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VOLUME. 26.
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When the evening twilight deepens,
, Casting shadows o'er the lea,
Bringing back, with all their sweetness,
Happy hours I've spent with thee.
I miss thee.
When - the birds have bushed-their-music,
And have sought their downy_nest ;
'tVhen the 'ms world is silent,
na ure sun ?
I mtss thee.
When the ills of life assail me,
And my soul is bowed with care,
And memory turns to bygone hours,
Seeking consolation there,
• 1 miss thee.
When. he night-bat flits and hovers
Round about my window-pane—
Truthful omen, tellinl truly
We bhall never meet again—
" I miss thee.
Wh
With its solemn, ghostly tread,
Waking memories sad and dreary,
That should;slumber with the _dead
1 miss thee.
When the breaking day approaches,
And the lark is soaring high,
Singing loud his song of bwee tit ess
„Far up in the rosy sky,
I miss thee.
'When the busy world is moving
With the hardy sons of toil,
Then my soul is tilled with sorrow,
Nor e. 0.1 this misery foil,
Yuri miss thee.
atlifitellautaus
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NEARLY A TRAGEDY.
BY JUDGE CLARK.
Could I believe:my , - eyes ? Was that
Helen —my Helen—to whom Lwad to be
married in a mouth, hanging fiuniliarly
40-i another's arm, and looking up as lov
ingly in his face as ahe had been wont to
tro in mine.
I had no reason to distrust.my eyes.—
In tact I knew them to be exceptionably
good. It certainly.tvas Helen. lint what
could she be doing .here, and who could
she be with on terms so intimate.? I had
every reason to believe ha at home, hun
dreds of miles away; and except toward
a brother or myself, I felt she had no bus
iness acting so. But I knew.she had no
brother and equally well that.the gentle
man .with her wasn't I.
A business tour I was taking before my
.marriage had brought me to New Orleans;
.aud it was on one of the public promen
.ades of that city that I so unexpectedly
met my affianced under the.circtuaistauc
•es mentioned.
Determined to have an explanation,
I hurried forward to meet the pair.
I raised my hat ceremoniously, but, be
yond a. stiff bow from the gentleman, re
,ceived no recognition from either.
"Apparently you have forgotten me"
I said to .Helen in a voice tremulous with
pusion, in spite of my efforts to appear
calm.
She shrank frightened from my look
.and clung closer to her companion's arm.
He conducted her to a rustic seat at a
little distance, and returning, accosted me
in a tone studiously polite and haughty.
"I am ready to hear anything you may
have to say to the lady," said he.
"I am not aware," I replied,,of any rea
.son for making you the medium of corn
mindeAtion between us."
"That your manner is—not quite re
spectful," he answered, hesitating a mo
ment tbr the expression, "is one' reason;
another is that the lady is my wife."
I was thnnderstruck. My home was
.nt a distance from Helen's. &sides, I
had been traveling for weeks, and had re
ceived no letters from her.
I remembered hearing her friend tease
her about a handsome gentleman in New
Orleans, where she had spent the last win
ter. This was undoubtedly he—the ft
cored lover. Helen had Only been flirt
ing with me, and in my absence, with our
wedding day fixed had perfidiously mar
ried my rival_
They were even now in their honey
moon ! The thought made me furious.
"Your wife is a talse woman !" I hissed
through my clenched teeth.
4 1( u ate a—." Controlling himself, he
added : This is no place for what remains
to be settled between us.
Your card if you }Lase. Do not let
my wife see."
I would have flung it in• his face, but I
knew that' to make a scene there might
forestall the opportunity I longed for of
meeting my supplanter in deadly conflict.
I banded him any card quietly. He
thrust it in his pocket, and returned me
his.
I hastened away, impatient for the hour
to come, when, weapon in hand, I might
confront the man 1 most of all hated.
At 'that time and place, such affairs
were not accustomed to be long deferred.
It was necessary that I should procure
the service of a friend without delay.—
There was but one person iu the city, an
old college•mate, to. whom I could apply
in such a need. I had his address, and
set out at once to Bud him.
Then turning a street corner, as I hurri
ed along, whom should I see coming tow
ard me but fiiithless Helen, her face
wreathed with similes, and her hand ex
tended to greet me!
