An Argument. As, one by on®, along life's flinty way, The hop ot youth fade in the heat anil di And ol our prime the aspirations high Kemorseleas eircutnstanaes crush anil slay. Hien, "Courage," to onr tainting hearts t say, '* Beyond this life the sunny uplands lie Where these shall all be ours, again to try, The blight ascent toward the perfect day." Oh, land of the hereafter' can it be. When to thy sacred keeping we commit All our het treasures so oonfldingly. Our dead, 0..r hopes, our aspirations lit With qnenohlas* flee, that immortality And thy lair plains am all a myth, a cheat —H. K. Sir. rtll, in Company Lessons on flte Wy. Starting from the cradle Toward tin- grave below, Treading in the footprints Ma.ie so long ago; lo we note the landmark* All along the way ? Do we atop to gather Wisdom, day by day * Do we see the rivers Made ot human tears * swelled hv v\ il passions Pis! hy craven tears* ll ao, ait* we xlrouger Hauling with the to*- * Are we hourly grow mg Wiser a- we go? Do i- hood the breaker* With their -alien roai * l>o we ms- ihe Umbers Strown atoug the short-" Wrecks ot human greatften roundcrc i in a night— Do we mind our rudder Roller tor the sight ? Beacon lights are shining Ftvtu the hills and towers; Angel voices calling In the darkest hours' l.ct us heed the warning. Ad along the way — Let ua gather wisdom Whiie we watch and pray' THE DAISY S PROPHECY. •*!Uch i, tHHir man, Iwggar-tuxn, doctor. lawyer— there Julia, my hue i- at lust decided. Three times the daisy it -s said I am to marry a lawyer; so let t: - h :ir no more about Luke Hartwi. s well-stocked farm; or the stgni: ance o. Squire Day's glances into our t w at church;" and K ite Morrison • .-k t! tin into her elder sister'* face and la;:i!i 1 merrily. Julia's annoyed ■ \| r> .; > i> i cry amusing to lu-r. " V -u -r -o foolish. Kate," said Mrs. Bertram in a ton* of vexation. "Not a il .v i: -- -thai you do not get some new !. Ik into your head; and you areas per - n; and stubborn iu clinging to it as —as —" " A mule," s iid Kate, as her sister ir -1: c for a comparison. "Don't air. . ot hurting my fe-.ings, Julia; v.'.i kt >v i am hardened to scoldings. ; confrerethat Ido cling An an 11 .. with to.crab.e firmness. But 1 a ■ ' \$ c" . believe ia t- ..i;;g fortunes by the Ju daisies, ami !am morally I- i'-tin .ut I shall tnarry a lawyer. I sl.r . wait for him if 1 am as gray as a . - r when he comes along." and a. tK ■ aughed, tossing her song with • •' ■ rmined motion of her small head. - 1 .iou'i know where you ever ob ' - -Si notions. Kate," said Julia, w . r brow was still drawn with i:> vexed e.xttr, -.-ton. "I am sure e; : r i.a- taken tl.e same pains it v< ur bringing up .vs she did in mine, and tried to instill into your mind cor r t i- >f woman's duty. And yet. h .. tvc.n'.v-thr>- unmarried audi --Mi Why, I was engaged to y h; v. •: a I was only nineteen and unr i d tw nty." •• But :h tt you had such a good offer, Ju i The: are cot many men like t - " TL wilt's face wore a serene expres ses; again as her sister paid this tribute to the manly excellence of the absent husband. •• Br you - in so hard to suit. Kate." she arr. •: "I am sure Luke Hart well i> v;■ your.gman; do In' a iittlo civil • : and tin re's Souire Day. who i* as ricii as a prince anil owns tin tin span of horse.-In the county." " Fwouldn't marry a man tor tin-sake of hi* !. >rsi said Kate, setting her tip- firmly together. "But you would learn to love him i rh 1 ms- f after a time. Kate." " I'm afraid it would be a very long time. Julia. The old scarecrow wears false teeth, a red wig, nnd has six cross red-bended. uninteresting children. I know I couldn't do my duty t<> them." '• But suppose mother should die. Kate? Luke Hartwell will have the farm at once, and you will be left pen niless." " I wiii teswh the district school when that !. ippcn." s.-.id Kate,cheerily. "The squire is one of the trustees, and he w uld see that I got it if I was just the least bit pleasant to him." "Very well," said Julia, now really flushed witl anger. "Go your own way. The doctor said last week tliat mot tier was breaking up very fast in deed. and you wil feel sorry for your obstinacy when you see Luke Hartwell in nossession of this piaee." "Oh. my lawyer will come along be- 1 fore that evil day comes," said Kate. • " I; is of no us ■ to croak yourself hoarse. Julia. The daisy has spoken, and I have faith in it= prophecy. I felt sure I was not doomed to lie the wife of Luke j HartweP. or the second Mrs. Day." The si- us had now crossed the mea dow. where the litt.e daisy had been ound by Kate, and were within the sweet oH garden of Bower Farm. Julia w nt at once into the house, but KaU ■ stood under an old. gnariisi apple tree,' and looked around her. Was this dear old place with its wealth of fruit and flowers to pass away from them, and be oome the property of Luke Hartwell? It seemed hard that at the mother's death j it should not liecome the property of her daughters. Thegpttagc was nalf-smoth ■ red in creeping roses, white and red, sweet honeysuckle and passion-flowers. Three old oak trees mounted guard in p front, and at the b-c-k stretched out the old orchard, in which Julia and Kate had played in childhood. The i-ommo- | dious h rn. the airy stable ,uid the graas erown farmyard were all dear to Kate's ■ heart from long association with her life. 1 The farm bad belonged to Mr. Andrew Hartwell, an unele of Luke's He had loved Mary Penrose, but she had j given her heart and hand to Arthur Morrison, who hailed her a sad life for twelve years and, dying, left her penni less. Andrew Hartwell had not mar ried. He had remained an old bachelor j for the sake of his early love, and when ■ he found that she had been left forlorn I and poor, with two little daughters, the ! younger only a year old, he installed her j at once on Bower Farm, and at his death 1 left it to her for life; then It was to re- j vert to Luke, Andrew's brother's child | This decree was only just; yet it seemed hard to Kate, who had lived here| rwenfy-two years and loved every stieg and stone on the place. She it WHS who i managed the dairy and poultry-yard: j who hired men to farm the land and made money enough to support