fliitand and Wife. L. How, in onr little boat, can we Bight aafelv journey o'er life'* *•*. And l** the thraat'ning rock* V asked he. "Bow thou," aoftly answered she. n. How can life'* danger* we forget. That UN from early youth beset, And ell onr mieerie* ? asked he, ■"Sleep thou," softly answered she. m. How can, through the years' long chain, We heanty'a favor still retain, Without love-potion'* aid f asked he. "Love thon," eoftly answered ahe. King Cheese. (.4 srerjf qf thf arit Rtkibtiw* IBSI.I tWhere many a rlou>|. arrathed uieunlaln Wauuhee Fternall; in the blue abyss. And losses its torrents and inludM Thundering from did and precipice. There Is the lo\ ely land of the Swiss - lend of lakes and of ley sess. Of chamois and chalets. And beautiful valleys. Musical boxes, watches, and cheese. Pictnresijns. with Its landscapes green and cool. Sleek cattle standing in shadow or pool. And dairy-maids hrarttflt pall and stool— That la the quaint Utile tow u of Xulls. There, one day. m the old town-hall, Oatheredthe *OMb; burghers all, Oreat and smalt, Short and tall, The atotit and fat. the lean and lame. From bouse and shop, and dairy aud pasture, la queer old coviun.ee, up they came. Obedient to the burgomaster. He made a speech—^" Krllow-citisens: There la To be, as you know, A vroudcrtal show, A Cmvereal Fair, at l"ans; Where evscy coaotry its piuduc! carries. Whatever most beautiful, useful, or rare is. To piesar and surprise. And perhaps win a prise. Now here la the tjoration Which craw* your counsel and r uggesbou With you if Ilea; So. attvr wise And careful consideration ut it, bay, what ahall v* sei d to-, our honor aud profit T" Some said this thing, aome said that; Then up rose a burgt.w, ruddv aud fat, Bounder and mtde- than a'.! the rear, W ith a nose like a ro-e, - * ..ihunttr cheat: And vaj-w h< ...n a wbeeav, lake th bursiug or bees: *" 1 p'uopo**, If you please, TVial we send em a - Acesc." Then a lithe little tuaa. Took the floor, and 1-egan, In a high, soueaky vow*: " 1 approve of the plan. Bat 1 wish to amend WhaiN proposed br my friend: A ail. miiM, ] think. la the thing we ahould • end." Then tip jum ;*d a third. To put tr. a wrord. And amend the amendment they had just beard; " A KOY.AL MIU l Ullt.vl " wwa the phrase he pnfsnwl. The question was moved. Discussed and approved. And the vote wse unanimous, that it behooved Thetr ancient. Venerable corporation, T* er nd such a cheese as ahould honor the nation. 3*.- ended the aolemu convocation ; And after due deliberation. The burgomaster made proclamation. Inviting people of every station. Each according to his vocation. With patrtouc emulation. To join in a general ju (station. And get up a cheese loe the grand occasiou. Then shortly began the preparation. D *>om!U£ as* h<*r\l a mighty rlxaioritif, W.th nouti-1* of aawiai: and flanlng and hmmr- Tfc* painter*, forsaking their eaaei* and pallet*. Came to look on, or aa:M in the labor; Th* joiner* were there w.th their chiael* and mat- >t; Tradf" of all graJe*. txtry man mill hn uaigh bor; Tbs carpenter*, roopfn, An J vtout irou-lioopvr*, Ervelitqs ft prma for \ht Oil an to be done :a, A tab l':< euoiißS to put tou alter ton m. And ißttr for nveia of liquid to ruo in. Marvii tin- mom a tkftwork was lWun la— If tAftl could be w\>rk ihev -AW uolbius but fun is; Twaft flawbed lu April, and lOun before Mar t'.ierytbinn u prepared for the curd and the whey. Toea the be!! were set ringing— The milking began; Ail over the land vent the oairy.maids tinging; Boy and man. Cart, pail, and can. Aar'i praaani (tiro, each la their pretty dreaa, rt*om highway and by-way all round, came bring ing. Horning an J evening, the milk to the press. Then it took seven wow heads together to gueas Jul how much rennet, no more sod no less. Should be added, to crudle and thicken tne mess. So, hartnq been properly warmed and stirred. The cheese waa set: sad, now. st s word. Ten strong aaeu teil to rusting the cnrxl. Some wbey was reheated; The culling repeated; Each part of the process most carefullytreated. For fear they might And, when the whole was completed. Their plan had by some mischance been defeated. V,w tti* wrarrn come bringing the web they were •liDBiSI, A doth for the curd, of the atoulast of lloau. The ten men attack it. Ana tumble and pack it WiUim the vaa* \at tn iu Jrtppiag *ray jacket; And the praaa i aet (vis# with clatter and racket. The icreat screw ileecelxla, ae the lone levers play. And the cunt, like aorne crashed Irving creature, gives way; It sighs In its troubles— The pressure redoubles! It mutters and sputters. And biases and bubbles. While down the deep gutters. From every pore spirted, rash torrents of whey. The cheese was pressed, and turned, and cured; And so was made, as I am assured. The rich-ordered, great-girdled Emperor, Of all cheese that ever were. Iben, everything ready, whst should they have elae. In farting Hie Majesty on his travels, But a great prfcession op and down Through the streets o! the quaint oid town ? So they made A grand parade, With marching train-band, guild, and trade: The bargomaster in robes arrayed, (tolr chain, and mace, and gay cockade, Ores! keys carried, and Sags displayed. Pompous marenal and sprue* young aide. Carriage and foot and cavalcade ; While big drama thundered and trumpets brayed. And all the bands of tbe canton played ; The fountain spouted lemonade, Children drank of tbe bright cascade; Spectators if every rank and grade. The young and merry, the grave and Maid, Alike with cheer* the show surveyed. From street and wind >w and balustrade— Ladles in jewels and brocade. Cray old grandam. and peasant maid With cap. abort skirt, and dangltug brai J ; And youngsters shouted, and horses neighed. And all the rare in concert bayed ; Twea thus with pomp and masquerade, Co a broad triumphal chariot laid. Beneath a canopy's moving shade. By eight cream-colored steeds conveyed. To tbe ringlDg of hells and cannonade. King Cheese bis royal progress made. So to the Paris Exposition, His Majesiy went on bis furious mission. At tbe great French Fair 1 Everything under the sun is I here. Whatever is made by the hand of man: Milks from China and Hlndoatau, Grotesque bronzes from Japan ; Products of Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, Lapland, Finland, I know not what land- North land, south land, cold land, hot land— From Liberia, From Siberia— veay fabric and invention. From every country yon can mention: F'.em Algeria and Sardinia; Vrorn Ohio aud Virginia ; Egypt, Slam, Palestine; Lands of tbe palm-tree, lands of the pine ; Lands of tobacco, cotton, and rice. Of iron, of Ivory, and of spioe. Of gold and sliver and diamond— From the fsrtheet land, and the land beyond. And everybody is there to see: From Mexico and Mozambique; Spaniard, Yankee, Heathen Chinee; Modern Human and modern Greek; Frenchman and Prussian, Tnrk and Russian, Foes that have been, or foea to be; Through miles on miles Of spacious aisles. Mid the wealth of the world In gorgeous plies, Loiter and flutter tbe endless flies! Encircled all day by a wondering