HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL DESPERANDUM. Two- Dollars per Annum. VOL. V. IUDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA.,. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1875. NO. 29. (Join ? A way from Home. BY WILL CAtlt.TON. And so you'll noon he goin' away, Sty dirliii'i little Boss i And you lia been to the store to-day, To buy your weddiu'-drei-s t And so yonr dear good mother an' I, Whoe love you long have known, M wt lay the light of yonr presence by, And wnl!: tho road alone. Bo come to-night, with mother and me, To the poroh for an hour or two, And sit on your old father's knee, The same as you used to do ) For we, who ha' loved you many a year, And clung to you, strong and true, Since we've had the young professor here, Ilave not had much of you I lint lovers be lovers while earth endures ; And once on a time, be it known, I helped a girl with eyes like yours Construct a world of our own s And we laid it out in a garden spot, And dwelt in the midst of flowers, Till we fouud that the world was a good-sized lot, And most of it wasn't ours 1 You're hoavior, girl, thau when you come To us one cloudy day, And seemed to feel so Bttle at home, We foarod yon wouldu't stay ( Till I knew the danger wai passed, because You'd struck so mortal a track, And got so independent an' cross, God never would lot you back ! But who would ever ha' had the whim, When yon lay in my arms an' cried. You'd some timo sit here, pretty an' prim, A-waitin' to be a bride ! But lovers be lovers while earth goes on. And marry, ai they ought ; And if you would keep the heart you've won, ltemombur what you've been taught : Look first that your wedded lives be true, With naught from each other apart ; For the flowers of true love n6ver grew Iu the soil of a faithless heart. Look next thai, the bud ef health shall rest Their blossoms upon your cheek ; For life and love are a burden at best If tho body be sick and weak. Look next that your kitchen fire be bright, And your hands be neat and skilled ; For the love of man oft takes its flight If his stomach be not well filled. Look next thit your money is fairly earned Ere ever it be spent ; For oorafort and love, however turned, Will no'ur pay ten per cent. And, next, duo care and diligo'noe keep That the mini) be trained and fod ; For blessing over look uhabby and cheap That li0'ht on an empty head. Aud if it nhull please the gracious God That children to you belong, llamcmbar, my child, aud spare the rod Till you've taught them right and wrong ; And show 'cm that though this life's a etart For the bettor world, no doubt, Yet eartii an' heaven aiu't so far apart As many good folks make out. Harper'a Weekly. Iil II K DESERVE IT 2 Billy Merrium was a "cattle-boy" at a stock farm iu the "bush" iu South Austrulia. lie was n happy-go-lucky sort of itnl, niitl, from all accounts, a rather graceless one. It was Lis bflsiuess, iu company with hnlf-a-ilozn other stockmen, to watch over a herd of cloven thousand cattle, that had their pasturage in the valley of .1 small river called the "Wirrum," flowing int j tho Murray. The pasture, or " run," extended for many miles along the south bank of the tt ream. No fences inclosed it. To the southward it stretched oft" to the almost boundless deserts of sand aud "scrub," where roam the wild black tribes, the aborigines of this strange southern con tinent. The stockmen are iu the saddle all day long, aud lead a rough life, full of adventure aud peril. One day a wild young bullock belong ing to Jiilly's "division" made a "bolt ;" that is to say, he put up head and tail, uttered a vicious bellow, and dashed off over the hills toward tho scrub. In a moment Billy was follow ing him with a whoop and a hallo, his long whip coiled, ready for a stinging cast. But the wily brute gaiued covert in a ravine full of tangled grass-trees, which led out of the valley on to the desert. To turn him back, Billy was obliged to make a long detour over the hills. In the meantime the bullock returned to tho plain, and ran from thicket to thicket, darting in ami out of the tangled scrub, where it was impossible to follow him on horseback. Half a score of miles are soon gone over in such a chase. The half-wild Australian cattle are very fleet, and have remarkable endurance ; but Billy over took the runaway at last. Tired out and breathless, the steer stumbled and fell heavily. There he lay palpitating, with the whites of his wicked little eyes glaring at his pursuer. "I'll teach you a lesson 1" cried Billy, galloping alongside aud leaping off his his horse. "I'll take the quirks out of you, sir 1" and the heavy lash came cruelly down with a sounding crack, which made the hair fly up in a long line, and drew a wild bellow of pain from the prostrate animal. The wild, rough boy had no pity in his heart. One stroke by no means sat isfied his temper. A score of lashes fell fast and heavy, and when his arm ached, he rested a few moments, then com menced afresh : and, to tell the truth, i kept Hogging the poor animal till the hair was nearly all off its back, and not only the hair, but the hide with