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Editor and Proprietor. -y mong t il fiO a year, in advance ; or. ll cases tf H"t paid promptly in advance. riutions llcontiuned nntU ail arrearage VOL. XXVII. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., AUGUST 28, 1S73. NO. 35. are i A unless atthe option of the ijabliaher. ' S ' ! l' -''i ll' l' IIiNot?lIii,y 1 . it a l M o T ll E if s i.e icv. Isliit my eves, am I dreaming? I open ttiem agnin, O, no ! it is a bright reality The elose-cut grass stretching ont fra my window, down to the over grown j plantation, is the same across wt hioh liny aneestorn tripped in their high-ig-eled sfcoes, before the red tide of ti4 revolution swept them away. The o stone fountain, with its broken Tritonj and mouldring dolphins, then threw its silver spray far into the sunny air; aow, a few slow drops trickle amongthe motses that fringe its edge. Ilavo yon ever lived where there was not sotiething that reminded yon of the de j ? Thre is the chair in which they wj-e sitting, lout? years before I was bom. Yonder is the couch where they w.tte lying when death opened for thein ti door of life. Their eyes saw what I tin seniiip ; their ears heard the pong of the bird's, as I hear them now. The blse periwinkle stars in the glass on my table:, I gathered them this morn ing under the oaks in the plantation ; and so, 1 amis that have been dust for ages g.itiiered them on some sweet ppring noruiug in the past. I am i'.ting in the little, dark-paneled room where, one sunny morning, my grandmother sat with her child in her arms, when a courier arrived, panting, breathless: "Hie Q leen is guillotined 1" There was no more hope ; my grand mother aust fly. Clasping her babe to her heutt, she arose ; horses were saddled a rapid flight to the coast ; a tearful mteting with her hnsband, dis guised as g fisherman ; trembling haste; a crazy beet on the stormy sea ; a land ing on tge shore of Scotland poor, friendless, with aching hearts. Such was the story 1 had often heard from iny grand anther's lips. Left an Irphnn in my babyhood, she was fathet, mother, all to me. Hour sifter hour 1 have sat at her feet, listening to her ta!w of "beautiful France"- of the gay cort, the beautiful Queen, the old chateau, where her happiest days were spect, "You were not born there, pauvre peite," she would say, softly. "Ah! thatwas wrong ; but you may die 'here I tltink you will. You will be tliaukful fi that, Mignon ?" And her eves wonldwauder over the bleak Scotch moors, seiiig bevond them the blue sky and lbwery fields of her sunny France. Foes she know that her half prophecy Ins been in part fulfilled? loes she know that at last my feet tread thegmss-grown paths in the quaint old garden? tiiat for me the birds sing, and the tries shake out their tender l-.-aves? A new generation of leaves, I ut fctill tie same her eyes saw and loved. Tlare is little changed. A friend remembered ns ; the estates were saved, and 1 inherited them. Not much money; but the gray walls, the trees, the fields, art mine. I look around ; I say, "My vn." Does she know all this? 1 belie she does. Her picture looks down Jfipon me now ; not as I retneniber l?,yith silvery hair shading " her delice, highborn face, but young, wi'h ii.tghiug eyes, and ripe lips just purled iu a jyua smile. in the long salon beyond are rows of haughty facts, blooming faces, stern, ' wicked, saintly faces. One after auother they lifted the burden of life, bore it a while, then laying it down, crept away to their long, dreamless sleep, under tlie stones in the little chapel. Now there is only one weak woman's hand to lift the banner of the name they bore so long and nobly. Stretch out your shadowy hands, that its folds trail not in the dust I Strengthen me, shades of the dead, that I bear it not unworthily ! The air is still with that stillness that speaks of life, not death. Somewhere in the distance, Jean is drawing water. The creaking of the wheel becomes musical through faiutuess. In the farm yard the busy hens are cackling, and oue loud-voiced cock is crowing lustily. Lisette is cluttering about her kitchen, ninging a plaintive little song; the chorus reaches me "Marie! Marie! je vons uiuie tuujours." I am idly wondering who was Marie? and did the singer love her always ?" Presently Lisette's heels click along the ball. "Madamoiselle'a keys," she says, with a flash of her white teeth, .lean has found them among the peri winkle stars. I take them from her hand. One, smaller than the rest, has slipped otf the ring. A little leather box, clasped with iron, stands before me on the window-seat. A few days before her death, my grandmother gave it into my keeping. "Take it, mon enfant : it contains the life-secrets of many of your race. Thero are stories, too, from other lips, as they were told to me. You nay like to read them. Yon will keep it for my sake." My life has been a busy one, and I have never opened it. Now, as I fit the key into the rusty lack, and raise the lid, a cloud of dust salutes me, and a musty, mouldy sniell. 'Ihe papers are mildewed with age; the characters almost illegible. ue is tied with a black ribbon ; choos ing this, I unroll the closely written sheets. One fells out; it is in my grandmother's tlear, firm hand. Ah 1 liow long ago fas that written ? The date is 17 . j "A strange ling has occurred. I was ill very ll a year ago. Dear Henri begged ihe Moorish physician ( so he is called jto see me. He came, tall and grave. I was frightened. He was gentle to ie, and I grew to like him. He is allays among the poor ; he will receive fa othing from any one. Henri offered hti money ; he refused. 1 gave him m4 hand ; ho touched it with his lips, he comes, or wh his name. He o one knows whence he is. Tbe poor bless Inever smiles, l was mire he had soni great sorrow. "One dav a an came to me, and handed me a letar "I am ill. W yon come ?" "I went with enn. lb room was hung with blao L Tie phvsioian was fcokiig out npon the l,y a window. court ; it was fut of jeoplo poor, many weeping, pie itretftlied ou and many weeping, tie itretfflieu out nis hand and smiled "I iaveeent for you, raadame, to say arevell,t and to ask your husband to prootre passports for my servant he i to t'te lie home." '"Not now ?" I fied ; jot are ilL" "No, not now.'pe sail ; io-morrow." "I had flowers ir hint, rfes, delicate f uchias, and purefchite lilf s. He took them eagerly, intalei tlir perfume, fondled them, an.ltoid ni the legends of their birth. J "This is my flo ?r W said, lifting a lily from the res "If aas returned to ua. He held i dots against his heart, saying, soft, 'Ills an omen of good ?" He sat HUang1 long time, gazing