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Oh, fellow-men, hear wisdom, then, In friendly warning call— " Your claims divide, the world is wide— There's room enough for all I" What if the swarty peasant find No fields for honest labor ; He need not idly stop behind, To thrust aside his neighbor. There is a land with sunny skies, Which gold for toil is given, Where every brawny hand that tries Its strength, can grasp a living. Oh, fellow men, remember, then, Whatever chance befall, The world 13 wide—where those abide, There's room enough for all! From poisoned air ye breathe in courts, And typhus tainted alleys, Go forth and dwell where health resorts, In fertile hills and valleys ; Where every arm that clears a bough Finds plenty in attendance, And every farrow of the plough A step to independence. Oh, hasten, then, from fevered den, And lodging cramped and SIT all ; The world is wide—in land bee. de, There's room enough for all In this fair region far away, Will labor find employment— A fair day's work, a fair day's pay, And toil will earn enjoyment. What need, then, of this daily strife, Where each wars with his brother? Why need we, through the crowd of life, Keep trampling down each other ? From rags and crime, that distant clime Will free the pauper's thrall ; Take fortune's tide—the world so wide, Has room enough for all I *torg-Eriltr. FROM DEATII TO LIFE. There were six of us seated before a blazing fire which cast a generous glare into the otherwise unlighted room. Out side a winter storm bellowed over the chimneys, and.beat seriously at the wind ow panes. Afar off we could hear the ;ust roaming among the naked hills, now plunging shrilly through the skeleton branches of the trees, and again whirling overhead with a weird shouting sound, that might well have proceeded from the throats of evil things riding upon the wind. The ghostly spirit of the storm seemed to have penetrated even into our comfortable circle, for we had got, I know not how, upon the most dismal of all sub jects—death. We had canvassed the theme pretty thoroughly before we discovered that two of our number, the professor and the doe tor, had taken no part in the conversation. They were sitting a little removedirom the rest of us, gazing gloomily into the fire. Their ordinarily cheerful expression of countenance had given place to a sober, troubled look, and more than once we had detected the exchange of a strangely.sig nificant glance between them. As may be readily supposed, we were not slow to press them for an explanation of their conduct. But for a considerable time our efforts were fruitless. At length, after much persuasion, it was the professor who spoke : "Gentlemen, said he, gravely, "no wan cares to gain for himself the reputation of a liar or a maniac. Yet that is exactly what you are pressing both of us to do. I have no doubt that the experience which I am about to relate, and in which my friend the doctor bore no unimportant part, will appear absolutely incredible to persons of your advanced views." There was a touch of sarcasm in the wor thy professor's tone, but in our eagerness to hear his story we found it convenient to disregard this. "However," he continued, "I shall risk it. If you choose to disbelieve it, why I shall endeavor to have charity for your ig norance and conceit. Now, doctor, if you will band me the tobacco and one of the pipes—the ranker and the blacker the bet ter—l will proceed." Having filled his pipe and settled him self in his chair, he began thus : "It must be fully ten years ago the doc• tor and myself were engaged upon a geo logical survey of the Northern part of the State. We had labored diligently during the summer and fall, when toward the close of a cold November day, we shoul dered our knapsacks and turned our faces homeward. "Our way led through a chain of black and rugged hills toward a frontier town, twenty wiles distant, where we intended to take the railroad. A more forbidding region it has never been my misfortune to see. It was a perfect chaos, blackened and warped by primeval fires, and destitute of the smallest trace of vegetation. Tall cliffs towered a thousand feet above our heads, shutting out the light of the dull November sky. Sluggish streams filtered between the crevices of the rocks, and poured noiselessly into deep and tnotionkss turns. It seems that the blight of death bad fallen upon the whole country. "Well knowing the peril of attempting to proceed through such a region after nightfall, we halted at sunset, and building a fire at the foot of a crag, disposed our selves to rest as well we might.. Exhaust ed with the toils of the day, the doctor was soon asleep, and I was not long in follow