Intfiblr Battles. h, not upon fnrt.iftM hill or A*l.t, Whore toomon moo! with saber and shield. Are mightiest battles fought' Not amid wartaiv's wild alarms. In the roar ol oannnn, tho clash ot arms. Arc grandest victories wrought' Ixv>k abroad into tho earth's sad hnmaa. Where fierce temptation stealthily comes, Followed hy wan despair; Where souls are assailed by some merciless toe, Hy an, by hollow-eyed want or woe, And mark the conflicts there' Only God and his angels pure Ever can know what they endure Who cope with these unseen toe Only Heaven, with its infinite rest, t'an control the (<eace ot the victor's nmast W hen those |>erilous conflicts eloee. I bo to Bed. When I have Uwt all taith in man, th- tailed to consummate some plan; When women lair are cold, unkind, Vn.l thing* accord not with my mind. 1 do not rashly seise my |Kn And in a flurry there and than Declare this gla.tsome world to be One endless round ol'sanity; All' no, for this were mockery— -1 go to bed. When through my head there darts a pain And hie seems an increasing bane. When triend* their jwtronage withhold, And cred.tor* become t.s. ts.l.i, 1 do not in seclusion mourn, And curse the hour when 1 as born— -1 go to bed When some 11. It deserts his creed, Au.l. a.-ks their many \ icums bleed; When editors write sharp replies. And moneyed mon keep hack supplies, t do not then, in proer and verse. Implore ihr gist, mankind to curse— I go to bed. W'lirn couples marry in great haste. And servants piiler. tret and waste; Wher general courts their terms prolong. In stnirt. when things get somewhat wrong 1 do not hite my hp* and scowl. And a', the children snap and growl— t go to bed. I go to best aud rtsuwU) sleep. While triendlv angels vigils keep. Hut it. however, 1 awake Helore my ailmen:* me lorsake, I do not ol my lite complain, But try the remedy again— And hack to bed. \'< who have gru-Ss (and who has not') let jwst prescriptions I* forgot, M\ [wuacea tor old am! young Is given in the English tongue, It hath to untold millions wrought Sweetest teuel. nor et them sught; An : now it von :ke throe, woukl be From every pain ami trouble tree, 1 jght a small lamp and conie with me— - I go to bed. The Wreck of the •• Pioneer." Ralph Keystone was one of those men whit combine a talent for practical things with an active imagination. He . was at the -ante time a most unpractical man in affairs of busin- ss. i-ike all im aginative n • n. he early- found a woman whom be could clothe in idea] charms, and then fell in love with her. Jam ltevint w .c- the onlv daughter ot Farmer R.sant. who owned and operated an im mense wheat farm not far from the vil lage of Muskalon tie. To Farmer Besanl wmt Ralph In the tint flush of his love . for Jane. "-You wish to marry Jane 5 " .>ung man replied. " Not immedi ately." for iuyt at the time he was out ot employment. " That's just it. Keystone." said the farmer; "you are out of work for the fourth time since you came from the East How can you marry on so un certain a prospect? You are too un stable: you do not stick to anything." Ralph' admitted he had been unfortu nate in his ventures; but he still had a little money left, and he would now go into some manufacturing business. "Manufacturing. indeed! There's nothing but farms within fifty miles. Wheat i- the only thing that pays here, unless it be lumber, and then- isn't a sawmill within a hundred miles." " Tlien 1 mijjht start one," said Ralph, catching at this straw, for he felt him s< if sinking. He conld make no hmd wav against this hard, practical man. who knew nothing b-yond wiieat. "Start a sawmill! Where's your power? And, if you had it. how could you compete with the mills up the river? Look here, Ralph. I don't want to be hard on you. I see you love Jane and Jane loves you—at least she seems to think so." " That's the truth." said Ralph. "We love each other dearly." " Now I'll make a bargain with you. If you witl go into some business, and make it a success, you shall have Jane— that i*. if she wants you." "Thank you.sir,"said the ybungman " I'll start the sawmill at once." The road to the village followed tbe river for some distance through Farmer Besant's land, and then turned east through the woods toward the village. Ralph walked along in a dazed fashion, mentally numb with bis refusal, his bodv walking automatically, just as it will when the mind is ahsorbed in contem plation. At the turn of the road his feet took the right direction tor home, hut after going a few steis he stopped ahruptlv. and turned liack to the river. The Muskaiontic is a wide, shallow stream. winding sluggishly through the country, its banks Iwing herealxmU heavily fringed with woods. The young man left the road and fol lowed the shore down stream, walking quickly, as if looking for something. Like all imaginative people, he had been given to wandering about the country, and was familiar with the land for miles around Muskaiontic. He remembered having seen falling into the river, l>e tween two low hills, a slender brook, half lost in the woods. Just as he had supposed. It was a living stream, still running, though it was August. He looked at the tiny run for a moment, and then started briskly up its winding channel, carefully noting the slope and character of the ground. After walking a short distance he found the little valley narrowed, and then spread out into a slough, a marsh, where the stream was lost in pools and sedges. Like a prospector searching for pre cious metals when lie fmds a vein, he threw up his hat with a cheer. " I've won her! I fancy the old gen- j tleman will let us marry now." Just then then- came through the woods the sound of a passing steamer on the river, and the young man smiled. "I'll beat those fellows yet. They take all this trade up the river, and leave this farming region to stagnate. We | must have manufacture* here, and they ghall begin witb a sawmill." Keystone sat up ail night over his! drawing-paper and pencils. Two days after saw three woodman filling trees by th • little brook. The land belonged to Farmer -Besant, and he had consented that a dam should be erected thereon. If Keystone was fool enough to sink his money in improving the hit of water power lie thought lie had found, he was at liberty to do so. provided lie gave half the work when finished to the landowner, with half the lumber cut on the land. If he failed, then all the lumber was to remain on the land. terms, but Ralph accepted them on the spot. Axe in hand lie headed the woodmen, directing the fall of each tree, so as to save labor in hauling the logs.- When about a hundred tree* were dowr lie or ganized his force into choppers,anbegan to get out logs of every size. A pair of oxen were hired, and things began to assume shape. Heavy logs laid end to end in a double row stretched across the little vailev, and marked the foundation ofthe dam I Stout stakes weredrivenon the It,*.- side, and shorter logs laid up stream, with the ends rcstingon the heavy timbers, raised the dam about one foot. The news quickly spread through the country round about \ oung Keystone had found water po< r—in other words, wealth—in the litt ■ brook. t\ lthin three weeks the d n had been raieed three fi>et. and the water began to back up behind it, spreading out over the marsh in a slowly widening pond. Then the people began to laugh. Keystone was i fool, after all. What could he do with only three feet fall of water ? The next day a small army of labor er* appeared in the woods, and by night they had dug a long ditch or canal from FTIED. KURTZ, Kditor and Proprietor. VOLUME XII. the river up the lied of the brook. IVo days after it reached thefixit ot the dam. am"! brought lite river water close up to tbelops. At the upper end it wactive feet ON})- Fire and tliree make eight. Eight feet fall in the clear. Hero's power in abundance. Thcrvupon the no-looker* said the voting man was a smart fellow . a good engineer, etc., ct. Within a week the village carpcnt< r had constructed a watcr-wlnvl from Ka.ph > designs. Within two weeks . and jn-aring arrived, a shed wvt put up. and tlic sawmill w a> opened for business The first ioh was for a lot of two-inch plank for Farmer Resaitt He e.aimed that he was half owner of the mill by their agreement, and w ou'donly pay halt lite bill. Keystone ttx>k the job. and soon had it finished, nnd even ran through a lot of logs and piled up the planks on sai< Sundry small jobs came in. ami it began to look as if he tout started a good business. One morning a stranger ar rived. and introduced hints, .fas a IUIUUT dealer trout a town fifty miles down the river, lie was in search of a lot ot small stuff, light scantling two inches wide and an inch and a half thick, in lengths of twelve feet and upward. He wanted a million list, ami he offered a gisnl price, and gave his name and rvferenc. -. I'he offer was tempting, and Ralph took it. and agreed to have the stuff ready in tw o weeks. Encouraged bv his success, he hired more help, and started on the new order. In ten days he wrote to the part* to say that the scantling was nearly all ready, and could IK> put on a raft and thmtcd down the river. No repiv came, and he wrote again, and in a few days re ceived a notification of the failure of the lumber dealer, and an account ot the winding up of his affairs. Discouraged and sick at heart, In* wandered down t>y the river and .it down ou a fallen tree alone. Kvcrything was lost. He could never marry JJUK-. A large part ol his luniln r had heen cut up into a useless and unsalable shape, and he was in debt to his men. In fool ishly trusting the \.