at the blue etv. ', "Au revoir," IsHtfl bent over him. He looked uilrighty : "At the door I turned again ; he waved his hand, tl raisel the lily to his lips, nd smUeJ hia serv ant came, al In tie morning, gave ne a packet ; it contained the manuscript I inclose. On tbe outside was written : "Thi ia the atory of my life. No one will know it dui you. Auieu. - "The man was weeping. His master had died in the nigbt." I unrolled the yellow sheets. There was no heading to the story they con tained. I looked at the end ; there was no name. It commenced abruptly : "I come of doomed race. A enrse hung over me at my birth. In conse quence of a horrible crime committed by one of my ancestors, the good genius of our race deserted us, and a demon. fierce and cruel, shadowed as with his black wings. "The first-born child of every genera' tion was doomed, if a boy, to an early and violent death ; if a girl, to a life of misery. Generation after generation the curse had fallen. By water, by hre, by the sword, the first-born son had perished ; and the mother wept bitter tears when a girl was placed in her arms. There was a legend that the curse would cease when one was found, bold enough to foil the demon, then, and then only, would the guardian of our race return. "There is Moorish blood in onr veins. In the third generation our remote ancestry shows itself. Men call me 'the Moorish physician.' True to my instincts, I have devoted myself to the study of Eastern lore. The volume of the heavens had long been open to my gaze. Earth's deepest mysteries have yielded to my touch. The voices of the deep breathe mighty secrets to my ear, and in the war of the elements, the flash of the lightning, the roar and thunder of the waves, when man shrinks back appalled, my spirit finds its wings. "1 was tbe second son. My brother was assassinated by an unseen hand. "I returned to my home, and plunged deeper and deeper into tliat abtruse studies I delighted in. Why could they not suffice ! Alas 1 I loved. Ah, fatal power ! When we willed it, our love must be returned. As I knelt before an alter, I looked upon the fair' creature who had yielded her pure heart to me, as the priest may look on the victims at whose throat he holds the knife. I was pressing the enp of anguish to those ruby lips ; those sweet eyes would soon overflow with bitter tears. And yet, madman as I was, with eager haste I clasped the fair blossom closer to my heart, knowing that my fatal grasp must blight its bloom forever. "For one short year, earth's fairest hues spread out before me ; and then, in darkness and in tempest, onr child was born. There were vague mutterings in the air. as I took my infant daughter in my arms. Do you wonder that 1 could not answer back her mother's happy smile ? My rose and its sweet bud grew day by day in loveliness. I suffered tortures. O, that she might be taken before her gentle heart should bleed for the sufferings of her child ! "Years passed. She began to fade my beautiful flower. I watched her anxiously. Tbe wind and the waves saw my sorrow: they reveal no secrets. Her sweet life ebbed so slowly would it be too late ? With a sigh of thank fulness, I closed her beautiful eyes. "I wandered from land to land, taking my child with me. I watched her every step. In agony, I waited the time when the doom of onr dark race should fall on her innocent heart. In Madrid, a Spanish nobleman saw her. Her beauty charmed bim. Humors of my wealth had reached his ears. Artfully, selfishly, he wove his chains around her. How I hated him 1 From the first, I knew him. The woe was ever worked by a human hand, and as I watched the baleful light in his hard eyes the close pressure of his thin, cruel lips I gnashed my teeth in impotent fury. My darling ! can you not see how that strong, fierce hand will crush all the i sweetness out of your fresh young life? I And she loved him. He would turn to 1 me with a smile of scornful triumph ! when her innocent eves told him this. Madly jealous, if she displeased him he would cast a cold, hard look upon her, whispering harsh, cutting words of anger.till she paled and tretubled.lifting pleading eyeB to his. And I was power less t "I took her home. The Spaniard followed ns. Onr German winter chilled him ; but he persevered. The spring came. Step by step he was forcing me back. In vain I nightly lifted despair ing eyes to the proud stars ; tkey smiled down coldly on me, but no voice came. "Again I read the mouldering parch ment which recorded the dire curse, and the mysterious words of prophecy regarding its fulfilment. By fasting and by watching, 1 strove to read their meaning : "The red hand shall in, while the white hand ehall fall.' The cypreas-crowned cup aball confer immor tality." "Both of these images forshadowed death. "Then followed a legend : "A flowe- bloomed in the cleft of a rork. The fierce waves saw it ; they cureied ita beauty, but the nx-k laughed down on them, aa they aunt i and foamed at it feet. The temeet woke ; the wavee aroae ; tbev danued their sprays tar up in the face of tbe rock. Then the roca cried. "O. Azrael ! take thou the flower, for I can ahelter it no longer." Then Azrarl heard, and, stretching out his strong ritflit hand be plucked the flower, and bore it to sunny plains, where long it bloomed iu iace and beauty.' "In the watches of the night, the meaning was made clear to me. I knelt and cried, "O, Azrael ! I give my flower into thy keeping. See that thou bear her tenderly to sunny plains, where angel hands shall welcome her.' Then I called my child. She came, and laid her snnny head upon my shoulder. I gave the cup of death into her hand ; I watched her drink it. I spoke playful words to her ; I told her it was the elixir of life, and she smiled as she took it from my hand. I drew her to the case ment: she lay in my arms, and I spoke to her of the things she loved of the flowers and stars ; and of the heavenly plains where her mother wandered. She listened dreamily. I forced my lips to smile as she clasped her arms about my neck. Her breath fluttered a little, and her startled eyes sought mine. I turned away. Suddenly she said, "My father, there is some one standing in the moon light, holding out to me a fair white uly. Then I knew the guardian of our race had come for this, his child. "In the morning came the Spaniard. I bade him follow me. We stood beside her. He wrung his hands and wept I had foiled the demon. "Do you wonder that while others smile, my lips are grave ? Do you marvel that I keep vigil by the couch of pain and sorrow ? I have no remorse. I did no wrong, Her pure white soul went np to God without one stain of earth to mar it