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VOL. VIII. RIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1878. NO. 6.
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Night.
Might oame down o'er all the earth,
And took the tired Day,
. And clasped her tightly in her arms,
And bore her far away.
The moon like aome vast light-house seemed,
Far up in the Milky Wayj
The glistening stars, like tiny harks,
At anchor round her lay.
And like a single silver thread
That twines in some dark cur!,
The river wound through trees and brakes,
A gleaming band of pearl.
I heard (he soft low dip of oars,
Like aweary slow heart-throb;
And the wavelets lapped the bow of the boat
A low half-broken sob.
And on that night, so long ago,
A virion woudrons swoct
Came to mo in its fullest joy,
So pcrfoot and complete.
0 golden droam t why did I wake
To find H past and gone ?
The dream was like a glorious dy;
The waking, cold gray dawn.
'Twere better far that I had died
Believing it were true,
Twere better far to sloep for aye
Beneath the sky so blue,
Then live, when oach long weary day
Seemed longer than before;
When life is but a constant pain
A wound unhealed and sore.
The river utill flows murmuring on;
The stars are just as bright
As when the virion otmo to mo
That restful summer night.
The same? Yes. I alone am changed.
Oh God l each weary day
1 wish that I had diod the night
The ision passed away. .
Harpa-'g Magazine.
A Romance of the Pyrenees.
I am n Spaniard and the only son and
Bole heir of Don Guzman de Mnnsorio, n
grandee of Spain of the socond class, by
whom I was educated according to my
fortune mid exalted rank. At the ago o'f
twenty-five I lost my father. It is the
custom in Spain that at the death of a
father the nobles should wear mourning
for o; e year and pass that time in n
state of absolute solitude at their re
motest estates. I loved my father ten
derly and deeply regretted his Iosb, I
observed my country's custom on that
event as holy duty and in conformity
thereto removed into Aragon where I
had a castle situated at the foot of Mount
M.iladetta, on the extreme frontier, be
tween Spain and France. This was in
the year 1779, when Spain was Btill
beautiful and mighty, although the no
bility and clergy ruled it with an iron
despotism ; and the feudal laws, more
rigidly enforced than they had ever
beeu, even in Frauee, were better con
solidated by the perfect understanding
on this point between the priests and the
crown. The nobles ruled tho people
mid tho king ruled nil. For my part, I
frankly admit that I was proud of my
title of Count aud prized the preroga
tives of myrank and the rights of my
birth. My steward dispensed justice to
ny vassals in my name, and when his
decisions appeared unjust to them they
appealed to me in person.
The gallows, which stood before the
Brest gate of tho castle, pithily an
nounced my power of condemning to
death wit hiu the limits of my county.
By law all smugglers were subject to this
rigorous penalty, to which my deputy
nl ways condemned them with unsparing
Hcverity, and which I always commuted
to a lighter punishment. At this time
tho smugglers were in greater numbers
than they ore now, and as I had received
directions from court to suppress the
illegal trnllic, 1 had armed my vassals,
who patrolled all tho defiles and by
roads, scoured tlie mountains, and as'
si-ted the officers of the king's customs
ou all occasions. This rigorous pnrsnit
of the smugglers increased their auda
city aud inspired them with despera
tion and revenge. Before they were
only dealers in prohibited articles ; they
now became brigands, organized regular
bauds into troops, and opposed open re
sistance in the field to the king's and
my jurisdiction. One day fifty of my
people were attacked near La Picade
and crnelly massacred by these bandits ;
whereupon I vowed never again to re
mit or commute the sentence of my
deputy, but to hnng np the first suggler
who fchould be captured.
A few days afterwards the worthy
inncuonary wub announced and present
ed me with a death-warrant for my sig
nature. I hesitated, trembled and could
not proceed. It is such a shockincr.
chilling thought that a few letters, so
rapidly and easily traced, should have
the power of depriving a fellow-creatnre
01 me I l tried to read the sentence,
but my eyes were clouded and I could
not see distinctly, so I asked the steward
to read it. He commenced with an of
ficial tone, but I stopped him at the
second line when I found that the
culprit was a girl only eighteen years
via,
"My lordi" said the functionary,
"Milanetta is the daughter of the Cap
tain of the smugglers. She daily de
ceives the vigilance of the guards, and
passes and repasses between Spain and
France with intelligence to direct the
movements of the two troops of bandits,
and they could not possibly baffle our
authority but for her. This young
woman is guilty; I have condemned her,
and it is your duty to sanction the law's
award. You have pledged yourself to
the rigid execution of justice to your
vassals, and you owe it to the kiud. The
word of a Spanish grandee is sacred;
therefore, my Zjord, you must sign that
paper."
