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HENRY A. PARSONS,. Jr., Editor and Publisher'
VOL. VI.
NIL DESPEItANDTJM.
Two Dollars por Annum.
IUDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, FEIUIUAUY 24, 1870.
NO. 1.
The Old Sweet Song.
1 remember a song whose number throng
As sweetly in memory's twilight hour
As the voice of the blessad tu the realm of
rest,
Or tho sparkle of dew on a dreaming flower.
'Tie a simple air, but when others depart,
Like an angel whixper, it clings to my heart.
I havo wa dored far undor sun and star,
Heard the rippliug musio in every clime,
From the carol clear of tho gondolior
To the wondious peal of a sacred ohime;
I have drank In the tones which bright lips
let fall
To thirsting spirits in bower and hall;
The anthonw bland of the masters grand
Have birno me aloft on their sweeping
wings;
And the thunder-roll of the organ's soul
Drowns not, the murmur of fairy strings,
Or tho phephord'a pipe, whoso mimic thrills
With tho breath of morn o'er the sloeping
hilh;
But none renmin like tin simple strain
Which my mother snug to my childish ours,
As nightly aud oft o'er my pillow soft
Hhe gently hovered to soothe my fearB.
I can see her now with her bright head bent
In tho light which the taper so feebly lent.
I can see her now, with her fair, pure brow,
And the dark locks pushed from her temples
clear,
And tho liquid rays of her tender gaze
Made eloquent by a trembling toar,
As she watched the sleep that is sweot for all
Like rose leaves over my spirit fall.
And the notes still throng of that old sweet
song,
Though silent the lips that breathed them to
me,
liilie the chimes eo clear which mariners hoar
From the eunkon cities beneath the sea;
Aud never, ah ! nev?r can they depart
While shine my baing an beats my heart.
That song, that song, that old sweet song !
I gather il up like a golden chain,
Liuk by link, when to slumber I sink,
And link by link when I wake again;
I eiull hoar it, I know, whon the last deep rest
S-ial! fuld me close to the earth's dark breast.
CAN IT BE TRUE ?
Did yon ever hear that thore were
two men lost between the walls of the
G.eat Eastern when she was building?
It is true, and I want to tell you about
it.
My brother John was a head work
man on tho ship, and ho got me a
chance to go about on her just as if I
belong1 d there. I was sickly, and they
always let rue have my way at home.
We weren't at homo then, nor had been
for years; but wo kept up the old ways.
So, us 1 said, I came and went on the
chip when otheroutsiders couldn't.
Sometimes I made believe do some
thing, if I thought anybody was going
to find fault. John would always give
mo something to do.
From tho first there were two men
there whom I didn't like, because they
didn't me. They used to ask what I
was thore for, and wink at each other
when I came, and touch their fore
heads. I always like to be let alone, and I
will be. And if folks begin on me, they
deserve what they get. Thomson
that's one of the men was for beating
mo tight out, but he was afraid of my
brother John; but Jackson the other
man was slyer, and I knew by his ac
tions that he was planning to do me an
ill turn.
So things went on for months, aud
the ship grew every day. When I first
went there, it was only a skeleton, like,
mill, by-and-bye, the shupe began to
show.
I wish I could make out how aggra
vating those fellows were. They did all
they could to bring it on themselves. I
don't think I'm to blame; bnt I want
you to see how it was. Don't you know
that some folks can do little things that
are not much to tell, but when they are
done, make every drop of blood in your
body boil, and every nerve quiver ?
Tin y can give a look, a wink, a laugh,
that will be rank poison to you, and set
you all of a writhe. That's the way
those fellows did, and I never said a
word for weeks, and pretended I didn't
see nor hear. But they knew I did, and
t hey took delight in it.
One day I was feeling pretty bad I
used to have bad days aud I thought I
would stayat home. I gota pack of cards,
locked my chamber door, and played
Holiliare till late in the afternoon. It
was the only way I could keep myself
from thinking. But by-aud-bye I pot
tired of it, and started out for the ship.
" They'll b.) gone by this time," I
Bald to myst.lf; "br.tif they get in my
way I won't stand anything."
When I reached the ship I thought
thoy had gone. Work hours were over
for them, aud all wa quiet. There were
no visitors about, and when I went ou
board, the ship looked deserted.
" I'll have a walk about," I thought.
" It will do me good."
So I walked around awhile, keeping to
myself, and by-and-bye I took a shel
tered seut besides pile'of board?, where
no one could see me, and fell a thinking.
I was thinking that my life was lone
some like, that no bright places had
ever come into it, that I never felt in
clined to laugh or to sing, and that, if I
should drop overboard and go quietly to
the bottom, it wouldn't bo much matter.
