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THE BEACTIFC)L RIVES
Liken foundling In slumber, the Summer day
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lay,
On theerlunionlng threshold of een,
And I thought v
that the glow through the azure
arched way
Was a glimpse of the coming of Heaven.
There together we sal by the beautiful stream ;
We had nothing to do but to love and to dream,
In the days that have gone on before.
These are not the &gime days though they bear
the same name,
With the ones we shall welcome no more.
But It may be that angels are canine them o'er,
For a-Sabbath and riff maser forever,
When the years shall forget the Decembers
they wore,
And the shroud ~Lull be woven, no never'
Oh ! what more of the world could one wish for
beside,
AN we gazed on the river unrolled,
TM' we heard, or we 11111Cled, lIN m “MiCal
When It tlowtAl through 1 he gateway of gold
'Jennie, .thnol,," I hen I suit!, " lei en Unger
no more
On the hunks of the penutlfol ricer;
Let the bolt onmoored, anti he mottled the
our,
And we steal Into Heaven together.
If the angel on duty our eOllll 11g de,ertek.
You here not ht ug to do but throw Off 313 c We,
guise '
That YOU wore Whale soll W1111(101 , 41 with
Aud (he sentry shall tuo , • Wele.une Inca to
the skies,
tong Lure twen wall int.; for thee!'
Oil how , weetly , puke, ere she uttered it
wont
With that 1/110.11, partly herK, partly
And rt 10110, like the drew. ut using u - c once
heard,
As she wnhtpei ell, - This ha) is net. heitven's:
Fur the Itivl r t hitt roils by the lelthns of the
Ides!,
tlu song cat II sllO star ml Its breast;
' ith ! that river I, nut lung like 11114,
l'4lr It vildes ill in shadow beyond the wurld's
Wewt,
"rlll It breaks dkto denuty and 1,115,.-
alit 11m4 , 11 , ..4 Y. , . 1,111 1 ~,,Ver, Ver
blinks lot I'IN i ;
'TIN the tsviu of dint day, bill Ills wave ti it it. It
shone
Bear. the wllliny tree's sliad.,v
faiscillancous
The Fathres Error
mr. SOIOIIIOII Wir.throp was a plain
old farmer—all austere, precise man,
who did everything by established rules
and could see no reason why people
should grasp at :tnything beyond what
had been reached by their great-grand
fathers. lie had three children—two
boys anti a girl. 'niers. scam Jeremiah,
seventeen years old: Samuel fifteen ;
Fanny, rourtoon.
It was a eOld Winter's day. Sainted
WWI ill *the kitChell, Leadin g a buck,
and so Interested WaS he, that he did
not notice the entrance of Ipie fighter.
J ere was in the opposite corner, engaged
In cyphering teu. a stun which he had
found in his arithinetie.
"Sam," said his fattier, "hare you
worked that stun out yet
111112=9
" No, Father,
hesitutin) I.
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"Didn't I % fidi you to slick to your
arithmetic till you had 111111(1 i Hal 11
11 r. Winthrop in It severe lone,
"Samuel hung 11111111 his head, :loud
looked troubled.
tinned the lathe?.
" I can't ‘lo it, fathe•r," tremblingly
said Samuel.
"f'lin't do it ! And svily not loiok
lit Jerry, there, with his slate and lam -
ell. Ile had ciphered further than you
have long before he oat nu old rut you
" Jerry wits always fowl of sums and
problinns, lather. They have no inter
est at all for me."
"'That's lweause y.ll/11011 . 1 try In feel
an Interest In your studies. 11rind hook
in that you are reading."
"It's u work on philosophy, father."
"A work on thidlestleks! tIo put it
away this Instant, and then get your
slate; and don't you let me see you
away from your arithmetic until you
Call work out those roots! Do you un
derstand:
S11.11111ltrill:1111 , Ili/ 11.11SWer, but silently
lie put away his philosophy, and then
he gut his slide and Sat tiliVal in the
eldinney vorner. El is li p t rembled, and
his eyes moistened, for he was very un
happy. • Ills father had been harsh
towards him, and felt that it was with
out a Cause.
" Sam," as soou as their
father had gone out of the room, I'll
do that, stun l'or you."
•
"No, Jerry . ," replied the younger
brother,:with a grateful look; '.'that will
he deceiving father. I'll try to do the
Stumbut I fear [Mail shall not succeed,"
Samuel worked very hard, but to no
purpose„. His mind was not on the sub
ject before him. 'the roots and squares,
the bases „and perpendiculars, though
comparatively simple in themselves,
were to him it mass of incomprehensible
things ; and the more lie tried, the more
he became perplexed and bothered.
The truth was, his father did not un
derstand him.
12=',I=
monly intelligent for one of his age.
Mr. NVibthrop Was a thorough mathe
matician; he hardly ever came across a
problem he could not solve, and he, de
sired that his boy should be like him ;
he considered that the acme of edoca-
perfection lay in the power of con
quering Euclid, and often expressed the
opinion that, were Euclid living then,
he could ' give the old geometrician a
hard tassel." Ile seemed not to under-
stand that different minds were made
with different capacities, and what one
mind grasped with ease. another Of equal
power would fail to comprehend.—
Hence, because Jerry progressed rapidly
with his mathematical studies, and
could already survey a piece ()I' land of
many angles, In , imagined that as
Samuel made no progress in the saute
branch, he was idle and careless, and
treated 'lint accordingly. lie never can
didly conversed with his younger son,
with a view to am•crtaia the true bent of
his mind ; but he had his own standard
of the power or all minds, :mil he perti
naciously adhered to it.
There was another thing that 31r.
Winthrop I.oultl not see, and that was
that Samuel was continually pondering
upon such prolitable matter as was in
teresting to him, and that he wassearce
ly ever• Idle; nor did his father see,
'either, that, if he ever wished his boy to
Leconte a n a athrmatiriuu,he wits pursu
ing the vi-my course Io prereoh such a
result.
Instead or endeavoring to make the
study interesting to the child, lie was
making it obnoxious.
The dinner hour came, and Samuel
had not worked out the suin. Ills father
was angry, and iibliged the boy io do
without It dinner, at the same time
tell) ug him that he ‘vas an idle, lazy
lad.
Poor Samuel left kitchen for his
own room, and there he set and (Tied.
At length his mhnl seemed to pass from
Ole wrong he had sullen-it at the hand
of his father, aria his fare lightened up.
There was a large tire in the mom be
low his chamber, so he was not very
cold; and getting up, he went to a closet
and, from tinder a lot of old clothes,
lie took forth some long strips of wood.
He was evidently fashioning some cu
rious allltir from these pieces of wood.
He had hits of wire, little scraps of tin
plate, pieces of twine, and dozens of
small wheels that he had made himself,
and he seemed to be working to get the
whole together after some particular
I).lAtion ni his own.
Half the afternoon had thus passed
away, when his sister entered his cham
ber. She had her apron gathered up In
her hand, and after closing the door soft
ly behind her, she approached the spot
where her brother sat.
"Here Sammy! see, 1 have brought
you something to eat. 1 knew you must
be hungry."
As she spoke, she opened her apron,
and biok out four cakes, a piece of pie
and some cheese. The boy was hungry,
and hesitated not to avail himself of his
sister's kind He kissed her as he
took the cakes, and thanked her.
"Oh, what pretty things is that you
are making ?" ,uttered Fannie, as she
gazed upon her brother's labor. "Won't
you give it to me after it is done ?"
"Not this one, sister," returned the
boy, with a smile; "hut I will make you
one equally as pretty."
Fannie thanked her brother, and soon
after left the room, while the boy went
on with his work.
Before long, the various materials that
bad been subject td Samuel's knife and
pincers were joined and grooved togeth
er in a curious manner.
The embryo philosopher sat the ma
chine—for it Molted like a machine—
upon the floor, then gazed upon it in
tently. His eyes gleamed with a pecu
liar glow of satisfaction. He looked
proud and happy. While he stood and
gazed upon the child of his labors, the
door opened, and his father entered.
" What! are you not studying ?" ex
claimed Mr. Winthrop, as he noticed
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the boy standing In the middle of the
floor.
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Samuel trembled when he heard his
father's voice, and turned pule with
fear.
" Ha! what is this'."' said the father,
as caught sight of the curious construc
tion on the floor. "This is the secret of
your idleness. Now I see how it is you
cannot master your studies. You spend
your time in making ilycages. see
whether you'll learn to attend to your
lessons or not. There!"
••. . . .
As the father uttered these harsh
ejaculations, he put his foot upon the
object of his displeasure. The boy ut
tered a quick cry, and sprang forward,
but too late. The curious construction
was crushed to atoms—the labor of long
weeks. Looking at the mass of ruins,
and then covering his face with his
hands, he burst into tears.
