a c' C C c HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL DESPERANDUM. Two Dollars per Annum. VOL. IV. ItlDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1875. NO. 47. Sloop On Till Day. Oh, sleep on till day, my love, Bleep on till liny ; No trouble assail thee, 110 danger afTray ! Oh, Bleep on till day, my love, sleep on till day. Airs round tliee trembling, Love-sighs resembling, Linger a moment, and vanish away. Oh, sleep on till day, my love, sleep on till day. The pale sfnrs aro petting, the dawn rises gray, Tlio kind hours thoy laugh m they hasten away They know 'twill be day soon, the beautiful day: Crowned to-morrow, End of my sorrow ! Meeting, with never a farewell to say ; Oh, sleep on till day. my love, Bleep on till day. Yet life's but a vision too lovely to Btay : Morn passes, noon Cometh, nnd pleasures decay ; Soon evening apjiroaehes and closes the day. Then laid with praises Under the daisies, Hmilina; we'll creep to one pillow of clay, And sloop on till day, my love, sleep on till day. -Miss Mulock. TWO SKETCHES. I. IN THE HTHF.ET. I'm a Mack pin girl. You know the kind thnt tells lies about their mother being nick, or dead, or something, and most on 'em never had no mother. M" nnd another girl lives with old Duffy; nt least, I don't call it much liv ing. I'd a heap rather die with her. Jinny (that's the other girl) sassed her, and didn't get nothing to eat, and she went to a house and begged, and the cook piv j her cold cabbage. If a cook give me cold cabbage, I'd fire it at her head. Duffy says mother give mo to her. I wish mother hadn't a-beon so generous. I Btay with her 'couse I ain't got no other place. Sometimes I think I'll take the pins, samples and all, for wages, and slf?ep nights to the station-house ; but Duffy's old man is hail up a good deal for variance, I guess thoy call it, and that's where hr. mostly stops. Sometimes Jinny's better than other times, and it's when she's coming out of her fits of goodness th:;t Duffy beats her. I ain't never good. I just 'keep along about the same, and Duffy's give over beating me. Jinny's awful queer. Sho calls me Sarah, and my mime's Anno, 'cause she knowed a woman that took euro of her when she was sick, and her name was Sarah. Nobody never took care of me, so I call Jinny Jinny. I suppose if I got sick I could go to n hospital. I did know a girl who went there and died oust. Old man Duffy went when ho fell off the dock, and she thought she got rid of him sure enough ; ; but he come back all right ; I guess she called it all wrong. Any way, ho warn't none the worse for it, if she was. I just have to laugh when I see the folks in the streets scared to death of n little mud. - I declare I'm glad I ain't iasmouaiue, so s 1 aim 1 nave to wear a ; tram. One time Jinny and me put on I the iHBVlun out. All tne mothers is bo scared of their young ones getting hurt cd a-crossing of the streets. ,J ;V V , " 1 "id the only tluug lie could think of he down Broadway like any cluldreu. If i Henj jier to Europe ' you get walking behind people, so's to Shf) wus poue th'reo montils with her ! hear what they re a-saymg of, it s about . ,1 tM 1 ,.-.4-1. mit wiiu liint...l I " Now, my dayling, do be careful, rny darling, or you'll be run over. Seems to me there must bo more dan ger of everything if anybody's some body's darling. ' Good laudy ! I ain't been run over, nnd I never took hold of nobody's hand, only oust when Duffy's old man riz an ax and run after her like lie was a-going to chop her; then I held on fast enough, and hollored. There's a young lady I know that's the most beautiful thing I ever seen. I wouldn't ask her to buy a pin not to suve Duffy's neck. I don't know her to speak to, but she's often down my way going into the big houses. The first time I see her sho give 1110 fluch a turn ; sho stepped out of her carriage; now it was just like a star coming out of the sky. Her face was shining, nnd there was a kind of a look to her that made me begin to cry, though she was Bmiling. She didn't see me then; I don't guess she ever see me, but I follow her round now, and I know the houso she lives in. I was to a big reception one day at dark, and I see her carnage down' the line, so I just waited till he drove up, and then I come pretty close, and in a minute out she come. Her face was shining just the same, nnd a gentleman : a-helpiug her down the steps. I heard him speak to her while ho was n-cover- ing of her up warm with tho things iu the carriage. I heard him say, " Helen, my darling, my good angel," says he. ; oiiu uiiui 1 nay iiouuiig, mit put out nor j hand, aud he gave it a kiss. Then he .slammed the carriage door, aud she drove off, and he went back in the house, aud in a minute ho comes out with a cigar lighted; I see him then, and I know that man I know him. Down to a place I've went to fetch Duffy's old man homo I've seen him as drunk as a fool. They .11 I t.l 1 1 cuii mm nnauy uown mere, and lio can talk up 11s lively as any feller I ever see, I aud swear with tho other men. Is my star lady that feller's darling ? That's what he called her, and he's a bad man. There was one day there'd been a ! storm of ice and snow, aud I luuln't much shoes 011 me; one was a rubber I found, nnd tho other was a kind of a low shoe that was tied on with a string. My feet kinder hurt, that's