it. Just at this stage of the performance, an unexpected event happened. Billy's horse a native-bred and rather wild creature, named Blinker rinding his master's attention occupied, concluded to forage for himself, and so trotted briskly away. No very good under standing existed between Billy and Blinker. There frequently arose an tagonism 'i Mixt them, which Billy generally settled with a few sound cuts of his whip. The horse took no notice of Billy's angry shout of " Whoa, Blinker 1" othor than to display both his liind hoofs, and move away at increased speed. Billy threw down his whip and set off afler his faithless steed, exhorting him to stop, in very strong terms. But Blinker, having got the start, kept it, and the boy soon lost sight of him amidst the thickets and sand-knolls. To add to the lad's discomfort, a "scud " had arisen. It began to rain furiously. To escape a drenching, he crept under a grass-tree, the long, droop ing leaves of which depended nearly to the ground. It continued to rain as it rains only in Australia for an hour or two. A violent wind drove the blinding sheets of water. Billy could only remain where he was, aud wait for the shower to pass. When at length the tornado slackened, it was late iu the afternoon, and owing to tho black, rolling clouds, it was rap idly growing dark. The boy crept out from his shelter, however, aud set off at a round pace, knowing that if he would reach the ranche that night, he had no time to lose. His thoughts were occupied rather with the prodigious flogging ho meant to give Blinker than with the course homeward, and it is not surprising that in a littlo time he found he had lout his way. IIo was on an almost level plain, sur rounded on all sides Viy scattered scrub aud by bare sand-hills that looked be wilderiugly alike. Along the whole dim horizon there Wftfl no mmmfnin f.r enrva as a landmark. Billy was puzzled and win,, uuii not, inguieneu. lie ran on at a venture past thicket and hillock, till it had crown fifirlr n Inrlr in, loo I fl-mf he could scarcely see, and had no longer tho least idea towards what point of the compass he was going. The dosei't is not, ft 'nnmfnrtntila .tlnui to be lost in, and Billy's sensations were iar ii'om pieasaut. to lall into the hands of the blacks and bo kept a pris oner, or perhaps bo roasted aud eaten, Were nmOTlff the Minnnna rf vaTYInim'im o uuvuu v. .UWIMU.Ug long iu the locality in which ho found himself. On horseback there was little danger of being caught by the natives. Ou foot, however, few Europeans would care to try a race with those long-legged blacks, with their boomerangs whistling about his ears. ' A kind of large black 6nake, very ac tive, and a deadly bite.r, is common iu the scrub. Billy dreaded the snakes almost as much as the blacks? Then, too, he was wet. and the nie-ht was chilly. He had, hqwever, a bit of "damper " bread in the leathern Docket of his jacket. This he ate while peering about lor somo nook or Mieltered Rpot, where he might creep to escape the cold wind and to pass the night. At the foot of one of tho bare hillocks close at hand, he presently saw a large rock half hidden by the shaggy grass trees. Pushing through tho shrubbery, he found that the rock overhung on the lower side, offering a partial shelter. Here he sat down and determmed t ) remain till daylight. It was a drearv evening, and the slow hours dragged ou a still drearier night. At first Billy was not inclined to sleep. Once a kangaroo passed at a littlo dis tance, making the ground jar heavily at each of its unwieldy leaps. Later, he heard the low, shrill "pheet " of a snake close at hand, aud hastily threw stones, sticks and dirt, to frighten off so unde sirable a visitor. Two or three times he fancied he heard a queer sound of snuffing further up under the rock, ami concluded that there was a burrow of wombats behind the bowlder, who were dissatisfied be cause he had. taken possession of their front doorstep. But thongh somewhat large auimals, Billy had very little fear of wombats. Towards morning he grow drowsy, and at length fell asleep. At broad daylight he awoke. Starting hastily, a sudden nimble caught his ear, and, turning, he espied a big mottled tail disappearing iu a rather large black hole, that seemed to lead back under the rock. He concluded the animal was a wombat that had proba bly been observing hira curiously. " I'll dig you out of here some day," was Billy's mental comment. Then he bethought himself of his situation, and sat up to consider it. He felt hungry, and by careful search ho found a few dirty crumbs of " damper " in his leather pouch, aud ate them one by one. While thus engaged, a bharp snapping of twigs drew his attention. It came uearer, and a moment later there burst through the trailing leaves the lean, black paws, and gray, wolfish head of a native dog. At sight of him, Billy jumped up in sudden apprehension. The dog snarled, then barked noisily. Immediately there arose a low, peculiar cry, apparently not a hundred yards off. It was answered from all about " Cooe 1 cooe !" The blacks were abroad oh a hunt. Billy's heart almost came