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BETTS, C4ler. /OS, POWELL, Pm.;Went, Li QEELF:Y'S OYSTER BAY AND • Eriv , l.EAs itorE s.—A - few doors southof 'the Means Itouse, lloant by the day or week on r.as‘lnahte lel-MS. - NV:MiI weals served at all hours Oy - scers at whoh,sale aud • fehPf7. 1 - 4 - IAGLE HOTEL, • _LA (sou Tn NIDE f'111.1t: Fttrdl:C.) Tu t , writ -known bone rrn w‘,l thrteagli.ttit• and the proprie tor is now %trepan,' to offer fir-t-ela‘s accommoda tions to tho pnbllc, on he most ri.a.oriattle teems. VI. A.. 111% Vtititaitii. I^7N. _ _ _ THE cENTRA I, HOTEL, I.ST.EIt. PA. The undersigned Laving taken possession of the above hotel, re sir:elf:illy solicits the patron sge of his old friends and tin public generally. a:4064f. M. A. FOUR F,ST. COODRICH & HITCHCOCK. Publishers. VOLUME XL. Around this lovely vailey rise The Porple hills of Paradise. O softly on you hanks of haze • Ifer rosy face the sumnier lays; Becalmed along the azure sty, The argosies of elondland Vi' hose shores with many a shining rift . Far og lheir pearl•whlte peaks uplift. 11r.%J. 31. BECK Through all the long mldsuintner day The meadow-sldes are sweet with hay, seek the coolest shelterful seat, Just 'where the 1100 and forest meet— AVltere•grow the pine trees tall and Maud The auelent oaks, austere and grand, Ain't friug,y roots and pebbles fret. The ripples of the rlvutZt. .31ay 1, '79 I watch the mowers as they go Through the tap grass, a white-sleeved row With even stoke their rcythes they swing, In tune their merry whelstoncs . ring. Palm!, the nimble ,young,,ters rum And le.es the thick swaths in the sun. • ?, The cattle graze; white warm altil still Slopes the broad pasture, basks the 11111, And bright, when Milliliter breezes break. The green wh4at crinkles.like a lake. Jnit N F. SANDEnsox The buttetly and humble-bee Curve to the pieaQatit woods With me; ilnlrkiy lielore me nuns the ltct chlekens skulk behind the tall, High up the lone w0.41-plgron Aid the %tomtit:el:et peeks atilt lilts; Sweet wn.sllatid music slut ks and swells The Imsdklet .thugs its tinkling IMEME The swarming inserts , ,lrone and Ilium The pm - fridge heats hls throl,Nrig drum, The?squlrrel leaps atuung tin , boughs, And chatters in Ills leafy house The crlole !lashes by :and look— IntO the mirror of the brnMi - . Where the vain blue-hl rd trims his coat Two tiny feathers fall mot float. As silentiy. a> tehtleriy. The 41:twit of p,-are descends ou Die, is ptsarr , ha% e mt riled - (11 file:mkt° talk. or hook to rend : A dear Companion here aldiles. Close to my thritting heyrt. Ito hides rnovil-75 The 11 , 4 st 1,11,e Is 111, vblee ; lie, and lls4m, aid ref oti e. The Fair Maid ofKillarney. The exact date,of tile erection of Itoss.Castic has nut been:aseertained, ,but, from the poculiftr style of the Ideliiteeture, it May, be ascribed to L. F.Lsnr.Et: the close of the fourtieentli or the cally portion of the fifteenth centu ries. .I,t, was for ages the ancestral residence of the lords of the Lakes 'ley. whose martial achieve !milts are still the 'source of many a poptilar local tradition. The castle colisistid or a loth• square keep, with embattled parapets, based upon =ME rock of. limestone on the land side by a Ili,!tsSiVC, I.llloT mental buttress, while each corner of the porti directly facing, the lake was enitaiied by two machio lated defecees';j,the domestic divis• ions of tlfe fortreji. were attached to the square towerkalid were surtoand 70‘‘'AN'''A.PA• led bv extensive outworks.. The in- ! 111 EMU Mined many well-proportioned apart ments, :And‘a spiral stone-but stair ease still exists, %Odell lcarii4 to the s ummit of Elie 'tower, from whipli many besittifill views of the sur rounding . se:emery may lie obtained Ross Castle was orininally a place° grott strength,- am{ unaerwentOti iiierous sieges, the prineipal'of.4leli was the celebrated attack ttpunNt . in 16:1 . 2, by General_. Ludlow, at the head of the Parkwentary forces. Vpm: the defeat of the Irish troops, In that year. under Lord Mnskerry, at the cattle of Knoekniclashy, in the comity of Cork. by Lord Brog hill, the" English general, the' forme 'withdrew to ROSS castle, where he entrenched himself, and. whither he was pr anptly followed: by Ludlow. TI t VC was an ancient prophecy ex among the pe:isantry, that the ..qaz,tl4. was •Onpregnable and could nevet until 'a vessel of war was seen to float upon the.:' hike. Whether =Ludlow, had heard of the tradition does not appear; ; certain - it is, however, that, conshlering the natural advantgges.of the place,- and the length of time he might he com• pelted to remain .before.it, he resolv ed to attack it simultaneously by land and water. The Englisiu fleet was just then anchored in the lay of ToWASOA. PA HEM TOWAIs:IIA, PA $121.000 66,000 I=l goeftg. BUMMER. —.I. T. n-cier4rbliff elcrfrr/" l dlc: A TALE OF ROSS CASTLE MlAtiJ= /M=SM=l • Castle;laine. or Dingle, and,' four i days after arrival, with incredible I energy and perseverance, he success fully transported some of the smaller vessels by Mere manual labor, Oro' a country nearly impassable. from bogs and woods, and brought them up the intricate and difficult river Lamm. The garrison was electrified and intimidated, and immediately eaptulated on honorable, terms smith, in his " History of Kerry," relates' that at the time he wrote there was an old man named 'Hop kins, then sexton of swords, in the vicinity of Dublin, who was among tho-e engaged in drawing Ludlow's vessels into the lake.. This Ludlow is said to have lived to the patriar chal • age:of one In and fifteen • rears. At the commencement of the Oast centuu, a. barrack was erected' in connectkm with . Ross Castle. but has long f,lAlten dismantled, and its I walls are nti as ivy-mantled as those of the castle z itself. Immediately be neath the castle geveral fine echoes are "Very distinctly . heard—among them the famous one, or '• Paddy - Blake," who. when, an iuquiry is made after his health, is Said 'lto 'an • %wet.. " Pretty well, thank ye!" • The warden of the ethitle, toward ! the ti?rmination of the war ':in 11i5:2, • was a distant relation of Sir Valen tine Browne's—to whom the sur rounding territory belonged, and. who was then .a