"7 fll;;-'iilil Sli HBHET A. PABSONS, Je., Editor and Publishm. ELK COUNTY TIIB REPUBLICAN PARTY. Two Dollars r kMvvu. VOL. II. RIDGWAY, PA,. THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1872. NO. 26. POETR r. FOOTSTEP3. tn tho quiet hour of gloaming, Whon th. hush Is upon the earth, . When th. start gleam out and the low winds rr.onn I sit and listen listen alone, . Br the aide of the deaolat. hearth. I listen, bnt not to tho homeless leaves. As they drift 'iralnst the window-pane ; Nor th. .ongoing wind from the tlr-crowncd bill, Nor the ligh and ob of the swollen rill, Nor the wbtaner of caroloss rain. I listen, I listen, and but to hoar Tho footsteps that fall around ; The footsteps that gladdened mr life ol yore, The footsteps that seek my side no moro, That fall on no earthly ground. The tiny steps of my first born Come pattering qnlck and soft ; He had trod like a mm. had he stared, by this. Tet 0 1 yearn for the baby kiss He tottered to give 10 oft. Hit firm tread rings out gallantly, Just as it was wont to do When t used to apring from this aam. low seat. The comer I lor.d tho best to greet As Ls atrod. through tho evening dew. Blow and heavy, and quick and light, The echoes around me come, The aUps that through youth's gay footpaths ranged. Ul menus lorgotton, of Mends estranged, Who one. made life and home. Ab well, poor salvag. from the wreck All memory sal es and stores, Yet tho sounds that peoplo tho sweet Past's dreams Are ae.ret to me than the light that gleams On the lonclv Present's shores. THE STORY-TELLER. T. S. L. 1 B. Li. That was the only mark there was upon it, the three initial let ters engraved upon the inside. I turned and twisted it in my fingers, as I stood nnder the gaslight, making the dia monds shoot forth their fiery lines of aazznng Druiiancy. Uloso examination proved it to be a most beautiful and val uable jewel, a heavy gold ring, with a shield of bluo enamel. In the centre of tho shield sparkled one large diamond of purest water, and afcove it a number of smaller stones, yet each of remarkable beauty and purity, wore grouped in the form of a crescent. I had never seen a gem more valuablo and unique, but its possession was simply an annoyance to me. I was making a hasty business trip irom my nome in v , Uhio, through some of the large Eastern cities, and had stoppod in New York for a few days, having resolved to crowd two weeks work into one if possible, I had arrived in the city after all places of business were closed, had eaten a nasty dinner, and gone to the theatre. Meeting some friends, we had supped togetuer, ana talked until the clocks warned us that we had Btolen moro than one hour from a new day. Upon my return to my hotel, tired and des perately sleepy, I had found, upon tho stairs, the ring I have described. It was then after two o'clock, evidently no hour to trouble the sleepy clerk down stairs about the matter, so I put it in a safe comer of my pockotbook, and re tired. The next morning, rising late, and feeling very much hurried, I merely mentioned in tho offico that, if any one inquired for a diamond ring, I had found one, and went literally " about my businoss." During my travels about the city, 1 took the ring to a leading jewel er's, and found his estimate of the val ue of the stones even higher than my own, "The workmanship is exquisite," he said to me, " evidently not done in this country. . No inquiries having been made at the hotel, I advertised my windfall for three days, and considered that 1 had done all that could be expected, bull I did not care to wear what was really not my own, and put the ring away in a pri vato drawer of my writing-desk, with some other valuables, charitably hoping the loser was wealthy enough to bear the loss philosophically. When I left New York, I gave my address at the hotel and newspaper office ; but a year later no word of inquiry respecting the ring had reached me, The business firm of which I was the junior partner required my services as a sort of travelling agent, my sojourn in different cities lasting sometimes for months, sometimes only for a few days. We were introducing throughout the United States a new and valuable pa tent, with a success that was rapidly making us all men of wealth. I being the youngest in the firm, and having, the others were kind enough to inform me, a pleasing manner and ready tongue, was chosen to point out the merits of our bread-winner to tho merchants who could dispose of it for us. One of my trips southward a year later than my visit to New York found me settled in New Orleans, with letters of introduction from many of the lead ing merchants of other cities to those in my new abode. -. I was soon assured of a pleasant so cial standing, and one of the most de lightful homes where I was made wel come was that of Monsieur Lecourt, a French gentleman, and a merchant of high standing and large wealth, who owned valuable plantations not far from the city. He was a tall, stately gentleman, with white