HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL DESFERANDTJ M. Two Dollars per Annum VOL. VII. KIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1877. , NO. 31: . . -. " ' " i r Eyes. Bwect baby eyes, That look around with auch a grave surprise, What do yon Bee? A Rlrange new world where simplest things Engender wild imaginings And fancies free ? A resting place that is not homo, A paradise wherein to roam For years, maybe? Oh placid, wondering baby eyes, The mystery that in you lies Oft puzzles me. Clear, boyish eyes, Wliose fearless glauoo unconsciously defies Trouble and care t When babyhood is past and gone, What is it that you gaze upon ? A land most fair ; A sunny shore with pleasure rife ; And that great, glorious gift of lifo 'Tis bliss to share. Oh happy, trustful, boyish eyes, Let sagos envy, fools dospise, The faith you wear. Tho anxious eyes Of manhood, slowly piercing earth's disguise, Discover -what 'I That life at best is quickly done ; That hopes fill filled and wishes wdn Are dearly got ; That shadows chased in headlong hasto, And golden fruit he strove to taste, Delight him not. Oh restless, doubting, troubled ryes, To learn in sorrow to be wiso Is manhood's lot. Dim, aged eyes, Gaziug across the wreck of broken ties, What do they see? Bcbiud dead loai.-hat withered fall, A fading wildorness, where all Is vanity j lSiforc to gladden weary sight, A glimpse, a promise of the bright Eternity. Oh dim and tearful aged eyes, If waiting till that dawn shall rieo, ISlvssed are ye ! And an jjel eyes, Who hive fieir dwelling place boyjnd the skies Vainly do wo Image tho glories they must know, ricturo the pearly pales aglow Tho crystal sea. For brightest visions mortals paint Of that colenti il country, faint Must ever be. No ! pure and holy angel eyes, We can but pray that whr.t you j rize Our own may see. HET'LY'S DARK DAY. Hetty Lock wo 'il sat at Hie open win dow a big banket of u&dnrued slot-kings fiy lirr Hide, a new copy of " The Sunny South," on tho table close by, while within reach a bright butterfly hoveied about a newly-opened honeysuckle ow ing ngaiust the window. The spriug breezo breathed bnlaily into the apart ment, filling her senses with n delicious dreaminess; and her eyes wandered wist fully out beyond tho shaded village street to the green fields and budding willows bordering tho spaikling little river. On a morning such as tliip, who could endure to stay within doors ? Who could endure to quietly sit down and dam stockings ? boy's stockings, too, with great holes in tho heels -of them, which, merely to look at, causdd her a despairing sigh. Then the new magazine; how she longedo unfold the crisp sheet, and luxuriate C its contents, like the butterfly in thekveets of the honeysuckle. But Kotty's life more re sembled that of the bee than the butter fly. Though only eighteen, she was the oldest of seven children, mostly boys; and a goodly portion of tho household work fell upon her shoulders. A glad, girlish voice aroused Hetty. Looking from the window she sw Susio Lake, one of her few intimnti friends, leaning on the little front-garden gate. "Oh, Hetty, do "come and walk with me down to Aunt Ellen's. The morning is just lovely; and I have something so particular to tell you." 'I'm afraid I can't, Susie. It is Sat urday, you know; and I am sewing and watching baby asleep, while mother is in the kitchen." "Then I'll have to tell yon now, I suppose, " She came close under tho window, and said, in a lower voice, nnd a mischievous 6ini!c: " Who do you think I saw just now?" " I don't know. But who was it ?" " Why, it was just Mr. Walter Hayes. Now, ain't you surprised ?" A vivid blush dyed Hetty's fair face. She made no reply, and Susio con tinued. "Jlis employer, Mr. Mitchell, sent him on business from Philadelphia to O , and as this wasn't much out of the way of his home, they gave him leave to stop here for a day or two ; so he told mo when I met lnni just now. He arrived only an hour ago, in the stage from Cox's statiou; and that is how I came to see him before you did, Hetty," she addod, laughingly. She passed on, leaving Hetty with flushed cheeks, brightened eyes, and a heart thrilling with glad excitement No wodcr. For more than a year past the thought of Walter Hayes Lad been the brightest spot of her life, around which all sweet, vague thoughts of happiness had clustered. One year ago he Lad stood at that same little garden gate, in the moonlight, on their late return from tho church concert, and bidden her good-bye before going away to the great city to seek his fortune. She remembered how the warm, lingering clasp of his hand had thrilled her, and how he had said at last, in a voice that almost trembled: " You must not forget me, Hetty I 6hall think of you always, and when I come back" And just then her mother had come on the porch, and called her in out of the damp air; and so he had left her reluct antly. But now he had oome back, and the would see him to-day. "I do declare, Hetty)" exclaimed her mother, bustling into the room, warm and flushed from her