Rose and Caterpillar.
* Oh, eaterpillar,” said a ross
One lovely summer day,
“ Your constant eating drives me wild;
I wish you'd go away.
I really cannot see what use
You and your kind can be;
You nanght but mischiel do, and are
Unpledsant things to see.”
A moment after that same rose
Smiled on a batterfly
That stopped to show his minbowed wings,
As he was passing by.
Oh, it she conld have only known
The pretty, dainty rose
He was a caterpillar too,
Arrayed in splendid clothes!
we Harper's Young Peopie.
Amid the Grasses,
Come! live ininnocence again,
Sweet soul ol mine;
And ringlets of the dandelion fine!
Come, sing and croon and chant,
Herve lurks no aching want
Of past or present;
Hare honey.-bind is found,
And creeping o'er the ground
Mellow sunbeams pleasang!
Come! live in tender joys and sweet embraces
Of bird-notes dropping hither,
All in the golden sutumn weather,
All in the grasses and gray jeaves together,
And see how eyes shine out from fair young
faces
In gentians blue, that cateh the thistle's
teather;
Come, breaths and live!
“or here grow sweet all gracious things to
give.
Here noddeth five
My Lady Columbine;
Jacket and Breeches, some do call her,
Oh, naughty nawe! She is my Lady Colum.
bine!
May no ill frost or plucking hand bell! her!
Oh, hither come and hide!
Here in the grasses nestle, nestle deep with
me!
Here with my bounteous love and me
abide!
Sweet nature, queen of all green things that
be!
For over all
Some high spirit mystical,
With vaporoas form and golden-drooping hair,
Breathes through the drowsy skies—
The mellow-tinted Indin-sammer air—
And offers saorifice!
VOLUME XIII
HALL, CENTRE
CO., PA.
Ho AA A SSA
NUMBER 35.
Thay spmprpmons.
There is a place for you in the ranks, my boy
And duty, too, i
Be quick or another may take your place
And you may be leis behind,
There is work 16 be done by the way, my boy,
Work for the plow, plane, spindle and pes—
them I got substantial cages without
names. With these tied in the shape
of figure eights in the bottom of my
trunk, as I said, 1 put in an assorted
cargo of dry goods above, and, favored
by a pass, and Major Mulford's courtesy
on the flag.ofstruce boat, I arrived
safely at Richmond before the autumn
closed.
I was received at home with mpture,
But when, the next morning | opened
my stores, this hecame rapture doubly
enraptured. Words cannot tell the
silent delight with which old and
voung. black and white, surveyed those
fairy-like structures, yet unbroken and
unmended.
Perennial summer reigned that
autumn day in that reunited family.
It reigned the next day, and the next,
It would have reigned till now if the
Belmontes and the other things had
lasted as long as the advertisements
declared.
I was up in the cedar closet one day
looking for an old parade cap of mine,
which, I thought, though it was my
third best, might look better than my
second best, which 1 had worn ever
since my best was lost at Seven Pines.
I say I was standing on the lower shelf
caught in a bit of wire, my lef did not
The corner of the hatbox
Ah?! what's s0 sweet
As the tripping, twinkling teet
Ot the brooklet ‘neath the willows?
And what, ah! what's so fair
As the summer air,
And the lark high up in its feecy billows?
And here in the meadow. land tar below
We can listen snd catch the streamiet’s flow,
And hear the lark till he's out of sight
In the breexy blue above the hill,
And watch the sunbeams drop and fill
Each little tower-cup with delight;
For here the shadows are soft and still
Hist! be hushed as a startled mole
Curied in its eradle; for over the knoll
1 see the soit brown twitching ear
Ot the shy gray rabbit peeping!
He thinks that we are sleeping —
Nature and {! Ha, ba!
And soon mare near
He'll crouch his form: and crop the hill-side
tender;
And if the winds blow by,
He knows them, knows them justas well as I,
Nor tears their shrill pipes slender.
Hear how aloft the old crows caw!
Ca! cal
Wicked black crows that fill their maw
With pretty fleld-fares. What a shame!
Here's one that built his nest close by,
Last summer, and the lie
Trampled by the path he came.
See! here deep down are mosses and sweet
terns,
And meadow-fire that burns:
Love's torch, they oall it mther,
Or Cupid's cup, if maidens pluck and
th
rather.
Here's Indian-pipe, the fairies smoke
They light it by the meadow-fire—
And here's the magic ring they broke
When dancing to their cricket choir.
And here are spicy mints,
And club-head lichens iull of freakish dints
Of toothsome elves, and prints
Of winding pathways thro’ the reedy
Where, hurryihg wild, the emmet's army
Here dainty roads,
*Where, shining soft, the velvet-coated
toads,
Crushing the herbage, pant when rain isover,
Hopping to meet their loves in musky clover;
And here the fleld-mouse comes,
Stealing sweet nature's crumbs
Seeds that she plants for mice and birds un-
Far trom the cark of men
She storey her wealth of grain—
Way-side farms by walls, brier-grown and
over-weeded.
Here, here 1 watch them come—
The wild bee with his dram;
The tilting dragon-fly with azure wing;
The painted moths; and lo!
‘With his sharp, wiry Low,
The elbowad grasshopper, with sudden spring
Setting the thickets brown in wild commotion;
While fluttering down like shells through
some blue ocean,
{n undulations rhythmically slow,
Through the blue-misted air of autumn locid—
Purple as Tyrian tides, and interfused
With iocense odors of all sweet shrubs
bruised—
The splendid wide-winged maple leaflets
mellow!
Here still are buttercups, so silvery yellow;
And bere sweet winter-green, with berries red.
And here from nodding head
The feathery dandelion soweth wide
Her venturous parschutes—how light
Tey Hout the breeze, and vanish trom the
ight!
And here low-couched abide,
And creeping softly slide
Arbutus tendrils through the rustling grass,
Waiting for snows to pass,
To breathe onge more the verdure of the
spring.
4nd here on wing
Come the sharp sparrows, and late robins si
Their ee heh Sos Imrawall! ns
6 light 3
From sky and vale and ran om
As from ‘some spent and golden-watered
fountain. !
So, tarewsll!