hair and mus tache, and a grave face, that was eften shadowed by a deep sadness, though it never failed to light up in courteous welcome when I approached. I called twice, and spent the evening in the library with my host ; but the third time, as the servant opened the door, a lady rose from a seat beside the old gentleman, and moved toward the door. " Stay, Adela," he said ; this is my friend. Mr. Haven, of whom I have spoken t you. My daughter Adela, Mr. Haven' The lady returned my greeting, and resumed her seat beside her father, and as we conversed in the best French I could command, I found my eyes wan- dering ever to rest on hor face and fig- ure. Sho was tall and slender without be-1 ing thin; the figure was exquisitely rcunded, and possessed a peculiar wil lowy graco in its drooping attitudes and motions. The face was very beau tiful, a perfect oval, with regular fea tures, and large, soft brown eyes, shaded by long lashes, black as the raven hair above the lew, broad forehead. But upon the fair face, in tho gracoful drswp ing figure, was visible a deep, settled melancholy very painful to witness in one who could scarcely have stepped out ot her toons. Her face was always pale, and looked like marble contrasting with her deep mourning dress. Her voioe was always low, and had an ac cent of sadness in every tone. Monsieur Lecourt was deeply inter ested in my patent, and inclined to many some investment ot his idle cap nai m me enterprise, so that we were oltcn together discussing business, and ii soon occamo a matter ot course to hnd Adela with her father in the li brary. it was evident tliat the bond uniting vue two was very close, and that the father rarely moved unaccompanied by his daughter. So it was that we became a trio often seen in the library. Adela grasping with clear intelligence all the advantages in her father's proposed venture, ana questioning and overcom ig mi me oujecuons. let, business once over, Adela was also readv for mn. oral conversation, proving in her every word not only a refined, cultivated in tellect, but a familiarity with current topics rarely met with in a lady, and doubtless due in a great measure to her father s constant companionship, As tho months of my sojourn passed on, j. perceived little cnanges in regard to Adela Lecourt, that seemed to promise that tho heavy cloud evidently resting uvKr hit young me was roiling back eomewnai. one would smile ottener. and I noted a softening in her dress, ana an improvement in her manner. boft white lace replaced the heavy uibck crape at ner tnroat and wrists, and she wore her hair in looser, fuller fashion. The long white hands that had rested in listless idleness upon her lap now busied themselves with pretty feminine work, embroidery, and soft woolen trifles. True, the work would lie often neglected if we spoke of topics that interested her, but then her eyes would kindle with an enthusiasm thef never snowea in tne early days ot our irienusmp. It was friendship true and sincere, knew I was Wrlcome to daughter as well as father, and for the time I asked no more than the cordial greetings given me so ireeiy. eometimcs we formed par ties tor horseback rides to the planta tions, and I found Adela the centre of loving friends ; but I liked best our long uume evenings, spent in tne liorarv. arawing-room, or wide garden summer house, as the whim of the moment dic tated. Calm, even, and uneventful, our friendship knew no waverings, and seem ed likely to endure through life. r our months passed rapidly : my busi. ness nourished, and all was well with me, when one evening, calling at Mon sieur i-iecouri s, i lound mm alone in the summer-house. After some desultory cuat, tne oia gentleman said to me : " lo-morrow I hope to introduce to you my nephew, Theodore Lecourt. He arrives from Paris to-night." " Indeed !" I suid, trying to seem in tercsted. " Does he make a long visit nero t "His visit has been to Europe. He has been nearly two years abroad, but this is his home. He will be my heir, as he is the affianced husband of niv daughter." My heart seemed to turn to stone as the old gentleman spoke. For the first time I realized what the past four months had cost me. I had given my whole heart to Adela Lecourt. never knowing it till I heard she was beyond my reach. Affianced to another I I could not speak, and whether Monsieur Lecourt guessed or not the cause of my silence, he smoked his fragrant Havana, and said ho more for a long time, then started a new topic for conversation. The evening shadows deepened and lengthened, till the soft, dim twilight rested on all things, and Adela came not to her accustomed place bv her father's side. When, at a late hour, I took my leave reluctantly, she was still invisible. The next morning, before I loft my room 1 was handed an invitation to an entertainment at Monsieur Lecourt's, given in honor of his nephew'B ar rival. It would have been too marked a difference in our friendly relations for me to decline, and hastily writing