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A sunset glory lines the west..
With streaks of erimson. lu the pine,
The ring.dove murmurs on her nest;
And myriad golden starlets shine.
Upon the fair, calm hour of night,
As she her sable vr.il lets fall,
The swallows from the dizzy height
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The Bushel of Corn.
FARMER GRAY had a neighbor who was
not the best tempered man in the world,
though mainly kind and obliging. He
was a shoemaker. His name was Berton.
One day, in harvest time, when every
hand was busy as a bee, this man came
over to fanner Gray and said, in rather a
petulant tone of voice:
"Mr. Gray, I wish you would send over
and drive your geese home."
"Why - so, lir. Barton, what have my
geese been doing ?" the farmer said in a
mild, quiet tone.
"They get into my garden, and I will
not have it."
"I am very sorry, neighbor Barton, but
what can I do ?"
"Why, yoke them, and keep them on
your own premises. It is no kind of a
way to let your geese run all over every
farm and garden in the neighborhood."
"But I cannot see to it now; it is har
vest time, friend Barton, and every man,
woman and child on the farm have as
much as they can do. Try and bear it for
a week or so, and then I will see if I eon
possibly remedy the evil."
"I can't bear it, and I won't bear it any
longer," the shoemaker said. "So if you
do not take care of them, friend Gray, I
shall have to take care of them for you."
"Well, neighbor Barton, you can do as
you please," farmer Gray replied in his
usual quiet tone. "I am sorry they trou
ble you, but I cannot attend to it now."
"I'll attend to them for you, see if I
don't," the shoemaker said, still more an
grily than when he first called on farmer
Gray.
"What on earth can be the matter with
them geese ?" said Mrs. Gray, about fifteen
minutes afterwards.
"I really cannot tell, unless neightor
Barton is taking care of them. He threat
ened to unless I yoked them right off."
"Taking care of them ! How taking
care of them r"
"As to that I am quite in the dark.—
Killing them perhaps. He said that if I
didn't take care of them he would. So I
suppose he is engaged in the neighborly
business of taking care of oar geese."
"John! William ! Run over and see
what Mr. Barton is doing with my geese,"
Mrs. Gray said in aquick and anxious tone
to two little boys who were playing near.
The urchins scarapered off, well pleased
to perform an errand.
"Oh if he has dared to do anything to
my geese I will never forgive him !" the
good wife said angrily.
"H-u-s-h, Sally ! make no rash speeches.
It is more than probable that he has killed
two or three of theta. But never mind if
he has, he will get over his pet and be
sorry for it."
"Yes, but what good will his being sor
ry do mo ? Will it bring my geese to
life ?"
"Ab, well, Sally, never mind. Let us
wait until we hear what all this distnrb
anee is about.
In about ten minutes the children came
home bearing the bodies of three geese
each without a head.
WITIT
"Oh, isn't that too much for human en•
durance !"
"We found them lying out in the road,"
said the oldest of the two children. "And
when we picked them up, Mr. Barton said,
"Tell your father that I have yoked his
geese for him, to save him the trouble, as
his hands aro too busy to do it."
"I'd sue h►im for it !" said Mrs. Gray, in
an indignant toga.
"And what good would that do ?"
'Why, it would do a great deal of good.
It would teach him better manners. It
would punish him."
"And punish us into the bargain. We
have lost three geese now, but we still have
their good fat bodies to eat. A lawsuit
would cost us a good many geese, and not
even leave us so much as the feathers, be
sides giving us a world of trouble and vex
ation. No, no, Sally, just let it rest, and
he will be sorry for it, I know."
"Sorry for it, indeed Aud what good
will his being sorry for it do us, I should
like to know. Next, he will kill a cow,
and then we must be satisfied with his be
ing sorry for it. Now, I can tell you that
I don't believe in that doctrine. Nor do I
believe anything about his being sorry, the
crabbed, ill-natured wretch l"
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"Don't call hard names, Sally," farmer
Gray said, in a mild, soothing tone.—
"Neighbor Barton was not like himself
when he killed the geese. Like every oth
er angry person he was a little insane, and
he did what he would not have done had
he been in his right mind. When you are
a little excited, you know, Sally, that even
you do and say unreasonable things."