pie-bakiug, "you are the laziest girl I ever saw. Here you've been upwards of an hour darning one pair of stockings ! What have you been about ? Dreaming away your time as usual, no doubt, and with all the children's Sunday clothes to look over ana lay out for to-morrow, beside the Saturday 'chores.'" Hetty penitently resumed her work. But she was very glad when, toward sunset, it was nil done, and she had leisure to run up to her own littlejoom; and never in her life had she taken such pains with her appearance as now, while she arrayed herself in what she con sidered her most becoming toilet, a soft dove-colored dress, with a knot of a rose colored ribbon at her throat, and another nestling like a freshly-bloomed rose in the ripples of herlirown hair. How anxiously she listened for the ex pected ring at the front door. How tu mnltnously her heart beat when at length it come, nnd how heovily it sonk when old Deacoil Brown stalked in, to discuss some church matters with her father 1 Then she began to look at the clock ; and her heart grew fainter and fainter as she saw it traveling slowly round to eight o'clock. In Riverside they kept early hours, and when, at a quarter of nine, Deacon Brown took leave, Hetty also arose, and lighting her bedroom candle, went slowly and sadly upstairs. When, next morning, she came down, her mother remarked, as she busied her self about tho breakfast table : "Hetty, Walter Hayes was here last night." "Oh, mother 1" There was something almost pathetic in the look nnd tone ; but Mrs. Lock wood was too busy with the steaming coffee-pot to perceive it. " He enmo in just as you had gone up stairs," she continued. " He asked for you, but it was so late, I thought it hardly worth calling you down again. He had been seeing Miss Mitchell home to her aunt's that Philadelphia girl, yon know, nud I didn't know until he mentioned it, that she was a niece of his employer, Mr. Mitchell. He is cer tainly improved." "I think," observed Mr. Lockwood, as he took his place at table anJ cut into the cold corned-beet. " I think I heard Harry Tuustall say yesterday that young Hayes was paying attention to Miss Mitchell. He said he had seen them to gether iu Philadelphia. She's a hand' some girl, and her father's got money, If Walter marries her he will do well don't bolt your food like that; cut il properly, sir, before eating." Hetty had turned suddenly sick at heart. Sho said nothing, but she could not swallow her breakfast, and her moth er presently remarked upon her pale looks. "Don't yon feel well, child?" I no ticed that you were fldgetty and nervous l6t night, lou re teevcrisii, 1 doubt, with the spring weather." Hetty was glad that her mother per mitted her to pro to her room and lie down. There was never a fire in her room; but she drew the bed-clothes over her head, and wished that sho could thus shut herself out from the whole world. She felt forlorn and miserable. All htr sweet foolish dreams, of love seemed to have been rudely stricken at a blow. Walter had ceased to care lor hT. He had not been proof against a venr's absence. He had been won from lier by that handsome, stylish girl from FlnladeJphia; and Hetty hid her lace m her pillow, and almost wished she coul j die. It was the darkest day she had ever known. Sho tried to read her Bible.but could not fix her thoughts on it, and closed it in despair. Sho listened to the dismal beat of the slow-falling rain, and nt times watched the swaying of the hall budding tree branches in the chill wind. The cherry-tree before her window had been yesterday whitening into blossom. Surely the cold would kill the tender buds, and there would be no-frnit- How like her own holies nnd happiness ! Her mother sent for her to come down to dinner. There was, she said, no use in staying upstairs in the cold, nnd the child would be better by the fire, with some nice warm soup. Iu there all the afternoon Hetty sat, while her "father nnd the boys went to church for it had ceased raining now and her mother read Baxter's " Eiso aud Progress," and Bang hymns to the baby. "Het, said Bill, upon his return from church, " I saw your old beau. Mr. Walt. Hayes, at church with Miss Mitchell, and he shook hands with me and asked how the family was. She's a real swell, a regular roarer, I tell you. and if you don't shine up some, she'll cut you out." " William, don't let me hear any more such slang talk irom you, I beg," said his mother reprovingly. "And Hetty," said her little sister Annie, as she carefully drew off aud folded her gloves, "I heard Kate Haye6 tell Mrs. Green that Walter and Miss Mitchell were going back to-morrow to Philadelphia, and Mrs. Green said she supposed that was one reason of his coming to Riverside that he might -travel home with her." Hetty lost all heart and hope nt this. She longed for sympathy to lay her head on her mother's knee and tell her all. But Mrs. Lockwood, though she really loved her children, was not one of those gentle aud sympathetic mothers to whom their children thus turn; nnd poor Hetty went again to her lonely room, and