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HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher.
NIL DESPERANDUM.
Two Dollars per Annum.
VOL. TIT.
1UDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1873.
NO. 19.
Waiting for Yon, Joik.
Wintor's agoing ;
The streams are a-AWing ;
The May-flowers Mowing
Will soon be in view.
But all thingH seem faded,
For my heart it is jaded,
, Waiting for you. Jock,
Waiting for you :
Oil. but it's weary work,
Waiting for you 1
Ah soon as the day's done,
' My thoughts to the West run ;
( ' I envy the red sun,
That sinks from my view.
On yon it's a-shining,
While here I am pining,
Waiting for yon, Jock,
Waiting foi you ;
Oh, but it's weary work,
Waiting for you !
I Bigh when the day beams j
The pitiful night seems
To cheer mo with sweet dreams,
That bear me to you.
Each morn as yon flee me,
The fading stars see mo,
Waiting for yon, Jock,
Waiting for yon ;
Oh, but it's weary work,
Waiting for you !
Go, robin, fly to him ;
Sing ever nigh to him ;
Summer winds sigh to him ;
Bid him be true !
Where lie sleeps on the prarrioH.
Oh, whisper, kind fairies,
" Waiting for you, Jock,
Waiting for you!
; Oh, but it's weary work,
Waiting for you !"
A HEAVY ItlRDEX.
Robert Hodgkins hatl lived in the
village, next door to Samuel Hullins. nt
leant a dozen years, and no doubt the
two neighbors would have been on good
terms together ; but, unluckily for the
pence of Robert Ilodgkins, Samuel Hul
lins had n pension on account of a bad
wound which he had received when
fighting as a seaman under Adaiirul
Jselson at the battle of Trafalgar.
, Uvery week when Ilodgkins went to pay
Lis rent up at the tanhouse, he muttered
. and grumbled nil the wav there and
back, because his neighbor could afford
to pay his rent so much better than him
self. An envious, discontented spirit is
one oi tne worst qualities a man can
foster in his bosom ; it makes him mis
erable at home and abroad ; it sours his
sweetest enjoyments, and plants sting
ing nettles in all his paths along the
journey of life.
For a time Ilodgkins errowled and
grumbled to himself, but afterwards his
discontent grew louder, till, at last, it
became his favorite topic to lament his
4 own ill luck, and to rail against those
whose nioney'came in whether they
would or not, and who had nothing else
to do but to sit in an easy chnir from
morning till night, while he worked his
heart out to get enough to support him
self and his family.
It was on a Monday morning that
' Hodgkins, who was sadly behind in his
rent, walked up to the tanhouse to Mr.
Starkey's, to make some excuse for not
' paying what was due.
Hodgkins entered the tanhouse, and
was soon reproved for not paying his
rent by his landlord, Mr. Staikev, who
told him that his next door nefghbor,
Samuel Hullins, regularly paid up every
farthing. "Yes, yes," replied Hodg
kins, "somo folks nre born with silver
spoons in their mouths ; Hullins is a
lucky fellow, no wonder that he can pay
his rent with such a pension as he has
got."
" Hullins has a pension, it is true,"
said Mr. Starkey, "but he carries a
pretty heavy cross for it. If you had
lost your leg, as he has done, perhaps
you would fret more than you do now,
notwithstanding you might in that case
' have a pension."
"Not I," replied Hodgkins, "if I
had been lucky enough to lose a leg
twenty years ngo, it would have been a
good day's work for me, if I could have
got as much by it as Hullins has con-
trived to get. You call his a heavy
cross, but I fancy that his pension
makes it light enough to him ; the
heaviest cross that I know of is being
obliged to work like a negro to pay my
rent."
Now, Mr. Starkey was a shrewd man,
and possessed a great deal of humor,
and well knowing Hodgkins' disposi
tion to repine, he felt disposed to con
vince him, if possible, that the lightest
cross soon became heavy to a discon
tented spirit.
"I tell you what, Hodgkins," said
he, " I am afraid that yoH are hardly
disposed to make the best of things;
however, as you think that your neigh
bor Hullins cross is so very light, if
f'ou will undertake to carry one much
ighter, you shall lire rent free as long
as you abide by the bargain."
" But what sort of a cross is it thnt
you mean to put upon mv shoulders!"
inquired Hodgkins, fearing that it
might be something to which he could
not agree.
" Why," replied Mr. Stkey, fetch
ing a large lump of chalk and making a
broad cross on Hodgkins' back, " that
is the cross, and so long as you like to
wear it, I will not ask you for a farthing
of your rent."
Hodgkins at firSt thought that his
landlord was only joking, but being as
sured that he was quite serious, he told
Mr. Starkey that he must look for no
more rent from hirn, for that he wns
willing to wear uch a ro as that all
the day of kin life.
