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i VOL. VI.
RIDGWAY. KLK COUNTY. PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1870.
NO. 34.
Wly She Sighs.
'Neth the sprea ting trees in the forest glade
. Where the harebells nod in the oheokered
eh.de,
On a bracken couch there she pouts and lies,
And smiles as she lazily droops her eyes ;
A (he rook, the brook, and the dragon fly
Ccmbfne in the sweetest lnllaby .
In oalm July.
R'te sleeps and her figure you'll just discern
'Mid the tangled grass and the nodding fern ,
A ilelicate form and a fair young face,
LlfH parted in etqnieite girlish grace
A n ore perfect pictiue you'd ne'er decory
'Neath the rustling leaves and thesummer sky
In bright July !
Slie sighs as she dreams in her ros'lc ntet,.
With hor dimpled hand to uc-r red lips prest i
With her gulden hair o'er the fern leaves
spread
Like an aureola around her bead
Ah ! pray who on tell me the reason why
This heaiteous maiden in dreams should sigh
In sweet July?
BI 4.K0THEB 4CTHOR.
Mo qultor b and bugs and earwigs swarm,
Ni;. atts are erasing up her white arm,
Twj monstrous spiders are rnuning a race
Aoroes the bloom of her fair young face ;
An 1 nil are drinking h:r rich young blood,
Delighted to light on a feast so good.
Ah ! this is doubtless the reason why
The Wutcous maid in her dreams should sigh
Insect July! .
MRS. DELAFIELD'S VOW.
Culonel and Mrs. Delafield had hardly
been throe months married, when they
arrived iu Washington ami settled them
selves for the session of Congress at
i'r.ovn's Hotel, accompanied by Mr.
ElliH, Mrs. D la field 'a father, who was
in the Senate, and her slater, Miss
Louise, who, though very sweet aud in
teivstiuK', wus wanting in that vivacity
nud auimiitiou which had made Mrs.
Delafield, when Marjr Ellis, the reigning
bi-J'.o of the previous 'season; and caused
niaumy Kate, who accompanied them
as .waiting maid, to predict that "Jor
dan was a hard road to travel for them
as Lad to be'ar company with Miss
Mary." Colon. 1 Delalield delighted in
his wife's popularity and felt an exulting
Mi!ise:f victory over other competitors
wiiim he saw her surrounded by he last
year's admirers; aud her coquettish airs,
and occrional demure assumption of a
married woman's dignity in her iuter
eourho with them, gave him as much
pleasure as the sense of still being ad
mired aud sought after imparted to her.
Ouly on oue question whs the colonel
iufru"tn,le--U could not bear to see
her wil;z; aud, with a little sich of
Baurik-e, the promised to give it up, or
ouiy waiiz vu;i tier bister and lady
friends.
" It s very silly nf him," sho Raid to
Louise, "but then he is such a dear old
goose about mo that ho makes it up.
and after all it's nut much to give up."
Louise tboiiKht dilTeieiitly, but pru
dently held h r tongue; not so mammy
Kate, who kni w Miss Murv loved " thcDj
twirling dances," nud was not apt t
dqny herself any pleasure for which she
longed.
"The Lord grant you gra le to keen
your promise, Miss Maiy, honey," she
etovouuy ejaculated, with tn freedom
of au old servant ; " but don't you
dance them waltzes at all. net even with
Miss Louise, for I tell you if you once
giis a-going you won I stop and the first
thing you know you'll be a spinning
arounJwith the gentlemen; you know
you always said that there was no fun in
dancing them witb another lady, 'cause
your skirts was in her way, and her
skirts was in your way."
Mrs. Delafield laughed at Kate's
earnestness, and throwing' herself on a
louDge eaid to her sister :
I guess mammy is half right, sis,
for I always feel when waltzing with a
woman that it's eating soup without any
salt, and I wish Colonel Delafield knew
how to waits, but it's hopeless he
wou't even try vo leani."
For several weeks Mrs. Delafield duti
fully declared to all her old partners
that her waltzing days were- over, but
hor feet would keep time to the music
and it was hard work to sit still, par
ticularly when an ancient rival, like her
Sf If now a bride, arrived from New Or
leans. Mrs. L irimo was. a crooje, and
waltzed as ehfl breathed, without a
thought of any impropriety in doing so.
" You had better kick over the traces
at ouco, my friend," she said ono even
ing to Mrs. Delatleld. I fell you it
does not do for us to let these husbands
think they can lay down laws for us; if
Colonel Delatleld forbids you to waltz,
forbid him to smoke, and seo whether he
will obey."
"You are mistaken in supposing Col
onel Delafield 'forbid' me t6 waltz,"
replied Mrs. Delafield, with a haughty
lifting of her head. He never forbids
me or orders me; he simply requested
me; I am at. perfect liberty to waltz; or
do anything else I please."