minor—named Rich ard Browne, it captain in the Confed erate army. Captain Richard Browne had an only child, a daughter named Mabel, who heed with him in the castle. Mabel; at the time, was just verging into womanhood, and Was a lovely girl, so beautiftil; indeed, that she, was called by the surround ' ing people of evety degree, the " Fair Maid of Killarney." It will not be at all wonderedat.itherefbre, that the younfr of . wilo .conmiancied tin ; der her father in the garrison should have !Wen smitten by her beauty. Foremost among those who paid her 1 homage was. it young man named I Raytnond Villiers, a lieutenant of musqueteers,-and a descendant of a stout English settler who had come into that country about a century before. Raymond 'Villiers was the posses sor of a small, but good estate, lying upon the shore of the Main, a river that empties its waters into ,Dingle Bay: The veteran warden. of the cas- tie was well acquainted with the cir cumstances of the young lieutenant of . musquetcers.and looked favorably upon his attentions to Mabel, but'the latter persisted in receiving thohom age of her suitor with no Small amount of coldness, the reason of which will be understood presently. Thus matters stood between the young pair until the day of the battle Of Knockniclash, in which, as was seen above, the `forces of Lord Mus kerry, were defeated by the troops of the Parliament, under Ludlow. The sun of that disastrous day was setting beyond the wild mountains of Dingle, as Captain Browne was standing upon the battlements of the castle, taking a survey of the warders beneath as they walked to and fro, in their monotonous avocation, be hind. the breastworks of the massive bawn-wall beneath. After taking a quick survey of the sentinels:below, he sat himself upon a small brass fal coner, that commanded- the draw bridge, and .mused silently for home moments: " By my faith !" said he,•at 'last; but I wish this war was ended and Any daughter married to young Ray- Mond Villiers. I could then sit down quietly for the remainder of my dap, and turn my -thoughts. to another world, which, alas, I have little. time to think of in this time of foraying and siaYing. Rory." continued he aloud to a wiry little sun-burnt boy. who usually attended him on his rounds, "go and tell Mistress Mabel that .1 am here, :end that I want to speak to her fur a few moments." Roiy .disappeared in an instant down the, winding stairway, and after a little time Mabel appeared, and sat down beside her. father. " Mabel," said the latter, looking atTectionately upon his daughter, "I have been thinking that this wooing of RaymOnd Villiers has gone Car enough, and that you ought to give him a favorable reply." " I cannot tell, father," she an swered, "achy it is that 3;:on arc so ~eager to get rid of me hi these troub- ulous times. As f9r myself, I would rather stay with you, and sou know also very well that you: cannot . do without me." "\o matter," replied her father, " times are elfaiigir.g now. Mabel, I am growing . old and infirm, mid there is no knowing the day that>l may fall in battle. If it should come to that, who will you. have A° `protect vou• during the 'troubles?" and he looked earnestly into• his (laughter's face. " Oh !as for that, father," answer ed 3label,J " I trust : in God theie is but little fear of At." " I tell you, Mabel," rejoined- he, " no matter how aff.drs go with me, it has comc:t6this, that I' have set my heart upon ; Your marrying mond Villiers,' and marry,ltim you shall, for he is in every way worthy of yop." " I -am sure he is," returned Mabel, " and'deserving of a far better wife than I could make him, but—" • " It'--hat but ?" mterrupted her fa- trier ; '4 that's the way you are always puffing me off. I hop c." he continued in a vet more energetic tone " that, you arc not still thinking of tone, wild; spendthrift, Dahogh len =tune V' A .bright blush overspread the fea tures of Mabel Browne at the ffound. of that name. She looked upon her fhther reproachfully, her eyes fill the while gradually filling With tea 44.• " 11 . I am, father," she said, mourn fully, " 1 cannot help it now .kand then. You know there Was once a time when you did not forbid Me to do so. However." she, eimlinued. with a sigh. " 'try to forget him, since you , wisp y , it, but I cannot—l cannot give 'my heart. to .llaymond. Villiers, beeanse_ , ' .` Because he is not worthy of it, I suppose you will say," - said her fa ther, somewhat bitterly. "Tut know,' Mal;el, that Pono! ,- 11 'Madearthy of ',l;lenmourne is now landless, and has natiglit but his sword to depend on, and, by our Lady ! 'but that's hilt at weak prop to depend on in these danfrefoug times!" " I know it," returned Mabel, her eves brightening, as she thought of her absent lover ; " I know that he was robbed of his estate by Crom well, but_ that is no reieson why I should play lain false!" " I guessed that was the answer yoo would make," said - .tier father, i" but notwithstanding, yoh must wed and that shun with Raymond Villiers —WI' what is that I see? Look, Mabel, ' iooK , : , I trust Lin God, whoever I it is, that he brings us good news !" Awl he pointed toward a slope at the eastern side of the castle, down which 4 horsema was riding toward them in furious hA n, ste. , '• Theze_must have been a battle. fomdic," 'exclaimed Mabel, looking eagerly upon the approaching courier as -he 'still rode on, his helmet and strappings glittering in the red beams of the setting sun. "'Seel he is fac ing directly for the draw-bridge. My. • God 1 it is Donogh of Glenmourne !" "I know him now,"_ said her fa ther. "Look-at his horse,hill cevered with- foam and mire. Look at his plume shorn off, and the sad plight he is - in`: lie is the bearer of 'bad :news!" and with that the old veteran left his: rseat upon the cannon, and hurried down the stair, followed by his daughter. With,a hasty step he strode to the, deaw-bridge, which by his Orders was' immediately let down to give ingress to Donogh of Glenmourne, who in a few moments afterw4rd rode inward and dismounted iii the court-yard, where lie was soon surrounded by aiii eager throng, all burning to hear the news with which' he was sent thither. l'The tidings he brought were