"Never I What; send a girl only
eighteen years old to death f I couldn't
muster strength to do it. What did she
urge in her defense I"
"Nothing."
' " jjMBhe oon'eBsei tne charge ?"
Then I suspend the execution of the
sentence. Conduct Milanetta here. I
wish to see and interrogate her person
ally." m. j ucymj uucyeu, nuu in an instant
afterwards Milanetta stood- before me.
Oh, if you had seen that youthful crea-
lure, glitteriug with grace and beauty !
Had you noticed the sublimity of her
looks at that trying moment, the clear
olive of her expansive brow (the sun,
you know, kisses our Spanish maidens
with a scorching embrace), hor dnrk
freezes floating looso in tho mountain
breeze, her noble attitude and the run
jestio bearing of her head, like me, you
would first of all have admired ; like me,
you would have felt an involuntary re
spect for her ; like me, perhaps, yon
would have loved her I I was then only
twenty-five, and knew nothing of wo
men but what I had learned in the clois
ters of Salamanca or the courts and re
vels of Madrid. My heart was yet in
its virgin freshness, my head was heated
under our burning sun, and I felt that
insctutable want of something to love ;
something to invest with the rich wor
ship of my soul; something which should
burst upon me like a vision of light.
even if it consumed me in its rovalation.
When I commenced my examination I
was much more agitated than my prison
er. Wo were alone, and I am sure my
emotion must have been apparent when
x said :
"Do you know tho punishment to
which the steward has condemned you ?"
"Yes, my lord," she answered, in a
low, calm voice "to death."
"Before confirming tho law's sentence
I nave kred to see you, to asoertain
from : .'vmlf whether you have no ex-
tonu,-circumstances to allege."
" Wiling."
" lou are a smuggler, then ?"
"Oh, no I"
" Why, then, do you cross into France
every night ? What other motive could
induce you to expose yoursolf to such
peril r
" That I will never disclose."
" Recollect that the only means of
saving your liie is a frank and unreserv
cd declaration of "
" I know it. but I will not do it.
will reply to you, my Lord, as I did to
your judge : 'I have never smuggled.'
Whether I cross nightly into France or
not is my own business, and my motives
are my own. My doom is spoken ; let
it lie executed ; 1 am ready to suiter it.
My Lord, I shall not answer another in
quiry." From that moment she was insensible
to advice, menaces, or entreaties. Notk
ing could overcome her obstinate silence,
During three days I was constantly with
Iter, and did all that I could to extract
her secret from her : but she treasured in
the bottom of her' heart what she wished
t conceal from me, while she soon
irnesscd what I dared not disclose to her.
Yes, it was in her chill and comfortless
cell that I her judge, her lord, the ar
biter of her life fell at her feet and re
vealed in passionate accents what she
had already read in my looks and ges
tures. It was in her prison that she
oldly repulsed my love and rejected her
pardon on tho terms I offered it. No one
w ho had seen us then would have said :
" He is the judge and pheis the victim."
She was always calm, cold and resigned,
while I eudnred all the tortures of dis
appointed lore irritated by repulses.
The vault of the prison resounded with
my entreaties and angry exclamations,
with my sighs and passionate appeals ;
and I momcutaril v was tho prey of every
contending emotion now ready to kill
Milanetta, aud now resolving to save her
at nil hazards ; now begging her to bo
mine, and now determined to bid the ex
ecutioner perform his fatal office. I was
uo longer myself I loved for the first
time, and the being to whom I poured
out my heart and soul iu protestations
of adoration, transport, and idolatry,
coldly answered: "I cannot listen to
you ; 1 love auotuer. After au awful
outbreak of rage at such an announce
ment, I insisted upon knowing who my
rival was, but Bho replied, with the same
calmness of tone and look, " That you
Biiaii never Know.
At this juncture a violent knocking
was beard at the prison door. My people
were looking for me on all sides, as a
French nobleman had just arrived in
great haste at the castle, aud demanded
to see me immediately. I went to him
at once, striving in vain to hide from my
servant the emotions with which I was
agitated, and at whose violence I myself
was alarmed. I made my appearance in
the great hall, a prey to the most gloomy
forebodings. I there saw a young man
who was pacing the hall with hurried
steps, and who desired to converse with
out witnesses.
"I am the Marquis de Clairval," said
he; "I possess a castle in France, which
like yours, is on the very frontier, and
like you I am engaged in suppressing
smuggling and executing justice against
those engaged in it."
The name of the Marquis was familiar
to me, as we had corresponded together
to devise measures for the security of
the frontier.