She has surmised the danger to her
husbaud, thought I, and would seek te
disarm my vengeance. Bit my heart was
steel. I spurned her proffered hand, and,
with a look of anger and contempt, which
I was glad to see had its effect, passed on
quickly and in silence.
My friend accompanied me to my room,
where I at once set about arranging my
affairs. I knew my adversary's second
-would call in an hour at the farthest, and
I was anxious to have everything in rea
diness.
I had scarcely finished what I had to
do, when a visitor was announced, whose
-errand-,--as-I-tutticipated-rwas-the-delivery
of the expected message.
• It was the form of a polite and courte
ous note--how polite,and courteous such
missive always are—merely stating that
the writer had committed the making of
all necessary arrankrinents on his part to
the bearer, his friend, b Colonel Wyng, and
expressing the hope that'the affair might
be terminated as speedily as possible.
"You see," explained the colonel, after
I had introduced my friend, Tom Bright,
- "my - principal - has an-engagement-for-the
opera this evening, and is desirous of get
ting through in time for it."
.1 gave the gentleman assurance that
01 1
Te—wits-no—disposition—on-my—partto
interfere unnecessarily with his friend's
engagements which, it was to be hoped,
nothing might occur to prevent keeping
—adding that, .as the challenged party, I
selected pistols at ten paces ; so no time
need he wasted on preliminaries.
"In that case,", said the colonel, "we
may start at ()ace. 1 have a carriage at
the door, and we can pick up my friend
- on the way."
We excepted his offer, and set out im
mediately.
- - -
Tom and the colonel chatted pleasant
ly till the carriage stopped in front of an
elegant umnsion.
‘.lVe must stop here a moment gentle
men," said the colonel. "Please step out;"
and opening the door he led the way.
Tom and I would have preferred wait
ing in the carriage, but the colonel insist
ed so politely that we got out . and follow
ed him up the steps.
The door opened, and having conduct
ed-us into a neat sitting-room the colonel
bade us excuse him a moment and disap
peared.
"This way, gentlemen," he said, return
ing after a few minutes.
He led us through a pair of folding
doors into an apartment where our eye=
were greeted •by a tableau, at Which mine
were even more astonished than by the
eight they had encountered in the morn
ing.
There stood the man I was on my way
to fight, between two Helens so like, that
which of thew , was mine I felt I should
.never be Ale to decide.
"What a dunce you were, Fred," said
one otthein—l saw it was my Helen now
by the eng on -her finger—"to mistake
my Sister ibr myself this morning, and go
quarreling 'With 'her husband."
I don't know what I stammered.
"And then to get so absurdly jealous,"
she continued, "and refused to speak to
me, after so long an absence. I've a good
mind not to forgive you !"
"You see," explained my late enemy,
My Helen—whom you had never seen be
fore—and your Helensare twin sisters, so
nearly alike that intimate friends are us
ually compelled to take their word for
which is which. 4 They are devoted to each
other, and Helena would have Helen come
and stay here a week or two before her
marriage. She has been here a couple of
days now, and an hour ago came iu cry
ing—"
"I did no such thing !" pouted Helen.
"At any rate,'" he continued, "it came
out that you had met on the street, and
unaccountably refused to speak. -A tho't
flashed upon me. I looked at your card.
Though 1 had never seen you, I was
not ignorant of the name of my intended
brother-in-laNt. All was made clear, and
I dispatcbed to the colonel to bring you
here as the best way to prevent bloodshed
between prospective relatives."
The opera engagement was kept, a hap
py evening was spent, and after many
blunders, I began at last to be able to tell
which was my Helen. I don't think the
whole i , world could deceive me on that
point n0w.—.37. Y. Ledger.
STARVINC IN BROADWAY.-A terrible
tableau. vivant was acted in lower Broad
way, New York, one day last week. Near
Exchange Place, at about mid-dny,a man,
with a thin, wasted face, was seen to
totter, then stagger, and then fall. A
curious crowd soon gathered, believing
the man to be suffering in a fit.. On in
quiring the cause, the following terrible
reply was faintly given : "I am starving ;
I haven't eaten anything in six days !"