herself and mother comfortably. Mrs. Morri son's days of activity were long past. She had managed the farm with great executive ability until rheu matism crippled and confined her to an easy chair, and the farm had gone into Kate's willing hands. Julia, who was elder bv nine years, had grown up and married; but every summer saw her at Lower Farm with her two children. She found it hot h convenient and eco nomical to pay her mother and sister a long visit during the hot weather. Kate's happy disposition made her a general favorite in the neighlwrhood. but in spite of mueh attention from the sterner sex she was still single, which Julia seemed to think a disgrace to her self and family. But Kate only laughed at her arguments and snubbed Luke Hartwell on every occasion, and was deaf to the compliments of Squire Day, who had singled her out as the one best fitted to minister to the wants, and un dertake the education of his six auburn headed olive branches. The mouth of June was fast passing away, and the roses were blooming more FRED. KUHTZ, Kditor and Proprietor. VOLUME XII. luxuriantly than ever, and sending their fragrance Into the kitchen when- Kate was kneading bread, when l.uke Hart welleatueovi r the meadow with shamb ling gait, determined to dry his fate, and " win or lose it all." Kate's sleeves were rolled up to her shoulders, and her arms went while with tlour. hut she was not at all eiuharrasx<-d by Luke's appearance. " t.ood afternoon." she said, shaking hark the curls whien were drooping ovr her face, "will you stay out hen-, l.uke, or shall 1 call Julia to take you into the parlor? It's none too cool out here." " I came to see you. Kate, and 1 don't mind the heat." " Well, sit down and make yourself as comfortable as you can. lam too busv too talk, but 1 -an listen well enough Hut now Luke did trot know how to tn'gin his tale of love. lie had prepared a mat speech in his mind a* he walked over the utcadow, but every vestige of it had down front his memory at tin first sight of Kate. He therefore twisted his fingers backward and forward in an awkward manner, tnoreii his chair half adosen times, and coughed repeatedly hctons In- could summon courage to spi-ak. " Kate," he said at length, with a kind of choked gasp, "I've been intending to come over here for some time back. " I believe you were here only yester day." replied Kate, coldly, "tm, was I?" stammered l.uke, "but I've come f*r a different purpo*<' te an old maid, no one will have you then, and —oh good heavens, what do vou ex pect—7' " I expect my lawyer," coolly an swered Kate, patting the smooth loaves of bread in the pan. "That is the craziest notion of all. I gave you credit lor more common sense, Kate, than to believe in such trash. It is really too ridiculous ot talk about." "Then don't talk about it." said Kate. "lain not anxious to hear your eio ciuent haraneU'-s on my poor little daisy's prophecy." " Itut you can't mean that you will throw away good chances lor the sake of a silly notion." " I mean that I will wait for my law yer." said Kate, still smiling. " How you cling to that idea! I've n > patience with you at all. If Lnke had been a lawyer. would you have married him? Come, let's sec how much you really think of that idea." " I didn't say I'd have any lawyer." answered Kate. " I mean to choose my lawyer. I pulled every leaf off tin daisy. and i! 1 ft the last one a lawyer: so a lawyer it will be; and I mean to wait lor my lawyer until my lawyer comes." "Horrors!" cried Julia, "don't use that detestable word again. I am utterly sick of it. I hope I'll never more see one of the profession." Kate iaughed out loud as her sinter fled to the parlor, worsted in the battle. The first week of July came, and one fine day when the sun was sinking in the west. Squire Day drove up to the front gate of Bower Farm, hitched his horses—they were certainly handsome creatup-s—and entering the house asked to si-e Miss Kate. Julia saw the arrival, and leaning over the railing at the head of the stairs, heard the question. She knew at once wliat was meant by it: •he knew on what errand the portly squire had come, and she praveo that Kate would not throw away litis second chance of settling herself advantage ously. Squire Day was able to buy Bower Farm three times over and twenty more like it, as far as money wss concerned. Kate went into the parlor without even a glance in the glass to see if her appearance would lie apt to please her eideriv lover. She knew as soon as she saw the shiny appearance of his boots, the new suit of broadcloth he wore, and the general aspect of the whole man, that lie had come to ask her a very im portant question And she was not mistaken. In a brief but impressive manner Squire Day offered her his name and heart. Julia kept her head out of the window until the squire came forth. She had a good view of him, and knew by his dc jected aspect that fie bad 'icen refused. This was a little too much! Kate de served a serious reprimand now; and. prepared to deliver it, Julia ran down stairs and met her sister in the hall. "So you've rejected the squire." were Mrs. Bertram's first words. " Well, you've taken your own stubborn, foolish course. Kate Morrison, and you'll have only yourself to thank when you are an old maid with your pretty looks all gone." " I won't spend much time thanking myself," said Kate. " I will buy a bot tle of' Bloom of Youth,'and paint my cheeks, and go to work at the district school." " Kate; you may laugh now; but you won't laufth so much ten years from now. Squire Day is so rich, and those lovely horses—" " And lovely red-headed children," in terrupted Kate. " What matters the color of their hair. The squire is rich, and loves you, and would give you an elegant home. Good heavens! what do you expect?" " I expect my lawyer," was the laugh ing answer. Kate! I told you never to mention that word again. I have no patience with such folly. You refuse Luke Hart well; you refuse Squire Day. Do you think a prince is coming to woo you? What can you be waiting for? THE CENTRE REPORTER. " Waiting for my lawyer," an* wiwl Kate, and Julia went out, shamming the door In-hind her iu a manner that spoke volumes. A lew days after the squire's rail. Kate received an invitation from an old school-mate who lived in a town a doten miles from Bower Farm to pay her a visit J ulla consented to manage tin farm affairs for a wre-k. ami so Kate went off for a holiday, and was gone ten days. "1 have news for you Kate," said Julia, as they sat at tlie tea-table the evening of Kate's return home. •• Your lawyer lias actually come at lost." " 1 knew he would cotue sooner or later."