I ! A i ' mm HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL DESPERANDTJM. Two Dollars per Annum. VOL. VII. RIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 23, 1877. NO- 27- LIlllc Words. A "POEM IN WORDS OF OMB HTIXABLK. Think not that strength lici In tlio big ronnd word, Or that the brief and plain miiBt needs bo weak; To whom can this be true who once lms hoard . Theory for help, the tongue that all men speak When want, or woo, or fear ia In the throat, So that each word gapped out in liko a shriek Pressed from the Bore throat, or atrange wild note Sung by soino fny or Bond ! There is a strength Which dies if stretched too far or spun too fine, Which has more height than breadth, more depth than length. Lot but this force of thought and speech be mine, And he that will may take the fleck, fat phrase Wh'ich glows and burns not, though it gleam and shine; Light but not heat a flash without a blaze. Nor is it mcro strength that the short word boasts: It serves for more than fight or storm can tell Tho roar of waves that clash on rock-bound coasts; Tho crash of tall trees when the wild winds swells; The roar of guns; tho groans of men that dio On blood-stained fields. It has a voico as well For them that far off on their sick-beds lie; For them that weep, for them that mourn tlio dead; For thorn that laugh, and danco, and clap the hsiid To joy's quick step, as well as grief's low tread Tho sweet, plain words we learnt at first keep iinio, And though tho themo bo sad, or gay, or grand, With each, with all, tbeso may bo mado to c'.iime, In thought, or spieoh, or song, or proso, or rhyme. . The Music of the Waters. And so rl I had to do was to go iiit.i tho cjuniry and enjoy myself for si:; wo-jks Hint is what it came to. Why, ir any one hud struck me with n feathi'i- itt the moment the doctor uttered his ve.Viiet I should certainly have been knocked down ; fortunately no fucK n-trucity was at tempted, ho I maintained as eie:.'t o posture us my enfeebled health would allow until the eminent licentiate of tho College of Physicians, whom I was consulting, begged mc to resume my sent. " You ore utterly smoke-dried, " he said. "London or tobacco?" I inquired. " Both," ho answered. " No physic ; fresh air is alj you want mountain nir, if possible ; perfect rest and quiet ; ab stemious habits, early hours and no to bacco." " And then ?" I blankly inquired. "Then? Oil, then," ho answered, "get married and settle down." It certainly was fortunate I was not standing up nt that moment, for it would not have needed a touch of the aforesaid feather to have laid me low. As it was I sank back in my chair aghast. " Get married !" I thought ; I who was ntterly insensible to female attractions, and who had been always taught to have an eye to the main chance, and regard rnatri-: Tnnnv lis fl (Anrr iuiIprci nuaniintorl wif.li a' great heiress. I get married on a salary-1 oi a year t wnew i I left Savile row with scarco another word, convinced that for real, downright, unpractical men there were none to com pare with doctors. Thus I took the plunge, and within five days found myself at a snug little inn in North Wales, hard by a celebrated spotkuown ns the "Devil's Bridge," a few miles inland from Aberystwith. The change soon refreshed me. I was astonished at feeling neither dull nor lonely for the tourist season hadf 1 11 L 1 T 1 1 Al ; nanny set in, ami x uau me uiue inn well nigh to myself. So I wandered about and gazed wonderingly at all I saw, especially at the deep, craggy, wooded gorge or mountain river bed across which his satauio majesty's en gineering skill was supposed to have been displayed. As I stood looking down npon it from the bridge near the inn, it certainly seemed to me a wondrously romantic spot. Steep rock-bound banks, crowned with trees, hemmed in the rushiug foam ing river, its channel becoming irregu larly narrower and more precipitous as it reached the head of the valley in the depths of which it lay. . Here there was a waterfall, as I then thought, of stu pendous magnitude, and yet a little higher up, a second, still larger. As I made my way down to the river by a well-worn path through a wood, the sound of the descending waters, as, wafted on the soft summer breeze, it rose and fell in liquid cadence, fascinated me from the very first. The weather hitherto had been superb, midsummer sunshine, and not a drop of rain. , The sunshine glinting through the troes; the pure 6ky above: the song of ' 1 " " , i.nu I'tt&w J ....... -, " """ti birds, not yet all hushed, in the woods t tho fresh breezy odors these all becam such novelties aud charms as I had never conceived possible. But seated on an isolated rock, it was still, after all, out of the'" music of the waters " that I got my chief mental enjoyment. At last there was a sudden change of wind. Heavy clouds swept over the landscape, hurrying in mist or occasional showers all forms save those close at hand. " Hegular Welsh weather, sir !" said a fresh-colored elderly gentlemanlike man in a tourist's suit, whom I found the next morning in the