HENRY Ai , PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher.
NIL DESPEHANDXJM.
Two Dollars per Annum.
VOL. -IV.
BIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 1874.
NO. 15.
ThonBrcnkIng of tlio Dam.
Bide 1 Cheney, ride I For close beside,
On a ghostly galloping steed,
Is a grizzly shade, in a shroud arrayed ;
Death ride behind thee t Speed !
Hide well, ride fast; for the die Is cast,
And the game has been won by Death j
And be cometh.uow with exulting brow, .
And a laugh iu his icy breath.
And after him two spectres grim !
My friends ! the Tale Ono saith
They are come with me j good f riondB aro we :
Destruction I, Havoc! Death!
Ride fast and well, the nens to tell !
Fly ! neighbors, for your lives!
If ye would save from a watery grave
Your little ones and wives !
Fly! Neighbors, flv! for the flood is nigh,
It has shattered its flimsy bound ;
It is coming fast as the whirlwind's blast
Hark! hark! to its dreadful sound!
So Cheney rode, but the torrent strode
VTith giant steps behind j
And its fateful roar went on before
On the wings of the morning wind.
He rode full well, but the echoes tell
Of a wail of deep despair :
For the epcctral Three, with murderous glee.
Were holding carnival thcro.
LOTED I1ER FOR HER GRACE.
Two lovers were walking slowly one
moonlight night along n solitary stretch
of beach upon the shores ol Lake
Michigan.
They were married lovers ; and those
contrasts that we instinctively call
' made for each other " were displayed
in their figures and in their young
faces, turned toward each otlier, dark
and blonde. Even their voices shared
this contract, the one firm, deep-toned,
and measured, the other capricious in
accent, and tremulously sweet.
" The only trouble is," said Elsie,
" every ono says this cannot last. It
seems that nfter a while the most ro
mantic love to be sure, no love could
be quite so romantic as ours either
fades away, or settles down into a calm
friendship, liven Aunt Marianna told
me upon my wedding-day, ' You cannot
expect the husband and the lover to be
just the same.' But I do expect it ; do
I not, dear Fred ?"
" You do expect it," answered her
husband. " And you are right ; that
change will not come to us.
" And must any change," asked Elsie,
musingly, " come to us ? I suppose it
must ; sorrow and old age, perhaps.
Very soon, no doubt, I shall have to tie
up these curls that you like so much.
She glanced ruefully at the long ring
lets from which the straw hat was
tossed carelessly back. " Fred," she
said, reproachfully, "you might not
love mo so well if I should change."
" Do you suppose I would not know
you through all change," he asked, " as
certainly as I knew you in that black
domino at the A mask 1 Love
identifies to the soul's core ; it wouldn't
be worth living for if it did not. Be
sides, darling, you have something that
time does not steal so easily as it steals
the mere charm of youth, and that fas
cinates me more deeply ; you have
grace. "
"Grace ?" repeated Elsie. She lift-
ed her eyebrows slightly, extended her
arm thoughtfully to the length of the
loosened hat-strings her dimpled hand
held, and thrust one fairy foot daintily
forward and back.
"Not for your own appreciation,"
said, Fred, gravely, "but none the less
for mine. Home one has remarked I
forget the precise language, but the
idea I recollect I you love a woman
for her beauty,' yon may love her
five years ; if you love her for intel
lectual qualities, you will love her ten
years ; but if you love her for her ways,
you will love her forever.' Now, Elsie,
those ways have nothing to do with
complexion or curls, my dear."
"And you?" said the littlo wife.
" For I am not so sure that my adora
tion for my husband is founded strictly
on his ways. Some of those ways are
darE. How would it be if you should
change ? Let me see if you should
turn bald just here," smoothing up
from Lis forehead the dark locks she
liked; or if you should lose an eye, and
could only look at me half oh, don't 1
or if you should grow stout wof ally
stout eould you blume me if romance
stopped ? Hopeless incompatibility of
square inches between affection and its
object !' for Low could I put a wing or
a bay-window on my heart ?"
" Do not . talk bo even in jest," said
Fred, really pained. "Wo may be
thankful that we have the power to look
deep."
"I do not wish to look deep," said
Elsie, willfully ; " I prefer shallows. I
never looked deep iu my life but I saw
something at the bottom of the depth
lying dead, or something unspeakably
sad,- as palo as death. But there ! we
lire talking nonsense, and it is growing
late. I feel a chill of night air from
head to foot, and we have almost quar
reled, I think. Dear Fred, let us go
home at once."
They followed tlie white curve of the
inlet toward the glimmering lights of
the town, and crossing a narrow field
path in the outskirts, entered the
rudely built and solitary cabin that
they called home.
