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HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher.
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VOL. VI.
KIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, 'AUGUST 10, 1876.
NO. 25.
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Will
Hush t
"I oan scarcely bear," she murmured,
"For my heart beats load and fast,
But surely, in the far, far distance,
I can bear a sound at last"
"It is only the reapers singing
As they carry home their sheaves;
And the evening hrotze has r:seu,
And rustles the dying leaves."
" Listen 1 there are voioes talking."
Calmly still she (strove to speak,
Yet her voice grew faint and trembling,
And the red flushed in her obetk.
" It is only the chillreu iilayii'g
Below, now their work in dune,
And they laugh that their ejea arc
dazzled, 4
By the nys of the setting snu."
Fainter grow her voice, and weaker,
As with anxious eyes she cried :
" Down the avenue of cheetnuta
I cm hoar a horseman ride."
" It was only the deer that were feeding.
la a herd on the clover grafs,
That were startled, and fled to the
thicket,
Ai they saw the reapers pas8."
Now the night arose in silence,
B rds lay In their leafy nest,
And the deer crouched in the forest
And the children were at rest.
There waa only a sound of weeping,
From watchors around a bod,
But rest to a weary spirit,
l'eaco to the quiet dead !
A WAYSIDE FLOWER.
They were walking up ' Love Jane "
m n pay, enatteriug procession girls
WjMi laurel wreathed lints, young
wen bearing shawls and empty baskets,
ft matron or two; last of all Stephen Fel
ton, a child on either Bide of him, and
in hia arms little Nanny Forsythe half
asleep. Wherever Stephen went chil
drcu followed, led by attractions irre
sistible as that which draws iron filings
to the magnet. Grown people could not
understand this attraction, but the little
ones never mistook about it. Sleepy as
she was, Nanny's small hand kept pat-
tiug ma Buouiaer as they went along,
ii ud her voice cooed words of drowsy en
dearment which made Stephen smile,
f loonjy as he felt that day. Each cheer
ful reply to the children's questions cost
an eUort; but he spoke cheerily all tho
Fame, and tried to keep hia eyes from
w.ndeiug fan ward to where Captain
Hullelt walked by the side of Milly
C.'r iVHS, witli his handsome head very
lieai' her;, and hi voieo murmuring low
seu'enoos inaudible to the rest of the
party. Many glances were sent back at
this couple from thore in advance, for
Ned llulktt was the novelty of the mo
ment, a hero and a stranger; and the
girls', who were only too well disposed
to pull .-iips for him, thought it quite
too bad" of Milly to ab.'.orb Ids atten
tions as she hud dono all day.
But, after all, what, could Milly, what
could any girl, do, when an all eouquer
iug captain takes up Lis position at her
.le in early morning and never leaves
it till lalo afternoon I It is not in girl
nature t'j resist such tiibute, and
(Stephanie De Witt, in front, was partly
justified iu c;illing it " a desperate flir
tation," although I fear the pout with
which she spoke was duo rather to
amour propre than outraged morals.
But on Milly 's side it was not all flirta
tion. For all her merry, saucy ways,
she was a sensitive, credulous creature,
just the woman to give " gold for dust,"
and stake her all iu that unequal barter
so common in this world of misunder
stood values.
Her cheeks were flushed and her blue
eyes full of shy excitement as they walk
ed along, talking about dear me, who
do people talk about when they are
yonug and of differing sexes f Captain
Hallett's line eyes said more than his
tongue ; his martial mustache seemed to
give point and value to mere nothings,
lie carried a lithe little cane, with which
he emphasized his sentences ; now cut
ting the air, now beheading a mullein,
in a way whiidi Milly thought fascinat
ing. And then Lore lane was such a
pretty spot to be eloquent in. Its
windiug turns wero hedged wi'h fragrant
growths, woodbine, brier, sweet-fern,
and buy. Overhead tho treis met and
clasped in f-hady aiclus. Hero and
there a pino honeysuckle glinted in the
network of green, or a trail of hhimmer
ing clematis. The pure primrose light
of a cloudless sunset sifted down through
the canopy of boughs, a light broezu
Btirred, full of delicious smells. It was
like au evening iu fairyland.
Suddenly a turning brought them to
a iern clad bank, agaiuGt which, set in a
framework of tremulous verdure, stood
one rose, of perfect wild wood pink,
poised at tip of a cluster of vivid leaves.
It was like an enchanted queen, Milly
thought.
How beautiful !" she cried ; but
even as the words left her lips tho rest
loss cano flew through the air, flicked
the rose from its ttew, and sent it into
the dusty rosid, a littlo whiiltund of
broken leaves accompanying its fall.
"What a pity 1" she said, involun
tarily. " lt'a only a wild roao, you ktow,"
surprised.
" But don't you like wild roses ?"
