What I Lire For. [Or. Gutbrie uaet! to tay tbat there was I mora religion, good seno and poetry in the < fo'lowing tnau in all similar effort* lie had > ever real ] I live lor those who love me, 1 For thoee I Know aro true; For the heaven that smiles above me, 1 And awaits my spirit too; For ail human ties that bind ine, For the task my God assigned me, For tho bright hopes left bchiud tne, Anve me, Anil waits my spirit to; i For the wrongs that need resistance, , For the cause that needs assistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do. THE QUAKER DETECTIVE. We were five passengers in all—two ladies on the back seat, and a middle | aged gentleman and a Quaker on tbc ■ middle, and myself on the front. The two ladies might have been [ mother and daughter, aunt and i ieco, [ governess and charge, or might have [ sustained any other relationship which make it proper for two ladies to travel I together unattended. The middle-aged gentleman was I sprightly and talkative. He soon 9truck up an acquaintance with the ladies, toward whom in his zeal to do, he rather overdid, the agreeable—bow ing and chattering over his shoulder in a very painfully suggestive, at his time of life, of a "crick" in the tick. He was evidently a gay Ixithario. The Quaker wore the uniform of his sect, and confined his speech, as mnnv a parliamentarian would save his credit by doin~, to simply "yeas and "nays." As for myself I make it an invariable rule of the road to be merely a looker on and listen. Toward evening I was aroused from one of those reveries into which a young man, without being a poet or a lover, will sometimes fall, by an abrupt query from the talkative gentleman: " Are ycu armed, sir." " I am not," I answered, astonished no doubt visible, at the question. " I am sorry to hear it," he replied, " for before reaching our next stopping place it will be several hours in the B night, and we must pass over a portion E of the road on which more than one ■ robbery is reported to have been com- E milted." The ladies turned pale, but the I stranger did bis best to reassure them. " Not that I think there is the slight- Best danger at present." he resumed; ■ ' only when one is responsible for the ■ safety of the ladies, you know, such a ■ thing as a pistol in reach would ma ■ teriaily add to one's confidence." "Your principles, my friend," ad ■ dressing the Quaker, "I presume are as ■ much opposed to carrying as lousing ■ carnal weapons?" [ " Yea," was.ihe response. I "Have the vidians murdered any of Btheir victims?" the elderly lady nerv- Hously inquired. I "Or have they contented themselves Bwith— with—plundering them?" added younger, in a timorous voice. I " Decidedly tne latter," the amiable Bgentleman hastened to give assurance; Bp and we are none of us prepared to offer Bresistance in case of alack, so nothing than robbery can possibly befall ■ Then, after b'aming his thoughtless wis in having unconsciously introduced Bjs disagreeable tuhject, the gentleman excelled himself in effort i to raise ■ic spirits of the company, and had sue- so well by the time night had in tbat all bad quite forgotten or re- Bp ember ed tneir fears to laugh at them. E Our genial companion fairly talked mseif hoarse; pircciving which he from his pocket a box of newly vented "cough candy," and, after it to the ladies, be helped him gHbell to the balance and tossed the paper Bmt of the window. B He was in the midst of a high en- on the new nostrum, more than |H>alf the efficacy of which, he insisted, j^Hepended on its being taken by faction, Bprbcn a shrill whistle was heard, and immediately the coach stopped, Bpbllc two faces, hideously blackened, ■presented themselves one at each win- Bov. I "Sorry to trouble you," said the Bn the right, acknowledging with a bow ■wo ladylike screams from the back "but ' business is business,' and soon be over if things go " Ot course, gentlemen, you will spare as far as may be consistent with your disagreeable duty, the feeling of these ladies," appealed tho polite passenger, in his blandest manner. ■ "Oh t certainly; they shall bo first at tended to, and shall not bo required to avo th eir places, unless their conduct renders it necessary." "And now, ladies," continued the robber, the barrel ot his pistol glitter ing in the light ot the coach lamp, "be so good as to pass your purses, watches and such other trinkets as may be ac cessible without too much trouble." The ladies came down handsomely, and were not further molested. One by one the reel got out. The middle-aged gentleman's turn came first. He submitted with a winning grace, und was robbed like a very Ches terfield. My own affairs, like the sum 1 lost, are scarely worth mentioning. The Quaker's