loveliness. But, O, my child 1 my child I Faint voices call to me a hand has beckoned from the stars my time is short 1 My angel ones, I come 1" I laid down the manuscript with a shudder. Could this be? I looked around me fearfully. There, in her dress of green, God's beautiful earth smiled up at the sky. The birds were singing overhead ; in the kitchen, Jean and Lisette were laughing; the beea hummed in and out of my window. Life, busy, beautiful life, waa all around me. Turning the key on the ghostly story, I went out into the sunshine. Secrets of the Sanctum. The humorist of the Detroit "Free Press," observes that there is always one vacant chair in the sanctum of every daily paper, or it would be vacated for the right man. It is the position of man. When a yonng man, wear ing a very exultant contenance, walks into the editorial rooms with a bundle of manuscript under his arm, all the staff know what is coming. He has been writing an ode to Spring, or a poem on the fast-disappearing Indian race, or five hundred verses on the power of love It is really wonderful bow san guine he is. He has selected this par ticular paper as a great favor to the pa per, and he is "certain that the pub lishers won't think of offering him less than a dollar a verse, and that after they have handed him the money they will pat him on the back and say : ''Go on, young man ; there is a wealth of laurels for you in the future." He walks around the room a few times to collect himself, and then goes to the nearest man. He ia referred to the "man in the other room," and the man in the other room heaves a sigh as he sees him enter. "Here's a few verses on Spring-time which I dashed off the other day," says the young man, as he deposits the roll on the table ; "you can look them over, and I will call for the money Saturday." He goes out, and the recipient of the roll unrolls it ; feels his hair raise np aa he sees that some lines have ten "feet," others six, and that a pile-driver could not pound the metre into shapa. He puts it away, and begins to dread Satur day. Saturday comes, and with it the young man, who expects a check and a compliment. He aits down, and there is a long pause. The editor would rather tackle a Bogardus kicker than to say what he must say, but he finally gets around to it. "Very good season able well written but, ah ! ahem ? we haven't room for it at present ; you'd better send it to the New York Post. That young man gets up with an awful look of contempt and revenge on his face, siezes the roll, and goes out feeling that he shall be an enemy to the pap?r, editors, reporters, compositors and ap prentices forever after. This is only an illustrative case. There is the woman who has written nineteen verses on her dead baby ; the old man who has hashed up a ballad and wants to be brought out as the author ; the young man in love who has written a poem on his Hannah, and five or six others. Each one must be refused in such a manner as not to wound his feelings, and yet his feelings will be wounded. If he hadn't a cent in the world, and was in need of bread, he wouldn't feel half so bad to be refused a cash' loan as he would to be told that his poetry wasn't first class, and that he'd better turn his attention to a trade. The poets are not alL There is the man with the "Essay on Sober Second Thought," the man with two columns on "The Degenera tion of American Politics," and the scores of men with essays on this and that, which no one but the writer wculd read. They must be met, repulsed and gut rid of, and though the editor is as tender aa a lover, the chances are that within three days he will receive a letter reading something like this : "Dcaa Sta : Owing to the fact that my article on the 'Rejuvenation of Mummies' did noi appear In your issue of Wednesday, yon can stop my paper. 1 shall snips- ribe to the ''Ark," whieu is a lively, go ahead daily, fully up to the times. "Vuure Caio." Alligators. There are some very large alligators on the Eed river. I have seen several myself,, though not of the largest size. Their favorite posture is to sit or lie on the bank or on logs, basking in the sun shine. The pretty creatures seem to like a genial climate. An alligator is rather smart about some things. He knows as "inch about strategy as a major general of militia. He will poise himself on a log, open nis mouth wide, by elevating his upper jaw, aud remain perfectly quiet. Iu a short time his mouth will fill with mosquitoes and flies, when down will come his jaw, taking every mosquito and fly prisoner. He swallows them, licks bis chops, and elevates his jaws to catch another floor full. This dish is regarded by tbe alli gator as the most delicious that the country affords. An alligator uvea to a green old age. Indeed, it is a question among those who have given the subject profound attention, whether he ever dies until somebody kills him. An alligator grows a foot a year. This has been demonstrated. Some years ago a gentleman sent an alligator from Mobile to Knoxville, Tennessee. The animal was three feet long. This side "3 Knoxville the train stopped for din ner. The alligator sighed for liberty, broke out of his cage aud made for the Houston river. Just as he got to the water's edge his keeper was upon him and grabbed him by the tail. The alli gator turned sharply around and dis played about a foot and a half of mouth, at which the keeper thought he would let go. Well, just three years afterward the alligator was killed near the same place and measured six feet long showing that he grows just a foot a year. This is a contribution to natural history which I hope will be duly appreciated by the scientific world. 'Parties freanentlv hunt alligators along the banks of the Bed river. It is rare and exciting sport, especially if the ambitions hunter accidentally lets one of the animals get hold of his foot. I will close this letter before the reader is sufficiently fatigued to wish an alligator would get me, foot and alL Cincinnati Commercial. Tradesmen's Tricks. The litrht wit for which the French nations is remarkable, says the Pall Mall Gazette, is noticeable in tbe wbole literature of Parisian trade circulars, puffs, and advertisements, and even in the arrangement of articles in the shop windows. In one of those passages which invariably attract foreign visitors by their glittering display of articles de Paris was a linen-draper and hosier's shop in which just before the assump- . , , - .. , v i tion the imperial aignuy oy japoieon III., a bust of the President was dis played, adorned by an Imperial diadem composed of a shirt-collar with the points sticking np. me enect was ir resistibly suggestive, notwithstanding