an acceptance, l tried by unusual attention to business to forget ray heartftohe. Another subject troubled me. v The party was not to occur for two days. Was I expected to absent myself in the interval, or to make mv evening calls as usual 't All day my mind dwelt upon Adela. Was the deep, settled melancholy upon her faco the grief for the absence of her fiance, and should I now see the lovely tace lighted by hope and joy f I ground ny teeth as I thought of this, inwardly thinking I had rather see it celd in death than radiant with love-light for another. Requiring some private papers during the day, I opened my desk, and in one of the recesses, 'where it had long lain forgotten, sparkled the ring I had found in New York, the serpent diamond crescent upon the doep blue shield. I took it up carelessly, admired it a while, and slipped it upon my finger. The papers I had come to seek, being inter esting and important, I was soon busied with them, and closed the desk, forget ting to return the ring to its plaoe. Af terward, l thought : Well, it is mine, I suppose. Nobody else has ever asked for it, so I might as well wear it." could easily plead business as my excuse for absence from Monsieur Le court's for a day or two, and, dreading to meet Adela now, I resolved to do so. It was some relief to my sore heart to become suddenly very active in busi ness, and I ran about soliciting orders, making proposals, and actually doing more in forty-eight hours than I had done in any previous month. Yet the dronded day came at last, when I must meet my rival, ana judge by Adela a face if the recent changes in it had been caused by the prospect of tho speedy arrival oi nor jcance. Being busy in the middle of the day, and not caring to return home at that hour, I strolled into the St. Charles, and ordered dinner. Two gontlemen were seated at the table where I took my place, conversing in a low tone, but earnestly. Without listening, or indeed much heeding them. I csuld not avoid hearing what was ou.m ii r i; iu uvmciiuj vnojr were very inti mate friends discussing a love affair. " I should scarcely have known her," said one. " But," said the other, " you told me it was an annir of long ago. Can vou have a rival '(" " I have thought of that," and the speaker crushed double a little salt spoon he hod held in his hand. " It's a new thing to see hor sad and quiet more, she is positively gloomy. Her lather says she has never recovered from the shock of her mother's death ; but why should that make her shrink from me t " Are you sure she does '(" "Sure I She never loved me, but we were always good friends. Now my presence seems to give her positive pam. It 1 caress her, she turns so whito think she will faint. If I speak of our wedding, she shudders, turns away, and escapes from the room as soon as possi ble r " She never did so before ?" "No. e were friends though not lovers. " And you aro not ill-looking." Mentally I indorsed the last state ment. I never saw a handsomer face than the one opposite me ; yet, with all the beauty of regular features, large dark eyes, and even white teeth, there was a look of suffering there, as if from ill-health, and the eye burned with a fire that boded no good to any who earned his enmity. Suddenly, without a word of warning, no gave a quick gasping cry, and bend- lnd forward, glared into my faco. He was white as death, and a literal fury seemed to possess him. Twice he tried to speak, but failed, and rolling over, lay in frightful convulsions at my feet, ii- . . . - ms companion spoke at once to me. " Loosen his necktie ! let him lie flat I It is nothing. He will soon recover, Any sudden or violent agitation brings on inese attacks, lou know him f " He's an entire stranger to me." " Ah ! Have you not seen him abroad, or before he left New Orleans Y" he asked. " I tell you he is a perfect stranger." " See. he is recovering. Do not Inf. him see you. You must resemble some one he knows, and your face may renew the attack. Pray leave us." Not wishing to agitate the unfortu nate man again, and seeing that he was slowly recovering, I left my untasted dinner, and was soon in the street once more. I forgot business tho approach ing festival at Monsieur Lceourt's and strode rapidly along, thinking of the strange incident. The face that had looked into mine was strangely fa- miliar, thbugh I was sure I had never seen it betore ; the voice, too, seemed to recall some memory, and my mind was deeply troubled by all. It was very late when I crossed the garden, and ascended the wide steps at Monsieur Lecourt's. The windows were open, and strains ot music floated out upon the air. Looking in, I saw Adela conversing with a guest, a stranger to me ; and watching her was the gentlo man I had. met a few hours previous at the St. Charles. I knew now what made his face so familiar. Brother and sister could not have borne a closer resem blance to each other than Adela and this man. He must be her cousin Theo dore, ber affianced husband, and