throng. That gathers early and lingers long. Behold where glows. In his gulden rind, The marvel the burghers of Nolle designed ! There chatters the cheery bourgtoinie; And children are lifted high to see; And •• Win it go up In the sky to-night T" Asks little ms'm'seUe, In tbe arms of her mother— Rise over the house# and give ua light ? Is this where it sets when it goes out of sight T" For 6he takes King Cheese for his elder brother 1 Bat now it li night, Dd the crowd* hire departed The vast dim hull* are atili and deserted ; Only the gbost-like watchmen go. Through shimmer and shadow, to and fro ; While the moon in the sky, With its half-shut eye. Peera smilingly in at hia rival below. At this mysterious hour, what it it That cornea to pay the Fair a vtsit T The gatea are well barred. With a faithful guard Without and wt'hin; and yet tin clear Somebody—or something—is entering here There is a Paris underground, Where dwells another nation; Where neither lawyer nor priest is found, Nor money nor taxation; And scarce a glimmer, and scarce a sound Beaches those solitudes profound, Wnt alienee and darkness cloae it round— A horrible habitation! Ita streets are the sewers, where rats abound ; Where swarms, unstifled, unstarved, undrowned, Their ravenous population. Undergonnd Paris has heard of the Fair And up from the river, from alley and square, To the wonderful palace the rats repair; And one old forager, gri riled and spare— The wisest to plan and the boldest to dare. To smell out a prize or to find out a snare- In some dark corner, beneath some stair (I never learned how, and I never knew where), Has guawed his way into the grand affair ; First one rat. and then a pair. And now a doaen or more are these. They caper and scamper, and blink and stare, While the drowsy watchman nods in his chair. FRED. KURTZ, Editor and Proprietor, VOLUME XL lint MU* • hnsgry rwl will curw Fbr the hervihwt Iscqwsrsdor tnlwi-l *re JeawU mill pervious, or *tiifl* rn.wt rare; - TSeveh • msrvrlons smell of cheese In the sir ! Tiiry ,11 raske % nub for the deilcwte (re , Win the shrewd old fellow wuuli out, " 11.-w,re : T s prise Indeed, but 1 wsy forbear ! for est. ma; cslch us snd men rosy wsre. And s well -set I rspts s rath de\lr ; but If we are w.ae, snd would hsve car shsrs With perfect .sfel, to tilde sud lislr, Now llaten. sud ws will our ptsas prepare " The wstchmsu rouses, the rsts sre gone;) (Hi s thousand windows glesma tiie dswu ; And now oee* more Thivtigh eery door, Wllh hustle snd bustle, Ihr great crowds jour ; And nobody hears s soft Utile sound. As of mswiug.or gnawing, somewhere uudergrvuiid. At length, lbs Judge*, going their round. Awarding the prises, enter the ball. Where, amid cheeses tug and small. Ke|vsos the sovereign of theui all. They put their tape rvnnd it, and lap It and bore It, And low lug I store it. As if to adore it, like worship,re of the sun, the; stand - Slice Ui hand, lleaaed and blaud. While their tassume gk>w end their heeits rxpaud. They smell and they taste ; And, the nud re|Us.ed. The foresnoat, lips, say*: " Mes sieurs I Of all fine chress at mark< t or fair— Holland or Kochefort, Stlllon or t'heshife, Xeufchalrl, Mllaucse— There ne\er ass chSOSr. I am free to declare. That a! all could compare With Una great lll u\ ere I" in abort, ao exceedingly well it pleases. They award it a prise over ail the cheeses. That prise lathe pride of the whole SWIM usfiou ; And the town of Xulle, in Its exultation. Without a dissenting some, decrees To tht )yMT of Psria a gift of Ihe cheese. Paris, in grateful reomstutlon (Jf this munificence, sends a comnilwnon Pour stately othciale, or high positron— To take King Cheese from the Inhibition, And, In bah all of the joor, to thank. With speeches and toasls, the Swiss for their gift. The speeohea they made, the toasts they drank ; bight Normandy horses, strung sud swift. At the entrance wait for the golden freight; And all the porters are there to lift. Prepared for a long and a at rung embrace. In moving Mw (irestrice a Utile space. They attain at the signal, each man ID his place : •• Heave, ho!—when :o : as light as a feather, Down tumtJes, down crumbles, the King of the Cheeses, With seven men. all in a heap together : Vp scramble Ihe porters, with laughter and sneesee ; While sudden, mighty amasement seises The high officials, until the; find A euriou* bore In the piattorm floor. And another to match at the nether rind— Just one big rat-hole, and no more ; By which, as it seemed, had ventured tn Cue rat at flrst, anJ a hundred had followed, And feasted, and left—to the vast chagrin Of the worthy burghers of Xulls—as thiu And shabby a shell as ever was hollowed; Now nothing but just A cruahed-m crust, A cart-load of scraps and a pungent dust! So the newspapers say ; but though the; call King Cheese a hoax, he was hard!; that. And the poor he fed, as you see, after all; For who is so poor as a Pan* rat 7 T. Trvtcbrtdp, >H Sf. All- A. tis. THE EVE OF ST. JOHN. It was a warm Jane day. The sun was already half-way down" his western slope, moving lazily, as if weary with the long march of the summer solstice. A gauzy haze veiled without obscuring his brightness, and lent a dreamy charm to the scene below. Soft rolling hills; a stream winding between green willowy shares; seen far away, a broad bine riv er, and the spires and roofs of a town; these were the outlines of the landscape. In the cool piazza of the old white farm house, her home for half a century,stood my grandmother, a smile on her placid face, and her mild eyes drinking in the ' serene beauty of the scene. Alice and I came flying down the hall staircase and stood beside her. "Good-by, grandmamma," cried my sister. "We are going to leave yon for a little while." "Must you go to-day, my deais? The horses are away, and it is a long walk to S . Why not wait till to-mor row ?" "You forget," I said, "that Frank comes to-morrow; and we shall be so bnsy with packing, and all the last things. And it is only two miles to town, after all" "I suppose yon must go, dear; but it is a long walk for Alice in this hot sun," gran'imam ma ad del, glancing from my gray walking dress to my sister's clondy muslin and slippers. "Oh, I am not going, grandma; I shall only walk with Charlotte down to the thorn-trees to take that sketch I have promised yon so long. We shall both be back early to spend a long eve ning with you. This is my birthnight, you know—just think! I am nineteen —and I want you to make a festival of it." "Bo nre we will. And good-by.now, my children, for yon have no time to epare. Alice and 1 walked slowly down the green path which wonnd its way across the fields to the brook. Following this for some distance, we came to a rude wooden bridge by which we gained the other shore; and soon * sharp bend in the stream bronght na to the thorn-trees of which Alice bail sgoken. A miniature promontory, ooverea with the softest and moet velvety turf, was washed on two sides by the waters of the brook, while the third was guarded by a semi circular line of gnarled and twisted thorn-trees. A