-aid Kate. "Well, he is here; or rather, is stay ing at tue Farmers' Rest in the village.' "Who is he?"asked Kate, with an appearance of interest. "A Mr. Alfred I'endfxter from the city, lie is to la- here a couple of months. It seems he knows Charles quite well, and came out here the even ing of the day you left to call on me. lie is full of fun, and you will be sure to like him." Kate did like him. He. too, was very evidently pleased with Kate. He was tall, handsome, and a thorough gentle man. and a favorite everywhere. He came often to Rawer Farm, aud when the fail was throwing her brown man tle over the earth, he told Kate that In had learned to love her, and asked her to be his wife. She gave him a differ ent answer from that she had given Squire Day and Luke llartweli " Now, Julia. I told you 1 should marry a lawver," *;iid Kate', when she announced her engagement to her eider sister. " Well, 1 am very glad you have found him. 1 didn't believe you would, but I wish you much joy and a speedy w coding." " He is to return to his law office next week." replied Kate. " But in Decem ber he is to come aud take me away. 1 shall believe more firmly than ever in daisy fortune-telling after this, and shail never forget to pick one every June." In December Kate was married, and her dress was trimmed with daisies artificial, of course—and a bunch of the pretty white and gold flower* was at her throat. Mr. i'enoextersmiled as lie *aw them, fc-r of course Kate Kul to hi him of how she had decided her fortune. They went at ouoe to tlie pretty home in the city which the young husoand had made ready for his bride, and over the quiet elegance which Kate went into testacies. One morning, when they were fairly settled in their new home, Kate told Altresi that she wanted to walk down town with him to *•*• his law-office. " You won't tin.l many books there, Kate. I have ledgers by the doxen, but nothing appertaining to the law. You can see ah the grain and hay you want, though." " Why. Alfred, what do you mean?" asked Kate, paie with surprise. "That I am not a lawyer, my dear, but a eomuii--ion merchant, le't nie explain thi- mystery: I went to the * Farmer*' Rest 'to stay a cx>uile of months, and indulge myself in hunting and fishing. I called on your sister, and she told me all a)*>ut you. and your fancy concerning the lawyer. With no thought of ever becoming more than a friend to you. I proposed passing my eif off as a lawyer, wearied of the "ourts, an! in search of rest. After 1 learned to love you I would have told \ou niy real <•' upatioa, but Julia begged me not to do so, saying tbat you were too full of notions for me to risk it. I did not believe that, dear: but -ince it wasa harm less deception, I con sented to keep it up until aftet I had marritel you. Perhaps I had n faint idea of D ing a second lx>rd Burleigh. Do you feel very sorry I hoaxed you, Kate?" " No; I don't care at all. I love you now, so it iuak'*s no difference to me what your business is." " But you will never again believe in daisies?" he laughed. " Indeed 1 shall, she ericd. with energy. "How could the poor little daisy tell if I was to have a bogus or a genuine lawyer?"— Florence IF. Ihnuy, c iM/tncslic Monthly. Uo-operulive Mores. It will 1h- strange if the visit of Mr. j George Jacob Ilolyoke to this country docs not result in the establishment hereof a system of co-operative stores ! for the working classes, such as he has been so largely instrumental in found ing anil carrying forward to success in Great Britain. His addresses set forth si) clearly the manner of conducting , these stores, and desorilw so well the benefits they have -onferred upon tin poorer classes, that public attention on j this sidoot the Atlantic will t-e certain to l>e directed to the system, nnd some ef fort to introduce it in our principal cities will naturally follow. The (Rochdale plan has demonstrated it.s value by an experience of twenty "years, that hundreds of stores ure working under it to-day. and that they have accumulated millions of capital and divided other miijionsof profits among their members, while furnishing pure food at the ruling market rates, challenges attention ; j and the {connected fact that the system ; is the outgrowth of the intelligence, business talent and integrity of the labor- j ing classes, and is not a gift to them ' from men who have no need of its ad vantages, must create surprise and ad- j miration. We had heard in thiscountry ! a great deal of these Rochdale stores be fore, but lp-re conns the man who has spent a large share of a lifetime devoted to philanthrophy in working out the theory and practice upon which their success has been based, and who now gives us the assurance that the theory is sound and Its practical application feasible and beneficial. The words of such men will have a vital in terest for the American workingman. He shows them that it is possible while purchasing needed supplies for tlieir families to be constantly saving money in the direct r-tio of heir pur- j chases; so that at f'v end of the year j t hat they may hav ifty or a bundled dollars laid by at interest where tney now have nothing. He shows, too, that by the joint effort of ninny co-operative stores a purchasing agency may be cre ated, commanding the services of the best buying talent, procuring goods of the best quality in the Ix-st market, and insuring to the consumer, no matter how small his purchase may be, im munity from fraud and adulteration. The co-operative store, a* described bv Mr. Holyoake, is a guarantee of good weight, honest measure and genuine qualiity, and is at the same time a sav ings hank in which the profits on the articles sold accuuiulate for the benefit of the purchasers. Co-operative stores are not wholly un known