"Me do and say unreasonable things?"
exclaimed Mrs. Gray, with a look and tone
of indignant astonishment; "me say and
do things when lam angry ? I don't un
derstand you, Mr. Gray.'
"Maybe I can help you a little. Don't
you remember the churn ?"
"Yes, but never mind about it."
"So you have not forgotten how unrea
sonable you were about the churn. It
wasn't good for anything—you knew it
wasn't; and you'd never put a jar of cream
into it as long as you lived—that you
wouldn't. And yet, on trial, you found
that churn the best you had ever used,
and now you wouldn't part with it on any
consideration. So you see, Sally, that
PAMPHLETS
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Midsummer Eve
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BY T. B. ARTHUR,
HUNTING-DON, PA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 1873
even you can say and do unreasonable
things when you are angry, just as well as
Mr. Barton."
Mrs. Gray saw that her husband was
right—but still she felt indignant at the
outrage committed on her geese. So she
took her three tit geese, and after strip
ping off the feathers, had then: prepared
for the table.
On the neat morning ; as Mr. Gray was
pa;sing along the road, he met the silo.-
maker, and is they had to pa-s very near
to each other. the term. r and spike
kindly. Mr. Barton la4ikcd and felt very
uneasy, but fariner'Gray did nut seem to
remember the unpleasant incident of the
day before.
It was about. eleven o'clock on the same
day, that one of farmer Gray's little boys
came running to him and crying :
"Oh, father ! father ! Mr. Barton's hogs
are in our cornfield."
"Then I must go and drive them out,"
said Mr. Gray in a quiet tone.
"Drive them out," ejaculated Mrs. Gray.
"Drive 'em out, indeed ! I'd shoot them,
that's what I'd do ! I'd serve him as he
served my geese yesterday!"
• "But that wouldn't bring the geese to
life again, Sally."
"I don't care if it wouldn't. It would
be paying him in his own coin, and that's
what he deserves."
"You know what the Bible says, Sally,
about grievous words, and they apply with
stronger force to grievous actions. No—
no—l will return neighbor Barton good
for evil. That is the best way. He has
done wrong, and I am sure he is sorry for
it. And as I wish him to remain sorry
for so unkind and unneighborly an action,
I intend making use of the best means for
keeping him sorry.
"Then you will be revenged on him,
anyhow ?"
"No, Sally—not revenged. I am not
angry with neighbor Barton. But while I
am talking here, his hogs are destroying
my corn."
And so saying, farmer Gray hurried off
towards his cornfield. When he arrived
there, he found four large hogs tearing
down the stalks, and pulling off and eating
the ripeniog ears of corn. They had already
destroyed a good deal. But he drove them
out very calmly, and put up the bars
through which they entered, and then
commenced gathering up the half-eaten
ears of corn, throwing them out into the
lane for the bogs that had been so sudden
ly disturbed in the process of obtaining a
liberal meal.
As ho was thus engaged, Barton, who
had from his own house seen the farmer
turn the hoes out of his cornfield, came
hurriedly up, and said :
"I am very sorry, Mr. Gray, indeed I
am, that my hogs have done this ! I will
most cheerfully pay you for what they
have destroyed."
"Oh, never mind, friend Barton—never
mind. Such things will happen occasion
ally. My geese you know, annoy yon very
much sometimes."
"Don't speak of it, Mr. Gray. They
didn't annoy me so much as I imagined
they did. But how much -corn do you
think my hogs have destroyed ? One bush
el, or two bushels ? Or how mush ? Let
it be estimated, and I will pay you most
cheerfully.
"No, no. Not for the world, friend Bar
ton such things will happen sometimes.
And, besides, some of my men must have
left the bars down, or your hogs never could
have got in. So don't think any more
about it. It would be dreadful if one
neighbor could not bear a little with
another."
All this cut poor Mr. Barton to the heart.