-rd of a stranger h* 1 hud made a wreck of everything Wh-n the tuind is ill at ease a trifling circum stance will often absorb the whole atten tion, and as he sat gloomily brooding over the ruin of hopes, he saw a steam boat rounding the Is-nd of the river about a mile up itlW She wa Stl cr ing dangerously near a hatf-sunken island in the middle of the river, lie watched her with a vague curiosity as she eamc swiftiv onward. Suddenly *he turned, and with app:vrent purpose ran directly across the upper end of the island, struck, and grounded. He could seethe wheels reversed, and in a mo ment after saw the wildest eonfu-ion among the passengers on bofcrd. Spring ing up. he ran at full speed along the hank till he eame opposite the -trand 4 boat. It was a freight and passenger steamer —the Pioneer by name. She blew her whistle loudly, and a moment after he saw a boat lowered. For an instant there was some confusion on the steamer as if the people were demoraliied. but a tall fellow interfered, and order wa> re stored. The Iwmt came slowly ashore, and bv the time it reached the hank all his mill hands and several farming peo- pie had arrived in an excited crowd on the hank. In the boat came the eaptain of the steamer. As he sprang ashore he said to Ralph: •' Are there any boats or barge* about here?" •"Nothing but a punt or two. Can't you bring your passengers ashore in your own boats?" " Bother the passengers! I can land ; hoiu easy enough. It's the ear go. The -teamT will never come off. The tiller rope broke, and she ran nose on at full speed. The old Pioneer had laid down her bones forever. Poor old tub! I pity Iter." '• I'll take your cargo ashore, or down stream to any point you say. in three davs. for five hundred dollars." "Oli, you've a barge or two. Why didn't you say so?" I'll bin- 'em of you. " I have no barge, hut I'll make one in twenty-four hours—for cash. I have a sawmill iust back of here." " I'll give you five hundred dollar* if you'll put the cargo on a fiat within three days. I can't get a steamer up here in less than two days, ami it willeost almost as much, though 1 don't - e how you're going to make a flat in that time.' " That's my look-out. I'll have a barge longside before to-morrow night." "It will take two lrnrges. Heavy -argo this trip. " If I leave a single barrel behind, I'll forfeit a hundred dollars. You can take the passengers to the village. Some •>f the folk* will give them lodging till the boats come up on Monday.' The captain agrc-d to the bargain, and put off to bring his passengers ashore. "Johnson," said Ralph to one of the young men. "go tA the painter's, and tell him to s-nd me three men and a lot of white-lead paint. Then get two keg* of sixpenny nails and bring the. u to tin mill. Take my horse. Pick up ail the men you can find. I want all the car penters in the place to work day and night on a good job." Ten minutes later a dozen men. with '•arnenters* tools, stood ready in the mill yard waiting for orders. " I was born next door to a Massachu setts shipyard." said Ralph, "and I know something about boat-building. 1 am going to make a barge big enough for a steamboat. Let every man do ex actly a I tell him, and we will have her launched before to-morrow night. Every man shall have double pay while at work on the boat." The men gave a cheer, and said they were ready for anything. It seemed as if it mighf lx- trtje, for in a moment after they wer®carrying long two-inch planks down to the river Imnk- Here a spare was cleared next the water, and four lines of timber " ways," or slides, were laid down heading into the water, se curely fastened together, iilwr ally spread with grease and oil. Then, under Ralph's directions, two-inch planks were laid side by side on the ways till a platform was made one hundred and eighty feet long and ahout twenty feet wide in the center. More men began to arrive, and every one who could drive nails was promptly engaged, and within %n liour forty men were at work on tin new boat. With chalk and line Ralph struck a line through the center of the platform, and from this struck out a curved line on each side, and then bade the men saw off the planks to the curved line. This gave a long slender platform, ten feet wide at the upper end, or stern, twenty feet wide near the center and running off to a long slender point at the lower end, or hows, of the future boat. Then upon this platform was laid a rough coat of paint, a dozen men ply ing the brushes at once, and then came more planks, laid lengthwise. The two platforms were cut to the same form, and were quickly spiked together. The men suggested that such a long and slender raft would never hold to gether. " Wait and see," said Ralph. " Now for the scantling we have been getting out at the mill. Bring it down by the i cart-load. Now, men. have your hits ready for boring nail-holes in the stuff. Make the holes a foot apart the whole i length of the strips." In a moment or two several pieces of *cantling were ready, and taking one in j hand Ralph laid it along the edge of the i raft and nailed it down, then another. | till a strip had been laid entirely round I the raft. As the strips were lonj? and flexible, they were easily bent to lit the j curved lines of the platfoim. At the j upper end the cross-pieces were nailed j together, and at the IM>W end the strips were brought to a point and fitted to an upright piece set up at the enrl of the platform. Then through the center of the platiorm was laid another strio from end to end, while at intervals of about . five feet cross-pieces were laid from side j to side. " Now, men, you see my idea. Lay strip over strip, and nail them firmly one TIIE CENTRE REPORTER to the other through the holes, till the sides are six feet high; break the joints of the strips and nail-holes , lay on the paint freely as you go, ami we shall soon have a stonmlHiat without ribs The cross pieces w ill brace her, ami she'll carry a big cargo, even it she isn't very pretty t'ne luui, unaccust.umsl to marine architc. tare, greeted this novel system of Ivoat building with pleasant surprise, ami went to work with a will. More men at ri\cd, and the clatter ol twenty hammer* going on at once made lite WIHHIS ring. The sun went down, and torch' s uti.l ivontiiwere ightisl. A boy was sent round for the men's suppers that there might be no delay. The pas senger* of the wrecked steamer were IK stowed in sundry farmhouses. Farmer Itesaut taking his shar. at two dollars cacti. The m'W sot the IHCIK hui.itiug spread nuickiy. and th • people tlockcd down to the mill-yard to seethe work, md with limn rnmr nil tb* MMMiflflNi Among thetu came Farmer lt. ant and the captain of the I'ioms r. The fann"r walked alK.ut lite curious structure now rapidly rising, and seeing the enormous consumption ol scantling, he remon strated in no phasaitt tuion. ■' What right have you to use up your . ustoimrV stuff in this way?" •• lie's failed." said Keystone, without topping his work. "How do you know? H<- may claim it. and you arc spoiling thousands of foot of giHl stuff on a piece of folly." "Ihui't know alniut that,' said a big fellow nearby. "Its about the smart est idee I ever seen, tiuess you lielong East, young man?" " Ma.ssju'liUsetts l ie seen many a Ikiat built without ribs, though none ilOite s,. big. She'.! carry your cargo, captain." "Oh. she will when site's decked. I say. young feller, don't vou want to sell her just a- she stands?' "No. She is to be a steatnbdht Farmer lb-sant felt confirmed in his views of young Keystone, lie was a born fool—-come from the very home of lunatics and visionaries " I'll give you thnv hundred dollars lor Iter just as she stands, and finish her mvself. The Jane is not for sale." "Jane for sale? lhm't insult thegirl. Mr. Ralph." "A little more paint—lay it >n thick!" Then he turned away to drive more nails. Farmer Bcsani went home, intending to tell Jane of the in-ult sin- had received, lie woultl never *j>eak to Key *U>ne attain, neither should Jane. Luckily Jam had ,one to bed when he returned and knew nothing of the building of the l :t. Morning eatne and saw the sides of tin Isiat well advanced. Some men left for home and ;rvst, and others took their p lares. Even some ot the passengers \olunteered as painters and nail-driver*, t here was no thought of the Sabbath. I*he excitement of the wm k. the arrival ••f so many stranger* and the boat build ing brought everybody out of doors, and the yard was tilled with people watching the progress of the work. Among them came one with shining •yi * and a rosy blush upon her face. The name of her lover was on every tongue. The marked approval of the captain of the st"amer. and the enthusi.