true, but I suppose it warn't so bad as if I'd a-been somebody's darling. Any way, I didn't think much about it, only they was both crous to keep on, 'cause they was big; and along there come a young man with a good.warm coat 011 him, and when he see me we was just in front of 'a cheap shoe store the kind where poor folks gets cheated, unless they're Jews. And what's ho Jo but up and took me into that store and got me a whole pair of shoes; and I know he warn't poor, for they was good shoes, and wore me first rate ; and I gues3 he wurn't a Jew neither. When we come out of the store he stopped a minute, and says, " Feel better, little girl?" and he puts his hand in his pocket, and out comes a ten cent silver; and I never thanked him nor nothing, but begun to cry. He was going to put it in my hand, and there come along a carriage, and in it I see my star lady, and he seen her too, and she know ed him, and smiled to h''n and bowing her head. The silver dropped on the oe in the street, so's I had to stoop - sow, my uaym g uo oe enrenu, rny Wll8 neiu.iy distracted " trying to smile, i darling; catch a-liold of my hand, myall's 0f n Wo, papa. 'The words of j down to get it. He got very white-looking, nnd Btood with his hat off, bo's I'd thought he'd catched his death. Ho didn't say no more to me, but started off to walk very fast. I never seen him nguin, but I think of them two, nights when Jinny's asleep, nnd I think if they was to come together, nnd I was to Bee 'cm a-going iutu a church, her nil in wlute, with her fnco a-flhining, and him a-looking so proud of her, with the look on 'em some people do wear to their weddings, I think I'd give 'em I'd give Oh, granny, I ain't got nothing to give but the ten-cent silver lie give mo, j nnd Duffy's old pins. 11. is THE JlOSriTAIi. i She stood in the middle of her room, ) quite still, with her hauds clasped tight i together. I "Helen, my darling," ho had said, j " a great trouble hns come to you. Try I to V)o brave. Oh, if your mother were I living now, she would help you bettor I than I can. My little girl, my Hcleu, ; the man you love, tho man whom I would have let you marry, is is an in fernal rascal, Helen !" She slipped from his protecting arm 1 and stood alone. Then she saw that i there were tears in his eyes. ' "I don't think I know what you ' mean. I have never heard you Bpeak so. I Is it about Henrv ? Is it my dear i Henry (" ' " He can never be anything to you i , again, my daughter. He is a villain. J , Oh, my precious child, my little girl, ' try to bo brave. Don't break down." , He was walking wildly up and down ; tlio room. Sho was standing perfectly ; still. j "I am trying so hard to understand j , what you are saying to me, father. Who says this ? Why do you believe it ?" 1 "I know it. Money with which II trusted him has gone to the four winds. He is a gambler. He is worse than I that." " What has he done ?" She sat down : on a chair that was near. " He has forged my name." " Where is he ?" " He has left the country; he has run away. I must have been terribly blind 1 nnd foolish not to understand that man. Your mother would have known. Noth . ing will be done, nothing will be known i 1 of all this but that I have broken the j ; engagement. If my life could have ; saved you from sorrow, I would have 1 given it." She cauie and leaned over her father 1 where he sat with his head bowed down upon his hands. She raised his face nnd i ! kissed him. i "Father," she said, "I shall bear : th-H. it wi uot kin mp Then she had left him, and necking her own room, had locked herself in. She was bravo. She tried to let no ono Bee that she suffered; but it was a tragedy in which she was cast for the heroine's part. And her father, who watched her closely, saw that she was -P,in,1i,,li,-n. n,l .n.fin, i, When she was again in her own home, ! she said, " I suppose you wanted to find i what they call distraction for me, and I j that dreadful old song ore always singing 1 themselves 111 my ears to this stupid old ' tune: " ' From sport to sport they hurry me To banish my regret. And when tliov win a smile from me They think that I forgot.' " And she began to sing it, but she broke down, nnd cried instead. Then ' ; her father knew that his experiment had ! not succeeded. ( " You want something to do, my 1 I dear 4 Well, suppose you take riding lessons; that will be good exercise, I'm ' sure." Miss Hetty Malcolm was 0110 of the 1 best women iu the . world. Sho went j I about the city in her quiet brown dress, ! j doing good everywhere. She had known j ! Helen's mother, and she loved Helen, j and knew all about the trouble that had j I come to her, and she partly guessed, , i too, at tho unrest and longing that the i I girl felt. 1 s " Helen," said she, " I wish that you i loved little children that you liked to j '. be with them mid to Rinnsp them." " I don't. Miss Hetkv. They bother me, nnd make me cross.'" " Have I ever told you nbout tho hos-1 pital that my nephew lias under his j eare ? There are sometimes fifty little children. There is a great deal of suffer-1 ing and pain among them, but they aro ! so patient and sweet, it does mo good to be near them. And then they are so well and tenderly cared for ! Will you go there with me, Helen ?" " Oh, Miss Hettv, I cannot ; I don't want to do that. But," she added, " I would like to