His own ill-natured language and con
duct, at a smaller trespass on his rights,
presented itself to hii mind, and deeply
mortified him. After a few moment's si
lence, he said :
"The faot is, Mr. Gray, I shall feel bet
ter if you will let me pay for this corn. My
hogs should not be fattened at your ex
pense, and I will not consent to its being
dope. Sp shall insist on paying you for
at least one bushel of corn ; for I am sure
they have destroyed that much if not
more."
But Mr. Gray shook his head smiling
pleasantly, as he replied
"Don't think anything more about it,
neighbor Barton. It is a matter deserv
ing of no consideration. No doubt my
cattle have often trespassed on you, and
will trespass on you again. Let is, then,
bear and forbear.'
411 this cut the shoemaker still deeper,
and he felt still less at easo in mind after
he parted from the farmer, than he did be
fore.
"You told him your mind very p`ainly,
I hope," said Mrs. Gray, as her hwband
returned."
"I certainly did," was his reply.
"I am glad you did. I hope he will
think twice before he kills any more of
my geese."
"I expect you are right, Sally. I doet
think we shall be troubled again."
"What did you say to him ? And wit%
did he say for himself?"
"Why, he wanted very much to pay me
for the corn his pigs had eaten, but
wouldn't hear to it. I told him that it
made no difference in the world. That
such accidents would happen sometimes."
"Yon did ?"
"Certainly, I did."
"And that's the way you spoke your
mind to him ?"
"Precisely, And it had the desired
effect. It made him feel ten times worse
than if I had spoke angrily to him."
"Well pprhapsyouareright," Mrs. Gray
said, after a few moments' thoughtful si
lence. "I like Mrs. Barton very much—
and now I come to think of it, Ishould not
wish to have any difference between our
families."
"And so do I like Mr. Barton. He has
read the Chataqua Farmer a good deal and
derived instruction from its entertaining
columns, and I find it very pleasant to sit
with him occasionally, during the long
winter evenings. his only fault is his
quick temper—but lam sure it is much
better for us to bear with, and soothe that,
than to impose and excite it, aucksk§
keep both his family and out_:_sifir - in hot
water."
"You are oertaibry - right," Mrs. Gray
said, "and I enTy wish that I could always
think mya feel as you do. But I ate a little
quick, as they say."
"And so is Mr. Barton. Now just the
same consideration that you would desire
others to have for you, you should exercise
towards Mr. Barton or any one else whose
hasty temper leads him unto words or ac
tions that in calmer or more thoughtful
moments are subjects of regret."
On the next day, while Mr. Gray stood
in his door, from which he could see all
over the two or three acres of ground that
the shoemaker cultivated, he observed two
of his own cows in his neighbor's cornfield
browsing away in quiet a contented man-
ner. As he was going to call one of the
farm hands to drive them out, he:perceived
that Mr. Barton had. become acquainted
with the mischief that was ovin. b on, and
had already started for the field of corn.
ow we will see the effect of yesterday's
lesstut." the farmer said to himself and then
paused to observe the manner of the shoe
maker towards his cattle in driving them
out of the field. In a few minutes Mr.
Barttoi came up to the cows—but instead
of throwing stones at them, or striking
them with a stick, he merely drove them
out in u quiet way, and put up the bars
throuzh which they entered.
Alter this, there was no more trouble
about farmer Gray's geese or cattle. Some
times the geese would get among Mr.
Barton's hogs, and annoy them while eat
ing, but did not worry him as it did for
merly. If they became too troublesome,
he would drive them away, but not, by
throwing
sticks and stones at them as he
once did.
Late in the fall the shoemaker brought
in his bill, for work. It was a pretty large
bill, with sundry credits.
"Pay day has come at last," farmer Gray
said good humoredly, as the shoemaker
presented his account. "Well, let us
see !" and he took the bill to examine It,
item for item.
"What is this ?" he asked reading aloud
the credit for a bushel of corn.
"It is some corn I had from you."
"I reckon yon must bo mistaken. Yon
never got any corn from me."
"Oh, yes; I remember it perfectly well.
It is all right."
"But when did you get it, friend Barton ?
I am sure that I have not the most distant
recollection of it."
"My hoas got it," the shoemaker said,
in a slow hesitating tone.
"Your bogs ?"
