HENR A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL DESPERANDTIM. Two Dollars per Annum. ' ' " '" "' " 1 in. II i ,i ... ,. .....,,.. - - , .. i . .. , . ... r i i. II I ' - ' ' ' '." ' ""7 VOL. VII. RIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1877. NO- 30. Passing Away. BY AMOTB S. HOWB. ' Passing away; passing away; The sweet summer roses are passing away; Their beauty is wasted, thoir fragrance has fled, And with'ringthoy lie in thoir dump, lowly bed, The fair, dewy morns in their splendor will rise, The pale stars grow soft in eveningB' olear skies But these roses will brighten, ah, never again 1 Passing away; passing away; Bright hopes of my youth how they're passing away, ' ' With the beautiful visions that gladden my eyes r . By daytime and nighttime, as sunlight the skies I . ; . ' .. ' Oh, hope may como back to my sorrowful heart; Bright dreams from their long-Bilent chambers may start, ' i ' But those of my yonth I may woo all in vain, For they ne'er will return in thoir beauty again! Passing away; passing away; Friends I have loved how they're passing away I I have watched them go down to that cold, solemn tide, While the pale, silent boatman kept close to their side; I've caught the dull dip of their deep, muQled oar, As ho boro thorn away to that ocholoss shore I And my heart cryoth out in its desolate pain, But they ne'or will rotnrn to bless me again ! Passing away; passing away; Yot I know of a land whoro there is no decay, Whore the balmy air's filled with the richest perfume From sweet, fragrant flowers, and fadeless thoir bloom; 'Whore tho soul never grieves as it doth hero below, 0cr fair, vanished di'eamB, o'er hope's fitful glow, Where liukcd and forever is love's golden chr.in, And farting words chill us, Oh, never again ! AFTER DARK. Wo wsed to think, even before we loved her bo much, that Mrs. Dalrymple was a representation of charming old ago that might have made poets cele brate it instead of youth. Her brown eyes were still as soft and large, if not im bright, as ever; nud although the rings of hair round her smooth brow were silvery white, her brows and lashes were yet dark. But it was none of that, nor the soft skin with the delicate rosy bloom that sometimes diffused it, that made the charm of tho face; it was the soulful expression there, and the smile sweeter than any youug girl knows how to smile a smile full of innocence and love. Her life had not been a very hap py ono, we used to fancy, she having had fcomo serious cross in her youth, and af terward marrying a man whom she did not very tenderly love, because he loved her, aud who ended by abusing her. She had been now for several years a widow without children, spending her consider able fortune in kindnesses, and making nil the youug people in the rogion her stanch adherents. She lived at The Cedars, and some ouo or the other of us was always with her, and it would be hard to sav where a plcuRnnter Jife could bo liveit than all day long in Mrs. Dalrymple's garden or behind her horses, and all the evenings, with the breath of roses and honeysuck les about the windows, in her delightful drawing-rooms, listening to her old contcs, gr to the talk of by-gone days in which her contemporaries indulged when they became her guests. Among these guests occasionally was Mr. Stephen, an elderly person who had come into the neighborhood some years before, aud who lived on the next place, where only n hedge divided tho lands a strange, sad, silent old man, concerning whom, as nobody knew anything, every body conjectured everything. Some paid he was an Englishman, some that lie was an New Zealander; it was gener ally conceded that he had suffered great calamity; and here and there even it was declared that in a distant State he had been imprisoned tinder a life sentence, but pardoned out for quite behavior af ter fifty years, taking then the property which it was in his power to take, aud coining here. Peaceful and gentle as he was, living among his birds and flowers, giving freely to whomsoever asked, he was yet generally avoided, and as he sought no one, his life was solitary. He had had occasion to look for a lost pet on Mrs. Dalrymple's grounds, which had led to an acquaintance that he had so lit tle followed up that sometimes she her self would take one of us and go over into his garden, and often she would tap on the long window, and saying, gayly: " Privilege of an old woman !" insist on bringing him home to dinner. She had done so to-day; for we had surprised her we homeless girls whom she had at last made permanently at home with herself iu an unwonted shower of tears in the morning, tears that continued with more or less force all day. " I must have something now to brighten me," said she. ' Let us go aud get Mr. Stephen. We will have an omelette roump. There Mas omelette roump on the table fifty-three years ago to-day, I remember now. It is ono of my anniversary days to-day, my dears." " Jlino illce 4tlcrimce," said we, wip ing the dear lady1 face aud trying , to make her smile. Somehow we always felt as if she were our own age. "Yes, it is one of my anniversary days to-dav," said she again, after dinner, as we all