" Oh, yes, we all understand that,
these marital orders always come in the
way of a request; but if it's only a re
quest, why can't you take pity on Mr.
BjII and yourself and take just one turn
your old blunderbuss, as you call him,
is at the Capitol, and ho need never know
it."
"Yes, Mrs. Delafield," urged Mr.
Bell, who had joined them; "do let us
have one waltz. The house won't ad
journ till late, and you can make it all
right with the colonel."
" Oh, no, sho does not dare disobey
her lord and r&aster," laughed Mrs. La
riae, as sha whirled off with her part
ner. " You are surely not going to stand
that," said Mr. Bell.
Indeed, I am not," replied the lady,
rising as she spoke. " I will just take
one turu to show her her mistake."
" But the one turn " waa that "pre
mier pas." Nothing could stop Mrs.
Delafield, onoe under the influence of
the musio and the motion. In vain
Louise urged her to loave off, telling her
Colonel Delafield had return .'d.
"Yes, run along ana make your
peaoe." said Mrs. La rime, maliciously.
"I have no peaoe to make."
Yes, you have; for if ever I saw au
angry man, your husband is one. Ha
has been looking like a black thunder
cloud over there in the corner for the
last ten minutes."
"As well be killed for a sheep as a
lamb, Mrs. Delafield," said Mr. Bell;
" po let's have one more turn."
More to escape Mrs. Larime than
anything else, Mrs. Delafield allowed
herself to be drawn into the waltz, aud
when it was over Colonel Delafield had
left the room.
" He might have waited for me if ho
wanted me," she said, defiantly, to Lou
ise, who again urged her to retire. So
waltz succeeded waltz, as her old beaux
flocked around her, and it was two
o'clock before the ladies left the room
for their parlor.
" I think I'll stop here, and not go on
with yon, sis," said Mrs. Delafield, as
she reached her own room door, which
was in the same corridor with her sis
ter's. She tried the door as she spoke,
and found it locked,
" Let me rouse the colonel," said Mr.
Bell, who was with them. But - that
"instantaneous instinct," whioh Gompte
says is the only intellect of a woman,
warned Mrs. Delafield of the truth, and
sent a shiver of cold anger over her ten
times worse than her hottest flashes of
passion.
" Not for the world," she said, in the
blandest tone. " Poor fellow, I am sure
ho in tired out."
" But perhaps, after all, he may not
be in there. Let me climb up and look
through the transom; I can easily do so
by standing on this table," and as he
spoke Mi. Bell lifted a small stand in
front of the door.
" Let you look into my room when I
am sure it is in disorder ! No, indeed,
you can't do that, Mr. Bell; but I'll look
myself if you will get that chair for
me."
"Don't, sister; pray don't," said Lou
ise. " Either let Mr. Bell wake Colonel
Delafield, or come in my room and sleep
with me to-night. Indeed, that will be
the best plan, after all," she added, for
she knew her sister, and distrusted that
smiling face and low, set tone.
" Yes, I'll go with you, but I must
first be sure that Colonel Delafield is
asleep. He may be anxious, you know,
if he comes later and finds me not
hero."
" Come along, Miss Mary, honey.
I'se got a nice cup of tea for you and
Mws Louise. The colonel's all right.
kin wake him whilo you's drinking
your tea," said Kate, who knew the
temper both husband and wife weie iu,
and was anxious to get rid of the gentle
men who escorted the ladies, and gev
" Miss Maiy kinder quieted down " be
fore she came iu contact with Colonel
Delafield.
But they might as well have tried to
turn tho Mississippi river, as to divert
Mrs. Delafield from her purpose. Moui.t
that table and look through the transom
over the door she would; aud so, whilo
one gentleman held it steady, the other
assisted her, first to a chair and then to
the table. Peeping through, she haw
just what she had expected to seo : her
husband, with a face, as Mrs. Larime
truly said, like a thunder cloud, sitting
bolt upright in a chair before th-j !re.
"Yes, here he ii, fast aslesp; and I
wouldn't wake him for the world, be
does look so peaceful and happy. I wish
you could see him. Now I am perfectly
satisfied, and hope he will have as good
a night's rest as I shall," and she de
fended from the table as she spoke,
first to the chair, then to the floor-, smil
ing so sweetly that Mr. Bed was com
pletely deceived, aud mammy relieved,
believing that a good night's rest before
they met would clear the atmosphere,
andJMiss Mary,"too tired for a tantrum,
to-night," would be in good humor by
morning. Louise knew better; but even
she was surprised when, after sweetly
bidding the gentlemen good-night, and
ttaudiug quiet vhile mammy locked the
i oor, her sistor, with a wave of her
hand, dashed the cup of tea to the floor
which Kate presented to hor, and sitting
down in a large armchair as she spoke,
Raid, as she set her pretty foot on the
broken oup:
" Colonel Delafield shall go down on
his knees and kiss my foot before I for
give him for this insult."
