What IW* It Matter T It matter* little where I wa born. Or if mr parent* were rich or poor: Whether the? *hr*nk at the oold world'* acorn. Or walked ih the pride of wealth aecnte; But whether I lire an honeat man, And hold my integrity firm in my clntch, I tell too, my brother, plain a* 1 can. It matter* much 1 It matter* little where be my prare. If on the land or in the *ea. By purling brook, or 'neath tormy ware. It matter little or naught to me; But whether the Itngel of death cornea down And mark* my brow with a loring touch, Aa the one who ahall wear the victor's crown. It matter* much 1 The Words of Strength. There are three lea*on I would write Three words a* Willi a burning pen. In tracing* of eternal light. Upon the heart* of men. Have Hope. Though cloud* environ now. And gladne** hide* her face in acorn, Put thou the ah- dow from thy hroe No night hut hath it* uiorn. Have Faith. Where'er thy hark i* driven The calm * disport, the tempest* inltth Know thi* God rate* the hot* of Heaven. The inhabitant* of earth. Have Love. Not love alone for one, Bnt man a* man. thy brother call. And scatter like the circling nun Thy ehanue* on all. Thn* grave these leaeona on thy *oul Hope, Faith aiid Love aud then ahalt And Strength when life surge* rudest roll, 1 iglit when thou else were blind. —Jirttuc. FOR HIS SAKE. When the Flying Send discharged her cargo and passengers at the London Dock, there landed among them a gen tleman who hail been al-seut from Eng land nine years. All that while he had passed under the burning suns of liiiii i. He hail suffered as soldiers do. He had fought as soldiers fight. He had met the soldier's fate of soars and wounds, aiubone of them had invalided him home to England. It was the first time he trod her shores for niue years, as we have said, and for the first time in anv year he was going to see his son, the little boy born after he left home, and whose birth had lawn his mother's death. Captain Penryu had only been mar ried a year when he was ordered abroad with his regiment. Six months from that day a letter hail reached him, telling him his wife was .lead. The letter was written by an old nurse, the only friend who had been with her. It ended thus; "The babe, as fine a child as I ever saw, is thriving. I've done my best for it. Its mother's last wish was I should keep it, and perhaps sir, as some one must, you'd as leave I as any other. I shan't be unreasonable in my charges, and I'm very fond of him a!r.ulv. With my duty to yon in this dread fnl trouble, your servant, ANN GOLDKS." The poor broken-hearted man almost sank under the awful news. He hail loved his wife passionately, and when the baby was old enough to travel she would have come to him in India, brav ing its terrible climate and the life of a •other's wife abroad, because they could not live apart . Xow he did not want a little baby on his hands, and he wrote to ,\nn as soon as he oonld com- 1 mand himself to do so, appointing her his nurse. Every quarter since that time he had sent money to her for the child's board and clothes. A receipt was always re turned with " her duty, and the voting gentle-nan was doing wellan 1 this was all he knew of his Ellen's boy— the child of a love that had been as strong as it was tender. Xow that his foot was upon Eng land's shores again and the meeting was very near Captain Penryn felt new thrills of a father-love through his soldier's heart and longed for iiia boy's presence. •* He would take him to himself," he said. " They would live together, sharing each other's joys and sorrows. He would make a man of the boy— not a soldier, for he knew the trials of a soldier's life too well; but something very honorable and creditable. He should be proud of him, and he hoped —ah, how he hoped ' —that Ellen's child would have Ellen's face." "My beautiful girl," he said to him self, with tiie tea's standing in his eyes, " how little I thought of this hour when I kissed her good-bye!" And then his heart grew even wann er to the pledge of their mntnal love. He bad tte address that Mrs. Golden bad given him in his pocket He glanced at it it now to refresh his memory as to the number. A plain, respectable street in one of London's snbnrbs; he remembered it well. " But my boy shall see better things, now that I am here," he said to him self. "I am not rich, but I can deny myself many things to make him happy. Will he love me. I wonder?" Then he thought how his own heart had been won by toys and sweetmeats, and coming to a stop where the former were sold, paused before the gay win dow, and began to make a mental choice between a red and gilt stage coach and horses and a train of bright blue carriages. He had discardel botti for a box of scarlet-coated soldiers, when suddenly he felt a tug at his coat-tail, and turning round, he found a grimy little hand half in, half out of his pocket. He caught it at once, with his handkerchief in it, and gripped it tight He was a soldier, and to a soldier the keeping of law and rule is a great thing. To give the little thief to a policeman and appear against him the next day, was his first thought; but as the crea ture stood there, shaking and whiniug, the fact of hit diminutive size struck the captain forcibly. He perceived his ycnth. whicl was extreme, and he saw that, besil i being young and small, and wan, am" dirty, and ragged, he was deformed. His queer little shoulders were heaped up to his ears, ami his hands were like talonß, so long and bony were they. The captain held th" wrist of this mannikin firmly still, but not an grily. " What did you mean by that, sir?" he growled slowly, stooping down to look into the boy * eyes. "I'm to hook it,'" Raid the boy with perfect candor. " Oh, picas*- let me be! Oh, please let me go ! Oh, please, sir, I won't do it no more—never, oh, 1 please I" " I've a mind to have yon sentto jail," said the captain. "No, please, sir!" said the waif. " Please, sir!" "Who taught yon to steal?" asked the captain. The boy made no answer. Grimy tears were pouring frotn his eyes. " Answer me," said the captain. "If I don't steal, I don't get no vic tuals," said the boy, "and my stomach is as holler—feel it, mister!