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HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher.
NILi DESPEEANDUM.
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VOL. X.
RLDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THUKSDAY, MAECH 11, 1880.
NO. 3.
Two Lovers,
i.
I love my lover j on tbo heights atme me
Ho mocks my poor attainments with a
irown ;
I, looking np as he is looking down,
By his displeasure guess he still doth love
me j
For his ambitious love would ever provo me
More excellent thnn I as yet am shown;
So straining for some good ungrasped, un
known, I vainly would bocomo his image oi me,
And, reaching through the dreadful gulls that
sever
Our souls, I strive with darkness night and
days
Till my perfected work toward him I raise,
Who laughs thereat and scorns me more than
over;
Yet his upbraiding is beyond all praise.
This lover that I love I call Endeavor,
li.
I have another lover loving me.
Himself beloved ot all men, loir aud true.
He would not have me change although I
gi-ew
Fertect as light, because more tenderly
He loves myself than lovea what I might be.
Low at my feet he sings lue winter through,
And never won I love to hear him woo,
For in my heaven both sun and moou is he,
To my bare life a fruitful-flooding r ile,
His voice like April airs that in our isle
Wake sap in trees that slept since autumn
wept;
His words are all caresses, and his smile
The relic ol some Eden ravishment ;
And he that loves me so I call Content.
Mary F. Robimon.
MUSK AND PENNYROYAL.
Miss Margaret Willis slapped her
maid in the face 'one morning as the
girl was dressing her hair. " How
often must I tell you not to draw the
hair so tightly back from my fore
head?" siie exclaimed. "It must be
quite loose, though firmly held. You
make me a fright!"
It was a. soft hand, yet it could give a
stinging blow, as Agnesia had learned
during the last few weeks, for such
blows were new in her experience with
Miss Wiilis, who till lately had been
the sweetest of mistresses. She said
nothing, however, but made haste to
loosen tne Drown hair over mat snowy
forehead till Margaret's sham " Cosi
told her that the right point had been
reached.
Miss Willis was already dressed, for
she had adopted the custom of the Em
press Eiuenio of having her hair ar
ranged last. When it was finished she
rose, lotting slip the large cambric man
tle that covered her, and went to take a
carelul survey of herself in a long mir
ror that stood between the two win
dows. The result could not have been
otherwise than pleasing. She wore a
long tunic oi lnce and muslin in stripes
over a lavender silk, and rose-colored
bows on the half-open sleeves aud under
her lovely chin.
"Kan ccmale,n she owned; and,
drawing toward her a vase of large
pink-nnd-white fuchsias, she fastened
a bunch of them in the braid that sur
rounded her head like a coronet, and,
taking the pearl rings from her ears,
hung fuchsias in their places.
" I am going for a walk below the
belvedere," she said then to her maid.
" Say nothing about it to any one, and
keep people away if you can. If any of
those dreadful tourists come here to see
the grounds, tell the gardener to come
to the terrace and whistle."
Miss Willis went down the grand
stairs. Not a soul was in sight. At
this hour it had just struck eleven
from the clock in the grand fountain
all the ladies and gentlemen in the villa
except.perhaps, the master of it, the
Marquis oi San Giorgio, were in their
rooms, and would leave them only at
the sound of the breakfast bell, which
rang precisely at noon. If the marquis.
. was out, he would be at the potteries in
the very farthest corner of the villa.
He almost invariably devotM the hour
or two before breakfast to his corre
spondence. Following a little path that wound
among the shrubs and trees, Margaret
descended to the level, where, from the
windows above, she might have showed
like a large flower in the midst of the
rich green. She did not wish to be seen
from the windows, however, but to es
cape all observation for a time, and to
study for an hour her position, with the
airs of heaven blowing about her. So
she went nearer the belvedere, and when
she saw its dark balustrade stand out
against the blue sky began to walk
slowly to and fro in its shadow.
Here was her position. She was' a
young, beautiful and accomplished New
England girl, rich for her native city,
but not rich for one of the grand cities
either of the old or the new world. A
wealthy and ambitious aunt, who had
spent the greater part of her life in Eu
rope, had brought her here, intending
to lind a ereat match for her. Margaret
hid gladly come abroad, but had not
committed . herself to the matrimonial
scheme had, indeed, been very cool
about the candidate who immediately
presented himself. The marquis was
agreeable, elegant, rich and of very high
lineage, and he was not very old. She
had no serious objection to make, but
she had not yet been able to consent,
though daily urged by her aunt and by
tho lover himself. She could say neither
jes nor no. She was too indifferent to
accept, and the proposition was too bril
liant to refuse. She had seen enough of
society in London, Paris and Rome to
be weary of taking a subordinate place.
With a coronet in her gelden brown
hair she could become a social cower.
H er bright, disdainful eyes had searched
out all the wheels and cranks of the so
cial machine, and with time and famil
iarity disdain was rapidly losing itself
in ambition. It was a game, and a
brilliant and exciting one it seemed to
her. She was beginning to find that
her beauty was. a weapon to use, not
merely a pretty flower. It might pro
cure her other advantages besides a
coronet.
