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to-night will roam
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that fire Ade bright and cheery,
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Elll,lheir old, aernitomed races,
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AMI when loving k - entes greet me,
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X STORY Or I,THEI AMERICAN WAR
To the conimon realler I believe
that personal experience is always
more interestinur +than any amount,
of !reneralizing;atid in this . faith, I
ivill'ltriefly set forth' an incident of
army life, which itl none the less en-
tertaining ffom the r it is be
the common - expel - 431(T of a
military career. This is a leaf out I
the Freon! of Capt. B. F. Porter, of
the New Jersey Cavalry, 'descriptive
of one incident nktne l ii' his Conlin
-meta in Libby PriSon in 1,!;3. lie
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nas taken prisoner i with his compa
ny outside Port Iltnison lir June.
and front ihat mothent until his es-
cape from the Lihlb-, months after—
and his was - the Eery first
,escape
from that prison his adventures
were many
,and till of interest. I
haul the whole stOry from his own
lips in I Sr) and ?lly note hook is I
full of if; hut one' only Will
Sltal•t.t ttn the presi , nt purpose. It !
is one which he de i scrihed as s o m e - I
thinr that prodtMed t u ne emotion
than I have ever seen.' aside from it,
amomi. a crow , l of line t." It must
Le premised that -ht• was one of al-.
most -200 Vhion officers at this time
within the walls, who were confined
in roooms up stairs. Among his
companions were (let. Neal Dow,
Col. Straight. afteiward known to
fame' bytile exploit of himself and
others "in escaping hy "tunneling
Out, - and 'Lieut. Col. Irvine, after
. ward Adjutant General of New
York.
All the captains among the pris
oners were one lh ordered belOw,
into-the cominantliffit's room. _More
titan fifty of us wer'e assembled and
counted. - AI 9jor `f l utter, the coni
manulaht. was si4iin,r by the, tattle •
with an opell char lbox before-, him.
half-tided with palie! i r Slips. • A mur
mur of delighted diScovery ran-from
lip to lip. o'einert- eerta;n heitnr
evthanured t • hut IfieVer were' 111011
111 4,111011 g 11S :nollll4
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c 1,;11 - • reCt. net' . 4 of tilt'
two tai Our evinins• in
Oiliu :is spit-;. by Gt'co, Bnrusi‘le,and
our Voverninent plioinlses : tut
'UAL?. lam I,rtletv4 to schat by iot
two of the Yank( e contlind;
here. Tor imme.liattl execution. LI
this ly,x-is the name of ei - ;c11 of you
the van be lone in such a
in;:nner its von prefdr.! You eau talk
tou , etlnar about it, :lint arrange, the
details to suit yourselves, so that it
proeeu-d Once. The men Selected
Will- be led fritin ht! , re to execution.
Confer together, it.Ld say;how you
• -
will have it.-
I think five minutes passed before
a WUrd Ikl.•n. 1 1
The revulsion
was so painful from) the hopeful ex
pectation of a monient before that
we could only ,look lilankly into each
other's faces. awl keep silent.
Well, make haste, - said -TurnOr.
A few of us t.: ; :eliale . red a few
words. Then some spokesman de:-
dared that we shoo 1 have. nothing
to do with what we regarded a s a.
,
11:1,14r:int uutrage lipon the - tights of
,
priz.oners and rules of civilized
Var. L
• Very well," stdd Turner. harshly.;
arrange. it 14 you. We are
lgound to make -11Musigie - and all
your Generals sick of this sort of
thing; and we will begin with you.
Von. sir, may draw two slips out of
that box. one aft et c anotdter. Mix
them up together lir'st."
lie spoke to a gray haired ehap
lain of one of our( regiments who.
strangely, enough, had been for some
time detained in the Libby. The
ohl man was-a general favorite, and
at the command he elapped his thin
hands and looked arpund on the som
bre faces in pit iful distress. i
"My God, I ean'tl!" he sobbed,
and tears rolled dOwn his cheeks.
We partially forgot our own fears in
witnessing his trouble. There were
inany white faces and mans„ loud
bentiny• hearts among uS; but we as
sured the ehaplairlat 'if one of our
number must mak . e ithe fatal allot;
ment. we would prefliT that he should
do it Ile hesitated in moment, step
ped up to the box with averted face:
and atter mingling* . the ballots drew
' one Out. In the midst, of the most
I painful hush that -ever heard he
handed it to Major Turner, who nu
, folded it and read till! name, " Capt.
John W. ;sawyer.'"
It was the thane brave a fel
low as wort , ti and he showed.
his courage in that ii•ying inoinent.
Fel, ling Ilk arms, 11.1 steplied to the
aid of the taltie Nvit4 a defiant smile
and in another inoini l at of horrilile
suspense. anotlwr was drawn,
handed to the commandant and read.
For,an instant Majtj,r Turner hesi"
tatted.
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TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, 3IARCH 23, 1876 e
"Blind - c4riting," he ►nuttteed,
loud enoughlto, be heed across the
room. "What in - -- is it, anyweyl
Captain B—; yes, that's aB; F; , I
F—, and then: a
Ile was reading my own doom.frem
that little slip of of paper! Thus far
he' had read my exact initials. I
knew there *us none °Viet in my room, and could: not hope there
was in the prison, with th 6 same. I
grerefaint, and leaped on the should
er of my neighbor. With a dead
weight of despair at my heart, I fast
ened my eyes on . the face of the com
mandant, and awaited the sound of
my name.