—it*B as holler as a drum ! She's been beggin' to-day, and we U have stew. I won't have' none if I don't fetch nothin'. Oh—" " Who is she ?" asked the captain. " My mother," said the boy. "I've been hungry myself," Baid the captain, thinking of a certain Indian prison experience. "It isn t pleasant. Then he thought of his own boy. "God knows I ought to be tender to t le little one, for the sake of Nellie's child " he said softly; then alond " Laddie, I'll not sendjyouto prison." " Thankee, sir," said the urchin. " And I'll give yon a breakfast," said the captain. The dirty elf executed a sort of joy ous war-dance. " Do you know why I forgive you ?" said the captain. The child shook his head. " I have a little boy, ' said the cap tain. "He's very different from yon, poor child 1 He 'would not steal any thing. He washes himself. My lad, FKED. KUHTZ, "Kditor and "Proprietor. VOLUME XI. you must wash yourself a* soon as you find water. But I couldn't think of his Iteiug hungry, and for Ins sake I can't bear to see other little fellow's hungry. It's for his sake that I don't call a con stable and lell hiiu all about it. Ke memlter that, and try to Im> like —like my little fellow, poor laddie, clean and gisvl. lXm't steal; try to get work. Will you promise ?" The waif aanl " yea sir," of course. Then the captain ld lum into a cheap eatiug house, and watched him eat until hi* little atom, en waa no longer "hol ler." " Foil little wretch 1" he thought, as he looked at him. "If I could see my tv was off like a flash. "Thousands just such as he in this j great city," sighed the good captain, and he walked along. "Ah, mel" Then he weut in search of Mrs. Ann Golden and his own fair darling. But Mrs. Golden was not so easily found as he had hoped. There was a tittle shop in the house he had been directed to, and the keeper thereof said that she had Knight it of Ann Golden; "but I haven't seen her since," she said; "ouly there's a bit of curd with her number on it—that is, if I can find it." After a search she did flu' it. and the eaptaiu, thanking her, harried away; hut another disappointment awaited him. Mrs. Golden hail not lived in this second place for years. She had moved into Clumber row, but what number no one could remember. At Clumber row, whither the captain drove in a cab, a woman owned to hav ing lvn". ier for a lodger. "S hail a child staving with her, too,' tue said. "Little Ned she called him; hnt, to tell the truth, shs drauk so that I turned her out. I couldn't abide such doings. She weut to Fossil Lane. No. 9." To Fossil Lane the captain weut. It was a filthy place, and there was a drunken woman at No. 9 who was not Ann Golden, and who threw a piece of wood at him for asking for that lady. Ami now every clue was lost, and the captain, nearly beside himself with anxiety, applied to the authorities for help; and after many days of great mi happiness he heard of Ann Golden who lived IU a quarter of London so low and dangerous that all decent people shun ned it." "Xo wouOer," ttie captain thought, "if ahe lived there, that she should have had his remittances sent to the post office, and left him to believe that his child was still in the decent home to which she had at first taken him." Almost ill with excitement, the poor captain drove, with a policeman as pro tector, into the maze of hideous lanes and courts that .led to Ann Golden's dwelling, and, following his conductor, dropped into a filthy cellar, where, amid the horrible leakage of drain pipes and almost in ntter darkness, sat an old woman with a bottle beside her, who started up when the captain and his guard entered, and cried: " What now? What's the perlice here for? Is the boys wanted again f" And, altered as she was with years and drink, the captain knew his wife's old nurse, Ann Golden. He gift e a cry of rage, and darted towards her. " My boy ?" he cried. And she screamed, " It's the cap tain !" " Is my boy living?" he asked. "Yes," said the woman, shaking all over; " he's alive and well." " How dare you keep him here ?" c.ied the captain. " How can I help being poor?" whin ed the woman. " I couldn't give up the bit you pay for him. I'm very old; I'm very iIL Don't be hard on me." " Good heavens !" cried the captain. " My Ellen's baby in a place like this !" He dropped his beml on his hands; then he lifted it and clasped them. "I'll have him away from here now I" he gasped. " It's over, aud he's young ana will forget it Where is he? Have you lied ? Is he dead ?" " No, no," said the old woman. " He'll be here soon. I hear him now. That's him. Hell be here in a minute. Don't kill a poor body, captain don't." " I could do it," cried the captain. " Listen ! There is some one coming. My child! My child!" The door opened softly, a head peeped in low down, then drew back. "Come in," piped the old woman. " The perlice arn't arter 590—leastways for harm. Captain that's him—your boy Ned." An d as the captain stood with out stretched arms there crept in at the door—who? what? The wan, deformed and dirty creature who had picked his pocket—whom he 1ia1 fed for the sake of his beautiful dream-child—the wretch ed waif forgotten utterly in the last few days of anxiety. "That's him," croaked the old crone again. " That's your boy—that's Ned." The captain gave a cry; he sank down on an old box close at hand, and hid his face and wept. The sobs shook him ter ribly ; they almost shook the crazy build ing. They frightened the old woman, and set the policeman to rubbing his eyes with his cuffs. The boy stood and stared for a moment, aud then vanished. And what was the wretched father thinking ? 