" But," continued he, "however rigid
snd nurelentinir may be our justice
against those taken in tho act, it is
rather too muelhat we should condemn
innocent people to death merely because
they refuse to give reasons for their be
havior. " To what do you allude, Monsieur ?"
" Listen to me. A young girl, named
Milanetta, has fallen into the hands i f
your officers "
"Ha I can you explain ?"
"That is the sole object of my visit.
It was but this morning that 1 heard of
her arrest, her condemnation and that
she declined disclosing the motive of her
frequent trips into France by night. I
know the cause and am come to unfold it
to you; but it is in full confidence of
your honor and discretion. Milanetta is
mine I"
Yours r You Milanetta's lover I"
"You i eera surprised at this because
such a beautiful creature as Milanetta
did not reside with me in my castle, or
that I did not. take her with me to Paris
during last winter. Yon may be also
astonished that a noble of France should
be sufficiently enamoured of a peasant
girl to submit to the constraint of mys
tery and the harass and trouble of night
ly and dangerous interviews, ' But Mil
anetta is not one of those women who
yield easi'y, nor is she one whose influ
ence can be easily shaken off."
" I think I know her character," I
added.
' Oh, no I You never can know the
deep well of love aud energetic feeling in
the heart of that youug creature. Klin
linn vinlrml 1 1 . 1.. 1 . '
love me in secret and now you have the
object of her nocturnal journeys, whioh
she would not disclose to you because
she would have had to blush at the con
fession, and least a public declaration
made to her judge should come to the
ears of her father. To prevent this she
would have died without opening her
lips. Now, my Lord, I have said suffi
cient to convince yon that she is unjust
ly condemned. Yon are absolute here.
I ask her pardon of yon and feel assured
that you will gladly concede it."
The Marquis's language, the love
which he confessed, and Milanetta's
passion for him, of which he boasted so
proudly and fervently, threw me into
rage and despair. Ideas of vengeance
and of blood rushed through my brain
till I grew giddy. Without a conscious
ness of what I was doing, or going to do,
I rang the boll impatiently and ordered
Milanetta to be brought immediately
before me.
"Do not let her see me!" cried the
Marquis ; "let her not be made ac
quainted with what I have done I If she
loamed that it was to me that she owed
her life, her feelings towards me would
be all absorbed in gratitude, and it is
her love only that I desire."
This expression increased my frenzy,
while the Marquis, who was nearly as
much agitated as I was, did not per
ceive my emotion. He only heard the
sound of steps in the corridor, and
thinking that it was Milanetta who ap
proached, he asked me where he could
conceal himself." I pointed to the door
of my closet, and tho moment it closed
upon him Milanetta came into the hall.
For a moment I was speechless, over
powered by transports of envy and pas
sion. Milanetta turned away from the
fierce expression of my featuros. With
a hoarse voice I shouted, "I know
your lover now ; I am no longer ignor
ant who it is you prefer to me. He has
come to solicit your pardon. Tho Mar
qnis de Clairval has cleared you of tho
charge of smuggling, but has acknowl
edged that you are his love 1"
"Whatl" she frantically exclaimed,
" has tho Marquis been here ?"
" He is hero still, Milanetta,
"What, here? here in your power?
Oh 1 spare him, my Lord, spare him.
It is I only who hava deserved your
vengeance death is my portion; but
for him "
" Yes, scoruful girl ! Death for you !
He has asked for mercy for you he
has come to ask me to place you again
in his arms ; but I will .give you to the
executioner, and your lover shall wit
ness "
Tho Marquis flung open the door with
violence. I had quite forgotten that he
was there, and he had heard every word
I spoke. At his appearance Milanetta
uttered one despairing shriek, while I
looked at them both vindictively. He
beckoned mo aside, and said with a low
voice: "My Lord Count, you are a
gentleman by birth, but yon have dis
graced your name and rnnk. Among
people of our station tho sword is the
only arbiter, and the injuries of jealousy
and love are settled by that appeal. It
is not by hanging Milauetta that you
should revenge yourself when you have
the opportunity of a gentleman of fight
ing me."
"What! Would you accept a chal
lenge ?"
" This very instant."
" But you know the striot laws ngaiust
duelling, and the rigorous strictness
with which both kings exact tho pen
alty?"
" 1 kuow very well that both, in ranco
and Spain tho duellist is punished by
the forfeiture of his estates; that his
shield is defaced and his coat of arms
burned, and that if his enemy is killed
he is beheaded ; but I hate you now as
stronRly as yon can hato me, aud to hold
my sword's point to your heart I would
lace every peril and every disgrace I
"To-morrow, then, at daybreak, I
will be at Venasqne with a second."
"Be it so. And now sign Milanetta s
pardon."