ing his example "How long I bad slumbered I knew not, when I found myself sitting upright, peer ing nervously in the darkness around me. It seemed to me that some one bad uttered a wild appealing cry in the very portals of my ears. For some moments I sat so, won dering and anxious, Then I reflected that as there could be no human being in the neighborhood besides ourselves, the sound which had alarmed me must have been the shriek of some bird or animal. Explaining the matter thus, I was on the point of ly ing down again, when 1 was arrested by a repetition of the cry. This time there could be no mistake. Wild, long, and, it appeared to me, full of intolerable anguish, it re echoed among the craigs with real ful shrillness. With an uncontrollable start, I turned and shook the doctor to awake him. tC 0 CS+ CD ta" LTY. "'Be quiet,' he muttered, I am awake and heard it all." "'What can it be ?' I asked, anxiously. Surely, nothing human; no one lives in this region for miles around. Perhaps it is a wild cat." " 'No,' he said, between his teeth, such a sound never came from the throat of a wild cat. There it is again. Listen." "The cry was repeated. It was a WO- HUNTINGDON, PAD, FR man's voice, but it expre s3d such supreme misery as I believe woman never felt be fore. It came ringing up the gorge with a weird and mournful intonation that chilled the blood in my heart. By the doctor's quick breathing I could tell that he was as much affected as myself. Neither of us spoke or moved; both waited for a renewal of the cry, in hope of arriving at some rational explanation of it. "Again it came, but now like a low tremulous sob. lam not a superstitious man, gentlemen, but I confess that I sat there shivering with a species of horror that was utterly new to me. What could it be ? Not a living woman, surely alone and suffering in an inaccessible fastness where we were morally certain nothing human dwelt. And then what misery was it that gave itself such uncanny expres sion ? No fear nor bodily pain, but some thing terrible, something nameless to us. While we were debating these questions in smothered tones the cry came once again. This time in words we understood : " 'Help ! Oh ! God ! Help 1' "At this intelligible appeal to our man hood, our superstitious weakness at once disappeared. Seizing a torch from our smouldering fire, we made our way hastily toward a pile of rocks a few yards distant, whence the sound seemed to have pro ceeded. Scrambling up the height we came suddenly upon a strange and mourn ful seen zs. Before us stood a small, wretched looking hut,evidently constructed by hands unused to such labor, unglazed and without a chimney. There was a dim light within, and through the open door we saw the body of a man apparently life less lying prone upon the floor. Beside him, with arms flying wildly over her head, knelt the figure of a woman, evi dently the one whose cries had alarmed us. It needed but a glance to assure us that some strange tragedy had taken place, and without a moment's hesitation we en tered the hut. "The woman raised her eyes as we ap proached, but gave no further heed to us. Apparently her great sorrow bad driven her distracted. She was a young creature hardly twenty, I should judge, and despite the signs of hardship and sorrow visible on her features, very beautiful. Her form was slight and even attenuated, but in its shabby dress preserved traces of former re finement. "Her companion, a young man of about her own age, attired in a coarse woodman's suit, had evidently succumbed to hardship or disease, and was either insensible or dead. His pinched and ghastly counte nance must have been once very hand some, but now it looked old and worn as that of a man of sixty, He had apparently fallen in his present position, and the girl had been unable to raise him." "My friend, the doctor," continued the worthy professor, "surely, uncouth and cynical as he commonly appears, has as kind a heart as ever beat is a man's breast —no flattery, my dear fellow, but it must be confessed that you have faults that more than counterbalance your one good trait. Well, gentlemen, he bent over the poor creature, and in a voice as gentle as a woman's endeavored to arouse the girl from her lethargy. "'Who are you ?' said he, 'and what has happened ?" "'He is dead—dead !' she muttered, hoarsely. 'Perhaps it is not as bad as that,' he rejoined. 