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HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher.
NIL DESPERANDUM.
Two Dollars per Annum.
NO. 22.
5 VOL. VII.
RIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, JULY 1877.
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I TJie Farmer's Wire.
The farmer camo In from tbe Hold 0110 day 1
; His languid stop and Lis wenry way,
Ilia bended brow, hi sinewy hand,
Ail showed hia work for the good of the land )
For he sows,
And he hoea,
And he mows,
All for the good of tho land.
liy the kitchen lire stood his patient wife,
1 Light of hia home and joy of hia life,
With face all aftlow and bnay hand,
Preparing the meal for her husband' band,
For she must boil,
And she must broil,
And she must toil,
All for the good of tbe home.
The bright sun shines when the farmer goes
out ;
The birds sing sweet songs, lambB frisk about ;
The brook babbies softly in the glen
While he works so bravely for the good of men;
For he sows,
And he mows,
And he hoes.
All for the good of the land.
How briskly tho wife steps about within,
The dishes to wash, the milk to skim 1
The Arc goes out, the flies buzz about
For tho dear ones at home her heart is kept
stout ;
There are pies to make,
There is bread to bake,
And stops to take '
All for the sake of home.
When the day is o'er, and the evening is come,
The creatures are fed, the milking done,
He takes his rest 'neath the old shade tree.
From the labor of the land his thoughts are
free ;
Though he sows,
And he hoes,
And he mows,
He rests from the work of the land.
ut the faithful wife, from sun to sun,
Makes her burden up that's never done ;
There is no rest, there is 1.0 play,
For the good of the house she must work away;
For to mend the frock,
And to knit the sock,
And the cradle to rock,
All for the good of the home.
When autumn is here, with its chilling blast,
The farmer gathers his crop at last ;
His barns are full, his fields are bare ;
For the good of the land he ne'er hath care,
While it bluws,
And it snows,
Till winter goes,
Ho rests from the work of the liuiJ.
But the willing wife, till life's dosing day,
Is the children's guide, the husband's stay ;
From day to day she has done her best,
Until death alone cau give her rest ;
For after the test
Comes the rest,
With the blest,
la the farmer's heavenly home.
Christian Union.
(ELECTOR'S STORY.
Good-bye, dear," I said, after I had
put on my coat and gathered up the
reins.
She took hold of my wrist and detain
ed me.
" Wait a moment, John."
Then she called to Mack, my great
Newfoundland dog, and he came out of
the house, and, at a motion from her,
jumped into the sleigh and curled him
self at my feet.
He was a noble fellow, my brave Mack.
I really think there never was such
another dog. I had brought him all the
way from New Hampshire, and we had
grown to feel perfectly secure in the
house with him, so watchful and faithful
was the noble dog; but it never occurred
to me to take him on 'this trip, in a
sleigh.
"Belle," I said, "you are a silly
girl. The dng will only be a botheration
to me, and ten to one you'll want him
here before I get back.
" Now, John, please do take him
for me ! Please do take him, John
take him, just because your silly little
wife is afraid to have you go without
him."
Of course the girl had her way. I
was never able to understand how a man
can resist this kind of persuasion. I
never could, and never expect to. So I
kissed her and chirruped to Chevalier,
and he bounded away through the set
tlement like an arrow.
it was the dead of winter and an
unusually heavy snow had fallen, filling
in the roadway to the depth of four feet.
Ill ore had been travel enough to pack it
hard, so that I found the sleighing ex
cellent. Chevalier's hoofs glanced nimbly
over the snow, and in two hours I had
made more than twenty miles, and had
reached the substantial log-cabin of one
of our best and most intelligent cus
tomers. Ho received me with a hearty
welcome, and when I told him what my
mission was, lie invited me to make his
cabin my headquarters while I remained
in the neighborhood. I thankfully ac
cepted the invitation, stayed all night,
and tho next morning, under the guid
ance of Dick, my host's youngest son, a
clever boy of about thirteeu, I started
out to make my first experiment in col
lecting. It does not concern my story to
describe everything that happened to
mo during my stay with our friend,
which lasted rather more than a week.
When I began to realize that I had
collected about as much money as my
employer expected from this trip, I sat
down to count it up. I had been out all
day, and it was now just at the edge of
the evening. Supper was almost ready,
and I made up. my mind that if my
portmanteau contained as much as I
thought, I would only wait to appease
my hunger before returning to the settle
ment. I poured out the money on the
floor, and counted it. It was all in gold
and silver, for bank-notes would have
been 'despised among us then, and
there was the sum of eleven hundred
and seventy-three dollars. They were
all sorry to have me go, and made me
promise to come again and bring my
wife before the winter was gone. I put
on my coat and muffled up my ears, and
started.