my rival. For the first time I saw Adela in a dress that was not black. She had dis carded her mourning, and wore a heavy white silk, that left uncovered shoulders and arms round and fair as marble stat uary . Diamonds glistened in the droop ing braids of her hair, at her throat and wrists, but no color broke the snowy whiteness, except the rays of tire from the jewels. A faint smile of courteous interest hovered over her lips, as she conversed, but she was as pale as when I first met her, and a deeper sadness, if possible, rested in the large soft eyes. My heart was so heavy, I was unfit to meet gay faces. My own darling ! How could I boar to see her the unwilling bride of another 1 No doubt now rested on my mind that the match was one of interest or convenience. The conversa tion I had overheard convinced me of that. I looked long in the lovely, sad face, and then left the window, not to enter the house, but to wander through the garden till I reached the summer house. I had spent many pleasant hours in this retreat, and I threw myself down in a wide rustic seat, to try to gain sufficient calmness to face the gay scene to which I had been invited. It was no light task. Every nerve in my body seemed to me quivering with pain and misery. I was sitting quiet, when a rustling of silk near by aroused me from my painful reverie, and, looking up, I saw Adela standing in the door way of the summer-house. In the dim light I . was unnoticed, for, leaning her head against tho leafy lattice, she S'ghed deeply, and spoke in a low whisper : " tie has left me I Mo word no fare well ! Oh, Godfrey, I could not so desert you!" Jily own name I 1 could not restrain myself. " Adela I I cned, and was beside her in a moment. I cannot tell what I said. In rapid. burning words I told her my love, my jealousy, my despair, and she listened. - Alter the first start of surprise, she never stirred from her position. I might have thought her cold, had not an occa sional sob convinced me she heard me, and felt for me. I took her hand in mine, and raised it to my lips, when she was snatched back by a strong hand, and Theodore Lecourt's, voice cried, loudly ; " Traitress 1 So this is why you are so cold to me, false one 1 " I amnot false, Theodore 1 I prom ised you no love. My hand was and is yours." " And your lovois Godfrey Tlavcn's. know all. Others have told me my own eyes nave soon prooi ot your false- nooa. Dare you deny you love him r "1 do not deny it. I love him, bntl only within this hour have X known he loved me. " Aela," the man fairly screamed in his agony, " do you think to deceive me If ho was not your lover, why did you give him the diamond crescent, tho pledge of love you accepted from mef Adela I Adela I and, wailing the name. Theodore Leoourt, for the second time that day, fell in writhing convulsions, Adcla's screams brought assistance at once fronl the house, and her cousin was carefully convoyed to a lower room, Medical skill was of no avail, and when tne 4iast ox the horrified guests left the house, a Btiff corpse was all remainino- of the unfortunate Theodore Lecourt. jvionsienr ijeoourt implored me to re main. Aueia went to her room, and the old gentleman, after he had given all necessary direction, drew tun info trio li. brary. " Tell me all you can. Mr. Haven." fin said. ion were in the summer house ?" All I could toll was soon told, not omitting my own love-story. " You think Adola loves you i" he asked. ' " She has said so." " That explains so much. Poor Theo dora I Butif you have not spoken before to Adela, how did you become possessed of t,Utl I As he spoke, he nointed ta tho rinir T had found in New York. A few words told that story, as well. . f " uodirey, ho said to me. " vou think me a hard father one who would have forced my only child into a marriage her heart abhorred. I might plead the custom of my country, for French mar riages aro too often contracted for monev or family convenience. But it was not exactly the case here. Theodore and Adela have been aflianced Bince thev were children, and I had no idea that my child had any dislike to her cousin, still less did I dream she loved an other." ' ; : ; ' ; But, bit? she was so sad I Some cause must exist for such deep depres sion." " There was cause. Her mother, who was always an invalid, was sent to Sara toga by her physician, and Adela accom panied her. Theodore was just leaving for Paris, and I was detained here ; but we had friends going to the Springs for a summer holid.iv. and mv wifo ar,A daughter joined their party, xotcad of gaining health, Madame Lecourt became rapidly worse, and was attacked by a fever and violent delirium. In one of her paroxysms of delirium, she sprang from her bed, and rushed to the window of her room. Adela, who was alone with her, struggled with her, crying loudly for assistance, but before it came, her mother had burst from her arms, and thrown herself headlong from the window. She was killed instantly by tho fall. I hastened to Saratoga, to find