'Tell us about it. We are friends, my dear, and melical men, and may be able to assist you ' 'He died this morning, before my very eyes,' she moaned, 'died, oh, my God ! of starvation. And I never knew that he was depriving himself for my sake. Oh my husband, why did you not let me die with you ? And she threw herself across the body, sobbing as if her poor heart would break. There were tears in the doctor's eyes as he looked at me,' added the professor, with a tremor in his voice, 'and the rascal has always sworn that my own were not drv. That, however, is aside from the subject. "Though we knew nothing of these two poor children—fur they were but little more—we felt that we had chanced upon a strange, sad story of love, pride and suf. fering, such as is rarely told, even in this unhappy world. "The doctor stooped down and felt at the heart of the prostrate man. "'He is dead,' he whispered, motioning me to imitate his example. "'Yes, dead,' I replied, after examining the corpse "IloW we made the truth known to the pour wife Ido not remember. It would seem that she preserved some faint rem nant of hope until our assurance destroyed it utterly. With a low groan she fell sud denly at our feet, insensible. Although at a loss as to what course to pursue, we felt it no wore than our duty to remain in the hut for the night; and on the morning to make the best arrangements for the poor girl's comfort that were plesible. Fortunately the doctor had his medical case in his pcket. Administering a pow. erful sleepinz potion to her, he placed her in happy unconsciousness of the events that were to follow. We then proceeded to a more careful examination of the man. "Without vanity I can say that both the doctor and myself have received some few testimonials as to our scientific ability from the world. You will probably believe that we are capable of deciding upon a very simple case of death by starvation.' lie paused and looked gravely around. 'Very good, remember then, that 1 assert upon my professional reputation that the man was atone dead." added the doctor, who had hitherto remained silent, 'the life must have been extinct more than five hours when we found him.' "'Well,' continued the professor, with increasing gravity, 'having satisfied our selves upon this point, we covered the corpse decently and sat down to wait for morning. Though in no mood for con versation the startlino• ' experience of the evening kept us both awake for several hours. But at length, completely over come with weariness and excitement, I fell into a light slumber. "Almost immediately, it seemed, I was awakened with a shout. The doctor was bending over me with an expression of wonder and alarm upon his face. "'Wake up,' be said ip a troubled whisper, 'something very strange has been going on in this room for many minutes past.' "'What is it ?' I asked, thought I heard some one speakine_ "'You did,' he replied, have dis tinetly heard a voice olose beside us, yet there is no one in the room except our selves and these two poor people.' "'Perhaps the woman has been talking in her sleep,' I suggested, 'or it may be that the man is not dead after all.' "'No, I have looked to both,' he re turned. 'One sleeps soundly, and the DAY NOVEMBER 15, 1878. other will never speak again in this world. So otitisfy yourself.' arose, and trimming the lamp, pro. ceeded first to the couch where the girl lay. She at least could not have spoken, for ill her senses were locked in a pro fourid stupor. I then examined the corpse and found it as we had left it, except that the features were more shrunken and sal low than before. No voice could have Come from those rigid lips. Concluding we had both dreamed or mistaken some nocturnal cry for a human voice, I re placed the light, and was about to resume my seat, when my movements were ar rested by a very singular voice. ''There it is again !' muttered the doc tor, agitatedly. "A low confused murmur, resembling nothing that I had ever heard before, arose in the room, and seemed to circulate iu the air for an instant and died away. Again it arose, coming from a point directly over our ,heads and gradually descending, until it seemed to emanate from some invisible source immediately beside us. I know of nothing with which to compare the into nation, except it may be the articulation of the telephone, or that of a ventriloquist. 'The first words we caught were, 'Oh, my poor wife !' 'lt would bo impossible to describe the effect that these words produced upon us. It was not so much the tone, weird and un can4y as it was, as the startling significance of to words that amazed us. "Who could have spoken them but the husband of' the woman lying stupefied up on the couch ? Yet he had been dead for many hours. Full of repugnance of the horror of the idea, we started up and again examined not only every nook and cranny of the hut itself, but even the space outside for many yards around. There was no human being besides ourselves in the vi• cinity. "We again scrutinized the corpse. It had neither changed its position nor its appearance. The flesh had grown perfect ly cold and the muscles rigid; there was not a trace of vitality in it. 