V - Ji ifif Will HEXHY A. I AKSOS, jr., Editor and Publisher. ELK COtJNTY THE REPUBLICAN PA11TY. Two Dollar per Annum. VOLUME III. Mlscdlaijjus Sclcctlond A CHINESE STORY. iit c. p. cnAscit. Kono arc so wise ns llipy w ho make nri-tcnso J know what fate conceals from mortal sense. 1 his moral lrom a tale of Ho-hang-ho Might have born drawn a ilnmsanil years nun. I;ongerelliclaysof spectacles and lenses. When men were left to their unaided senses. TW fh!nnS glort"sl8"nted f''"ows, Chang and Over their chopsticks Idly chattering, a. ! t0 ' '''sputinff which could see tho best: o V,"?.1, "K'y nRr'',l tojiut it to (he test, baid Ulang: ' ' A marble tablet, so 1 hear, L . 1 1 ylw '-m e lemiue near, n itn an inscription on it. Let us (to And rend It fsince you boast your optics so). ."-viiiin nt n vii I ill II IIIIICO Jn front, where we tho letters Just may Into J hen he who quickest reads the inscription there War ''0r k,-'en,'t c"c lienoelurth shall ' Agreed," said Chins ; "but let ns try It soon: suppose we say to-morrow afternoon.' Nay, not so soon," said Chang: "I'm bound To-morrow, a day's ride from Ito-hang-he. And shft'n't be ready till the following dnv: AtiAi.. ft..t " c ,, , T?meZ" - . vii iimi.iiny u-i us say Ami to the t,;uo nnt t nun .i r.i i 'lion rne laim-t To the illustrious dpitit '1 heel) f of mandarins, tin. n-innt finh-li.... it Scarce bad he gone when stealthily came Chang. Who read the sump, Imt iwuvin ni.n. oi Spied in a corner what Ching failed to sec J he worils, This tablet is erected here Uy those to whom the great Uoh-li.ing was dear, So, on the n As babes, oi d day both innocent course these honest fellows went jnu iook iiieir distant station: and China- Raid. I can read plainly, ' To the illustrious dead t he chief ol mandarins, the great Cob-Hang ' " 'And is that nil that you" can spell I" said Chang. " I see what you have rea 1, but furthermore. In smaller letters, toward the temple-door, ' 1 lo moiei is erecieu nere ojy inose to whom the dear.' " great Uoh-Iiung was "My sharp-eyed friend, there arc no such words!" said Ching. "They're there," said Chang, " If I see any thing As clear usdnylight!" " I'atent eyes, indeed. You have!' cried Citing. " Uo you think I can not read V" "Not at this distance, as I can," Chang said, "11 what you say you saw is all you read. ' ' In line, they quarreled, nnd their wrath In- creAsed , Till Chang said, " Let us leave it to the priest: Lo, here he comes to meet us." "It Is well," Said honest thing: "no falsehood he will tell." The good man heard their artless story through, And said, "I think, dear sirs, there must be few Itlest with such wondrous eyes as those you wear. There's no such tablet or inscription there. There was one, it is true; 'twas moved away, And placed within the temple yesterday." Lippincolt Jor April. "ONLY AN OLD HONE." Acks an 1 ages ago tills world of ours was not like what it is now. Where we have land, hard, firm, and rocky, there were seas ; nnd again, where we now have seas there was land. In fact, it was all so different that had you lived then, as I did. and survived till now, you could tell strange stories of the changes - you had witnessed. My first introduction to life was in the huge jaws of a megatherium ; for I was one of its teeth. I had many brothers and sisters ; wo were a very united, loving family. Now we arc all dispersed. I do not even know whether they are living or dead. You wonder, perhaps, that I can speak so calmly on the subject, but if you had lived ages as I have, you would know that one cannot mourn iorever. A wild, merry life we led in those days. I should not like to return to it now, but I enjoyed it then. The woild was at that tiineamuddy, marshy place: even the linn land was not very stable. What else could you expect? Those iron rocks you see now were very young then, and just forming, and a fierce battle they had to wage for their existence, what between the lire, and the water. There were no men at that time, nothing but animals, huge trees, and plants ; and a line time they had of it. My master was a sociable creature, lie was the eldest of a large family of The riums; his brothers were called Ano, Anthraco, Paleo, and Dino. They all roamed over the ground together, seeking food, and lots of acquaintances we made in our wanderings. There was th-i family of Pons Masto, Smilo, and Glypto; but theV were small creatures, and wo rather looked down on them, though they were agreeable enough in their way. Much more interesting were tho Sauri, whom we came to know on tho shores of a huge lake. They were called Ichthy, Pleslo, Megalo, and ldo. The only objection to them was that they were rather inclined ' to conceit, for they would insist that their family was older than ours. As if that made them a whit better 1 Ah ! if you had known all those fine creatures, I am sure you would only pity their puny successors now -living in the world. With their nice names, too! It seems to me such a pity those good old cognomens are gone out of fashion. As I said, it was a curious living world then giant reptiles trailed their bodies on tho sand, hideous winged creatures darkened the sky, and our colossal selves and friends stalked through magnificent forests of pines and ferns. Well, I suppo.se, nothing can last for ever: I have found it so, at least. In my experience of life. So our free, joyous existence came to an end too. There was a grand upset of the whole world; the sea rushed, over the land, the ground heaved and tottered; in faet, it was a convulsion of the system, and all then living on the globe perished. What be came of my master 1 do not know, for I was dashed out of his mouth. I was tossed hither and thither for a very long time, during which I witnessed several more of these revolutions, being now upheaved, now buried. Wherever I was thrown I met with general contempt. I was named " An Old Hone," and no one paid me tho slightest attention. At first 1 was inclined to resist this treatment, and to despise all those per sons 1 came in contact with, for the Jays when my master had stalked the forest were still green in my memory, and I for got that I was no longer in the same po sition. - A tooth under his mighty protec tion and a solitary tooth cast by itself upon the world are quite different things. So I am afraid I made myself very disa greeable, and if any stone, plant, or In sect was kind enough to speak to me, doubtless taking pity on my miserable ex istence, I would turn from it with con tempt, saying that such small creatures were quite beneath my notice. If they had known tho days I had, and seen my master and his friends, they would not have dared to address even one of his re mains. No wonder that they 60on gave up speaking to mo, seeing how I despised them. Ah ! I have grown humbler since then much humbler. I learned many a severe lesson as the centuries rolled on! and if I had my life to live again, I do Hot say but what I would live it very dider ently. 