" Ain't you ashamed ? " said Mr.
Winthrop,"a great boy like you to
spend your time in making clap-traps,
and then cry about it because I choose
you should attend to your St tidies. Now
go to the barn and help Jerry to shell
corn."
The boy was too full of grief to make
any explanation, and, without a word,
he left his chamber. But for long, long
(lays afterwards, he was weary and
down-hearted.
"Samuel," raid Mr. Winthrop, one
day after the Hpring had opened, "I
have seen Mr. Young, and he is willing
to take you as an apprentice. Jerry and
I can get along on the farm, and I think
the beet thing you can do is to learn the
blacksmith's trade. 1 havegiven up all
'hopes of ever nuking a surveyor out of
you, and if you had a farm, you would
not know how to measure it or lay it out.
.lorry will soon be able to take iny !dare
11,1 surveyor, and I have already made
arrangements for having him sworn and
obtain his cornmission But your trade
is a good one, however, and I have no
doubt, you will be able to make a good
living at it."
Mr. Young was a blacktilliitli ill a
1101g111. ,, ring t,.Wll,:illa lie curried nu
quite ui extensive business. :Moreover,
Ile had the reputation of being a line
man. s:aninel was delighted with llli
espousal, and when lie learned that NIL
Young . carried cm quite a large machine
shop, he was in eestasios. Ilia !mink
wa, packed—a good supply of elothes
having been provided; and after kiss
ing his mother and sister, and shaking
hands with his father and brother,
mounted the stage, and set oat fur his
new destination.
fie found mr. voting all he effidd
wish, and went into his business with
an assiduity that surprised his master.
One evening after Samuel Winthrop
had been with his new master six
months. the latter eame into the shop
after all the journeymen had quit work
and gone home, and found the youth
busily engaged in lilting a piece of iron.
There was quite a number of pieces uu
the bench at his side, and smile were
curiously riveted together, and fixed
with springs and slides, while others
appeared not yet toile ready fir their
destined use. 'Mr. Young ascertained
what the young workman was up to,
and he not only encouraged him in his
undertaking, but lie stood for half ail
hour and watched hint at his work.--
ext day, Samuel Winthrop . was re
moved from the blacksmith's shop to
the machine shop.
Samuel often visited his, parents. At
the end of two years, his tither was not
a little surprised when gr. Young in
formed him that Samuel was the wont
Useful hand in his employ.
'rime flew fast. Samuel was twenty
one. Jeremiah had been free tilinost
two years, and was one of the most 10-
curate and trustworthy surveyors i the
country.
i\lr. Winthrop looked upon his eldest
son with pride, and often expressed a
wish that his other son should have
been like him. Samuel had come home
to visit his parents, and 'Air. Young had
come with him.
"Mr. Young," said Mr. Winthrop,
after the tea things had been cleared
away, "that is a 1100 litctory that they
have just erected in your town."
" Yes, sir," returned .Mr. Young,
"there are three of them, and they are
doing a very heavy business."
"1 understand they have au extensive
machine shop connected with the fac
tories. Now, if my boy Sam is a good
workman, as you say he is,. perhaps he
might get a lirsl•rate situation there."
M^. Young looked at Samuel and
smiled.
"By the way," continued the old
lamer, "what is all this noise I see here
In the papers about those patent Win
throp looms? They tell nie they go
ahead of anything that was got up be
fore."
"You must ask your son about that,"
said Mr. Young. "'That is sutue of
Samuels business."
What: Some of Sam
'Phe old man stopped short and gazed
at his son. lle was bewildered. It could
not he that his son—his idle son—was
the Inventor of the great power-loom
that had taken the manufacturers by
surprise.
' What do you mean ?" lie at, length
inquired.
It is S :11) ply this, father, that the
loom is mine," returned Samuel, with
conscious pride. " 1 have invented
and taken a patent-right, and I have al
ready been otn. , red tell thousand dollars
for the patent-right iu two adjoining
States. Don't you remember that clap
trap you crushed With your foot six
years ago
" Yes.', replied the old mall,. who-e
eyes were bent to the Iloor, and over
whose mind a new light seemed break
ing.
" Well," continued Samuel, "that was
almost a pattern. though, of course, I
have made alterations and improve
ments, and there is room for more."
" And that was what you were study
ing when you used to stand and see me'
weave, and then (unable about my loom
sn much'."' said Mrs. Winthrop.
" You are right, mother. Even then
I had conceived the idea which I have
since carried out."
" And this is why you could not. un
derstand my mathematical problem,"
uttered Mr. Winthrop, as he started
from his chair, and look the youth by
the hand. "tiumucl, my son, forgive
me the harshness I have used toward
you. I have been blinded, aml now set•
110 W 1 have misunderstood you. \ bile ,
I have thought you were idle and (are
less, you were solving a philosophical
problem I Mold have never compre
hended. Forgive toe Samuel -I meant
well enough, but lacked judgment and
discrimination."
Cf course, the old man had long be
fore been forgiven for his harshness,
and his mind was opened. to a new les
son in human nature. It was simply
this: I)iilbrent minds have different ca
pacities, and no mind call he driven to
love that for which it has no taste.
First, seek to understand the natural
abilities and disposition of children, and
then, in your management of their edu
cation Mr after life, govern yourself ac
cordingly. Ueorge emnbe, the greatest
moral philosopher of his day, could
hardly reckon In simple addition, and
Col burn, the mathematician, could not
write out a common-place address.
TII Hindoo system of the Puncha
yet is thus described : It is a tribunal
"as old as the hills," which every vil
lage in I mils employs with excellent
results. The word signifies "the coun
cil of live," and it represents au ancient
and established court of arbitration.
Whenever a dispute arises: among the
Indians, the contending parties refer it
to the Punchayet. Each chooses two
judges, and the four thus constituted
select a fifth, who presides. The cir
cumstances of the case are then laid be
fore the village:council,andjudgment is
pronounced, which is almost absolutely
equitable, and almost always cheerfully
accepted. He who appeals from the
Punchayet defies the public opinion of
his community, and generally finds
himself in the wrong. It is a system
which has, for countless generations in
India, prevented a world of wretched
and costly litigation.
" HERE'S yer nice roast chick'n,"
cried an aged colored man, as the cars
stopped at a Virginia railroad station.
"Here's yer roast chick'n 'n tatere,
all
nice and hot," holding his plate aloftand
walking the platform. "Where did you
get that chicken, uncle?" asks a pas
senger. Uncle looks at the intruder
sharply, and then turns away, crying
"Here'syerniceroast chick'n, gent'in'n,
all hot; needn't go into the house for
dat." " Whey e did you get that chick
en?" repeats th inquisitive passenger.
" Look-a-yer," flays uncle speaking pri
vately," Is you from de.Norf ? " "Yes."
" Is you a friend of the colored man ?"
"Ihope I am." "Den don'tyou nebber
ask me whar I got dst chlck'n. Here's
yer nice roast chick'n, all hot!"
Escaped From Justice
It was a Winter night in January—a
night when homeless wanderers on the
moore might have sunk down and froze
to death, and the very marrow seemed
to congeal in one's hones.
" There's one advantage in steam,
growled a fat old gentleman in the cor
ner seat ; wind and weather don't affect
it. ..No flesh and blood horse could stand
a night like this, but the iron horse
would keep straight ahead, whether the
thermometer was at zezo or at boiling
heat."
Just then the conductor entered.
" Tickets, gentlemen, if you please."
" It's a dreadful night, conductor,"
said I feeling with stiffened fingers for
my ticket, in the breast pocket of my
coat.
"Dreadful, sir," feelingly responded
the conductor. "Why, the brakemen
can't live outside, and so I look the
rother way when they creep in, poor fel
lows, to get a breath of warm air at the
stove. We have not had such a night
as this since a year ago the 2d of Febru
ary—when Tom Blakeslee, the baggage
master, froze both hls feet, and a woman
who was a coining on from ('hicago,got
01l at Bumn's Fuur C'orner6, with a batty
in her arms a corpse. -
" Froze to death '.T'
" Aye, frozen to death and she never
thought poor thing, but that it was
asleep. 'My baby's cold,' says she, 'but
we'll soon warm it, when we get home.'
It was just such a night as this."
And the conductor opened the door,
and plunged across the coupling into
the next at, crying tilt :
" Hardwick "
It was quite a considerable city, a
handsome iron depot, flaringgas
and the usual crowd around the plat
form, with hands in their pockets, and
their cigar enda flaming through the
night.