belt of similar' trees npon tbe oppoeite shore rendered the seclusion of the place perfect. It was a spot which Titania might have chosen for her court, so still, so secret, and so green. Through a partial opening in the trees was visible a lovelv bit of scenery, a sketch of which Alice, who draws with rare skill and fidelity, pro posed te take in my absence. Seated here on the warm grass, the stream mur muring at her feet aud the leaves flatter ing over her, I left her to her pleasant task; and regaining in a few moments more the frequented path, took my way by the long yellow high-road to the dis tant town. Alioe and I liad been spending aome months with onr grandmother, and were to leave in a few dava for our home in Philadelphia. Onr own mother wiw dead; and the warm-hearted, though rather gay and fashionable step-mother who had taken her place, did not come so near to onr hearts as did the gentle old lady at the farm. A part of every J 'ear we spent with the latter, always eaving her with regret. I should men tion that my step-mother had a son, the frnit of a former marriage, who had been absent several years in India, and j at thin time bad just returned. As we had no brother of our own, Frank Bald win, who was a few years older than I, had filled nearly a brother's place to Alioe and myself. He was now to be our esoort home, as onr father was pre vented by some bnsiness from ooming for ua himself. This afternoon I had to make some trifling purchases at the shops, and pay a few parting visits of friendship or ceremony. We bad many pleasant friends in 8 , and the farewell calls consum ed so much time that nine o'clock was ringing from all the steeples before I was able to leave the town and turn my steps toward home. But the way, though lonely, was safe; and I enjoyed the quiet walk in the evening air. It must have been nearly ten o'clock when I reached the gate which communicated with the foot-path across the fields. Of course I had no idea of meeting Alice at that hour; for though she had promised to wait for me, it was in the expectation that my retnrn would be much earlier, j Yet when I came to the tnrn of the path leading to the thorn-treets my steps half i involuntary took that direction. Walking on slowly, I had reached the brook, and was rounding the point ] where, hours before, I had left my sis ter, when I was startled by perceiving I what seemed in the uncertain starlight THE CENTRE REPORTER to lw> her figure reelUitug im the grass uuder the thorn-trees. Involuntarily 1 paused, half in ihmlit, half in fear. At that instant there eame from far away in tlie south the tlrst low breath of the uiglit wubl sighing across Ihe fields and sttrriug the still' loaves of the old thorns with a sound as tif inuumersble airr footsteps. With stblileu thrill, as if I hal been conscious of some invisible presence, 1 called her name, but in s low, frightened voice. There was uo auswer; ami spriugtug forward, 1 kuelt beanie the figure of my sister, lying fat asleep upon the gnt*. Her flushed cheek rested ou her rouml wliite arm, ami a smile like that of ilreamiug infan cy parted her beantiful lips. Lifting her loug hair, on which the night dew glistened, 1 took her htuul, exclaiming: "Alice 1 Alice Vane! what are yon thinkiug of, asleep in this damp night air f Slowly she opened her large eyes and gazed around with a bewildered expres sion. " Dear Alice, do ronae youraelf," J cried, "It is past ten o'clock, and grandma will be crazy." She obeyed the movement of my hand, sat up, aud allowed me to wrap my shawl about her. I gathered up her scattered drawing materials, ami again bogged her to rouse herself and go home. " Yra, we will go," ahe aaiil; " but I have been dreaming so long, I can scarcely find the boundary hue between my dreams and reality." *" What were vou dreaming off" " Oh, so many things ! I must have becu ileepiug A K>UK time, (or the last 1 cam remember the suu was settiug, and I thought you would Boon be here. I was awake then, lam sure of it. All at once there came from far up the gleu a faint sweet strain of music. Then I ills tinguished voices singiug, and present ly I was surrounded by a crowd of peo ple thronging all about me. Their gar ments brushed me, and their fingers touched my hair, but they never seemed to see me. Suddenly "they vanished, one beautiful lady alone remaining. She stood just there, l*lnud that long branch. She was all iu greeu, and I could scarcely distinguish h r from the trees. She spoke to me with a charm ing smile, and then lifting her white hand, waved it slowly through the air. I looked, and papa stood beside me. 1 could not move or speak, but his dear eyes looked into mine for a moment; then the figure slowly faded. As I gazed, other figures came by, brighten ing and fading before my eyes. 1 saw yourself and Frank, mamma just as she iised J look, and many more, all famil iar faces, all persons who have hail some part or influence in my life. Last of all came one I did not know. I turned to ask the lady who he was. She made mo answer, but smiled and held up a ring. I thought I knew him for my future husband, and turned to luok at Ivim again. As I did so, I thought he bent over and kissed me on the lips; then slowly faded as the others had dope. The uext I remember, you were ending me. Now don't laugh, Charlotte," she added, catching the expression of my eyes. " Indeed, love, I shouldn't think oi such a thing. I sm too deeply impressed by your donbtless prophetic vision. *" Now, Lottie!" "Well, dear, whv not? Remember this is the eve of St. John, and yonr birthnight. Every one knows that chil dren born on midsummer-eve are the especial favorites of the fairy folk, and subject to their influence on that night. It if plain enough that the lady in greeu was your fairy godmother, aud your vision must be prophetic," Alice laughed, bnt in a shy, absent way, and her pretty blush was visible even in the starlight. In answer to my railleries, she admitted that before fall ing asleep site had Leei. ludulguig in fancies abont fays and the like, natural ly suggested by the place and tin#'*; but as for the young man, she stoutly de clared she had never seen, or imagined, or previously even dreamed of, any one in the least resembling him. Alice was up early next morning, not a whit the worse for her greenwood nap, and very busy with her drawing. I supposed she was finishing the tiiorn trse sketch; but happening to look over her shoulder when she had been at work for an hoar, I saw it was a isirtrait on which she was engaged. It was the likeness of a young man, apparently twenty-eight or'thirty years of age. "Who is it, Alice dear ?" Alice laughed, but blnshed a little. "It is the face I saw in my dream last night," said she. "Is it possible?" "It is the best likeness I have ever made. That is, in every feature, the face that was bending toward me when your voice broke the spell of my dream." "Well, my love, yon have wonderfully vivid dreams. We must take care that yon do not sleep under the starlight too often." Frank Baldwin arrived that afternoon, and we hastened