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BELLEFONTE, PA.
Tk*Largsit,ChaspMt and Bast Paper
PUBLISHED IN CENTRE COUNTY.
POPPING THE QUESTION.
From Chmutwrt Journal
A gentleman had long been paying
attention to a young lady to whom ho
was very anxious to marry, hut to
whom he had never ventured to de
clare his passion. When opportunity
afforded his courage deserted him, and
when ho was resolved to smak, the
fair one never could be found alone or
disengaged. Driven to desperation,
he one day succeeded in accomplishing
his purpose in a somewhat remarkable
manner at a diuuer party, lo most
people, a dinner party would hardly
seem the most suitable occasion for
overtures of thia description, especially
when, as in this instance, the lady is
seated at the opposite side of the table
from her admirer. The latter, how
ever, was equal to the occasion. Tear
ing a leaf from his pocketbook, he
wrote on it, uuder cover of the table:
"Will you be my wife? Write Yes or
No at the foot of this.'
Calling a servant, he asked him in
a whisper lo take the slip —which of
course, was carefully folded and iliree- !
ted —to "the ladv in blue opposite." j
The servant did as requested ; and the I
gentleman, in an agony of suspense,
watched him give it to the lady, and j
fixed his eyes, with badly disguised .
eagerness, to try and judge from her j
expression how the quaintly made offer \
was received. He had forgotten one
thing—namely, that ladies seldom
carry pencils about them at a dinner
party. The beloved one was, however,
not to be batHed by so trifling an ob
stacle. After reading the note calmly,
she turned to the servant and said:
"Tell the gentleman, Yes." They were
married in due course.
When Professor A vtoun was wooing
Miss Wilson, daughter of Professor
Wilson, the famous "Christopher
North," he obtained the lady's consent
conditionally on that of her father be- ;
secured. This Aytoun was much too
shy to ask, and he prevailed upon the j
young lady herself to conduct the nec-1
essarv negotiations.
"\Vc must deal tenderly with his
feelings,"said glorious old Christopher.
"I'll write my reply on a slip of paja r,
aud pin it on the back of your frock."
"Papa's answer is on the back of my
dress," said Miss Jane as she entered
the drawing room. Turning her round
the delighted professor read these
words: "With the author's compli
ments."
In Lord Beaconsfield's last novel an
eccentric old nobleman poj* the ques
tion in the following matter-of-fact
language: "I wonder if anything
would ever induce you to marry me?"
This was evidently intended as a fresh
illustration of Lord Montford's ecceu
tricity; but it is really much nearer
the terms in which the average man
proposes, than is the average proposal
of the novelist. The Americans, we j
know, carry everything to extremes,
and we are told that the New York
young men have reduced the formula
of the critical proposition to a couple
of words: "Let's consolidate." Noth
ing, however, could he neater or more
ingenious than the proposal of the
Irishman, who thus addressed the rustic
beauty upon whom he had set his affec
tions : "Biddy, darlint, they've been
telliu' me there's too innny of us in the
world. Now, if you an me get the
praste to make us two wan, troth an'
wouldn't there be wan the I As?"
Different customs prevail in differ
ent countries in this as in other mat
ters. A curious ceremony, for exam
ple, is associated with |x>pping the
question among the Samoyede* of
liussia. When a young Saruoyede de
sires to marry, and has come to an un
derstanding with the damsel of his
choice, he visits her father and with a
short stick taps him, and then the
mother of the maiden, ou the shoulder.
He then demands the girl in marriage,
and offers the father and mother u
glass of vodka which he has brought
with him. As a token ofhis good will,
the father drinks the vodka; he tells
the young man he has no objection,
hut that he must ask the girl's consent.
A few days later the young man comes
again, this time accompanied by what
servants he has, and provided with
plenty of vodka. His retinue remain
outside while he enters the room and
•eats himself hy the side of his lady
love. The father hands the young
man a glass of vodka ; he drinks half,
and hands the half-full glass, under
bis left arm, to the girl, who finishes
the draught. The father then gives
bis daughter a glass of vodka, ami she
in like manner drinks half of it, aud
presents the remainder, with her left
hand under her right arm. to her lover,
who drains the glass. After this the
father bauds a piece of rnw meat to
the young man, who eats it, and then
takes a piece front the floor, eats half,
and preacnts the other half, under his
left arm, to the girl to finish. Khc in
turn takes a piece of meat from the
floor, eats half, and handa the other
half, under her right arm, to the young
man to finirh. This extraordinary
ceremonial would appear to complete
the transaction, ami may lie regarded
na aynonymous with our engagement.