The moonlight shone broadly into a
scantily furnished dwelling-room.under
whose outer doorway a letter had been
thrust. '' ' '
: l Friend Arnold I find, for reasons
you will appreciate, a necessity for get
ting off at once. We start to-morrow
whole family at daybreak. Expect you
to join ns next-week at F , goods
and chattels complete.
" My respects to Mrs. A. She is of
the same calibro as my wife. Such wo
men are a help. - Hurrah for succes,
and Westward Ho ! Doo."
; This letter, meagre as it was, served
to bestir the Arnolds at onoe.
More than a year had passed since
Fred Arnold's imprudent marriage, that
displeased ' not only his own friends,
but those of the pretty school-girl, pet
ted and portionless, .who became his
wife .Emigratin - to the West, and
waiting "in an ill-chosen law oflioe for
clients that never came, he had nearly
exhausted hia small patrimony. The
doctor, his companion from the East,
equally unfortunate, failed to find in
D the linked sickness long drawn
out upon which he had founded his
professional hopes. Nothing remained
for them now but a removal to a more
promising place.
Accordingly, the first bright morning
of tue following week found Elsie and
Fred perched upon a huge baggage-
wagon laden with household goods.
slowly wending their way along the
mgn-road that, girt witn narrow prai
ries and charming oak-openings.
stretches from the shores of Lake
Michigan further west.
Winter had passed, and the wild
spring winds nad swept across the prai
ries tide after tide of fantastio bloom.
In the town the gardens were at their
brightest. Along the white-fenced
streets the villa-like cottages were em
bowered in flowering vines. The air
was fragrant with the delicious breath
of roses and honeysuckles, and more
than ever fragrant at that hour of the
morning, when the owners were for the
most part fast asleep, and the flowers
themselves were heavy with dew.
At that hour a laboring man, whoso
clanking boots had sounded harshly
along the pavement in a long approncli,
paused at the door .of a lodging house
built apart from the gardened cottages,
and asked a slipshod girl who was
cleaning its door step, "Does Miss
Arnold, the school-ma'am, live here ?"
" She lives here," answered the maid,
"but ye can't see her afore breakfast,
at his hathen hour."
" But I must see her," the man said,
planting himself doggedly upon the
step ; " it's bizuess." ,
"An I'm afther tellin' ye, bizness or
no bizness But sure here's the
tacher hersilf."
" Is it for me ?" asked a sweet voice ;
and into the doorway from a room ad
joining the passage came a young crea
ture in white morning robe and golden
curls Elsie Arnold. "Have you a
message for me?" she asked.
L cum to see, miss, if ye ve heard
anything direc' from the squeer."
jno news, said tlio wile, sadly.
No. I hoped, indeed, you had some
word for me. I am expecting tidings
every hour. The last were from The
Pinery,' five weeks ago, when the rafts
were ready to go down the river. They
should have been long before this at
St. Louis."
" Wa'al." said the man. " I've cum
for my papers. I heerd accidental as
heow Squeer Arnold, up in them pine
woods, had took the measles worst sort,
au' lay at the p'int of death Ye see,
ncow, if ho should drop off, my bizness
migui lau tnreougn.
luo nasal drawl in which tins sen
tence was nttered broke at the last pro
longed syllable into something like a
whistle of dismay, for Elsie had fallen
senseless to the floor."
" Ye've killed her intirely." cried the
maid. And "What'ave you done to
Mrs. Harnold?" demanded the land
lady, who in the one instant required
to transier volition fron tlie kev-hole
to the latch appeared upon the 6cine.
" hue dropped like a stone, an I
don't know what fur," exclaimed the
man : and he considerately added, as
the women lifted the slight burden and
bore it away, "I'll leave them papers.
an' sen' Billy fur em."
It was long before Elsie recovered
from her death-like swoon, and theu
only to lie silently with closed eyes,
while people of the house watched in
turn by her bed. Two days had passed
thus, when late iu the afternoon the
doctor's wife entered, and something
in the tone of her voice aroused Elsie.
Sue looked up with a faint smile.
"Are you strong enough, ' were the
words that greeted her, " to bear good
news ?''
" If there can be good news." mur
mured Elsie, who during the long
hours of day and night that had seem
ed to her an eternity of sufferinff. had
looked at life as into an open grave.
Tne doctor s wile was cautious in be
stowing what she had brought. She
proceeded to deliver messages from the
school girls, and to strew the counter
pane of Elsie's bed with the bouquets
her little scholars had sent. By-and-by,
however, a package of letters were pro
duced, and at last a missive of more re
cent date. Fred Arnold was on his
way home. Ho had already reached a
village only tweaty miles distant ; he
might pe in F to-nigiit.