sat in tho drawing-room about her, Mr. Stephen not far away in his arm-chair. "It is so long ago that it often seems to have been something I once read of rather than once lived and felt and suffered oh, yes, suffered ! I fancy that bright young happy girl wit her lovers is a romance. I can think of it all without suffering now ; yet, just for the pity of it, just as you cry over a novel, you know, I could not help shed ding a few tears to-day. " "Was it so very sad, then ?" one of us ventured. "Ah I very. Aud we were all so young 1 I will tell you about it; I al ways siujl I would. I do not mind speaking of it now; it is all as if I were speaking of some one else. They were three brothers," she' said, after a mo ment, "and they were all my lovers, aud I I loved the eldest He was my lover, as I said; but sometimes I have doubted if he loved me as he loved those brothers of his, half a dozen years their senior. He had been a father and mother to them, and he compassed heaven and earth for their wishes. Ah, well, well I so noble a being never lived be fore. ' Greater love hath no man ' hath no man." She posued a moment again, her voice trembling. "How strange," she resumed, presently, " that I should be telling this so calmly I Oh, it was a a storm it was a storm 1" and her old hands clasped and unclasped nervously. " Whot a dark and dreadful time of hor ror, and now so tranquil 1 But I will tell yon. You always do seem so like what "my own children might have been all but Mr. Stephen, I mean," she said, with a quick laugh that restored her to herself. " Ono day we were in a boat together, alone upon the little river. How 1 remember it all ! the green boughs meeting overhead, tho green shadows underneath, the sunlight sifting through, and his face, his' proud, pale, passionate face, as he said some simple words that let me know, not that he loved me, not that he wished to know if I loved him as if that had always been understood but that he expected me soon to be his wife. I loved him oh, how l loved him I" said the old lady, clasping her hands again. " But some evil spirit seized mo. I was coquette ; I answered him lightly. "How did he know,' I said, 'but that I was already plighted to Ralph ?' We had hnug close to tho shore, beneath the great boughs, and looking up as I spoke, I saw Mark, the second brother, sitting in the boughs oh, so strange his face looked then 1 I beekoned him mischievously, aud in a moment ho had parted all the leaves and sprays, and was threatening to spring and swamp the little boat if we did not let him in. That night, at the home of the three brothers, there was a fearful contest I waB tho cause. Ah 1 this soft sweet summer night who could believe it ? and could I ever have be haved I should sit here calmly and tell of it to those who were not yot born ? They had grappled ; Ealph was killed ; his eldest brother was found red-hauded. When Mark came home from his ramble, the oflicers were carrying that brother to prison. He never opened his lips concerning it from that day," said Mrs. Dalrymple, with a sob in her voice. " He employed no lawyer, although the court appointed oneyhe refused to plead guilty or not guilty. I will hurry. He was sentenced to death ; his sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life. As for mo, I would not believe it " "Never?" said Mr. Stephen, hoarsely. " Never. I sent Mark to procure me admission to the prison ; he came back saying it was refused. I wrote ; Mark brought me back the letter unopened. His brother, he said, would have no further communication with us. At length, as if worn out with my impor tunity, Mark exacted of mo a pledge of secrecy. There wns no need I There was no need ! He told me that with his own eyes he had seen the blow struck, and had gotten away that he might not be used as evidence. But I did not be lieve it then. I gathered all my ready money ; I went to the prison and gave it to the keeper, iu my ignorance thinking it necessary. It was the day of the sen tence. I was taken to the cell and left. He stood up hurriedly to meet me. So changed ! so changed ! White as death, but his great eyes burning and he held out his arms to me. I waited one mo ment, one fatal moment. " Tell me first," I cried ' oh, just say yourself that you are innocent !' His "arms fell. 'You too!' he said, aud he folded his arms upon his breast, aud stood there, his head fallen, surveying me from under his eyebrows. ' You too !' Oh, I don't know what there was in tho words, but I fell upon the floor, fainting dead away, ond I never .saw him again. Nothing made any difference to me then. Mark was very tender to me in those days.. I felt as if he ought to hate the Right of me. It was five years before I married him. I never loved him ; but he was nearer than any one else. I should never have married him but for messages of something little short of hatred that he brought me from the prison. Why do I tell you all this, my dears?" she said, suddenly stopping. " And Mr. Stephen too? Only, perhaps, because you are a part of my life now you and he and this life is as real to me now as that. That ? No, that is a dream : as the dying do not weep, so the old do not