HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher
NIL DESPERANDUM.
Two Dollars per Annum.
VOL. IX.
1UDGWAY, ELK COUNTY; PA., THUKSD AY, AUGUST 28, 1870.
NO. 27.
V
Watering the Hills.
"Hn waterclli the hill from flla chambers. "P.i.
civ.,
Oh ! tliu rippling and the loaming,
Fulling not lrom dawn till gloaming,
Whore the rapids uro descending, as for ages
they lmve done)
On each downward pliitlorra Inking
Just n moment's rest, then breaking
Intopweet cuchiinting litnghtor at the gloefid
triumph won;
AH the latent echoes waking
With the lun !
Sweeping lrom ffleir rocky portal,
Relied ut once in light immortal,
Bringing inllnito levoalings from tho silences
prolound; ,
How tho little eddies whiten,
And tho longer teaches brighten,
As tho showers of brilliant dowilrops on their
slivery slopes rcloiind;
Fulling into gems that lighten
All around.
When the sunbeams come unbidden
To behold the marvel hidden,
All tho waters tako them captive, to adorn
their raiment white;
Hut the rainbow tells the wonder
Ol tho radiance lying under,
And tho sun in regal beauty stoops to claim
Ilia own by right,
Till tho ripples fall asunder
Lost in light !
On the brink the morses glisten,
And the grasses stop to listen
To the never-ending music ol tho waters
flushing by;
Overhead the elm-trees stately,
In tlrtir hearts rejoicing greatly
At the springs ol welcome coolness that be
neath their strongholds lie,
" Spread their myriad leaves sedately
lo the sky.
When at night the stnrs,ucmblo
In the far blue heavens, and tremble
At their own reflected splendor, onthc tot rant
borne uw.iy,
Then ttie laughing waves discover
flow ti.e moon earth's timid lover
Wa'ches If:- the petiect mirror they have
broken in 1 li' ir p'py ;
tVntc-tics with Ihu stars above her
'lili the day.
Through all teutons' varied phrases,
S'ill tho waters speak their praises
Ol tlio JMwer that sweeps them ontwurd, in
their fuihics to the dee';
All their rush and tumult guiding,
For tu h drop a ptlh dividing,
Till in lat-oif breadths ot ocean each its des
tined pl.ii-c shall keep,
A ii.l ml:'..t, in c del subsiding,
F.ill B:-l.w;p.
Mary Hairier, in Svn ln'j .Magazine.
JACK'S GREAT PERIL.
I never sow such a change in a man in
my lir.-! When we last met, Jack
well,! must not give his real name, con
sidering what I am going to rel.U so
I'll call him Jack Pallant- -was, as he
had ever heen. since I knew hiin, one of
the lightest-hearted, cheeriest fellows in
the world, full of fun Hnd up to every
thing, and ns gentle ami tender as a
woman, with the courage of a lion. And
now, what did I llr.il him? Even though
Imt three month had elapod, ho had
become a grave, dejected, saddened man
in a word, hardly recognizable, either
mentally or physically. I was shocked,
ami of course he saw that I was. He
came to see me, indeed, the moment he
heard I was in town, that I might learn
from his own mouth what had happened,
instead of at S'fond-hand.
Jack had always been more or less a
spoiled boy only sons are always more
or less spoiled and Laving lost his
mother when quite a child, it was not
wonderful that his poor old dad made
much of him, Rut lie had taken tlie
spoiling kind. y, and beyond making liiiu
perhaps a little idle and thoughtless, it
liad done him no harm. There was no
harm in the fdiow; he spent more money
than he should, but many young soldiers
do that without coming "to much grief
in the long run. and his father, a soldier
before him, regarded tiio failing lenient lv,
paid his bills and looked plea-ant. Be
yond adding that lie was a rather short,
, dapper little fellow, I need not say much
more about htm ; I have only to "try and
put into coherent shape the strange and
tragical business which had so fearfully
altered him.
He was coming to town one autumn
evening for a few days1 leave from Oun
neishoit, where lie was quartered. I can
see him as plainly as if I had been there,
springing into the first carriage that
offered room, without regard to who was
, in it; for he was tho least fastidious of
men, without the slightest particle of
"hawhaw" pride and nonsense, or that
stand-orY-Hiness of manner, too usual
with men in las position ; ready to make
himself happy wherever he was, or in
whatever company.
Hut it so happened, it appears, on this
occasion that lie got into an empty car
riage; at least he thought so, for it was
twilight, and he did not observe for the
first moment the figure of a woman,
seated in a further corner, dressed in
dark clothes and thickly veiled.
The sudden discovery that he M as not
atone rather startled him for a moment,
and it may be, as he said, that the eve
ning before having been a guest night at
mess,' his nerves were not quite up to
their usual tone. He was not the lad,
however, to be long in such a situation
without making some remark to his fellow-traveler,
though in this case an un
usual hesitation to do so came over him,
owing to her mysterious appearance and
extreme stillness. The between-lights
of the carriage lamp and the evening sky
prevented him from discerning details;
but there she sat, perfectly rigid, and
with not a vestige of her face visible,
through the thick blnrk vail.