" Oh, yes; but there are so mauy of
them that it is hardly worth while to
waste. sentiment on a single one;" and
the captain showed his flue teeth iu a
smile which was the leas1 bit cruel.
Milly sighed, and cast a regretful look
behind. Her gentle nature felt for the
fair despoiled thing. But, after all,
there were plenty of wild roses, as Cap
tain Hallctt hod said, and presently she
forget her sympathy and its cause. An
other tun ing in tho lane brought them
to the village outskirts and to Squire Al
len's gate, where the rest of the party
were waiting. There were good-bye's to
say, divisions to make. Mrs. Allen was
intent on securing to each person his or
her own basket, Kitty Felton was count
ing teaspoons, Stephanie hunting for a
missing plate. Iu the midst of these re
searches Stephen came up with the ohil
dreu. He looked weary, and put Nan
ny into her mother's arms with an air of
relief, disregarding the drowty protest
which -he uttered. '
"Whttt a lovely rose, Stephen 1" said
some of the girls. Where did you find
it i
11 In the road." replied Stephen
" Somebody had switched it off its stem
and left it to die, so we ricked it up.
" Yes, aud Mr. Felton said it was a
shame to treat flowers so," put in a little
boy.
The captain listened impassively; but
Milly gave a half pained glance at the
nower. mat was just like you, Ste
phen," she said, softly; and Stephen
brightened for tlie nrst time that day.
It seemed to Stephen, looking back.
that his love for Milly had begun when
he wns a boy of five and she a baby in
the cradle. He could not recolh ot the
time when he did not prefer her to all
other girls. At school he was her
knight, his sled, his jaokkuife, his help,
always st her service. Stephen taught
her to skate, to row. It was he who
bought her the first maple fan ear. the
first arbutus; he who took her on sleigh-
rides, and walked home with her from
church and village tea parties. Milly
absorbed these services, not ungrateful
ly, but as a matter of course. She had
been used to them from her babvhood.
and could almost as well have dispensed
with sun or air out of her life; but the
sun aud air being never withdrawn, are
rarely noticed or alluded to. " Dear
good old Stephen," she called him. Now
it is not well for a man to lavish himself
on a woman who thinks of him only as
ueor cm tepnen
And now Stephen was doomed to
stand by and see a stranger appropriate
tho object of this life long devotion. He
had sown, nnd another was to reap of
his labors. Day by day all that summer
long the glamour grew and deepened.
Captaiu Hallett's leave of absence seem
ed of the most elastic description, per
mittipg him to stay the entire season at
Baymouth. His mornings, his evenings,
his noons, were spent with Milly.
Stephen sickened at the inevitable gold
banded cap which met his eyes when
ever he entered the house, aud proved
his rival iu possession of the fluid.
Milly greeted Stephen kindly always;
but there was a sense of interruption ;
he felt himself a third party. Then he
tried staying away; but that was worst
of all, for his love did not notice his ab
sence beyond a careless : "What ages
it is since we saw you, Stephen I"
This state of affairs of course set poo
pie to talking, but Milly was blushiugly
indignant. "It was hard," she declared,
" if a girl couldn't have a pleasant
frif n.'i without having such things said."
But her pretty poutings aud pretestings
made little difference, and it was gon
erally understood that the uffair, if not
an absolute engagement, amounted to
"an understanding," whatever that may
mean.
At lart the lotg, lovely summer came
to end, as sutumers will. Scarlet
boughs flamed in the forests, golden rod
' urned nlocg tho brooksides. the birds
rlw, mid with them Captain Hallet pre
pared lor night. ins onters had coine
ro report iu Galveston, Tex-is, and his
leave takings were hurried. The last
uonient was Miliy's, and though no
mo knew the exact situation of affairs,
it was tjken for granted that another
vcar would bring orange blossoms and
a wedding.
Miliy's owu expectations were not so
lefinite. No definite promise had passed
between her aud her lover ;")iit she
trusted him, aud waited brightly aud
hopefully. Letters earao and went: the
scarlet boughs burned into ashes and
fell to the ground in pale heaps; then
came snow and the winter, to bo in turn
scourged away by the whip of the fierce
Mew.nglaml spring, btul Mill v waited:
but not ho brightly now, for tho letters
came less regularly than at first. By-and-bye
they ceased altogether. Weeks
parsed without a word. Milly, with
visions of yellow fever and Indians
chasing each other across her terrified
brain, wrote and wrote again; but no
presage of the real danger which threat
ened glonced over her, till one day,
openirg tho newspaper, this met her
eyes:
"At Uulvebton, Texas, bv the Rev.
Pierre St, Cloud, assisted by tho Rev.
lliomas Dix, Captain .Edward iialit tt.
U. S. A., and Blanche Emily, only
daughter of tho lite Pierro St. '-Cloud,
of Pilatkn, Florida. No cards."