' Coming to-night ! These were the
words that lifted the prostrate Elsie, as
if some potent magic had made them a
staff of strength. " Coming to-night !"
sho repeated to herself, and refusing
all help, she glided to and fro in loving
preparation, arranged every thing in
order, decorated the room with flowers,
and put on the bine dress that was
Fred's favorite. All his letters she had
read ; many of them she had read
twice.
" Coming to-night !" she said to her
self for the huudredth time, and hardly
could believe its full truth yet, when
she became aware of an unusual com
motion in the passage leading past her
room to the front steps. There, after
tea, to enjoy the spring twilight that
lingers so longacrossthe prairie plains,
loiterers were grouped. She heard the
commotion of an arrival, voices of wel
come, his voice ! The door opened, and
she was clasped to her husband's
breast.
Minutes of perfect happiness, long as
they may last, are brief. Fred had
whispered to his wife, "We mast never
be parted again," and Elsie had said,
in her tremulous delight, " Life has
come back." And then she lifted her
head from her husband's shoulder to
take one look at his loved face. And
theu
There was never to be recalled,
never to be forgotten a start of hor
ror, a cry of pain.
Jisie crept bacK into ner nusband s
arms, cold as an icicle, shivering like a
frost-bitten leaf.
" Speak to me. dear Fred, that I may
know it is you ; speak to me. Let me
near your t'OJce. "
A sealed letter lav nrjon Elsie's toi
let-table the third day after her hus
band s return, she found it when,
drearily languid from the reaction of
an intense exoitement, she had arisen
too late to be punctual at school, too
indifferent to care for the fault. It was
as follows :
" Elsie, I shall have left F for
St. Louis before you awake and road
these lines. I shall walk to R , and,
taking the cars there, journey ranid'y.
so that by Monday I may be in my placo
at tno law oilico of .
"That I had planned differently I
need not tell you. And now one word
in justification for all tho pain I have
occasioned. I did not realize how
much I had charmed. Mv nreoccunied
thoughts kept mo from . knowing that
my eyes were still reddened beyond
recognition, and my face so rough and
snn burned as to mask me to my wife.
No friend had mercy enough to tell mo.
" Not until I saw your gaze of horror,
and felt, in spite of all your efforts to
conceal your detestation", that I was no
longer lovable in your eyes, did I be
come aware of the'hideous fact.
" I should have left the house that
night but for the fear of arousing un
happy remark. By remaining here
these three days, I think I have pre
vented the slightest suspicion of the
truth.
" I have said to people interested
that you felt in honor bound to con
tinue teaching until the end of the
term. You will know I did not intend
it to bo so. I meant to stay until a
substitute could be found, and then
take you with me.
" But now do not come to me, Elsie,
until I send for you. Do not write.
Send me every other day a blank page
by mail, tho semblance of a letter. I
will soud you the same, so that no
heartless eyes or busy tongues may
meddle with our "
Here a word was erased, but Elsie
deciphered it " misery." " Affair " had
been substituted.
"Remember, if you are tempted to
write, I shall not read a word so writ
ten, aud I make this resolve in good
faith, and for your protection as for
mine."
No-name was signed.
How would it have been possible to
Fred to write " your husband " after a
cold, hard, repellent addreRS like this ?
But for the erased word Elsie would
have torn it into fragments and scat
tered it to the winds. For tho sake of
" our misery" she kept the cruel scrawl:
kopt it through all the miserable weeks
that followed, when every semblance of
a letter, "following close and following
closer," more clearly defined those
wretched words.
The journey required twenty miles
by carriage to the railway station
at R .
" Fred has given special directions."
said Elsie, upon whose cheeks burned
in two hectic coals the fever of excite
ment, " that I should stay at R
over night, and be rested for to-mor
row s lourney. He is to meet me at
the traiu that reaches St. Louis at even
ing." So far as R she was attended by
friends, and early the next morning,
amidst a throng of affectionate adieux,
started onward alone. She saw no face
in the cur that she knew. Without, the
landscape, dulled by clouds that ere
long descended in drizzling rain, had
no interest. The old lady, with a hun
dred bundles, that came iu at the next
station and pounced upon the unen
gaged seat by Elsie's side, aud asked as
many questions as she had bundles,
succumbed to monosyllables. And
Elsie gave herself to reverie.
She began by taking a look at the
miniature which she forever wore, and
by giviuar a mental thrust at the bete
noire which a contrast-born association
of ideas had attached to this miniature
of Fred, a thrust of deadly envy at the
miracle Desdemona, who saw her
lover's " visage in his mind," she
passed to thorny if 's of her young life.