" Ahem ! ahem !" he said at last, shift
ing one seat nearer to her and nearlv on.
posite; "I hope I have not intruded on
you; I thought the carriage was empty.
I may be disturbing you, I fear." lie
would say anything, in a random sort ol
way, 10 meat me ice, as he called it.
No answer. A lonar nanse. vrv
singular," he thought ; and he moved to
a seat exactly opposite to the figure,
uinm Miutucr t-ownjon place observa
tion. ro response, or nv mn,,ont
"Asleep I suppose," he said to him
self; ana he sat quietlv watbin
while the train rattled on for a mile or
two. a iaiion was reached and a stop
page made, with the usual accompani
es nts of screech and whistling and slam-
ming of doors, but without producing
any change in the posture of the occu
pant of the opposite corner. The train
again moved on. "Can't bn asleep," he
muttered. " What's the matter witli
herP"
Tho window was shut close; hn let it
down with a tremendous clatter and
bang, remarking that " he hoped, as tho
evening was fine, the weather warm and
the carriage close" (for lie declared to
me there was a peculiar odor hanging
about which struck him from the first;
"she would not object to a little air."
Still no reply. Then ho said "he
feared she was not well. Would she
like him to pull tho bell for the guard
and have the train stopped again f" Hut
nothing he could say or do elicited any
sign of life from her.
Jack now became seriously uncom
fortable and alarmed on her account.
He thought she could not be asleep, hut
had fainted. Suddenly it crossed his
mind that she was dead. Night had
now closed in, but as the last tingn of
twilight faded from the sky the carriage
lamp gained its full power and revealed
every object more plainly than hitherto.
Jack leaned toward the motionless
form. A long black veil, falling from a
close-fitting hab-likc bonnet, enveloped
nearly the whole upper part of her
figure; indeed, on close inspection, it
hardly looked like an ordinary veil, but
more "like a large thin, black silk hand
kerchief. Her dress was of common
black stuff, much worn nnd frayed, from
amid the folds of which appeared the
ends of a piece of rope that must have
been fastened round lier waist j and one
hand, encased in an old, ill-lilting black
glove, lay placidly on her lap.
Full of uncomfortable sensations, Jack
was about to lift tho veil, when, for tho
first time, the figure moved ; its hand
stole slowly from underneath the folds
of the dress, and the vefl was gradually
lifted and thrown up over the head.
Involuntarily my friend shrank back
into tho corner of his scat, for a face was
revealed to him which no one could have
looked upon without a sense of awe. It
was that of a woman somewhat past
middle age, thin, haggard and pale "to a
degree which only death could parallel.
The features, finely chiseled and propor
tioned, showed that at one time there
must have been supremo beauty, while,
i hough tho iron-gray hair looked a little
disheveled and unkempt, the glance of
the eye was steady, calm and determined.
In this glance lay. childly, tho awe in
spiring expression of the face, for, in ad
dition to the penetrating look, there was
a persistencey in it, and at the same time
a . fascination, quite terrible. It fixed
itself upon Jack from the first moment
that eye met eye, and for s.-veral minutes
not a word was spoken n either side.
I'resently, however, he tried to pull him
self together, and to assume his usual
light-hearted manner, which had thus
for a minute been so strangely and unusu
ally disturbed, and he said, briskly :
" I beg your pardon ; I wasifraid you
were ill."
She slightly bent her head, but spoki
not a word, nor withdrew her glance.
Mo felt more and more that it was
costing him an effort to be himself. Her
slow, stealthy, albeit lady-like demeanor,
idded greatly to the effect already pro
duced, and a curious sensation was grad
ually creeping over him, that impossi
ble a? it might seem that face was not
strange to him. Little as he, with his
temperament, was given to speculation
or introspection, he found himself striv
ing to look back for some event or cir
cumstance in his life which might give
hun a (dew. Had he ever dreamed of
such a face, or had he seen it in child
hood? lie was puzzled, affected, quite
put out. And still the deep, penetrating
eyes were fixed on his, piercing as it
were ir.to his very sou). And tlioMiands!
what were they doing? Taking off the
gloves as with a set, deliberate purpose;
and tlio, long, white, thin, almost claw
like fingers worked strangely and ner
vously, slowly closing and opening upon
the palm, as if preparing to grasp some
thing. Again he strove to throw off the un
pleasant, unusual sensation which had
crept ove r him.
"I can't stand this." he thought; "I
was r.ever so uncomfortable in all my
life! I must do something, or say some
thing to put a stop to this, to make her
take her eyes off me!"
lie moved abruptly to the further
corner of the carriage, and to the same
side on which the woman sat.
" I'll try and dodge her in that way,"
he said to himself: "she shall not sit
and glare at me in this fashion!"
Hut she too immediately shifted her
place, and, rising to her full height,
which was very great, went over to the
seat exactly opposite to him, never fur
one single second dropping her eyes from
his. He looked out of the window with
a vague notion of getting out of the car
riage; when suddenly, passing a little
station which he recognized, l.ut at which
the train did not stop, an idea struck
him an idea after his own heart a
comic idea! lie availed himself of it on
the instant, and assuming an ease which
doubtless sat ill upon him, and which he
ntna f.ii f,-!,i f.mltnrr lm rfiirtaA -!!. I.!-.
thumb back toward the station they had
just passed, as lie said mysteriously in a
hollow voice:
" Do you know that place?"