(Mr car was nearly the last of the long
train and but one passenger entered it,
a slender, young girl, wrapped in a gray
blanket shawl, and wearing a neat little
traveling hat of gray straw, trimmed
with stone-colored velvet flowers. She
seemed to hesitate, like one unused to
traveling . , and finally sat down near the
door.
" Pardon me, young lady, " said 1,
" but you had bettor conut nearer the
atone•"
She started, lieenatea a moment, and
then she obeyed.
•
" Does tliis train go to Itayswater "
she asked, in a voice so deliciously wift
and sweet, that seemed to thrill through
" I'e+: can I be of any service to you,
)liss?',
" Oh, no -at least not until we reach
Bayswater; I slmll want a carriage then,
if you please."
shall not to there yet ther three
hours."
"Do we stop again "
"(Only at Oxinouth."
She drew a sigh, seemingly of relief,
and settled back in a corner. Ily the
light of the lamp which hung in its
brass fixtures opposite, I could see her
lace, that of a lovely MIMI. Apparent
ly not more titan sixteen years of age,
with huge blue eyes, golden hair,
brushed smoothly back from her face,
and rosy mouth liko that of a baby.
" Do you ,expect friends to meet you
at Bayswater, my child I asked of
her accidentally.
" No, sir, I am going to school there."
" It will be au awkward hour to ar
rive—at one in the morning."
' Oh, not afraid," said she, will 4
an artless little laugh, I shall go
straight to the seminary."
So the express train thundered on,
with steady, ceaseless pulsing at his
, iron heart, and constant roar.
Suddenly the signal whistle sounded
and the train began to slacken its
speed. :y
" Surely, We are not at (Ix mouth yet,"
I thought, "unless I have fallen un
colisciously asleep and allowed the pro
gress of time to escape me."
I glanced at my watch; it was barely
half-past eleven, and we were not due
at oxmouth until after twelve. I rub-
I bed the frost from the pane and locked
out.
We had stopped at a little way sta
tion in the midst of a dense pine wood.
"Is this Ox mouth t'
It was the soft voice of the pretty
traveler opposite.
" No—l don't know what place it is ;
some way station.
'• Does this train slop at way sta
tions?"
" Not generally; they must have
been especially signalled here. You are
cold my child, your voice trembles."
" It is cold," she said in a scarcely au
dible voice, drawing her shawl around
her. " Oh, I wish they would hurry up
pretty soon."
" We are moving once more," I said.
" ronductor"—for the main of tickets
was passing through the car—" why
did we stop at that little station t'
'• Out of water," was the reply, as he
hurried by.
Now I knew perfectly well that this
answer V: ae not the true solution of the
matter. Our delay did not exceed half
a minute, altogether too short a time for
replenishing the boilers ; and where on
; eaith was the water to come from in
that desolate stretch of barren woods?
Five minutes alter, he re-entered the
car. I made room for Min at my side.
" Sit down, conductor, you've noth
.ing to do this minute."
Ito obeyed.
" What do you mean by telling me
sued a lie just now?'
1 spoke under my breath, lie replied
in the same tone:
" About what t"'
"About the reason you stopped just
-1 le smiled
"To tell the truth, I stopped to take
on a single paiaenger—a gentleman who
has come down from Bayswater."
" Vor the pleasure of traveling once
inure over the same route'."'
" Exactly so—for the rj purpcse o,
traveling in certain society. Don't be
alarmed for your own safety—it's a De
tective policeman."
I WaS about to repeat the words in as
tonishment, when he mentioned me to
silence.
" Where is he
"The detective:' Ile sit Ity the
door yonder, with a ragged "lur cap
pulled over ilk eyes. DM you ever see
tt more dilapidated countrymen
" I smiled ; I could hardly help it.
" What is the case .•''
" A murder—a, mail and his wife and
two little tffiildran —their throats cut,
last night, and the house set on tire
afterwards."
" (treat Heavens! what a monster!"
We had continued the conversation
throughout in a whisper, scarcely above
our breath, and now the conductor rose
and left me to study the faces of my fel
low passengers with curious dread and
horror.
Somehow, often as I revolved the
matter in my mind, my fancy would
settle on a coarse, gross-looking man
opposite, with a bushy beard and a
shaggy coat, with the collar turned up
around his eats.
I felt that this man with the heavy
hanging jaw was the Cain ! and as I
looked furibusly across I caught the
wide open orbs of the fair little girl.
Obeying the instantaneous Impulse of
toy heart, I arose and went over to her.
' You heard what we were talking
about, my child."
" Yes—a murder—oh, how horrible."
"Do not be frightened—no one shall
hurt you."
She smiled up lu my face with sweet
confiding innocence.
Our stay:at Oxmouth was very brief;
but during the delay I could see that
the watchful detective had changed his
seat for one nearer the man in the shag
gy coat.
" See," faltered the young girl, ''they
locked the car-doors at Oxttiouth ; they
are unlocking them now."
She was right.
" Probably they were fearful that the
criminal would escape," I remarked in
an undertone.
" May Ltrouble you to bring me a
glass of water ?"
I rose and made my way to the ice
cooler by the door, but with difficulty,
for the train was again under rapid mo
tion. To my disappointment the tin
goblet was chained to the shelf.
" No matter," she said, with a win
ning smile, "I will mime myself."
I drew the water and held up the cup,
but instead of taking it as she approach
ed, she brushed,suddenly past me, open
ed the door, and—rushed out upon tne
platform.
" Stop her? stop her ! " shouted the
detective, springing to his feet: " she
will be killed, conductor, brakeman,
holdup!"
There was a rush, a tumult, a bustle.
I was first upon the platform, but it
was empty and deserted, save by the
LANCASTER, PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 29, 1871
half.frozen brakeman, who seemed hor
ror stricken. '
" She went past me likes shadow and
jumped off just as we crossed Carin
turnpike road."
" Jumped off the express train ?
Well," said the conductor, shrugging
his shoulders,
"she must have been in
stantly killed. What mad folly!"
" It's five hundred dollars out of my
pocket," said the detective ruefully. "I
didn't want any row before we got to
Bayswater, but I was a confounded fool.
A woman cornered will do anything, I
believe."
What?" I jaculated, you surely do
not mean thae child—"
" I mean," said the detective calmly,
"that child as you call her, is Atila Bur
ton, a married woman of twenty-six
years of age, who, last night murdered
four persons in cold blood and was try
ing to escape to Canada. That is what
I do mean."
The tialu was stopped, and a party of
us, headed by the conductor and detec
tive, went back to search for auy trace
of the beautiful young creature, whose
loveliness and apparent innocence had
appealed to my sympathies. Nor was
it long before we found her, lying quite
dead by the side of the track, frightfully
mangled by the force of the fall, mutil
ated almost beyond recognition.
" Well, she's escaped justice in this
world, if not in the next," said the de=
tective, gloomily, as he stood looking,
down upon her remains.
" 110 you suppose she expected to
spring off the moving train without in
jury,'' I asked.
" Without injury, women are such un
reasonable tt ings. I never dreamed of
such folly or I should have taken such
prompt measures to prevent it."
They lifted up the dead, fair thing,
and carried it to the train, reaching
Bayswater only a few minutes behind
our regular time.
And when in the next morning's
papers I read an amount of the ni ur
dress, I thought of the slender creature's
blue eyes and rose-hud mouth, with a
strange pitying thrill at my heart.
France and Prussia
M. Benedetti, the French Ain bassdor
to Prussia before the late war, has pub
lished a volume in which he effectually
clears himself of the imputations east
upon him of having neglected his duty,
and gives au interesting and undoubt
edly accurate account of the origin of
that disastrous conflict. He shows by
his despatches I hat he frequently warn
ed his government of the strength of
Prussia, and of the certainty that the
South German States would side with
her In case of a war with France, and
would fight under Prussian leadership.
He confirms the opinion, already gen
erally accepted, that the Emperor knew
the risk he was running, but deter
mined to run it, partly because he was
weary of briug always foiled by Prince
Bismarck, and partly because he thought
the best chancy of saving his dynasty
was to fall in with the mad current of
popular opinion. Ile proves to demon
stration that France was bent ,na vat . ,
and would hear of nothing that might
lead to pence. The King of Prussia
seemed to him to be dealing in a ra
tional and honorable way. He had
given his consent as head of the Huh
enzollerns to the candidature of Prince
Leopold ; but, as France objected, he
at once offered to consult Prince Leo
pold or his father on the subject. M.
Benedetti evidently saw no harm in
this, and expressly stated that Prussia
was, su far us lie could ascertain, mak
ing no preparations whatever for war.
