Yl K fs ,HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL DESPERANDUM. Two Dollars per Annum. .VOL. VII. IUDGWAy" ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH "22, 1877. ; yQ5 Tailed by the Angrls. The f armor's wife is sitting alone In the dusk of a winter's day, While over the bills the shadows fnll, And oyer tho meadows gray, And the cares of many a busy hour Steal fust from hor heart away. Her eyes have wandered through mist of tears To the churchyard under the hill, Whore the Bnow, like the wings of a brooding dove, Lies soft and pure and still, And where her treasures, so long age, She laid at the Master's will. And ah 1 how oft as the days go by, Hhe stnrts, as her listetu'ng ear Has almost caught on the passing breec. Voices so sweet and clear, " 'Tis the angels culling !" she thinks. " Ah, me It is wenry waiting lure." The farmer from his work, at last, In tho dusk of a w inter's day, And he sits him down by his faithful wife, And she parts bis locks so gray, And looks in his face with a loving smile That years never steal away. And back again as her dim eyes turn To the hills where the shadows fall, She thinks : " My treasures are lying there. But He has not taken all, Since one is waiting beside me still Till the angels' voices call." But the weeks are slow, and the aged iw, In the dusk of many a day, Will watch the shadows come and go OVr the meadows cold and gray, Ere they, tt the Master's will, may lie Where their treasures are laid away. PURSUED BY WOLVES. A Race for Life in a Russian Forest. "Av.d to, mine host, you wish to frighten me with tho old fabled cry of Wolf ;' no, no 1 it won't do You don't suppose a few cowardly rascals like your wolves nre going to frighten two Buch old hunter3 as myself and Paulo, here ? What say you, Paulo ?" and the speaker, n tall, fair-haired young Englishman, turned to his companion, who stood in the rear and exhibited the respectful familiarity of a confidential servant ; a man who had passed the prime of life, but was yet hale olid strong ; a thorough picture of the true Muscovite. "I will drive wherever the master orders," was the quiet reply. " Good ! I knew that, Paulo. And our host thinks to keep us here when a glorious welcome is waiting us at Grov onoff palace, only three leagues away, by the fanciful story that the wolves are nbnllt. WrkV luy own port I lifralcl lilr pot shot at them. But I forgot, there's Isabelle, and she might not care to ven ture." "Don't mind me, Horry," rejjlied a coft voice at his elbow, proceeding from a graceful young lady who had at that moment entered the apartment, holding in her arms on infant. "I am as anx ious to reach the palace to-night as you can be. Is not dear Alexis waiting for ma ? You forget I have not seen him these three months; and baby here wants to be presented to his father." '" Not a doubt," was the laughing re ply. "Well, we had better see about starting. Paulo, get the sledge round." "Will your excellency order the bells to bo taken off; they attract the wolves," interposed the host. "Not I, indeed. The horses would not get along without them. It encour ages them ; besides, I like the music of the bells on tho frozen air: and if the wolves are to come, they come, bells or The innkeeper bowed and withdrew, Now while the party are settliner them- selves comfortably in the sledge, let us briefly explain wh they are, that they find themselves at a Russian outpost late on a harsh winter's night. Harry For dyee, who has been on a hunting tour witli lus trusty servant, Paulo, a thor ough hunter and trapper, has appointed to meet his sister on her way from Eng land, where she has been spending the summer, and escort her to lier husband, a Russian nobl'e, who, as governor of a district, is located on an outlying po6t far removed from civilization. The jour ney lias been accomplished, up to the time ot our meeting them, without ace dent ; but, putting up to rest their horses at a wayside inn, three leagues from their destination, the landlord en deavors to persuade them from proceed ing by informing them that thepineforeet which lies midway between the little village and the palace is infested with a pack of wolves but the answer to this has already been given. "Now then, Paulo, shake the r.ins aid we'll be off. You are all right, Isa belle," turning to the lady, " perfectly safe and warm, and the little one?' queries our hero. "Quite, thank you." And waving his hand to the innkeeper, Paulo shakes the reins, and th. sledge with its three horses dashes over the hard snow with a speed and ease hardly equaled by ony other conveyance in the world, and at this pace the pine wood is neared. But Paulo is an old hand, and almost imperceptibly slackens the speed of his horses, allowing them to take breath, as he knows that they may re quire all their strength before the forest is passed. With one hand holding the reins, he looks calmly to the priming of a pair of revolvers and then, quietly leaning over to his master, whispers in his ears. " All right," is the sole response, but the young Englishman as quietly looks totheadjustraent of a breech-loading rifle which has hitherto been concealed by a fur