through his ribs. If he ran, the dog would follow him, and the whole pack of natives would soon be at his heels. He glanced helplessly around. The wombat hole met his eye. The blacks were coming. There was no time to think twice. Billy instantly resolved to take his chances with the wombats, and dived into the hole. The dog snapped and tore at his boots, but he wormed his way in. The hole led straight back under the rock eight or ten feet, into the very heart of the hil lock, where it expanded into a sort of den as big as a baker's oven. Seeing him coming, the wombats sniff ed noisily, and went scrambling further back under the hillock. Here Billy had the satisfaction of being able to turn over. The dog was still worrying his heels ; but taking a stone, he struok at the brute's head with such effect that it backed hastily out, howling with pain. Meanwhile, he heard a jabbering out side. The blacks had come up. Several other dogs rushed successively into the hole, but on getting within range of Billy's heavy boot heel, beat a speedy retreat. There is no need to remark that he listened intently to hear what the sav ages were about. They were chattering eagerly, but in a jargon quite unintelli gible. Presently the hole darkened. Home- thuig had been pushed up into the mouth of it. At first Billy thought that the blacks wero stopping it up ; but a mo ment after an ominous crackling, accom panied by a smothered roaring, began. The natives had placed a Are at the en trance of the burrow. It flashed to Billy's mind that he had heard that the natives captured wom bats by smoking them out. An agony of terror seized upon him. Ten times rather would he have preferred a race on the open plain, with tho whole tribe after him. At first very little smoke worked back to where he lay, and he hoped that he might yet escape suffocation. Mean time, he could hear the blacks shouting, singing, and beating on the rock with their waddies, to frighten out tho wom bats, probably, for they evidently had no idea that there was larger game in the burrow. As soon as the first bundle of leaves and grass w is burned out, another was brought. Billy now thought of driving out the wombats, and of saving himself by sacrificing them. But on his trying to seize the animals, they retreated into smaller holes leading off from the maiu den, where it was impossible to reach them. Gradually the smoke found its way back into the burrow ; yet by holding his face close down to the earth, Billy managed to breathe. But it grew more dense. His eyes began to smart, and it was difficult for him to breathe. A hor rible death stared him in the face. Under ordinary circumstances I am sure that Billy seldom prayed. J3ut he thought ho was at death's door. Suffo cation had its fearful grip on his throat. " O Lord," ho cried out, his nose pressed iuto the dirt, " take pity on me 1 O, dear Lord, put out that fire, and drive away those heathen niggers I" and then, fairly besido himself with terror, he repeated it over and over with all his strength. Tha effect of this petition on the blacks outside seems to have been in stantaneous. The jabbering and shout ing ceased at once as if by niagio. There was a moment's silence, then a scamper ing. With his mouth to tho ground and his eyes tightly shut, Billy lay and listened. An utter stillness had taken the place of the noisy' jollification. The fire of dry grass burned out, and the hole began to clear of tho smoke. But for a while Billy had no thought that tho natives had gone. He knew nothing of their superstitions. He lay quiet and waited. Tho wombats came out of their leth argy and commenced to sneeze prodigi ously. They even tried to creep cut past him, but Billy drove them back. An honr.or two passed, and the boy was about innstermg courage to crawl out, when a slight noise on the rock con vinced him that some of the blacks were still near tho place ; so ho waited two or three hours more, as he thinks, then very cautiously crept down to the mouth of tho hole. There was no native iu sight, and after watching and listening for a long time, tho boy ventured to corns forth. Glancing guardedly backward over the rock, he saw, set on it, a broad wooden platter, well loaded with fried tadpolos, another coutainiug bulrush roots, aud a large pieco of scorched kangaroo meat. It is quite evident that the blacks had taken Billy's voice for that of some sort of divinity, whom they thought it was best to propitiate with a generous meal, and then le .ve to his own devices. Without attending to the savage offerings, or in tho least understanding them, the boy first assured himself that tho coast was - clear, then took to his heels, and soon left the rock far be hind. That this singular deliverance was iu answer to Billy's prayer, may perhaps be questioned by some people ; but all readers will agree, I think, that physi cally, at least, it was a good thing for him that ho prayed for deliverance. Without prayer he certainly would not havo escaped. He wandered about in tho scrub until it was nearly night, when he fortunately heard the guns fired by a party of the stockmen, who were out searching