givo some money, if you will let mo, for the hospital." When she was gone, Helen sighed. " Ah, how happy aud busy Miss Hetty is with all her good works ! I wish I knew what there is for me to do. I do hate my life, it is so useless and tire- some; and tney nil tlunK 1 am grieving 1 11 11 Al "lT lor the past, anil it is not that, lor 1 am grieving more for the present. I wish I had been born to a scrubbing brush in stead of a silver spoon; then I should have been obliged to work for my liv ing. That woidd be an advantage. Well, at least I will not sit here com plaining to myself. I must go,out in the air aud take a walk; that may give me something to think about." She had taken her way through some quiet streets that she might avoid meet ing many people, and ns she hurried along her eye was attracted by the sign on a house door " Hospital for Chil dren." W Just then from the other side of the street a little ragged girl came running toward her, holding in her outstretched hand a bit of lace that Helen had worn nbout her neck. She was breathless with her haste, and bmiling with unmistakable delight; but as she gained the middlo of the crossing a carriage dashed around the corner, and before the driver had seen her or reined in his horses she had fallen beneath their feet. With a horror she could never forget, Helen saw the wheels go over her. In an instant Helen had caught her from under the carriage and carried her tenderly to the sidewalk. She thought the child was dead, and bold her with a sort of awe, while slowly from a cut over the pale temple fell drops of blood on Helen's dress. Then Helen remembered tho hospital, nnd, followed by the curious crowd, she carried the child toward the house. Her breath came hnrd, and ns she pnnsed a moment at tho foot of tho steps th 1 door above opened wide, nnd a toll young man enme quickly out to meet her. " Oh, Dr. Lamed 1 she said, with something of the flame relief in her heart that Juliet felt when she saw Friar Lawrence standing near her in the tomb. "I have never," said Dr. Andrew Larned, when he described the scene to a friend " I have never seen anything so beautiful as Helen Le Roy, Btanding pale and stately, with divine pity making tender her perfect face, and in her nrms, held so gently, wrapped so carefully, thnt beggar eluld. " She followed him into the house, where, in a little room, a low white" bed was waiting for some such burden. "The horses trampled her down. Sho was running to bring me a bit of laco I had lost, and she fell before my eyes, and I could not help her. Oh, it is so horrible !" said Helen, with a little sob. " She is not dead. Will you help me, Miss Le Roy V He looked at her steadily. He knew that if ho trusted her with some responsibility, she would con quer her emotion. " I will do what you tell me." " You have only to kneel down here nnd bathe these stains from her face, and here where the cut over tho temple is hidden in her hair." She obeyed him silently. " I must leave you alone for a few mo ments, while I call the nurse and get some things that I shall need. Do not bo troubled; there is nothing you can do for her but this." Ho watched her a minute, and then left the room. As Helen watched she saw that the ex pression of tho cliild's faeo had changed, nud then tho closed eyelids quivered and slowly opened, and two gray eyes re garded her with amazement. She spoke softly, thinking that the child might be frightened at finding herself iu this strange place. " You are with friends, dear; we will be very kind to you." She seemed not hear or not to under stand, but kept her eyes fixed on Helen's with the same look of wonder, until sud denly a beaming smile shone over her face a smile of recognition aud pleasure and with a faint, glad voice she said: " Oh, my beautiful lady ! my star lady 1" and then tho light died away, and she lost consciousness again. Dr. Larned, coming back to tho room, found Miss Le Roy still at her post. " She has spoken. She was conscious for a moment, and she looked at me as though she knew me, and was glad to seo me. Oh, Dr. Larned, let mrBtay here oud take of this poor little gill. If you only knew how I have longed to bo useful in some way!" she said, with 11 sudden frankness that surprised herself. " And perhaps you can tell me perhaps I can find some work here." Sho had risen, and stood before him with the uudried tears still upon her chveks. All good impulses seemed aroused within her, and her face glowed with a living light of charity and hope. " There is work, plenty- of work, among thoso poor little children; but aro you sure forgive me; but is this what vou want to do (" So Helen had found something to do. Every day she was at the hospital, caring for the children, sootluiig those who suf fered with her gentle touch and words, amusing the tired ones with little stories and songs, ministering wherever she passed with cheerful looks and kindly influence. The children all learned 'to love her and to watch eagerly for her coining. As for Andrew -Larned, he always half expected her, and yet it was a never ending sweet surprise to see at the end of the long sunny room a tall fair girl singing quaint old songs for the listen ing children; and he would stand a mo ment silent in the doorway, waiting till tho verse was ended and she lifted her eyes to his with a