1 got my pride taken down, how ever, as 1 say ; but it was sharp, painful work, and if I had ben wise, and recog nized my changed position at once, I mltrht have saved mvself a world of suf fering. Now I know that each state of the world Is tho host for the time being 5 but I Flint mv mind to Hint truth then. Meanwhile, as I was changing in char- iiukt, no atso was the earth lor it was consolidating and hardening. The whole mass was becoming packed together, and there wan so much material to be dis posed ol that there were tight squeezes In places so tight that sometimes fractions rocks broke out lu tire and flames, and de clared that they could not and would not stand it, that they would have room to ox- panu as tney chose, ut course In this general squeezing I got much crushed, and wherever I was pushed I met with insult. Even the little room I took un Jjras grudged me. Finally I got thrown In with a company 01 minerals, who hem themselves immeas urably my superiors. " It's a shame." I often heard them iln clare, " that that bit of old bone should be in our way." bo they rubbed and knocked against me, pushed and jostled, till they di.1 suc- ceeu in iretting me to Jess than hall my original size: and even when everything had subsided, and I had found a tinv eor- I ner to rest in, they often cast jealous eyes were not Pleasant com- panions; but 1 bore all their unkindncss in silence. I remembered how disagree able I had made myself to others, and felt that I was paying a just penalty. If I could have gone away, and left thetn the space they so unwillingly awarded me, how gladly would I have done so ! But there was no possibility of my escaping, buried as I was, deep in the earth. So I lived on, sunk in my little hole, as far out of sight as I could, quiet and unobtrusive, never speaking unless I were addressed, which did not happen twice in all the ages. My whole exist ence was a deprecation for my unwelcome presence. I think they might have been kinder when they saw how humble I was. How ever, they were not: nnd perhaps it was as well, for I was only a scrap of old bono, I kept repeating to n-yselt only a fragment of a once mighty monster; but such a poor fragment that I very inade quately represented him. It was better I should leave it alone than attempt it, for I should only have met with ridicule and incredulity. Of course I knew nothing of the flight of time; I only know that it was centuries I lived down there, an old bone among those aristocratic minerals. And, as the years rolled on, I think they grew to de spise me more and more. If I could have done anything ti make them improve their opinion of me, I would have done it. But I could only remain quiet, and think back on the grand old days when we had led such a free, wild lif-!, my master and I. 1 don't know why the minerals thought worse of me as time passed. I think it must have been because they had nothing to do. and it was a little amusement to them to abuse me. Anyway, they often called out to me in injurious tones, that 1 had lost my only beauty my line white complexion; and they wondered I 'was not ashamel to show my ugly, changed face in their circle. I bore it all in Eilencc ; what should I have gained by replying? And if I had lost my complexion, how could I help it, I thought ; we none of us improve by age, I suppose, and if they were indestructible and unalterable I was not conceited enough to think I was. You see, it was not a happy lifeI led down there, but it, too, camu to an end, us 1 say I have found all things do in this world, if we only wait long enough. Great disturbances occurred about us after our long quiet. I, accustomed to such matters, thought they foreboded an other convulsion, and, as mv position in life could but be improved, I hailed the sounds gladly, rejoicing at the thought of release from my neighbors. I was somewhat mistaken. The disturbances and noises 1 heard were causod by men, i nose, ncings w no were at tnac time stran gers to me, though now they are familiar friends. A shaft was being sunk in the ground ; for the place of our abode had been pro nounced a vauable mine, likely to produce copper. Daily the intruders came nearer our dwelling, I could hear them ham merinsr, breaking, and rending. My neighbors grew alarmed; they had no"t wished to be disturbed out of their even, peaceful existence. At last one day the men penetrated to us. With curious eyes I looked upon them. They seemed so tiny to me after the living beings I had been accustomed to, and I thought how one tread of my master's heel would have crushed them to atoms. But they were well-looking, well-formed animals, and I took rather a fancy to them from the first. How relentlessly they tore awav mass ufter mass of ore! 1 really felt quite sor ry for the minerals, unfriendly though they had been ; they seemed to feel the separation so much, and resisted the in struments as long as their strength would allow. The mass in which 1 had nest'ed was torn oft' too, and we were all convey ed into the outer air. Here we were hand ed over for inspection to a man who di vided worthless pieces from valuable, and I was fully prepared when my turn came to be thrown away as a useless piece of old bone. How could I know that time had wrought a transformation in