wrapping herself in a shawl, seated herself at the window and looked listless ly out. A few people were passing. She hardly noticed them, until she suddenly met a pair of brown eyes, aud a hat was lifted ; and she drew back with burning cheeks and a beating heart, as Walter Hayes passed. How handsome he looked 1 and as her mother had observed, how im proved in appearance with so much manliness and dignity. And she what could he think of her, sitting there pale and forlorn looking, with her hair all disordered about her face ? He might come this evening, perhaps, and yet she hardly wished it now. It would only be painful to see him, and find him changed. Still, she dressed herself and went down stairs, though her head was throbbing and she felt really ill. And all the eve ning she waited and watched as she had done before ; nnd Walter never came, oud 6he knew now that ho did not care to see her. Ami so ended the long, dreary day. Next morning Hetty arose feverish and ill. But she busied' herself about the household work; and when her mother, observing only that she was dull and languid, remarked that Bhe needed ft walk, and desired her to carry a little jar of butter to old Mrs. Simpson, she made no objection. The day was pleasant, though cool, and wrapping herself in a warm shawl of her mother's, and tying a pink-lined hood about her face, Hetty set off alone on her walk. It was rather a long distance that she had to go out of the village and across a field, and then by a lonely pathway lying along the foot of a hill. Mrs. Simpson kept her some time, talking ; and it was late when the girl set out on her return. Slowly retracing the little pathway under the drooping beeches, Hatty paused at the stile which led into tho open field. It was pleasant here. The sun shed a golden light over the beech boughs, and a breath of spring time woodland fragrance floated on the air. Somehow Hetty felt soothed, as she resting on the stile, and looking dreamily at the white clouds overhead. An approaching footstep startled her. Turning, she saw a man's figure coming along the pathway, nnd nnother glance showed her that it was Walter Hayes. Her heart gave a great throb and then seemed to stand still. He came straight toward her his hand extended, his lips smiling, his eyes looking straight into her own. " Hetty 1" She loaked nt him, half in hope, half in doubt, nnd the color came and went on her face. "Hetty I have wanted so much to see you." She could not mistake the sincerity of his tone, or the look of the brown eyes ; and she answered simply and naively : " I thought you had forgotten me." " Forgotten you ?" She could not have told how it hap pened; but somehow she found herself seated on the step of the stile with Wal ter betide; his arm aronnd her, and her cheek close, ah ! very close to his; whilst all the world around seemed transformed into a strange beauty and glory. Such miracles does a moment sometimes work in our lives. As they walked slowly homeward to gether, he told her how one thing and another had prevented his seeing her; among the rest, Bill, having confiden tially informed him at church, iu answer to his inquiries, that she was too sick to come down stairs that day a statement which he unfortunately credited, and when this morning he had called, aud learned from her mother where she had gone, he had lost no time in fol lowing. " But, Walter," said Hetty, hesitat ingly, " do you know I heard something about you anil .Sli s Mitchell Y He laughed. " Miss Mitchell is to be married shortly, Hetty, to our junior partner. She has been very kind to" me, and so lias her uncle, my employer, indeed, Hetty, I wanted to tell you of my good fortune aud good prospects; and to ask yon, darling, if, when Aud then the words which had beeu for a whole year delayed, were spoken; and Hetty wondered, as she came in sight of her home, whether this could be the same world that it had been ou that dark, dark clay, yesterday. The Socratic Method. As every one knows, who knows any thing of the tricks and manners of Soc rates, that remarkable philosopher never conversed except by asking questions, I. he wanted to express the opinion that Xiintippc had put too much lard in the pie-crust, he would begin by propound ing to her a series of seemingly irrele vant questions, with tho view of ulti mately leading her into an inadvertent admission of the evils of excessive lard, His famous conversation with Alcibi ades, in the course of which he convinced the latter f the non-existence of his dog, furnishes a fair example of what we have come to call the Socratic method; nud, ns the dialogue has never been translated into English, a brief ex tract from it will not be out of place here: S. They tell me, oh, Alcibiades, that you have cut on yonr dog s tail. A. It is true, oh, Socrates; I did it with my battle-ax. jfr S. What is a dog? Is it an animfj with four legs and a tail ? A. Yon say truly. S. Then your dog is not a dog,- for he is an animal with four legs, yet with out a tail ? A. I see that I must admit it. S. But you will also