smile. Down stairs in the darkened room lay the little girl that Helen had carried in her arms. She had never been quit') conscious since that first night when sho spoke. Sometimes she had been wild with fever and delirium, and then Helen alone had been able to quiet her. No one else seemed to have any power. It was in the afternoon. Without, tire sun was sparkling . on the new-fallen snow, and the street was gay with sleigh bells and cheprful voices and bright colors; but iu the sick child's room all was silent and dim, and Helen, who was watching, could only discern that pale face worn with fever. She was lying so still that a strange anxiety came to the watcher, and when Dr. Larned just stop ped a moment on his way up stairs sho was glad .to see him. He bent over the child, and then gazed more closely. " She has not moved for an hour. I was growing anxious when you came in. How is sho '" Dr. Larned came beside her where she was standing. " Miss Helen," he said, very softly, " sho is dying." The quick tears came to Helen's eyes. She loved this poor child as we love any leing 011 whom we expend care and sym pathy ; and there was another feeling, almost of gratitude, that made Helen stoop down and kiss her forehead. " But for her I should never have come here among the childr.en,"she said, simply. Then there was heard a faint voice, like the voice of a spirit, saying : " Is my star ludy here ?" Helen, wondering, but remembering the strange words that she had spoken before, answered, " Yes, I am here." " Open the window. I want once to see you, near. Oh, I wish, I wish " Then, as the mellow sunlight came into the room, she saw Dr. Larned, and sud denly she seemed to gather all her ener gies, and cried aloud, with a clear, ring ing tone, It's him ! it's him ! oh, glory f" Her voice grew weak, but she went on. "I know you, too. You are that good man. I ain't never spent the silver you give me ; it's here round my neck ; it's for you again." Her voice was failing. " I can't see ; gi' me your hands. I guess I'm a-dying ; and when I get up there, there ain't only one thing I'll ask bless him and my star lady, that's come together at lost 1 Amen." . And bo their strange unknown littlo friend died, holding their hands in hers ; but her prayer lived nfter her, nnd was answered, for these two have been blessed with perfect love and faith, in sweet companionship. Two Hundred and Fifty Years Ago. Wre are so in the habit of modestly con sidering ourselves the youngest of peo ples, pays an exchange, that we continu ally forget it is a fault which we are every day outgrowing. We have some towns which could claim anywhere tho honors due to respectable maturity, nnd ono of these, Weymouth, in Massachusetts, re cently celebrated tho two hundred nnd fiftieth nnnivorsnry of its settlement. Col. Charles Francis Adams, Jr., made an admirable address on tho occasion, giving au interesting history of the place. In his introduction he referred to the town's cotemporaries, plucing it iu wor shipful company. " When the first Euro pean," he said," mndo his homo iu old Spain wheu the earliest rude hut was framed on yonder north shore of Phil lips' Creek the modern world in which we live was just assuming shape. Few now realize how little of that which makes up tho vast accumulated store of human possessions which we have in herited from our fathers which to us is as the nir wo breathe had then exist ence. The Reformation was then young Luther and Calvin and Erasmus were men of yesterday; the life-and-death struggle with Catholicism still tortured Eastern Europe. The thirty years' war iu Germany was just eorflnieuoed, and tho youthful Gustavus Adolphus had yet to win his spurs. The blood of Saint Bartholomew was but half a century old, and the murder of Henry IV. was as near to the men of 1022 as is that of Abraham Lincoln to us. The great Cardiual-Duko was then organizing modem France; Charles I. had not yet ascended the English throne; Hamden was a young country gentleman and Cromwell uu un pretending English squire. While men still believed that the sun moved round tho earth, Galileo and Kepler were gradually ascertaining thoso laws which guide the planets iu their paths; Bacon was meditating his philosophy ; Don Quixote was a newly-published work with a local reputation; and Miltou, not yet a Cambridge pensioner, was making his firtit essays at verse. Shakspeare had died but six years before, and indeed the first edition of his plays did not ap pear until tho very year iu which Wey mouth was settled." Trapping Grasshoppers la Algeria. Gen. Chauzy, this past season, issued a circular to the generals of divisions and prefects in Algeria, directing them, in dealing with these public pests, to adopt the method which has been successfully employed in Cyprus. This comprises systematic seeking and rt-troying of the grasshoppers' eggs, and also attacking the prickets on the march. It seems that before becoming full-blowu grasshop pers, the crickets, about a month after they are hatched, begin to march, and this they do in largo, compact masses for a period averaging some twenty seven days, during which they never swerve from the line of route once adopted. The people of Cyprus take a band of silk from sixty -five to seventy centi metres high and 100 metres long, and this they tie vertically to poles