rug, and brings his cartridge belt nearer to his hand. The forest is entered by this time, and the deep shade thrown by the cieantio pines creates a darkness almost as in tense as that of night to the party who have just come out of the glare of the snow; the one relief to the solemn shade is tfje long road stretching out in its whiteness, and in its winding and turn ing looking almost like a living serpent. No sooner are the party well within the shade of inhospitable and grim-looking trees, than Paulo begins to peer about him, now forward, now to the right and now to tb left, a4 oa th in0w oyvsrsd ground, but evidently he aees nothing to I alarm him, when suddenly he exclaims "Hah !" and gives the roins that ho has been holding in his hand a shako that seems to send a thrill through the horses, who have also seen or heard somethiug that they do not like, for they throw back thoir ears, and tho thick spume flakes fly from their mouths as they chafe at the bits. Isabella, who has been dozing, sudden ly opens her eyes at the jerk which has been given to the Bledge, and iu accents of terror exclaims: "What are those eyes amongst the trees on the hill ?" No need to ask a second time, as the hoarse bowlings, which had been but mutterings mingling with the sighing of the wind through the leafless branches, now swell into a loud chorus, and a pack of wolves dash from the trees after the sledge and its inmates, and then ensued a race for life indeed. The horses were as sensible of the danger as their human freight, and plunged along with all the speed of thoroughbred animals. At tracted by the cry of the child and the alarming shriek of its mother, the fierce pursuers came up on that side of the sledge nearest to them, and seemed de termined to leap into it. They were close alongside, their hot breath could could almost be felt, while the glare of their fierce-looking eyes were terrifying. At this moment Paulo pulled out his re volver and fired, and the one nearest the side rolled over and bit the dust in his death agonies, but the others, nothing daunted, leaped over the body of their dying comrade and kept up the chase. Harry leveled his rifle and another beast rolled over. Just then one who appeared to be the leader sprang at the nearest horse and hung on his side, while the affrighted animal plunged and struggled to such a degree assjto threaten the over throw of the sledge. To reload and fire was for the experienced hunter but the work of a moment, and the horse was freed from his assailant. Paulo had not been idle. His revol vers had told more than once upon the hungry pack, but they were pressing closer aud closer, and it seemed as though they must be eventually sacri ficed to the rapacity of the wolves, when a turn in the road showed them that the forest was nearly elided, and that the re maining portion of the journey ran through an open country, where the ,l"lJCJ wolves would doubtless hesitate to follow; indeed, the pace had been such that thov weje already falling off, and a shot or two more from the rifle and revolver, seemed to check their onrush. But it was os if they were only concentrating their energies for a fresh charge, for just 11 - X 1 1 11 1 as me iorest was cleared, mey surround- ed the sledge on all sides, and Paulo had just time to fire at the first on one side, 1 when, turning quickly, he lodged the j contents of another barrel in the brain i of one that had already mounted the olcd(i;r. - But this was the final charge. Once iu the open fields the cowardly beasts turned tail and slunk back to their native wilds, while or. r travelers reached Gro onoff poloee in ti:'"y, but did not easily forget, amid tho fejtivities thut awaited them, the terrible rrce fcr life they had run on that harsh winter's night. Experiments with Eucalyptus Trees. Tho Sacramento (Cal.) Jiccord- Union, in a late issue, publishes the following important piece of news : The Central Pacific railroad company have arranged to have 40,000 cucalyptuB trees set out along five hundred miles of the right of way ot tne company, it should not bo understood that that is tho whole num. ber of trec3 - i i T. . , , uu nut ubw xi, is uiu me first installment, and is for commencing the work. The object of this plan is to note what effect the planting of trees will have upon the climate. It is the theory that large numbers of them will increase the humidity of the atmosphere and les sen the liability to droughts. The de nuding of hills of their timber and the clearing away of forests has a direct ef fect upon climate, as is well established, and the intention now is to sea how far artificial means will be effective in re storing the balance believed to have been lost by the clearing out of our forests, as well as the scattered groups of forest trees. In this connection it is to be noted that the directory of the Good Templars' Home for Orphans, at Vallejo, has now in progress the work of setting out three thousand of the eucalyptus globulus upon the grounds of the home, which will make quite a forest when the trees shall be fairly grown. Does IU Own Feeding. An English mechanic has contrived to make a steam engine do its own stoking. A