Mrs. Graves up stairs heard no sound.
but when she went down Milly lay on
the sofa white said rigid, the newspaper
; till clasped in her cold fingers. It was
loi.g before her tensi-d came back. Her
mr'ther flamed with anger, but the
girl hushed her with a weary sob.
" Wo wero never really engaged, you
know."
" Not engaged ! Oh, Milly !"
But Milly turned her face to tho wall
and said no more.
Baymouth was stirred to its depths
next day by the news that Captain
Hallett was married to a Southern lady,
and that MiJly Graves was down with
typhoid fever. Every one wanted to
help to nurse, above all, to know tho
particulars. Such masses of blano
mange and jelly were sent in that poor
Mrs. Graves was at her wits' end to know
how to dispose of them. But no one
could really aid, not even poor Stephen,
who scarcely left the houve day or night,
or ate or slept, till the crisis passed, and
Milly was pronounced out of danger.
Out of danger, bat it was weeks bo
fore she could sit up, an 1 weeks longer
ere she came dowu stairs, tbin, white,
shrunken mere shadow and wreck of
the blooming little beauty who walked
so gayly up Love lane at Ned Hallett's
side not quite a year ago. She was
patient always and unooiuplaiuiug, but
t-he did not often smile. Perhaps
Stephen won these infrequent smiloa
oftener than any one else, and he count
ed them as precious payment for all
timo and all trouble spent in her
service.
Only once did he see her shed tears.
This was when, hoping to give her
pleasure, he brought in the first wild
roses of the season and held them be
fore her. Suddenly a spasm passed over
her face, she gave a gasp, turned aside,
and struggled for composure. Stephen
dropped the flowers as if they burned
bis fingers and hurried out of the room.
A hot anger shot through him. " He
has ruined everything for her," he
thought. " Even a rose reminds her of
him. Coward that he is I They hang a
man for poisoning the water springs;
why not hang him ? though hanging is
too good for such a villain as he I"
Nature' processes of cure are secret.
It is in their depths that wounds begin
to heal. Gradually as months went by
the renovating principle worked in
Milly. She resnmed her place at home,
her little duties aud pleasures, and took
np again the burden of life. She was
pale still, but the paleness infolded a
sweet serenity which was no less lovely
than her girlish bloom. " Milly Graves
was real improved since ner disappoint
ment," certain severe old ladies assert
ed, and they were not far from right.
Stephen adored her more than ever.
Two years later he told her so.
To his surprise, she was neither as
tonished nor shocked, but looked in his
eyes with a smile which was sad and
tender and sweet all at once.
"Dear Stephen," she said, ."this is
just like you. Do you recollect the day
in Love lane, and tho rose yon picked
np out of the dust 1 You are doing the
same thing now, but I am not worth it,
dear, not worth the picking up.
" Milly," said Stephen, trembling
with eagerness, ' there never was a day
since I first saw you, and that was
twenty-one years ago, when I didn't
lovo you beyond any other living thing.
Pick you up, indeed I You, my rose of
all the. world I I am not fit to touch
your stem, my darling, or handle one of
your leaves, but I love you, dearest,
with the whole of my heart. Can you
not love me a little bit in return V
Oh, Stephen, I do I" and the fair
little fingers closed over his. " There's
nobody in the world like yon. I always
knew that. It's only tho others are so
much fresher, you know fresher and
brighter, and they might make you
happier than I can. You're quite sure f
You really want mo ? Then I'll do my
best. Why, Stephen, how happy you
look I"
" Happy I I should think so, when
I've got everything I ever wanted in my
life !" cried Stephen.
Siamese Gamblers.
A correspondent of a foreign news
paper gives the following description of
Siamese gambling: The Siamese are
inveterate gamblers. Gambling houses
in Siam are- as plentiful as coffee houses
at Bagdad" and Cairo, or as grogshops in
Calcutta and Bombay; and perhaps the
largest portion of tho government rev
enue is derived from them. One single
division of the fort at Bagkok is farmed
out for 300, 000 ticals, equivalent to about
four aud three-quarters lakhs of rupees
a year. These gambling houses are
largo sheds erected in every direction,
and always filled with men, women and
children, who squat round in circles of
ten or a dozen, devoting themselves
heart end Foul to the demoralizing pro
pensity, which they have neither the
will nor the inability to overcome. You
have a servant who has perhaps served
you well aud faithfully through the
month. You pay him his wages, and he
is at once off to some gambling shed,
where, if he is unlucky, he loses every
fraction of his money. Nor till then
does ho return to duty; and in some in
stances, by no means rare, he does not
retnrn even then.