A shudder ism through the crowd-, they
stood back, appalled at the bare fact of
such suffering, destitution, and well-nigh
death. A sympathizing German ran a
cross the street, and soon returned with a
loaf of bread. The starving mares eves
fairly glared, as he seized and ate it. It
seemed that he must choke. such was the
voracity with which he sought to appease
the calls of his long-suffering stomach.
There was its the scene a reality—a terri
blefiess—which indelibly impreised
,itself
upon ail who witnessed this sort of reha
bilitation of a dying ram Six days in
this great city without a morsel to eat !
Where was his tongue ? Or is he one of
those proud, timid men who die, but
make no sign? He was sent to the hospi
tal for treatment. Think of it!! Starva
tion in Broadwa3,-I—X. Dbpatele.
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WAYNESBORO', FRANKLIN COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1873.
The Time to Resume.
The country is paSsing its grand es t op
portunity since the war. There has not
been since the passage of the Legal tender
act any financial situation or crisis that
so held out all its hands inviting to resump•
tion.—Shirll - welet it go oy ? -7. 1` e crisis
calls for a firm hand, a bleat' head, and
determined purpose; that's all. It requires
no superhuman wisdom _to discover our
disease, or any profound political science
to detect its cause. We halt between pal
liation and cure. Ilere's an hour's work
with the knife, or endless stretch of splints
and bandages, lotions and plasters, opiates
and stimulants, with recurring paroxysms,
spasms, and convulsions, and never sound
health-in body-or limb. __Shall it be sur
gery or quackery? . We must choose be
tween them. To-day's opportunity is for
the-countryTfor-the-dominant-party,for
the President. It is within the reach of
the President, who has but to put his hand
and seize it . , to make himself a great name,
give his party the new prestige that it
needs, and establish it firmly in power and
lift, the whole country up to pure air and
solid ground.
Let the President issue his proclamation
convening Congress in an extra session at
eight or ten days' notice, with the sole ob
ject, distinctly stated in the call, of legis
liiting—foi-• the - linmediate — resumption — of
specie payments. For ten days past peo
ple have done almost nothing but stand
in front of their balaucesheets ancLin_ren
tories-ati-d-see-a-rapid-and-constant-sh rill
age in values. And there's no knowing
where it will stop or when, for the simple
reason that there is no financial hard-pa,u.
It has been abolished by law. For elev
en years we have gone on doing busbies
with irredeemable promises. We hays
taken notes of each other and paid them
with the notes of the Government, which
- C6r - e - Withota - relatiOn 4 -
thing haVing a fixed value--unstable and
irredeemable. So long as we are content
to do business upon the system of renew
als, giving and taking new notes for old
ones—with government setting the exam
ple—we seem to be prosperous and healthy
—we grow up in full enjoyment of the
dropsy, or rather we bulge out like The
Grap.l . Lie balloon into beautiful proportions
with a "rip line" hanging within anybod
y's reach. Then comes a time—it has
come to us—when people begin to inquire
what the paper represents and to grope
for a standard of values. Everything
tumbles, , and business stands still except
in bankruptcy courts, till that standard
is reached. Let us have that established
by resuming specie payments. We have
had quite enough of ballooning ; Bhough
of this running speculation-mad, of knit
ting stocks, of laying railroad ties on moon
beams, giving mortgages on fog banks,
and calling ourselves stout because we
have gorged ourselves with the east wind.
Some time we must get back to specie.
That's admitted. Why not now? When
will there be a better time? When would
the country be more benefited by it than
now? There ought to he statesmanship e
nough in Congress to devise a simple,
practical method. It is not the province
of journalism to legislate, and legislatures
are proverbially jealous of interference
with their functions by the press. We sug
gest nothing except that Congress be sum
moned together for this purpose and this
only, not putter over and tinkcr up mat
ters, but simply to legislate for resump
tion. The Administration of President
Grant has an opportunity to lift itself in
to a better place in history than almost
any of its predecessors by this simple act;
the Republican party has an opportunity
to redeem itself front a record which its
best friends admit is not wholly glorious,
and the country has an opportunity to
step out into the grandest part of its Ca
rew. Shall it pass unimproved? Let
PrZsideat Grant settle it, so far as he is
concerned, by convening Congress and
putting upon it the responsibility of meet
ing the emergency.—Ex'
Picking the Ear.