The answer of the French Minister was
that not a day must pass by without a
decisive answer on the part of Prussia,
lest.Franee should be anticipated in her
military preparations. He asserts that
Prussia is arming, although M. Bene
detti had assured him that this was not
so; and he explains that public opin
ion was advancing so fast in the direc-
tion of a war that the government was
obliged to keep ahead of it. This is no
doubt, the true account of the origin of
the war. The Duke de Gramont by his
most imprudent and violent language
in the Chamber when the Hohenzollern
candidature was first Ullllollnced, had
inflamed public opinion ; and then pub
lic opinion in Paris had gone so fast
that the government was obliged to run
every risk in order to seem to lead it.
Nothing can be clearer than this. The
French Mvernment avowed to K. Ben
edetti that it could not give the King of
Prussia a moment's delay, because Its
own existence was threatened in France
if it waited
After the King of Prussia had heard of
the preparations wade iu France, he too
began to think of war. But, if any
thing can be certain in history, it is cer
tain that, if the French t;overnment
had not been itself so hard pressed, and
had given the King of Prussia the ne
cessary time to withdraw the candida
ture of Prince Leopold, there would
not have been the shadow of a cause for
war. At first, when the renunciation
of Prince Leopold was made, however,
the French Uovernment, in obedience
to the foolish clamor of Paris, would not
accept tide as sufficient, unless the King
of Prussia, in his capacity of king, and
not merely as head of the liohenzol
lents, made himself a party to this
renunciation. But this was speedily
changed into a demand that the king
should engage that, if at a future time
Prince Leopold changed his mind again
the king would not sanction his candi
dature. The kffig heard of this change
front Paris before the time when he had
agreed to see M. Benedetti personally,
and, finding the whole position so com
pletely altered, lie declined to see M.
Benedetti, and sent a message by an
aide-de-camp. M. Benedetti does not
seem to have been at all surprised at
this when he knew that the king had
been previously apprised of the exorbi
tant demands of the French Govern
ment. fit. llenedetti does not appear to
have been at all to blame. He only act-
ed on Ilia instructions, and did what he
could to bring about a peaceful solution.
But the French Government had lost all
control over Paris, and, In order to avoid
the reproach of fearing war, rushed
without an excuse on the path that led,
by a well-merited retribution, lo( rave-
It. and Sedan.
The Lucifer Match
The invention of our present lucifer
match was great because it was so small,
and it now turns out that the produc
tion of this most useful, but at the same
time most dangerous firework, was due
to a happy thought which flashed
through the brain of Mr. Isaac Holden,
who so terms the idea in his evidence
before the Patent Committee. Mr.
Holden had to rise at four in the morn
ing to pursue his studies in chemistry,
and experienced tile gravest incon
venience from his tedious ettbrts to ob
tain a light from dint and steel. lie
was giving lectures at this time to a
very large academy. He goes on to say:
"Of course, I knew, MS other chemists
did, the explosive material that was ne
cessary in order to produce instantan
eous light ; but it was very dinleult to
obtain a light on wood by that explosive
material, and the idea occurred to me to
put under the explosive mixture sul
phur. I did that, and published it i❑
my next lecture, and showed it. There
was a young man In the room whose
father was a chemist in London, and lie
Immediately wrote to his father about it,
and shortly afterwards lucifer matches
were issued to the world.—Pall Mall
A Duelling Incident
Au indiscreet gentleman, who had
given offense to a young lady in Louis
ville, Ky., a few days since, was chal
lenged by the that-is-to•be husband of
the insulted. While the challenged
party was reading the invitation to go
out and be shot, his little daughter came
up and said, "Papa, mother wants you."
The father than turned to the challenge
bearer and said: "This is my little girl,
whose happiness and education and liv
ing would be taken from her were I to
be killed. I have also a wife and a baby
whose welfare I must look to. This
meeting, if fatal to me, would deprive
them of their only support. My oppo
nent is a young man, without wife, or
children, or family. He has very little
to lose." The challenge-bearer was al
most melted to tears. The picture just
drawn was true to life, and he deter
mined to return to his principal and
ask for a compromise. The latter was
a high-toned, chivalrous Kentucky gen
tleman, whose heart at once responded
to the appeal for mercy. A compromise
was effected. It was agreed that the
duel should be postponed fill the first
party gotmarried and became the father
of children. Then they will both be on
an equal footing and can test each other's
courage.
A Baltimore Arab
The cold and pitiless rain fell In
drenching sheets. It beat against win
dow panes and shutters with persistent
fury, it ran from the eaves and gutters
with a gurgling, splashing rush, and it
dripped from the gloomy awnings and
cornices with a ceaseless, running drip.
The lights in the windows of the stores
shone out on the mud and wet of the
dreary street with a sickly, sullen glare,
and gradually went out one by one.—
The red and green phials in the drug
gists' window sent forth murky beams
of colored light into the wretched dark
ness; and the stove beside which the
druggists' sleepy boy sat nodding, red
dened angrily at the cold and misery
without. The wind, sharp and fierce,
howled around corners, whistled and
sighed in the chimneys, swung to and
fro the rusty signs until they groaned
and shrieked like things in pain, aud
bit and shivered through the tattered
rags of homeless beings who huddled
and cowered and hid in the shelter of
arches and doorways.
Poor little unfortunate! He had not
sold a single paper. He had spent his
Last cent to buy them and uo one wanted
them. It was too wet; people couldn't
put their hands into their pockets ; his
papers were all clamp and soiled; and
those who usually bought hurried past
him in the rain and the wind, uncon
scious and forgetful of the little creature
whose shrill and hollow voice besought
them to buy. Cold and hungry—oh so
hungry, he had plodded through the
streets ; his papers, hopelessly wet and
torn, beneath his arm ; seeking in vain
fora cent to buy a piece of bread. But
the night was selfish and uncharitable,
and no one heard or heeded the little
mortal that curried such a load of care
and trouble on his shoulders—no good
Samaritan was by to aid or feed him. He
had stolen a loaf from a 4, tay street bakers
window, and as he sled frotn,the door
rough and brutal hand seized Lin)
and shook him as a terrier dues a rat.
But on the way to the station house he
slipped front his captor's grasp and sped
like a rat into the darkness of an alley
and was gone. And now he was sitting
by the dripping piles of a lonely wharf,
his head bowed upon his knees, careless
of the heartless ruin that fell upon his
trembling trame. The black, oily water
lapped and licked around the green and
oozy piles and the fetid odor of its rot
teuing filth and foulness hung heavily
on the air. The masts of the strips stood
up like tall, gaunt spectres in the night,
and the lights of the vessels that were
at anchor rucked slowly and monoto
nously to and fro with the working of
the tide. The slimy flood as it ebbed
and circled through the beams and tim
bers of the wharf told the child the story
that it so oft had told to others—spoke to
him peace beneath its troubled surface,
of an end to hunger, cold and rain, and
the butfetings of the selfish and cruel
world; of bright and warm places, of
home and rest.
_
Down by the Lazaretto, among the
stores anti weeds and driftwood of the
beach, the waves laid a fragile little body
tenderly and softly on the shore—wash
ed it up higher and higher, and then
withdrew and left it there alone. The
sun shone brightly and kindly on the
pale, little, upturned face, the white
clouds smiled sadly us they sailed
through the sky above, and the restless
waters as they rippled and sparkled
through the shiftingshingles murmured
the little one's requiem. And in the
evening the waves returned, and finding
it still there, uncared for and unnoticed,
took it once more on their bosom and
bore it away front the sight of the men
and the world forever.—Su n dry .Theile-
Love's strategy
" Max ideler " relates the following
story: There is a battled old man In
Williamsport, and he is disgusted too.
It seems that he learned that his daugh
ter intended to elope upon a certain eve
ning, with a lover upon whose suit he
frowned. So he locked his child up in her
room, and sat down stairs listening for
the sound of the lover's carriage wheels.
But that disgraceful young man tied
rags around the tires of his sulky, so as
to muffle the noise, and lie drove softly
up to the back gate. He then sent a
boisterous rickety hack around to the
front, and engaged the miin to make as
much racket as he could for the money
When the infuriated father heard it,
he rushed out with a shot-gun, just iu
time to see a female figure jump into
the hack and drive off. He tired two
rounds of buckshot at the concern;
rushed out and got his horse and started
in pursuit. Meanwhile the insidious
outcast who loved his daughter,persuad
ed her to slide down the lightning-rod,
and then he fled away with her in the
opposite direction from that in which
the enraged parent had gone. The be
reaved old man caught up with the
hack about eighteen miles out of town,
and he not only shot the driver, but lie
burst the door open and dragged forth—
a man dressed in a water-proof cloak.