"Yes. Don't you remember when my
bogs broke into your field and destroyed
your corn ?"
"0, dear—is that it ? Oh no, no, friend
Barton ; I cannot allow that item in the
bill."
"Ye.;, but you must. It is perfectly
just, and I shall never rest until it is paid.'
I can't indeed. You couldn't help your
hogs getting into my field; and then you
know, friend Barton, (lowerin g his tone)
you know my geese were very troublesome
The shoemaker blushed and looked con
fused, but farmer Gray slapped him fa
miliarly on the shoulder, and said in a
lively cheerful way— .
. .
"Don't think anlthing wore about it,
friend Barton ! And hereafter let us en
deavor to do as we would be done by, and
then everything will go smooth as clock
work."
"But you will allow that item in this
hill?" tho shoemaker urged persevorigg7
"Op, no, I couldn't do that. I should
think it wrong to make you pay fur my
own, or some of my men's negligence in
leaving the bars down.",
'l3l - it then (hesitating), those geese. I
killed three. : Let it go fur thew."
"If yon did kill them, wo ate them—so
it is even, No, no—let the past he for
gotten, and if it makes better friends and
neighbors of us, we need never regret what
has happened.
Farmer Gray remained firm,and the bill
was settled, omitting the item of "corn."
From that time forth, he had never a bet
ter neighbor than the shoemaker. Tne
cows and hogs and geese of both would
occasionally trespass, but the trespassers
were kindly removed. The lesson was not
lost on either of them, for even farmer
Gray used to feel sometimes a little annoy
ed when his neighbor's cattle broke into
his fields. But in teaching the shoemaker
a lesson, he bad taken a little of it himself.
palm fin Mt J;
The Great Cyclone,
Graphic .Petails,--.4. Land of Desolation—
Strange Incidents of the Storm—Loss of
Life and Properly.
The Chicago Tribune's special dispatches
from Washington, lowa, give full details
of the terrible cyclone, which swept over
a portion of Washington and Keokuk
counties, on the 22d ult. In the line
of the storm everything, except here and
there a mile or two, over which the whirl
wind seems to have jumped, is desolate
looking. Scarcely a house, barn, shed or
granary is left. All were swept away as
clean as the fire wiped out the north aide
of Chicago. The exact starting point of
the storm is not known, but is believed to
have been in Keokuk county, a few miles
west of Lancaster, which town, it is said,
is totally demolished. It advanced iu a
northeasterly direction, passing north of
Tallyrand, about three miles south of Keota,
through the Gennep settlement called
Baden, approaching the line of Washing
ton county, where it jumped a district of
about eight miles, alighting again about
six miles northwest of Washington, en the
farm of Frank Brown. Remaining.on the
ground for six or eight miles, it passed up
to Highland township. Leaving the earth
were it struck again in the middle of the
tuctiship, where its force was spent, and
it 6sappeired as suddenly as it appeared.
A reporter of the Tribune took a ride
over the route of the hurricane a day or
so afterward, and was astonished at the
ruir wrought in an hour or two. The
first farm visited was that of John C.
Cunningham, which is about seven miles
northeast of Washington. Neither the
home nor barn was visible. They had
bees torn to pieces, aid only a few frag
ments remained, nearly d.l of the timber
hav'ng been blown away. Pieces of
bow& were sticking out of the fields, some
of them imbedded in the ground two feet.
ands° tightly that they couldnt bepulled
out Dead stock was visible everywhere,
hones, cows, pigs aud chickens ; hertand
there were pigs impaled to the gromd,
whle frequently chickens were encounter
with feathers oil them.
'i-VREE HUNDRED HEAD OF STOCK
were killed mitriiht. In the dwelling,
When the tornado approached, were Mrs.
McCoy, daughter of Mr. Cunningham,
Carringe, and two children of the for
mer. They went into the cellar for shel
ter, but remained there only a short time,
bebg lifted up and carried some distance
ant thrown to theg round. Mrs.
M'Coy
hal her head out, and was badly bruised.
Me. Carringe was rendered insensible,
buy was not seriously hurt. The children
wav uninjured. They were found lying
ins heap beside the cellar walls.