sorro‘%k- ful enough, and Shouts of ariger and 1 exceratiohs deep and !iota! were Milt -1 tered by his lie4rers, as he told them how that morning Lord Musketry I was •vanquished in the battle of 1 Knbeknielashy. After giving this disagreeable bit of information with a soldier's brevity, In' ibllowed the warden of the castle. to a .private TOWANDA, BRADFORD pOUNTY, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 7, 1879. room, in order to deliver some fur ther instructions with which hel had been charged by his general after the battle. Donogh of Glenmourne 'was as good a speeimen'of 'the young Irish officer of the time as could well be seen. 116 was about twenty-five years of -age, strikingly. handsome, tall of stature, and had that bold, frank besring that so well became his de-. gree t which was that of a captain of cavalry. About the noon of the following day Lord Muskerry arrived with his forces and a' great prey, of cattle which they had taken during their retreat - from . the • bloody field of Knockniclashy. 'I he ramparts of Ross Castle were now crowded with men, and all was busy preparation' for the expected, siege. 'The out works at the land , side were strength ened, additional pro Visions were gath ered hastily but abundantly in from the surrounding country, guns were placed commanding every available approach. and at length the castle seemed capable of holding out stout ly against the well-appointed forces of the enemy. Some of the broken Irish regiments were also. encamped in "the surrounding woods, so that General Ludlow, when lie invested the castle with au army of about six thousaM men,'had - a game to play as ditlicultv.as'it was dangerons Matters were in this condition; 1 when one evening the Fair :Maid of , Killarney stole up to the battlements • of the easi:le in order to obtain a view of the hostile camp. Plainly enough it lay almost beneath her toward the east, the arms of its occupants all flashing and glittering in the 'sun. and the pOlted banners flaunting proudly in: the evening breeze. As she stood with curious eye upon that martial scene, she 'heard a light step behind, her, and - willing round beheld Raymond Villiers ap proaching from the stairway with a somewhat trtubled look upon his dark - and handsome features. He sat himself upon the' battlement beside her, and for some time neither spoke. " have_spaght you, Mabel," he at length said. "'for many reasons. This siege must. soon be ended. You will 'see.then why I am anxious to under stand)your sentiments towtird me. I arir . here to decide my -fate with re gard to you, and thus 1 ask you, for the last ;time, will. you becoMe my Wife?' - • '`l Nay," ironically returned Mabel ; 4 it would be indelicate ofme to con sent so hastily, seeing that-the siege, as you say. is: to come to so speedy a tertninaYon.• So," she continued, in the same.toni., "I cannot grant your 'request.',' . . . t, " I have dallied long enough," muttered Villiers, a frown.‘in spite of himself darke'ning his features. "This iS - to be my final answer: then, j kitow the rt - ason. 11' is lier 4 and you love him. But we will seetito it —by the breath of my body tut we will see to it !" and he stood up, and bowingeoldly to Mabel, took his way down the stairway witha black and revengeful frown upon his swarthy brow. Mabel 13owne, with.the sharpness of a woman, noticed the look, and partly gueSscd its meaning. • Coup lint it wiyi his - demeanor for a lonr trine previous,from which shejudfoal that he would think little of chang ing sides in the war, she determined for her own sake, and -for the sake of the ca-tie of which her father was warden, ,te watch his motions nar rowly for the future. But for several days afterward, during which• the siege began to grow somewhat hot ter, she saw nothing in the '-conduct of Itoymond Villiers to c•infirrit the secret suspicion sire had for ed of his fidelity to the Irish cause.. ;. f A week has now passed ftW,:. It was midnight. . Beneath tiled black gloom that shrouded lake,and'eastle, and giant- mountain, a tall figure, muffled in v long military cloak, glid ed along the rampart anti thence d own to the water's edge, and step ping cautiously into one of the three small boats that were moored beneath the shadow of the tritiver,'-took the oars andshOved it silently out into the lake. By and by another muffled figure stole silently beneath the ram part, land, stepping into one of the remaining boats; Put it off in a simi lar manner. The first boat glided noiselessly across • the lake, and at last landed its occupant upon; the shore t .diove which was situated' the catnp . of the -Parliamentarians. The second also followed stealthily in its wake, but stopping some distance from the !shore, turned back again after a short time toward the castle. As it glided in beneath the shadows of the western tower, the figure which it bore left it and soon gained the court-yard unobserved. Stealing up a stairway of the castic,and entering a little chit-libel', the long cloak that milled it -Was east upon the floor, and the lovely face of the Maid of Killarney was revealed in' the light of a small taper that was burning up on. the table•near the fire-place. " Whoever lie is,'? she said, :as she sat bAind the table, " he is ,a traitor. Butl will will:, and watch." • Meanwhile let us follow Raymond Villiers, for he it was that had gone' ••upon ,his dark midnight mission across the lake. After narrOwly'es caping being shot. by the enemy, he contrived to make his.purpose knOn, and was Soon conducted intol,the presence of General Ludlow.