80 many thoughts that there are no words for them; but first of all this horrible one—that that vile little object, that wretched child of the street", was the darling for whom he had searched so long. "Better I hail never found liirn," moaned the captain, "or found bim dead 1" And just then a little hand crept over his knee. The thrill of hair was against his hand, and a piping voice said meekly, " Please, I'm clean now. I've washed myself." The captain's swollen eyes unclosed. They turned upon the child. Home queer knowledge of his father's feelings had crept into his mind, aud lie had tried to clean his face. A round white spot appeared amidst the grime, and out of it shone two l>eautifnl blue eyes that looked wistfully up into the captain's. All of a sudden, a flood of such piti ful tenderness as lie hail never felt be fore swept over Captain Penryn's heart. All the grief and shame and wounded pride left it, to come back no more. " Ellen's eyes," he sobbed; " Ellen's boy!" and took his ton to his heart. "For his sake," he said, softly, as though he stood by the grave of the beautiful dream child he had just buried—"for his sake and Ellen's !" And then he led the child away with him. A man may face death with compo sure, and adversity with smiles, but the chances are that he will hop and swear when he discovers that a twenty-cent Bilver piece has been palmed off on him for a quarter. THE CENTRE REPORTER. The United Mute* Mint. It w founded very nearly one huu dred year* ago, and in it wa* coined tlie tlrat money n*ed in the United State*. Until 1816 all the work wae ilone lay hand or horac power; the building *# guarded by watch dog*, and the artiaaus were supplied with plentiful quantities of liquor aa a fatigue-ration, the an cieut end simple-minded oilmen* look itig upon them with eajieoial favor. The earheat direct* r waa appoiuted by Wash lug ton. Tlie original tvpper cent* were made in 1795, the ailver dollar* in 17H4, ami the gohi eaglee in 1795. Roth the uietal and machinery were imported; but in coining, aa in many othar thiuga, the American ha* made audi progreaa within the century that the implemeut* of hia own construction are now auje rior to the nnxlols alter which they are patterned. The casual viaitor is welcomed Irorn 9 x. m until uoon, anil ia taken in hand by polite and garrulous uahera, who, in iximmou with all the other employes lx*ar themselves with the dignity that beflta jieraou* living m such close con tact with enormous wealth. " I've s lumi nous aud varicolored as tins metallic deity, who is worshiped aud despised, courted and reviled, by the best and worst of men. The very contemplation of so immense a sum was dazzling to the imagination. It was the aggregate fortune of live hundred millionaire*, the income of scores of thrones and the value of a State! What a Protean influ ence it must have exercised! —corrupt- ing and sustaining how many lives; pav ing the Scant wages of the ten-hour laborer, and sufficing for the extrava gance of princely spendthrift-; carrying happiness with it uow, and then capri ciously destroying the beneficiary; se ducing the virtuous aud breeding sedi tion among the honest - forever doing good aud harm by fickle strokes; forever indispensable and forever alluring. In one uf his clever essays, Junius Henri Browne -ays with Emersonian senten tiousness; " Cash is the cause aud con sequence of civilisation, the measure of it* breadth, and the plummet of its pro fundity. Every true ideal must rest on the real, and the real txlay is the coin age of the mint." The contents of the little vault had probably left deeper marks on the world than all the books written and the sermons preached dur ing the twenty-eight years of the cus todian's service. In passing through the deposit-room all the metal is carefully weighed. The largest scale, with a ponderous beam aud huge trays, combines extreme deli eacyfwith its strength, and balance* from six thousand ounces to the one-hun dredth part of an ounce; another scale tells three thousand ounces at a time, and a third tells three hundred ounces. They are adjusted several times a week, erected on solid mnaoury, and are true to a grain. Having l>eeu weighed, the silver is carried to the melting-room, where it is mixed with copper, in order to give it sufficient hardness to endure the frictiou of constant ban ling, and melted in stone crucibles, heated to 1,800 degrees by charcoal-fires. This heat is so intense that the workmen must protect their hands and arms by gloves and gauntlets. The stone cruci bles are placed within others of plum bago, iu order to insure them against breaking. Reduced to a molten ilnid, the metal is now poured into iron moulds, whence it emerges iu the form of iugota, wliioh are transferred to roll ing-mills which shape them by a rapid process of ntteuuatiou into long, narrow slips.— Appleton'i Journal. A Xew Flying Machine. The new flying machine which was exhibited at Fiurnionnt Park, I'liiliuiel f phut, recently, look* like a velocipede on runners with a balloon canopy. The operator sits in a small seat aud puts his feet in the stirrups. In front of him is a crank by which the uiaiu propeller at the bottom of the midline is controlled. These paddles breas' the air like wings. Another one serves as a rudder, being connected with the stirrups by metallic bars. The balloon is twenty-five feet in length and twelve feet in diameter. The inventor says; "The principle on which I established my idee was that of the flying of birds. 1 held that if birds could supply the im]>ettis of flying, ami change tlieir course, invention could do the same for man. Tbiacylinder I have arranged shall carry about 98 |>er cent, of the total weight. The operator, In moving tlie wings, is supposed to possess the muscular weight of a dozen eagles." The trial trips of the flying machine were not remarkably successful. The rubber and metal bird rose forty feet aud moved through the air, but the opera tor did not seem to know how- to man age the crank and the stirrups. lie Had Em. His chin-whiskers hadn't leen trim med for years, ami his pants had a care worn look at the knees, but lie was a wide awake old chap, and when he heard two or three other passengers on the ear talking about the late frosts, and as serting that they had never seen any thing like sue'. 