But just as her imagination was
about taking lire and she thought: "I
will tarry in a half-open rose and give
it to him before them all. and give him
a smile with it which be shall under
Btar.d," some other second thought set
asida her half-formed decision.
Walking thus pre-occupied, almost
tormented, she became conscious pres
ently of some sensible touch that
reached her heart, yet so delicately that
the was not aware by what sense it en
tered. It persisted softly, withdrawing
for an instant to make its presence more
clearly felt on returning, and at every
return the emotion it caused became
perceptible.
Her attention at length arrested by
this soft importunity, Margaret Willis
paused and looked around to see what
it was that had set her heart murmur
ing inarticulately like a mother over
the cradle of her sleeping child. It was
no sight or sound, though the birds
were singing their noon lullabies.
It was a perfume, strong, penetrating
and familiar how more familiar than
anything else there even while unrecog
nized 1 She stood and breathed it a mo
ment, then bent and looked searchingly
in the grass. It was gay with flowers
of every hue, and set thickly nmong
them, and looking over their heads,
were stalks of pennyroyal, the dear old
New England nerb, studded all along
the branching stems with tiny blue blos
soms. Picture after picture started up. The
r- . v ....... -"li' ...i.ii.iiuii iiviiiiv.,
with its pleasant verandas, its fields and
gardens and wosds, appeared, a'l its
twittering swallows circling round ; the
boiling spring bubbling up under a
birch tree in the field ; the wtll. with its
curb, pole and bucket, mossy and dank,
in the midst of the chip-strewn back
yard ; shining tin milk cans drying on a
sunny bench outside the back door;
lace curtains waving in the drawing
room windows, and transparent muslin
curtains fluttering and puffing out from
the chambers above. A blue smoke
curled up from the chimney of the
kitchen, where the floor was so white,
and the bird's-eye maple ir wring table
turned back on hinges and left a great
chair for all but ironing days. The
town, but a mile distant, looked over,
an intervening hill, and the primeval
forest hung dark as a thundercloud close
at the other hand. It was the best of
the city with the best of the country.
She had gone into the woods with her
brother Jamie. She had coaxed him
to take her, and Jamie never refused
her anything. How good he was to her
that day, lifting her over the wet places,
giving her all the little yellow violets
he found, holding her up to look into a
bird's nest while the mother bird
chirBed distressfully from a near tree,
and "telling her Buch -wonderful things
of birds and trees and flowers that he
had learned from books.
Picture followed picture some bright,
others mournful, many of them inter
woven with the simple herb which she
held clasped to her breast with uncon
scious hands.
There wns John. With a dreamy
smile on her lips and her unseeing eyes
fixed, her fancy saw him grow up
through all her remembrances of him :
first, Jamie's dearest friend and play
fellow; later, friend too and forever her
friend. An earnest, good boy, and an
earnest, good man as firm as a rock in
principles and character, and with some
thing that might remind one of the rock
in his form and face, in the square,
broad shoulders, the wide forehead, and
the firm mouth that was never too
ready to smile and never had too much
to say. He was gentle, too. From the
time when, in lier seventh vear. he
lilted her, all wet and trembling, out of
the brook into which she had fallen, and
carried her tiome in his arms, to their
last interview, when she had laughingly
turned aside the declaration of love that
for the hundredth time he had attempted
to make, and left him with that hurt yet
patient look which she had so often
caused his face to assume, in all that
time not a hasty or unkind word had he
spoken to her, and never once had he
neglected a wish of hers or seemed to
resent, even in his own heart, her care
less coquetry. This love had begun on
the day when, halt drowned and wholly
terrified, she had clung round his neck
and sobbed out her gratitude to him:
" Oh, John! how I do love you for com
ing up just now! The water was chok
ing me. I wish you would always stay
close to me just a3 long as I live." And
John had responded, with his cheek
blushing warm against her chilly wet
one: "I'll never fail you when you
want me, Pansy." And he never iiad
failed her. A bell rang. Was it the
bell of the school-house hidden behind
the trees, or of one of the many churches
in town beyond the hill!" It rang so
loudly and sounded so near that it broke
through her reverie. Her mind came
back to her eyes, and looked about, re
ceiving a shock that almost blinded her.
toi all the landscape seemed in a whirl,
and her visions reeled and fell like a
city over an earthquake. The slim birch
trees thickened to dense chestnuts; the
branches of the pines ran up the trunks
as an umbrella runs up in opening, and
Ben themselves in a tuit liigli in the air;
the wooden house with its long veran
das changed to a palace with sculptured
stone balconies and crowned with the
airy arches of a grand loggia ; and where
a moment before the savage woods had
climbed the hillside, a white flood of
water came falling down in foamy
plunges, sprinkling the leaning flowers
and the masks and the cupids as it fell.