for him. They had become alarmed at his not coming in, and still more by Blink er's coming home riderless late the pre vious evening. So Billy escaped unharmed at hist ; but either the fright or the smoke, or perhaps both combined, brought on a feverish attack which lasted a fortnight or more. Ultimately, however, he re covered his health, and, I am sorry to say, celebrated his convalescence by giv ing Blinker a most outrageous beating. So, while his prayers saved his life, it is very certain his almost miraculous es cape produced no beneficial effect upon him otherwise. Did ho deserve his mer ciful escape S Youth's Companion. An Ancient Sword. Tho Buffalo Express says: There is in the possession of John Ende, a harness maker,- ono of the most ancient relics owned in the city. It is an antique two edged sword, made in 1365, one hundred and twenty-seven years before the dis covery, of America. The weapon is about two feet and a half long, and ex ceedingly well preserved. The blade tapers off to a sharp point, and consists of a thick piece of well tempered steel, about an inch and a half broad at its widest part. Several figures and de vices have been cut in it, but they are nearly obscured by the stains of rust. The date, however, is very distinct, be ing cut iu deep on both sides of the blade. The hilt is entirely of metal and strengthened by coils of copper wound tightly around it. The hand is protect ed by a simple iron cross-piece. That the sword is genuine is proved not only by its appearance but by its history. It originally belonged to Baron Von Lich enstein, a rich landed proprietor in Sax ony, and was given to one of the ances tors of its present owner as a pledge of a patent right to sell salt among the baron's tenants. It has been in his family for several generations, coming down from son to son with the privilege whiuli iU possession conferred. When Mr. Ernie left his native country for America he took the sword along with him aud still retains it. Perils of Strangers In Italy. The London Times says: Since the commencement of the present year sev oral cases havo occurred of English trav elers in Italy having suffered arbitrary arrest and imprisonment. A Rev. Mr. Allies aud his brother, walking along the road near the Cantine on this side of the Great St. Bernard, were stopped by two Carabinieri, questioned somewhat rude ly, and Mr. Allies imprudently answer ing in kind was handcuffed aud his brother told to go about his business. Refusing to leave his brother, he was arrested also, though without, as far as I remember the circumstanoes, being handcuffed in tho same manner. They were taken to Etroubles, kept in prison all night, and the next morning were handcuffed to each other and marched off like common malefactors to Aosta. There, after being put to considerable trouble, they wore admitted to bail until an action brought against tho Ilov. Mr. Allies for resisting the pnblio authori ties and using improper language to them was decided; an action in which he was fiually condemned to pay a fine of one hundred francs. As Englishmen are not required to exhibit passports when traveling in Italy, they were, of course unprovided in this respect; but tho Rev. Mr. Allies, who is a Roman Catholic, had his bishop's " celobrato " with him, and they had other papers, all of which, however, were oonsidered insufficient by the Carabinieri. The next case was that of the Rev. David Kay, a Protestant clergyman. He was traveling in a public conveyance, and on its stopping for a short time at a place called Avenza, near Carara, ho got out to stretch his legs. As ho was walk ing up and down, the suspicions of some over zealous gendarmes were aroused. They questioned him, but his answers were not satisfactory; they demanded his papers, but unfortuuately he had none, and so ho was obliged to suffer the in convenience of . being locked up all night, to bo taken before the authorities the next morning and released. In all probability ho was tho victim of a ludi crous mistake. The police accused him of refusing to give his name; but it is quite possible that on giving it they may have misunderstood him to say " Che," "what?" and on repeating the quesf ion he may have answered "Kay, Kay," twice over to emphasize it. This would have exactly the same sound as che, che, words which, when pronounced quickly together, are hot only the equivalent for " pooh-pooh," but being in very com mon use in that part of the country as an offhand expression of dissent, may have seemed tojhe police a contemptu ous manner of setfyig their brief au thority at nought, aryi sufficient to merit imprisonmnent for til night.