large sheet iron hopper i3 set above the mouth of the furnace and iu front of the boiler. This is the receptacle for coals. Below the hopper a steel crusher is made to run somowhot rapidly, and, as the coals fall by reason of their own gravity upon this grinding apparatus, they are reduced to the uniform size of cob nuts by tEe action of the crusher. Thence the equalized fuel drops upon a Eair of iron disks or fans inclosed in a ox, and running in opposite directions aa high velocity. The fans are in fact the furnace feeders, for as the box has but one opening, and that leads to the fire, they literally blow the coals into the latter and distribute them equally over the whole surface of the fire bars. The feed is recrulated in Quantity ac cording to the heavy or light work the engine may be doing, by means of a single adjusting set screw. This is the automaton stoker. The f uraaee fires are fed and steam is kept up in the boiler without the turning of a shovel, and all that tho fireman has to do is to smoke his pipe and whistle " Down in a coal Infantile Mortality. The following figures are instructive as showing for ten years the ratio of mortality of children under five years of age to the total mortality in the city of New York : r Ami. 187 49.69 1873 48.76 1874. ; 48.81 1875 48.28 1876 48.74 1867 63.99 18C8 62.50 1869 61.09 1870 49.66 1871 48.08 This shows a steady decrease, much of which is traceable, it is claimed, to im provements U liw.rage and yanwlatlon. The Indian Famine. Mr. Monier Williams writes from Ma dura that at lenst 15,000,000 human beings will have to struggle for exist ence, if they are not actually struck down by famine, or by the disease which famine brings iu its train. Of course this estimate has reference only to the poorest classes. A sad" feature in the spectacle is the condition of the cattle. As I traveled from ono place to another, often diverging from the neigh borh. od of the railway to less frequented outlying districts, I saw hundreds of lean, half famished kine endeavoring to eke out a doomed existence on what could only in mockery be called horbage. When it is remembered that the cow is a principal source of sustenance to Hin doos of nearly all castes, and that no such animal as a cart horse is to be found iu India, all agricultural labor de pending on the ox, some idea may be formed of the terrible calamity involved in a mortality among cattle. Even the cows and oxen that survive will be al most useless. Utterly enfeebled and emaciated, they will have little power left either to yield milk or to drag a plow through soil- caked and indurated by months of unmitigated sunshine. But the sntldest feature of all isthe condition of the humau inhabitants of this great Feninsulo, I will simply recount what know; and testify of what I have seen with my own "eyes in the capital of this presidency. Only a fortnight ago I saw many thousands of poor famine-driven creatures from the villages round Madras collected on the shore and on the pier. They were crowding round the sacks of rice grain, with which the sands for at least a mile were thickly covered and al most concealed from view, the grain bags being often piled up iu the mounds to the height of fifteen foet or twenty feet. Yet no onslaught was made on the grain. A few men scattered about, armed with canes, were guarding the sacks for the merchants who owned them, and were sufficient to prevent any attempt at depredation, though here and there I detected surreptitious efforts, not so much to make incisions, as to en large any happy defects already ap parent iu the material which enclosed the coveted food. What generally hap pened was this : Very few of the grain i ii . ' i - . i r "u' WPrf so WPV, ,a " l nZ leakage impossible, and sprinklings of rice were thus scattered about every where. The luiowledge of this circum stance was the cause of the vast con course of miBeruble, half starved, emaci ated creatures who had walked many miles to the spot. Men and women, old and young, even cripples, mothers with infants on their hips, and naked chil dren all more or less pitiable in their leanness and in their hard-set aspect of misery were earnestly engaged in glean ing up every grain that escaped from the tacks on the pier and on the shore. Many were provided with coarse sieves, by means of which a few rice grains were, with infinite pains, separated from bush els of sand. Prisoners of War. That a recognized code for treatment of prisoners of war should exist we be lieve to be most desirable. We have frequently heard it said among others, by M. Duuant that the treatment of French prisoners by the Germans in the last war had, to French eyes, been so bad that should war again occur between thein, and France bike prisouers, they would suffer for the past sins of the Ger mans. We may claim some right to offer an opinion on this matter. We have '"i"? cen '.wumenuu m gmng re- Jii'i i j. ieiu;u prisoners who were un ,iVn.., doubtedly suffering extremes of hard ship. We hove seen some of the saddett Bights that war has ever shown ; the French army coptured at Sedan, cooped up in that narrow peninsula, suffering the pangs of hunger ; the