me? Judge, then, of my intense surprise, when, having examined me closelv and turned me over and over in his hand, the man called our, 'We have indeed a find here. See this splendid turquoise I have discovered im bedded in a piece of copper. How beauti ful it is ! what a lovely blue !" It really took rr.e some moments before I could realize that was tho object of these praises. There was no doubt about it, however, for 1 was handed from one to another, and ardently admired, till at last the tinder, folding me carefully in a piece of soft lineD, filaeeu me is his waistcoat pocket, saying io would ask a jeweler about my worth. I wag as curious as he about the verdict. f could not understand wiiat had happen ed to my poor, humble old sell, and how I, so long despised, should suddenly have assumed value in every one's eyes. I did wish the copper could have seen my tri- uttipn, and witnessed In what estimation men held me. Then tho recollection that, after all, I was only an old bone rushed over me ; I was perhaps unconsciously anting a delusive part, and when the jew eler saw me I should be found out. For how was it possible tlia I euld have be- como a costly thing, unless men prized old bones? and that I could hardly im atrine. How glad I was when we arrived at the jeweler s, and 1 was taken out of my en velopc and shown to him ! Ho was a wizened-looking old man, who wore a pair of spectacles, and seemed to look me through ana through " A very crood turquoise indeed." he said ; " very. I shall be glad to buy it of you." Ana ne named a sum lor my pur chase. It was not immediately agreed to; some tittle Dargaining occurred, Due it ended in my becoming his property. " Hut do tell me," asked he who had found me, "how came the turquoise among toe copper r Turquoises," replied tne other, " are bits of old bone, nothing more. Br con' tact with the copper they obtain their ex 1UDGAVAY, quisite cerulean blue. Tho ore this has lain among has changed it t a jewel. Who knows as what it began life?" I was grown more astonished than ever. This was too marvelous truly, that the copper, the pdneral that had so despised tne. whoso taunts and insults I had borne patiently so long, had been the means of changing my whole being into something most precio'us. It was too curious 1 It took me days to recover from my aston ishment! I had led a despised life so long. I could not grasp that I was suddenly of importance ; but I was ; there could be no doubt about It. The old jeweler polished me lovingly, praising me more and more as I increased In beauty, under his hands. Then he set me in Jffcldell ring, and finally exhibited me in his shop window, naming a large sum-for my purchase. " And I have been only an old bone," I kept repeating to myself, again and again. One thing I determined, that returning prosperity should not make me proud again ; I had learnetl too thorough a less on for that, and I resolved to love, and to do all in my power to serve, those mor tals who had raised me from tho lowest depths of degradation to such a height of value and esteem. I was soon able to become more active ly useful In their behalf; for I had not been long in the jeweler's window ere I was purt'hascd. I passed into the hands of a lovely young girl, who presented me as a souvenir to her lover on his leaving the country for time. He kissed the slender hand that had slipped me and my golden band upon his finger. " I shall think of you nnd your blue eyes, sweet," he said, "whenever I look on this azure stone." Then they parted. We roamed through many a foreign land, my new master audi. We visited the regions of everlasting cold, the zones of perpetual heat. We slept under the palms of the desert, the hut of the Es quimau, in the junk of the Chinaman, the palaces of Europe, the Indian bungalow. I saw all the changes on the globe with amazement ; the world had altered in deed from the place I had known it. We parsed through many dangers, too, es caped many accidents. Several times my master, wliom I learned to love dearlv, lav stricken with sore sickness, and 1 grieved for him lest he should die, and the sweet, blue-eyed beauty whose gift I was should sec him no more. Folic said I grew pale when he wa ill, and only re gained my beauty with tits health. I cannot vouch for the truth of that state ment. The time at length arrived when my master was able to return home. Why ho had been so long absent I know not. Ho spoke of business and imperitive neces sity that kept him far from her he loved, anil I know it could be no slight cause that detained him from her side. How joyfully he turned his steps home ward ! it was a pleasure to mo to see his gleeful, happy face. He would often gaze upon me as a memento of his sweet Isa belle, and once or twice on our homeward journey lie exclaimed that I had grown more beautiful than ever. Tho last stage of his traveling he un dertook on horseback. He was cantering along, singing, out of the joy of his heart, Uhland's charming couplet : "O brich nicht, Pteg, dii litterst sehr! O stuns nicht, Pels, du drauest schwerl Welt, geh' nicht unter.Himmel, lallnicht ein, Eh' Ion mag bel derl.iebstensein!" Suddenly the horse stumbled, and my master was violently thrown. "He must not bo hurt, he cannot be killed." I cried, in my agony of heirt. Then a sharp pain tli rilled through my frame, I became unconscious of what fol lowed. When next I regained my senses I felt the warm touch of Isabclle ; she was clasping my master's hand. "Oh, George, she sobbed, "what a hap py thing that you escaped unhurt! if you had been tilled at the last, after all your perilous wanderings were safely over, I could not have borne it." " Comfort yourself, sweetheart," he said, "lam alive and well. That I escaped is truly a marvel ; I cannot comprehend it yet." "See 1" she exclaimed, suddenly, as she released her grasp, and her gaze fell upon me. " Why, George, what has happened to your turquoise'!' Y'pu never told me it was cracked." . "Cracked!" he repeated, in astonish ment. "That cannot be ; only tins very morning I was admiring its increased loveliness. But indeed it is," he said as