onr preparations for departnre. He kindly offenql to assist us, and stood ronnd, man fashion, in the way, putting things in the wrong trunks, and making confusion generally. We were limited in trunk room, and Alice declared it qnite impossible to got in her voluminous sketching-books. They were accordingly laid aside to lie left till they could be "sent for, or until we should make our regular visit next year, j Frank, roaming restlessly about, tired of onr inattention, spied the hooks, and began to look them over. He was silent for some time; bnt at length he looked round with an exclamation o surprise, " Edward Granger's portrait! Alice, where did you ever see Ned Granger ?" " I never saw him to my knowledge. Pray who is he f" " He is the friend of whoso adventures ; with me in India I have freqm ntly writ ten home. Is this your drawing y". | "Certainly." " Is it meant for any one ?" " It is a fancy merely." " Well, it's a most surprising acci dental resemblance, considering yon never saw Ned ; and of course you never oould, as he is at this moment on his way home from India, where he has lived for ten years since you were a child in the nursery. I see that the Mogul, in which E Iward sailed, lias been spoken only s week nut. S<> we may expect to see him very soon." We had been at home a week, when one day, on returning from u drive, we earned that Frank's fnend Granger hie I arrived. A £,ood deal fatigued with traveling bv sea and laud, he waa still in j his room, bnt wonld join us at dinner. There were to be other guests, and Alice and I went up to dress. Ido not know that we "primped" more than usual that day ; but I remember feeling ijuite satisfied with my fresh summer toilet; I and Alice looked supremely lovely in the Cle green organdy, which would have en fatal to a complexion fair. " Yon look like the queen of the fairies," I said, and I wondered why she should blush so at the sisterly flattery. The blush had not quite faded when we entered the drawing-room, and Frank brought forward his friend. Mr. Grau ger was presented first to me, which gave me an opportunity to quietly ob serve him while he paid his compli ments to my sißter. I saw his eye light with a flash of admiration for her singu lar beauty ; but this expression was suc ceeded by one of perplexity, which did not pass away for some time. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1878. A* 1 studied the face t! the stranger, i I tras instnutiv rtmuuiln! of Alio*'" drawing of what 1 called her " dream lover," and I uo longer wondered at Frank's surprise on seeing it. It wtut 'an astonishing resemblance. You could have Hworn it was tl* same fane. Not i unlv watt every feature the same, eveu tax the'cut of thA Ivearvl and the parting of tho hair, but the expression of the whtde was identical : the name soul seemed itHikiug through the eyas. Whether AlnV uolitHvl tins or uot, I oould nut tell. She wan talkiug IU a gwy and ani mattxl manner, and there was a aoft light I iu her eve and a fiuali of pleaaoro u her lovely ciieek which made her eveu more than usually charming. 1 have no occasion to prolong thia story by making mysteries; so I may aa well say that the case of Mr. Granger and my sister was one of love at first sight Their two souls jueitod into one at their flrst meeting, aud the affection which tlieu sprang into life seemed to gmw itvur)' duT. Tlitfv uo M^riomi uitrtaeles to fret the current of their lovee; therefore ita ffimrae rat smooth. Mv father's otilv objections rested on the fact that Alice was still so young aud their acquaintance ao brief. Against the match itself he hud no tiling to urge, aa the young m-ui's family,character aud fortune were all he could iuk. t 1 the young people had it all their own wavj and tin ever-beautiful drama, ao tdo, , vet etrruallv so new. went on once more. It was a iuo morning in June, nearly ti year from the period when thia vera cious history commences. • lu the clicer fill hreuktast-riHim of my sister, Mrs, Edward Granger, still lingered a party of three, the young iniatress of the house, her husband and myself. I bad arrived the previous evening, an.l hav ing IKVU stqiaruted from Alice during the six weeks which ha-l elu|>aed since her marriage, we had, of course, many things to talk over. So, though the morning was wearuig away, we still sat there, Mr. ti ranger considerately leav ing ua to ourselves while he reail his paper by the window. I had forgotten his preeeAce, till a sudden exclamation from him drew my attention to his part of the room. 1 had come to Alice's from grand mamma's, where I hod been making a visit, and bail brought with me omoug my luggage the portfolios of sketches and drawings which she hail left liehind last vear. They were lying on the ta ble, and Edward, having finished hi* paper, and getting no atteutiou from us, amused himself by examining them. When we turned round, lie was holding in his hand the spirited sketch of his own features which I so well remem bered. "Why, Alice," lie said, "where did you get this ?" "1 made it, of oouree." '•But I never sat to you." "No; I drew from memory." "How oauie it among those things that Charlotte brought from your grand mother's ?" "1 left it there lust summer. "What a little story-teller! At that time you ha*l never seen me." "So, nor any picture of you; yet I had ilruwn you, a* you see." "Will you please explain," said mv brother-in-law, throwing himself back iu whimsical perplexity. Alice laughed. "Yon will not believe me if I tell you," she said, aentilig her self upon hi* knee. "Well, love, tell me for all that." Alice began the story gaily, but, as it pnweeded, her sportive tone became serious, and her large violet eyes deep eue*l with an expression o4 earnestness aud wonder. When she ceased, it was with a cheek somewhat rtnh>-d, ami a sensitive quiver of the lips which she could not quite control Hvr bus baud had listened at first with smiling inter est ; but tliis soon gave way to an omin ous look of exaggerated gravity; aod when the story was flushed, he bnrst into a js-al of uncoutrollsbl* laughter. He laughed until Uie tears came ill to his eyes; aud when we thought he hnd done he snddeuly started off again, and laughed till he wa* tired. Alice and I joined in the mirth, but my sister not very heartily. "My dear little girl," cried Edward, as soon as he could speak, "do you hope to jtoruuado me that you really dreamed all that about tlie green i" "But it is true, Edward." Eilward went off again. "And von dare aver that you were asleep, iam confident yon peeped." "Yon impertinent boy! Bnialladvun tago in peeping, when von were not there."