Dr. Tian says ."picking the ear" is a
most mischievous practice! in attenipting
to do this with hard substances, an un
lucky motion has many a time pierced
the drum ; nothing sharper nor harder
than the end of the little finger, with the
nail pared, ought ever to be introduced
into the ear, unless' by a physician.
Persons are often seen endeavoring to
remove the "wax" of the ear with the
head of a pin ; this ought never to be done;
first, because it not only endang ers the
rupture of the ear by being pushe d to tar
in, hut if not so far, it may grate against
the drum, excite inflammation and an ul
cer which will finally eat all the parts a
way, especially if a scrofulous constitution;
second, hard substances have often %lipp
ed in and caused the necessity of painful
operations to fish or cut out; third, the
wax is manufactured by nature to guard
the entrance from dust, insects, and un
modified cold air, and when it has sub
served its purpose it becomes dry, scaly,
light, and in this condition is easily push
ed outside by flew forntsOion of wax with
in.
Occasionly wax may harden and may
interfere with the hearing; but when this
is the case, it is the part of wisdom to
consult a physician and let him decide
what is the remedy ; if one cannot be had
the only safe plan is to let fall into the
ear three or four drops of tepid water,
night and morning; the saliva is better
still, for it is softer and more penetrating,
but glycerine is far preferable to either;
it is one of the blaudest fluids in Nature,
and very rapidlypenetrates the hardened
wax, cools the palls, and restores them to
a healthful condition. If in a week there
is net a decided improvement in the hear
ing, medical advice out to behad at once,
as next to the eye, the ear is the most del
icate organ of the body.
..BWEETIBART, GOOD•BY.
BY P. H. RAYNE.
Sweetheart; good-by ! Our varied day
Is closing into twilight gray,
And u from bare bleak wastes of s
The storm wind rises mournfully ;
A mystic prescience, strange and drear,
Doth haunt the shuddering twilight air,
It fills the earth, it chills the sky—
Sweetheart, good-by
Sweetheart, good-by ! Our are passed,
And night with silence comes at last;
And things must end—yea, even love,
Nor know we, if reborn above,
The heart-blooms of our earthly prime
Shall flower beyond these — bonds of time,
"Ah death alone is sure !" we cry—
Sweetheart ood-hyi_
Sweetheart, good-by! Thrp'"mist and tears
Pass the pale phantoms of our years,
Once bright with spiing, or subtly strong,
When summer's noon thrilled with song,
Now wan, wild eyed, forlornly bowed.
Each rayless as an autumn cloud
Fading on dull September's sky—
Sweetheart, good-by
Sweetheart, good-by ! The vapors rolled
---- Athwart - yon - distant7darkening - world; ----
Are types of what our world doth know,
Of tenderest loves of long ago ;
a hus_when-all-is-done-and-said
if/. lived oat,_our passion dea_d_,
What can their wavering record be
But tinted mists of memory?
Oh clasp and kiss me ere we die—
Sweetheart, good-by I
Romantic Balloon Tragedy.
A correspondent of an Ohio paper says:
b PRP 11,4 11 oun_days-Latn—reruiudet
an extraordinary ascension made during
the war, in Northern Ohio. The aeron
aut had gone up frequently ; was accoun
ted courageous and sagacious in busineg;
and had such amiable and sterling quali
ties as to render him highly esteemed. He
seems to have been blessed, or cursed,
with a pretty wife, to whoM he was devo
tedly attached. As frequently happens,
she did not love him in return—at least
not enough to insu i re her loyalty. She
permitted her ardent affections to wander
and those who knew, informed him of
their well grounded suspicions. Too gen
erous to believe, too chivalrous to doubt,
he continued to repose the fullest faith in
his consort until at last the dreadful con
viction was forced upon him. Even then
lie gave no intimation that he had discov
ered her guilty secret, though some of his
friends were confident he had. He adver
tised another balloon voyage, and at the
time named, all was prepared. His wife
was in the inclosure, and just before he
stepped into the car, he went to her side,
kissed her tenderly, saying he hoped
Heaven would make her happy;_ that he
loved her so much that he would mot fur
a momeab stand between her and her
peace.