the homely nature of the crown. A firm in the same line of business in the Pas sage de 1 'Opera has now made a grand coup by the simple expedient of em blazoning nis Bnop-iront a aay or two airo with suns and lions a la Persane. The bait took ; three of the Shah's at tendants entered the glittering trap.and gave what a French journal calls "a pyramidal order." No doubt by this time the boulevards are biasing with suns and swarming with hons, with a view to attractino; the buyers whose or ders take so symmetrical a form. A LITTLE CRT H PLED LETTER. A remunerative job for the solemn visaged undertaker, an effective crape around a highly polished hat, and a wailing, saffron-tinted, helpless atom of humanity, "by nurses overlaid," pro claimed a tale of mortal suffering and a holy peace for one more weary souL Yoa see my story begins where ro mance ends. At the altar, scarce a year before, a little lady had given her life and happiness into the keeping of Mal colm Elliott, trusting, loving, and con fiding, sooner doubting the goodness of her Creator than the integrity of her handsome husband. To be sure, people wondered why this brilliant, ambitious social star should have turned his dignified back on all the sweet eyes that were wont to seek his own, and plead for a deeper glance; why wealth and position could not lure him from marrying a wall-flower. The climbing rose and the stately sun-flower could not stoop to a compre hension of the modest beauties of the violet. Its unobtrusive fragrance did not reach them. Three months of bliss for my wee woman, and she too ques tioned, "Why did he marry me ?" Mine is not the comprehensive mind that can understand the caprices of our vacillating male creatures. The novelty had not worn away for the little wife, and every morning the pleasure of helping the dear owner of self with his toilet, holding his coat ready for him, and performing such trifling services, that satisfied the man, tickled his vanity, and proclaimed her worshipping love On this particular morning she dis covered a bit of treacherous tailor work in the lining of his coat, as he was about to relieve her of it, previous to his de parture for his office. "Wait, let me mend it, dear." "Oh, I havn't time this morning I'll stop at the tailor's during lunch hour and get it done." "Please let me do it for you. I can not permit a stranger to do that which is such a pleasure for me." "Bun, then, and bring me my other coat. I have a client waiting for me at 10 o'clock sharp, and it is important that I should see him." Hastily brushing his bearded face over her mouth, that was intended for a kiss and received as such by the adoring little matron, he rushed from her sight, j Her loving, soul speaking blue eyes followed his form in spirit for a while, then the treasured coat was carried to her room and neatly mended. Uncon sciously then her wee hands slid first into one pocket, then another ; bye and bye, she smiling at her own curiosity and the result so far a match safe with nothing in it, a theatre bill, two soiled handkerchiefs, innumerable business cards, a railroad time table, a handful of tobacco perfuming the whole, and that was all ? No ; here in this catfish mouthed side affair is something. Dear child wife, why did not some spirit-hand control your busy fingers ? Where, oh, where was the spirit of Thomas Gray, who so sensibly wrote "where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise, that he did not make a practical fact of his words and jave this innocent heart the agony of lost confidence in her loved one ? Alas ! like so many other bright in tellects, is he, too, roosting in some medium's wooden table ? She finds some matches and a letter. Pink tinted paper ; its original perfume is lost in the sulphur of its present as sociations. A lady's chirography, dated the day before. She reads : My Pkisce of Mes : The most ex cellent baldpated owner of my charming self has at last condescended to pass me over to the fond embrace of my five hundred friends. Welcome home has lost its fervency. One greeting was wanting, one pair of hands are fondling other cheeks, one pair of eyes are look ing into other responsive ones and 1 I am forgotten ; the gulf is greater now that separates us and you have done it. Six mouths of torture in a foreign coun try, for me the only light breaking my perpetual misery was perusing your dear false letters, that said not one word to prepare me for the shock, the dread ful news of your marriage married t My ambitious, glorious eagle, mated with the sparrow? I could laugh to ridicule at the incongruity of your choice. 1 certainly wish you happiness, I imagine I see you a little while hence: "Malcolm, dear, do put away that stu pid book ; Malcolm, dear, is the baby wet? etc., etc." "Oh, God ! I wish my loving heart could grapple with your misery, when you realize tbe chains that hold you to the simple woman who would faint to look at "Byron," and cross herself should she chance to touch Festus, who would drown Dryden in holy water, think Voltaire was a song, and Tom Paine a rag picker. Well, console your self, she will bear you a nice family of children, "who will rise np and call her blessed," and you where will you find the cooling waters for fevered mistake ? And I life can offer me nothing now ; since becoming the property of my good natured owner, my only happiness has been in intercourse with you, my grand, noble love. Too late we met ; but as we gaze at the stars and receive pleasure therefrom, so did my soul delight in your presence ; and none the less did yon love me. Our tastes were alike, and believe me not too vain when I say my intellect was sufficiently lofty to appreciate and inspire yours. One more conversation I beg you to grant me. Once more I wish to look into your heart through your dear eyes; and then farewell. I shall drive by your office to-morrow at ten o clock. Come with me if you still love me. L . Like turned to marble sat his heart sore wife. "At ten o'clock 1" she whispered. "At ten o'clock 1 And he has an impor tant appointment And this is my pure honorable husband. Too true, I can offer him nothing but my unbounded love. I am only a sparrow, but the dear God in heaven will have pity on even me." No tear dimmed her eye. Only a wild, hunted look told of the suffering within. Dear, noble woman ; she met her hus band with no reproaches. She placed her arms abont him, and searched his eyes as if to read his soul, and simply said : "Malcolm, tell me, husband, do you indeed love me ?" His answer was her death-knell. "What a 'question, you little tame sparrow you ; why else should I marry you? That reminds me, a friend