! "Do yon presume to say yon did uot know I was thete." "What do vou mean, El wan! f" "I mean that my reoo'leotion of that kiss is a* vivid as your own, only I do uot pretend to have been asleep." " My dear Edward, at that time yoti were on the Atlantic, a week's sail and more from home. It was ten days after the eve of Ht. John that you reached our house", and you had only arrived the day , before." " My dear ohild, who told von that I hud jnst arrived from India ?' " No one, perhaps; but we supposed eo, of course." " Nevertheless, on that night of the 23d of June I wu* near enough to get my first kiss from your lips. It wa* a mercy Lottie did notoatoh me. thoiigh. I had just time to gain the shelter of the thorn tree* liefore she came round the point." " Now, Edward," cried I, iu amaze ment. " explaiu your part in this mys tery." "There is little mystery aliont rnv part. It is true that when Frauk Bald win left Calcutta I was intending to come home in the sailing vessel Mogul, which belongs to tmr Arm. Bat us I found it wanld bo necessary for me to go to Franco ativ way, I took tlo steamer route by the Isthmus of Hurt, and wgs in Mar seilles liefore the Mogul had passed the Cape of Good Hope. 1 staid in France several weeks, emsaed over to England, aud took the steamer from Liverpool to arrived on the 20th of June. It happens that one of our clerks in Cal cutta, a faitiifnl, excellent fellow, lias a mother and sister# living on a farm not far from 8 , and 1 was the liearer of letters and gifts from him to them. I might have scut the things by express, of course, but I thought the women might like to see and talk With some one who had come from Fred; so, having plctity of tune at my disposal, I conclud ed to visit them myself. Ton see, no one in New York knew of ray arrival, or exported me for a but night. I made a detour and reached B—- on the after noon of the 23d. I spent several hours with Fred's familv, telling them every thing 1 could think of aliont him, and praising him to their hearts' content — the good fellow deserves it all. It was unite late when I started to walk bark to the town. The evening was so fine that l I felt in no hnrry to reach my hotel, and ! strolled along quite regardless of the way. Perceiving a foot-path which seemed to lead through some ploasnnt fields to a brook, I left the main rood to explore it. Where I went lam sure I cannot tell: perhaps yon, who kuow the localities, oun form a guess. 1 know that I passed through a deep, lonely glen from which the brook issued, and, following the windings of the stream, had just succeeded in making my way through a dense thicket of old thorn trees, when I was startled by the sight of a female figure lying on the grass. I drew near and found a young girl not dead, but sleeping sweetly. What brought her there at Bti"h a time wan a myts*ry. The ilelieate texture of her droit* and the gleam of a heavy gold bracelet on one of her rottuit artna ahow ed that who wan not probably under the ueeeaaity of ehoomng aueh a l>ed-oham Iter. If I had remembered what night of the year it waa- -the ehueen hour of the neople in green 1 ahould probably not have attributed to Iter a mortal char acter at all, but ahould have auppoaed that ahe had merely arrived too noou at the reudexvotia, and waa waiting for her aiatera to begin the greeuwoud revel. Whether under aueh u aupiMmitiou 1 ahould have ventured to take the liberty I did I dare uot aay; but, aa it was, 1 think my guilt had noiueexteuuatiugcir cumatancea. The dewy red li|a through which the sweet hreaui came ao softly ! why, it was uot iu human nature t > resist the temptatiou I Mushing to the soul for the depravity of my race, 1 admit my crime." " Your oontritiou ia somewhat tardy, air," replied the blushing Alice, trying hard to frown, "Pray, how loug were you there ?" " It oould not have l>ceu mure than five mihutea at most. 1 was revolving the ohaiuva ol getting another kiss with out waking you, when 1 heard haitstepa, and had just time to gain the cover of the trees liefore Charlotte appeartsL I hurrie l away across the fields, and reached my hotel about midnight. Next day I started for St. Louis, whence I had just returned when I reached your house." . •• Aud did you then recognize Alice?" " No. I remember that at first sight her face seemed slightly familiar, but the impression passed away. Until to-day I never lor an instant aiaiociaLed tier with the heroine of mv almost for gotten adventure. In that micertaiu mingling of twilight and starlight, fea ture* were not accurately distinguish# ble. The only wouder is how she man aged, undetected, to get so good a view of rniim." " Now, Edward," cried Alice, in a tone of real distress, '* yon surely do not believe—" He stopped the reproach with a kiss. " So, darling; of course 1 Jo not believe anything of the luud. But Charlotte,' he added, "what a strange thing it i*, this blending of the cveuU actually ja**- uig arouud us with the fantastic images of our dreams! What faculty of the miud is it which remaius awake to take cognixar.ee of thuiga outside the dosed eyelids ?" " The prophetic faculty, it would seem iu this instance," I answered, with a* much gravity as 1 could assume. " But perhaps that is peculiar to tin' dreams of midsummer-eve." Edward laughed. "It is an odd thing, anyway," said he. I think it oild myself, but it is true. — Harper'i Weekly, The Scourge In the Wr*l, One of the most interesting chapters in the report of the commission on tin locust, appointed by Oongre**, is that which treats of the permanent I .reeling gronnds of the Icutl. The area in which the locust breeds each year, in greater or less iiurnl>er*, the commission says, is approximately 300,000 square square miles in extent. It is not to be inferred that the locust breeds esmtinu wusly over the whole of this area each vear. for it is to be understood tliat the locust within iu native jwrman.-ut habi tat is essentially migratory in it* habit*. For a aerie* of years it may dejvsiit it* egg* in a given river valley, tn some park, or in some favorable are# iu some of Uie plains lying about the mountains vet it may desert tU customary breed ing-grounds for adjoining region*. or cross a low > range of mountain* aud breed in a more distant valley. Even , ill this are* the true hatching grounds are for the mo*t part conflmal to tlie river bottoms or sunny slopes of np lauds, or to the snbalpiue grassy areas among the mountains, ratii-r than *• tinnoualv over the more elevate*!, dry, bleak plain*. The area in which the locust breed* lies mainly twtwivm longi tude 102 degrees, and 114 degree* Mist of Greenwich, and latitude fifty-three degrees ami forty degrees north. Prom this geueral breeding-ground the locust is distribute*! in all direc tion*. The eaateru limit of it* range is marked by the commission bv the fol lowing line:—" Prom the southern eud of Lake Winnipeg, byway of Lake of the Woo.!