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TIONESTA, PA., JUNE 9, 1880. $1.50 Per Annum. mm k ;,.inurnncet iH ow much tho hoart may hoar and yet no break, How much the flesh may Buflor and not iVM 1 question much if afiy fain or Belie Ol soul or body brings our end more nigh. Death chosos his own time, till that has come All evils may be borne. We shrink and shudder at the surgeon's knife iuum nerve recoiling Irom the cruel steel W hoao edge seems searching for the quivering lile; Yet to our &enfto the bitter pangs reveal That still, although the trembling flesh be torn, i lias, also, can be borne. We see a sorrow rising in our way, And try to floe Irom the approaching ill ; We seek sonio small escapo, we weep and pray, Hut when tho blow lalls, thon our hearts are still Not that the pnin isol its sharpness shorn, Hut yet it can ho borne. We wind Qur lite a!out another lilo; We hold it closer, dearer than our own Anon it fuiuta and tails in deadly strife, Lonving ns stunned, and stricken anda'ono; Hut, oh, we do not die with those we mourn; This, also can be lorne. Dchold, we live through all things, dunino, thirst, Boreavemont, pain, all grid and miwory, All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst On sould and body, hut we cannot die, Though' wo he sick and tired and faint and woi n ; Lo, all things can be borne. Elizabeth Akert Allen. THE SECRET. I with I I could t could tell I hate to have a secret; it bums. like money in my pocket Ib'a nn unnatural thing, anyway. "One .wants e nipathy ; if it' a gloomy secret, Bonn body to be gloom v with ; and if it's a irlad one. somibodv to be clad with: somebody to talk it over with, to make much or littie" of it with, to conjecture concerning it, its beginning and its end, to A well upon ty and gloat over it; how in the world Is one going to enjoy any thing all by one's self! If I'm eating a peach, I want somebody to have part of it, to Know now luscious it is; ana i w6uldn't nive a sixpence for a coach and ' four unless there were somebody by to see me riding. So I say to myself, what's the use ot knowing it it you re not t speak or look, or wink, if you're to be no wise .hwr'tier people, and let no body see that you areP " And as for me, I am always blushing, and my tongue is tripping, and I'm sure to bo on the point of betraying the whole thing by something I say, and clapping my Lund , on my mouth hke a silly child. ." Still, although it's nervous and anx 'ious work, I can keep a secret if I try, or else whm h I mean she at least I mean I shouldn't have been trusted with ' it if I couldn't. Some people are so-im-;portant witli a secret, and go about as f it they knew erough to hang the rest of ; tire world. Rut I never am ; I only long ." to tell it; and I do sownnttotell you this one. But there I promised I wouldn't breathe it, and a promise is a , promise, you know. I I suppose I wouldn't care half so much to tell if it were only a comnion .. place affair, if there were no romance about it all. Rut there is. Some people are so fond of romance our llomaine is; and I don't believe that anything could have pleased her half so much that happened in the regular, expected . ; way. Our Romaine always was so full of fancies and idea s, and when there's anything romantic going, it always falls to iter 101. lion i you ininK sue s a beauty? I do; so tall, so beautifully made, so gracious, such hair such soft fragrant hair such eyes like jewels, and her skin so like a tea rose ! I don't ' believe any of those funious beauties that you rend about can hold a candle to her that I don't! I always wondered why she didn't take some one of her lovers, although 1 knew, too, or thought I did; lor she was just as lovely ten years ago, when she came home from school at seventeen the very day those dreadtnl soliders came, you recollect as Hhe is to-dny. She had been gone so Jong four ye irs that everything about the place was just as swe.'t and strange , to her as if it were a kingdom she had just come into; and she was going round, looking at this and exclaiming at that, caressing the creatures which knew her, every one of them, even to the parrots just ivjoieing in every thing; aud I, a little six-year-old wor shiper, was following her in adora- tion, with tho peacock following me: ; when all at once the lawn was crowded with soldiers, and the ya"d was full of foragers, and the horses, llomaine's own (iulnare, and mamma's, were bung led away, and all the cows were lowing, and the pigs were squeal ' ing, and the fowl were cackling, as those wretches took possession; and some were buildiDg fires in the yard, and the rest were swarming into the house. And they were in the china closet, ravaging the