Adela very ill, but kindly nursed by her friends. When she was sufficiently re covered, we returned home, bringing with us the body of my beloved wife. We were in New York a few hours, and during that time Adela must have lost 1 beodore s ring Irom her wasted hand. For many months the shock of her mother's death, and the self-reproach she would feel, kept her in a state of deep sadness, that seemed to threaten life and reason. Since you came she has been slowly recovering her health and spirits, until Theodore's return threw her back again. To-night she roused herself, I think now, hoping to see you. I have been blind, Godfrey, blind!" " Do you feel, sir, that I have been. innocently, heaven knows, the murderer of your nephew '(" No. J rom childhood Theodore had been subject to such convulsions as you witnessed. There was an injury to the bfain in his school-days, that was never cured. Any sudden excitement would produce convulsions ; and we have been frequently warned that a sudden violent shock would be fatal. Doubtless he saw the ring upon your finger at the St. Charles to-day. His initials are engraved inside, T. S. L. Theodore Simon Le court. He ordered it for Adela on her eighteenth birthday, sending the design to Paris, where a friend attended to the commission. Poor Theodore !" We sat silent for some time. I scarce. ly dared speak of my own affairs in the presence of death, and the uncertainty about Adela. If she looked upon me as having caured her cousin's death, could she consent to be my wife Y Monsieur Leoourt broke the painful stillness of the room. " Godfrey," he said, gently. " if Adela loves you, remember, f will gladly give you a son's place in my heart and home. I grasped the hand extended to me. and pressed it cordially. it was many days before I saw Adela. She did not leave her room until after the funeral, and was ill for a long time. But she came at last to welcome me when I called, pale and sud, yet not with tne deep-settled melancholy ot old. It was my happiness' to bring the roses to her cheeks, the smile to her lips, to learn that she loved me as I loved her, and that her wedding-day now would be no dream of pain or horror. a year we gave to the memory of the dead, and then my fair bride came to bless my life, with happy love-lit eyes, and no cloud upon her lovely face. The building committee of a church called upon a wealthy member of the congregation soliciting a subscription to ward a new house of worship The sum he subscribed disappointed them, and they told him so, at the same time inti mating that Mr. J bad given dou ble the amount " So he should," said the wily gentleman J he goes to church twice as much as I do." A REMARKABLE WEDDING. A Wealthy Chrlatatti Lftdr Becomes Jewess, A correspondent writing from Hart ford, Conn., under recent date, says : An imposing ceremony was performed in this city on Sunday. Miss Estelle Sarah Livingstone of England, heretofore an Episcopalian, renounced her faith and professed the Jewish religion, partly for the purpose of marrying Dr. Louis J. Jordan, late of the English army, but XT -v 1. . ,1 . , it was hor conviction that Judaism the true faith. This belief had hnen m tablishod in her mind before she became engaged to Dr. Jordan. She has been for some time under the care of Dr. I. Mayer, late Eabbi of tho uongregation Beth Israel m this city, who conducted the ceremonies at Mis Livingstone's reception into the Hebrew told, and ot her marriage to Dr. Jordan, The lady is described as twenty-two years old, coming from one of the best tamuies ot England, and ot line educa tion, and Dr. Jordan as a wealthy gen tleman of large income, and thirty- seven. The ceremonies of profession, confes n, and marriage were celebrated at the Allyn House. But a very few per sonal friends of the parties were present, xue parlors in winch the coremonies took place were at first darkened, and lighted by gas and wax tapers. The Key. Dr. Mayer, in black silk robe and velvet cap, sat at a table covered with .white, two candlos burning on the side of a magnificent basket of flowers. Drs Nathan Mayer and J Moses, with the rabbi, acted as the tribunal before whom the convert was to appear, and sat on either side of the table. All being in reuuincss, tun convert was led in by Mr. T v a jl.' . B a. oiuiuiioun. private Becretarv. and Dr. Jordan. She wore a heavv blank silk dress, with a long train, her hair foiling loosely down her back, and her head concealed by a heavy black crape veil. Not a particle of white or bit nf jewelry was to 'be seen on hor person. btanding in front of Eabbi Mayer, she 1 - . f : . i . iuuuu ijiuiussiuu vi iuun, and was re ceived into the fold of Judaism. A short prayer in Hebrew concluded the ceremony, and the lady retired to be robed for the marriage ceremonv. Tn about an hour the approach of the bridegroom and bride was announced. Four gentlemen held a canonv of dmh silk, embroidered with blue, upheld by standards surmounted with gold wound with white satin. Under