captive army of Metz, marching out under the dis dainful eyes of its conquerors, the sol diers haggard, worn, weary, throwing themselves down in the deep black mud, in the sheer bitterness of despair, while the pittiless rain poured down upon them. Wo have seen the French pris oners in the camp at Mainz, cold, bitterly cold, with the snow deep on the ground, many in thin clothing, and stockingless feet, fed by but one meal a clay, and that often given in the early morning of one day, and not till the evening of the next. Nay, worse, we have seen the prisoners of the army of the Loire literally freez ing to death in the open railway wagons in which they were for days retained in that severe winter, on their road to Ger many ; and we have heard, on unques tionable authority, of men being taken out of those wagons when they reached their journey's end frozen to death. Aild vet we say these are but the inevitable hardships of war. Blackwood' a Maga zine. Thoughts for Saturday Night. Need teocheth unlawful things. Genius is only great patience. All philqsophy lies in two words, "sustain and "abstain." Be calm in arguing, for fierceness makes error a guilt and truth discour tesy The best and sweetest flowers of para dise God gives to his people when they ore upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven or key to let us into para dise. Garments that have one rent in them are subject to be torn on every nail, and glasses that are once cracked are soon broken; such is mans' good name once tainted with just reproach. Men's lives should be like day more beautiful in the evening; or like sum mer aglow with promise; and like au tumn rich with golden sheaves, where good deeds have ripened in the field. Conscience is a clock, which in one man strikes aloud and gives warning, in another the hands point silently and btrike not, meantime hours pass away, and death hastens, and after death comes judgment. It is an observation no lets just than common, that there is no stronger test of a man's real character than power and authority, exciting as they do every par -sion and discovering every latent vice. A fair reputation is a plant delicate in its nature and by no means rapid in its growth. It will shoot up in a night like the gourd of the prophet; but, like tha t gourd, it may perish ui a night. A ew Terk Merchant. A correspondent of the Baltimore Bulletin writes: The mention of Emma Abbott's name inevitably suggests some anecdotes I heard recently concerning Mr. George G. Lake, whose elegant mansion on Fifth avenue she makes her home here, and to whom she is glad to be indebted for much of the material encouragement that enabled her to pursue her career. Mr. and Mrs. Lake keep an apartment in their house which they call the " Abbott room," and which they hove decorated with a number of objects of art, includ ing a portrait of its occupant, pointed by Frank R. Carpenter. Mr. Lake is one of the remarkable men of New York. He is well known as the senior member of the Broadway dry goods house of Lake 4 McCreary, but he retired from active business some years ago. He is to-day a millionaire. Mr. Lake came to New York a poor boy from New England. He obtained a situation in the old house of TJbsdell & Tierson, and, in the course of time, made a contract for three years at five hundred dollars per year, or nn aggre gate of fifteen hundred dollars for the three years. Just after making this con tract he was called on one day by Mr. Crist, of Spies, Crist & Co. , who said to him: "Mr. Lake, we have had our eyes on you for some time; your fidelity ond Application to business please us. We have been looking for just such a man to take charge of an important de partment of our business. We offer you three thousand dollars for the first year, five thousand the second, and seven thousand the third." Mr. Lake replied: "I am obliged to you, Mr. Crist, for your good opinion, but I cannot accept your offer." Mr. Crist wos surprised. "Why not, Mr. Lake?" "Because I just made a contract with TJbsdell & Pierson." "But not on such terms as we offer you, Mr. Lake?" "No, cer tainly not," replied the young man. " Is your contract with TJbsdell & Pier son in writing, Mr. Lake ?" " No, sir." " Well, then it is not binding," said Mr. Crist. "It makes no difference," was Mr. Lake's reply; 1 ' I have given TJbs dell & Pierson my word." The years went on, Mr? Lake supporting his wife and child on $500 a year. They boarded in Camd street at $8 o week. Near the end of the three years Mr. Pierson one day said: " Mr. Lake, we wish to say to you that we are. much pleased with you. Among oil our young men you have been the most faithful. We know where you go. (When your daily duties are over you go home. We are so much pleased with you. that we have decided to offer you an interest with us." Mr. Lake replied: "I cannot except it, Mr. Pierson." "Why not?" "I have no capital and I will not borrow." . It was Mr. Pierson's tui'U now to be surprised. "But, Mr. take, you will stay with us." " I will stay, Mr. Pierson, but you must make it an object." Mr. Lake then for the first time told of the offer of Spies, Crist & Co., three years before. This he