August.
Th* oTiir-t Atyrnpt noon i oom* ;
A illlßbmi rtl#n<-p fill* th* oky .
Th* flold* ore mcah, the wood* ore dumb.
In glassy sleep th< water* He.
Ar ** m ' rk yon soft white clonda that reel
__*' v >e our vale, a moveless throng ;
The .wttle on the monntain a t>ro**t
' Jijoy the grateful shadow loug.
Oh, how unlike thoae merry hour*
In minny June, when earth laugh* out ;
When the frenh wind* made love to flower*.
And woodland* sing and water* shout.
VThen in the graa* *eet water* talk,
And atrain* of tiny iunw> a well
From every moss-cup of the rook,
Prow every r.amelo** bloaaom'* hell
But now a Joy too deep for eonnd,
A oeaoe no other season know*,
Hnalie. the heaven* and wrap* the ground—
The bluaaing of ant wane repose.
H ii.'ar)i (VJJra Bryant,
To-Bay and To-Morrow.
When thon art hy,
1 know M why,
1 love 'bee, bnt I love thee uot to deeply.
But w hen thou'rt gone,
And I'm alone,
I marvel that 1 heKl thee then *o cheaply.
Thy *mile and talk.
Thy glance, thy walk,
In vaiu regret 1 picture and rmember,
Aa well I might
Recall the light
Of June amid the darkneea of December.
Ah. cruel fate!
That all too late
We learn the gohien value of our pleasure -
That it mu*t go
Before wv k JOW
How paeons aaeel it wa* to have ourtrveanre.
IVeverae are we.
Too blind to *ee
.hat idle ir emoriea only lead to sorrow
Km joy to-day,
While yet you may.
Why wait until to-dy beenmos to-morrow 1
AYI'IINHJ It At-VAea<i Ik'teton.
The Tramp's Revenge.
A great, fertile hollow, in the midland
hills, and one man owned it all. Five
hnndred acres of level and upland, field
and forest; aud well might MUly Van
Vleeok complain that she could not even
visit a neighbor without climbing over
the hills.
Bat old Squire Van Vleeck had uo
use toy neighbor*.
Was not the land hia own, and the
homestead and the sawmill itself, half
w y down the hollow ?
Such barns!
Why, the biggest of them had scarce
ly a rival in the countv. There was
twenty feet of sheer fall, between the
mows, packed as they now were with
ton* of clover and tiuiothv.
What did he or b neei of neighbors ?
Not nioch, perhaps, bnt that fall,
when hi* ambi'ion goaded him to reach
out for the civic honors he deemed the
rightful d\te of so much land and for
est, saw-'jailj and crops, and all that, he
sudden\y discovered that the people in
the ot'uer hollows and on the hi lis and in
tbe \iilxgee, all had neighbors of their
OVJ,
Such a snub they gave him !
No wonder the grim old squire went
back to hia ample homestead and
growled at his patient wife, and even
at MUly, in spite of her gentleness and
her beauty, and behaved himself, gen
eral! v, like the old bear he had grown
to be.
The first heavy snows came earlier
than nsual and the cold weather brought
with it immunity from the one thing the
squire hated most.
Not a tramp had been seen in the
hollow for weeks, and no man troubled
himself to ask whither they had flown.
All the more, however, "that bitter af
ternoon, aid the old man's angry soul
stir itself within him when he met, at
hi* own gate, the most outrageous spec
imen of the abhorred race .that the whole
aea*ou had brought before him.
If other tramps had sometimes borne
only the seal of misfortune or of com
mon vagabondage, this one was clearly
and undeniably a chosen vessel of vice
and crime.
Plenty of bone and muscle hail he, and
the very swing and spring of his slouch
ing gait proclaimed that no lack of mere
physical capacity had made him what he
was.
Can a tramp have in him anything
like energy ?
Tbe squire would have said " No," at
any time before he gave that roving
ruffian so large and so acrid a piece of
Iris mind and temper.
He had scarcely draamed of such a
change a* his worda produced.
There was some magic in them stirring
np evfl into a power.
The hegging whine swelled into a vol
ume of hoarse and strident vituperation.
The relics of a mind glowered fiercely
through the hairy, filthy face. The
whole hulking frame seemed to quiver
as the tramp strode away, with the
meaning of the threats and curses with
which the air wa* blue behind him.
Fear i* a bitter ingredient to put in
the cup of anger, and Squire Van Vleeck
was in even a worse humor than usual,
ten minutes later, when a somewhat
fine-looking young man reined in his
horse at the gate, and seemed about to
spring from his sleigh.
"Good morning, squire."
" Don't stop, Gil Xlorse! Drive right
oa !" roared the old man. " Don't stop
•gin any where in tbisholler. Yfcr father's
eon needn't quit the road anywhere on
my land. Ef it hed't a-been for him, I
might a-had the nomination."
More than that he said; but while the
young man's face deepened to a hot
crimson, he controlled his temper suf
ficiently to give his horse the reins and
do as he was bidden without another
word.
A tall, strongly-built, broad-shoul
dered youth was Gilbert Xlorse, and a
year in a city business-house had made
none the less a man of him. H*s greet
ing at the squire's had been clearly alto
gether unexpected, and be polled his
horse to a walk, a moment later, as if he
wanted to give the matter some kind of
ooivjderation. •
How he wonld have driven if he could
liave looked along the road ahead of
him, just beyond where it entered the
hemlock-woods!
Distant as were her neighbors, Milly
Van Vleeck was too robust and healthy
minded a young lady to remain housed
np, even in winter weather, and she had
never looked rosier or prettier in all her
life than she did that afternoon, as she
tripped along the frosty road home
ward.
Away beyond the sawmill, and into
the woods she had been, almost aimless
ly, ill sheer exuberance of youth and
high spirit*, never dreaming of such a
possibility as danger there and then.
Down the road she was coming, and
the frosty snow that crackled under her
light feet was not more innocent or fear
less.
A man in the road I
It might be Jake, her father's sawmill
hand, or it might be one of the farm
lioys, or it might be neither. Why
shonld she care ?
And yet, as that man drew nearer,
Mill? walked more slowly, and her
heart began to beat, she could not have
told why.
She could see him more distinctly
now, and never bad her eyes fallen on
anything like that before.
"I almost wish I had the dogs with
me she said to herself with a shudder.
"What a horrible looking man. I
thought the tramps were all gone."
More and more slowly walked Milly,
for, as the hideous human form drew
nearer, a pair of blazing, hungry, wild
beast eyes gloated fiercely and triumph
antly upon her through the matted locks
which hung from under the battered
felt on his head.
A darter of his, I reckon," growled
the tramp. "It's all the same, anyhow;
Kome rich man's gal."
A wild scream burst from llilJy s
whitening lips, and she tried to spring
past him; but his long arm caught her
:ts she went by, and in an instant her
hawl was wound around her head. ,
"No more screechin'," growled the
FRED. KURTZ, Kditor and Proprietor.
VOLUME XL
I hoarse, deep voice, " though there'• no
body nigh enough to hear ye."
Nobody ?
Thon why wa* it that the l**h hod
! fallen ao Midvkuly on the gvxxi horse
Gilbert Morse waa driving, ju*t beyond
the torn in the road ?
A scream from vigorous lunge g,wo
far in frosty weather, and Hie w hip foil
more than ouoe.
I Milly *t niggled hard, even iu Uiat
grasp of iron, out tar strength was fail
ioi g fast, when a wild, angry shout rang
down the road, and the tramp lo.ecd
j his hold for a moment,
"Don't meddle.youngetor," he began,
as a fiercely plungiug steed was pVulod
up in a flurry of snow at U roadside.
The answer oanie fyotu the loaded end
of a whip, square helvtvn liia eyes.
A thinner skull might have Wen
cracked by it, aud, eveu on his hruaen
forehead, the blow brought him to his
knees.