store-room, were in the bedrooms, in the wardrobes, and a parcel of them had roor mamma in a corner, and had torn away her shawl, and one was nourishing her cap on the point of his bayonet, and Romaine Lad sprung into the midst of them, threaten ing them with a wild airy, when sud denly a voice rang over tho uproar, a terrible commanding voice, somebody strode through the throng, and seizing by the shoulder tirsl one and then an other of the men who had cornered mamma anit lv.muune. Hung them on thi-? side and on that, and in one ino incnt silence fell, and man by man they t.lmik away, and presently they were down thu tsUira, and xnarch- In out of the hall by Mies ; and the offi- right to hold yourselt so inaccessible." most an old maid, and as silly as that! ccr who had wrought the change-a tall, said mamma to her one day, as the wind- Now I'll tell you what, if you don t turn Blender yoUne fellowof whom one could ing up of a U11 king-to thnt sent Romaine a short corner, 1 U see what I can do see little but the eyes blazing like wild- out of the room crying. " What is there myself: and when it's too late lor you, fire, for the torn and dronnitiff ViRor of about vou that no man in America, or you'll be eating your heart out with his cap, and for the brown beard cover ing his brown face, and the smears of smoke and powder put mamma's sliawi about her shoulders, bowed low to llomaine, and took me in his arms a mo ment and looked at me, and set me down again, andvas passing out, when Ro maine rarfwrward and caught his liana. and began to pour out a torrent of thanks. He turned and smiled. " I de serve no thanks," he said. And then, half hesitating a single in- stnnf he raised Romaine s hand, that still foriretfullv held his. and Dressed it to his lips, nd was gone. And a curi- ous old silver-set diamond on his hand. whose stone3 made a tiry crest, took my baby eye, so tliat I always ajembered it. But as I turned to Ilormaine oh, how she loosed then! I've never seen anything so beautiful since, she blushed such a rosy red, and her eyes lighted, and her smile grew dazzling, and I've thought, as I remembered it, that just so Eve might have looked when she woke and looked upon the world before her. And lie turned in the door and saw ner, ana men ne ran uown tne stairs, and mounted his horse; and pres ently we heard the lastot them trooping over the hill. They took Gulnare and All with them, though, for all of the young officer; but the very next day Gulnare came into the yard by herself. and neighed for her oats. Well, now, do you know, I believe that from that very moment Romaine made that voung oiheer her hero and her ideal. She didn't know his name, she didn't know hia regiment, she didn't know his rank, she had hardly seen his face; but, for all that, she just resolved very likely without putting it in so many words to herself that if she couldn t marry him, she would never marry any body, and she would keep herself and ali her thoughts sacred to this hero. And she did. And that is what hts given her this air of remoteness, almost as it she be longed to a superior race, you know. She didn't know whether her hero was alive or dead; there were skirmishes in the neighborhood, and beforelong a great battle farther off; but there were no nleans of learning anything, of course, and he never came back. Somehow I think she felt that if he were alive he would, and I think she began to look upon him ns dead, and herself as well, don't you laugh as something like a widow; at any rate, as vowed to him. She was only seven teen then, you know. Oh, yes, I know I'm only sixteen myself, and a terrible chatterbox too, Paul says; but I know that things get fixed in one' mind at seventeen that even seventeen more years won't undo, and Romaine has only ten years more. But Romaine has the poetical temperament.. Well, in a year or two Uncle Taul died, and left mamma a comfortable fortune. As the farm really belonged to Paul, when he reached home mamma decided to come to tho city for our win ters, and to build this, little villa lor the summers, and sometimes Paul comes to us, and sometimes we go to him. A year ago nearly 1 camo back irom aehool, Mamma said I was very pretty, but very unformed, and she wondered what my teachers naa oeen about to leave all this trouble for her, and she doubted what sort of a match I would make. I said how could 1 make any with . Romaine still hanging on uer nanas r wnereupon mamma said Romaine was the most pre posterous girl alive; 6he had just let millions slip through her hn gers, and she didn't believe the Archanele Michael would make any ini proesion on her. So 1 began to watch Romaine. and I found an old brass but ton was one ot ner treasures, and