"iler pardon I
" It is the first and only condition of
our meeting."
I signed it, and handed it to Milan
etta, who refused to take it.
"What will it avail me," said she,
" when my father knows the secret of
my nocturnal journeys ? When he ques
tions me, what answer can I give him f
If I tell him the truth he will kill me on
the spot."
" Kill you, Milanetta? '
"He is onlv a smuggler or a bandit in
your eyes ; but this bandit is as jealous
as any peer of Franco or grandee of
Spain. He will kill me I tell you, and I
would prefer dying by the executioner's
band to his.
Next morning: before the sun rose I
was at the very extremity of the Spanish
frontier, and the Marquis made ins op
pearanco almost as soon. He brought
his second but I had forgotten to bring
one. A man on horseback was passing
within a few paces of us. I called to
him and asked him if he would become
my second in a duel.
Me immediately dismounted, meas
ured our swords like a man accustomed
to the bus'ness, and offered me his own
as better tempered than mine. We had
scarcely crossed our blades when the
French and Spanish guards came run
ning up, separated us, enjoined ns to
desist, and threatened to arrest ns if we
renewed the combat. Milanetta had in
formed them of our intentions. I per
ceived the rage and mortification of the
Marquis at this interruption, but I told
him that we could laugh at their inter
ference, and tight before their faces
without their having the power to inter
fere. . . .
" The frontier of France and Spain is
marked by that cross. You, who area
Frenchman, cross into cpain, wniie 1
Bter into France. We can then cross
our blades, with our feet touching the
frontier line, which we can Keep Detween
our bodies and our swords. The Span
iard who fltrhts a Frenchman on French
ground, and the Frenchman who meets
a Spaniard on the Spanish soil, cannot
be reached dj tue law, tor we a-uk ui
Spain has no more power over you than
the King of Frauoe has over me, and
neither would violate the laws of notions
by arresting their subjects on a loreign
territory." . A. ,
With one bonud I stood upon the ter
ritory of Franco, while the Marquis re
mained in Hpsiu, una we uu imicu iu
tho guards: " Baok, marshalmen of
France, yon have uo authority over a
noble of Spain." "Away, holy broth
crhood of Spain; keep your hands off a
gentleman of France."
The soldiers fell back amazed and
irresolute, while we stood and fought in
the narrow poss, whore there was not
room for more than a man to stand. Our
swords had scarcely recrossed when the
Marquis fell, pierced to the heart. I
rushed forward to support him, when
my second, holding me in his iron grasp,
shouted: " Stop where you are I One
foot forward and death stares you in the
face, and that upon the scaffold 1" His
words were interrupted by a shriek, and
wo snw Milanetta fling herself upon tho
dead body, uttering the most passionate
exclamations of agony and tenderness.
My second gnashed his teeth, when he
saw and heard her. He rushed to her
and tore her roughly from the body
which she embraced. She uttered a
heart-piercing shriek, and. falling on her
knees and clasping her hands, she ex
claimed: " Forgive me, father, forgive me !"
" Dishonored 1" answered lie, with a
gloomy voice. "Then die with him!"
and with one blow of his knife he laid
her lifeless at his feet. Then lifting up
her body he flung it to me, saying: "She
who loved a hated Frenchman is not
worthy of finding a grave in her country;
the soil of Spain rejects the body of
Milanetta."
" The guards of the holy brotherhood
surrounded the smuggler, who threw his
knife away and held out his hands to
them.
" Bind me," said he, " I am the leader
of the smugglers you can hang me at
once for smuggling, but not for killing
my daughter. You have outlawed the
smuggler, and therefore he takes justice
into his own hands."
My estate was confiscated, my es
cutcheon disfigured, my caBtle burned
and a price set upon my head; but hea
ven has punished me iu lengthening ray
existence and protracting my sorrows. I
have survived this event fifty years, but
my heart is still young in recollections
and sufferings, and from that time I have
never trod upon the soil of my conn ry!
v Words of Wisdom.
He but waters his soup who takes
many words to tell a short story.
Friends are won by those who believe
in winning.
He who hns no taote for order will be
often wrong in his judgment and seldom
considerate or conscientious in his ac
tions. Some people aro like eggs, too full of
themselves to hold anything else.
Many people find their own happiness
in forcing themselves to be unhappy.
When you are alone watch your
thoughts ; when in the family circle
wutch your temper ; when in society
watoh your tongue. .- ,.
The real wauls of nature are the
measnro of employments, as the foot is
the measure of the shoe. We can call
only the want of what is necessary pov
erty. Haste turns usually upon a matter of
ten minutes too late, and may be avoided
by a habit bke that of Lord Nelson, to
which he ascribed his success in life, of
being ten minutes too early.
