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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 ."
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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,
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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.
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