While through the meadow-grass
Critient and restless midge apd night-wings
muy
Their forces {ar and pear,
And all the ear
With pantiogs of ‘soft plomes and justlings
clear,
And music shrill and high, through the ]
dusky valley. og
— WW. M. Briggs, in Harpir's Magazine
Story of a Skeleton Skirt.
es
1 was in the civil service at Rich-
mond. Enough that I was there and
on honest business. That business done,
I prepared to return home. And there-
by hangs this tale, and, as it proved,
the fate of the Confederacy.
For, of course, I wanted to take
presents home to my family. Very little
question was there what these presents
should be—for I had no boys or
brothers. The women of the Confed-
eracy had one want which overtopped
all others. They could make coffee out
of beans; pins they had from Columbus;
straw hats they braided quite well with
their own fair hands; snuff we could
get better than you covld in the “old
concern.” We had no hoopskirts—
skeletons, weused to callthem. No in-
nuity had wade them. No bounties
ad forced them. The Bat, the Greyg-
hound, the Deer, the Flora, the J. C.
bb, the Varuna and the Fore-and-
Aft ali took in cargoes of them for us in
Engiand. But the Bat and the Deer and
the Flora were seized by the blockaders,
bed. C. Cobb sunk at sea, the Fore-
and-Aft and the Greyhound were set fire
to by their own crews, and Varuna was
never heard of Then the State of
Arkansas offered sixteen townships of
swamp land to the first manufacturer
who would exhibit five gross of the
home-manufactured article. But none
ever competed. The first attempts, in-
deed, were put to an end when Schofield
crossed the Blue Lick and destroyed the
dam on the Yellow branch, which that
brute of a Grierson said there ‘was
never anything of it but the outside.
Of course, then, I put in the bottom
of my new large trunk in New York,
not a * duplex elliptic,” for none were
then made. but a * Belmonte” of thirty
springs, for my wife. I bought for her
mora-common wear a good * Belle.Fon-
taine.” For Sarah and Susie each I got
two * Dumb- belles.” For Aunt Eunice
and Aunt Clara, maiden sisters of my
wife, who lived with us after Winchester
fell the fourth time, I got the ** Scotch
Harebell,” two of each. For my own
. mother I got 6ne ““Belleof the Prairies”
. and one * Invisible Combination Gos-
2 1 did not forget good old
Mamma Chloe and Mamma Jane. For
iy
When I came to myself I was in the
blue chamber: I had vinegar on a brown
dark, and I found mother sitting by me,
glad enough indeed to hear my voice
fully understood
Then she brought
sometime before I
what had happened.
said I must go to my office.
“Office, my child!" said she, * Your
not move these six wecks. Where do
you suppose you are?”
~ Till then I had no notion that it was
five minutes since I went into the closet.
When she told me the time—five in the
alternoon—1 groaned in the lowest
depths. For in my breast pocket in
that innocent coat, which I could now
see lying on the window-sill, were the
duplicate dispatches two Mr. Mason, for
which, late the night before, I had got
the secretary's signature. They were
to go at ten that morning 0 Wilming-
ton, by the navy department's special
messenger. 1 had taken them to insure
care and certainty. I had worked on
wharf, as soon as somebody on our left
center advanced in force on the enemy's
line above Turkey island, stretching
| noross to Nansemond, 1 am not inthe
| war department, and 1 forget whether
i he was to advance en barbette or by
echelon of infantry. But he was to ad
vance somehow, and he knew how ; and
when he advanced, as you see. that
other man lower down was to rush in,
{ and as soon as Early heard him he was
{to surprise Powhatan, you see; and
| then, if you have understood me, Grant
| and Butler and the whole rig of them
would have been cut off from their sup-
Plies, would have had to fight a battle
for which they were not prepared, with
| their right made into a new left, and
{ their old left unexpectedly advanced at
at oblique angle from their center; and
would not that have been the end of
them?
Well, that never happened, And the
reason it never happened was that poor
George Schaff, with the last fatal order
i same who was afterward killed the day
| before at High Bridge), undertook to
| save time by cutting across behind my
| house, from Franklin to Green streets.
{ You know how much time he saved;
| thin
| window. He said he thought she might
| be the last woman he ever saw this side
{ of heaven. Just after that, it must have
{ been, his horse—that white Messenger
ia log, and poor George was pitched
{ there was in that lot. Julia saw the
i whole. She rushed out with all the
{when I got home. And that was the
{| reason that the great promised combin-
at all,
| I walked out in the lot, after Mo.
{to see what they had done with the
| horse. There he lay, as dead as old
| Messenger hinself. His neck was
| broken. And, do you think, I looked to
{ see what had tripped him. I supposed
{ it was one of the boys’ bandy ho les. 1
{ was no such thing. The poor wretch
{had tangled his hind legs in one of
| those hoop-wires that Chioe had thrown
out when I gave hor new ones, Though
| I did not know it then, those fatal straps
{ of ruby s'eel had broken the neck that
| day of Robert Lee's army.
| That time i made a row about it. I
{ felt too bad.y to go into a passion. Bat,
{ before the women went to bed—they
been signed till near one o'clock!
Heavens an | earth, and there it was
five o'clock! The man must be half way
did his prettiest in rushing to the tele.
graph. But’ no!
Chowan river, ora raid by Foster, or
something, or nothing, has smashed
the telegraph wire for that night. And
before that dispatch ever reached Wil-
mington the navy agent was in the offing
in the Sea Maid.
“But perhaps the duplicate
duplicate did not get through. The du-
licate was taken by Faucon in the Ino.
saw it last week in Dr. Lieber’s hands
in Washington. Well, all I know is
the Confederate government would
have had in March a chance at 83,211
muskets, which, as it was, never left
Belgium. So much for my treading
into that blessed piece of wire on the
shelf of the cedar closet upstairs.
“ What was the bit of wire?
Well, it was not telegraph wire. Ifit
had been it would have broken when it
was not wanted to. Don’t you know
what it was? Go up in your own cedar
closets and step about in the dark, and
see what brings up about your ankles.
Julia, poor child, cried her eyes out
about it. When I got well enough to
get up, and as soon as I could talk and
pian with her, she brought down seven
of these old things—Belmontes, simplex
elliptics and horrors without a name—
and she made a pile of them in the bed-
room, and she asked me in the most
penitent way what she should do with
em.