13. P.—that's sure,' he went on.
'ls the next 4P. I wonder? Fo—its
another F—; and the name is Flynn,
Capt. B. F. Flynn.'
Well—that was such a revulsion
as very few 'men cut experience in.
this life. The throbbing of my, heart
as the blood Went back to it,, sound
ed to my ears like the strokes of thi.,
hammer gn the anvil. I felt some
thing as -the cataleptic must feel
when his coffin lid is torn off at the
grave - by son't'e oue who had detect ;
ed nrstnre's awful secret. The two
doomed captains. bade us farewell
manfully, (I lbelive they were, more
maufnl afiout it than the rest of us);
and were taken away by the guard;
while we' Were returned to out,.
quarters.
The names of Flynn.and Sawyer
ought to haye a prominent place
among those) of the heroes of the
great rebellion, if mental torture
to be, counted in the making of such.
They were not executed but they
lived for weeks in daily expectation
of the order tO go out to their death,
and they - bord the torment as bravely
as it is in thelpower of man to bear it.
On leaving the prison they were
taken before iGen. Winder, the coin
inandzint of the city, who heaped un
men,:ured abitse and insult upon
them (grange to say) and ordered
them to be ecinfined in irons. ThiS
treatonent th 4 endured until the
selection a Geui. Fitz Lee and other
Confederate kisoners of high rank;
by our War Department. for,:retalia
tion, admonished the authorities at
Itielimmid that this was "a game
that two could play at " The irons
of our two Captains were removed ;
and the execution waS deferred. Time
p.:ssed on, and save their separate
confinement, they were not molehteill,
until one day they were sent h:tek
'to Libby. This was the end of thud
matter: but it , is cagy to understand
that the actual 'pangs of death mild
not have added largely to their suffer=
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LIVING EXPENSES.
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The New tOrk Sim speaks in thisi
wise Of the Condition. of affairs in
New lurk, and its remarks will ap
ply as well hetie at home as in the
East i
Leaving out the estates of menl
like Astor, Stewart, Goelet, and
few others, it is safe to say that nine 4
blahs of the real estate of New Yorkl
is mortgaged ni t ) to at leastione-half of
its asseised valuation as that was :
fixed. three Years ago. These mort-:
uages are largely 'held by savings
banks and insurance coinpanies, and
in their totality they reach an enor
mous ti:rure. During the war and
immediately after,when the unhealthy
speculative spirsm witsa.t its height,
the number of ;costly mildings erect
ed was very great. Broadway was
mmie: a new street in a few years, and
t e frshionithle avenues were rapidly
adviluccd toward' the 111116011 river
with . expensi i ve
I! pretty safi! to say that
l.'p'ent, property owners
w‘t Live - ll:twit, all these structures
were heavily ihurt:rageti." We now
that building went on at that
time so rvidlV and • at too costly a
I rite. When lli. Seward, coming
here from Europe, in the language of
A u! , ustus, said that he left New
York . brick and found - it marble, he
meant to fiatter us; but perhaps we
should have ben wiser if' we had re
mained contented with brick qutil we
actually had the money to pay for
the marble. Puling' the period of
ten years and More we were extrava
gant in the character of our build
ings. extravagant in most cases with
out-producing beauty or securino•
lit
ne-s. A ware house need not be a
Grecian temple or a Renaissance pal- ;
ace ; If it is strong. capacious, suited
to its purpose, that . is enough. The
simpler the architecture the better.
But we put up showy buildings for
business, - and in order to do it the
builders had to borrow,: for . tlagree -
merely., great sums of money, the
interest on which now.disturbs their
.happiness. In dwellm'g hotises the
same extravagance hasnprevalled. It
nut too much to say that-live thou
sand families in New York are to
day liVing in houses which represent
a rent of over three tliousand dollars
a year, and of the five thimsand at
least one thousand in _houges whose
rental value is between five and ten
thousand dollars a year. This means
that so large a number - of people are
under a yearly expense-Of living of
from fifteen or twenty to-fifty thou,
sand dollars.' This is a degree of ex
travagance that no European city of
the relative size and wealth of New
York begins to equal. It is not sur
prising, under such a state of affairi,
that there is business distress, and
that people find their expenses bur
-Idensotne. Nor is it remarkable that
mortgages are reeling under the
weight of the interest on the money
I they 1)m - el borrowed on their real.
property. It is well known that the
savings banks and insurance eompa-
Patties are met by the perplexing
'problem what to do because of the
frequent defliult in liquidatingtnort
! gages and paying interest on . ..them,
which they are now experiencinff.
They are obliged to' be lenient with.
the debtors. They dare not foreclose,
because if they did a real estate panic
would result. If all the mortga!*es,
to-day in default were fOrcelosed by
these institutions, the papers would.
be full of the advertisements legally
necessary in sue eases, and the anc
- tioneer's hammer would everywhere
be heard. It is; plain that: We - IMISt
revise our methdds of living and do
ing business to meet the present con 7
ditibn • of thina . s,?
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IttGAItDLESS OP DENUNCIATION FROM-ANY QUAItTEIt
iIISHO. =3IBIFORCIE,
Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of
Winchester, was one of the most re
markable characters of modern times
and exhibited a versatility and a
fertility of resources that have been
seldom equaled. In his active and
crowded career several distinctive
eareets ik'hte tirtnallY comprised. In
the management of two important
dioceses he exhibited . ati administra
tive ability and an energy of charac
ter-that haver been rarely paralelled.