Manners are the shadows of virtues ;
the momemtary display of those quali
ties which our fellow-creatures love and
respect. If we strive to become, then,
what we Btrive to appear, manners may
often be rendered useful guides to the
performance of our duties.
Tho most agreeable of all companions
is a simplo, frank man, without any
high pretensions to an oppressive great
ness ; one who loves life And understands
tho uso of it ; obliging alike at all hours;
above all, of a golden temper, and stead
fast as an anchor. For such a one we
gladly exchange the greatest genius, the
most brilliant wit, the profoundest
thinker.
The Potato.
Conrad Wilson recently read an arti
cle on the potato crop before the
American Institute Farmer's Club,
giving much interesting information in
regard to that valuable food staple.
Mr. Wilson says :
A bushel of potatoes when judicious
ly fed to animals of a good breed will
produce
Of Beef from 2 to 8 pounds.
Mutton " 4 to 5 "
" Pork " 4 to 6 "
" Milk " 85 to 40 "
" Butter " 2 to 2tf
An acre of potatoes, when expressed
in the form of other food staples is
measured
In Beef by 400 to 500 pounds.
" Pork " 800 to 1,000 "
" Mutton " 800 to 1,000 "
" Milk "7,000 pounds, or over.
" Bread "4,000 "
" Butter " 400
Again, as I have already shown that
the total potato product of this country
is nearly certain to reach 200 million
bushels as the average for the next de
cade, it will be seen that if the above
figures are extended so as to meet this
case of the total product then it will be
found that the annual potato crop of
the United States is equivalent
In Beef to 400,000,000 pounds.
" Pork " 800,000,000 "
" Mutton ' 800,000,000 "
" Milk "7,000,000,000
Bread "4,000,000,000 '
" Butter " 400,000,000 "
Movements of the Stan.
Tho star known as Groombridge,
though., in the category of fixed stars,
moves''' at the rata of not less than two
hundred miles per second. With this
speed it cannot be stopped in its career
by any star which it may approach, or
compelled to form an orbit around a star
or star group. Whence originated this
enormous velocity ? The combined at
traction of all the stars known to astron
omers would not confer it. It must have
begun outside of our visible universe.
The star will pass through that universe
with unohanged course. We know neither
whence it came or whither it is going.
As to the proper motions of other stars,
they are so different in their direction
aud speed, that we must oonolude that
the stellar universe has neither the sta
bility nor the regularity of our solar
system. Bat these and other considera
tions in fact, all modern scientific dis
coveries and research point to the con
clusion that)our unirerse had a beginning
and will come to aa end.
How Rubber Balls are Made.
The process of making the hollow
rubber balls used by ohildren for play
things is quite curious, and may be in
teresting to those not familiar with it.
A Holyoke writer thus describes it:
The upper room of the mill is prepared
to push this branch of the business for
a few months, and it will probably turn
out some 60,000 dozen of those balls be
tween January and June. These balls
have a solid surface, are made by a
different process from that of making
the soft rubber balls which are perfor
ated by an opening, and. of course, aro
ranch more firm, durable and elastic.
The sheets of rubber prepared for the
balls are cut into strips of double convex
shape. The edges of the strips are
moistened with a preparation of rubber
and naphtha, by whioh they are joined
firmly together, three of the strips being
used for one ball. This part of the work
is done by girls, and a skillful girl can
earn about $1.50 per day. When the
strips are joined together, the ball is
very near the shape of a Brazil nut.
Before the last opening is closed, a small
quantity of carbonate of ammonia is put
inside, whioh, when subjected to a strong
heat, will make the rubber expand and
fill out the ball mold. The opening is
then closed with the adhesive mixture,
and it is placed in an iron mold of the
size and shape of the ball desired. The
molds are packed into frames in which
they are subjected to the heat of the
vulcanizer. They are kept in place in
the frame by iron reds along the side,
and, when the frame is full, iron plates
at the ends are screwed down tightly
upon the molds to hold them in place.
These iron plates are about three-fourths
of au inch thick, and so strong is the
expansive force of the rubber in the
molds that they have bent this thick iron
into a curve. If one of the molds should
work out of place while vulcanizing is
in process, the molds will fly out with
a noise like the report of a dozen pistols,
and the work is spoiled. The action of
the heat does the rest. ' When the molds
are opened they contain the perfect
round balls, with no mark of the places
where the pieces were placed. The
slight ridge made by the mold is ground
off by a stone used for the purpose, and
the ball is done. This is but one pro
cess of rubber work. Besides the hollow
balls are made solid balls of rubber, etc.
Constantinople Socially.
