. . ' . ( ',:'.,;'' , : : . w..r .rr: , .1 r ... . . ' ... ... A ; I Two Dollars kr.AjiXgu- VQL. I. RIDGWAY, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1871: - : NO. 13. TTT? VT) V A D 1 nortVO T -r . n ! . .. . ' .' ' ' ' . ' ' " ' ' '" - ' -r - -.4--- ' ! mmZ lauwiia, , juhtuh asb publisher ; ,-!'! Ml ( i ; ' . S X K. V O UJf T Y-yTUE , It E P UD L I CA 2T PA tlTY.', "' ' ''f : ' - " .' .i t; 'mf i i ' . . THK HEART OF IT. V. BT 40B.N W. CIIADWICK. A Summer's day In leafy June i The birds were all In sweetest tune, The roses nt their best : But fairest of all things to sec, That perfect day In June for me, A blue-bird's peaceful nest. I found it In a hollow shell, V hich crowned, ns I remember well, A shapely pyramid ; Five little eggs were also there, Blue as the sky when 'tis most fair, Half in the grasses bid. 0 favored shell I whose kindred went On cruel errands to bo sent, To mutilate and kill ; Whilst tbon, removed from all the strife, Dost feel with love and dawning life Thy bosom gently thrill. 1 said : " This thing which her 1 sen Uhull be a precious propbecv Of what the world shall win, When all the days of war shall cease, And all the blessed years of peace Shall gloriously begin." And better yet : peace after war Hath many un ugly rent aud scar For time to smooth away ; But peace in war doth not await A blessing coining slow and late Its blessing is to-day. My bird's nest In the hollow shell, A heaven miniature In hell, Shall symbol be of this : That in aud through and over all, Whatever scemiug curse befall, God's love forever is. He doth not wait till war Is done, And all its barren victories won, To enter nt the door ; But lu the furnace of the strife He bears for aye a chftrjned life, And blesses evermore. Deep at the heart of all our pain, In loss as surely as In gain, His love abideth still ; Let come what will, my feet shall Btiind Jn this Urm rock at his right hand : " Father, it Is Thy will." THE MAGNIFICENT. Ia tho ancient Roman citv of TUth. about the end of the last century, while ii iuu retained mucn ot tne tasuion and celebrity it had reached in the days of Beau Nash, the frequenters of tho Pump room and Balls were divided into two rival factions, and long and fierce were their quarrels over the topic of dissen sion. This was neither more nor less than the not inappropriate one of the merits of two rival doctors, who divided between them the smiles aud guineas of the elite of Bath. Dr. Heatbcote, the senior of tke two, long ruled over the in ternal economy of the upper class of patients with undisputed sway. Ha was a handsome, dapper, dignified, well :spolien little gentleman, with undenia ble manners, silk stockings, and shirt :frill. Among the dowagers his word wvas law. Ac whist or piquet he was an (oracle, and not unircquently the young er ladies would coulide to his safe ear aud kindly counsels maladies of the heart. If he did bow a little low to a baronet, and still lower to a coronet, it was his only foible ; and as that was part of his professional manner, it was pardonable and not unpopular. The reign of this -ICiculnpian poten tate was at last rudely distut bed by the arrival of a pretender to the Throne. Where Dr. Lenoir came from, who he was, or whero be had previously prac ticed, no one knew, or, to tell the truth, had ever ventured to ask. lie was a man of immense frame, over six feet in height, with a large head, black eyes, and a good-tempered, sanguine complex ion. He had commenced his Bath cureer by becoming the tenant of a large house on the outskirts of the town, which ru mor said was used as a lunatic asylum. But he made his appearance in the Pump-room and the evening recreations, . and, as he proved to be a man of wit and .information, soon became a favorite with -the lounging society of the place. Even -.in his most familiar moods, however, he ihad something formidable about him. .No coxcomb ventured to ask him ques tions, and he assumed a quiet superiori ty which was only not galling because it was so thoroughly good-tempered. With his patients he was exactly the reverse of the reigning sovereign. He was gruff to the great, kindly to the poor, to children gentle as a woman. Ilules of practice he set entirely at de fiance, and was said by his enemies to toss up for each case whether he should kill or cure. Cure, however, he did many cases apparently hopeless, and by devoting much care to soothing the suf ferings he could not cure, and making the approaches ot death less agonizing, he earned tho gratitude of surviving relatives, buch were the . rivals, for whom the card-tables of Bath waged war. The rivals themselves were sworn brothers Dr. Heathcote at first was scornful, and then was testy ; but he could not rtsist the spell which Dr. Le noir seemed to wield ; and although at consultation and on professional visits he wore his dignified sneer with due propriety, many a hand at piquet did he hold with his brother physician, and when none was by to see or