turn came next. He quietly handed over his pockctbook an watch, and when asked if he had any other valuables said " Nay." A Quaker's word is good, even among thieves; so,after a hasty "good-night," tiie robber thrust his pistol into his pocket, and with his two companions, one of whom had held the reins of the lenders, was about departiug. "Stop!" exclaimed the Quaker, in a tone more of command than of request. "Stop! What for?" returned the other, in evident surprise. " For at least two good reasons," was the reply, emphasized with a couple of derringers, cocked and presented. " Help!" shouted the robber. "Stop!" the Quaker exclaimed; " and if any of thy sinful companions advance a step to thy relief, the spirit will surely move me to blow thy brains out " The robber at the opposite window and the one at the leaders heads thought it a good time to leave. "Now. get in friend," said the Quaker, still covering his man, " take the middle sent; but first deliver up tho pistol." The other hesitated. " Thee had better not delay. I feel the spirit begin to move my right fore finger." The robber did as he was directed, and the Quaker took his place at his side, (riving the new-comer the middle of the seat. The driver, who was frightened half out of his'wits, now set forward at a rapid rate. The lively gentleman soon recovered his vivacity. He was espe cially facetious on the Quaker's prowess. " You're a rum Quaker, you are. Why, you don't quake worth a cent." " I am not a ' Shaking Quaker,* if that's what thee means." "Of the' Hickory,' or rather the * Old Hickory,' stripe, I should say," retorted the lively man. But the Quaker re lapsing into his usual monosyllables, the conversation flagged. Sooner than we expected, the coach, stopped where we were to have supper and a change of horses. We had de ferred a redistribution of our effects until we should reach this piace. as the dim ljght of the coach lamp would have rendered the process somewhat diffi cult. It was now necessary, however, that it should be attended to at once, as our jovial companion had previously an nounced his intention of leaving us at this point. He proposed a postpone ment till after suppar, which he offered to go and order. " Nay," urged the Quaker,with an ap proach of abruptness, and laying his hand on the other's arm. "Business before pleasure, and, for business there is no time like the present." " Will thee be good enough to search the prisoner P" he said to me, still keep ing his hand in a friendly way on the passenger's arm. I did so. but not one of the stokn ar ticles could be found. " He must have got rid of them in the coach," the gay gentleman suggested, and immediately offered to go and search. " BU>p!" thundered the Qaaker, tight ening his grasp. The man turned pale and struggled to release his arm. In an instant one of the derringers was levehd at his hea 1. "Stir a hand or a foot, and you are a dead man!" The Quaker ipust have been awfully excited, so completely to forget both the language and principles of his persua sion. Placing the other pistol hi my hand, with directions to fire oa the first of the two men that made a suspicious move ment, he went to work on the Lothario, from whose pockets, in leas time than it takes to tell it, be produced every item of the missing property, to the utter amusement of the two ladies, who had l*egun in no measured terms to remon strate against the shame'Ui treatment the gentleman was receiving. The Quaker, I need scarcely add, was no Quaker at all, but a shrewd detective who had been set on the track of a band of desperadoes, of whom our middle aged friend—who didn't look near so middle-aged when his wig was off—was the chief. The robbery had been most adroitly planned. The leader of the gang had taken paaaage in the coach, and alter learning, as he supposed, our defenseless condition, bad given the sig nal to bis oompanions by throwing out the scrap oi paper already mentioned. After the unexpected capture of the first robber, it was attempted to save the booty by eeoretly passing U to the ao uomplioe—still believed to be uesua ■ pected—who counted on being able to make off with it nt the next stopping place. The result w:w that both, for n season, did the State some service. Sapphire Hunting In Slum. Five years ago a native hunter in Siam found sapphires in a remote and secluded district. Bome men who were let into the secret followed him to the mines nnd brought back to Rangoon and Calcutta a number ol very valunhle tones. A rush ensued irom British Burraah, thousands of adventurers (locking to the mines, some to find sud den fortune, but more to lose their lives om privation and jungle fever. Tho mines occur in the provinces of Battam bong and Chantaboon. In his commer cial report for 1N79, the British consul at Bangkok says that the miners arc very careful to conceal their gems while in Siam. Being anxious to show some of the gems to Admiral Cooic, the con sul called for specimens from some miners who had just returned from the diggings. One miner, a poorly-clod nnd miserable-looking fellow, produced a few small stones, and after a great deal of coaxing was induced, with many precautions, to give a private view of his great prize, which wa3 a very large sapphire in the iough, valued at $lO.