The feasting and other ritual neces
sary to ratify the contract generally
take place soon or immediately after-
Bard.
"So you would not tuko mo to ho
twenty ?" said u young lady to her part
nor, while dancing thu pollenono even
ing. "What would you take nio for
tlieu ?" "For better, for worse," re
plied he ; and ho wast accepted. Here
is another ease in point. Hiding home
from the hounds after a famous county
meet, a lady observed to her coin pan
ion : "Why should we not marry, Sir
John?" "Ah!" said Sir John, "that
is what I have often thought myself."
And married they were.
Hon Much Makes a Mun Iticli !
"To he rich," said Mr. Marcy, at
one time Secretary of State, "required
only a satisfactory condition of mind.
One man may he rich with a hundred
dollars, while another, in the possession
of millions, may think himself poor,
and if necessities of life are enjoyed by
each, it is evident that the man who is
best satisfied with his possession is the
richest." To illustrate this idea, Mr.
Marcy related the following anecdote ;
"While I was Governor of the State of
New York, I was called upon one morn
ing, at my office, by a rough speci
men of a backwoodsman, who stalked
in and commenced conversation by
inquiring 'if this was Mr. Marcy ?' I
replied that was my name. 'Hill Mar
cy?'asked he. I nodded assent. 'Used
to live in Southport, didn't ye?' I
answered in the affirmative, and began
to feel a little curious to know who my
visitor was, and what he was driving
at. 'That's what I told 'cm!' cried
the backwoodsman, bringing bis hand
down on his thigh with tremendous
force. 'I tohl 'em you was the same
Bill Marcy that used to live iu Houth-
Fort; but they wouldn't believe it. and
promised the next time 1 came to
Albany to come and sec you, aud find
out for sartin, Why, you know mo,
don't you, Bill?' I didn't exactly like
to iguore his acquaintance altogether,
but for the life of me 1 couldn't recol
lect having seen him before, and so I
replied that he had a familiar counte
nance, hut that I was not able to call
him by name. 'My name is .luck
Smith,' answered the backwoodsman,
and we used to go to school together
thirty yeais ago, in the little red school
house iu old Southport. Well, times
have changed since then, and you
have become a great man—and got
rich, I suppose ? I shook mv head,and
was going to contradict that impres
sion, when he broke iu ; 'Oh ! yes, you
are, I know vou are rich ; no use dc
nyiug it. You was comptroller for —
for a long time ; and the next time we
heatd of yon, you was Governor. You
must have lia-l a heap of money, and I
am glad of it—glad to see you getting
along so smart. You was always a
smart lad at school, and 1 knew that
you would come to something.' 1
thanked him for his good wishes ami
opinion, hut told him that political
life did not pay so well as he imagin
es!. 'I suppose,' said 1, 'fortune has
smiled upoo you since you left Souih
port ?' 'Oh ! yes,' said he, 'I haiu'tjgot
nothing to complain of. I most say I
have got along right smnrt. You see,
shortly after you left Southport, our
whole family moved up into Vermont,
and put right into the woods, and I
reckon our family cut down tuoro
trees, and cleared more land, than
any other iu the whole State.' 'Ami
so you have made a good thing of it.
How much do you consider yourself
worth ?' 1 asked, feeling a little curious
to know what he considered a fortune,
as he seemed to be so well satisfied
with his. 'Well,' he replied, 'I don't
know exactly how much I am worth ;
but I think (straightening himself up)
if ail my debts were paid I should be
worth three hundred dollars clear
cash!' He was rich, for he was satis
fied."
KM KM KIMI IKS OF BILLETS.