Away went Hodgkins, chuckling with
in himself at his good luck, and think
ing what a fool of a landlord he had got
to let him off so easily from paying his
rent. Never was he in a better humor
than when he entered his cottage.
Hodgkins having seated himself with
his back to the cupboard, his wife had
not seen the cross on his coat ; but no
sooner did he turn round to pull up the
weights of the cuckoo clock, thau she
cried out with a shrill voice: "Why,
Hodgkins, where have you been?
There is a cross on your back a foot
long ; you have been to the public, and
some of your drunken companions have
played you this trick, to make you lock
like regular rimpleton ; come, stand
still, and let mo rub it off, or every lad
in the village will bo laughing nt yon."
" Let it alone," said Hodgkins, turning
quickly round ; " I won't have it rubbed
off. Go on mending your stockings,
and let my cont alone. "But I won't
let it alone," replied his wife j " do you
think my husband shall play the fool in
that manner ? No, that he shan't J I'll
have every bit of it off before you stir
out of the'honsQ."
Hodgkins knew very well that his
wife was not easily turned when she
had once set her mind upon a thing, so,
striding across the cottage, he hastily
made his esonpc, banging the door after
him with all his might. " An ill-tempered
vixen 1" muttered he to himself ;
"I would have told her of my good
luekliad she been quiet, but now she
shall know nothing about it."
" Halloo, Robert 1" cried old Fal
lows, the bricklayer, as Hodgkins
turned round the corner ; " who has
been playing you that trick 1 Why,
your back is scored nil acrcms. Come
here, nnd I will give you a dusting."
"Mind your own back, and let mine
alone," said Hodgkins.
" Mr. Hodgkins," cried little Tatty
Stevens, the huckster's daughter, run
ning after him, "if you plense, there
has somebody been making a long score
all down your coat ; mother will rub it
off for you if you will come back."
" You nnd your mother had better mind
your red herrings and treacle," replied
Hodgkins, sharply, leaving the little
girl wondering why he did not stop to
have his coat brushed.
No one else not iced the cross on Hodg
kins' back till ho got 'near the black
smith's shop, where the butcher and the
blacksmith were talking, the butcher
cutting a piece of elder, to mnke skew
ers, and the blacksmith with his arms
across, leaning on the half door of his
shop. "You are just the very man I
wanted to see," said the butcher, stop
ping Hodgkins ; but before he had
spoken a dozen words to him, old Peg
gy Turton came up, in her red cloak
and check apron. " Dear me !" cried
old Peggy, gathering up her npron in
her hand, " why, Mr. Hodgkins, your
back is quite a fright f but stand still a
moment, and I'll soon have it off."
When Hodgkins turned around to tell
old Peggy to be quiet, the blacksmith
roared out to the butcher to " twig
Ilodgkins back." "He looks like a
walking finger-post," cried the butcher.
"Ay, ay," snid the blacksmith; "I
warrant ye his wife has done that for
him, for spending his wages at the Malt
Shovel." There was no other method
of escaping the check apron of Peggy
Turton, nnd the laughing nnd jeering of
the butcher nnd blacksmith, than that
of getting off the ground ns soon as pos
sible ; so, calling poor Teggy a med
dling old hussy, and the other two a
braco of grinning fellows, he turned the
first corner ho came to, feeling the cross
on his back a great deal heavier than he
had expected to find it.
Poor Ilodgkins seemed to meet with
nothing but ill luck, for just before he
got to the school all the scholars ran
boisterously into the road, full of frolic
and fun, waving their enps, nnd follow
ing Hodgkins, shouted as loudly as
they could brawl, "Look at his back!
look at his back!" Hodgkins was in a
fury, nnd would 'perhaps have done
somo mischief to his young tormentors
had it not been for the sudden appear
ance of Mr. Johnson, the schoolmaster,
who at that moment came out of the
school-room. The boys gave over their
hallooing, for Ilodgkins directly told
Mi'. Johnson that they were "an impu
dent set of young jackanapes, and ever
lastingly in mischief."
Mr. Johnson, who had heard the up
roar among the boys, and cnught a
glimpse of Hodgkins' back, replied,
mildly, that he would never encourage
anything like impudence in his schol
ars, but that perhaps Hodgkins was not
aware of the cause of their mirth ; he
assured him thnt he hnd so large a chalk
mark on his back, that it was enough
to provoke the merriment of older peo
ple thlm his boys, and advised him by
all means, if he wished to avoid of be
ing laughed nt, to get rid of it as soon
ns possible. Hodgkins said peevishly
that his back was "nothing to nobody,"
and muttering to himself, walked on,
feeling liis cross to be heavier than ever.