MUly Van Vleeok was free, and she
almost instinctively bounded into the
cutter.
There was no room to tnrn and Gilbert
Morse gave his trotter the reins, for he
the tramp was feeling among Ins
rags for something which might have
danger in it He longed to stay aud
finish his work with his loaded wh>p,
i but there was Milly.
"Oh, Gil!" she exclaimed, "how ,| 1
I get home ?" •
"The saw-mill road," he ropu d;
"the track has probably not been bro
ken, bnt the snow isn't deep."
"Yea, but it has," said Mdlv. "They
were hauling logs, yesterday. '
"Safe enough, then," said Gil. "Hut
ain't 1 thankful 1 came along, just
then!"
"Did father tell Ton I was oat this
way? Ik new yon would come to see
me first thing. And how you have im
proved f"
Milly's excitement was taking a form
that could not tie unpleasant tohereom
jiamon; but a deep cloud was settling
on his (ace, notwithstanding, aud she
cheeked herself suddenly to ask him:
"Bnt what can be the matter? He
did not hurt you, did he ?"
" No. but your father has. Milly. I
cannot stop at your house. Your father
has forbidden me. Something between
him and mine, about the election. When
we get to the gate yon can get out and
go in. Perhaps he'll get over it soon,
and I don't want to make him any worse
just now."
A wise young man was Gilbert Morse,
in spite of his Milly"s all but tearful
pre testations, for the sight of his daugh
ter returning home in such company,
aroused old Squire Van Vleeok to the
uttermost.
It was even an aggravation that Gill
so deftly polled up just long enough for
Milly to jump out, and then raised his
hat so politely,to her father as he drove
away.
So choked with wrath, indeed, was the
bitter old man that be could not find
words to express himself, and, before ho
bad recovered his utterance, Milly was
rapidly recounting to her mother her
awful peril from the tramp, and the gal
lant manner in which she had been res
cued by Gilbert Morse.
The squire could not' help listening,
although it seemed a good deal like a
romance at first.
But Milly had bruises to show, as well
as her torn shawl and disordered dress,
and in a moment more the old man was
striding up and down the room like a
tiger in a cage.
" On my own laud! in my own woods!
My own daughter!" be gasped at inter
vals; and then stopped in front of her.
with: " Did yon say Gil Morse knocked
him dowu?"
"Yes, father."
"And saved ye?"
"Yes, father; and he brought me
home in his cutter."
" And I drove him away like a dog or
a. tramp this very afternoon !" roared
the squire. " I'll drive them all away.
I'll shoot 'em on sight. They'll burn
me out of house and home next."
Millv's mother had her arms around
her, almost hysterically, but her excite
ment was calmness itself compared to
the a]moet ludicrous frenzy of the old
man.
Lack of love for his own hail never
been charged upon him, whatever were
his other faults.
The events of the afternoon had not,
moreover, been of a sort to induce any
nnusnal quietude. i
His expected supper and evening at
Squire Van Vleeck's having been so un
ceremoniously put out of the question,
his afterthoughts equally forbade an im
mediate drive home, for that would be
ten miles at least
Just over the hill, and less than three
miles from the Van Vleeok homestead,
was a pleasant country hostelry, and
there Gil naturally lie took himself for
supper and horse-care.
This attended to, he said to the land
lord, an old acquaintance;
"Al, can you keep a aecret ?" .
"Did, once," replied AL
"Then lend me yonr shotgun," said
Gil, and, with the request, be added an
account of hia exploit on the road and
the diflTerencea between himself and the
squire.
"Can't go to the house, yon see, Al,
but I'm bound to know if that rascal is
loafing around there."
"I'd go with you in a moment, if X
con Id get away," almost shouted the
landlord. "Gun? Yes, two on 'em if
you want. I wish my wife wasn't sick.
It won't do for you to arrest him all
alone, and without any warrant, but try
for a chance to fill him full of buck
shot."
It was somewhat dark when Gilbert
Morse began to retrace, on foot, the
road he had so reoently driven over, for
the moon was not yet over the hills, but
he felt all the better for having the
double-barreled duck-gun over hia
shoulder.
"Better than a pistol for night-work,"
he said to himself.
He did not keep the road up to the
homestead, but made n detour through
the woods and came oat beyond, not far
i from the saw-mill.
"Better go on toward the main road,"
he muttered: "it's early yet, and he's
likelv to come in from that direction."
"Hullo!" he exclaimed, a moment
later, aa he stood among the sheltering
j shadows of a clump of trees, "three of
'em. The big fellow's the aam one.
; They're making straight for the saw
mill. Bent on mischief not a doubt of
; it."
There was no earthly reason for any
! sort of doubt
The big tramp had met his two asso
ciates, retuming fiom an expedition
somewhat more successful than his own,
and they had promptly agreed with him ,
that the circumstances called for the
infliction of the extreme penalties known
to the laws of their guild.
It was already getting well into the
evening, and rural retiring hours are
notoriously early.
Not that slumber was likely to come
very promptly to the Van Vleeck family
that night, though the squire had
calmed down a good deal aud was un
usually silent.
Mrs. Van Vleeck had kept very dose
to her daughter all the evening, aud had
taken the precaution to bring the two
dogs, both large ones, into the honse.
The dogs And the family might be the
safer, but how about tramps ?
The big ruffian, as has been said,
was not without some traces of a vicious
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
1 ——
iWlbt, slid was quite competent to be
the leader of a little affair like that
"Set the *aw mill first#' he said.
I " All the men folks 'll *tart ?i>r it W* put
it out Then the banjo, <*!{ away the
real, and we kin vfk the house uuiok
and w*t to t'iV woods and o\er the hills
i M *Sut> aa so many foXea,"
1 So they could, indeed, if uo uiishnp
came iu to interfere.
! The house-folks must be in l>xl now,
A match some kindling* and bits of
: wood, on the opposite slue of the saw
I mill from the house—nothing easier
than to start a fire.
''Now, boys, for the big barn*. We
I kiu wait there till this 'uu* well a go
ing."
1 They made a ruu for it, but the only
reason they were not more closely pur
i sued, or eveu fired upon, was that Uil
i liert Morse deemed it bis duty to stop
i aud scatter the growing blaze belaud
the saw mill. It wan not hard to do,
• although the fire was beginning to come
> up very well when the desperadoes left
it. The brauda could all be kicked iuto
t the auow, aud there was not a trace of
< it iu three minute* after he got there,
i Hut those three minutes !
The big baru was bettor than either of
the small ones, liecauae further trumthe
house aud more easy of eutrauee. It
. contained uo horse, and wiu not even
I looked.
The three tramps were inside quickly
: enough, aud the big oue climbed cue of
> the high mows.
" Better light it up liert," he said to
his frunds below. " They can t get at
it to put it out. Say wheu. Is the saw
i mill well a-going ?"
"Can't say edtaotly," growled one of
the smaller ruffians, peering :hrougli the
i door. " And there's a feller ruuuiu
i scroet the field."
" Here goes then !" exclaimed the
leader, as he caught up a wisp of hay
ana scratched a match. " Now, hoys,
I'm coming. Make for the shed. We'll
j work it."
A slippery thing is a hav mow, ami
uncertain footing in the ilark. Instead
, of coming down as he went up, the big
tramp found himself sliding, sliding
helplessly into that twenty-foot gulf be
tween the two mows.
Iu vain he grasped at the dry timothy
and clover, he did but scatter his lighted
wisp among the t unionsh masses he
pulled down with hiin in his fall.
Dowu in a half stitnued heap, with a
vast pile of kindling hay on top of him,
to choke and stifle him with it* smoke as
he liuiptd about iu the suffocating dark
ness and vainly groped for away to
escape.
Bang, lutng!