At the battle of IVsch Orchard
when McClellan was makinghis change
of base, a Michigan infantryman fell
to the ground as iff hot stone dead, and
was lett lying in u heap as the regi
ment changed position. The hall
which bit him (iret struck the barrel
of hi# gun, glanced and struck a but
ton of his coat, tore the watch out of
hi* vest pocket, and then struck the
man just over the heart, and was stojr
ped there hy a song book in his shirt
pocket, lie was unconscious lor three
quarter* of an hour, ami it waa a lull
month before the black and blue spot
disappeared. At I'ittsburg Landing,
a member of the I'Jth Michigan Regi
ment of infantry stooped to give a
wounded man a drink from his can
teen. While in the act, a bullet, aim
ed at bis breast, struck the canteen,
turned aside, passed through the body
ofn man and buried itself, in the leg
of a horse. The canteen was split open,
and dop|>cd to the ground in halves.
At the second buttle of Bull Run as a
New York Infantryman was passing
his plug of tobacco to a comrade, a
bullet struck the plug, glanced off,
and buried itself in a knapsack. The
tobacco was rolled up like a ball
of shavings, and carried a hundred feet
away. Jhrectly iu tholineof the bul
let was the head of a lieutenant, and
bad not the bullet been deflected, he
would certainly have received it. As
it was he had both ear* tilled with to
bacco dust, and had to be led to the
rear. At Brandy Station, one of Cus
ter's troopers had his left stirrup strap
cut away by a grap-shot, which passed
between bis leg and the horse, blister
ing his skin as if a red-hot iron hnd
been used. He dismounted to ascer
tain the extent of his injuries, and as
he bent over a bullet knocked bis hat
off and killed hiii horse. In tho same
fight was a trooper who had suffered
several days with a toothache. In a
hand-to-hand fight he received a pistol
ball in his right cheek. It knocked
out his aching double-tooth and passed
out of the left hand corner of his
mouth, taking along n part of an up
per tooth. The joy of being rid of the
toothache was so great that the troop
er could not he made to go to the rear
to have his wound dressed. An ob
ject, however trifling, will turn the
bullet from its true course- This was
shown one day at the remount eanip
in Pleasant Valley. They had u „bull
pen" there in which about five hun
dred bouuty jumpers and other hard
cases were under guard. Once in a
while one of these men would make a
break for liberty. Kvery sentinel in
position would open fire, and it did not
matter in the least it the man ran tow
ard the crowded cantp. On this oc
casion the prisoner made for the camp
and as many as six shots were tired at
hint without effect. One of the bul
lets entered the tent of a captain in
the 12th Pennsylvania cavalry. He
was lying down, and the course of the
bullet would have buried itself in his
chest. Fortunately for him, a candle
by which he was reading, sat on a
stand between him and where the
bullet entered. This was struck and
cut sipinrc in two, and the lighted end
dropped to the floor without being
snuffed out. The hall was deflected,
and buried in the pillow under the
officer's head, passed out of that and
through his tent into the one behind it
|Hissed between two men and brought
up ugaiust a camp kettle. There is in
Detroit, Mich., u man who was woun
ded five times in less thun ten minutes,
at Fair Oaks. The first bullet enter
ed his left arm ; the second gave him u
scalp wound ; the third hit him in the
foot; the fourth buried itself in his
shoulder; the fifth entered his right
leg. While he was being curried to
to tbe rear, the fir.-t two men who took
hint were killed. While his wounds
were being dressed, an exploded shell
almost buried liitn under an avalauce
ofdirt. lit being removed further to
the rear, a runaway ambulance horse
carried him half a mile and dumped
hitn out, and yet he is seemingly hale
nad hearty, and walks without a
limp.
The Work of I'iuntlnir WhitetUh In the
(•reat lake*.
Cbktfn Timn
At 4 o'clock this afternoon the I'ni*
ted States fish-car, J. Trash Kllis in
charge, arrived in Milwaukee. The
car is continually moving, under the
direction of the *u|KTiutendents of the
various I'nited States fish-hatcheries
over the country, depositing spawn of
different species nt many point*. At
present the car is under the direction
of Hupt. Clark, of the Norlhville
hatchery, atid is carrying over the
country white-fish spawn for planting
in the great lakes. So far, under the
direction of Mr. Clark, 2,000,000 fish
have been deposited in Lake Michi
gan at Sheboygan,2,ooo,ooo at llacinc,
and 2,000,000 at Muskegon. The
hatchery nt Norlhville yet contains
about 14,000,000 of the yonng white
fish. Of these 4,000,000 will IK? do
poited at Oswego, N. Y., 4,000,000 in
Krie, nt Sandusky, ()., and the
others at different pciut* in Hu
ron and Michigan not yet decided
upon. In conversation with Hupt.