She seemed to answer in the affirma
tive hy a slight inclination of the head as
before.
Ah! you do. Good! Lonzmoor."
he went on; "then I don't mind telling
you a secret." He paused. ("I'll
frighten her,". he thought.) "Criminal
lunatics," he said aloud; "I am one of
them. I have just escaped from there!"
He leaned forward, as if to impress her
with his words; she also bent forward
until her lips almost touched his ear, as
she hissed into it:
"So have I!" t
With what had already gone before,
this put the finishing touch on Jack's
uneasiness of mind. It was not, as lie
said, the mere preseneeof the woman, or
the revelation which his joke had elic
ited, whiek scared him, though the cir
cumstance in itself might be unpleasant
enough.
"I should have faced it right'away
from the first, as any man would have
done, had it not been for the re
markable influeneeer face and look had
upon me; that, unaccountable feeling
that she was no stranger to me, it was.
that unnerved, and even appalled me."
No sooner had she uttered the words,
"So have I," than Jack sprang to the
cord communicating with the guard s
van, for he felt their truth, and saw in
them a kev to the wholo mvsrerv. Rot
f ie his hand, had 'reached" the cord, she
had seized him round the waist with one
arm as with the grip of a vise, and at
the same instant he felt one of those ter
rible hands at his throat.
Every effort to release himself was
lruitiess ; her strength seemed superhu
man, and was as far beyond his as was
her stature. Hor face glowered closo
down upon his now, still with tho same
fell expression.
"Tho only thing I could have done,"
went on Jack, in describing the scene to
me nnd just here, lie shall speak for
himself '-' tho only means by which I
might perhaps have mado her relax her
hold would have been by aiming one
or two tremendous blows with my right
list (which was at liberty) at her face.
Had it been a man's, there would have
been no hesitation ; had it been indeed
that of an ordinary woman, at such a
riass I should not bare hesitated to strike
icr, to stun her, if I could, by any
means; but that face, that I seemed to
know so well, yet so mysteriously, I
could not raise my hand against it, and,
as my arm swung up with the first im
pulse to deal her a blow, it fell helpless
by my siojo. Vain were my efforts to get
her hand away from my throat; there
was a terrible swaying to and fro for a
minute or two, I felt the grip of the long
fingers tightening, and myself choking.
Suddenly wo fell, the whole carriage
scented to be falling there was a fearful
jerk or two, a strange upheaving of the
floor, a tremendous rattle 'and crash I
appeared to be thrown head long to some
great distance, and all was darkness!"
The termination of that deadly strug
gle was brought about in a manner as
marvelous and unlookod for as could
well have been imagined.
Some fifty souls, say, were traveling
In that train all, save one, in apparent
security. Jack's life alone was in dan
ger, when, lo! by one of those marvelous
coincidences which do happen at times
in the supreme moments of existence,
the rescue came, but at the cost of many
a life, which but just before would have
seemed Worth treble the price of Jack's.
At the very instant that his might
have depen led upon another tightening
grip or two from the hand of a maniac a
frightful catastrophe occurred to the
train. The tire of an engine-wheel
broke and half a dozen carriages were
hurled down a steep embankment. The
scene that succeeded is, unhappily, of
too common an occurrence to need more
than a word of reference here. Seven
passengers were killed outright nnd
double that number slightly or badly
hurt, the remainder escaping, as by a
niiraele, with nothing else than a severe
shaking.
My friend was among the shaken. He
had been thrown clear of the debris on
to a soft, grassy spot, half bank, half
hedge; emphatically, his life was raved!
Hut what followed it was that which
caused the suffering that wrought the
terrible change 1.1 Jack.
In the darkness of that soft autumn
night he strove, foremost nmong thorc
who had been spared, to render such
help as was jtossibletothe less fortunate
When the ollicial assistance came, and
tires were set blazing to give light, al
most his first care was to try and seek
out his dangerous fellow-traveler. In
the confusion nobody was prepared, of
course, to listen to Jack s account of
her, even had lie been prepared then to
give It. She was not, evidently, moving
about nmong" the crowd he assured him
self of that; but supposing her, likehim
self. to have escaped injury (and lie con
cluded that this was likely), might she
not, with the stealth nnd cunning inci
dental to her malady, be hiding,and be
thus further eluding detention, become,
with her homicidal mania, as dangerous
to tlio community at laTge .as some fierce
wild animal would be? The thought
made him shudder; he must lose no time
in assuring himself of her fate.
As soon as an approach to order could
be evolved out of that awful chaos, he
had convinced himself that she was not
among the in jured, Then he turned to
thedead. His eye fell upon several mu
tilated and motionless forms, which had
been laid in an ominous row at the foot
of one part of the embankment. Hers
was not among them ; he could find no
trace of her.