“You can't burn them,” she said,
fire won't touch them. If you bury
them in the garden they come up at the
second raking. If you give them to the
servants they say, ‘ Thank-e, missus,’
and throw them in the back passage. If
you give them to the poor, they throw
them into the street in front, and do not
say ‘Thank-e.’ Sarah sent seventeen
over to the sword factory, and the fore.
man swore at the boy, and told him he
would flog him within an inch of his
life if he brought any more of his sauce
there; and so—and 30," sobbed the poor
child, ** I just rolled up the wretched
tings and put them in the cedar closet,
hoping, you know, that some day the
government would want something, and
would advertise for them. You koow
what a good thing I made out of the
bottle corks.”
In fact she had sold our bottle corks
for £4,216 of the first issue. We after.
ward bought two umbrellas and a cork-
screw with the money.
Well, 1 did not scold Julia. It was
certainly no fault of hers that I was
walking on the lower shelf of her cedar
closet. I told her to make a parcel of
the things, and the first time we went
to ride I hove the whole shapeless heap
into the river,
But let no man think, or no woman,
that this was the ¢énd of the troubles.
As I look back on that winter, and on
the spring of 1865, it seems to me only
the beginning. I got out on crutches at
last; 1 had the office transferred to my
house, so that Lafarge and Hepburn
could work there at night and commu
nicate with me when I could not go out;
but mornings I hobbled up to the de-
partment, and sat with the chief, and
took his orders. Ah, me! shall I soon
forget that damp winter morning, when
we all had such hope at the office? One
or two of the army fellows looked in at
the window ss they ran past, and we
knew that they felt well; and, though I
would not ask old Wick—as we nick-
named the chief—what was in the wind,
I knew the time had come, and that the
lion meant to break the net this time. I
made an excuse to go home earlier than
uswai; rode down to the house in the
major's ambulance, I remember, and
hopped in to surprise Julia with the
good news, only to find that the whole
house was in quiet uproar, which shows
that something bad has happened of a
sudden.
“ What is it, Chloe?” said I, as the
old wench rushed by me with a bucket
of water.
“4 Poor Mr. George, I 'fraid he’s dead,
sah.”
And there he really was, dear, hand-
some, bright George Schaff—the delight
of all the nicest girls of Richmond; he
lay there on Aunt Eunice’s bed on the
round floor, where they had brought
im in. He was not dead, and he did
not die. He is making cotton in Texas
now. But he looked mighty near like
it then. The deep cut in his head was
the worst I had ever seen, and the blow
confused everything. When McGregor
t round he said it was not hopeless;
ut we were turned out of the room,
and, with one thing and another, he got
the boy out of the swoon, and it proved
his head was not broken. ;
No, but poor George swears to this
day it was better it had been, if il could
only have been broken in the right way,
and on the right field. For that even-
ing we heard that everything had gone
wrong in the surprise. There we bad
been waiting for one of those early fogs,
and at last the fog had come. And Ju-
bal Early had tha! morning pushed out
every man he had that could stand, and
they lay hid for three mortal hours,
within I don't know how near the
picket line at Fort Powhatan, only
waiting for the shot which John
Streight’s party was to fire at Wilson's
»
{ talked to them like a father. 1 did not
| swear. I had got over that for a while,
in that six weeks on my back. But I
| be got rid of them. The aunts laughed
i a wink to the giris. The girls wanted
| it came out the aunts had sold their old
{ them, in a great mass of rags. They
they got were new instead of old
{ —it was a real Aladdin bargain. The
| ragman had been in a hurry and did not
know what made the things so heavy.
IT frowned at the swindle, but they said
all was fair with a peddler and I own
{1 was glad the things were weil out o
| Richmond. But when I said 1 thought
it was a mean trick, Lizzie and Sarah
| looked demure, and asked what I would
| have them to do with the old things.
{ bridge themselves with great parcels to
jJulia’s? Of course it ended, as such
{ things always do, by my taking the
| work on my own shoulders, I told
| them to tie up all they had in as small a
| parcel as they could and bring them to
i me.
{ Accordingly the next day I found a
| handsome brown-paper parcel—not so
| large, considering, and strangely square,
i considering—which the minxes had put
together and laid on my office table,
| They had a great frolic over it. They
i had not spared red tape nor red wax.
Yery official it looked, indeed, and on
| the lefthand corner, in Sarah's boldest
| and most contorted hand, was written
| “secret service.” We had a great laugh
lover their success. And, indeed, 1
i should have taken it with me the next
| time I went down to Tredegar, but that
1 happened .to dine one evening with
{ young Norton, of our gallant little navy,
| and a very curious thing he told us.
We were talking about the disap-
| pointment of the combined land ath
I did not tell what upset poor Schafl’s
| horse; indeed I do not think those navy
men knew the details of the disappoint.
ment. O'Brien had told me in confi-
dence, what I have written probably for
the first time now. But we were speak-
| ing in a general way of the disappoint.
ment. Norton finished his cigar rather
thoughtfully and then said:
“ Well, fellows, it is not worth while
| to put it in the newspapers, but what do
| you suppose upset our grand naval at-
tack the day the Yankee gunboats skit-
tiled down the river so handsomely?”
“ Why,” said Allen, who is Norton's
best beloved friend, *‘ they say that you
ran away from them as fast as they did
from you.”
“Do they?” said Norton, grimly,
“If you say that I'll break your head for
you. Seriously, men,” continued he,
“that wasan extraordinary thing. You
know I was on the ram. "But why she
stopped when she stopped I knew as
little as this winegiass does; and Cals
lender himself knew no more than 1.
We had not been hit. We were all
right as a trivet for all we knew, when,
skree! she began blowing off steam, and
we stopped dead and began to drift
down under those batteries. Callender
had to telegraph to the little Mosquito,
or whatever Walter ealled his boat, and
the spunky little thing ran down and got
us out of the scrape. Walter did right
well; if he had had a monitor under Lim
he could not have done better. Of
course we all rushed to the engine-
room. What were they a’ there? All
they knew was that they could get no
water into her boiler.
“ Now, fellows, this is the end of the
story. As soon as the boilers cooled
off, they worked all night on those sup-
ply pumps. May I be hanged if they
ind not sucked in, somehow, a long
string of yarn and cloth, and, if you
will believe me, a wire of some woman's
crinoline. And that French foily of a
sham empress cut short that day the
victory of the Confederate navy, and
old Davis himself can’t tell when we
shall have a chance again.”