- 000. He would probably not have shown this stone nt all had he not been on the point oi leaving in a steamer. Owing to the secrecy thus observed by the possessors of valuable gems, it is impossible to give any estimate of the total value of stones found, butdhat in dividuals have made very large profits is certain. One man dug out a stone which he offered for sale in Chantaboon for SSOO, but did not find a pur chaser. He went with it to Rangoon where he wosoflcred $7,500; but,having awnkened to the value of the stone, l*> declined to sell, and took it to Calcutta, where he eventually obtained $15,000 for it. Now, however, there are many experienced gem merchants established in the neighborhood of the mints, and something like the real value of stones can be obtained by the miners on the spot. The largest sapphire hitherto found, so far as the consul knows, weighed 379 (arajs In the rough, and when cut turned out 111 carats of the finest water. The ruby, onyx and jade are found in the district, but the quality of none of them is such ns to make them very valuable.— Sprint/field Repub lican. A Japanese Sailer's Inii>. The following account is given of the ceremonies performed at the burial of a seaman on board the Japanese train ing ship Tsukuba, at San Francisco: In the arrangement for his funeral the offi cers and crew showed great kindness and delicacy of feeling, and the funeral itself was an interesting occasion. As many of the officers and crew as could be spared were present, and eight of the sailors aHed as pall-bearers. Some of the ceremonies were curious. When the coffin had been lowered into the grave, the officer in charge paced n small table at its head and put thereon several kinds of vegetables, fruit*, sweet meats, and n glass of wine. The feast being prepared, the officers, according to rank, singly proceeded to the table, and with uncovered ueads m >dc a very rev erential obeisance. Aft3r them came the cadets and then followed the marines. Lieutenant Senju then read a short cuiogy. It was in effect that Y. Mataba bad been a brave and true sailor in his Japanese majesty's service; tbat he bore an unsullied character, and that the entire company on hoard the Tsukuha mourned his loss. They felt sure that one so upright and diligent, and one who possessed so many manly virtues could have no difficulty in cross ing the dark ocean—the unknown—and would speedily find a safe harbor of refuge in which to anchor. The marine corps then formed at the head of the grave and fired thtee salutes over their dend comrade, and at the conclusion of each the trumpeter blew a very melan choly biost. In the same order as before each Japanese then threw a handful ol earth upon the coffin, after which the grave-diggers rapidly filled up the grave. One of the peculiarities of the fun n ral rite was a long piece of muslin placed near the table, upon which were written some kind words, reciting the good qualities of the dead man, and signed by each of his messmates—a sort of certificate of good character, in case he should require such a document. One of the thoughtful and graceful acts of the crew and officers of the Tsukuha while at San Francisco was the repair ing the graves of the fonr Japanese sail ors bur>ed there six or eight years ago. These graves were in a very dilapidated condition, but aix of the officers and men spent two days in restoring them. Though strangers to those to whom they paid this respect, they remembered that the sailors were Japanese and were buried in a foreign country. Can This Be Trnet A woman at Carson, Nevada, is said to have undertaken to refrain from ■peaking for forty days. The report runs as follows: She began at nine in the morning, and at Sen and a quarter her pulse was so feeble from exhaust'on tbat the physicians feared she would die by noon. At eleven her heart beat but twenty-six a minute, and her res pirations were hardly noticeable. Her friends here urged her fo discontinue her terrible task, and told'her some gos sip about a neighbor. On hearing it, ■he immediately rushed from the house, and going across the street met a lady friend and talked to six and a half last night