She saw the splendor of it all, and re
membered a century old temptation so
clearly that it seemed to be newly whis
pered in her ear: "All this will I give
thee if, falling down, thou wilt worship
me."
One bright, sweeping glance over the
whole; then, gathering up her long
skirts, she went swiftly toward the
house. The first breakfast bell had
ceased ringing, and the other would ring
in fifteen minutes. Reaching the house,
she was told that a gentleman was wait
ing in the salon for her.
"What an hour for a visit!" she
thought, discontentedly, as she went
trailing through the empty rooms to the
last, where a tall, broad-shouldered
man stood at a window looking out.
At sight of him the blood rushed to
her forehead. " I am bewitched to-day
I am certainly bewitched!" she
thought, and walked slowlv toward him.
not so aroused from tier former dream
as to have laid aside or thrown away
the Duncb of pennyroyal she had clasped
to her bosom.
He turned at the light rustle of her
garments. His face was pale, but his
manner quite calm. ' How do vou do.
Margaret?" he said, as if he had seen her
the week before. " I hope I am not in
trudingP"
How it happened she knew not, bat at
sight of him all the old mischief and
malice woke in her heart. Tno intense
blue eyes which were drinking in her
face, the slight tremor in the deep voice
all the signs which told that he was to
her just what he had ever been mads
of her again the laughing tyrant. Yet
she laughed with joy, and was trium
phant at seeing how handsome he was.
Her educated eyes found him finer look
ing then he bad looked to her ignorant
ken.
" You do intrude awfully, John," she
said, giving him her hand ; " there are
two persons in the house who will be
enraged at your coming."
" One is your aunt," he said, coldly.
" And the other is who P"
" Never mind, come and get some
breakfast. The bell is ringing and I am
hungry. Oh, you needn't hesitate about
the invitation; we all ask whom we
please. I have had one or Iwo persons
to breakfast. They will already have
laid a place for you."
She was turning away, half waiting
for him, when he took her hand :
" If you are going to marry him I will
not sit at his table. Tell me the truth ;
don't play with me, Margaret."
She had never heard his voice so
passionate; it was almost commanding. 1
" What is your advice about the mat
ter?" she asked, innocently, turning
once more toward him and dropping her
eyes.
" I advise you to marry him if you
want to," he replied, almost angrily.
She looked into his face with her
sweetest smile.
" And if I do not want to, John? If
I hate to and won't?"
" In that case we had better not keep
brenktast wailing," he replied, quietly.
They went out into the tent-hung
breakfast-room, where the company
were assembled, and Miss Willis was
edified to see how very cordial her aunt's
greeting of the new-comer was after the
first involuntary scowl of recognition.
A for the marquis, he was so truly
and gracefully courteous that Margaret
added a few explanatory words t her
introduction. "Mr. Norton was a
schoolfellow of my brother's," she Eaid.
" I have known him all my life."
Sho compared the two while they
talked. The marquis was tall, slender
and pale, and his beautiful face had
that look of mildness which is the re
sult of pride and culture rather than of
a mild disposition. One might have
said of this man that his lace was calm
and unruflled. not because his passions
were not strong, but because of their
strength, which carried all before it. It
is obstructed passion which graves the
face. Whatever the Marquis of San
Giorgio had wished to, do, that he had
done, and whatever he had wished to
possess had never been long denied him.
The two gentlemen talked a little on
political subjects. John was now a
senator. His ideas were quite clear,
nnd were well expressed. To be sure,
his French was not chopped quite fine
enough; he had the English accent,
and pronounced too conscientiously all
the little words which he should only
have brushed ; but he spoke grammati
cally, and, some way, it seemed a con
descension for him to speak French at
all.
"I must make him piactice talking
with me against the time when he will
be president and will have to talk with
the four winds," thought Miss Willis.
Sho saw with real gratitude and ad
miration that the marquis, perceiving
that his guest did not understand
readily, spoke more slowly aud dis
tlnctiy than usual, and sometimes re
peated.
After breakfast they all went wander
iii.sr through the large, shady rooms.
Mrs. Willis fastened herself upon the
new-comer, and confided to him the
story of Marga-'et s approaching mar
riage. " Whom is she to marry?" he asked,
"Why, the marquis, of course
Haven't you heard ?"
" Is she?" he asked, dryly.
The marauis stood beside Margaret.
" You ha e known this gentleman all
your life?" he asked, gently, but at
once.
" Oh, yes." She was beginning to
feel the painful embarrassment of a
woman who is obliged to refuse a man
whom she admires, and who fears that
she should have refused him more
promptly. To be sure, she had ex
pressly stipulated that her consenting to
spend a week at his villa should not be
taken as an encouragement of his suit;
still, she was now sorry for having
come.
" His wife is in Home with him?"
the marquis pursued, watching his com
panion's cast face.
" Mr. Norton is not married," she re
plied. There was a moment of silence ; then
he exclaimed : " How long am I to wait
for your answer, signorina? If you did
not know before, you must know now,'
emphasizing the last word nnd glancing
to where John, imprisoned in a distant
corner by Mrs. Willis, waa yet watching
their conversation.