coffee-room. " My party will be house-bound for a couple of days at least, if I know any thing of this country; shocking place for weather. Been here long, sir ? I told him how long, and that I had not had a drop of rain the whole time. ' Disadvantage in that, too," he went on; "mountainous scenery wants mist and rain to drift'round the peaks, fill up the torrents and bring out the waterfalls. This one here will present a fine sight after another four-and-twenty hours of such weather; it was a mere dribble last eight when we arrived." I was consoled by this gentleman's words; for having to spend the best part of the dny indoors, there was a new sensa tion then yot in store for me; and I was a little disappointed to find, when early the following afternoon a lull in the weather enabled me to go down to my favorite rocky haunt, that there was very little perceptible difference in the volume of water coming over the fall. So here I sat, I suppose, for more than an hour in my accustomed state of placid indolent enjoyment. With eyes half shut I was saying over to myself the first few lines of Southey's "Lodore," and trying to make " the music of the waters " fit into them as an accompani ment, when there suddenly sounded in my ears a roar so loud, and increasing so rapidly in volume, that I started, and looking up perceived that now indeed the fall had become grandly augmented. It was swollen at least to twice the size it had been ten minutes before; it looked magnificent. I turned toward the step ping stones by which I always regained the precipitous bunk of the river. To my horror they had all disappeared, and iu their place a boiling, bubbling ferment of brown water and frothy foam was sweeping along at a tremendous pace. Then in an instant I knew that the river was rising rapidly. Anyone but a fool would have forseen this as the natural consequence of the increase in the water fall. Bight and left and all around the river had now become a boiling caldron of broken water; I was cut off from all hope of retreat, and should be trashed away like a fly, I knew. Helpless and scared, I stood irresolute yet a moment longer. I recollect in this dire emergency sud denly oljserving a still further increase in the volume- of tho fall, and almost simultaneously with it feeling my legs slip from under mo as the brown water gurgled in my ears and glistened in my eyes. Then there was a choking, help less, tumbling pressure forward, several sharp blows upon my legs and arms, ou effort to strike out, met by coming in contact with more rocks, and then a whirl and twirl and spinning round as if I had been a cork. The swimmer's instinct, however, was of some use after all, for, in the first place, it enabled me to retaiu a little pres ence of mind, and,' in the second, to bring my head up to the surface after the first plnnge. I saw I was already o long way from the upper fall, and an addi tional p.tcg was given to my sensations by the recollection that I was being hur ried on tiward the lower, over which if I was carried I must inevitably bo drown ed. Fortunately, just now I was carried by a enrrent close in under one of these sheer-down sides, and for the fiftieth time sent spinning round in the eddy like a cork. I made a helpless grab at the smooth and slippery surface, much as the drown ing man catches at the proverbial straw, for I was by this time getting exhausted and suffocated by the constant rolling over which the torrent gave me. I did just manage to get a finger-hold in a crack, and to steady myself somewhat ; but the water was very deep just here, and I could not lift much more than my chin above it, whilst a foothold of any sort was out of the question. Yet to remain where I was much longer was impossible. Could I but have raised myself some tw;o feet I should have been able to reach an overhanging bough of one of the thickly growing young ash saplings, the roots of which projected from the earthly top of the rock a yard or two above. Oh, how I longed for a giant's arm, that I might touch that bough I Twice I made a futile effort to spring out of the water at it, but only exhausted myself, and had the greatest difficulty in retain ing my support. Was I sinking and losing conscious- s t ana is this to be the end, I light, with that music still in my ears ? J, lo 1 what vision is that which I be- id? Surely an angel's face looking from amidst the leafy roof above ! Yes; my life must be passing awav a dream of beautiful sights and sounds. moment or two more such was the 11 A- J 1 i a law uuuuiumuii iiiiiiiuig mrougn my W jpind, nor was it at once dispelled by a perfectly audiblo and silvery voice saymg: "Sfj to reach it now: I think you can; is can be no illusion: this is no phantom born of a drowning man's fancy; this is a sweet reality; and in that bending branch, uow steadily de scending to within my grip, I see my life restored -to ue and my hopes re newed. I have the Jili4e end of tho bough in mv jiamii wesjisu lffefijiiutomaticallv I have seized it, and'dfeady it helps to li ft me higher out olLtlie water. "Be very