The sleighing was still exoellent the
pight was dear and cold, find tbe full
moon mndo it as bright ns day. We
skimmed along for a mile or two, my
thoughts all the time on Belle and the
happy meeting we would have in a little
time, when the extraordiuary conduct of
Mack attracted my attention. He had
been lying quietly at my feet, with the
rug which enveloped them also covering
him. He suddenly shook it off, growled
savagely, and began to smell around the
bottom of the sleigh.
Had it been summer time, I really be
lieve I should have thought the animal
was going mad. Never before did I see
him behave thus j and his conduct
troubled me so that I shouted to Cheva
lier, and we skimmed away faster. About
sixty rods ahead I saw a tall, blasted
tree, which I had been told was half
way from the settlement to Mr. Selkirk's,
find, pulling my watch to observe the
time, I saw to my surprise that I had
been an hour and three-quarters coming
twelve miles. I think I was never so as
tonished in my life. The capacities ef
Chevalier were so well known to me, and
I was so sure that his ordinary gait, with
out the frequent urging I had given him,
would carry Mack and me a mile in six
minuted, mile after mile, that I could not
comprehend that he had been .so slow,
while apparently traveling fast. I called
to him again, and he stepped off smart
ly ; the dog growled, and, I am heortly
ashamed to say it, I kicked him hard in
my unreasonable angei. J had cause to
repent of those kicks before another ten
minutes had gone.
I passed the blasted tree, and entered
upon the last half of the way. Before
me now.lay a long, level stretch of road,
without an obstruction or turn for sev
eral miles, and one dazzling white surface
of snow upon it. I looked out ahead,
and just as far as I could see to distin
guish anything from the snow, probably
not less than a mile away, I saw a black
speck. It did not hold my attention
when I first saw it; but as Chevalier
sped on, rapidly devouring the distance,
it took form and size, until when within
thiity rods of it, I could plainly see
that it was a man. There he stood,
upright in the middle of the road,
without speech or motion, apparently
waiting I
Was he waiting for me ? Did he know
that I was coming with eleven hundred
dollars in cash in a portmanteau at my
feet? And, if so-, what would he "o?
For the first time since my absence from
the settlement I began to feel nervous,
and rnought it would only be safe to
take out my pistols and have them
ready. I felt in my rieht-hand overcoat
pocket, and found nothing; I felt in the
left one, and found nothing. They had
both been removed, and at Selkirk's. . J
was certain I had them when I returned
there at night.
A horrible suspicion of intended mur
der and robbery flashed upon me; and
here I was stripped of my weapons and
defenseless. The horse was now within
four rods of the motionless figure in the
road, and bearing down rapidly upon
him, and with the desperate idea of run
ning over him, I shouted to Chevalier,
and lashed him with the ends of the reins.
He bounded like a bolt up to the man
stopped in his fright, swerved, and was
instantly seized by the bit, and his head
brought down by the powerful ruffian.
Before I had time to think, there was a
shout, which I distinctly heard: "Your
money, quick 1" and then came two pis
tol shots, in such rapid succession that I
could not have counted two between
them. One ball passed through my hat,
as I afterward discovered, within an
inch of my head; the other went between
my right arm and my body, cutting the
skin in its passage. Almost at the instant
Mack gave a ferocious growl, and dove
under the seat upon which I was sitting.
I heard him snapping and growling, and
heard a human voice, half-suffocated
trying to say: " Oh, God ! Oh, God !"
and then I thoroughly realized the situ
ation. The man who had stopped me
was struggling with Chevalier, despe
rately striving to keep his head down,
when a happy thought came to my de
liverance, and I quickly jerked the lines,
one after the other. Quick as thought
the noble brute broke away from the
ruffian's grasp, and roared straight up in
the air above his head, coming down
again instantly. I saw that the man was
lying motionless beneath Chevalier's
hoofs, and, at a word from me, the ani
mal flew onward, while I lashed him into
greater speed. The growls of Mack
underneath me had ceased, as well as
the cries of the miserable being who was
suffering in his jaws; and in a few mo
ments the glorious dog came out
again and put his bloody paws on my
knees, while he whined as if requesting
some recognition of what he had done.
I was terribly excited I could not help
it; the awful trial I had just passed
through was enough to work upon
stronger nerves than mine; but I put my
arm around the noble fellow's neck, and
hugged him as if he had been a woman.
The last half of the way was passed rather
quicker than the first, and the gallant
Chevalier was covered with sweat when
he stopped at the door of my employer's
house.
I tumbled in upon my wife and her
parents sitting around the lire, and I
was just about speechless from cold and
the reaction of my excitement. I found
voice after a while to say that I wasn't
hurt at all, and to ask my father-in-law
to look under the seat of the sleigh.