Well, I thought over that a long time,
and wondered what would be sail wheu
they fished mo up. I'd seen a man
fished up and carried home, and his
wife and children cried as if they'd die.
There wasn't anybody to cry for me.
John was good, but he wasn't of
the crying kind, and perkaps he would
think that he had got rid of a caro. I
ain't hard hearted, but when I thought
how my death wouldn't hurt anybody,
someway it made me feel so miserable
that I cried. And when once I had be
gun to cry, I couldn't stop, but went on
harder and harder. It was a good while
since I'd cried, aud I made up for lost
time, and cried for all the sorrows I'd
had since I was a little boy, and for some
that I had when I was a child.
I don't know how long I'd been cry
ing, when a light sound brought me to
myself. I'd forgotten where I was, and
that somobody might come along and
catch mo. I looked tip with tears nil
over my face, and my eyes full of 'em,
and there was Thomson standing within
tnu feet of me, looking at me with a gnu
on his face, and a fist iu his eyo, making
believe to cry and wipe his tears like a
bawling young one.
I waited just long enough to let my
nerves and muscles find it out, and got
ready; then I pouueed on him so quick
ly, that I had my hand on his throat
before he could Titter a sound. He
kicked, though, as he got purple in the
face, and as I hold him down. I let him
kick, for he was going just where I
wanted him to.
T hero was a plaoe, near by, still in the
shelter of the boards, where, for some
reason, two or three planks had been
taken up of the deck, and it left a hole
that led down to the very keel between
the outer walls of the shtp. In an idle
way I had often dropped little blocks
down there, and heard them bump,
bump, like stones in a well, as they
went dewn. Thomson kicked himself
iu this very direction, and just as my
hands were getting tired, and aB he had
got his foot up betweeu us, close to my
chest, to give me a kick away from him
. . 1 . . . ' . ..
with his last strength, I humored him,
and down he went, headforemost. 1
heard two or three bumps, and I hoard
no more. I stared down into the dark
ness, and fancied that I saw two eyes
ntaricg back at me but I heard no
sound.
By-and-bye I heard steps approach
ing. I started away, and laid down by
the board pile again. My brother John
came along and shook me, thinking I
was asleep, and I went home with him.
The next morning I went on board
again, but saw no Thomson. Men
were asking for him, but nobody knew
where he was. His friend Jackson came
and asked me if I had seen him, looking
at me in a very curious way. I told him
I'd seen all I wanted to see of him.
About noon they sent off to Thom
son's house to inquire for him, and
found out that ho hadn't been r ecu
there since the morning before. Bnt
they hadn't wondered at it, for he al
ways had neglected his family shame
fully. Well, to make a long story short,
they never lound him, and they never
suspected the truth. It was believed
that ho had run away, for he owed
more than he owned, and had writs out
against him.
I kept on going to the ship just as be
fore. 1 suppose you think that there
was one spot that I avoided, but you
mistake. The same place where the
hole was that particular hole that I
have spoken of for there were others
was the most attractive place on board
for me. I kept near it constantly, and
when I could got a chance I looked
down. Sometimes I would throw n
little block, or perhaps a shaving down,
aud listen to the sound. Tho blocks
used to fall u long time, but "not. 4
long as they had, and they always
brought up against something that
wasm't hard like wood.
But one thing made me uneasy, and
that was Jackson was entirely changed.
He grow sober and quiet, and kept out
of my way, though he watched me con
stantly. I knew from the very first that
ho suspected mo of doing something to
his chum. Ho never said a word when
they talked about the others running
away. Well, I wasn't much afraid,
since nobody could find the body, and
nobody had seen the deed done, aud I
didn't believe that Jackson had any
idea of the place ; bnt it fretted mo to
bo watched. Busides, I had begun,
after a day or two, to waut to toll some
body. Souietioies I had a griat min i to t':ll
John, but I didn't. By the end of a
week my nerves were on edge about
telling ; and about Jackson. The way
ho watched mo was awful. When I ,
passed near him ho wonldn't raise his
head ; bnt I could see him rolling his
eyes round to keep mo in Bight, aud
watch me out of tho corners. I couldn't
staud it. Besides, that black hole was a
nuisance. I couldn't help looking in.
I saw and looked iiito it in my dreams,
aud in my sleeping and waking fancied
I saw awf ul sights there.
One afternoon, late, just before the
workmen left off, I went and lay down
out of sight near that awful hole. I
meant to wait until it was duskMi, aud
then throw down some shavings and
chloride of limo. The smell mado me
ctazy. I l&y still about au hour, and
heard them go. They thought I was
gone, and pretty noon all was still. I
was waitiug till I thought no one would
see me, and just going to start, when I
heard a soft stop chining along, and
presently there was Jackson. Ho did
not see mo, aud I hid again quickly.