His words bad such significance that
the blood started to her face and the
tears to her eyes. Ere she could collect
herself he • was in the basket, the ropes
were cut, and he was shooting through the
air. Days, weeks and months passed,
and the popular aeronaut was not heard
foam ; nor were there any tidings of the
kalloon. It was universally supposed
that he had met with a fatal accident;
that he had probably gone so high that
the silken hag had burst aLd destroyed
his life. More than a year after, frag
ments of a skeleton, with bits of clothing
were found on the shore of Lake Erie ;
also the remains of a gold watch bear
ing the initials of the missing aeronaut.
The mystery was then solved.
He had ascended with deliberate in
tent of leaping from the balloon at a cer
min elevation, knowing that, by such
means lie would escape the suspicion 'of
suicide, and desperately carried out his
desperate determination. This was an in
stance of chivalry which it would be diffi
cult to excel. Romance does not surpass
it nor Poetry either. The man who sac
rificed himself Mita pure love, though
for the elicit passion of his wife, never
imagined that he was a hero; and yet not
in history or in fiction are greater heroes
shown. His was one of the many instan
ces:of nobleness and devotion Which pass
away unrecognized, because no eloquent
pen records their virtu,s, and no inspired
singer sins them.
Is J. WILXES Boons STILL ALIVE?.
—The story is revived that J. Wilkes
Booth the slayer of President Lincoln
still lives. It is now said that he was
seen and conversed on Pelew island.—
How he made his escape from the Uni
ted States he did not reveal except that
he did not leave until thirty days after
the. assassination. During his wander
ings he had been in Mexico. South Amer
ica, Afrim, Turkey, Arabia, Rome and
met Jolla .H. Surratt. The latter, we
believe, has always maintained that Booth
is still living. The fact that Secretary
Stanton would permit no one to see the
body of the dead man killed in Maryland
and said to be Booth, gives plausibility
to the story that the real assassin of Pres
ident Lincoln made his escape success
fully. The late Garrett Davis, of Ken
tucky, avowed his conviction on the floor
of the U. S. Senate that Booth was not
killed•but was in a place of safety.
A wise matt will speak well of his wife
and take a home newspaper, and pay for
it in advance.
Some people are wise 4ne day - and oth
erwise the next.
If there is .one this; .s loafer docent•
.ileserre it. is .a lest
The Silent Forces of Nature
'lt is not the whistling wind, nor the
roaring waterfalls, nor the pealing thun
der, that is accomplishing the most work
in this world. The forces in the world
Arformin_ the . randest • . •• I:
seen, neither do they make any noise, yet
they are pumping - sap to be wrought in
to leaf, bloom and fruit with more force
than all the engines on earth. Every tree
in the forest has its hydraulic engine bus
ily pumping up and propelling the vital
fluid of its life, up through its tall trunk,
branching limbs, and topmost" boughs.—
What vast forces are thus going on se
•cretly in the green fields, the blooming
orchards, and verdant woods !
The railroad_train_traveling at the rate
of thirty miles per hour, roars as distant
thunder among the trembling hills. But
our earth, with its roomy continents,
spreading seas and massive mountains,
sweeps on in its diurnal motion at the rate
of more than 'l,OOO miles per hour, yet so
silently as not to be heard by an angel's
ear. Silently it makes its annual revolu-,
tion around the sun, a journey of more
than 550,000,000 miles, with the astonish
ing velocity of 63,000 miles an hour and
perfect uniformity of time. How perfect
ly silent, yet tremendous, is the astronom
ic force of gravitation, that' stupendous
-power-of-the-solar-orb,-that-holds-mass-•
ive worlds steady in Their orbits. The
force exerted, on our globe is equal to 1,-
356 450,000,0912,040_t0achLi5-the
vast power of the sun upon the earth at
- the-distance-of-95-,000,D00-of miles, and
that by the noiseless and invisible energy
of gravitation. Nor does this power end
here. Jupiter, Saturn, 'Uranus, vastly
larger globes, and-revolving at distances
immensely greater, are bound and guided
with equal firmness by this silent, 'myste
rious influence. And even Neptune; roll
ing-onward in its lonely way in the far
off distance of 2,862,000,000 miles from
the sun is held steadily in its frontier or
bit.
What Men Need Wives For.
It is not to sweep house, and make the
bed, and darn the socks, and cook the
meals, chiefly, that a man wants a wife.