1 weather for the middle of May, he began: ."Gentlemen, on the 16th day of May, 1827, snow fell to the depth of fourteen inches in this locality." They looked at him very much as if they doubted it, when he rose up, pulled a paper from his j>oeket anil read: "State of Michigan, County of Wayne —as; Personally appeared before me Peter Clark, who being duly sworn, de poses and says that on the lGth day of May, 1827, know fell in this locality to the depth of fourteen inches. John Doe, Notary Public." He folded and replaced the document, and looking around liiui with pity und contempt depict**! on his face, he re marked: "I'd either let the weather alone, fir I'd swear to it." They let it alone. A rhunee For'n bone Woman. The Han Francisco Bulletin thinks it is not often that a lone woman gets sueh a chance as is offered to her in the fol lowing, received at that office the other day: Mt. Idaho, I. T., Camp Howard, \ April 22, 1878. £ Mb. feui-roB: Dear Sir—l wish to ask for a wife through your paper. I want to get mar ried. My time iR nearly out, and I in tend to settle in this country, f intend starting a chicken rnnch. I want a wife !to take care of young chickens. I hhve I got money. My wife will not have much j to do, only milk nine cows, feed six ' hundred young chickens, chop her fire wood, cook three meals every day, and the rest of her time she can go out among the neighbors. Please publish. Very respectfully, Abekham Moos Drummer, Co. K, "2d " Infantry. CENTRE IIA EL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1878. A Very lb liberate Man. Mr. Watkius, of Mam atreet, i* prob ably one of the moat deliberate men that ever went to aleep in church. He ! has away aU>tit him of saying and doing thing* that pave* the way to a concep tion of eternity, and make* the like the of a funeral proceaaiou *e'in progress flight of a lightning express. He ia always vawumg and nibbing hi eye* an though "lie had but ju*t crawled out of bed and hadu't got fairly awuke, and Mr*. Twigley, the next door neighbor, ban Iveeii frequently heard to remark that if it wanti t for Mrs. Watkina, who give* hi a clothe* a thorough l>ru*hing ) now and then, the DIM would have taken deep rtxit on him long ago. Even a boy on an errand ha* been known to overtake him. This can be autheutl -1 oatod. Earlv last Tuesday morning Mr. Watkina was ween coming down street U his usual delllierate and liuprecipi tste manner, pausing x-ea*ionally to rut> hi> eyes, pick up a pin, or hearken to the gay twitter of the birds. As lie came opposite the residence of , l>r. lileodum he uoticed the doctor's wife sitting at the open window, and, steadying himself against the fence, he observed with a yawn that very nearly threw Imu over backward, that it wss •'a nice morning." " It is indeed," replied Mr*. Bleedum. " The *ir i* so bracing." " Y-iawnie-e, it is so ; but don't you think it look* a little like rain, mum I" he asked. •* Oh, no ; I don't think it does. The sky is clear and the wind is hardly from the right direction." " Heetn* as though there might l>e a damp mist about, though. 1 was waked up this morning by my corns, and they 're generally a tolerable safe reliance in damp weather. A little rain wouldn't do no harm just now, d'ye think ?' "No, f don't know as it would ; hut still we don't really need it, arid I would prefer to hare it remain dry a few daya. Mr* Watkina is well, 1 presume? " Thank ye, mum, she's tolerable like. Her shoulder Isithers her aome vet, and she's not altogether free of them partis in her chiat, but she's so as to lie around as usual. 1 a'pi we your folks is well ? **Oh, ye*, thank you, all quite well. A doctor's folks ought to be, you kuow, ha ! ha !" •• Ye* ye*, to be mire, so they should," returned Mr. Watkina, openiug his knife to whittle a bit of stick lie hud picked up. " Hpeak-ng of the doctor, mum, is he about this morning ? •' He was out with a patient till lute, and hasn't yet got up," responded the lady. "You didn't want to see him professionally ? None of your folk* sick, 1 hope?" *• TOM (with two or three of the most aggravating yawns), my little girl ha*—lias— yot a tit." . Home men would have lieeu impatient, excited and nervous while making known the nature of their errand, but Mr. Watkina wa* no more disturbed in his composure than if he hail lieen merely asking a market woman the price of butter.—O'neifina/t' Ilrrakfatt Tah'.r. Fossil*. Don't be fossils ; old logs lying by the wayside for moss and fungus to grow tipou ; for worms to honeycomb uuii spiders to weave nets around. He a man among men, with a purpose and strength to accomplish. Don't lie afriud of resistance the more the ttetter. Friction clean* the bark and rills* down the knots. Don't le afraid of failure. Yon will Is* certain to find it if ever lastingly seeking. If it must come, let the day liud you and not you the day. So man can succeed IU all his under takings, aud it would uot be well for him to do so. Things easily acquired go easily. It is by the struggle it cost* to obtain that we learn t i rightly esti mate the value. Don't be fossil*. Thev are content to rot out ; to let matters take their course, and the sooner they are out of the way the 1 letter. They simply occupy the room need by better men ; by men who nro vigoious, thriving sprout* of the * great human tree ; men who will take ' and keep a place in the world ; who make business and attend to it ; who amount to something ; do some good to their race ; men of bone, smew and nerve ; men of thought and action, with the will to ilo and the heart to dare ; men who would be missed and regretted; not old. mouldy, worthless trunks by the side of the stream, tossed up high and dry by one freshet to remain motionless until the coming and swelliug of another. I>on't lie fossils. Better die in the struggle than rust out uselessly. Want f success with effort is better than no striving for the prize. There is more of bouor even in failure than hi never have endeavored. He who periahes bravely in the comlsvt receives the re ward of praise, though he fails to grasp the erowu. There is a pleasure in effort, in excitement, in the trying, though the end is lint a dream. Life is made np of trial nnd no wise man shrinks from or seeks to avoid it. Strike for the Truth and the Hight, and if the glory of the Victor is denied, you can at least gain that of the Martyr. Don't lie human fossils miserable nothings! Bo up and doing. Glory awaits the s<**>king and wealth the toiling for, and neither will come without the earnest seeking. Do something. If the great slips through your grasp, hold tlrmly on to the less. He anything, if honest, rather than a human nonentity. The Markets. Mm*.