suffer in relieving the past. It is no long er my story ; there is no sacred secrecy about it ; it is the story of that young girl of whom I spoke to you. Well to go on. Perhaps it was because he knew I did not love him ; perhaps he wearied of me ; perhaps to see me only readied to him his crime. We we were not happy together. We lived along life of wretchedness. Yet, being his wife, I tried yes, I tried never to fail in my duty. I bore with him. I nursed him faithfully in those final years of nervous illness that wore him to his death and nearly ruined me. It was the last day that, pillowed in . his bed, his ghastly face liko death re-animated, he told me his secret. All his life he had lived in luxury ; his table had been sumptuous with meats and wines ; his horses had been fleet ; his bed had been of down ; he had married the woman he loved; he had wealth, freedom, all men's honor. His brother," she said, again with that dry sob, " had a prison cot, prison fare, solitude, labor, chains, all men's contumely and contempt ; yet, of the two, his brother's lot had been the best : he had lain on roses where Mark had lain on red-hot coals. Let grief and loss and want have been his he had had the proud inward consciousness of inno cence. For it was Mark who was the felon, who was the murderer. It waa my husband who had killed Ralph. His elder brother, in that great love of his, had taken all the burden, and Mark had let him do it." Mrs. Dalrymple was was silent again, aud we did iiot disturb her. " Oh it was hard to forgive him !" she cried. "Have I forgiven him? I do not know. . But with what mad haste I wrote out the statement, called for witnesses, read it to him before them, made him sign it with his dying hand 1 Was it cruel ? Oh, he had been doubly cruel! Tho pen dropped from his fingers with the lust fuint stroke. I bent and kissed him thou, and took his head on my breast. He looked up iu my face with such relief in his tortured eyes aud .then . he was dead. I published that statement up aud down. I went to the prison to tell his brother, and to make preparation for his freedom ; for although we were both so old sixty sad years hod we seen at least there wns time yet for a little happiness in the bit ter world. He had been pardoned two years before, and had gone no one knew whither. When hope is dead, you live a dull, colorless life ; but when hope has been uplifted only to be destroyed ah, that is ruin I But one is old, one out lives every thing. So I came over here among my mothor's people, a thousand miles from the places I had known all my days. I left all his fortune un touched ; I brought only my own. Tho house goes to pieces, the gardens are overgrown, the place is haunted by its sorrows. But hero I found happiness ; here I found you, my children ; here I found pleasant neighbors, and you, Mr. Stephen. My heart is satisfied. I have no wante. These last years are full of peace." "Are full of peace," sajd Mr. Stephen. Tho wind blew a Bhutter opeu ; a broad full moonbeam came in and overlaid him as he sat bolt upright in his chair, his face as white as a cerecloth. " You look like a ghost, Mr. Stephen," said I. " I am a ghost," he cried " the ghost of a dead happiness. Margaret I he cried, half rising, " has it never crossed your mind that I am here ?" Harpers' Bazar. Business Reviving in "ew York. A New York correspondent says: The revival of business in New York is one of the peculiar things of our locality. It gives no warning and is heralded by no symptoms. It comes on like the rash in a family. The children go to bed well at night and arise scarlet in the morning. Through all the panics of the last twenty-five years the recuperation has been sudden. The revival does not appear in one department only, but seems to affect every line of trade. Under an in tuition the whole machinery of trade seems to be put in motion. By general consent it is admitted that business is reviving on all sides; no one can tell why it is. A well known dry goods mer chant said this morning: " I don't know how it is, but last week I would not have been unwilling to have taken a journey to the White moantains or to the seaside. To-day I have no time to see my friends. The small force left in my store were idle, sitting down ou boxes, whistling and eating fruit. To-dny every man is in his place with everything he can attend to. I don't allow any of my help to go away, and have called back all my clerks who were on the wing." One of our heaviest paper houses made substantially the same statement: "Ten days ago, without a sign of warn ing, we found ourselves covered with orders. We sold ourselves down short in the spring, and more as au experiment than anything else, we kept our full force on through the summer. It is well we did so. We can onlv answer our or ders, nothing jnore. There has never been so much money wanting invest ments as now. Unless all signs fail, we are to have a brisk fall season." Victimizing 'cw York Pawnbrokers. One of the most ingenious methods of fraud lately developed in New York city occurred under the following circum stances. A large jeweler, dealing very extensively in Juergensen watches, sold to three