If we had never been separated, the
change would have been gradual, and
have given mo no shock I If I had only
made him know that night it was not
him, but that which was not him, that
forced me in such terror to cry out! If
I could by dying for it take back that
cry! Ah, Fate's acoustics are so hard,
no cries are ever taken back. If I
could but know whether to him, look
ing deeper than I looked, there was not
in my earthliness of vision something
which masked my soul from his love
mote effectually than the marring of his
dear face masked him from me! If I
could but gather from out the air, as
now I rush to him, one word to say
' Yon are forgiven!' If and so on, anil
so on.
Day declined ; the rain ceased ; the
setting sun sent a glistening sheen
across the meadow pools ; the cleared
atmosphere transmitted upon the in
finitesimal sparkles a sense of hopeful
ness aud peace. Elsie's reverie glided
into sleep.
Sho was awakened by what seemed to
her a piercing shriek.
Darting a glance along the car, she
saw two children, who, entering a few
stations back in gala dress, had caught
her notice ; Baw one of these, the girl,
decked iu tinsel and tarlatan, wringing
her hands with grief ; the other, the
boy, lifted in men's arms, wounded,
and bleeding at the mouth. She looked
out from the car window, and saw two
men, savagely hurt, staggering beside
a ditch, and near them a sight too
dreadful for the light. She heard the
piercing shriek that had died away re
turn, shattered into innumerable moans.
A sudden pain made her think to press
her hand against her temple ; her arm
was powerless to obey the impulse.
With the effort came a sensation of
faintness, followed by unconsciousness
complete.
At whatever time afterward she be
came conscious she found herself in a
large roem, the broad entrance hall of
a hotel, lying upon a sofa. People, a
number of prostrate people, on litters,
on cots, on floor-spread blankets, were
around. Among these prostrates
moved an anxious crowd, presently
dimmed by an overspreading distance ;
and in that distance, clear and perfect,
and oh I not strange, Fred's face bend
ing over her, Fred's voice saying, with
an intensity such as nothing gives but
the long-pent agony of love wrestling
with fate, and treading fate under foot
at last,
" My wife 1 my darling wife 1"
Two ladies in the rustling silks and
clouding lnce of visiting costurao came
down tho llowcr-vased steps of a spa
cious house upon the most famous ave
nue of the West. They entered the
carriage that awaited them, and drove
in silence many blocks.
At last, and with a sigh, tho younger
lady said, "You had hardly prepared
mo for such a wonderful interior.
" It is a wonder," said the elder, with
an accent of real enjoyment ; ' so ex
ceedingly rich iu details, yet with such
quiet unity as a whole 1 The arrange
ment of the series of drawing-rooms
opening upon a central one is some
thing new with us."
" And significant in this case," sug
gested her friend, in a tone like pity.
"Yes; and the draperies, especially
those portieres in three shades of vel
vet ; and the management of light is a
study, at evening as well as by day.
You should bo hero, my dear, at one of
their exquisite musicales. The objects
of art, too ! that one picture by Church
is enough in itself to memorize a house.
Then the marbles 1 the rare flowers 1
those great arches of Australian ferns,
how can they bo kept growing so I And
tha bronzes ! I was perfectly carried
away by that bronze of Gerome's
'Cleopatra.' Could there be a more
perfect embodiment of Shakspeare's
' Serpent of the Nile ?' a more perfect
epitome of the subtle, electric grace of
fascination ?"
"But to think," said tho young lady,
" ol a superb man like Fred Arnold
tied to a hopeless invalid a crippled
wife! How long did you say? Ten
years ?"
" Yes ; but ho adores her. I suppose
there is not a happier woman. With tho
exception, too, of that calamity, their
life has been a romanco of good for
tune. And do you know, I think she is
singularly interesting. I can under
stand how a man like Frederick Arnold,
standing all day iu the vivid arena of
his time, using that eloquent voice of
his at some strain above all the con
flictsI can understand how he may
come home at night to that enshrined
wife "
"Enshrined you may well say," ex
claimed the other. " And I am not
sure that I ought to pity him. But,
upon my word, all tho beautv lavished
in that house vanished from my eyes, it
was so utterly subordinate to that one
central couch where his wife lay. I
was just impressed with tho vague idea
that all the joys of life had been knitted
into a wreath to hang around a dying
image. Ten years ? Well, let me never
say again there is no constancy in man."
To which commentary Elsie might
have added, " And in all these ten vears
of devotion, not a word has passed my
husband's lips of that dark night when
he came home, loving, and his wife
shrank from him as from a stranger."