One of tho smaller tramp* went down
amid a storm of leaden pellets, but the
other rescind the shed just as the door
of the house swung open, and the two
mastiffs bounded out to see what might
lie doing them ,
Squire Van Vleeck and his " hands,"
old and youug, were out iu the shortest
order, and the female part of the house
hold were not far behind them; but it
was too late to save the big bam, what
ever might l>e done for the others.
Well for the squire's pocket* that he
had built them some distance apart.
As for Gilbert Morse he was calmly
reloading his old duck gun wheu the
squire discovered his presence.
"I'm going in a minute," he remark
ed, coolly. " Don't be in a hurrv. I've
put out the fire at the saw mill, and I
think I peppered the fellow lying there
by the shed. If I'd been a little quicker
I might have saved the barn."
"So you've been out here this winter
night lookin' out for my property, hev
ye!" said the half-bewildered squire.
"The barn's gone, and no mistake; bnt
we kin save the other*."
The old squire was jnst the *aau to bo
steadied by an actual calamity; but,
• while his "hands" were d> ug what lit
tle could be done iu the wy of a tire de
partment, he strode straight for the two
tramps.
The one who had been in the way of
the buckshot would never answer any
more questions, but tho one tho' dogi
were holding down gave some informa
tion.
"Whore's the man that attacked my
daughter this afternoon ?" asked the
squire, sternly.
" In the barn," replied the tramp.
"But the burn's burning up," said
the squire.
"So is he," doggedly returned the
rufflian; "and sarved him right, for
•getting me iuto sech a scrape as this."
Some profanity there was; but fha
dogs were taken off, and the man won
tied up.
" On, Gil, come into the house," were
the pleasant words that camo to the
young man's ears, as he stood looking at
the tramp he bad shot.
" Not till your father asks me," was
the half-haughty response.
" Don't lie a fool, Gil M irse, just be
cause I am," growled the old man. "Do
aa Milly tells you, now and hereafter.
Go right in. We'll take care of things
for ye for a while; but I reckon it'll all
be yonrn one of these davs."
And so Gilbert Morse aid not go back
to the hoetlery that night, ami when, a
few months later, at the trial of the cap
tured tramp, he was asked, "Are yon in
any manner connected with Squire Van
Vleeck ?" he manfully responded:
" He is my father-in-law."
But nothing more was seen of the big
tramp, not a relic of him, until they re
bnilt the great barn the following spring.
W. O, St'tddard, in Hartford Timet.
Popnlar Superstitions of the Turks.
The interpretations of dreams give*
rise to much cogitation, and fnrnislies a
frequent topic of conversation for Turks,
i men and women. Pire means sudden
news, as water forecasts a journey. A
person who has a reputation for explain
ing dreams finds a ready welcome every
where in the East. The Evil Eye is
feared by all classes. It is to divert
harmful admiration from her own beau
ty to her ornaments that a Turkish bride
decks herself with diamonds pasted on
chin, cheek* and forehead; for this that
she shrouds her face with a glittering
veil of thin, oopper-oolored strip* of tin
foil; for this that she sits under the aiki
—a festooned canopy of artificial green
boughs, with bnnclies of dyed feathers
aud shining metal balls completing the
decorations. It is for this that every
Turkish baby has its little muslin skull
cap, adorned with a medallion of pearl*.
And if you happen to say "Nr. gruel
tahoudjouk !" (What a pretty child !)
yon are instantly asked to spit in ita face
I or to say "Mash-Allah 1" to correct the
mischief of your words.
Divination is often made at holy
wells, by observing the surface of tho
water. At Eyonb, tjie sacred quarter of
i Stamboul, near the mosque where the
sultans are girt with the swerd of Os
man, in lieu of coronation, is a famous
well. It is to l>e found in the back
garden of a poor, tnmbled-di wn house
belonging to the Khodjn who takes
charge of it. It an ordinary round
well, about a yard in diameter. A low
ooping-stone runs round it, over which
the votaries at Dame Fortune's shrine
stoop low, to catch, if they may, some
image in the depths below vouchsafed
for their enlightenment. All Mussul
men, before looking in, reverently bide
and stroke their face* with their open
hands, and aB is their manner in praying
for some favor.— /ielgravia Magazine
A leading physician says heat is the
sole cause of cholera infantum.
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER ft, 1878,
HOW ADAS IMLUIK WIfOOTS.
A MlMssrt KlSraiKß whs Is Fswslli Mm.
■(•rial si -hull sad l.asa Knua* -Is
• •i-rHali* Hall's trie* al s Tbaaaaud
Yards A l.uaa Kniiir llurl.
Iu Shannon comity, Mo., Uvea a nun
who is a greater a.lejt with the nfl- aid
has performed move refil and marvelous
feat* of reatksnianship than eveu those
tr'.th which Dr. Carver has of lute Ix-en
astonishing the world. Oapt. Hogardus
aud the noted English marksmen, Lord
De Grey, Aubrey Coventry, and Chol
luoudeley lVnuell are completely
echpeed by this hitherto unheard of phe
\ Hotucuon. The name of this wonderful
handler of the rifle is Adaui Ooldie, and,
s* above meutioii-.il, he resides tu Shan
non coUllty, Mo., where he wa* boru.
He is about thirty-eight years of age.
Adam Goldie is a man iu the prime of
life, utioul five feet eleven inches in
height, and with a most wonderful
physique. He hoe a frank, open couu
teuauoe, with large, bright blue eyes,
which have a jvuliar appearance. They
are restless and ever in motion, au t
there is a peculiar sort of twitching ac
tion jx-roeptible, whioli almost conveys
the impression that hi* vision must t>e
defective. His light brown hair hangs
in long, flowing locks, and a long, fl ■•
ing beard covers his cheat. II is face is
a taking om*—Ojwwi, affable and free—
aud when he talks, hi* voice has a ring
ing, cheery tone alxtut it that i* pleasant
to the ear.
t Some of the feat* which he ha* per
formed seem >nqxtsihlo. He has broken
glass balls out of 300 in twelve
niinulea, with a fortv-fojjr calibre Win
cheater rifle. He can hreak 100 glass
balls five tunes out of *IX, without a
j miss, iu Uiree minute*. These feat* ore
unparalleled, aud surpass Dr. Carver's
wouderful shooting. A seemingly in
credible feat that he performs is as fol
■ lows: A soda water bottle is thrown
into the air in a certain manner, and be
{fore it fails Goldio will send a bullet
■town the neck of the bottle and make a
hole in the bottom. There are other
'feat* that he jverfortna with bottles.
At fifty yartls distance a Imttle in placed
on a forked long.and Gold;* will send six
bullets in rapid moMpioo down the
neck and through the bottom, only per
forating the latter in une place.
At long distances this wonderful marks
| nian perform* ju*t as marvelous feats.
At 1,(100 yards he will hit the centre of
the bull's-eye and thru scud six bullets,
one after the tlier, hittiug the very in
dent made by the first A poiato thrown
in the air Goldie will perforate with six
bullet holes before it touches the ground.
Perhaps h' mort astonishing feut is hi*
• breaking two bails at once. This is
done in the following mauner: The balls
are thrown crosswise, and as they pas*
each other on their course, with quick,
unerring aim aud lightning-like rapidity,
Goldie will SJHHXI a bullet through both.
Another feat is the placing, of an inch
strip of tin about three feet long in
position, at thirty feet distance, and
, jierforating it from top to bottom with
thirty-ail fmlos, ail exactly in the centre
of the strip, aud all at even distance
apart. Gold!* says he does not kuow
' where hi* wonderful skill come* from.
He never handled a rifle until be was
eighteen years old, and to hnn it seems
like an instinct. He would take aim
and fire with unerring accuracy, and hi*
wonderful feats a<xm acquired for him a
marvelous reputation among his neigh
bors.
