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 t<ov
and him together now, what a contrast."
And he fancied his boy round and
white and pink, and fair of hair, like his
poor lost Llleu, and I know he said that
ne would pity this poor fellow and be
kind to lum.
The meal waa over. The captain paid
for it, and then ibew the bov between
his knees aud lectured him. I'o be good
was to be happy. Honesty waa the beat
policy. Cleanliness came next to godli
ness. These were the heads of his dis
course.
Then bo gave him half a crown, ami
bade him go and le good and clean.
And the K>v 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<en
tlve hundred and liftv million dollars go
1 iu and out of this place," i-aid one of the
employes as fie led in into a dimly
lighted vault, where the pale bricks of
1 silver were piled from roof to ceiling—
" five hundred and fifty million dollars
in twenty-eight years," he related,
1 with particular gusto; and at the state
ment our fancy immediately took a wdd
flight among the enchanting po**ibili
' ties ef such treasure, for wheu Mam
mon mounts Pegasus no adole-swut
Muse cau career through realms M> 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<x"k is
watered.
BTTTKTI. —Butter is remarkably strong
this season.
ONlOHH. —Onions are as strong as
usual.
Onßßiai. Cheese is remarkably lively
for so early in the year. Dealers feel
confident that there are millions in it.
YKAHT. —Yeast is, not eonsidoring the
general depression in business, on a
steady rise.
HTAIICN.— SaIes is this line are rather
stiff at present.
INIIIOO. —The outlook into the Indigo
market is decidedly blue.
EKATUKUH. —The shipments in this
branch of trade are as light as at the
same time last year.
Expressmen are doing a driving busi
ness this mouth.
Manufacturers of pens, [taper, etc.,
report their trade to De stationery.
BOOTH AND HOOKS. - The retail hoot
and slnxi business has been HO put under
foot by the buyers that all hope of n rise
is given up. Still we think that ifufew
friends of the trade would tell some of
the dealers they were liars, there would
he a possibility of a slight rise in the
boot line.
Rubber is rather springy. There is
great hope of the busineaa being so
stretched out as to make buyers have
every confidence in its elasticity.
(JAH —-The recent reduction in the
price of gas has made a light business
heavy.
Wool is at fair demand. Should every
thing work right there is every prospect
of sellers making a soft thing of it.—Hot
ton Horn* Journal.
A MM. II It M AS.
The llrreulvsu It timer o! ih* Ureal Awrrt
ran l*lalas.
The St, Louis /-.Veoiri'/ /A*< says:
Atxuit three miles down the Illinois
shore, near th* little town of (lalmkta,
lives a verv queer i.i tlau, who hav a
history an remarkable us it i* romantic.
He Is a full-blooded Cherokee, and,
according to his own assertions, is over
UK) years old. Hi* name is John Mco
in m, mid he wu* born iu the couuty of
Jefferson, Mississippi, where his tribe
resided over a century ago, ami from
which r. giou thev were transported b>
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<*-h<o had
already become noted for his physical
strength and great jsiwer* of endurance.
Unfortunately he ieoame involved in a
quarrel with the chief of the Cherokee*,
Muhauatnl, and slew him. Miw.hoo,
Willie making an effort to flee, was ap
prehended by his tnlie, and, after a
trial according to the forms common to
the Cherokee*, he was condemned to l>e
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<K*IS one
-lay his dogs, which were following him,
bayed a huge stag in the lied of a dried
creek. Meeboo wa* unarmed, aud after
several ineffectual efforts to club the
door with such bludgeons as he could
pick np, he seized the infuriated In-ast
by the antler*, and by ra*m strength
hurled him over his head, breaking the
alumni's neck.
. Mi-ehoo at one time wa* probably the
mightiest hunter that roamed the wilds
nt the Auimcju I Kit torn. Forty aud
fifty Tears ago lienm were plentiful in
the tinck forest* of the swampy region*
skirting the eastern shore of the M.*s
isfttppi, and liear-huntmg waa Meelioo's
favorite sport.