Clark he said to the Time* corresjHn
dent that they were doing a big work
in whitefish, California trout, and brook
trout. ~ At present the Xorthvillc
hatchery contain* about 160,000 Cali
fornia trout ova, and some .'IO,OOO pa
rent fish or stock of that species which
furnish the egg*. Of brook trout that
hatchery has lately sent out 200,000
ova, and the pnt season has distri
buted over the I'liitcd States 22,500,-
000 whitefish spawn. Mr. Clark de
sired to say that the railroad com
panics, especially tin Michigan Cen
tral, and Milwaukee, laike Shore Jc
Western, and the Chicago dc North
western, were playing a noble part in
transporting the car free of charge,
Mr. Kllis, who has charge, very kindly
showed the correspondent over the ear
during the brief stay in the city, which
was only long enough for the car to
be transferred to the Chicago train,
occupying about ton minutes. The
car is a Hidgcway refrigerator, the
best the government could secure. On
it Mr, Kllis makes his permanent
home. It is fitted up for his and his
assistants' accommodation, and n cook
is carried. The kitchen is on the same
plan a* the palace dining cars, and the
lierths are comfortable. The car can
be kept at a given temperature, winter
and summer. In the summer several
tons of ice are stored in a vault for that
purpose. Overhead is a watcrtank
which contains the supply needed to
keep tho young piece# in fresh baths.
The portion containing the fish is
thirty feet in length, nnd contains a
number of can# for their reception.
These are connected with the fresh
water tank hy means of tubes, and are
constantly kept full of clear water.
The car has just returned from carry
ing a number of carp spawn through
Texas, and, in fact, it runs over the
entire country from Maine to Texas.
From Milwaukee the car proceeded
direct to the Norlhville hatchery via
Chicago. There it will again be sup
plied with s|mwu aud recommence its
rounds at Chicago.
THE best expression of faith iu
Christ is to follow hiin. You cannot
go beyond this.
A furious Marriage.
Fourteen Year* of Age ant/ fur (he tSeeotul
Time it Urtt/e.
Wwtoftp, M 4., Dlipalrb to llif Tim•.
The many remarkable crime* and
romances which during the pnst three
years have rendered the Pastern shore
of Maryland and Virginia so notori
ous have just been supplemented by
an incid'-ut which fully sustains the
reputation of the shore for strange oc
currences. Last week Klla Kbores,
age 14, was married to Ilowunl K.
White, aged Iff, of Damo Quarter
District. The interest attached to
this ceremony will be apparent when
it is stated that the girl was the di
vorced wife of her stepfather, Sydney
Shores, aged 45. On February 5,
lXXtt, 'ho Key. Mr. Itowen married
Shores and the girl, then 12 years old.
• >o the flth of the same month Shores
was arrested at his home, in Dames
Quarter, and the Rev. Mr. Howcn
was arreted in Mi. Vernon and taken
before .Justice Robinson, of Pritiees
Anne, and committed to jail in default
of bail. Shores hud married his un
cle's widow nod site hail not been
dead more than two mouths when lie
induced Kiln, his wife's daughter by
her first husband, to marry him, us
stated. The child was too young to
know any better and no blame was
attached to her. In this State a
penalty of $"><)() is iiu|>osed upon a
man tor marrying his step-daughter,
and the minister is lined $1,500
for performing the ceremony, Doth
Shores and Rowen were indicted at the
April term of court, 1880. Ruth trials
took place during the same term. Sho
res was convicted and u title of |SOO
wus ini|K>ed upon him —he to stand
committed until fine and costs were
paid. The convict wa- a poor man
and,it looked as though the groom
would pas* the remainder of his days
in jail. Fortune favored him, how
ever. and he escaped from jail on May
20,18x0, Mr. Rowen was tried and
acquitted on the ground that he did
not know the girl or the affinity exist
ing between her and Shore*. The mar
riage of Shores and Klla was annulled
by the court. It will be seen that on
the satnc dnyof the same month two
years after her first marriage Klla
Shores was for the second lime mar
ried although only 14 years old.