Some live yearn ago Goldie left his
native county of Bhauuon, when' he is
engaged in cattle raining, for North
western Texas, where he passed two
vuars, and thare one of tlie m*ist exciting
Incidents of Ids career happened. Hi#
fame as a marksman among the Texana
soon la-came notorious. in the vicinity
of Goldie's ranch lived one William I)ar
rell, or, as he was more familiarly
termed, Bloody Bill. This Bloody Bill
was 11 uoted ruffian and desperado, a
rookies# dura-devil. Hie feota in mark
manship were likewise astounding, and
probably BO man in the I*me Star State
j excelled him in handling the rifle.
Bloody Bill hail been engaged in many
deeds of daring, and was nearly always
mixed up in some row or squabble, lie
I had already killed three men, and his
• numerous acts of ruffianism hail made
hup a terror to the frontier. Few eared
to cross bis path, s his uaiigrrons char
iicter and dexterity with the rifle were
well known. Goldte hail met Bill on
several occasions, but hail never been
involved in noy difficulty with him.
Knowing his turbulent disposition, he
always sought to avoid him. On one
Sunday, however, Goldie was sitting in
oompnnr with a score of Texans, when
' Bill rude up aud joiued the party. Of
late he had become quite jealous of
; Goldie's uotoriety as a marksman, and
hal frequently spoken disparagingly of
the latter. At last Pie Texans began to
relate some of their reminiscences, and
Goldie oommenced relating an incident
that had occurred to him. Bill, who
l had drank heavily and iieoome rather
moody, in the midst of the narration
suddenly jumped to his feet and insulted
Goldie, at the same time striking a blow
at him. All was instantly commotion.
The whole party were on their feet and
revolvera were drawn. Goldie de.mand
l ed satisfaction for the insult, and Bloody
Bill, with a scornful laugh, suggested
that they had better make it a trial of
their respective skill with the rifle. The
idea was caught up by the Texans, aud
after a short consultation they decided
that a dncl should lie fought, but, in
consequence of the extraordinary skill of
thoqiarties, at n long distance. On the
1 open prairie, sl*>nt two miles distant,
grew two jsmt oak trees. They were
I I'JO parils apart, and were the only treeH
l on that spot. All around was open,
timberless prairie. It was decided that
Goldie sod Bill should both take their
rifles and each take up n position be
' bind the fespective trees mid then blaze
away at each other. The Texans hoped
by this means to prevent bloodshed, or
at least to prevent a fatal termination to
the duel. The preliminaries being
Settled, the whole party mounted their
horses and rode nut on the prairie to the
selected spot. Goldie took up his posi
, ton behind one of the trees, and Bill
ensconced himself behind the other,
j The remaining party of the crowd then
j rode to a slight undulating eminence to
the right, where they were to re.main as
spectators. One of them wns to give,
the signal for the beginning of the eon
i test by tiring hia rifle in the air, and the
1 report trns to be the signal to the duel
-1 ista to liegin w'th their blc ody work.
I Goldie awaited arxionsly for the deton
ation of the rifle, which suddenly sound
ed on tlie air.
Then commence*! the duel at the long-
I est range ever recorded. Goldie ad van
, ced from behind the tree in a kneeling
posture, when, whiz I his sombrero was
perforated by a ball from Bloody Bill's
rifle. Quick as lightning he droppeil
fall length on the ground in time to es
cape the two other bullets which came
in rapid snoeession. He lay still, brought
his rifle into position, as lie wns stretch
ed full length npon ihe ground, and
then remained immovable. Presently he
saw a diminutive figure which he knew
to be Bill (who was was nearly one inch
taller than Goldie) advancing cautiously
from the shelter of the tree. Quickly
taking aim he fired twice in snoeession
and then retired behind the sheltering
trunk. One of the ballets he afterward
discovered had passed through the lobe
of Bill's left ear. There was a cessation
now of firing for some time, when Goldie
espied his opponent's head and shoulders
CXJHISISI. Quick us lightning hi* rifle
was at hi* shoulder, and the detonating
report was heard. Bloody Hill's ht
was carried away by tho bullet. Ooldie
now rattler incautiously advanced from
Ilia aholler and became the target fornix
balls in rnpid rotation, one of which
made a hole in Lis Coat sleeve and another
through his pantaloons. He Wat a hasty
retreat. The duelists remained gazing
at the distant trees, t-aeh watching for
the indistinct form wlcch represented
his adversary. Each peered cautiously
froui behind the tree, endeavoring to
gaiu sight of the other. CSoldie at last
saw Hill again advance, and the former
stepped rapidly to the front and quickly
brought ins rifle iuto position. Almost
simultaneously the clear, sharp rejaut
of two rifles rang ou the air, and both
men fell Ooldie managed to raise him
self and crawl behind the trunk of the
tree. II i had lieen wounded in the left
shoulder. Presently he was joined by
the Texan* who had luten witnesses of
this most exciting duel. They had
already ridden over to Bhssly Ht'll and
found him dead—a bullet had jienetrnted
his temple.
Another wonderful fact connected with
Ooldie is that lie is just aa good a marks
man and just as dcib roils with the re
volver a* he is with the rifle. At sixty
paces he can hit ibe center of the bull's
eye and then put iweniy balls in quick
succesaiou through the same orifice At
forty pace* he can with hi* revolver
knock off the ash of a cigar which n gen
tleman may W smoking, although few
men have the nerve to stand as the tar
get. Another of his feats with the re
volver is firing at a champagne Wttle at
forty pace*, and with the bullet dr-ve
the cork into the bottle. In short, his
feat* with pistol are too numerous to
mention, lie evem* to Are without tak
ing aim, a* some of this shooting he can
do in almost any position, firing from
under hi* leg, etc.
It is uuderl>od that some gentlemen
who are acquaiutod with Ooldie'* record
with the rifle, and have witnessed his
splendid shooting, are rairiug a sum of
money to bring him before the public.
It is their intention that he shall first
give a public exhibition of hia skill iu
St. Louis, and afterward go East, when
a match is to lie arranged betweeu him
and I)r. Carver.
Twu Stories Bilk MeraU.
A bridegroom near Kansas City
counted out 816 in his left hand, and re
marked to the dear young tiling at his
side, " That will do for our wedding
jiuruay, a* there's an excursion to town
to -lay," His wife told him (hat he had
bettor let her have the mouev, as she
had a ps'kctbook, but he preferred to
maintain control of the exchequer. He
wna willing to borrow her purse and out
the sl6 in it, and their financial differ
euccn were finally adjusted on this basis.
When he reached the depot, somewhat
enenmbered with the bride on his arm,
he was jostled by a stout man who
ajiolcigisevl aud went oti. The tickets
lmd la-en bought, there were no jmanuts.
sold on the ears, and his hands were
constantly occupied during the wcdJing
journey *o tlmt he <lid not discover his
IU*H antil they had eaten their Itmch in
a restaurant, and he was called upon to
pay tor it. His pocket hail been npfxxl
open, and her purse, with the money in
it, had been stolen. His bride aobbod
ou hia shoulder, and reminded him that
she had told him to give the money to
her. Moral to men: Trust your wives,
and liewure of pickpockets.
The mt mysterious thing in this
world of mysteries is a woman's present
timint. Hrt> is Mr*. ELlev, who has
her lx-ing in Macon City, Kaunas, and
always carries her money in a jturse,
and her puree in her pocket. One day
she wa* going out of town on au excur
sion, and snddenlv, utterly without
warning, without her mentioning the
fact to her husband, the hail a presenti
ment that if *he were to carry the money
in bur pocket she would lose it. So she
took her purae and hid it in her boaora.
She had another twinge of presentiment,
and dropped her watch and chain into
the same receptacle. Then alie became
sceptical, fished ont the pnrse, and tak
ing from it B>> restored it to it* nest.