CSutious," says tho voice once more. Jrijai great care, or it will snap. Theriidt' so, whilst I pull this strong one MLJ; and that will hold your weight bettiWiiow, so;" and in another minute I b3i grasped this stronger one: I niaft3 it and 5it t the iuro of raise myself by it a little, the tips of mv toes into tha rock bv wliicli T liml SfjMyirg held with the tips of my fingers. JTWen a soft, firm hand is held out, to &, aud taking it I finally, by one su cuui illJDCH well lip umoug -the underwood and twisted roots at tho 1 top of the cliff. preme eflort, pull myself well up among Too exhausted to speak or think. I threw myself down upon the steep hill side among the long grass and ferns be tween the trees, Then I think I did really lose consciousness for a while, for I do not remember seeing theprettv, graceful girl who had saved my life until I found her kneeling at my side, en deavoring to raise my head as she wiped the streaming water from my forehead and hair. " Wait here," she said, "and I will run to the inn for help ; I won't be long. There, lean against that tree trunk." "Pray, stop," I stammered, feebly; " I shall soon be all right ; I am really very much obliged to you." ' Oh,never mind that," she answered, brightly; " if you can walk, so much the better. Get up, and come along at once; you must get your wet clothes off." ' I rose and shook myself, feelinur verv bewildered, sick and Beared. Here up this way," she cried. " I think we can get through the wood this way xoiiow me." I hod scarcely started after her,as with a firm, light step she sprang up the slope among the trees, when I heard from the top a cry of: " Hiliy-o 1 Lucy, hilly -o I where are you ?" "Here I am," she cried; "all right. Come down, papa, and give this gen tleman a hand. I have just helped him out of the water he was nearly drowned I" "What? Eh, my dear? What are you talking about ? Gentleman out of the water nearly drowned?" said a cheery voice; and looking up, I saw two. or three figures coming against the sky over the crest of the hill. Then there was a little hurrried talk as they met my preserver, and presently my middle-aged friend; who had spoken to me about the weather at the inn the day before had a vice-like hold npon my arm, and was lending me very material assistance in my ascent. "What a fortunate thing I Only to think," he said, "of Lucy happening to see you I We were wandering about, and she hod gone on ahead by herself to look at the fall; then all of a sudden we missed her and wondered what had be come of her; and then, lo and behold 1 all the time she was qualifying for the Koyal Humane Society's medal. We had stopped, when a second young lady, evidently a sister of my guardian augel, came running down toward us, ex claiming : "Oh, papa, do come up quick; Lucy has fainted. She wur just beginning to tell us all about it, when in a moment she went quite off. Whereupon I hastened up the re mainder of the slope in company with my new friends, to find the brave girl quite insensible, her head resting on the lap oi a may, evidently her mother. Then all solicitude, very properly, was turned from me to her; but she soon re revived, and then, and not till then, I allowed myself to be hurried off to the inn to get dry clothes. These, and a little hot fctimulant, soon put me to rights, with no further damage from my ducking thau a few superficial braises and scratches. But what was this tremendous internal wound that I suddenly became conscious of ? that had not been inflicted by pro jeeting rocks or slippery crags or foam ing water ! No; of a certainty that was tlio result of a sympathetic glance from a pair of bright brown eyes, which had gone straight to my heart from the mo ment they had looked down upon me in my peril. I now suddenly awakened to the possi bility of what the doctor had called " settling down." There absolutely ap peared a chance of my taking to the idea, and of so carrying out his prescrip tion to the letter. What a wonderful and beneficent effect it was working 1 "Why, there she is in the garden nt this moment, - and how . beautiful she looks ! Now that I have made myself presentable," I thought, "1 will go down immediately and thank her like a co herent being and a gentleman." She was sitting in a little arbor at the end of the inn garden. As I approached, a blush, the more evident from the pale ness which her undue exertion and sub sequent faintness had left, overspread her sweet face that angel face, which I had at first thought a dream, and which to mo now, with my newly-awakened poetical sensibilities, scarcely seemed a reality. I caunot describe it. Why should I ? Other people would not see it with my eyes ; there were hundreds and hundreds of faces in the world doubtless far more beautiful. "I hope you are feeling better," I said. "Iam afraid that what you have done for me has overtaxed your strength; I shall never forgive myself if it has mode you seriously ill." " Oh, no," she answered, "I was only a little out of breath with the running and the scramble through the brush wood and trees ; but