" Sakes alive, Miss Mary ! What is
the kernel done to you ? You didn't ex
pect him to sit up for you, did you f "
" Hush your mouth, and don't dare
to mention his name to me; he was sit
ting before th-3 fire all the time and
wouldn't open tho door. What do you
think of that?" she asked, turning to
her sister.
" I knew it all the time, for I saw J lis
shadow on the ceiling just as you mount
ed the table; I did not know it was until
ho moved. What on earth tempted you
to get up there, sister, and talk as you
did I"
" I did it just to vex him; I was not
going to have it said that Colonel Dela
field had lookod his wife out of hor room
fir, waltzing just think how delighted
Mrs. Larime would . be to get hold of
such a story. No; ho shall go dowu on
his knees and kiss my foot before I go
back into that room; nee if be don t.
Got me another cud of tea. and don't
stand staring there; but make baste and
comb my hair, Kate. "
Kate obeyed without a word, for she
saw Miss Mary, as she expressed it,
was not to ue fooled witn.
Too loftily indignant to shed a tear.
Mrs. Delafield retired, meditating in
what terms she should snub her husband
next day, when he came, as she meant
he should, to sue for pardon. At first
she thought she would not appear at
breakfast at all, but second thought
convinced her this would be bad policy,
as she would be supposed to be peni
tent and waiting for forgiveness her
self. Neither would she let Kate go
next morning to her room for a morn
ing di ess that would look as if she was
inconvenienced by the colonel's act;
so, arraying herself in one of her sister's
prettiest wrappers, she descended, pre
pared lor conquest and lull of wrath
that grew hotter the longer it was
smothered. But Colonel Delafield, her
father told her when she entered the
parlor, had taken his breakfast two
hours before and gone to the Capitol
This delay was a disappointment, for,
like all impetuous women, she longed to
" have it out with her foe ; but din
ner time would do as well she could
wait. Ho, in a most ravishing toilet,
she sailed into the parlor after a morn
ing's shopping looking her very best, to
find her hnsband and father in an ani
mated discussion on some political
I oiut. Without speaking, Colonel Dela
fielJ roso and planed a chair for his wife,
while her father, ignorant that thin was
the first time they had met since the
previous evt ning, saw nothing out of
the way in his manner, but supposed
him only engrossed in the argument
they were carrying on.
Swelling with indignaliou at the cool
politeness of her husband's manner, the
little lady sat for a few moments silent,
not daring to trust herself to speak, for
the last thing she desired was that her
father should be cognizant of the state
of affairs.
Bofore the dessert was removed,
Colonel Delafield excused himself on
the plea of an engagement, and with a
comprehensive " Good bye to you all,"
to which his wifo did not respond, he
left the room.
He, too, was anxious to "have it out"
with his wife, but he meant to take his
own time, and supposed that time would
be when they were alone in their own
room ; but, in order to show his inde
pendence, he made it unusually late be
fore ho returned, fully expecting to find
his wife iu bed and ready to submit to
his rebuke and be forgiven her offense.
He was already sorry for the part he
had played, the night before he had
not intended to go so far, but meant to
open the door after the gentlemen had
left, till his anger was raised to white
heat by his wife's remarks when looking
through the transom.
Qreat was his surprise and indigna
tion to find the room empty on his re
turn, and no preparations for his wife's
toilet before retiring. The little slippers
that Kate elways set temptingly on the
footstool were missing, so was the dress
ing gown that was generally thrown over
tho back of a chair, while further search
revealed the fact that her tooth brush,
comb and brush, and other accessories
of the toilot had been removed.
" She can stay away as long as she
likes," he said, as he threw himself on
the Vied. "I shall not ask her to come
back."
Mrs. Delafield just at that moment
was saving to her sister : " I'll not go
back, I tell you, till he goes down on his
knees and kisses my foot."
Day after day passed and both held
stoutly to their determination; they had
been i'orcedfor appearance sake to speak
at the table, but nothing beyond the
shortest and coldest remarks passed be
tween them. Both were miserable, and
both determined not to be the first to
speak.
Mammy Kate meanwhile moaned and
sighed, goiug about with a funeral face,
and laying all the blame on " old Mr.
Ball's son John," who had no business
to como Lome, "looking like ho had
stuck one of his par's blacking brushes
over his mouth for a mustaeher." If
it had not been for him Miss Mary would
never have waltzed; or if she had, would
neve r have got on , the table aud peeped
through at the colonel. She had sense
enough to see that any remonstrance with
her mistress would be but adding fuel
to tho ilrnie, and sho did not dare to
speak to tho colonel.