In the House of Lords !he gave an
attention to politics—using the word
in its highest and best sense—which
was exceeded by few hereditary leg
islators, and by not many who were
trained and veteran statesmen. In
literature his active and versatile pen
was constantly • challenging public
attention and influencing public
In society, as. one of the
mos, prominent and refined of its
members, he has a power, whether
on the public platform or in the pri-•
vate drawing room•of its most intlif
ential rulers. Ile published, lie
preached, he governed as a , Bishop,
he &tatted and legislated in Parlia
ment, his presence was continually
felt and recognized in all the multi
plied departments of current public
life. Now be was speaking at great
public entertainments, such as the
dinners or the Literary Fund or of
the Royal Academy. Then, as a
rural Squire, he was pleasantly ha
ranguing the rustics on the green or
in the tent. Now he would, address.
on a week-day crowds of laborers in
a church or under a railway shed ;
and presently he was away off in the
north consecrating 'some gorgeous
fine. Again, he.was down in Kent
preaching' twice on a Sunday at the
opening of some humble district
church ; and still again, he was inisy
with superhuman energy, in his dio
cese studying the eahareter and ap
titudes-of every clergyman, learning
the details of every parish. devising
practical plans for the physical or
intellectual or spiritual welfare of
his people, entertaining his clergy
with open hospitality at his own
mansion, or meeting them in confer
ence at Oxford or elswhere.
Ile was tireless. He was 'the lion
of the great dinner party ; he was
the leading speaker atmeet
ings; lie was the ruling. member of a
Cnurch Con!rress; he was the most
tv•tive - fi:rure ofi.the Convocation.,-,-
Now he Was luilding a conlirmatiE:sn
in Paris, now consecrating a church
in Brussels ; and, again, we meet
him perpetually in the princip:il
newspapers; in the reports of learned
or literaryor benevolent, societies ;
in correspondence, in pamphlets, in
contemporary history. His compre
hensive mind seemed equally famil
iar with the crreatest principles and
the minutest details. At one time
he was aiding in the attempt to up
hold or destoy a ministry, or stamp
ing,the impress of his character on
the debates and legislation of his
country ;, at another he was objurga
. ting dull-headed church wardens or
demolishing a libelous alderman.
His correspondence was immense;
all kinds of people wrote to him
and to- every one he gave a full and ,
careful answer; he would dictate
seven letters at a time to as many
different amanuenses..
Few men ever lived more in the
open air, speaking metaphorically.
He was essentially a public:, matt
‘Vherever Christian work was most
animated and intense, whereVer the
ez,ntlict of opinions was keenest,
wherever debate Was most excited,
wherever bold or burning speech and
prompt action were most n e eded,
there the form of this brilliant pre
late was ever most prominently to be
descried.—llarprr's 31(19a:int'.
THE QUAKEICS first oc
clusion on which the Quaker's hat
came publicly and officially - into
trouble was at the Launceston Assizes
in the' year 11;51';, before no less. a
pvrson than Chief Justice Glynn.
-When we were brought into the
court," says FoX, "we stood a pretty
while with. our, hats. and all wat ,
quiet, and I was moved to say, 'Peace
be amongst you i"Whv do you not
take your hats otr?' said the judge
to us. We said nothing. 'Put ofT
your hats,' said the judge. again.
Still we said nothing. Th r : en said the.
judge. 'The court commands you to
put off your hats.' '' George Fox,
with amazing simplicity, asked for
:some scriptural instance of any mag
istrate commanding 'prisoners to put
loll' their hats. Ile next asked to be
,shown, "either printed or writtemany
law of England that did command
-such a thing." Then the judge grew
very angry, and said, "I do not carry
my law books on lily back." "But,"
~said Fox, "tell me where it is printed .
in any statute-book, that I may read'
it." The Chief Justice cried out
i"Prevaricator !" and ordered the Qua
kers to be taken away.
When they were - brought before
'him again the, Chief Justice asked
',Fox whether hats were mentioned at
gull in the Bible? "Yes."' said the
!quaker, "In the third •of Daniel;
'where thou mayst read that the three
'children were cast into the fiery fur
nace' by Nebuchadnezzar's command
;with their coats, their hose and their
hats on!" Here twas a proof that
•
even a heathen king .allowed men to
Wear hats in hiS presence. "This
. plaminstance stopped him," wlys
Fox, "so he cried again, 'Tak l them
liway, gaoler;' accordingly we were
taken away and thrust it among the
thievis l. where we were kept a great
While."
.1 After nine weeks' imPrisonment
“or nothing about their hats,"' as the
Chief Justice told them, they were
again brol before him.grimly wearing
the offending headgear. 'Take off
their hats," saki the judge to the
gaoler. "Which he did," says Fox,
"and gave them unto us; and we put
them on again. - Then the judge be
gan to make a great speech, how he
represented the Lord Proctor's per
son, and that he Amd made him Lord
' Chief Justice of 'England." The
Quakers ii i were incorrigible. They
Ivere sent back to prison, but not ! jr alWays' seems abSurd to us to hear
ttally so much for the T. enring of the henier heavy villain in a melodrama,
Iri is hats as for the suspicion that exclaimjas he secretes himself in .a room
they were royalist_ emissaries anct- iu the castle or elsewher6, " And.—nowt
lisco . vered—Pro m lost
nig religious singularity in' order to
n stupid boy in the gallery knows
vin their way among the extreme that If lie's discovered .hc's found—he's
Puritans. found.