brother three Jurgeusen move ments. - They were to be put in three cases exactly similar, but differed very materially from the cases in which they were imported to this country. Juergen sen's watches bear a leaf on the cases and the boxes in which they are con tained, and also have his name on the works. The jeweler, after deciding upon tho cases which the gentlemen wanted, removed the Juergensen works from their original cases and put them in cases to suit. Subsequently he en deavored to sell the old cases to the agent of Juergensen, but that gentle man declined to buy them. Afterward he sold them at the price of old gold. They were purchased by a man who put inside of these cases common works which cost him a few dollars, and then taking them, with the original Juergen sen cases and the boxes in which they were imported, to a pawnbroker, lifras enabled to pawn them, pretending to be a thief who had stolen them from a jewelry establishment, for about three times their cost, the pawnbroker sup posing them to be genuine Juergensen watches. Frauds of this sort are very frequent iu the sale of diamonds, sharp" ers purchasing old and discarded rings without setting, and putting into them diamonds with flaws aud off color, which they impose on pawnbrokers, at two or three times their value. Apples. With us the use of the apple, as an article of food, is far underrated. Be sides containing a large amount of sugar, mucilage aud other nutritive matter, apples contain vegetable acids, aroma tio qualities, etc., which act powerfully in the capacity of refrigerants, tonics and antiseptics, aud when freely used at the season of mellow ripeness they pre vent debility, indigestion, and avert, without doubt, many of the " ills that flesh is heir to." The operatives of Cornwall, England, consider ripe apples nearly as nourishing as bread, and far more so than potatoes. Iu the year 1801 which was a year of much scarcity apples, instead of being converted into cider, were sold to the poor, aud the laborers asserted that they could " stand their work " on baked apples without meat; whereas a potato diet required either meat or some other substantial nutriment. The French and Germans use apples extensively; so do the inhabi tants of all European nations. The laborers depend upon them as an article of food, and frequently make a dinner of sliced apples and bread.. There is no fruit cooked in as many different ways iu our country as apples, nor is there any fruit whose value, as an article of nutriment, is as great aud so little ap preciated. Water Cure Journal. Until lately it was not uncommon for tho excited and delighted Cubans to throw doubloons in place of flowers to a fuvorite actress or dauseuse, upon the stage. Miss Adeluide Phillipps was thuH greeted at the Tooon Theatre on a cer tain occassion : so were Lola Montes and Jennie Land. BRIGHAM YOUNG. Sketch of Ihe lATe of the Mormon Lender. The New York Evenina Pout tells the story of the life of Brigham Young, who died August 29, as follows : Brigham Young, the prophet and king of the Mormons, was born at Whittingham, Vt., on the first of June, 1801. His father wns a farmer, and his grandfather an army surgeon. He had ten brothers and sisters, and was the ninth child of his parents. In early life he worked on his father's farm in Sherbnrn. Che nango county, N. Y., received what is known as tho rudiments of an education : then became a painter and glazier, and worked at these trades until he was tliirty-one years old. So far he displayed no eBpeciat aptitudes, ana was not con sidered a man of unusual promise. The turning point in his life was reached in the yar 1833, when he was thirty-two years old. Samuel H. Smith, a brother of the notorious " Joe " Smith, at that time converted him to Mormon- Q. " Joe was then preaching in the neighborhood the doctrines of the Book of Mormon a treatise two years old. The first company of Mormons had al ready assembled at Jurtland. Ohio, and Brigham Young repaired to that place, where he received the appointment of "elder." With great zeal he espoused the cause of the Church of the Latter- Day Saints of Jesus Christ, as the com munity called itself ; ond. with more than the ordinary earnestness of a prose lyte to a. feeble sect, he set about con verting others to Ids newly-adopted ways of thinking. His influence rapidly in creased, and on the fourteenth of Febru ary, 1835, he was ordained one of the twelve apostles of the church. The next year he became the president of the twelve. ' Tho Saints soon moved from Kirtland. O.. to Independence. Jackson conntv: Missouri, and.soon afterward.to the town of Nauvoo, in western Illinois. Iu Ohio their troubles arose chiefly from their debts, which they were too poor to pay; in Missouri, from religious persecution. uovemor JJoggs. ol the latter State. called out a force of fifteen thousand militia, aud threatened to exterminate the Mormons. But the new settlers in the town of Nauvoo received them kindlv: aud from that town, in the year 1840, Brigham Young went forth to make con verts in Great Britain. It was on the sixth of April -in that year that he landed ot Liverpool. He preached immediately. He reprinted