" 1 can answer you now, marquis,"
she said. "And I wish that I had done
so before. 1-orgiveme "
'Enough!" he said, passionately.
Then, making an effort, added with gen
tle coldness, "I would spare you the
pain of an explanation."
" xou do spare me a pain," sue said,
with tin almost pleading look in her
face. " I esteem you so highly, and I
should like to please you if 1 could."
" You will please me in consulting
your own Happiness," he said, with a
proud smile.
lie's got his quietus," thought John
Norton, "and he takes it rather finely.
I ought not to stay here any longer. I
am going back to Rome now," he said
somewhat abruptly to Mrs. Willis.
"Good-by; I suppose I shall see vou
there some time or other?"
She ignored the good-by, and fol
lowed him as he went toward Mar
garet. '
The marquis, seeing his movement,
recollected an engagement. "Please
ask your friend to stay to dinner," he
said, hastily. " I shall return in an
hour." And he left the room.
" When and where am I to see you
again, Margaretr" John asked, con
scious of Mrs. W ulis' angry face at his
elbow; "I am going to the station
now."
" I'll walk down across the green with
you," she said, "and we can talk i
over."
"But, Margaret, it is too hot to go
out now," her aunt interposed, sharply.
" It doesn't look well to go out at noon;
no one does."
"This is one oi the exceptions," the
niece replied.
She led him out through the flower
garden, by tho path she had taken but
an hour before, and, going, tola mm the
storv of the pennyroyal.
" I knew you couldn't do it. Pansy,"
he said, with a tremor in his voice. " 1
heaip in America that you were going
to marry an Italian, and I started in
twenty-four hours afterward. Yet I
never really believed it. though I knew
that your aunt would be teasing you."
" You were much too sure ol me then,"
she replied, pathetically. " I am awfullj
wicked, John, and I was becoming am
bilious to shine ib society."
"Why shouldn't you like to shine in
society?" he asked, smiling in her beau
tiful face.
'Oh. but you great honest eoosel
you do not know what that sometimes
implies," she replied, quite seriously.
" When there is a crowd of handsome,
brilliant women trying to do the same
tbirg. it sometimes means all sorts of
petty tricks and spites."
John became serious and looked down.
He had heard of such things.
" And it isn't impossible that I might
have accepted the marauis if it had not
been for you and the pennyroyal."
John's face flushed, and he looked at
her sternly. "How could you accept
him when you had never refused me,
and knew that 1 was waiting and hop
ing for you?" hedemanded.
" Because you had no right to wait
and hope," she replied, tranquilly.
You ought to have come and taken
me. I like men who cut the Gordian
knot."
' Better late ths.n never." said John
Norton, with the quiet, strong breath of
one who has escaped a danger. " I've
come for you now, and I intend to take
you back with ma not later than the
first of .November; we can be married
in October. I'm going to name the day
myself. It shall be on the seventh day
of October; that will give you nearly
two months to reconcile Mrs. Willis."
Margaret laughed. " But you do not
know now you will lie taken in if you
marry me, she said. ' I have become
a dreadful woman. John, don't be too
much horrified, but I beat my maid!"
" nonsense! '
" 1 really do. I have struck her once
with the hair brush, and countless times
with my hand."
"Poh! your hand Wuuldn t hurt a
fly." he said, and took for an instant the
soft hand and gave it a little squeeze to
try its ouality."
" It almost makes a blister," she per
sisted; "Agnesina cried. I'm a fury
when I m angry."
He looked at her seriously, and saw
that she was serious. " It is high time
that you should go home and have some
one to take care of you," he said. " I'm
sure that you have been tormented till
you are nervous. In future don't beat
any one but me, Pansy. It isn't nice
you know for a servant to see her mis
tress in a passion. I could understand,
but she would not."
That way was the way he always ex
cused her when he saw that she regretted
a fault.
They walked silently along the golden
road till they came to the great gate.
That was shut, but a little one opened.
and the gentleman passed through, shut
it, and leaned a moment on the rail that
separated them.
"I can not give you anything like
this," he said, rather sadly, glancing
back at the viiin. ' Yon aie aaoritirfng
a great deal to me, dear."
"his all beautiful, but such things
do not make one's happiness," she re
plied. "In a very little while it be
comes an old story. Only nature keeps
one perpetually delighted."
" 1 know what will keep me perpetu
ally delighted," said the gentleman. " It
hasn't begun to be an oid story to me,
though ever since you offered yourself
to mi? "
" Why, John !" she exclaimed, indij?
nantly, drawing back.
" Ever since you offered yourself to me
that day when I took you out of the
brook," lie went on, " I have been por
ingoverit. Good-by, dear; it is time
to go. I shall see you in three days."