of mine has just returned from Europe. I think you have met her as a girl, for merly. She is quite anxious to have yoa visit her. I chanced to meet her this morning, and she expressed a wish to that effect" Did he ever once dream why the limp figure in his arms remained in such a long swoon that the retired nature could feel such anguish and not utter one word ? She left bim to hia inclination ana society, her condition and delicate health, her exense to withdraw from all eyes but her few intimate friends, feel ing convinced that with the birth of a new life, hers would be demanded, and hoping to this end, she assumed a cheerfulness to her husband that quite satisfied his requirements. She could not worship an imparfect idol. Her nearness to divinity gave her a clear insight into the character that seemed so noble, and resigned her to give np life, having no further use for it The learned doctor could nee no rea son for this exhaustion, this want of holding on to life ; so this little spar row died, the wintery blasts of a selfish soul crushing her into eternity. Happy little sparrow, you were amply avenged when the man for whom you died found the little crumpled letter amongst your few treasured papers, could you have seen the remorse that prompted him to utter the sentence of separation between its writer and him self. "Too late I" he said, "I will never look at you again. Your flattery and my vanity have murdered the sweetest woman that man ever had for comforter. Her pure mind was so far above your selfish heart, and my love for her was purer and better than the miserable attachment my blinded eyes mistook for love of you. You have broken her heart" . Alas I In the Garden of Eden the man also said, "The woman tempted me." Oh 1 strong-minded, creative creature, had but the Lord forgotten to make tender woman from frail man, what a world of nice objects there would be to shout His praise 1 Strange such a blunder should have been committed, the male progenitor, Father Monkey, would have been suffi cient company, I should think. Let this be a warning then, troubled husband. Your coat might also have a rent, and curious hands delight to dive into pockets. We all do. And never, never, never stuff. anything into them that will make sore hearts.' The result might be more dreadful to yon than a funeral ; every man's wife is not a good, silent-tongued Bparrow. A Japanese Hotel. In imagining a Japanese hotel, good reader, please dismiss all architectural ideas derived from the Continental or the Fifth Avenue. Our hotels in Japan, outwardly at least, are wooden struc tures, two stories high, often but one. Their roofs are usually thatched, though the city caravanseries are tiled. They are entirely open on the front ground floor, and about six feet from the sill or threshold rises a platform about a foot and a half high, upon which the pro prietor may be seen seated on his heels behind a tiny railing ten inches high, busy with his account-books. If it is winter he is engaged in the absorbing occupation of all Japanese tradesmen at that time of year warming his hands over a coarcoal fire in a low brazier. The kitchen is usually just next to this front room, often separated from the street only by a latticed partition. In evolving a Japanese kitchen out of his or her imagination, the reader must isjast - away the rising conception of Bridget's realm. Blissful, indeed. is the thought as we enter the Japanese hotel that neither the typical servant girl nor the American hotel-clerk is to be found here. The landlord comes to meet us, and, falling on his hands and knees, bows his head to the floor. One or two of the pretty girls out of the bevy usually seen in Japanese hotels comes to assist us and take our traps. Welcomes, invitations and plenty of fun greet ns as we sit down to take off our shoes, as all good Japanese do, and as those filthy foreigners don't who tramp on the clean mats with mnddy boots. We stand up uushod, and are led by the laughing girls along the smooth corridors, across an arched bridge which spaus an open space in which is a rook ery, garden, aud pond stocked with goldfish, turtles, and marine plants. The room which our fair guides choose for ns is at the rear end of the house, overlooking the grand scenery for which Kuuozan is justly famous all over the empire. Ninety-nine valleys are said to be visible from the mountain-top on which the hotel is situated, and we sus pect that multiplication by ten would scarcely be an exaggeration. A world of blue water and pines, and detailed loveliness of the rolling land, form a picture which I lack power to paint with words. The water seemed the type of repose, the earth of motion. Lippincott's Magazine. iMentlelssoh n. The Pall Mall Gazette says, in review of the "Life of Moscheles," by his wife, just issued, of all Moscheles's recollec tions, none are so interesting as those of Mendelssohn. Their strong personal attachment, extending through the two families, is known to every reader of Mendelssohn's letter ; and the pleasant ness of the picture is brightened by Moscheles's account of their intercourse, for their admiration and love for Men delssohn was unbounded. One inci dent in Mendelssohn's visit to the Queen at Windsor is worth repeating, for the benefit of those who may not have heard of it before. Moscheles gives it as he had it from Mendelssohn himself. When Mendelssohn rose to depart, the Queen thanked him and said, "You have given me so much pleasure, now what can I do to give you pleasure ?" Mendelssohn deprecating, she insisted ; so he candidly admitted that he had a wish that only her Majesty could fulfil. He himself the head of a household felt mightily interested in the Queen's domestic arrangements ; in short, might he see the royal children in their royal nurseries ? The Queen at once entered into the spirit of tbe request, and in her most winning way conducted him herself through the nur series, all the while comparing notes with him on the homely subjects that had a special attraction for both. The Man Without an Enemy. We believe in the man or woman that "has enemies." This does not sound sound, but is sound. Your milk and water people, who content themselves with simply doing no harm, at the same time never doing any good they are merely negatives. Your man of force, who does not wait for a stone to get out of his heaven-appointed way, bnt man fully rolls it over, may unintentionally hurt somebody's toes in the act ; bnt thousands who will have to travel that way will thank him for clearing it The man or woman who has no enemies is generally a sleek, creeping, cowardly creature, caring for no one but himself