hod kept to himself, os faithful to his duty at $500 a vear as ho would have been at 5,000 or $7,000, though he could not always keep out of his mind the tempting offer he had put aside. Mr. Pierson said: " Mr. Lake, on what terms will you remain with us ?" " I cannot both buy and sell the same thing, Mr. Pierson. If my services are desired by you, make mo an offer." They parted. The next day Mr. Pierson said: "Mr. Lake, my partner and my self have determined to make you this offer 810,000 per year for ten years." "All right, Mr. Pierson, I accept!" A Wealthy Thief. Af one of the Paris police courts a rich and elegant Russiou lady has lately been condemned to three months' imprison ment for theft. She is the pretty young wife of Copt. Garianoff- Korewitchenski, serving in the Russian cavalry. Her age is twenty-six, and she has o daughter of eleven who was implicated with her in stealing a number of articles from a deal er in fancy goods. On searching their apartments a largo quantity of articles wero discovered which had doubtless been taken from many establishments during a considerable period of time. Many Russians of distinction attended the court on account of the social position of Mine. Korewitchenski, who was som berly but elegantly costumed. At the first interrogation she burst into tears, and vehemently denied the charge. Her child, however, acknowledged the rob beries, both of her mother " and self. Capt. Korewitchenski had hastened from Russia to be present at the trial, and urged his wife's innocence, stating that her income was 30,000 francs, and that she had no need to appropriate the pos sessions of others. As it was apparently a case of kleptomania, the punishment was rendered light The child was ac quitted. How a Woman Drives a Tack. Did you ever see a woman drive a tack? She holds it between her first and second fingers and pusheB it a little ways into tho carpet. Then with the other hand she takes up the hammer, al ways with the wrong side down. She hits three or four delicate blows, not raising the hammer half am inch from the head of the tack, but pinches her fingers, lets go and hits it sideways, so that it enters the floor on a bias. Then she pulls it out, selects another tack from the box, and sticks a dozen into her hands while doing it. Finally, with an effort, she makes the point clinch the floor, and with one blow she settles the matter by knocking tho head off. A Skeleton. The St. Paul f)ipatch has discovered a skeleton closet in the State capitol. Intemperance has been increasing in the legislative halls ond statesmen have been on tine die benders. Some of the com mittee rooms have been turned into pri vate bar-rooms, which are run at the ex pense of the State. It is alleged that one of the committees obtained an allow ance of $300 for expenses; that $20 went for a cupboard and $10 for keys; that the balance was used to buy liquors to put into the cupboard; that the drink ing men in the Legislature were supplied with keys, and that each has since been tippling, . FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Domestic Recipe. Breakfast Oat Meal. It may be very palatably cooked in woter, with a little solt added. The water must be boiling hard when the meal is put in, and as soon as it sets or thickens the water it must be set back where it will still boil, but not scorch. Much stirring spoils it. Boil one hour or more. To Save Waste in Cooktko. To cook oat meal or cracked wheat without any waste, butter a basin and fill it two-thirds full of water, aud when it boils stir in the oat meal or wheat ; be sure to hove it thick enough, as you can easily thin with boiling water. Set your basin in a oteomer. Rice, etc., should be steamed in same way. To Coos Wheatkn Grits. In one quart of milk or water of tepid heat stir five heaping tablespoonfuls of grits ond one tablespoonful salt ; put iu a farina kettle ond place in the boiling water in the under kettle. Place on the fire where it will keep boiling, adding woter os it boils away. Boil one hour, then turn out iu uu eartheu baking dish, and cover with a plate that covers the dish tightly ; put iu a rather moderate oven and leave a half hour. If it should boil very stiff it must be thinned by adding a little milk or woter. Pudpino Under Meat. When roast ing a piece of beef, three-quarters of an hour before it is done take it out of the oven and pour the drippings out of the pan for gravy ; hove ready six or seven nice apples, pored, cored and hulved, and lay them in the bottom of the pan ; then make a batter of two cupfuls of Hour, with a teaspoonful of baking powder sift ed in dry, one pint of milk, three eggs, and one tablespoonful sugar ; pour tins over the apples ; then lay the meat on sticks in the baking pan, so that the juice from it will drop into the pan be low. Send to table iu a side dish with the meat. Potato Dumplings (According to a German receipt.) Boil five or six good sized potatoes ; let them get cold, then peel and grate into a large dish ; do not crush or mash them together, but keep them light and flaky ; then peel about the some qnontity of raw potatoes, grate, and put into a cloth, press out all the