She looked dreamil v after him. "Now
I could obey John, on ly I wi 11 never tell
him so,"" she mused. " But I could
never obey the marquis. The only place
that suits him is at my feet, going
through heroics. But John" She
smiled and blushed a little. She didn't
say where John's place was. Lippin
coil's Magazine.
Experience With an Earth quake.
W. A. Gorrill, ot the Pacific bridge
company, San Francisco, had the
good fortune to be in the port of San
Salvador, Central America, so badly
shaken up by the recent earthquake.
Mr. Gorrill had just lighted a cigarette
and was sitting without the door of nn
adobe house when the first terrific shock
came. He picked himself up from the
ground to ask what such proceedings
might mean, but instantly another shock
answered the half-expressed conun
drum. Mr. Gorrill then kept quiet and
held on to a tree, which trembled from
root to the topmost branch for many
minutes. He thought the thing couldn't
last long, for old mother earth, at the
rate she was going on, must soon crack
her ribs . And mumbling over after old
King Leah :
" And thou, all stinking thunder,
Stiike flat the thick rotundity o' tho world;
Crack nature's moulds, all germins spill at
once,"
Mr. Gorrill waited for a cessation, lie
waited a long time, however, as the
shocks were continuous in the imme
diate locality where he happened to bo
"the Valley of the Hammock," so
named because it is always swinging
for two nights and one dav. The two
villages between which he was did not
save a hut, and 2,000 persons found
themselves homeless. The earth cracked
in many places ana loaming water
spurted out of the ground. The huts
tumbled all one way, as if mown down
by an immense si kle, sulphur impreg
nating the whole air.
Death In the Coal Mines.
The report of inspectors of anthracite
coal mines in the Schuylkill region re
lating to casualities in tho mines is a
ghastly list. In 1878 the killed num
bered eighty-seven and the injured 247.
Jn 1H7U there were lid Killed and 337
injured. Of the fatal accidents, twelve
deaths were caused by explosions of
fire-damp, seven by blasts and other
explosions of powder, fifty-five by fall
ing coal, slate and rock; twenty-two
by cars and mine wagons, and seventeen
in miscellaneous ways, i lie ways in
which some men meet death are strange
indeed. Patrick Casey was caught by
a rush of coal in a shute and carried
with it to a point where a plank caught
him by the neck and choked him to
death. Griffith Watkins, a boy, left his
place in the breaker and went to get a
drink of water. As he was passing the
boiler-house a ranaway cur crushed
through the side, struck him and killed
him. Charles Dreshman, a miner, aged
twenty-two, who was engaged shovel
ing at tho mouth of a shute, was found
lying dead, with one leg down tho bhute
aud a small quantity of loose earth lying
on him. No iudications of what killed
him could be found, but it was sup
posed that hie foot slipped into the hole.
I and he imagining that lie was about to
(all to the "bottom, was literally fright-
I ened to death.
TIMELY TOPICS.
An Ohio paper of a statistical bent
publishes the following item descriptive
of an incident which might well have
taken place even if it did not: There
was so much spitting of tobacco juice at
his lecture in Hamilton, Ohio, that Pro
fessor Proctor took notice of it and made
a mathematical calculation in regard to
it. " Let us suppose," continued Pro
fessor Proctor, " that the moisture ex
truded in this unpleasing way in Ohio
in the course of a year would, if uni
formly distributed, correspond to the
addition of a film of moisture, no thicker
than a postal card over the entire State.
Then if there are but 200 postal cards to
the inch there would in 1,000.000 years
be formed a sea about 110 yards deep
over the entire State. And as in the
course of my lecture I had occasion to
speak ot the earth's future during 2,500,
000,000 years, it would seem to follow
(dreadful thought!) that the sea would
rise over Ohio nnd neighboring States
of equal salivary potentiality to a height
of nearly 200 miles I Noah s flood was
nothing to this."
When General Grant had completed
his trio through Florida, lie gave the
New York Tribune's correspondent his
conclusions as to the future of that State.
" I think," he said, " that i londa has
a bright prospect. Her productions will
be a monopoly : and besides her oranges,
pineepples and semi-tropical fruits and
vegetables, she will in time produce the
sugarfor the consumption of the entire
country. Then she grows the finest
long-staple cotton, the best of tobacco
for cigars, and her timber is of immense
value. Then, when the swamp land is
cleared of the timber, there will remain
the choicest kind of a rice country. The
soil, while apparently barren, is suited
to the climate, and there are extensive
beds of material for fertilization that
will not only supply the needs of the
land, but will be an article of export."
An English impostor of the gentler
sex lias been unmasked at Chelmsford,
ntter being petted and fed by the benevo
lent since 1851, under the impression
that she was so ill of paralysis that she
could not leave her bed without help.
During all this time she had subsisted
on the charity of the townsfolk, and fre
quently the prayers of the church have
been reauested in her behalf. But all
this time, too, when no one was looking
on, or likely to enter her dwelling, the
"paralytic" woman could deftly leap
out of bed, dress herself swiftly, cook a
substantial meal and eat it with a relish
At last, after a quarter of a century of
deceDtion. she has been found out,
Some prying neighbors invaded her
nnvriey at times when laey were not
expected, nnd foMnd her not, only out, cf
bed and dressed but malting a hearty
meal.