East of Cunningham's near the High
laid township line, is the farm of Mr.
Dividson. His house and barn wore de
etioyed and he himself killed. 'Janssen,
wlo was with him at the time, was fatally
inured and died on Friday morning. All
ofthe latter's clothing was torn off his
body. North from Cunningham's is the
farm of John Babcock. His residence,
barns, out houses and granaries, were
demolished. His family were fortunately
absent, and he himself escaped uninjured.
The apple orchard, one of the finest in the
country, is now without trees. They were
torn up by the roots and hurried along.
A grove of honey locusts was also carried
away. Trees eighteen inches thick were
snapped as clay pipes can be. Some of
the stumps remaining look as if a saw had
been used, so smooth and clear was the
break.
The next farm was that of Lavid Ca.
neer. Here was the same desolation as at
the other places, only lees building mate
rial was observable. Of the houses, barns
and sheds scarcely a vestige was left. Mr.
and Mrs. Caneer and Alexander Gillison,
a neighbor, were in the house, and sought
shelter in the cellar, and escaped with
slight injuries. A short distance from
Caneer's stood the district school house,
which shared the fate of all others in
THE PATH OF THE CYCLONE.
Miss Smith, the teacher, and twenty pupils
were in the school house when the storm
struck it and carried it away, leaving them
lin the roadway, with the exception of a
daughter of Henry Rathmel, aged eleven,
who was taken up by the wind and carried
a quarter of a mile, where her mangled
and nearly nude body was afterward found.
Miss Smith and six of her scholars were
injured, some of them seriously. One very
singular thing is that the mud was blown
so hard into the faces of many of the
children that it cannot ho washed off.
Some of their faces look as if they bad
been tatooed with Indian ink or powder.
Near the school house stood the dwelling
of Henry Walters. It was blown to atoms
and Mrs. Walters instantly killed. When
found she had one of her twin children in
her arms. The little fellow was bruised
and cut., and died the following morning.
The other one escaped, none can tell how.
Three other children of Mr. Walters were
in the school house and very seriously
(two it is thought fatally) injured.
A quarter of a mile south of the school
house is the farm of Alexander Gibson.
None of the buildings are standing. His
house was the finest in that part of the
country, and everything about his place
was of the best, All his orchards are
valueless, his farming implements are
gone and his stock dead. Sixty fat steers,
some of them weighing 1,400 pounds each,
were carried off by the wind and carried
twenty rods into a slough. None of the
occupants of the house, seven in number,
were killed, but several of them were se
riously injured.
The houses of Thomas Walters, William
Caidwel and George Gilchrist, were all de
molisebd. At Walter's house, Mrs. Wal
ters, the grand mother of the owner, was
fatally injured by a flying boaid. A man
named Baker was driving a team of mules
attached to a wagon along a road, and ob
serving the cloud, jumped from his wagon
and took shelter alongside of a hedge
fence. The wind struck both him and the
team with full force, and carried man,
mules and wagon into the adjacent fields.
Baker says he went
THROUGH THE AIR LIKE LIGHTNING
for about a quarter of a mile.
The cyclone came within twenty feet of
James K. Mar%routes house, but it did no
injury. His corn-crib and out houses were
demolished, the wind passing between the
house and barn, scarcely touching the lat
ter.
There was very little hail in Washing
ton, but specimens were exhibited here
which were brought from beyond Keota
and near Lancaster. One piece weighed
seven ounces, and was nine inches in cir
cumference. Several pieces still larger
than this, are said to have been picked
up.
Among the marvelous stories related is
one that a flock of sheep, one hundred and
fifty in number, were graziug in a field
when the cyclone approached. Instinc
tively the poor animals huddled closely to
gether, as if for mutual protection. The
storm swooped down upon them, and bore
them into the air, where, as an eye witness
says, they looked like a fleck of immense
birds whirling around and around. They
were thus swept along a distance of half a
mile, when they struck the earth. All but
forty of them were mangled and torn ac
tually into fragments and scattered along
the path of the storm.
Very little definite information has been
received of the extent of the damage to
property and loss of life in Keokuk caan
ty, but it is known that five persons. ors.