L learned what sort of people it was in in wnoni sue ipii an mieresi; l oo- served the care she took of Gulnare. al tho 'gh Gulnare was twenty years old; and 1 discovered, by accident again. nut away with a lock ot Mrs. Brown mg's hair and a leaf from Shelley's tomb, that brass button and an old torn visor of a soldier's cap. Again, once when we were all recounting old times, and mamma was telling of the fright she had when tho soldier was flourish' inar her cap on a bayonet, and the grati tude she felt to her deliverer, who, she always did feel, came straight from heaven to help her. and, for all she knew. went straight back again, I happened to be looking at Romaine in the glass, whereupon she turned as red as a red rose, then all at once grew white as a white rose, was faint, and had to get out of the room. I m ide up my mind about Romaine. I wits sorrv. too: for some of Paul's people who used to come mooning round her were mighty nice. There was Col onel Rice -I don't know what he was colonel of. some fancy-fair or sidewalk regiment I'm sure he'd never smclled powder except when shooting pigeons; but he had the littlest loot and band, una oceans of money, and a drag. And lie did send llomaine such flowers! and it she had but thrown her handkerchief, there was nothing he wouldn t have given her cashmere bhawls to walk on, and diamonds bright enough to read by. And there was an English earl's son- just back from bullalo hunting, who would have made a countess oi tier, onjy give him time enough; and goodness knows how many more of Paul's chums, and Senator Catchpenny, and the regu lation swells, and Cousin Nicholas. And Ramaine disdained them all every one of Paul's chums of course, and Cousin Nicholas on account of the old family leud that had always kept us apart; he was a hundred-thousandth ousinorso. And when the English man was round she justout-Aoiericaned the Americans: and nothing but the dread of a scene with mamma could get her behind Colonel Rice s horses, al though I should have been glad ot the chance; and that is the way it had been with one or another for nine or ten vears. mamma said; and Romaine was do btedly a fixture. " 1 dou i know about your Having thu Europe either, that I can see, is fit to marrv vou. i suou a like to Knowr Romaine was dancing that night with Cousin Nicholra.at Mrs. Glance's ball. The delicious waltz music made my feet just tingle. Mamma let me go to a ball now an d then, to show people what she had in reserve. Romaine said. iut there was Romaine. so listless, so lovely, so indifferent, and Nicholas looking down at her so eaeer. so intent, and then leiding her out into the moonlight, as n lie would take her away irom an mcse people, and into another world. - it s when no use, Cousin Nicholas, I said, he happened to thin k of me, half an hour afterward, and brought me an ice; ' she wouldn't rnarry you if you were made of gold. She wouldn't marry any body but a soldier anyway (an at once Nicholas' face lighted up), "and him only if he had been nearly shot to pieces; and only one soldier out of all of them, I do believe," I made haste to add, for I didn't want to encourage him. ' How much must a man do to earn his cnseP" said Nicholas, in his slow lanquid way, which always did seem to make him taller and morebroad-shoul d ered than ever. He was a handome fel low, with his fresh color, his white orehead, his grizzled curling hair in tight rings like that of an old Greek head, his teeth gleaming from under the dark mustache when he smiled. I didn't. po bnw she cnnld heln hnintr at tracted to him, being being in love with him. von know. " How .many scars must he showP" he drawled. "Does she want you to wear your uniform and your bandages all the timer" And men his eyes flashed, he thrust his fingers through tne gray rings, and i saw where a bullet had plowed its way among them. " That was my ticket to four months of unconsciousness in a hospital," he cried. And then he pulled up the cun Irom his right wrist, ami drew his tincrers across an indentation there. " That lost me my sword-arm," he said. "What more does she wantf Shall I tell her a ball made this dimple in mv chinP that I carry the five wounds about me? I suppose if I took off both arms and both legsvery nignt, she would have me out of hand." No. she wouldn't." I said. "She wouldn't have you unless you were a tall slender fellow whose eyelashes were burned off. whose face was covered to the eyes by a torn visor above and by a brown beard below, who kissed her hand, and wore nn odd silver-set uia mond crest on his I saw it and whom she has set up in her shrine for ever and ever. Why, (Jousin jNictioias, wnat is the matter with you ?" i or he had sud denly