The work of the Bible revision com
mittee, so far as concerns the New Testa
ment is now substantially ended, and
the revised text will probably be form
ally and finally published during the
coming summer. .No more apt occasion
could be selected, for the present year is
the fifth centenary of the publication of
Wyeliffe's translation ol the mble,
printed in 1380. The work has been go
ing on simultaneously in England and
this cou.itry. The appearance of the
new version will be one of the summer's
sensations. A change that will strike
the ordinary reader is the arrangement
by paragraphs, according to sense, in
stead of tho chapter and verso plan of
the King James translators. Work cn
the Old Testament will hardly be com
pleted before 1883.
" Sec me buy his soul for two cenls,'
was the remark of a workman at Spring-
held, Mass., about a man for whom he
had worked, who was esteemed a gener
ous public giver, and had come into the
shop to get seme work done, ihc man
laid a two-cent piece on the counter nnd
turned away. The visitor soon saw the
coin, and, after hastily looking about
the room to see that no one was looking,
picked up the money and put it in his
pocket. When he came to pay for his
repairs lie was charged twenty-seven
cents. As hi had generallj paid but
twenty-five cents for the same work he
inquired what the extra two cents were
for, and, after some urging, he was
gent ly informed that it was to pay for
the two cents lie had picked up. He
seemed all at once to have important
business at home.
Killed lu a tyninasiiHii.
Alfred P. Goodell, aged twenty-five,
in business with his father as a dentist
in New York, was suddenly killed in
Wood's gymnasium in that city. He
was sitting on a horizontal bar not a
trapeze, but a wooden rod held by up
right posts at a height of live feet ten
inches. He had been practicing in the
gymnasium nearly two hours, and but a
few minutes previous'y had been exer
cising on the bar with the customary
revolutions, hich are among the sun
plest movements, and not at all danger
ous. He was in the act of conversation
with some friends, young pupils, with
whom he was talking about the methods
of performing the different feats. Sud
denly ho fell back, and instead of hold
ing on the bar by his knee joints, as is
customary, he fell oft and struck on the
mattress beneath. It was but a slight
fall, and one that is often experienced
without injury, but young Goodell un
fortunately struck on his head so that
the whole weight of his body doubled
his chin upon his breast and broke his
rek. John Wood, the proprietor of
the gynmasium, stood beside him when
he fell, and thought he was only stunned
by the full, as frequently happens, and
that he would recover in a few moments.
But young Goodell was soon found to be
speechless, and respiration was bus
pended. Restoratives and stimulants
were at once applied, artificial respira
tion was attempted and physicians sen
ior. A doctor arrived in a tew min
ute), and at once pronounced the injury
fatal, and within twenty minutes the
unfortunate young man died. Word
was sent to his father, who arrived
promptly, not knowing the sinuus na
ture of the injury. As Dr. Goodell
ioined tho throng of athletes and others
who had congregated, he supposed his
son was only temporarily unconscious,
and asked, "IIow long will it be before
he will recover?"
Some bystander, who did not know
Dr. Goodell, said, " He won't recover at
all; he is dead."
Dr. Goodell, who is himself in delicate
health, almost fainted at the dreadful
shock of this unexpected bereavement.
The coroner gave his permission for the
body to be removed to Dr. Goodell's
house.
PARI, GARDES AND HOUSEHOLD.
irtlllzlnsj Bones for Manures,
Professor E. W. Hilgard. of the Cali
fornia agricultural college, says: The
simplest, "way in which a farmer who
pays attention to Mini lunaainemai
requisite, the manure pile, can obtain
the full benefit of a moderate quantity
of bones is to mix them in a hot ferment
ing manure, provided the pile is kept in
proper condition oi moisture. j.ne
smaller and softer bones are thus re
duced to a very efficient state ot com
minution within a few weeks; the
larger and harder ones may be but partly
softened, and will in that case mostly
be loft behind by the manure fork when
the manure is hauled out. to bo sub
jected to the process a second time. The
success of this convenient process de
pends materially, of course, upon a
proper management of the manure pile,
which must neither be kept sodden with
water nor nllowed to fire-fang.
Large quantities ot bones are very
conveniently treated when wood ashes
are abundant, by packing them in ashes
(which may advantageously have been
previously mixed witn about a gaiion
of slacked lime per barrel) either in
barrels, hogsheads or, best of all, in iron
tanks, and keeping the mass as wet as
mnv he without leaching. In the course
of from six to eight weeks most of the
bones will bo found reduced to some
thing much more-like putty; and this
mass with the ashes makes a very effica
cious phosphate fertilizer. The vice of
the process is that mucn oi me Done
gelatine is thus lost in the shape of am
monia gas; but the bone phosphate is
left in a very active lorni.