this the groom, Dr. Jordan, first took his place, and soon after Miss Livingstone appeared. She wore a dress of eau de ft ile silk, over skirt of a shade darker, both elaborately t I osfc ntw. mmiu l)UU UUWD fUUtCll. A long veil of tulle, edged with blonde lace, enveloped hor from head to foot. lier ornaments were of diamonds a glittering array. They were the gift of the groom. They consisted of a pair of solitaire earrings, valued at $15,000; a locket worth $7,500 ; a brooch of forty elegant diamonds, worth $10,500 j and two bracelets, equally valuable. Iu all, the diamonds amounted to nearly $50, 000 worth. Pale and trembling, as brides usually are, sho looked exquisite ly lovely in tho midst of the cloud of il lusion and tho blaze of her glittering jewels. The groom was in full evening dress, and on his bosom sparkled two solitaires worth from $5,000 to $8,000 each. Dr. Jordan is the possessor of other equally magnificent duiamonds to the value of nearly $150,000. The coremony was performed by the Eabbi Mayer, after the orthodox style, the groom breaking a wine-glass under his feet according to the old custom. Af ter the congratulations were over, an ele gant collation was sorved, and a bridal loaf cut and distributed among the guests. Mr. and Mrs. Jordan left on Monday morning for a wedding tour via Niagara to Canada. They will roturn in a month and settle in New York, where Dr. Jordan is in business. Previous to the party breaking up, Dr. Jordan pre sented the Eabbi Mayer with an elegant Turkey morocco case, containing a wed ding fee of $200, and Mrs. Jordan put a diamond ring worth $100 upon his finger as an acknewicdegment ot the services he had rendered her. Dead Letters, Nearly 3,000,000 letters went to tho dead-letter office last year. They are partly classified as follows : 58,000 let ters had no county or state directions, moro than 400,000 wanted stamps, and about 3,000 letters were put in the post offices without any address at all. In this connection it would be interesting as a matter of statistics and as showing the bearing of the " personal equation on the number of misdirected letters if we knew how many persons wrote these letters. e think that many persons in various parts of the country have each contributed two, three, or perhaps more letters to this number. The tendency to habit would lead to such an inference. Ninety-two thousand dollars in cash and over $3,000,000 in drafts, checks, drc, were found in these letters. It appears that on an average every letter that is misdirected or goes to the dead-letter office from other cauees contains $1.09. Much of this money is restored to the senders of the letters, but very much of it remains to the credit of the bureau in Washington, owing to the carelessness or forgetfulness of the writers in not appending their residences. His Plea. An Irishman being re- ently on trial for some offence, pleaded not guilty, and the jury being in the box, the State Solicitor proceeded to call Mr. Furkisson as a witness. With the utmost innocence, Patrick turned his face to the court, and said, " Do I un derstand, your honor, that Mr. Furkis son is ta be a witness forneutt me again '(" The judge said, dryly, "It seems so." " Well, then, your honor, I plead guilty, sure, an' your honor plaise; not because I am guilty, for I am as in nocent as your honor's suckling baby, but just on account of saving Mr. Fur kisson's swl." DcsliurtJon of Evergreens. There is much speculation and a great variety of theory in regard to the immeuiaie couse ot the recent death of so many evergreens of all sizes and of all degrees of hardiness, and in all sorts of localities. Trees of sorts that endure the climate of Labrador and of Norway havo succumbed about equolly with na tives of lower latitudes, and without much respect to age or vigor. It is as if an unseen axeman had, in some invis ible Way, chopped off trees here and there in wanton sportiveness, and left thorn without apparent luBrks of his lerformance. If any have suffered moro than others within my observation it has been Irish junipers. They and hardier things have perished alongsido of tender Noisette roses, Japan cuony niuses and honeysuckles, and many other things counted as frail, which yet have escaped. It is evident that tho cause is to be looked for outside of the trees. Nor does it depend upon position according to the old rules of position. By them we learn that there is danger in sunny exposures during the alterna tion of early spring. And wo know that sudden thawing after hard night freezing, when tho structure is full of sap, does scald severely and discolor sadly, but it does not often kill ontritrlit. in this savage way. And in this case we have tho antagonistic experience of more iniurv on the shady sirio nf buildings, &c, (on the northwest side), than on the sunny side. iiave the dry northwest winds, then, .. 