THEY MET BY < IUM K.
About a year ago, says the Iui*-
ville (,'ourirr Journal, a young man
came to this city froru one of the coun
ties boardcring on the Kentucky river,
ami entered into the practice of his
profession here. He came to the city
because there was more of a field for
labor before him and more material
with which to build up his fortune, but
notwithstanding all this he felt a pang
of regret in leaving his country home,
because, a* is usual in such cases,there
was a girl in the caw. On a large
farm adjoining the little town in which
he resided, lived a very bright, hand
some, and intelligent young lady, the
daughter of a wealthy farmer, and con
ceded to be one of the belles of the
county. The young man lava me ac
quainted with her. and, as others had
done before him, fell a victim to her
charms, and became a worshiper le
--fore the shrine of her beauty. The
first visit he paid her was soon follow
ed by a second, until he became a reg
ular visitor at her father's home, and
observer* began to comment on the ad
vantages of the match and their pros
pects. The time finally caroc when
the young man was to leave his home
for the city, and, after many affection
ate partings from his sweetheart ami
a promise olnained from her to be true
to him, he left, with the understand
ing that a regular correspondence
would l>e kept tip. This promise was
adhearcd to until a!>nut six months
ago, when for some reason or other,
she failed to answer one of his letters.
Thinking it might have been mislaid
in the mails, he wrote ngain, aud his
letter was answered in |>ereoii by the
Voting lady's father, who uufolded to
bim the terrible tale that his daughter
had run awav from home about a
week previous, in company with anoth
er man, and no intelligence could be
received of her wheraboiit*. The
shock waan awful one,and the young
man wa almost prostrated, but recov
ered aud joiner! in the search of the
father for bis faithless daughter ami
sweetheart. They succeeded in tracing
her to Ft. Louis, where they lost all
trace of her, aud gradually she Itegan
to slip from his memory, ami the
story of his first love was almost for
gotteu when it was brought hark to
him with startling force on last Tues
day night. About 8 o'clock two men,
oneol whom was the man spoken of
above, were walking along Jefferson
street, when they came in front of a
cigar store. A proposition was made
that they go in and get a cigar, which
was accedes! to, and they entered the
stare. No one happened to be In the
store at the time, ami the young man
stepped to the lace curtained door
lending into the sitting room aud
opened it. The movement probably
cost him mom pain than any other
event in his life. Heated at one end
of the room directly op|osite the door
was a handsome young woman, appar
ently about 20 yeara old, with black
hair, large brown eyes, and a very
pretty fecc. As the door opened she
partially rose from her seat to greet
the visitor, when her eyes felt on the
face of the young man stand
ing in the door. With a startled cry
of surprise she turned to leave the
room, but the movement and the cry
attracted his attention, and ho rati
across the room and catching her by
the arm, pulled her face around to the
light, and looked at her. The one
look satisfied him. and releasing her
arm, he stood for fully a minute as if
dazed, and then walked out of the room
without saying a word. He had re
cognized in the features the one whom
he had loved and who had betrayed
hitn. The young man has written to
the girl's father, informing hitn of her
whereabouts, and tf she does not be
come frightened and leave, another
scene will no doubt occur.
A bride's Strange Freak.
iShamtrin./ heath That She Jltight Et'ipe
With Her .1/ujir Tear her.
A very peculiar proceeding was re
lated to tne to-night effecting a gallant
officer of the army, brother of a lieu
teuaut at Fort Mead, ami one out of
which an interesting romance might
be woven. Ido not care to give tbe
gentleman's name, hut will state that
be is a nephew of a prominent Uniou
general of the reixdliou period and ex
member of Congress. A year or so
ago lie became enamored with a hand
some and accomplished Kastern lady,
wooed and won her. Their honey
moon was all that loving hearts could
make it, ami their future gave promise
of grcatjatid continuous happiness. The
lady was blest with more than ordina
ry musical talent, but uncultivated,
and to perfect the divine art she was
s<iit abroad by her husband. She
visited the various conservatories of
the continent and finally located in
Paris for two year's instruction.