First he bent over tho hole, then drew
quickly back, holding his nose.
" He is in there," ho said to himself.
Ho took a tiny little lantern out of a
paper in his hand, lighted it, tied a
string to the haudlo, tied a handkerchief
over his nose and mouth, and kneeling
beside the hole, bent over it, and slowly
lowered his light. He thought he had
me, you see, and that the body had
struck somewhere, not so far do tvn but
he could get a glimpse of it with his
light. He was too much interested to
hear a step behind him, though it would
have taken sharp ears to hear it any
way.
Why didn't he mind his own business,
and look out for his own life ? What
did he want to meddle with me for, and
go spying round I Why didn't he let me
alone ? If he had, I wouldn't have
touched him. He knew that Thomson
deserved what he had got for his med
dling. I gave him a sharp, quick tip,
and down he went, lantern and all. It
must have been a pretty safe lantern, to
go out without setting anything afire.
Someway I felt sick, though I'd given
him only what he deserved, and I went
bock to my place and lay there all night,
and I kept hidden till late in the morn
ing after the workmen had come. All I
waited for then was to bear the master
tell them to plank up the hole. Then I
went ashore. And then I took a vessel
to France.
But I couldn't talk to the people there
and all the time I have been looking for
somebody to tell my story to. I haven't
done any harm. They might have mind
ed their own business, and I wonldn't
have touched them. But for all that it
torments me.
X see that ship everywhere. And
wherever I soe it, tho insidos are trans
parent, and I soo what's insUo of 'em.
1 ve read in the papers that two men were
lost in the walls of the Great Eastern;
and it must be a spirit that told, for no
body knows but me, until mis narrative
shall be published.
On tho Centennial Grounds.
A gang of Spanish carpenters Bre
erecting a frame structure to inclose the
space allotted to Spain for exhibition,
which is on the central avenue in the
western wing of the main building. Its
dimensions are two hundred and seventy
feet by sixty-two feet. Fronting on the
central avenue is the grand entrance,
the framework of which is nearly com
pleted. When covered with muslin,
printed aud decorated according to the
plan, it will present a fine appearance,
being composed of three arched en
trances, each forty feet high, with the
spaces between them elaborately orna
mented with the coat-of-orms of the
Spanish provinces and medalions of
Columbus, Queen Isabella, " the uatno
lie," Cortes and Pizarro ; the whole be
inflt surmounted by a large female figure
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representing opam drawing asiue u cur
tain and disclosing the Western hemis
phere. On its three other sides the
space will be entirely inclosed by glass
show cases, fifteen feet in height, each
side having an entrance of less size than
the one described. They will shortly
begin work on their pavilion, to be
erected in the rear of machinery hall,
and which is to be used as a dwelling by
a detachment of military engineers,
which will be sent here by the Spanish
government to superintend the recep
tion and custody of the exhibits. The
Spanish minister has inquired of Gov
ernor Hartranft and Mayor Stokloy
whether there is any law prohibiting
this detachment whilo on duty here
from wearing the uniform and carrying
the arms that they do when at home.
Mayor Sto' ley has replied that he sees
no objection to the Spanish government
doing as indicated, and that he knows
of no law preventing them.
Plans have been received from France
for fivo buildings, which tho French
commissioners desire to have erected on
'ho Centennial grounds for a special
illustration of the trades, art manufac
tures, government bureaus, etc., of that
country.
British mechanics aud artisans are
forming themselves into organizations
with the object of visiting tho exposi
ti n in a body, and making a thorough
and systematic study of what they shall
see.
Among the articles sent over heie by
tho Sublime Porto and entered in tho
custom house for the exposition is a case
of stuffed goats. Philadelphia Timca.
How Lands are Irrigated.
A Colorado letter to the Springfield
(Mass.) Republican says : Irrigating
canals aro almost always owned by com
panies, and they sell the water to the
farmers at about $1.50 an iuch, which is
sufficient for au acre. This inch runs
night and day through the whole sea
son. Thus the water for 1G0 acres of
land costs for one year $240, and it is
paid without grumbling. We havo es
tablished an entirely different system.