hear, would make his old consulting-room ring with laughter at the exuberant humor of his companion. Lenoir, on the other hand, bowed iu public, with the modesty of a younger man, to the more mature practitioner, and assumed his plaoe with so much kind-hearted deference that the other was entirely disarmed. But a kind of ' undefined pomp followed his footsteps. In the Pump-room and at the bails he bad a chosen place which ne one ever usurped ; and he went by the name of "Doctor Magnitious," which, contracted by the unlearned into The Magnificent, was his ordinary title. Dr. Leuoir bad been about three years at Bath, when the events happened of which J am about to speak. Little more wag known of him then than when he lint arrived. It was known ha was unmarried ; but he was plainly not a marrying man. He flirted in his good tumored way with all the pretty girls, but it was evidently flirtation of society, not of the heart It was also certain, by his style of living, that ho was in easy circumstances, and that he had resources other than his profession. The only in stance in whioh he ever unbent from his superb demeanor, was when in company wiia jurs. xeurey, an exceedingly beau tiful and attractive woman, who, with her husband and two young children had lived for more than a year at Bath Dr. Lenoir rlainlv admired her much. Col. DeUrcy was a good-lcokina man, with a military air, aud manners which bespoke knowledge of the world. He was not a favorite, for his demeanor was reserved to the crowd, altu'ough when at nis ease he could converse with annua tion, and was well read and well travel ed.j But his wife was all that was charm. ing. Lively, spirited, kindly, and thoroughly true, without a dash of self- conceit, or a thought ot evil ; ready in repartee, Bparkling in small talk, but with au ever open heart and hand for real sorrow, she was the joy of all who j knew her; and veiy honestly distressed were tne .rump-room gossips wnen they heard that Mrs. DtGrey was seriously ill. Col. DeGrey affected Lenoir's society much ; for his powers of conversation were remarkable, and they had many tastes in common. But when his wife was taken ill ho sent for Dr. Heathcote, to the amusement of the Bath scandal mongers, who set it down to a slight in. fiibion of jealousy. Now and then, as Jjeuoir stood leaning like a Hercules against his accustomed pillar, some wag, wno tuougot himself privileged, launch ed a shaft at him witu this barb to it : but Lenoir, without the slightest dis composure, or even alluding to the gibe, shot back some sarcastic remark on his assailant, which made him tingle to the tips of his fingers. But he inquired witn real solicitude of Ur. Heathcote as to his patient's health. " lo toll you the truth, my dear fel low, said Heathcote one day, " I wish they would call you in. Of course you know cannot ask. for a consultation with a junior ; but 1 wish they would pay me of?, aud take you. I am fairly puzzled; aud all the medicines I have given her seeta to make her worse." " Ho wonder," said Lenoir ; ' but, doc tor, it would be pity that harm should come to that poor creature because we make up our pills differently. If you make au excuse to imt mo attend for a day or two, I will tell you, to the best of my judgment, wha I think of the case." Bo Dr. Heathcote made his excuse, and Dr. Lenoir was called. And the Pump room scandal-mongers talked more than ever. Col. DeGrey lived in a handsome villa close to the town; and thither Dr. Le noir proceeded. Tho Colonel received him at tlie door, and shook him warmly by the hand. " My poor wife is very ill, I fear, and I am sure you will do your best to bring her through." .Lenoir auswered this appeal uy a grunt, and walked stra ight into the din ing-room, and looked out at tno win dow. " I suppose Dr. Heathcote has told you the symptoms that sho .never can take her food '" ' He has told me noth-abig'. If he had, I should not have believtul iiixn. I don't want to know anything .titout symp toms. Can I see her ':" " Certainly. She is rafier hotter to day, and very anxious to Bee 5-011. You will find her in the drawi ag-ceom." Lenoir went up stairs and entered the drawing-room, the Colonel simply an nouncing him, and then leaving the room. Whatever ho thought of the wasting ravages which a month had made on that lovely face, he said nothing on that subject, but put his questions more dis agreeably than usual. " You are not to be so cross, Dr. Le noir; Dr. He.itb.cote was never cross," she said, with, a wan nraiUi lighting up her faded cheek. Leuoir flushed for an. instant, and then replied, " Cross ' yes, I'm always cross with people like you. It's good for tbem." As if she had not heard what he said, she again addressed him. " Am I very ill, doctor '(" " Nothing but fancy and temper the matter with you. Why do you mope up here '(" " I cannot go out. You cannot tell how weak, and ok 3 how sick 1 am. O, Dr. Lenoir ' can you not cure me i If you can't, 1 shall die, aud leave dour Fred