What he found there all of you know by
this time. The man was stone dead,
Mack's teeth having torn and mangled
his neck frightfully. Selkirk came to
the settlement the next day, and with his
help the web of villany as completely
unraveled. Both men had been at his
house the afternoon previous to my re
turn, but had left about an hour before
I came. Both might easily know that I
had a large sum of money with me, for
no secret had been made of my business,
and it had been talked over in their
hearing. After talking with Mr. Selkirk,
I remembered for the first time that I
had left my overcoat in the sleigh after
coming back to the house that afternoon.
Here, then, was the opportunity which
the intended robbers and murderers em
braced to steal mv pistols, and for one
of them to secrete himself under the
sleigh-seat. In the woods, near the
scene of the encounter, Mr. Selkirk
found one of their horses, saddled and
bridled, and hitched to a tree; and he
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nod no doubt that it uaa ueen naaen
there that evening by tbe man whom
CheveOler killed, . "
Silent Americans Abroad.
A London letter writer says: Ex
President Grant astonishes some of his
English friends by his silence. Ameri
cans have generally plenty to say for
themselves. As a rule they are ready
after-dinner speakers. Two great ex
cept! .ns may now be recorded in Lon
don's experience of famous Americans.
When Longfellow visited London, a
dinner was given to him at the Langham
Hotel. The poet having made some ob
jection to lip glorification, and it being
understood that he would like the com
pliment intended to be paid to him all
the better if there wore no speeches, it
was arranged that this dinner should be
unlike the usual semi-public banquet,
inasmuch as there should be no address
es and no proposing of toasts. There
were many distinguished guests present.
They were each in turn presented to
Longfellow. Then came the dinner. It
was excellent. A bright and general
conversation had sprung up, untram
melled by this man's fear that he would
have to speak on nis legs and the other
man's fenr that he would not. But there
was a well known old gentleman at the
table for whom this scene of contentment
had no pttractious. Mr. S. C. Hall,
known better by the men he has met
than on his own account, and still more
widely known as the husband of Mrs. S.
C. Hall, suddenly rose in the midst of
this happy throng, and, thundering on
the table, began to speak. He would
not be put down. Yes, he knew what
the agreement was, but he also
knew that at their board sat the most
eloquent of Englishmen, and he called
upon Mr. Gladstone to say a few words
in honor of the greatest American poet.
Mr. Hall had done his ruthless work
well. He sat down amid a loud cheer,
and presently Mr. Gladstone rose to still
louder plaudits. The orator himself was
taken aback, but he was equal to the oc
casion, aud he paid a glorious tribute of
eloquent praise to the poet. When Glad
stone sat down Longfellow stood up.
Thunders of cheers greeted the grand
old mnu, but the grand old man was very
miserable. If they hod given him a pen
nnd called on him for a poem, he would
have done well enough, but asked for a
speech, aud without notice, Mr. .Long
fellow was nonplused. He opened his
mouth. No sound came forth. A second
time he essayed to speak with a like re
sult. At hist he said: " Gentle:nen, I
thank you; but it was understood that
there were to be no speeche:-. I
imagine that iu spite of his poetic gen
tleness and amiability Mr. Longfellow
must cordially hate the name of 8. C.
Hall. Longfellow could chat pleasantly
and learned enough away from the for
mal restraints of oratory; but ex-President
Grant is what may be called a silent
man all round. Now and then he breaks
out into an easy veiu of conversation,
but this is only seldom. Midhat Pacha
himself is not more reticent than Gen
eral Grant, when he pleases.
A iluman Salamander.
A famous man was M. Chabert, the
fire king, fire eater and "poison swal
lower, rather less than half a century
ago. By trade a baker at Paris he gain
ed much notoriety by his fire-resisting
qualities. According to the stories told
of him he would rush into a burning
house and bring out the inmates. Once
paseing a smith's forge he took out a
white hot piece of iron with naked hand,
placed the end on an anvil, and had the
smith hammer away. The son of Vul
can, too much alarmed, ran away, fear
ing that a denizen of the nether regions
had made his appearance. For a time
Chabert was inspector of the royal kit
chen at the Tuilleries ; but he was prone
to go into the heated oven and give out
the dishes of baked viands with his
hands. The king, fearful of the results
from such proclivities, discharged him
with a small pension. He went to Vien
na, and in the presenoe of the imperial
family sat in a tar barrel flaming and
smoking until he was blackened like a
negro. Coming to England, he exhibi
ted at White Conduit House, where he
entered a huge oven, took in a leg of
mutton, shut the door, sang some French
songs and camo out with the mutton
baked. Ou other occasions he bore the
heat of an oven raised to 500 degrees.