admit that neith er among Greeks, nor yet among bar barians, is there an animal which, hav ing four legs, has no tail. A. Again thou sayest what nobody denies of. S. How then can you claim that yon have the very animal which does not exist ? A. By Zeus, I make no such claim. S. Then you see you have no dog. It was by this method of cross-questioning that Socrates achieved a" tre mendous reputation. It is to bo regret ted that iu his later years he did not ad here to his early custom of always hav ing three or four persons about him whose business it was to admit every thing. Uufortuuately, he fell into the habit of asking everybody questions, in consequence of which his long-suffering fellow-citizens had to kill him. New York Times. A Just Judge. A correspondent at Hot Springs, Ark., writes : This corporation has a model mayor one who enforces the law against all offenders impartially, and who sees the Roman father and goes one better; for, while the historio parent passed judgment upon his own offspring, Mayor T. F. Linde, of Hot Springs, in vokes the penalty of the law upon him self. Tliis morning, repairing to the executive office, where a number of evil doers were awaiting trial, he calmly opened court in the usual form, and called the tiret case on his docket : " T. F. Linde, for violating ordinance No. 10," and propounded the query, "Guilty or not guilty?" responding promptly, in the character of the ac cused, "Guilty, your honor." "The prisoner is fined $5 aud costs," said Mr. Lind, a judge, aud entered the record upon his book. Having thus disposed of his own case, he passed on to those of other offenders against the laws, to whom he meted justice in doses accord ing to their deserts. " FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Recipes. Molasses Cookies. One cupful but ter, two cnpfuls molasses, one teaspoon ful cloves, one tablespoonful ginger, sufficient flour to make a stiff batter, not dough; mold with the hands into small cakes, and bake in a steady rather than hot oven, as they are apt Jo burn. A Breakfast ob Supper Dish ron Children. Boil one quart of milk and add, while boiling, half a cupful of oat meal, and cook a few minutes. Have ready a vegetable dish half full of bread, cnt in pieces half an inch square, and pour the milk over it, having previously seasoned it with salt. A free use of both oatmeal and beans. They are both very nutritious. Fried mush for break fast and mush and milk for tea are very nice, and when desired molasses may be used instead of milk for a change. To Boil SweeF Corn. Choose full- grown com, and let tne rows be even and medium size. Pierce the grain with your nail, and if the com is fresh and tender the niilK will escape in a let and not be thick. Corn, like potatoes, is best steamed. If no steamer is at hand, plaoe the corn in just enough water to cover it, and boil fifteen or twenty min utes, nccordiug to the size of the kernel. If boiled too long it becomes hard. Send it to the table wrapped in a napkin or towel placed on a meat dish. Serve hot. To Make Sweet Pickies of Ripe Cucumbers. Select those that are about half yellow with ripeness, cut them open, remove the seeds ; cut them lengthwise iu strips an inch or more wide, and soak for two days iu salted water and alum ; theu soak lialf a day in clear cold water. Bring Btrong vinegar, enough to cover the cucumbers, just to boiling, aud pour over them, and let them stand over night. Then remove and pack in large mouthed bottles ; dissolve one pound of sugar iu one quart strong vinegar ; strew in the bottles spices to suit tho taste, cover with the sweetened vinegur, cork, and let it stand all night ; the next morning set the bottles in a kettle of cold water on the fire, bring to a boil, and make the corks tight. Keep in a cool place. Silver Cake. Three cups sifted flour, one aud a half cups of sugar, one egg, one teacup of sweet milk, two tnble-spoo:;-c,ils of butter, three tablespoonfnls ot yeast powder, x lavor with vanilla or lemon, to taste. Beat the butter and sugar to a cream, add to it the milk and egg, well beaten, then add the extract. Mix with this very slow three cups of flour in which the baking powder has becu well, mixed. liake in a quick oven, Tomato Soup. Boil two and one-half pounds of lamb in four quarts of water ; boil the lamb to shreds and the water down to two-quarts ; strain itf Peol and cut up fino two quarts fresh tomatoes ; mix them with tho liquor ; stir them very hard and boil them half an hour season with parsley, pepper nnd salt strain them again ; stir hi oue table spoonful of butter before pouring iu the tureen. Tho broth in which chickens were boiled is often preferred to the lamb. Chicken Salad. Wash and dry two or three white heart lettuces, reserving tho center leaves, cut thein fine, and lay them at the bottom of a dish ; mince all the white meat from a broiled chicken without the skiu, and place it on the lettuce. Rub the yolks of two hard- boiled eggs to a smooth paste, with two dessert spoonfuls of melted butter. Add to it two spoonfuls of made mustard aud