-i.sm of hi* engineer, won the confidence of the rural opulation. Keystone had always been i onsidered an eccentric sort of fellow, >ut now, after all. there might t><- some •.(tins in him. These things she heard and treasured in her heart. She kept out of sight in the crowd, hut saw evt rv tning and heard everything with the greatest inter-st and pleasure. There was a man painting letter* in hlue on thestern of the new boat. He iiad made a J, an A and an N", and was at work on another letter. Ah. Jane —her name! There was ijuite a company of people watching the man. and when the nam* was finished there was a little shout of approval. " I allers said he was drefile sweet on Squire Besant's darter." " Sho! That's a pretty idee, anyway." Slit* blushed scarn t. antl slipped away and went up to the deserted sawmill, mtl sat down on a log by tlie little water, fall. Suddenly some one stood ltesidc her. "Oh, Jane! It's all over. 1 have failed, and to-morrow your father will take the mill. That lumber dealer has tailed, and that brings me down " "Can't you sell the lumber?" said lane, with ready common sense. " I have used a part of it in making the barge. If I get the money for sav ing the cargo. I shall have ju*t enough :<> pay everv bill, hut with nothing left." She stood up, and placing a hand on • •ach shoulder calmly kissed him. "Thank you, love, for the compli ment." " I heard the engineer sav the—the Jane would make a d fri iirht steamer if she were engined.' " Hid lie? That's not a bad idea. ! had thought she would make some kind of a craft. Oh! Perhaps 1 could buy the engines out of the steamer. They will sell them cheap. "I thought you had failed and lo*t everything." " No. 1 can't fail while I have you." What further sentiment lie would have indulged in cannot !>•• known, for *ome one called them. " She's 'bout ready to slide," said the big captain. Seeing Jane, he took oft his hat and said, politely. "Will the young lady name the boat?" "The boat is named the Jane Be*ant. !/ t me present my friend Miss Besant. captain." " (Had to meet you, miss. I called my Isiat the Nancy K., after my wife. It brings luck." The huilt-up si ies of the boat and the interior cross-work that braced her and held the hull together in every direction had been raised six feet high. Boards were laid down on top to form a dock, and she was ready to be put afloat. The eaptain and flie engineer. Ralph and almut a dozen men armed with long poles, mounted thedeck. The word was given, the blocks were knocked away, and down she slid swiftly into the water amid the cheers of the people. She set tled down in the water with a slight list to one side, and the rural population gave a little cry of alarm. "The cargo will ballast her," said Ralph, "(let out your poles, men, and pusli her along the shore till we come to the steamer." Th Jane Bcsant was quickly brought i round, ami went up stream. followed by an enthusiastic multitude on the shore. Shortly after. the barge was secured alongside the wreck, and the men tegac to put the cargo on board. She did not leak a drop, and appeared to be as stifi and strong as the best ribbed boat afloat. She was very buoyant, and readily minded the rude rudder that had IHS II hung at the stern. " T shall Is- glad to consider your pro posal, sir. to-morrow!" "Come in mv eabin—l guess it isn't wholly wrecked. Come, Rates, I want you too." The young man followed the captain and liis engineer into the eabin and sat down, while the captain ordered some wine and lunch. When the lunch came, the captain began to be i xpansive. "Sheonly Wiints a little more sheer, and a deck and house anil engines. Shg'll not be a fast Ixiat, but she'll go in shallower water than anything on the river. She'll be running regular trips when the big I mats are laid un for low water. Tell you what I'll do, young man. I'll put engines in her, and make her a stern-wheeler. Mcbbe you can raise enough to put a house on her. I'll go halves with you in the business. We can haul her ashore and sheathe her bottom to make it smooth, and make a i good thing of it. What d' you say? Is ! it a bargain?" "Then it would In* a bargain—if it wasn't Sunday. All right. We'll go ashore this evening and hear the parson." Two months later the purser of the new freight and passenger noat Jane Be CENTRE IIALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1879. want opened the look* ot the l>at lot business I'here wasa line of passenger*, headed bv one of the boat'* si I \ wills. al ready waiting at tin- ticket-window "Mr. and Mi*. Ralph Keystone oh, \es nil right fl'ee pusses t Jive them tin bridal-room, John hem's thekey. N.vt'' //.irj* r's liautr. Hrigituii Mutter. llf wa* it friend ol mine, mitt 11 -• 1 frequently to drop in itiul give me mm In ho* I should run ini pap- r. lit- was ti minUt-i, luut i'ttiM'<|u'iitly thought 1 should devote it a lilt It* iimrt- In ilit* t'MUMt* tif religion mill iit'i tjuiif m niui'li tn iKiliiit's lit- said it tnultl be made M power fur itihml in tin W*t in liuitl in wliit li w litul Ix-th iiwt uur Rii'tuiim. lit- wit., ii lover uf tin 4 origin il. luo. itml said In- disliked to see reprint, and thought 1 itlmultl wrilt* iiiutv take Un tune, in fact, it till the paper right up willi gtxxl -tutl It Mifineti MP hnt < > thing fur him that one day I ventured to nay " Hritther, yiu h el a glorious meeting at the aehooihouse, lln tr. Suppose you write it up tor me" He didn't seem to net its though In wanted to. 1 urg-ai Mi' thi-lietl a little Mini sto-xl around MM k witrtl .ike lie lent lie! -T IMS 11 hon ored with till ill! italion to !! lit' It'l tin press liefore. I stiil utile.l Till II he took oil Ills giuYe* lUltl Ilis hat riteli 1 gave him II *< :it :tl tin Uihle. \i itli paper ami pencil. He snt tiown to editorial work lie was always talking about In'!! it should lie done, mill lltiW he I! .IS at It. lit started iii. 1 went aiwiut my work, tuitl. having written up a column or tun ol"mattei for the paper, .eft liiiu still writing, while I went out to solicit some adv-r --tisementM. 1 i\ :cs pint' mi hour or two, and when I came liaek he tvits still at it. He wait sweating awfully. The tali!e antl floor wen white with copy paper, anil the peneil in his hand ivas much diminished in length. I went to dinner. When 1 n-turmsl in- wa* at it \ • t The pt in ii was shorter and In* w ■.* wetter. It Was sUUtltier. The hours dragged along into the middle of the aftenuxn. Great cords stood out on the premier'* heated trt>w. Hi- eves Win'in lit ia tl •!.!// 11.' while pa pet bi-fore him and his prm i was a Slull. 1 lie.'all to gt'oti frighiellt"! I knew 1 had only a -ma . w., k y pap- i. and that its fourteen eolumnsof -:-i •• (one side we- patent inward) would not hold tlo contents of the Bil-1- ami supplemented mess age* from heaven ! •• MW -■ \t last the man looked up ami timidly advanced with a piece of paper in out hantl.and -uddenly went let k to ■ hang a word. Then he came on again, and. lik< om who had passed through a vision, lie d out a piece of paiM-r ami ixtldi V a-ktsl " Will that do? 4 I looked at it. There were ju-t seven lines of it, advertising measure. He was a large man. weighing over 3H pounds then, hut when 1 me! him three weeks later he weighed h -than lie. He had lieen sick The seven-line nine-hour effort was too nitieh for him. Neither did he compost for a pap< r again. It was hard work for him to write, ami lie saw he was not cut out for an editor.