TN AAI ION.
1
Scientifie Hunting.
A man who belonged to a village rifle
team was recently out on the plains of
Wyoming Territory looking for game.
Finally the party sighted an elk at 700
yards and prepared to shoot him. He
was anoble buck. The member of the
rifie team put a blanket down among
the sage brush and artistically placed
himselt upon his back, with his left
arm like a figure 2, supporting his neck,
and his right arm like a figure 7, sup-
porting the aft end of the rifle. The
measure of the wind was taken, and
the sights were scientifically adjusted
while the expert made a figure 8 with
his legs and rested the rifle’s bow be-
tween the toes of his shoes. The meas-
ure of his forefinger was now taken by
a patent machine, and the trigger was
filed off slightly on the near side in
order to be adjusted to the weight of the
finger. Two men were then sent out to
put flags each side of the elk to show
the bounds outside which the rifle team-
ster was not to fire; but the elk thought
it had waited long enough and ran
away.
Vermont has furnished 188 foreign
missionaries, twenty-six of whom have
labored in Turkey.
TIMELY TOPIUS,
A visit was paid to the house of coms
mons recently by two giants, Chang, a
Chinese, eight and one-half feet in
height, and Von Brustad, a Norwegian,
eight feet four inches in height. They
were accompanied by Chee Mah, a
Chinese dwarf, about two feet in height.
The three distinguished strangers were
shown into the speaker's gallery, where
they remained for a while listening to
the debate,
The railroad between Vera Cruz and
| the oity of Mexico is said to be a marvel
{of engineering. It ascends 7,800 feet,
| 4,700 in twenty-five miles, It passes
{ from hot to temperate, and from the
jatter to the cold country. It spans
| ravines, scales precipioes and plunges
| through the bowels of mountains below ;
{ then up into the clouds again. To con-
i struct this line took thirty-six years,
| forty presidents and one emperor.
Some of the French journals give very
| flattering accounts of the progress of the
| preliminary work on the tunnel which
| is to connect France and England, tis
stated that the shaft is sunk to the
about to sink another shaft, and to
The work on the tunnel
in two or
the channel
is expected to be finished
three years,
Bret Harte says: I never see here in
Europe a woman tolling in the het
and fertilize a few yards of sterile moun-
tain side, that 1 do not come home to
little American flag that hangs above
my head, and thank heaven that 1 live
enough to piow and hoe and reap, and
which has room enough oa level ground
——
The manufacture of bottle corks is a
considerable source of weulth in France,
The annual production amounts to
1,983,000,000, valued at about $3, 100,008.
The value of the raw material is about
$600,000, The French government has
formed many plantations of the cork
oak in Algiers. Parts of the United
States are well adapted for the success
ful cultivation of the cork oak.
On the other side of Jordan is the!
town of Salt, ascertained to be the fille
cient Ramoth Gilead, containing a pop-
{ ulation of about 8.000 nominal Chris.
tians and Mohammedans, There are up- |
{ward of 1.800 vineyards in this town |
and neighborhood, and also .iarge fields |
of corn land. It is a singular fact, as |
ibly that these people |
pothing of intexieating drinks, |
and make their grapes into raisins; |
y and & kind of sweetmeat called |
miiban.
reported,
The American consul at Geneva says |
American beef and livestock have pene- |
i trated as far as that region and the value |
{ markets has been sensibly diminished |
by the importation from America. Pre. |
served meats and fruits from the United |
States are so well established and
: vertised that they may be left to take |
‘pare of themeelves: but butter and |
teheese could be sold in much larger |
quantities in central and southern Eu-
| rope and a profitable market for a more |
i nutritious brand of American flour |
i could be found.
| A Woman's Presence of Mind, |
Dr. J. C. Walker, of Indianapolis |
| Ind.. gives the following account of the
{ encounter with a burglar in his house: |
| At about three o'clock in the morning I |
| was awakened by my wife telling me
that the gas was unaccountably low. |
ad- |
MURDER OF MME. SKOBRELEFF.
Atrocions Tugrvatitude and Treachery
of 8 Young Muassian Officer,
The London Telegraph gives the fol
lowing details of the atrocious murder
of Mme. Bkobeleff, mother of the dis-
tinguished Russian general: Mme,
Skoheleff, during her two months’ stay
at Bulgaria, bad devoted her time,
money and energies Lo the development
of benevolent institutions in different
parts of the principality, and had made
numerous excursions with that ohject,
refusing the escort of gendarmerie of-
fered to her by the local authorities, on
the ground that she was too well knpwn
throughout the country to run any risk
of molestation. During these expadi-
tions she was only scocmpanied bv 'n
young female attendant, by a faithral
and intelligent Russian map-servant
named Ivanoff, and by Captain Usatis,
formerly her son's p nal side-de-
camp, who had earned great distinction
hy his splendid gallantry during. the
late war, and whom she was Atous-
tomed to address as “her son” To
this young ofeer she had upon several
occasions presented considerable sums
of money for the purpose of enabling
one of his brothers, a civil enginder, to
erect » mill in Demendere, a village
near Fhilippopolis, but had reghtly re
fused an application on his part for a
further gift, holding out, however, hopes
that she might grant the asked for
subsidy at some future period.