The S6 went into the despised pocket.
Wh'*n alio arrived at thtsdepot no **•>
*<<no*tei by a t>e*utifnl young gentle
man, who inquired if she win* looking
tor anybody. While he was speaking, a
horrid man pushed against her rather
roughly. The beautiful young gentle
man took her part ntiJ abused the hor
rid man. and ax there was evtrv s.gn
of a fight Hie ladv prudently withdrew.
Soon eft* rwnrds the ls.lv put her hand
into her fsek't and found that there
was nothing iu it. Tli" lining had been
cut with a knife. Purse and watch
were near her fluttering heart. The
preseutimsnt had been a sound economic
Colicy aud her want of faith bad coot
erflfi. Moral to women: Trust your
presentiment, and lxware of pick
pockets.—A>tr York Tribune.
Mbs Leo and a Naples Landlord.
A letter from Naples to the Columbia
(8. C.) licgintcr say* : Mi** MaryCnstis
Leo, a daughter of General R"lert Lee.
arrived hero a tow dav* ago, in company
with some lady friends from Malta, who
registered at the Hotel Roval do* Etran
gers. It appear* tb*t during the night
of the Rth tho mosquito bar around the
lied ignited accidentally from a candle
which Mia* Leo bad lighted. In a few
moment* tlie flame* spread and caught
the lace curtajna, and the room wa* noon
enveloped in flames, which Miss Lee
heroically endeavored to suppress, but
without *ncee*s, and fearing that the
hotel might lie burned she gave the
alarm of fire, which soon was heard by
some gentlemen who were occupying
room* on the same floor, when ex-Judge
Kanmel W. Meltou and Mr. A. W.
Clark, of Colombia, 8. C.. wore the first
who came to 'the rescno of Mis* Lee,
and succeeding in saving her money and
valuable jewelry from the flames. Tho
morning following the fire Mtsa Lee ex
pressed her willingness to pay all ilam-
Hges, though the fire had occurred from
accident. The proprietor, taking ad
vantage of tho lady, demanded 2,000
francs, which was a preposterous nud
enormous charge of tne damage. The
friends of Miss Lee at once demurred to
this charge. The American consul, Mr.
Dun "an, at this place was exceedingly
kind aud protested against the paymeut
ol any M anm. The proprietor, now
being foiled in his disgraceful effort to
overcharge for damnge occurring from
accident, liecame iusolvent and sjioke in
a manner which reflected upon Mi>-s
Lee. The insult was quickly resented.
Mr. Clark, of Columbia, 8. 0.. struck
him over the head with an umbrella. In
a few momeuta the proprietor was sur
rounded by a number of Italians, who
were clerks, waiters u<l attaches of the
hotel, bnt they were met by Judge Mel
ton, Colonel John T. Sloan, Jr., Mr.
D. A. P. Jordan, of South Carolina,
and Dr. I. B. Roberts, of Georgia, who,
by their coinage and determination,
caused them to stampede aud call for
the police. A large crowd soon assem
bled aliout the hotel. The proprietor
was denounced by Colonel Sloan for his
conduct toward Miss Lee, and chal
lenged him to go into the garden and
answer for the same with swords or pis
tol*, which the proprietor declined to
accept. It would he well for Americans
to avoid this hotel when coming to
Naples.
TIMELY TOi'itK
Property on Hixtli avenue. New York,
has Wen injured (so it tMclaiinoJ) to the
; amount uf ftIO.OUO.UA) by the elevated
1 railroad.
Herr Htrousberg, the European ex
-1 railroad king, has offered hi* creditor*
three cents on a dollar. Their claims
amounting to 916,000, (100.
Au interesting black worm, an inch
long, that falls to pieces on being
handle 1, has appeared iu Colorado, and
taken to Ivjnug through the roots of the
coru.
A young woman residing in the ne.gh
burliuod of ileadlcy, iu England, recent
ly arose in her sleep, and, taking a car
ving knife from the kitchen, proceeded
to the fowl house, where she cut off the
heads of six flue cocks aud hens. She
afterward* slaughtered five pet rabbits,
and wound up her somua übuliatic ex
ploits by mortally stabbing a favorite
donkey.
L. D. Atchison, who fell a distance of
200 feet fr<>m the trajw-ze bar of his bal
loon at KIIUWIMKI, IU., being killed in
stantly, war- s veteran wrouaut and acro
bat, having replaced Donaldson with
Hsraum's sitow. Some five years ago,
while exhibiting in Kentucky, his bal
loon burst at au ehrvatiou of 2.UUU feet,
but he clung to the pieces aud escaped
with his life, though he was badly in
jured.
A Texas, (Midi.) girl tried to get in
to a rear window of the achoul-house the
other day, alien the sash fell and held
*her fast about the neck. Several men
across the street heard her scream, but
suppuacd it wa* children at play, aud it
was t<-u or fifteen tuiuute* before she
was seen and her unconscious btsiy re
leased. It were long before indications
of life was discovered, and several hours
before the child regained c-uuciouuess.
An electric alorui has been recently
designed which my be fixed to an
ordinary chick. It is so arranged that
when the hour luiud of the clock touches
a button an electric circuit is completed;
the minute hand passes over the button
without effect There is a aeries of
' holes for the different hours, into any
oue of which the button can lie pushed
according to the time at which the alarm
may lie desired. The completion of the
electric circuit may ring a bell or sundry
other alarm*.
Karl Filoty, tlie great historical
painter, recently heard from a brother
artist that Dr. Trettenberg. an old phy
oloiau of seventy-three, Filoty'a friend
for many years, had oatd that the at
tempts on the emperor's life were the
legitimate fruit* of the utujeror' mas
sacre* m 1848. when he ti m command
of the Prtiaoian troop*. Ilia pointer
denounce* the physician, who waa sen
tenced to eight months' detention in
a fortre.- a, which at his age is next thing
to a arntence of death. Wheu Piloty
apfmarcd in court I* wa* booted and
biased.
The total area of Denmark, says an
English exchange, I* 6,tW0.000 acre*;
5,200,000 acn-s are under cultivation, uf
which 300,000 have !>eeu addcj during
the last ten years. The area i* dirided
into mnrr than '200,000 different proper
ties, of which 170,000 are each owned
by a different proprietor; and out of
*280,060 families not living in the towna
only 26,000 are cottagers. It will thua
I*' seen that in IVnmark, aa in France,
the soil is divided among a nnmber of
•mall proprietor*, and not, a* in Eng
land, accumulated iu a few handed
During the last ten year* an extraordi
nary iiicriaoe in the breeding of cattle
an<f a corresponding decrease ia the
production of grain haa (kken place.
Two thirds of the import* aud export*
fall to the nhareof England and Germa
ny, Sweden and Norway coming next
Lightning'* Startling Berk,
The house of Mr. Caleb Bradbury in
Cambridge, Ma**., wa* struck bv light
ning abont quarter before six o'clock on
a recent Friday afternoon. No other
bmlding within a quarter of a mile of
it wa* furnished with a lightning rod,
but on thi* one nda xnse from every
corner of the roof aud from the chim
ney*. A bolt cute red the front of the
house at the aide of a Iwy window, and
nearly on a level with the top of the win
dow. Clapboard* were torn off and
thrown into the street aud also a por
tion of the lioerda inside the clapboard#.
A apace of three or four feet square was
stripped in this manner. Mra. Boyee,
a visitor, wa* reclining upon a sofa, im
mediately inside of thi* point, in the
front parlor. The lightning threw down
the plastering behind ber, covering her
completely over. A sp*ce alxint six feet
square was torn off. A ball of fire then
rolled across the room, went up the
back wall and then traversed the gilt
moulding completely around the room,
burning it at every alternate inch aud
then passed out. Mr. Bradbnry was
sitting a short distance from the lady,
tint neither were injured, though both
were stunned for a considerable time.