The father was immediately arrested for
highway robbery, and assault and bat
tery with intent to kill, and the prose
cutors say they will press the suit unless
he comes down with a handsome dower
for his daughter, and then gives the
comfie his parental blessing. There is
no use of trying to explain the mental
condition of this old wan. The English
' language is copious and vigorous, and
all that: but it fails utterly in these ex
treme cases.
A. Curious Adventuress
There is a lady of an unusually ad
venturous spirit providing amusement
for the public in 6ermany. the has
gone through a variety of characters in
(wile costume with eminent success, act
ing successively as groom, coachman,
valet, etc., to various employers, giving
perfect satisfaction and obtaining excel
lent characters,he aste rsnevel suspect
ing her sex. The late war roused nobler
ambitions within her. Prefixing the
title "von" to her name, and donning the
blue coat with an iron cross upon it, Miss
I ',ertlia Weiss made her debut as a wound
ed Prussian officer. 'Passing through
various towns she enlisted everywhere
the sympathy of the inhabitants, who
received her as an honored guest, and
is said even to have made some havoc
! among young ladies' hearts. lrifortti
(lately, she was found out just when her
success was at its highest, and, placed
before a tribunal, she was sentenced to
several months' imprisonment as a pun
ishment for her masculine aspirations.
So perfect lau4 she acted her role, how
ever, that up to the moment when the
verdict was pronounced, she found ad
vocates in the press to defend her man
hood.
The imprisonment has not moderated
the lady's ambition, Mr, though only
shortly released, she has turned up once
'more in manly guise in the very last
place where a female would be looked
for, viz, in a monastery near Breslau.
The prior declares that she came to him
with so truly penitential an aft, dis
guising her sex so admirably, that he
could not trod in his heart In refuse
her. She has lived aiming the nionka
undiscovered, her noviciate being a se
vere one; yet she underwent all the
rules of the order with the fortitude of
au ascetic up to tile last moment. Tired,
however, at lust of the monotony of con
ventual life, she gave the monks the slip
after a four months' visit, disclosing her
sex only after her departure.
I Miniature Village
A correspondent of the San Francisco
thilictid, who has travelled " up coun
try" in California, writes thus:
" Fifteen miles from the summit of
Klamath Mountains, down the Salmon
River, is the small mining town of Saw
yer's Bar. It is the littlest mite of a
place, projected on the smallest scale,
and has things arranged in the snuggest
fashion I have seen in an American vil
lage for a great while. It is as tight and
as trim and diminutive as any Swiss or
German hamlet. There is scarcely two
rods' width of bottom land, bordered by
a steep hill, and the town is only a few
rods in length;. yet in that extremely
small place are enough people packed
together to furnish a school of over forty
scholars, a church, stores, hotels, iSzc.,
besides countless little patches of cab
bages, terraces of flowers or fruit, wee
bits of gardens, &c. All the merchan
dise sold in Sawyer's Bar is brought
over from Arcata, on the coast, a dis
tance of one hundred miles, on pack
mules, at a cost of about live cents per
pound heightage."
The little " rodent " squirrels that
swarm in California are being turned to
account for glove-making. A company
of French tanners pay fifteen cents a
skin. One farmer has trapped and
skinned thirty thousand of the little
pests of the grain fielas within the last
fifteen months.
sittettigert?et
Alexis and His Ancestors
The following Interesting sketch of
the Prince Alexis, is from the Boston
The arrival on our shores of theyouug
Prince Alexis, third son of the Czar
Alexander, renders all concerning his
family interesting ,• and this is more es
pecially true, as the present Czar has
always been, at least as far as outward
appearances go, friendly to this cou u try.
The Imperial house is descended from
Rurick, Duke of Kiov, who reigned 412,
A. D. This title of Duke of Kiov was
retained until 1157, when the title of
Grand Duke of \Vladimir was adopted,
and in 132. S these sovereigns. Princes of
the East became Grand Dukes of Mos-
cow. In 1.33.3 Ivan assumed the title of
Czar of Muscovy, Czar.meaning great
king. Peter the Great, in laatt, was tine
first Muscovite sovereign who bore tile
title of Emperor of all the Russia,
which is still borne by his successors.
The present Emperor was the eldest smi
of the great Nicholas, who, as is known,
succeeded his brother, Alexander I, in
1525, the heir and elder brother, Con
stantine, abdicating the throne in his
favor. Nicholas died on March 2,
when the present Czarascended to power.
Alexander II was born on April 2n,1514.
At that time his uncle Alexander was
on the throne, and his father was a sim
ple Grand Duke, with no prospects of
the succession ; for the then Emperor
might yet have children, and between
Nieholasand him was Constantine. The
young prince was most carefully edu
cated by his mother, a lady of rare ac
complishments, Alexandra Feodorow
na, daughter of the then reigning King ,
of Prussia, and sister of the prestnt Em
peror William lof Germany. She ww,
thoroughly versed in the studies and
literature of the day, and her German
influence is betrayed in the Emperor's
character to this day. He had, besides,
MMEI=E=VE=
in General Maedar; while the Grand
Duke Nicholas, his father, overlooked
- -
his military education, initiating him
iu those soldierly exercises in which it
was his own pride to excel. Alexander's
youth was passed amid these favorable
influences, and his education was com
pleted under theguidance ofJowkouski,
then the first of Russian living poets
At sixteen he graduated from this some
what singular course of education, and
thenceforth participated actively hi the
affairs and pageants of state. His father
was then Emperor, and young Alexan-
der at once assumed a high command io
the imperial army as the Czar's chief
aid•de-camp. As such it was his duty
to take the lead in those splendid mili
tary reviews and ceremonies which were
the spectal pride and delight of 'Nicho
las. Russia was long at peace with the
world, so that the Czarowitch had no
opportunity to display his " blood " or
military talent. That he made all ex
cellent 3arpet knight was acknowledged
on all hands ; and his father's subjects
were proud of the handsome and stately
young prime who rode so gallantly and
gracefully at the head of his cuirassed
and helmeted troops; for Alexander was
Inferior only to the Emperor Nicholas
in personal beauty and the nobility of
his presence. When he was twenty-one
or two, the charge of all the military
schools of the empire was given into his
hands, and as governor of these he made
frequent visits to them, and diligently
searched out and provided for their de
fects. He married in 1841, when he
was twenty-three, Maximiliana, daugh
ter of Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, a
handsome and accomplished princess,
who still lives to adorn tile consort
throne.
The Czarowitch was little seen at
court from the time of his marriage to
that of his accession, for he was busy
with his military duties and studies;
and in 1530 he made a long tour to the
remotest confines of the vast empire,
visiting the Crimea, the Caucasus, and
Circassia, being received with enthusi
astic honor wherever he went. It was
known, before Nicholas died, that his
heir was liberal in opinion, and was
fully resolved to pursue a policy in many
things antagonistic to that of his father.
This produced a breach mere or less seri
ous between father and son, and for
some time the emperor refused to ad
mit the son to his presence. It was
even whispered, at one time, that
Nicholas intended to deprive Alex
ander of the succession, and to con
fer it upon the Grand Duke Constan
tine, who zealously sympathized with
him, and was his favorite son. The
quarrel extended to the two brothers,
who had a long and bitter feud, divid
ing the court and the political parties
between them. They never spoke or
held any personal relations with each
other. A similar state of things follow
ed to that which existed in England iu
the reign of George II ; the monarch
had one court and an heir another, each
bitterly hostile to the other. A
ciliation, however, took place just be
fore the death of Nicholas. He called his
eldest son to his bedside, and an affect
' ing and affectionate scene ensued. Both
were melted to tears, and the long
estrangement was at the end. Nicholas
then called Constantine to him, and be
sought him to make peace with his
brother. The young man, fuR blooded,
obstinate and self-willed, at first refused:
but the dying emperor's supplications :it
last prevailed, and the two brother,:
were clasped to each other's hearts at
the sick bedside. There were every
where fears lest Constantine, who was
bold, adventurous and ambitious, as
well as exceedingly popular, should re
sist Alexander's succession, and endeav
or to secure the crown of Muscovy and
Russia for himself by a military ,vin,
d',l(tt but on Nicholas' death these
fears were speedily dissipated for Con
stantine was the first to hail and swear
allegiance to the new Czar, and to offer
himself for his service. Alexander's
accession to the throne was hailed by
the liberal party of Russia as the be
ginning of an era of true progress,
and was not belied. Reforms began
to be decreed by ukase after ukase,
frightening the nobles, disgusting the
"old Russia" party :and calling forth
the admiration of liberal Europe. The
Czar had seen with his own eyes the
extravagance of the empire, and lie first
cleared the Augean stables of the state
of their rubbish, and placed the admin
istratina on art economical and syste
matic basis. Then he decreed a greatly
improved system of education, the
universities were freed from the odious
restrictions imposed on them by the
despotic Nicholas, the military tyran
ny over civil affairs was abolished, and
some of the most irksome laws restrict
ing the press were abrogated. All this
was done In the very first year of Alex
ander's reign. In his second year he
turned his attention to Poland, granted
an universal amnesty to the exiles of
Istin, removed many of the despotic
laws which weighed on that unhappy
land, and really and earnestly endeav
ored to reconcile them to Russian rule.