- " What dust thou want?" said the stern Puritan general in a surly tone, at being awakened froth his:' first slumber. "You will never take Rose Castle by your present tactics," answered Villiers, "for the garrison . is Well maimed; and they have abundance of provisions, besides the natural strength of the place. I am a lieu- tenant of the:,musqueteers. If I sue- Teed in gaining you a passage across the draw-bridge, or point out anoth er method by which you can take the castle, will you give me the same rank in your army ?" ‘• Gladly! gladly " - answered. Lud low, who knew but too well the Strength of the ; garrison. "And no'w ' in-case thou eanst not betray the draw-bridge! to its—obtain pas. sage over it for us, I mean=what is thine other method ?" " There is a prophecy regarding REGARDLESS OP DENUNCIATION PROM ANY QUARTER. Ross Castle," answered Villiers, " which the — Majority of those who now defend the castle believe in' with their hearts and souls, and which, when they see accomplished, 1.. will stake my lifts they will yield the cas tle to you on the - easiest terms. It is this t That Ross Castle can- never be taken till the enemy sail in a fleet of ships upon the lake ! Can 3ou not accomplish the prophecy ?" " I think so !" answered the Puri tan zeneral,'after a long pause, dur ing which he sat thinking intently. " Ito, them !" continued he to the grim orderly who stood guard at the door of his tent. "Siiindion here scout master General Jones, and say that I want to consult with him on a 'most ;mportant matter." In a short time . 4,he scout master general made his appearance, and, after a brief consultation, undertook to procure and transport from Kin sale to Castlemaine Bay, and thence overland to the Parliamentarian camp, the materials ready made of a fleet of heavy gunboats with which they would attack .the castle from the lake. Two days passed away, during which_ Villiers found that there was but small chance of betraying the draw-bridge of the' castle to the ene my. He therefore finally resolved to leave the place, and go over se eretely to the hostile camp. It was then that about.midnight, he contriv 'ed to procUre a boat as before, and make his way across the lake. This time, however, Mabel Browne, who constantly watehed his motions, and who now. sat concealed beneath the Clark shade of the wall, knew his fear . turns as he glided past, and followed him as she did the other night over the water. As he . stepped upon the land, an unlucky aphis!' of Mabel's o:u• caught his ear. lie stood' up, and peering outward through the darkness that overhung the water, caught sight of the boat, and the fig ure that sat therein, which he, of colirse, thought was that of a map: fierce frown of vengeance con tracted his dark brow; and drawing a long pistol fromt . his belt, he fired, at the indistinct figure. The next moment a wild shriek of agony and terror fang over the dark lake, and Mabel Urowne, with her anti broken between the elbow and shoulder, dropped like a wounded bird into the boitom•of the boat. Fortunate ly, a smart breeze was blowing at the time •from the eastward, and floated tile boat toward .the opposite shore of the lake, Ose Mabel would . have fallen into the ruthless hands of the Parliamentarian soldiers. The report of the pistol and the wild shriek of 'Mabel were folloWed by loud confusion in castle,and hos- - tile camp. Each side thought that the pistol-shot was a signal. for an at tack of some kind. Men hurried to and fro by rampart and trench. The cannon at . both sides opened tire for a short interval, but at length all settled down quietly again, and the night passed away. Little did tht y know that night in the Castle of Ross of the terrible agony their warden's daughter end tired be- Mde the solitary shore of tlic lake to which Ile- boat. way driven by the breeze. ';• The dawn was faintly tinging 'the eastern - sky when the Fair Maid of Killarney awoke kom one of the lOngswoons into ,Which she asterhad fall en, receiving 'the treacherous shot of Raymond Villiers. - She had now light, but scarcely sense enough left,• to look around her. Iler arm was lying helplessly by her side ;tber dress and the bottom of the boat were all stained with blood, and as she endeavored to. move herself, so as to get a view ot:where she was, a sharp pang shot through the wound ed limb; and with a' faint scream of anguish she droppe.l back again into, her former posture in the boat. Then . 'the precipitous, forest-girded shore above. her seemed to whirl in a wild and terrible dance before her eyes, and another swoon relieVed her for a time from the torture of the. wound. When _ she nest awoke. to - eon seidusness, it was with a . coloring and, .somewhat pleasant sensation. She opened her eyes,' and the first object they fell upon was the come and pitying.face of ponogh Of Glenmourne. lie was standing o%er her in the little boat, washing the flood koni her neck and arm, and sprinkling the cool water gently over her face. All . .was soon explained. Donogh, who commanded a party of horse amid the i wood, was returning from a reconnoitering excursion by the shore, and thus found her whom ile little expected to see in such a woeful state, that brideless summer morning. When . she told him, as well as her weakness would permit her, of the treachery of Raymond Villiers, and how it was, from his murderous shot that she bad receiv ed her Round, Donogh swore a stern oath that ere many .days would elapse, he would avenge the deed, surely and suddenly, upon the head of his perjured rival. Before anoth er hour was over she, to the surprise and consternation of her stout -old father, was lying in herr little cham -141 in Ross castle,.a waiting the coat i-rig of the surgeon who- attended Lord Muskerry's Army: Under "the' cafe of that sciefitific worthy, her, -frAttured anti was bound up, and in a few clays l the fever that followed her mishap passed away, and she wall pronounced out of danger. Meanwhq the siege went on. The Parliamentarian,. general pushed his approaches nearer and nearer to the castle, and the cannonsand small ;arms at both Sides rattle&away most indutriously every day tom morn ing until night. About ten or a doz 7 en days after the occurrence of the foregoing events, two horsemen mighl , have been seen riding in wild haste over the mountains, and ap proaching the northwestern shore of the lake. It, was Donogh of Glen mourne, and one of the dragoons be longing' to his troop. Leaving his horse to the care of bis orderly,Don ogli descended into a secret' nookby the water side, an was soon rowing a little boat he had taken therefrom across the lake to the cAtle of Ross. I The news he brought was that Scout ' Master General Jones, with ,a skill ful engineer named Chudleigh, was after binding- in Castlemaimlßay with a vast quantity of umber ready hewn for large 'boats, and was now on