Matters had gone on so for nearly a
week, aud Mrs. Delafield, though she
kept a bravo face outwardly, was hearti
ly tireel of the quarrel. She never
waltzed; but then she might as well have
done so, for her husband never entered
the publio parlor, where the effort to
appear in good spirits was becoming
daily greuter, until she was glad to avail
herself of the excuse given by slipping
one day on the stairs, and say she had
hnrt her aukle and could not go down
stairs at all.
The colonel meantime was equally
miserable, and fully as determined not
to make the first advance; but when two
whole days had passed, during which
his wife had never left her sister's room,
he became really uneasy about her, and,
purposely delaying to go down to din
ner on the third day till he was sure Mr.
Ellis and Louise were down, he waylaid
mammy on the stairs as she was taking
up Mm. Delafield's tea, and inquired
casually " How Miss Mary felt."
Mummy was a born diplomat and rose
to tho. height of her' opportunity.
"Indeed, sir, I's very uneasy about
Miss Mary; she is jest pining away, and
she ought to see the doctor, but she
won't hear of it; and Miss Louise the
don't know half how bad Miss Mary is,
'catwe she keeps up before 'em all but
me. 'Deed, colonel, you couldn't keep
so mad witb hor, if yon knowd how
sorry she was for 'fending you."
"Mad with her I the shoe's on the
other foot it's she who is mad with
me."
"Lord sakes alive! mad with youf
why, sho don't do a thing but cry 'cause
you don't go to see her."
The colonel's heart begun to melt.
" But if she wants me, Kate, why don't
she send for me'"
" 'Deed, sir, and so she would if she
wasn't 'fraid you wouldn't oomo. In
cour.se she don't . say so, but she just
says, Mammy, where is he ?' and when
I says, ' Lord, honey, he'd come in a
minit if you'd let me call him,' she jest
shakes her head and says: No, he
wouldn't.' "
This last was an out and out fiction of
mammy's. The colonel stood irresolute,
and Kate saw her opportunity and con
tinued her blows.
" The way she come to hurt her foot
was running to ketch a look at you,
'cause Miss Louise said as how you had
a bad headache and was looking pale.
But, Lord bless me, the poor chile's a
waiting for her tea, and she told me to
be sure and fetch her some chicken
salad, and I's forgot it. I must go back
and get it, for she don't eat nothing,
and jest has dinner brought up to fool
master." And Kate, like a prudent di
plomat, set the waiter down at the door
anJ went down stairs, convinoed that
the colonel would go in as soon as she
was out of sight.
"I can't leave her here sick," he mut
tered, as an excuse to himself, and open
ed the door quietly as he spoke. Think
ing it was Kate, Mrs. Delafield, who was
lying on the sofa in her wrapper, never
turned her head, but looked so utterly
miserable and woe-begone that the coU
onel believed every word Kate had said,
aud was kneeling beside her and kissing
her before she knew he was in the room.
With a little shriek she threw her
i ruis around his neck and sobbed like a
child as ho caressed her, calling her by
every pet name he had ever used, and
begging her not to cry.
"Why didn't yciu send for me, dar
ling ?" ho asked. '
" Why didn't yon come?" she re
plied. " BeoansH I was a fool."
"Well, I was another."
And again the kirsing begun aud was
curried on for some time.
"And I slipped and hurt my ankle,
and you never came near me. "
"Poor little foot," said the colonel,
stooping over as he spoke and kissing
the pretty little foot in its dainty stock
ing aud embroidered slipper as it lay
exposed ou the lounge.
Just ot this moment the door opened
and Louise entered, amazed and delight
ed to find the colonel there, but pru
dently ignoring the foot of his previous
absence, and speaking as if she expeoted
to find him there.
"Papa is getting uneasy about you,
Mary, and has sent me up to say that if
you are not better by morning he shall
beg Colonel Delafield to send for the
doctor to attend to your anklo."
"Oh, my ankle is all right now; Col
onel Delafield has juBt kissed my foot;
and on his knees, too, I declare," she
added, with a meaning smile at Louise,
as the colonel rose from the floor.
J' You spoilt child, you I do you really
think I can ' kiss the place and make it
well?' Hadn't we better have the doctor,
after all ?"
"If you do, he shall only see me
through the transom," she retorted, with
an arch smile.
Bnt Kate thought they were getting
on dangerous ground, and declared that
if Miss Mary didn't eat some dinner
right off she'd be sick "for true," and
hurried the colonel out of the room with
directions to send up a nice dinner, in
stead of the tea and toast which was
cooling in the passage. Closing the door
after Louise and the colonel as they
went out, she continued oracularly, ad
dressing the shovel and tongs as she
vigorously swept up the hearth: "Some
horses goes very well in harness till you
twitches the reins or shows them the
whip, and then they cuts np like Old
Harry; and I never could see the sense
of fretting men when they is goingright
any more than of fretting horses. The
colonel's done kissed yonr foot like you
said he should, but for the Lord's sake,
honey, let him think he's done it of his
own accord, if yon don't want another
hurricane. And here's your dinner
jest in time," she Baid, as she threw
open the door before Mrs. Delafield
could reply to her sage counsel.