— t'hiau/o /.Wmis/ Jour mil. Seth Green's Story. Among the inter- -ting men of Ro In *- t-r. says aeorrespontlent, is S-th (in-i 11, the patmn of tish eulture in Amcriea. lie i- a hroad-shoulderetl man. with - iunre. seamanlike faee, reddened hy the -tin ami good living. 11 has a tin • white lieartl flowing over his eh< t. suul 1 e generally wears a sort of hrow n iel tet saeuue and drives a go-d liore. lie i* worth alx-ut aeeumu tied a a lishennaii. I -aid to him. in the few minutes' conversation that we hail: "Mr t lris-n wiiat put you in tin notion of hatching tish ami re-stocking our streams?'' "I fished Lake Ontario," he said. " for about one generation. I had loo.niiles of net ami lno hand- lu ft r< I was tlone. I k- pt a tish-market in Rochester, and supplietl white lish. -almon. trout, pickerel. etc.. all o*-r the country. I was a g-xx! line tidier man. ami went lip the streams leading into the lake to get brook trout, salmon ami other garni ti-It < hm day win n up the stream I -aw a tine female salmon weighing about i\ poumls. come up alteudra hy her mate and thr-i' or four other tish. I had time to jump h-hind a tree and take an ob*i rvation. and there 1 saw the salmon begin to scoop out a nlacc in the bottom of the brook with iter tail. Vt'tcr scooping aw bite -lie would go off coquet tishly and tln-n come lnu'k, and the other ti.-h -• emed to help her. It o<eurretl to me that -lie wa* putting her spawn down there b< v<nd the reach of other kinds of tish. There t i- nothing in tin- world so delightful to brook trout as to devour - ltnon smavvn. "You know how salmon multiply. Put the spawn out of sight and it will multiply into little salmon: let it lie in the water and the trout will eat it. I became so inb rested in that incident that I got Up in the tree next day, and ' made myself a kind of sent there among the houghs, where I could look down in the clear water at the operations of those lish to protect their spawn. 1 j made up my mind then if I ever got a | little more money than would keen nie 1 would go at lish culture. It had oeeti | begun in England, and I began to read ••n it. As soon as I had (11.'200 a year more income than my necessities. I went at this lish business, and I took a brook, near Rochester, where I had Jive miles to myself, invented my hatching l>ox< s anil started in. The only money I have I made in this business was hy tfie sale ol the brook. I made SII,(KM) on it." Lendvlllc Gambling Utilises. A correspondent, writing from tin | great Colorado mining town, says ' Although there are State laws antl city ordinances forbidding gambling, in ' effort is made to enforce either. Tin I doors of these places stand wide % open 'day and night, ami everything i dom ■ to attract the notice of passers-by, jusl | as if tin' business were a legitimate one ! protected hy law. There is no pretcnet of elegance in any of the gambling- I houses which 1 visited in leiidville, to I tln-re is in those of Eastern watering l j places or large cities. Tin- insi-l- til most tif them is destitute of paint oi ■ plaster. The tables are plain pine one and are surrounded by wtMidi-n chairs The floors arc covered with tohacci juice and mud, antl tin- patrons art mostly roughly clad miners, who play : small or a large game as money is plenty or scarce withsthem. In a iirominctii place in each saloon there is a oar whit-l is always well patronized; in the largei places there arc two bars. One-half oi or one-third <f each gambling-house i: separated frtim the remainder by a low railing antl is set apart for kino Around the sides of tin- remainder an tables upon which are played faro, higl hall poker, rouge et noir, hazard, etc In the rear of each place a private rooti is partitioned oil' for I In- aoeommndntioi tif persons who wish to " light, the tiger' in private. In the public room tin- pin is gent-rally for comparatively sntnl sums; chips are sold for from ten cent to one dollar each, antl tin- bets rand exceed live dollars, in the daytime th gambling saloons ill la'atl villi {are almo deserted, nut at night and on Sunday ' they are constantly thronged. TIMFI.I TOIMt'N. N.w England ban over 'Jlio fanners' clubs, with T'.'.OOU active incinlicrs and library books to the IIUIIIIKT of Vl,out, and in the I'lilted States there are nearly - i*ai .t.iii iiitm.it societies, \ ...uuii s in their libraries, and with a>- .1 m to ;it*> ditl.-rciit agricultural puldi cations, ali exerting a direct influence on the intelligem • and future prospects ol the tillers of the soli. I'lie t'aliloriiia ram huian or fanner is to a certain extent deitioialiruxl hy the climate, which allows him to jx-rforni outdoor work the year round I'nlike the Eastern farmer, therefore, he is in- . lined to iet tilings pi by the hoard, i'ln re is a lack ol thoroughness in build ing. in planting and in the care for ani mal*. I'liere is little mneern for ap peg ranees; the soil of in.ini years re mains undisturlxii upon the wagon wheels; no flower garden is well cared for. they mend the harm-se with hiis of rope, and they trust little or nothing to the vanity of paint. Twenty nine years ago two boya,about a dozen years of were playing in Is-wiston, Nl- They were merry and active lads, and were fmlick ill - wi'li - h ">.bov enthusiasiii and . irelessiies, t hie lad caught tile other. struck his heels and playfully tipped him over. His whole weight came down U|K>II his failing plavmate, whose spine w is serious i iiiiur-<t in conssjucncc. lie w a* conveyed home, and it was found tl. it h w ,s a physical w reck. lor two years he was able to walk arouml . v. v little, ami then, a* the result*, of his imurics gradually grew uioreserious, lie was oliligeii to IK* carried from one P i. e to another, entir ly losinv the us.- ot his lower limbs Vt ngth his whole Imdy h.s aim* rigid, ami he was pow er si for Iw■ -tit>-thl.s- \.-ars Math, w li.uikiris lias -at fixed in his chair a* in a v isc night and day. The New York ll<r > I thus di-scribca a horse-pow> r "This question i fre quently asketl \i hat i* understood by a horse-power, and why came tint way of t - i kWiling to lie adopted and brought into general uc ' Before tlie power of t- am was generally known and applital to mechanical pur|iosi-s, horses were u-tai to raise coal and other Heavy i-' Mr Mottts, m his experiments, < tr- fully -'ompar- d the relative power -•t th<* different l>rta*d of horses, and found its average equal to raising lt3.lSftl pounds one f<*.t is r minute, or. what is equiv a 1 lit. to r-is. 33) ptMlllds li* l feet, or !<* (Miunds 33t) f-et during that spat* of lime whi II atta- led to a lever or sweep of given length. This afterward became th- standard of measuring power -•r for- <• appihal to mechanical purposes, and which is still retained in ivnifnwo use." M:\ior .1 M Wa -li. who has necome ta it*-u- in the Indian country as the offj -• rof ili<- ("aitiwii.-n Mounted l'oliee, in tr,'' ->f the - aiup of Sitting ltuii afld I n. -pnea Si->U\. hits contributed s. -i r- .' umnofopini'-ii and narrative i Uhi' vgo ;--;r 11--thinks Sitting Hull i* Weil dis)M>s.ai toward the I nitial M it- s, hut atitls this - ritii ism of the In .n poiicy " Y--u - :tn't make two gov ernment* —one for the Indian and one for the white man. You don't n-aal them. Tr-at the Indian like a white man from tin s'art Show him tlint you ivs ognire the fact that he has right*, ami • lit out to him what those right* are. 1-a h him that the tVhttc man's right* .ml hi* ar- identical. Then show him that In- will )-■ nrote-ted in his right*, an<l that he wilf I*- punish-al il he in fring- s on the rights of others, and the business is s-ttletl. And it is by en lorcing tliis policy, lie says, that < ana-la Ii ,s lira n-nao.-d to?i\-'al ja. • with the - ivag-* for a generation. The lete Wf *t. Fiacre. Not the least int-riding of tlie many curious customs of the world i the fete • i * bra ted annually in Fnuna-. in honor ot x( Fia- re. The saint is the t sjuviai patron of flow.-r denl- rs and gardener*, and tip- festival, wlii-'h t*- tirs in S- p i- iuli- r. is celebrated througliout Fran---, with gr< at honor and beauty; no oma m- nt*. however, b- inc a.iiow--d, unless -amipo*-'d of flowers and evergreens. On the day of St. Fiacre Paris is a w derm-s of flowers, every dcwirpost, pidar nii-l portii-o 1-ing twined with cay wreatlis TTie tables are loaded with bouquet*, am! w real lift are aiwiut all the wine i'U|. and j- ndant from the et ilitig 0 -very public room A castle, built entirely of the most fragrant flow-r*. enshrines tlie -mail. no.