and is now foUy restored. FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Household Hints. A clam shell Is more convenient for scraping kettles and frying pans than a knifo. It docs the work in less time. When washing fine laces do not urc starch at all; in the last water in which they are rinsed put a little fine white sugar, dissolve it thoroughly, and the result will be pleasing. When the hands are chapped, instead of washing them with soap, employ oat meal, and, after each" washing, take a littic dry oatmeal, and rub over the hand so as to absorb any moisture. A solution of one and oue-quarters of a pound of white sonp and three-eighths of an ounce of spirits of ammonia, dis solved In twelve gallons of soft water, will impart a beautiful and lasting whiteness to any flannels dipped in it, no matter how yellow they have been previous to their immersion. After be ing well stirred round for n short time, the articles should be taken out and well washed in clean, cold water. Neat Itoer-Ttrdi. The person who lives in the city lias but a small yard; and generally can manage to keep it neat and clean. But country ;folks have larger places, and having so much work constantly on hand they kel unable to spend the time which they think would be required to niaktf taiir surroundings pleasant. Many farmers also have an idea that it costs a great deal to put out ornamental trees and lay out the grounds as village people often do. In order to lay them out in an artistic manner and have the grounds resemble a city park, consider able money would be needed. But a yard can be made quite pretty without much labor or expense. The surface of the ground should be made and kept quite rnooth, and the grass should oc cut often. A few ornamental trees or shrubs may be planted, but a good green stretch of lawn by itself looks pretty, and saves work. Such a lawn, too. is enticing for the children, and if kept neat, which after all is the main thing, the place will lie much more attractive than such too often arc. Cowi lor I he Dairy. It would not pay to buy costly cows for dairy purposes; that is, as % busi ness. If apersoa lor his own personal gratification will ignore the earning of interest on his investment, he may le paid in that way for the keeping of a herd of choice pure-bred Jerseys or Ayr shucs. But he will not get >tie cent more for the milk or butter in tlie mar ket. A grocer won't give a cent lor the pedigree of the cows which produce the butter he buys. Quality is all he wants. And common cows well selected will yield just as good butter as any pure bred cows, and as much on the average. Therefore, for profit, one should pick up a herd of the best native oows be can find at the common market place; feed them well and manage his business in the best manner, and he will have the same income at he could get from the same number of cows that would cost him as much.—Christian at Work. Having RttSi. While it may be very desirable to save the first seeds of some of our vegetables, such as sweet corn, peas and beans, it is not best to make such a selection from all kinds. The first tomatoes that ripen ore generally small and ill-ahapen, and it would be undesirable to select seeds from these, as they would soon deteriorate the variety; but the best plan is to wait till large, smooth speci mens are produced, and from these ■elect seod for future crops. By doing tbis for a few years, you will find that you have wonderfully improved the tomato; and to secure improvement of any kind of vegetable it is absolutely necessary to select the best specimens of every kind. Deterioration ought to have no place in the fanner's vocabu lary.— Cultivator. Caatlaaa Thrmik Cultlvailaa. The thorough cultivation of hoed crops, fruit trees and small fruits, which is continued through spring and early summer by good managers, is frequently relaxed later in the season, and weeds often get a start and tome headway. Continue the work of their destruction, and by keeping the surface of the soil clean and mellow, kill them before they come up. Use only the best and sharp est tools, grind hoes often, do by horse power all that you can, and finish by hand. Stir the ground after a shower and before a hard cruatcan form. Even more pointedly than ast year the English papers are discussing the subject of some substitute for beer to be drunk in the harvest field. Some farmers give their laborers cold tea with good results. In Scotland buttermilk is becomings great drink. Oatmeal and water kept cool is considered one of the best barves dritnks. The scientific papers have of late ex hibited woful ignorance of the subject in speaking of the hottest place in the world. They make no alludon to the occasion In which a young man has in vited two new iady acquaintances to supper at a church festival and makes the appalling discovery that be has nothing but a trade-dollar,and two sus pender buttons with which to liquidate a bill of two dollars and a quarter, that the extraordinary exuberance of hia new friends has generated.