he examined me- more closely. "I must have broken it in my fall. Alas for my beautiful treasured stoue. the companion and friend of my wandering !" A sudden flash of light passed over the girl's face. "George, that faithful turquoise has saved your life. I see it all. It took upon itseii tne consequences oi your laii, ana has restored you unharmed" to rve. I read once that turquoises possessed this saving virtue tor tnose tney loveci." She was right ; it had truly been so. My cry of agony as we fell had wrought his salvation. How happy I was that I had been the means of their Joy! how much happier yet I grew in it I What mattered it that my market value had gone from me? for 1 had obtained In creased worth in the eyes of the happy pair. George wore me upon ids finger unto his dying day, and Isabclle, an aged dame, showed mo to her great-grandchildren but three days ago, as the most precious tiling in her possession, which she should hand down to them and to their children's chil dren as their most treasured relie and the tendercst memento of the r ancestors. Harper's Bazar, . Suicide by a Monkey. Mr. Darwin may find a new proof of man's development from the ape, in the fact that monkeys are known to commit deliberate suicide to escapo pain, or other troubles. The following case is In point : A rtltivfnl naalatnnr. tn a tldli.mnnrrm with a basket of crabs on his arm, took it into his head, whilo passing the monkey's house in the Jardin des 1 Mantes, Paris, tho other day, that it would be amusing to give a crab to one of the monkeys which held out its "hand" through the wires of its cage. The animal, we are told, looked at it curiously, then raised It to his mouth. The crab hitherto Inert now recovered its self-possession, and took noid of the monkey's nose between its large claws. The other, with a pierc ing cry, rushed to the roof of the building clinging to a chord. The crab continued to maintain its hold, the monkey frantic ally endeavored to tear it away. Weary of tho struggle, he suspended himself to a bar, by tho tail, and swang violently to and fro, hoping thus to throw off his enemy, the other apes sitting below on the ground, looked on with astonishment at the strange spectacle. Suddenly the poor animal became motionless. lie was, an eye-witness suggests, thinking, and his renections, we are told, were oia melan choly character as thev ended in suicide, lie let go the bar to which ho had been suspended, anil falling headforemost, was killed instantly, his nose still in the claws oi his persecutor. PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1873. Woman' Wages. So far as wages are fixed at all by mere personal will, they are determined by those who n-ceive wages rather than bv thoso who pay them, lint, in truth, wages are not determined by either one class or the other, but by' ertain conditions which the economists call laws, but which laws arc suseeptiblo of modification and adjust ment when understood. The inevitable tendency of nil wages is to gravitate to the lowest point that win support lite. This is just ns truo of men's wages as of women's. Tho pressure which exists everywhere to purchase at the lowest price, to reauco cost, to uuunn ior a minimum of expenditure the largest re sult ceaselessly presses down wages. Every consumer in the land, every neces sity which exists for making little go far. every instinct of economy, every force in the community which operates tor cheap ness all these are responsible for low wages. Every man buys In the cheapest market : a newspaper bargains for paper at the lowest figure for which it can be ob tained ; it pay 8 its printers no more than thev will consent to receive; it conducts its 'business, just as all other kinds of business is conducted, upon the strictest economical principles, at minimum of cost consistent with the result designed. And this uniform, steady, persistent, invaria ble, unalterable pressure is what deter mines wages. If one class of workmen can be obtained who will consent to re ceive lower wages than another, they will be employed. And where the conditions are exactly equal that is, where the ser vice, the performance and the competition are the same A will receive the same wages as B ; women will have an equal chance with men ; blacks with whites ; or Chinese with Caucasians. This is a fixed and recognized law. Women are paid just as much less than men as they will con sent to receive; just exactly as Smith is paid as much less than Brown as Smith, or men of capacity on a par with Smith, will accept. The whole and sole reason why women of skill equal to that of men earn less than men is because of sharper com petition between women because of their readiness to Work for less ( and this readi ness, arising from many causes, is greatly determined by the fact of how the wages aru to be spent what the necessities of the laborer are. it women as a class can live on lower wages than men do, then, In all those arenas of employment where competition is most active they will be sure to accept less. What people have to do with their earnings is a very control ling factor in the rates of wages ; and, al though it is quite true that some women do have families to support, yet the fact that as a class female operators do not have the samo responsibilities that men have brings down prices. What the ma jority consents to receive enforces com pliance on the minority. It 13 entirely certain that wages arc trius determined by definite law. The pressure of society for cheapness of production is so great that wages gravitate to tho lowest fioint the laborer can accept and ive. Women, as a class, can accept less than men, and hence their wa ges are lower. But men have adopted methods to resist tins pressure, and wo men have not. Men have organized into trades unions, thev have combined in as sociations, they have created a resistance t") a .pressure which otherwise would grind them to the earth. Co-operation and union have removed that ruinous competition which before was destroying them ; by combination they thus counter act law by method, one force by another force. It is quite