burst into the gayest and mot t uproarious laufru. "You had better tell me, so that I can laugh too," I said, feeling as though l ought to he angry, but decidinz that I could not be vexed with Cousin Nicholas. "I've no doubt she'll think better of you when I tell her about j'our scars," 1 said. "When you tell her about my scais!" he exclaimed, so that I started and trembled. " Open your lips to her about them, you blessed little chatterbox, and I'll kill you! It sue won t care ior me without scars, she sha'n't care for me at all!" " Well. I declare, I never" I began Just take me to mamma, if you please. If Paul heard you speaking so to his " Ilanar Paul ! Hush ! hush !" he said. drawing my hand through his arm and holding it. "louhave made me nap. ninr tr.nl trhfc fiinn von over can airain." hnrltt hns trrinfi crnzv!" I Kr aH Anrl inn inatenrl nt lis tnk- ins me to mamma, uousin miciioias arm slid round my waist, anu ne was whir line me round the room to themad- dening waltz music in a way that mamma asserted alterward was utterly inexcusable, and that llomaine declared took her breath away. " 1 should never have thoueht it of vou." she said. "Dear me!" I answered ; "youoont suppose he's going to go sighing like a lurrrace lor you lorever, wnen you "When I what!"' "Have refused him twenty times." " I've never had the chance to refuse him once. I don't want to have it " " You're afraid you'd accept him, miss," I exclaimed. " I don't want to accept him." " You'd accept him quickly enough if be was a slender vounir ollieer wiih a face hidden bv a bright brown beard and smooches and smirches of powder driving his soldiers out of the house the first man thatever kissed jour hand, Miss Romaine.wim an old silver-aet dia mond rins on his. You needn't think I hadn't an v eves, if I wasn't but six years old, or any memory, or any faculty of outtina two and two together " Oh. how can you be so cruel!" she cried, hiding her face in her hands "I'm not cruel," I said. "It s you that are cruel, and sillv too Cousin Nicholas is worth a dozen of that fel low that you Bet up lor yourse.f to bow down to. Don't you suppose Cousin Nicholas would havedriven the soldiers out, and have kissed your hand too?" 'Nicholas, where bullets were, uy- ing!" "Yes, where bullets were flying, and riddled with them, besides. And you don't deserve him, that you don't, it you are beautiful. But, oh! I do de clare, Roinaine, when you are so per fectly lovely, and he does love you so, for you to" "How do you know he loves me so? He never said it." "As if there were no other speech than just so many words ! I can't ste how you can be so unleeling." " I never said I was unleeling." "What? ltyally, llomaine? Are you in earnest? Do you really care for him, just a little?" " I I I mean I could maybe. But but then, you know, dear, I 1 can't talk about it. I feel as if I were pledged as if I were breaking a bond-" "To that other fellow? Fiddlesticks' md! You, tweuty-Huveu yearn old, !- envy and rage. There he comes now, and I'm croine out to see him and be gin;" and so I ran down the lawn to meet him as ne gave nis norse to me groom it was only the next day after Mrs. Glance s ball. I've something to tell you," I said, taking his arm and holding it in a way to drive vexation to nomaine s nearr, for I knew she was looking at U3 behind a curtain somewhere And I've something to show you. mv dear child." he answered, and he fumbled in a pocket a moment, and then, opening his hand just a jittle way, let me see a gleam oi sometning spanning diamonds silver-set. "Nicholas!" I cried. And I stood open-mouthed, looking him over from head to foot. " ' Ton years make great alterations,' " he hummed. " But, Nicholas" "Hush! hush!" he said. "Do you believe she has suspected F" 'Oh, never! Oti, make nastes uu, do go in! She's in the music-room. look mot out behind the curtain." And 1 never was so impatient with anybody in my life as with the slow, careless gait at which he went up the lawn and inr.n The house. I ran in. half an hour afterward, to cet mv .Tananese work. They had gone out on the balcony, and were leaning over the rail together, looking at tne sea ; and as I just glanced at them there was a color in Romaine's cheek and alory in her eye that almost made my heart stop beating. And suddenly 1 made a dart at her, and caught her hand and held it up. And they both seized me with one accord that moment, and swore me to secrecv. And I promised; and a promise is a promise, you Know, anu althniiffh I'm dtinff to tell you, wild . , . , . horses won t get it away from me, and I never, never shall tell you what it was I saw on Romaine's finger Harper's Bazar. How to be Independent of Dry Weather, We have lived in