The Csiuse of Liberty. We love no triumph* sprung of force - They stain her brightest cause; k Tis not in blood that liberty Inscribes bor clvlf law. Bho writes them on the people's heart, In Inuguago clear and plain ; True thoughts have moved the world before And so thoy shall agaiu. Wo yield to nono in earnest lovo Of freedom's cause sublime ; We join the cry, "Fraternity!" We keep the march of time. And yet wo grasp not pike nor spear, Our victorios to obtain ; We've won without their aid before. And so we shall again. Wo want no aid of bairieadc, To show a front to wrong ; We have a citadel in truth, More durable and strong. Calm words, great thoughts, unflinching faith, Have never striven in vain ; They've won our battles many a time, And so they shall again. I'eace, Progress, Knowledge, brotherhood The ignorant may sneer, The had deny ; but we roiy To see their triumph near. ™ No widows' groans shall load our cause, Nor blood of brethren slain ; We've won without such aid before, And so we shall again. Chai • i M i Any. Snow-Bound in a Car. THE DII.EMMA OF A MUDK-EM'BCTANT. I don't mind telling jon about au ini cident connec.od with one of those snow blockades. I didn't think much of it at the time, but I've since though it worth remembering. One day I found myself at Smethport, the county seat of McKean county, Fa., waiting for a train to Bradford. The only train I could get was on tho Bradford, Bor dell and Kinzna railroad, and as busi ness was somewhat pressing I had to go. It had been snowing steadily for some hours when I went to the station late in tho afternoon, and I had fears that tho train might not get through to Bradford before morning, for the road runs through u mountain forest all the way and there are some pretty steep grades a few miles out. Well, as I couldn't do any better, I detemined to run the risk. There wero only a few passen gers, all of them oil men bat one, and that oue a young lady. Hhe sat alone in the ladies' car, for tho men wanted to smoke and so kept themselves in the smoker. Theje were only two pas senger cars, a baggage car and an engine in the whole tr>in, for you see a narrow-gang© engine can't drag very many cars up the side ifa mountain. Well, down in the valley, where the read was level, we made good headway, but as soon as we got into the woods and struck the first grade wo crept along like a snail. It began to snow harder than ever, and such snow I never saw before. It came down in flakes as large as au egg and as soft as feathers —just the kind of snow to stick and block things. I was beginning to wish I hadn't started when I felt the train come to a standstill. The railroad men began to swear and tho engineer tried to go ahead. The train jerked and jostled, and dragged itself a hundred yarda up the grade and came to a stand still. The trainmen and the oilmen held a council and decided to run back to Smethport, but that was easier tlko 1 alout than accomjdished. Tho rear car hadn't been backed three hundred feet before it run ofT the track, and there wo were. We couldn't telegraph for help, because we hadn't an instrument, and even if we bail the wires were already broken with the weight of snow and falling limbs of trees. By the time we came to a standstill for good it was pitch dark and snowing as thongh all Greenland had moved down on us. There was nothing to do but to ait down and wait tor morning. We palled up the eeata and made bed* of them and were about to make our- j selves comfortable for the night when "Jndge" Cowan, a driller, jumped up with a half jell. "Well," said he, "we're selfish wretches—going to bed here and never once thinking of the woman alone in the other car." d ith that he bolts thorough the door and goes into the other car. •The young lady was in there in the dark, the trainmen even having forgotten to light the lamp*. The minute the judge came through the door she calls out, " Qow long bo fore the train will get to Bradford, con ductor?" "Madam," says he, "I'm not the conductor, and 1 came in to say that we're stack fast in the snow, and will have tostav here all night and porhopa lon jor." With that she give* a little gasp of disappointment, and probably had a little cry ail to herself while the jndge was lighting the lamps. Yon *e, she hsd come all the way from some Kastcru city —Phila delphia, I think—to meet her lover, and by tbe delay of a snow Blockade ahe might misa her wedding day. When the trntb was known the boys ware aorry enough, and would have done anything in their power to help her ont of the difficulty, but what coald a handful of men do against a mountain of snow ? After her first disappointment the young lady waa brave enough and waa not at all afraid of staying in tbe car all night, provided there waa a fire, so that she oould koc-p warm. The judge said ho guessed ho could tlx thing* up com fortable, aud went to work making a bod out of the seat cushions ond three or four overcoat* borrowed from the niou. by the time ho got things in shape he hud learned that her lover was an old friend of hi*. From that minute the judge took her under hi* own speciul protection and relieved the conductor of the responsibility