In mv personal experience I have
come to the conclusion that where the
home preparation of the bones in either
of the modes described can be done in
spare time (that is, without employing
additional help for the purpose oi look
ing after the matter), it is very profitable
to do so; whereas, if special help has to
be employed, or the manure piles or ash
tank3 are neglected lor want oi iime.y
attention, it does not pay.
. j ..F t t !i.
as reearas me manuring oi lruiii vices
in naiticular. not the worst mode of
utilizing bones is to simply bury them
iu the m-ound around the trees, wnicu
gradually but surely embrace them with
their rootlets and consume them com
pletely. The near tree through which
the bones of Roger Williaais fed his de
scendants is a case in point, but it does
not take n couple of hundred years
under any ordinary circumstances to
acconio ish the result. A tree thus ma-
nured will be sure to get all the phos
phates it wants -for its well being.
Iteclpes.
White Furir Cake. One cupful of
butter, two cups white sugar, three cups
Hour, one-half cup sweet milk, one tea
sooontul cre;im of tartar, one-half tca-
snoonful soda, whites of three eggs, one
pound of raisins, and one-quarter of a
pound citron, cuoppca.
Poi Cobn Balls. These are easily
made. To one gallon of pop corn take
half a pint of molasses or sugar; put
into a skillet nnd let ifc boil up once, and
then pour it over the corn; grease your
hands with sweet butter, and make the
whole into balls of su.:h size as you
please.
Ldy FiNiiKiis. Fourouiices of suifar,
yolks i t four eggs, mix well four ounces
of flour, mix again ; if too thick ndd an
other whole cge, a half teaspoon of
flavoring. Beat whites to a froth and
stir in. Squeeze through tt funnel niiide
of writiug paper into pans lined with
buttered paper. Tiic3e are used for
Charlotte russo.
Meat Pie. Take cold roast beef or
roast meat of any kind, slice it thin, cut
it lather small, lay it, wet with gravy,
and sufficiently peppered and salted, in
a meat pie dish. If liked, a small onion
may be chopped fine and sprinkled over
it. Over tho meat pour a couple of
stewed tomatoes, a little more pepper,
and a thick layer of mashed potatoes.
Bake slowly in a moderate oven till the
top is a light brown.
Wmi'PEiJ Cue a m . Take one pint of
very thick cream, sweeten it with very
fine sugar and orange flower water; boil
it. Beat the whites of ten eggs with a
little crenni, strain it, and when the
cream is upon the boil pour in the eggs.
stirring it well till it comes to a thick
curd; then take it up and strain it
again through a hair sieve. Beat it well
with a spoon till it is cold, then place it
in a dish in which you wish to serve it.
layliK lieu.
Hens reuuire some care and attention.
No class of animals is so susceptible to
the lll-eflccts ot crowding as chickens.
Hens will not lay when too much
crowded, nor will they remain healthy
long if too many are kept together. The
hen house should be kepUueun and neat
The tloor should be swept every day and
be dusted over with dry earth, ashes,
short straw, or litter of any kind. Tho
house should have suitable roosts.
Where eggs are made a specialty, only
pullets should be kept for the purpose,
and the earlier they ure natcned tno oet
ter. Egg production is harder work for
hens than many suppose. An egg Is
composed of albuminous matters an'i
oils or hit, together with norm, phos
phorus, sulphur, iron, etc., iu small but
appreciable quantities. In an eggthero
is the material lor oones, iiesn. oioou,
brain, nerves, feathers and all the organ
of life. Any one can see, then, that egg
production is lien exhaustive. Notonly
this, but 1 ho lill is composed almost
exclusively of carbonate of lime. Well,
the hen food mut contain the materials
from which she secretes tho egg. Corn
may contain the elementary substance,
but a hen cannot eat enough corn to
afford the materials for an egg a day. In
fact, there is a necessity for a variety of
food. Grass, cabbage or honed vege
tables of any kind should be given hens,
They also require slaked lime and gravel.
Hens arc good eaters, and should nst be
scantilv fed In winter. They should
have as much as they want to eat, and
as often as they want it. They should
beiupplied with 'inimul food in somo
lomi ollal liieut, raca uuga, scraps',
etc. Hens should be regularly cared
for. They should have a rensonablo
share ol attention. They should be fur
nished with suitable accommodations.
Too many should not he kept together.
As great a variety of foo.i as possible
should he furnished, and they should ke
quiet. Water is as important for hens
as food and should uc Kept ciean ami
frehh.
Sneaking of difficulties, the Modern
Argo ays that a wasp or a well-organ
ized hornet is the only chap on record
that can lack out ol a serious difficulty
at his own sweet will.
Life.
8hort days flying, swift yeart rolling
Downward toward eternity;
Ere we understand our longings
Oft the open grave we see.
Cares and wishes crowd together,
Changing ever in the breast;
With the morning coraos the knowedge,
Joy fulfilled can take no rest.