The reflections which passed through
Hodgkins' mind were not of the most
agreeable description. It was, to be
sure, a rare thing to live rent free ; but
if every man, woman, and child in the
village were to be everlastingly torment
ing him, there would be no peace from
morning to night. .Then ngain, even if
his neighbors got used to the cross on
his back, and said nothing about it, he
knew that his wife would never let him
rest. On the whole, the more ho con
sidered about it, the more was he dis
posed to think that the bargain was not
quite so good a one as he at first had
taken it to be.
As Hodgkins went on towards the
Malt Shovel, he saw, at a distance, his
landlord, Mr. Starkey, and directly
after, to his great consternation, his
neighbor, Samuel Hullins, came stump
ing along, with his wooden leg, in com
pany with Harry Stokes the carpenter.
Now Harry Stokes was quite the village
wit; and Hodgkins dreaded nothing
more than to be laughed at bv him. in
the presence of Samuel Hullins. His
hrst thought was to pull off his coat,
but then, what would Mr. Starkey say
to that ? Not knowing what else to do,
he took refuge iu the Malt Shovel, but
soon found the house too hot to hold
him, for when those who were drinking
there began to laugh at the cross on his
back, both the landlord and landlady
declared that no customer of theirs
should be made a laughing-stock in
their house, while they had the power
to hinder it. The landlord cot the
clotheB-brush, and the landlady a wet
sponge, and Ilodgkins was obliged to
make a hasty retreat, to secure his coat
from the sponge and the clothes-brush
of his persevering friends.
When Hodgkins left horn, he in
tended to go to a neighboring village
about some work which he had to do,
but his temper had been so ruffled by
old Fallows, Patty Stevens, the black
smith, the butcher, and Peggy Turton,
as well as by Mr. Johnson and his
scholars, the company at the Malt
Shovel, and the landlord and landlady,
that he determined to get home as soon
as h could, thinking it better to be
railed at by his wife, than to bo laughed
at by the whole village.
If you have ever seen, on tho first of
September, a poor wounded partridge,
the last of the covey, flying about from
place to place, whilo every sportsman
lie came nenr had a shot at liim, you
may form some notion of the situation
of poor Hodgkins ns he went back to
his cottage ; sometimes walking fast
that he might not be overtaken, some
times moving slowly that he might not
overtake others. Now in the lane, then
iu the field ; skulking along as though
he had been robbing a henroost, and
was afraid to show his face. The cross
by this time had beeome almost in
tolerable. No sooner did he enter his cottage
door, than his wife began :
" And so you are come back again,
are you, to play the tomfool ? Here
have been half a dozen of your neigh
bors calling to knowif you nre notgone
out of your mind. If ever there wns a
madman, you nre one ; but I'll put that
coat in a pail of water, or behind the
fire, before I will have suh antics
played by a husband of mine ; come,
pull off your coat ! I sny, pull off your
coat !"
Had Hodgkin's wife soothed him, he
might have been more reasonable, but
as it was, her words were like gunpowder
thrown into the fire. A violent quarrel
took place, words were followed by
blows, and dashing, smashing, anil
crashing resounded in the dwelling of
Robert Ilodgkins.
The fiercer a fire burns, the sooner
will it consume the fuel which supports
it ; and passionate people, in like man
ner, exhaust their strength bv the vio-.
lence of their anger. When ilodgkins
found that there was no prospect of
peace, night or day, at home or abroad,
either with wife or amongst neighbors
and villagers, so long as he continued
to wear his cross, he of his own accord
rubbed it from his back.
The next Monday Hodgkins went up
to the tan-house betimes, with a week's
rent in his hand.
"Ah, Robert," said Mr. Staikey,
shaking hishend, "I thought you would
soon repent of your bargain. It is a
good thing to encourage a contented
disposition, and not to envy others, nor
unnecessarily to repine at the troubles
which God has been pleased to lay upon
us. Let this little affair be a lesson to
us both, for depend upon it, we never
commit a greater mistake than when we
imagine the trials of others to be light,
and our own crosses to be heavier than
those of our neighbors.
" Godliness with contentment is great gain."
Cotton and Sugar Culture in Egypt.
A gentleman in Boston has recently
received a letter from a friend iu Egypt,
who makes some interesting statements
concerning the growing material pros
perity of that country. The dpvelop.
inent of the cotton trade has been very
rapid, and the year just closed has been
one of the most successful in the pro
duction of that staple known to the
Egyptian planters. The whole crop of
the' year is estimated at two hundred
million pounds, which at Liverpool
brings prices ranging from 10 pence per
pound for common to thirty-five pence
for the best Sea Island, there being
Ashmoor and Galini as intermediate
grades. The traffic in cotton has been
taken out of the hands of speculators,
and committed to commission houses.