and my poor little children." And the poor woman burst into a paroxysm of tears. Lenoir sat until the storm had burst, and had spent its forct-; but tears stood in his own impassive eyes, and his voice trembled in spite of himself when he spoke to her. " Cure you 'i Of courue I shall, if you don't give way to such folly; and when you are crd you will say you got well of yourself," "Do you Teally mean it'r" she said, faintly. DroDDinz his gruff style, he said in a softer tone, " I think 1 can cure you." And with thoso words he lett her, aud rejoiuod the Colonel iu the dining-room, and straightway agiin looked out at the window. " Quite a common, case," be said, as if to himself; "have seen it a hundred times ; must have a nurse." A nurse !" said Col. DeGrey. " What do you think of my wife '( What is her illness?" , " A very common complaint, Colonel, stid the doctor, " although I have not often met with it in this country. Bat she must have a nurse who understands sudorilics, and with your leave I will send one." And without waiting to kuow wheth er the Colonel wished to have a nurse cr not, the doctor stalked out of the house, . (y P . ' ' 1 If apy one had seen the doctor's ex pression of countenance as he strode down to the gate, he would not have liked it. Was it wrath, or malignity, or cunning ' It was a very unlovable expression, and not like the doctor's usual face. Within two hcyurs the nurse arriyed ; a tall, gaunt French woman, with a reso lute set of features, who understood aud could speak English when she nhose, but not otherwise. . She brought with her a small phial of medicine, which she explained to Airs, DuGrev was to be taken everv hour dnr- ing the night, and the effects of which required to be cartfully watched. She seemed to consider this her peculiar charge, for on Col. DeGrey taking out the stopper to smell it, Bbe snatched it away, with a pettish Preuch excluma- tion, and without much reverencs. A fortnight passed over. . Dr. Lenoir came every day. Hu prescribed nothing but this nightly potion, which was erad ually discontinued ; and Mrs. DeGrey began to rally, her appetite retnrmed, ana (i tie was apparently getting well. The Colonel was greatly relieved, and was profuse in his thanks. People began to say thut there was no neq? ssity for the doctor visiting quite so often, iiut the Colonel did not seem to think so, for the doctor dined with him almost every other day. To Dr. Heathcotu's inquiries, Lenoir only said, to his great wrath, that there never had been anything the matter with hrr but his medicines. One evening, as the Colonel and he were si tune at their wine after dinner. the former said, " When do you think airs. leUrey will be able to travel .-' think a change of air would do hor good ; and 1 begin to fear Bath does not agree with her. ' Boon, I should think," said Lenoir : " and as she is so much better, I propose to be absent for a day or two, as I- have business in the country. So, if you think I can be spared. I shall eo to-morrow. But don't change her regimen in my ab sence, nor give her any ot old Heath cote 's potions. They are all very well m their way, but she has done better without them. The Colonel laughed, and srave his word to eschew the established order of things ; and next morning tho doctor left. Four days passed awav. and on tha fifth Leuoir again appeared at Prospect Villa. Col. DeGrey was at home, and an- peared dejected. "Things have not been bo well," he said. " Your patient has had a relapse of her sickness ; and some thing has happened which troubles both ner una me. " What is the matter V" said the Mag nificent. " Well, I don't like to inspire suspi cions, but I fear that nurse drinks." "Why do you think so r" " Because Mrs. DeGrev tells ma that she saw her conceal a bottle in her pock et. The woman thought she was asleep, fieu, 0n er moT'IJK concealed it hur- " Have you observed any other symp toms of drinking '(" said Lenoir. "No, I cannot say I have, excepting that her manner is very abrupt and rude. " I shall probe this to the bottom, you may depend on it," replied the doctor ; " and I shall examine her about it at my own house to-night. Meanwhile say ; nothing more while she is here." lie saw his patient, and ionnd she had decidedly relapsed and was greatly do- pressed, ilis visit had little tllect iu re viving her spirits, and again, as be walked from the house, the evil shadow came across his face. The same day brought a letter by post for Col. DeGrey, desiring his immediate attendance in London on urgent busi ness ; and he started the same night by the mail. Next morning the Magnih- cent paid the lady a visit. Hhe seemed greatly excited. " Doctor," she snid, " you must take that woman away ; sho is a drunkard and a thief." " She may, perhaps," the doctor re plied, " take a drop of brandy now -and then. But remember what fatigue she has undergone in sitting up with yon." "Well, but, doctor," said Mrs. De Grey, " she is a thief. I saw her yester day