true the power of resist ance they thus employ adds to the cost of production, and lessens the purchasing power oi their earnings ; Dutweuonot dc lieve, what we sometimes find asserted, that all thus gained on one hand is lost on the other. We have thus indicated wherein lies the remedy for low wages among women. Let ail tho talkers and declaimers put aside their sentimcntalism ; cease their clamor about justice, ahd rights, and uality, their emotional appeals and fierce denunciations, and study a few ele mentary principles on the subject of which they talk so much and know so lit tle. Let them understand that the reme dy for low wages lies solely with the wo men tnemseive8. jet women organize. Let them combine. Let them arrest reck less competition. Let them establish a counter action to the powerful social for ces which, as consumers, they have their own share in producing. Let it be real ized and accepted as true that, in cases where all the conditions are equal, women are now as well paid as men. Appleton' Journal. Tho Traffic In Slaves In Egj-pt. The correspondent of the London Daily Telearavh. who accompanies Sir Bartlc Frcre's expedition to take steps for the abolition of the slave trade In Africa, in a recent letter, sends the following notes of the tralllo in slave in r-gyi't. Every class of society, from pashas and beys down to a petty shop-keeper, in dulges in the luxury and vice which it af fords. No ono can pretend to respecta blll y a sort of social franchise without this property rlualillcation. No unmar ried man can ootain lodgings in a respecta ble quarter of a town unless he has a wife or a female slave. Thus men who visit large centers of business, and who are compelled to live there among tho people for some time, buy female slaves, whom they resell or otherwise dispose of when they leave for their homes. All this, taken together with the extent of the country and the population, warrants tho conclu sion that the absorption of slaves in Egypt is norir ous. There are no open markets in Cairo, such as the mart at Zanzibar, for tho 6ale of slaves ; but 1 am informed by natives that private establishments for the purpose abound In the native town, where an Egyptain can buy slaves without any difficulty whatever. Such Is also the case in every town in tho Interior, where the traffic is more open. There are two races of slaves sold in Egpyt, tho white nnd black. Tho former are Imported from Turkey, are highly prized, and are bought only by tho rich, iney are generally made concubines. Of course young and good-looking girls fetch high prices. amounting in feme rases to thousands of pounus. tieiore being sold, iney are usually taught certain accomplishments valued by Turkish and Egyptian volup- tuarles, such as singing, lu some cases nui-ic, and invariably tho gait and beliav ior of a high-class lady. As is the case with women in these countries, the charms of these grls fade at an age whieh in cold climates is considered young, and they have to make room in the harem for fresh victims. A sorrowing friend, writing ol the death of an estimable lady, said, "She lias gone to her eternal rest." His dismay can only be faintiv imagined when, uoon a "proof of t is obituary notice being sent to him, he read, "She has gone to her eternal roast." French Mustard. Three ounces of salt, two ounces of scraped horse-radish one clove of garlic, one quart of boiling vinegar, let them remain mixed for twen ty-four hours ; strain and mix with flour oi mustara as required. An Imperial Battle. Thk nurscry-malds and their little charges who usually haunt tho vicinity of the Old Arsenal in the Central Park yes terday witnessed a most exciting inci dent. Anybody who has visited what tho Park Commissioners are pleased to call the "zoological collection" must have noticed the large wire inclosure, with its gaunt leafless trees and small oval pond assigned to the eagles. Ordinarily, there Is no particular Interest taken In the awk ward and sailor-like movements of the imperial captives. The sight-seers usually treat this part of the show with cool con tempt. Whether It was this action on the part of tho visitors, or some private and domestic rivalry, that aroused the ire of the eagles is not known; but it is cer tain that yesterday a most contentious spirit was exhibited by the birds. They seemed divided into two factions. Hos tilities commenced early in the day ; but after individual combats had taken place, without any other result than a great scat tering of feathers and the spilling of some blood, it was apparently decided to settle the matter by selecting a champion from eacli side to contest the victory. Tho method by which this decision was ar rived at was not made clear to the observ ers outside the cage. But that some ngrcement was entered into was very ev ident from the subsequent conduct of the birds. A little after noon two eagles ad vanced from opposite ends of the cage to ward the center. One was a compara tively small bird, with a white head ; the other was a splendid specimen of the large gray eagle. They met near the little pond, and after glaring at each other for a few seconds, commenced tho battle. The movements of the combatants were not unlike the unfeathcrcd bipeds, who some times contest in the roped arena. Five or seven minutes were consumed in what In ring parlance would be stvled "fight ing for an opening." At length the cham pions rushed in, and for a moment there was a terrible screaming, flapping of wings and flying of feathers. The 'round,' however, was completed without any se rious damage to cither of tho contestants. After a little more fencing tho smallest of the two the birds being at this time at tho edge of the pond by a dexterous movement succeeded in fastening his tal ons in the neck of his opponent and drag ging him Into the water. The utmost ef forts of the gray eagle failed to throw off Iits adversary. The excitement among the spectators at this time was consider able. Somebody called for a keeper, and in a few seconds ono of these officials ar rived, and rushed into the cage armed with a large stick. The smaller