Mme. Skobeleff had set her heart upon
establishing a model farm in East Rou-
melia, and started by earriage from
Philippopolis for Tehirpan, with the ob,
jeot of purchasing a piece of land. suit-
ahleto the fulfillment of her project,
taking with Lier 25000 rubles, which
Captain Uszatis assisted her to pack up
The money was destined to
pay for her purchase, To aveid the in
tolerable heat of the summer sun, she
commended her journey at nine o'clock
P. M., accompanied by her usualsttend.
ants, with the exceptionofl Lzatis, who
excused himself, alleging indisposition
and the necessity of remaining with his
brother, who was also on theeve of de-
parture from Philippopolis. For about
town. Mme. Skobeleff’s onarriage was
closely tollowed by a vehicle containing
Mme. Smolekofl, the directress of the
Philippopolis hospital. and a Russian
officer named Petroff; but the two car-
Kemer, closeto a
stone bridge over the Maritaa, on the
road to Adrianople. Mme, Skobelefls
carriage had proceeded a few hundred
vards further, when [vanhoff, who was
seated on the box by the coachman espied
Captain Uzatis a little distance of by
the roadside, and, turning round toward
his mistress, who, in the meantime had
fallen into » dose, awoke her with the
annotincement that the captain was ap
proaching the carriage on foot, Theoid |
lady ordered the coschman to stop, and, |
leaning out of the window, was express. |
ing herthanks to Usatis for the trouble |
he had taken to wish her goodspeed on
her journey, when he suddenly drew his i
hand-jar and cut Ivanoff down. At (he |
four armed men made |
their appearance and fell upon the at~ |
tendants with their Jolnghans, While |
they were slaughtering the Bulgarian |
driver and Mme. Skobeloffs maid |
upon the former of whom they inflicted |
fourteen wounds, and upon the iatter |
tour terrific sissies, each of which was |
sufficient to cause death—Uzatls delib-
despite her piteous appeals for mercy |
and despairing offers of all her money |
and vanables if only he would spare her |
life. He thrust his broad. biaded clmeter
completely through her body, killing
i
i
plunder the corpse, while Lis accom-
them of their valuable contents. Mean- |
while, Ivanoff lay still, feigning death, |
He had received eight severe
A CO-OPERATION SOCIETY,
CosOperation for Wage-Earners; Based
Upon Sound Pinsncial Prineiples.
Although there are many points of
view, other than the financial, which
reveal sufficient advantages for the mass
of consumers to justify them in organ-
iging co-operative trading societies for
the purpose of supplying their wants,
yet the commercial results in dollars and
cents is the standasd by which the pub.
lic will form its first judgment of them,
Knowing this, those who are interesting
themselves in a movement for the intro.
duction of 8 co-operative system of busi-
ness ie this city and country have for a
long time been exchanging views, hav.
ing for their object the devising of such
A System as must commend itselt to the
public as well as to the most cantious
and expert financiers, by reason of its
soundness. As the result of their delib.
erations they have published a set of
“model by-laws" for the government of
00-0 ve trading eties, and an
energetic effort will soon be made to
establish in New York a strong society
that will be an example to the whole
country.
So far as the writer knows, no one
interested in this movement has the least
desire to encourage the unsafe invest
ment of a single dollar, especially as the
dollar is likely to be the saving of a
wage-earner, For this reason 1 wish to
gsk public atvention to the financial
principles which will govern such so-
cieties as organize by adopting these
mode! by-laws, in the hope that those
who discover their points of weakness
will give those interested the benefit of
their criticism. That a clear understand.
ing of the principles may be had, I will
state them in about the order in which
it will be found convenient to consider
them, and at the same time will explain
the provision made for their applica.
tion.
1st. Money invested at a risk should
have a sufficient prospeet of prog 10 jus.
tify the rigk taken.
¢ investment in the fixed share
capital of the society is the basis upon
which its business must rest, In prae-
tical business money is invested in com-
mercial transactions not only that it may
earn interest but thai it may earn a
commercial profit. It would be consid
ered » bad tr on to invest money
where it would be subjected to the risks
of business, unless there was a reasons
able prospect of its gelting a greater
return in the form of profit than it can
obtain when inves with an ample
guaranteed seeurity in the form of inter
est. Applying this principle, these by-
laws provide that the capital invested in
its shares shall receive—first, one and a
half per cent. per quarter (six per cent,
per annum), which is considered as its
interest; second, a quarterly dividend at
such a rate as the, profil of the quarter
will allow, when divided upon the
amount of one-fourth of the suplial, the
full amount paid as wages and the full
amount of sales. This dividend is con-
sidered as compensation for the risk and
profit of capital, and is made upon one-
quarter of {1s amount, for the reason that
while labor has been paid but one-
quarter of a year's salary, and custom
lias mad bat one-quarter of a year's
purchases, capital bas had its full
amount used for one-quarter of the
ear.
24. Money invested on a teed
security should receive only legal inter-
To provide for a similar investment of
money to that held in the English so-
cieties under the form of ** withdraweble
share capital,” the by-laws arrange for
the issue of ** sorip oertifiontes,” which
are redeemable upder fixed rules. As
such an investment is guaranteed by
the share capital, it is not subject to the
risk of the business, therefore it is al.
lowed legal interest only, but it is paid
the night in ease of » eallor other emer. |
geney. 1 got out of bed ind elevated it
to ‘the nsual height, thinking that the
| pressure was unusually light, and say- |
ing to Mrs. Walker thal that was |
tdoubtless the cause of its Lhuming so
low, and returned to bed. That did not
| satisfy her, however. She imagined
{ that the furning down of thelight meant
something, and woman-like looked un-
der thd betl,. She saw the feet of a man
| sticking out toward the west wall, near
the head of the bed, and here comes the
most remarkable part of the story. She
| knew I was awake, and. copsidered that
{if she told me there 'was aman under
ithe bed I would grapple him, and he
{ undoubtedly being armed would kill
{me. So she arose and went into the
{ boys’ room and awakened them cares
| fully, telling them there was a man un.
| derneath our bed, and for them to get
up quickly and watch while she went
| downstairs for a revolver. When she
| came hack she gave it to John, remem-
{ bering, even in that moment of supreme
| peril, that Frank had just recovered
| from a long spell of sickness, and was
consequently weak and nervous. She
then went along the hall to the room of
| the colored man, whom she knew had a
revolver also. She then returned and
went into Frank's room, where the two
boys were,
n the meantime I began wondering
what she was about, and just after she
assed the door the second time thought
heard a slight rnstling under the bed.
1 turned over toward the side she va-
cated, and met the gaze of a man, whose
head alone was raised over the bed rail
near the foot, watching me, The state
of affairs flashed across my mind in an
instant, Mrs... Walker had seen the
man, and had aroused the boysand col
ored man to assist, if ;necessary. The
burglar was doubtless aware of her
movements, and was pondéring on what
was to be done. Qf conirse I imagined
that that was to shoot me, and to pre:
vent him I lunged at him with my right
hand, striking him in the right eye and
knocking him back on the floor. As |
struck 1 threw myself upon him and
bore him to the floor. The space where
we fell was narrow and eircumseribed
and, although I had the fellow by the
throat, he succeeded in grasping my
wrist with such a Kip hs to temporarily
paralyze it. I never before felt, and did
not think it possible for 8 man toexer-
such a pressure. In our struggle he
managed to get his right arm from un.
der his body, and with it he fied his
revolver, the ball grazing my left side
an dpenetrating the ceiling. I thought
a young eanpon had gone off.