put my soup into a bottle and hide it in her pocket. Hhe did not know I saw her." i . ' The face of the Magnificent for a mo ment exhibited great agitation. " If this is true," he said, " 1 will take her away, and send you another on whom I can depend. The Colonel spoke of fresh air for you ; do you think you are strong enough to travel ? He gave me some directions about that." " I don't think I could. He surely did not mean me to go beforo he came back." " He left you entirely in my hands, and I tmift take you well, as I said I would." . " Not before he comes back, at any rate, doctor." " Very well," said he, resuming his gruff manner. "People always know better than their doctors. Good-bye ; I shall see you to-morrow." The next day, in the Pump-room " She is off, I assure you," said Mr. Hen shaw, a dyspeptic barrister, with the tongue of a viper; "she was gone this morning, and so was her nurse, and no one knows where, excepting that the Magnificent is gone also. ' " Who told yon 'i How do you know ': ' atked half a dozen tongues at once. " I shall not give up my authority, I can assure you ; but if you step out to Prospect Villa, you will find it to be true." " I don't believe a word of it," said Sir Bernard Brand, a (tout supporter of Lenoir, who had cured him by making him drink lemonade instead of port; " I don't believe a word of it It's some of that humbug Heathcote's nonsense." But when' the whist tables were set for the evening, behold the tale was true, and the universal community of Bath were ringing with it I But to the still greater astonishment of every one, there was the Magnificent, looking more magnificent than ever, seated in his ac customed place, and glancing benignly from under bis swarthy brows. ' " Magnificent," said nenshaw, " have you heard what people are saying '(" " Yes, Henny, I have heard it. " Well, what is the story ?" "They say you are not to have that place in the Customs, becauno, you can't keep a secret." Ilenshaw's face grew livid, for the El ace in the Customs was lifo or death to iru, although ho thought no one knew it. Ho plucked up cotmigp, however, aud retorted : ' They want to know what yon have done with Mrs. DeGrey." ' 1 believe Mrs. DeGrey has gono to tno country lor tier ccaito. ur course, Colonel DeGreJf Is the best authority on that subject." " Lenoir, I doubt you are a villain," said a voice behind him; and, turning round, he saw Dr. Heathcote. " I have just seen the ColoneL and he is raging at the disappearance of his wife. He says she went away lust night, and no one Knows wnere. lie was on his way to your house when I met him." " Dr. Heathcote, you jog-trot practi- wuuers ;uuge oy ine lnosi superficial symptoms," said Leuoir. in the loltinat tone. " I shall see the Colonel if he has returned, and to-morrow I shall take occasion to request an explanation of tno epitnets whiuli you have used, and the impertinent suirirestions of that lit tle lawyer. " Meantime, with your leave, I shall unisu my ruooer." ' i ' But the party broke up, and declined to finish the rubber; and the Magnifi cent took his hat and walked slowly from the room. His faction retired home in great discomfiture. Meanwhile Col. DeGrey, in the great est perturbation, having found his wife gone on nis return, and no trace of her, went on to the house of Dr. Lenoir. It was a large, gloomy mansion, with high walls, and surrounded bv trees: a dun. glimmering light shone over the door way. The Colonel's knock wus not an swered at once, aud he thought he heard a window open arid shut. At last the door was opened by a thick-set, power ful man with one eye.' 7 " Is Dr. Lenoir at home " said the Colonel. " Yes, 6ir," said the man. " Be kind enough to walk in." Uol. DeGrey entered, and followed the man up-stairs. He thought he heard the outer door locked as be went up. He was ushered into a strange-looking room, with very little furniture, and a window at tho roof, so high as to be be yond reach. The moment he wus in the room the door was violently shut and locked, and h was left in absolute, dark ness. Ho rushed to tho door, rased and stormed, bellowed at the. top. of his voice, Put no answer was returned. Half an hour had elapsed, and at last a trap in the ceiling opened, and a light ap peared through it. " The master be coom," said a voice . , ter iX all pay for this !" "The master Ve coom. Wilt 1:0 quoitly ?" - ' -' Another volley of wrath was about to escape from his lips, when he bethought him that his better plan would be at least to feign submission. " I shall be glad to tell your master what a blackguard he is. I shall do that quietly enough." On this assurance the trap was closed ; and in a few minutes the same one-eyed man, with a companion of equal strength, opened the door and invited the Colonel to emerge. . . He saw at once that ho would have no chance in a struggle, and determined to see the matter out, resolving to use vio lence if he could not otherwise escape. Passing through a narrow winding