the Book of Mormon. He established a newspaper called the Millennial Star, which is still in existence. Within one year ho retnmed to America with 709 converts. Three years afterward there was a riot in Nauvoo. The Saints had proclaimed and put in practice their drotrine -vt ioiygumy, ana nad nieddied with the civil government. They were becoming numerically strong in the re gion. "Joe" Smith and his brother were arrested and put into jail, and then were murdered by a moo. His first councillor, Sidney Rigdon, seized the presidency, Brigham loung, who was iu Boston when the riot occurred, hur ried to Nauvoo, gathered about him what Mormons he could find, cursed Rig don, proclaimed himself president, fin ished a meetiug-house, ami built a home for himself. But the saints were altogether too un popular iu Nauvoo, and Brigham Young decided to seek a distant settlement which they could entirely control, aud into which they could bring their con verts without objection. He led them across the Mississippi, not knowiucr whither he went. It wns winter, and they were almost starving. Hundreds of them perished by the way. In the following spring of 1847 they reached Council Bluffs; in the autumn they crossed the Missouri and built log huts near the present site of tho city of Oma ha. Five hundred of them were there enlisted by the national government as volunteers in the Mexican war. Brig ham advised them to enlist, received for tneir enlistment SJ.U.0UU bounty money, and.it was said, kept the funds. Certain ly he was able to make an exploring ex pedition, niacl to send one hundred and forty-seven men and seventy wagons to Salt Lake. To that place he soon de termined to transport the Mormons in Ohio, Missouri and Illinois, who had been left behind, and all the converts whom he could make. He forthwith clothed himself with power in the eyes oi las followers by styling Himself prophet, seer aud revelator as well as president of the Mormon people. " The mantle of Joseph Smith, said the peo ple, has lallen upon Jbrignam loung. Ever afterward his sway over them was well nigh absolute. Iu September, 1850, Congress gave a territorial government to the region, which it named Utah, and President Fill more appointed Brigham Young to be governor of the territory for four years. iiis service in lurnisinng recruits for the Mexican war seems to have been remem bered in his favor. Soon the official showed that there were more than eleven thousand persons in the territory. In two more years, the practice of polvgamy had doubled uie population. loung caused many memorials to be sent to Congress, and Congress replied by cut ting the territory into pieces and giving big slices to the leaders of the church. In 1854, when Brigham Young's term of of olHce as governor of Utah had expired, Colonel Steptoe, of the United States aimy, with three hundred men spent the winter at Suit Lake, and received from President Pierce an appointment as Brigham's successor. Brigham fright ened the colonel into resigning from the oflice and recommending him to be his successor. The President of the United States acted upon the recommendation and reappointed Brigham, who proceed ed to get rid as quietly buts rapidly as possible of all the federal oflicers in Utah. That brought to Utah three thousand soldiers of the army to assert the power of the national government. Brigham declared martial law, raised an army of ins own, entered into negotia tion with the national authorities, aud professed to recognize their appointee, Uovernor Cumming, as governor of Utah. At the same time he commanded his people to leave Sidt Lake City. They obeyed him, going south fifty miles. Iu six duys President Buchanan nent a r.-i claniation of peace, and Brigham agreed to j ield obedience to the laws. He soon brought his people back, after great sufferings, to Salt Lake City. Meanwhile the Mountain Meadows massacre had oc curred, for which Bishop Lee was exe cuted last spring, and the responsibility for which Brigham Young is believed to have shared. Brigham lias often come into conflict with the federal officers in Utah, and to-day the question whether Mormon or federal officers shall summon jurors is still unsettled. The history of Utah during the lost twelve years hoe been little more than the history of Brig ham Young. When Horace Greeley visited Brigham in 1859, Brigham, according to his own account, had fifteen wives, and "knew no one who had more;" and when Mr. Greeley asked whether tho Apostle Paul had not commanded that a bishop should be the husband of one wife, Brigham replied in effect: "Yes, of at least one wife, ond of as many more as he pleases." In 1866 he had twenty-nine wives, and it is believed by some that when he died the number had not increased, and by others that it amounted to forty or more. The exact number it was almost always difficult to learn. His favorite wife in later years was Amelia Folsom, and his best known ono, Ann Eliza. Brigham's personal appearance in 1870 is described as follows by Mr. Bayard Toy lor, who saw him at Salt Lake City in that year: " He is both short and broad, but hia thickness gives the impression of strength rather than corpulence. Although