The writer touches upon the enterprise
of the railway that is to unite Soudan,
Abyssinia, nnd Middle Africa with
Alexandria, Cairo, and tho Red Sea, and
indicates the great development of
country which is expected to result from
it. The Viceroy has recently largely
increased his sugar interests in Upper
Egypt, and while he hitherto planted
ouly 23,000 fedars, or acrefc, of laud
with sugar cane, he now has 150,000
under cultivation, each fedar yielding
under good management one hundred
cantars of gray sugar and twenty-five
cantars of molasses, a cantar being 98
pounds. It is no wonder that the Vice
roy is the wealthiest monarch in the
world, when all his revenues, of which
this is but a small part, are so immense,
but the gentleman who writes of him
says that there can be no doubt " that
the actual Government of Egypt is the
best she has had for many centuries
past, nnd that nothing is neglected to
develop her resources."
Resurgam.
A strange case of resuscitation lately
took place at the hospital of the Val de
Grace, at Paris. A man had hanged
himself in a garret in the Rue St.
Jacques, and having been cut down and
examined by the medical men, was pro
nounced dead. The clinical lecturer,
however, desired to try one last experi
ment, and he opened the chest and at
tempted artificial respiration, but with
out success. He then applied the pole
of an electrical battery to the pneumo
gastric nerves, and passed a strong cur
rent at intervals of four seconds. Soon
after some signs of respiration appear
ed, and in five minutes the cardiao pul
sation was perceptible. The epiglottis
was tumefied, and the tongue had to be
drawn out with pincers to leave a pas
sage for the air. A few ounces of blood
were-obtained from the medico-cephalic
vein, the dilated pupils contracted, the
signs of life became more and more
manifest, a few drops of alcohol were
given, muscular contractions became
visible without electricity, warmth re
turned to the feet, the pulsation in the
carotid arteries recommenced, and the
patient waB saved.
His View of the Matter. "I give
and bequeath to Mary, my wife, the
sum of one hundred pounds a year,"
said an old farmer. "Is that written
down, master ?" "Yes," said the law
yer, "but she is not so old but she may
marry again. Won't you make any
change in that case ? Most people do. "
"Ay! do they T Well, write; again and
say: 'If my wife marry again I bequeath
to her the sum of two hundred pounds.'
That'll do, won't it, master ?" "Why,
that is just doubling the sum she would
have received if she remained unmarri
ed," said the lawyer. "It generally is
the other way the legacy is diminish
ed if the widow marries afterward."
"Ay! but he who takes her will deserve
it
Artificial fruits are much used for hat
trimmings this season.
runisliment In Delaware.
The Whipping Pout, Ihe Pillorr and the
(lollow.
A correspondent who visited George
town, Delawnre, writes as follows:
About the centre of the town, which
numbers between eight hundred and
nine hundred inhabitants, stands a re
spectable Court House, fronting nirth
directly to the southeast stands a 'common-looking
pump, as I supposed, but
upon more careful examination it proved
to be the far-famed whipping post, for
which Delaware is so widely reputed.
The post in question is an old one, nnd
has done good service in its day ; it is
about seven feet high. The prisoner is
made to hug the post, and his hands are
handcuffed to it by means of iron pieces,
which firmly hold the arm against the
post. A hole in the post allows a place
for the pillory, in which, under the law,
tho prisoner has generally to stand be
fore being flogged, supporting on his
neck nud arms a weight of about fifteen
pounds. There are but few persons
whose constitution can stand this pun
ishment one hour nnd. live. Still the
people of the town claim these rites of
barbarism nre the only remedy they
have against filling their jails with a set
of worthless rascals who would prefer
to let the county support them than to
work themselves. Directly iu the renr
of the Court House, about one hundred
yards, stands the jail, a substantial look
ing two-story building, the yard of
which is about thirty by forty feet, and
is enclosed on three sides with a brick
wall sixteen feet high and on the third
by the jail building. Within this yard
is the gallows erected for the execution
of Green, alias Burton. This structure
is also worthy of our forefathers, and
would have probnbly nnswered excel
lently fifty yenrs ngo ns a swift means
of transit iuto the next world. It is,
however, somewhat behind (or ahead ?)
the inventions of the present age. It is
made of two unbarked oak saplings,
sixteen feet high and sixiuches in diam
eter. These nre erected about eight feet
apart, and across the top is placed and
bolted firmly with wooden bolts an oak
log, hewn about six inches square. In
the centre of this a large iron hook is
placed, to which the rope was tied.
Pieces of timber are nailed from the
uprights to the jail walls, about two feet
distant, about eight feet from the
ground. Upon these cross-pieces nre
plnced three sixteen feet pine planks,
thus forming a platform. In front of
this and directly in the centre of the
gallows is the trap, which is about two
by three feet. Two large hinges attach
it to one of the planks forming the
platform, and it was supported by three
pieces of timber about one and a half
inches thick, extending from the
ground. -To the centre piece was at
tached a rope. At the conclusion of the
services and after the cap had been
drawn over the face, the two outside
posts were removed, and at a given
signal the remaining one was suddenly
pulled out and Burton was launched into
eternity.