in the United States. A few years aj.o a number were set up in the cities and large towns of the Eastern and Middle States, tint most of them came to prief. In nianv cases they were speculations under tin- guise of philan thropy ; in others they were badly man aged. If we are not mistaken, they were all founded on the principal, which lias been abandoned as a failure in England, of selling close down to the cost price, ana thus underselling the regular simps. They maintained no general purchasing agency, and could give their customers no better opportunity for getting articles free from an alteration, than could the other retail concerns. Their failure is no argument against the introduction of the system wiiicli has succeeded so well in England. These who are dis posed to make the attempt should realize, however, that there is no magic in the name co-operative which will make un skiilfulness and shiftlessness succeed, and should understand that business sagacity and strict integrity are essen tial features of the Rochdale plan.— New York Tribune. CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 18711. Matching s Pattern. Oncol the fascinating young men In an uptown dry goods store is in trouble. It is the custom in the oolabliahtuenl front which he hasjust bi-en dismissed to discharge a man who fails to sell to one of three successive customers. "Swapping" is the expr> -sit t*-hnlc*l ' term by which this failure is known in the dry good* business I'hc rule i* not universal, but it is by no mean* excep tional in dry good* store* However un just it may be, it lias a wonderfully stimulating effect on the elegant young incii amenable to it, aud wtu-u they can not sell goods il i* a safe inference that the customer is eitlit-r sunernaturally obdurate, impeeuniounor unscrly. lln voung man referred to had " first call " one Friday morning; this is the first customer who entered tin store was, hy the rule of rotation, hi* exclusive vic tim. Next morning this privilege wou.d tall to the lot of some other clerk and so ou to the end of the list. 1 In ' first customer " swapprel " hiiu, and tlu-n went out without investing a cent. The second was in an equally uupro pitioiis slate of mind, and retired with out effecting a purchase. On the d*-i>- ion of the third hung his fate. His am ple cheek blanched as sin darken**! the dootway. for a more unlikely purchaser could with difficulty have been found. Vnold striped shawl was thrown can* | Ic-sly over her shoulders, and partially concealed a roll of calico, which thepai pitorv heart of the clerk hislineto el j tell that she came to have mulched. Now if there is anything in the dry g'H" 1 .- busincs* more harrowing than anotln-r iitis to match goods. The exact aliade ativl texture has to be found, and last ' Uut not least, the price mut corro ■ -pond. A teeling of sickening despair permeated the heaving breast of Ihe un -1I >t tunate co rk a- In- ask< .1 " Wstl, ma'am ?" She lai-l down five yards tunt i half of caiico of an ao-nlrii pattern, ! and intimated that the success of * great dressmaking enterprise hinged on her fortune in finding another vard and a lialfof the same material. The eye* of iv expectant clerks weie upon tin doomed man. He felt that the crisis of nis peri! had cotm- NY ith an appear uu-e of calmness that belied the tur moil of bis feelings, be dived under the ( .ounter and han>l<*t 'Ut endless rolls of 1 -alie.., varying from the radiant straw i iierry and moss-rose-marked to the -oU-rest gray. But became not within thirteen supplementary colors of the r ■ quired pattern. He burrowed in lh< (cavernous depths of lower -helves, ancl i an *acked upper ones from the top round .•f a giddy step-.adder, but he fouud it not. An liour and a half had gone by, mid tn* stock was nearly exhausted. ■ flu- proprietor of the store and the (took keeper and t*>rter had couie to wltn *s j his death-struggle. j w aried ladv started for the door, and : six times had he called her hark and re - utned hi- frenzied search. The lat . oicxi was unroll'-tl aud lie wa.* about t> i drop his hat and gracefully step down j anil out. when a iieppy thought struck j him. " Excuse me. madam." said he, "there's one piece ( overlooked Ist 1 me me that good*," and he look her bundle, ami diving under the iseinter. hacked off a yard and a lia.f with the energy and promptness of rekiudo-d hope. "Here "ti*. madam; exactly what vu required," said he confident ly, spreading out the purloined gcnid*. *h< ■ eke d at it attentively for five minute* i"lt doe* look like tin' pattern," said -he, " but still I think it'* not what I uil. It'* a good deal coar-ur than mine. If 1 can't get anything nearer to the pattern I'll come he. k and take it. t'ic->.! morning." She did come back in an hour, but not to buy the goods. He ; Tried to dodge isdiind the counter, but. with the keen-sightednes* of womnniy revenge, she -pct:-ii hiiu. and he wa* ignotuiniously hauled out ;uid nrraignecl U'fore hi* employer. The worst of it was. that the lntter. in view of the un- profitable energy shown in his attempt to effect a sale, had concluded not Jto discharge him. With the evidence of his guilt unmistakably, however, it would lie fatal to the discipline of the house to keep him. and he was promptly dismissed. I'ntii the old lady surcee-l* ( in getting a warrant for his nrrrat. Ins name is charitably suppressed.— Kx thanqc. An Incident In the Life of a Million aire. Tim following story ol Jacob II ; ig way. :< wealthy eiti/.< n of riiiiadeipiiia. who died many year- ag>i. leaving a ! fortune of five or six million dollars, is 1 taken from an article in the Interna- I /lorwi/ Demi w * "Mr. Kidgway," stud a young man with whom the millionaire was eon versing. " you an- more to bo envied than any gentleman I know." "Why -o," responded Mr. Rldgway; "1 am not aware of any cause for which I -houid be particularly envied." "What, sir!" exclaimed the young man in :w --tonishmeut; " why. you arc a million aire. Think of the thousands your in come brings you every month.