He had jnst been telling the lady that
there was no possible danger of the
house Wing struck, a* it had met with
that fate recently and the liglituing
never struck twice in the same place.
At U e same time the front of the house
was struck a bolt passed into the kitchen
window, which wa* open, id the rear.
Mis* Ella Fletcher, who was preparing
supper/ wo* hurled roughly through tlie
kitchen and thrown into the dining
room, but wa* not badly injured, though
stunned for some time. Her eister wa*
also in the kitchen, but wa* not dis
tnrbed. The lightning by some pro
cess found it* way to a chamber np
stairs, passed completely around th"
moulding, burning it ** in the parlor,
and then left, doing no other damage.
The room* were filled with a sulphur
like smoke. All of tlie inmates of the
house were hard of lieariug all the even
ing. Tlie damage to the house wa* not
far from $l5O.
President Pelk's t'ocktall*.
Judge Carpenter, of California, tells
this anecdote of James K. Polk'* term
of the Presidency: Polk wa* a temper
ate bnt not abstinent man, of very regu
lar habit*. He rose early at the White
House, and had his servant bring, punc
tually, a very large dickUil in a tall
glass', of which he drank jn*t one-half
and loft the other half for hi* return
from hi* morning walk. On thi* walk
he required the company of Marshall
Polk, hi* nephew. Young Pola wa*
also fond of a cocktail, thongh hia uncle
did not know it and would not oonnte
nanoe it. However, they wonld hardly
have left the house on the daily ocea
nion, when Mar*hall, pretending to have
forgotten something, would slip back
and drink nearly all the remaiuiug half
of the cocktail and pour in some water.
After returning from the walk, President
Polk repaired to hia chamber in a brown
political study, and Meizing the tnmbler
gulped down the water and sediment,
and then exclaimed: "Pangh!" This
oontinned with regularity, RDd the cheat
was never found out Polk now lies be
fore hi* dwelling in Nashville, interred
in his yard, and Marshall Polk has not
been heard from since the beginning o
the war.
TERMS: 52.00 a Yoar, in Advance*
EAR*. UAKifE' A*l> NOI'ttKHOLD
Onto* Horp —Cot iuto slides twelve
onions ; boll them iu three quarts of
milk ami water, equally mixed ; add a
little veal ; season with butter aud pep
per ; add a few well toasted slices of
white bread aud a baudful of fiuely
chopped parsley.
Warruiia -To a quart of sweet milk
take two eggs, a tabieepoouful yf melted
butter, a ceut's worth of yeast, a tea
s|Hs>nful of saJeratus, and flour to make
a stiff batter ; in the moruiug add a tea
rpoonfill of ailgsr. They aiwmld be
fried a light brown In a waffle iron.
Have melted in a cup a piece of butter
with three-quarters of a cup of milk, and
aa the cakes are done grate nutmeg on
each and sprinkle ou sugar, thru nut a
little of the melted butter ami milk on
each, aud yon will see how fa*t they will
disappearWheu placed on the tabic.
KOU.KI> BKEFSTEAE. Beat a large
trader steak thoroughly and careftflly.
Hprinkle over salt, jiepper, sage, minced
onion, minced jmm ley arid bits of butter.
Have ready some mealy Irish potatoes
mashed flu* and seasoned with a little
butter and salt. Spread over all and
roll up tightly ; fasten the ends and
aides securely with skewer-pins. Place
it in a pan with such broth or gravy a*
may be on hand ; if none, two teacups
of boiling water and one small minced
onion, peper, salt and one shoe of pork.
Sunnier and baste a* voo would a roast
duck. Sift over it browned cracker,
pounded fine.
OLD Yimuau TOMATO " Km ifrr."—
Take rijie tomatoea, lay them in scald
ing water ; when sufficiently cool peel
tticm and cut them in small pieowa,
removing the oore* ; measure them and
then mtasnre a fourth less of strung
cider vinegar, say three quart* of vine
gar to oue gallon of tomatoes. Put the
tomatoes on the stove a lialf hour before
abiding the veuegar. For a gallon of
tomatoes season three quarts of vinegar
aa follow*: Two teacups of brown sugar,
two large onions, minced fine, two tab Ic
spooufula peeled horse radish, two
tableapooufula peeled celery seed, two
tabieepoouful* salt, one tabieepoouful
mustard, one tabieepoouful black pep
per. Other spices may be added if
desired. Boil till reduced to two-thirds
of ita original bulk.
Kara Vale*.
All farm animals except poultry seem
to crave salt aud should have it.
It is poaaible to rauu* a Wop of clover,
another of millet, and another of ruta
baga* from the same land in one season.
Dairymen with a herd of cows and few
acre* may find a hint here worth heed
ing.
All who ran do an should arrange ao
a* to keen Logs in their apple orchard to
cat np all the wormy frnit as it drops
daring the season. In this way, easier
than any other, can the ravages of the
worm I** checked. Where hogs are not
nuffir ent for the purpose, a small flock
of sheep should be used.
The object of mulching ia two-fold—
first to retain moisture in the ground
and prevent it from taring parched by
summer beat; second, to protect the
root* of vegetables from the aevere
frosts of winter. The beet materials for
mulching are tan-bark, *aw-duat—or
betterstHl, charcoal-dust —loaves, straw,
to any light ixwoua substance which will
keep the soil loose and moist. By pro
per mulching we have seen pot*toe*,
peaa, beano, cabbages, onions and oth
er vegetable* maintain their growth
through the driest summer. F.rrbany.
Tomatoes are raised by the French in
(his manner: "Aa eooo a* a cluster of
flowers ia viaible they they top the stem
down to the cluster*, which aoon pu*h
strongly, and produce another duster of
flowers each. When thase are visible,
the branch to which they belong is also
topped dowp to their level, auJ this is
done five time* successively. By this
mean* the plant* become stout dwarf
bashes not above eighteen inches high.
In order to prevent their falling over
•tick* or strings are stretched borixon
tally along the rows ao a* to keep them
erect In addition to thin, all laterals
whatever a re nipped off. In this way
the ripe sap ia ilirerted into the fruit,
which acquire a beauty, size and excel
lence unattainable by other moan*.
Ilaw K>Mm Arc Prepared.
A strip of land bordering the Mediter
ranean, somewhat less than one hundred
miles in length and in width not exceed
ing five or six, ia the raisin producing
territory of Spain. Beyond these bound
aries the Muscatel grape, from which
the raisin ia principally produced, may
grow and thrive abundantly, but the
frnit must go to the market or the wine
press. When the grape* begin to ripen
m August the farmer carefnlly inspect*
the fruit a* it lie* on tne warm dry soil,
and one by one dip* the cinders aa tney
reach perfection. In almost all vine
▼arda slant* of masonry are prepared,
looking like nnglaxed hot-lied*, and
covered with fine pebbles, on whic hthe
fruit is exposed to dry. But the small
proprietor prefer* not to carry his grape*
so far. It is better, he thinks, to de
posit them nearer at hand, where there
is lea* danger of bruising, aud where
boos and wasp* are lea* likely to find
them. Day by day the cut branches are
examined and turned, till they are suf
ficiently cured to be borne to the bonne,
nsnallv on the bill top, and there de
posited in the empty wine tire**, till
enough have been collected for the
trimmer* and packer* to begin their
work. At this stage great piles of
rough dried raimu* are brought from the
wine press and heaped upon board*.
One by one the bunches ore carefully
inpeoted, those of the first quality being
trimmed of all irregularities and imper
fect berries and deposited in piles by
themselves; so in turn are treated those
of the second qnalitv, while the clipping#
and inferior fruit are received into bas
ket* at the feet of the trimmers and re
served for home consumption. A quan
tity of small wooden travs are now
brought forward, jnst the sixe of a com
mon raisin box and abont an inch deep.