sixty nine years old, there is no gray in his sandy hair, and his small blue eyes are keen and full of power. His head is large and approaching to squareness in its form, aud his complexion is a strong, healthy red. Hia thin, firm-set mouth and largo jaws express on indomitable energy. The general expression of his face is at once reticent and watchful. In his greeting there was the blandness of an acquired, rather than a natural cour tesy. His voice is mild, even-toned and agreeable, and I can imagine that he might make himself fascinating to women, most of whom find a peculiar charm in a playful and purring Hon ." - A Fastidious Tramp. He was very gentle in manner ; he had a mild blue eye and a nasal twang, relieved by a lisp charmingly beautiful not to hear. His pull ou the bell wns gentleness itself ; aud when Mrs. Spriggs decided to answer the ring she felt certain it was some amiable friend. The "good mornings were said with a hearti ness only to be acquired by long self denial and training. " Have you an overcoat, missus? I'm a poor man a widower with seven small children five that I adopted out of pure charity and I thought I'd drop in and see about a coat." Mrs Spriggs heart moved with pity. Slxo folt timt oho oonld never stand to be a widow long, and she joyfully replied : " Oh, yes ! I have one of Mr. Sprigg's that he had made to order last March." Oh ! then it is not of the latest style ?" . " Oh, no ! I am sorry to say one of those dreadful tramps stole his best." The man's face flushed up a little as he asked : " Buclshom buttons or gutta percha ?" " Gutta-percha," said Mrs. Spriggs, " Oh, they have a disagreeable odor." " Oh, well," said Mrs. Spriggs, notic ing his look of disappointment, , ' it's a very nice coat. I'll run up und get it out of the camphor." "No, no you need not. Camphor I detest, and gutta percha buttons ! Au rcvoir, madnme," and he passed down the steps, the very picture of grand manhood. Too Lonar Wuifnetrccs on Ploughs. Most ploughmen have so long whifilc trecs that it is often impracticable to make any plough work satisfactorily. Excellent ploughs are denounced as worthless, and rejected, simply because tho double whiflleirce or tho ox yoke was too long. Yet the ploughman never suspects wherein consists the true cause of the difficulty. Our own practice from boyhood has been to make double whiflietrees for ploughing never more than two feet between the points of at tachment of the BingletreeB, which were about twenty-three inches in length. When it was desirable to plough narrow furrow-slices, the singletrees were at tached only twenty-two inches apart. Let a ploughman attempt to plough with a double-tree six feet in length, and he y ill readily understand why a plough will not run correctly when the double-tree is too long. The plough will be drawn too far from tho furrow to the unploughed ground, unless the ploughman makes a constant effort to prevent the implement from cutting a furrow-slice wider than can be properly turned over. Wait. Wait, husband, before you wonder audibly why your wife don't pet on with the household affairs " as your mother did;" she is doing her best, and no wo man can endure that best to be slighted. Remember the long weary nights she sat up with th little babe that died reineni- ber the love and eare she bestowed upon you when you had that long spell of sick- ness. jjo you think she is made of cast- iron? Wait wait in silence and for bearance, and the lieht will come back to her eyes the old Jight for the old days. ait, wife, before you speak re proachfully tS your husband when he comes home late, weary ond " out of sorts." He worked hard for you all day perhaps, far into the night; lie has wrestled, hand in hand with care, aud selfishness, aud greed, and all the de mands that follow in the train of money making. Let home be another atmos phere entirely. Let him feel that there is one place iu the world where he can find peace, and quiet, and perfect love. Her Wateriug-I'luce Home. It is a strange thing to see a city chap at a country party, but lie was there, aud in his conversation with one of the prettiest hisses ventured to'iuquire : " Were you ever at a watering place?' "Oh, yes," replied she, "I live right at one. " Indeed !" exclaimed he, growing hi' terested. "where might it be " Uh, just out here a little way," was her reply, " my lamer Keeps the ran road tank." The city chap, wondering whether the was in earnest or mating iuu oi mm there dropped the subject. Words of Wisdom. Humor is wit and love. Years do not make sages ; they only make old men. It is no use running ; to set out be times is the main point. Honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce for sugar. History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale. Ubo no hurtful deceit ; think innocent ly and justly ; and if yon speak, speak accordingly. A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him. The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life. Character is like cloth. If white it can be dyed black ; but once blackened it cannot be dyed white. You may gather a rich harvest of knowledge by reading ; but thought io the winnowing