What Chinamen Do.
As to tho business spirit of Chinatown,
iu San Francisco, a writer in Scribner's
says : Everywhere there is intense ac
tivity. A question as to what the Chi
neso do, would not be so easily answered
as that of "What don't they do?"
There are 3,500 cigarmakers who flood
the city with the cheap cigars; 4,000 are
engaged in boot and shoe making. They
have driven the French from the wash
tub and the Italians from the shrimp
net. They have the entire control of the
pork market, every retail doaler in things
porcine being compelled by the force of
circumstauces to buy from John, who is
inseparable from his pigtail. They
dredge the bay for fish, nothing escaping
their nets, whose meshes are as close as
those of Sir Peter's butterfly trap, and
they affright tho diligent aud humane
pescatore, who learned on the shores of
tho Mediterranean never to fish with a
net through the interstices of which he
could not put his thumb, and who, with
trembling, sees bis occupation going
from bin. They grade the roads that
wind over our mountains, and lay the
sleepers for the new railway on the lev
els of Los Angelos. They work in the
sunny vineyards of Sonoma, and clear
the snowdrifts from the great transcon
tinental highway at Emigrants' gap.
They polish the prismatic abalone shell
at Monterey, aud work on the dumppiles
in the gold and silver mines of Nevada,
They have established woodyards it. the
city, and are engaged iu the contest of
polo and baskets against Lorso and
wagon with the Italian vegetable dealers,
iu whioh tho latter are getting decidedly
the worst of it. They are ubiquitous
and wary. That business in which
John is not engaged is unheard of, and
that part of Nevada or California to
whioh John has uotcome may be written
down as terra incognita.
Thus much generally. In particular,
the bulk of tho Chinese in San Francis
co may be placed under these divisional
heads of labor :
Bootmakers.,.. 4,000
Waahmen 2.200
Dome tics H 000
Cigarmakers 3 500
Clothiers and woul workers 2,300
Total 128,000
A Nice Boy,
" Well, you are a nice boy to send on
a message," said a woman to a boy who
had lost a bundle with whioh she had in
trusted him. The boy struck the atti
tude of an orator, and replied : " Not
being a common cariier, and not having
entered into a contract with you to carry
your parcel for aud in consideration of
any sum, I have incurred no liability,
and am liable to no penalty. If I had
uudertaken to carry the paroel for my
own particular profit, my father even
would not have been responsible for it
loss (see Butler agt. Basing, 2 C. & P.
614), unless indeed he paid mo smaller
wages because of the opportunity thus
atforded me to make small sums. On
this pejint I will ouly quote Dwight agt.
Brewster, 1 Pickering (Miss.) 50. But,
rising from the law to tho equity of the
case, I have only to say " but before he
oould say it his father had yanked him
from the room.
Greatest Bay at Any Fair.
The number of paying visitors to the
Centennial Exhibition on Pennsylvania
day is officially stated at 251,463, and to
the live stoox exhibition at 5,828; total,
257,206. Including free admissions, the
number exceeded 260,000 Th's number
exceeds by more than 80,000 persons
the largest single day's attendance at
any international fair ever held, and the
cash receipts are more than twice as
great as those of any former day at this
or any other fair.
The Wealth of lr nil.
AH intelligent travelers tiho have vis
ited Brszil sppak in the most globing
terms of tho country, the emperor of
whioh, Dom Pedro II , has just paid a
flying visit to this country. Professor
Agassiz regarded it as the most produc
tive and interesting country on th
globe, and the one in whieh it is the
easiest to obtain a livelihood. Some who
have sailed up the Amazon declare that
a vessel can be loaded with Brazil nuts
at an expense of only a few pence per
busheL These constitute a valuable ar
ticle of commerce, while the oil extract
ed from them is very desirable. All the
tropical fruits are produced in Brazil
almost without cultivation. The soil in
many parts of the country will produce
twenty successive crops of cotton, tobac
co or sugar cane without the application
of manure. No country in the world
approaches the land of Dom Pedro in
the variety of its forest productions.
Professor Agassiz states that he saw one
hundred and seventeen different kinds
of valuable woods that were cut from a
piece of land not hulf a mile square.
They represented almost every variety
of color, and many of them were capable
of receiving a high polish. One tree fur
nishes wax that is used for candles, an
other a pith that is used for food, and
still another a juice which is used in the
place of intoxicating liquor. There is a
single variety of palm from whioh the
natives obtain food, drink, clothing,
bedding, cordage, fishing tackle, medi
cine, and the material they manufacture
into dwellings, weapons, harpoons, and
musical instruments. Doubtless the day
is not far distant when the valuable
woods of Brazil will bo used for various
useful and ornamental purposes.