Political Intrigues in France.
Things in France remain stupidly
dull on the surface, probably because
all parties are working in secret to cir
cumvent nnd outwit ench other. One
of the fine schemes of the Conservatives
is to get up aplcbinciteto decide wheth
er the government shall be Monarchical
or Republican. They imagine that, if
all the Imperialists and Monarchists
and anti-Thiers men will unite in voting
for the Monarchy, they will find them
selves in a large majority, and can set
tle the little matter of whether the na
tion shall have a boy Emperor or a King
among themselves afterward to their
entire satisfaction. But already the
various factions have begun to count
the chickens before the eggs nre fairly
laid, and the people who might vote for
a Monarchy with one man at the head
of it decidedly object to going for a
Monarchy in t he abstract, without know
ing whether they are to have the old
clothes of Louis Napoleon, or a royal
commonplace in the person of Cham
bord. " Show us the man," they ex
claim, very naturally. They don't pro
pose to play blind-man's buff any more
when a throne is the stake. Meanwhile,
M. Thiers has shaken hands with M:
Gambetta, and henceforth the Republi
cans will be one. This is a decided
gain ; and so long as the fire of public
danger keeps the Republicans pressed
together in a common interest. idea, and
policy, meir cause is sale.
The Trlson Ship Martrrs.
Since 1808 the bones of American
soldiers and sailors who died on board
the British prison ships have been lying
in a vault on Jackson street, Brooklyn,
near the Navy Yard, where they had
been deposited with due ceremony by
the residents and the Tammany Society,
or Columbian )rder. As the city grew
the walls of the vault were encroached
upon, and several futile attempts were
made to procure funds and a site for a
more suitable monument to the memory
of the martyrs. The present Park
Commissioners have erected a mauso
leum for the remains on the green slope
of Washington Park, or Fort Greene,
facing Myrtle avenue, and just above
tne paraue grounu. ihe structure was
erected at a cost of $0,500. The body is
of Portland granite, embelished with
pillars and fretwork of polished Aber
deen stone. It is 10 feet high, 30 feet
long, ana lo teet wide. The style is
partly Egyptian, ana the general ap
pearance is graceful and appropriate,
Two wagons and ten laborers conveyed
the thirteen coffins from the vault to
the mausoleum. Upon each coffin is a
plate bearing an inscription. Upon the
tomb the following inscription will be
out : " Sacred to the Memory of our
Sailors, Soldiers, aud Citizeus, who
Suffered and Died on board British
Prison Ships in the Wallabout during
the American revolution. ' A tall Shalt
will probably crown the tomb in
short time.
There are cases in which a man would
be ashamed not to have been imposed
upon. There is a confidence necessary
to human intercourse, and without
which men are often more injured by
their own suspicions than they could be
uy tne pernuy oi ouiers.
Onr Home Department.
What n Western Editor n)i of I lie Local
Depart incut of a Newspaper.
The local news is the most important
feature of a newspaper, says Colonel
Calkins in his address before the Wis
consin Editorinl Convention, for the
vnst majority of readers. It is like so
cial gossip, nnd it hns a pungency and
attraction; if well told, which a record
of the. most important remote events
does not possess. If the reader knows
personally all about the facts which are
described, so much the better ; for the
account of a dog fight which he, him
self, beheld, or the report of a meeting
which he attended, or in which he par
ticipated, will be perused by him with
greater inerest thnn he would feel in
the most thrilling description by an eye
witness of the capture of a Modoc chief
tain. A man will read with absorbing
interest every line in a description of a
fire at which he was present, and the
minutest details of which he already
knows ; and if he can find an audience
to listen, he will read it again to them
aloud. If he took part in subduingthe
fare, the account will possess a double
charm and ravishment, and his eye will
kindle, and his cheek will glow as he
fights anew in print the battle with the
flames. To see in print what the eyes
saw occur yields an indescribable pleas
ure to the human mind. As we live
again in our children, we live over again
the eventful moments which the news
paper reproduces before us. .Whatever
men stop in the street to talk about, or
women meet nt the tea table to discuss,
is of sufficient importance for the local
columns of the newspaper. I have seen
a local editor, (who did not understand
his business), enter breathlessly the
office in which he was employee, and
describe orally, with animated elo:
quence, an event which he had seen, or
which rumor had conveyed to him, and
which he would never think of writing
up for the paper, until told to do so.