-n-looking wllit li is his stintsliip. St. Fia- r- 1 Ail tin- garden'rscontributetothls gram! t-.vst!- . which i- a won-lerful pie-a- ot nr- flit* tun*. There are pillars. p\ra niids, d-itn- s, t-'iuples ami arcades, ail of tlie most in -gnifieent tie* ription. All th-' tb-ml 1 teaiiti-** --f tit-* flower dealers ami gar-l- m: ■> are brouglit out to pay homage to the patron saint. The saint <!--.* not always appear tlie -am- Soni-'tim- the insignificant statue is arrayed in ri-'li apparel, an-! wears a sttp-'ih crown of flowers: sometimes he is llrrund MM • • i-1 titan. S--111- tim- s M a tonsor-*! monk, wliile again lie Is not adorned in any way. Hi* name always appear- in letters of brilliant flowers l>e n-'ath the rt-'lie where he is enshrine-! ami. also, th-' wordft, " /ViV: pour WHO." It i the usual custom, on the tirst day of the fete, to bear the flower castle and its ugly little image to the church, at the head of agrami proee-sion. There gram! mass is celebrated, and tb-' cure blesses tic image in his most solemn manner. I'p-n tlie altar are lai! off-rings of lM>au tiful flowers an-1 ran- fruit*, and tlie 1 liurvh walls are festooneti with flowers, while hunches of ripe and luscious grapes are twined about the altar rail ing. When mass is over, the castle nn-l saint are borne from door to door, am! - very one is asked to contribute money. Ttie sum thus ohtnin-Hi pays the ex pense* of a grand hall, to which all the florists and gardeners have free admit tance, and this winds up tlie celebration ;of the saint's birthday.—/ Wind 7V<ra ; .ven'pf. The New York Trnetnent Houses. Tlie corps of visiting physicians ap pointed hy the Hoard ol Health to in speet tin- tenement houses in this -'it! have ma-lea report on the results of theii !\- - k'* work. They Itave evidently losl no time, an-1 it i* presumable that theii duties have lieen intelligently and faith fully )>erformed. In upward of tiv< thousand tenements, oontaining -Piji.'h families, there w-'re found 766 cases o sickness, which were pr-*seribed for. nnr beside* this aid. 233 ticket* were di* ti'ihutc-1 for free trip* in the flontinf hospital of St. .lolin's Guild. Tht course of disease was then'tore stayed hj -o much a* these diligent medical met wen- able to accomplish within th -pace of a week. Rut tlie statistics shoe sometliing el*-- -namely, the manner it which a very large proportion <>l th- I --a - pi* t thi* city are paektal into th unwh -li snme hiv< s called toneiuen bouses. The figures-tuot-'-l alxvve givi a total of 25,631 families to 5,020 hous-'S that is to say, rating the family at tin census average of five persons, there an more than !2H,000 men. women an chiidr-'it living in these five thousan houses—or an average of twenty-five t cadi. Even this calculation -toes no represent th-' full measure of the mis chief; for in very many of the tenement the number of inhabitants rises to tiff or si'vcntv-five for each, and it is then places wfiiclt are th-' m-sts of disease. I is not surprising to hear that nearl eiglit hundred cases of sickness were -lis ' cover-si in a week. But for the prop* sanitary precautions taken by the 11 fit It Hoard, tlie week's death-roll would hav been largely augmented. Ntu> Yor I Commercial Advertiser. In a I'rtson Hospital. There are now in Sing Sing prison be tween 1.600 ami 1.700 prisoner* I than twenty of th-m are lying in cot* in the prison hospital one to a hundred, siv East !ear * ven ix-tivict* tlletl The youngest was nineteen tear* old; the oldest w as forty-three. The average age of the prisoners Inst Year was between twenty and twenty-five years. Tin-death rate wus les than one-half of one per cent. Nearly all of the deaths in cur troiu same cause- a tlisease which is ailed consumption, for short. The prisoner hits lived a life of excesses; often lie has eolitraclrd a IIIIMMI tlisease that has passed into a third stage, ami is under mining his - .institution He IMIM'S cold easily, ami the cpld in his system pro duces a waste that his impaired vitality cannot etnlure. He goes into the hos pital ami dies when tin- leave* come out. or lingers till the leaves fall. So said Warden Ihi via the otlier day while lie ami the writer were climbing the ridge to the east of the prison, where the dead • 'tli! lets are burietl. "'I hem Were liar- Vested iasi spring." said he, pointing to a row of five or six graves over which the turf had not grown. "We shall not lx likely to lose any more—hy natural tb-alli —til! the leaves fall: then there will he some more. There is one man whom we may not keep long; hut. utiles* there is some -'usually, or some man is shot in a desperate attempt to escape, there will lie not more than one new gmve lwlore the leaves fall." Since Waiden Mavis took charge of the prison, neary two years ago, there has IMS-U but one death from acute disease. The man --aught cold, his lungs assumed tin- condition of the brain in apoplexy, and l.e was dead within a few hours. All of Hie sick convicts lie in the same room in the hospital—a large hall with cols for perhaps sixty nun. Tin- floor is clean,"the walks white, the room iiithtod with oil lamps. Occasionally, when a convict is si. k with a disevethat makes him offensive to tt-e others. In* is removed to a small r-Miin kept for the purpose elsewhere. The nick are attend-<! chiefly iiv convicts, most of whom, detailed for that purpose, are theniylvcs on the sick list They sit hy the side of the sick, at tend to their wants, give th-ni medicine atxH-rding to the doctor's instructions, and call the doctor when it MX-IIIS to be necessary. The sick generally appear pa tient. ami they are well tak-'ti are of. Sometimes ill the night a nervous. sleep- It -s patient, weary of the scene around him. am! |M-rhaps thinking --f tin- lender . an- he had received tn-m his motlter or a sister at home, will draw a deep sigh ami gasp. "till, this is a horrible piaee to tie sick inr Rut they ai. have good attention, and -v-n tie m->t m-rvoUs cannot say that the condition of tip* sick there i# any noie horrible than it is niatie hv the necessities td tlwir situation. Tltere is no officer of the prison that does not tiptoe through the r>K>iu wlten lie goes among the sick. Jest he should • them pain. The duties - f the prison physician are strangely different from those of physicians outside, lie must see that he is not impostxl upon hy men who want to shirk work or to be trans ferred to w.-rk of a different nature. Tliey feign sickness, antl lie must d-1- r mine whether they are really sjck The prisoners feign sickness more fn-'jucntly in the lIO|M* -f !>eing transferred, to a dif ferent line of work than to escape work. N'.-arly ail of them prefer to w.-rk. and nearly ail would like to Ite frequently ehangeti from -til kind ol work to stupe thing else. Frequently the pliysi-ian tinds it nts twsary t<> tak<* the prisoners at their word ami apply remedies that atv painful, hut not injurious. Not long ago a prisoner was transferred to an easy jtdi in consequence of an ai.metit common to those who lift heavy packages, in three -lays the same disease lMs-aiii-- epidemic among the convicts. One of the first to complain was subjected to heroic treat ment. ami the next day there was not a ease of that ailment in the prison The physician usually has but little difficulty in distinguishing Iw-tw-s-n tbos- that arc realty ill and those whose sh'kness is ft'ignt'tl. When a ronvi- t di--- w-rd i* sent to the lwr-Mtn m- ntion-d in the prison re cords, to the address there given, if su- h name and atliir--ss were given by tlie pri son-T at tfie time of his mi mission, and on receipt of a request to forward the Iw MI v, it is sent on at the State's expense, clothed and coffined. If no tieh name and addrcs are f->un! in the records the pristtner is l-uri-ai in the prison burying ground. The !MM!V is tak-'n to the large upper room before nit-nti-ineil. ainl otrtlers are given f'-r the clothes and coffin The latter is made in the pri--n "i-ibbing shop." wh- re tie* work U done hy con victs detailed for jobbing purpsot-i. ' . not liirtal out to ta-ntra- t--fs. At tin same tirtie. a small white slab of W-M1 IS gotten out. ami on it are painted the name under which the convict was sen tenced. Ilis age antl the date of hi* death. After the body is prepared for burial it is taken to tic hospital reception-room, where a brief service is held Ivy th- chap lain. There are present tic hospital of lieers and such