—Milk is lookiag rather thin this season. There seems to be a sus picion among buyers that the st the Indian Territory. John, or the "Big Indian," as he is familiarly term ed, is aii extraordinary person in ap pearunee, being sil feel four inches iti height, weighing about 100 pouuds,/lid IU spite of his age is erect and compara tively robust. His hair is now |M*rfeot ly s,ow-white; he has but a few teeth left uud within the last tw<> or three vears he has grown somewhat baliL lie is a fisherman and frog hunter by profession, and has a wife about sixty yearn of age, a French woman, who doe* not *}>eak English. His first wife was au Indian half-breed, by whom he had two children, both living iu the vicinity of Cahokia, and hunters and s]M>rtsiueii by vocation. At the age of seventeen M<*-he burnt at the stake, but durtug his short confinement, preparatorv to his under going this terrible penalty, he rscajied. He went to the northern part of the territory of Mississippi, where he joined the Chickasaw*. Here, too, his belllger eut disposition broke out again, aint he killed two of the Choctaw chiefs and made captive a woman of the trilw, with whom he fled. Hut life since then ha* been a series of wandering from oue State to another. From Mississippi he proceeded to laiiliaiana, from thence to Texas, and from Texas to Missouri, and for the last fifty years he has tieen liv ing in the vicinity of ht. Louis, where lie ha* followed the prcmriou* avocation of fr.ig hunting. He ha* always been fumed lor hi* remarkable strength. During his earlier hie he was able to lift 1,000 pounds on a dead level. On one occasion he carried on his broad shoulder* a barrel of pork weighing 800 pound*, from the landing at East Hi. L>uis to hi* then home below Cahokia, a distance of si* mill*. Several year* ago he lived in thetild town of Kaska*- kia, in Illiuou, where he wa* employed in the flouring unlL Remarkable storm* are told of the wonderful feat* of muscular strength performed by luni. It is said that he wa* in ' .e habit of placing upon bis shoulders two bogs of wheat, weighing 200 pound* each, anil carrying them up a flight of stair*. This labor he would jn-rfoiui for two hours, never seeming to tin*. While roaming through the W use the rifle its a club. The man and beast eloeed in a terrific struggle, the liear in Ilia characteristic game of hugging, the desperate Indian struggling to draw Ins knife from his belt. Meehoo laughingly said to the reporter, "I tell yon, my son, the bug tlint Ix-ar gave me was the worst I ever hail in my life. At first I thought my very ribs were broken, and I felt as if my entire body was mashed Ito a complete jelly. My breath was en- I tirely taken away, and for a moment 1 was entirely exhausted, but realixing , the desparate nature of my situation, I ; made a struggle to free my right arm und ; succeeded in drawing my knife. Before I could use it the bear lniggisl me again, but I managed to get a small out iu upon his shoulder. The animal released me and began to snap at me with his teeth, ■ and lie struck at. mo with hi* fore paw. ( One blow felled nie to the ground mid almost, stunned me into insensibility, j By the time I rose the bear was upon nie, bnt I had my kuifc in time and gave him a thrust that made him growl with auger and howl with pain." The old man then proceeded to relate to the reporter the several details of the fight and its result The contest lasted ten minutes, the bear getting in blow upon blow, knocking his antagonist down, bnt never snivelling in getting in a hug upon him. In the meantime Meehoo used his knife in savage desper ation, though for a loag time unable to touch a vital part of the monster. Final , ly he managed to stab the bear iu the heart and kill him. Meehoo now owns forty acres of land and lives in n vory primitive cabin. He is an inoffensive old man now, anil con tinues his daily avocations, molesting no 1 one. Whisky Drinking In New York. A New York correspondent says: The proprietor of the Metropolitan Hotel told me that his bar receipts were #175 a day. If we suppose the average re ceipts at the bars to be #2O a day, about #220,000 would have bMB spent every day for liqwr in New York by tipplers alone. Tliis is equal to #70,000,000 a year. It is computed that 1,200,000,000 drinks are taken in New York, and a tarifl of two cents on spirits and half a cent on ale will aggregate #9,100,000 city revenue. Wo spend for liquors in the Uuited States #7:15,000,000 a year, or nearly four times the cost of rnuning the general government; and yet the English exceed us in guzzling by $59,- 000,000. I'alilun Notes. Changeable Bilks are among tin nm rni'f lahrnvt. Elegant parasols are made of edlu and iluiahed with straw fringe. Ermgea of two dlstiuct colors are put on some of the new costumes. New pur us' ils are male of black mats lanite silh and liued with white silk. Old fashioned yoke waists are again in favor for dreaee* warranted to wash. Hilk dreuses are triuimeil with uarrow flounces in front, almoat to tlie waist, at he moment, by Worth. Colored drena bonnets *e leas used than white ones, and are almoet confined to beige and mastic shades. The trains of full dress toilets measure |thr-e yards from the wand to the extreme end of the tram in the back. A dash of Jacqueminot red is the only * pot of bright color on many of the most fashionable lists and bonnets. l'laiu or |Milka dotted white silk, with white satin trimmings and accessories, is the bridal dress of the moment. The novelty in handkerchief* is of pale blue or rose-colored linen with white borders scailopad to match. Everything i embroidered in Paris at present sins-*, dresses, gloves, Lin net*, corsages, cravats, wrajsi and trim mings. Hark blue cutaway suit*, with waist coat* and silk skirt* made very plain, •' tailor fashion," are affected by young ladle*. Beige-colored brocaded or damaasee ailk makes a beautiful walstoist to lie worn with any dark cutaway jacket Ooa tuuie. Porta Ixmqneta, which Jo double dutv as a brooch or fahleutiig for a ahawi, are seen m some of the fancy good* store*. The girl of the period wears a cutaway swallow-tailed jacket, and lead* an Eng lish pug with a silver chain and a blue ribbon. Those negligee curves of hair on the forehead and temples, a la Montague, are becoming to young and pretty faces oljlv. Cardinal capo* reaching to'tlie elbow of Siciiteuue, and trimmed with fluting* of black French lace, are fashionable light wraps. lialhriggan stocking* are seen in lead ing ho-.cry department*, hatr-liiied hor izontally in color and checked on the side* in the same. Hose mud mastic gray tulle veil*, dot- Uxl with chenille, are worn around the crowns of dressv bonnets, crossing in the tiack