At the opening of the season the num
ber intending to use water is ascertained,
and the amount constituting the total
supply being known, a certain number
of inches is ghen to eighty acres, which
is a unit for computation, and the charge
for the same is the cost of superintend
ence and probable repairs. Tho price
affixed hitherto Las been about twenty
five cents an acre. If tho total supply
should run short, or if a farmer should
want more than his share, it is custom
ary to borrow water for a day or so from
his neighbor, or from several neighbors,
and, putting the whole together, tho
work of irrigation is done with great ex
pedition. So other neighbors take their
turn. Wheat requires to be irrigated
two or three times, corn perhaps four
times. The amount of water needed is
far more than one would suppose. To
trrow an acre of wheat the ground must,
altogether, receive water enough to cov
er every part twelve inches deep. Water
is most abundant when it is most need
ed, for then the snows in the high moun
tains are rapidly melting. Much fertility
is brought down from the crumbling
rocks, from tho dense forests and from
the dark glens. When one visits Snowy
rango during a hot summer day he sees
water trickle from all the snowbanks
and glaciers and glide through the mo
rasses, and he hears it tumble in cascades
and thunder far down the canyons. A
farmer soon forgets that irrigation is a
bother r ither he comes to like it for
he is his own weather prophet; one that
never fails.
Care of the Ear,
In his treatise on " Physiology," Mr.
Hinton is quite emphatic iu his effort
to make us understand that the passage
of the ear does not require clearing by
us. Nature undertakes the task, and m
a healthy ear does it perfectly. Her
means for clearing the ear is the wax,
which dries 'up into thin scales, and
peels off and falls away imperceptibly.
In health the passage of the ear is never
dirty, but au attempt to clean it will in
fallibly make it so. Ws.shing the ear
with soap and water is bad; it keeps the
wax moist, when it ought to become dry
and scaly, and makes it absorb dust.
But the most hurtful thing is the intro
duction of the corner of a towel, sorewed
up and twisted around. This proceed
ing irritates the passage, aud presses
down the wax and flakes of skin upon
the membrane of the tympanum, pro
ducing pain, inflammation and deafness.
The washing should only extend to the
outer surface, as far as the fingers can
reach.
A Busy Life,
General Harrison Morgan, of Sandis
fleld, was fined at the superior court in
Pittsfleld, Mass., January 19, and sen
tenced to seven years imprisonment at
Charleston five years for forgery, and
two years for adultery. He was proved
to have three wives living, to have
eloped with a fourth woman, the wife
of another man, and to have forged the
name of this woman's husband upon a
bank check, with which the fugitive
couple abstracted $175 from his bank
account.
The Candidate for Office. .
Wheu I walked down tho street next
day the perception of my new relations
with tho public surprised me like the
shock of a gelid bath. Instead of the
cold and somewhat shy deference habitu
ally accorded to independent position
and reserved manners, I was everywhere
accosted with an easy and aggressive
familiarity.
My right hand was crushed with the
cordiality of follows whose Jnames were
unknown to me, and my ribsjached with
the friendly pokes of people whose
former acquaintance had never trans
cended a distant nod. Tom introduced
me to his neighbor Dick, and Dick pre
sented his friend Harry, and Harry call
ed up his fellow citizens Ragtag and
Bobtail, and everybody wanted to know
my opinions on all imaginable subjects
grangers, railroads, local option, free
schools, Cuba, the next Presidency and
what not.
I was seriously embarrassed at finding
myself for the first time face to face with
a constituency, bnt was humanely re
lieved by Buliy M'Gue, who stepped up
and whispered in my ear, confidentially :
"You can answer alJ them questions
most satisfactory in one word treat 1"
"A friend in need is a friend indeed,"
and by authority my committee man led
the constituency into the next grocery.
Then I waa followed by a bevy of little
girls collecting for the mite Bociety, who
pertly demanded a dollar from the candi
date. Reflecting that little girls have fathers
who have votes, I called a eweet, blush
ing maiden who was modestly hanging
back and gave her the dollar, with a pat
on tho head and a compliment added.
This was observed, and at the next cor
ner I was boned by a maiden aunt of
one of the little girls for a contribution
to the heathen, especially those whose
lot is cast in our borders.
I escaped into a friendly store, but
there the proprietor spread his stock of
silks on tho counter, insisting I should
select a dress for madam to wear at the
capital next winter. Only sixty-five dol
lars the pattern. "Very proud to have
your name on our books," said he,
bundling up the dress and sending it off
by a boy without my daring to object.
I was next obliged to buy a raw
boned, spavined, wind-broken horse to
electioneer on, because a warm friend
and voter insisted on it. A burly fel
low claimed two dollars of me for a load
of worm-eaton pine wood he had thrown
off at my door without saying "By your
leave," and although he knew I peculiar
ly despised that kind of fuel.
Hastening homeward, I was waylaid
by a disagreeable, peak-nosed elder who
had seceded aud was trying to get up an
opposition meeting house to divide our
condemn him and his enterprise he now
asserts his advantage and thrusts his
greasy subscription papeij under my
nosei with the .rsitr " that candidates
for publio favors is expected to be
liberal."