his way across the country to •he camp,.escorted by a strong convoy of . the Parliamentarians, horse and foot. After giving this news, he again crossed the lake'and soon pin ed his troop, with which he 'hovered upon the track of the approaching convoy. As the latter paSsed through a narrow defile, he fell upon it, sword' in hand, with his men, and had. a Amp skirmish. Re- was, however, finally repulsed, but not until he had the satisfaction of knocking with his own band, Raymond Villiers on the head, and thus ending the new career that gentleinan of an easy conscience intended running under favor of Par liament. . . The convoy arrived safety at Lud low's camp, and the boats under the superintendence of elulleigh, of Kinsale, Were soon put together and fit - to be launched. One fine morning when the garrison of Ross awoke, they were not a little astonished to see a fleet of ships, or in other words large gunboats, floating. upon the lake, with cannon ready pointed. nt their bows, - and col Ors flying jauntily overhead. All cried with one voice that the fatal prophecy was fulfilled, and that the castle could hold out no longer. Lord Muskerry, seeing the despondent spirit that pervaded his little army, demanded a parley with his enemy. The end of it was that, nfter:a long debate, a capitulation was drawn up, and Lord Ztluskerry yielded the castle of Ross, on very honorable terms, however, to the Parliamentarian general.. This put an end to that • terrible war whiCh had devastated the county for so many years. Immediately afterward, Ponogh MacCarthy rode over the mountains with a score of his bold horserben, and dispossessed the Puritan under taker who .held his house of 'Glen mourne. Some months Lam- the yielding of the castle, he was . made doublf happy by his marriage with the " Fair Maid of Killarney ;" and with the light-hearted pair it is said Wat the stout old warden, Captain Richard Browne, lived afterward for the .ret of his days a - life of jovial ease and contentment. IS IT REALLY HOT? am= . A citizen doing business oh Gris wold street has friyen this weather question a great deal r of thought, and yesterday he began a series of exper iments to ascertain whether imagina tion hasn't as Much to-do with a hot day as the thermometer. At 9 o'clock in the morning he entered.his office, built a brisk fire In the stove, closed the door, and - sat down to hiS news paper, having his chair close 4 to. the stove. I'll aTew minutes one of his custonieis opened the door, and, be fore he could express his surprise, the citizen called out: " Come in. What a Change in -.410 weather since last nightt• I hated to! -build a lire, but it was positively like November in here. Come :over by the stove." 4 , lla s _has the weather changed?" hesitatingly inquired the caller. "Changed!: Why, there's a, differ ence of thirty-one degrees - since 10 o'clock last night! Hear what the weather report says: Northerly windS. great change in temperaturif, with mditationsiof a severe frost at night! I wish I had brought my spring overcoat." "Well, I felt the change, but I (4 didn't realize the full power,of it," said • the other, as he edged_ Over -t , the stove and rubbed his hands.' . " You should watch theSe things and dress accordingly... I wouldn't Clare=conic" out in that 1.14 i co 4. Pirst you know- you'll have a chilli!' ' -. "___.l . know that I--ant rather care less,, but I must look out_ forin*lf in the future: This fire . ftafis ''rfiii* comfortable." r. “ Yes, it does k' - you'd 4)et.Or get thoroughly warrned,,up before You go out hi the raw. air."l . ';.. t ' 'y The The caller renyrTheet the : Air at least ten minutes. all the, ' estand infrpeat the hot stove, and yet, when the' thermometer '.- marked _ : 109 de grees lie made no complaints, and went out saying that'. he would', go home and get on a th t icker.coat: ---,---.......- . . ...NO Smos. - Iso Is - HERE. - " You can't smoke in here," said a conduct , - ter to a countryman', who was pulling away vigorously at a live-eent.,eigar in a car half full of ladies.. The man didn't seem-to hear. "I say," cried the man of the bell pnuch, in a louder key, "if you want ,o'smoke come out here on the plat- form." " All right," ,freturned - the passen ger, and he stepped out. " Didn't think it:wduld hurt nothin'," he said. apologetically, seein' there ain't any straw in the car to catch fire." -- " But there arc ladies there." • "Oh, yes. Didn't think pttithiti' 'bout that. Might getriSlies• on their gowns and spite 'em," ." It isn't so much that," esplained thC conductor; "Wiles object to smoke." " Well, 1- didn't ask of 'em to smoke, did I? They needn't -object ,befOre they are incited." "You don't understand.. Smoking to_ ladies." "Best reason in the world why they shouldn't practice it. Catch me smoking if it was disvrecable to me!" And he tranquilly,putled away at his five-emiter.—Cincinnati &tux fitly Night. TN TILE last eledtion in Nevada';'aS is usual in that country,sFverat,dead persons took part in the *ore. That is to say, the' politicians caßqil a number of nOtf=electors to vote in the place of men wholutd died,but whose names had not been erased from the voting-lists. As one of. these illegal voters approached the ballot-box, a little Tishman 'stepped forward and announced that he challenged the ote. For . wbat reason ?" demtpd ,ed the 'judge of election. " For what ireasonr echoed the lrishman ; "Tom , Riley is buried in the Foorth wahrd. and ye're afthcr votin' him in 'the Third, bogorra!" IF. it lady's bait to bait when it is owiltircill" WILLIE'S VIEW OF TEThGB. Charley, he's my little bother, Ae And we bid the mostest tun: Don't nv, Chiricy? Our mother Whenever we whips one another Tries to whip os, and we run— Don't we, Charley—and nen bytne-by, Fen she gives us cakes and pie, Mill' she; Charley !—when we come in, And protniSt never to 410 it again. Ile's named Charley; Pat Willy, And I'm vt the pottiest name; My Uncle Bob calls me "IllIly," Don't be, Charley? ()pl. filly I named , 111113 , " the same Thist - like me—and our mother said " Bob puts foolishen Into our head, Didn't she, Charley ?