Ouce taken possession of by the de
mon of gambling ho is not content with
losing his money only, but if ho has a
family ho stakes his wifo and children
and loses them ulso. Still he is not sat
isfied, and very of ton stakes his own life
and liberty. He goes to a money lender
aud borrows a certain amount at a ruinous
rate of interest, on condition that if he
is not able to repay him within a certain
timo h ) will wo k for him until the debt,
principal and interest, has been liqui
dated. A bond is executed to this effect,
tho borrower receives the money, goes
a id gambles with it in the hope of win-
ti ig back wnat no lias previously lost,
loses again and becomes the slave, and
bond servant of his creditor, who hires
him out and appropriates half his wages
in liquidation of the debt incurred.
ibis state of things continues for years.
and not infrequently the poor slave
dies in nis slavery, having over and over
again paid his creditor the sum orig
inally borrowed, but yet not free from
his debt, which the exorbitant rate of
interest has swelled out to a most enor
mous size. Royal interference is more
urgeutly called for, as not only do adults
gamble away their own lives and liber
ties, but even those of their children,
who, on arriving at an age when they
are able to work, fitd themselves en
slaved to hard taskmasters who dispose
of them as they please.
A Forgery Test.
When light is passed through a linuid
and then through a spectromicroscope
certain bands of colors are absorbed,
and by the comparison of solutions of
known substances it is found that the
particular position on the speccrum
where the absorption takes place is con
stant for the same substance. In this
way it is possible to say that human
blood is contained in a liquid ; also to
Coint out colored inks, such as Prussian
hie, carmine, aniline, etc. An applica
tion of these principles was recently
made m court uy uc. van aer Weyde,
in a case of counterfeiting a signature.
Tho defense claimed that the certifica
tion was a forgery, and that the ink was
not the same as that employed in the
bank. Dr. Van der Weyde's tests, how
ever, showed that the ink of the gen
uine writing and that of the alleged
forged signature gave exactly the same
absorption spectrum, hence the conclu
sions that in both instances the same ink
was used. It remaius to be seen what
faith will be put by the court in the ao
curacy of this scientific) teat.
A Strong Objection.
Are you satisfied with the jury, gen
tlemen, said an Elmira judge after the
jury had been impaneled.
" We are," said the lawyers in chorus.
A tall, gaunt figure rose np solemnly
in 'the jury box aud said, impressively:
But I'm not."
" What's yonr objection, Mr. S. ?"
inquired his honor, blandly.
" 1'his young man on my right, your
honor, has been eating onions."
" Objection overruled; go on with the
case," observed the judge, with a signi
ficant glance at the sheriff, and the tall
man sat down resignedly and held a
white handkerchief to bis nose as a sort
of signal of distress.
Watering with Chloride of Lime.
GalignanV Messenger says that in a
paper read to the academy of sciences,
M. Hoazean states that for several years
he has been calling the attention of the
pnblio in his lectures on the important
application the chloride of lime thrown
away as waste by the manufacturers of
pyroligneous acid around Bonen might
receive in watering the streets. Expe
rience, he says, has confirmed his opin
ion. During the last few years this
kind of irroration has been introduced
into that city with excellent effects, and
M. Houzoau thinks it ought to bo ex
tended to Paris, at least on the larger
publio walks, such as the Luxembourg,
the Garden of Plants, etc He remarks
npon the insufficiency of the watering
observable on a Sunday in one of those
frequented places. The ground gets dry
very rapidly under the feet of the
crowd, and all this population of pleas
ure seekers is soon immersod in a dusty
atmosphere, which is as disagreeable as
it is detrimental to health. The fino
particles of siliceous matter floating in
the air penetrate into the respiratory
organs, and cause irritation capable of
aggravating pulmonary complaints al
ready in existence, especially among
children, or retarding convalescence.
The same may be said of certain dis
eases of the eye. Now, watering with
chloride of lime causes these drawbacks
to disappear. It impregnates the soil
with matter attracting moisture, which
therefore retains a wholesome moisture
for a week. Consequently there is no
more dust; the wind can exercise no ac
tion on a soil damped with chloride of
lime.
This system of irrigation is both salu
brious and economical The chloride of
the pyroligneous acid manufactories al
ways contains some iron and tarry par
ticles, the dispersion of which in tho air
can only be conducive to health. This
irrigation is also more economical by
thirty per cent, than watering with pure
water. On a surface one kilometer in
length and five meters broad, sixteen
cubic meters of water are poured in a
day at a cost of ten francs. The same
surface will only require four cubio me
ters of the solution of chloride, at a cost
of only seven francs and fifty centimes
a day.
Coincidences of tho Present and Former
Presidential Campaigns.
The Republican candidate for Presi
dent, Gen. Hayes, and the present Prosi"
dent, Gen Grant, are both natives of
tho same Stato, Ohio.