ISE
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• Women who have the talent of
hoMe making, that is, the power to
transform the plain rooms of a house
into a cheerful and comfortable and.
beautiful home, are found in every,
walk of 'life. A . cottage of three
rooms may be cosy and mviting,and•
'have all the atmosphere of boatel
while a three 7 story marble front may
be•cold and dreary—a place merely
in jyliich people eat and sleep. Or
the narble front may be the ho me,
andithe cottage as blank and sta r ing
as ail old barn. This depends on the
preience of the hoine-lovin g woman,
having the ability to carry out her
instincts and desires.
It en 7 as a rnie, are helpless before
bars walls and . unearpeted floors.
Their are not only helpless, hilt are
distEessed and bewildered. I remem
ber ime case in which - a Well known
and' popular poet hid more diseonk
fortin selecting a house for his fam-
ily than he 'would have had over the
loss of half his income. His books
abotmd in the tenderest and - prettiest
piet*es.of home, 'and yet; with his
wife in Washington, he was bewil-
dered. At last he communicated hks
trouNes to a gentleman in whose cd,
sy hime he was a guest. This gen-
tleunin and his wife went with the
poet:to the home selected. The lady
pron'Ounced it a beauty, and looked
t i e
aboi4 with genuine interest. 0 •
poet ' , ,followed her hi a sort of da .
At fist he admitted that the tro Ile
was that he could see nothing home
like about it. The - bare walls and
square rooms and loi)g halls were' to
him as severe as the lines and figures
in a geometrical problem and as puz
zling The lady said : "It is a house,
not plicne . ; your niife will make it a
lionie;,'. Here is you parlor, you see,
and f t here your liltrary ; this your
dining-room,and that isyourkitehen."
"4,it ?" said the interested man.
I couldn't make head or tail ouL of
Tlity went up-stairs and the lady
proceqded: "This will be your room,
andAere is a cosy room for the little
girl; fund this will 'be, your guest
ehanilier, and all have good places
for tlie beds, don't you see land
good .!walls for pictures, and your
wife s ill make them all as cosy as a
Liars nest !"
• At last the man of brilliant fancy
begawto see pictures that made' the
liouse. a possible home. His wife
Caine ;ind made theliossibility a Met.
Many' houses never, become more
than.hOuses to their owners simply
because the man is helpless and the
woman has not the womanly talent
of hoine-making.
Of OOurse, the work of ornaments•
tion May be overdone, and the rooms
have she appearance of an over
dressed woman. The evidence of
lack of taste, the obtrusiveness of
apparent effort, arc as bad as the ab
sence ;;fall ornamentation, and should
be avoided.
AniOng. the devices in ornament
ing rOonts that are comparatively
new ti she, are wall-pockets for bou
quets. 'of. dried grasses and leaves.
These-t may he made half-moon in
shape pr triangular. Take stiff card
boa Wand cut out two, half-moons,
say measuring,. the one four or five
inchea; across the straight edge, and
the other three or four. The larger
one isfor the top, and is cut out in
the center so as to leave a strip an
inch (tide all Around. The smaller
one is: for the bottom, and is used
withont cuttin..7. The elges of both
should be. pinked: Pierce holes in
both lower and upper places half an
inch Apart, with an awl' or stilel:to,
inakirw, them large enough to admit
the sqaws, you .buy bunches at
the china stores. 'There s!Puild he
an eqUal ntunlier of holes in top and
bottoin. and care should he taken to
duly proportion the distance in lower
eirclea Use white straws six of
eight inches long, putting them thro
the hides so that they kojeet :thou
an in . ch at i the, top and bottom
WeavO narrow .ribbon (say lad
wide.),i scarlet, bite, or green, in an
out, 4tween the straws, commencing
at th(f. botttom and weaving basket
fasliio4 (ribbon crossing under straw
one an Al. above it the nest, and so on).
This niay be tinishedlvith bows, etc.;
and tiling against the wall, makes a
pretty;;reeeptaele, for many clusters
of gr;(sses, leaves, etc. Instead of
ribbon' ;4 - lazed paper in color map be
used. .'::This is much cheaper, and
looks almost as well.
While on the subject ,of straws,
I will :4ay that very pretty easels for
small .;pictures or photograph may
he maile of colored straws (bought
at the 'ilhina stores for ten 'to twenty
cents ti. - bunch). These are scarcely
descritiable, except to say that the
three Upright straws form a tripod
(two fOr the picture and one for sup
port), and that the straws joining
these A short distance-from,the bot
tom prOject at each corner. All are
sewed together, and ribbon tied in
bows W . all crossings to hide the.
stitche,4. l „ They are graceful and ap
propriatqi and ladies who know how
'to make them can teach :others how
to dO•si) j ilt five minutes.
• Covers for flower-pots haie been
mentioned. I have a simpler iform
than the , one given last week. Take
strips oT white paper an inch wider .
than the depth of the 'pot to be cov
ered. Vold this in creases as children
do in ti faking paper fans, the folds to
be hairan inch wide. The paper
should)ie long enough to go around
the pot ; with the fold half open. Cut
a hole':or slit 'through the fold au
inch from the top and the same dis
tance frymi the bottom,, and through
these run a ribbon. -
'The lovers may be made of paper
of any ;Color. They are very pretty
made of drab paper folded as de
-1 scrihecl with strip of gold or silver
paper :4 the top and bottom.
