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<latrong and piglike, he may Dot
conrt danger, but assuredly he does not
avoid it. The elephant may drink bv
Ins side, but must not interfere with
him, for he is quick to resent an insult,
and I am assured that when one of th>*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<eerps or the elephant.
Where the buffalo exist* in number* it
is the principal prey of the lion; i
i other localities antelope and chiefly the
| zebra are it* food.
Kn*sian Proverbs.
Praise not the crop until it is stacked.
Brrasl and salt humble even a robber.
Love, fire, ami a cough cannot be
hid.
A fall stomach is deaf to instruct
ion.
No bones are broken by a mother's
fist.
God is not in haste, but His aim is
sure.
A fox sleeps, bnt count* hens in his
dream*.
If you hunt two hares you will catch
| neither.
Lies march on rotten legs; who lies
will steal.
Troth is not drowned in water, nor
! burned in fire.
Make friends with a liear, bnt keep
hold of the axe.
Dog, why do yon hark ? To frighten
i the wolve* awn v.
Everything is bitter to him who has
; gall in his mouth.
Whose bread and whose salt I eat,
bis praises I sing.
The wolf change* bis hair every year,
but remains a wolf.
The wolf asked the gnat to dinner ;
i l<ut the goat declined.
It is not necessary to plough and sow
I fools —they grow of themselves.
With God go even over the sea ;
' without Him not over the threshold.
A fool may throw a stone into a pond ;
it may take seven sages to pull it out.
Dog, why do you keep yonr tail
hewteen your legs ? lam afraid of the
i wolf.
A Spider'* Ready Mil,
Dr. J. Lawrence-Hamilton,of London,
write*: The following incident, which I
witnessed, may possibly into rest some
lof your readers: A boy removed a small
I spider to place it in a big spider's web,
which wu* hung among foliage, and dis
tout some four feet from the ground.
The larger animal soon ru*hed from it*
hiding-place under a leaf to attack the
intruder, who ruu up one of the ascend
ing line* by which the web wa* secured.
The big insect gained rapidly upon it*
desired prey, the smaller creature
(spiders are cannibals, notably the
larger females, who are given to devour
their smaller male lovers). When the
little spider was barely an inch in ad
vance of it* pursuer, it cut with one of
its legs the line behind itself,so that the
stronger insect fell to the ground, thus
affording time and opportunity for the
diminutive spider to escape along the
ascending rope of the web. This is not
thd only fact which seems to indicate
that a spider's instinct may almost equal
> 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 <wrefill history of the
case of Richard Schweitzer, of Melrose,
male by Dr. Krelschmar, aav* the New
York llrrtilA, and in view of the physi
cian'* positive declaration that the ca*c
wa* one of hydrophobia, considerable
surprise was occasioned by the result o!
the post-mortem examination. Dr. Mue-
Wluuine, who made this examination,
declared that the iiutuxvltatecause of the
death was not hydrophobia,but asphyx
ia, and the opinion of Mr, Henry Kergh
and that of Dr. William A. Hammond
was asked for on the bearing of Schweit
zer's case on the much vexed question of
hydrophobia."
It; the |MMt~mortcm examination a
small fibrinous dot wa* found in the left
ventricle that indicated that death wa*
due to protracted causes, not to sudden
violence. Bits of the egg eaten by the
boy shortly to-fore hi* d*th were found
in the right bronchus and in the right
lung. Dr. MaeWhmuie, therefore, de
clared that death wa* caused by
asphyxia, caused by the impaction of
pie,?-* of >-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
g<X*l. , ;
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A Howling Dervish.
A Gallipoli correspondent of the Lon
don Timr* writes : Itieh in shrine* and
monastic institutions, Gallipoli has been
from the early days pf the Ottoman rule
in Europe a stronghold <>f 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. od<l the rule of the high
priest of the howlers overrides that of
the appointed governor. An able, en
terprising, intriguing, money getting
fellow is this distinguished dervish,
though you would hardly think it to see
him with liowing head and eyes cast
down, pale and ascetic of aspect, in
green pelisse and turbaned cslpack,
slowly pacing the streets on his high
bred horse, with an attendant holding
either atimip. Still less would yon
think it if yon saw him in raonqtie on
Tuesday or Friday, howling like a ma
nine till he fonma at the month and
drops exhausted. And vet this Hunsam
EfTcmli is a keen man of business, man
ages vast estates with great ability, uml
conducts extensive commercial ojmra
tions in timber and agricultural produce
with success, lends money to small for
mers, ho* n large share in a steam flour
mill and hnscuit factory, and is one of
the largest contractors for army and
navy supplies. It is impossible to be
lieve that one of such practical mind a*
Hussam Effendi should have faith in
tne value, theologically *peaking, of his
grotesque and puinful ritual; but lie
OWCH much of his influence to hi* repu
tation for holiness, which, Won by con
stant, aud efficient howling, ia as sub
stantial an item of his large stock in
trade a* the engine in the biscuit facto
ry. Hussam Effendi'* steadfastness to
tne rule of his order is thus by no
means irreconcilable with hi* keen pur
suit in this world's goods.
Ulgar End*.
Probably few |x*>ple 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
<mly a brneth: Heart, Hope, Happiness,
and Heaven.
A poor woman in Danville, HL, while
splitting kindling wood, killed hew little
three-year-old child by an accidental
blow of the axe.
I There is a man only twenty-five years
of *ge who has already married fourteen
• women- B ii i clergymen, and mar
' ried them to thair husbands
In Penneyleania seventy-one per cent.
| ; at the farm* am ou lit rated by their own
i era, twenty per cant, ara worked on
| share*, and nine per oeni are rented,
fi Hani a young doctor to a lady patient:
, "Sou muat take exercise for yoor health,
my dear." " All right," aaid abe; 44 111
j jump at the first offer.- They were
married about ait month* afterward*.
An organ of the tobacco trade aaeerta
II that if the tohanoo consumed annually,
< about 4,000,000,000 pound*, could be
i made into a toll two incbe* in diameter,
i it would encircle the world sixty time*.
" Jane! Jan*! Jane P
Law noon I
, The brown U*s is ths siovar:
-- Hnt' imm! tweet!"
tfniiat
> 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.