In these pajier* are neatly laid *o a* to
lap over and cover the raisin* evenly de
posited in the tray*, which are then
subjected to heavy pressure in a roue
prea. After pressing the raisin* are
dropped into the boxes for market.
What the Hired Man Sang.
Gretry was wont to employ a singular
method of slackening or quickening the
pace of a walking companion to suit hi*
own inclination. "To say," he would
argue, "you walk too fast or too slow is
impolite; but to sing softly au air to the
time of the walk of your companion, and
then by degrees either to quicken the
time or make it slower, is stratagem
as innocent ai it is convenient,*' The
principle of Gretry's ruse was wel ex
emplified iu the case of the stingy farm
er who gave his hired bay-maker butter
milk and whey for breakfast, and going
o the field heard the man singing in a
drawling way,
B-n-t-t-e-r-m-l-l-k and whey.
Paint all day, faint *ll day;
his scythe keeping time to the tune.
The next morning the farmer set a good
meal of bacon ami eggs before the man,
and when he went to see how he was
getting on with his work, found his
arms going swiftly to "Bacon and eggs,
take care of yonr If ga!"—Cfuimbcrt't
Journal.
NUMBER 36.
Odd lhaag#® ®f *eaalag.
The meaning of the word " wretch "
ic oo® not generally aodenatood. It w®
originally, and i® now in some parts of
Koi-'laiJt, used u a term of tb® aofteet
and fondest teuderuc®®. This u not tb®
only instance in which word® in their
present geoeral acceptation I war a very
ouiKNUtr moaning to what they did in
Shakespeare'® tun®. " D®xnael " wa®
tbe appellation of yonng ladiaa of
quality, and " Dame " a titl® of distinct
ion. " Knafe " one® signified • aeriranti;
aud in an early tranalation of tbe New
Teatament, instead of " Paul, tb® aer
vant" we read " Pan!, lb® knave."
" Varlet" waa fortnerly need in tbe
um aenae a® iW. On tb® otbr
band, tbe word " ooinpauion," instead
of being tb® bouorable aynouym of as
sociate, oerura in tb® plav of Otbelto"
wi'h the aame contemptuous meaning
wlr.eh we now affix, in it® abuaivo sense,
to the word "fellow for Emilia, per*
otoving tbat autne secret villain bad aa
pvrerd tba rliinuAw of tbe virtnoo®
Deedemon®, tboa indignantly exclaims :
" 0 Heaven : that ucb comf a mum* tboa'dst
enfold,
And pat in ever* hoaeal band a whijp,
To iaah the reaoal naked through the wot Id.
-I*. 1
formerly meant a bond
man. In feudal law, acourdmg to
Black stone, the term wa* applied to
tboae who held land* and tenements in
vi/ Image—* tenure by base aerrior*.
" Penan!" formerly meant a school
master. Shakespeare aays in hia
"Twelfth Night : A
"A pedant thai keep* a school ia ths church "
ul A
Baoon, in hia "Pathway nnto Prayer,
thua uses the won! " imp "Let us
pray for the preservation of the king's
most excellent majesty, and for the
firosperoas success of hia entirely be
oved son Edward our prince, that moat
angelic imp. **
It is a somewhat noticeable fact that
the changes in the signification of words
have generally been to their deteriora
tion; that ia, words that heretofore had
no sinister meaning have acquired it
The word "cunning," for example, for
merly meant nothing sinister or under
handed; sad in Th rope's confession, in
"Fox's Book of martyrs," is the sen
tence, " I believe that all these three
persona (in the Godhead] are even in
power, and in cunning, aid in might,
full of grace and of ail goodnem."
" Demure" ia another of this claaa. It
wa* used by earlier writer* without the
insinuation which ia now aim oat latent
in it, that the external shows of modesty
and sobriety rest on no corresponding
realities. " Explode" formerly meant
to drive off the stage with Wind mappings
of the hand*, but gradually became ex
aggerated into ita present signification.
"Facetion*," too, originally meant ur
bane, but now has *o degenerated aa to
have acquired the sense of buffoonery;
and Mr. Trench eeea indications that it
will ere long acquire the sense of inde
cent buffoonery.
" Flippery" now means trumpery and
odds and end* of cheap finery; out once
it meant old clothe* of value, and not
worttiless, aa the term at present im
plies. The word "goaaip" formerly
meant only a sponsor in baptism. Spon
sor* were supposed to become acq nam t
ed at the baptism*] font, and by their
sponnorial act to establish an indefinite
affinity toward each other and the child.
Thua the wonl was applied to all who
were familiar and intimate, and finally
obtained the meaning which is now pre
dominant in it
" Homely" oboe meant secret and
familiar, though in the time of Milton
it had acquired the same senae aa at
preeent
" incense" one meant to kindle not
onlv anger, bnt good paeaions as well;
Fuller uses it in the sense of "to in-
cite."
"Indolence" originally signified a
freedom from passion or pain, but now
impliea a condition of languid non-exer
tion. " Insolent" was once only " un
usual. "
" Obsequious " implies an unmanly
readiness to fall in with the will of an
other; but in the original obaeqwium. or
in the English word as employed two
centuries ago, there wa* nothing of this:
it rather meant obedience and mildness.
Shakespeare, speaking of a deceased
person, says:
" How many • holy and okssquiotu tear
Halh (tea i religteMU lore *u>len from my eya.
A* interest of the dead."
"Property" and "Propriety" were
once synonymous, both referring to ma
terial thing*, aa the French won! " pro
prirte" doe* now. Foreigners do not
often catch the distinction at present
made in English between the two
words, and we know a French genlte
rn an who recently, meeting with some
pecuniary reverse*, astonished hia friend*
ny telling them that he bad lost all hi#
" proprietv."
A poet is a person who write* poetry;
and, according to th# good old custom,
a proner wa* a person who wrote prose,
and simply the antithesis of poet. The
word ha* now a sadly different significa
tion; and it would'not be considered
very respectable to term Addison, Irv
ing, Bancroft or Everett " proears."
Rears—Their Increase.
According to De Prourille, a French
writer, there were, in 1814, only 182
varieties of roses, end the advantage of
mnltiplication by seed ia sufficiently
evinced by tlie fact that there are now
more than six thousand varieties, the
poorest of which aw much better than
anv which existed at that day. Among
the earliest eulHvators of rosea from the
swd were three Frenchmen —Dnpont,
Vilmorin and Deacemet The former
was the gardener of the Empress Joseph
ine. When the allied armies entered
Pari* in 1815. the garden of Deecemet
contained 10,000 seedling rogee, which
Yiliert, in his anxiety to secure from de
struction, succeeded in carrying to the
interior.
In England very little attention seems
at that time to hare been paid to the
production of new varieties from seed,
nnd the English relied verr moch upon
the continent for their choioe roaea.
Now, however, they are abundantly re
deeming their reputation, and many fine
varieties have been produced by the
Eugliah rose-growers, at the head of
whom stands Rivers, whose efforts are
seconded by Wood, Poul, Lane and
others. They are still, however, com
pelled to yield to the French cultivators,
for to these we are indebted for oar fin
est roses for Lamarque, Soifaterre,
La Reine, Chromatella, the uew white
PerpetualSj Souvenir de Malmaison and
others.
The varieties of roses became increas
ingly great after the introduction of the
Bengali', Noisettes, Teas and Bourbons
all these classes producing readily
from seed, and in endless variety. There
is a willingness to oast asi e the old for
the new, and however much we may re
gret this disposition, for some old and
truly deserving favorites, we cannot iPel
willing to denounoa it, for it exhibits a
, gratifying evideno* of a desire for im
provement, and the exiatenoe of a spirit
of progress, whioh, dissatisfied .with
things a they are, is continually striv
ing after nearer approaches to perfec
tion.—New England fhrmer.