—and elm don't know Much about boyi—cos . Bob said so. Baby's the funniest feller— • Nalnt no hale on his head, Is they, Charley p,-lt's menet _. • %Ito up there. I'd sell her, • And buy one at wasn't so red, • ' Wouldn't you, Charley?—Non we could play, And have most tuM"wlll him every day, Couldn't we, Charitiy r—and have must fun Wfsht they'd a buyed a punier one. Our little sister she's `leven Years old—'ats nxurher'n I, Ain't It, Charley? I'm seven— But our llttle . slster's In heaven. • Dead peoples goes to the sky, Don't they, Charley?—tiers they has wings, Thlst like Fanny—and purtlest things-- Don't they, Charley ?—Nen they can fly, Thlst fly, = and—eve‘thlng—Wlsht I:d die ! ` —/ndiquapolis Ilera id THE WEATHER AS A PAIN PRO PRODUCER. It is a familiar experience that cer tain bodily pains vary according to the weather. A series of observations on the subject, made with much abil ity and perseverance, has lately been reported to the American Academy of Science by .Prof. Mitchell: They are Captain Catlin, of the United- States Army, who lost a leg during the war, and since that time has suf. fered a.good deal from tranmatic neu- He carefully noted, .during f 4 years,' the effects produced - on hifn by changes of the weather. For the first quartets of these five years there. were 2470 hours of pain, for the third quarters 2056 hours, and' for the last . quarters 2221 hours. . The best "yield yield or pain "' is in January, February and March, and -the poorest in the third quarter,July, August and September. DUring these live 'years, while the . sun was. south of the equator. there were 4692 hours of pain, against. 4158 hours % hile it was north'of the equator. The aver age duration of the attack for the first quarters was 22 hours, and for the third . quarter only 17.9 hours Taking the four years ending -Jan uary 1. 1879, it is found that ; of the :,37 storms charted : by -the Signal .Bureau, 20s belong to the two win 7 ter quarters, against 239 for the sum mer quarters.. Hence we have the ratio of the number of storm's of the winter anst summer quartets. corre- Sponding to the ratio of the amount of neural-via, for these respective periods; And the ratio of the average durhOri 3 Oreach attack for the same time corresponds closely with the ratio ( . 11 the respective total4amount of .neuralgia for the same lieriods.. The average distance of the storm centre' at the beginning of the nqu ralgic attacks was 680 miles. 'Storms from the Pacific coast are felt Aa r thest off very soon after or as they are crossing the Rocky Mountains, while storms along - the 'Atlantic coast are associated with milder forms of neuralgia, which are not 'felprntil the storm centre is nearer. Raiit is not essential in production . ofVfneuralgia. The severesi o neuralgie attacks of the year were those ac companying thefirst snows of NOvern-* beg and . December.. One .other teresting'. obeervation i as tolloWs : EverY storm " .sweeliing• across the continent consists of;a vast rain area, , atihe centre Of 'which is z moving space of greatest: barometriedepres slop: T.h-O'raitriisnally precedes this storm centre by ".Ikye hundred and fifty to six hundre&miles, but before and around the rain lies a belt,Wlii9h may be. called .thp 'neuralgic Margin of. Vie storm, and _Nrikieh precedes the rain. ,about one hundred and fifty This 'fact is very • deceptive 'because the-sutrereii, may be on ',the far edge of the storm-basin Of bar°. metric depression, and seeing noth ing of tge- rain, yet have vain . due.to he storm.. SOCIENT; -- Ilaltlinord - F,vry Salurda4 There'is probably no - word in the English language so perverted from its orignal significance as " society." In its iprimitive 'meaning there was a holy sweetness surrounding it that was captivating It implied the gathering togethei after : toil or separation of the old add young, and when a young lady "entered society" then it meant that • she left the nur sery to_associate with the older heads of the family. When a yodiiv; lady ".enters society " 'now it is, in *lost cases, an advertisement of a new arrival in .the matrimonia4mar ket, to which all wealthy biers 'are invited, and ;if 'a purchaser' is-finot found and she becomes self-worn and yelllw fate- labels her " old stock," and. Casts her aside among the -rub bish4o make room for a new supply: : " Society is now One polished horde, formed of ttso mighty tribes=the bores and the" aored." In the olden society - people were estimated at their true worth ; in the modern by their' looks, and the most sterling articles, if in fadded wrappings; are passed by for the shoddy genteel in tinsel. and - gilt. .Caste, with its mer ciless scalpe, now dissects the whole social body, acid as it ostracises the poor, robs it of its muscle -and its brains, destroys its ,symmetry and leives it a mass of beartle'ss, prOudAind cankered 'VIM in tluenge:lof modern society, instead of embracing what kindly < germs may be in the heart, blightS them and makes of its devotees stoics and pil grims to the shrine of llarOmon. ---- Dwrztorr Fre? Press: "Yes," observed the boy as he went down stairs, "this is a world of changes. - It wasn't Over three months ago that that 'en, lawyer giu me a blowin' up 'cos I didn't shut the door when I went-md, illlll now he torus round I and ,ja*s 'i os I didn't. ittilVi) it wide opt,n.• 1 I don't brow notliin"bout law, but it seems to one that• thew. 'ere fellers who can't stick-to nun thing for morie"ti three months at a -time can't be of much 81.00 per Annum In Advance. LIVING ~IN HOPES. Seiselt Press. • There is no, Partidular reason why a tramp should *ear a polished white shirt,' but they had one at the. Cen tral Station yesterday with a shirt sir terriblyln want of a • soap suds _bath that the oldest • men •on the-force gathered around the fello*. and de= Glared that they never savi;anything. like it under the blue..canopy of heaven. When asked how long he had worn it 'without washing", , :the man seemed hurt and:replied : " Give a .a ehance; won't fou see, I had this shirt on seven months - ago when I. broke-my arm. I coukin't ;get it off then, of course." • • 1131 "But your arm got, well pro tested one of the ()filters; '' Yes, it got. well, and then my sister died." Wh of -that?". • Why, she - made this 'ere shirt with her own -blessed hands, and 1 kinder. felt as if it was my duty to Wear it: in memory of her for awhile. I'm a hard•looking pill, I know, but I =loved my .sister. Poor Sarali! She's up there where they don't need clean shirts andliever have their hair cut." • " Well, :haven't you wore it •lon enough to ease your Miter's spirit. ?" " Gentlemen, I .shodld have got thiS shirt washed some time this week, but last night I kist mydpg—an ani mal which had studk by' me - for over . three years."'; " And.what had the dog to chi with it:?" . "If I should get washed up and cleaned up an I seem to:be somebody, and should come.'