And Fred might have added, in the
simplicity of his loyal heart. " Strange
that a woman like my wife, of a soul so
infinitely groceful that whatever comes
near her is moulded into harmony, and
who inspires tho homage of the most
gifted minds, should be as unconscious
of her charm as a little child. I shall
never forget it was a few weeks after
we had brought her home, and while
there was still some hope of recovery
I heard her say to a physician, Can't
you possibly, dear doctor, make me
well enough to move about ? Can't you
restore to me a little of a woman's
gracefulness ? My husband loves me
for my gjace,'"
Convict Life In "ew Caledonia.
A correspondent of the Southern
Cross, who recently visited New Cale
donia, communicates some interesting
facts about the convicts. The convicts
of New Caledonia number over 8,000,
and are mostly on tlie He des Pines,
which is a short distance to the south
ward of tho mainland. Other convict
settlements are scattered all round the
coast. Owing to the late arrival of the
Communists, these numbers will be
considerably increased. The convicts
are mostly employed on the roads,
which, round Noumea, are in excalleut
condition, and on any Government work
that may be going on. They are, at
present, reclaiming a portion of the
harbor, which, when completed, will be
of great value to the towu of Noumea.
The convicts are paid a few sous a day,
part of which is retained until their
term of sentence is expired. They are
not overworked, and are allowed to
smoke in fact, if anything, I should
fancy that they have a better time of it
than the soldiers who guard them.
Some very clever carved ornaments,
made out of wood and shells, are manu
factured by the prisoners, who sell them
to the storekeepers. Numbers of these
curiosities find their way into the Syd
ney market. If a prisoner escapes a
gun i3 fired, and any one soldier or
citizen has carte blanche, if discov
ered, to shoot him dead. Several in
stances have occurred of convicts en
deavoring to escape, but they invariably
have either been shot or drowned in at
tempting to swim across to the coral
reefs, although, supposing they reached
them, they could not get away, being
surrounded by the sea. Any convict
showing signs of insubordination, the
guard have full power to 6hoot him on
the spot. I think that this is wrong,
for the guards may abuse, and it is said
have abused their power. No doubt
with a view of soothing their savage
breasts, the convicts are allowed to have
a brass band, and a very good one it is.
They perform once a week, generally on
a Saturday, in the town, to the great
delectation of the inhabitants, and when
we bid our French friends au revoir we
could hear, floating after us on the
breeze, the melodious strains of the
convict band.
Want Work,
A lawyer in New York City adver
tised the other day for a clerk, request
ing applicants to state age, acquire
ments, and qualifications. He received
in one day over one hundred replies to
his advertisement, from men of twenty
to thirty years of age, all of whom
wrote fair hands, some excellent ; all
were acquainted with the routine busi
ness of a law-office ; some were attor
neys already admitted to practice, grad
uates of colleges and universities, and
in several instances the applicants were
also accomplished stenographers. These
men asked salaries of from eight to
fifteen dollars a week.
The Stevens Battery.
Tliis famous iron war vessel, which
has been iu tho course of construction
since 1813. and which was desicmed
originally by Messrs. R. L. and E. A. 1
Stevens, and left Jiy tho will of tho lat
ter to the State of New Jersey, is to be
sold at auction on November 2. As she
is now tho vessel resembles only slight
ly the original designs of her builder,
her dimensions having been changed
by Gen. Geo. B. McClellan. Her meas
nremeuts, etc., now, are as follows :
Length, 400 feet ; beam 45 feet ; depth,
21 J feet ; boilers, 10 feet; engines, 4
feet ; maximum horse power, 6,000.
The armament in 1843 was to have
been six guns, from 18 to 64 pounds,
which was changed in 1856 to five 15
inch guns, weighing 25 tons each, and
capable of throwing a round shot of
421 pounds, and two 10-inch rifle guns.
Under her present construction' she has
facilities for carrying two 20-iuch
smooth-bore guns, throwing a solid
shot weighing 1,010 'pounds each, or
two wrought-iron 12-inch riflo guns,
throwing shot weighing 600 pounds
each and capable of penetrating 15
inches of solid iron. This essol, if
she could be completed as herspecifica
tions now call for, would be, it is said,
tlie most formidable iron man-of-war
afloat. If converted into a merchant
vessel, she would be, with somo minor
alterations, a fast and safe passenger
vessel. Having a heavy plating in
most places treble riveted and water
tight compartments, tho danger of
foundering would be slight, aud her
calculated speed as a merchant vessel
would bo 15 knots per hour. At this
rato she would cross to Liverpool with
in nine days.
About 82,500,000 has been expended
upon the vessel, and it is calculated
that about 8300,000 more will be neces
sary to complete her as a war vessel, or
8200,000 for a merchant vessel. One of
the 'remarkable features in her con
struction is her facility in maneuvering.