I was sure that if I was to be of any use there was no time to be lost. Please don't say any more about it." " Oh, but indeed I must ; you must tell me how you saw me and how you were able to reach me." " Oh, I had merely gone down to look at the waterfall I knew it would be very much swollen and the moment I came upon it, to my horror and surprise I saw you standing upon that rock in the middle of the river. I felt sure that you would be drowned ; but before I could even call out you were washed off it, and I saw yon carried away. . Well, I don't know what it was that made me do it, but I ran along through the wood by tho side of the river as fast as I could; I don't suppose I thought of being able to save you, but it all seemed so dreadful ; and then I lost sight of you. But I still ran on to near the top of the second fall, and got close down to try if I could seo you ; tho trees were so thick up above that I was obliged to get close to the edge. I was looking all about for vou. Jdheu I suddenly saw you just under- neatn where l was standing, and trying to reach that bough. Well, then I pushed it down to you, that's all." ' All, indeed !" I cried. " Can I ever repay you for that all !' .You simply saved my life; I should never have got c.it but for you." "Hope you are not much the worse for your ducking sir ?" here broke in her father's voice. "I and my wife hope that you will give us the pleasure of your company at dinner this evening; you must be a little dull and lonely here by yourself." Of course I would, and of course I did, and of course, too, I spent the very pleasnntest evening I had ever known in my life. I told the family who I was and all about myself; and they told me a great deal about themselves father, mother and two daughters and how they had come out for their annual run,' as they called it, and how they often made very pleasant acquaintances on their tours. " But it's not often," said my host, " that we make one in this fashion; it is not to be wished. We don't expect to become heroines of a domestic drama every day. Ha, ha ! but, by Jove, it was very lucky Lucy saw you.' After this evening followed a succes sion of the most delightful hours I had ever known morning, evening and noon were spent in the company of my new acquaintances, and at the end of a very short time those acquaintances had be come fast friends. I was as completely over head and ears in love as I had been over head and ears in the turbulent water, and I told her so. " Save me once more," I said: " give me that hand once again, and let it be mine forever; otherwise it would have been kinder to have left me to drown outright." She dropped her head, but held out her hand, that hand which at this moment has just touched my arm, as a silvery voice says: " Come, Billy, stop; I have been peep iug over your shoulder. You need not write any more; people can guess the rest. I would rather you did not enter into details." " Very well, dear," I answered; " as it is nearly twelve years ago since it all happened, perhaps you are right. Yes, settled down for twelve years; who would think it 1 And in a week or two we must be off, for the nineteenth time together, on another holiday diversion. What shall it be and where shall we find it ?" " Oh, I am still all for the country, you know," she cries. "I am never tired of rural sights and sounds." "Nor I," is my reply; "we'll go where: i ' Geitle winds and waters near, Make music to the lonely ear.' as Byron says. Foncy my quoting By ron I What a transformation in a man I Only wo shall not be lonely, sjiall we t" " Indeed, no," she says. " we will only take care not to sit in the dry beds of mountain streams when we want to listen to the musio of the waters.' " Words of Wisdom. It is hard work to teach people who can learn nothing without being taught. Take atray from mankind their vanity and their ambition, and there would be but few claiming to be heroes or patriots. There is nothing so easy nB to be wise for otheis ; a species of prodigality, by-thc-bye for such wisdom is wholly wasted. Most thoughtful men have probably some drk fountains in their souls, by tho side of which, if there were time, and it were decorous, they could let their thoughts sit down and wail in definitely. Evry morning we enter upon a new day, currying still an unknown future in its besom. Thoughts may bo born to day, vhich may never be extinguished. Hope! may be excited to-dny which may never expire. Acts may be performed to-day, the consequence of which may not bt realized till eternity. An iustant decides tho life of man and his wliole fate ; for after lengthened thought the resolve is only the act of a moment ; it is the man of sense that seizes on the right thing to be done ; it is ever dangerous to linger in your selec tion of this' and that, and so by your hesitation get confused. The race of mankind would perish did they ceaso to aid each other. From the time that tho mother binds the child's head till the moment some assistant wipes the death-damp from the brow of tho dying, we cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid have a right to ask it of their fellow mortals. No one, who holds the power of granting it, can refuse it without guilt. The education of the human mind commences in the cradle, and the im pressions received there frequently exert their influence through the whole of life. Principles which take the deepest root are those implanted during tho seasons of infancy, childhood and youth. The young pupil takes early lessons from everything around him ; his character aud habits are forming before he has any consciousness of lus reasoning pow ers. A Novel Sausage Skin, A writer in Nature says: We may mention a circumstance ot especial in terest to scientific men, in connection with the manufacture of this new food. ine M,rowurst, or pea-sausage, was produced by the Germans in such large quantities during the ranco-Prussian war that it was found to be absolutely impossible to procure a sumcient mini ber of skins and bladders to contain the preparation. All sorts of substitutes were tried. Oil fabric and vegetable parchment, as well as waterproof mate rials, were essayed in vain, for an en velope was required which was elastic and unaffected by boiling water. At last a chemist stepped in and solved tho problem. He proposed the use of gela tine mixed witn bichromate of potash. or in other words the process employed by photographers nowadays in producing what are termed carbon prints. It is well known that if a solution of gelatine and bichromate of potash is spread upon paper and exposed to light, the gelatine becomes insoluble in a very short timo. and will effectually resist the action of cold or hot water to dissolve it, this principle being in fact that upon which photographic) prints are produced, tho portions of a surface which refuse to wash away constituting a picture. This same mixture was used for treating the sausages. The food was pressed into proper shapes and then dipped into the bichroinated gelatine solution, after which it was exposed to daylight for a couple of hours, when the gelatine formed a rough skin around it, capable ot being boiled with impunity. Definition of Bible Terms. A day's journey was thirty-three and one-fifth miles. A Sabbath day's journey was about an English mile. Ezekiel's reed was eleven feet nearly. A cubio is twenty-two inches nearly. A hand's breadth is equal to three and five-aight inches. A finger's breadth is equal to an inch. Shekel of silver -wo about fifty cents. A shekel of gold was 88. A talent of silver was $538.32. A talent of gold was $13,809. A piece of silver, or a penny, was thir teen cents, A mite was less than a quarter of a cent. A gerah was one cent An epha, or bath, oontains seven gal lons aud five pints. A bin was one gallon and two pints. A firkin was seven pints. An omer was six pints. A oab w4 three pint, CALIFORNIA'S MONEY KINGS. Enormous Wenlth Acenmnlnted Within Twenty Yearn. The San Francisco Bulletin says: No doubt the richest mining firm in the world is that of Flood & O'Brien, Mackey k Fair. Their interest in two bonanza mines, at the present depressed prices, cannot be less than $23,000,000. They own the Bonk of Nevada, with a paid-up capital of $10,008,000 and a re serve fund of $2,000,000. They are re puted to own $20,000,000 in United States bonds. Their real estate and other property in sight cannot be worth less than $3,UUU,UUU. xJesiuos inese invest ments they own a controlling interest in several other mines, some of which, like the Best & Belcher, are believed to be on the line of rich deposits, and may at Bome future day be classed in the list of "bonanza mines." Add these items together and we hove a total of $60,000, 000, which is on underestimate of their wealth, but how much so we cannot soy. The annual income on this property is not less than $20,000,000. The indi vidual interests cannot bo defined, but we should hesitate to indorse the statement of the German financiers in this particu lar. It would not surprise us, however, if satisfactory proof were offered, that the entire assets of these four men would foot up $100,000,000. Next in order we should estimate the wealth of the four principal owners of the Central Pacific railroad and other connecting roads of California Stan ford, Huntington, Crocker and Hopkins. These men are the largest owners of rail road property in the world. Most of this property ier encumbered by the issue of mortgage bonds. But we suppose that these four men have a clear margin of rising $50,000,000. Besides raflroad property they own a great deal of land, town sites, alternate sections, country seats, city real estate and so on. It is a low estimate to say that they are worth $12,500,000 apiece. Prospectively they are worth vastly mate, It may, indeed, turn out, with their nearly three thou sand miles of railroad and their large amount of real estate, that six or Beveu years hence they may be, if not now, the richest men in California, or in the United States. For the present, how ever, we adhere to our estimates, and set down the men who are tho principal owners of the Bank of