*, to Tierce oonntr, Wiscon sin; thence directly south to I'oweshick county, Iowa; then eolith west to Worth county, Missouri; then *>>utb through Montgomery county, Arkansas, to Hons ton, Texas, curving awkward from this point to Live Oak county. Texas." In Slanitoba the eastern and also the north eru limit corresponds very cloaelj with the timber line. The extreme western limit of the distribution of these locusts is the eastern flank of the Oscado Range in Oregon and Washington Territory and the Hierra Nevada mountains, : though in many parts of the country they do not reach a point so far west. As to the southern limit, the commis sion lacked data for determining tins ' line satisfactorily. All that its meui l>er* are able to say in reference to it is that the locust* have lwen known to cross the Rio Grande at Eagle Pass, and to penetrate a mile and a half into Mexico; that they have been observed i iu Western Texn* .is far as the settle ments have extended; that they have penetrated New Mexico on the north east as far as Las Vegas and Fort I niou, and have passed down in the mountain region from Colorado to Taos, and possi bly further south. Number ScTen In the Bible. On the seventh day God ended His On the seventh day Noah'a ark touched the ground. In seven days a dove was sent. Abraham pleaded seveu times for Sodom. . , Jacob mourned seven days for .jo ilacoh served seveu year# f<* Rschael. And yet another seven years more. Jacob was pursued a seven days jonr noy by Laban. A plenty of seven years and a famine of seven years were foretold in Pharaoh # dnain by seven fat and seven lean beasts, and seven ears of full and seven ears of blasted corn. On the seventh day of the seventh month the children of Israel fasted seven davs in their touts. Every seven days the land rested. Every seventh year the law was read to the people. _ , . In the destruction of Jericho, seven persons bore seven trumpets seven days; on the seventh day they marched around M>TOU time A, ADil At tll6 MQ 01 til© B©V entli round the walls fell. HOIOIUOD wtu* BIIVCD TOFTRS building tli© temple, aud fasted seven days at ita ded ication. . In the tabernacle were seven lamps. The golden candlestick had seven branches. Nunman washed seveu times in the river Jordan. Job'H friends nat with nun seven days and seven nights, and offered seven bul locks and seven rams as an atonement. In the Revelations we read of seven churches, seven candlesticks,seven stars, seven trumpets, seven plagues, seven thunders, seven vials, seven angels and a seven-headed monster. FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Kseteea. fuvrt on OMMAMT CAKK.—Currant* or citron for oake ahould uot lie "rolled iu Hour," but dredged or well apriukled with sifted flour, haviug first made the fruit us dry aa poaaible; that is, after washing and draining the currants, dry them ou the stirve and while warm and dry dredge them with sifted ftour just before adding them to the cake, and the fruit should be the last thing added. As IMPitoVKMFNT IN HHKAD MAIINO. Persona who are ao unfortunate aa to tie poorlv provided with tin awl agents of mastication, good teeth, will be glad to know that there ia a method of baking bread which obviates the necessity of a hard crush The crust commonly at tached to the loaf ia uot only truubla- Mome to such persons, but ia often the cause of much waste. The way to be rid of it ia as follows: Whcu the loaves are molded, and before they are set down to "rise," take a small quantity of clean lard, warm it, and rub lightly over the loavea. The result will be a crust Ixeautifully aoft aud teuder throughout. FRENCH TOAST.— This is a very nice break lust dish. Take a couule of eggs, beat them, and pour with them a little milk, season with pepper an 1 salt Cut your bread aa if for toast, pour the egg over it, aud (Hit it in a pan of hot but ter and frv brown. CuiOKEK Hour.—Cut up an oll chifkru uu.l break tho bouea. Put it in a gallon of cold water, simmer several hours, skimming it well. A half hour before taking up add to the aoup uearly n cup f rice anil a sprig of parsley. Strain when done through a sieve. Takeout carefully I tones and parsley. Hea-ou with aalt and pepjier. Heat again a moment and serve. A ITKTASU run Bhkakeast. Take one-fourth of a pound of frealj cheese, cut iu thin aiicca, put in a frying-pan turning a cup of avert un!k over it; add one fourth teaapoouful dry mustard, a innch of aalt and pepper and a piece of butter about the aire ufa butternut; atir Uie mature all the time, ltoll three Hmlou c rank era very fine and sprinkle in gradually, then turn at once into a warm diah, aend to table immediately. Keki> Cake.—One cup of butter; two of white sugar, three egga, half a cup of seels, and flour enough to mtke a stiff pase. Roll it very tlnu, with sugar in stead of tlour ou the board, and cut it in rounds. Bake it about fifteen minute*. I.rare lir'i Vtaalais. The following rule* are given by the J Jural American : 1. Prepare the ground in fall; plant in spring. i Give the vine plenty of manure, old and well decomposed; for frcah manure excite# growth, but doe* not mature it. 3. Luxuriant growth does uot always insure fruit. 4. l>ig deep but plant aliallow. 5. Young viuea produce lieautiful fruit, but old vines produce the richest 6. Prune in autumn to insure growth, but in the spring to insure fmitfulneas. 7. Plant your vim-a before you put up trellises. 8. Vtue*. like old soldiers, ebould have good arms. 9. Prune spurs to one developed bud; for the nearer the old wood the higher flavored th- fruit. 10. Those who prune long must soon climb. 11. Viae leave# love the sun, the fruit the shade. 12. Every leaf has a bud at the liase, ami either a bunch of fruit it. 13. A tendril is an abortive frmt buoch—a bunch of fruit a productive tendril. 14. A bunch of grape* without a healthy leaf opposite is like a ahip at *ea without a rudder— it can't come to port. 15. Laterals are like politicians ; if not checked, they are the worst of thieve*. 16. t iood grapes are like gold—no one has enough. 17. The earliest grape will keep the loneet, for that which is fully mature.! is easily preserved. (Not correct, says the fVsg KrcetrtisT.) 18. Grape-caters oro long liver*. 19. Hybrid# are not always high bred. '2O. Ho who hay# tin* new and nntried varieties should rememlxw that the s.ll - maxim is, Let the buyer look ont for himself. lllwiMMl Frsll Tree*. Mr. flopa*. president of the Penn sylvania Fruit Grower# Association, boldly aaserta that the diseaaed fruit trees are, in nine caae# out of ten. the result# of causes which have their origin in carelessness or igoonuice. Deep planting is one error—to plant a tree rather shallower than ft formerly stood is really the right war. whilst many plant a tree as they would a post. Roots are of two kinds—the young and tender rootle to, composed entirely of cells, the feeders of the tree, always found near the surface getting air and moisture; and roots of over one year old, which serve only as supporters to the tree and as conductors of its food. Hence the injury that ensues when the delicate rootlet'are so deeply buried in earth. Placing freah or green manure in oontact with the young root* is, he tells us, another error. The place to pnt manure is on the surface, where the elements disintegrate, dissolve aud carry downwards. Numerous forms of fungi are generated and reproduced by the application of snch manures direct ly to the roots, and they immediately attack the tteo. It is very well to en rich the soil at transplanting the tree, but the manure, if it be is contact with, or very near, the roots, should be thoroughly decomposed.