We hnve also, all of us, known men who
would have been invaluable journalists
if they had possessed tho faculty of
writing out their observations for the
printer ; for they find out what every
body else wants to know all about, and
they will tell the news of the town by
the hour to curb-stone listeners ; but
they fail to comprehend the duty, or the
utility, of puttingwhatthey know where
it will do most good. The talk of the
streets, the counting-room, the shops
and social circles is tho best material
for the local editor. The ablest editorial
article on the events of peace and war
will pass unread, or without comment,
whilo a paragraph about triplets born
in the humblest neighboring family will
be in everybody's mouth. Every man
takes a greater interest in the absence
of his friend or acquaintance from home
than he would in the absenco of the
Qneen of Great Britain from her do
minions, A bank in New York may be
come insolvent and ruin thousands, but
we will barely mention it, while, if a
store across the street is locked up by
the sheriff, we will talk about it all day.
An army may be Blain iu battle on the
other side of the globe without exciting
one of our emotions ; but we will all get
up, and run to look, and Vie shaken by a
tempest of feeling, if a drunken roust
about is knocked down around the cor
ner. We feel an interest in the world
around us far deeper and more enduring
than that which we feel in the world at
large. Our home, domestic wonder is
the real nine days' wonder. This qual
ity in human nature gives to the local
department of the newspaper au attrac
tion, if it is well edited, which no other
department caD acquire.
Young Men and Marriage.
The Rev. Howard Crosby, D. D., in
an article discussing the obligations and
duties of young men, uses these words:
" The true girl has to be sought for.
She does not parade herself as show
goods. She is not fashionable. Gen
erally she is not rich. But, oh ! what a
heart she has when you find her so
large, nnd pure nnd womnnly ! When
you see it you wonder if those showy
things outside are really women. If
you gain her love, your two thousnnd
are a million. She'll not ask fpr a car
riage, or a first-class house. She will
wear simple dresses, and will turn them
when it is necessary, with no vulgar
marnificat to frown upon her company.
She'll keep everything neat and nice in
your sky parlor, and give you such a
welcome when you do come home that
you'll think your parlor higher than
ever. She'll entertain true friends on
a dollar, and astonish you with a new
thought of how very little happiness
depends on money ! She'll make you
love home if you don't you're a brute
aud tench you how to pity, while you
scorn, a poor fashionable society that
thinks itself rich, and vainly tries to
think itself happy.
Now don't, I pray you, say any more
"I can't afford to marry." Go find the
true woman and you can. Throw awny
that cigar, burn up that switch cane, be
sensible yourself, and Beek your wife in
a sensible way.
Tho French Indemnify to Germany.
Here is the briefest statement of the
French indemnity payment that has yet
been made public. The Journal Offi
ciel, the French Government news
paper, declares that of the three milli
ards which remained to be paid Ger
many, one was entirely discharged last
autumn. The second has been already
paid. The third and last milliard (the
fifth of the entire indemnity) will be
delivered to the German Treasury in
four equal payments on the 5th of
June, 5th of July, 5th of August and
5th of September of the present year.
In return, the Emperor of Germany
has engaged to evacuate, on the 5th of
July next, the four departments
Vosges, Ardennes, Meuse and Meurthe-et-Moselle
as well as the fortress and
arondissement of Belfort. The evac
uation is to be affected within four
weeks from that date. As a pledge for
the two last monthly payments, the
fortress of Verdun and the military
district around will alone continue to be
occupied until the fifth of September.
They shall be evacuated within two
weeks from that date.
Trimmings of galloon and lace em-
I broidered with jets, are much worn.
The Sliah nnd His People.
The Shah of Persia has arrived in
England. Extensive preparations were
made forhisroception, aud Great Britain
proposes to show Nassr-ed-Din the full
glory of her kingdom and the extent
and Bources of her prosperity. He goes
to Buckingham Palace, where ho and
his suite will be accommodated. There
will be a grand review and a march
through Londcn, which last is really
the most effective means of impressing
the bhah with the force at the command
of the Queen. No city in Europe can
turn out so large a crowd, and London
is but a fraction of England. The
Persian King will visit Manchester and
Birmingham, and there behold some
what of tho impulse which labor gives
to empire. There is deep political
significance in the visit, so far as Russia
and England are concerned and the
Government of each of these countries
is exceedingly anxious to secure the
good will of the Prince, not because he
is powerful, but because he stands
closely related to their dominions in
Asia, and because Persia is a field boou
to be opened to railways aud manufac
tured goods. The Shah has come with
a liberal purse. He has some $20,000,
000 put by for his traveling expenses.
These, however.are borne chiefly by the
Governments to which ho pays visits.
He will, doubtless, scatter largess with
a liberal hand, aud make many pur
chases. The Shah wears a robe which
is valued at 1,000,000. Ho brought
an assortment of wives with him, but
they were too much for his Persian
temper after ho reached Europe, so he
sent them all back from Moscow, to
raise a breeze in the. harem, and vilify
their absent and unreasonable lord.