Nevada and tho great bonanza mines as the richest men in this State, and set down the four men who are the principal owners of the Cen trid Pacific railroad and connecting roads as ranking next in order, with the quali fication that we do not hold ourselves re sponsible for these calculations. They have at least the merit of shrewd guesses, with considerable data to fortify the opinion. The number of incn who are million aires in this Stato was never so great as uow. None of them were rich twenty years ago, and very few had fortunes even ten years ago. Quite a number of those who had large fortunes five or six years ago do not now figure in the list of millionaires. The nps aud downs of mining interests have made the principal difference. A considerable number.also, who were not rich five years ago, have largo fortuues to-day. Finaucial "ruin" in this State only means that men in tho hazards of business have lost, with the strong probability that thrv will more than make their losses good in the fu ture. If it is a land of " nps and downs," there never was a country where men got up so soon as in this. Thftre is spring, untiring energy men who have faith in themselves, in the country and in the good Providence which is on the side of all who honestly try to help themselves. There is not another coun try under the sun where bo many men have made large fortuues iu so short a timo without capital for a start. There is not another young city in the world which contains so largo a population of wealthy men. These facts illustrate in a striking way the wonderful resources of this coast. The men whose fortunes have been enumerated are only middie aged. It is more than probable that some of their heirs will be the richest men in the world. He Smelted Smoke. When the railroad excitement was at its height iu Newark, Ohio, a stalwart citizen felt the necessity of bracing him self up. The mayor had ordered the closing of all saloons and drinking places, and the police had enforced the regulations rigidly. But there was a back door in Gingerbread Row, and be hind the bar there was long range light ning whisky. The stalwart citizen crept in, got his drink and beat a retreat. Soon he was overwhelmed with burnine sensatious in his stomach. Something seemea to be blazing there, and he bnrst imo a uocior 8 omco exclaiming: Heaven's sake rmtnn urn nut nniW "What is wroner with vou?" innnired the doctor. " Get tho pump ready while T fllYI foiling Will T'lw Klll.iil.ifv nn 4.ioi. 1 Hurry. I took a drink down on Gincer. bread Kow. They have put a job up on me. I am poisoned." The doctor sud denly interposed : ' Why, I smell some thing burning myself;" and opening the patient's waistcoat found a hole three ;!.,. : ,i- . i. , i i, , , . tuques iu uiuiuemr uurueu in me snin irOUt. While thn nfnlwnrt-. mfivovi Trna taking his drink ho had dropped a cigar - i' "umviii Alio niunivolll UU1A dill 1 I. " Didn't you smell smoke ?" asked the uocior. xoure right 1 aid; but thought it was coming out of my mouth All One to Him. ASchleswig correspondent writes: A little time back a country woman was uuymg various articles at a shop here. ii i i i . i. ' uu oi wuiuu seemea to indicate a pro jected immigration to America. The tradesman asked the woman if such was the case, and received the following reply "You see I have two daughters and one of them was engaged to a man who is gone out to America, and who promised that as soon as he made enough money to support a wife, he would send out money for the journey, and then they should be married. ' But several years had passed, and my daughter had found another sweetheart, when one day a let' ter comes from America with money enough to pay the passage. Well, now, I made up my mind to send my second daughter instead of the' Hder. The tw lasses are as like as two blades of grfNftj) and it will be all one to mm. whfo.hr vf 'em he gets lot rife," The King and the Stable Boy. During the visit of George the Third to the royal stables a boy belonging to the grooms took his attention. There is no accounting for fancies J but there was something about the boy that won his royal master's favor, and tho king treated him kindly iu many wayB. ' But a timo of temptation came, and the poor lad fell into disgrace : lie had stolen some oats from the royal bins, and, being detected, the head groom discharged him. Tho fact that he was noticed by the king may hove aroused tho envy and dislike of others and it may be that the occasion was gladly seized by the groom to have him turned away. There Boemed to be no idea of speaking to the poor lad about the wickedness of taking tho oats, and abusing theconfidence of his master, but only determination to treat him as he deserved. Who knows what a kind word might have done for an erring boy, who gave way to wrong doing in a mo ment of temptation ? But such was not the case ; ho was turned adrift, with a stain upon his character, to the great grief of his parents. Not long afterward, when the King again visited the stables, he observed the absence of the boy, and asked one of the