the Arkansas val ley for nearly nine years. From the hrst we have been of the opinion that this country will, eventually, support m abundant prosperity a dense popula tion, who will produce from the soil crops not excelled for yield or certainty in any part of the world. The soil is nt surprising lertihty, the lay ol the land is admirable and the temperature is of the mean between the cold of the North and the heat of the South most favorable for grains and fruits The only thing wanting i3 regularity in the supply ot moisture. home expect that this will correct it self, and when a good rain comes assert that the seasons are changing, growing more rainy. Ihe experience ot last year and this have almost dissipated this theory. W hat then is the remedy lor drouth There is abundance of water atashor distance below the surface. The wind is willing to work for nothing and to raise to the surface an unlimited amount of it. It remains for the ingenuity and skill of man to harness the wind to the work, and toapply the water judiciously to the soil, borne say this will be lm practicable and expensive. Expensive it mav be. but it is not impracticable In Holland they have emptied lake3 and even a sea in order to cultivate the soil at their bottom. Constant vigilance is necessary to ken the water out, let all IS done at profit, expensive will 11 ue iu imitate ""'""fi ""u yis VLl lakes and seas of Holland. The lakes of Holland were not dried in a day, neither will the Arkansas valley be irrigated in a day, but ny preparation beiorenand and the accumulation of a supply o water on the surface to be in constant readiness when needed, the long dry spells will bo deprived of their power to rum mo prosperity ot the country. How 13 this to be doner We should say, select the highest point on the land sought to be watered; with plow and scraper make a neavy dirt wall around a large basin ; keep it wet with a windmill and water eleva tor; feed your hogs in this pen for a few weeks and let them wallow the entire surface so as to make it hold water; plant cotton-wood cuttings all over the dirt wall, then let you windmills devote the winter and spring to filling up this bas n. By the time the water is needed for the crops in the spring, the water will be warm and tit to apply. As these supplies of surface water are in creased a greater amount of moisture will be found to exist at all times in the air. Slcriina (Kan.) Gazette. How Drinking Causes Apoplexy. It is the essential nature ot all wines and spirits to send an increased amount of blood to the brain. The first ell'oct of taking a glass of wine or stronger form of alcohol is to send the blood there faster than common, hence the circula tion that gives the red face. It in creases the activity of the brain, and it workE faster, and so does the tongue. But as the blood goes faster to the brain than common, it returns faster, and no immediate harm may result. But sup pose a man keeps on drinking the blood is sent to the brain so fast in large quantities, that in order to make room for it the arteries have to charge themselves; they increase in Bize, and in doing so they press against the more yielding flaccid veins which carry the blood out of the brain and thus dimin ish the size of their pores, the result being that the blood is not only carried to the arteries of the brain taster than is natural or healthful, but il is pre vented from leaving it as fast as usual ; hence a double set of causes of death are in operation, llenec a man maj drink enough of brandy or other spirits in a few hours, or even minutes, to biiii on a fatal attack of apoplexy. This is bimally bi:in dead drunk. FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD Ulrdllna Trees and Vines. There are many things about plant erowth that we cannot know ; vet, by careful study and experiments, we may learn much that is botn interesting ana useful. Many of the popular notions in regard to plants have been proved to be incorrect, it is commonly supposeu, for example, that the growth of a tree is upward from the ground ; but it has been demonstrated that the growth is really from the top downward. The sap passes up through the wood of the tree to the leaves, where it meets with the tYint.pri al irathered from the air. In this laboratory of the leaves, vegetables matter, is formed, which is then con veyed downward not between ine bark and the wood, : s has been claimed hut in the inside layer of the bark, fiom which it is thrown off to become a new layer of wood. A girdled tree may continue to grow fihnpp the o rdle. but never below. A girdled tree, in onejsense, does not die because ot tne girdle, dui Decause tue denuded wood dries up so as to prevent the nan