She has two screws, which are so ar
ranged that they are under the control
of separate engines, thus allowing her
to turn on her " heel," which is not
only a treat saving of time but makes her
available for narrow channels, as sue
can turn in any direction within tne
space of her own length. Tho battery
was nearly rebuilt by Gen. McClellan,
aud was also greatly strengthened, hav
ing added an inner hull of iron one
inch in thickness. It is intended that
she shall have a side armor 10 inches
thick, deck armor lj inches, and a tur
ret 18 inches thick. It is said th t the
agents of several foreign powers have
been endeavoring to purchase her, but
have b ;en deterred by the fact that the
sale rests with the State of New Jersey,
which has been only recently author
ized by the Legislature to ofi'er her at
public sale. Prof. R. H. Thurston, C.
E., of tho Stevens Institute of Tech
nology, has been engaged as tho con
sulting engineer, and is now engaged
in preparing a description cf the vessel.
Gov. Parker and Vice-Chancellor Dodd
on the part of the State, and tho execu
tors of Mr. Stevens, with tho consult
ing engineer, form the committee of
sale.
Sale of Blooded Stock.
The Lyndal herd of short horns, the
property of Wm. S. King, of Minneapo
lis, Minn., was sold at publie auction
at Dexter Park, Chicago. It was, with
the single exception of the sale of New
York Mills blooded cattle, near Utica,
the best sale ever held in this country.
In all there were fifty-eight cows and
heifers and twenty-one bulls sold. The
first bull sold was the second Duke of
Hillhurst, calved July 17, 1871. This
bull brought 814,000, the largest sum
of money ever paid for a bull the Uni
ted States. At the Utica sale the high
est price paid for a bull was was $12,
000 for second Duke of Oneida, while
the fifth Duke of Wetherby sold re
cently in England for about 812,400 in
currency. The purchaser at Chicago
was George Robbies, of London, Eng
land, who, it is understood, is acting
for the Earl of Bective, one of Great
Britain's largest breeders. The second
Duke of Hillhurst is by sixth Duke of
Goneva, out of Duchess ninety-seventh,
she by third Duke of Wharf dale. Hon.
John Wentworth, of Chicago, tried
hard to keep the bull in this country,
bidding as high as 813,700 only re
cently, so it is reported. The sale of
the Duke leaves but three Duke bulls
in this country, all owned in Kentucky.
The total amount realized on the cows
was 8101,615 ; and ou the bulls, 825,
375. The best sold cows were Lady
Mary Seventh aud Lady M iry Eighth,
by Fourth -Lad Oxford, out of LaJy
Mary, she by Hotspur, out of Baroness.
These two heifers sold for 811,000.
Americans In Egypt.
American influence is rapidly increas
ing in Egypt. There are now sixteen
American officers iu the service of the
Viceroy. At the head is General Stone,
whose position as chief of staff is the
most influential and important. Gen
erals Loring aud Reynolds are old
army officers. Both Stone and Loring
have lately been made pachas by the
Viceroy. He is thoroughly organizing
his army, introducing the most ap
proved arms, and preparing for a brush
with the Sultan of Turkey, which will
make him King instead of Viceroy,
whenever the " sick man " gets into
any difficulty with Russia or any other
foreign power. A recent accession to
the staff is Major Prout, an American
engineer, to whom is assigned the im
portant duty of making a survey of the
delta of the Nile, running the base line
east and west through the centre of the
great pyramid.
An Anxious Boy,
We are told that the young Prince
Napoleon has attempted to go to
France, to appear suddenly at Boulogne,
as his father did, and so to achieve the
throne. The story states that he ac
tually reached Dover with this purpose,
and was brought back to his mother by
a faithful adherent. False as it proba
bly is, the tale reads like a veritable
bit of Bonaparte history. It has the
old theatrical flavor with which the
world has been but too well acquainted
for more that seventy years.
Fashion Xotus,
The richest embroideries and laoes
arc now used in trimming undercloth
ing, and the finest muslin and lawn em
ployed for making it.
In hosiery silk is greatly employed
for stockings, both for morning as well
as evening wear, and the very fashion
able belles of the Faubourg St. Honore
would feel themselves out of the modo
if they did not have a pair of silk stock
ings and shoes to match each of their
dresses.
One variety of stocking is in narrow
ribbed stripes of colored laced work,
and plain white over the instep and
around the ankle.
Ladies are wearing less sombre col
ors in their street costumes than they
did formerly. Colored ribbons, sashes
and cravats are considered almost neces
sary for every toilet.
At tho same time black and gray still
continue to be the standard shades, as
well as negative and neutral tints.
This great preference for black ma
terials predominates much more hero
than it does on the other side of the
Atlantic.