water, and put the potatoes in a dish ; cut up an onion very fine, put in two or three eggs, and a small handful of salt ; cut Borne stale bread into small squares and fry in hot lard or butter until they are brown and crisp ; thoroughly mix the raw potatoes, onions, eggs ond salt ; put in the bread, and lastly the boiled pota toes, handling as little os possible ; roll the mixture into balls, and put them in a pot of boiling water, into which you have thrown a handful of salt; after they have been in about twenty minutes take out one and try it. Farm Club uettons nmt AuHwrrii. How about horseshoes made out of Bessemer steel ? The manufacturers claim that the steel shoes will last three times as long os iron ones; that they are lighter, and con sequently easier on the horse, and that when beught by weight you can get twenty-five per cent, more shoes than when buying iron ones. - Wliat is the occasion of cows losing the use of one or more of their teats ? The cause is largely owing to neglect iu properly "drying off" a cow, ond generally those that lose the use of their teats will le found to be among the best animals of the herd. Cows cannot be dried of their milk at once, and some cows continue-to secrete milk in small quantities for n long time. In all cases where the animal has ceased to give milk, or is what is termed "dry," she should have her udder examined from time to time, and the teats fried to see if any mirk can be drawn. At first the trial should be made at intervals ot two or three days, and if there is a particle of milk in the bag it should be all thor oughly drawn. This prevents particles of coagulated milk filling up the milk duct at the base of the teat, or lower down, causing a stoppage of milk through the duct ond so spoiling the teat for fuither use. Not unfrequently this foreign substance, acting as on irri tant, induces violent inflommation. and the resnlt is a swelled bag, garget, or some disease of the udder, which couses trouble. What is the cause of the peculiar " sheepy cdor and taste often found in mutton ? An impression is very prevalent, even among experienced sheep raisers, that the taste and odor mentioned are due to the contact of the wool with tho meat. but high authority states that the true cause is to oo louud in d: lay in disem boweling the carcass. The intestines should be removed at the earliest possi ble moment after life is extinct, and be fore the removal of the pelt. Wlien should lambs be weaned ? Generally at shearing season, when they are four or five months old. Sepa rate them from the ewes, and place them in company with a few barren or " turn ed off ewes, to guide aud gentle them, in a field sufficiently distant from the mother ewes to prevent them from hear ing each other bleating. The lambs should have fresh, tender pasturage for the first few weeks, and the ewes dry and short food, to reduce, the flow of milk. As soon as assured of the safety of their bags from garget the ewes ought to be placed in good pastures, to prepare them for winter. The Roman Sentinel. When Pompeii was destroyed there were very many buried in the ruins cf it who were afterward found in very d'f lerent situations. ihere were some found who were in the streets, as if they had been attempting to make their ee cape. There were some fonnd in deep vaults, os if they had gone tuere lor se. curity. There were some fonnd in lofty chambers. But where did they find the Roman sentinel ? They found him stand. ing at the city gate, with his hands still grasping the war weapon, where he had been placed by his captain. Ana there, while the heavens threatened him; there, while the earth shook beneath him ; there, while the lava stream rolled.he had stood at his post; and there, ftftr a thousand years ho was found., Vitality ond Cunning of the Locust. In 18G5 I made experiments to see how soou locusts would drown. After confining them in woter twelve hours they soon showed signs of life when plced in the sunshine, and iu a few minutes began to move. 1 tried ireez- lntr. and came to the conclusion that tliey could be frozen up any length of time, and the warm sunshine would revive them. In 1847 I tried animal poisons to see what effect they would produce on locuste. I put the poison on celery, which the locuste prefer to other vege tables, and after observing the ellect formed the opinion that they could cot their weight of ony animal poison with out ill-effect to them. As soon os they hatched out and began eating in April, 1875, I took a can of coal oil ond o pan for the purpose of making a fagot to burn some that had juBt begun to eat my wheat, coining from a Bandy knoll in the field. I poured the oil iu the pan, and in moving about the pan I caused two or three to leap into it. I perceived that they changed color instantly, and to all oppeorance were dead. I then forced them in and observed the same results. On placing them in the sunshine it failed to bruig them to luo again I afterward tried cool tar with the same happy re sult. Turpentine, alcohol, alkuh and croton oil will kill them, ond from the results ot my experiments I believe that anything that will kill vegetable life will destroy locust