I fork over twenty dollars with a
grorm. Yesterday I was impressed with
the belief that the public, "through its
coramittoe," was soliciting a favor from
me ; to-dny the boot seems to be on the
other leg. " Porte Crayon."
The Queen of England.
Queen Victoria, in her address to the
English Parliament, speaks as follows :
My relations with all foreign powers con
tinue of a cordial character. The in
surrectionary movement which during
the lost six months has been maintained
in the Turkish provinces of Bosnia and
Herzegovina, and which the troops of
the sultan have up to tho present time
boon unable to repress, has excited the
attention and interest of tho great Eu
ropean powers. I have considered it
my duty not to stand aloof from the
efforts now being made by the allied and
friendly governments to bring about the
pacification of the disturbed districts ;
aud I have, accordingly, while respect
ing the independence of the Porte,
joined iu nrgiug on the sultan the ex
pediency of adopting such measures of
administrative reform as may remove all
reasonable cause of discontent on the
part of his Christian subjects.
Tho humane and enlightened policy
constantly pursued by this country in
puttiug an end to slavery within her own
dependencies and iu suppressing the
slave trade throughout the world makes
it important that the action of British
national ships in the territorial waters of
foreign States should be in harmony
with the great principles. I have,
therefore, given directions for the issue
of a royal commission to inquire into all
treaty engagements and other interna
tional obligations bearing upon this sub
ject, aud all instructions from time to
time isuied to my naval officers, with a
view of ascertaining whether any steps
ought to be taken to secure for my ships
and their commauders abroad greater
power for the maintenance of tho right
of personal liberty.
He Missed Them.
As a reporter passed a North Hill
schoolhouse, says the Burling tou (la.)
llawkeye, a studious-looking lad came
out from one of the doors with a wor
ried expression of countenance and am
bled around to the rear of the building,
closely followed by a companion, who
popped from behind a fence. The two
sought a retired nook, where the stu
dious lad backed up against the wall,
and, reaching his hand behind him into
that department of a boy's clothing that
is patched next after his knees, he drew
forth a heavy buckskin mit, and again
another. As he readjusted his deranged
garments he winced a trifle, and rub
bing a little lower down on bis anatomy
gave vent to the remark: "They're
pretty good, Jemmy, but he missed 'em
seven times.
Unusual Excitement,
Tbe Loudon Spectator says that
the
recent terrible railway accident in Eng
land has caused "unusual excitement."
Certainly no one can be surprised to
hear that. A more horrible instanoe of
slaughter has seldom been heard of,
A passenger train ran into a coal train,
and injured several persons. Then an
express train crashed into the wreck,
aud killed outright lour or five passen
gers, among them the eldest son of Mr.
Boucicault, the well-known author and
actor,
Cambric Dresses for Spring.
The furnishing houses, says JTarper's
Baxar, are busily manufacturing cam
brio and gingham suits forspring. These
are made of checked, striped, and plaid
Scotch ginghams, or else of percales or
ambries in gingham plaids, of old-time
pink and white, or blue with gray, or
perhaps shaded brown. There is very
little of novelty in tho manner of mak
ing. The lower skirts are arranged so
that they train slightly in the house, or
moy be shortened in the street. One or
two bias gathered scanty flounces is the
trimming. Tho overskirt is a long apron
sloped to the figure, with full back
breadths that are caught up in a pun be
hind by means of a sash of the dress
material. An end of this sash is sewed
into the sido seams, and then a large
long-looped bow is tied in the middle.
This draws the front smoothly over the
figure, and the back breadths are pulled
over the sash in a puff. This skirt has
the advantage of being easily ironed, as
the sash and back breadths are readily
straightened out. A single deep, full
pocket is on the front. A hem, facing,
or other plain edge, such as a striped
border, is more in keeping with these
skirts than a ruffle or plaiting. The
body may be a belted basque or a- side-
Elaited waist, or else the baby waists or
louses once so popularly Avorn. New
belted basques have the side forms of
the baok beginning on tho shoulders in
stead of in the armholes, thus making
the long seams now used in all corsagps.
The neck is finished with an English
collar that is very high behind, and is
turned over in wide points in front.
The sleeves are ordinary coat shape,
with very simple cuff, or else with a
plaiting that falls over the wrist.
