THE CENTRE REPORTER FRED KURTZ, . . . Editor, Opsrne HALL, PA, Fen, 24 1886, #EBEBLISS OF MATERNITY. “79 I hold two dainty little feet iy Clasped in my warm and loving hand; 80 soft and pink, they sure must be -y Two rose-leaves blown from fairyland. I hold a wee and helpless form Pressed closely to my happy heart— Why, baby !—mine by right divine— The right of pain—a mother's part. 0 beauteous life! so fair and new, . That yesterday was blent with mine! O wondrous soul! so lately sprung A sparklet from the Source Divine! God's priceless gift, you come lo me Embodied in this little form; My soul accepts its happiness As flowers the sunshine soft and warm, My brow seems decked by coronet, The fairest earth has ever seen The disndem of motherhood- "Is Nature's band that crowns me queeR. What realms are opened to my sight! 1 tread the regions of the blest And all because this little form Lies fair and helpless on my breast, A tiny bud, whose flower completa May bloom to bless my Walling years. O motherhood! you hold a bliss That Lost may be expressed in tears Carrie Stevens Waller, Putting the Ballor’s Life in Peril But about five years ago a now fiber was introduced into this market, called | sal hemp, in token of the place where it was ported- el, Yucatan, It hike Maniiaz that ane om between the two This w 0 much ws a great misfor- mich as Manila. Competition between rope- makers has always been strong and and mar- gins on their product narrow. Home of them acreased profits by working in a jantity of the Sisal he; with the fier. Thus, when Jack, as he sup- it gave way, precipitat- i and critical moments, {here was no help for it, for only an expensive test would show when a pg vir A { rope was adulterated Ie pocie genuine Manila decren the presence tected. A BD } a reporter how the test could be made. He burned a little wad of Manila fiberon a sheet of boiler iron, and then a wad of Sisal hemp be 2 it. The ashes from the Manila were grayish black, while those from the Sisal hemp were almost white. Then he pulled a rope yarn from an adulterated rope and. after untwisting it, he burned it also. The white Sisal fiber showed so piaini heap fiber can be de- edalteration without difficul Sun. ty. —New York Diagnosis of "Railway Spine.” blows, sudden wre conductors of the cord with the membranes inflammation is set up which may extend to priate treatment ages from cory such a condition disputed. All the farts in a given case should be ve ly investigated. In this way imposition will be avoided and the real suiferers be compensated, in somo de gree, for their disabilities. —Globe- Democrat. A Word in Favor of Specialism. cialisim means depth of insight, the covery, it means originality. I believe it means development of character and growth of the capacity of knowledge. Let me com- pare the mind to a house with many win- dows Yor a vital coniprebension of truth I would thoroughly cleaned than through all of them only half purified from the obscuring medium of error and prejudice. To the young student especially I would say, “Clean one of your windows; be not content until there is one branch of your subject —if it be only one branch of a branch ~which you understand as thoroughly as you are capable of understanding it, until your sense of truth is satisfied, and you have intellectual conviction.” Be assured that in lenrning this one thing you will have added an eye to your mind, an instrument to your thought, and potentially have learned many things. Cornhill Magazine, Hew Process of Steel Manufacture. A new process of steel manufacture has been established at Manchester, England, It is termed a direct process, and is a com promise between the Dessemer and the cru- cible processes. An advantage secured is that baked moulds are dispensed with, the castings being made entirely in green sand, go that the many severe internal caused by hard moulds at the time of cooling are avoided. Thus they produce steel castings which are practically free from blowholes and shrinkage, notwithstanding that metal out of one ladle can be indiscriminately poured into elevator bucket moulds less than one-eighth of an inch thick, or into moulds for heavy crank shafts —Scientific Journal. —————————— a fitory of a Filial Chinaman. = STONEWALL JACKSON. THE LAST HOURS OF THE FAMOUS CONFEDERATE COMMANDER. Prepared for the Worst—The Family Physician's Decision—A Grief- Btricken Wife—The Consoln- tions of Religion. About daylight upon the Sunday of his death Mrs. Jackson informed him that his recovery was very doubtful, and that it was better that he should be prepared for the worst, He was silent for a moment and then sald: #1¢ will be infinite gain to be transiated to heaven.” He advised his wife, in the event of his death, to return to her father's hots, and added: “You have a kind and good father, but there is no one so kin 1 and good as your Heavenly Father.” He still expressed a hope that he would recover, but requestad his wife, iu oase he should die, to have him buried in Lexington, jn the valley of Virginia His exhaustion increased so rapidly that at 11 o'clock Mrs. Jackson knelt by his bed and told him that before the sun went down he would be with his Savior. He replied: “0, no! You are frightened my child. Death is not so near 1 way yet get well.” She fell upon the bed weeping bitterly, and again told him, amid ber tears and sobs, that the physicians decl wed that there was Ro longer THE FAMILY PHYSIK After a moment's call the ) “Doctor,” he said, as the 3 the room, “Anna informed n told her 1 am to die to