Repeatedly he swallowed phosphorous
and prussic acid, or appeared to do so ;
but when Mr. Wakley, editor of the
Lancet, proposed to administer the last
named powerful poison as a test Chabert
refused to comply. This and other cir
cumstances led to the failure of the fire
king as a profitable exhibition.
Turks Diving for Torpedos.
The Turkish government has organ
ized a corps of divers, whose business it
is to root up the torpedoes which the Rus
sians plant in the Danube and on the shores
of the Black Sea. These divers are Mo
hammedans from Lazistan, and a certain
number of them are attached to each of
the Turkish squadrons. When the ships
arrive near a spot where the existence of
torpedoes is suspected two divers row to
the place in a very light boat, which
draws so little water that there is scarce
ly any danger of its striking against a
torpedo. On arriving at the destination
one of the oarsmen dives into the sea;
if he finds the wire or rope by which the
torpedo is attached he cuts it with a
sharp instrument, and returns quickly
into the boat. The liberated torpedo
floats to the surface of the water, the
men pass a sort of lasso round it, take it
in tow, and then row back to the Bhip as
quickly as possible. For each one thus
captured the divers are paid about $50
in addition to half the value of the tor
pedo itself.
The Fourth Abroad.
The presenoe of General and Mrs,
Grant iu London naturally gave addi
tional interest to the celebration of the
" fourth," this year, in the British me
tropolis. The cable reports that the
principal feature of the celebration of
our nation 1 holiday took place at the
Amerio in legation, where Mr. and Mrs.
Grant acted as receiving guests, together
with Mr. and Mrs. Pierrepont. The re
ception lasted from four until seven
o'clock, and waa attended by all Ameri
cans at present in London, among them
ex-Gove$nor Hendricks, Seuator Couk
ling, Gen. Sickles, Mr. Eugene Schuy
ler, and a host of other political and di
ploniatiepersonages. The reception closed
with the singing of tbe "Star Spangled
Banney ' by Miss Steel, an American,
FARM, HARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Plantln or Drilling Corn.
Shall we plant oorn in checks, or drill
in continuous rows, and cultivate only
one way ? Each method has its advan
tages, and each is practiced by equally
good farmers. Oorn in drills will pro
duce larger crops than in checks, pro
vided the season is favorable and the soil
rich and clean. But no farmers have
yet reached the limit of large crops of
corn in hills. With rows three and one
half feet each way, and three large ears
per hill, the product would be 140 bush
els of ears per acre a yieldthat far sur
passes the average. Most farmers think
that they fail to grow large corn from lack
of stalks, and hence plant six or even seven
grains per hill. Four is as many as
should be dropped where grain is the
object. If fodder is desired, still plant
the grain thin and drill in a piece by
itself ns thickly os you choose. It is
impossible to reach the best result in a
corn crop, as in everything else, by try
ing to' do two things at once. Even four
stalks to a hill are too much for the
largest yield of grain. The plants crowd
each other too closely and the ears are
shortened or imperfectly filled. Herein
is the advantage of drilling corn. With
continuous rows, six, seven or more
stalks may bo grown in the space which
a hill would occupy, and without crowd
ing the plants. Some very large crops
are grown in this way. Mr. Jesse Dewey
of this county, a few years ago, grew
1,800 bushels of ears of corn on twelve
acres of clover sod. He always has corn
after clover, and always drills his seed,
harrowing the ground thoroughly be
fore and after the corn is up, and until it
is six or seven inches high. The drag
destroys a few plants, but he drills
thickly enough to leave a good stand.
The use of the harrow saves half of the
labor of cultivating and entirely obviates
the use of the hoe. Of course the land
must be free from thistles and quack, as
the drag will not keep these down, but
the small annual seeds are easily de
stroyed by the slightest brush. It is
much better to harrow corn which has
been drilled than that planted in hills.
ior what is destroyed does not leave so
large a vacant space. Another advantage
is, that with a fertilizer drill, some phos
phate, guano, or gypsum may be drilled
with the seed to trive it a erood send off.
Applying such fertilizers by haud before
planting is a very slow and laborious
process.
The ease with which a field may be
planted with a drill is another strong
recommendation. In a poor season early
pianteu corn always does best, and a
difference of two or three days in getting
in the crop may decide its success. But
it is useless to think of. drilling corn,
except for fodder, except on clean land.
If the field is foul it is better to take a
little more labor in planting and save a
good deal in hoeing. On a field that has
grown a largo crop of clover the previous
year, there will usuolly be few seeds of
weeds. The sod also will decay so
readily that breaking it up by cross cul
tivation will not be nee Jed. It is on
such land only that drilling corn can be
confidently recommended. Most of the
failures in drilling come from seeding
too iignuy and from having the ground
filled with June grass, or other weeds
which choked tho crop. W. J. F in
Country Gentleman
Farm Note.