— Fruit Record. T Clean Mnil. Powder some whiting,and make it into a moist paste with some sal volatile. Cover over the gold ornaments and sur face with a soft brush; let it dry, aud theu brush it off with a moderately hard brush. Silverware may be kept bright ami clean by ousting the articles (wanned) with a solution of collodion diluted with alcohol. Brans ornaments sbonld be first waali ed'with'a strong lye made of rock-alum, in the projiortion of one ounce of alnm to a pint erf water; when dry, nib with leather and fine tripoli. This will give to brass the brilliancy of gold. To clean zinc,use kerosene oil and rot tousbfbe. A News KhymeMer. A suburban reporter for the Indian apolis Herald is permitted to write his news in rhyme. The following is the result of one day's.work : The wits of Pofry I-vary h.ads the list of scci dt'uU, By the breaking of an ankle as she jumped s neighbor's fence. A dynamite eiplosion in the rear of a saloon Knocked Charley Soman' uudergearcompletely ont of tmie. Five empty railway ears ran off the bridge laat Wednesday night, But "the gang," by perseverance, swore them on by morning light. C. Neff, while diving Saturday, and following his nose. Found it very much disfigured as he humed on hie clothes A " prominent feature" of the nine teenth century (and indeed of every other century).—The nose. TERMS: $2.00 a Year, in Advance. TIMELY TOPICH. There are 400 college# in thia oountry with an aggregate of 3,700 profeaaora. The I'aria Kxpoaitiuu will remain open until December ft rat and perhapa until January first, 1879. Preanleut Jefferson's grave will soon be inarktwi by a monument, the Oongrea aioual appropriation for the purpose haviug been speut by Beeretary Evarts in the purchase of a neat stone. The graaahopiM-ra have appeared in Central America, laxteat advices from Houduraa state that eropa have eutirely disappeared in a day, and the sparsely populated localities are entirely at their mercy. On Augtial 28th. 1859, Col. Drake "struck oil." In 1861 exporU ut petro leum reached 27,000 barrels, worth tl,- 000,000. while in 1877 the aggregate value of petroleum exported waa §62,- 000,000. A French physician has recently given four rules which he recommends water-drinkers to observe in hot wea ther: 1. Not to drink cold water imme diately after exercising. 2. To eat some thing befora drinking. 3. To drink in amall mouthful#. 4. Not to drink too much at once. The number of lighthouses around the coast of England and France, the coun tries which have by far the largest ae 7 vice amuiig European nations, ia respec tively between 300 and 400, while there are 1,900 lighthouses around the shore*, aud iu the rivers of the United States, 447 of whieh are along the Atlantic and Gulf coast* alone. At the dinner giveu in Berlin by the crown prince of Prussia to the members of the congress the table waa arranged with great skill. Before each Plenipotentiary flowers were artistically placed ao aa to represent the different national colors of ltia nation. The boa qaet placed be/ore the Turkish envoy represented a crescent in white cameliaa in the midst of scarlet rosea. The reigning beauty in Loudon just now is Mr*. Langtry, daughter of a rural clergyman, married to a rich law yer. Recently, in the midst of an ad miring circle, she asked her husband to introduce to her a certain gentleman. He did so, and the gentleman smiled and bowed. Giving him her handker chief, ahe Raid, " I want von to wij>e the paint from rnv cheek, a* 1 hear that yon say at the clubs that I am painted." A Spanish Senator recently introduced a bill the effect of which would have been to suppress bull-fighting within a term of five year*. It was defeated, as the minister of public works spoke against the bill on behalf of the govern ment, and said that the proposal was ill considered aod ill-timed, for the bull fight* which took place immediately after the marriage of King Alfonso had in creased the popularity of the pastime with all claa*<* of Hpaniarda. The oIJ watch dog "Fidelity*" of the Fidelitv Safe Depository, Chicago, died of old "age in that city recently. Hi" death deserves more than a passing no tile: On the night of the great fire, October 9, IH7I. Old Fidelity was at 111* post in the Fidelity Safe I lepoaitory, and when the hurricane of fire swept over the city be took refuge in an un occupied vault in the basement and re mained there until the morning of the eleventh of October, when the debris was cleared away and the faithful old fellow was rescued. He has ever since been an object of interest as the only livingthing that passed through the fire. The mystery of hydrophobia seem* to be as far from being cleared up as ever. A curious and puxxling caao occurred lately in England. A boy fourteen years of sge wa* bitten slightly on the hand while plaviag witli a Scotch terrier. Three wtiks later he became ill. and symptom* of hydrophobia showed them selves and developed until he died in terrible convulsions. Tlie physician pronounced it a genuine case, but a girl who had I teen biUeu by the same dog appeared to have suffered no harm, and, more remarkable still, the dog wa* ex amine.! by a competent veterinary sur geon aud pronounced perfectly healthy. It is not generally known to what ex tent we are indebted to worms for the rroductivenea* of our garden* and fields, t lis* been found by s series of experi ments, carried out by a German natural ist, that the flhnnels made by worms into the earth are frequently of much service to plants whose root* occupy the chan nels that have thus been made. The mould of our gardens, and fields too, is improved to an almost iooonoeiva.de ex tent by the burrowing* of this humble insect. Each worm in leas than s week paKsea through its owu weight in mould, ami the soil thus produced is fine and light and extremely helpful to the growth of plants. When it is remem bered tliat there are in every sere some thirty-four thousand worms, and that in addition to forming every day about thirty-aeveu p nnds of fine mould, they open up the subsoil and render it fer tile, we shall gain some slight concep tion of our indebtedness to these appar ently insigniflcaut and generally un tlioiight-of little worker*. A serious affray took place under ex traordinary circumstances at St. Peters burg recently. A tradesman despatched s porter after a shoplifting sailor. The porter, a Tartar, pushed him into a droshky to get him to the police station, when upon a happy thought seixed the sailor, who shrieked out: "Save me, fellow-believers, from the Tartar !" This brought a number of Russian# to his rreeue, aud the porter manages! to effect tin eaca|>e to his employer's shop. The mob, baffled and fnrions, then sought the porter's dwelling plan 1 , where they l>eat two of liia friends. Then, hearing that he was concealed in a shop near by, they repaired thither, and finding a Tartar and his daughter, threatened to throw them from the window unless thev gave up the offender. The man assured them that the porter wasn't there, and when thev refused to believe him liegged that at all events they would throw him out first Mollified apparently by this, they