*" "Well. What H that:'" replied Mr. Kidgway. "All I get out ot it is my victuals and clothes, and I cannot cat more than one man's allowance nr wear more than one suit at a time. I'rav. i eannst you do as much?" "Ah! but." said the youth. " think of the hundreds , of line houses you own. and tne rentals ! they bring you." " What better am I off lr thai?* replied the rich man: "1 ran only live in one house at a time, j As for the money I receive for rents, why, I can't eat it or wear it. f can only use it to buy other houses for other people to live in; they arc the lwneli- j ciaries. not I." " Hut you can buy splen- j did furniture, and costly pictures, line \ carriages and horses; in fart, anything j you desire." " And after ! have bought : them?" responded Mr Kidgway. " what j tin-n? I can only look at tlm furniture j ami pictures, and the p uf IfuMfrio A partv ol hunters while in search ol , gaiite tau-ly in the Tstuilat 'rus hilk.oiune upoti a rude hut in a siuuil elnaring, a pout >i\ mill * from i'at inn. nndiieiuTy tie-saint- distatiie ft,>m the Suniji ("rtt/. xtage road Impelled hy curiosity they apptxmeheil the slrueturi ;uid linduigthe diMir wide open went in. lmagin<' their ; surprise and wonder at discovering as the sole iniiiali- of the room (then- was but oiit-i what must have la-en origi nally intendeil for a man The creature was but partially clothed, the lody from the waist upward and I torn tin- ktos-s downward being entirely naked. His hair w its king and matted, and his fa-e. hromeeil from exposure, and seamed and s--iUTed from eollfficts witii wild l-asts ! or enemies of his own race, presented an appeal mice that startled tile la* hold ers. Their consternation was not le , i lied yy h Ii they Is heal bis eyes, yvhleli protruding from their sockets, glareil like tlto-u of a wild man. Hi* arms, breast and leg- w- re coveted with long coarse hair. For a moment tlu-y ram and then were alsiut to depart with ee lerity, w hen lb -man beckoned for them to remain, at the saiio time muttering in some unintelligible jargon. The ) hunters, not without trepidation, took seat* on a huge log, the only furniture in the room l asting their eve# ataiut th-'V wen-still ni'ire astonished at what lieloiv had appi-areil to Is- a black mass ol something around and alsiut tin presumed owner of this habitation I'hey saw at least fifty cats, all bia<-k and of ail sixes; some as large and as tierce and as wild looking as a wi.d cat. Soiue of the larger starti for the visi tors with siiines creel, when tiie man : gay e a tax-u!iar whistle and all immedi ; ateiy elusti-rel around him again. \Yon di-nng what was to come n--\t, the hunt ers maintained, for some time, a jierfia-t siiettce. Then one of Uj<-ui *pok- up and :u>ked the man how liu il was to I'ale hen, but no answer eamv. Other i(U<'stioiis were asked, but the man ouly aioked at 1 belli with a pui/.'d star*-. All at once he leaped ti ins l-ei, gave a veli that ; nearly curdled the liiisnl of the iistem-rs, and H'undt <1 out of doors. The eat# lol iowedandlhe hunters saw llu-iu s**am -1 pering away over the clearing into the brush and out ot sight. After remaining for some tittle in the room, the hunters, noticing siunii box tn one corner, tsk it up. ij-<-ius! it. and lund th-r in sey eral slns-ts of writing |>ap r, old and lad-d and with writing hardly It-gihie. After considerable eftol they ntanags-t to read •it and yy •re rewarded with a strange narrative, which explained what they desire*' u> kifoir cuncerutng the strange .as it pan t of the hut. Tin- paper was dated Iie of Jamaica, IsTl, and slated that the writer's name was K K Venla; that lie ha.t l*-n five y< ar a si-w are! on a plan'at ion; that two years before be had married a Is-autifui cjixile. who had proven untrue to htm, and that he i had slabbed her to death with the dag ger which she a;iu*i it his br-at when ! he reproached her. Tlia narrative txin ctudisl has " Then I must have been mad. for a wis k afterwanl 1 found iny se.f miles ayy ay. in the forest: I n-el that I must. ay . must go soiu where, any where and hide myself. Mv brain troub ■ - m< and 1 uu afraid i shall mam <<* mad, 1 will write this and keep it with me, the time may come when I will gi veil to the work! " The presump tion w.o* that Venla *nie to Calilurnia and yy unlet ing t<- tie- lonely c.caring in the Santat rut 1 Us,-r- t* u llic hut and live,! there alone The hunter* remained until dusk. hoping U> , meet lb.- strange object again, but he did not come. Tfienixt day t bey came again, but the man was still ahaent. He probably liaa never returned to the spot!—.SiaJ..* tt'u' ) Ihmhl. IJalfirrlnc buhl n Hie Kea "*hore. The mining of gold on tie ocean licarh has always lo ti one of the leading pro dueiive industries of Curry county. These mines have Iwt-n found to pay from : the Co ing to tic freaks ol Nep tune in throwing up the sand. The bluff mine i* twenty-five feet 1 1 wire tide and is an old h u li in whii'h there is a stratum of -and from ten to twenty feet thick, that assays from *"1 to !?-'* to the cubic yard. Experts who havetxam ined black sand, pronounce this the rich prac ticed by the average Western farmer ! during all hi* damp fall, and damp, . bk-ak winter month*. M'Hit cattle grown on the plains are. : or originally w ere, driven on the trail front Texas. The great southern starl ing point of tills tr ii is San AnUmia. It runs northward to Hodge City, Kan i sa*. i lie northern terminus is Ogaliala, ! Neb. AlaiUt |K|,UIIO cattle were driven on thi* trail from Texas to Kansas, < 'ol orarlo, Nebraska, Wyoming and Mon tana. tills year. This I* considered a I -mall drive, laist year about were driv n. Thousands of ponies and sheep are also driven through on this trail Ten* of thousands of stock are headed for Denver, (in-e.cy, t'heyenn#, Juleaburg, and ilileriiKaliale iMiints, and there soul to ranchers, but the majority are grazd l>y the drivei s near IKxlgc C ity or Ogal iala, so that capitalists or ranchers can '■©iiic to these iHiinls by rail, and buy stock with which to start ranches. The history of one Tax an heifer will give the reader the history of the hand ling of the hundred thousand thai roam over plain and valley. She is not t iu.r h< rdi-d as ar>- rattle in England, France, (■ertnany and some parte of Hie prairie country nfur Western States; but slw is Isiught from a Texas driver by a