passage, a door opened, and he was ushered into a well-furnished sitting room, and there, seated in an easy-chair, wai the imperturbable Magnibc, nt. The door was closed behind him, and, looking reund, he could not have told where it was. Lenoir motioned to him to sit down ; but giving n) heed to the invitation, he exclaimed : " What is the meaning of this infamous conduct? Where am 1 i" "In a mad-house," said tho doctor, composedly. " And on what pretence have you de coyed me here, you scoundrel, and whero is my wife 'i " Don't you think," rejoined the Mag nificent, in the same tone, " thut should your wife die, you had better be mad for a little 'f" "What on earth do you mean 'r" said the Colonel. But his face blanched, and he sank iuto a seat. " Col. DeGrey, I knew you a long time ago. Do you remember Dr. Ge ronimo Spiretti at Padua Y" t " Gracious God I" said the Colonel. " I was bis assistant when you studied poison under him. I was a lad of six teen, but you have not changed. Now you know all." The wretched man for a moment near ly fainted. He tried to speak, but could make no articulated sound. " Don't glance at the poker. Killing me would be your own death. Listen. I knew from the first, and I mistrusted you from the first, and but for the sweet woman w ho is linked to you, and who still trusts you, you should have met the doom you deserve, as far as I am con cerned. But to expose you would kill her. " I was certain, from Dr. Heathcote's account, how the matter stood. I knew you would discontinue your doses while I was there. You thought that was the cause of Spiretti's antidote. I knew the attempt would begin when I was absent. The nursj brought me the poisoned soup. I have had it ana lyzed in my presence by two careful chemists, aud the analysis and the sub ject of it are so bestowed Drop that 1" he thundered, and dealt DeGrey such a blow on the arm as to nearly fracture it. He had attempted to seize the poker. The pain of the blow was intense for a mo ment, but Lenoir gave him a glass of brandy, and proceeded : . - "Your wife is where none of Spiretti's recipes will reach her. She believes you have sent her there, and is content. You will now writ two t letters before yon leave the room. One to tell your wife that you are obliged to go abroad for two months, and requesting her to remain where she is until you return ; tho other to request mo to attend her ,1., 1 , i , . . . , uuiuig hit ausonce at ner new residence. "I shall Rand iha t.vn fhilr1rAn ii Yiw At the end of two months, unless the last aoso was too strong tor hor shattered SVRtem. Klin will Vin nnitn .f.ll ntirl vnn may rejoin her. Until that timn ynn .. A V.i ..... 1. i . " Ono wore more. You now know that the Insurance Company, in whioh you had that-, itnlli.v nt, ,;r..a i;iv. k J v.. J J tAL VVJftVO UK IJH3 failed. Perhaps you do not know that Mrs. DeGrey has succeeded to an annuity of 300 a year from an old friend of her family. " You stay here for a week, then, go quietly to Paris; but, mark ! if your wife die in any circumstancesof myRtery, whethtr I am alive or dead, retribution will hunt you to the end of the earth." "But Virginie the nurse r" stam mered the self-convicted wretch. "Virginie knows nothing excepting that tha did what she was told. She will never open her lips on the subject. You are perfectly secure, for the chem ists had no idea on what their experi ments were made." .., ... Next day the Magnificent was in Lis place in the Pump-room as usual. , Men loolcad ahv nt. hi J - vuf uiiA nuuiGM looked shy. - He was as cool and lofty as ever. ... . He waited nnt'il tha and then, taking an opportunity when iitniutuio iuu ueusnaw were Close to mm, ne called out, " Mr. llenshaw." Ho took no nnt.inn. TTn ronouD.l T: call with the same effect . Lenoir took two strides toward him, and lilting him by his shoulders, placed him with his buck to the pillar, and then said : "You presumed yesterday to make remarks disparaging to a lady. ' You will be kind enough now to retract them, or I tirnnnRA ti Iriolr vmi ' X X - ... J VI. i L L' 1 . 1 utAt? end of this room to the other." Pale aud sffrighted was the little lawyer; but Dr. Heathcote interposed : " Dr. Lenoir, this mint- nut ha I the first accuser yesterday, and you . 1 H-., l ,1 .1 ;n i. rf must uj&i, ueai wiui me. " True, niv dear TTotiipnt lit T ' J VUU A lUDKII to deal with each after their kind. You are a gentleman and a man of honor, and as such 1 intend to treat you. T J iL .1 ti Dr. Heathcote r,arl to his infanon as tonishment tho following note : BATn, August 12, 179-. Mr Dkak Lenoir : As I am oblio-ed to o-o to the Continent for two mouths, 1 nope you will allow me to leavo Mrs. DeGrev under your charge, should she nt her present resi dence require your nuvicc. 