The emperor found Iris eftbrts unavail
ing, and was soon obliged to restore the
repressive administration of the old
Russian governments. Then came the
magnificent acts of freeing the serfs—
an act betraying the courage of which
Alexander has not been suspected ; and
many more broad and liberal measures
which have been put Into operation In,
Russia might be traced to his power.
Alexander Is the least military of his
race. In this respect he Is not a true
Romanotli "lie Is known to shrink
from warlike measures, and to prefer
the paths of praceful internal improve
ment. His nature is soft and polisbed,
rather than bold and haughty, like his
father, Nicholas, or active and gracious
like his uncle, Alexander. No prince
ever preserved u loftier reputation for
purity, dignity and mildnese of per
sonal character.
That he is otten melancholy and
gloomy is perhaps a hereditary misfor
tune, for so was Nicholas and Paul be
fore him. A great contrast to the em
peror is his next brother, Constantine,
Grand Duke and Grand Admiral of the
Russian fleet. He is perhaps the ablest
imperial prince of the house of Roman
off, since Peter the Great. A man of in
domitable activicy, strength of will, per
sonal power over men, warlike, bold,
quick-witted and tenacious of purpose.
When a mere lad, being then admiral,
his brother Alexander happened to be
taking a cruise upon his flagship. Con
stantine, as commander, ordered the
Czarowitch to do something, which
order the latter resisted. The young
admiral at once arrested him, though
he was heir to the crown, and
kept him in confinement till they
reached port. Nicholas severely rep
rimanded Constantine for this act,
but it was believed that in his secret
heart he was prouder of his rough sailor
lad than of his more gentle and pliant
heir. Constantine, indeed, was east In
the mould of his iron-willed father.—
His tastes are martial, and he is the
Idolized leader of the ultra " old Rus
sia" party, which regards Ras the sacred
mission of the empire to expel the Mos
lem,, from Europe. and to assume the
headship of the United Slavic race of
the eastern side of that continent. He
is the Pan-Slavic chief. Far from being
liberal, as younger sons of kings are
apt to be, he is opposed to education,
emaneipatitm and freedom within the
empire iu any direction. He would
have the whole energies of the state
bent upon its military strength, and
upon the establishment of an irresisti
ble and permanent warlike power. Had
he been emperor instead of Alexander—
as it was at one time thought probable
lie might be—Russia, would long since
have been plunged into war to avenge
the Crimea.. Russia. according to Con
stantine, must fulfill her mission, ob
tain her " natural frontiers," and as
sume her right position as chief of the
Salvonie nations, and protector of the
Orthodox Greek church.
Different as they are itt character and
in their political views, the Emperor
Alexander and the Grand Duke Con
stantine also presents a striking Con
t rzust iu personal appearance. The Czar
is tall and rather slight, a remarkable
stately and handsome man, with large
blue eves, regular features, and almost
classically cut face, and a noble shaped
head ; his expreesiou is serious, almost
even sad, his mariner is quiet and un
assuming. The Grand Duke is bluff
and active, tel square head and face,
stoutish body, curly hair, keen gray
eves hidden behind a pair of eye glasses
which he perpetually wears, broad
sailonlike shoulders, lather ostenta
tious in dress, and prompt, abrupt in
mangier. He is a more universally ac
cumplished man than his brother, and
is especially fond of and conversant with
the English language and literature,
which is uu fashionable at St. Peters
burg, French being there the language
iu fashionable vogue, anti French fash
h.ns the example to the haut monde.—
Cmistan tine is hospitable and loves
lunch society ; Alexander prefers soli-
Lude and mingles rarely with his court.
The one is a thorough man of the world;
he others royal recluse. Such in brief
are the father and uncle of l'rinee Al
exis; both men of mark, who have had
au interesting history, and who are the
chiefs awl representatives of the twe
anta4ollislic Russian ideas.
Puzzles of a Printing-0111m
The new novel of H. L. Farjeon,
"Joshua Marvel," which hue met with
a warmth and unanimity of commend
ation exceedingly rare in the English
press, abounds in passages of a very
powerful realism and great tenderness,
re-calling to the critics 1)e Foe
and the " Vicar of \Vakelield," hut Its
humors is hardly less remarkable, and
the very first chapter gives US an ac
count of a new errand-boy in .a print
ing-office, which is highly amusing.—
The narrutive runs
Looking as sharp as he could, Joshua
walked up-stairs, and found himself in
the cntnposiug roots of the establish
ment. A number of wen and boys,
decorated with aprons with large bibs,
were playing a mysterious game with
hundreds and thousands of small pieces
• . •
or lead, which they clicked, with mar
vellous rapidity, but without any appar
ent meaning, against an instrument
they held in their hands. He looked in
vain for the swords \which he had heard
printers were allowed to wear, and he
was covered with confusion at finding
himself in the midst of so large an as-
sembluge, who one and all appeared as
if they were playing on a number of
pianos without any tune in them. Go
ing up to a youth whose head, covered
with a profusion of red hair, looked as
if it were in a blaze, Joshua asked to
whom he should give the proof. To
Snooks," was the prompt reply. For
which piece of information he received
a slap on the side of his head from some
person in authority, who, taking the
proof from Joshua, directed him to
sweep up the room. While performing
this task he surveyed the scene before
hint. There were sixteen men and four
toes at work. All the men had the
same dissipated look that he had ob
served upon the countenance of the
master. Their faces, otherwise, were
very clean; but the tips of the right
hand fore-finger and thumb of each
hand were black with dirt, caused by
the types which they picked up with
those extremities front the boxes before
them. Not a word was spoken except
what appeared to have reference to bus
iness, and the conversation proceeded
somewhat in this wise: One of the
workmen walked to a slab of iron
placed in the middle of the room, took
therefrom a sheet of manuscript, and
looking at it negligently, shouted:
" Number three."
Another voice at the end of the morn
cried out :
Awful
Joshua stopped in the midst of his
sweeping and waited for the shock. But
as none came, lie proceeded with his
work, and thought that the speaker
was crazy. In the meantime the dia
logue continued.
Speaker number one—
Speaker number two—
with a growl.
Speaker number one—" What type
Speaker number two, with another
growl—"
At the word "minion, - which Joshua
considered was a term expressive of
"End a break."
All riglil
. .
anything but respect, he expected speak
er number one would walk up to speak
er number two and punch his head. In
stead of which the insulted individual
went into his corner again and recom
menced playing iris tuneless piano in
the meekest possible manner. The
overseer then going to a part of the
room where long rows of type were
placed in detached pieces, asked:
" How long will this Dreadful Sui
cide be before it's finished
" Done in five minutes, sir," was the
reply, in a cheerful voice.
" on the Inquest aske44 the
overseer.
" I am, sir."
" lie quick and get it finished ; you've
been long enough over it. :s;ow, then,
how long is the Chancery Court to re
main open?"
" Close it up in two minutes, sir."
And Joshua gazed with a kind of
wonder at the individual who spoke, as
if it were as easy to close the Court
of Chancery as to close his hand.
It was the day on which the paper
was sent to press; the publishing hour
was three o'clock in the afternoon ; and
as the work was behind-hand, every
body was very busy. In the centre of
the room was a large iron slab, and at
one time the hammering and beating
on this slab was terrific. Two or three
excited individuals, with mallets and
iron sticks in their hands, advanced
toward the type, which was laid upon
the slab, with the apparent intention of
smashing it to pieces. They com
menced to do this with such extraor
dinury earnestness that Joshua was on
the point of rushing down stairs to the
master to inform him that his property
was being wantonly destroyed ; but as
the other workmen appeared to regard
the proceeding quite as a matter
of course, Joshua checked himself,
and thought It would perhaps be as
well for him to say nothing about It.
'he overseer also continued to Issue his
strange orders ; and during a slight
cessation in the hammering, he per
emptorily ordered the workmen to
" lock up that Esdaped Lunatic, and be
quick about it." At another time he
ave directions to lay the Female In
Disguise on the stone (meaning the Iron
Muhl, to unlock the Old Bailey, and to
correct the Chancellor's Budget. Joshua
grew perfectly bewildered. The infor
mation that there was an Escaped Lu-
iatie in the room did not much as
tonish as alarm him ; but as to the Fe
male in Disgpise he could ,not Identify
her, and he waited in amazement to
see what disguise she wore and where
she would be brouslit from; at the
same time entertaining the idea that to
lay any female upon a stone was a de
cidedly improper proceeding. While
in this state of mental perplexity, the
overseer cried out.