'Now,' said the professor, wiping his forehead nervous ly. have arrived at what I imagine will be the limit of your credulity. I do not expect you to credit what followed; but I swear to you, on the word of an hon est man, that I do not deviate from the truth as much as a syllable when I say that while we bent above the body we again heard the voice proceeding from a distant part of the room, saying audibly : "'ln the`name of God, assist me back to liffe "'With hearts beating thick and fast, we stood gazing at each other absolutely thun derstruck. An experience so terrifying, so utterly without precedent, completely unnerved us. While we remained stupe fied with horror the voice was again audi ble : " 'Oh, have pity !' it said, 'aid 1113 to re turn to lire.' "It was some minutes before either of us could recover from our amazement suf ficiently to make any reply. "Y.llo_kit tint speaks to u3?' asked the Teeter, in a low tone. "'The soul of the man who lies dead be fore you it replied. 'his impossible that the dead can speak,' answered the doctor. "'No, for the intelligence never dies,' replied the voice. ‘Mv body is indeed dead, but that with which I lived and thought and loved is still in this room,' 'What is it that you desire?' asked the doctor, carrying on this strange colloquy with increasing wonder. "'To be aided to resume my former ex istence,' was the rejoinder, 'I dare not leave my poor wife unprotected in this wilder ness. I cannot see her suffer. I love her beyond all my hopes of a future life, and by the power of my love I have remained near her, and have been able to communi cate with you. I cannot, I will not, be separated from her. I must return to her in my human shape.' "Whether the doctor's courage deserted him at this point or not I cannot say; but he spoke no more, and, as the voice was no longer audible, we remained silent iu a state of mind that baffles all description. "I am morally certain that both of us would have fled instantly from the place, had it not been for the poor creature sleep ing upon the bed. We could not leave her to face alone a mystery that shook even nerves as toughened as ours. After a hasty consultation as to our course we resumed our former seats and waited in breathless expectation for what was next to occur. "Some hours had passed in this way, and the first dim traces of dawn were shining upon the Eastern horizon, when, with a simultaneous start, we sprang to our feet. The voice had again spoken.— This time it had proceeded, not from some indefinite point in the atmosphere, but from beneath the sheet enveloping the corpse. 'Help!' it cried, in faint, but distinct accents, 'for Christ's sake, help 'For an instant we hesitatsd—and who would not ?--,then hastened to the body and removed the covering. There was no alteration in its pallor and rigidity, but we perceived that the lips, from which a faint murmur was issuing trembled slightly.— Here our instincts conquered our weakness. Whatever the mystery involved in the matter, a human being was. struggling to regain existence, and our impulse was to aid without question. A powerful re storative was administered, and before many moments had passed, we saw the color coming back to the wan cheeks and the sunken muscles reshaping themselves with the current of the warm blood.— Then, with a faint sigh, the eyes opened and gazed at us inquiringly. In a word, gentlemen, the dead was restored to life. "It is needless to detail what followed. In the meeting which occured between these two poor young creatures, we felt ourselves more than repaid for the startling experiences of the previous night. It can do no harm to add that we claimed and exercised the right of securing their future prosperity out of our ample means. We learned no more of their former history than that the persecution of those whose wishes their marriage had opposed, had driven thew to hide their poverty and mis fortune in the wilderness. We have heard of them since. The young man, as we discovered on questioning him, remembered nothing of his sensations while unconscious, except a gigue, dreamlike, and yet intense sorrow for his young wife. He bad no knowledge whatever of the voice that had addressed us, and appeared to believe that he had labored under a temporary suspension of animation arising from starvation, We did not combat his belief, for we believed that he was actually dead, and that he only returned to life through his great love. Who will deny that love is stronger than death, and that it goes with us even beyond the