and made to form strings. Amber beads strung at intervals on block silk fringe* are effectively u*ed for trimming black Htcillienne mdtitle* intended for ceremonious occasion*. Worth's latest dresses are abort, alieath the form in front, but have small paniers in the back, or looptsl draperies formed by catching up the deuu train. The novelties in children's hat* are pagixla-shaped crowns, peaked Mansard roof crowns, and sharp-gabled crowns. Their names are IVkin, Alps, Mcnoeiies, Havoy, and Ghin-Cbin. White Swiss and organdy toilets, trimmed with fine Mireoonrt torchon lace, are to t> • worn over colored lawn or Hilesia slip* for summer fetes, flower shows. x( tern (Kin concert* and croquet parties. A Boy's Pocket* and a Girl's Pocket. Tommy is twelve years old. Hi* sister Mary is sweet sub-en and a half. The other morning Mary accosted her mother with: "M , see what a lot of stuff I*found in Tommy* pockets." And she deposited on the table the fol lowing articles, to wit : Eight marbles, one top, a broken-Haded knife, n loath er strap, a buckle, a bnneh of keys, a fishing line, piece of lead, a smooth stone, four piece* of slate pencil, a woru out pocket-liook, an oyster shell, a wounded jewsharp.a piece of blue glass, a rubber ball, lump of chalk, two dried fish worms, a sling shot, p.ece of India rubber, two corks, a fractnrd comb, piece of licorice root, * song book, two modal* and a juvenile land tortoise. Tommy looked thoaghtfnllv as the con t-nt* of his ]M**kct* wen- deposited be fore the eye* of his mother, and sullenly remarked that "it wa* none of Sis'* business and hi* just wanted her to let his trousers alone." Next day Tommy captured the out side pocket of hi* sister's drees, and, carrying the content* to hi* mother, sarcastically observe! in the presence of Mary: "Ma, just see what a lot of trasli I found in Sis'* pocket!" and he pro duced from his hat the following knick knaeks, viz.: Three hair pins, a soiled glove, niece of chewiug gum, three cards, a broken locket, elastic garlor, pim of nblsin, two slate pencil*, another piece of chewing gum, photo graph, a piece of orange skin, a love letter, broken tooth brush, more chew ing gum, spool of silk, a thimble, a piece of cotton saturated with white powder, one nickel, two sour balls, gaiter heel, ivory ornament belonging to a parasol handle, handkerchief per fumed with jockey club,gaiter buttoner, withered geranium leaves, ivory-handle penknife with broken blade, a fan, five visiting cards, belt buckle,box of rouge, another piece of chewing gum, fragment of looking glass, a peach stone, a cigar holder st olen from "Oharley," a piece of damasao silk of the pattern of her friend Lucy's new dress, an artificial flower, horsehair ring, a long browu hir entangled in a hunk of taffy, and a sliji of a paper containing directions for handkerchief flirtations. Tommv placed ill* last article on the table ami slid from the room with a grift of triumph on his roguish face. His sister made an ineffectual grab for him, nnd as he passed into the street he heard her voice calling: "You nasty little brat, if you get at my pocket again I'll slap your face." Tommy thinks honors are easy.— Xorri*town Itrratd. Why It Fay* to Bead. One's physical frame—his body—his hands—is only a machine. It is tfcf mind, controlling and directing that machine that (fives it power and efficiency. The successful use of the body depends wholly upon the mind—upon ita nhdity to di rect well. If one ties hi* rm in a sling it Ix'oomes weak and dually powerless. Keep it in active exerciae, and it acquire* vigor and strength, and ia disciplined to uae tliia strength aa daaired. Ju*t ao one's mind ; by active exercise in think ing, planning, studying, observing, ac quires vigor, atrengtli, jxiwer of concen tration and direction. Plainly then, the man who exercises his mind in rend ing and thinking, gives it increased power and efficiency, and greater ability to direct the efforts of his physical frame —his work—to better remits, thau he can who merely nses his mnseles. If a man reads a lxx>k or paper, even one he knows to lie erroneous, it helps him by the effort to comlxtt the errors. Of all men, the farmer, the cultivator, needs to road more and think more to strengthen his reasoning powers, so that they may help out and make more effective, more profitable, his hard toil. There can be no doubt that the farmer who supplies himself with the reading the most of other men's thoughts and experiences, will in the end, if not at once, be the most successful. TERMS: a Year, in iVdvanco. The Camel. All my rcßilrn know that the greaf value of the camel lies in it* ability U JMIH* a long interval of time without re quiring to drink. The oauiel dot* not, indeed, need a lee* amount of liquid than other stomal*, for in tlii* point t i* outdone by many Houth African ante h-iM-s, which are never known to drink at all; but it iis* a curion* |semit, where thev had taken refuge. From that date until the present time the valley ha* Iven resorted to yearly by hunters and pleasure seeker* from sil part* of the world. Prior to 1804 then- was only one actual settler in the vallev. Now it twins with life, and three or four hotels roomv enough to accomodate comfort ably 100 guests, have been completed and furnished with every comfort re quired by the most exacting tourist.— fiimton Axf. A Mystery of the Mind. The Louisville Medical Xctrt says: " The following psychological incident, which was told to me by a gentleman of undoubted veracity, mav prove of in terest to those of vonr readers who are studying the occult phases of nervous phenomena. The narrator, a man of fine nervous organization, was taking his afternoon siesta; his daughter, a young lady of seventeen, sitting bv his side, with her hand iu his, and reading. As-he passed from the wakeful state into one of Hemi-slumWr, be saw, or seemed to see, appear at the foot of his lied a tall man, with a sorrowful ex pression uj>on his face, who, beudiug down tenderly, lifted up s ooffln sml disappeared. He wa so disturbed by the strange and unaccountable nature of his vision that, after hissing rest lessly for a few moment*, he opened his eyes aud said, " Daughter, I believe I cannot sleep to-d*y, and will get up. Looking up from her book, in which she was evidently deeply