rancher, who take* her to his range. This range is tioutided by imaginary liru-s. except in notne instance* in which it is hounded by a stream, guk-h, or mountain side. Hie rancher keep* cow-boy* riding along the imaginary Ijouiidertcs . f his range im-st of tlu- time, and keep* the lieiftr witfiin bound* <>f this range, which is say five, ten. or forty mile* square, ltui it make* iittui difference if she gi-ls ovel the bound* of lier o*"ner' range, on ih< range of a ucigblKiring ranclier; or even i! Abe wanders a tiun dred mile*away, it matter* but little. Sin- ha* lu-r owner's brand burned deep into her hide, and most eow-lmys know tin* brand. The rancher* ar- Uund to gether in stock associations, and through the rules of tills association, almut twice a year make what they tenii a general round up, or gathering together of one another's cat I.e. The •■ - • * lllove out nil. < i stl I. t order* a* pioneer* u**! to in making circular wolf-hunts Every hill and vaie is Unversed. This lak<-s alaiut two month*, in which tune the raiw-laiv* have tocntup out. Ity tin# iuean every one'* cattle are gathered together, anil the heifer that wandered one hundr<-d miles frotu !it range, is brought borne again VV lien she is tiil*eard cars and s.-nt to mark'!; if it be a heifer calf, it rciu;ui>* on the range with it* Ham so i.tig a it jirodures a call each year. Her mxin disturbance ton v wb( burin* and sailing ore* in a nunp iike this, when the ou V put <>f the mine* i* so immense :inonaU, iron dark mad. gray sand and many other varieties The mts&yer mak<* treuc ranch lias U.iHto gesso, whose feathers are plucked every two months. Knell goose averages a pound and a half a year, the feathers being worth fifty cents a pound. TKRMH: #2.00 a Y)ar, in Advanco. I he I'opulatinn l Africa. Wi* can not hope for tniuiy yenra yetto have anything like u*unOe statistic# on i tic |Mi|e anything like a thorough examination. There are, for example, in the region* of the rieat lcountries quite m thickly peopled a# many of the StaP-s of Kurouc, Stanley tell# u* of countriea of relatively small extent, ami which y. t po*Ex-a million# of inhabitant*. When we lml) have succeeds <1 in mak ing an approximate census t.f all the |Mjpulationa, we shall jrobably reach a figure considerably higher than the pri-iw-ni estimate. Some authorities ac cord to Africa not more than inhabitant#: other# still b***. (.ertnan geographer# supjmmm- that Africa con tain* somewhat more than ikai.Ouv.uuu inhabitants; the latent Knglish pubiica lion# eatiiuate the imputation at INi.taio.. (100, whieh, for an area oi ll,Sl#i.(lort square milcn, give# an average of six teen inhaliitant# m-t square mile, or a tjkviliu population eleven and a half tnm-a i<- tli.in that of France. Africa, which ha# tifty-acvcn timea tlie arra of France, ha# proimbly scarcely eight liu)jiuiaUon are ajoirw* in the depart jwirt*. they are very dense in other regiona. Tliua, in tin- Souonn ttie p ciulatiou ia estimated at 0,0110,00 U. or about lifty-three t*-r square mile; the town of Hi da, on the Niger, ha# a ppu laliun of mu.uu inhabitant#. The j*pu iation of Ka#t Africa is estimated at JO.QnO.OOO. and that of Kqualjrial Africa at 40,000,000. (hie of the Latest author tidd tin j. pulation of Afri<-a a# follow* among the great laiuiiie# into which ethnologist# nave divided the peoples: Negroes. 130.1*10, OHO. Handle*, •jo.oononn Itantua, i3.txxi.otio; Fulah*. w.cxxmxxl: Nubian*. I,sixi,(Xlo: Hotten tot#. AO <*xi Tld* would rive a total population of l7tf.Asti.tWO These ligure* are, of *r by M. A. Raitaud, in the llu'.Utui of t!e Marseille* (ieograpliitml St"-Jet y.— 1.-'tuL- ft 'hiwi. The Step-Ladder. It ia x cry probable that in the ages pre eedinp the step-ladder it wu a common prnrik* for the housewife who wished to take down the curtain* to place a chair on tlie crnter-iablc and then to mount from one to the other. It i claimed that we have here the true origin of tlie step ladder. lake liie table, it t* quadrujxdal. and liie germ* of it# u-p* are contained in tin two stejw which are formed when a chair is uj*-riniposed upon liie tabic. Comparative anatomy. a well a# bjrpotlirtkal history. suiqair:* the theory that tie step-'-adder spring# froiu th< union of tlie chail and the table, although it iuu*t be confessed that U due* iw>t throw any light on the origin of the hingi-a. which form one of lire leading characteristics of the *t je btdder. In spile of its inoffensive look, it de light# to do ail tlw injury in it# power. . . i. t. i g with which to inflict p iiniu. and dangerous kick* In the spring and autumn, when <-urtaina .arc taken down .and picture frame* are dusted, the surface of the indie* of the household is to a large extent biack nnd idue with the bruiws lhu inflicted. The step- ladder, with air < ions runnier, ofu-n lie* down at night In the upper or lower hall, to wait ho casual victims. The man who gets uj< at niglit with a view cither tocatscT roblier. and waika within the rlutein ek. and there is one step-ladder in Ka*l 1 wenty scnnd street wlilc.li is so well known to the poHoe That it ha- h<-en seized and carried to the station house as a vagrant at least a dozen times during the last ten ycat*. Rhymes, Funeral and Hymeneal. It has long (seen the funeral custom among a certain class of society in New York to np;>end a pin-tic tag to the news paper announcement of the death of a relative. The verso is not. as a ruie, very good; but the sentiment is sim-cre and the intention respectable. Here is an example culled from the column* of the New York ffcrnlii. After rc-ordiiig tlie ocath of Isaac Florence, a child aged three year* and eight months, the bereaved parents add two versos, of which we quote the seeond : Kol.t away- thorn little clothes. That our Florence ner pvirc taken; May she tiy you be ne'er loraaken, And may iier love to you prove always true and unshaken. It must be admitted that this is not a cheerful marriage hymn. There is a tone of melancholy running through it —a prevision of evil pervading it not calculated to raise the spirit# of a bride. On the threshold of life Oliver is marked with the suspicion of intent presently to abandon the girl whom the first line leads us