grooms what hail become of mm. xiie man, fearing to tell the truth yet not lik ing to tell a falsehood, said he had left. His majesty was not satisfied with the groom's answer, and suspecting wrong, called the head groom to him, and mode the inquiry again. " I have discharged the boy, sire." " H ot what reason t asKed tne King. " Ho was discovered stealing tho oats from one of the bins," wis tho reply, " and I sent him away." Tho king felt sorry for the poor boy who had disgraced himself thus, but de termined not to give him up, and ordered him to be sent for immediately. The order was obeyed, and without loss of time tlio boy was brought to the king. What a scene was this -face to face with the king of England stood the boy, a con victed thief 1 "Well, my boy." said his maiesty, when the poor lad, trembling and look ing very pale, stood before him, not knowing what awaited him ; "is this true that I hear of you f " The lad could not look up into the king's face, but with his head bent down, his only answer to the kind inquiry was a flood of tears. He had not a word to say for himself ; his month was stopped, for he knew he was guilty ; ho had not a word of excuse. The king, seeing the poor boy was sorry on account of his sin, spoke to him of tho evil how he had not only taken what was not his own, but abused tlio confidence reposed in him. "Well, my lad," said his majesty, put ting his hand kindly upon tho boy's head, "I forgive you." Then, turning to the head groom, said : " Let the boy have his former place, and let him be cared for. " What a thrill of joy did the lad's heart feel as the king uttered those three words: "I forgive you." Instead of being ordered off to prisou and punished, and disgraced, ne was restored to favor, and restored to the place he had lost. What gladness this gave the boy's heart 1 It seemed almost too good to be true. Yet who could dispute it ? The king himself had forgiven him, and then the highest judge in the land had not a word to say against it ; he was a guilty one, but now was forgiven, and that by the king himself. Will our young read ers learn the beautiful lesson contained ? Age of Vegetables. The species of vegetables we now cul tivate have been raised and eaten for centuries. Even before the Christian era many of them were in use. .Lettuce has been used at the table for thousands of years. Herodotus tolls us that it was served at the royal table cen turies before the Christian era. and one of the noble families of Bome derived its name from this plant. Spinach, asparagus and celery have been cultivated and eaten among the eastern nations thousands of years. Jesus took the mustard seed as the ex ponent of a parable. itadishes were known and grown by the Greeks, and were offered at Apollo's shrine wrought in precious metals. Parsnips were raised and brought from the Rhine to add to the luxuries of Tiberius' table. Beets were most esteemed centuries ago, and carrots were in such reputo iu Queen Elizabeth's reign that the ladies of her court adorned their huge strac- tions of fulse hair with their feathery piumes. Peas' at Elizabeth's court, were verv rare, and were imported from Holland as a great delicacy. Uruits, also, were in great reputo among the ancients. The currant was cultivated centuries ago in European gardens, aud was called the Corinthian grape. iwelyn in his charming diary, speaks of his berries as Corinths : hence the name of currants. The damson plum was extensively cul tivated at Damascus, whence tho name. The cherrv came f row Cosns. a citv of Pontus, ajid the delicious peach, king of fruits, was first known in Persia. The quince was a holy fruit, dedicated to the goddess of love, and was called Cydonian apple. Pears were as ancient as apples, and are mentioned among tho Parodisal fruits. Grapes were known at a very remote period, and are often mentioned in the Bible. . Removing Birthmarks. "Professor," in the Tribune, says that birthmarks or moles may be removed by the following means: For removing moles or birthmarks, croton oil under the form of pomade or ointment, and tartar emetic, under the form of paste or plaster. The following is the mode for using the latter: Take tartar emetio in impalpable powder, fif teen grains; soap paste, one drachm; and beat them to a paste. Apply to nearly a line in thickness (not more) and cover the whole with strips of rummed paper. In four or five days eruption or suppuration will set in, and, in a few days after, leave a slight scar. Croton oil ointment effects the same, but less completely unless suppuraed. bv pro ducing a pustular eruption, which, how ever, do not permanently mark the K1U, A Proverb. I'm not a superstitious man, With any bUnd belief in fate, But through my veins a shiver ran At something which I read of late. I glanced a book of proverbs through, To pass some moments spent alone, And there the saying met my view, That " Soon or late all things are known. I laid the book aside and thought About tho secrets of my life, A wild career, with failings fraught, And long-ropentod errors rife. What mattered