—Mende Peysters, Van Homes, Barclays, Desbrosses, and others per petuated in the nomenclature of many of our rtreets. Here lie the founders of tiie republic, Gallatin and Hamilton. The monument over the remains of the thousands of men imprisoned by the British during the Revolution is seen by every passer-by. The memory of our old volunteer fire department is perpet uated by the modest stone erected to the membersofold " forty-two," over which a vine has so beautifully clustered. Fiesh flowers over the grave of Char lotte Temple attest that some still hold this unfortunate in remembrance. Here is the stone to William Bradford, " Printer to this government for fifty year?," says the inscription. The lather of government pr.nters died in 1752 and was boin in 1660. The oldest memorial stone readily found is, singularly enough, to the memory of a young girl. It is situated near the Broadway inclosure and reads thus: "Here Lyelh the body of Annie Churcher died May the 14th 1661 aged 17 years and three quarters buryed May the 16th IB'.tl The letters on the slate are as clearly cut as if made hut a year since. One hundred and (ighty-ninc years ago died Annie Churcher. Only twenty-seven years previous N*w York had parsed from the dominion of the Dutch. The language of Holland was then still the prevalent tongue. The Puritan dressed still in the garb of Cromwell's time, and such of the aristocrney and ofTners of th 2 crown as lived in the then very new world flame 1 in ribbons and ruffles, curls and silken attire. Had Annie Churcher lived to threescore and ten she would still have only heard of the pre liminary muttering* of the American Revolution. A hundred years ago men in perukes an J knee-breeches read the inscription on Annie Churcher's stone, and wondered at the antiquity of a me morial placed there a hundred years be fore them. Ten years more wiil round the two centuries since the maid was laid in Trinity churchyard, then a rural burying ground, from which the eyes of the mourners saw all about the great bay and harbor but unbroken stretches of primeval forest. Of Abraham Williams, who passed away in 1763, the following record and injunction age left: Tree Protn Invay And Strife Was All His I-ife, I-itile Ol This World Did He .Shear, Because His Thoughts, Was On Christ Hi* Saviour Dear. Stag Header Stand And Shed A Tear And Think On Me Who Now l.io* Here And As Yoo Head This Stele ol Me Think On The Glass Which Runs For Thee. Here is another: Here Lyeth the body ol Catherine Thome Daughter ol Richard Thome deceased, who departed This life 291h Jan 1732 Anno Aeteli. 12 Three days fever Snatched her Breath And Bowed her to Triumphant Death. Tho scarce twelve Years had crowned her head. Behold in Dost her peaeetull . Bed, Where every one mall Shortly t.vs Foi all that live, live but to die. Join and William F.agan, who dkd in 1751, arc commemorated by their ps rents as follows: l.yflil dear Bads and TWke your Rest God cald you Horn breas He thong ft Belt. The stonecutter of 1791 most have wandered in mind while at work on the word " Bads," which is evidently in tended for "Lads." A curiously confounded brace of in scriptions on the same stoi.e is that of John and Charity Moore, vliioh the reader may with some study propc tly separate for himself. The sentences arc placed ia the following order: Hare t.yea ya Bodys ol John Moore Aged Charily Wt's ol 84 years Died Ikaj Knots Dec' ye 14th—17'H. tged IS. John Moore laments his demise in a green old ago after the folio wing singu lar fashion: Bouth old ami young, sj wall af me, Must ia due time all buriedba; Uader this holy ol Gold Clay, Just ia nay prime I Am Forth to Isy. The largest monument In the yard is erected to a Dane, one Lara Naanestad. "Weighand Post Master in the island of St. Thomas, Assessor to the Burger Council, Churchwarden and Guardian of the poor at the same place. He wae born on the 6th of June, 17*7 at LIU# Nestycd, on the island of Zealand, IVr mark," and coming to New York for his health, died here 1807. Among the mysterious mrm trials • f Trinity Is a raited monument, the top a large sandstone slab, bearing only in CM oomtr the words: % 11l mv-riory ot Htriha., 1771. . Another is a double gravestone. On csch division is tbe prolle of a skull. But one side is marked as follows: T 8. II 8. PS. IS. 8 8. 