bird he beat on the head with all his force, and even lifted both birds out of the water with his stick. His efforts were not n Mended with success. The small bird held on with the tenacity of a bull-dog, and never relinquished his hold until he had, partly by keeping it under the water and partly by tearing it with his talons, killed the large eagle. After the battle the white headed champion stalked wit dignified steps to an adjacent perch, and spread ing out his plumage to dry, glared fierce ly, and proudly round at his fellows, who signified their approval or otherwise by the most unearthly screams. The dead eagle was carried away by the keepers. If. r. Times. A Disagreeable Visitation. A Turkish paper gives an account of a curious forced emigration which has re cently produced great excitement on clas sic ground. On tho European banks of the Hellespont stands the city of Galli poli, interesting as the first possession of the Turns in Europe in l.w; ana nearly opposite to it is Lamsaki, a villaae long renowned for the vineyards in its neigh borhood, and situated near the site of the elcbrated Lampascus of classic times. During the autumn the authorities of Gal- lpon came to tne conclusion mat mere were in that town as where are mere not,? too many ownerless dogs about; and instead of issuing denth-warraits against these vagrants, they took the ex traordinary course oi exporting mem to their opposite neighbors across the Hellespont, who were already plentifully provided with canine treasures. On the arrival of these two thousand immigrants. who were very unruly on the passage, they started, in quest of food it may bo supposed, to the mountains ; but not flud Ing anything to suit their palates, return ed to "the town. Hero the tug of war commenced. The Lnmsakian canines, on recognizing the situation, "turned out to a dog," and a frightful conflict, with terri ble bowlings and barKings, ensued ior four hours. At the end of that time the foreign foe Was worsted, and. beating a rctre.it, endcavofed to allay the pangs of hunger by eating the grapes, and tnus doing really serious damage. The people then had to turn out: two hundred dogs were killed, and tho rest retreated, but of course only to return. The Djeridei Havadis concludes the account by mildly saving that the Latnsakians nre much dis gusted by the eccentric conduct of the Ualiipoii magistrates, wnoougnioi course to have sent their canino emigrants to a desert Island. A Title. " Mister" (Mr.l was a prefix so digni fled in tho old colonial davs that none but freemen," 1. e., voters, (who were al ways member ol the church) were per mittcd to wear It. It has become very common now, but its real dignity and its meaning (master) should not be wholly torgotten. A correspondent of the School Journal tells what he once heard an old armv officer say about it t It was at th close of the Mexican war, when mo t of the officers were receiving brevet titles. We happened to be present, and were tolerated by them as a mere bojr, when a discussion arose among them as to titles, our favorite and mentor. whoso words were then our oracles, ami U'bt tlarl van A n Ktnrnt ftw (rollunr nnrl meritorious services, said, "Ihe true ti tle of an American irchtlcmnn is Mister It Is, when worthily worn, above any that cin be conferred by prince or potentate or won by military or civic services : and while 1 snail deserve the respect of men so far as to merit tht title, equidistant from disgusting familiarity and servile flattery, I am content." From that time we have set a high value upon our only American title ot nobility that simple out expressive tittle word, jnisten Egotistic Talkers. Almost every circle is blessed with the egotist, who exercises a kiihi oi dictator shin over it. Arevouiu mistake as to i matter of fact ? He cannot suffer you to proceed until you are corrected. Have you a word on the end of your tongue ? He at once comes to your relief, do you talk bad grammar ? He quotes rules and gives examples like a pedagogue. Does he discover that there is a link wanting in the chain of your argument? He bids vou stav till he has supplied it. Do vou drop a word to whieh lie lias devoted much research? He aska you whether vou know its primitive signification, and straightway inflicts upon the circle along philological dUauUitlon. "When you re- late an Incident which you suppose new and Hffecting, your friend listens without emotion. When you have done he ob serves that he has heard the same long ago, and adds a very material circum stance which you omitted. He is never taken by surprise, and It is impossible to give him any information. And yet ho never takes the lead in conversation, nor advances an original thought. It is his business to come after, and pick up the words which others let slip in a running talk, or to check their impetuosity, that ho may point out to them their missteps. Had ho lived in the days of Solomon, he would have flattered the royal sage with an intimation that some ot his proverbs were but plagiarisms; or, had ho been a contemporary of Solomon's father, would have felt himself bound to give the slayer of Goliali someJcssons on tho uso of the sBng. and hinted to the sweet singer of Israel his private opinion that the shep herd bard did not perfectly understand the use of the harp. Exchange. The Execution of Foster. O the 21st of March William Foster expiated the crime of murder on the scaf fold. The following Is the New Y'ork Herald's account of "the circumstances at tending the execution s The Rev. Dr. Tyng, in a clear voice, then commenced to read the Episcopal service for the condemned, and the tall, spare, young minister gave the responses. As the awful sclf-aotusiug words were re cited the doomed man bowed his head still more. At the end of two minutes hi? weakness visibly increased. His limbs trembled as if with palsy, and a faint but agonized groan escaped from his lips. His left hand still nervously rubbed over his eyes, and his body began to sway to and fro more painfully still. In gazing on his agosy the words of the service became an iutolerab'c monotone. The strong frame