that above thaheap The lapse of years a mound had thrown, Tho ax of Fate goes straight and deop, And " Soon or late all things are known." Nay, gentle reader, do not start And picture me the man of crimo, Because I'm faint and sad at heart, To think of what may come in time. Lot him be first to raise bis hand Atid cast at me the cruel stone, Who foels he can unflinching stand Where " Boon or late all things are known." Items of Interest. Give the tramps no quarter. When is a chair like a lady's dress? When it is satin. It is said that the pen is mightier than the sword. Neither is of much uso without tho holder. The strikers resemble the Russians be cause they have been endeavoring to wreck Ears. Several newspaper men have been swindled by the new counterfeit five thou sand dollar bill. Six thousand children have been taught to swim in two years by the London Health Society. It takes the Russian provost-marshals four minutes to convict and shout a spy, and the czar loudly complains of lost time. An intelligent paper in Switzerland says that "Jliss Mollio Maguire, of Pennsylvania, has been huug for misbe having." Tho empress of Brazil has but SGOO, 000 worth of diamonds, and some tmo ought to feel like heading a subscription for her benefit. 'A landlady said that she did not know how to make both ends meet. "Woll," said a boardpr, " why don't you make one end vegetables?" A German dairy maid in Jefferson county fell head first into a tank of soft switzer cheese last week. Here it is again. A woman in the kase, as usual. Much lias been said about feats of strength ; but it is an actual fact that a man of but ordinary stature recently knocked down an elephant. lfio jier former of tlio great feat was au auction eer. "This summer, ladies are going to dress their hair as they did tluoo hun dred years ago," says an exchange' news paper. This makes some of the ladies pretty old. In Grass Valley, Col., thero is a snake lying around loose which is forty loot long. The editor ot tne local paper there was informed that this snake, with one stroke of its ponderous tail, smashed o largo Newfoundland dog to jelly. " My articles do not receive 'a very worm reception of late," wrote a lady to the conductor of a monthly magazine: " Our fair correspondent is mistaken," replied the editor; "they meet with tlio warmest reception possible. We burn them all." It wasn't such a bad notion on the part nf o glove dealer who advertised as fol lows iu largo typo: "Ten thousand hands wanted immediately !" And un derneath it was printed in very small characters : " To buy my gloves, the best quality." A novelist tells of two lovers, who agreed to wave their hands toward each other, at a certain hour, across the At lantic ocean. One might suppose thero might be waves enough between them without their trying to make any more with their hands. More than 5,000,000,000 cans of corn are now packed in Maine, annually, and sold in every part of tho world, yielding a business to that State of about $1,250, 000, and giving profitable employment to from 8,000 to 10,000 people during the packing season. Constantinople has a circumference of about thirteen miles. Its harbor, tlio "Golden Horn," is a long capacious inlet of the Bosphorus running olong the northeast sido of the city, with sufficient depth for the largest vessels and capablo of receiving 1,200 sails of the line. There is a question of veracity betwoeu a Chicago Times reporter and a rioter. The reporter says he shot the rioter dead, and the latter stoutly denies tlio story, and says ho can prove the negative, it is manifest that the rioter lies, and other pajjers congratulate tho reporter on his prowess and pluck. Killing Disabled Horses with Dynamite. An English paper says: An interesting experiment was made last week at a horso slaughtering establishment at Dudley, with tho view of testing a new system of slaughtering cattle by meuuK of dyua- mito, and thus putung them out of exist ence more speedily mid with less buffer ing than by the ordinary pole-ax. Two liu'go powerful horses and a donkey (dis abled for work) were ranged in a line about half a yard apart under a shed, the donkey being placed in tho center. A small primer of dynamite, with an electrio fuse attached, was then placed on each of their foreheads and fastened in position by a piece of string under tho jaw. The wires were then coupled up in circuit, and attached to the electrio machine, which stood about five yards in front. The handlo of the machine being then turned, an electrio current was dis charged, which exploded the three chitrges simultaneously, and the animals instantly fell dead without a struggle. The whole affair was over in two minutes, and the experiment appears to have been a perfect success. It was conducted by Mr. Johnson, agent for Noble's Explo sive Company, Glasgow, assisted by Mr. Harris, one of the dynamite instructors. By this means, it is stated, any number, even a hundred or more cattle, may be instantly killed by the same curreut of electricity.
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