The bordered lawns aud organdies
called centennial lawns are being made
up with square kerchiefs or fichus some
what in centennial fashion. The floun
ces, overskirts, collar, cuffs, belt, and
pocket are all trimmed with tho border
that comes near the selvedge of the
lawn, or else iu separate horizontal
bands. Gayly colored ribbons, made
into rosette, are also used on these
pretty and simple dresses. Some of the
organdies are made of high colored pat
terns that will wash, and these are
trimmed with rows of box-plaited
flounces. Dresses that are meant to
wash have side-plaited or gathered floun
ces that are easily laundried. For trim
ming suits of solid colored lawns iu the
pretty rose, cream, pale, or dark blue
shades, white machine embroidered
muslin is used in scant flounces or
ruffles. This comes in sheer lawn mere
ly soalloped in deep scalloped poiuts, or
else dotted with close work, or perhaps
in the open compass designs of English
embroidery. Bands wrought on both
edges, with sufficient plain space be
tweon for ruffles, are sold by the dozen
or half dozen for a small sum. The
newest feature iu such bunds is to have
them in ecru muslin instead of in the
snowy blue white.
It is predicted that these colored wash
dresses will tako the place of the white
muslin suits that havo been so long the
standard dross for summer iu the coun
try. It should be remembered that
colored hosiery to correspond with tho
dress, and square toed slippers trimmed
with a rosette or a buckle, are part of
the gay and pretty centennial dress.
Joseph and Mrs. Potiphar,
This famous legeud, says the Home
Journal, is still found among tho Egyp
tians of to-day. but in a somewhat dif
ferent form from thut of the Biblical
narrative. M. De Lesseps, the distin
guished engineer and savant, who has
resided mucli in the East, gives this as
the Egyptian tradition: Potiphar was
not a toudor-hearted man. He impris
oned his wife, a3 also Joseph, although
the lady aud Joseph asserted their inno
cence. Tho judge ordered an iuquiiTf
and the wife of Potiphar, in her de
fense, urged that her passion for Joseph
had been awakened by his personal
beauty, which she declared no woman
possibly could resist. Others, she said
would have done as she had, an asser
tion she was invited to prove. On being
eet at liberty she iuvited a number of
ler female friends to meet her at her
house, without informing them of the
purpose for which they were assembled.
To each guest an orange ana a golden
knife were given, and they were re
quested not to cut the oranges until the
lady of the house had given them the
signal to do so, by pronouncing the
word "Now." The ladies, with their
orange in ono hand and their knife in
the other, wero gazing with surprise ot
their hosteps, when suddenly tho door
openod aud Joseph made his appearance
standing on tho threshold. " JNow,
cried the v.ifo of Potiphar, but her
guests, captivated by the beauty of the
Hebrew, paid no attention to what they
wore doing, and, consequently, cut their
fingers. Tbe party was called before
the judge on tho following morning;
every one of the ladies, . save one, hid
her wounded hand in the folds of her
garment, while the one whose hand
was unhurt declared that she had es
caped the common fate by throwing her
knife away the moment she saw Joseph;
and, on being lurther pressed with
questions, declared that bad she not
thrown her knife away she should have
stabbed herself to the heart, because she
oould never bear to look upon the He
brew and know that she could never poe
tess him as a husband.
Frightened him Off. '
He was on his knees to her. His face
was flushed, his eyes gleamed passion
ately into hei s, he talked rapidly :
"Nothing shall separate us ever
more, my darling. For your sake I will
beard the lion in his den I I will face
death on the battlefield 1 I will skim
the seas 1 I will endure all hardship,
all suffering, all misery 1"
He paused and looked eagerly to her,
with bis whole soul quivering in his
eyes.
" Will you do all this for the sake of
my love?" said she, gazing earnestly
into the burning eyes.
"Yes. yes: a thousand times yes I"
"And if we wed." continued she,
" will you get np first and build the
fire?"
With a shriek of despair he fled.
Danbury Newt.
Tenchlng Little Children.
The following extract from one of the
sermons ot Mr. Moouy snows me ap
peals he makes to his thousands of
listeners ; A young lady came home
from boarding school, and her father
and mother wanted her to shine in the
fashionable society. No, she said she
had somethingbetter than that. She went
to tlifl Sabbath-school superintendent,
and said to him : " Can yon give me a
class in the Sunday-school ?" He was
snprised that thisyounglady should waut
that. He told that he had no class that
he could give her then. She went away
with a resolve to do what sue couiu out
side of the school. One day, as she was
walking up the street, sho saw a little
boy running out of a shoemaker's shop,
aud behind was the old suoemaiier
chasing him with a wooden last in his
hand. He had not run far until the last
fl thrown at him, ond he was struck
in the back. Tho boy stopped and be
gan to cry. The Spirit of the Lord
touched that young lady's heart, and ahe
went to where he wai. She stepped up
to him aud asked him if he was hurt.
He told her it was none of her business.