He still carries uj**<u him the mark* of
more than one terrific contest with sav
age bruin. To a reporter who visited
him on Tnursday lat, he gave a recital
of a remarkable struggle he had with a
bear in the winter of 1829. while hunting
through the Drv Criek bottom, about
\ seven miles smith of where Centerville
( station ia now situated. It was on the
24th ilay of December, and a light snow
coverts! the ground. Meehoo had gone
out for the pnrpoaeof banting wildk*?r*.
and hail with him one dog that was
trained for that peculiar sjsirt, \l bile
truverniug the bottom he was suddenly
confronted by a huge black bear. The
dog rushed at him, but the Imar at one
blow of lus powerful paw stretched the
|M*ir timte dead, and at the distance of
thirty feet bruin poised himself on his
hind legs as if throwing down the gaunt
let of battle. Meehoo imniedtatelv
pulled down upon hifft with hi* rifle,but
to his dismay the powder refused to go
off. The rap exploded with a loud
| noise. It wo* immediately replaced by
i a fresh one, but before Meehoo could
tire a second time the liear WA* IIIMIU
him, and in such chiee proximity tnat
i it was lmiMtssihle for htm even t<> 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* |<wer of taking
iu at one tune an amount of liquid which
will serveit for several daya.
The internal mechanism by which
this jxiwer ia attained i very remarka
ble, but ia much too eomplicated to be
dnaeribed without the uae of diagram*.
Suffice it to may the water ia atowed
away in a aerie* of cell*, which appear
to have the property of preaerving it in
a fresh and clear atate even after the
death of the animal. A alight greeuiah
hue ia communicated to the water, but
with that eieeption it ia clear. In ouc
remarkable instance, after a camel haJ
been deal ten daf*. the water in it*
atomach *iui drinkable and taaL-lea*.
When first taken from the dead animal,
a rather uupleaeant flavor ia peree|jtible,
hut thia vanishes, together with the
greeu color, after tie water baa atood
undoturbed for three day at
The quantity of water taken at oue
time is almost mere lible, niore than
twenty gallons lu-ing sometime* con
sumed st s single draught. The animal
drinks with great rapidity, and the wa
ter diaapftcNi** so fast that it seems to
vauish by magic. Its'desire for watt ris
so great that it oai eive tlie wel
come fluid at a great distance, jsHsnoly
bv went, and txissibly by some inxtuict
which ia not shared by man. Win .i the
camels peroeive water, notiiiug can hold
tii em hack IMU it, and a whole curs van
will iireak away from their drivers, rush
ing tumultuously to tlie water. This
wonderful power is of the grvwtest value
to the inhabitant* of the de*ert, who
would have known nothing of many a
spring had not their camels directed
them towards the water.
Another reason for it* mine is its abil
itv tn '-at Mlil digest that no
oilier animal would touch. It does not
atop to eat <m it* journey, but lower* it*
long nook and crops the scanty herbage
with which It mar chance to meet. The
withered and dr.ed leave* and twig*
which onap at a touch, and *eem to lie
utterly devoid of nutriment, are all de
voured by the camel, a* alao are the
branches of the thorn, bu*lie* which
would baffl any being but a camel.
Thia animal, however, ha* the roof of
it* mouth defended by a hard cartilage,
and can eat the prickly liauciuet without
the l<-*t difficulty. It would thrive on
the chip* and shaving* of a carpenter a
shop, and ha* actual y been fed on char
coal. So abatemioua, indeed, ia the an
mal, that eamela have been known to
traverse nearly a thousand mile* within
twenty days, having no food but that
which they gathered for themselves on
the journey.
It ha* yet another advantage; namely,
the wonderful adaptation of itc limb* to
the desert oonntry in which it live*. It*
height enable* it to carry it* own head
and that of it* ruler at a considerable
distance ffom the ground, ao tftat both
are sheltered from the heat that
radiate* from the burning "oil. More
over, each little breeze take* full effect
at ancli * height, ami in that climate the
least breath of air become* * luxury,—
Golden Ihmr*.
The Tosemlte Valley.