absorbed, she said, " Papa, tins i* a strange book that lam reading." " What ** it? said he. "The • Life of Marie Antoinette."' she replied, and then read from the pages la-fore her s recital of the exact inci dent that had just constituted his dream. Forethought of Swallows. Bird stories are in order. As a farmer was getting in his hay, lie noticed an unusual commotion among the swallows, which had built a long row of nests under the eaves of liis barn. They appeared greatlv oxcit-d, flying rapidly about, and filling the air with their cries of dis tress. As the load passed into the barn, he saw that a young swallow, in a nest directly over the ihxvr, had caught its neck iti a crack between two shingles, aud was unable to liberate itself. He stopped his team, and set the young bird free, restoring it to the nest Upon his return to the barn with his next load of hay, noticing that the swallows were quiet, he examined the crack, and found they hail filled it oompletely with mnd, so that, no matter how enterprising or how foolish the yonng swallow might be, he could not again endanger hts life, or the peace of that community, by nny experiments on that crack. Instinct is a wonderful sense. NUMBER 25. lotion of Molecule*. Prof. Cook states in the Science Monthly certain idea# aboot the motion# of molecules in the atmad aa voa thought. There is a piano; let me "hear one of the pieces you expect tc plaT to-morrow evening." Tremblingly ahe obeved, the maestro making comment* and' suggestion* as she played, and when she had finished, he added, " Now, my child, I have gfveo vou a lesson; yon are a pupil of Liszt." lb-fore ahe oould find wurda to express ber gratitude, Liszt asked, "Are jour programmes printed T" " No, air, was the answer, " not vet." " Then say that TOU will be assisted bv your master, and that the last piece on the programme will be played by the Abbe Liszt." That concert, it may be readily be lieved, waa a great success. Suffocated In brain. Twenty workmen were engaged in storing gram on the third floor of the Sixth Avenue car stables, at Forty-third street and Sixth avenne, New York. In a space twenty-three feet by eighty-five feet, near the* Sixth avenne end of the , building, had been stored 10,000 bushels of oats, weighing nearly 340,000 pounds, and the work of spreading the grain evenly nearly two-thirds the WIT to the ceiling was going on. when suddenly a crash warned the meu*lhat thO building was giving way. Before they oould seek safety in flight, the beams and girders supporting the floor were snapped asunder by the rush of grain toward the centre where the timtmrs were sagging, ami the whole mass was precipitated to the second floor. That also gave way and the hcwvy weight (washed down ward, crashing through the ground floor and into the cellar, whence a heap of broken timber anil grain rose several feet into the story above. The crash and the thick cloud of dust that arose and found its way into the strwt brought hundreds of people to the spot in an instant. The employes of the railroad company went vigorcmsly to work to clear away the debris in order to get at their injured comrades. One by one these struggled out, and were found to be more frightened than injured. Hugh Dillon sud-John Bur gess oulv were slight!v hurt, but Hugh Vlurtfaa and John Carlin were missing# Martha was found first, buried several feet beneath tbe surface of the graifi, still clutching the broom with which he had been spreading the oats. He was dead. Carlin was taken out a few min utes later. He gasped once or twioe and expired. On neither was found any scratch or bruise, and it was clear that they had !>een suffocated. TmL Tact literally means tonch; it is that quality by which one "feels" his way. It iwsomething more than skill—some thing more than judgment—it is spon taneous common sense. It is that power by which one knows how to do the right thing in absence of precedent* and rules. It delight* in emergencies and glories in exceptional cases. It arrives at a conclusion too quickly for analysis of the steps that lead to it, and yon recog nise it only when it has accomplished its object, its a ballet which is seen only when it hits the t*rget,not in it* passage through the air. Syllogisms are useless and "similar" cases ignored. Tact is to talent what genius is to knowledge, the one forges and shapes what the other gathers. Tact creates, talent aocnmu latea. Tact invents, talent disoovera. Talent krows what to do, tact knows how to do it. Talent is wealth, tact is ready money. The one is momentary, intentional,"the other is long and labori ous. Tact presupposes qnick perception, lively sympathy, versatility and ready adaptability to circumstances. It can be cultivated but is largely a native quality. When cultivated it is apt to become cunning, craftiness, manipula tion, and degenerates into insincerity. It will never do to lose the innocence of the dove in the wisdom of the serpent. Tact is always truthful, legitimate and honest. It stndies opportunities, and has a keen sense of the eternal fitness of things. Tact adapts itself to the occa sion, to the persons with whom it deal*. Itm mt latere#!. Th* average age o/> mtom Joke ia om hundred yean. The Queen of Balfimn paint*; thai la to nay, ab painta picture* Money doaan't make the man, hot twenty shillings make# the sovereign. A thief may make a bolt for the door, and not be a eery good mechanic, either. The English refuse white Uoraee for Army purposes beeaoae they are too conspicuous. Taking thing* aa they noma, ian't rery difficult; it's parting with them a* they go that'* hard. A fonr-year-old child in Kan Debunk Me., hae a bead weighing fifteen pound* and a body weighing nin*. It ia time to ait on the front atoop with a girl and a Japanese fan, and listen to the tract mnaictan and the rooaqnito. Melancholia, which haa struck the Csar of Russia, ia aaid to have affected every autocrat of hia family after the age of fifty. The hen cholera ia prevalent in parte of Minnesota. It take# chick ana off about aa faat aa the old-faahkmed mid night plan. A western statistician haa found that Washington Territory baa 10,000 voters, 1.400 bam, and 15,000 bears. By actual count, of course. In the Gasconade river, Mia#-, the fish have lieen dying by thousands, from eating the worms