, A traveler through the East sends a
loiter to the New York Tribune, from
which the following is condensed for the
purpose of showing the social and polit
ical condition of Constantinople, as it
appears to a non-professional. The war
naturally worked a sad change in the
lives of poorer classes. With the depre
ciation of paper money came a dispro
portionate advance in the price of bread
stuffs, and consequent suffering among
the people. One instance is cited ns hav
ing come under tho writer's observation.
A young girl who was able to earn five
piastres a day, with which to support
hor mother, two sisters and herself,
stood before a baker's shop with her
Veil fallen to tho ground and her eyes
flushing with anger, while her whole at
titude be'okenod grave alarm. She had
gradually seen tho price of bread in
crease while her own wages remained
unchanged, until at last she had been told
her money was no longer sufficient to
keep her family from actual starvation.
The picture of that poor sufferer wat one
typical of the invaded and doomed re
gion. The parent government is no
longer able, if it is disposed, to help its
children, and the tradesmen are rude
anil grasping in their demands. The
condition of that section of the world is
deplorable, but it is such as inevitably
follows Bn unsuccessful struggle at
arms.
A Dangerous Position.
On tho coast of Normandy the women
are tough and hard to kill. A few weeks
ago the wives of three fishermen, having
filled their baskets with shell-fish, were
going home, when they found them
selves suddenly in the midst of a dense
fog, which prevented their seeing land.
But they knew their way, and walked
on. This was about six o'clock in the
evening. When they thought they were
near home they were surprised by the
tide. They walked as long as they
could, but at length had to stop. Tue
water was then up to their knees. They
had to remain in the water till the tide
receded, the fog being still dense. They
scrcamod as loudly as th y could, but
heard no voice in reply, and they were
final y overtaken by the morning tide.
Meanwhile their husbands were running
up and down the Bauds with lighted
torches, screamiag with all their might ;
but neither party saw nor heard the
other. At last the fog cleared away and
the tide ran out, and the three fisher
men's wives were rescued, after having
been in the water twenty-five hours,
and during a night when the frost had
bitten every tree in the neighborhood.
They did not seem to feel much the
worse for their adventure, and were in
clined to laugh over it.
Death from Overrating.
A French cook named Paquette set out
from a village on the upper Ottawa,
Canada, some time ago, to walk to Gat
ineauPoint through the mow, having
supplied himself with provisions enough
to lost him several days. He proceeded
quietly on his journey for tho first day,
but on the second, a blinding snow-storm
same on, and he lost his way. At the
end of the third day, the provision bag
gave ont, and he had not the dightebt
idea of his whereabouts. On the Beveuth
day he had grown so weary that he was
unable to walk any further, lie luy
down in a snow bank and made np his
mind that there he would have to per
ish. He had been there but a few min
utes when a horse and cutter came in
view, and he had barely sufficient
strength left to hail the driver. He suc
ceeded, however, in the end, and it
turned out to be a priest, to whom he
told his story. The prtest drove him
to tho parsonage and gave him some
thing to eat. Ho then left him alone at
the table whilst he went outside to look
after his horse, and when he reUrued,
found Paquette lying on the floor writh
ing in agony. He had eaten too much
and died before a physician could be
summoned.
FIRM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Rector.
Tongue Toast. Take cool boiled
tongue, mince it fine, mix it with cream,
and to every half-pint of the mixture
allow the well beaten yolks of two eggs.
Place over the fire and let it simmer a
minute or two. Have ready some nicely
toasted bread; butter it, place on a hot
dish, and pour the mixture over. Send
to table hot.
Breast op Veai Cover thickly with
crumbs of bread, put some small lumps
of butter about on it, and sprinkle with
pepper and salt when baked, making a
gravy of butter. This is a very nioe
dish. Both the rack and breast, as
commonly dressed, are but little esteem
ed, yet in this way make excellent dishes.
Bazar Cook Book.
Rms of Beef Roasted. The fore
rib is the best roasting piece. Put the
meat down before a nice, clear fire, put
some dripping into the pan; dredge the
joint with a little flour, and keep con
tinually basting. When thoroughly
done, put upon a hot dish, and sprinkle
a little salt over the joint. Pour a little
boiling water into the dripping, season
with pepper and salt, and strain it over
the meat.
Vegetable Sotjp. The best soup may
be made with little expense when vege
tables are plentiful. What remains of a
roast will serve very well for a basis, if
no piece of fresh uncooked meat is at
hand. Let the vessel iu which yon make
your soup be provided with a close
cover, and allow yourself plenty of time,
so that the soup need only simmer for
five or six hours, but never boil hard.
As the water evaporates, add more, but
always let it be boiling water, after the
first which is poured cold over the meat.