While there she was reported as being
very sick and soon afterward the terri
ble announcement of her death reach
ed Lieutenant by cable. He
at once directed that tbe remains be
embalmed and returned to America
for burial, which order wa complied
with ; hut the grief-stricken husband
wus unable to go east he requested a
friend in New York to receive casket
and cause its interment in Greenwood.
This was done.
Subsequently certain intelligence
reached the widowerofacharacter that
rouses! his suspicion and caused htm to
hasten to the beautiful cemetary over
looking the harbor of N-w York,
where the remains were exhumed, the
casket ojs-ned ami found to contain
the decaying remains ofa man. An
investigation was at once instituted
and resulted in establishing the fact
that the wife had eloped with her mu
sic teacher, first causing a report of
her sickness and death to'be sent to
her far-away home, and in corrobora
tion of it bad secured a corpse from
the morgue, which was sent as her
own, with the result above stated.
IT is gratifying to observe among
the progressive ideas of the present
period, so prolific in all sorts of revo
lutions, the radical change of sentiment
reflecting the training and education
of girl*. A few yearsago many mothers,
even among those who were accustom
ed to hard work themselves, allowed
their daughters to grow up in compa
rative idleness, as though some stigma
attached to honest and useful laltor.
They were probably sent to school,
perhaps to a fashionable seminary,
with the honest purpose, no doubt, of
affording them the advantage* of a
finished education. After a few years
they would return totheir homes, their
education "complete"—to use the par
lance of the day. "accomplished young
ladiesthey were supposed to be
familiar with belle* Irttre*, to speak
perfect French fluently, to play the
piano divinely, to know how to dress
iaultlesslv and to dance gracefully—
were, in short, familiar with all the
conventionalities and proprieties of
polite society. Hut a* for the practi
cal knowledge of the every-day duties
of woman's life they knew absolutely
nothing—rarely could even cook a
dinner or make a loaf of bread. Their
schwd-day# over, the only special pur
pose before them was to get married,
to make a "brilliant match," in order
that their luxurious tastes might he
gratified and that they might lie ena
bled to live a life of indolence, ease
and frivolity. With such training
nnd education girls grew up and blos
somed into womanhood with no more
idea that they were important factors
in the great plan of humanity than if
they were not human beings at all. If
through necessity they were compelled
to do any work, their unsystematic
effort# were likely to IK? inefficient, and
if they did achieve any excellence it
was only through the pain and diffi
culty which those must suffer who labor
without proper discipline and knowl
edge. Of course the natural sequel of
this lax and imperfect system of educa
tion for our daughters was discontent
and unhappiness. With nothing to
do time hung heavily on their bands.
The excitement of gar and frivolous
life always has its resultant ennui, and
no wonder that the votaries of pleasure,
witli*no noble aspiration to inspire
their more exalted senses, so soon be
come blase, their dispositions soured
and their very existence a burden to
themselves and a soarce of annoyauce
to all about them.
With the improves! theory of female
education no woman is now regarded
as qualified to assume the respoosibili
tiee of mature life unless prepared by
a training in useful wiwk to feel that,
although she is a member of the great
human family mutually dependent,
she ret possesses an indtridual inde
pendence. We need not go across the
water and cite for examples the sys
torn of practical education that the
daughters of the licst royal families in
Europe utnh rgo, however satisfactory
it may le to learn that one prince** i*
a model mother and bftUH'kccjN'r, an
other a practical nrti-t, and mill an
other pride* hi r*e|| |||K)H ie injj familiar
with the culinary art and w.,rk of the
kitchen. In no country i tio* modern
theory of woman'* education advancing
more rapidly than in our own. No
useful employment that a girl can per
form is considered degrading lo re.
No nobler women exi-t than may la;
found to-day among tli<*c behind the
counters, in the stores, at the case in
the printing office, at the telegrnphcr'a
desk anil in score* of other useful in
dustrial positions.
\\ ise mothers, no matter what their
aoeiul position, now teach their daugh
ters the minutest detail* of housework.