1 ours, very truly. F. DeCJuev. " Read it, doctor," said Lsnoir. and the bewildered man obeyed. : . " jnow you thunderous little toad, eat up your calumnies on the spot !" said - '-li'Bjx'juia mwver. " I will make ycu repent' ' V-a-wi' -oAt "iiat them 'up, 1 -say, for the last time !" And terribly he looked down on Uenshaw. The latter quailed. "I admit," he said, " they have turnad out not to be true." " Aud ought not to hive been spoken." And ought not to have been spoken." " Go, then, and be warned." . " You will hear from me to-morrow, however, for all this." " I think not, said Lenoir, when he h id gone. And he did not ; for the pur veyor ot scandal thought better of it, aud transferred his attentions to Scar borough. " Aud now. Dr. Heathcote, I presume you retract that epithet which you used yesterday. 1 admit appearances were against me; but a true physician dis trusts appearances." " 1 iorgive the banter, and cuec-rfiilly retract the expression ; but after what tho Colonel said, hung me, doctor, if I know what to make of it." " I never supposed you did," said Le noir; and the Magnificent reigned in Bath for many years afterward. The gaps in the story you may till up as suits you best. Leuoir, in his trip to London, had consulted his solicitor, who told the story to my late master. The cautious London lawyer told Lenoir he might be hanged tor compounding tel- ony ; and Leuoir told him he might be hanged tor his advice. The annuity was. the solicitor believed, provided by Le noir himself; and the surmise was, either that he was in love with the lady, or that he knew more of her history than bo chosa to explain or probably both. The Colonel aud Mrs. DeGrey never vis ited Bath again ; but the annuity was paid for many years afterward, the Col onel, probably, being as anxious to keep his wife alive as he had been to destroy her ; aud she, poor thing, with the con stancy and credulity of woman, rejoic ing iu her inmost soul at tho increased tanderneR3 of her husband. Lcft-Handediitss. Various attempts have been made to ac count satisfactorily for the use of the left in preference to the right hand in those i a 1 . .. 1 : u.,4. 1 11 WUUUI VU15 pruuuaLiiy cjiiais, uuu, tu cording to the Lancet, without success. Dr. Pye-Smith takes up the question, and, disposing of the theories that left handedness is to ba accounted for by transposition of tho viscera, as asserted by Von Baer and others, or by an abnor mal origin of the primary branches of the aorta, proceeds to argue that right handedness arose from modes of fighting adopted, from being found to be followed bv the least serious consequences. " If a buudred of our fighting ambidexterous ancestors made the step in civilization of inventing a shield, we may suppose that half would carry it on tbe right arm, and fight with the left ; the other half on the lett, and fight with the right. The latter would certainly, in the long ruu, escape mortal wounds better than the former, and thus a race of men who fought with the right band, would grad ually be developed by a process ot nat ural selection." Of course the habit once acquired, of using the right hand more than tbe left, would be hereditarily transmitted trom parent to child. A St. Louis lawyeress isn't afraid of losing htr reputation y practice, as she d never heard that lawyers had any reputation to lose. j : ' Vision of 1000. . Can nny one realize the exceedingly torobable fact that in 1000 only twentv- nine years from now- -tho popu.ation of tho United Mates will number 7o,000, 000 of, wo trust, froo and independent citizcus'f Yet, says the Keening Mail, Mr. Samuel F. Ituggles proves that this will bo the case, without making allow ance lor annexations, JS ortu and Kouth, that will certainly como about, Mr. Sumnor and all others to the contrary notwithstanding. He shows the reasons for his prophecy iu figures, and although the old saw that " figures won't lie," is the most unveracious of proverbs, Mr. Rugglea' figures have acquired a reputa tion of their own, and a good ono ot mat. t or tne past thirty or forty years, he has been figuring abont our internal aud domestio oommerce ; and although he has often been accused of romancing in figures, tho facts have always sustain ed ins predictions, tt hen, therefore, the ablest, most experienced and most trust worthy statistican now livine, tells us that we shall havo a population of 75, 000,000 in 1900, the younger part of the present generation may as well consider what awaits them in their maturity and old age. Seventy-five millions of people in the United States implies the settlement of the entire South and West by as dense a population as that of Massachusetts ; tho reclamation of tho arid wastes of the great Plains by irrigation ; the develop ment of States as strong as Ohio, In diana . and Illinois along the Bocky Mountains ; the settlement of the Utah Basin by four or five millions of ntrri- cultural and pastoral people; tho de velopment of a tier of agricultural states along our northern border, from Lake Superior to the Paoifio, ns populous and prosperous as Missouri and Minnesota ; the growth of the Pacific States into commonwealths as rich and populous as iew lorKana i-ennsylvama. It