grave ? elect 311isteling. Talmage's Great Sermon. VOICES OF THE NIGHT. Mr. Talmage took his text from Isaiah; "Policeman, what of the night ?" Some of you have been surprised that there has been a hue and cry raised about these ser mons. I was not surprised. In all our churches there are lepers who do not want their scabs touched, and who foresaw that I should show up some of the wickedness and rottenness of what is called the upper classes. The devil howled because he knew I was going to hit him hard. WEALTH'S DISSIPATION. I noticed in my exploration that these haunts of sin are chiefly supported by men of means, men who come down from the fashionable avenues of New York and cross over from some of the finest mansions of Brooklyn, and by prominent men from Boston and Philadelphia and Cincinnati and Chicago. I could call the names of prominent men in this cluster of three cities who patronize these places of iniqui ty, and I may call their names before I get this series of sermons, though the fabric of New York and Brooklyn society should tumble into wreck. (Applause.) ' You will find in these places stockbrokers from Wall street, importers from Broadway, iron, leather, cotton, and hardware mer chants, wholesale grocers and representa tives from all the commercial and wealthy classes. Talk about the heathenism below Canal street. It is of a worse kind above it. I prefer that kind of heathenism which wallows in filth and disgusts the beholder, rather than that which covers up its putrefaction with a camel's hair shawl and point lace, and rides in turnouts worth $3,000, liveried driver ahead and rose-tinted flunky behind. (Laughter.) We have been talking so much about the gospel for the masses, now let us talk a little about the gospel for the lepers of society, the millionaire sots, the portable lazarettos of upper tendon. It is the iniquity that comes down from the higher places of society that supports the haunts of crime, and is gradually turning our cities into Sodoms and Gomorrahs, waiting for the fire and brimstone tempest of the Lord God, who overwhelmed the Cities of the Plain. We want about fifty men like Anthony Comstock, who walked into that Moloch temple, that brown stone hell on earth, that place of the damned on Fifth avenue, and in the name of the eternal God' put an end to it, its priestess retreat ing, by suicide into the lost world, her bleeding carcass found in her own bathtub. May the eternal God have mercy on our cities 1 Sin, gilded sin, comes down from these high places into the upper circles of iniquity, and then go on, gradually down, until in three or five years it makes the whole pilgrimage, from the marble pillar on the brilliant avenues to the cellars of Water street. WHERE THZ-OLD - ,SOLKS GO. But I have something more amazing to tell you. These places are supported chiefly by heads of families, fathers and husbands, who, with the awful perjury of broken marriage vows, with a niggardly stipened left at home for the support of their families, have their thousands for the diamonds, the wardrobe and the equipage of iniquity. In the name of high heaven I denounce this popular vice. Let such men be hurled out of decent circles. If they will not reform overboard with them. I lift one half the burden of malediction from the unpitied head of woman and hurl it on the blasted pate of offending man. (Applause.) Society needs a new division of anathema. But by what law of justice does its burning excori ation pursue offending woman down off the precipice of destruction, while offend ing man—kid gloved—walks into Erie circles, if he have money and means advances into public recoguition, while all the doors of high life open at the first rap of his goldheaded cane. If you let him come back let both come back. If one go down let both go down. (Applause.) CHRISTIAN INDIFFERENCE. The third and heaviest pat of the blame I put on the moral and christian people of our cities, who are guilty of most culpable indifference on this whole subject. When Tweed stole his millions large audiences were assembled in indignation, Charles O'Conor was retained, committees of safety were appointed. But night after night there is a theft and burglary of city morals as much worse than Tweed's turpitude as his was worse than that of the common shoplifter. New York wants indignation meetings to compel the author ities to do its work and send the police with revolvers and lanterns to turn off the colored lights of the dance house, and mark for confiscation their trunks, ward robes, furniture and scenery, and gather up all the keepers, inmates and patrons, and march them to the Tombs with fife and drum sounding the "Rouges March." (Laughter.) I tell