Now, then, who has the Female in
Disguise in hand':"
" I have, sir," a voice replied.
"Bring it here, then," ordered the
overseer, " and finish the corrections on
the stone."
"All right, sir."
Joshua started and looked around to
catch a sight of the female ; in his agi
tation he stumbled against a workman
who held a column of type lu his arms.
The type fell to the ground, and was
smashed into thousands of pieces. In an
instant the whole office was in confu
sion.
" You've done it this time, young
ster!" the workman said, iu dismay,
looking at the scattered type on Ithe
floor.
Joshua did not exactly know what he
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had done, but felt that it must be some
thing very bad. He soon received prac
tical proof of the extent of the mischief,
for the master, rushing into the room,
kicked him down stairs and told him to
go about his business. Which Joshua
did in a state of much bewilderment.
Lomanee and Reality
The fictitious adventures of Robinson
Crusoe and the real sufferings of Alex
ander Selkirk are being repeated on a
grand scale in the small island of St.
Paul's, which lies in the Southern por
tion of the Indian Ocean, about half
way between the Cape of Good Hope
and Australia. This rarely visited is
land is little better than a rock, or series
of rocks, forming the cone of an extinct
volcanic crater, running up to the
height of eight or nine hundred feet.
One side of this crater has broken down,
and the sea has forced its way into the
centre of the circle and formed a sort of
lake there. The Islet is about two miles
in cirmiruference, and has a few inhabi
tants, amotig them a Frenchinan, who
have done their best to cultivate what
little soil there is, heaping it up into
terraces, whereon they have planted
gardens, and oe which they raise plen
tiful crops of grapes. to this eireutu
scribed spot of the earth's ski flaCe, three
hundred and eighty English and
soldiers are, or lately were, encamped,
being the officers, crew and passengers
of H. 13. M.'s troop ship I.egartt. They
have been there since the - middle of
June, and expect to remain until a ves
sel can be sent out to rescue them. "A It's
well that ends well," and the tolerable
certainty of a safe return takes away
much of the romance of the adventure ;
but the of itself is in tetesting, its il
lustrative of etlicial indifferi•nee and
negligence, and of heri,i,in and fertility
of resource on the part of the
anti crew of the doonied vessel.
- - _
It is a mercy that the island
Paul happened to lie whole it was. Ilud
it not been for that fortunate eircnni
stance, the ehauees that nothing
more would have been heard of the Me
gam. A portentous mot 'I iffiaossible
leak would have sent. her to the bottom
had she been obliged to keep the sea a
day or two longer but site was able to I
make the island, and was promptly run
ashore. A Dutch ship, bound from Am
sterdam to Batavia, hove ill sight at the
time, and seeing signals of distress,
shortened sail, and came close in, af
fording an opportunity for the noting
lieutenant of the Mega' a to go on board
with despatches and 'nuke his way to
Batavia, and thence to Singapore,
whence he could telegraph to England
and to Australia as to the fate of the
ship and her crew. These!' despatches
have reached England, awl are pub
lished at full length' in the. English
papers, when , " we learn t he foll~.lving
particulars.
The Megara was sent to Melt by the
British Admiralty in April last, she
being an old store-ship, twenty-seven
years of age, and partaking considerably
of the nature of a tub. some idea of
what sort of a vessel she was 711 ust, have
been formed almost as soon as she start
ed on her way to Australia, for before
she reached Plymouth the officers' cab
ins were afloat. Fortunately she enjoy
ed fair weather for a considerable por
tion of the voyage, and she had accom
plished the distance between England
and longitude 4-1° east—that is to say,
half-way between the Cape of food
Hope and St. Paul's—when site was
found to be leaking seriously. ' For
some days the hand-pumps, donkey
engines and bilge pumps, worked by
steam, were kept going, but the water
still gained on them, and then the cap
tain made up his mind to run for the
nearest land ISt. Paul's). After eight
clays of heavy squalls he reached the
island ; and there, though the anchor
age was far from secure, he had the
ships's hull :examined by means of a
diving apparatus which he had fortu
nately taken with him. Large rust
holes were found in the plates; the
metal round the actual hole which
caused the leak was not inure than
I-16th of art Inch thick ; many of the
braces were eaten through at the bot
tom, and others nearly so, while the
bilge-pumps were continually being
choked by fragments of corroded
metal. The :engineers having re
ported the unfitness of die ship
to proceed on her voyage, Captain
Thrupp ordered the hands up on the
morning of ,Sunday, the l'qh of June,
read prayers, and then directed the men
to laud, and the ship to be beached. She
was accordingly steamed in on theshure,
and kept in position until the water rose
and extinguished the tires, when she
settled down and remained stationary.
Next day the crew lauded all such stores
as remained above water, :LIM found
themselvek with 13,0,10 pounds of bread,
about six weeks' flour, and of Rim mid
other provisions enough for four months.
Fish was abundant on the island, and
there was a good supply of water in_the
wells. All hands encamped on shore.
Exploring parties were sent out, who
reported that there were about a hun
dred goats on the island, some mush
rooms, and a few cabbages and potatoes ;
also, some hot fresh water springs.
Tents were made out. of the spars and
sails of the ship, and fuel was obtained
by cutting turf, and getting some of the
ship's coal ashore. 'the weather be
came cold and wet, and the ell ' l3
clothes began to wen' out, but they be
haved with patience and discipline, and
their officers seem to have made the best
arrangements for braving privations
untiba ship with provision, pan be sent
from Australia to their relief. IMt what
shall be said of the Naval administra
tion which could deliberately send such
a wretched old tub on so long a voyage,
with nearly too souls on board, after
having been warned by their naval ~n-structor
structor that, she was unseaworthy "
queen 11(101in's
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Domestic Establishment
On the lith of November Sir Charles
W. Mike, M. P., addressed a public
meeting at Neweastle-on-Ty eOn " Rep
resentation and Royalty." Sir Charles
Dllke, as a well-known author and the
editor of the A Ol, 71,111111, is a representa-
tive of the intelligent and thoughtful
classes of British society, and by no
means of the merely literary class. In
speaking of the cost of the court he
enumerated the functionaries compos
ing the Queen's household. The list is
calculated to 'nuke a well-regulated
housekeeper tremble :
" Under the lord steward's depart
ment (said Sir Charles Nike, and the
department of the master of the horse,
we have such officers as the coroner of
the household, and the chief equerry
and clerk marshal, and various others
whose duties are not of a very burden
some description. [Laughter.] Noth
ing is more singular than the constitu
tion of the medieal department. You
would hardly credit the number of med-
Ical gentlemen who are required for the
service of the household, but I am aware
that some of them are unpaid. There
are three physicians In ordinary, three
physicians extraordinary, one sergeant
surgeon extraordinary, two sergeant
surgeons, three surgeons extraordinary,
one physician of the household, one sur
geon of the household, one surgeon
apothecary,two ellen) istsof tire establ ish
men t in ordinary, one surgeon -oculist,
one surgeon-dentist, one dentist In ordi
nary,and one other physician-or twenty
one in all, (laughter;] while the Prince
of Wales has for his special benefit three
honorary physicians, two physicians In
ordinary, two surgeons in ordinary,
one surgeon extraordinary—(luughter l
—one chemist is ordinary, or eleven
more—[loud laughter—lmaking thirty
two doctors in one family. Laughter
and applause. I should be almost
afraid of tiring anybody who listened
to me while I went over the list of
strange officers of which the household
is made up. Lord high almoner,
Subalmoner, hereditary grand al
moner, master of the buckhounds,
clerk of the check, clerk of the
closet, exons in waiting, and last, but
not least, the hereditary grand falconer,
the Duke of St. Albans—[laughterj—
who might perhaps with advantage, if
he is to retain his salary of £l5OO a year,
be created hereditary grand pigeon-
shooter in ordinary. [Laughter :I If
we turn to the lord steward's department
we comeatonce upon a mysterious board
of green cloth, as it is called, at the head
of which are the lord steward, the treas
urer, the comptroller of the household,
and the master of the household, with a
perfect army of secretaries and clerks,
and with special secretaries, with special
offices, and with special salaries in each
of those sections of the department.
[Laughter.]