of her safe arrival in Bradford, lie tnado the rest of the men go to bod and sleep, while ho sat up all night tending the tire and keeping watch over hi* new found ehargo. The night wasn't very cold, but the wuv it did *now was a wonder, before morning the ear* w< te half covered under, and by daylight one half of the train was out of sight. You see, wo were in a fix, with no hope* of getting out. Aloug toward 9 o'clock in the morn ing the young lady woke up and asked how soon the train would get through, and the judge, who had mad' a eurefui survey of the surroundings every half hour since the night before, answered in u good-natured way that the train might bo delayed a week for all be could sec at that time. Would you tu la ve mo? if that woman didn't burst out crying! but she was as bravo u. a man the next minute, and she even smiled when the judge proposed to go and hunt np something for breakfast. It wasn't much of a break fust, but it was the best the the train could afford. A box of biscuits was found in the baggage car, along with a barrel of apples. Every lxx and barrel in the car was broken open, but not another eatable thing could be found. We had an elaborate bill of faro that day— apples and biscuit for breakfast, biscuit and apples for dinner, while for supjier wo had baked apple* and toasted bis cuit. It snowed all day and nobody left the ears. At night the *J <'refnl in guarding them from harm. They need to be on their guard, for the feeling i* apt to be strong that their eyes can stand anything. The eyes may be injured by using too little (light, whether that of poor oil or of the twilight; by too much light, as when shines directly on tho page which a person is reading, i They may also be injured by a flicker- i ing or sny variable light—the eye be coming exhausted in its incessant at tempt* at accommodation. Hudden changes from light to dark, and vice versa- when one who uses a shaded lamp looks back and forth from the blight page into the darkened room -are also injurious. By holding the head down near the book when one is reading, or by reading while in a re clining postnre, the mi note capillaries of the eye may become congested and the sight deadened. Tho eyes may also ho injured by naing them too continuously without roat; by holding the eyes habitually too uoar their object, than giving rifle to short-sightedness ; by reading in the cars or a carriage, the eyes being weariod, fretted and congested by their effort to follow the lines; by too much reading daring tbe weary hours of con valesconce, when the eyes share in the weariness of the body ; and by reading fine print on poor paper. This lui source of norm needs to be emphasised, in view of the millions of cheap publications now pouring from the press. The thinness of the paper— allowing the reading to show through —is even worse than the small siae of the type. Yottlk'* Companion. Htatiatics disclose the fact that of every tea children born in England and Wales, less than seven ever reach their twentieth yew. In Franc* only one half of tbe toys and girls who are torn attain that age, and Ireland tails evn below this raiflp-able standard of Jnvsnile heelthfulncse. An he! I'ond. The greatont eel pond in the country is on the farm of Mr. Wulls, of Hiver liead, Long Island. The pond covera Ave acres. Two years ago Mr. Wells put into ;the pond two thousand dozen oels, with no in tention of disturbing them for Ave years. They have increased wonderfully, millions being in the pond, and it is thonght that there will bo quadrillions before Mr. Wells gets ready to market them, and that ho has u fortune in them. Tho eels are fed regularly every three days on what is known as "horse feet,' 1 a sou product, with meat inside a shell which takes the shajieof a horse's hoof, and it is doubtless from thut that it de rives the name. The eels seem to know that they are to be fed, for wben Mr. Wells beats upon tho side of his wagon vfith the butt end of bis whip, they swurm toward him. Any other person may beat and bang for hours without causing tho slightest commotion among them. Hundreds of people go to sou them fed. Mr. Wells' to satisfy the visitors' curiosity, will hold a horse foot in tho water for a minute or two, and then withdraw jt with numerous (-els clinging to the eon tents of tho shell. The largest eel ever taken from the l>ond in this way weighed Ave and three quarter pounds, but there are, it is thought, still larger ones. They con sume seven hundred and fifty horse feet iu three days. It would seem impossi ble to furnishjso many, but the number does not Wgin to detail the extent of the catch. Millions of them are an nually fed to swine and poultry, and seise men make a business of catching them. On June 15, after a storm, Cap tain Downs, with a trap of his own in vention, caught ono thousand " feed," and between the 15th of July and April his aggregate catch was nineteen thou sand. The llareand the Fisli. The Ilare and the Fish, having bor rowed tolmcco of each other for sevetul months and agreeing perfectly well on politics, set out to make a journey to gether and see the sights of the world. They had not proceeded many