The last two Presidents, Mr. Lincoln
and Gen. Grant, both hailed from the
same State, Illinois, at the time of their
election; and we came near having a
t hird Republican 'candidate, Mr. Wash'
burne, not only from the same State
with Gen. Grant, but from the same
town, Galena.
Mr. Conklin, a leading Republican
candidate for tho nomination, and Mr.
Seymour, a leading Democratic candi
date but for his own peremptory declin
ation, are both residents of Utica, N. Y.,
and are brothers-in-law.
The four latest Democratic nominees,
McClellau, Seymour, Greeley and Til
den, have all hailed from New York.
In early times we had three successive
Presidents Jefferson, Madison and
Monroe from fho same State, Virginia,
front which acother President, Wash
ington, had proviously been taken.
Of the first fix Presidents, four weie
from Virginia, and two tho Adamses,
father and son from Massachusetts.
The old and great State of New York
has never had but one President Mar
tin Van Buren aud that one only for a
single term, We mean only one Presi
dent elected to the oluce; for, although
Fillmore served as President, he was
only elected Vice-President.
Seven Presidents Washington, Jef
ferson, Madison, Monroe, Harrison,
Tyler and Taylor were natives of Vir
ginia. Tennessee has given us three Presi
dents, two of them Andrew J's. though
one of theso, Andrew Jackson, waa a na
tive of North Carolina.
Peoplo differ entirely iu opinion as to
which Stato the next President will hail
from; but we venture to predict it will
be cither from Ohio or Now York.
New York Ledger.
A Povfcriul Magnet.
Professor Smythe was once !ecturing
on natural philosophy, and in tho course
of his experiments he introduced one of
Carringtou's most powerful magnets,
with which ho attracted a Dloctt of iron
from a distance of two feet.
' Can auv of vou conceive a creater
attractive power f " the lecturer demand
ed. " I ken," answered a voice from the
audience.
"Not a natural, terrestrial object, I
opine ?"
" xaas, sir.
The professor challenged the man who
had spoken to name tho thing.
Then np rose old Beth Wimlet. He
was a genius in his way, and original.
Said he: "I ken give ye the faet,
6quire, and yo can judge for yerstlf.
When I were a young man, thar were a
little piece o' nateral magnet, done np
iu kaliker an' dimity, as was called Betsy
Jane. She could draw me fourteen miles
every Sunday. Huakes alive I it were
j(st as nateral as slidin' down hill. Thar
wa'u't no resistin' her. That 'ere mag
net o' yourn is pooty good, but 'tain't a
circumstance to the one 'at draw'd me.
No, sir."
Ingratitude.
Says the Danbury News : The morn
ing was clear and beautiful. The wife
went to church. During the service the
sky filled with swift tumbling clouds,
and the rain began to fall. Ho was in
a barber shop at this juncture. He run
home with the rain descending npon his
exposed frame, got her waterproof and
an umbrella, and hurried to the church.
He was all out of breath and the clouds
were all out of water when he got there.
She was coming down the front s.eps
when she observed him standing before
the building with the stormproof para
phernalia hugged in his arms. As she
reached him she observed : ' Ob,
you're very good to bring these things,
now that it's cleared off; if it had been
raining pitchforks you wouldn't have
made your appearance."
An Unhappy Couple.
Among the first things a oouplj have
to do npon getting married is to accom
modate themselves each to the other's
walk, and in this matter of accommoda
tion they don't alwayssuooeed well. Mr.
and Mrs. MoNabb have had an especial
ly hard time in this respect, and are
really little better off than they were at
the beginning of the honeymoon. Mr.
MoNabb is tall and lean, with a stride of
about a yard, and Mrs. MoNabb is short
and dumpy, with a step carefuly esti
mated by her husband at about six
inches on tho average; so, when they
first begun walking together, the effect
was odd. There was the ' patter, pat
ter, patter," of Mrs. McNabb's short
paces, with the heavy " thump " of her
husband's footsteps coming iu at inter
vals, and tho effect was simply ridicu
lous. At first the conversation between
them was this way:
" Oh, Augustus, dear, please do take
a little shorter Eteps."
"Why, Angelina, I'm walking as
usual; can't yon step a little longer, dar
ling ?"
But he didn't take shorter steps nor
she longer ones, because it was a practi
cal impossibility in either case, and,
after a mouth or two, their conversation
ran more interestingly:
" Augustus, dou't take such horrid
strides. I'm not a giantess."
"No, evidently, you're less like a
giantess than a beetle. Do you suppose
I can putter along to keep time with
your six-inch hops 1 Nousenso I"
At the end of the first half year the
two never went out without a quarrel.