The explosion somewhat startled
me, and I let up on my grip, which
enabled my antagonist to break away
from me and rush into the hall, Just
as he got outside of the door, appar-
ently, two shots followed, and then all
was still and dark, The shooting had
extinguished the gas, and the agony of
the moments that followed was almost
unbearable. It seemed to me, of course,
that the two shots had killed the boys,
for I did not know that there was a re-
volver in the house, mueh less that Mrs.
Walker had provided the boys with it.
I ran out into the hall expecting to en-
counter the burglar, and found the door
into Frank's room partly closed. I tried
to open jt, but could not, and then it
occurred to me that by a chance the
boys might not be hurt, and I called
out, * Is that you, John!" and the an-
swer was like the sweetest music to my
ears, for I recognized his voice.
* Are you hurt?”
“ No, father, I am not, and Frank and
mother are here with me, all right.”
“Who did that shooting?”
“1 did, and I know I hit him.”
As soon a3 possible the gas was re-
lighted, but no burglar could be scen,
either in the hall or on the stairway.
Organizing an investigation party we
went downstairs. The fellow, after
heing shot through the heart, had run
downstairs through the dining-room
and’ kitchen, and fell prone on the
threshold of the porch—dead. He haa
his revolver in one hand and knife in
the othier as he lay,
their booty, heoontrived to crawl away,
he. Jost. so. much bi
that he “repeatedly fainted,
about midnight, when he related the
horrors of which he had bien a witness.
A detachment of cavalry was at onoe
dispatched to Demendere, whither
Umatis had betaken himself, having pre-
viously returned to Philippopolis for
the purpose of changing his cloths
concealing his weapons. He and one of
his fellow-nssassing were in the mill
belonging to his brother when he per-
ceived the militia squadron approach-
ing. Forthwith they took horse and
galloped off toward the Turkish fron.
tier, but found tlie Ligh road occupied
by a section of infantry, the officer com-
manding ‘which summoned them to
surrender. Dismounting they fled up a
hillside and took refuge in a marrow
glen, where they defended themselves
for some minutes with their revolvers
against - the soldiers pursuing them.
Presently, however, seeing himself sar
rounded on évery-side, Usatis put the
mussie of his piste} in’ his mouth and
blew out his brains, His conipanion
was captured alive, as were later on the
other three ruffians who shared in his
atrocious enterprise. The wvalise con
taining the stolfn money has not as yet
been discovered. adam Skobelefls
body, embalmed by order of the Rus
sian consul-general, was conveyed to
St. Petersburg via Constantinople and
Odessa.
nm AEA A555 5509,
Pins and a Woman's Dress,
Our wife wants a new drbss. After
two or three or a half dosen stores
have been ransacked for the goods the
dressmaker is sought out.., The matter
of mensurement is tedious, and then the
matter of fittingis ope of numerous and
repeated trials. Finally the dress is
finished and sent home. Then it is
sent back to be:taken in- here and let
out there, ana ht last, after the customer
has been fitted more times for that one
dress than her husband hak been
measured in three of four veavs, the
dress comes home for the last time and
is pronounced by the wearer, her friends
and the dressmaker a8 a beautiful and
perfect fit, and it is finished.
Beautiful it certainly is, far more
beautiful than anything her husband
ever wears. Colors) and materials,
style, blending shades and contrasting
bits of colors, are all in the perfection
of good taste, No man can improve
upon that. But, it isn’t finished. When
it is completed as far as the skill of the
dressmaker can finish it,and it is puton,
it has to be pinred somewhere; some.
times in two or three, often in a half
dozen places, Ledave out the pin and
the dress is all awry somewhere. On
all this broad continent thereis not one
American woman who can dress se as to
make any kind of an, appearance in
society without pins.
Now, suppose our tailor should send
our suit home and on puting on the coat
we had to pin it in the neck? Or sup-
pose there was no suspender-bution aft,
and we had to use pins there? Sup-
pose he made our shirts so that we
would have to pin: on the eoliar, how
long would a shirt or such a suit of
clothes stay in the house? Who would
be responsible for the language used by
the man who had to pin his coat?
No'tailor would eare to so témpt the
wrath of an independent man, ‘But
women—alas! she patiently pins on the
dress that she paid some $30 or $40 to
make, and don’t think anything about
it. We will not pursue this painful
subject. Let the women of America
think it up and think about it and learn,
in the noble independence’ of women-
hood, to make their clothes before they
put them on.— Burlington Hawkeye.
A ——————
Something noble, something good,
gomething pure, something manly, some-
thing ‘god-like, is knocked off a m:n
every time he: gets drunk or stoops to
sin through forgetfulness of God, .
34. The dictates of sell-interest is a
factor that must always be considered
Good
management requires that all those
upon whose judgment, care, skill and
integrity a. profitable result depends,
should have their compensation in some
mensuve depend gpon the amount of
profit produced.
To apply this principle, it is provided
that the same rate of dividend that is
paid to capital for its risk and profit and
to custom upon the amount of its pur-
chases, shall be paid to all employees
spon the full amount paid to them as
Wages,
4th. Custom, not competition, is the
life of business.
Without patronage business would be
dead. Competition is a strife for the
sossession of this life—it is not the life
self. The whole aim of competi-
tor is to attract to himself the custom
of the publie. In proportion as he suc-
ceeds in this, custom comes to him and
gives life to bis business. Co-operation
has the same aim. In proportion to its
success in convincing the public that it
will serve it better than competitive
tradesmen do, will custom come to it
and give it light, causing its system of
business to grow and prosper.
The life of competition is the sell
interest of tradesmen, Its language
to the indivdual is: * Spend that we
may live; our business is conducted for
our bwh benefit. We make a profit on
your custom, but we do not divide it
with you."