firmly fixed in the ground, tho upper port be ing waxed or bordered with oil silk to a width of about ten centimetres, and the earth so heaped up uuder it a3 to leave no crevice between the silk aud the ground. A second baud is then set up, so as to form a sort of gallery of grad ually diminishing width, being at the mouth somewhat wider than the column of crickets, but only five metres wide ut the other end, where is a trench five metres long, 0110 and a half wide, and one deep. I his forms tne trap or " sys- j tern," several of which, 100 metres long, can bo placed end to eud aud transport ed to any point threatened by the in vaders. All that has to be done is to wait till the column of crickets has reach ed the trench. Then it is covered in with earth, and nothiug more is seen of tho crickets. About the Baby. A baby is a very tender thing, people say ; but most of them aro very far from knowing how tender. Imagine how ner vous you are iu certain states when re covering from illness, say ; when the fall of a book or the slam of a door makes you quiver aud feel faint, as if some one gave you a blow. That is tho way a young baby feels at its best. A puff of wind will set it gasping, its littlo breath blown quite awuy. A noise makes it shiver, a chauge of summer air makes it turn death-cold. A baby is the most nervous of beings, and the tortures it suffers iu going to sleep and being awakened by careless sounds wheu just " dropping off " are only comparable to the same ex perience of an older person during an acute nervous headache. Young babies ought to pass tho first months of their lives in the country, for its stillness no less thou it3 fresh nir. But where silence is not to be commanded, baby may be 6oothed by folding a soft napkin, wet in warm water, lightly over the top of its head, its eyes and ears. It is the best way to put nervous babies to sleep. A fine towel would be wet and laid over its head, the ends twisted a littlo till it made a sort of skull-cap, and though baby sometimes fought against being blind folded in this way, five minutes usually sent him off iiito deep and blissful slumber. A Hard Place to Ride. A man was found on a wheel trtick of a passenger cur at Reading, Pa., the other day, who said he had come all the way from California, and had traveled in that inanner altogether. Such business as that is terrible to contemplute. To be doubled up under a passenger car and exposed to the cold air and the dust, while being whirled along at the rate of thirty miles an hour, to say nothing of the noise and danger, is something ro mantically fearful. A well authenticated cose of death from the sting of a hornet recently oc curred in England. A woman who was stung by one in the neck fainted imme diately and expired in a few minutes. Knlnkana's Kingdom. The Sandwich Islands, otherwise called the Kingdom of Hawaii from the princi pal member of tho group, ought to re ceive ft littlo popular attention at this time when its ruler is the guest of the United States, the Boston Journal says, especially if it is true, as suspected, that our government will be called upon to ratify a closer connection with thoso far off isles as the upshot of the present royal visit. The islands are twelve in number, comprising in all a little over 6,000 square miles about the size of Con necticut and Rhode Island. Two-thirds of this area belongs to the island of Hawaii, although Oahu is better known generally from its containing Honolulu, the capital city, which has about 10,000 inhabitants. The population of tho whole group in 1872 was 50,897 about the samo as thnt of our county of Plymouth. It will be seen, therefore, that tho islands are very sparsely inhabi ted, which is necessarily the case, owing to their broken, volcanic sm'face. Moun tains rise to the height of 14,000 feet above the sea level, and the soil is mainly composed of disintegrated lava nnd basalt. To return to tho population, it appears by tho last census of the inhabi tants that there were 40,044 persons of the pure native race, 2,485 of mixed origin, 1,938 Chinese, 880 Americans, 019 English, and the remainder hailed from other European countries. The twentieth degree of north latitude runs through the group, so that they aro in the samo latitude as Cuba, while the climate is said to be even more favorable for the growth of sugar cane, cotton, and other products of a tropical character. There are good harbors, which would of ford convenient coaling stations for our steam commerce with China and Jujiuu. Last year the islands took from us goods to the value of jfl, 000,000, and the year before they Bout us 2,128,000 worth. Their export of sugar is about 12,000 tons, and, it is said, might be easily doubled. Their other exports are coffee, rice, tallow, hides, beef, mutton and ship supplies. Tho government is that of u constitutional monarchy, the people huving a voice iu the choice of their sovereign. The present king was chosen last February. He has a regular cabi net, all of whose members are American or English, and a council of sixtoeu members, one-half of whom are natives. The revenues in 1872 were $904,95(1. There are hundreds of schools, in which knowledge is taught both in the native and the English tongues; numerous printing presses at work, and a half dozen newspapers, some in Hawaiian aud some