life under the same con ditions. I know no iusect that exhibits the cun ning of locusts after they ore four weeks old. When very young they appear to have no sense, as they will leap into water or fire if iu their course. After four weeks old they will perform nets of cunning that ore incredible to the unob serving. Ill 1875, after they ute my neighbor's crop on the east, they set out for my field. I turned water between his and my field, and caused it to flow four or five feet wide in places, and let it flow through the wheat ten or fifteen feet wide in places. I soon found them crossing by thousands, swinging from blade to blade of the wheat that stood in the running water. I then cut the wheat out, but at the junction of n ditch I had left two fence poles in the form of a letter V, the lower ends crossing near the water of the creek, and the upper ends on either side of the ditch. They soon found passage, ond would ond did climb down a pole fifteen feet long over the water of Bear creek, and up the other pole into my field. They were making the passage in one continuous stream when I made the discovery, ond the ground and wheat were covered near the passage by those that had crossed. Alilwaukee Jscit's. The Priest and Physician. A French jourunl says that a famous French surgeon, lately deceased, who was brusque and unpolished, found, on entering his house one day, on old priebt who had been long waiting his return. " What do you want of me ?" " I want you to look ot this," meekly replied the priest, taking off an old woolen cravat. which revealed upon the nape ot his neck i a hideous tumor. ",101111 have to die with that," coolly remarked the surgeon. a. thank you, doctor, simply replied the priest, replacing his cravat, " and am much obliged to you lor warning me, for I can prepare myself, us well as my poor parishioners, who love me very much." The surgeon, who was never astonished nt great things, looked upon this priest, who received his death sentence unmov ed, with amazement, and said: "Come to-morrow, at eight o'clock, to the Ho tel Dieu, aud ask for me." The priest was prompt. The surgeon procured for him a special room, and in a month the man went out cured. When leaving he took out of o sock thirty francs in small change. " It is oil I hove to offer you, doctor," he said; "I came here on foot from Rouen in order to save this." The doctor looked at the money, smiled, aud, drawiiig n handful of gold' from his poc ket, put it in the bag along with the thir ty francs, saying: " It's for your poor," ond tho priest went oway. Same years later the surgeon feeling death to be near, bethought him of the priest, ond wrote to hiui. He came ot ouce, mid the surgeon received at his hands the hiht consolation of religion. What Shall He Del An editor writes : Editing n paper is a nice business. If we publish jokes, people say we ore rattle headed. If we omit jokes, they say we nre an old fossil. If we publish original matter, they blame us for not giving selections. If we pub lish selections, folks say we are lazy for not writing something they have not read in some other paper. If we give a complimentary notice, we are censured for being partial. If we do not give com plimentary notices, folks will say we are jealous. If we do not cater to the wishes of the ladies, the paper is not fit to tie up a parcel or make into n bustle. If we remain in our office and attend to our business, folks say we are too proud to mingle with our fellows. If we go out, they ray we never attend to our business. If we wear poor clothes, folks say busi ness is bad. If we wear good clothes, they say we never paid for them, Now, what are we to do ? Ravages of the Rinderpest. Earl Fortescue in the House of Lords called attention to the outbreak of rin derpest in Essex and Yorkshire and ask the lord president of the council what steps have been taken to prevent the spread of the disease. The privy council has issued a notice stoting that the cattle plague, has been detected at Bow and Stepney, both within the metropolis, and also at Hull. A fresh outbreak is reported at Hull. It is among stock in the vicinity of the first outbreak, though tho entire herd where tie latter occured were immediately slaughtered. Rinderpest. A circular letter ls bean sent to collectors of ports by the United States treasury department an nouncing that it is understood from the public prints that the rinderpest has again broken out in England, and conse quently importations of neat cattle and hidr-b of neat cattle coming from that e umtry are therefore prohibited, further oulcre, In the Chnrcliynrd at Tarrytown. Here lies the gentle humorist, who'died ' Jn the briKht Indian fminmrr of his fame . A dimple stone, with t ut a dnto nd name, Murks hiii neelnded routine place beside . The rivpr tbnt he loved and glorified. Hire in tuo autumn of his days be came, lint the drv leaven of earth were all aflame With tinUthat brightened and wore mulb- llow Kweet a iife was bin ; bow sweet a death ! Living to wing with mirth the weary hours. Or with romnntie tales the heart to cheer ( Dving, to leave a memory like the brcnth ' Of summers fnll of sunshine and of showers, A