Cucumber. Bugs. A correspondent of
tne tiermautown Telearanh writes
" Melon and cucumber hues like radish
leaves better than any other kind. I
sow a few radish seeds in each hill, and
never lose a plant. Earth-worms, cut
worms, white grubs, and in fact, most
worms are easily driven out by salt sown
broadcast. 1011 can do no harm with
ten bushels to the acre, but half a bush
el is ample. Dry slacked lime is also ef
fectual.
A New Fruit. The Diospyros Kali.
known as the date plum or Japaneso
persimmon, has been grown in Caufor
nia, and its successful culture fully
established. The tree is highly orna.
mentalis a proliflo bearer, is as hardy
as the pear, and ripens as earlv. Tho
fruit is solid, and can be shipped across
ttie continent. When dried it is equal
to tigs, and can be kept a long time.
It is of a bright yellow, orango, or ver
milion color, and is unsurpassed for the
table, being thought by some to bo
equal to the peach or strawberry. Its
average weight is from ene-half pound
to over a pound. The wood is valuable
for manufacturing, being a species of
ebony. It will bear in from one to three
years. Cultivate the same as the apple,
and iu the same variety of soil. Grafted
and reliable stock can be sent by mail.
Chemical Manures. Experiments
with chemical manures, or with new
fertilizers of any kind should be mado
upon a small scale, and then, as ex
perience with the fertilizers and skill in
using them are acquired, they may bo
used on a larger scale. But experiments
are expensive, and whole crops should
not be risked in making them. And in
the mean tune the farmer's reliance
must be upon barn-yard manure, muck,
lime, plaster, bone-dust, super-phosphate,
and such other manures as ex
perience has shown to be profitable.
The profits of farming will be largely
increased by the proper use and appli
cation of chemical fertilizers, but in
changing from well-established practice,
now circumstances, as well as new mate
rials, are introduced, and the changes
should bo carefully made, or losses may
result at first.
Turkey Alauaiiewenl.
One great drawback to turkey-raising
is the difficulty in getting the hen to lay
her eggs in a safe place. But if by
placing boxes or barrels containing
straw or hay under an evergreen tree, in
a clump of bushes or by a stone wall
near the buildings, we can tempt her to
occupy our impoverished nest, we have
attained the desired object. As fast as
the eggs are laid they should be taken
(substituting china ones in their place)
from their exposed position ond carefully
stored in a moderately cool place. If
ths hen does not oocupy one of the nests
we have provided, but steals one, that
also must be found, if possible, a ad the
eggs secured till she shows signs of
sitting, when she should be removed to
a room iu a shed or bam aud placed on a
nest prepared for her reception. After
she is fully established iu the incubation
businfii, give b.e tie eggs, furnish her
with a snpply of food and drink, a box of
sand and undisturbed possession of the
room, and ail win oe wen.
The Fashions.
BASQUES.
Great improvements have been, and
are still being, made in the style and cut
of the bodice, the object being to
lengthen, as much as possible, the dis
tance between the arm and the hip.
Basanes are very long and smooth, fit
ting the figure like a glove. Sometimes
there are five seams extending to uie
shoulders, forming a double side-body,
as in the Princesse. . Again, there are
three seams curved toward the arm-hole.
Some basques hove belts attached to the
side seams, and fastened by a gold buckle
a little to the loft of the front. Others
are girdles pointed in the middle on the
upper edge, while the lower edge is
trimmed with rows of silk loops. Others,
again, are folds of satin buttoned in
front; all, however, being on the sides,
leaving the back to show the graceful
curve of the seams without interruption.
These are finished with the English col
lar, made very high, with the front
points rolled open very far, to show the
inside facing. The bow at the throat is
invariably used. The Continental, or
Louis XIV. basque, with vest and square
postillion, is much used for rich toilets.
Brocaded silks, copied from pictures by
Watteau, are made on purpose. This
stylish garment has a postillion in the
nocK lengmeneu mw mu eijuui luyyem,
with a small Mousquetaire facing, in the
Mousquetaire style. A broad, square
collar is Bometimes used to match the
cuffs, which finish the sleeves.
SLEEVES.
The sleeve is placed high in the shoul
der, and the shoulder seam far back.
The arm-hole is much rounded in front.
The cord around the arm-size is placed
upon the inside, or between the lining
and the material, to give a good set to
the sleeve. Like every other item of the
toilet, they are closely fitted, upon the
Duchesse order, plain below the elbow,
with buttons and simulated button-holes
on the elbow seam, which is sometimes
made to lap over flatly, as a base for
trimming. A small cuff or puff may be
added, which gives a broad-shouldered
effect to a slender figure. In more fan
ciful toilets the outer seam is slashed and
filled in with a puff of the material used
in trimming the costume. In fact, the
sleeve is the objective point of garniture.