The barber is an independent chap,
and, like all strapping big fellows, can
always hold hia hone.— Alta California.
Great fellow, though, for getting into
scrapes. — Philadelphia Bulletin.
Itau ®f latertwu
"Omen pear®"—Toting married folk®.
Shrwr nocuMise—-'Trying to cot yoor
own hair.
A laty oook.-One !b*t "fritter®
away her time,
Bni haa M 6 ®bopebw-~ church for
•very day in tb® year.
A caterpillar improve® in moral®—
when it tnras ov®r anew leaf.
• Icm can't do that again." amd a pig
to a boy wbo had cot on Ma tail.
Why are good resolution* like fainting
iMW f—Beeaaee they want carryingout.
A boy Mf* tbat when be eata water
melon U® month feel® a® if it werw in
j fwimming.
ImprnaybM m®d® its appearance in
' the UnHed State® on tbe Atlentio and
; Pacific ooanta.
Why I® ® philanthropist like an old
borne ? Bemoee b® nlwnya atop® at the
aonnd of won.
Two or three eentnnee ago there were
a bond red hospital® for lepers in Eng
land and Scotland.
" Here ie yoor writ of attachment.",
said a town clerk, an be banded a lower
' a marriage licenee.
"Maria, I'm almoct diaeonraged..
How many timee have told I yon not to
aay Utter, bat perteter ?"
Many a yowag man's late ban been
! advcrwly ®*ttled by hie peraieUng in
j walking hie rweetbeart down ebady
aide street® when ®be expected to be
tafcap to an use-cream saloon.
Moods; 1 dabbled la stock •pentema;
Ttn—Uv owned mllhutM. by all ealeaiatioa®.
Wadiieaday my Ptfie-Avsoae salam toga®:
Tburaday I draw oat a spanks* hay apao;
Priday Igavaamasmneeoi ball;
hat unlay " snMwbwt,"* wWi nothing at aiL
' A feat walker, it is estimated, could
not walk to tbe ®un m leaa than 1,968
! years, bat O'Leery is willing to bet
that be can do it in 1,741 years if some
i body will lay tbe aew dnaL—Graphic
Total population of the earth, 1,896.-
752,000; under Christian governmeuU,
665.450,411; anicr mm-Chriatian gov
ernments, 711.8HH fWt; total area of the
earth in square miles, 52.062,470; awaof
. Christian guvammeota, 82.419.915; araa
of noo-Christian lands. 16.642,566.
He etood barefooted on tbe eeaabore
in the moetaligbt and tamed hi® poetic
ear to catch whet the wild wave* were
fcavitg. bat when • wandering crab ap
propriated one of hie toee for a tooth
pick, be keeled over and U* oat tb®
other urn® in a shadow dance that ]a®t
made tbe gods scream.
•• The goodness which struggles and
l-sttlos and goo* down deep and soon
high, it the ataff of which heroism ia
male, by which the world is suited and
kept pore. It is tha aeed which bears
fruit to martyrs aad makes men nobler
nataia—end deou -guds and
thS prophets of a oetter time."
Osr lisws are songs ; Ood witles the words
And w sat Utwa to maatc at pleasure ;
And the soot; grows glad, sweet, sr sad.
As ws eboM to fsshmtt the siwwi.,
We meet write the and*, wbsleeer the song
What*"* Itsrhyme or SMtoe:
and if It to sad, we sen make it glad.
Or if sweat, we sas make it swmUr.
The greatest eel-pond in America ia on
the farm of James N. Wells, in the town
of Rieerbead, Mam. It eowaes flew
scree, and la now no foil of eelsdliit they
can be raked oat with a garden rake.
Two yeart ago Mr. Wells pot 2,000
down of eels into the pond, intending to
bare them undisturbed for flee yearn
Ther harr increased to millions. They
are "fad regularly every third day on
• horse feet," a peculiar shell-fish. The
eels know when tbee an to be fad, and
the stroke of Mr. Wells' whip against
hit wagon file thousands of them np to
dinner, although anyone else may pound
away ail day without any effect. One of
these. bell-flsh. fastened to a strong oord
and thrown into the wutrf, may be drawn
out in a few minutes with hundreds of
eels clinging to it
across s> sat sea.
She waits sod Men Footsteps tall -
Ufc# knows they MS sot tua
. • She waits and listens for s soaad
That sweets* moam is.
Hs nam—and with a sodden thrill
And heart-beat loud and olasr.
She does net bar. abs does not ass—
Sba fuels that he m new;
And oojty lifting to his fees
Her eyes of beasealy Woa
She murmurs, m lore's tofted tones,
' "My darling, is U you ?"
arras aaaaiaaa.
Again she Uteaa. Footsteps reach
And footsteps pass her door.
She Metros. bet bar needle dies
More swMtiy than before,
gb* bmrs at length the tread that time
And eares are mating aiow.
And with a start that sands bar chaw
Hard rocking to aad tie
(tarings to the lending, end with roios
More shrill than soy lute s
She sermons. above the baluster.
••Augustus wipe your boots'
Man wifhowl di/V.
A Hutlllt Wasp.
Mr. Henry Oal write* to yafurt
from Athena, w follow*: "In sitting
one summer's afternoon a! an open win
dow (my bedroom) looking into a gar
den, when I waa surprised to observe a
large and rare apeeiea of spider run
arrow the window mil in a crouching
attitude. It struck me the spider waa
evidently alarmed or it would not hare
so fearleaaly approached me. It harm
ed to conceal itaelf under the projecting
edge of the window-mil inside the room,
and had hardly dqoe ao when a very
fine large hunting waap buzzed in at the
open window and flew about the room
evidentlT in Kerch of aomething. Find
ing nothing, the wasp returned to the
open window and settled on the window
sill, running backward and forward aa a
dog dote when looking or aeerebing for
a loat scent It aooo alighted on the
track of the poor spider, ami in a mo
ment it discovered its hiding place,
darted down en it ud no doubt inflict
ed a wound with its sting. The spider
rushed off sgain. and this time took
refnge under the bed, trying toeoneesl
itself under -the framework or planks
which supported the msttrees. The
scene occurred here; the wasp never ap
peared to follow the spider by sight hut
ran backward and forward in large cir
cles like a hound. The moment the
trail of the soider was found the wasp.
followed all the turns it had made till it
came on it again. The poor spider was
chased from hiding-plsoo to hiding-
I>l see—out of the bed-room across a
passage and into the middle of another
large room, where it flnalW succumbed
to the repeated stings inflicted by the
wssp. Rolling itself up into a haU,
the wssp them took possession of
its prev, snd sfter ascei tain mg that it
could make no resistance, tucked it up
under its very long biud legs, just as a
hawk or eagle carry off their quarry, and
was flying off to its neat, when I inter
posed snd secured both for my oollec-
Words or Wisdom.
The great are only great because wo
are on oar knees.
After crosses and looses men grow
humbler and wiser.
All who know their own minds know
not their own hearts.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant,
who finds peaoe in bis home.
The praises of others may be of use in
teaching ns not what we are but what
we should be.
Do nothing in thy passion; whv wilt
thon pat out upon the sea while the
ftorm is raging.
Moot of the shadows that cross onr
path through life are caused by standing
in onr own light,
An"" may say a thing twice if he
says it better the second time than he
was able the first.
Good counsels observed are chains to
grace, which, neglected prove halters to
strangle nmlutiful children.
Our passions are like convulsive fits,
whioh, though they make us stronger
for the time, leave us the weaker eTer
after.
Health is the only riches that a man
ought to set a value on; for without it
all men are poor, let their estates be
what they will.
Whatever you would not wish yonr
neighbor to do to you do it not unto him.
This is the whole law; the reet is a mere
expoaitioi if it