If this is all he needs, hired help can do
that cheaper than a wife. If this is all,
when a young man ealls to see a young
lady. send himin the pantry to see the
bread and cakes she has made ;
send him to inspect her needle-work, and
bedmaking ; or put a broom into her
hands, and the' wise young will
. quietlS
look after them.
But what a true man most wants of a
true wife is her companionship, sympathy,
courage and love. The way of life has
many dreary places in it, and man
needs a companion to go with him. A
man is sometimes overtaken with misfor
tunes; he meets with failure and defeat;
trials and temptations beset him ; and he
needs tate to stand by and sympathize.
He has some stern battles to fight with
poverty, with enemies and sin; and he
needs a woman that, while he puts his
arm around her and knows that he has
something to fight for, will help him fight;
that will put her lips to ,his ear and whis
per words of counsel, and her hands to
his heart and impart new inspiration. All
through life, through storm and sunshine,
conflict and• victory, through adverse and
and favoring winds, man needs a woman's
love. The heart, yearns for it. A sis
ter's or a mother's love will hardly sup
ply the need.
Yet many seek for nothing further than
success in house work. Justly enough,
half of these get nothing more : the other
half, surprised above measure, have got
ten more than they sought. Their wives
surprise them by bringing a noble idea
of marriage, and disclbsing a treasury of
courage, sympathy and love.
Savings.
Pennies, like minutes, are often thrown
away, because people do not know what
to du with them. Those who are econo
mists of the time, and all the great men
on record have been so, take care of the
minutes ; for they know that a few min
utes well applied each day will make•
hours in the course of a week, and days
in.the course of a year; and in the course
of a long life, they will make enough of
time, if well employed, in which a man
may, by perseverance, have accomplished
some work useful to his fellow creatures,
and to himself. Large fortunes, when
gained honestly, are rarely acquired iu a
ny other wity than by small savings at
first; and savings can only be made by
habits of industry and temperance. A
saving, therefore, while he is adding to
the general stock ofgeneral wealth, is set
ting au exaMple of those virtues, on which
the very existence and happiness of socie
ty depend There are saving people who
are misers, and have no one good quality,
for which we can like them. These are
not the kind of people of whom we are
speaking, but we remark that a miser,
though 11 disagreeable fellow while alive
is a very useful person when dead. lie
has been compared to a tree, which, while
it is growing, can be applied to no use, at
last, thrnishes timber for houses and do
mestic,utensils. But a miser is infinitely
more useful than a spendthrift, a mere
consumer and waster, who, after he has
spent all his money, tries to spend that of
other people.
Success is fuLl.of promise until a man
gets it ; and then it is like last year's nest
from which the bird has flown. '
Costly apparatus and splendid cabi
nets have axo power to _make scholars.
Books are the depository of ever,ything
that is most honorable in man.
Whatever you 4fialike in another, take
dater to.eorzect infyauntriE
How He got his Bitter's Free.
Jonah Filcher is the town clerk of
North Bergen. He had the misfortune
to have been the victim of an accident
which shortened one of his legs several
• .
leg he about six feet. When on his
left he is about four feet six. Now it hap
pened the other day that Jonah ,wanted
his bitters, and be went into a gin mill
near to get them. After he had stepped
up to the counter, he supported hiinself on
his left leg and his chin scarcely reached
above the counter. The bar-keeper look
ed down upon his diminutive Custom*.
"What will you have ?" he asked.
"Give me brandy sour," replied Jo
nah.
The bar-keeper went to the other end
of the bar to prepare the decoction. He
vas some time about it, and Jonah, tired
of standing upon his left foot, elevated
himself on his right, a foot and a half.
The bar-keeper returned and looking
at the tall Jonah didn't recognize him.
"Where in the thunder !" he said, ,"has
that little sucker gone who just ordered a
brandy sour ?"
"What's the matter ?" asked Jonah.
"Why," was the reply, "a little fool came
and ordered brandy sour, and while I
was making it he walked out?'
-- " - Never -mind,"-said—Jonah-,--"r11-take
it."
And Jonah took it. While he drank
• e—lowered-himself un his'ieftloo , an
the bar-keeper for the first time saw how
he bad been fooled. - When Jonah drew
out his twenty cents for the treat, the bar
keeper told him it was all right. That
sell was worth twice the money.