one of pounded loaf sugar, nnd stir very gradually in a cupful of vinegar. Ar range as a border the center leaves of the lettuce, with some small, delicate cress between the chicken and the edge of the dish, and, when ready to serve, pour over the chicken salud dressing. Corn lor Meed. Iu selecting corn for seed, it is often the practice to merely choose large ears from the general crop. This is not the best method, for while the plant may be strong and vigorous, and bears large ears, the corn may have been fertilized by pollen from feeble or stunted plants near it, and the seed may retain and repeat these adverse qualities in spite. of he vigor of the plant on which it grew. A better nlan would be to nlant some of the seed m a small plot by itself, at a little distance from the mam crop, and to give this patch plenty of room and high culture. When the tassels appeor iu the seed every plant should be ex amined, and feeble stalks should be pulled out or cat below the tassel before it has an opportunity to bloom. By this nrrangememt both the plants on which the ears grow and the pollen scattered from its own and neighboring tassels will partake of the strength of both its parents. How (-ptnacli. The market gardeners as well as those who only wish to supply their own tables, should now make preparations for sowing spinach; any vacant land that is rich enough will answer, but as it needs thorough preparation and as the manure also needs to be thoroughly pre pared, it will be well to begin now to get ready the manure and work it thoroughly fine; a liberal admixture ot night sou is excellent for this crop, promoting rank and rapid growth. Land from which peas or potatoes or some other early crop has been cleared, should be cleared up and plowed so as to be ready for the seed. For fall use and for storage to be used in winter, spinach seed should be put in about August 14th. For winter ing over in the field it is sown from September 1st to 15th. A Terrible Shock. The courier from Helena bearing dis patches, reached Shaw the following day. As the dust-covered horseman ap proached the quarters, a lady, sitting in front of one of the cottages, with a young babe in her arms, accosted him : "Have you news from the com mand ?" "Yes, madam, I bring dispatches." " Tell me the news, quick." "A battle was fought on the ninth. Captain Logan and Lieut. Bradley are among the killed." ' - The babe dropped from the nerveless arms aud the young mother fell back iu a swoon. It was Mrs. Bradley, the wife of the brave oltiiier first to fall iu the recent In dian battle of the Big Hole. Helena Montana) Jlerald. LONG-LIVED GREAT MEN. Old Men Who Are Prominent ns Itiilcrx, 81 nt rumen nnd Wnrrlom, nnd Forrinont In Literature, Science, l.nw nnd Religion. The death of the ex-President of the French Republic at the advanced age of eighty years suggests the thought that tne civuizeu nations oi lue tunu hid jui the most pnrt governed or guided by old men. On the twenty-second of March last the emperor of Germany completed his eightieth year. This mightiest of the rulers of the world has known nd versity as great as his present prosperity is exalted. A boy of ten he tied witu his mother to escape the victorious armies of Napoleon the Great. Forty years later he had to fly a second time . -i - i l r ... T irom .ueriin, uuu sougut remge in uuu don from the resentment of his country men. Marshal MacMahou, Duke of Magenta, nnd president of the French republic, is nearly sixty-nine. His life has been one of steady progress, but he stands to-day for the first time in his career in an uncertain position. Alex ander II., emperor and autocrat of all the Russias, has not yet lived three score of years, but his life has been a most eventfnl one. Iu 1861 he performed one of if not the greatest act in history, namely, the emancipation -of 23,000,000 human beings from tho bondage of serf dom. The Russian prime minister. Prince Gortschnkoff, is now in his seventy-ninth year. Prince Bismarck, who was bora on All Fools' Day, is over sixty-two. The Earl of Beaconsfleld (Disraeli) is m his seventy-second year; the ex-British premier, Air. Gladstone, is sixty-eight, while Count Andrassy, the Hungarian statesman and leader oi pub lic opinion in Austria, is no older than fifty-four years. Admiral Constantino Canaris at eighty-seven is president of the Cabinet nnd the hope of Greece. It is fifty-five years ago since he avenged the devastation of Scio by fastening a fire-ship to the Turkish flag-ship and blowing her up with many hundreds of men who were celebrating the Kamadan Victor Hugo is just midway between the three-score and ten and the four-score years of the Psalmist. Earl Russel, the great Whig leader, is eighty-five; M. Urevy. who has been chosen as Gani- betta s lieutenant, is sixty-four: Jules Simon is sixty-three, and Lord Stratford de Redchffe, better known as Sir Strat ford Canning, is no less than eighty-nine, Of venerable politicians aud statesmen in our own country it would be easy to multiply names. Simon Cameron, the Republican leader in