Epaulette-like straps or bands are pret
tier with a low corsage than short sleeves,
which break the harmony of outline, ond
which, if employed at all, should be sim
ply a puffing or fall of lace. The Mar
tha Washington sleeve, plain and close
to the elbow, where it is supplemented
by a fall of lace, is very stylish, either
for full dress or for the street, always, of
course, iu conjunction with the twelve
button gloves now in vogue. The cord
around the arm-size is set on the inside
as well as the outside, to set the sleeve
up easily.
overskirts.
For a time these have become over
dresses, and usually of the Princesse or
der, though the diaphanous, or even
semi-diaphanous, materials come in.
There is a demand for something more.
Overskirts alternate with polonaises
where slightly bouffant effects are desir
able. The scarf appliances so prevalent
do not retain position so well as in silk
or velvet. There is such a variety in the
styles from which to choose, suggestions
seem superfluous ; yet it seems most fit
ting to select from the present older of
grenadines, gazelines, etc., such a design
as will best assimilate with the basque
chosen, and display to greatest advantage
the somewhat complicated figure of the
fabric.
CRINOLINES.
The demaud of the present styles for
some sustaining power is imperative.
Small hoopskirts, with no bustle, are
now made with light, supple springs of
steel below the region of the loins, to
carry the weight of the skirt from off the
limbs, thus accelerating the chances of
walking conveniently and preserving the
heels of boots from the friction of stiff
.braids, facings and other unwieldy sub
stances employed to face the skirt arouud
the bottom. They ore laced just back of
the hips, in order that their size may bo
changed at pleasure. There are no hoops
in the center where the wearer would sit
upon them, and the front is a mere lad
der of tapes, and the ends of hoops are
lost in the fullness of the dress upon the
sides, the back support causing the train
to flow out gracefully. They cost from
$1.50 upward. Petticoats are so arranged
that they add to the fullness of skirts,
and care should be taken that nothing
should destroy the glove-like fit of the
bodice, which constitutes the perfection
of present models. .Latona,
A School (iirl Thrashing a Boy.
A curious example of female grit oc
curred in one of the rural school dis
tricts in Skowhegan, Me., recently. Tho
school was a disorderly one, the teacher
having lost her control over the scholars.
Some of the boys had annoyed the girls
exceedingly by throwing wadded paper,
junks of clay, etc. Vinallv, one of them
reported a certain boy to the teacher,
The teacher's reply was that she
" wanted no tattling." Soon after, while
the school was in session, this boy, in
firing across the school room, hit this
same young lady, hurting her quite bad
ly. Her supply of patience and grace
was exhausted, immediately seizing
large book with these words " If the
teacher can't lick you, lean," she started
for him. It is said that she pounded
until through his tears he begged for
mercy. It is also stated that the boy
has been remarkably supple and obedi
ent ever wnce.
ComaDche War Fashions.
Says the Fort Worth Democrat : We
inspected the warring outfit of a Co
manche Indian, killed three hundred
miles west of Jacksboro oil the Staked
plains by a company of United States
colored troops the feathered arrows,
bow with the panther skin encasement.
together with the deer-skin belt, trimmed
with German silver buttons, from which
hung two scalping-knives in tasty bead
encasements; each knife was marked ou
the handle with the number of scalps it
bad severed; one had twelve marks and
the other eight
HARD TIMES.
Present Itelatlon Between Production nnd
Consumption.
The Popular Science Monthly says:
Production and consumption do not
have that intimate relation to each other
they once had. In old times the weav
er, for instance, was in contact with his
customers; he wove cloth as he discov
ered the need; he cautiously set up a
second loom when it became fully evi
dent that it could be kept employed;
and thus supply and demand went, as it
were, hand in hand. But now gigantic
mills tilled with many spindles havelit
tle accurate relation to consumption.
The power of production by means of
improved machinery is something im
mense, and it is exercised with no very
watchful or cautious regard to the imme
diate needs of the community. Goods
are piled up in vast quantities in waiting
for a future market, or for an anticipated
change in price, or they are pressed
upon the market at such low rates or on
such long credits that buyers are se
duced into over-purchoses. In favorable
times these establishments are run at
high pressure. The old-fashjoned nice
relation between producer and consum
er disappears. Speculation takes the
helm. Much more is produced than
there ia corn, leather, or other goods, to
exchange for it. The resources of the
mills are great; they can borrow from
tho banks while they pile up their fab
rics in their warerooms; they can by
means of their concentrated capital keep
their machinery running, even at a loss,
if by so doing they can crush out a rival
or manipulate the market. But in the
height of this prosperous run there is a
check no matter for what cause and
suddenly the work stops. There is little
sale for goods produced; the fires
must be put out, the doors closed, and
thousands of operatives are deprived of
employment. This would not be so un
fortunate if this over-production had
been diffused among the work-people.