Add vegetables according to the taste of
your family. For instance, a quart of ripe
tomatoes, scalded and peeled, is not too
much, but even two or three make their
impression when more cannot be obtain
ed; a large handful of green corn, cut
from the cob; another of young tender
okra; and yet another of Irish pota
toes, peeled and cut into small pieces,
and lastly, a handful of small Lima
beans. Season cautiously with salt and
pepper, remembering that more can be
easily added at table. In this kind of
soup a pod of red pepper is regarded as
preferable seasoning to black, the pod
not to be broken. Stir the soup fre
quently, lest the vegetables stick to the
bottom and bum. Skim carefully, and
dish up hot. In the far South, where
this soup is made to perfection, they let
tho vegetables cook so thoroughly as to
form an indistinguishable mass, and
strain it, moreover, so that the flavor is
left without their substance.
Household Hints,
Keep fresh lard in tin vessels.
Keep yeast in wood or glass.
Keep preserves and jellies in glass.
Keep salt in a dry place.
Keep vinegar in wood or glass.
Keep meal aiid flour in a cool, dry
place.
Sugar is an admirable ingredient iu
curing meat and fish.
Lard for pastry should be used hard,
as it can be cut with a knife. It should
be cut through the flour, not rubbed .
Crusts and pieces of bread should be
kept in an earthen jur, closely covered,
in a dry, cool place.
In boiling meat for soup, use cold water
to extract the juices. If the meat is
wanted for itself alone, plunge in boiling
water at once.
Broil steak without salting. Salt draws
the juices in cooking; it is desirable to
keep these in if possible. Cook over a
hot fire, turning frequently, searing on
both sides. Placo on a platter, salt and
pepper to taste.
To prevent meat from scorching during
roasting, place a basiu of water in the
oven. The steam generated prevents
scorching and makes the meat cook
better.
Beef having a tendency to be tough
can be made very palatable by stewing
gently for two Lours with pepper and
salt, taking out about a pint of the liquor
when half done and letting the rest boil
into the meat. Brown the meat in the
pot. After takiDg np, make a gravy of
the pint of liquor saved.
The Science or Feetllna Poultry.
The purposes served by food are of
several distinct kinds the maintenance
of animal heat, the growth of bone and
muscle, and the supply of fat. For heat
and respiration the food needs starch,
sugar-gum and oily or fatty Bubstanoees,
for which purposes rice and wheat take
the lead in value, followed by corn, buck
wheat, barley, wheat bran, and potatoes.
For supplying the growth of the body and
the production of eggs, flesh-forming
foods are required, such as peas and
beans, middliugs and oats. As bone
making food, bran is best ; next is barley ;
while oats, wheat and beans have about
the same relative value. To fatten poul
try rapidly such food must be selected
as contains most fatty or oily matter. In
this respect corn stands at the head, next
oats, middlings, cow's milk, wheat and
peas. Rice, potatoes and vegetables
have little or no fat. Animal food is
frequently given, but, when roaming
about at large, fowls get a sufficient
snpply in the insect and worms they
naturally devour. Poultry need a con
stant supply of. vegetable food when
confined in coops, such as potatoes,
turnips or cabbages, and when this is
cooked an mixed with meal, the effect
is still better. Nothing is so desirable
as a constant supply of pure, fresh
water. American Cultivator,
John Rhodes, of Hounslow, England,
dressed himself as a tramp, . denied him
self the necessaries of life, and took to
the road. He lately died, and his for
tune was found to be over 100,000.
The man bequeathed it to various metro
politan charities. A similar instanoe of
eccentricity occurred in Marseilles. The
object of the miser was to build an aque
duct to convey wat?r into the city free,
and it was done. During the life of the
Frenchman he was ridiculed, despised,
and, like Stephen of old, came near be
ing stoned on account of ' bis rags and
his meanness,
Itcmts of Interest.
Shoemaker's Motto. "Never too ate
to mend."
One of nature's no-bill men He who
pays cash.
Forty-four municipalities in Massa
chusetts are free from debt.
Egypt is the placo for jnvenilo excur
sions. Aboycan always find his "mum
my" there.
General Mite, the dwarf who weighs
only fourteen pounds, has earned $20,
000 for his mother in two years. She
calls it the widow's mite.
Oil has been struck in the Black Hills.
For the benefit of gentlemen who havo
been interviewed by tho natives of that
region we hope it is hair oil.
We cordially agree with the captain of
the vessel that brought the Cloopastra
obelisk into the Thames that it i n't
pleasant to have a needle in toe.
The Italian exploring expedition,
which attempted to penetrate into the
interior of Africa, has been attacked by
the King of Shoa, and compelled to re
turn to the coast.