At length, as a sfckly dawn was be
ginning to make tlio search easier, he en
deavored to discover the spot where the
carriage h-i had occupied had fallen, and
to retrace his steps (quite to the rear of
the train, by the way)to the place where
he found himself lying after the catas
trntdie. Hy this time he had made known
briefly to some officials that a woman
was missing who had been in the
carriage with him, and one or two of
theni followed him in his quest. Pres
ently he realized pretty well where he
had been thrown;, he all but identified
the spot. Then lie scrambled through
the hedge, and there, on the opposite
side, on the sloping bank of a ditch, he
beheld, lying quite still, her dark, un
mistakable form.
He ran forward, nnd, bending over
her and looking down upon the marble,
up-turned face, saw at a glance that
tliere was nothing dangerous about her
now those terrible eyes were closed for
ever. Except for a slight wound on one
temp!e,whenee a little blood had trickled,
and the distorted but now rigidly closed
iiand, which had been so lately at his
throat, she looked as calm and unin
jured as if she were merely sleeping,
while death had restored for a brief
period much of that lieauty, the traces of
which had struck him when her vail
was first lifted.
One of the surgeons here came hurry
ing up, in answer 10 summons.
(jood heavens: lie exclaimed; "here
she is, th?n, at last! Why, she must
have been in the train. How on earth
did she manage it?"
Who is she?" inquired Jack, earn
estly, witn a strange return oi the old.
inexplicable sensation. "W ho is she ?
Vou appear to know her. l'ray tell me."
"Oh, one of our inmates ; she got away
yesterday morning ; no on i knows ho w ;"
was Die answer.
"You are from Longmoor. t'len. How
long lias she been there? What is her
name?"
' Oh. she has been there upward of
twenty years, I believe; long beiore my
time,"
"And her name? '
"I'non mv word, at this moment.
can hardly," went on the doctor, me
chanically passing his fingers over one
of the pulseless wrists Deiore mm, ana
with a calm hesitation which contrasted
strongly with Jack's earnest. Impetuous
manner, "I can -hardly remember. I
think she was committed for the murder
of her own little girl. It was a sad case.
f t-nnw. Ah! her name; I have it,
went on the doctor suddenly ; "her name
wna Palfcint Rachel Pallant."
Jack sprang from the kneeling posture
;n m-nieli was as if he had been shot.
Whv. that was his own ueau luouiers.
.... ,
But. Dshaw! what' of that?
wii it w rather a startling eoinci
dence; that was all. Ay, but was it all?
Indeed no! , . ,
The nquest led to a revelation. That
inquiry fully explained what had been
the nature of the influence which the
weird, palo face and strange presence had
had upon my friend.
The strong but subtle link, which no
time or absence can quite sunder, exint
ing between mother and son, had made
itself felt the instant those two sat face
to face, for tho unhappy woman was in
deed none other than Jack's own mother.
Ho had never been told in fact, it had
been carefully kept from liltn. Why
run tho risk of clouding for life that
bright nnd happy temperament? He
was only four years old when the dread
ful business happened. Hence he had
scarcely known a mother's care; she was
lost to him nnd to the world as com
pletely us if she had died. Nay, death
would have been ft mercy by compari
son, and it was generally assumed that
she was dead; only ft very few intimate
friends knew the truth. .
Tho poor lady's mind had given wny
suddenly after the birth of a child, who
did not live. Within ft week, the homi
cidal mania possessed her; by the
meres!, chance she had been prevented
from committing somo frightful outrage
upon her little boy, my poor friend Jack ;
and restraint not having been put upon
her in time for her malady had hardly
been suspected, so unlooked-for was its
appearance she consummated her dead
ly propensity upon her eldest child, a
girl fifteen years of age killed her, in a
word, as she lay asleep.'
And here, altera lapse of twenty years,
was the climax and end of the tragedy, as
dreadful as anything that had gone be
fore. The order for release, when it came,
brought with it o much suffering (to all
but one) as had the order for captivity.
No wonder that Jack was an altered
man. I have never seen a smile on his
face since though I trust that time, with
its healing influence, may at least soften
the blow.
Tlioreaa's Thoughts.
When wo cease to sympathize with,
atid to be personally related to men, anil
begin to be universally related, then we
are capable of inspiring others with the
sentiment of love for us.
What is peculiar in the life of a man
consists not in his obedience, but his op
position to his instincts; in one direction
or another he strives to live a super
natural life.
Do you know on what hushes a little
peace, faith and contentment grow? (lo
a-berrying early and late after thorn.
Woe to him who wants a companion,
for he is unlit to be the companion even
of himself.
What does education often do? It
makes a straight-cut ditch out of a
free meandering brook.
Cheap persons will stand upon cere
mony, because there is no other ground ;
but to the great of the earth we heed no
introduction, nor do they need any
to us.
That virtue we appreciate is as much
ours as another's. We see so much only
.is we possess. .
Make the wrest of your regrets; never
smother your sorrow, but tend and
cherish it tiil it come to have a separate
and integral interest. To regret deeply
is to live a fast. Hy so doing you will
be astonished to find yourself restored
once more to all your emoluments.