The absence of these gentle dames will
be a relief to the good Victoria, who has
a keen sense of propriety. Tho Shah
is very rich ; he has absolute sway, and
he absorbs the revenues of the country
and adds them to his private fortune.
His poor subjects are crushed by poverty
and public burdens, and within the last
two years thousands of them have
perished from famine, while luxurious
rulers havo added to their hoarded
treasure and paid no heed to the want
nnd misery which devastated the King
dom. The Shah, in August, 1871, re
turning to the capital, was met at the
gates by "thousands of howling wo
men," who were.dispersed by the police.
He issued an 'order that bread should
be sold at a nominal price, but the
bread did not come. He then ordered
the Vizier of the town to bo put in
chains, tho chief baker to be'eut open,
and the other bakers to be roasted in
their ovens. Strange as it may seem.
bread by this means, was made no
cheaper, and now the Shnh is wander
ing around to see with "how little wis
dom other lauds nre governed.
How the Probabilities are Cast.
At the seventy odd stations in the
United States the observations nre
mnde six times daily with each of the
instruments named m regular succes
sion nnd at the same moment of time.
The first is mnde nt seven o'clock iu the
morning and tho last at ten o'clock nt
night, three of which nre forwnrded to
the central office at Wnshington, from
which the "probabilities " are cast at 10
a. u., and 1 a. m., constituting the morn
ing nnd evening weather reports. Ihe
headquarters here nre connected with
all the telegraph companies, and work
at stated tunes in long circuits in re
ceiving cipher messages. The cipher
system insures accuracy and brevity
one word giving the degree and fraction
of a degree of temperature instead of
being fully written out nnd is used to
make up the meteorological condition of
all the stations. These cipher mes
sages commence to come from five to
eleven p. m., nnd when finished are ta-
ken iuto a trauslating-room and read
aloud, when three clerks write them
out from memory, so familiar have they
become with the cipher, one on a rough
map and two on the main tout bulletins,
When these reports are all noted on the
map the condition of the thermometer,
the state of the barometer, the direction
of the wind, the condition of the
heavens, tc, a careful study of the
entire country is made by Lieutenant
Craig or releasors Abbee and Maury,
and the synopsis of the weather made
tor the riew England, Atlantic, aud
Middle, and the Western aud Gulf
States for the past twenty-four hours
and the probabilities indicated for the
next eight hours. These are in turn
placed on bulletin-maps and are tele
graphed broadcast to tho daily papers
by the Associated i'ress.
Execution of a Woman for the Murder
of Her Husband.
At Sarina, Canada, Mrs. Workman
was hanged in the jail-yard for the mur
der of her husband iu February last.
Great exertions were made to procure a
commutation of her sentence, but with
out avail. The unhappy woman, up to
the time of her execution, deolared that
she did not intend to kill her husband
and that his death was the result of a
drunken brawl. She could not regard
herself as guilty of murder. She as.
cended the scaffold with a firm step, and
manifested fortitude and nerve which
astonished all present. After the prep
arations were finished, she expressed a
hope that her case would be a warning
to wives who have drunken husbands,
and to husbands who have drunken
wives. Rev. Mr. Thompson then utter
ed a fervent prayer in her behalf, and
with this prayer of faith aud hope on
her lips the drop fell, and the poor wo
man was launched into eternity. She
died almost instantly.
An old gentlemen went one day with
his gun to shoot partridges, accompan
ied by his son. Before they approached
the ground where they expected to find
the game, the gun was charged with
a severe load ; aud, when at last the old
gentleman discovered one of the birds,
he took a rest and blazed away, expect
ing to see the game fall, of course, but
not so did it happen, for the gun kicked
with so much force as to knock him
over. The old man got up, and, while
mbbinc t.ViA Hrmrka out of his eves, in
quired of his son, "Alphy, did I point
th right end oi the gun at tne birds 7
Items of Interest.
Trn..t to 41, ;nvi-onn between a iailor
IT v ra .uw i . 1 1 . -
and a jeweler ? One watches cells, and
the other sells watches.
fessed to Shack
Nasty Jim that he is the real author of
"Betsey and I Are Out.
pointed to inquire iiito an extraordinary
outbreak of typhoid fever in London
traced every case to me use oi impure
water.
Tl,o Intisof.nnTnTnlAil ret.ll .T1 of til
wheat crop of California shov an esti
mated yield of over 13,000,000 centals.
The surplus for export will doubtless
be fully as large as that of last year.
n;. i71 Mia T.nlrA Chninnlain
iron mines yielded 375,000 tons of ore ;
371,474 tons wera extracted from the
Missouri iron mountain, and over one
million tons were mined in the Lake
Superior iron region.