moans that New York will cover the whole of Jkanhattan Island with a population of at least two millions, to say nothing of the outlying suburbs in New Jersey and across tho East River; that Chicago and St. Louis will each become as lanre cities in fact, as they are now in their own estimation, and that San Francisco will have. half a million of inhabitants. The national debt will have become a tradi tion, and it will be difficult to under stand how it was ever hard to raise three or four hundred millions a year by tax ation. Such are tho glowing visions which are excited by the prosaic and Careful figures of Mr. Buggies. It any of our readers are unduly " Bearish " in their tendencies and inclined to get tho blues over our future, we advise them to indulge in the line of speculation sug gested by his striking statistics, and carry our predictions more into details. There is one kind of flattery which is common to both men and women, and that is the expressed preference of sex. Thus, when men want to flatter women, they say how infinitely they prefer their society to that of their own sex ; and women will say tbe same to men. Or if they do not say it, they will act it. See a set of women congregated together without tho light ot a manly counten ance among them. They may talk to each other certainly; and one or two will sit away together and discuss their private affairs with animation ; but the great mass of them are only half vital ized while awaiting the advent of the men to rouse them into lifa aud the de sire to pleaso. No man who goes up first, and earlier than ho was expected, from the dinner-table, can fail to see the change which comes over those wearied, limp, indifferent-looking faces and figures as soon as he enters tho room. Ho is like the prince whose kiss woke up the sleeping beauty and all her court ; and can any one say that this is not flattery of the most delightful kind ? To be the Pycnialion even for a moment, and for tbw weakest order of soul-giving, is about the greatest pleasure that a man can know, it he is susceptible to the finer kinds of flattery. Some women, in deed, not only show their preference for men, but openly confess it, and confess at the same time to a lofty contempt or abhorrence for the society of women. These are generally women who are, or have been, beauties, or who have literary and intellectual pretensions, or who de spite babies and contemn housekeeping, aud profess themselves unable to talk to other women because of their narrowness and stupidity. But for the most part they are women who, by their beaul y or their position, havo been used to receive extra attention from men, and thus their preference is not flattery so much as ex tgeance. Women who . have been in India, or wherever else women are in the minority in society, are of this kind ; and nothing is more amazing to them when they first come home than the at tentions which a certain style of Eng lishwomen pay to men, instead of de manding aud receiving attentions from tbem. These are thoso sweet, bumble, caressing women who flatter you with every word and look, but whose flattery is nothing but a pretty dress put on for show, and taken off when the show is done with. Saturday Iteview. ' . The Chicago Miil says : ' A decision has just beon rendered in the Superior Court in this city which shows that women have rights even under existing laws. Mrs. Mary Mason sued the Farm ers' and Merchants' Insurance Company, of Illinois, tor payment ot an insurance policy of $2,000 upon her stock of millin ery with furniture and fixtures, which were destroyed by fire at No. G8 Lake street. The defence set up was that legally a wife's property belongs to her husband, but it was shown that in this case the wife had acquired the property by her own earning, and thus, by the married woman's act of 1861, was en titled to its separate ownership. The complainant was therefore justly award ed a verdict of l,S7a.7 as damages." " Are these pure canaries '(" asked a young gentleman who was negotiating for a gilt for his fair one. " Yes, sir," aid the dealer, confidently, " I raised them ere birds trom canary teed." MISCELLAN EOL'S ITEMS. " Father Cleveland," the" City' Mis-' sionnry of Boston, who will cntrt his 100th year in Juno next, was lately visited by his sou a stripling of only 73 whom bo had not seen for 20 years. In Iowa City a prospective child was pledged to a creditor to cancel a debt, should tho offspring be a boy. Tho baby proves to bo a boy, and the credi tor demands him on contract. Tho mother refuses, and the creditor pro--poses to bring suit for the child. A thermometer which has been kept for seventy-five years in tho vaults of the' Paris observatory, at a depth of ninety one feet below the surface, has not varied more than half a degree during the en tiro interval. People who wish a cli- mate without change will find there, what they want. . William L. Barry, a compositor on the Lebanon (Tenn.) Herald, has just passed