- Ap. Old Xew Jlrftnswlck Turtle. The St. John (N. B.) Telcaranh says: The veritable father of tho turtles in this province has made his appearance hi Kings county, with the weight of cen turies upon his wrinkled shell. A few days ago, while Mr. Edward McLeod was rowing along the banks of tho Ken nebeccasis ho found a shell turtle, and with a natural desire to secure it for further examination, took some trouble to catch it. Ho expected to find an or dinary shell turtle, but he secured a walking dictionary of dates. The back of the turtle was quaintly inscribed with lacts and ugures graven thereon loner years ago, and apparently added to from time to time during tho post century . Scarcely disceniiblo, except upon close examination, were some hieroglyphics of the ancient denizens of the forest. The bow and arrow was the most conspicuous among these, and it was evident that the shell had borno other aboriginal devices, now nearly obliterated. The marks made by the early white settlers were much more plain. The first of these in scriptions reads: " Caughtin 1790, after a great freshet." The next chronologi cal record is: "Caught in 1801," aud from time to timo the turtle appears to have been caught and marked by its cap tors. The intervals between the dates range from threo to five years. The shell is. almost completely covered with these inscriptions. It would seem that this turtle was no fraud, marked as a hoax by some mod ern reprobates, for men of fourscore liv ing at Alillstreoni remember having heard their fathers speak of this marked turtle, which even in the days of the early settlers was considered an old animal. The First Schoolmaster In Xew York. Adam Roelandsen enjoyed the distinc tion of being the first schoolmaster in New York city. From some cause, possibly because "people did not speak well of him," he could not mako a living at his vocation, and so took in washing. But he did not succeed in his laundry enterprise either. There is a curious lawsuit on record which shows how ho demanded payment of Gillis De Voocht for washing Ins linen. Tho defendant made no objection to the price charged, but refused to pay until the end of the year. The court decided that Roeland sen should continue to wash for De Voocht the remainder of the year. Meanwhile the schoolmaster built him self a house, thirty feet long, eighteen feet wide, and eight feet high, whioh was rooffed with reeden thatch, had an entry three feet wide, two doors, a pan try, a staircase, a mantelpiece, and a bedstead. This latter was built into the wall, like a cupboard in a partition, with doors closing upon it when unoc cupied. It was a great economy in the matter of rooms. A sleeping apartment in one of the small Dutch taverns of that data often accommodated several travelers at night, while during the day it was only an ordinary publio room, quite unencumbered in appearance. But schoolmaster Roelandsen was unable to compensate the builder, and he fiuallv committed a grave offense, for which he was chastised at the whipping post upon the water's edge, and banished from the Dutch dominions. In the Russian army Prince Woron soff was commandant of the regiment of Hussars of the Guard and was pro moted, General Mayendorn receiving the place made vacant. But Mayendorff is a German, or of a German family, and upon his appointment fifty-four officers of the regiment requested permission to resign. Churning. Oh I dear me, hasn't that butter come yet I" she exclaimed, as she pushed away the little boy who had for the last hour been leisurely lifting the dasher. She sat down with a great jar aud a heavy sigh, lifted the cover aud peered iu, aud then, snatching at an old Weekly Index, she leaned back to (Dash read dash rock-dash rock read dash.) " Pull-back dresses going out of style, eh?" she soliloquized, as she got her eyes on the paper. ' Well (dash) I think (dash) it's high (dash) time for (dash) a change." "There's them Hodgkin girls," she continued, after a short pause, " they look just like a pair of wild ducks with the feathers all pulled off except from wings and tail." Then she dashed away vigorously for awhile, as if she thought she had those Hodgkin girls under the dasher Dash plash plash dash and then she ex claimed : " Well, here I So poor Susan Dayton's dead, is she? Well, I've been expecting it. Poor thing ! She's just starved her self to death for that heathen husband of hers. I don't believe he had a parti cle of affection for her. Sho never had decent clothes to wear, and was always afraid to tell him if the flour was out or if she even wanted a paper of pins. Now she's dead, and she's a groat deal better off. I shouldn't wonder if ho went right off and married the widow Bonton. I've seen him stop on the street and speak to her more than once. '? (Dash dash splash plash dash splash dash.) "Dear me! won't this butter ever como. Johnny, bring me a knife and let me scrape down the cream. Well, I guess it's coming. Mollie, put the bowl and ladle to soak in cold water." " Now let me see ; whore was I read ing," sho continued: "Well done! If that Minnie Bates hasn't gone and mar ried that Captain Howard 1 Old enough to be her grandfather; but then he's rich, and of course that's all she married him for. Poor girl I Money isn't every thing, and she'll live to regret her rash ness. Gracious I is this butter never coming ?" ( Dash dash dash splash splash dash-s-splash.) Another fire in Chicago! Well, no wonder; them people there are so wicked I should think the Lord would feel like burnin' 'em up. Now, when I went down there to see my sister Prudoncc, one o' them hotel