1731. " , The grave Q f Alexander Hamilton ilea but a few feet from tbe Hector street wall. The inscription, which a decade or twomorc will render aim sit illegible savors of a style much more current among our forefathers than at present. It reads: Alexahdeu Hamilton, The Patriot o! Incomparable Integrity The Holdier of approved Valor. The BtateMmao of Consummate Wisdom. WhoMj talent and virtue will be admired oy a Grateful Posterity Inn after this marble shall have inou.dered into dost. He died July 12(h. ISOI, aged 47 years. Setb Green believes that the fish com monly called small shad, are dying in such numbers in Lake Ontario on ac count of starvation. They go in great schools, and the advance guard get* all the food before the rear arrives, and they die In consequence. Custom* in Iceland. In a sparsely peopled country, -with out public houses of any sort, hospital ity is a necessary virtue, and tho Iceland ers arc hospitable to ail comers, as far as their means will permit. But to those who happen to live near much-fre quented tracks the burden of hospi tality would be ruinous were it not cus tomary for them to accept a pecuniary present from such guests as arc well able to afford it. From foreign visitors a present is always expected, although it is never demanded, and it is (.ustoxary on taking leave for the guest to hand a few marks to his host with a polite " Vr saa god!" (B> so good, or if you please.) " Mange tab!" (many thanxs) is the usual reply, with a warm graspol the hand, but not without a careful in spection of the coin. TLe fare a: an Icelandic hner or farm is often frugal enough, but the traveler may count at If ast upon a drink of delicious mi.k, and need never scruple to ask for it. Unless he is invited to enler h- will drink it as a stirrup cup outside the door; for Ice landic niqu tie forbids a stranger to walk into a house without an express request. During the months when there is no darkness in Iceland, midnight ar rivals arc of frequent occurrence; ttie numerous dogs, reposing on the grassy roofs of the parsonage or farmhouse, soon arouse the inmates by a noisy greeting to tbe travelers, and prepara tioas are made for their reception in the guest chamber or in tbe church if there la one close by. The church is utilized for a variety of secular purposes, fre quently as a storehouse for the parson's wool, and as regards air and light is usually a preferable bedroom to the guest-chamber of the establishment; being built entirely of wood, without any turf on th* roof, it is also irucb drier than ordinary Icelandic habita tions. On one occasion we arrived, a party of three, at midnight, and found no one stirring about the farm except a woman, who was watching the cattle in the borne-field or "Tun." Being invited into the house, we entered the usual dark passage, sliding and stumbling over the slippery and uneven pavement and knocking our heads against the low beams of the roof. The gucs'.-chamoer contained only one bed, which the good woman at once proceeded to arrange for us all three to sleep in, heads and tails, like herrings in a barrel. Two of us being tall and one stout, while the bed was both short and narrow, it was clear that this arrangement would not be suitable; but politeness sealed our tnnuUie, and we solemnly watched her operations, as she spread the couch with pillows at both ends, and removed from its interior a great variety of house bold articles, for which it was used as a general receptacle. As soon at she bad retired our suppressed merriment burst forth, and wc soon dragged bed ding and eiderdown quilts off the bed enough to make two lairs in other parts of the room. Although we were of various ualiona.ities (a Dane, an American, snd an Rngiithman). and bad all three traveled much and roughed U in many countries, we bad never else where witnessed similar be.!making nor wen a bedstead used instead of a ward - robe and cupboard.— ttneltndk Cen tury. Music st Home.-Jones (an eligibi bachelor, whispering tenderly )—There's too tunc' music in the world. Miss Mary. I should have been married icnr aro if it hadn't been for too much music! Whenever I d screwed up my pluck to the pitch ot poppieg the que*, tkia, somebody always began to sing, sad of course I haJ to— Chorus ol bystaod ers—Slisbshshsh! (Poor Jones is frut tfated lor the twelfth l.ne.)-ftii-V The average person speaks about cut hundred and twenty words a minute. This estimate is considerably short of that required when the speaker has a trunk lid fall on lit* heal white lie is hunting for a sleeve hu*ion. -dud r*' Jvsoom (Jmttm. A NebmeVa Indian contrived to wai low a lot of dynamite, and now be oaa stand around the corner and call a white ami anything hp chootes without bring kicked for his insolence They're shy of jarring him even. 7 ■ ' J