But it had not. Notwithstanding the
high pressure and the excessive manu
facture, wages have been kept down;
while producing in six montliB as much
could be exchanged in a year, tne
workmen have not been paid in this way
their wages have been upon the basis
of the whole year's work as a result,
they are turned empty-handed upon the
street. And, what is particularly unfor
tunate, they are reduced as consumers to
the minimum point. Here the evil works
both ways. The excessive production
which has shut up tho mill has weak
ened the power of the community to ab
sorb this production the goose tnat laid
the egg has been slain. Inevitably the
recovery from hard times brought about
in this way must be slow. The spindles
cannot be set in motion until the Btock
of goods on hand is reduced and a fresh
demand revives; this demand cannot re
vive because the great body of consum
ers are 111 a state of impoverishment.
This condition of things is entirely
sufficient to explain the genesis and the
prolongation of business prostration.
Capital is not impaired; it is locked up
in machinery that is silent, in goods that
cannot be exchanged, in money that has
no borrowers. It is the paralysis of
consumption that is the cause.
Thoughts for Saturday Night.
A difference of tastes in lokes is a
great strain on the affectionp.
Narrow-minded people deliberately
shut out half the pleasures of lite be
cause the enjoyment of them clashes
with their own peculiar views.
Base natures joy to see hard hap hap
pen to them they deem happy.
Decency is the least of all laws, but
yet it is the law which is the most strict
ly observed.
.Envy makes us see wnat win serve
to accuse others and not perceive what
may justify.
Everything is worth seeing once, and
the more one sees the less one either
wonders or admires.
In the enecies with which wo ore best
acquainted namely, our own I am far,
even as an observer of human life, from
thinking that youth is its happiest sea
son, much less the only happy. raiey,
Every other sin hath some pleasure
annexed to it. or will admit of some ex
cuse; but envy wants both; we should
strive against it, tor it indulged in it wiu
be to us a foretaste of hell, upon earth,
To a man of a delicate and sensitive
mind, nothing is so truly revolting as the
discovery of an offensive habit in the
woman he respects.
Let crrace and goodness be the princi'
pal loadstone of thy affections, for love
which has ends will have an end, whereas
1 1 , , - 1 1 x . -.1 "II
mat wnicu is iouuueu ou true virtue win
always continue.
Extravagance is one of the greatest
evils of the present age. It is under'
mining and overturning the loftiest and
best principles that should be attained
and held sacred in society. It is annually
sending thousands cf young men and
women to misfortune and ruin.
Detroit's Hero.
Anthony Grogan, jumping for the
ferry boat Victoria, at the foot of Wood
ward avenue, Detroit, Mich. , missed and
fell, but he was saved bv John Horn. ir.
This makes the one hundred and thirtieth
person that Mr. Horn has rescued 'from
drowning. It is thirteen years since Mr,
Horn, Br. , took up his quarters at the
foot of Woodward avenue, occupying the
restaurant on the wharf, tiis son John
was then a youth of twenty years, a power
ful athlete, well known in base ball cir
cles as one of the strongest batsmen ever
turned out iu Detroit. Before Mr. Horn
established his headquarters on the wharf
at the foot of Woodward avenue, the
place was dangerous, as there were no
railings along Jie shores, and oftentimes
the nights were so dark and so foggy
that it was easy to walk off suddenly into
twenty-five feet of water. Mr. Horn has
lost $1,500 worth of clothing in saving
lite, sometimes ruining a new and hand'
some suit within an hour after puttiug
on tor the nrst time, in 1871 his ad
mirers in Detroit gave him a beautiful
gold medal, and this he lost in resouing
a person from droirning. In the rescue of
Anthony Grogan, Mr. Horn lost his gold
watch and chain and a medal presented
to him by the city authorities. Two
years ago Congress voted him a gold
medal, -
Items of Interest.
The plague of 1340 is said to have di
stroyed in Christendom 23,840,000 per
sons. Immigration from Russia brought ns
6,959 individuals last year mostly
Mennonites.
At a Michigan wedding a man of one
hundred and six years danced with a
young lady eighty-nine years his junior.
This war has already demonstrated
one thing, that the Russians can run as
well as the Turks can when occasion re
quires. The French mint has struck 10,000
francs worth of centime pieces in bronze,
each representing about the twelfth of
an American cent.
It is useless for physicians to argue
against short-sleeved dresses. The con
stitution of the United States says that
" the right to bear arms shall not be in
terfered with."