Peunsvivanin, is seventy-eight; Caleb dishing, of Massa chusetts, is seventy-seven; Alexander a.. Stephens, a representative Southern Democratj is sixty-five; Gen. John A, Dix, of this city, has now turned seventy nine. E. B. Washburne, of Illinois, is sixty-one, and Horatio Seymour is sixty- seven. Secretary of State Evarts, who is both lawyer and statesman, is in his sixty-first year. Turning from those who govern to those who educate, wo find numerous old men who exercise a wide influence throughout the world. Thomas Carlyle, tho English essayist and historian, is eighty-two; Alfred Tennyson, the poet, is sixty-seven ; Prof. Charles Robert Darwin is sixty-eight; nnd these nro the grent lights in English literature and science. Of Americans, Henry Wads worth Longfellow bus just turned seventy-one; John G. Whittier is seven ty; Ralph Waldo Emerson is seventy four; George Bancroft is seventy-seven ; William Cullen Bryant, tho pott oud journalist, is nearly eighty-three ; Wil liam Lloyd Garrison is seventy-three; Theodore D wight Woolsey is seventy six, and Peter Cooper is eighty-six. Legal jurisprudence nt home and abroad is represented by Charles O'Connor, of this State, who is seventy-three ; by Flsaac Adolph Cremieux, a French lawyer and legislator, who is seventy-nine; by William Ballantine, an English sergeant at law, who is sixty-three, and by Firmin Agosta Caballero, - a Spanish lawyer, journalist and statesman, who is seventy seven. Chief-Justice Waite is sixty-one; the Lord Chief-Justice of England is seventy-five, aud the Lord Chief-Baron is over eighty. Of ecclesiastics high in authority or position,' Pius IX. is eighty-five; the Primate of all England is sixty-seven; Bishop Ames is seventy-one, and Dr. Dollinger, the German theolo gian and historian, is seventy-eight. Among leaders in religious thought are Bishop Dupnnloup, of Frauce, who is seventy-six; Dean Stanley, of Westmin ster Abbey, who is sixty-one-; Dr. New man, who is sixty-seven; Cardinal Mc Closkey, who is seventy-seven ; Dr. Thomas Worcester, who is over seventy five; Henry Ward Beecher, who is over sixty-four; Dr. Chapin, who is sixty three; Dr. McCosh, who is fifty-six, and Rev. Stephen II. Tyng, Sr., who is seventy-seven. In the science of war the chiefs are Count Von Moltke, who was born in 1800; Gen. W. T. Sherman, who was'born in 1820, aud Gen. Garibaldi, the most popular man in Italy, who is now approaching his seventy-first year. Thus the peoples of the world seem to be governed and educated by old men, though the average length of humau lifo has been so considerably extended that nowadays we scarcely call men old at sixty. And as old is a relative term, it might be more correct to say that power is to be found in the hands of older men than of yore. New York Times. A Wasp's Sting. A most singular and at the same time serious accident has occurred to a boy named Llewellyn Griffiths, aged nine years, residing with his parents in Roso mon street, Clerkenwell, London. It appears that the mother of the boy gave him his breakfast, which consisted of milk and slices of jam and bread. While eating the latter he gave a loud scream, and began to run about the room, evi dently in great pain. He theu ejected the bread from his mouth, aud it was found to contain the body of a wasp, Dr. Franklin, oi St. John street, was sent for, but befoiffhis arrival the tongue had swollen to such an extent as to pro trude from the mouth, at, the same time so impeding the breathing as almost to produce suffocation. Dr. Franklin at once injected a solution ot ammonia iu the uuncture caused by the stiug, which gradually eased the pain and reduced the swelling; the power of deglutition, how ever, was nearly suspended. AN OLD WAITER'S STORIES. Fninona New Yorker whom lie Served Their llnblta n to Dtnln. An old New York waiter, who had been employed in leading restair.ants a great many years, was interviewed oy a Sun reporter, to whose interrogatories he replied as follows: Did yon ever see old John Jacob Astor?" "Only once. sir. He was a feeble man when I saw him, but his son, Wil liam, used to lunch regular with Clarke & Brown. You see, sir. we had little boxes in those days. They all opened in front on the passage, sir, but they was partitioned off bo that nobody could see his neighbor. And most of the waiters yelled, sir. I suppose I've heard em say I'lum-botu ' more man ouu times a day in tones so loud, .sir, as would scare a hawk. The great dishes was steak and onions, plum pudding, with wine and sugar sauces, strawberry shortcake, aud devilled kidneys. It's astonishing how them things go by fashions. , "Will fashion soon drive the trade up-town ?" " Hot very soon, sir. wny, it wasn t many years ago when Mr. Hallock, of the Journal of Commerce, Gen. Webb, of tho Courier, nnd Mr. Beach, of the bun, used to take a bite with us. How dif ferent them men was, sir." "Yes how?" "Well, Mr. Hallock looked like a minister. He always wore black, and was never fashionable, sir. Ho was very gentle, sir, and I always thought he must have been well brought