to fear he has forcibly abducted. Tliis may he due to a tinge of melan choly in the constitution of the parents. Persons of more sanguine nature, would have taken a brighter view of things. But, tip: rt front particular instances, tlie growth of the custom is to be de plored A new tcrroi would unques tionably he added to matrimonial rela tionship if on his wedding-day a man's father and mother-in-law were, like Mr. i Silas Wcgg. expected to droj) into i poetry. — London News. NUMBER 48. FOR TIIK FA IK SFX. Kubtun MMm. The fashionable muff is quite unall. Jet ornament* aru beautiful un black i hair. hull* are much trimmed in apron | shape. Gold-embroidered lai c ia among frrah exiravagan<-e*. •tjuiliing* "f different kind, arc much ! UM>(l aa trimmings Brunette* nr- wearing tlca and ncekrr ■ chief, of bright haUwoap yellow. Ostrich feather* in ounlraatlng shades, are now found to match the changeable ■ilk*. Colored c Urn 111* fringes, finished with cnahmrre head*, are among new trim ming* for cosily dream**. Aliaorte of crawling thing*, lizard., spider*, beetle., frog, and tr terpillare. a. well a. serpent*, are reproduced in jew elry. The wdic.t toilet* are of black *atin and *iik profusely decorated Willi jet embroideries, fringe* and paascuien twin. A coquettish addition to a *ct of fur* i* a hag to Ire worn at tie *id*. When the suit i* fur trimmed a fur belt may be added also. Engagement bracelet* are mrmetime* substituted for ring*. Tbey fasten witb a gulden padlock and tbe hirer wcai* the key at hi* watch chain. Imng necktie* of bright colored .ilk. embroidered on tbe end*, have again appeared in the ahop* after an aueencc of two or three m'*hiui. The Zouave jacket reappear* in vel vet, heavily braided or embroidered with gold, and in .at in richly orna mented with iridescent bead*. Colored underwear ha* Iteen imported in very large quantities this year, ami it i. thought that it will be more popu lar than it ha. ever been before. White i. much worn by young ladies in the evening. Cream and ivory white are mucti used. The materials ju> fable, acheuiin*. light cloth and niuiiin. Some of lite new morning dresses have the front breadth, opened to show brocaded skirt*, and others are made with House waist* arid panier sashes. Short wnisU are predicted as aniurg coming *tyles. In that caw- tbe "slim .Up of a girl." who ha. reigned so long, will retiri- in favor of her more plump sisu-r. The tine shirring, used on umlerctolb* in|. are rpnriiM by plain band* about a sixteenth of an inch wide, and stitched on both sides so that they are a* tirm a< o>rd#. Broad Le ad lace* and head embroid eries are used for side trimmings upon dresses, separating the hark from the front, or for the back of mantles or the front of bodices. The lineal novelty of the season in mil linery is what is known as the "feather" bonnet. This is composed annual wholly of mounted feathers taken from the nerks ol pheasants, at ioast half a dozen of which arc required for one bonnet. I'retty liule black *ilk chatelaine pock et* are painted on the upper sale with a single flour or a ttouquel of roses, liliies of tbe valley, forget-me-nots, or any .other favorite flower. The birds that dm) most favor are of the parrot sporUw. with Hag bills and vcry ■pay plumage, in which there is yellow, green and red, as these color* krn much seen in the eashniere conibin stion. Dragon Ilk-*'of In-illiant colors are for the same niMin popular orna ment*. Iteorntly imported fan* are of silk and satin in ail liic new oolots, and al-o white and black witli hand emhroiderit s in arti.tic leal and flower design* and 1 jardiniere color*, ard bordered with a 1 double or triple row of feathers colored to in aim the < mhrotderics: the sticks ait lo csrved tlxwy. llariier's Bnuor says liiat in New York tlm ecliarp. (or victorin f), with king wide end* in imtit to '-over the chest i* f.*t taking the place of tip boa in set. of fur; indeed, tin- boa is almost eontined to fur seal and black marten, n* U <-*e fura an- niov effective wln-a made round instead of flat. Tlic walking jacket of th" season I* small and close-fitting, perfect.y piain. n* rest, aoiiftimri in fact double breasted, with side lappels upon the short skirt of the back, whie i do not ex tnd lielow its edge; English collar, square, not large pockets ai.d cull*. It fit* like a glove, except the buttons, which are often striking, always hand some *,m d XWM for tjuc n Victoria's income i* orrr 95.- OOO.OtNi a year. A Iyindon physician lately advertised in the 7Yt<- for a lady housekeeper, offering libera! terra*, and received 1.100 applicant*. There are now five ladies in tliesciiool of theology id Uu Boston University. In Un- college of liberal art* Uierc arc eleven Louie* in the femhmaa class. Ar. English school lo*rd ha* expelled an elgh'-veaf old pupil who came to school with ornamental Iwad* in her "•or*. and a Philadelphia private school teacher refused to readmit a sirl who had been playing in the tuvenile " Pinafore" company during Urn sum mer. Miss Alice S. Hooper. of lloswn. left s|iifl,ooo worth of property by will to friend* and rublic institutions, she cave es'-li to the ll,sP>n train ing school for nurse* and tlic Betln sda Society, of Button. The r<-st of her valuable property she bequeathed to personal friends and relative*. Mr*. M illie I'otts. who in May kt*t left Baltimore for New Orleans, has re turned. having made the whole distance on foot. She avcraced t went y-one m i lea a dav. wore out five suit* of clothe*, "didn't spend a cent." was entertained free at all hotel* and eating house*. re ceived innumerable present* and sent her trunk aiinui of her by express all the way " without charge.' The King of Siam. appreciating the result* of the Knclish education of his childhood, i* giving the same advantages to hi* own children. IVinoesa Civili, his bright, clever ten-year old daughter, receives from an accomplished English iady regular imtruetion in French. Eng lish and German, music, dancing and drawing. The queen, lier mother, takes great interest in the iessons, and is so pleased with foreign ways that she trlks of adopting tiie European dress. Die poor authorities of Dover and i'anterbury, England, are