in tho English languages. On tho whole, it is a fair little kingdom for the Hawaiians and other residents whether we waut it annexed to the Union remains to be seen. The Bear in Winter. A writer in tho Popular Sefciee Jfunfhli says : " One of the most curi ous characteristics of the bear is its habit of hibernating through tho winter. During the autumn it becomes very fat, and about the end of October, completing its winter house, ceases feeding for the year. A remarkable phenomenon then j takes place in the animal's digestive orgaus. The stomach, no longer supplied with food, contracts into a very small space. A mechanical obstruction called the " tappen," composed of line leaves or other extraneous substances, blocks the alimentary canal and prevents the out ward passage of any matter. The bear continues iu its den until tho middle of April, in a dull, lethargic condition. If discovered and killed at any time iu this period, it is found to bo as fat as at tho beginning. It is said, however, that if it loses tho ' tappen ' before the cud of its hibernation, it immediately becomes ex tremely thiii. During the hibernation the bear gains a new skin upon tho balls of its feet, and during the same time also the female bear brings forth her young, from two to four in number. The latter act occurs generally from the middle of January to the middle of Februiu'y. The pairing season occurs in the summer, from June to September. The period of gestation is about seven months, and tho newly born cubs are scarcely larger than puppies." A Kansas Law-Point. At White Cloud last week they had a case the decision of which beats the celebrated judgments of Solomon. A person owing another money gave lu'm a bill of sale of his safe. The time expired, the debt was not paid and the person holding the lull of sale took possession of the safe and removed it to quarters provided for tho purpose. Tho former owner's books were in the safe, and ho asked and received permission to unlock tho safe and tuke them out. Iu relock ing tho safe he changed the combination so that no person but himself could open it, and upon demand refused to divulge the secret. On complaint of the owner of the safe this person was arrested on a criminal charge. Both parties eugaged lawyers and tho trial commenced. Tho attorneys for tho de fendant set up tho plea that tho combi nation of the lock was in the mind of the defendant and nowhere else and that the sole question was whether a man's mind was subject to a mortgage or bill of sale. Strange to say, tho attorney for the prosecution admitted that this was the decisive point, and the justice of course dismissed the. suit. Fanners' Boots aud Shoes. A farmer who has been accustomed to wear tliick boots for more than forty years past says that, liefore wearing the boots, give the bottoms a good coating 01 tallow or coal-tar, and dry it in; then oil the uppers with castor oil, about one tublospoouful to each boot; then oil them twice a week with castor oil, when one teaspoonful will be sufficient. If the weather should be rainy, or you are com pelled to work in water during the day, wasn your Inxits clean at night, hold them by the fire until quite warm, and oil them while wet, and you will liave no trouble about your boots getting hard and shrinking up so that you cannot get them on. If the leather should become red give a coat of ordinary shoe blacking before oiling. The effect of castor oil is to soften the leather, while it fills the pores and prevents the water from enter ing. I have stood in mu.d and water ten hours a day for a week without feeling any dampness or having any difficulty in getting my boots on or off. Wasted Eloquence. The Baltimore Bulletin has the follow ing : " Some years ago a young lawyer of Baltimore, struggling for recognition in his profession, and achieving 110 very rapid or brilliant success in it, had a caso fall into his hands that promised a pretty good fee. A gentleman's pocket hail been picked of a watch, aud the thief was iu jail enjoying an excellent prospect of a protracted term in tho penitentiary, the evidence connecting him with the crime being very complete. Tho lawyer we might as well say who it was at once nnd be done with it Mr. John L. Thomas, called on his incarcerated client and hud a talk with him. Did you steal tho watch ?' ' Well, no, not exactly. You see I was in the crowd that did it, aud it was passed to me. But I'll tell you what, Mr. Thomas, if you'll get me off I'll give you this watch 111 addition to tho hundred dollar retainer you have already.' Mr. Thomas looke'd at the watch and found it ft splendid piece, worth 000 easy. It would appear that Townsontown had gained ft reputation even iu those days, for Mr. Thomas's first step was to change th venue to tho county. Tho case came up iu duo sea son, aud the prisoner, tho counsel, tho prosecuting witness, and all were on hand. Somehow or other tho chief prosecuting witness, upon whoso evi dence as the loser of the watch the pris oner's fate depended (while waiting for the court to reach the case), got to drink ing Townsontown whisky. At any rate, when tho witness got on tho stand and Mr. Thomas got at him he was so mixed that it was only out of Christian charity that Mr. Thomas was induced to refrain from making him prove that he had stolen his own watch himself. The