" In the kitchen department we have
a chief cook and four master cooks, re
ceiving salgries of between £2,000 and
£3,000 a year between the five ; and a
host of confederates, some of whom
have duties that I cannot even guess at
—such, for instance, as the two t . Preen
Office' men. [Roars of laughter -
here are whole departments; the cm
ties of which cannot be very consider
.
bie, oneWoUld thick, or, at all,events,
not considerable enough to warrant
their being made into departments of
the household ; for instance, the eon
fectlonery department and the ewer de
partment, while the duty of the table
eoking employs no less than live per
mus—[laughter] who have salaries of
between X5OO and J.:(3110 a year iii all.—
[Ff isses.]
The Nest Comet
Eticlte's comet Is now on its way to
wards the perchelion, which It will
reach in January next. The cornet will
be telescopically visible some months
previously, but is not an object of special
interest to those whose vision is unaided
by instruments. Astronomers will soon
begin to point their telescopes to the
neighborhood where tile cornet will be
first seen. It has a very short period—
only three years and a quarter. The
least distance from the sun is 32,000,001 1
of miles, or about the average distance
of Mercury. The greatest distance Is
357.i5i0,01/0 of Miles, or more than
four times that of the earth. This
comet is principally of interest because
its period of revolution has diminished
to toe extent of about three days in the
past eighty years, a fact which is gen
erally accepted as furnishing the best
'mad' of the theory that the regions of
space are filled with a material "ether"
capable of retarding the motion of the
bodies composing the solar system. Of
course this resisting medium would pro
duce annual effects upon the comet of a
few tolls In weight, that would not be
experienced by our earth in the course
01 those of ages. Itut, the result, though
long deferred, is none the less ineelta
-I.le—eltrlll, planets, and comets tl•ill all
be eventually precipitated into the sun.
The Onondaga Indians
The Onondagas have made a notable
advance wit h in the past ten years, both
in property and morals, About half or
them time profess Christianity. They
have two ilourishinv ilmrehes. a Metho
dist Episcopal, and a Protestant - Episeo
pal Ilishup Huntington has taken
sperial interest in the tribe, and his et
forts have been ally' seconded by tier
Rev. Messrs. Foster and limimum.—
NVithin the past year the Episcopal
chapel has been enlarged. The witalmN
hack Of the chancel is the gift of Ails.
E. 'l'. l'hroop Alartin, of .\ a burn.
Probably the Onondaga Indian reser
vation is au un kuua v u land (0 1110:41.
pie. It urcupiea 011 c of the most, beau
tiful parts of the rich valle to the south
of :syritetise. It is shout s ix tulles long,
three miles wide, and contains about
twelve 111,i110.1111 11,11.5. The l/11:1111111.-
gas are supposed to Iw th% awat).
This is not so. 111 its pulmietit days 111
tribe is atil t In have 'lumbered but lice
hundred; and to-day Captain Cieorge
rioir hundred followers.- - Exchri )1 .
It i , projanftal In 0 ,1a1,1j.1i a I Ugh
Imol Cliest,,t.
in jail.
'hunk has
The Northampton County Poor I Louise
arm contains over auu acres of the Most
ertile land in the iiiitate.
'l•he •' wickedest W01111:111" in Allen-
wll liVes nn Tt'llth stretA, and refUM,
NUN% wood for her husband.
rhe new Berke County Ilospital
',idly approaching completion
hue, large structure.
The Lewisburg Chronif.l, complai nm of
le It of traveling and wail
Antics In that region.
Media imbibers get drunk on hard
der, and leading citizens are moving
, stop the vale of the Hanle.
Four steamships are under way at
Roach's ship-yard, at Chester, one of
which will take a year to complete.
A live thousand dollar chapel, to be
mission of the First Presbyterial
Church, is being built at ('heater.
Prof. J. W. Niles was thrown from
his buggy in East Bloomsburg recently
and severely injured.
Mr. A. E. Kelley, of Emporium, fell
from the roof of a house on Saturday,
anti was quite seriously Injured.
In consequence of the Illness of J udge
Woods 110 business was transacted in
the Snyder county court last week.
The Clinton Democrut says more acci
dents occur on the I'. tkr E. Railroad,
went of Renova, than are made nubile.
An adjourned court could not be held
at Lewisburg bait week on account of
the sickness of the President Judge.
The Central Railroad of New Jersey
are going to build a new round house
'for the 'Lehigh and Susquehanna Di
vision at Bethlehem.
A. paper was received aL the ISethie
eni last week, addressed to
he " Professor 14 . Earthquakes, Lehigh
my( r.,ity
The boatmen on the Lehigh Canal are
as lively as crickets Just now, trying to
make as many trips as they' ran before
the season closes.
The Bethlehem 'Fins says the surest
sign of a cold, hard Winter, is the num
ber of marriages pultlished in all part,.
of the State.
Th. Wayne Pliiholelphia) Presbyte
rian Church has given 5.5 , I t o o to the
Pennsylvania Hospital, and thereby
secured the else of a free bed.
John 11. (bully, of Warren county, 41.
horough oil-operator, has an income of
IS, ll llllperlllolltil. lla puts on uo style,
net gaily works oh to fortune.
The North Penn Iron Company, at
Bingen, shipped over the North Penn
sylvania Railroad, for the week ending
Nov, :!so tons pig iron.
The wip, of Itev. George S. Broad
bent, pa.slor the mahodist Eiilneopal
Church at Bethlehem, lied at the par
sonage in that liormigh on Friday morn-
m, it with
The I larrisburg yrrlplt mays, it is
altogether probable that the trial of the
charges against Emanuel Shaffner will
be ige.ti.iied unlit the January terco:of
rourt.
For Ilse week ending Nov. I I th, 1501
squares rooting slates were shipped front
Slatington via Lehigh Valley Railroad
alone. Vor saute week also, 2-171 cases
school slates and r.ti cases mantles.
The English Lutheran congregation
of Loeb Haven have extended a call to
the Rev. Mr. (riley, of Indianapolis, to
fill the position of pastor, made vacant
Ity the resignation of Rev. M. I toodlin.
gin Tuesday morning, of last week,ra
negro tiumed Frio k attempted to out
rage a white girl aged about sixteen, at
the Downer }louse, Corry. lie was ar
rested and committed to jail in Erie.
The Harrisburg folks are huffy over
having to pay 411 cents a dozen for eggs,
and the Tacgraph local asks, "Is Batty
wonder the chickens were afflicted with
cholera this year when people can de
mand such prices for eggs?"
In rebuilding Chicago the prospects
are that a very large anmunt of slate will
be used; already the Enterprise elate
Company of Slatedale have shipped 17
car loads, and Thomas & Co. 5 car loads
for that point. So says the Allentown
Dr.tooccut.
Mr. John' Doubler, one of the early
settlers of Barrett township, Pa., died
recently at the ago of eighty-three. He
was with Bonaparte's army at Moscow,
and was one of seven who returned out
of a company of one hundred and eighty
who started.
A mall In Harrisburg, on Tuesday,
attempted suicide by swallowing one
grain of strychnine. His life was saved
by the following as an antidote : I lyti.
Chloral, .', ounce; Bromide I'otass,
drachms; Water, I', ounces ; Syr. Or
auge, 12l ounces:
On Thankmgiving afternoon the mon
ument erected to the memory of Harry
U. Shaffer, late Chief Engineer of the
Fire Department of Harrisburg, will be
dedicated with appropriate ceremonies.
The entire Fire Department will par
ticipate, and several addresses will be
delivered.
Exploration for coal still continues at
Troy, Po. A vein of mixed slate, soap;
stone, Iron pyrites and coal is being exi'
caroled. At times the coal, which is u
kitin scum so far, will entirely disappear,
tind again Increase to a thickness of 4 or
ft inches. (tu the whole, the indications
are good.
B. Ir. ( lowen, President of the Read
ing railroad company, ha announced
the following appointments : Mr. Wm.
Lorentz, Chief Engineer, in the place
of Charles E. Byers, deceased ; Mr. J.
\V. Johnes retains the p sition of Sec
retary, and relinquishes that of Comp
troller, Mr. David J. Brown being ap
pointed Comptroller; Mr. J. Brinton
White, First Auditor; Mr. Daniel
Jones, Auditor.
The United States government has decid
ed to refuse the proposition of the Spanish
government to refer the case of the Hornet
to an Admiralty Court for adjudication
respecting the character of that vessel.
This refusal is founded on the fact that the
law officers of our government have decid
ed that such a court had no jurisdiction in
such a case.
Vhat's the Use
A number of our Democratic cotempor
aries aro quoting the Constitution to show
that Grant has no right to suspend the writ
of habea4 corpus. They aro precisely right
in their conclusions, but It Is a waste of
time to make the quotations. It would do
as much good to quote the sermon on the
Mount to Satan, as the Constitution to
Grant.