Over Uio Way.
There'* a ntc* little woman lit** over the way.
Who mte by the window the moftt of the day ;
And I never before knew * maid or * wife
Who led eneh *n eftfty end indolent life.
-Who i* he ? Wht ia fthe ?" I often h*ve aai.t;
"Who givwa her her clothe*, ftnd who p re* her
bread t ...
PrT whftt kind of food doe* ehe slowly derenr
From the book fthe ia faring ftt honr after
honrT*
If one from her dnty i* reedy to *hirk.
There * always another quite willing to work J
And thi* I hare found i* the rule of the dy
In that qniet eetabhehment over the way.
He (roe* to the atore for butter and bread.
He kindle* the fire and make* no the betl.
He waahee the dishes, and set* them away.
And work* like a heater the whole of the day.
Oh, hotter than any invention I've aeen
1* this beautiftal. dntafhl household machine-
That i* never disturbed by a tear or a frown.
And 14 never wound up, aincc it never run* down.
She site hy the window, the fkir little wife.
And eeem* to enjoy all the good things of life ;
Ami if any one naked me. 1 surely sh< nhl eav
That a Woman * Right* woman lived oter the
**y.
The OM Chimney-Place.
A stack of stones, a dingy wall.
O'er which the bramble* cling and creep,
A bath on which uo shadow* fall,
A doorr-ten where long dvvk-h'avea sleep,
A broken rafter In the grass.
A sunken hearth-stone, stained and cold,
Naught left hut these, fair home alas t
And the dear memories of old.
Around thi* hearth, thi* sacred place,
All humble household tiriuee grew,—
The grand*!re'* love, the maiden'* grace.
The matron's instincts deep ami true.
Here first sweet words were lisped ; here broke
Life's nomine dream, ami yet more dear.
The love thai lifr's heel impalse woke,
Orew warmer, gentler, year by year.
How eheerfttl, while the atom without
Knitted the eaith and teed the night.
The ruddy glow gashed laughing ont
Oft merry groups and ffteo# bright :
How eh inns! the eraekiing, freaktsa flame,
With rosy mirth or thoughtful eaae.
Or, may be. syllabled the name,
t>f one rocked o'er the shivering aeas.
What fairer scene*, what goklen lands.
What pageant* of nun antic pride.
In the wetr\l deep of glowing brand*
Saw the fair boy. the dreamy-eyed.
Till, musing here, hi* spirit drew
Strong inspiration, and hi* years,
Ibr Beauty's subtle nurture, knew
"The patha of Nature's inner spheres.
Here a* the swooning embers stmt
A faint flush through the quiet gkvwn.
In the warm hush hate the kit era blent
Tha fragrance of their heart's frosk bloom ;
Awl, veiling in soft drooping eyes
Her tremulous Joy, here blushed the bride ;
Here, o'er pale form* in fiineral guise.
Farewells from broken hearts were sighed.
This spot the pilgrtm, "neath strange skies,
Raw in his way-aide drvm ; here stood
Oil! friends writli gladness In their evcs ;
Here grew the Wauuful and good
Sweet friendship*—faith aerene ami sure
Manhood's stlong pnrpoaa, warm and bukl
(Vmrage to labor and endure,
. And hoaaenokl feehugs never eokl.
Here, leaning in the twilight dim,
AD ronml me acems a haunted air ;
I hear the old familiar hymn.
Hy heart gtwe upward in the prayer
That wiade the night so full of peace ;
Kind bp* are on my hrow—mv ear
Hums with tweet sound* -they faint—they
cease.
And night o'er all brosd* calm and clear.
A TERRIBLE FIFTY MINUTES.
In August, 18dy, I arrived at Cbamounix
with one of my friends, a traveller like
myself. For about five weeks we had
been exploring Switxerland, so that we
had plenty of time to get used to snow
and gtac iers. We had made several ascent*,
one of 14.000 feet. I well remember the
sensation I felt when I first saw one of those
crevasM-s which s.tm the surface of the
glaciers. Holding firmly by my guide's
hand. 1 leaned over that yawning gulf, and
tried to gaze down into its terrible depth.
The two perpendicular walls of ice appeared
to meet some 300 feet below, but 1 believe
it was only the effect of perspective, the
rent being probably prolonged as far as the
•olid rock.
" A man who falls there is certain never
to come out alive," said one of my
guides.
*• True," replied the other; '• but I kuew
one who was rescued. A narrow escape in
deed it was ;he lives at Grindlewald. lie
m a chamois hunter; he was returning
home; in descending the crevasse. Hi*
fall was broken by projecting blocks of
ice, which yielded,"however, beneath his
weight when he clung to them. When he
reached the bottom, a distance of some
hundred feet, he had a leg and an arm
broken. Between the earth and the tee he
frund a hollow place into which a stream
was running; crawling along suffering
terrible pain, be followed the course of the
water, and in three hours he was cut of
the glacier."
Crevasses vary in breadth front two to
six feet at the mouth, but the side* ap
proach rapidly as tbey descend, so that a
man may find himself jammed in between
two walls of ice a long time before he
reaches the bottom, and then, if ropes long
and strong enough are at band, it is possi
ble to save him from a dreadful death.
But generally the ropes are not long
enough, and the traveller perishes of cold,
or falls lower down into the crevasse dur
ing the hours which elapse while some of
the party haTe gone to the nearest village
to fetch longer ropes. Thus an unfortu
nate Russian nobleman perishes! in a gla
cier near Zennatt some years ago.