of the man, bro' en with unutterable de spair, as it swayed like a reed in the wind and trembled in every nerve, excluded all things else from the mind that could appreciate the unspeakable misery rolled into these fast-ebbing moments of his life. For five minutes the reading continued, and Foster's weakness hud so increased that Sheriff Brennan whispered sharply to Dr. Tyng, " Its t03 long." The reverend gentleman indeed brought the service to a sudden termination, and, turning quick ly to Foster, grasped his right hand and hurried nway, overcome with emotion, followed by his assistants. He who has stood by a gallows tree can alone tell the nature of the moment that follows when, the clergymen gone, the imminence of death seizes ono with en thralling awe. The seconds to the on looker seem whole minutes ; but o the condemned, wlmtarc they? Sheriff Bren nan went through the hand-grasping for mality, mi was uonu as cxneoiuoiiiy us possible to shorten the misery that is. to shorten tho life, for life then was a mis- y almost too deep to bear. The black cap was pulled over the face. A tremor ran through the miserable creature's tot tering clay. The executioner, a nimble lingered, dark-eyed, stout-built, mod um- sized young man, stepped forward in stantly nnd linked the noose to the rope that dangled from the beam. A glance showed that it still hung slack. One sec ond's pause in perfect silence, a handker- cuici waved, tne snarp sound oi a tailing nxe. anil at eighteen minutes past nine Foster's body fairly leaped Into the air. he legs were jerked up to the body con- ulsively, and opening wide as they re- axed, the heels came together with a sharp click. The left hand was also thrown up- ai d, but fell immediately by his side. In the first half minute following there ere five distinct nervous writhing mo tions of the trunk. After these there was no sign of struggle. The cervical vcrtebrtd were evidently dislocated by the shock. After hanging five minutes the body was lowered that the doctors might examine for signs of life. At twenty- even minutes past nine a faint trill was felt in the pulse. At thirty minutes past iuc pulsation ceased at the wrist. -At thirty-three minutes past nine the heart had ceased beating, and luscicchad exact- l the run penalty tor tne murder oi Ave ry D. Putnam. Such were the physicians' reports as they stood taking turns In list ening at the breast of the thing of clay. But the crowd were wild with excitement. After the first shock tho line of police moved closer to tne scai!oia,anu tne tnrong behind prcsed close upon them. Necks ere. craned to eaten a glimpse oi tne ght of shame. A Corsienn Custom. TnK strange accident of Albertacce brought to general notice an obscure Corsican custom which singularly con' rasts with the ordinary funeral ccremo nies of Christendom. The vocero, n thii rite is sttledi Is palpably an inheritance from the classical conquerors of the I land, now preserved only itt some of the interior villages, when tne nead oi a family dies, the body, after being robed in us Handsomest garments, is laid in state on a table in tne largest room, sur rounded with lights. Then live or six hours before the burial, ail the women oi thev lago and the district, clothed in black and with bare heads, assemble around the corpse, the mother and sisters of the dead at the feet, the nearest rela tions next, and soon, w lien this assem blage is formed the most renowned poet esses or singers of their number, with hair disheveled and bleeding laces, and a white handkerchief waving in tho hand, chant in a verse the history, virtues and destiny ot the dead. The mourniui ca dence, the profuse weeping and the dra matic arestures ol the ceremony are striK- incr. The chief mourner amid her wild ings sometimes raises the head or arm ot the corpse, anu piucKS out ner own muror freshly tears at her face till the blool nours asrain from the wounded skin, while the nalt-stiueu sooDingoi win wnoio comoanv adds to tho effect. When at enj'tn tne priest arrives, an w iiusueu, but tho women follow the corpse in pro cession to the church, where the ceremony sometimes lasts several hours. &uen, at least, is the account of the vocero given . i. . e . iTV o: I . dv a corrcBuouuuiit ui mo ai-i o.ootc, who visited the scene of tho Albertacce accident, where a roomful of celebrants were suddenly precipitated into a cellar bv the giving way of the floor. The mer mention of the accident came by tel egr. ph, but it appears that twenty dead and fourteen mangled women were taken from tho wreck of the house where tliey had been singing their mournful vocero. Lippvuoit jor April. The law's delavs in India have given ri- ton ne w method of Influencing justice. An estate was in litigation recently be tween members of a lamiiy belonging to one of tho hill tribes, and, the decision wntr iriven in the hichest Indian court. an appeal was made by the unsuccessful nartv to the Privv Council. The success ful litigants, finding their means exhaust ed a! id themselves unable to employ coun sel. reverted in tills dilemma to the faith of their ancestors, caught an old idiot who was wandering about, carried him to the top of a hill, and there sacrificed him to Dropitiate the gods who rule the decisions of the Priyy Council. NUMBER 6. The t'nrrler-PIgcon. Thk speed of the carrier-pigeon has been generally overrated. Careful experiments have shown that thirty miles an hour is the average, nlthough, in a few well authenticated Instances, thrice that speed has been attained. In 1808 nn English gentleman laid a largo wager that his pig eon could fly tliirty-fte miles an hour. To , decide the question, three of his trained birds were taken exactly that distance from his residence, and let loose in the presence of witnesses. They arrived home together in just fifty-three minutes, or seven minutes ahead of time. In 183S, during the great annual trial of carrier pigeons at Ghent, twenty-four birds were let fly at Houen, one hundred nnd fifty miles distant, at five minutes before ten in tho morning. Thero flight was care fully timed. One of them readied Ghent in ono hour and