waiters laughed in my face because I asked him for cowcuui bers, and at the Grand Pacific Hotel they tried to make me eat pie with a fork; and one o' those piratical hackmen would have cheated me out of seveh cents if I . hadn't stood np for my rights." "O-nh ! it's a dreadful wicked city I expect some day it will bo all coiitla- grnted." (Dash dash splaxh splash dash plash swash swash swash. ) "There, it's coining I" she said, as she leaned over the churn; "where's the bowl, Mollie ? Johnny, bring the salt, aud I'll have this butter down cellar in less 'n no time." Then she took off the cover, rolled up her sleeves, and, reaching her long arm down through the neck of tho churn sho brought np the golden butter by ladles fuls, until at last it lay a shining, irregu lar mass in the white wooden bowl on hor lap. With enviable ease and skill she work ed the buttermilk out and tho salt iu, now and then pausing to pick out a tiny speck until it was arranged to suit her taste, and theu, with a placid, self-satisfied air, she placed a damp cloth over it aud carried it down to tho cool cellar. " Now, Mollie,'" said she, on return ing, "that buttermilk is so rich aud sweet, we'll save a bowlful for the Joneses, and here, give mo some in this pitcher." Mollie filled the pitcher, and, taking it in her hands, tho good old dame put it to her lips for a long draught, and as she set tho pitcher down she smacked hor lips and feelingly remarked: " Old Bet can't be beat for giving the awfulest, goodest kind of buttermilk." A Palatial Hotel. The Pacific Hotel of San Francisco is brought into notice again by the failure of its patron, the Bank of California. The hotel is the most magnificent struc ture of the kind in the world. It is 350 feet by 275, and contains 1,000 rooms, not one of wlncli is less I nan sixteen leet square. The dining-room is larger than any private residence in New York, with hall a dozen exceptions. - it is even larger than six city lots in New York, and counting the broakfost-room and the privato dining-rooms, they ore equal to thirteen city lots in that city. As to the cost of this hotel, tlio figures are almost appalling. Mr.' Sharon him self informed me that the building and ground had already cost nearly $5,000, 000. He said he did not expect the property would pay as an investment. It will, ne thinks, be a credit and an actual benefit to the city. This is all he wants. He can afford to build one hotel, if it only costs $5,000,000. But why Mr. Sharon, who is a Senator from Nevada, should have such an extraordinary inter est in San Francisco is rather strange. He is supposed to live in Nevada, where his colleague, Mr. Jones, is supposed to reside, but he doos not live tuero. On the contrary, he has a very charming house in San Francisco, and never goes to Nevada, except on a business trip. from one year to another. However, he goes quite as often as his colleague does. The furniture in the Falaoo will cost $1,000,000. This is tho sum, laid apart for it. The mirrors alone will cost 8100,000, and the chandeliers $45,000. The silver will cost $00,01)0 and the linen $75,000. Mr. Leland estimates that tho furniture in each room will cost $1,000. This of course does not refer to the par lors or reception rooms, each of whioh will require from $5,000 to $10,000. The furniture throughout the hotel, like the building, is to be severely plain. The St. Louis Times gives the follow ing specimen of a wedding notice : Take away his little lat.'h key, lie will need cigars no more ; Life it real, Ufa U earnest. From this sad and fatal hour Gone to meet bis mother-in-law. Civilized Infanticide The Remedy. No animals are known to abandon their progeny, for the word abandonment cannot properly be applied to those few caws iu which the young of certain ani mals receive no care because they need none. In every species where the pro geny need caro and defense it is the one inseparable trait of animal "morality" to furnish theso to tho last extremity if need be; Even those who hold that hu manity is only the latest step of progress from animal life must admit, therefore, that a growth which seems all iu the di rection of improvement has at least pro duced one result which is a degradation, and puts man below the animals in bene volence, for all human races rid them selves of the burden of a superfluous progeny with more or loss deference to forms. It might be superfluous to speculate as to the precise point of pro gress toward humanity at which mothers find the maternal instinct less powerful than certain conventional considerations of good repute, or even of common com fort, but it is certain that the point is tonched at an early stage of the growth of every Bociety, and grows as the civili zation is higher. In the semi-barbarous Settlements of Asia, 'where children are exposed at the edge of the village at nightfall, aud are seized by the prowl ing wolf, and sometimes become the nursling of tho she wolf, whose heart proves gentlor than that of the human mother, the crime is less common than in civilized China, where there are recognized receptacles for the little wretches ; and