smirking and creeping in his unchal lenged way to the obscurity he merits. He adds nothing to the common stock does no good in the world, and is lowered into his six feet of earth without one sincere regret from any one. He has had no enemies, but has he had a friend ? A place is vacant, bat not in any warm, grateful heart A fig for such people I Styles and Titles of the EnzHsh Kobility. Foreigners ol raun. are half amused and half provoked at the mistakes made by Americans, even of the traveled and cultivated class, iu regard to titles. An English nobleman, who passed many mouths in this country, lately told a friend that he had scarcely ever received a letter properly addressed, and he was greatly amazed at such ignorance of the usage of polite society. It is really as improper for an Ameri can to address a nobleman wrongly as it would be for President Grant to address the queen as Mrs. Guelph ; and it is no reason, because we do not have titles here, that we should not pay a proper deference to the customs of another country. In Switzerland there is as complete an absence of titles as in the United States, but Swiss ladies and gentlemen do not on that account neg lect to give visitors from other countries their right style and title ; aud what makes foreigners the more severe on our neglect is, that they declare we are quite as appreciative as the people of any couutry in the world, of such dignities as we do possess, and that colonel, gene ral, captain, admiral, judge, are paraded especially in connection with the wives of officers, having such a prefix to their names to a much greater degree than elsewhere. The truth really is, however, that Americans blunder about titles without the slightest intentional want of respect, but from their ignorance on the subject. We propose, therefore, as the British peerage is the rock on which onr people often split, to explain very briefly the usage in regard to it. There are in the British peerage seven gradations of honor, viz : urch bishops, dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts, bishops, and barons. Prelates sit for life only. They are termed spiritual peers, and neither wives nor children derive any rank or title from them. The eldest sons of the first three orders of temporal peers take their father's next interior title. Thus, the eldest son of the Duke of Sutherland takes the title of "Marquis of Stafford," that being what is called the "second title' of the Duke of Sutherland ; and should the marquis marry and have a son born during nis father s lifetime, this son would be called "Earl Gower," that being a third dignity of the dukes. These titles are called courtesy-titles, inasmuch as they have no recognition in law. A duke and duchess are (with the exception of archbishops) the only mem bers of the peerage who have the style of "yonr grace. lhey are always spoken of as duke and duchess, and it would be a mirk of ignorance of the usages of high society to speak of the Duchess of Norfolk or Sutherland, for example, as "Lady Sutherland," or "Lady Norfolk." Ou the other hand, it is not customary to speak of the wives of peers other than dukes by any title but "lady." People "in society" would pass a mental com ment on the man who said, "I saw the Marchioness of Lansdowne," instead of saying "I saw Lady Lansdowne." The younger sons of dukes and mar quises have the courtesy styles and title of right honorable and lord athxel to their Christian name. Thus, the Duke of Beaufort s younger son is, by cour tesy,"The Right Honorable Lord Henry Somerset," aud should be addressed b letter, "The Lord Henry Somerset," "The" meaning "The Bight Honorable.' The younger sous of dukes and mar quises are addresse.!, when spoken to, as "Lord Henry," "Lord Charles," not as "Lord Somerset, or "Lord Manners.' The sous of these younger sons have no titular rank at all. The younger sons of viscounts and barons are styled "honorable." and are addressed by letter as "The Honorable Frederick Stanley," "The Honorable Charles Edgecombe." In talking to them, they are addressed, "Mr. Stanley,' ' Mr. E lgecombe," and they do not even style themselves "honorable" on their visiting cards. The daughters of dukes, marquises, and earls are styled "nglit honorable lady," aud are addressed by letter, "The Lady Mary Bruce," "The Lady Emily Lennox," "fhe" standing for "The Kigut Honorable." The daughters of other peers are styled " I'he Honorable," as "The Honorable Emily de Grey," "The Honorable Charlotte Eden.'1 In speaking to the daughters of the three highest ranks of the peerage, yon would call them "Lady Jane," "Lady Emily." In speaking to the daughters of vis counts and barons, you would say, "Missde Grey," "Miss Eden," and, if it became necessary to distinguish between two sisters, you would give name and surname. It is not usual, as with us, to say, "Miss Emily," or "Miss Char lotte." The custom of saying 'my lady,' 'your ladyship," has entirely gone out of fashion, and, except to an old nobleman or a bishop, it is, unless you wish to be found formal, quite unnecessary to say, "my lord ;" indeed, nothing bores a lord more than the constant reproduc tion of his title. No peers of Scotland have been created since the Parliamentary Union of that country with England, in 1707; but Scotland has, by the terms of that mea sure, sixteen representative peers to represent her in the British Parliament The remaining Scotch peers have no seat -in Parliament Scotch peers are elected for each Parliament Irish peers are still created, because, by the terms of the Irish Union Act, their number muBt be kept up to a hundred, over and above those who en joy seats as peers of England. They have twenty-eight representatives in the House of Lords, who are elected for life. An Irish peer may sit as a member cf tbe Honse of Comm'ons for an English constituency, and Lord Palmerston did so all his life. There are a few "peeresses in their own right " These ladies, if they marry and have children, transmit their honors to their eldest son. If tbey have no son, but an only daughter, the honors pass to her. If a "peeress in her own n ght" in the English peerage left several daughters and no son, the peerage would what is termed, fall into abeyance" among the daughters. The abeyance can be terminated by the sovereign, who, however, does not often take this course unless there seems a prospect of all the heiresses dying ont save one, or unless one has a male heir, and the others have no prospect of one. In the Scotch peerage, on the other hand, the honors of a peer or peeress, whose titles are descendible to female heirs, are inher ited by the daughters in succession. Sometimes