you there are raging underneath our great cities a Cotopaxi. a Stromboli, a Vesuvius, ready to bury under deep ashes our cities, ashes and scorio deeper than that which whelmed Pompeii and Herculaneum. Oh, I wish the time was come for the ploughshare of popular indignation to push through and rip up and turn under thosa parts of New York, which are a plague to this nation ! Now is the time to hitch up the team to this plough. Now is the tiwe to wake an extirpation of iniquity. Now is th 4 time for a great popular crusade, and for all the people of our cities, in great popular assemblages, to say to the plice authorities, "Go ahead and we will back you with our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. A Short Sermon. As a quaint specimen of clerical brevity, we offer the following—it is ascribed to an old English Divine. The text upon which it is based is to be found in Titus ii, He thus unfolded his doc,trine: I. There are three companions with whom you should always keep on good terms. First, your Wife, Second, your Stomach, Third your Conscience. 11. If you want to enjoy peace, long lite and happiness, preserve them by temper ance. Intemperance produces : First, do mestic misery; Second, premature death; Third, infidelity. To make these points clear, I refer you, First, To the Newgate Calendar; Second, To the hospitals, lunatic asylums, work house; Third, To the past experience of what you have seen, read and suffered, in mind, body, and estate. "Reader, decide ! which will you choose Temperance, with happiness and lona ') life, or Intemperance, with misery and pre mature death ?" Miscellaneous News Items. Senator Sharon disclaims any intention of resigning. The Clarendon Hotel at Saratoga was damaged $15,000 by fire on Sunday. St. Petersburg journals report a large number of suicides in the Russian army in Bulgaria. Bail for one of the directors of the Glasgow Bank, in the sum of $75,000 has been accepted. It has been estimated that fully 15,000 absentees returned to Memphis within the past week. A dispatch from Darjeling says it is stated that sixty per cent of the Ameer's troops are stricken with fever. A dispatch from Berlin says it appears that Russia has abandoned the project of raising a fresh loan for the present. The Pope will take advantage of the recent defeat of the Radicals in Switzer land to re-establish relations with that country. The Premier of Hyderbad has placed the whole treasury and army of that State at the disposal of the Government, to be used against the Afghans. At the request of the British Embassador the Porte has telegraphed Ahmet Kaiserli Pasha to evacuate Varna definitely and bring troops and war material to Constan tinople. Private telegrams confirm the statement that the Government of India contemplates the adoption of a gold currency, making English gold coin a legal tender through out the country. Negotiations between the Vatican and Germany are progressing concerning a settlement of the dioceses of Alsace argl Lorraine, which are still administered as when they belonged to France. The cotton operatives at Oldham, En gland, unanimously resolved, on Saturday, to resist the proposed reduction of 10 per cent. in wages. Twenty thousand hands will be affected by this action. The House Committee on Appropria tions is to meet in Washington City on the 18th inst. It is thought that the principal appropriation bills will be ready to submit to Congress when it meets in December. Fernando Wood, Chairman of the Com mittee on Ways and Means, has, in a public letter, indicated that he thinks it inex pedient to agitate the question of the re vision of the tariff at the present time. The Pioneer announces on authority that England's ultimatum requires that the Ameer's reply shall reach Peshawur by November 20th, otherwise the English forces will immediately invade Afghanistan. The London Telegraph, commenting on the fisheries dispute, says : "Let the whole facts in the case be put before the public, and we are sure the men of com mon sense in both countries will soon ar rive at a friendly agreement. Thos. G. Cockrill, nephew of U.S. Sen ator Cockrill, of Missouri, was found mur dered in Saline county, in that State, last Friday morning. The deed is supposed to have been committed by tramps. He was sleeping in a store in which he was clerk. The grand jury at Philadelphia have found bills of indictment against Wm. R. Dickerson, Herman C. Pulte and .Joel M. Vanarsdalen, for conspiracy in making a fraudulent will, purporting to be the will of Robert Whitaker, whose estate is worth about one million dollars. Charles Wellingharn and Abb Wofford got into an altercation at a political meet ing, at Catersville, Ga , last Thursday, re sulting in a challenge, which was promptly accepted. They met, with their friends, but were interfered with by the Sheriff and a posse, At last accounts they were en ratite to TermeFee to have their fight out. Cu!. W. W. Dudley, of Indiana, who cnnmanded a brigade in the Army of the Potomac, recently found, while examinik.; old papers, a oimplete diary vf Pope's campaign, with daily entries. This record settles many disputed points brought be fore the Fitz John Porter incestigaticf.Y. committee. He has offered his diary to the Commi,sion. Be Something. It is the duty or evcry one to take some active part as actor on the stage of life. Some seem to think that they can vegetate as it were, without being anything in par ticular Man was nut made to rust out his life, It is expected that he should 'iact, well his part." He must be same thing. He has a work to pertbrm which it is his high duty to attend to. We are not placed here to grow up, pass through the various stages of life, and then die, without having done anything for the ben efit of the human race. It is a principle in the creed of the Mahometans that every one should have a trade. No Christian doctrine could be better than that. Is a man to be brought up in idleness ? la he to live upon the wealth which his ances tors have acquired by frugal industry ? Is he placed here to pass through life an au tomaton ? Has he nothing to perform as a citizen of the world ? A man who does nothing is useless to his country as an in habitant. A man who does nothing is a were cypher. lie does not fulfill the ob ligations for which he was sent into the world, and when he dies he has not finish ed the work that. was given hind to do. He is a mere blank in creation. Some are born with riches and honors upon their heads. Butt does it follow that they have nothing to do in their career through life? There are certain duties for every one to perform. Re something. Don't live like a hermit and die unregretted. A GENTLEMAN having an appointment with another who was habitually unpune tual, to his great surprise found him wait ing. He thus addressed him : "Why, I see you are here first at last. You were always behind before ; hut lam glad to see you have become early of late," AN Irishman who stood near the third base, watching a game of base ball, was knocked down by a foul ball, as he heard the umpire call it. "A fowl, waz it? Faith, I thought it waz a mule." AN Irishman who was laughed at for making faces over some persimmons, replied thusly : "Ye may grin, you motton headed idiots but I can lather the sowl out of the man that spilt vinegar on them plums,'? SUBSCRIBE fov the 40IIRNAL Paraguayan Women. The preponderance of females is extraor dinary. The population of the country was estimated to be about two hundred and twenty thousand in 1840. The natural rate of increase till 1865 'would have doubled this number, but in the sub- sequent five years' war the losses may be estimated at half the population ; one hun dred and seventy thousand males by battle and disease, and fifty thousand women and children by famine and exposure. The. census of 1873 was probably correct, there. , fore, in its result, viz., two hundred and twenty•one thousand. Of this number, about twenty-eight thousand seven hun dred were males and over one hundred and six thouiand fema.-s. The population is chiefly Indian, and most of the pure whites are gathered around Asuncion. But, though their complexion varies from that of true black to that of the rich pure brunette of Castile ail the women look exceedingly cleanly and handsome with their exquisitely white frocks and glossy, raven hair, which, like they are constantly combing. The figures are faultless and remarkably erect, never having known the deforming confines of a corset ; the poise of their heads is- some thing to excite the envy of a Clap, Vcre de Vere, and their pace la walking is worth the emulation of a Von Yet, whatever they carry is balanced ‘ on their heads—jars of water, baskets Oryertx.r, or bags of the mandinca. One meets them every morning coming to mute* in single •- file, all dressed the same, langhingyietir ; 7 talking, with their naked toes seeming to grasp the ground. Owing to the faieelt herbage, they do not turn their feei!.eut,,, as the only tracks through the dewbe grass ~ from one house to another is that 0' ; the bullock wagons, which is invariblyi fol• - lowed, as it is ea4y to lose one's sallritUthe tall pampa grass andundergroith:. The ground is sometimes covered with tingled creepers, even in the city, /Mob cittlib& us and threw us down, while the brasehea , played havoc with our clothing, mad seemed determined to Simplify our attire. Being