other prison officers as choose to come in. the convicts who an acting a* attendants in the hospital, and a detail of ten or twelve convicts from the prison yard Someone ~f the pri<>n officers is eliov, n hy the warden to take charge of the funeral. Tic chaplain makes remarks on the disposition shown by 'he dead during his term in the nri s'.n. and his conduct in the hospital, il there is anyttiing in them that he thinks would benefit the assembled convicts. Sometimes he refers to the crime that brought the man to prison. A prayer i> made, and the coffin i Ixirne to the pri son burying ground. There the service is very brief. —.V< tr York Sun. I'nshoil llorses. It has been before stated that an ex perienced farrier in England was advo cating the abolishment of hors-'sho-'ing, and now a writer in the I/>nd--n IV tries has been trving the ex peri m< nt, and thus reports: When my pony's shoes were worn out 1 ha-1 them removed, an-1 gave him a month's rc*t at pass, with an H>- caskmal drive of a mil* or two on the high road while his hoofs were harden ing. Tlie n sult nt tir*t seemed doubtful. The hoof was a thin shell, and kept chipping away until it had work-a! down beyond the holes of the nails bv which the shix's iiad b-s-n fastened. After this tlie hoof grew thick and hard, quite un like what it had been before. 1 now put the pony to full work, and he stands it well, lie is more sure-footed; his tread is almost noiseless; his hoots are in no danger from ttte rough hand of the farrier; and the change altogether has been a clear gain, without anything to set against it. My pony. I may add. was Ig-twccn foil! ami five years old—rising four. I fancy, is the correct phrase. He iind lie- n regularly shod up to th- pres ent year. The Bright Side. Irfxik on the bright side—it isthcriglit side. The times may be hard, but it will make them no easier to wear a gloomy an-1 sad countenance, it is the sunshine and not the cloud that gives beauty to the flower. There is always before or around us that which should cheer and till the heart with warmth and gladness. The skv is bine ten times where it is black once. Vou hav-' troubles, it may !>e. So have others. None arc free from t lifin —and perhaps it is as well that none should he. They give sinew and tone to Ufp—fortitude and courage to man. That would he a dull sea, anil the sailor would never acquire skill, were there nothing to disturb its surface. It is the duty oi every one to extract all the happiness an-1 enjoyment he can front within and without him. and, alxive all, he should lt>ok on the bright side. What though things do look a little dark? The lane will have a turning, and the night will end in broad -lav In the long run tlie great balance lights itself. What appears 111 becomes well—that which appears wrong, right. TERMS: ©2.00 a Year, in Advance. AN KM AI'K FROM AI'KTKALIA. Tb* Trw* Wtory *t lb* Ad ••■*•• *1 Jubu H l 0"ltlllr . In the It. is ton hint, John Boyle O'Reilly, its editor, give* the first cor rect story of hlaescnpe from the |a-nal colony ol West Australia, to which he w as consigned an a f • man aoitie ten years ago. '1 he tory is as follows: For m veral months previous to the dateofuiy escape, 1 luuilm n resolved oil ami ill preparation for an attempt. No one knew UIV Iliitld. I had In-fore toll no many fail that I concluded it Was Is-si to make tin- effort aiour. Fortu nately, I was dissuaded from this pur- I 111. day I w :i \ is-it-*i at the . amp of the convict road party iiarm-d above hy Rev. I'atrick McL'abe. a Catholic priest, whose " j.urtsh " extended over hundred f. of miles ot i>ush, aud WIUM only parishioners were convict* and licket-of-leave men. One day he rode to uiy hut, ami we waik<xi together into the hush. I hid then made all my p>atts tor escape, and 1 freely told him my in tention. "It in an excellent way to • om mil su!-. Me." he said ; and he would uot speak of it anymore. Ashe was leav ing me, however, lie leaned from his saddle and said. " Ik.fl't think of that igain. Ist lue think out a plan for you. You'll li<-:tr from ue Itefore long.' 1 was not compelled to work with the criminal gang on the roads, but had charge uf their stores and carried the warden's weekly rep rt the Uunliury dejait. On my way with this report one day I came to a plain known a* the " Itaee-Oourse. As I crossed it I Icard a "co--e," or bush cry. and saw a man coming toward lue. lie was a handsome fellow, with an axe on lit* shoulder, lie cann- to ma with ■> friend l> sini;.- "Mv nam- is Maguire," he *aid; " I'm a friend of Father klac's. and h- 's IM* n speaking attout vou." 1 said a* little a* possible, not knowing the man. S-t-iiig my hesitation h<* drew out a - anl Irotn lii* wallet.on which Father M'-f ab-- had written a few Word* tome. Then 1 trusted him. He told me he was clearing the race-course, and he would 1 teat work there a month. The A merl on whale-'*, h-' *sid, would tou-di at Bunbury for water in February (it ws* tb- ii Hecember). an-1 h-' wa* going u- I makeaii arrangement* with one of tin pat-tain* for my escape. Early in February, on my return fmui the wc.-kly trip with the r- |>ort. I found Miguire at the race--oilrse waiting for me. "An- you ready.**' be naid. On-- -•I til-- whaiers, the bark Vigilant, of New Bedford, was to sail in four days, and t -plain Itak-T had agreed totak< ui-' on Utar-l, if he *aw iue at *ea outside Australian waters": and lie had even promised to-'iuis-- two or three day* and watch for my coming out. Maguirt* bail everything arranged. Gn the night -d the taili I was to • >ui of my hut at eight o'clock sod strik into the hush on a line of his selection, where the native tracker* would la? at fault. 1 had previously secured a pair of fr-a'tn- n' sip***, a* tin* trai'ker* could j - a>iiy <ii*ccrn the mark of a convict's IHK-I. Having left the camp. I wa* to hold a straight road through the hush till 1 came to an old convict station on the Vasse road, where I was to lie till I heard SOUP- on-- on the road whistle tlie ; tirst barsof " i'atrick's Hay." This wa* repeat-si again and again till we were *ure we Ix-th h:l every point agr**d. Then we separated. At seven o'clock that evening the warden of the "ovi<-t party visital tip criminals' hut and found that all were prc-ent. He saw uic sitting in my hut a* h<* t>a.*o<d on hi* return. One of the ronviti- S<MUI aft<r c.-une into my hut to IMIITOW tc-ba-co and stay-ola long time, making me very nervous. He went away l-cf.-rc eight, however, and. a* soon as h- wa gone. I changed myt-oot*. put <>ut the light and struck into the bu-li. j I'he forest w.w dark, hut the stars wen* el-'.ar. 1 had not gone two hundred yards wh--n 1 saw a man close to me, j • vid-'ntly following nie. 1 waited till lie cam-' up It was a mahogany sawyer, nam'*! Kelly, whose ni: was -'lose to my hut He was a good fellow —though 11-' had n transfx-rt-a! f--r life. "Areyou off 1 li- s.ai-1. in a whisper. " I knew you no-ant it. I saw you talking to Ma . uin-ii month ago. and 1 km w it all." I wa dumb with astonishment and alarm. If this man had wished lie could have put the police on the alert, or lie -s-ul-1 l> it next day. 11c lieid out his hand an-1 there was a quiver in hi* hu*ky voice. "Godspeed you," h- 1 *aid, giving m a grip like a vise; " I'll put tlietu on the wrong si-cnt to-morrow, if 1 can" 1 * I took the manly hand in si lence, and kept on tuy way. Vbout eleven o'clock I came to the old o-invi' station, nn-l lay down behind a great gum tr-*' at the roadside. In half an hour or so two men rode us, hut passed on. They were farmers, pnda l> v. !