FATE OF Sin JOHN FRANKLIN.—The
facts relating to the fate of Sir John
Franklin are gradually coming to light,
and some time the story of that mysteri
ous cruise will be written. As announced
on Saturday a whaling ship. which arri
ved at New Bedford from a long and un
fortunate voyage in the Arctic seas
brought with her several interesting re
lics of the Franklin expedition, procured
from the Esquiuniux. These were heavy
silver spoons, and forks, having upon them
the armorial bearings of the family of Sir
John Franklin and other English fami
lies. They were procured at Repulse
bay from some Esquimaux who had come
from King William's Laud, near the
spot where Sir John Franklin's vessels
were abandoned, in 1848. The natives gay
that both vessels (the Erebus and Terror)
had gone to pieces. Among' the effects of
the late Captain Hall there is said to be
a sealed packet containing some revela
tions of the fate of Sir John, but the will
fbrbids that the box be opened. This
proviso induces the suspicion that Hall
discovered some drrailul news of the
straits to which Sir John's party was re
duced—perhaps the extreme necessity of
devouring each other-and he rightly wish
ed to keep the facts from Lady Frank
lin's knowledge. But the indefatigable
labor and perseverenee of that noble wo
man in searching out the particulars of
her husband's fate will probable be renew
ed upon hearing of this mysterious packet,
and may prevail with the exemtors of
Hall's will to reveal the secret to the
faithful wife.
Iserugers OF HONEY BEES.—When a
community of bees becomes too populous
for a given hive the bees "swarm, ' as it
is called ; that is, a part of the overcrowd.
ed population separates from the rest, and
goes off to establish a new colony. In such
a case the emigrants are chosen or form
their own bands with direct reference,
seemingly, to the future welfare of the new
colony, preserving the numerical propor
tions characteristic of all prosperous hives
The swarm consists of one queen, and
some thousands of working bees or unde
veloped females, some hundreds of males
or drones. This is the normal combina
tion in the community, and hives so or
ganized may survive and keep together
for many years. There are reports of hives
a century old. This is, probably, an ex
aggeration, for bee hives twenty years old
are rare, and they do not often survive
more than seven, eight or perhaps ten
years. When I speak cf the life of a bee
hive I do not mean to say that the indi
viduals composing it live together for that
length of time; indeed, a queen rarely
lives beyond three or four years • one of
seven years is seldom seen, while die males
never survive the summer in which they
are born, and the working bees die grad
ually and are replaced by new ones. But
the hive as a community holds together
for a longer period, being constantly re
newed by the process of reproduction, and
becomes at last like a human settlement,
consisting of a variety of individuals born
at different times.
How HE
,LOST THE OPPORTUNITY.—.
A useful hint to many young men may
be derived from this Amy which the
Springfield, Mass. Union prints: "Not
long ago, a young man of this city had
a favorable opportunity to enter a business
house in this State, at a large increase ov
er his present salary, with a prospect of
soon getting a place in the firm. His re
commendations were first-class, and the
officers of the institution were decidedly
pleased with his appearance. They. how
ever. made him no proposals, nor did they
state their favorable impressions. A gen
tleman of.the qty was requested to ascer
tain where the young man spent his even
ings, and what class of young men were
his associates, :It was found that he spent
several nights,of the week in a billiard
room on Main Street, and Sunday after
noon drove .a.hired span into the coun
try with three other young men. He is
wondering why he didn't hear from the
house concerning that coveted position."
. HOST to keep out of hot water—Join
the Baptists.
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NUMBER 19
'wit au.d Suntor.
A sweet flower, the two-
t • lirl.
A man in Norfolk street in the city
lately advertised : "One basement to let
in dis house iu der third sthory."
sold maid says she knows by her
own experience that the saying "man pro.
poses" is a base lie—she wishes 'twas the
truth.
"Oh, Mr. Butcher, what a quan:ity
bone there was in that last pi,tve of meat
we had from you," said a lady_, veryin.—
dignantly. "Was these, mum ? But how.
somever, the very first flit imilock I do
kill without any bone I'll let you , have
onejoint for nothing." •
ri . h. story that a Leavenworth
had offered $lO,OOO to any onr wiw tl
marry his cross eyed (laughter, brf. , ,ught
about eight hundred stratig,4s intr.. dna
town in one week. A few or th,:r.) 11-11
when they found that the girl . Was color
ed.