cul prit was discharged from custody, and lie handed Mr. Thomas the watch and an $100 besides. The emotions of the late prisoner and his friends found vent nt the Smedley House iu the appropriate apartment, and Mr. Thomas, feeling to a certain extent responsible for their safe return to Baltimore, hired an omnibus and all drove iuto town iu a condition of great happiness. Mr. Thomas went home quito pleased with tho day's work. .'Well, John,' said 0110 of his family, 1 made a big feo to-day, didn't you t' ' Oh, yes,' replied Mr. Thomas, smiling and putting his baud in his vest-pocket. A shadow of doubt overspread his coun tenance; it deepened into positive alarm, ; and then with a look of blank dismay and disgust ho sank into a chair. While ; coming in the 'bus his rascally client had : relieved him of both watch and fee. Several years afterwards, when Mr. j Thomas had made a name in the profes- j sion and had become Prosecuting Attor- 1 ney, ho saw among the batch of new cases in the criminal court the very fel- low that had served him such a trick, j The man saw him, his countenance fell, 1 and ho plead guilty on the spot, and got ' ten vears across tho Falls. But you j should hear Mr. Thomas tell this etory himself." The Hestroyer of the Vinos. Tho Phylloxera is a very minute in flect, measuring, when fully grown, uot more thau l-3:5d of an inch iu length. Its most striking feature is its proboscis, which lies in a sort of groove on the under side of the insect, and with which it itierees the roots on wliieli it feeds. This proboscis is very slender, and pears to ho lormed ol turee tongues, a greater one in the middle, and two, more slender aud shorter, on tho two sides of it ; it resembles a brown thread bendiug round and inserting itself iu the tissue. The base of the proboscis is a sort of Hat and sharp-pointed blade, composed of brown parts which prolong themselves ! into tho tongues, lho unimul raises this blade a little iu applying its pro boscis to its food. The length of the sucker is equid to about half that of tho body of the phylloxera, which does not bury more than half of it in the bark of the roots. By this sucker the insect fixes itself to the spot which it has chosen, so that it can bo made to turn upon it as on a pivot. In color tho phyl loxera, during the summer at least, is 1 yellow, but m tlie late autumn it turns to u copper-brown tint, wliich lasts through the winter. ilio active hie ol thu pliyl loxera lusts from the beginning of April 1 till the latter hull of October. ilio in- j sect hibernates through the other i months, though previous to the com- mencement of hibernation the females : who have laid eggs during the past fica- : sou dio off, leaving only young insects, i which, as we havo said, turn to a copper- 1 brown color at this period, renewing j their light yellow tint iu tho spring. The j phylloxeras do not increase much iu i numbers during the months of April and May, but an extensive reproduction of the' insect is clearly marked in June and July, while it assumes prodigious pro portions in August and September, in the latter mouths often covering the root-shoots in a continuous mass, so as to make them oppeur completely yellow with their bodies. Convulsions in Children. The lists of deaths of this d'iseaso are fearful, with a prospect of becoming more fearful, as tho causes multiply. Constipation of the bowels is tho univer sal, immediate, or exciting cause, while the fresh fermented bread, fried meats, or cakes, sweetmeuts, confections, indi gestible pastry, and abominable com pounds of butter, lard, eggs, sugar, and starch, called puddings, are the predis posing causes. I have known, says tho Scicnve of Health, many a robust-looking child of two or "three years, partake of a hearty supper of criddle-cakes souk- ed in butter aud molasses, with salted ham, or miuce-pie, aud sometimes the accompaniments of pickles, old cheese, or dried beef, retire to bed an hour later, nud dio of oonvidsiona before morning. But this is not the place to write a lec ture against " murdering the innocents." Tepid enemas, repeated until the liowela are freely moved, the warm bath, fomen tations, and sips of cvld water, are the remedies. Children who are predisposed to con vulsive disease are more liable to have them developed during the period of dentition; but it is only necessary to keep the bowels open to obviate all se rious consequences. Convulsive paroxysms often precede the eruptive stage of exanthema small pox, scarlatina, measles, and erysipelas. In these cases they are not alarming, and need no special treatment FOR A LITTLE WHILE. A'.HpiirioiiH Ulna Mnkp I.nls of Tun for tlie .Honey I'linnRern. As the members of tho New York Stock Exchaugo were pleasantly occu pying the time while awaiting the arrival of King Knlaknna by knocking off each other's hats, a commotion was observed at tho door and n tall, robust colored man was carried iu, borne rapidly to tho front of the rostrum hud placed standing upon the table. Everybody chnered lustily, aud ft report began to circulate that tho monarch of tho Sandwich Islands was present. Ho had a new and glossy silk hat on his h"nd and a tin trumpet under his arm. With perfect composure he put tho instrument to his mouth and blew n blast such ns has never before been henrd iu that or prob ably