up, sir. But Gen. Webb was a stunner. He had a great deal of hair and a large stomach, and you'd think he was a real general to hear him talk, sir. It was a rare sight to see him lift his hat, sir. Gloves always. And he was very neat, aud at times generous. I remember ho gave mo a dollar one time, nnd he seemed par ticularly grand and splendid, especially when his high stock was new and stiff. He was very pompons like, but he never abused the waiters, sir." " How about Mr. Beach?" " I don't know, sir. Mr. Bench was a man, Bir, if I may so speak, who always seemed out of place, sir. I am told he was a very clever man, sir, but we didn't take to him, sir. He was a grent hand for pork and beans and apple dumpling with both sauces, sir; not that I could find it in my heart to blame any man for liking them dumplings, Bir, for they certainly were splendid." " Were vou ever 'iu Delmonico's ?" " Not in his new place, but I was in his Chambers street place a long time, sir. Mr. Siro is very particular, sir, so is Mr. Charles. The old man I never saw but once. A man's alwnys sure of his wnges at Delmonico's, and it's the best place lor fees in the country. llie little gent who traveled with the Prince of Wales aud paid his bills gave 5 after a lunch. The biggest I ever got was one day after Tweed, Connolly, Hall, and two lawyers had been in No. 8 for five hours. I stayed three hours after mv time was up to tend to cm. as they came out Mr. Hall ho slipped some thiug in my hand. When I went in the room I slung my napkin under mv nrm nnd looked nt it. It was three five-dollar bills, s r. I ran down stairs quick, sir. They were standing in the doorway with Mr. Siro. who was smoking, os always, a cignretto. ' Can I speak to you, sir '(' says I to Mr. Hall. Certainly, Wil liam,' Bays he, as polite as a basket. What's up ?' Then I told him I feared he Lad made a mistake, and handed him the three fives. He took thciu, never said a word, opened his wallet, took out a bill, rolled it over the three fives, handed 'em to me, put his finger on his nose, and walked away to the door. Ho had rolled a tenner over tho fives, so I had 25 for my pains, sir." " Well, that was generous.'-' " Yes, sir, nnd I often think of it, sir. He was a thoughtful person, sir, Mr. Hall was, and I never like to hear him run down, sir. One of our regulars was Mr. Stewart's chief partner, Mr. Libbey, aud a nice mon, too. He alwnyB came in at a certain time, had a certain sent, ordered his lunch quietly, accepted it as it was, made no fu6s, paid his check with ten cents to the waiter, said Good day,' and went out. But Judge Barnard was the mou. One day he came in and walked to a table where another judge, an editor aud au actor were sitting. As he sat down he ordered champagne cocktails for the crowd. Then he ordered a chop for himself. Bottle after bottle came, pop. ped and went. 'Now,' said he, 'the fellow who has the most cash in his pocket shall pay for the dinners.' The other judge showed up $15, the editor $22 nnd some change, but the actor brought out $150 in cash and a cheek for $500 signed by John J. Cisco & Co. I pay, savs Judge Barnard, as he showed $75 in money and a city warrant for $1,250. The actor said 'No.' be cause a warrant wasn't cash. Finally Mr. Siro was appealed to, nnd he said : Well, if Mr. asks me to accept to that $500 check I Bhall do it, conse quently it is cash ; and if Judge Barnard asks me to cash his $1,250 warrant I Bhall do it, consequently he has the most cash, and he must pay the bill.' Of course, it made a great laugh in the room, and after another bottle they separated. "Did you ever wait on young Mr. Bennett?" " les, often, sir. He had a way in cold weather of now and then coming to the place. He d "walk in quick, pull a chair before the fire, and read the papers. First he'd warm one side, sir, and then the other. Then he'd Bay : Eugene, breakfast.' Eugene was the head waiter, sir, nice man and very rich. sir. Then Eugene would order and I generally served it, sir. He never paid for anything, it was always charged, sir, That's the way Mr. Hall and many others did. sir. It saved the bother of handling money, but it was hard on us, sir, for there was rarely any change for the waiter, sir. One of the odd people was a priest. He used to oome in at eleven aud stay till two. He always took the best seat by the fireplace and read the papers. He always had tea and bread and butter. Sometimes ha had a bit of steak, sir. At first he was a curiosity then a nuisance, but finally a fixture, and we should have been lonely without him." Golden Thoughts. It is only those that have done nothing who fancy they can do everything. The worst kind of men are those who do not care when men see them doing wrong. A man who has so long to fight against misfortune, wants strength to meet a sudden kindness. The world is but one great family. What, then, is this narrow selfishness in us, but relationship remembered, against relationship forgot? . "Lecture ou Fools' Admit one," was the inscription on a card of admis sion to a discoures by a Western