Somebody, we suppose, must bear
the brunt and be saddled with the re
sponsibility of the great Boston fires ;
and it seems natural enough that it
should be Mr. Damrell, the Chief Engi
neer. A petition tor his removal on
the ground of incompetency, is in cir
culation. Some of our beautiful "Indian" names
aro not so romantic as they are BtippOS
orl fr ho Konrsfllrrfl Mmmtuill. ill New
Hampshire for instance, received its
name from an old farmer, named ueze
kiah or Kiah Sargeant, who used to
ilwell nt its foot. Its Indian name was
Cowissewaschook.
T hot nld linv. cried Paul Prv to ail
o-rnnTTnfnr whom llfl PKllipd nt tllG bot
tom of a yawning gulf, "what are you
digging there ?" "A big hole," the old
boy replied. Paul was not to be put
off iu this fashion. "What are you
going to do with the hole?" ho asked.
" Going to cut it up into small holes,
rejoiued the old boy, "and retail them
to farmers for gate-posts."
It is estimated that the number of
miles of railroad in operation in the
United States is 68,000; that the cost of
the same, on a liberal calculntiou of
.30,000 per mile, was $3,400,000,000;
that the gross earnings last year were
$508,711,200; and that the gross value
of the tonnage exceeded ?lo,UUO,OUU,UUU.
These means of transportation are the
growth of forty-two years, for in 1830
the hrst railroad tracK was laiu.
' Lnme !" sighed Mrs. Pnrtington.
' Here I have been sufferin' the biga
mies of death for three mortal weeks.
First I was seized with a bleedin' phre
nology in the hampshire of the brain,
which was exceeded by the stoppage of
tho left ventilator of the heart. This
gave me inflammation of the left borax,
nnd now I am sick with tho chloroform
morbus. There is no blessin like that
of health, particularly when you're ill.'
A common crime in London is to en
tice awny children, strip them of their
clothing, and then leave them naked in
the street. Twelve such cases were re
cently heard before one magistrate. In
one of them a mother who had hunted
frantically through the streets for her
child, was so fortunate as to encounter
him, at eleven o'clock at night, in the
hands of a woman who was dragging
him towards Westminster Bridge, ex
hausted and stripped of nearly all his
clothing. The persevering mother res
cued her child and arrested his ab
ductor. According to "Burleigh," the way in
which Dr. Storrs, of Brooklyn, com
menced to preach extemporaneously,
was this: Hiscongregation, though small,
was respectable and wealthy. He found
new men coming to isrookiyn ami draw
ing large congregations, nnd he said
that something must be the matter with
himself if he could not draw. He re
solved on a new departure. He laid off
his gown, left his notes on his study
table, and went at it. The experiment
more than met his expectations, and ho
is now one of the most effective preach
ers in the country.
Freemasonry has gained a somewhat
notable success in Brazil, where the
government has warmly espoused the
order in its conflict with the priests
nnd clerical party of the country. The
Premier gives assurance that the Ma
sons will be hereafter relieved of religi
ous persecution. South America, the
least enlightened quarter. oi xne civil
ized world, hns for many years been the
only place where an open contest has
been waged with the Masonio order,
aud it is probable that the clerics have
begun to see the futility of any further
warfare of that kind.
Vegetable Perfumes aud Health.
An Italian professor has made some
very agreeable medical researches, re
sulting in the discovery that vegetable
perfumes exercise a positively healthful
influence on the atmosphere, converting
its oxygen into ozone, and thus increas
ing its oxydizing influence. The es
sences found to develop the largest
quantity of ozone are those of cherry,
laurel, cloves, lavender, mint, juniper.
lemons, fennel, bergamot ; those that
give it in smaller quantity are auise,
nutmeg, and thyme. The flowers of
the narcissus, hyacinth, mignonette,
heliotrope, and lily of the valley de
velop ozone in closed vessels. Flowers
destitute of perfume do not develop it,
and those which have but slight per
fume develop it only in small quantities.
Reasoning from these facts, the pro
fessor recommends the cultivation of
flowers in marshy districts, and in places
infested with animal emanations, on
account of the powerful oxygen influence
of ozone. The inhabitants of such re
gions should surround their dwellings
with beds of the most oderiferous flow
ers. -
A Boy Mubdekeb. Vicksburg fur
nishes one of the most startling cases
of precooious crime upon record. A
boy, six years of ago, living with his
parents near that city, plainly showed
Lis jealous anger at the advent of an ra
fant in the family, and in his childish
way brooded over his fancied wrong.
Taking advantage of the absence of his
parents the other day, he killed the in
fant in its cradle by crushing its skull
with a brick and then managed to drag
the body some distance from the cabin,
where he hid it under some bashes.