"Sraliere, conductor, why don't -yi'
have a ate iu th)s car ?" "Well, you see,
one of the directors is a clothing. man. and
another fs a doctor, and another is adrug
store nuni, and anotheti runs a toombstone.
factory, nod y 04.1 know in this world peo
ple niustlive and let live.' "
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INTERESTING EXPEIMNTS WITH
7, ANN
Sir John Lubbock recently read an
interesting Paper on 'Ants before the
Linnian Society; Ills paper was di
vided into three heads, 1. The pow
er-of intercommunication among ants
as to inforMation about locality of
food s Ale. 1. Their organs of sense. -
3. Tlieir nOction or regard for one
another. Ills arrangement for testz,
ing their pSilwer of ,communicating ;
information As to route and locality
was modified in some minor respects
in different sets of obserations, but
the essential facts of it were . these.:
He had a gliss bek for the "nest" so
that he could 'See what wisbeing done
insides Thiii was placed on a pole
about,as high as the level of his eyes.
On -the otherside of the pole *as a
board intended as a promenade for
the .ants.
Near to this. were three pieces of
glass the size] of microscopic slides,
and these were connected with .the
board by strips of paper, which
served as bridges. On one, of the
'pieces of glaiS was placed a collection
of tOod,and4m the other two there
was nothing. I Two ants were taken
and marked ititir spots of tolor, as in
former observations, so that they
should readily, be.recosinized. These.
(were both taken, one• after the other,
to the store of foal, and were guh.ed
and taught their way to the: nest.
They soon learnt their :way to and
from the nest to . the :food supply,
coming out oe the door along tue out-
Kide to the Ige, around. that / across
the board, along the paper. bridge,
and so to the glass that supported the
food, and so hack again to the nest:
Sir John Lubbock's object Was to
watc'h whether - the other ants in the
nest would find out the food, and, if
so, to test if possible whether they
found it• from", information given, or
whether they t;racked the Seca: Ile
devoted certain -periods. as he could
spare the timegtowatching the move-,
ments of the ants, Counting the num
ber of journey,s made by his marked
ants, and reCording how many
untaught strangers , as he called them,
made their wad from the beard along
the right bridge to the food. At his
first period of labservation he found
that, while WS marked ants made
forty journeys with food, nineteen
strangers also 'Caine on topthe bridges.
Of these, two Only turned to the food,
eight turned to4he wrong bridge, and
the rest went straight on.
Modifteatiori4 in the arrangements
of the bridges ivere made in ditferept
ways, while the" rest of the construc
tion was left unaltered.
The:Observations made on different
days and ( - hiring peeiodS of differnt
duration all shbwed the same result.
The marked ants who had been taught
their way pursued their work steadi
ly and sys;l-matically, , , while of the
strangers onlr a very 'sMall percen
tage reached *food. the remainder
taking one of 'the bridges that led
-them wrong} For example,
at one period a watching, out of one
hundred ancr:ltilty strangers', who
crossed the bridge's only twenty-one
went the right *ay: to the food. In
one set of arraiigementsjt- was fotind
that while all :had to :travel- thirty
inches along the same road; and the
diverging bridges were - but . another
two inches long, the large proportion
went wrong in - reaching the food in
that last two 3 inches. •. The notion
that ants have 1,1.),e power of makinit
communication§ about routes and lo
calities seems, ;therefore, to be 'Jana
cious.
In referring Ito the organs of sense,
Sir John 11:1(1 endeavored to ascertain
whether the rti,tennat are corgahs of
hearinlr or of omell., He had tried
them with all 4ilirts ( 4 . noises he. could
contrive and . 'found no results. If
ants lave hearing' they must be sen
sible to those..iibrati;ans -of the air
whiell.do not alfeet the human ear.
But he had al so tried the attenme
with smells, mid he fonnd that if he
put a tine camel's hair pencil with a
scent on it. near one of tluini it shrank
_ •
away, and theiiif applied to the other
that also turne4 iiway. *The use of
. .
the attenmv, hOwever, needs further
investigation, find Sir John hopes
soon to wake :,further - observations.'
As regards thejr affection for one an
other hp does iipt doubt that an ant
that dies lail6 with fi,c;d will be
cared for by his': companions; but he
brought forwao a number vf instan ,
ces iu which litt had put ants that had
suffered from iittintersion in water
from periods of from an hour to ten
hours in the 'ray of ants • that were .
passing by,' and. he found almost in-
Varialply.that they took no notice of
their unfortunate brethren. Indeed',
the exceptions in which any attention
was paid were so few that Sir, John
said he was di ::Posed to regard these
as ants with individual feelings which,
were by no mean . s common to the
community.—Eiondwi: Time:c
WATER can eonie and go when its tide.
Lx -cote. tax---when the carpets g
down.
ItEronT is a q u ick traveler but an un
safe
guide.° •
A WOMAN'S pride and a sailor's guide
—ll.e needle. a
At A a recent - sPelling match one man
spelt it'"pa.ssuip and got beet.
"THE rich," siid a, Dutchman, "eat
venison because i, ish deer. I cat mutton
because it is sheep."
" VE1.1., id peaty ter tyful how dis coun
try vas gotten cut up mit ter railroads !"
exclaimed an uooivii Tilton, carefully
examining a pattikru supplement to Ilar
per'S Bazar.
• •
.
AN' Irishman recently soliloquized-:
"What a waste of money to be ;buying
mate when you know the half it is bone
when you can spend it for whisky that
hasn't a hone in it." .