grief and gladness in the atmosphere. Items of Interest. Do not forget that while you fold your hands time folds not up his wings. Lamp wicks should be changed fre quently if a clear, bright Home is de sired. If persons would take more trouble about living they would be less troubled when dying. To scold people when tkey make con fessions is the way to keep them from confessing again. The blue glass treatment is ridiculed by the Medical and iS'uryical Journal os n silly mania. The condition of the British cool trade grows worse. The oldest man in the trade cannot remember a time bo bad. They say it is dangerous to go into, the water after n hearty meal. But who ex pects to find a hearty meal in the water ? Nearly 8,000 persons worm out a liv ing in silk manufacture in the State of New Jersey. There are $20,000,000 in it. Some hygienic writer says : "Let your children eat oil the salt they want." Bless you, it isn't salt they wont it's sugar. The hop crop of Maine for 1876 is es timated at 400,000 pounds, valued at $100,000. Three-fourths of the crop wos raised in Oxford county. Somebody in St. Paul, on the way home from the doctor's office, dropped the following prescription : "Blue glass, one part; faith, ten parts." A young man having complained that n young lady hud sat upon his hat, he was told that he ought to know belter than to hold his hot in his lap. It is thought that the time will yet come when members of the choir will be expected to behove during divine ser vice just os well us other folks. No trouble to pay board iu Mississippi. The Handsboro Democrat says : " Saw logs are legal tender here." Split wood, of course, is fractional currency. Bayard Tuylor says : " It is a wither ing commentary upon our modern cos tume that no sculptor has dared, or ever will dare, to model a statue weiuing a stove-pipe hat." Revenge is like a boomerang. Al though for a time it flies in the direction in which it is hurled, it takes a sudden curve, and, returning, hits your own head the heaviest blow of all. . Elder Evans, the leader of the Lebonon Shakers, has started a graveyard on a new plan. The graves are to be twenty feet opart, with a tree planted over each, so that in time there will be n handsome grove. A bill introduced into the Legislature of Delaware enacts that where a bride and groom, or the bride only, ore resi dents of the State, and leave the State for the purpose of being married beyond its limits, they shall be guilty of a misde meanor. Your hand, Mr. Hayes, ond pleaso re member, sir,.th:it we carried a torch for you three separate times last toll, at great personal sacrifice. Without being presumptuous, sir, a custom house would be deemed a sufficient reward for this trifling service. Exchange The best solace for the desponding patriot now may be expressed in the words of the mighty Daniel Webster : " Fellow-citizens, you hove a waterfall a hundred and fifty feet high. No peo ple -with a waterfall n hundred ond fifty feet high ever lost their liberties." A lady, whose cook went to a wake, was given notice by hern fortnight after ward that she was going to be married. " Who to ?" asked the mistress. " Please, mam, to tho husband of the corpse." " Why, does he love you V "'Oh, yes, mam; he said I was the light of the funeral." In the United States, where a whisky shop, n blacksmith's shop, a grocery and two or three residences, constitute many n city, it is strange to read that the Eng lish nre only now talking of elevating the great port of Liverpool to civic dig nity. Yet euch is the fact, Liverpool is only a town. " I come out of the accident," said he, " and who do yon think wos the first peT son I met ?" " Who, but that snme eter nal prize package peddler who had bored me for six hmidred miles on the train, and Nemesis, where art thou ? he was the only ono aboard who wasn't hurt someway !" Brigham Young, Jr., is organizing in Salt Lake City a company of 500 Mor mon families, which will colonize in So nora, Mexico. The Mexican authorities have promised perfect religious tolera tion, and large grants of land. A rendez vous of the colonists will be established at St. George, Utah, and the march to the new land will be taken up on the tenth of April. Smifkins always meant to be very po lite, and among the conventional rules beaten into him was the one about "present company excepted." At a gathering of young Beacon Hillers, the other evening, allusion was made to the acknowledged good looks of Boston girls. "Yas," said Smifkins, "it is ah undoubtedly twew that Bahstou lahdies are bootiful," and he turned smirkingly to his lady listeners, " pwes ent compohny excepted ah." . Germany sends annually into the fur market about 120,000 fox skins, of which 30,000 come from Bavaria and 22,000 from Prussia. ; Of other skins, her aver age annual produce is 20,000. pine mor tens, 60,000 stone martens, 280,000 pole cats, 8,000 otters, 8,000 badgers, and 600,000 bore skins, whioh last are used by the felt hat makers. Of rabbit skins the annual yield of Germany is onlv 300,000. to 6,000,000 in France. Th bkins of 400,000 domestic eats complete tlelit. J
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