the course of descent is specially laid down in tbe patent creating the peerage. Thns, the daughters of the late Marquis of Antrim became, by virtue of this, in succession, Countess of Antrim in their own right, in the peerage of Ireland. Scarcely any peer ages granted since 1600 descend to female heirs. Baronets are not noblemen, and do not in any way belong to the peerage. Sunday Mercury. Pseudo-Lords. Every now and then there is news paper mention of the arrival in this country of some distinguished member of the British peerage not un fre quently followed by a statement that, atter having been made much of in "our best society," the noble lord turn ing out to be an impostor, had sloped off to parts unknown having first fleeced his credulous friends out of cash, or valnahles, or both. Two lines in Samuel Butler's "Hudibras" exactW express the truth in such matters. The poet tersely said . "Donbtie.a the p'eanr Is as great Of being cheated, a to cheat." The avidity with which onr people fall into the trap establishes the truth of this. Last year we were favored. first in the West, and afterwards in New York, with the presence of a young man who passed as ' liord uordou-uor-don ;" this year the pseudo-nobleman turned np at Cape May. with his yacht moored (out of sight) in adjacent At lantic waters, but, with more than un usual rapidity, "Lord Massy," as he called himself, bolted away without having succeeded in victimizing any one but a hotel-keeper, and the place that knew him now knows him no more. At the present rate of exhibition, a new mock lord turning np every season, so cietyor that shoddy section of it which takes such mock diamonds to its bosom will probably feel personally insulted when any person piously says "the Lord be with you 1" The Gordon-Gordon affair showed our gullibility very completely. The young Earl of Aberdeen, a Sootoh peer, had been drowned at sea, aud the titles and estates were claimed by tbe next kin, his only brother. The case was ro fered, as ususl, to the Committee of Privileges of the House of Lords.whose decision since given in the claimant's favor had been delayed a little by the want of a slight link in the chain of evi dence required to establish the fact that death had taken place as was alleged. Whild the case was thus; in snspense before the Lords, but with a certainty of a decision in favor of the late Earl's brother, a young man, who declared that his name was "Gordon-Gordon," who called himself and allowed others to call him. "Lord," who wrote notes as a "Lord," and whose letter-paper and seal bore a peer's coronet, pre sented himself in New York as the missing Earl of Aberdeen, and pretend ing to have vast sums of money at his command, succeeded in imposing upon Horace Oreeley and some credulous capitalists. He endeavored to draw Col. Thomas A Scott into the net, bnt did not suc ceed. His claim to the Earldom of Aberdeen being dissolved by the deci sion of the House of Lords in favor of the true heir, Gordon was fain to be content with the title of "Lord," which was freely given him. Circumstances brought him before a legal tribun.d in ew lors., and 11 was proven there i that he could not have been a legiti- j mate member of that branch of the Gor- j don family which has the Earldom of 1 Aberdeen, nor of the late and last Duke of Gordon, who died, childless, in 1836, before "Gordon-Gordon" could have been born, nor of the Marquis of Hunt- ley (also a Gordon), all of whose sons were born in 1817. In the law c.mrt the j "Lord"waa asked whose son he was, but ! the very astute judge who heard the case decided that this was an improper ' question I As the world knows, "Lord" j Gordon was liberated on bail, went to : Canada to be out of the jurisdiction of j the Uuited States, and is now tho sub ject of a legal, which a little more harsh ness on the part of tbe Canadian au thorities may fan into an international, dispute. Gordon is now best knowu as "the Lord Knows Who." No doubt.he is a smart aud clever fellow, with a large share of assurance and a consid erable amount of plausibility. The Cape May pretender seems to have been neither smart nor plausible. He is said to have endeavored t-j pass for "Lord Massy" to which was added "a sou of the Duke of Leeds." He overdid it. Hail he simply claimed to be "Lord Massy, "it might have answered, for there is Baron Massy in the peerage f Ireland, the title dating from the year 1776, but the Duke of L eds (who is also Marquis of Carmarthen, Earl of Danby, Viscount Latimer, Viscount Dumblane, Baron Osborne, and Baron Godolphin) never was "JLiord M -sy," has no connection with the Missy family, and, his eldest son being Mar quis of Caermarthen by courtesy, none other of his kindred can bear any of the above titles. It appears to ns, seriously reflecting on these matters, that iu future the landlords of leading hotels iu our wa tering places and great cities will have to be provided, in self-defence, with the latest edition of Burke's peerage, with a view of ascertaining whether any noble lords who wish to bed and board with them are genuine or fictitious peers. Ten minutes' examination of "Burke" would have enabled hotel- keepers, capitalists, and fashionables in XT V 1 . . : . 1 , l f 1 ! iaejw xorai w ascentm wuvmer uuruuu Gordon was or was not the Coroneted individual he was taken or mistaken for. Birds of Germany. The birds of Germany, like the crows of Ireland, are the pets of the people, both in the city and the country. They are protected by law, bit no law is needed for their protection. They are so tame that many of them build their nests inside of the houses, and are never disturbed by old or young. Throw down a few crumbs and they will come down from the trees and almost eat of your hand. The consequence is that fruit growers never suffer from the in vasion of worms, and the plum and damson, which has almost disappeared from our markets grows here to the greatest perfection. The holidays are not distinguished, as with ns, by a throng of boys with shot guns pouring into the couutry and slaying out of mere wantonness the feathery tribe, which is regarded here as an efficient co-laborer to the agriculturist. Mr. Jons Bomch is the proprietor of a tobacco and confectionery store, at 1039 Cotton street, Reading, is the pre cinct of Irishtown. When he arose this morning he found his wife absent from the house, and the following note lying npon tbe kitchen table : "John Bolich, I am going to your father's, and I am married to John Fare, for yon was too cross to me, and beat me for the last time. From your father I am going to New York and work there. I think I can make my living. Good bye, John." John