•
A mxs tamed adog that somebody solt
him, Yintil the deile creature would .eat
off his hand. • A f t, least it ate off about
°OAF, thumb, but died Of
concussion of thebraiabefOre it could fin
ish the hand.-
. A sEotto in f3O:uth Carolina, who was
complaining of the hard times, declared
they were the :learilest. 'ever knoWn;
"Why - ," said 1ic,7."1 works all daY and
steals all night and yet blest if 1 kin
make an honest
"MA i , :114 a quack to an oldlady:
who insisted on 10mwing wid. ailed her
'..`the IlerVeß of yottr tympanum have fall,
'en on the cerebellem, causing a tharizen
hint is what way. call a scrntinary com,.
plaint." "Goodness me," she exclaimed
"you're the first doctor that ever told me
exactly 'what was 7 the matter."
FU_N, FACT; AND FACETIE.
s2 . sie'An mln Advarice.
NOP ER 40.
Tan IN HO7BIIIIOLD rmayitrcrßE.
• •
'ln a very iresting lectnre which
Cardinal Wiseman once delivered in
Englatuthe
,pointed outqo :his,audi
ence that the old vases and Cups and ,
bokes and other objects which were
kept carefully under glass in :.muse
ums, which were so graceful and re-'
fined in form, and were ',.treaSitred by
us, as precious relics of am. 'extinct
art, were the ordinary vessels of-the
user and conveniences .of the life. of
the .times. from whiCh they descended.
Is there any good, .reason that the-
WaSh-bowlsand pitchers and jugs and
jariolf old Ij.ome and Athens should
be, beautiful , '
and ours, designed , for
the same purpose, clumsy and Ugly ?'
Arid if we cannot invent new forms
of, beauty for ourselves, may we not
ropy pleasing models rather than un
pleasing ? - Whether wego back for
our, model a year Or a thotiSand years,
there is really no need of seleeting
an-ugly one. So in the cost of•fiti
ishing and. furnishing the house, the
ptatipkin in ,Cinderella'S - kitchen did
not
,more' surely hold the gilded
coach, nor her own "liberty rags"
the Most magnificently jeWeled robes,
than :every little dollar full Of neat- •
ness,•!•fltnesS, and beauty, if we have
the gift of seeing them- and extract
ing, them. I • ,
Ms a subtle gift, indeed; for 4 is
taste. All -the dollars in the, world
will not bay it. It is
_like that !ear
for music which thOse who ba:Ve it
not•deride and deny.'. Yet good taste
is not the. first, but the second,boase
hold magician. The first is good
temper.._ Good temper dill make a
bard,. stiff; horse-hair chair delightful;
liiitgood, taste, without good temper,_
will. make the most luxurioui, and
beaittlfal -lounge uncomfortable.
two.combined make the perfect hOUSe
hold. The minor magician, ini:leed,
has One advantage over I . thc• Other,
andiit is that she•developa her. Good
taste promotes good temper, but Wood
teniPer no more promotes' goOd paste
than': thesmile of the 'gardener ripens
str:4berries.- • On the Other hand,
good.terapet; has an advtintae'. • 'lt
can pot I?ri:s' good taste, but Litlaiy,
buy !its wbrlts. You may not i;novt•
mushrooms from toad-stool's.. lint if
an himest; man whO, afi yon May inow
can ilistingnish them, offers itoi.
yon-Mushrooms,y—
mu may buy in teder
able:confidence that your fillet! will
not he garnished with pason. tlt is
So . with the mystery of ho4sehold art.
You may not perceiVe
. the harmony
of colors, nor the superior graie'of
one'form to another. But if per
'on Whom you 'know to be an:e:Oert
assures you that this , paper andAat
carpet arc harmonious, and that this
or that table is graceful and ple4ing,
if yo'u really do riot kriow, n [lOll'9llW
you_ not trust him ? POtipiar
perennially shows her confidence in
Afr.'Marcotte by giving him' earte
blanAe to redecorate and furnish.
She does it, perhaps, quite, as Mtf.ol
because of his fashion as of his taste
But What she does expensively for
fashiOn, may you not. do economi
cally for taste?' In a word, it
the 'apparent- mission of what is
known as household art to show that
cheap and:nasty are not synonymbus: .
_Eillforl Easy Chair, in Harper's
Magazine Yor
F lON S FOB. C it.—Biact: is
always a favorite cluireh-going dress
in N e w York city, and - partichlarly
is its:O . this season in 9onjunctiop
with the cream and Ivory tints:l" --- ,A.
woman can hardly help feellit7'devo
tienat inn, really handsome black silk
suit, With cream-colored hat,trimined
with. creaurcolored ca ,, hmere lace.
i‘'cirt silk tie and ivory tinted g . loye3.
Thi , rk. st,rt-nitv,
th:itikfulness that 'are iiot, as lith
•
er people are, in every liUe arid fold
of .N Othin, loud; uo pontiasi of
high Colors is ever worn at church by
a really fashionable or well-bred Tro
inan;,. It would
_shoW what is', wOrse
than religton, —bad taste and after
all there is a connection bet Ween
,taste and morality, whether pietYhas
ranch to do with it or. net. blithe
matter of !church dress We only imi
tate 'obr French cousins, and We.are
of late acs, imitating them alsci in
the Substitutou of tine soft
cashmere for silk. lllack cashmere
dresses are .in preparation this 'sea' :
son as fashionably and extensiyely as
las't spring, church and street - wear,
alwayS associated padre or less With
hlaek silk, usually of-the soft,band
finished kind.. The
.sinirtlest and
most popular method of making them
is - with a trimmed or .puffed ifrOnt,
shirred sides, and draped hnd: sleeves
in which lengthwise putliags of Silk
are inserted and a euirasSe basque,
the latter being now universal unless
the dress is cut in the.princesse style.