The Flow of Speech.
Though we all employ speooh, says
the Popular Science Monthly, yet we
differ in ease and acreeableness of utter
ance. The voice is weak or powerful, as
determined by tho mode of action of the
respiratory organs. The timbre is
shary, harsh, sweet or harmonious; this
is determined by the confirmation of the
resonant cavities. Whatever quality of
voice we happen to have naturally, is to
be preserved, though it may be improved
by constant attention to the ear, by
stoady observation, finally by training.
S eech does not flow from its source
with the same ease in all cases; here the
mind is master, and mental qualities dif
fer from one another to a far greater ex
tent than physical aptitudes. Some
persons express themselves without dif
ficulty or hesitation their thinking
faculty acts as a continuous force; others
seem to grasp a word or a phrase here
aud there their thinking faculty is
fluctuating, confused, undecided. A
certain feeling of constraint produces
stuttering, stammering. It used to be
supposed that stuttering is the result of
grave defects of the vocal organs, but
such is not the case at all; this infirmity
has its seat in the mind, and it may be
cured or mitigated by tystematio effort.
It ia shown by statistics that Provence,
Langtiedoo and Ouienecontaiu a greater
portion of stammerers in their population
than any other portions of France.
This statement, when I saw it, was a
surprise to me; it has always been
thought that no one could possibly fal
ter in his speech who was bom near the
Garonne.
Caught Him at It.
A lady, the wife of a well known New
York merchant, had occasion to ride in
the oars from tho Grand Central depot.
Sho was a timid lady, and had mortal
dread of pickpockets. She knew she
would be robbed in riding through the
tunnel. The cars were crowded. There
was but one vacant seat, which must be
shared with a gentleman who wore a
duster. As the train entered the tunnel
the woman put a guard over her pocket.
Oh, horrors! she caught the hand of
her associate, and held on to it, resolved
to bring his iniquity to light. On
emergiug into the sunshine she found
that she had caught hold of the gentle
man's baud, but it was in his own
pocket. She was intensely mortified,
and mado ample apology. Tho gentle
mnn who waa a well known lawyer
laughed the matter oft, but the v.omau
would not be appeased; she got tho ad
dress of the gentlemau, and sent li-r
husband to explaiu how it could have
happened. In her con fusion she neglect
ed to explain how she could hold the
hand of a stranger for half a milo in tbe
dark.
Shaker Hospitality to Cats.
Elder F. W. Evans, a shining light at
New Lebanon, has contributed to the
Shaker an articlo in which be eays:
" Kill the cats 1 That was a good sug
gestion in a former number. They are
tbe greatest nuisances on tho premises;
have to be killed now to keep them
withiu bounds. Kill a few mote and it
will lessen the number of oat deaths in
tho future. Mother Ann Leo affirmed
that cats were mediums of evil spirits.
She enjoined her children not to play
with or fondle cats, A good rule. They
are causes of weakly children in many
households. We have no dogs, why
should we have cats ? The dog loves
his master or. mistress. The cat loves
the house, and will return if taken away
by the removing owner. How shall we
keep the mice and rats in check ? Lt,t
some of tho readers of tho Shaker an
swer. Do right, kill the cats, and "the
birds of the air" will tell subscribers
how to abate the lesser nuisances of rats
and mioe
How to Make Mother Happy.
Why, mother, how bright and cheer
ful you look to-night 1 What has hap
pened J"
I feel very happy, my dear, because
my little boy has really tried to be good
all day. Once, when his sister Katie
teased him and he spoke quick and cross
to her, he turned round a moment a ter,
of his own accord, and said he was
wrong, and asked her to forgive him. I
believe I should grow young and never
look tired or unhappy again, if, every
day, my little boy and girl were as
thoughtful, unselfish, and loving as they
have been to-day."
Here's a grand seoret for you, little
ones. And now that you know how to
make mother happy, may you keep her
lace always iuu oi sunshine,
Yoiitiff America.
The central figure was a bare headed
woman with a broom in her hand. She
stood on the back step, and was crying :
" Georgie I"
There was no response, but anybody
who had been on the other side of a
close board fence at the foot of tbe gar
den might have observed two boys in
tently engaged in building a mud pie.
"That's your mother hollering,
Georgie," said one of the two, placing
his eye to a knothole and glancing
through to the stoop.
" I don't care," said the other.
" Ain't you going in ?"
"No!"
" Georgie !" came another call, short
and 6harp, " do you hear me ?"
There was no answer.
" Where is she now ?" inquired
Georgie, putting iu the filling in the pie.
" On the stoop," replied the young
man at the knothole.
." What's she dour?"
Ain't eloin' nothin'."