-across that dog. he'd look at my hair, give one sniff at my clothes, and Olen' he'd' turn tail and keep up the search till he fell in„, his tracks. I don't want to go back on my dog, do I ? I don't want to . play any contemptible trick on a ca- nine-which has turned to and eaten shingle nails - and old oyster cans when we. was on the tramp and 1 couldn't 'git nothing for myself but shelled corn. How I'd look going 'back on. a dog which had never laid down beside me at night without hunting around to sec where I could pick up turnips for brelikfat ?" " After you, find you dog you can. wash up," suggested anTotlicer. " Well, I shall live in hopes," was' the dubious reply, "Life is but a span, you know. We.cometh up like flowers and. are cut down, and I tell you I'm not going to run any. risks or take any chances for the sake of having a clean shirt, to Spit tobacco. juice on'.." ' . REST FOR II EAOACII FS.—nr. nay says, in a late lecture : Whatever be the plan of !treatment decided upon. rest is the first principle to inculcate in every severe headache. Rest, which, the busy - man .and ansious mother cannot obtain so long as they . can manage to keep about, is one of the first reinAes for every headache, and - we should. - never - cease to ell tome R. The brain, when excited, as much needs'quiet and repose as. a,fractured limb or an iintlamed eye, and it is ob ; vious.that the chances of shortening the seizure and arresting the pain will depend on our pnwer, to have. this cdreied,o - nt effectually. It is a.' practical ,lesion to. keep steadily in view, in !t it there may-_lurk behind a simple headache some lesion of un known magnitude which may remain :stationary if quietude cam fie main: !shied. • There is a point.worth attending to in the treatment of headach'es. See that the head is elevatechat night, and the pillow hard ; for ; .if it be 'soft, the,head sinks . into ;it and be comes Nit, which, with some people, is enough to provoke an 'attack in the morning if sleep has beep long and heavy. = . - - . = . AS A\ti EL. 17 ti Ni'; l / 4 11E.-- A good many years ago,. the lather of ,the presentliead of it Parisian publishing house was: - ofiered "manuscript - by a pale young rrian - with . - a' large fore head., rThe puOlisher glanced over "the - plies and-Saw Ahe „work was •in verse., Without attemptinm to read it, he handed politely back to the young autliOr with O. few of the usual phrases about poetry being a drug in the market, lef)ression of trade, etc., etc. ' l it . sorry, for your sake," said V,ie4oung, man, - impresSively„as he poeted the rejected manuscript. p " wap about to propose to you a contrret by - which . I would have as sureVyoti the right to-all.the future productiOns of my. pen. It was a for tune that.r.ivas abOut to offer yotr-.- but you refuse, and so no more i)ed be said." ._The publisher,,Struck by his manner, reflected fora :mome - iit, and then hastened after his visitor to call him back. But he:was too late—the young man had already disappeared. "Never before or Since,".the old gen tleman was wont to say, " have I met with 'a young author who so ful ly' believed in his own - powers, nor with one WA had so much reason for suet' belief, for my Visitor was Victor Hugo." Vocm; INPaEsstox - s. = " The Sweet est yoke-I ever heard,"said the bish 'op ." was a -woman's. It was soft and mellow, but penetrating mu4ical and measured -in its accents, but not precise. We were on a. steamer ani she, murmured some . common-place words about the scenery . - I do not, remember -what she said, brit • I calf never- forget the exquisitely tendeA musical -voice." , "The sw eetest voice lever heard," :replied the professor, "was a man's. I had been out fishing nearly - all day, and got back to the hotel about three. o'clock. - The man canie - outro;n the front stoop, opened his mouth Ilike sea cavern and roared II R. t ! 1' till it soured the milk in the, cellar. I have heard other voices since. then, .hut •I• never---" • ' 'But the bishop, with a look bf in tense disgust all over his face, had already Falked away out of ,hearing, and was lighting a.eigar by himself. . rtyrAcEm:o; sees pedestrian tumble into gutter ; a carriage drives rapidly past,. and •picking up the injured man. calls to the di : "111, hold ,on there l You'll have to answer for this:_ You knocked him dOwn Coachee (with honest indig nation): • "What d'ye so-oy? "No I didn't, ; I aimed at him, but the old Machine ',rallied, the."—Treseh Punch; • The history_ of yellow fever in this country shows that it has hardly • . been the exception" wh en the fever • - appeared as_ an epidemic the year following an - epidemic. In 1847 - there were 2,259 deaths in.NeW Or leans, 850 in 1848, and 437 1849, In 1853 there were 7,970' deaths lithe same eity,andAliere were 2,423 deaths - in 1854 and, .q 970 in 1855. fa 1858 there were 3,88? deaths, but none the_ . next year. In 1867 there were 3,093 . , .deaths;, and 'none the - :following year. ; In the same proportions the fever appeared .in the smaller places in . • Louisiana and Mississippi in those years.._ In . 