Campbell, Mrs. Endinger and.. child, a
child of Peter March, and a .-child of Mi
chael Tuch—were killed, and ten other
adults and children Wired. The aggre•
gate loss of property is variously estimated
at from one hundred thousand to two hun
dred thousand dollars, but probably eighty
thousand dollars will cover the loss.
Let Us Help One Another.,
This little sentence should be written
on ever/ heart and stamped on every
memcey. It should be the golden rule
practised not only in every household, but
throughout the world. By helping one
another we not only remove thorns from
the pathway and anxiety from the mind,
but we feel a sense of pleasure in our own
hearts, knowing we are doing a duty to a
fellow-creature. A helping hand or an en
couraging word is no loss to us, yet it is a
benefit to others. Who has net felt the
power of this little sentence? Who has
not needed the encouragement and aid of a
kind friend? How sootting, when per
plexed with some task that is mysteri
ous and burdensome, to feel a gentle hand
on the shoulder and to hear a kind voice
whispering, "Do not be discouraged; I see
your trouble; let me help you." What
strength is inspired ! what hope created !
what sweet gratitude is felt ! and the
great difficulty is dissolved as dew beneath
the sunshine. Yes, let us help one anoth
er by ecdeavoring'to strengthen and en
courage the weak and lift the burden of
pare from the weary and oppressed, that
I , fe may glide smoothly on and the fount
bitterness yield sweet waters ; and He
wbselvilling hands is ever ready to aid
ns ill reward our humble endeavors, and
ever!good deed will be as "bread cast
upon 'he waters, to return after many
days,'•s not to us, to those we love.
A sawn-HAND furniture dealer on
Chatham sinare, hung out a card the
other day 'ascribed, "BUGGY ! ! For
Sale!" and iadvertantly fastened it upon a
well-worn bentead on the sidewalk. Muoh
attention was ...meted by the placard, and
many were the %umlauts, all going to de
fend the argumei that punctuation should
be taught in publitschools.
Is IT not etTangelatcontractersabould
be engaged to widenltreets.
Tit-Bits Taken on the Fly,
Cases of cholera arc reported in East
Posen.
A new railroad route is being surveyed
across the Andes, through the pass of San
Francisco.
It is figured up that Americans will
spend $75,000,000 gold, at lcwest esti
mate, in Europe this year.
An _Ohio legislator has presented a re
solution forbidding any more babies being
named John Smith, in that State.
Several millions of caterpillars are chew
ing at every green thing in western Ten
nessee and northern- Mississippi.
Five persons had either limbs broken or
feet cut off by falling off of the horse cars
in New York city on Sunday.
The first shad caught in the Sacramento
river has been preserved in alcohol by the
California Academy of Science.
Delavau, 111., is waiting to go mad, hav
ing discovered that the hogs it has been
living on had been bitten by mad dogs.
The motion to quash the indictment
against Taintor, late cashier of the Atlan
tic National Bank, New York, has been
denied.
It is estimated by civil engineers who
have surveyed the route, that the James
River and Kanawha canal would cost $47,
022,262.
Dr. Brown, for the attempted murder of
Gas-Collector Murray, in New York, has
been sentenced to ten years in the State
Prison.
The Pope has had several severe attacks
recently and is declared to be in danger of
death by suffocation. The Cardinals are
again assembled.
Don Alfonsa's command is reported to
have butchered 150 volunteers who had
surrendered on condition that their lives
should be spared.
Syracuse has a cat as enterprising for
her size as the O'Leary cow. She upset
a kerosene lamp and started a three thou
sand dollar firo the other day.
A fire at Cranston, R. 1., Sunday night,
destroyed the barn of William Ellsbree,
with twenty-four head of Jersey cattle and
other property. loss, $12,000.
General Davis's force had a fight with
the Modem on the 10th ult., whipped
them and they ran away again. They are
now with the Pitt River Indians.
The soil in Nebraska froze to the depth
of eight feet, and the potato bug---oh,
where was he ? He was nine feet down,
and is now coming out gay and lively.
The reported butchery by the Carlists
of a large cumber of people in Sanahuja
is by some reduced to a slaughter of six.
teen volunteers by the insurrectionists.