in China it is still less common proportionately to population than in Europe. In Europe this vice has been treated in different ways. It has been recognized and provided for. and stringent enictments have been iramed to. repress it. In the Latin countries they have provided that the ' exposure " of the infants should re lieve the unhappy mother without tho destruction of the child, and the vast foundling hospitals have done great service in that direction. Iu England foundling hospitals wero looked upon, not as preventing murder and saving children, but as affording facilities for evil, just as the known existence of a receiver of stolen goods may be looked upon as an incentive to theft. They were so restricted, therefore, as to be in effective as a remedy, aud thence arose the English form of baby murder called baby farming, by which little ones were boarded out, aud ore not killed by vio lence but simply die from the want of proper care and nourishment, the profit to tho murderess being that a child may die in its first week, and she will collect the board nionay or several months. In this country' we hatfe generally gone a step beyond . England, and have mur- dsred the mother by malpractice before the birth of the child.. But this seems pnw lio- uecomu Onna-erous. There is hope, therefore, that public opinion will turn favorably to the best result yet achieved by society iu this direction the establishment, as part of the public administration in every city, of found ing hospitals. jSew ) ark Herald. The Shakers Dying Out. The New Lebanon correspondent of the Boston Journal writes as follows : It is much more probable that the recent rapid decrease in their numbers has been so startling that they do not wish it to be known outside. As all tho mem bers of the society would have to meet together in tho public service, it would be easy to estimate their numbers. A comparatively large proportion, espe cially of tho younger brethren, havo left the society within a few years, and there seems to bo little doubt that tho solid rauks which used to fill the iloor of the meeting house would be terribly do pleted if they could bo seen there to day. A number of outlying societies have been given up within the post half dozen years, their members being called in to man tho battlements of the central citadel. Weak families have been con solidated with stronger ones, and even with this aid they are compelled to call in hired workmen from " the world " to help them manage their large farms and gardens. One family which, twenty years ago, could send twenty-five or thirty men into the fields during the haying season, now is able to muster only two. The aid of mowing machines and tedders and horserakes and forks, however, makes them almost as compe tent as the largest number. Tho time has been when they boasted that in due course they would own all the fertile valley at their feet, and turn the pretty little Presbyterian church in its center into a sheep pen. In those days they refused to sell an inch of their land, deeming the suggestion almost blasphe mous. But for many years they have only held thoir own, and now even that seems to bo denied them. This year they have sold many of their outlying farms and others are for sale. Offering to do the Fair Thing. A story is told of an accident on the New London railroad. An intoxicated man was sitting on the track when the engine tossed him down an embank' ment. The conductor backed his train to pick up the dead body. The victim was found olive, however, only somewhat bruised, and taken to Norwich. The conductor kindly offered to take the man to his home, a few miles away, iu a hack, but he insisted on his ability to walk, and refused to be sent home. Th conductor pressed the matter, when the Milesian, who had stood the battling of the cow-catcher so well, bristled up with "Go away with your kirridcro. I'll go hom9 by myself, and if I have done auy damage to your old engine, bedad, 1 11 pay lor it on the spot. His Last Cent. "Have you any five-cent cigars? "Yes, sir," replied the clerk. "Have you any for ten cents?" "Yes, sir. nave you any lor niteen cents V pur sued the would-be purchaser. "V sir, we havo," said the clerk, at the same time handing out tho Ikx. Would you take a leuow a la-si cent lor a cigar ? rather ln hgnautly queried tho custom er. " Yes. I would-" nnanniKlilvi-otm-r, ed the clerk. " Well, there it is," sol einnly said tho strang-r, as h deposited one cent on the counter uiul walked off with his nrteen-ceiit cigar. Hems of Interest. Oxen are a dollar a head iu Eygpt. Nevada expects to produce this year bullion to the value of $25,000,000. Massachusetts expects to foot up 1,700 000 inhabitants by the census now being taken. Buffalo has decreed that no married woman shall bo a teacher in anyf its public schools. Lawyers have a clear majority iu the Indiana Senate, and furmers a quorum in the House. Edmond About calls France a sick sol dier of God needing to be cured through the lapse of time. " Whence came our aborigines ?" asks the Baltimore Sun. Where are they go ing ? is a more practical inquiry. French immigrants