from passim? up to tne leaves. If the denuded part can be bo proiecieu from the sun and air as to keep it from drying, the life of the tree may be pre served. I knew a pine tree to live and grow for eight years after being girdled ; r I ' ' j but the growth, was oniy aoove me gu- dle. .... Farmers are alwaVS anXlOUS tO knOW a thing if they can make a dollar out of it. Now, if the growth of thetree is from the top downward, a knowledge of this taot mnv he nt prcat value w lruiu- growers. It we can Keep me vegeiaoie French government to aecioe as 10 me matter formed in the leaf in the top of disposition to be made of the Tuileries the tree, it will t nd to increase the pro- has agreed to restore the palace and con duction of fruit. That this is a fact has vert it into a museum. . been sufficiently proven by numerous experiments. Girdle the canes ot a grape- vine and it ripens rs iruu iwo or u is weks earlier than a vine not girdled. he same is true of the apple and all fruit-bearing trees. This fact is ot es pecial importance in the culture of grapes, as in this way we can ripen va rieties of this fruit for which our seasons are ordinarily, with the usual treat ment, too short. The reason that 'gird ling has not been generally pracuseu uy fmit-irrnwers. is because it has been commonly supposed that a vine or tree cannot be girdled without killing it. It is my purpose to ten you now uow you can girdle your vines and trees with out iniurine them. I have girdled the same grapevine five yearsin succession, anu wauuuiiujuimgium u.ii..." proper time to girdle a vine is when the grapes are about the size of a pea. The operation may be performed with a sharp penknife, cutting a clean chasm around the bearing canes, about one-sixteenth of an inch in width. This chasm, while of too small extent to iDjure the vine, will vet be sufficient to check for a few weeks the descent of the sap, and conse quently the growth of the vine below, throwing the whole of the nutriment absorbed by the vine int o the tops of the canes and the fruit. Ihe ellect will be to greatly advance and improve tho fruit. The girdle will, in a little while, readily heal over, aod the circulation of the vine resume its normal cours). Tho branches of ali fruit-bearing trees may be treated in the same way, and with like results. Any one can suc cessfully perform the operation if they are only sufficiently careful not to make t lie cut in .he bark too wide. Professor Rockbridge . Cleanliness In Milking. To keep ,milk clean while in the act of drawing it, the cow must be clean, her bag and teat? washed and wiped be fore commencing to milk her, and the milkman's hands be then washed. After straining and setting, see that no foul air can come from any quarter to taint the milk ; and for this we must be careiui, for such is often borne on a Btrong breeze fully a mile off or more from the place whore it originated. It is, of course, presupposed that all vessels used lor holding the milk are kept clean and en tirely clear of every sort of odors. We have often seen the dairy house placed close to the cattle yard, poultry house, and, what is foulest of all, a dirty pig pen. No wonder where this is the case an miion butter and cheese are sent to market not fit to be eaten. Beclues. To Bake Potatoes Quickly. To bake potatoes quickly, pour water on and let them stand a minute or two be fore putting them into the oven. To Cook Veal. Roll the slices in beaten eggs and then in rolled crackers. Melt a little butter in the frying pan, and place the veal in it; cover tightly and let it stew lor an hour. Vmv.n Potatoes. Potatoes sliced very thin should be cooked in a deep skillet; the lard or butter must be bon ing hot. If placed in a wire sieve much time is saved and trouble spared. Celeky Salt. Save the root of the ceiery plant, dry and grate it, mixing it with one-third as much salt. Keep it in a bottle well corked, and it is de licious for oysters, soups, gravies or hashes. Pie Cuist. Take boiled potatoes, cold or hot, and knead into them a small piece of dripping, salt, and sufficient flour to make a paste. No water or milk should be used. Good for a meat pie, and is best eaten hot. AUTIIICIAL CltEAM FOlt COEEEE. Beat one egg to a foam, add a table spoon of white sugar, aud pour a pint of boiling milk into it, stirring briskly as it is poured on the egg. Prepare at night for the morning. A man was struck down by paralysis in a Michigan sawmill. He fell across a log which was being sawed, and was carried with it slowly but surely to the saw. He was conscious, but utterly, helpless. The saw had cut half way through his arm when his awlul pre dicament was discovered. Tho boy who was kept after school for bad orthography