She'd break out every time:
"You're a beast, Augustus I I'd as
soon walk with a big pair of shears I No
gentleman would straddlo so with a lady
on his arm, you brute 1"
"That'll do, madam! It's hard
enough to force a man to literally carry
you, without insulting him ! You'll die
of inanition yet. and next timo I'll marry
a womau with more legs and less
tongue 1 This thing's an infernal nui
sance 1"
Aud then they gave np walking to
gether for a year or more. Finally, as
necessity sometimes compelled them to
go out together, it was arranged be
tween them that in walking he should
keep time with every thiid step of hers,
and the plan works, after a fashion. As
they go along tho sidewalk the sound is
"patter, patter, thump 1" "patter, pat
ter, thump I" aud it's funny. The only
difficulty about tho device is thatf three
of her steps fall a fraction short of one
of his, aud every other minute 6he has
to wriggle aud hop or he has to halt and
stnmble to allow her to catch up. They
are an unhappy couple, and all because
the distances from their bodies to tho
ground vary so much.
A Horrible Collection.
Tho New York society for tho preven
tion of cruelty to children has in its
office a collection illustrative of the bar
barities practiced on young children by
their inhuman parents or guardians.
Among them is a wooden potato masher
with which John Hayes pounded the
face of his idiotic son until it was aw
fully disfigured. Hayes was impris
oned, and the boy sent to an asylum.
a. piece oi a uarrei noop, witn sharp
nails in it, is the torturing instrument
used by Miles Bradley on tho bare body
of Nellie Boyle, aged six years. She is
in the protectory, and he was imprisoned.
A more dreadlul weapon is a cat-o -nine-,
tails, made of knotted strips of hard
leather, bunched together. A ten-vear-
old giri, Anna Schmidt, was cruelly in
jured with it by Helena Wolf, who was
sentenced therefor two months in tho
penitentiary. Photographs of several
children before and after their rescue
from cruel treatment are shown, and the
changed aspects of tho littlo ones are
good to look at, after an inspection of
the unpleasantly suggestive collection.
The breaking np ol the " baby farm
ing " business is fully determined on by
the society, and their first victory was
recently obtained in arresting Maggie
McClusky, the proprietor of one of the
worst of such establishments, Bonding
her to the penitentiary for six months.
and fining her 250. A trophy of this
achievement is a nursing bottle, half
full of a liquid that looks like dirty
water, with a white sediment at the
bottom the vacant half of the bottle
representing all the food given to six
babies in half a day.
American Beef for Europe.
The steamer Egypt took out from
New York to Liverpool 810,000 worth
of beef to be placed in the Liverpool
and London markets. Tho firm who
consigned the meat had had ereoted a
large ice chest sixty feet wide and forty
feet deep, divided into air tight com-
Eartments. In these compartments the
eef is hung np in quarters a distance of
one foot apart. An immense chest of
ice is placed at one end of this vault or
receptacle, and a stream of air is forced
through, keeping the atmosphere almost
at freezing point. This was tho first
shipment of American beef to Europe
under the new plan, and tho consigners
t-tate that they can sell a first-rate qual
ity of beef in the English market
twenty-five per cent, below the price of
English beef. The New Jersey Stock
Yard aud Abattoir company is having a
steamer constructed especially for the
purpose of conveying beef, mutton and
perk from the abattoirs at Jersey City
to England on an 'original prin
ciple. Experiments have been in
progress during the past three months
for the purpose of testing the feasibility
of shipping meats of all kinds to Europe
irom tne mew lorn market without de
terioration. Heaven's Own Child. A little girl
in Reading, Pa., recently saw an old
drunken man lying on a doorstep, the
perspiration pouring off his face, and a
crowd of children preparing to make fun
of him. She took her little apron and
wiped his faoo, and then looked up so
pitifully to the rest and made this re
mark: "Oh, say, don't hurt him.
Ho's somebody's grandpa."
A new cattle disease called charbon,
iuvariably fatal in its effects, has been
visiting eome farms in Ireland. The
blood of the animals changes to the
color and consistence of tar.
Women's a d Men's Quarrels.
Two men were walking down the street
in Detroit, the Free Press says, arm in
arm, followed by two dogs. The men
were talking apparently about women,
which is an unusual thing, for says one
of them : Yes, by George, I'm tired
hearing abont that fuss ; every time I
go home it's dinged into my ears till I
wish I was in the Sandwich islands, or
my wife was, or something."
Then the other man said that he " did
thicK that women would quarrel oer
the most foolish things one ever heard
of, and he w;s glad that men did not al'
low such trivial affairs to disturb their
friendships as women did, and in fact"
Then there arose a chorus of growls
and yells in the rear, and both men
turned round quickly to see what was
the matter, and saw their respective
dogs engaged in a tussle, and went right
back to part them. There was a good
deal of dust and dog, swearing, aud
much excitement, and the ragged edge
of a crowd begau to appear, when the
two owners glided in and jawed at the
dogs, and as that did not have tho de
sired effect, possessed themselves of each
dog's tail, and tugged and nulled for
dear life. But the larger dog had locked
his hold on the other, and had shut his
eyes on outer things, and didn't care a
cent how either the world or his tail
wagged, so as he could hold on, and
hold on he did. Then tho owner of tho
other dog forgot himself and gave tho
big one a kick, and a red nosed gentle
man iu the crowd, who sported a pair of
bed-ticking pants, said if any one kicked
a dog of his'like that he'd kick him, and
some one asked him "what business it
was of his," and he said he " guesecd ho
had somo rights as a spectator."