1848, when it, reappeared_ in New Orleans, it came in June, while the epidemic of 1847 began in-- - August. The great epidemic of 1853 began in May, and the epidemic of the year following came in .1 9y, and in the next. year in June. The-epi demic in North Carolina in 18.62 was followed in 18414, two years after ward, by one of increased mortality, but not in the same cities and towns . as a' general thing. In - 1797.. Phil- . adelphia's deattili'st eras 1,300 in 1798 • 3,500, and in' 1799 there were 1,000 • ' deaths. •So it-was ' in 1802 when Philadelphia next had : the fever as an epidemic. .In South Carolina it has been almostAnvariably the case that the second year brought an epi demic: k 'Memphis and all other points which were infected in • 143 escaped the_seco:Md .year. In that Year the • fever began at Shreveport-first, and - did net come. until . the-. • latter NUMBER 10 part of August, reaphing Mem phis September lltl. August has been the favorite month for fts incep tion. Last year it—began : sear the first of that month in the South. - Teacitcr proposes to put a little- more-pressure upon chil dren to compel them to go the right way, It says: That word ".option-, al" is a word of- evil omen 'as dis tinctive of the age, and is. 'too com monly Applicable to other kinds of training than that already mention ed. ..Going to bed is 'optional ; , get ting up is optionnl; reading the .Bi ble is optional, as is also attending upon family worship; going to Sun day - School is' optional ; and so yothig.immortals committed to _par ents for guidance .and government, arc left tO "-foll t ow their own sweet without none to molest them,, or make thin afraid. Sometimes this policy ig the result of ,criin. inal ?negliczence, .the pare being -too' much occupied wit their 'own : employinents to -concern them selves much About such Minor. mat• tern as the habits of their children. Irorroßy OF YELLOW run. THE- DOMESTIC QIIICUS SEASm— ThiS is the time at Which the Small boy knocks a picket aff the fence to utilize as a base ball bat. Two hours latr a. goat * meanders through-the aperture and r , gales himself on tit ! bps, and mignonette,-and currant bushes. One I:Qui . ..atter. that Ange lina gees out , with a watering pot. These three events combined cause .more domestic .circus in tenehinutes than can be adequately 'described in an hour. I Very often think with sweetness, and longings and pantings of soul, of being a little. child, and taking - hold of Christ, _Ao be. led through the wilderness of this world. —Anal!, a,? L•'dicard:. FUN FACT AND TACETIE .111:11:TIIA-AFTE)CIL 4 ,;NGrEL1.0% How cold-are thy Lath Ap Cried the African monarch, the splendid As down to a Gatti to a swallow Tailed coa: he desveLded. • Uto.rowaed, onaLpho.lToattondeil, How ,•oltl are thy baths, Apollo? - Miss llosco:vit I(who has been reading' to her Sunday School class): "So you see, children, the good man Aaron swallovred up all the ‘nlier Tummy (With a heartfelt sigh): 4 . q.lorry,' don't 1 wish Glad's old tickler bad been there I—liiir card Z.,,impoon. . • - HE was a malicious young man" who" . on the occasion o his mother-in-law's iii tieth anniversary; drank tier health, Clos ing with the hOpe that they - Would' at - least meet to celebfate one or two more ietUrns of the - happy day.—Boston Jour- MEI' were engaged in archery, and l•cr attitude was very line as she let fly the feathered arrow from the twanging bow. " William, ate you bit?'. she softly mur mured'. "Shot through the heart," he answered. " Do, William," she - pleaded, "do, William Tell," and thus it is that history repeat!! itself,Yere LOndon Tele- A WILL Selene° stand up and tell us-Why a who freezes to death every time she lids to sweep off the -front stoop, 'can ride fifteen miles iu apleigh with nothing around her but some other girl's brother's arm,'lN'ithout'even getting a blue nose? - • Tfir. man who believes lie can move the world should begin by Wheeling, Va.—, Deiroit Free Press. - . And the min who regal cls - the sword as the great corrective power Or the State shOuld begin -by Lans . - mg, Mich.-24'evi York Mail. And let him who would be posted in .a literary way commence his task by Heading . , Pa. —Chimp) Journal., . . " A N t;.r.LiN mv," tzala Augustus eagerly, "I've made arc—a conundwum. It's weal nice. too. What did Jonah do to wide. npou when he was thrown over board?" 'Angelinaw ", Oh, Gussy Why, .he—tell me darling.", Angnstns—: "Ile went by the wailway, Ain't that awfully, ,jawly, Aiigejinaw ? Took me two !miffs to do it, too ; 'pon honaw."—Bos on Tranxeript. , . INDIGNANT father to his . son, whose ' , , picture has not even been skied at thel Academy :-" You're a nice artist ! IlerO you are forty-five years Christmas week, and yet no picture_ of yqurs has has ever been received." • "But, sir—" ':S7ilenee, sir ! nowt you presume to 'but sir' Sir, at your age Raphael bad been. dead, ten years."—French Newspa per. . A nissivArEn anil unmannerly noble man. presnming upon his "nubility," once asked Sir Walter So!tt, .who sat op, rosite to him at a dinner, what the differ enOe was between Scott and sot. "Just the' breadth of tho table," retorted • Sir Walter. e , . . . ItEctvrts a yklim,g man wail pre - sOted in a family where there was a marriagea ble d:un and as soon as he hartOk- , en his leave, the friend who had introduc ed him- said to .the father, " Well; how ,Wouidhe suit you for a son-in-law, hey::'"'." Very well, indeed," saps the father. "All right ; suppose he comes around to-Mori ow and, proposes ?" Father (with dignity) —To-morrow? Pooh, pooh ; what are vou thinking of? That would be. indeeent"haste. Say the day after tomorrow. A paragrapher soowilg the way they dolt in'Prance. Trittle.: It was a - calm, still night, :) soft air:-playing caressingly with the tresses of a lovely girl,. and the moori' shed its gentle rays over -the radiant brow - i of her- lover. Iler small . brother, mean while, just home for.the holidays, was ac cidentally wandering iu quest of a bat in 'the neighborhood, when ho hcar4, the , voiees• of his 'r-ister and her betrothed. 1 1 eumpted by - the natural curiosity of 'youth he lingered to listen. After a. few, inarticulate murmurs he became imnseious of the sound of osculation, and enjoyed his position exceedingly. Later iii the evening he, met the pair at tea, " I heard . you.kiss Fred;"'he- abruptly -remarked to hilt sister. "What do you Mean, you ipilo boy ? 7 ' cried the . siveet.:,gui,. turning scarlet. "Ob., it's nu -tisk; - denying it replied the brother.. " Von canl..gammon me, I know the sonnd,-you know ; it was just like a cow .pulling her hoof out% of a m nd-hole." 'this is an inatariee of a cum valisun which veins Minus; ,
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