There is in reality littlo economy in
wearing black, for it requires more
trimming than anything else, is hotter,
dustier, aud looks shabby sooner than
otlier colors.
Gray is preferable in most respects
to black ; it gives more scope to the
dressmaker, is plcasanter to the eyes in
summer, and is usually durable.
Hats are no longer worn right on top
of tho head, but to be reduced to the
dimensions of a wreath or diadem.
Other styles of chapeaux are the Hen
ry III. and the capote shape. The
former of these two may be made of
gray straw, trimmed with crepe-de-chine
of the same color, aigrette and
buckle of smoked pearl.
The capoto is usually made with a
crown of taffetas, a drawn brim of the
same and Outings of tulle inside.
Italian braid, Neapolitan braid, white
and black chip are tho most fashiona
ble materials for hats and bonnets.
Lane and net are equally popular, and
form useful, economical ones.
The hair is no longer to be worn in
high coques, but is to be disposed in
droopinf? curls and in braids or chig
nons ; but the best fashion is for each
one to dress their hair in the style most
becoming to their features.
Evening dresses are very pretty when
made of whito gauze or Brussels net,
made over colored silk slips aud then
trimmed with flowers of the same color
as the silk.
For instance, a pale blue underskirt
trimmed up the front with deep puf
fings of gauze, each one confined with a
convolvulus. Tho gauze is much puffed
at tho back of the skirt, and then hangs
in long drapery, while a long vino of
the flowers form a kind of sash and
looped up at the back.
A new kind of Indian silk is twilled
or striped, or self colored ; the favorite
colors for it are lilac, slate, pearl gray
and silver.
Foulards are cool aud inexpensive.
The most beautiful patterns have flow
ers of different thades of the same
color.
Japanese silks are not very durable,
but look well when new. Some have
patterns of large dots ; others have
shaded stripes.
Puffs, strange to say, are still worn.
Crepe lisse is used for full dress, and
nothing could be softer or prettier for
the neck and wrists.
Still, for morning wear, the simple
linen collar and cull's will always be
favorites.
Sets of these in colored percales, with
hair stripes, are among tho newest
styles. The reversible springing cuffs,
confined with double ball buttons, are
most worn at the moment.
A Mad Dog In the House.
The residence of Mr. John Hill on
Filbert street, Philadelphia, the Record
says, was the scene of an occurrence
which was much more exciting than
pleasant, and which might have result
ed in very serious consequences. The
gentleman in question was the owner
of a Spitzer dog, which was the special
pet of his little daughter. The animal
was noticed by the servants on this
morning to be frothing at the mouth,
and otherwise acting in a strange man
ner, but nothing was said about it at
the time. In the afternoon a lady call
ed, and was shown into the' parlor to
wait till tho lady of the house came
down. While sitting there, she was
startled by a crash, and tho dog, which
had been in the yard, leaped into the
Earlor, having bounded through the
ack window, shivering a thick pane of
glass in its passage. He dashed past
the visitor and into the hall. The lady,
with great presence of mind, ran to the
door and screamed up the stairs that
something was the matter with the dog,
and her friend and one of the servants,
who were at the head of the staiis, had
just time to get back into an upper
room and close the door as the dog, in
his " eyeless rage," dashed against it.
The lady down stairs also closed the
parlor door, and the cook in the dining
room locked herself in that apartment,
while the maddened animal, having the
run of the halls and stairways, dashed
up and down in the most terrible man
ner, throwing himself against the doors
with a force that threatened their fas.
tenings. This continued for some time,
there being no one in the house but the
four beleaguered females, until the
lady in the parlor sacrificed dignity to
secure safety, and made her escape
through the parlor window. Assis
tance was finally obtained in the shape
of a policeman, who entered the house,
also through the window, and the dog,
which at this time had gone into an
open room, had the door closed upon
him and his fate was sealed. A rope
with a slip-noose was procured, the
door partially opened, and the loop,
after some manoeuvring, was success
fully thrown around his neck. He was
then dragged into a position that en
abled the policeman, with a few well
directed blows of a billy, to settle his
dogship, and the scattered and fright
ened inmates of the house were en
abled to come forth and once more
move about in safety. Whether the
animal was really rabid, or only suffer
ing from a fit of a more harmless na
ture, will never be known.
Items of Interest
lhe presents to Nellie Grant were
worth $60,000.
Fruit and wheat pfospects at the West
are remarkably good.
The British Government has decided
not to give up its possessions on the
Gold Coast.
The London tailors are about to
make a rule that no garments shall be
taken from the store until paid for.