" Get your dog off," says the owner of
the smaller dog.
"Get him off yourself," answered the
other.
"Blast him! I will!" said the first,
and he proceeded to deposit sundry re
sounding V'cks in the animal's ribs,
whereupon the owner interiered and
said " no gentleman would kick a dog
like that ;" and the man with tho bed
ticking pants said " that wus so." Then
the other man wanted to know " who
was no gentleman ?" and the man of tho
big dog said "he was," and the other
said he could " lick him if ho was," and
there's no telling what might have hap
pened if a bravo policeman hadn't
arrived and cracked the dogs over the
head, which had the effect of settling
the fight all round very summarily. The
two men haven't spoken since, but it's
supposed that their opinions are the
same as to the trivialty of women's quar
rels. Natural History of a Scold.
I had not seen Mrs. for a week,
and supposed her either siek or away
from home, when she drove up to my
gate one morning, with all her children,
iu tho carriage, and stopped to exchange
salutations. She really looked less
bright and blooming than usual, and I
said: "You have been ill." "There
it is again," exclaimed she, laughing;
" everybody sees the want of oxygen in
my blood. The truth is, I have been
sowing steadily for a week upon tho
children's dresses, and have not allowed
myself a breath of fresh air, which I
have always deemed etsacntial to my
health, and on which I am now con
vinced my good nature depends entirely.
At the end of three days of unbroken
sedentary employment I begin always to
falter, and can hardly eat or sleep; but
on this occasion I held on to my work,
and finished article after article, till my
head was in such a whirl 1 could hardly
count the garments as I laid them away.
But yesterday I becamo desperate; I
scolded poor Bridget for some slight
mistake, till she looked at me in unutter
able amazement; I ordered every child
out of tho house, even baby Benny
here, becauso I couldn't bear the sound
of a footfall withiu it; and when my
husband came at night, and told me I
looked really ill and nervous, it was the
last feather that broko tho camel's back
I was sure it was only a courteous
way of saying I looked cross and ugly,
and I burst into a fit of uncontrollable
sobbing, and went to bed like a naughty
child at eight o'clock.
" This morning I locked np the un
finished pile of sewing. We have a
dinner basket there in the carriage, and
are off for the woods. The children sav
tliey are in pursuit of fun, but I
after oxygen."
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What Leads to Mauy Defalcations.
A New York reporter, riding down
town on a horse car, observed a floi id,
bald-headed old man, dressed with
scrupulous neatness, sitting directly op
posite, who had the appearance of being
a well-to-do merchant; but suspecting
him to be a faro dealer, followed him,
at a distance, into one of the side streets
leading off from City Hall square, where
he disappeared in a hallway. Arriving
there, the reporter saw a hand pointing
to a sign which read : " Ring the bell."
The knob was pulled, and instantly the
jingling of a bell was heard. Then a
face appeared at a loophole in the door,
which was readily opened. The room
was large and elegantly furnished, and
oue of the most important articles was a
faro table. The benevolent looking old
man was dealing, and a large number
of dupes were losing money. In one
corner was a sideboard, upon which
shone numerous decanters filled with
tempting liquids. Within au hour's
time fifty persons visited this place,
every one of whom staked something.
They were mostly young men, clerks in
banks, insurance duces, aud wholesale
establishments down town, who dropped
in here to invest five or ten dollars, and
in nearly every instance to lose.
A Coincidence.
A gentleman at Saratoga, after waving
his handkerchief for half au hour or
more at an unknown lady whom ho dis
covered at a distant point on the shore,
was encouraged by a warm response to
his signals to approach his charmer.
Imagine his feelings when, on drawing
nearer, he saw that it was his own dear
wife, whom he had left at the hotel but
a short time before. " Why, how re
markable that we should have recog
nized each other at such a distance," ex
claimed both in the same breath, and
llicn they changed tho subject.
Women who Marry. "
Women who marry seldom act but once i
Their lot is, ere t' .ey wed, obedience
Unto a father ( thenceforth to a husband ;
But in the one selection which they make,
Choice ef a mate for life and death In heaven,
1 hey may be said to aot, The man they wed
Is as the living record of the deed
1 heir oue, momentous deed. If he be base,
It veils their deed with shame ; if he bo greet,
Enciroles it with glory j and if good,
Haloes it with religion.