greatly puz zled over a supposed Japanese girl who was recently toond wandering about the street* or the latter city. So one there or in Dover heing able to converse with her, she was sent to l*>ndon. The Japanese consul of that city say* that there is no similarity between her lan fiuuge and tliat of Japan. The girl and ier story remain mysteries. As no one will support the poor stranger "in a strange land," the authorities send her from one city to another. The Fate of Zulu Cowards. What Zulu discipline and rule was, says a correspondent in South Africa, is clearly indicated by a story told by Cetewayo himself while on his way down to the place ofembarkation. Point ing to a bush which he designated by the name of the Coward's bush, he in formed hi 9 conductors that in front of that hush Chake used to sit after a lmttle had been fought in order to hear accu sations of co wax dice against an? of his soldiers. If a man was convicted on what seemed nuflieient evidence he was expected to stand still wit!) hi* left arm high above his head, while an assegai was slowly and by degrees thrust down ward from the armpit till it pierced tli heart. ITEXH UP INTEREST. France has penny savings banks for schoolboy*. The saddest words of tongue or ten. —" Here's that collector of bills again. In San Francisco bay are nlnety-twt varieties of flah for food. Postal cards, now almost universal, started in Austria in IMS. The dentist, like the farmer may rackon his profits per nor*. He who gives you fair words feeds you with nn empty spoon. "Swan* ring before they die/* Thav have to. If they sing at all. "None but the brave deserve Ua hair," I* the way the Indians put it. There is a tea plantation at George | town, 8. C., and it is paying its owner. Fifty is the youth of old age; forty the old age ot youth. 8© says Victor Hugo. Cane City. Kentucky, ha* been rim • ping its strawbrrricaof thesro.mil yield. The oldest postmaster in the United State* is Itoswe!) Besrdriey. ol North ! ieuiring. N V . who lias been In office llftv-otie years. | Enterprising miner* are mining gold ' on tin- o< '-an bench in Currey county. Or I gon The gold is found in deposit* lof black sand on or new the beach. * A new kind of gtreat potato* i* culti vated in KTO countv.Cal.. picked speci men* of which weigh from fifteen to I eighteen and twenty-two pound*. Letter writing in Great Britain goes argely ahead of this country, it being thirty-one p*v capita there, compared with six tern per capita lien-, for the past : year. E. E. Mack, of Albanv. New York lis* secured backers and is rxeav.-uu.g a I long mining tunnel new Idaho Spring*. Idaho. Th- tunnel will IK* four miles long. The Cincinnati Commercial give* pre foresee to canal ioata a* a safe mean* of traveL for the reason that the boats nevei cun off from tbe track, and the propel ling males seldom explode. borne one lia* invented a Msbiar fw i .ranking the cactus into a mass of white, elastic fiber. which will be u*d in mslkiug mattrooee. It is said tiie cost of auUnsM will be reduced forty per uenL France, Germ any, Italy Austria and Switzerland haw agreed that Ui-ir < m haasies and consulate* shall *eud home indigent person* of their mspectiw ns tionaittim at half the ordinary railway fares. Jt is pleasant fora man to go early to a church sociable, and then sit I" p. A Cliinaman in i*ari committed sui cide because his tormentor* bai cut off his queue. He fastened the cherished braid with pins to the place where it ought to grow, and then jumped into the river. When you *ee evidence* of hair on the lapp lof a young man'* coat, and the •oncave sid*-of his sieeve worn thread bare it is Utifrabn. safe to oonclude tHat IK- lias been hugging something more than a delurion.—ffcoAwk 'fah fay- No boy of ordinary ability, who has to manipulate the buvk-aaw and ax. and futnish the family with fire-wood, will think of going lo work before he baa selected a convenient place whew he can hide the knot* that split hard —Owegs 7Wf*. V oung Seward placed a pistol at lit* head in the presence of the gtri who had rejected his suit, at Houston. Minn., and said he was going to commit sm cide. He counted ooe. two—* and she covered her eyes with her hand*. •'Look at me." he aaid; she ofieyed; * three!'' and into his brain went the fatal bailee The London Ne* Quarterly fcrior has discovered that in the United Slates the degeneration of tbe wisdom teeth lia* gone farther than in ay European coun try; that tiie jaw* are aimoat abnor mally short ttiat the lower jaw ia apt to be ratbcr " underiiung." and that it is lieooming a common prncti<-e to re move sonic of the molar teeth of child ren. as the jaw doe* not grow targe enough to hold the proper number. One cricket would taad a poor show . trying to stop a railroad train. '*ut milli-ms of them can do it., AIN estorn hound railroad train ne' an army of crh-kct* at Ciarke'* atatton. abwu* fifteen miles west of Reno, Nev.. and wa de tained tso hours and a half trying to get through To make the pMeage the train men were fiaaiiy forced to take broom* and sweep tiie inw-ct* off the rails. The "Tickets rovercd the tra k for about three mile*, and when the driving wheels of the enrine w.rnid strike them they would whirl around without going forwatd an imh. Mr. fiiffeo announce* in hi* roivnn on th* agricultural returns of Grc*! Britain that in l-Tu tfo* total quantity of -uiti vatcd land in the United Kingdom w# ncarlv forty-eight milli-m acre*, cxi lu sive ul fo atii. mountain, pasture land, woods and plantations. Icing an in crease since Ik** of nearly one million seven hundnd thousand acres, or about the same area a* the whole of I>evon fliirr Simuitanou*ly during the pasi ten years there has been a decrease in the wheat crop of nearly one million acres, or a fourth of the entire area wheat cultivation in In green crops there is a trifling increase— father more than sixty thousand addt : tional aero* having in DCS fwen planted with potatoes. Swede*, turnip*, carrot* eahlMMP"*. vetches or lucerne, than in the preceding year. Trerident Flitter, of Union College, at the recent Episcopa" Church Congress, made an indignant protest against the expenditure of so much money in funeral pomps, and in equally