Daniel Webster, Wellington, Napo
leon, Bismarck, or any other great man
whose genius put its brand upon the
age, would feel his insignificance as
quickly as you or we if he ever attempted
to wade through a Texas wheatfield.
A Baltimore hock driver reached his
home a few nights since and complained
of severe pains in his side. Rising from
his chair he said to his wife: " I shall
die before morning," and walked toward
the window. Suddenly he fell to the
floor dead.
A Western paper hos improved' on the
original plan, and now says : "No com
munication will be published in this
paper unless accompanied by the full
name of the writer and a five-dollar bill;
these are not requested for publication,
but as a guaranty of good faith."
In Pittsburgh Jacob Klonsking wrapped
$300 in notes up in paper and put it in a
drawer. His wife wishing to kindle a
fire soon after began a search for paper,
but found none until she opened the
precious drawer, and a cheerful blaze
was soon on the hearth, which cost
Klonsking nearly $300.
A Sad Story.
"Married, In Now Orleans, Thursday, June 7,
1877. at 6:30 p. M., James M. Walpole and
Monnie M., daughter of the late George W.
Pritchard."
"Died. June 7. 1877. at 8:90 P. M,. Alonme
M., wife of James M. Walpole."
The above, from a New Orleans paper,
is the simple announcement 01 one 01
the sorrowfulest stories it ever falls to
mortal pen to recount. Monnie M.
Pritchard, of New Orleans, was a beau
tiful, gentle, very intelligent girl. She
was a cousin of Mr. William McAlpin,
of Cincinnati, and some time ago visited
Cincinnati and the North for the first
time. Her visit of a few weeks in Cin.
cinnati stretched itself out to many
months, before she left finally for her
Southern home.
She naturally had many friends and
admirers. Mr. James M. Walpole, city
editor of the New Orleans Picayune,
had been devoted to her for four years,
and at length, on the nineteenth of
June, they were to have been married.
iSetore the happy day came Miss JrTitcii
ard was stricken with sudden, fatal sick,
ness. Thursday, June 7, it became
plain that the lovely girl could not tarry
longer among the living. They told her
so, and she sent for her bethrothed, and
asked to be married to him before she
died.
"Yes." said Mr. Walpole, "if she is
to die, I want her to die as my wife."
The solemn marriage ceremony was
performed hurriedly and sadly, while the
gentle soul was even then passing into
eternity. Three hours after she was
dead, and Mr. .Walpole, four years a
lover, three hours a husband and now a
widower, has only her sweet remem
brance left him.
A Choleric Father's Revenge.
A sentimental young gentleman iu
Galveston, Texas, was paying his ad
dresses to a pretty daughter of a choleric
Frenchman, and was drifting gentlv
into the smooth haven of wedlock. Sud
denly he ran across a snag. A jealous
rival told the young lady that her
affianced lover had called her father " a
snappish, snarling, gouty old frog-eater,"
and had described her as a flirt 01 the
first water, with a temper equal to that
of Beelzebub's spinster aunt." The
young lady was angry. She told her
father and he was also wroth. The
doors were closed upon the lover; the
old gentleman even threatened to brain
him. A few weeks afterward the young
lady discovered that her lover had been
maligned, and forthwith he was sum
moned with prayers, promises and tears.
He called one evening and everything
was satisfactorily explained. The chol
eric old Frenchman did not know that
the charges were false. He happened
to pass through the hall and saw the
happy lovers sitting close to each other
and holding hands. His ire was inflamed.
He went on tip-toe to the water-cooler
at the end of the hall, carried it to the
parlor door, aud suddenly reversed it
above the heads of the devoted pair.
Explanations and dry clothes were soon
in order.
A Small Feast of Horrors.
A war correspondent on his way to
Widdin on the Danube gives the follow,
ing little episode of his journey: The
Tcherkess, who acted as our guide and
who called himself Mahmoud became
talkative, and gave us to understand,
more by gestures than word4, that he
was in the last war. He complacently
related to us the part he took, and he
made the most amusing figure as he
strenuously endeavored to explain him
self. His eyes shone like burning coals.
" It was here," said he, " that I shot the
Servian officer whose horse I am now
riding; there I out off the head of a cor
poral, who seemed determined not to die.
Further on I cut off the ears and nose of
a soldier. There," pointing to a little
shrub, I buried the nose. Shall I
show it to you?" We asked to be ex
cused. While he related to us all his
terrible story he occasionally sniffed the
perfume, of a rose which a pretty little
girl had given him just previous to our
uepanure. as up neiu it almost continu
ally to his nose and month I ventured tq
remark that the Turks were very fond of
flowers; when he was not smelling the
rose be waa drinking absinthe a very
agreeable amusement to him, no doubt,