There is nowhere any apology fur de
spondency. Always there is life while
life huts, which, rightly lived, implies a
divine satisfaction.
Whatever your sex or position, life is
a battle in which you are to show your
pluck, and woe be to the coward.
Whether passed on a bed of sickness or
in the tented field, it is ever the same
fair flag, and admits of no distinction.
Despair and postponement are cowardice
and defeat, .h.-u were bom to succeed,
not to fail.
Nothing is more saddening than an in
effectual and proud intercourse with
those of whom we expect sympathy and
encouragement. I repeatedly fine! my
soif drawn toward certain persons but
to be disappointed. No concessions
which are not radical are the least sat
isfaction. Hy myself I can live and
thrive, but in the society of incompati
ble friends I starve. To cultivate their
society is to cherinh a sore which can
only be heall by abandoning them.
No fieldi are so barren to me as the
men from whom I expect everything but
get nothing. In their neighborhood I
experience a painful yearning for society
which cannot be satisfied, for the hate is
greater than tue love.
The blue sky is a distant reflection of
the azure serenity that looks out from
under a human brow.
The Family Hammer.
There is one thing no family nretends
to be without. This is a hammer. And
yet there is nothing that goes to make
up the equipment ot a domestic estab
lishment that causes one-half as much
agony and profanity as a hammer. It is
iways an old hamnier with a handle
that is inclined to sliver, and always
bound to s.'!o. The face is as round as
full moon, and as smooth its glass.
When it strikes a nail full and square,
which it has been known to do, the act
will Ije found to result from a combina
tion of pure accidents.
llie family hammer is one of those
rare articles we never profit by. When
it glides off a nail head, and mashes down
a couple of fingers, we unhesitatingly de
posit it in the yard, and observe that, we
will never use it again. Hut the blood
has hardly dried on tho rag before we
are out of doors in search of that ham
mer, and ready to make another trial.
The result rarely varies, but we never
profit by it. The awful weapon goes on
knocking off our nails and mashing off
joints and slipping off the handle, to the
contusion ot the mantel ornaments and
breaking the commandments.and cutting
up an assortment of astounding and un
fortunate antics without let or hin
derance. And yet we put up with it,
and put the handle on again, and lay it
where it won't get lost, and do up our
mutilated and smarting fingers, and if
the outrageous tiling should happen to
get lost we kick up a regular hullabaloo
until it is found again. Talk about the
tyrannizing influence of a bad habit! It
is not to be compared to the family ham
mer. Young Scientist.
The editor who can cause the names
of two subscribers to be written down
where only one was written before, is
greater than the man who invented the
patent inside system. Qtuncy Modern
Aryo. And the man who invented the
" pitf ent inside system" enabled thous
ands of editors to write down the ipinies
of two subscribers " where only one was
written before." You'll have to ac
knowledge that fact after Dooley con
sidetlng it Jdmthly Unit,
TIMELY TOPICS.
An article in tho New York fbin says
that Holyoke, Mass., is the great center
of the paper trade of this country. The
town contains 520,000 inhabitants, of
whom 4,000 arc employed in the seven
teen large paper mills of the place. Tlio
capital invested in the paper trade at
Uolyoko is estimated at about $5,000,000,
and there are annually produced about
30,500 tons of paper. The mills are run
by water power.
Henry Face killed the young man who
had wronged his daughter, at Clerken
well, England, nnd public sr,ntimnit
favored hitn so strongly that n. fund was
raised to support his family during the
year and a half of imprisonment to
which he was sentenced. His escape
from ft worse punishment was regarded
as lucky, nnd lis went to prison in good
spirits. I!ut his daughter taunted him
with being a murderer, and in conse
quence of that he hanged himself in his
cell.
An association, under the name of tho
" Jasper Monumental Association," has
been formed at Savannah, (in., for the
the purpose of erecting ft monument to
Sergeant Jasper, who on the !)t h day of
Octobor, 177U, fell in the attack of tin;
American forces on Savannah. The
sergeant's exploit in leaping over the
ramparts of Fort Moultrie, Charleston
harbor, during the hottest part of the
Hritish attack at that iilace. and fixing
anew tho flag which had been shot from
its staff, will be rememlvreil as one of
the most stirring episodes of the Revolu
tionary ar.
A Missouri farmer has been figuring
on the damage done by dogs in that
State. In thirty-two counties 10,(iti
sheep have been killed. He estimates
the number of flogs in thirty-two coun
ties to be lo2,000; that a hog will thrive
on the food necessary to support an
able-bodied dog, and at tho end of the
year weigh 200 pounds ; therefore, if the
food for these 402,000 dogs was given to
the hogs, it would make fh!,000,(Hi0
pounds of pork, worth at least six cents
a pound, or $1,550.000 nearly twice the
value of all the school-houses in the
State, and more than twice the amount
used by the State for school purposes.
The classification of a company at one
of tho seaside hotels, by a child- who
had not troubled herself to remember
names, has a great deal of significance.