The
,fine "41tiee" pleatings which have
been:so well worn are this sefi r soif
used edge shirred flounees, 414 cad
.
of being employed to torin the ,enlire
trimming of a skirt' and thCretorc
less Material is require'd, while ithe
effect; even better .than bcfbre.
Flat folds, bands and braids are Om- ,
big into vogue so rapidly Oat :mati24
of the. spring suits and cosetimes)vill
completedbe ` without the addition of
a flounce or a. ruffle. ' •
NOTES ON THE INTERNATIONAL
LESSONS.
A rt: L 2, tB7G
. r :
..31:T-I_.—GOLDEN TEXT; St. Lute xanol.
SEC:O,7D, grARTEft: I LESS'ON"
. . .
The'llook of Acts was written by 'Like;
a Gentile convert to the ~TewiSh faith and
to Chr'i'stianity-." - He wa r „. during: the iat
ter portion of St.. Paul's life, his constant
c)tripanion. The. Apostle calls hini "tile
beloved. physician:" He, was.ievidently
man of title talents and Scholarly caltnre,
Of all The Evangelists, he is the Most
classical iii style. According to 'tradit
he suffered martyrdom in Greece.
The anthotship is indicated 'by the! in-.'
troductory address. The writer spe4k4
of a "fOrmer treatise," Which is no•dnlibt
the third gospel: since this IS addre4sed
to the same person, is written in the same
style, and exactly correspondsto this 4es- ,
cription. _ It is "the" former treatise; :"
c i
.i. c.', the first book or diseours . in,rehtf ion
to the Acts: The nook of .:1e s tike iup
the thread of the history where St. I.4e's
(, - .lospeli drops . it. After reCapitulating
the fact attic ascension, the author pass
es on. to show the planting and spread of
the Christian Cliurcli. , 4 6 1 bOok before •
us is a special history of , e 'planting and '
extension of this Church, tli among Jews
and Gentiles, by the ge eral 'establish-
mbnt of radiating centers ir Sources of in- '
licence at certain salientints through
out a large part, of the eni i re', , beginning
points
at Jerusalem and ending . at, nothei."--' Al
exander. : 1 4 . , i .
It is: generally agreedhart this Book '
_was written at Borne about A D 63 ; that
is, about third, years nftt the' death of
, i 1 - -,
Jesus Christ. 1 .- •
1
' We niay, for conveniet
Lesson.nto three parts: - .1.
tion. 11. Therreliminari ,
sion. 111. The l Ascension,
, 1, U
=I
. , . i ~
L Jhe Intl . eduction tegthts Book, vs.
14. l'iht fOrine'r treaties (Or !the third -
~
Gospel),.aelgresSO to Thee hilui;(proba; , ! .
bly a'resident cif ll:firriti and man of rank) ! ' . •
narkates . ail halt Jesus did , 4 ; taught, air.,
our great Ifrophet. 'This reetord termir • . -,
nates with his Miraculous mfion,which ,f
did not Occur until thro' t , Roby GhoSt, .1 :
he had 'given eernmands , , his ?losers . '
Apostles'' -concerning thei r ~ , ion and
mission to his Kingdan. • ',‘ l , h' i reference - • ' •
may then be especially, tho'Vio, perliapsi '
exclusivelY, to ti,e great a ''f olic 'co n -.
tit
mission recorded ,by Math iv 1 (28t120) •
s
and Mark (160-16), i ts ll as t o the ;. -
specific charge recorded in. Ltilie, 24:49, i ':,
and in v:4 belovi,,"—.Atexur clet. ' But as , 7
the mission of the Apostlti was based , '
upon their being' nye-vvitneirs,lof the res- ! .
erection of Jesus,' St. Luke reverts to this
great. fundamental fact ofi i heilKingdom -
i
of God, aid stateti,clearly t e imm of the
ev'idenee
_ln its -favor, • " d i language •
seems to show that the first Ghri i stians had
distinctly '•
revOlve l d the:flue:arm whether ' 1
the Savionr's re-Siirmtion was fiat or' not, . '
and had assitred:themselvesrpf*s reality 'A i ,' ':
by evidence which did not admit in their . ;
minds of the shadow of adotibt.' Our .
"infallible signs", does not; express the
sense too: strongly."—lfackitt.i As ex-, -,
planatory 'of what follows, S. Luke giVes • •
one of the, commands referred ier in V. - 2,
as imposed on the day _of the ascension. 'I
The Saviour's meaning evidentlY, was that
they should not, . allow therOsOves to be •
either drawn or driven front Jerusalem 1
notil the promise Of the Father had been. - :
fulfilled. • ! Why rertiain in Jerusalem? ay '
" Because of the 'prophecy.lX4a. 2::;3). .
(2), Because there
. wmild be :the greatest '
-assembly f',l* persons to WitneS i s this great ,•
inifacie and to bp ,worked upon hy it. (3)
Because it was Most fit, thili this great
mark of Clnist's :power shoilldi be there ..
displayed; where , had been bial greatest , :',
humiliation; that 'those ' wha were not
convinced, by the' reSurrectioit Might be
eouvii.iceft by this miracelou gift of the
Holy GlieSt."—Lifjhrjuot. , :11 , 7e ,May add
a's an additional reason that, the holy .