thirty minutes, having traversed tho distance at the mnrvelous rate of more thau ninety miles nil hour. Sixteen made the journey in two hours and a half. Several were never heard from. In the East wonderful stories are told of their speed and endurance. Tho traveler Lithgow tells us that one will carry a letter from Babylon to Aleppo in forty-eight hmirs, the place being thirty days' journey apart by the slow modes of travel used in the East. But the stories of early travelers arc to be taken with many grains of allowance. Although for a short distance, or in exceptional coses, the carrier-pigeon may attain a much greater speed, thirty miles an hur is probably Its average. It could not sustain a long flight with greater velocity. Even this speed cannot bo maintained without rest, for the carrier-pigeon lias not the endurance which belongs to many bird of passage. It always descends at night for shelter and repose, and hence it can rarely fly across a wide expanse of water. To this was partly owing the fail ure of the attempt to use them for convey ing intelligence from the arctic explorers, and partly to another cause. Sonic writers, chiefly poets and romancers, would have us believe that the carrier-pigeon finds his home from remote places by a kind of in stinct: but this is not the ease. Its flight is guided by sight alone. When let loose from conflnement it rises to a great height in the air by a scries of constantly en larging circles, until it catches sight of some familiar landscape by which to direct its course. If flown on a foggy day it soon becomes bewildered, and either returns to the place of. flight or is lost. Let loose from a balloon on a clear day, and too far above the ground for objects thereon to bo discerned even by its piercing vision, in stead of risibg, it drops perpendicularly, like a plummet, until it nears the earth, when it begins to wheel round in a descend ing spiral, constantly increasing in diam eter, evidently for the purpose above men tioned, of ascertaining its locality and dis covering some indie itions for the direction of i'8 course. Harper's far April. Advance of the Human Ilace. Prof. Henry, who writes on the impor tance of the cultivation of science, snys in the Popular Science Monthly : " Whatever opinion may be adopted as to the origin of man, it cannot be denied that we have descended from a race of nn- cestors but little elevated above the brute from naked savages, the denizens of eaves. feeding upon wild fruits, devouring shell fish, or struggling for mere existence ith the large quadrupeds ol the tunes. gradually emerging from this state by the ventiou oi weapons ot tunc ana none. through long geological periods, into a pastoral condition ; thence, again. Into a gher state ot mental development. which culminated in the civilization of Greece and Home, in which the true in sentiment and the beautiful in art wen; developed in an astonishing degree. This progress wns mainly due to tne migratory naracter oi tne races wnieu eoiui iouieu to tho condition we have mentioned. Tribes which remain entirely isolated may utilize the suggestions niiil facilities of life which are afforded them by their lo calities, and when these are exhausted be come permanently stationary, but tribes impelled by want of subsistence, or the de sire of conquest to migrate to other locali ties, as is stated to have been the ease with tne Aryan race in ineir iiiiriuio-i iroiii the East to tho West, gather up the sepa rate civilization as they advance, and hence, by accretion or intercourse with others, rise to a higher plane. But this mode ol advance la limited, ana couia make no further progress than that ex hibited in the brilliant though unsyminet rical civilization of Greece and Itome. his civilization, though It challenges our admiration and marks an important era in the history of the human race, was de ficient in two of the essential elements of further progress, namely first, in tho prevailing influence of the higher and holier morality of Christianity; and, secondly, in that scientific knowledge of the laws oi nature wmcn enauies man io control its operations and to employ Its energies to effect his purpose in ameliora ting the condition et the earth. y ltnout these elements of progress the Itomans could not advance beyond a limited de- gree, and finally fell a prey to their bar arian conquerors. What to Do In Case of Accident. Professor Wilper, of Cornell Uni- ersity, gives these short rules for action In cases of accident : For dust in the eyes, avoid rubbing, dash water into them; remove cinders, etc., with the round point ot a lead pen cil. Kemove insects from the ear by tepid water : never put a hard instrument into the car. If an artery is cut, compress above the wound ; if a vein is cut, compress below. If choked, get upon all fours and cough. For light burns, dip the part in cold water : il the skin Is destroyed, cover with varnish. Smother a flrc with carpets, etc. ; water will often spread burning oil, and increase danger. Uelore passing tnrougn smone, take a full breath and then stoop low, but if carbon is suspected, walk erect. Suck poison wounds, unless your moutu is sore. Enlarge the wound, or, better, cut out the part without delay. Hold the wounded part as long as can be borne to a hot coal, or end of a cigar. In case or poisoning, excite vomiung by tickling the thront, or by warm water and mustard. For acid poisons give acids ; white of egg 18 good in most cases ; in case of opium poisoning, give strong cof fee and keep moving. Jr in the water, iioat on mo duck, wun the nose and mouth projecting. For anonlexv. raise the r cad anu body ; for fainting, lay tho person flat. Thk Intellect has only one failing, which, to bo sure, is a very considerable one ; it has no conscience. Napoleon is the readiest instance of this. If his heart had borne any proportion to his brain, he had been one of the greatest men in all history. Thin party (to street urchin) : "Boy, what do you suppose that dog is following me for?'" The youngster cast a knowing look at him, aud readily replies : "Guess he takes you for t bone !"