To her they were " the lady who whines,
as if she were going to cry;" " the lady
who talks about her headache;" "the
lady who scolds the children for making
a noise, and who plays the piano so
much herself;" "the kind lady who
speaks to all the strangers ;" " the happv
lady who draws pictures and lets us look
over her shoulder;" "the young man
who thinks he fs handsome;"'' and "th?
boy who always offers to take you out in
his boat when nobody else will take
you." Truly, many tfiings whi'li are
thought to be hid by the wise and pru
dent are revealed unto babes.
Even princes sometinvs starve to
death. Recently, the St. Petersburg
papers announced the death from sheer
starvation of Prince Serge Michaelovic. i
Gilitzin, employed as a censor of books,
and removed by "suoreme orders" to
Odessa, where ho took lodging in tho
house of a carpenter, occupying a dark,
damp room, of such limited t'iiSK nsiotis
that his coffin could not be got into it.
An inquir elicited the fact that for
months he had subsisted on dry bread,
with occasionally a morsel of clfcse or
an apple. He left no (fleets save the
rags on 1 1 m when lie died. J lis mother
is a wealthy dame, resident in Moscow,
where she "owns several houses, a line
mansion surrounded by a park and a
fashionable, nunnery. His wife for tl,
unfortunate nobleman was married
hastened from Moscow to attend tic
funeral, but was too late.
Words of Wisdom. i
He that gets out of debt grows rich.
Eight burdens long borne grow heavy.
Open your mouth and purse cautiously.
Whore the will is ready the feet are
lifc'bt.
Agreeable counsels are rarely useful
counsels.
One triumphs over calumny only in
S'.-orning it.
Talking comes by nature; silence by
understanding.
It i3 only for innocence that solitude
can have any charms.
No man ever yet looked on the dark
side of life without finding it.
Manner is one of the greatest engines
of influence ever given toinan.
Flattery is a false coin which has cir
culation only through our vanity.
Conscience is the voice of the soul;
the passions are the voice of the body.
Men seldom improve when they have
no other models than themselves to copy
after.
We live to learn, but death comes to
thousands ere they have mastered th"
alphabet of common sense.
Men spend their lives in heaping up
colossal piles of treasure, which stand ut
the end like the pyramids in the desert
sands, holding only the dust of kings.
How many useful hints are obtained
by chance, and how often the mind, hur
ried by her own ardor to distant views,
neglects the truths that lie open before
her.
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please
itself with very mean advantages; and
envy litis not its own happiness but
when it may be compared with the misery
ol others.
A Queer House.
An eccentric Englishman has recently
built a house in the (Quarter Tivoli for
the residence of himself, his wife and
eight children, which is the talk of all
Paris. It is circular, and lias neither
door nor winlow externally. The ap
proach to it is from the ground floor on
to the roof by means of a ladder, which
is moved up and down by machinery
similar to that of a drawbridge. There
is only one floor, and that contains
eighteen apartments, more or less small
in dimension, looking into the center,
which is lighted from above by a glazed
cupola. One stove for all these rooms is
in the middle, and in summer its place
is to be occupied by an exquisite parterre
of flowers. A circular balcony, open to
all the apartments, surrounds this space.
The motive for this oddity is. of course.
only known to the author of it, but
everybody can see that two points aro
gained by it immunity from tlie taxn
on doors and windows, and a perfect pre-
ventative oi any uuempi at purg:ary.
fARtf, GARDEN, AM) HOUSEHOLD.
I'lntilliig nnd TrannilantlnR,
Tho well-known threo requisites for
the germination of seeds, says the Coun
try (Ir.ntliminn, are h'tit, nir and moist
ure, but not light. In n cold soil they
remain dormant: if too dry, they will
not sprout, and if buried deep and com
pactly beyond the notion of the nir, no
movement toward growth takes place.
The small seeds of weeds often remain in
tho soil for years when turned under
deep by tho plow; when brought ngain'
to tlio surtace, ttio new and copious
growth which at once takes place has led
superficial observers to the erroneous no
lion that t hey have sprung up spontan
eously. Nurserymen sometimes keep
peach stones dormant a year when they
happen to have a surplus, by placing
them two feet under tlie soil until need
ed. 1 he depth for planting must depend
largely on the size of tho seed; and the
general rule has been given to bury
them from three to five times as deep as
their diameter. This rule will vary
somewhat with the nature and condition
of the soil. If heavy and moist, the
depth should be less than in a light, dry
and porous soil. In a moist, well-pulverized
soil, most seeds, whither largo
or small, will grow if merely covered
and kept moist ; but this condition can
not bo commonly continued, as a few dry
and warm days will dry tho surface of
the soil and prevent the gei ruination of
theeed. Hence the common practice
to vary this rule with circumstances.
(Join, planted early in the season when
the ground is moist, will prow freely if
buried only an Inch deep; but under or
dinary circumstances two inches will bo
better. It will find its way freely to the
surface after many days wften buried six
inches below. Early in auturrn. when
winter wheat is sown or drilled in, the
soil is usuaily much drier than in com -planting
time, and for this reason, al
though the seeds are smaller than grains
of corn, itshould be placed at a depth of
two inches. Inn dry spring corn should
be planted deeper than in a wet one, and
the old practice of pressing each hill with
the hoe, when the work was done by
hand was useful when the soil was dry.