Ghost witssto corns upon tfterli in their
united capacity—as an org,anirdbody of
believers, or a clinreli. . Hencei they must ,
remain tigether...' , i The prorni4. of the
• Holy Ghok. is called "the pr,AiviSe of the
Fat iter;" because} . Christ' in '•;'giiing the
promise ;Take as the : servanli and organ . .
o f the Father. #''l speak tdl the World •
these - thin:ip: which I have Ilea: f.l of him: , •
(St. John''S:2(l). I Compare S i . joint 12: ,
49-50. Anther ;explanation ' l 's 'that the
out-pouring'of the Spirit is herb called the
proniise Of the :Father," beelateiel it was .. -
the sum of the Old -Testanielt•promises,
which were given When the Spiritiwas the
spirit of the Father; not of the Son as
now. This .baptiSin Of the Holy - 'Spirit
came ten flays after the aster 'ion. "But
had not the Spirit been alre i dy i given? •
Yes, to individual believers, and indeed to
the Apostles in a, body (John )0.22);' but
not in such a mode or measure ; Was nee- •
esavry, both forithemselves, ' dlfor the
a ts
church at large."=;-, ...I!;?.ra i ntler. TO speak ..
more definitely, We would Say 'that the •
Holy-Ghost had been given tf the Apos
tles
as a spirit of; lippe, patiernie aid corn- .
fort—as a Spirit 'of passive power rather '
than of active energy. The' promiSe Of
the Father was a Promise, Of peweil to act,
,I
to do, to conquer. •Ilt meant albatkism o f
. .
lire. • The fi rst eemmunielonlof the
Spirit on the evening of the Ilestutection7
Day was given iii the ' form tlf - r l breath ' '
(John 20::22.); thus.; sYmbolizirL the soft,
sweet intinenceS; 4f hope, p. tit 'and
-comfoit. it prepared ; them ti, v.lait tli- -
etly and expectantly for, the'l lir:ln - dee of,
I the Father, I ' 1
11. The Preliinitiaries to tls .-len.sion',
vs. c-S, 'lt -is perhaps the iiii,st satisfae- .
i f tory explanation , to refer ilZe {Tor& to
' the meeting spoken of in verse 4. The' -.
first clause iii..ty , be .trauslated-: " They
then Who laid eeine togethet asied.'i—
They nianifesti2.-14u1 an expeltati l en op a
visible rind. temporary -supretiacy i of the ,
kingdom of the Mt;.Ssiali. . They elieved
i
that lie would deliver them firom i subjec- -
tion to thulloinati4, *. land resteire te. Israel
her primeval 'prosperity and Pow'er- To -
what. extent , they,-apprehended at this ' '
time the spiritual , featuresof Ois k ingdom i
it is very difficult to-Say. ITimes and: •
seasons " denote' all classes= "of future
events. Thy are determinecl(an Settled
by the Father in 'the exercise:3-)' f vis! Own
power or aiithority ; which Milue. es both
poWer ; and moral right. "This is a gen
eral
rf;proof of all ' excessive curiiisity M
reference to such times or seasons las have
neither been explicitly revealed, nor ren
dered ascertainable by ordinaly means."
But while reproving an idle catrif4ity, ho
comforts them with the aitse nee. of
something i better than the kn wledge '
they sought. "1 . 6 shall recliv power
after that ,' the:T.)ly Ghost iscorpe npein
you." This power: was mani4lfl.l: •It un
doubtedly ineludedthe gift ofongues, of
miracles and of teaching. Be: i it also in- '
eluded the 4)oweref inspiratioi , b' which
their inembries Were .so qui' -cried and,
, -
I energized th at the): could re 'all ;
all the:
words andacts of Christ with 4ex-fect pre-'
cision and in their true order, an 4 so set' l .
them forth 'as to Convey the ex4et truth of
both letter and .viiit,to m en. (.I<t i witia 14
20); and that spiritual energy,: rrr i manent
and abiding, whichl Was neeessarylnot on
ly in order thatthoimight bearlalli things,
hut also that they:Might do iial It:thugs.
„Endued with- this ipiower froth. 4n high
they were to witness for Chri4 prst in ,
Jerusalem,'', then in' Judea
i anal Samaria,.
and finallyt throughout the wir4 This, ,
defines the apostolic office. It iwas a Wit- .
uess-bearing office', ?lot primarilya . conse
crating or ruling 'of fi ce. Its Main work
, .
was testimony, not , Prediction. I
111. The Ascension ; vs. 9-1. lids is ,
recorded in greater detail than lin the
third gcisi el.: Notice (1) that-it Wi i as visi s
ble to the ~ discipls. It did no oeeiir
while they 'were 'asleep or • gizing else
where. (2)-A china recei,red turn out of
their sight. The eleudnuder t4e'tild Dis
pensation Was the:familiar SYMbd i ef the
divine presenceand favor, So i( here wit s , '
ness here that the Fatber,was well Pleased
with his Son. Perhaps' also iil nAtle his
-1 • - '
, ascension more distinctly: vi g aible. (3)
Two angel (they Were men 'enly in ap-.
~ ~
• ' pearance as' they Wert? white ad;parel,, the
1 heavenly dress) appeared tWtlle Wonder
-1
i tug disciples and spake unto di iii -'!beef,
1 words vvere (i) a rehtike, i and 0)A .prors-
I ise. "We I are in these verse/ presented
1 with therpli.st grand autrV i Vonderful events
that this.. 4 wOrld likever , knowHlte as
-cension and return of 'the. Lordt-Jesus..
i Here is conSolation for the Christian, and
, 1 here is a source of ceaseless allirni to the
li 1 •
sinner,"
mildivide our
e Introduc
to the Amen-
If. '