The life of co-operation is the seif-
Its language
is: “Spend that you may live; but save
that you may be independent. We con-
duct your business for your benefit; we
make a profit on your custom and we
divide it on the amount of your pur-
chases. On. every dollar that you
spend, we will undertake to save you
ten per cenf., in doing ‘which we shall
do you ten per cent. worth of good, but
the logical meaning of our organization
id to teach and help you to save, On
every dollar we ean induce or help you
to save, we will undertake to make ten
per cent. profil for you, in doing which
we shall do you 110 per cent. worth of
good, having saved the dollar and made
a profit of ten per cent. upon it."
t is the strength of this inducement
that has enabled co-operation to secure
life—~custom-—in the face of the most de«
termined competition. To itis ascribed
the cause of the great success whieh has
been attained by the prominent societies
of England. Competition destroys the
life of business, because it curtails the
purchasing power of the many by di.
verting the profits of business from the
many to the few. The evil from which
the ‘many suffer does not exist in the
fact of the ownership of capital by indi-
viduals or the payment to them of inter-
est, for its use, or of still larger dividends
for its risk and profit when invested in
commercial enterprises, No person can
consume anything of valne unless capi.
tal is first employed to supply his wants,
If the capital so employed belongs to
others and is used withont compensa
tion, he is impoverishing them. If he
ays for its use, he is impoverishing
Rimself. The evil from which he suffers
consists in the fact that, failing to in-
vest his own capital in the business of
supplying his own wants, he is con.
stantly impoverishing himself by phying
it away to others, in the form of inter
est and profits. No individual can in.
vest his capital in such a business. That
he may not impoverish himself he must
invest his capital in the business of dis-
tribution, the function of which is to
gather from all sources of supply every-
thing that he may need, unless he or
some one for him has first saved. The
more nearly the society of which he be-
comes a member can do this, the larger
will be the sum of his purchases, and
the more thoroughly will his interest
and convenience as a consumer be
served. - Society is an aggregation of
individuals. © An understanding of the
solidarity of the interests of society can
only be arrived at through a right un-
W
derstanding of the solidarity of the in
-
terests of the individual, In every
financial transaction with which he has
to do, every individual is represented as
a capitalist and consumer, and may be
represented at the same time as a la
borer. If the capital is not his own, he
makes it his for the pu of the
transaction—whether he is aware of it
or not—by thing its borrower or
user, and paying for its
of interest or prom. ‘Thus the interests
of the individual are consol into
three factors, viz, eapital, labor and
custom. The provisions ol these by-
laws serve these interests:
Ist, making it n for him
to save,
shares. By ng him to save by
making the investment Rrofiable. By
making it possible for him to save, by
saving for him the rofl on Big mate
sary purchases. . By 2
him to be diligent, skillful and bonest,
by giving him a share according to his
w in the profit produced by the use
of these qualities, 34. By all
motives, on the part of those he emp
to serve him for deception regarding the
quality, quantity or prize of anything he
may purcliase,
Societies organized under these by-
laws will open s new way furough
wi ich wage-earners may pass from the
condition of being employed and sup-
plied by the use of ‘the tal of others,
to the independent position of
employed and supplied by the use
their own capital for the saving and
accumulating of which they will offer
the best opportunity yet devised.
To illustrate the manner effect of
the division of profits as provided in
these by-laws, the following example
will serve:
Society, § 1,000
Bhare
10,000
$35,000
$70,000
4,200
000
a
, 1 shan each member...
Serip certificate investment
Total investment in G88. ec vssas
Sales, turning investment twice dur.
ingquarter............
Wages paid for quarter... ovis
Profit net 10 per cent on turnover
1st deduet 1 § per cent of interest on
scrip ocrtifieate investment,
B10.000.. cn snes srvnnsnn annasrs
Balance of profit
2d deduet, 1§ per cent. dividend on
oapital for its use, $25,000... ..
Balance of profit remsising......
3d deduct, § perceat. of this
ing profit for * Reserve fupd,”
$6,475
PEs rans
160
#6800
a6
90476
33.75
Balanoe of t remaining.......§6,181,25
4th deduct, 2 per cent. of this re.
profit for ** Eduontional
Fond,” $6,381.35. cou vvvnessn., 153,78
Balance of profit remaining...... 85,907.47
This balance is to be divided between
capital, Iabor and custom. Capital has
been used one-quarter of the year only,
therefore une- quarter of its amount is
taken into account. heen
paid for one-quarter of the year only,
therefore the ful! amount paid is taken
into the account. Custom has e
purchases for one-quarter of the year
only, therefore the rull amount of sales
is taken into the account. This estab
lishes equity between the three factors
by the combined use of which the profit
was produced. The account is as fol
OWS:
Onpital, § amount... ...0 nse «oo $6,255
Wages, {all smount . .....cov ines ease 4,200
Custom, fall amount .... ..ccenvees 70,000
Total amount on which the second
dividend Is caloulated
Rate of second dividend, 7 per cemt.,
on $80,450
Balance of profit remaining. .........5 907 &
$th. Deduct amount of second divi
de : «5,681 50
Balance of profit remaining... .... $368 97
6th. Place the balance of profit 10 the credit
of Reserve Fund.
To trace the effect of this system to the
individual, example will be made of four
persons, as follows:
A, capitalist, non-purchasing member, hold -
ing one share. B, employee, purchasing
member, holding one share. Wages for quar.
ter, $300. Purchases lor quarter, $50. C,
customer, purchasing member, holding one
share. Purchases for quarter, $560. D, cus.
tother, purchaser, not a member, holding
scip certifioate, $25. Purchases for quarter,
$50.
A, capitalist, investment one share....§15 00
Receives, first dividend, 1} per cent. jor
Second dividend, 7 per cent. on j lor
risk aud profit, $6.25...
Total amount received. . ........ 80
B, employee, investment one share. ...§25 00
Receives on onpital same ns A. ........ 80
Second dividend on wages, 7 per cent.
ORBI. oes vs noniernnessnnssre ssn 3100
Second dividend on purchases, 7 per
cent. on $80... ... 350
sam seem ARNE
Sra
Ee
er EE
sen
OE
Total amount received
©, customer, investment one share....