miles wb en a Wolf war discovered in pursuit. The Hare at once started ofl at the t#p of his speed, but the Fish called out: °Do not leave me thna—l cannot run I" " A Fish who cannot ruu has no buai nemuto make a journey," r plied the ilare, and away he flew to rave his bacon. The Fish hurried after as fast as pos sible, aud loth found themselves on the bank of a river, while the Wolf was y< t a furlong away. The Fish at once rolled into tho water and darted away, but the Hare shouted after him: "Do not lewve me—l cannot swim!" "A Hare who cannot swim has no business to make a journey," nnd he sailed away and left the Hare to be eaten on the half shell. MORAU All Owl who had overheard the affair from hi* perch in a persimmon tree drew ddhrn his left rye and softly said: " You don't know a man until yon have traveled witlr him."— hc'roif Frr* /'rr**. The touching I'iant. This is not a flower that laughs, but one that creates laughter, if the printed stories of travelers are to be believed. A boy friend writes me that lie baa just been reading abont it. It grows in Arabia, and is called thelanghing plant, because its seeds produce effects like those produced by laughing-gas. The flowers, he says, are of a bright yellow, and tho seed-pod* are soft and woolly, while tbe seeds roomble small black brans, ftid only two or three grow in a pod. Tho natives dry and pulverise them, and the powder, if taken in small doses, makes the aohorest person tohavo like a circus clown or a mad man, for he will dance, sing and laugh most boisterously, and cut the most fantastic capers and to in an uproari ously ridienloua condition for about an hour. When the exitement ceases the exhausted exhibitor of these antics falls asleep, and when he awakes he has not the slightest remembrance of bis frisky doings.— St. NicJiolnn. An Arabian Beauty. Ameua, the daughter of the chief of the Algerian revolt, in the great beauty of the Arati tribes. She appears to to distinguished above all her rivals, not only for her loveliness, but for accom plishments likewise, being a poetess of no mean order, and for ber courage in the field, where she takes her place by her father's side and gallops fiercely on her Arab courser, as flnot and powerfnl as his own. The pictnre ia worthy of Horace Vernet, the Frenchmen say who have pnraned the flying host under Bon Amena'a command—the chief with his white bonrnoe flying behind him and the red anil purple tassels of his horse gear dancing in tbe wind, while the dark bine and white striped veil of the girl, with its gold border, flashes in the sun aa it floats ont beyond the long streaming tail of her fiery steed. A Faithful Hic|ocrhe raised her head, but seemed very loth to leave her babies, Tiio boss called sharply to her. Hhe rose, looking tired and low-spirited, with head and tail down, and trotted off toward the forest. I said : " That is too l>ad." "Oh, she'll be right back. Khe's lightning on stray sh'-ep." The next morning 1 went over to learn whether Flora found the strays. While we were speaking the sheep were returning, driven by the little dog, who did not raise her head or wag her tail even when spoken to, but crawled to her puppies and lay down by them, hhe had been out all night, und while her hungry i abies were tugging away fell asleep. I have never seen anything so touching.— Colorado lst'*r. I'oKou for I lie I'mi|ili', It would app> r from the following extract from Footl and /!• iUf, that food adulteration is more general than is usually supposed: Committees of ex erts tell of adulteration in food that is simply appalling. W< re the ingredi ents which are mixed with food innoc uous it would still be a very great hard ship; but when it is known that the most violent poisons are employed it i a marvel that the whole country does not r; e up and put a stop to such prac tins and punish all dealers who sell poisonous articles of food. If confirmation of these startling statements were uceded one has only to read the faets recently brought to light in Chicago, where it is impos sible to find pure sugar and where not ten per cent, of the milk is good. In that city the bread, without exception, is poisonous; the teas were nev.-r im ported, but are male of leaves "faced"' with Prussian blue and chromate of lead. Heventy-fivc per cent, of the cream of tartar is white earth, and the coffee is coated with lampblack. But Chicago is no worse than other cities. Baking |>owders are largely composed of alum. Pickling fluid is diluted with sulphuric acid, alum and verdigris to give it a peculiar flavor. The manufacture of a great deal of our confectionery should be punished as a crime, for much of the candy sold to children is simply a lump of white earth, made attractive to the eye with arsenical paint, and sweetened with glucose. Costly spi. e* are counterfeited in a terribly grotesque manner, the flavoring !