A Connecticut man, whose son was
ill, appealed to the physician: "Do
bring him out of it right away, doctor ;
do break up the fever at once, even if
you charge as much as if he weut
through a whole course of fever."
A German professor, who has been
engaged for four years preparing a new
book, recently, in starting for a short
walk, left the manuscript lying on his
desk. On his return he found the
manuscript in flames, and before he
could put out tho firo it was burned to
ashes.
A recent book about Africa describes
a forest of acaoia trees, the trees being
pierced with little holes by some in
sects. The wind plays upon these open
ings, producing flute-like sounds, for
which reason the natives call the trees
"soffar" trees, the word "soffar"
meaning flute,
Capt. Bryant, who has long been sta
tioned on the fur-sea islands of Alaska,
believes that the natives aro of Japan
ese origin, and possess noticeable char
acteristics of that race. They are quick
to learn, tractable, and superior to tho
people of the mainland. The latter are
probably of Tartar descent.
Mr. Barnett, of Obion county, Tenn.,
is unable, it would seem, to keep the
wolf from his door. He was attacked
near his residence by a large and fero
cious animal of this description a few
evenings ago, and might have been
badly mauled had not his faithful deg,
hearing his call, put in an appearance
and driven the wolf away.
Up to October, 1870, Senator Jones's
Crown Point mine had cost 8023,370 in
assessments, and the price of tho stock
was 83 per share, of which there were
12,000. In the summer of 1871 the
stock rose to 8200 per share. The
shares have been increased to 100,000,
and are quoted at 92. The stockholders
have realized $5,400,000 in dividends
above outlay. ,
The queerest object in nature is a
Spanish beggar, for these beggars beg
on horseback, and it is an odd thing to
see a man riding up to a poor foot pas
senger and asking alms. A gentleman
in Valparaiso, being accosted by one of
these mounted beggars, replied :
"Why, sir, you come to beg of mo, who
have to go on foot, while you ride on
horse ?" " Very true, sir, replied the
beggar, " and I have the more need to
beg, as I have to support my horse as
well as myself."
A Girl's House-Cleaning.
She is perfectly willing to help. She
tells her mother sho would just as lief
stay home a week as not, and informs
her teacher, with a semi-triumphant
air, that she has to stay at home next
week to help clean house.
The carpets are to bo taken up first,
and that girl, delicately roared though
she u, bravely sits down in tho middle
of the floor and reads a paper while her
mother and hired girl take out the tacks
and make frantic efforts to use tho sama
form of common prayer that the head
of the house uses when his boots don't
come on easily in the morning.
The carpet is rolled up and taken out
into the back-yar,d and hung on the
clothes-line to be dusted. Now that
girl comes out strong, and shows the
latent energy that is in her. She seizes
an old broom and starts toward that
swinging carpet with an air of determi
nation. On her way she spies her friend
Kate passing, and goes off to the side
fence to talk about an hour and a half
about well, about - whatever r;irls do
talk about under the same circum
stances. Then she goes into the house,
eats her dinner, and complains of being
tired.
In the afternoon she begins dusting
and arranging the books in the book
case. Sho finds, pretty soon, one of
Ouida's novels, and sits down on the
floor to read, while the ink, from a bot
tle she knocks over when she throws
her duster on the table, runs all over
tho parlor curtains stuffed undor the
chair near by. Her mother finds her
here and sends her into the parlor to
gather np her music ready for to-morrow's
campaign. She gets along well
enough with her exercises and marches,
but presently she comes to " Dcn't be
Angry with Me, Darling," that Robert
gave her last week, and begins to hum
it. She opens the piano to find the
key-note to be certain she can take the
high note nicely, and begins to sing.
It don't sound well without the accom
paniment that Robert thought was so
sweet, so she sits down and begins to
play. While she is practicing Robert
comes along. He hears her. lie stops.
He enters. She stops. He wants to
hear that sweet song. Come in only
for that. She is too hoarse. She
couldn't think of singing with her hair
tied up in a towel but she does.
Robert sighs as the song ends, and
she proposes a game of croquet. They
go out and play croquet till tea time.
Push Your Business,
To offer a good bargain, and let
every one know it, are the two leading
essentials for a successful business.
Men may make money without doing
this, but it is the only safe way to con
duct a permanent trade. There are
different ways of informing customers
as to what you can oner them, but
there are none which cost so little or
which may be so effective as judicious
advertising for while a salesman makes
personal appeals to a few only, an ad
vertisement goes to thousands, to
strangers as well as to friends, without
regard to weather, and with no com
punctions as to stepping on a rival's
toes. Those, therefore, who wish to
push their business, and who have
good bargains to offer and an honest
article to sell, should not neglect the
only means by which they can become
known everywhere, and have the world
for their customers.