said he wa upell- l bound. LowM tun. Listen. We borrow In onr sorrow From the Bun ot some to-morrow Hall the light that gilds to-day And the splendor Flashes tender, O'er hope footsteps, to defend her. From the tears that haunt the way. We never Here can sever Any now from the forever, Intei-clasping near and far! For each minute Holds witbin it All the hours of the Infinite, As one sky holds every star. ITEMS OF INTEREST, The quantity of cotton consumed in 1878 was fifty:four times greater than 1778. It is estimated the St. Gothard tunnel will augment trade between Germany and. Italy tenfold. Our market reporter informs us that " there is a remarkable downward ten dency in lamp-wicks on Sunday night." Marathon Independent. It is illegal in England to sell crabs measuring less than four and one-half inches across the back, and persons sell ing them have lately been punished. A commission appointed by the TOan who undertakes anything and tg 1(?ft ftt hig own me catcnca a tar- The boy who ciimbs to the top . ,f . th doe8 80 with tho ex pectation of catching a tart or two. "Anxious Engineer" asks us how he may " learn to write well." Write it w-e-1-1, my son. There may be those who write it with one 1; but the best authors double the final consonant. Grip. A PRUDENT LOVER. The thrush in the thicket is singing, The lark is abroad on the lea, And over the garden gate swinging A maiden is waiting tor me. She will wait till Tshe's weary, I'm thinking, Though eagor I am tor the tryst j She will wait till the bright stars are blinking, And sigh for the kisses she miss'd. But her lather is watchful and wary, A very ill-tempered old chnrl, And I am not the sort of canary To be kicked lor the love of a girl. Andrew? Bazar A teacher asked a bright little girl: "What country is opposite us on the globeP" "Don't know, sir,'' was the answer. " Well, now," pursued the teacher, "if I were to bore a holo through the earth, and you were to go in at this end, where would you come out?" "Out of tho hole, sir." replied the pupil, with an air of triumph. A party that moved last Saturday hung a Brussels carpet on the clothe line for an airing, and a goat came along and ate a couple of yards of it be fore he made the discovery that its flowers were not natural. The re marks of the owner on making the dis covery are not printable. Bunnyside Press. A down-town man went fishing the other day, and returned with three small trout. He carried them through the street boldly, and when asked if those were all he caught, frankly ad mitted that they were. The neighbors gave him a pleasanf surprise last night, -and presented him with the beauti fully carved motto, " An hor.est fisher man is the noblest work of God." New Haven Register Changes of Life. Change is the common feature of so ciety of all life. The world is like a magic lanter, or the shifting scenes of a panorama. Ten years convert the population of schools into men and women, the young into fathers and matrons, make and mar for tunes, and bury the last generation but one. , Twenty years convert infants Into lovers, fathers and mothers, decide men's fortunes and distinctions, convert active men and women into crawling drivelers, and bury all preceding gen erations. Thirty years raise an active genera tion from nonentity, change fascinating beauties into unbearable old women, convert lovers into grandfathers, and bury the active generation, or reduce them to decrepitude and imbecility. Forty years, alas! change the face of nil unciptv. Infants are growing old. Ihe bloom of youth and beauty has passed away, two active generations have been swept from the stage of lite; names once cherished are forgotten, unsuspected candidates for fame have started from the exhaustless womb of nature. . And in fifty years- mature, ripe fifty years a half century what treniep dou3 changes occur. How time writes her sublime wrinkles everywhere, in rock, river, forest, cities, villages, ham lets, in the nature oi man and the des tinies and aspects of all civilized so- cletv- ... Let us pass on to eighty years and what do we see in the world to comfort us? Our parents are gone; our children have passed away from us into all parts of the world to tight, the grim and des perate battle of life. Our old friends where are they? We behold a world ot which we knownothing and to which we are unknown. e weep iui generations long gone by for loverf, for p arents, for children, for friends m the grave. Wo see evcrjthine turned upbide down by the fickle hand of for tuue and the absolute despotism of time. In a word we behold the vanity of life, und are quite ready to lay down the poor burden and bo noua.
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