When planting is done with a machine,
a roller to follow the tube would be use
ful in dry weather.
In a dry season, as the present has been
in many places, much care Is required to
in. part sufficient moisture to seeds when
planted. If the particles of soil are dry.
thesmall grains or lumps which com
pose it will touch the seed only at a few
points, and the chances for its germina
tion will be small. Even if moistened
by ft shower, the water will be conveyed
to the seed only at the few points of con
tact. It is better, therefore, to plant seed
after a shower than before it. as the soil
is rendered moist and yielding, and.
pressing the whole surface of the seed
causes germination at once. On this
principle, experience has shown that un
der common conditions seeds grow
much better if planted after than before
the rain. The exceptions are, when the
soil has heen so finely pulverized that it
eases the seed well on all sides while yet
dry; and when the rain is so copious
that it fills with water for a sufficient
time the interstices which surround the
seed.
The Hone ItiiK I"cl.
Another bug has strangely increased
in numbers, in the past two years, and it
promises to be more troublesome than
t be enemy of the potato. The rose bug
has come upon us in swarms, and it de
stroys not otily our grape and poach
crops, but our apples anil plums, if un
checked. The best method ot chocking
tlc-ni it is desirable to learn, if there be
any method. We have tried hand pick-in.-;,
whale oil soap, and ft variety o
ag'-nts. but our efforts have been only
partially successful. The white helle
bore du-t is th". most effective destroyer.
but it is expensive and troublesome to
apply. It occurred to us this year to
take our grapevines from their supports
and la- 'hein close upon tlie ground
when in b:osom. This course saved
our crop .- fir as the experiment was
tried, and v. present the plan for the
benefit of ;ape growers everywhere.
The insect crnuot or does not reach the
blossom when the vines are in this posi
tion, and no injury results to the vines
during inflorescence. As soon as the
fruit is formed, the danger is over, and
the vines may be raised nnd secured to
tho supports. This we regard as im
portant information, and it should be
j remembered. Our peach crop wo saved
this year bypassing through the orchard
and jarring the trees hy a blow with the
hand once or twice a'day. The insects
are detached from the fruit and fall upon
the ground, and do not return to the
rult until after a considerable period of
time. I he better way is to place a
sheet under the trees, cat' h tlie bugs and
estroy them in a pan of whale oil soap
suds. litston Journal of ('hemutry.
iloiuehold Hint.
Okiss held level under water mav be
eaiiy cut with a pail ol shears or strong
scissors. Cut a 11 tile at a time.
Never wash raisins that are to be u.sed
in sweet dishes. It will make the pud
ding heavy. To clean them wipe them
on a dry towel.
In lioiiing eggs hard put them in loil
Ing water ten minutes and then put thein
in cold water; it will prevent the yolks
from coloring black.
To make macaroni tender, put it in
cold water and tiring it to a Ixul. ii
will then be much more tender Mian if
put into hot water or stewed in milk.
All milk vessels should, in their last
rinsing-, have lxiiling water or hot super
heated steam applied, as nothing short
will de'.roy tin; putrefaction which is
abundant in miik vessels not thoroughly
cleansed. . .
To take out tea stains, put the linen
in -a kettle of cold water; rub thetains
well with common castile soap; put the
kettle on the side of the stove, to let the
water get gradually warm; wasli it
thoroughly in warm soap suds: then rub
the stain again with soap, and boil ; then
rinse.
Single cream is cream that has stood
on the milk twelve hours. It is best for
t.a or coffee. Double cream stands on
its mi k twentv-four hours, and cream
for butter frequently sianus iony-eigui
- . - - i r . . l .
hours. Cream that is to re whipped
should not be butter cream. Jest in
whipping it change to butter.
Small hole in white walls can be
easily repaired without sending for the
mason. Eciual na.ts of plaster of Paris
and white sand such as is used in most
r.., lilies for scouring nurnosos mixed
with water to a nasto. applied immedi
ately and smoothed with a knife or flat
niece ol wood, will make the broken
i r,n of wood, will make the
jace as good as new. As the mixture
; gardens very quickly, it is best to pre
j pare but a smalt quantity at a time
The Owl's pinlins.
Behold the Kant with-gutes njnr,
Through which the morning poops.
Ilnil, dawning light nnd fading alar !
Awake tho world that sleeps !
Sing heigh ho ! to whit, to whoo !
Fair I'hrnbus upward lenps.
The glow-worm pubis her amorous light
The fire-fly flicker. dim.
Thn god of day (dints out the night,
And lights the ocean's rim.
Sing heih ho ! to whit, to whoo !
Tho world awake to him.
In flaming glow hix orhil nee,
High o'er the mountain treat,
Drips sparkling light from out. Ihoeea
And lights the owlet's nest.
Sing heigh ho ! to whit, to whoo !
I lake my flight lo rest.
ChrMophtr C. Merrill.
ITEMS OF IXTEKEST.
Hard money is that which is hard to
get. Vwiyunc.
The letter I) is truly an old salt h. us
been following the C for years.