The YoaemiU? Valley is situate I in
the heart of the Sierra Nevada, about
155 miles in a direct line east of Han
Francisco. The valley is a nearly level
area, altout six miles in length *ud from
a half a mile to a mile in width, sank
almost a mile in perpendicular depth
In-low the general level of the adjacent
region. Through the center of this
valley runs the Me rood River, passing
for twenty miles after leaving the valley
proper through s grand eanvon, the
scenery here almost equalling this won
derful valley. Because this canyon is
approached by only a narrow trail, but
v-ry few tourist* travel the full length
of "the river to view the cascades and
lofty water falls of this wonderful region.
From time immemorial the Yosemite
Valley hail been regarded by the Indian
tribes' l ; ving on both the western and
eat u lopea of the Sierra* a* a strong
hold, or place of refuge in time of
trouble. Iu 1850, the white settlers
who lived on the streams which head in
this region, finding themselves nnable
to remain in peace with these Indians,
organized for their protection a military
company, and in 1851 pursued a psrty
of the savages that hail IM-CD committing
depredation* into the Y<>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 atm<apheve, which
seem #o atrange a* toauggeat the poetry
of aci-noe rather than it* proae. He
says, " The molecule# of our atmosphere
move on an average nearly four (S i)
times alower than thoae of hydrogen
under the aame conditional but then
they weigh on an average fourteen and
a half times more than hydrogen moled
culea, and therefore atrike with aa great
energy. _ ,
•• Do not think that tlie effect of tbeae
hlowa ia insignificant becauae the mole
cular projectiles are ao amall; they
make up by their number lot what they
want in siae. .
"Consider, for example, a cubic yard
of air, which, if meaaured at the freesmg
point, weigh# considerably over two
pound*.
"That cubic yard of material contain*
over two pounda of molecules, which
are moving with an average velocity of
<iue thousand aix hundred and five feet a
second, and thia motion ia equivalent in
every re#|ect to tiiat 1 4 a eaunon-ball of
•}ual weight, rushing along ita path at
the came tremendous rate.
"Of course thia ia true of every cubic
yard of air at tb* same temperature;
and if the motion of the molecule# of the
aUncMpbrre around ua oould by any
mraoi be turned into one and the aarue
direction, the result would be a hurri
cane sweeping over the earth with thia
velocity,—that ia, at the rate of one
thouaand and ninety-four milea an hour,
whuae destructive violenee not even the
pyramids oould withstand.
'* Living aa we do in the midst of a
molecular tornado capable of such
effects, our safety liee wholly in the eir
ctimHtance that the storm beats equally
in all directions at the same time, and
the force ia thus ao exactly balanced
that we are wholly uuconaaona of the
tumult. •
" Not even the aspen leaf is stirred,
nor the must delicate membrane broken,
but let ua remove the air fr6m one of
the eurfacea of sorb a membrane, and
then the power of the molecular storm
become* evident, as in the familiar ex
penments with an air pump."
M A Pupil af LiwL**
The greatest of pianists, Liszt, is very
amiable and quite eceentnc. The fol
lowing story seta forth the genial aide
his nature. A young pianist was giving
concerts through the provinces of Ger
many for her support. To enhance her
reputation ahe deceitfully advertised
herself a* a pupil of Liszt.
In a little town, where she bad an
nounced a ooneert, she was confounded
the day before the concert was to take
place, bv seeing in the list at arrivals,
sad at the very hotel where the concert
waa to be given, " M. L'Abbe Ltsxt.
Here wa* a dilemma. Her fraud would
IK- discovered. Tremblingly she sought
the presence of the great maestro.
* Coming into hia room with downcast
evea, she knelt at the old man's feet,
and with manv tald her story
how ahe had badnnl *n orphan and
poor, with only one gift of music with
which to support herself; tbe difficulties
she had encountered, until the fraudul
ent nae of hia great name had filled her
rooms and her purse.
"Well, well," said the great man,
gently nosing her up, " let ua ace, my
child, what we can do. Perhaps it u
not ao l>ad 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. .. .