair remains, in the church of St Victor, the oldest church in the city, and once a Benedictine oonvent which dates as to its earliest parts from the eleventh century. Mahomet believed * in the story and haa embodied it in the Koran, where it is told in " the Chapter T of the,' Cave." Tho* Turkish names of the seven sleepers are Jemlika, Meahi iina, Mislina, Mernoos, Debberuoos, Shaxzernoos and Kephestetjoos. Their . dog, named Ketmeha, is held in equal honor with themselves. All these names the Turks think of good omen. Tbev put them on build ings byway of Are insurance, and on swords to prevent their breaking. Ket meha has a place in Mahomet's para dise, and at the bazatr in Ayasolook, on the site of Ephesos, yon can now buy talismans engraved w{th 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 ao grace fully put in verse by Longfellow. New York World.