Sho went to work then to win that boy's
confidence. She asked him if he went
to school. He said: "No." "Well,
why don't you go to school ?" " Dou't
want to." She asked him if he would
not like to go to Sunday-school. " If
you will come," she said, "I will teach
you beautiful stones aud read nice
books." She coaxed and pleaded with
him, and at last said that if he would
consent to go she would meet him on
the corner of a street which they should
agree upon. He at last consented, and
the next Sunday, true to his promise, ho
waited for her at the place designated.
She took him by the hand and led him
into the Sabbath-school. 'Cau yon
give me a place to teach thi3 little boy?"
she asked of the superintendent. Ho
looked at the boy, but they didn't have
any such looking little ones in the' school.
A place was found, however, and she sat
down iu the corner and tried to win that
soul for Christ. Many would look upon
that with contempt, but she had got
something to do for the Master. The
little boy had never heard anybody sing
so sweetly before. When he went home
ho was asked where he had been.
Been among the angels," ho told
his mother. He said he had been
to the Sabbath school, but his father
aud mother told him he must not go
any moro, or he would get a flogging.
Tho next Sunday he went, and wlmu he
ame home he got the promisod flog
ging. He went the second time and got
a flogging, and also a third time vith
the same result. At last he Faid to Ids
father : "I wish you would flog me be
fore I go, and then I won't have to think
of it when I am there." Tho father
said: "If you go the Sabbath-school
again I will kill you." It was the
father's custom to send his son out on
the street to sell articles to the passers
by, and he told the boy that ho might
have the profits of what he sold on
Saturday. The little follow hastened to
the young lady's houso and said to her :
"Father said that ho would givo me
every Saturday to myself, aud if you
will just teach me then I will come to
your house every Saturday afternoon."
I wonder how many young ladies there
are who would give np their Saturday
afternoons just to teach one boy tho way
into the kingdom of God? Every
Saturday ifternoon that little boy was
there at her house, and sho tried to tell
him the way to Christ. She labored
with him, and at last the light of God's
spirit broke upon his heart. One day
while he was selling his wares at the
railroad station, a train of cars approach
ed unnoticed and passed over both his
legs. A physician was summoned, nnd
the first thing after ho arrived, tho little
sufferer looked up into hia faeo and said :
" Doctor, will I live to get home ?"
"No," said tho doctor, "you ore
dying." " Will you tell my mother and
father that I died a Christian" They
bore home the boy's corpse aud with it
the last message that he died a Christian.
Oh, what a noble work was that young
lady's in saving that little wanderer !
How precious the remembrance to her 1
When she goes to heaven she will not
be a stranger there. He will take her by
tho hand and lead her to the throne of
Chribt. She did the work cheerfully.
Oh, may God teach us what our work is
that wo may do it for His glory !
Another Joan.
A telegram from a newspaper corres
pondent in Herzegovina states that a
Dutch lady, rich, but very eccentric,
has mado her appearance in the insur
gent ranks, mounted on n magnificent
mulo. She was received with military
honors, the troops being drawu up in
battle array aud presenting arms to their
mistress, who had brought with her au
ample supply of banknotes, which she
handed over to the chiefs of tho move
ment, promising further pecuniary as
sistance, by means of which she hopes to
secure tne aeieat oi tne xurks in less
than three months. She is described as
a sort of modem Joan of Arc, armed at
all points, wearing male attire and car
rying with her a Dutch flag, which floats
proudly on the breeze.
Playing at Hanging.
While some bovs were playing at
Dykehead, England, the other day, one
of them proposed that they should
have a game at Wainwright." This
was agreed to ; and the boys having
erected a scauold, which was done by
piling some stones or bricks against a
pole, a rope was attached to the top of
the pole and fixed around a boy's neck.
The stones were then knocked from
under his feet, and he was left strug
gling. As soon as his companions dis
covered the state he was in they ran
away. Fortunately their proceedings
were observed from some neighboring
houses, whence timely aid was rendered
the boy, who when taken down was in
an exhausted condition.
Poob Err. Kit Carson's remains have
lain since 1868 in a coyote patch, under
the shade of a couple of cotton woods by
the roadside on the Arkansas (southern
Colorado), without even a piece of
pick-.t railing to protect the grave from
the wolves, or a pencil mark on a shingle
for a headstane, to tell the traveler that
Kit Carson sleeps beneath it,
The Soul's Hope.
Behold 1 we know not anything ;
I can but trust that good faith shall fall
At last fr off at last, to 11
And every winter change to spring.
Bo runs my dream t bnt what am I?
An infant otying in the night
An infant crying for the light
And with no language but a cry.
Tennyton.
Facts and Fancies.
There are 33,616seamen in the British
navy, and 19,283 marines.