4.1,: . : i , -k- . . . done For all the symptoms indicate t.Vmt. tkn turn misumoi r JO dOUDt Of it trees have slowlv dried to rlotitv, nA large plants, most exposed to drying nuiuB, uttve sunorea morn than mv v box, &c which usually suffer most. They havo dried slowly, so as to retain the leaves and give time for tlmir dis coloration. The trees were dead before the leaves were brown. And f.Viw worn betrayed by the intense and steady frost, aided by very unusual dryness of the soil. For more than ntin hunHr days the soil and the streams wcro held rigidly bound by a frost so steady that there wns not one dav's cessation. Onlv in soils of peculiar texture did any of the rains of winter penetrate the ground. The water ran off over the This unusual dry season was favnraWo to rest of fruit trees and mnnv nti,o deciduous plants which had ripened well too in the dry fall. And when they were wakened from their the opening oi spring they were well cuuv io open wnn vigor. But evergreens doth rest in this way. Eetaining their leaves, which are evan- orating moisture all the while to a tinual supply. This they could not have in this case, because the frost, which had penetrated the soil fully four feet wherever it was compact and un mulched or unprotected by sod, of course held tho roots torpid and congealed without any intermission through all this extraordinary length of steady duration. No matter how hardy a tree may constitutionally be, it will perish if an axe or a knife severs the connec tion between the roots and the leaves. These and the branches are then soon dried up and exhausted. And if frost cuts off the connection, and maintains the blockade long enough, the result is tho same. It is only where deep beds of snow interpose and protect tho soil from this extreme and protracted con gelation that, in the fur north, or on lofty mountains, even the very hardiest deep and strong-rooting pines can maintain themselves. But these hardy habitants of Aretin climes although they can conserve life beyond all other trees, yet when they lose it, lose it irrevocably. A deciduous tree, deprived of its leaves and branches at some timely season, will sprout again from latent buds, feeding from a store of materials laid up in the cambium in the state ; and this they do as soon as moisture from the roots, and external warmth of vernal air, occur to favor the movement. A coniferous evergreen scarcely ever recovers in this way, after being stripped of its leaves. Even the' deciduous conifers (tho larches) do nt sprout again after being cut down. All of this class ef trees seem to live from hand to mouth. Always possessed of leaves, they have a daily income, not a somi-annual one ; and they do not per ceive the necessity of laying anything up for a morrow. Country Gentleman. The Pay-Day Question. The Commercial Bulletin says: "The question of paying workmen on Monday instead of on Saturday, has attracted considerable attention at tho West of late, and some of tho manufacturers of Pittsburgh and elsewhere have adopted the plan. That such would be a re formatory measure, all thinking persons will at once acknowledge. With the present custom a workman is too often enticed into dissipation an the Satur day night because he . has not to work on tho following day, and he has also the financial ability to cater to his immoral and low tastes. This habit thus contracted is the worst enemy to the working man's prosperity and hap piness that he has to encounter. In one night and the following day the hard toiling mechanic, who has labored faithfully and intelligently for six days, to earn a few dollars, dissipates away what really respresents a portion of his life. Week after week he dives into the filth of dissipation, and each time his constitution and worth as a mechanic are impaired. ' If he did not receive his earnings on Saturday evening he would not have them to spend on Sunday, and the day would be to him what it was designed to be a day of rest It is true there are obstacles in the way of this reform, but none that really pre vent it from being placed in execution in our manufacturing towns and cities, and we shall therefore look to see it yet in force in many of them." Blanting-fowdor is the name of a new campaign paper in North Carolina. It indulges in an explosive style, and is be lieved to be an incendiary sheet. The Lnte Facts and Figures A. clergyman occasionally troubled with lapsvt lingum, called modern young ladi'es the other Sunday tho " daughters of Hem and Shain." A certain miss unguardedly volun teered tho remark in a family-circle that, " when gentlemen oat warm maple-sugar, it gets into their mustaches and makes them scratchy." Her father is curious to know how sho found it out. A man enjoyin g tho euphonious name of Tigg married a lady nnmcd Young. A few days siix o u child was born to them, and a rich undo of tho young one, who, like Gilpin, " Loves a timely joke," promised to heavily endow tho boy if the parents would christian him with the maternal name. Tho foud but thrifty parents consented, und tho youth wiil hereafter be known to his friends as Young