Last Monday, at Silver Creek, a little
son of Mr. John Heating, aged but three
years, was so terribly bitten by a large
dog that it is feared the child will die from
the injuries.
Railroad damages in England, during
the five years ending with 1871, amounted
0 more than $8,000,000 paid for lost
lives ora limbs, and 811,742,840 paid for
destroyed or damaged property.
The Commissioner of Indian Affairs has
received a dispatch dated Ogden, Utah,
from Indian Agent Ingall, saying the
Shoshones are off their reservation, but
their intentions are peaceful.
The conservative combination in the
National Assembly of France is viewed as
having suffered a "decided reverse" in the
election of M. Martel to the Fourth Vice
Presidency, he being an avowed supporter
of Theirs.
The Eastern Budget understands that a
million admission tiekets to the Vienna
Exhibition, at a considerably reduced price,
will be distributed among certain classes of
visitors, such as students, teachers', work
men, etc.
The experiment of moving logs in rafts
from the lumber region of Michigan across
the lake to Chicago
_ix to be tried on a
largo scale this s u mmer, and, if successful,
is expected to sive a great impetus to man
ufacturing.
The Ydvenue steamer Manhattan has been
myee'd to duty in New York harbor. The
milton, which has been at Boston du
ring the repairing of the Mahoning. has
been ordered to resume her station in Del
aware Bay, with headquarters at Washing
ton.
Harvey's oil cloth factory, in Brooklyn,
was burned last week. Loss about $20,-
000. As several workmen were discharg
ed Monday, there are rumors that the fire
was incendiary. Simpson's Japan factory,
also in Brooklyn, was burned Monday
night.
Ladies. who have been annoyed by the
ordinary rouge turning green when expo
sed to the action of certain gases, will be
pleased to learn that a Chinese cosmetic is
now in the market which is green when
first applied to the cheeks, and becomes
red afterwards.
Madrid has the worst hotels of almost
any city in Europe. They are, excepting
the Grand Hotel de Paris, dirty, uncom•
fortable and wretchedly managed. Prices
aro foolishly high, and the landlords are
too proud to argue with their guest upon
the subject of extortion.
The agent of the Old Colony Railroad
called on a lady of Providencetown, aged 74,
and asked her what price she asked fur
her homestead, lying in the line of the
road, to which she replied, with the ut
most seriousness, that it was "useless to
name it, for the Old Colony Railroad Com
pany hadn't money enough to buy it!"
The fast horses of the American turf
are more numerous than is usually suppo.
sed, the Secretary of the Hampden Park
Association of Springfield, Mass., having
compiled an official list of seventy racers,
including only seven not now on the turf,
which have made better time than 2:27.
A few years ago this was considered ex
ceptionally swift, but now seven horses are
accredited with having made a mile in less
than 2:20.
An extraordinary waste of canine saga
city is shown in a story told by a newspa
per in Canada,
N. H. The dog in question
is owned by abutcher. A shoat was being
driven to the slaughter-house the other
day, but took to a pond, and could not be
persuaded to come out. The dilemma was
pointed out to the dog, which swam round
piggy and drove him out on the other side,
after pulling him once from under some
logs, where the current had drawn him.—
But discovering that he had him on the
wrong side, the dog took the porker by
the ear and dragged him to the water, and
ferried him safhly to the spot where he
was wanted.
NO. 23.
The Stampede.
Do you like horses ?
Well, so do I ;
But I look out, though,
When a storm is nigh ;
They lose their wits,
And are crazy then;
I suppose it's because
They are so like men.
Did you ever see 'ern
Ont on the Plains
Capture a mustang 1
It's worth your pains ;
You throw for the bead,
And catch the same ;
Then blow in his nostrils—
The creature is tame I
But about being seared ?
I was going to say
That horses in storms
Is no child's play ;
Old trappers know it ;
And fight 'em shy,
When thunder begins
To growl in the sky.
I was riding once,
When a tempest came ;
The sky and the earth
Was a sheet of flame ;
Sly good horse trembled
In every limb ;
'Twas enough for me—
Too much for him !