Items of Interest.
A German physician says that only
those who perspire easily are subject to
lhonmatism.
The efforts to stock the rivers of Vic
toria, Australia, with salmon have com
pletely failed. .
' Ah I" said a young lady, 'tis sweet
to be watched over by a brother of
one's dearest friend."
There are at Clapham, a suburb of
London, some palm trees, formerly pro
tected by glass, growing in tho open
air.
Strong butter that must Lave been
which was found in a bog in Ireland,
where it had been hidden in a cask since
1798.
"I shall follow her soon," said a sad
eyed man at the grave of his wifo.
Within a month he was following an
other woman.
The Crystal Palace, London, has poid
no dividends for many years, and it is
now proposed to soil it, lease it, or dis
pose of it by lottery.
The late sultan of Turkey had 1,900
cooks, it is said cooks and sub-cooks;
bnt his successor has prudently dis
missed 1,450 of them.
Fishermen, wrap your trout in brown
paper, put him into the ashes with a few
live coals atop, and in fifteen minutes he
will be fit for a king to eat.
Men who "go West " to pick up gold
in the streets of San Francisco hire out
in the wheat fields, and, settling down,
obey the philosopher's injunction.
A Chinese newspaper published at
Shanghai, under foreign auspices, has a
circulation of 6,000 daily, and is sold at
ton cash, or something less than a cent.
What does Good Friday mean ?"
asked one schoolboy of another. " You
had better go homo and read your
Robinson Crusoe,' " was tho withering
reply.
A couple of fishes, brought from
Sherman, Colorado, have received tho
name of walking fishes. They have four
legs, which they use on land, and double
up when in the water.
Along tho St. John's river, in Florida,
the estimates of tho orange crop have
been reduced one-half, and the young
trees are said to be dying by scores on
account of the dry season.
" How early should the education of a
child begin ?" was the question asked of
a learned physician. " Twenty years
before he is born," was tho reply.
"Good mothers make good children."
Complain not that tho way is long
What road is weary that lcids there ?
Sat let the angel take thy hand,
And lead theo np the misty stair,
And there with beating heart await
The opening of the golden gate.
An undertaker's clerk at Chicago has
an eye to business. Ho observed a mail
outing a watermelon, and succeeded in
obtaining his name and address. He
said it would save much unnecessary de
lay. A man who has evidently been victim
ized wiites : Fifteen thousand dollars
iu gold will now buy au American lady
a decent outfit to be married in, and
there's no use talking about prices going
any lower.
A Southerner, writingfrom a wateriug
place to his homo paper, wonders why
a prudish girl who will dunce with no
one but her brother will run along tho
beach "naked as to the knee," aud
kicking sand at-her beau.
Surgeon Major Colvill, of the English
army, writes from Bagdad to a London
puper that tho true Oriental plague un
doubtedly prevails in that city. It has
boon treated with quinine, es an experi
ment, but not successfully.
The honor of tha best centennial joke
is accorded to tho emperor of Brazil.
Oa learning the number of revolutions
per minute of the great Corliss engino
at the Philadelphia Exhibition, he said :
" That beats our South Americau re
publics." It has been estimated that since the
first of April 75,000 to 80,000 bushels of
oysters have been taken from St.
Michael's river, Md., and sent to New
Jersey waters to be planted, while from
other points large t-hipments have been
made also.
' Are yon goiug to make a flower bed
here, Judkins?" asked a young lady of
the gardener. " Yes, m'ss, them's the
orders," answered the gardener. "Why,
it will quite spoil our croquet ground.
"Can't help it, mis; them's your pa's
orders. He says he'll have it laid out
for horticulture, not for husbandry.
It is noticeable that the Black Hills
furor has not raged so furiously among
the youths of our land since the arrival
of news from General Custer's command.
Many a boy who, some days ago, was
saving up his pennies to buy a railroad
ticket and revolvers, now walks out into
the back yard and cuts kindling wood
without a murmur.
It was at a Paris restaurant where he
had dined with a friend and given the
waiter a twenty-frano piece to pay for
the meal. The waiter returns, and
ringing the coin on the marble table,
says: "Sir, it is bad." "Bad!" cries
the gnest; "don't you see the date .
1835 1 If it were bad, do you think they
woull have let it remain in circulation
so long? "
The deepest perpendicular mining
shaft in the world is in Prizibram, Bo
hemia, and measures 3,280 feet It is a
lead mine, and is supposed to have been
begun about 350 years ago. In other
places greater depths have bt en reached,
but not by straight lines. A rock eo.it
bore near Berlin is 4,175 feet deep, and
a coal mine in Belgium 8,51'2. The
deepest hole ever bored is an artesian
well, of 5,500 feet, at rotBdam, Mo.