A young lady who d<K-* not know how
to cook a dinner or make bread is re
garded as one w hose education ho*
been very sadly neglected. After com
pleting their school course many young
ladies aspire to some useful employ
ment. i hough js rhaps so favored
that there is no neees.-ity for tin m to
labor, they find satisfaction and taken
pride in familiarizing themselves with
some vooation that will render them
independent in any vicissitude of for
tune. I bus with lu ad and hand em
ployee! they find that contentment and
happiness of which idleness i* devoid.
With this growing di-sire among wo
men to fill a useful place in the world
it is also gratifying to observe that
wirier opportunities are constantly
offering for the employment of female
labor in pursuits for which women are
peculiarly adapted. Passing by the
fields of literature and art, in which
women have held no inferior position
for centuries, it is beginning to In* re
alized that clerkships in public officer,
in stores and in banks may lie filled as
acceptably by women as by men. Then
there are the lighter trades and score*
of other avocations opening to women's
employment Hut with this whole
some change in sentiment respecting
wi man * usefulness, a most discourag
ing drawback to her advancement is
the inequality of pay between the
sexes. Unreasonable as it may be, it
is nevertheless true, as is generally
known, that women receive Jess com
pensation fur the same work fierformed
than is given to men. This should not
IK*, and 77E liecord trusts that the day
is not far distant when the
to woman's claim for woman's Tights
will be extended at ha*t so far as to
insure equal pay for equal work.—
I'hila. lit ford.
THE farmer* rf tlii country are ex
ceedingly ungrateful if they Jo not
recognize one instance of the beneficial
effects of protection which ha* recently
been brought home to them. Owing
to the partial failure of the potato crop
there ha* been a large imputation of
potatoes from Knglnnd and fit rmanv.
It is estimated tAl' the t..tal importa
tion i- frotn 'J.Huit ti, .'{.(KK) tons, or
Irom 75,000 to 100,<MNI bushel* a week.
A New York dispatch giving an ac
count of this trade say* that owing to
this unprecedented imputation freights
from Liverpool have* advanced fifty
per cent, in the ln-t four month*, the
rate now being about 94 a ton. The
potatoes cost in Liverpool about 815
or 82ft a ton and are sold here at ninety
cent* to one dollar a bushel. The best
potatoes cost delivered in the New
Vork warehouse,"after all expense* of
freight, cartage, commissions, insur
ance, etc.," are paid about s•!'] a ton
ami sell for leaving a profit of
about a ton. The contributor of
the information adds: "A duty of
about 15 per cent, a bushel protects
American farmers to the cxteut of 45
cent* a barrel."
The duty on potatoes is precisely
fifteen cent* a bushel. Owing to an
unprecedented failure of the pitato
crop in this country a large imputa
tion of potatoes is necessary and this
abnormal instance of protection to the
farmers deserve* to lie duly record oil.
Unfortunately the farmer* of this coun
try have few pitatoe* to sell and the
protection is of little benefit to them.
When the crop is abundant they are
exporters and the tariff is then of no
benefit to them at all. But it will be
observed that the chief protection of
the farmers is not in the duty of fifteen
cents a bushel, but in the increased
coat of freight, the commissions, insur
ance, etc., which with the duty raise
the cost from 915 to 820 a ton to 8:13
a ton. Were there no duty at all there
would he abutidaul protection to the
home producer in the rare instances of
foreign comjietition. in the cost of
transpirtation. But nevertheless let
not our farmer* who have no potatoea
to sell this year be wanting in grati
tude for the blessings of a protective
tariff As for the ronsumer to whom
potatoea are becoming a luxury at one
dollar a bushel let them look out for
themselves. Protective tariffs were
not made for them.— Harruburg /Ib
trioi.
A MtwofßiAM who attended prayer
meetiug with bis daughter felt com
pelled to rise up and remark : "I
want to be good and go to Heaven, but
if thoae fellows don't atop winking at
Mary, there will be a good deal of
prancing around here the first thing
you know."
LIKE a crack in a wall, a small
fracture in friendship endangers it all.
Repair it at once.
Ini.KNnw is the refuge of weak
minds and the holiday of fools.