"You ought to let me pass here free of
charge, considering the be tie vOI en t tut t u re_
ofny profession," said a. physiein it to a
toll-gate keeper. "Not so," was th.: rc
.
ply, ‘You_send_tao opsi 4y ',lo:ad-1-1---at.:l4
' through here now!' The doctor didn't
stop to argue the question. ,
Several Irishmen were disputing one
day about the vinciblity of their respec.
Live persons, when one of them remarked,
`Faith, I'm a brick.' And indade.l'm a
bricklayer,' said another, giving the first
speaker a blow that brought him to the
ground.
An Irishman on his first shooting ex
cursion shot a bird, and seeing something
fall, went to the foot of the tree, and pick
ed up a frog supposing it to be a bird.
and put it iu his pocket.—The frog kept
up such a continual hopping that his com
rade asked him what made the bird hop
so. "Och,' said Pat, "the poor thing is
coold, I shot all the leathers off
A dandy, strutting about a tavtrn, tool:
up a pair of green spectacles which lay on
the table, put them on his nose, and, tur
ning to the looking-glass, said :
"Luc d
lord, bow do these become me ? Don't
you think they improve my looks ?" "I
think they do," replied the landlord, "they
bide part of your face."
A Philadelphia Alderman . saw his dear
wife fading away day by day, and he pre
vailed upon her to go to the country.—
She started, but returned next day and
found her faithful husband drinking %Nine
with r tro strange women. In spite of her
failing health she didn't stop smashing
furniture until there was only one chair
left.
A wag, strolling with a friend through
a country churchyard, called attention to
a grave, the stone of which had no name
or inscription on it, "This" said H—
is the grave of the once notorious gam
bler, Mr. R—. You will observe that
there is no name recorded on the tomb
atone, but I think I could suggest a very
appropriate epitaph." "What would you
suggest ?" inquired his friend. "Waiting
for the last trump I" was the reply.
An absent minded smoker named Yan
cy undertook to whisper something of int
portance in the ear of old Mr. Reynolds,
Saturday, but in his absent•mindeduess
neglected to remove his cigar, the fire end
of which was driven right into the old
gentleman's ear. Mr. Reynold's jumped
straight up in the air about six feet, and
on coining down split Yancy's nose by a
well directed blow. Yancy picked him
self up, and started for home;declaring
in a rage that he'd he hanged before he'd
tell old Reynolds what he was goingto.
An illustration of Irish simplicity is ar
forded by the reply of a candidate for the
office'of teacher. The examiner was en
deavoring to elicit the candidate's idea of
the market value of labor with referent.*
to demand and supply; but.being baffled,
he put a question in Ibis simple form : "If
there are in your village two shoemakers
with just sufficient employment to enable
them to live tolerably and no more, what
would be the consequence if a third shoo•
maker set up in the same village ?" "What
would be the consequnee sir?" echoed the
candidate, "why, a fight, to be sure."
BIDDING GOOD-BY UNDER DIPPICITIo
TIES.—` Where were you going, sir, yester
day afternoon, when I mot you ?'
was going to de riber, mama, to see
a young lady off del I used to pay my
distresses to.'
'Why didn't you accompany herr
'I was goin', but I didn't hab de price
ob de fare wid me. She wasgoin' to leak'
de United States.'
'To what country was she going IP
'ro Jersey. She was on the -hurrah•
deck when I got down &tr.'
'You mean on the hurricane deck.'
'Yes, and she waved me ajews wid her
pocketsnickersitag.'
'She wnved you att adieu with her
handkerchief.'
'So I got on de top 443 a barrel dat had
lard in it, and when I Was der wavite
a
jews, and fist as de steamer was guilt' off;
do head ch de barrel caved in, and I went
her-chunk up to my neck in de lard.'
'Then you were in a nice predicament.'
'No, I wasn't—for I was in a nice
grease.' •
'Whatilid you say when you found
yourself there?, .*
•I didn't,Oty 'lilt*. only "Lard Iniva
linerCy On
a pret