>ut may IM I a patrol -f mounted p-i'i-v. Shortlv aft-r I heard horse* --tiling at a sharp trot. fliey halt-*! n--:ir me. and I h- anl *' I'atri- k's Hav" whistled clear am! low. In an instant I was with litem —Maguire and another friend. M—. They 1-d a spare horse. I til-Hint-si at once, and without a word we *tru-'k into tlie hush -at a gallop. For hoitr* w<- rode on in silence, \t last Maguir? l . who lel. Pull-xl up. -lismounted and whistle-I Anoilier whistle wa heanl, and in s few minutes we were joined by three men. two of them cousin* of Maguire. Tlie third t-M-k tip* hors-'s and went off after shak ing hands with in-'. We then formed in Indian tie, to prevent the di-covery of the numlM-r. each one covering the other's track*, and walked on for alniut another mile, till we came to a dry swamp n-*ar the sea. Here M— remained with tnc. while tho others went forward. ,M tails) me that w<• were close to Bunhury. and that the others were gone lor the Ix-at. After half an hour's anxious waiting we saw a light, as it a match were struck, at half a uiile distant. This wa* repeated •lira-' time*, and then we went forward. We found Maguire waiting for us on a I little bridge aero* I the road. They had tlie boat ready, and led the way. We had to walk through mud up" to tlie knee* to icach the wat-T. In half a minute Maguire nn-l 1 were in the hoat. M remained <n the shore. "Come on," whispered Maguire. "No." an swered iMnr M .with a .tr-mhling voice, "I promise-! my wife n-t to go in the lxiat." "Ail right," sn-are-i on-'of tlie Maguires. " go home to your wife." As we pulled silently out to sea, we i could discern M standing on the I I-each. It was not cowardice. He waa a brave man, as he proved afterwr.nl. and ! hope the time may -xime when I shall l>e free to mention his name. We were four men in the lxiat. and we pulled cautiously till we had got out -if hearing. Then we bent ?o the oars with full strength. There were hui few wor-lssaid. When the sun rose we were well out. and could just sec the tops of the sand hills. We were crossing Geo graph-' hay. on a straight line of nlx-iit forty miles in length. We were to lie in wait for th-' Vigilant, on the farther shore, and out her oft' a* she passed the northern head of the bay. We pulled strongly till the forenoon was cloning. We had neither water nor food; I don't know whether tlie arrangements for a supply had failed, or had been wholly forgotten. But I had oaten nothingfrom noon of the previous day. and I Ix-gan to suffer dreadfully from titirs*. It was al most noon when we ran the lxiat through the surf and bench-si her. In doing so our clothes were drenched with sea water, and I felt instant relief from thirst. I tried this afterward with good effect,ex cept that it made the skin sore. We got to the law it at about twelve o'clock, and nncofthe men with* strong glass, which Maguire had brought, was sent to a hill to look out for the sailing of the Vigilant. At about one o'clock he came down tit a run and reported the vessel, under full sail, steering north Wc ran the hoat through the surf and pulled out with light hearts. All efforts to attract the attention of the Vigilant NUMBER 31. failed, and at last the party put back t > land, where O'Kciiiy pawed the night in constant anxiety. Next morning, having innde the boat water-tight with paper bark, I went to *ea iii this craft, towing over the stern •udh'ienl food to last ">• for some days. She una light and easily pulled. Ik-lore night 1 had paoscd the fieitd land and was (in the Indian Ocean. I knew there was a current ruing northward. Next morn ing 1 gave up pulling and sat down to watch and wait. It wa* very hot. The un flamed altove,and tiie reflectionfroui tie- water was scorching. Tiie meal towing in the sea wa* becoming putrid, and during the night some of lb* 'p<>*- RUm* and kangariH. rats lial I "-en taken by sharks 'Tliat day. toward noun, 1 -aw a aail; H wa* the Vigilant, there was no other veasel therr. She drew near to me—no near that 1 heard voices •>n dock. 1 saw the men aloft on the •ookout; but they did not we me. or at h ast Captain Baker says 10. She wiled away again, and wa. out of sight before night (Heretofore I have simply said thai 1 went out to sea. saw the Gazelle Sr. this way. and was picked up ) The dew at night and thr cool air refreshed me. and I rofved to null back m shore and wait for Maguire s return. 1 pulled all night, off and on, ard in the morning saw the sand hills at the head land of Geographe bay. Hy noon I was ashore, and then began a most w*ary walk hack to Johnson's, where 1 arrived that night. After that I left the sand valky no more. I wanted to sleep nil the time, and there was no one to disturb me. In five days more I .was thoroughly wak ened, however, by the cheery voice of my friend Maguirv.and with him came M—, who said he was resolved to see me tlirough this time. Maguire brought me * brief letter from Father Mot'-abe. ask ing me to remember him. The whalers were to sail next day. and tkuitain Gif ford of the Gazelle, of N'cw Bedford, had agreed to take me off. To make it sure. Father McCabe iiad paid him A' lo,to lake uie as far as Java. But there was otic drawback. A criminal convict, one of the worst char acters in the colony, a ticket-of-leave man, named Martin Bowman, of Beau inont, had discovered the means of my escape, and had gone to Maguire and threatened to put the police on the track utiles* he was taken off too. Maguire could not dissent, so here was the wound re 1 coolly looking at us and say ing nothing. That night we slept little, some one always keeping an eye on Bowman. We were up at daybreak, and soon after we were afloat. Old Johnson and his bin' stood on the bench and saw us push off. We pulled straight out toward the head land, as Captain Clifford had instructed. By noon we saw the two whaieships coining along with a fine breeze. To ward evening we heard a hail, and sotnr on- on board shouted my name, and cried out, "*< 'oor on hoard !*' We were 1 all orcijoyed. Wepulied alongside, and I wa* helped out of the boat by the strong arms of Henry Hathaway, the third mate. Captain Gifford made me welcome and gave me a place in his cabin. Martin Bowman, the escaped i criminal, wa* sent forward among the crew. Some monthi- afterward, when the Gazelle touched at Roderiquc. and Eng iii-h island in tiie Indian Ocean, the gov ernor came alxtard searching for 'an i-M-anod convict from Australia—a black-haired man.' I was standing wlili Mr. Husney, tiie mate, when the governor of the island made the demand Mr Huasey said that no Mich person was on l"ard. The governor uiiswcred that he had information that a man had --scaped on the Gazelle. Mr. Huasey! feared they might seize the ship, so lie said that a man of tha! description who | had come on board off the coast of Au stralia might be the person. lie called Bowman, whom every on board detest ed. and he was put in irons and taken <n shore. We knew that he would tell the whole story (the wonder is that he did not do it then; hut lie wished to ' make terms for his own release). That night the officers of the Gazelle threw the grindstone, with my hat, overboard, while 1 ia> in the captain's cabin. A cry of " Man overboard!" was raised, a !x>at lowered and the hat picked up. There were on board sonn English ex convicts. w ho had shipped in Australia, and these only waited lor a chance to get me retaken. But one of them, utter ly deceived by the officers' strategy, de clared that he saw me sink when the hat was picked up. When the governor of the island cam-' on board the next day to demand hi* prisoner the flag was at half-mast, and the officers sorrowfully Told him that the man he probably wanted had jumped ovrr'xvar-l in the night and was drowned. His policemen went among the crew and learned the siune new., being particularly impressed by the Engli-timan's story. Twoday* later the Gazelle sailed from Roderiquo, and I cam-' on deck, much to the amaze ment of the crew. The narrative closes with the story of the transfer to the •sapphire, of Boston, on which tiie nar rator reached Liverpool, an-i that to the Bombay, on which the passage was mad" to Philadelphia, as previously stated. The Bead President*. A review of the lives of the different Presidents of ill-' United St.