I gave him the spur,
And dropped the rein ;
I don't care to take
That ride again!
l'hew !—how he flew,
Ontrun:sing the wind—
Till I suddenly felt
There was something behind !
I turned in my saddle,
And saw by the glare
Of the blinding lightning
That something was there !
A herd of wild horses,
Maddened with fear,
Were coming upon us—
Were close in our rear !
I wheeled my horse round,
I hardly knew why,—
Pulled him up, and waited
The death that was nigh !
What mad tossing manes—
What light in their eyes—
What plunges,—what swiftness—
What terrible cries !
I rose in my stirrups,
And gave a wild yell ;
Picked out the head stallion,
Fired—and he fell I
They parted,—went round us,
We escaped ! Indeed ?
But I made up my mind—
No more stampede !
—The Aldine for June.
Palmistry
Young people may still find a good deal
of amusement in the examination of the
hand for signs of character. it is absurd
to judge any one by these signs, but the
process is pleasing. Some of the rules are
as follows :
If the palm of the hand is long, and the
fingers well proportioned, not soft, but
rather hard, it denotes the person to theft
rod vice.
If the hands be hollow, solid and well
knit in the joints, it predicts long life;
but if ever thwartcd, then it denotes short
life.
Observe the finger of Mercury—that is
the little finger ; if the end of it exceeds
the joint of the third finger, such a man
will rule his house, and his wife will be
pleasing and obedient to him; but if it be
short, and does not reach the joint, he will
will have a shrew and she will be boss.
Broad nails show the person.to be bash
ful and fearful, but of a gentle nature.
Narrow nails denote the person to be
inclined to mischief and to do injury to
his neighbors.
Long — nails show a person to be good
natured, bat distrustful, and loving re
conciliation rather than differences.
Oblique nails signify deceit and want of
courage. .
.. _
Little round nails denote obstinacy, an
ger and hatred.
If they are crooked at the extremity,
they show pride and fierceness.
Round nails show a choleric person, yet
reconciled; honesty, a lover of secret si
lence.
Fleshy nails denotes the person to be
mild in temper, idle and lazy.
Pale and black nails signify the person
to be deceitful to his neighbor. and sub
ject to many diseases.
Red and marked nails signify choleric
and martial nature, as many little marks
as there are speak so many evil desires.
The Value of Time.
One true utorft;n s when Benjamin
Franklin was busy preparing his newspa
per for the press, a lounger stepped into
the store, and spent an hour or more look
ing over the booktr,
er.o in Lttilland, he asked the shop boy
the price.
•
"One dollar," was the answer.
"One dollar !" said he. "Can't you take
less than that?"
"No indeed; one dollar is the price."
Another hour had nearly passed, when
:he lounger said.
"Ts Mr. Franklin at home ?"
-Tes, he is in the printing office."
"I want to see him."
The shop-boy immediately informed Mr.
Franklin that a gentleman was in the
store waiting to see him. Franklin was
soon behind the counter, when the loun
ger, book in hand, addressed him thus—
" Mr. Franklin, what is the lowest you
can take for that book ?"
"One dollar and a quarter ! Why your
young man only asked me one dollar."
"True," said Franklin, "and I could
have better afforded to have taken a dol
lar then than t 3 have been taken out of
the office,"
The lounger seemed surprised, and
wishing to end the parley of his own
making, said—
" Come, Mr. Franklin, tell me what is
tho lowest you can take for it ?"
"One dollar and a half."
"A dollar and a half! Why, you offer
ed it yourself for a dollar and a quarter."
"Yes," said Franklin, "and I had bet
ter taken that price then than. a dollar and
a half now."
The lounger paid down the price and
then went about his business—if he had
any—and Franklin returned to the print
ing office.
Sands of Gold.
Men do leas than they ought, unless
they do all they can.
Censure is the tax men pay to the pub
ic for being eminent.
He that is not open to conviction is not
qualified for discussion.
The secret pleasure of a generous act is
the great mind's great bribe.
Men blush less for their crimes than for
their weaknesses and vanity.
There is a long and wearisome step be
:wcen admiration and imitation.