complain of tho treatment they receive in Venezuela. Nobody is so well off as at home. A Rochester paper suggests to Mr. Frost, who is languishing in the jnil of that city, that he had bebter thaw out. Tho African locust has appeared this summer in Germany, and laid waste tho crops on the Berlin and Anhalt railway. " I had my money and my friend j I lent my money to my friend ; I atiked my money of my friend ; I lost my money and my friend." At Ramseys, N. J., recently, a dog by digging gained access to a hen coop and killed twenty-eight chickens and tm ducks. The school commissioners of Mem phis have succeeded in placing all the colored schools under the charge of col ored teachers. The Russian aristocracy are opposed to their government taking any part in the Centennial exhibition. For all that it will be held. A satirical writer in a German paper observes that if people go to tho apothe caries because they are cheap, then doc tors must be frightfully dear. When freedom from her mountain height nn'urled her standard to tho air, her skirts, pinned back so very tight, made her appear exceeding spare. When a man sees a cat moving unsus pectingly along, within easy range, ho will involuntarily look around for a stone, however good and noble he may be. In 1874 the United States furnished five per cent, of the importations into Brazil, and received forty-six per cent, of the exportations from that country. There is a lake in Lagrange county, Ind., called Wall lake, confined by an embankment evidently artificial, and is thought to be the work of the mound builders. When a Canada girl loves she loves like a hand-engine going to a fire. Iu it breach of promise suit the other day it was snown tuat a young lady wrote ta The elevators in the now Palaco Hotel, San Francisco, have their uppermost landing on the roof, where a lino place is prepared for the guests to promenade and enjoy the extensive view of the city, suburbs aud liarbor. A little boy in Amity township, Berks county, Pa., although seven years old, measures but thirty-two inches in height. He has grown but little, if any, since ho was two years old. He is said to bo very bright and intelligent for one of his age. A hen belonging to a citizen of Beaver, Pa., is said to bo as fond of catching mice and to bo as expert in that art as a cat. Sho will pass a long timo watching hole, aud spring on her prey tho mo ment it appears, almost always with suc cess. A farmer iu Des Moines, Iowa, whilo driving his cow to pasture by a rope tied around her neck, was thrown down by a sudden movement of the animal, and turned a complete somersault, break ing his neck and driving his head vio lently into the earth. A very tall and shabby-looking man, after having a glass of liquor, asked tho bartender if he could change a $20 bill. The gentleman informed him that ho could. " Well," said the tall one, with a sigh of satisfaction, " I'll go out and see if I can find one." An enraged woman, with a knife in her hand, pursued her lover, of whom she was jealous, through the Paris streets. People leered at his night, and, ashamed, he turned and waited for to come up, when she plunged the knife in his throat, and he died in three minutes. This illustration of Sankey's melody is given in the London Times : Weary, working, burden'd one, wherefore toil vou so ? Cease your doing ; all was done long, long ago. Till to Jesus' work you cling by a simple faith Doing is a deadly thing doing ends in death. A youth named Stanislaus Morell was instantly killed by lightning while feed ing a horse in a stable in the town of Clay, H. x. On removing his clothes the perfect image of a tree was found in delibly stamped upon his left side. Tho trunk, limbs and leaves of the tree were of a red color, and were as perfect as could be drawn with a pencil. JSo other mark or wound was visible. A youngster being required to write a composition upon some portion of the human body selected that which unites the head to the body and expounded as follows: "A throat is convenient to have, especially to roosters and minis ters. The former eats corn and crows with it; the latter preaches through his'n and then ties it up. This is pretty much all I can think of about necks." There is in Dallas, Texas, a chain four teen aud a half feet long, and consists of one hundred and fifty different silver coins, no two of which are alike. The coin of almost every country on the globe is represented in the chain, which is linked together with small silver wire. It was found in the Indian Territory, re cently, and at one time was, doubtless, the talisman of some mighty monarch among the red men. A queer civil funeral, that of Cloris Pontonnel, the littlo son of a wine mer chant, took place in Paris the other day. Two persons carried the coffin and about twenty friends followed. At the grave the boy'a father delivered the following adress : Adieu, my son, adieu citizen, lor you were a citizen of the future not baptized 1 Now, "thou hast letumed to nothingness, for there is no soul. Be come manure an there is need of it for good wine,"
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