-ttcs It pro ductive of some very interesting results. For instance, three of them died on the Fourth <>f July. John Adams and Jef ferson both died on tbe country's birth day. July 4. I*W. and Monroe died on the 4th of July, IH3I , KMbsaM - n the Until of June, IS3. and his frierwts vrere confident tliat h-*. too. would live until July 4th. If he had. then the sec ond. third, fourth and tiftii President* would have dic-t|upon Independence Day. Taylor and Johnson Imtli di-*d in July. Every fourth President until Mr. Haves was an old bachelor. Van Ruren did not draw any of his salary until his term expired, when he drew it out in gold. , " all in a lump." Tyler died p-xr. and was one of the Confederate commission ers at Montgomery. John Adams live<l lie longest; he was ninety-one years old when lie died. Madison was eiglity li*e; Jefferson, eighty-three; John tjwiney A-lanis. eighty-one; Van Ruren, eighty; Jackson. sev-ntv eight; Bu chanan. seventy-seven: Fillmore, sev ertv-fiiur; Monroe, seventy-two; Tvler. seventv-two; Harrison, sixty-eight. )Vasliington.sixty-seven : Johnson,sixty s-v-'n: Tav lor .sixty; Uneoln. fifty-six: Polk,fifty-four: l'ierce.fort v-five. General Grant is the only living 'X-Tresident. Ty ler ami Van Ruren iKithdi-sf in Lin coln in IW*5. Buchanan in PW. Piere-' in IHfi'.i, Fillmore in 1574 and Johnson in I *75. The Three R'. Somebody mourns because he litis nothing hut the three R's to teach. Poor soul! From the very depths of our fieiings we pitv you. Nothing to teach! The world is before you. Sun. moon and atoms, stars and comets, a whole universe full, and nothing hut the three It's left you. But after all we suspect you have not taught those brunches very inucii. Can you read? We should like to examine you. How we would try vou all the way from Mother Goose to Mi it on. Can you write? We would give you a pen, and ten minutes to write a thought worth remembering one second. Then arithmetic! Why, my dear, ignorant s ml! do you not vet know that arithmetic is the science of sciences, that even the highest calculus is only an expanded arithmetic? Go honieJ Leave your work ti> oth-TS who will honor the grandest of all studies, rending, writing and arithmetic. There are those who understand that to know these well is to be well )e:u*n-sl. God bless the teacher who knows the three K's! God bless the child who learn, them \—Fkh*cntUmal Monthly. Ballad l Hm Piiii. [Fran a pom by Job. W. OvwnU rad > the hooss-warming mWrnliM <4 lb. Turk PrasCToh.) la otliar .Ur with Uey toads, Tha trmlaikwn 4 WWrj Car tha lyra'a wtM tk robbing bosom IVwrsrf hamte atraiaa ol gtory; Tbay tall ua how Om knight. <* old Riavsd tanpaat. aaa and brsaks* And atat tha ar<4Bng Saraaaa At Asmlon and Aer* Wa aitMt a song m mo-Jsr. days— CM aonxOiiait tar divinsr, Tha I*l lad ol tha giant Praa ('cantor and refiner' Obodianl to tha will <4 thought It moaa iu ataal phalanges. A ad nations l-and to catch ita t/raath From Uoldrai Oats to Uangea. K-mm lor tha oooqaaror ol tha world' Tba ctaal-elad Air lander' J llimi for tha pan, tha sword ol mind Whichsweep* from grand tograadar' Ito-rni lor tha laachara of thalr kind. ' Who aooro tha wrong's daflanc* And proudly haar upon thalr eraal Tbe motor " Hall-rshanos"* Little Barbara. I'ratty llartora. ripa and rod, With awaat •mail mouth like tha baea abed. And lull ot naotar and honey-dew; io pretty a thing, I dare not awear To the art of the ribbon that Uea her hair Or tha buckle that biada her aboe; So like bar meh trinket ebe has to wear. It Micuie jt a* it It grew, Jjkr a tune in iu petal* and poilaa dual. That weam it* baautv because it nwt. And aotuethtng bks Barbara. U>. A* ala dip* bar small tin htwkatin 'The iiule lountata ol woven gtaaa, l-ie weta thai the spidara waava and *pia Jo hang on the shining Undo* el g**a, A tare a* bright mod happy a* ham, in the art* of the -uik*-n gtwamem. Look. oat (4 the wutar** smooth atlipaa, A* it It aaa happy to hold within it The autt %crbma red of her Lips. Ami kiaa and earns. bar joat for a nunuU, In the armaot tha dtmplaa. amooth mad fofll Km i gone and aohariy tnrae tha mill. Kdk We to her in tha hooey-daw 1* nothing yet but tha wayaide firing. Between theopper and under blue, That tnaka* a fiatkm ol -> scything, A* perfectly like a* it It grow; And oho ia too happy to aaa within it The shape ol bar email swoat aail a m.onta. Prow the bow ia the hair la the Us <4 her ahoa. To know that the marveioaa shadows tn*aa The aiinpla inner beauty that ahowe But now ia the color 4 a i una. And now like the waiar** *muoth erlipee. In hnait* that bold her pfoiom Mill, Aa wa go and aohariy tarn tha mill. Harprr i .Ifayart-r- ITERS OF INTEREST. What women are doing—Mm.— Itrl JftrWr. Al thia time of year a diiih of toe-cream in the hand ia worth two ia the freeaer. Oac-third of all the coffee Mid ia the United Stater i said to be aduUeralod- The parlor nutchei of the winter now nut their bead* together oyer the front gale, and the inuon make* light of it.— The I'eoplt . > WcUm, speaking at a meeting in London. soued that during the last twelve year* he had walked and " wob bled " on foot 53.000 mile.- The ('ountrs* de Moniyo. mother of the rx-Emppw Eugenie, t. eightr-two and waamuchnflHcted at her grandaoo • death. Sir Ilennr Biff W conveyed a good idem of a billion when he stated that a billion sheet, of the London 7*ma, parked closely one on the other, would rwt: h an altitude of 47.000 mile.. Kx-Governor Tilden'. summer homo at Yon ken. N. Y-. i known aa " Grey stooe." The ground, cover thirty-three acres, including lawn, meadow and forest. The mansion and ,/rr.unda wuich are leased by Mr. Tilden, wt $400,000. A woman working form farmer ay t Itetroit was fatally poisoned rccentl hw washing a nair ol overall, which be hy worn while putting Pari. green onbar potatoes. Tbe woman had a cut or iod on her hands, into which tbe poison baa penetrated. Of the 40.000 postmaster, in the United State* only 8.000 are appointed by the President.'and are paid hy salary: the >.OOO others are designated by the Pust master-fleneral and are maid in propor tion to the amount erf business done at their offices. More than 5 000 000 cans ol ron are ow packed in Maine annual y. and sold in every part of tbe world, yielding a business to that State of about $1,45©.- 000. and giving profitable employment to from ft.OOOto 10,000 people during tbe packing season. Energetic in can* have been taken for suppressing the use of opium in the pro vince ol HupehTChina. The smoking .lens are cloned and opium shops abolish ed. Poppies have been uprooted through out the farming district*, and the pro vincial authorities pay grower* a small gratuity lor every plant destroyed. lbu-win is as -t night as a dart and as robust as an oak. He looks hale and hearty enough to live 100 year, and mom.* It is said lie now confines hi. ambition to the completion of two works lie ha* lcgun. One is the life of hi. grandfather, who was an illustrious doc tor. and the other is a work on vegetable life. Field bakeries fonn part of the train of nearly every European army. I>- spiU* those arrangements.it ha. in recent years been frequently found impossible to supply tbe nip l with frosh bread from -lay to day. and it seem, likely that the attempt to do so will be abandoned, and biscuit iasued instead of bread. A novelty in social amusement has Imvh introduced in Jackson county. Oregon. The Tulmgt, of Ashland, re ports that a number of young ladies and gentlemen from Jacksonville ami other places met at the grove at. Willow Springs on horsehack. and, to the musie of the violin, went through a number of <iuadrillcs and round dance* with their horaea. A heavy rain-storm suddenly swelled a Dakota mountain stream to a torrent, and 1 bay id Morton, arriving at its bank with his wife in a wagon, found that he could not cross. Desiring to get rid of Mrs. Morton, he threw her into the si ream and drove the horse in after her. letting both drown. A coroner's jury was about to decide that the woman hail been accidentally killed, when a drtect i ive arrived witii the new. tliat there were marks of a struggle beside the stream. This overwhelmed Morton, and he confessed the murder. ■ere— ~ Peculiar reople. Odd folks here and there are deacri'-ed >in the newspapers. Box bur v. Ma.-*., lias an eccentric tramp who lives in s cave during the winter and spends the summer in making begging excursions to the neighboring towns. He never says a word, and liis dress consists en- I ifely of old bootlegs fas toned together with leather strings. A small wagon, drawn by two goats, and containing a helpless, shrivlrd man. attraottd atten tion in Ilagerstown. Md. He said that he had traveled in tliat manner for many years, and called himself "the American Tourist." He is entirely helpless. Ilia wife and four children accompany him and attend to his wants, getting their living hy the sale of a temperance song and other small articles. Jefferson Stevens, who lives near Sulphur Springs, Ky.. conclude, that he is gifted with peculiar powers, of which lie lately gave a Street exhibition. He held a forked dogwood sw itt h. like those used by wizards, in It it- mouth, and told the crowd to ask any questions tliey pWaed. A pair of tramps turned up al Dee Moines lowa—Peter Carlisle and wife —who were on their way to l>>iidvill from the Pennsylvania coal regions. They had pushed a handcart all the way. containing their babv girl and a few* household utensils. Carson Carr. of Moodie, Cal., will on no account walk a step, hut always runs, no matter if the distance is only a few feet: while Mr. Main, of Chicago, will neither walk nor run, although nhysimUy able to do either, because she thinks her legs w 111 drop off if she stirs them.
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