his 01st birthday. He is promptly at his case at 7 o'clock every morning, and Sets six thousand emu a dav witVimit tha least difficulty. He began to set typo 1 a years ago, ana sun ioiiows tne busi ness out of love for the art. hnvincr nn need to work for mnnev. nmrrit pfill hale and vigorous, and full of animal pmia. 1 , . , A Western D.lTinr tr.lla n. tnurrl, cinrv about a nartv of miners nrncnoetitio. in on isolated place where they were with' l j: 1. . . . . , .... uuu iiesu meats ana vegetable tood till they were afflicted with scurvy. Six the worst caspa vrora nlatitail in tlia earth up to their necks and left alone over mgnc witn a chew ot tobacco apiece. Tho result of tln'q Attpmnt n earth cure might have been happy, but iur me iact mat in the night coyotes came along and ate off all the six heads, Wm. Hawk, of Sandusky, Ohio, saved the life of Andrew Phelps by dragging him out of the Housatonio River, in Massachusetts, in 1S20, and a few days BSTO lnnc .ftr h hnrl fnro-nttan oil about it he was rewarded for his brave act by a service of silver from tho man he had saved. This is a noticeable cor roboration of the Serintnml nrnnont " Cast thy bread upon the waters, for thou shall find it after many days " in this instance as ninny davs as there nrn in 01 years. The second volnmn nt Ilia lifu rf K. thaniel Greene, just printed, contains a letter ironi ueneral Ureene, stating that he had dined at a tahln in Philndalnhia where ono hundred and sixty different dishes were served at the meal. This was Previous to 1780. firearm alarv tar. that Washington was a vigorous dancer, and at one ball danced three hours with Mrs. Greene " without once sitting down." In another place he declared gornVTenod''tnoWr164 in During tho past winter a friend of ours employed a hard-working woman to do jobs of scrubbing, etc., about the house, lie wag accustomed, when he saw her, to ask kindly questions as to her family and general welfare, tier answer invariably comprised a complaint that her husband's business was very dull. Noticing the fact, our friend asked her, one of the coldest days in January, what her husband's business was. " He s a Btrawberry picker, the woman replied. Our friend had no difficulty afterward in understanding why her husband's business was dull. . A young man at Holly Springs, Miss., recently volunteered to aid in taking up the collection at one of the churches there, and succeeded in raising a con siderable sum. ne approached the door, and was about to go out with his hat full of contributions on his head, when the minister said solemnly, " Young man, if you leave here with that money, you'll be damned." The young man, however, left in a hurry, and, as he shut tho door behind him, a worthy old bachelor, with a voice in F sharp, who put a dollar in the hat, piped out to the minister, " Well, if he ain't gone with it, I'll be d d '" Ma-y Wager Bays she knows a man who nraved night and moraine, preached on Sundays, and was a rich farmer be side. His wife milked the cows in all sorts of weather, cut most of the wood, built the fires, churned, economized, and died of consumption. He put a weed on his hat, tried to resign himself to tho " dispensation ot Providence," when he ought to have been tried for woman slaughter in the first degree and sen tenced to chop wood and milk cows in the rain all the rest of his life. She wants the debating clubs to discuss whether it will go harder with him or with Jim Bludso, in tho day of j udgment . The Omaha Herald says : "A party coming East have chartered the magnifi cent drawing-room and sleeping-oar Huron, and contracted that it shall run for them directly through from San Francisco to New York. They also stop and interview Salt J-mke on the way. This is reducing the inconvenience of a j jurney to an inconceivable fraction of what it once was. J. he only tear is as to the effoct of so much luxury on the race. Won't we get to be too much like the Sultan, who, on his approach to London and when the talout and beauty and grandeur of the greatest city in - the world were waiting to welcome him, ordered his train to stop till be could have a quiet snooze : , .c : j x ' Readers generally know' the fact that Benjamin Franklin left by will a few pounds of money for tbe bentfit ot tha ' young married artificers," or skilled mechanics, of BoBton. The money has been carefully invested and reinvested by the authorities, until now it amounts to more than 150,000. The "young married artificers," however, have never realized anything from it ; but now it ia proposed, since the .fund has become large enough to be made available in helping the class Franklin wished to benefit, to carry out the purpose an nounced in the will as far as practicable ; and with this end in view this intention is to lend money in small sums to per sons of moderate means, to enable them to secure neat and comfortable homes ia the vicinity of the city of Boston. L
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