nuy other stock exchaugo. As soon ns Vice-President Mitchell, who occupied the rostrum, recovered from his astonishment ho ordered tlio bogus king out, but the more earnestly he insisted upon his retirement tho more vigorously did tho bogus sovereign sound his trumpet. Ho had taken off his hat and placed it nt his feet and np peared to be absorbed in a sort of musi cal ecstney, from which ho v,ai rudely awakened by half a dozen brokers throw ing their arras around him and bearing him to the door. Other brokers, not yet tired of tho fun, resisted this attempt and tried to replace him on tlio rostrum. The rapping of tho vice-president's mal let was not henrd amid tho tumult. When the sable visitor was finally shot into the street, his new silk hat had been flattened to the thickness of a pancake. The total cost of the entertainment was $13.25 ; namely, $8 for the hat, $0.25 for the trumpet, and $5 to tho colored representative of royalty, who refused to take the risk for a single cent less. It is not known whether Mr. Walter Neil son paid the whole sum or only a portion of it. Hardly had the members regained their composure when from tho Wall street entrance a party of brokers wero seen advancing toward the rostrum. Iu their company was an Italian family con sisting of an organ grinder, his wife and a baby. The itinerant musician carried his instrument with him, and walked for ward, occasionally shrugging his should ers in mih protest against tlio manner in which he had been torn away from his avocation at the comer of a neighboring street. His wife was less composed, and lamented with tears aud waitings the de plorable fate whichshe evidently believed was in store for lief husband. When tho party arrived in front of tho rostrum, tho Italian wishing his organ and calmly ground out an operatic air. Ho was re warded with something more substantial than applause, and his amazed wifo dried her tears, placed the baby upon the floor, and going down upon her knees, gathered up the currency that was liber ally showered upon her by the exliilar ated brokers. Tho Sultan and Satan. There is an Eastern story of a Sultan who overslept himself so as not to awak en at the hour of jirayer. So tho devil came and waked him, and told him to get up and pray. " Who aro you ?" said the Sultan. " Oh, no matter," re plied tho other ; " my act is good, is it ap-'not ? No matter who does tho good ! nntinn oi-i lrtnrr na it. in frnrwl " ' "Ww " ! replied the Sultan, " but I think you aro I Satan. I know your face ; you have I some bad motive." " But," says tho 1 other, " I am not bo bad as I am painted, j You see I have left off mv horns and i tail. I am a pretty good fellow after all. I was nn angel once, and still keep somo of my original goodness." "That's all very well," replied the sagacious and prudent Caliph ; " but you are the temp ter ; that's your business ; and I wish to know why you want me to get up and pray." "Well," said the devil, with a flirt of impatience, " if you must know I will tell you. If you had slept nnd for gotten your prayers, you would havo been sorry for it afterward, and peni tent ; but if you go on, as now, and do not neglect a single prayer for ton years, you will be so satisfied with yourself that it will be worse tor you than 11 you had missed one sometimes and repented of jou loves your lauit mixeu wuu penitence, more than your virtue nea- 1 soned with pride, Was 'ot Poisoned. Dr. Corlieu, n French physician, hns just come to the conclusion that tho eldest son of Francis I. died of acute pneumonia, brought on by drinking cold water when he was hot. . And yi t mi ro than three hundred years ago tho un fortunate cup-bearer of tho Dauphin was first put to tho torture and then drawn aud quartered for having poisoned tho prince. The Dauphin had been playing at tennis at Lvons, aud being very hot, told Sebastian Montecueeoli to hand him a bowl of water, which ho drank off. As he at onca sickened and died the cup bearer was supposed, at the instigation of Charles V., to have administered poison. He was tortured, and of course confessed anything required of him, naming two of tho Emperor's generals as having been bin accomplices. From a report of a committee ot physicians who examined tho body, Dr. Corlieu says that the Dauphin perished through his own imprudence, and has thus removed a weight of ignominy from tho memory of Sebastian Montecueeoli, who is en tirely vindicated. Business Pkospects. Tho tide is turning. We have passed the point of dead low water and business is reviving. The Boston Pont snys, for instance, that within the last month a very noticeable change in manufacturing business has taken place that the classes of factories now are those which are running on full time, and those which are increasing from one-half or two-thirds to their full production ; and tliat no better gauge of the manufacturing interests of New Eng land could be found than this. At a recent meeting of English agri cultural laborers at which the famous scholar, Prof. Newman, was to speak, the farmers and landed proprietors suc ceeded in shutting every hall, and when the meeting was called in the market place were, by the connivance of the church wardens and town authorities, allowed to ring the bells throughout the speaking.
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