did him no harm, but one of his shopmen, whom some of them had pur sued, threw himself out of a third story window, ami his life is despaired of. Then they did frightful damage to vari ous Tartar simps, nntil, at leugth, a suf ficient force of police and gendarmes was got together, and several arrests made. Six tartars were taken to the hos pital. The sailor escaped. The Chinese use A life preserver, which, though perfectly safe, is of the simplest construction; it merely oonßists of eight bamboos, of about six or seven feet long; two of these are placed hori zontally before them, and two behind; and these are crossed by two on each side. The whole are properly secured, leaving a space for the body, so that it can easily be put on over their heads, and tied securely in a minute, in case of any emergency. With these bamboos they cannot possibly sink. NUMBER 33. Editor Coleman * Uaab A New York paper aayaj It ia not generally known that William Oolnman, William Culieu Bryant's predecessor oa the Evening Pott, waa a principal in a fatal and mysterious midnight dual, which created great excitamaut in jour nalistic and puhliaal ctrelea here, seven tv-five yeara ago. At the beginning of the century, party spirit burned at a white heat, and newspaper controversies were ormduetod with almost intemperate seal. Coleman's chief politianl opponent waa James Cheatham, of tha Aevrrlcoe ('.risen, aud the two were oonstsntly at war. Although the Kinm to his friend*." Then he gently laid the wounded man on the ground went off with the others. The doctor reooguizad the gentleman thus strangely consigned to him ae Capt. Thompson, with whom he was intimate ly acquainted. Thompson was severely hurt, having a bullet bole in hi# aide, and was (deeding profusely. The doc tor stanched the wound as well as he could, and drove the patient to his resi dent*, nearly two miles away. He left Thompson at the door, rang the bell and hurried away. The r embers of the f ami IT came; were terribly shocked to find the haaband and father tbev had seen cheerful and vigorous a few boors before bleeding and helpless. They took him to bis chamber, and in lean and distress, inquired the cause of his pitiable plight. He refused to say any thing mora than that be had fought a duel, and had been honorably treated, and 1 **gged that no effort should be made toaiacover or pnniah his adversary wlxer name he wool J not disclose. Though he had the best attention and the eldest surgeons, he died, after lin gering two or three days, with his secret uuVevealed. His petition was religiously resfweted. Nobody tried to molest Cole man, whose share in the duel necessarily sooo known; no comment was made in the prase; the editor of the Pott returned to his desk, and so the strange tragedy ended. Tera-Wee OR Uf Stud. He ru R curly-headed man from Six- street, who answered to any name thev called him, and who was finally supposed to be some millionaire from lUwton. here to buy np all the railroads in the State overlooked by Yanderbilt, and he was helped out very softly. " Yon see," he began, as he turned to the desk, "I am not guilty-1 can t be. The wicked always get away, while the good are taken by the collar and walked down here and fined five dollars. It was the other chap that opened and closed the row." •' As I don't see what I want I shall ask for it," pleasantly remarked the court, and he beckoned to Tern-Gee, the Chinese washerman, to oome for ward and be sworn—to state upon his solemn oath if the prisoner sought to clean out his laundry. "Alle same he did—he did!" ex claimed the heathen. "He ooaee in likee dis, glaba me jnst so alle same kick over heaps clothes— breakee atoola —maahee window—whooo—etlike me on chin—etlike me on eye—nit nm 'gin on lef eye !** In his soft, confiding way the prisoner explained be was only joking— Onlv Joktrg Whtts the shadows l)id a little 100 cr grow ; Just a little. He couldn't have in tended to damage Tern-Gee—be knew he couldn't. The officer pnt in his say. He spoke with downcast eyes and a pair of No. 10 boots on, and it was apparent even to a blind man that he was tolling only the solemn truth. "Only having a good time, your Honor," put in the prisoner as the offi oer retired. " Yon have seat No. 1 in the Maria," said his Honor—" beat place in the whole vehicle to observe the quivering dew-drop doing up its morning toilet after the French twmt. Bijah will chalk vour back, so as to lessen the chances of your getting lost,"— Detroit Fret Pren. Attachment to Newspapers. Some one who seems to know about the relation of a good newspaper to the family writes as follows: ",The strong attachment of subscrib ers to well conducted newspapers is fully confirmed by publishers. ' Stop my paper,' words of dread to beginners in business, lose their terror after a. paper has been established for a term of years. So long as a paper pursues a just, honorable and judicious course, meeting the wants of its customers in all respects, the ties of friendship be tween the subscribers and the paper are as hard to break by an outside third party as the link which binds old friends in business or social life. Ooeasional defects and errors in a newspaper are overlooked by those who have become attached to it, through its perusal, for years. Thev sometimes become dis satisfied witfi it on aooount of something which has slipped into its oolumns, and may stop taking it; but the absence of the familiar Bheet at their homes and offioes for a few weeks beoomes an in supportable privation, and they hasten to take it again, and possibly apologise for having it stopped. No friendship on earth is more constant than that con tracted by the reader for a journal whioh makes an honest and earnest effort to merit its continued support. Hence a conscientiously conducted paper be oomes s favorite in the family." J tan* sT interest ft is boned Turkey now. Tha and of man Hli foot. Mm • man who cannot write bis own name bM bii mark in Ui* acrid. What is that whieh **' evefjtbmg rialbla, bat ia itaalf anseen ? Light. "Will yon lore ma whan I would V as the loaf of braad aaid to tha honaa kaapar. In wtstar, rags, In muMT. bogs; In ■MUMS*, drugs; In advsntty, shrug*. A young fellow who waa eoddaniy jilted by his girl, Mary, observed that *h® WM Mum*Murr. Whan ia a mad bull M objectionable aa an abaant hoaband I—Whan it get ting on toward one. What ia tha difference batwwn a bare figure and an ancient ani' O"* 11 • nudity, and tba other an old ditty. Evarr plain girl baa one consolation. Though not ."pretty young lady, ah. will, if aba Urae long enough, be a pretty old one. America, and clapping the bauds was a foreign innovation. " Are the potato-bugs ripe "k --t*l a would-lx- smart youth. I f'* to," said hi. father; "at all event, you can spend the afternoon picking tbem. Wanted—Delinquent subscribers f© sttele up- P. H. In answering this nd vertiarment please state what paper yon sew it ia.-CS ncinaati Saturday iViffht. Angle-worms do not suffer, a natural ist tliink*, when put on a fish-hook The twists and squirming and oontor tiona are made by the book.