>etng giv.n by the rankest poisons. In these and other adulura tions arsenic plays the largest part. We import annnally two million pounds of this deadly poison—one cent's worth of which would kill 2 *OO people—and the bulk of this import is used in the preparation of food and clothing. Hon triNc Teeth lire Made. A reporter of the Sfar recently visited a factory in this city where false teeth are made by the million In the pro cess of manufacture tho ailox and feld spar in their erode state arc submitted to a red heat, and then suddenly thrown into cold water, the effect toing to ren • der them more easily pulverized. Hav ing been ground very fine in water and tbe water evaporated, the two materials mentioned are dried and sifted. The kaoline is washed free from impurities. These materials, with feldspar, sponge, platina and flux in proper proportion for the enamel, are mixed with water and worked into masses resembling putty. This done, tho unbaked porce laine masses are ready for the molding room. The molds are in two pieces and are made of braaa, one half the teeth or sections toing on either aide. The coloring materials are first placed in the exact position and quantity required, and the bod* of the tooth and the gum is inserted in lumps corresponding to 'he aire of tho tooth. Tbe molds are then closed, and they are dried by a slow beat. When perfectly dry they are taken out and sent to the trimmers' rooms. The trimmers remove all im. perfections and send them in trays of fire clay to the furnace, where having remained for twenty minutes they are eomplete.— Wilmington (/V.) Star. A Valentine. Ah, dear Uii' fond f him r chills delay the blood, W Idle 'lie if nhcatlie* the next year' bud, While earth la frozen atiff and dead, And the liearetu nhow a frowning brow, The flower of love uplift* ita head, And blossoms wjth ita white and red; Isioaar.ma tij'm a damask ibeak, In warmth and fragrant e spicy aweet, Whore aotne one *Uy, with lingering feet, To read the burden of my Una To read the word* I dart not apeak Then lift* a dewy lip t/> mine, And take* me for her Valentino. V I'I'MIKM I'AIUtIKAI'IfS. A brilliant idea Selling paste for diamond*. A JJoaton man tiara hi* far, trim mad overcoat in "too utterly otter." A whaling expedition—Going after a bad l>oy with a hickory awitch. liit* lian>la of a clock are genuine hummer- they an- alwaya going the rounds. If the blind people wire to hold a convention, could a motion be carri-d by the ayea ? A mad'd knight mui t have required u good many postage atumpa to rarry him through aucceasfnlly. A baby in Ohio that was fed on ele phant' milk gained twenty pounds in one week. It was the baby elepLant. This is the time when the small boy puts in eight hours a day flattening his noae against the confectionery window. When a man brags that he can tell a jwraon's character, by the color of his# hair, it is deuced rough to swindle Lim by steering him tip against a man who wears a wig. A Brooklyn man ha* just found his sister, from whom he has been scpar ated fifty yesi>. Khe was the cook in his Ixiarding house, and be recognized the style of ber bash. t " Custer county, M. T., is aiout as large as the whole of Pennsylvania." Yes, hut it will never Lave as large a population. That is, ao long as if re mains in an M. T. state. The speak< r bad failed to awaken a very deep interest in his hearers, but when the small boy bad stolen •jaietly out after leaving red j-eyja-r on tLe stove tie re wasn't a dry eye in the house. W Bachelor Jones—"The State would bo better off if every Chinaman was kicked out of it to-morrow." His mar ri-d friend—" Where would you get your washing done then V" Bachelor Jones—"Marry seine nice girl and have it done at home." Chorus by six clicible young ladies who happened to hear Jones and bis friend talking— " The Chinese must go !" " Memory is a wonderful thing." said Jack Miller to his friend Pan Watts. "Just think of what a fellow's hea i can hold I It's gigantic, sir— gigantic !* Watts: " I hat c often heard your friends say you have a very fine memory. Jack,'' Miller (flattered): " Well, that's very kind. Yes, I have a pretty good memory." Watts: "I)o you think you can recall the ten dollars I lent you three years ago 7" Quite an outcry is laing made about the alleged dangers of the electric light 'Twas always thus. The wise men of s few yesrs ago were afraid to use gas, for fear the gasometer might blow them up as often as a shrewish wife. Others thonght that applying a match to a gas jet would be analogous to firing a train of gunpowder. The light, it was argued, would run along the pipe and cause an explosion every time. Huch, however, was not the case. The explosions occur only quarterly, when the bills are brought in. A seoome detached from the garment when it waa thrown down, and the Ren. in her wanderings, might have been at-' trncted by thia shining valnable. and gobbled it down. Re had a great mind to kill the ben then and there to investigate, hot he didn't want to, as if he did the eggs wonld be no good ; so for a couple of dara the hen was kepr close, not allowed to go ont of the bonne, and closely watched in the hope of finding the missing diamonds. Bnt no pin waa found. Finally, on or about the third day, if was decided to kill the ben, when, sure enough, in the gistard was fonnd the miaaing pin. The gold setting was teat and scratched and one ot the smaller diamonds was missing, bnt font of the diamonds wen all right.