that drrp from the overhanging maple trees. "I mean business," aaid a burglar who entered Mr. Patterson's house, in Hterling, lib- "8o do I," aaid Mr. Pat terson, and shot him throngh the bead. Tea made from the leavee of young tea plants growing in the conservatory of the Department of Agriculture at Washington wae recently served to some visitors. Of the 356 American colleges, sixteen have libraries of over 15,000 volumes. The largest eoliege library in the country ia Harvard's, containing 10,- 000 volumes. , A K-ntuoky man who went to the Black Hi 11a wrote back to paper, my in# : " Offer a premium at your coming fair for the biggest fool in the country, and I'll try to get there in tuna." Good aerviee ia prompt service. It nreme to be a favor when be upon whoa the aerriee ia conferred hae tort in pa timer and hope deferred what he might have beetowed in love and gratitude. Newton eounty. Georgia, haa at leaat one man of xaaacie. Saving loaf hia home, be hitched himaelf to the plough and hired a boy to drive. At laat aooounta he had ploughed out two acre*. The discouraged collector again pre sented that little matter. " Well," says hia friend, M you are round again, ••yea," says the fellow with the ac count in his hand, " but I want to get square." Statistic* show that the annual con sumption of egga in the United States is about 10.000,(100 barrel*. Tbe poultry marked or consumed in 1077, is esti mated at 680,000,000 pounds at the value of §68,000,000. Elam Potter ia now pushing tbe wheelbarrow from Albany to San Fran ciaco. He wears verr long hair and whisk era, and the wheelbarrow is gaudi ly painted, ao that hia arrival in a vil lage causes excitement The phonograph may bottle np the voice and peas it down to future ages, but the smile that twists the face of tbe man aa he seeks solitude and gazes upon las name in print for the first time will have to be gueaeed at. On the naw steamship City of Bio de Jaoerio, which recently sailed an her first trip to South America, there is a machine by which a daily supply of oaa thousand pound* of ice can be manufac tured, in addition to furnishing a supply of cold air for the store-rooms. " Habit" is hard to overcome. If you take off the first letter it dea act change "a bit" If vou take off another, you still have a " hit," left. If von take off atill another, tbe whole of " it" re mains. If TOU take off another it ia not "t" totally used np. All of which goes to show that if yon wish to be rid of a " habit," yon must throw it off altogether. Tbe citv of London hit fifty Richmond street*. sixty Norfolk, seventy Devon shire, seventy-six Brunswick, fiftysix Cambridge, eighty - seven Gloucester, fifty East and West, ninety North and South, W6 New, 129 Union, ninety five King, ninet T nine Qaeen, seventy-eight Princes, 100 George, 119 John, and dozens aadjscores which have nothing to distinguish them except the district n which they;happen to be. Tbe Ooajira Indiana, who inhabit the aeacoaat north of A spin wail, are a fierce and fighting race, numbering about 80,000. In their domestic life the moat singular feature ia the fact that the father baa no control over the children. Tne mother's brother or the next neareat relation on the motber'a aide usurp* the zuthoritv of tbe father. In inheriting rank or property, and m the distribution of valuables, 'the testimony of tbe mother aw to the rights of the children outweighs that of the father. In a rural district of Forfarshire a young ploughman once went courting on a SatordaT night In vain be racked his brain for some interesting topic; be coald call np no subject at all suitable for tbe occasion—not one sentence could he alter, and for two long hoars he sat on in silent despair. The giri herself was equally silent; the no doubt re memtwwed the teaching of the old Scotch song, "Men maun be the first to apeak," and she sat patiently regarding him with demure surprise. At last John suddenly exclaimed, " Jenny, there's a feather on set apron!" "I widna ha s wondered if there had been twa." replied Jenny, "for I've been sittin' aside a goose a' nicht" A tremendous explosion lately toek place in the torpedo factory of the Rus sian Government at Otehakoff, near Croustedt; where several hundred men were employed at the rime. The work shops, the" naval laboratory, and the storage bouses, containing in addition to torpedoes an immense quantity of pjwiliim were blown to pieces and scattered to great distances. The con cussion was felt for miles, and it was thought that the English bad opened a furious bombardment. The powder was removed from the magazine of the garri son before the flames reached it. All houses within a circnmferasce of two mile* were more or lees damaged. Dar ing the following day peasants brought fragments of the dissster from a dis tance of five milea, and steamers arrived which had picked them up ten miles out at sea. Tbe cause of the explosion was thought to have been spontaneous com bustion. Twelve persons only were killed. An Aeronaut's Peril. Mons, La veils recently mails ana*oent in Victor, N. Y., in a hot air balloon, to which is attached a trapeae, and on this bar the aeronaut hangs by h.s legs, one arm, or neck, and performs ome feats. The air having been sufficiently lAated he stepped forward, and, grasping the t rape re oar in his hand, gave the signal to cut the balloon loose, but a guy rope held fast, and the balloon careened be fore the oord snapped, and then, as it shot upward, it swung the aeronaut towards the brick wall of the hotel. He struck against the wall, but retained his grip upon the bar, and waa drawn up the side of the building, tearing off the wooden curnioe. Then he sailed ont into the clear air. . Slowly and painfully Lavelle palled himself up until he was able to throw one leg over the bar, and, with his shoulder partly resting against one of the ropes, he waited for the ballootf to spend its force and begin to, descend. At one time Lavelle was seen to sway, as though attacked by a sadden faint ness. Men, women and children ran through the fields, following the bal- I loon, and at last the baloon descended within tb% reach of a score of orrtstretch ed hands aqd was secured, and the in jured man was cared for. Ths left thigh i wee badly crushed, and a bond in the , left arm was broken. .. .