clergy- man the other.evening. The formation and sternly pursuit of some particular plan of life has justly been considered as one of the most permanent sources of happiness. There was never, in any age of the world, either philosopher or sect, or law or discipline, which did so highly exolt the public good as the Cliristian faith. The "golden everlasting chain" described by Homer as reaching from heaven to earth, nnd emornciug tne whole moral world, was no fable. The chain is love. He seldom lives frugally who lives by chance. Hope is always liberal, and they that trust to her promises make little scruple of revelling to-day on the profits of to-morrow. Human life defined by a hue is as uncomfortable as would be a human figure defined by a wire. One prefers a little mist nbout it, where hope may put out a wouderiug hand. WTe strive ns hard to hide our hearts from ourselves ns from others, and nl- ways with more success; for in deciding upon our own case we are both judge, jury and executioner; aud when sophis try cannot overcome tne nrst, or natter the second, self-love is always ready to defeat the sentence by bribing the third. Women often fancy themselves to be in love when they arc-not. The love of being loved, fondness of flattery, the pleasure of giving pain to a rival, nnd a passion for novelty and excitement are frequently mistaken for something far better and holier, till marriage disen chants the fair self-deceiver, nnd leaves her astonished at her own indifference nnd the evaporation of her romantic talents. Act towards others as you would they should net towards yourself. It is the same in life ns in the midst of the waves; for every navigator there is the same sea, the same tempests, the same dan gers to beware of. As long as yon ore borne on a tranquil surface, help those who have Buffered shipwreck. Who can say that you will not be overtaken by a storm you are not yet in port; the same conduct that, you have shown to tho un fortunate will 'be shown to you by your fellow-voyagers. Items of Interest. When is a man's face like the Atlantic ocean ? When it's miles across. Tho four boxes that rule tho world : The ballot box, the jury box, the car tridge box and the bandbox. This year's peach crop aggregates in value the sum of $3,420,000, of which the Maryland and Delaware growers net 1,000,000. In England the noblest peers in the realm feel a pride iu their connection with agricultural pursuits. The Trince of Wales is a frequent exhibitor at county fairs. The man who made a shoe for the foot of a mountain is now engaged on a lint for the head of a discourse, alter which he will manufacture a plume for Gen eral Intelligence. Rev. D. N. Bentley, of Norwich, Ct., who is ninety-two years old, has preached seventy-five years, having married five hundred couples ami onici nted at three thousand funerols, but has never received any remuneration for preaching or burying the dead. Queen Victoria finds India shaws most attractive, and has a collection worth hundreds of thousands df pounds, in cluding shawls the art of making which has long been lost besides an tne nuesi and most delicate marvels of the India looms of the present day, including webs of golden thread and embroidered with diamonds and pearls. One hundred pounds of butter con tain teu pouuds of water; the same quantity of bacon contains twenty-two pounds of water; similar quantities of cheeso contain thirty pounds; of eggs, seventy-two pounds; of lean of meat, seventy-three pounds; of fowl, seventy three pounds ; of fish, seventy-four pounds, and of milk, eighty-six pounds of water. Two men were riding in tho cars on the Daubury railway the other morning, when one asked the other if he had a pleasant place of residence. "Yes," was the reply; " we havo seven nice rooms over a store." " Over a store ! should think that would be a quiet place." " Oh I it is quiet enough. The folks dont advertise. "All I l see, said his friend, iu a tone of relief. Danburn New. How to be Welcome. What a ceremonious affair we make of receiving company ! Too many of us lose all sense of being at home tne moment a stranger crosses our threshold, and he instantly feels himself to be a mere visitor nothing more and acts accordingly. The man who knows how to " drop in of an evening, draw up his chair to the hearth, as if it were his own, and fall into the usual evening routine of the household as if he were a member of it how welcome he always is I The man who comes to stay under your roof for a season, and who, without being intrusive or familiar, makes you feel that he is "at home" with you, and is content in his usual fashion of occupation how delightful a guest he is 1 And the house ah, how few of them ! into which one can go for a day or a week and feel sure that the family routine is in no wise altered, the family comfort is no wise lessened, but on the contrary, increased by one's presence what joy it is to cross their thresholds 1 What harbors of refuge they are to the weary wanderers 1 What Bweet remin iscences they bring to the lonely and homeless 1 V 'J