" George Augustus !"
Still no answer.
" You needn't think you can hide
from mo, young man, for" I can see you,
and if you don't come in here at once,
I'll come out there in a way that you
will know it."
Now this was an eminently natural
statement, but hardly plausible, as her
eyes would have had to pierce an inch
board fence to see Georgie ; and even
wore this possible, it would have re
quired a glance in that special
direction, and not over the top of a pear
tree in an almost opposite way. Even
the boy at the knothole could hardly
repress a smile.
" What's she doin' now ?" inquired
Goorgie.
" She stands there yet."
"I won't speak to you again, George
Augustus," came the voice. "Your
father will be home in a few minutes,
and I shall tell him all about what yon
have done."
Still no answer.
"Ain't you afraid?" asked the con
scientious young man, drawing his eye
from the knothole to rest it.
" No I she won't tell pa; she never
does; she only sez so to scare me."
Thus enlightened and reassured, the
guard covered the knothole again.
"Ain't you coming in here, young
man?" again demanded the woman, lov
do you want me to come out there to
you with a stick ? I won't speak to you
o; ;..i
agmii, oil i
"Is she comin' ?" asked the baker.
"No!"
" Which way is she lookin' ?"
"She's lookin' over iu the other
yard."
" Do you hear me, I say ?" came the
call again.
No answer.
" George Augustus ! do you hear your
mother talking to you ?"
Still no answer.
"Oh, you just wait, young man, till
your father comes home, aud he'll make
you hoar, I'll warrant ye."
"She is gone now," announced the
faithful sentinel, withdrawing from his
pest.
"All right! take hold of this crust
and pull it down ou that side, and that'll
be another pie done," said the remorse
stricken George Augustus.
Indian Widows.
The Indian Mail has tho following :
In the marriage market an Indian civil
ian u ed to be reckoned as worth 300 a
year, lead or alive. The nominal value
of Bombay civilians now bids fair to
rise yet higher, although tho real value
will remain much as it was, in view of
the growing cheapness of money. Owing
to the flourishing state of their widows'
fund, it has been proposed that 400 in
stead of 300 per annum should bo tho
pension granted to all ladies who come
on tho fund as widows after the first of
July, 1876. This, says an Indian jour
nal, will be equal to a marriage settle
ment, in the ordinary manner, of 12,
000 in consuls a sum which not one
man in twenty belonging to the upper
middle and professional classes is able
to settle on his wife when he marries.
A counter proposition, which is even
more liberal than the original one, is
alio going round for signature, to the
effect that all the widows now on the
fund should also get the increased pen
sion, and to this amendment there is
said to be little or no opposition. As
widows on the Bombay civil fund forfeit
half their pension if they marry again,
it fallows that each one of these ladies
who takes unto herself a second husband
will have 200 a year to help in keeping
up her new home. That sum is equal
to a settlement of 6,000 or so in con
sola, and it is not every lady, whether
widow or maid, who can command so
useful a dowry. Thus the new regula
tion will not only raise the value of
Bombay civd servants as husbands, but
also of the widows they leave behind
them.
What the Diamond Did.
George IV., of England, sent the fa
mous Pitt diamond as a present in a
ring to the Persian ruler, Fath-Ali-Shah.
The bearer of this costly ring, Sir Har
ford Jones, was stopped in bis journey
by a messenger from the court, and de
sired not to enter the capital, where
French interests were then paramount.
After Sir Harford had exhausted every
argument to show that he ought to be
received, without making any impres
sion on the Persian khan, be said:
" Well, if it must be so, I shall return,
but this must go with me," and he took
from his pocket the beautiful diamond
ring which had been sent for the shah.
The sparkle of the gem produoed a
magical effect; the khan no sooner be
held it than he lost bis talance, and fell
back from his seat quite out of breath;
then, recovering himself, he shouted:
"Stop, stop, Elchil May your conde
scending kindness go on increasing!
This alters tbe matter. I will send an
express to the heavenly resembling
threshold of the asylum of the world 1 I
swear by your bead that you will be re
ceived with all honor. Mashaliah I It
is not every one that has diamonds like
the Inglis." He was as good as his
word; the express courier was dispatch
ed, and Sir Harford Jones entered the
city of Teheran by one gate, while Gen.
Gardanne, the French envoy, was pack
ed on py tne otner.
Items of Interest,
The Utah immigrants who settled in
Arizona are di--satisfied with the country,
and aro returning in large numbers.
A Diadwood City jury, "honorably
acquitted " a mnrderer who killed a man
whom he mistook for the one he intend
ed to kill.
The cost of lager beer is computed by
the Chicago Tribune at 81.80 a keg, for
whioh tho brewer gets $2.50, and the re
tailer about $7.
The king of Dabom6y wears a swallow
tail coat buttoned np at the back. That
manner of dressing is not a bad one for
a man who has no vest.