James Eiar and Henry Slnnder nrc
two of tho best citizens of Dubuque,
Iowa
There are said to b". only four word
in the English language ending in c-i-o-n.
What are they?
During IH'H there were 187 miners
killed and 002 injured in the Pennsyl
vania coal mines.
We see a great deal about "spelling
reform" in our exchanges. We don t
1 1 1 ink "reform" is very hard to spel'.
Aorriftotun Ilvrnld.
Tliere is a man in this city so n verse to
being dunned for his bills that he can't
bear to see a crowd "collect" in the
Btreet. Ho.iton fwrMc.
The man who got into a barber-chair,
pinned the newspaper round his reck
and began to read the towel may justly
be culled absent-minded.
A housein the Avenucdo (Jiiehy, Paris,
was lately struck by lightning, which
first followed a water-pipe to tlio earth,
and then reasoended to tlie fourth story.
Iok not upon the watermelon con:
when it is red. and tackle it not heartily
jit-t before going to bed. A word to the
wise is "nuffced." (,'rAur 1,'npiil.i ';
puhlir.nn. Kansas Iris now 550 churches, 0! of
which are Raptist, 5'J Congivgnti.ma'ist.
33 Lutheran, SW Episcopal. 15 .Metho
dist, 'M Presbptcrian, and 15 United
Presbyterian.
The Jlrtilrrj'isl Gazelle says that. John
Houghtaling, of Rochester, is the oidct
railroad conductor in the United Stales.
He has served forty-three years, and is
now poor and disabled.
Sh! Don't give it away. We keep a
bottle with astick in it constantly on our
table. And we find that it adds much to
lighten our editorial labors. It paste to
keep jt. Yonh.ru fUnlmmutn.
The editor of the Hastings (Minn.)
Sum l'.ra was attacked in his oliicc, re
cently, by three masked men. but ho
os-aped from their clutches and now
gives notice that ho will be prepared to
re.-eive company at all hours.
A gentleman learned in the origin of
social customs was asked the meaning of
casting an old shoe after a newly-married
couple as they start on the trip,
lb-said, "To indicate that the chances
of matrimony are very elipper-y."
The small. meek-Iookin.' wife of Tom
Cottiell, a Missouri horse thief, followed
him we 'ping out of a St. Joseph court
room, alter ins trial and conviction, in
the coi ri'for she flew at the sheriff like a
tigress, threw him on the floor, and thus
enabled the prisoner to mount u mule
and escape.
Tho weather was getting coo! and the
empress told Peter that he had better
get an additional grate while he was
down town, but with his u-ua! forgel
ful'iess lie came home without it, wh"ii
his wife remarked, reprouohfuiiy :
" Peter, the grate," and the cognomen
stuck to him ever after. GrUiixM.
" Them is a plcnumi in ti e patli'esx woods,"
'J liere is i wirchery in -.iiinmer'-, k:.-.s,
There is a fpeil Unit charms oar teiid'rer
moods
When iluy brings on thn twilight's bonclk-e.
There is a iiehr."s in the moraine chant
l bird just wakened lrom a niglii' iepo-e,
TV-re is a fcomethir.g in the oi.io : point
'f lint's uncongenial to ike evernge nose.
Yonltett tJazrite.
! Tho maddest new-pnirs of the pres
ent time are those which are pub!i-hed
1 in the Austrian lunatic asylums. Con
tributions nrc received from uiltl.e in
mates who have either hobbies or griev
ances. Those who are ulllieted with any
monomania whatevi r m.ty explain their
delusions and support their convictions
bv argument and example. Tlie logic-employed
in an article of a recent issue by
one gentleman to disprove tho belief of
another that his beard was of heather
and required constant watering, was so
faultless and incisive as to have done
credit to a Regius Professor of Moral
Philosophy. Alas! lie himself firmly be
lieved that his own nose was made of
euvar. and to prevent its getting wet.
aid consequently melting away, always
drank through h straw. Sew York
Tribune.
A Russian Tragedy.
A sanguinary tragedy has occurred in
Russia, taking its rise from the recently
inaugurated wholesale slaughtering of
plague-infected cattle. All the cattle in
the Czar's dominions arc subjected to a
strict veterinary examination. Such as ,
are plague-suspected, or as exhibit ten
dencies iiicciy to expose mem to danger
of infection, are at once ruthlessly
slaughtered. The carcasses are burned
and the owners remunerated, unless they
have striven to conceal the existence of
the pest among their herds.
, . ' w t. i t 1
une ivan imuksouivucii iihi, or is al
leged to have done, this. The inspector,
tiowever, discovered mat his cattle were
diseased and came to slaughter them.
Ivan refused to permit it unless lie was
Pid. The inspector declined to sign the
iniicillllliieaiioii papers. j quarrel en
sued, when Ivan assailed him with one
of tlie slaughtering knives and disem
boweled him at the first blow. The
murdered man's assistants fell on the as
sassin, and in the melee which followed
three of theni were very seriously in
jured. Rorksomviteh was finely secured
and locked up. Next morning he was
found dead. He had broken a tile lrom
the porcelain stove which heated his cell
i and cut Lis throat with it.