Pigg. An indulgent father, who wanted to explain to an inquiring littlo son how trees grew and how they were always getting taller every year, saw the child's face brighten up as lie inquired, " Papa, are yon growing still "r" "No, dear; what makes you think so " Because the top of your hpad is coming through your hair." The hair question was the next in order, and the difference was not quite so easily explained. The first election in England bv lot has taken place in Boston. Lincoln. shire. There was a vacancy in the town council, occasioned by the death of a member, and the election took place on the Monday after the royal assent had been given to the new law. There were twe candidates for tho vacant place, one named Farron and tho other Best. It may bo accepted as a favorablo augury that on this occasion the Best man won. A now reform has boon inaugurated in tho British House of Commons. Mr. F. S. Powell, Lord Frederick Cavendish, and others havo boon urging a bill " to regulate tho uso of steam whistles in certain manufactories." They desire to prevent the uso of whistles for tho pur pose of summoning or dismissing work mon. Upon this the Echo calla for an abatement of the nuisances of bell ring ing, and of cannon firing, and likewise of dinner gongs. The method of sustaining points of order in vogue among Western legisla tors is more effectual than that in use in the older and loss vigorous part of the country. In the Wyoming Legisla ture a short time ago. when a man in sisted that he wns not out of order, his opponent jerked off his coat, shouting : If some reliable man will hold these order;" and th point was sustained without further controversy. A horrible scen! took place at Caen, in Normandy, on the 19th of June. A murderer named Dutollier was to bo guillotined for hnving killed his rival in the affections of an Italian canta trice. The executioner performed his bloody work in a very bungling manner, and the knife, instead of cutting off the head of the ufortunate culprit, literally sawed his nock apart. The spectators wero so hornhed at this ghastly scene that they attacked the headsman and drove him and his assistants out of tho town. I am particularly fond of lemon pie for desert. At I went on peace ably for a couple of weeks, but always eating lemon pio under a silent protest, tor l was a stranger, and did not liko to make objections. Finally' I cilled a waiter and said: "John, what kind of pie is this V" " What kind did you or der, sah '" " I ordered lemon pie, but this appears to be dried apple." " Dat's lemon pie, sah. You know dey has a way of mixin dried apples in de lemon pie here, sah, to dat extent it requires a man of ability to 'stinguish 'em apart, sah. De lemons are scarce, you know, and dey has to 'conomizo 'tu so as to make one lemon do tor sixteen pies. Exorbitant American prices havo driven multitudes in late years to seek their summering acros3 tho Atlantic. When one finds that he can tako his choice, at tho same price, between Sara togo or Newport on the one hand, and Paris, the Ehine, Switzerland, and North Italy, eu the other, ho is very likely to engage a Cunard state-room, and sail over tho seas ; only bpecial at tractions, or settled habit, or a disincli nation to brave the perils of the deep, make him hesitate. Thus our money goes into tho foreign pocket, when a lit tlo wisdom on the part of our landlords, many of whom keep up the old war prices, though provisions have fallen, would fill their houses and keep our funds at home. A Western paper tolls tho following anecdote of a college chum : II., a mem ber of one of the classes, was distinguish ed not loss for dry wit and sly waggery than tor his address in evading the writing of themes, and in palming off the brain-coined currency of others as his legitimate " tender." One Monday morning he read a theme of unusual merit ; but Professor A. " smclled a rat," and as H. finished and sat down in the pride of conscious innocence, asked, " Is that original, H ?" " Yes, sir." " Are you sure of it V" queried the professor, doubtingly. "Why, yes, sir," replied II., with the imperturbable gravity and that pasteboard countenance be always wore; "it had original over it in the paper I took it from 1" An Austrian savant is said to have discovered by means of a microscope, in a stone taken from the pyramid of Dashour, many interesting particulars connected with the life of the anciont Egypti118' The brick itself is made of the mud of the Nile, chopped straw and sand, thus confirming what the Bible and Herodotus have handed down to us as to the Egyptian method of brick, making. Besides these materials, the microscope has brought other things to light the debris of river shells, of fish, and of insects; seeds of wild and culti vated flowers, of corn and barely, the field pea, and the common flax, cultiva ted, probably, for both food and textile purposes, and the radish, with many others known to science.
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