A census of the republio of Peru just
taken shows the total population to be
2,720,735, an increaee of Iobs then teu
per cent, in fourteen years.
Nearly every citizen here has told his
wife tha't there is another man in town
who closely resembles him, and who is
frequently seen coming out of saloons.
The Eureka (Nev.) Sentinel doubts if
a shotgun could be fired up or dewn the
main street ot any hour of the day or
night without killing a prospective
sheriff.
"There!" said Jones, as he wrath
fully pushed away the pie which his
landlady had just served him, "the stuff
isn't fit for a pig to eat, and I ain't go
ing to eat it."
A Nevada man, being commanded by
a robber to throw up his hands, obeyed
promptly, and concealed his money in
them. The robber searched his clothing,
but not his hands, and so got no booty.
Old John Adams said, when he was
ninety years of age, iu a lottor, that he
had seen four wars, and that, following
each of these wars, there had been a
period of great financial and industrial
depression.
The statistio fiend has discovered that
there are 929,940 horses, nearly 2,000,000
cattle, 1,000,500 hogs, 17,675 pianos,
21,608 melcdeons, 155,728 sewing ma
chines, and 850,000 worth of diamonds
in the State of Illinois.
Two girls took arsenio in Newport,
Ind., last spring, aud ono died at once,
before the romance of the 6veni; had
lost its interest. Now the other has
just prosily died of liver complaint
brought on by the poison.
This is what they call farming in
Georia : Many country people are sell
ing their eggs and butter to buy their
bacon, and using the bacon to feed the
hands who make the cotton, which is
mortgaged to pay for the fertilizers used
iu making it.
According to the revised statutes of
Illinois any person who wagers money
or valuables of any nature on the result
of an election shall be liable to pay a
fine of $1,000 and undergo imprison
ment in the county jail for a period not
exceeding one year.
The compauy of a San Francisco va
riety theater intended to take the re
mains of a comrade from the hospitol in
which ho had died and bury them, but
they got tho wrong body, and made a
touohiug publio elomonstration over a
Mexican horse thief.
Mons. Colombier, a merchant of Paris,
reoently deceased, has left 30,000 francs
to a lady ol ltouen, lor Having, iwepiy
years ago, refused to marry him,
" through which," says the will, "I was
enabled to live i dependency and hap
pily as a bachelor."
Miss Middlecrib sat down at the piano
aud sang "Where are the dreams of the
elawn r' And ner young Droiner.com
ing out of an adjoining room from an
interview with his father, sobbed out
the refrain "Under the bending willow."
And he meant it, too.
A larere cartv who visited the White
House the other day, asked to be 6hown
the kitchen where the President cooks. ' '
Upon being told that it was private, a
slab-sided, shrill voiced female ex
claimed : " I guess it belongs to the
United States, don't it ?"
A foolish bet has been made in Cin
cinnati. If Tilden is elected a council
man of that city will take a good sized
bag and go from room to room in every
house in ono ward and beg for some
rags, which are to be sold for a charita
ble purpose. If Hayes is elected the
Tilden man will officiate.
It was at the funeral of the head of
a family. A neighbor in the yard, while
the service was going on inside, was
speaking of the deceased, and took ad
vantage of tho opportunity to observe in
a toue of subdued sympathy : " An
had just got in his coal and potatoes for
the winter. It is a sad case."
The rrospect of the public's obtain
ing much advautage from the gifts of
James Lick, the rich but eccentrio Oali
fornian, are not considered very encour
aging at San Iraucieco. lhe jsewt
Letter of that city, which calls Mr. Lick
a "pinchback Peabody," sa.,8: The
fact has slowly but thoroughly developed
that the Lick fund is but the vehicle
through which the vagaries of a childish
and petulant old mau are to periodically
afflict the publio. The upshot of the
whole business will, doubtless, be a
large crop of lawsuits after Mr. Lick s
death, and the usual division of his
property among heirs aud their lawyers.
He Secured Rest.
General Des Fallieris, just dead, dur
ing the campaign in Coohin-China bad a
native servant, very intelligent, very
faithful, and very lazy. Alter a long
day's march the general was wakened at
midnight by the moaning of his servant,
who. stretched on a mat at the entrance
of the tent, was sighing to himself :
"Water! water! water!
The general calls out: "Hallo!
There I Quick ! Stir yourself 1"
The servant approaches, painfully.
"Get me a glass of water, and be
qui ok about it."
The servant departs, grumbling, but
returns speedily with it.
"Here is the water, general."
"Then drink it yourself, and let me
sleep."
k SuBrLcs. The surplus of women
iu Massachusetts, or rather of women
and girls, which was 50,000 in 1870, waa
last year something more than 63,000,
the whole number of males in the State
being 794,888, aud of females 857,529.