Reocives on capital same as A
Second dividend om purchases, 7 per
oent. on $50... .... cco0rninniivaie. © 300
nn—
Total amount received... .. cov one $4 30
D, customer, not a member, investment
scrip cortifioate, §25. Purchases per
Rooeives first dividend on teed
oapital, 1} per cent. lor interest
Second dividend on purchase, 7 per cent.
on $50, $3.50, One-ball paid to non.
IOIDOTS ...conssnsarssses hapa aia
Total amount reseived.. coven
$50 00
17
212
Non-members are allowed one-half the
dividend on purchases that is paid to
members, the other half is p to the
credit of ** Reserve Fund.” It is not
necessary that s non-member should
hold an investment in scrip certificates
to entitle him to this dividend.
From the above it is plain that by es-
tablishing an equitable division of the
profit between the factors employed in
its production, an equitable division of
the profit is also established in its dis.
tribution to individuals. .
Hon. Josiah Quincy says in his annual
address before the members of the
“ Bostoh co-operative store,” which was
founded by his assistance and direction:
“ Our capital of $6,000 has not been en-
croached upon. On it we have done a
oash business of 855357. We have
earned and divided ten per cont. among
the purchasers, have no bad debts, owe
nothing, and have over 700 share-
holders.”
This system rewards saving by giving
the member who saves most invests
his saving in the shares of the sosjety. a
profitable return on his investment, his
profit on capital corresponding to that
of any merchant having capital invested
in business. i
The importance of this cannot be
over-gstimated, . A saving of six dollars
a moth, invested at twelve per cent.
per annum profit, compounded annually,
will accumulate in twenty-one years
the sum of $2,880.60, the annual divi-
dend on which will be, at twelve per
cent., $705.67, while the same rate of
suv.ng invested at six per cent. per an-
num interest, compounded annually for
the same time, will accumulate onl
£2.878.50, and the aupual interest will
be, at six per cent., only $172.71.
Far-reaching as the effect of such in-
vestments and savings will be upon the
future of w ers, of greater im-
ortance is the fact that this system of
Pasi ress not only encourages saving bY
making a profitable use of the smal
sums when saved, but it makes saving
possible. For him who has so narrow
a margin between his income and his
necessities that saving seems to him to
be impossible, without exersion or the
denial of a single comfort it saves the
full percentage of profit on his custom.
Such a saving, if accumulated and in-
vested in the way for deing which this
system of business alone provides an
opportunity, will amount to enough
with the limits of an average life to re-
deem some of its years from the neces-
sity of labor. When this is done, we
shall hear of iaborers who have retired
fog
iif
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i
notable for the number of
women, and one hundred
gin 0 do justies ¢ to the
American inine lovel
to select the comely ladies, whose coun
presentments
fortheoming voluae of loveliness,
stated, To say the least of it,
one of great . .
how impartially per ;
tain to give grave displeasure
of thousands of scknow jed zed
beanties whose pretty pictures
grace the volume. the
one hundred favored fair sre numerous
and chivalrous 10 subscribe
one or more copies of the work, the
\isher may be satisfied, but the
besuties will not, Even the
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BE Pea ¥
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its
2
x
ago an
ri blisher issued a book of por-
Pita of Indies called -* Queens of Atber-
ioan Bociety.” The sictures
to be likenesses of leaders of society, few
of whom made an to sur-
passing ¢ believe the novel
SUCOeSS ;
tic mountains and
the Mississippi, XN
many not having even seen
It is not me bo da ums, Bete |
no rivers in com
of this
are
in
. The
Rhine has a little strip of
seventy miles between Bingen and
lents, of much interest on socount of
the tumble-down old
legends connected with them
and or New to Chicago;
500 miles from Chicago to Omaha. and
another of 500 miles on to Cheyenne,
over the broad greatly expands
SE EN. olor)
t © e 00 Be
a it, uniess it be a trip
Petersburg, thence
700 miles from St. Petersburg ;
re Novogorod on the
0 »
A journey of 750 to 1,000 miles north.
west from Chicago, across W
Minnesota, and out in Dakota, is of
almost equal interest, with its pleasure
greatly heightened by & return via Da-
uth and down through
to Buffalo or Montreal,
A trip of 300 miles south from Chey-
enne, down through Colorado's piains
to Colorado Springs, and the adjacent
Pike's Peak, with side journeys into the
Rocky mountain mi g regions, has,
or ought to have, more interest than a
run over Swilzeriand—at the
former should first be taken, and the
trip is far less expensive, and has far
less annoyances.
cA —— 535.
A City Taken by Stratagem,
Zutphén ‘eventuatly fell the
5 ship of Sir Francis yoo se
Maurice being about to advance toward
it, Vere pushed forward with his own
corps, sweeping the country of its cattle
and forage to, straiten the garrison. Ad-
joining the town stood a strong fort, the
possession of which promised
to forward the operaticns of a siege; but
which on a former occasion Lad cost
Leicester a heavy joss ere he succeeded
in reducing it. Ofthis fort Vere resolved
to make himselt master, and he chose
the following stratagem for the
Selecting certain Joung ten his
corps, he apparaled them like Flemish
country women, and sent them
with well-filed baskets on their
but with swords, daggers sad
pistols under their and fardin-
es. They traveled toward Zutphen
n groups of two and three er to
elude obdervation, of
day found themselves close to the fort,
where they deposited their baskets as
if waiting fora ferryboat. No suspicion
Shas they were Siler than shat which
ey appeared to ma women,
a among the garrison. The Spanish
soldiers opened the gates as usual, jet
down the bridge, and many came forth
to converse with the country
who now run to meet them with loud
Isughter, till they gained the covered
way. Then they drew their Wetipoua;
overpowered the barrier guard,
maintained themselves in the Artwas
till a body of troops sent ]
Swirly, and silently by, Vers to their
sup came up. e was
taken, and Zutphen. which depended
upon it as a princ'pal bul sur-
rendered after a feeble resistance.
An American arrived one day at a
little hotel in a French provincial town.
Tired and dusty with travel, he de-
manded a room and plenty of water to
wash with. ** Water! We have not a
drop,” said the landlord. Muttering ex-
ressions of dissatisfaction he reached
is room and immediately called, ** Fire!
fire! ! fire! | I" A dozen servants rush
upstairs and into his room,
with water with which to extin
the flames. ‘‘ Ah,” said the guest, turn-
ing composedly upon them, “you may
jeaye the water. Thank you; that is
all.
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