machine. The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy. "Too late" and "no more" are the mournful sisters, children of a sire whose age they never console. ne who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudablo things ought himself to be a true poem. Let not the emphasis of hospitality lie in bed and board ; but let truth and love and honor and courtesy flow in thy deeds. Show yourself, at all times, so great a lover of truth, that more credit may be given to your simple word, than to others' oaths. Everything may bo mimicked by hypocrisy but humility and love united. The more rare the more radiant when they meet. Men are made to bo eternally shaken about, but women are flowers that lose their beautiful colors in the noise and tumult of life. May exalting and humanizing thoughts forever accompany me, making me confident without pride, and modeBt without servility. It is base to filch a purse, daring to embezzle a million, but it is greater be yond measure to steal a crown. The sin decreases as the sin increases. A man should insure himself to volun tary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good con stitution of body nor knowledge of mind. Wealth and want eouallv harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive nature away from tlie heart ot man. All the nice things of this world arc of no further good to us than they nie of use ; aud whatever wo may heap up to others we enjoy only a3 much as we cau use. and no more. Honest and courageous people have ery little to say either about their honesty or their conrngo. The sun has no need to boast of his brightness, nor tho moon of her effulgence. Hope calculates its schemes for a long and durable life, presses forward to imaginary points of bliss, and grasps at impossibilities ; and consequently en snares men into beggary, ruin, and dis honor. A noblo man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher thou himself, and a man by ono which is lower than himself. The ono produces aspirations, tho other ambition. Am bition is the way in whicli a vulgar man aspires. Iu all governments there must of necessity bo both law and the sword. Laws without arms would give us not liberty, but licentiousness, and arms without laws would produce not subjec tion but slavery. The law. therefore. should be unto the sword what the handle is to the hatchet; it should direct the stroke and temper the force. No man knows any one except him-. self whom he judges fit to set free from the coercion of laws and to be abandoned entirely to his own choice. By this con sideration have all civilized nations been induced to the enaction of penal laws laws by which every man's danger be comes every man's safety, and by which, tbougn all restrained, yet all are bene fited. Every failure is a step to success every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true ; every trial ex hausts some tempting form of error, Not only so ; but scarcely any attempt is entirely a failure ; scarcely any theory, the result of steady thought, is alto gether false ; no ' tempting form is with out some latent charm derived from truth. Large-Sized Hail. A special from Mt. Vernon, Illinois, says: .banners- and others who arrived in this city yesterday from that portion of our county called Elk Prairie, twelve miles distant, report as having occurred on the previous evening one of tho most terrino rain and nau storms ever experi enced in the locality named. It was in some respects a most remarkable visita tion. The storm embraced on area of only four or five miles. Within that limit the rain fell in torrents, flooding the previously parched fields and roads until the water rushed about like a foam ing river. But the startling ond inter esting feature of the event was the enor mous size ane quantity of the hail stones that fell. Old fathers who in their time have seen many strange sights, agree in tho opiuion that no such spectacle has ever been wituessed in these parts. The size of the hail-stones and the vio lence with which they descended may be imagined from the number of birds, chickens, etc, known to have been kill ed. Of the former one man picked up a dozen in his yard after the storm had subsided. In the matter of poultry, the loss is reported as very great. Brief as was the storm in its duration, yet a gen tleman of veracity informs your corre spondent that tho hail lnv bo thick on the ground that it was scooped up by bucketfuls, many of the stones being as large as goose eggs, and some much larger. The com growing within the limits of the damaged part was much injured, i A Reflection. When, In the stillness of a summer night We watch the brightness which the planets shed. They say that oftontimes this glancing light Comes of a Btar that is for ages dead. go we most like tho stars when living seem But darkness ; and a moment thence we die j Then for all the time our dcods of glory gleam In tho vast Heaven of our eternity. Items of Interest. Potatoes are so plenty in Kansas as to be hardly worth marketing. Ton thousand glass eyes are sold an nually in the United States. The onlv religious daily in this conn- try, the Witness, of New York, has just died. A farm hand