convinced of the reaaonableness of that proverb which admits the prop:joy of doing in Rome what the Rotuans,,,de, we attended a ball on Sunday evening, I was not long in recognising a pretty maiden who had welcomed me agreeably = on the steamer's lauding. She iwasliWit among a crowd of others, many carrying lighted candles, and a fey f pgapt r ,. / inn high heeled boots in additiop 16;114 ordinary robe of calioo or linen'. ') entered the musicians were tooint'ittteituai instruments, which consisted of harpi! s violin and a flute; and, as they struck up a Spanish dance, the ball-room-me a rippliwi ' lake of white skirts and coqtaattish scarfs. But the music was almost dressed by the laughter. The paragnairapa ; find mirth in everything, as we have .said. If a bull runs away; if they fall down . ; if it rains; if it shines—small miecriintlisii an well as good luck, invariably *woks bulli tioas of laughter. Across the room fres& us two saucy little beltUciet,W4s,l3 43 together, but their glances betraxea ingness to f'orm a More ipproprt tt tie nei" ship. On the opposite side was a lady ti handsomely dressed in blank with a •alasiolo tilla flowing from a higl4 comb. Her boista was of floe lace, eadiag with -s girt or black silk, the daintiest of silk Adositissit and tiny kid slippers. ,X ll B, 99 1 0 Mitt) shaped into a spray 9f goldep , jlosvens„ quisitely wrought, ant on Ode fingers there were what itpaitieti nine rings. The native Asp ate isads-atr6 pure gold, and one ring has teeny eiroista,lc, of-which hers was an illutstratioti i (1/ figure was upright, her step light, fdee full of soft, southern oolor, with 'l' • silken lashes to the eyes, and the • delicate contour, This. was the desertion • of Lopez, and bbe seemed to embody,A - that is noble and beautiful in womanhood. ! —Appeton't , Journal. A Prodigal Son. HOW A FORTUNE WAS WASTED -.A LIVZ , . EPISODE WHICII HAS BEEN GOING ON N OUR MIDST-THE STOSY OF A FAST YOUNG MAN. The example set by '•Coal Oil Johnny" to the weak minded youtb of the day, his borne its fruit in Pittsburgh sty well is in other cities. One of the most presit-: ; rient of the followers in the path-of timt, illustrious and foolish spendthrift, is a. young wan of this city, whose downlard course front affluence to poverty hoe Wick accomplished with startling rapidity„, Keven months am) this fast yotiogsfir,, bad a fortune of ' at ledat a Vote of thousands left to him by a relatiett.' • at once blossomed out into a sporting Ran and bought horses at fancy prices, made • follish bets which he was sure to lose, gave ; champagne suppers to all his admirers i , and worshipped at the shrine of a dosio or more of the prominent actresses wbe are not indisposed to be deooroa.ly but piasia euniarily admired by just such figWr headed boys. He adopted many or the methods by which Coal Oil Johnny became . ' famous. When a boy blacked his 'shots' he would invariably give him a five dollar-I bill, and the same amount was the regula tion fee fir table waiters and errand boys. In his dress he was a swell of the first water—an Ainetienniaed Piceadilly beau. As .1 matter of course au end had to come sooner or later to all this, and it did .eotre with a grand crash a month ago. Hie thous Inds had disappeared so entirely/bet ho had scarcely money enough left to bay . a paper of chewing tobacco, and the may tangible result of this extravagance which remained were a number of debts which be had incurred in his flash days. He is a human wreck—stranded at twesty.two on the hard reefs of impecuniosity—to weak to get himself into deep water, with, nothing to recommend him to even the pity of his acquaintances, and the balance of his career will be spent in useless repie ing.; and references to the dayetalien a tea dollar bill was eintetimes used to light a fifty cent cigar in the presence of a pretty actress. --Pittsburgh Telegraph. Self-Reliance Necessary to Swan. Self-reliance, coni oinei with pronaptala de in the executions of our undertakiilgi p . indispensable to success. And y'et uttiti tudes live a life of vacillation and noise quent failure because they xetuain Gude termined what to do, or having _decided that, have no confidence in themselves.— Such persoia need to be assured, bttt this assurance can be obtained in no ether We/ than by their own successes in iwhiebscas they may attempt thumseives. they host upon others, they not only become dis satisfied with what' they achieve, but the , success of one achievement, in whichthey are entitled to but partial credit-, la no guaranty to them, but, unaided, they will not fail in their veil- next experiment. NO. 45. 1...ef ;111'4' lfttl7
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