Fare is a young man, about 22, and Mrs. Bolich is about 31 years of age. It has been discovered, recently, thst the organ of rational language lies in the third convolution of tbe left ante rior lobe of the brain. The Dollar we don't Spend. We have to calculate pretty close at our house, yoa know; and the whole family are called into council when any important expenditure is to be made. Well, the other evening we were con sidering the small remnant of tbe Quar ters' salary, and Mrs. Dobbs was trying to reckon how it could be made to cover everything. There was her new dress, and a new coat for me, and a new carpet for the best parlor, and a new hat for our (at present) unmarried daughter, besides a great many other things, with which I will not occupy your valuable space. The main point was the new dress, and Mrs. Dobhs was thiukinp of this shade.aud scrutinizing that pat' el j, wishing she could buy them all, doubl ing if she could buy any of them ; and our faces grew louger as the salary grew shorter. Prsentlv, with om of my happy inspiration, I said to her : ' Mrs. Dobbs, there is no dollar that does you so much good as the one yoa don't spend." She looked at me a little perplexed, and presently she said : "Why, Doctor, i aou t understand vou So I said : "The handsomest dress is the one you don't buy." "Oh, yes, that's true. The best dress I ever bad was the silk that Mrs. L irge head gave me when she came from Phila delphia. She bought it ou Chestnut street, and it couidu't have cost less than" "Mrs. Dobbs," said I, interrupting her ; "the handsomest and every way the best dress is the one that yoa don't have." She was more Duzzled than ever, and I was forced to explain. "Mrs. Dobbs," said I, "all the dresses vou ever bought have worn out haven't they?" "Yes," said she, very promptly, "all of them. I haven't a decent thing to my name. There is my bombazine " "Wait a moment," I said, for I was mortally afraid to have her get up that topic ; "and did you ever buy a dress, did you ever have a dress any w-ty, that yon dida't have some misgivings over ; that you didn't see some defect in ; that yoa didn't rather wish that you had bought the other?'' "I believe you are right," she said, thoughtfully. "But," I saiil,"thedress thatyoudon't buy has no faults ; you are never tired of it; it never grows old; never fades; never wearsout; you neverwish you had chosen some other ; or if you want to change, how easily the change is made !" "Why, yes," said Mrs. Dobbs, "I never thought of that before." "And so," said I, "of vour dollar. Yoa never spent a dollar in yonr life that yoa didn't feel at least a doubt as to whether you had spent it wisely. Yoa wish yoa had bought something else. But the wish was vain ; yon couldn't make a change. The dollar that you spend yoa can spend but once, bnt the dollar that you don't spend you can spend a hundred times. You can buy a d.tzen things with it every time vou so out If vou are dissatished with any of your purchases, you can go back and begin all over again, And so," I continued, "the dollar that yon don't spend does you a greal deal more good than the dol'.ar that you do spend; and better than all.it brings with it i o rerTets, no misgivings, even." Mrs. Dobbs looked as though she didn't know just how to answer me, but at the same time as though she wasn't quite couviuced. Presently sha said: "Vell, Doctor, I don't know that I see through it all, but no dourityou are right, for you are a great deal wiser than I am. And so we will go on that principle. I will take the dollar that we do speud, aud you shall have the dollar that we dou't spend, which is, as yoa have showed, so much the better of the two." Wants it lotel Here. The Chicago Times thus addresses the leading dry goods merchants in that ! city : I Vou will please provide a lunch coun ' ter f r your lady purchasers, without further delay, or hide vour diminished heads. Tue ladies of Chicago cannot long be kept iu ignorance of the fact thut the most fishionnble dry goods house in Paris keeps a collatiou spread to refresh run. lame after the fatiguing labors of shopping, aud it is not to be thought of for a moment that Pans should b ahead of Chicago in any such matter. True, the uou-lunching pur chaser might not altogether relish the thought that he or she was paying for some one else's lunch ; but so sensible a consideration as this cannot be ex pected to obtain against the practice of importing Parisian fashions; else we might have no Parisian fashions what ever. Then there is another trick of the dry goods trade at the French capi tal which is noteworthy. A prominent dry goods house g:ves to each customer as he departs a toy balloon, such as children carry about, on which is priuted iu large letters an advertise ment of the establishment. The peculiar adroitness of this is that after these as piring playthings have palled upon tbe youthful senses, their earthly ties are loosened, and they go up to advertise the store among the celestials. The Siege of Paris. An exhibition of the siege of Paris is shortly to be opened. It has been pre pared by the Minister of War. It is a plan of Paris and its environs to a dis tance of twelve miles ; it will be fifty yards long and forty yards wide. It will exhibit the surface of the ground with its hills, valleys, water-courses, the principal monuments of Paris, the for tifications with their cannon, tbe forts, the batteries, the German camps, their fortifications and batteries, all the battle-fields, with the respective positions of artillery, cavalry, and infantry. The Museum of the Louvre has been en riched with a curious Dutch beaker of the eighteenth century. The beaker is a child in silver, standing on a hollow hemisphere. When wine is poured into tbe beaker the child rises, raises the lid, and makes its appearance. This beiker was used to drink th health of women about to become mothers. The Philadelphia Press tells this: At an elegant dinner party given in this city the enfante terrible of the family was permitted to occupy a seat near one of the most distinguished guests. This bete noir is much given to conundrums, which are not always appropriate. More over, the young man has a sister who is a shining belle in snci-ty. Eliza is the name of the young lad r, but the young scape-grace will call her Lize. The com pany were startled the voice of the youngster asking, ' Way is father like the devil ?" An awk ard pause ensued. Then'he shouted out, "Because he is the father of Lize 1" (lies.) That boy did not get his dessert, for he was sent to bed. One of Brigham Young's wives, Ann Eliza Webo Young. Uaus left lum and entered a suit for divorce. J; t