for harvesting is paid in Central Italy seven cents a day, ond considers himself a lucky man to find employment at that rate. Three men were found hanging from a tree in Texas, and one of them was placarded: " They stole horses; here is where we found them, and here is where we left them." The great Corliss engine in Machinery hall, Philadelphia, has been taken down and packed ready tor removal to jrovi dence, R. I. Seventy railroad cars will be needed to carry it. "Gentlemen. T introduce von to mv friend, who isn't as stupid as ne appears to be." Introduced friend, with vivaci ty " That's precisely the difference be tween my friend and myself. " Blue glass is coming to the surface ogam. .Now it is related that a boy m Vermont put a blue crystal on his favo dollar watch, and in three days he had a 300 movement and a gold case. In the Mount Auburn cemetery, Bos ton, is a lot containing five stones, ono nt each corner and one in the center. The latter is inscribed: "Our Hus band," and the others respectively bear "My I Wife." " Mv II Wife," " My III Wife, " and " My IV Wife. " When you see a woman standing on a kitchen chair, looking tip at a ragged hole in the plastering, while she holds a hammer in her right hand and her left thumb in her mouth, there ia your chance for a candid opinion about the nail works. Burlington Haivkcyc. It was very careless leaving the parrot in the parlor Sunday evening, but she never thought anything about it until Monday morning, when he roused tho whole house by making a smacking noise aud crying : " Darling Susie I Darling Susie." He kept it up all day, too, and the old folks are much interested in the case. A machine has been invented in New York, mounted on wagon wheels, which is intended for use on farms in the West. It deluges the ground behind it with smoke from burning chips and brim stone, and holds the smoke down long enough to suffocate every potato bug, locust and other insect that comes within its influence. Dr. Tye, a San Francisco Chinaman of somo prominence, carries a six shooter ami a bowie-knife to protect him self against hoodlums. Inside his shirt he wears a coat of mail, and decorates this with Chinese account books, whicli are long and flexible, ond almost imper vious to a Kmle thrust. Tho Petaluma (Cal.) Armts snvs James English is still at work on the redwood tree he felled at Russiau river station months ago. He has alveadv made from it 250,000 shingles, 1,000 fence posts, 6,000 shakes, lumber for a dwelling house and outbuildings, and has timber left for 300,000 shingles. The tree was fourteen feet in diameter, A young mnn of twenty-one named Boyer, lately drawn iu the army con scription at Benuue, in Franco, was in despair nt the thought of being sepa rated for five years from a young sewing girl to whom he was betrothed, ond re-' tired with her ; Verjus, ou the river Saoue, where they agreed to drown themselves. With his cravat he tied her right arm to his left, her left arm being thrown aroud his neuck over his right shoulder. The handkerchiefs of each wero then linked together and tied around the bodies of both. They walked steadily to ward tho center of the stream until the rapid current carried them away.and their bodies were found, still enlaced, at some distance below. " Is This Seat Occupied J" An old but vigorous-looking gentle man, seemingly from the rural districts, got into a car and walked its full length without receiving an invitation to sit down. Approaching one gentleman who had a whole bench to himself he asked : "Is this seat occupied?" "Yes, sir, it is," impertinently replied the other. "Well," replied the broad-shouldered agriculturist, " I will keep this sent until the gentleman comes." The origi nal proprietor withdrew himself haught ily to one end and looked insulted. After a . while tho train got in motion, and still nobody came to claim the seat, where upon tho deep-chested agriculturist turned and said: "Sir, when you told mo thiB seat was occupied, you told mo a lie " such was his plain languogc " I never sit near a liur if I can avoid it ; I would rather stand up." Then appeal ing to another party he said : " Sir, may I sit next to you. You don't look like a liar." We need hardly say that he got his seat, and that the original proprietor thought that there was something wrong about our social system. Baltimore Gazette. Dreadful Fate of a Boy. A few days since an accident took place at Berea, O., the like of which, perhaps, has never occurred. Some workmen were raising a block of stone out of a quarry by means of a derrick, and had gotten the stone in position to be dropped, aud let go the power, when a boy named Datie Sabin, about twelve years of age, got caught in the rope spool and was dragged into the coil head foremost. The stone, two tons in weight, had just started, and nothing could pre vent the calamity. The spool whirled thirteen times, wrapping the rope as many times about the boy's body, crash- mg every uone except m one leg irom the knee down. The weight of the stone waa upon euch coil, aud of course death was caused instantly. It took some time to get the rope off. i L
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