Schemes ot life nnd plans for Hying
Fancy bids us ever try,
But their sweet fulfillment oarer
Brings us that for which we sigh.
Young, we fancy pleasure deathless,
A f ar-s'.retohing wonder-land j
Soon it laden, and sorrow lollows ;
On the desert waste we stand.
Yes, from out the brightest morning
Oil we harvest bitter pain,
Joys soon past, or lightly gathered
Lite so fruitless and so rain!
All ! what weary hours of longing
Ost occasion briags the mind !
IIow the wounded soul may languish,
Never balm or heeling And !
Then when, evening closes on thee,
Weep not as thine hours depart ;
Only peace and holy stillness
(iather close within thine heart.
Then, the woes ot life forgetting,
From its stain and guilt set tree,
Will thy last aud lowly pillow
I,:kc the tendor rose leal be.
Harptr't ll crkly.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Out of season An empty pepper box.
Buffaloes are growing scarce at the
West.
There arc 34.034,000 hogs in the
United States.
Pork packing ranks as the third
American industry.
The onlv law in Alaska is the United
States revenue law.
Barcelona, according to Olive Logan,
is the New York of Spain.
The American half dime of 1803 is
deemed a bargain of $100.
A tov maker of Montrose, Pa., uses
600,000 leet of basswood every year.
Tilton's son Carroll is preparing for
the ministry. He lives with his mother.
Arizona contains 73,000,000 acres of
land, 5,000,000 of which are surveyed.
The negro physicians of Tennessee
have orgunizecf a Siate medical associa
tion. London Truth says that in the last
ten ytars there have been?t,352 strikes in
England.
The British national debt lacks a little
of being twice as large as that of the
United States.
The total losses by fire in Vermont
during the four years ending January 1,
1880, were $3,001,100.
Jefferson Davis expects to gather
about 1.000 bales of cotton from his
plantation in Mississippi this year.
Edison has a salary of $15 (K)0 a year
from the company he serves, besides
royalty from all sorts of patents.
If we could see others as wo see our
selves, there would be more good-look
ing people in the world. I'icayuHf..
To neutralize the sting ol a gnat or
mosquito, rub the part aneeiea wun a
little cerumen, that is, the wax of the
ear.
Alex. II. Stephens weighed only
seventy-one pounds at the end oi inn
war. At prcseni ne weigus nwu-.j-three.
Sam Ward agrees in the opinion ol
Ude that cookery in England is superior
to that ot any otuer country in uu-
world.
"Ecarlate" is the name of a new re
color derived from coal. It is prophe
sied that cochineal has had its day and
that the new color will take its place.
St. Louis girls ought to lind content
ment in the fact that they can hold more
pins in their mouths at one time thnn
any other girls can. Boston l'unt.
Eight hundred and forty-three rail
road accidents occurred in the United
States during the year ending Septem
ber 30, 1870. by which persons were
killed and 732 hurt.
A SEAl.F.U I'KOrOSAI..
" What are ' sealed proposals,' Tom?"
Archly asked a bright-eyed miss,
Whose mouth upturned, like a roso-bml sweet,
Seeinod asking for a kHF.
" Why, Fanny dear, 1 11 illusirate;
Tis plain as a, b, c,
Give mo your hand you have my heart
And now 'lis euled you eeT ,
MiddUlnwn Trar-cript.
Saved by a Spaniel.
William Prince of Orange on the
morning of the twelfth of September,
l.ri7d. was saved from assassination nt
the hands of his enemies by the action
of a little do.'. The Spanish army under
the command ot Alva, invading int
Netherlands, and the nrruy of patriots
under the command of the prince, were
encamped near the city of Mons. The
plan was formed lor tne surprise oi uic
patriots and thecaptureor assas-itiAtion
of William, and for this purpose a band
of six hundred disguised men were
placed under the command of Julian ko
mero. The historian of the " liise of the
Dutch Republic," narrates that near the
hour of two o'tlock in the morning,
"the boldest, led by Julian in person,
made at once for the princo"j tent. Jin
guards and himself were in prolound
sleep, but a small spaniel, who always
passed the night upon his bed, was a
more faithful sentinel. The creature
sprang forward, barking furiously at the
sound of hostile footsteps, and scratch
ing his master's face with his paws.
There was but just time for the prince to
mount a horse which was ready saddled
and to effect his escape through the
darkness before his enemies sprang into
the tent. Ilis servants were cut down,
his master of the horse and two of his
secretaries, who gained their saddles a
moment later, all lost their lives and but
for the little dog s watchfulness. Wil
liam of Orange, upon whose shoulders
the whole weight of his country's for
tunes depended, would have been led
within a week to an ignominious death.
To his dying day, the prince ever after
ward kept a spunie! of t he same race in
the bed chamber." This event occurred
but a short lime after the Paris wed
ding, and u short time after the St.
Bartholomew tragedy. The historian
and moral philosopher can more appro
priately discuss the influence wbi'th the
watchfulness of the little spanM had
upon the destinies of the world.