Mr. Brandt, a member of tho Min
nesota Legislature, accepted a bribe of
850, gave it to the clerk, and exposod
the corruption, which related to tho
snpply of books for the public schools.
A foolish fellow residing near New
York, has issued a challenge to any man
in America to smoko cigars. Henley
says he hns smoked 100 in twenty-threo
hours, and can beat that. He desires to
wager $500 to $1,000 on the result
Montgomery Queen's menagerie has
been sold in Louisville by the sheriff.
An eland went for $205; a zebra $230;
lions, $100 each; a leopard, $50; hyenas,
$21 each; a wart hog, $190; an elephant,
$1,500; a camel, $130; a royal tiger,
$000; and a rhinoccrons, $8,600.
In speaking of s person's faults,
Pray don't forget your own;
Remember, those with homes of glaBS
Bhould seldom throw a stone.
If we have nothing else to do
But talk of others' sin,
"lis hotter we commence at home,
And from that point begin.
Truth is always consistent with itself,
and needs nothing to help it out. It is
always near at hand, and sits upon our
lips and is ready to drop out before we
are aware ; whereas a lie is troublesome,
and sets a man's invention upon the
rack, and one trick needs a great many
more to make it good.
"Why, my dear, what is the matter ?
What can you mean ? You look so de
pressed. It cannot bo and yet oh, re
lieve this killing suspense ! Alexander,
havo yon failed !" said his wife, with
clasped hands. " No, my dear; my
credit is yet unimpaired, and business is
looiting up." ' You can't mean to say,
dear, that your old pain in the head has
come back." "No." "You haven't
had to pny the noto for your brother
Joseph?" "No." "Have you now
tell me, Alexander Bidlack, have you
had another attack of vertigo ?" " No."
" Has your cashier broken his Murphy
pledge'?" "No." "Now I know I
expected it I knew it all the time I
felt sure it would bo so. Mr. Debonair
has asked for Soraphina ?" ' No, noth
ing of the kind.,' " Then tell mo, with
out waiting another miuutc, what has
happened; I can bear it; let me know
tho w.-irst." "Well, that button I told
you about has got tired of hanging on by
one thread, and here it is. Elmira
Oazette,
The Telephone Novelty.
A writer in the Popular Science
Monthly soys : When we begin to use
a telephone for the first time there is a
sense of oddity, almost of foolishness, iu
tho experiment. The dignity of talking
cons sts in having a listener, and there,
seems a kind of absurdity in addressing
a piece of iron, but we must raise our
respect for the metal, for it is anything
but deaf. The diaphragm of the tele
phone, the thin iron plate, is as sensitive
as the living tympanum to all the deli
cate refinements of sound. Nor does it
depend upon the thinness of tho
metallio sheet, for apiece of thick boiler
plate will take up and transmit the notion
of the air-particles in all the grades of
their subtility. Aud not only will it
do the same thing as the tympanum,
but it will do vastly more ; the gross
dead metal proves, in fact, to be a hun
dred times more alive than tho living
mechanism of speech and audition.
This is no exaggeration. Iu quickness,
in accuracy, and even in grasp, there is
a perfection of sensitive capacity in the
metal, with which the organic instrument
cannot compare. We speak of the pro
verbial " quickness of thought," but
the telephone thinks quicker than the
nervous mechanism. Let a word be pro
nounced for a person to repeat, and the
telephone will hear and speak it a hun
dred miles away in a tenth part of the
time that the listener would need to
utter it. Give a man a series of half a
dozen notes to repeat, and he cannot do
it accurately to save his life ; but the
iron plate takes them up, transmits them
to another plate hundreds of miles off
which sings them forth instantaneously
with absolute precision. Tho human
machine cun, hear, and reproduce, in its
poor way, only a single series of notes,
while the iron ear of the telephone will
take np whole chords and trains of
music, and, sending them by lightning
through the wire, its iron tongue will
emit them in perfect relations of
harmony.
Premature Burial.
Another lucky escape from burial
alive has occurred in Paris in the case of
a lawyer named Lelone. His son, sum
moned to his death-bed, found him, as
it was supposed, dead, kissed his brow,
and was supprised at its warmth. Some
hours later he revived and raid : " Ah,
doctor, those few moments' sleep have
done me a world of good." The French
laws require that interment shall follow
death within, at most, thirty-six hours,
and thus it often happens that burial
takes place previous to putrefaction. It
was against this limited time imposed by
the burial bill that an eminent prelate
so powerfully protested in the French
chamber, relating how he himself had
been laid out for burial. Here, too, in
summer, burial takes place much too
soon. In England at least five days intervene,