The revenues of the Church of Erjg
gland amount to $25,000,000 annually.
Chilinn women have received the
right to vote, the only qualification
being they must be of age and able to
read and write.
During the past twelve years Dart
mouth College has received about $G00,
000 in gifts, and about $700,000 more
will become available in a few years.
The Pennsylvania Legislature have
under consideration a bill making it a
ponal offense to point a gun or a pistol at
a person, whether in jest or earnest.
A girl inquired of the mayor of Meri
den, Conn., if ho could not forbid her
widowed mother to marry again. Sho
thought the police ought to be made to
interfere.
Mrs. Kirby, a widow residing in Cald
well county, N. C, lost eight children
in January by diphtheria; four of them
in such quick succession that they wero
buried together.
Silas Horton Stringham, rear-admiral
of the United States navy, died at his
residence in Brooklyn, recently. For
several years past he has been a great
sufferer from disease.
At a marriage in Boston, a few days
since, the daughters of the bridegroom,
who had no great partiality for the bride,
stripped the shawl from fier shoulders.
A police officer restored order.
Forest planting is thriving in Minne
sota. The St. Paul and Pacific railroad
has set out over 4,000,000 young trees,
and altogether it is estimated that 20,
000,000 have been planted on the prairie
lands.
A Chicago millionaire, M. O. Walker,
died a few years ago, leaving a will that
pleased nobody; and there has been re
alized thus far from the estato $35,770,
of which $26,100 have gone to tho lawyers
and administrators.
A man named Gill sued the Grand
Junction canal company, Eugland, to
recover compensation for the lunacy of
his wife, wl ich he swore resulted from
fright caused by a boiler explosion ou
tho canal iu 1874. The jury awarded him
100.
In thoso parts of Louisiana where the
rice was cut early the long continued
rains which followed kept the fields
soaked and flooded, and now from the
old stubble a second rice crop has come
up and is ready to be cut. This will
add largely to the rice estimate.
The Piute Indians, of Nevada, do not
gain by contact with civilization. They
beg in tho daytime, and at night return
to thoir wickiups, which are huts mado
of brush and old gnnnysacks, warmed
only by sagebrush fires. They do not
seem to think of bettering their condi
tion.
They call Dr. Peters, of Decatur, Iud.,
tho meanest man in that State, because
ho spent a good deal of money at a
church fair in buying votes for a cane to
bo given to the most popular doctor in
town, and, failing to get the prize, sued
the church for the money he had spent
for votes.
A ball was recently given by the vol
untet r fire brigade of Coventry, and at
three in tho mottling, whilo the dancing
was iu full progress, the gas was turned
off, and the entreaties of the firemen
could not persuade the authorities to
turn it on. The result is that to-day
Coventry is without any fire depart
ment. One cause of the great increase of the
number of rabbits in Nevada is found to
be the operation of tho law giving a
louuty for all coyotes killed, the latter
being the natural enemies of the rab
bit. Tho Indians scarcely ever kill a
coyote, notwithstanding the bounty.
They have a superstitious regard for the
animals, aDd before the whites came
among them never killed any.
How he was Outwitted.
The story is told of an old Quaker who
lived with a woman as his wife, but re
fused to be bouud by any form of mar
riage. Their relationship was known to
lie a perfect marriage in all but the form,
and his friends, while acknowledging
the purity of tho man's ideas, were
grieved at the scandal created by his
action, as he was known to be a good
man. He was, however, aeai 10 au re
monstrances, although his mends pre
sented the matter in every possible light.
At length some of the oldest and gravest
among hia friends determined that the
matter ought to be settled, witn or wim-
out his sanction. They therefore called
on him, and, in the presenoe of his wile
in all but the name, they renewed their
arguments. In the course of the con
versation they artfully managed to draw
from her the remark that she considered
him as her husband. Immediately
afterward they spoke to him in such a,
.i . . i; a1 - a
way mat ne, not suspecting weir initia
tion, replied : " Why, I consider her
as my wife." " Then I pronounce you
man and wife. Those whom God hath
joined together let no man put assun
der," said the oldest man in the party.
Tho outwitted Quaker was iuriousiy
angry, but he had been caught beyond
question.
Worthy Emulation.
The editor of the Lewistown (Pa.)
Sentinel has lately received a legacy of
$20,000 from an old citizen of Mifflin
county, as some acknowledgment oi tne
benefit derived from the reading of that
newspaper. An act worthy of emula
tion. How different the feelings of that
"dear departed " in his new home from
those of the poor fellows who were
taken out in debt to he printer. B eid
er, you may not be able to leave a $20,-
000 legacy to your editor, but do, do try
1 to get square with him. Exchange.