We had ascended the Brevent. we now,
had only the Merde Glace and the Jardin
to visit" We slept at the Montanvert in
the solitary little inn at the foot of the
glacier. Next morning were np at dawn.
Furnished with some provisions and two
bottles of wine we started with our guide.
It was a splendid morning, and augured
well for our excursion. For half an hour
we followed a rough path which skirted
the Mer de Glace, which played below u
its surface riven with crevasses and covered
with rocks and fragment*. Our road
ended at the glacier, upon which we now
began to descend, and to traverse in zig
zags in the mi'lst of numerous fissures.
The Mer de Glace is not considered dan
gerous, and it is quite the exception to
take axes and ropes, when crossing it.
Alert and cheerful we hastened on with
out taking notice of the guide, who some
way behind, cried out to us several time*
to be cautious and wait for him. We were
obliged at last to halt before a va*t cre
vasse which barred up our |amage. It
opened with a length of some sixty yards,
and end'd upon our left in a slope of ice,
somewhat steep, but which I thought 1
could easily mount. Using the iron spike
of my alpenstock as a hatchet, I began to
cut holes in the ice, large enough to put
my feet in. At this moment our guide
rejoined us. He looked at the slope and
at the yawuing crevasse below it, and said
in a grave tone, "It is dangerous; let u*
go round it"
With the aid of my alpenstock I had al
ready got half way up this icy hillock, and
was now quite convinced that it was too
steep and slippery to be crossed without
an axe. The guide's warning confirmed
my opinion. 1 was cautiously lowering
my right leg, seeking for the hole that 1
had nude in the ice; my foot passed it;
I felt that 1 wa sliding down; there was
nothing rough to stop me, not the least
Kijection by which I could bold myself in.
e declivity became perpendicular, and
fell into the gulf.
I beard the cry of despair of my com
panion and my guide. My own sensations
cannot be described. I was giddy and
half-*tunned, sent backwards ana forwards
irom one wall of ice to the other, I felt
myself descending to a great depth, con
demned to be dashed to pieces, to die by
a horrible depth. Suddenly something
stopped roe, I felt myself suspended. I
took breath again, and could cry out, •' A
rope! a rope!"
By God's mercy I had fallen upon n
narrow ledge of ice, which formed a sort of
bridge across the crevasse. This frail sup
port as far as I could judge, was about four
inches broad and eighteen thick. My
head hung from one side of it, my feet from
the other. Instinctively and immediately
by what means I know not, I raised my
self up and stood upright on this projec
tion Jwhere there was a hollow just large
enough for me to plant one foot.
Then I heard my companion say above
me, "We never hoped to hear your voice
again; trust in God and take courage. The
guide has run to Mantanvert to seek men
and ropes; be will come directly."
"If he is long," I replied,"l shall not
come up alive."
My position was a terrible one ; the thin
ledge of ice was so narrow that I could not
place both feet on it. I could only support
my. elf on one leg, half resting against one
o' the ice walls, smooth as a mirror, and
there was nothing to grasp. A stream of
ice water liowed down upon my shoulders,
piercing me to the very bones ; above my
FRED. KURTZ, Editor and Proprietor,
VOL. IV.
head 1 saw the long and narrow streak of
the akv round which the mouth of the cre
vasse formed a frame. The ice. which was
of darkiet blue color, encirling Uic on all
sides, looked threatening and gloomy. The
two wall* seemed as if they were aliout to
meet in order to cruah u.c, rather than to
release their prey. Numerous water
course* streameii down their sides, but in
this extent of more than sixty raid* I
could not see any other projection or ob
stacle except thi* ledge on w Inch I had so
miraculously fallen.
I risked looking, for one second only,
down iuto the terrible abyss, above which
I wa suspended. At the spot where I
n, the crevasse was not more than two
(bet wide, lower down it narrowed raptdlv,
and a hundred yards below the two sides
appeared to touch each other. I believe it
I had fallen but a very few inches on either
side front the narrow briilge which had ar
rested me, I should have been buried and
jammed up at a depth where no rope could
have reached me. I had remained aUuit
twenty minutes in my perilous |>ositioit,
nerves and muscles stretched to the ut
most to keep myeelf there, looking at the
sky above my head and at the ice around
me, but not daring again to glance into
the gull below. The Wood WAS timing
from a wound I had received iu the cheek,
and l felt that ruy right leg, upon which
fortunately 1 was not resting, was severely
bruised : the left leg, however, paiued by
the effort of standing the cold, was In-giu
ning to give way. It was impossible to
change tuy position without the risk ol
losing my balance. The cold of the wall
of ice against which I was resting more and
more iwnumlied me, the water continued
to fall, and I dared not stir.
I cnlletl my companion; no one replied.
I called again. Nothing! Nothing! Not
a human being within reach of my voice.
1 was seized with giddiness as a terrible
thought crossed my brain.
•' He has gone to see if the help is com
ing, and he cannot find the crvvasse again;
there are hundreds such—l am lost P
1 commended my soul to Hod. My
strength was exhausted. I had never giv
en up all hope. I was seized with a desire
to let myself fall, and thus put an end to
this agony.
At the critical moment, 1 heard myself
called. Mv friend had run to look for the
guide, but when he wished to return he
was horror-struck on perceiving that the
surface of the glacier was rent by count
less crevasses, all so similar that there was
not a single sign by which he could recog
nize the abyss in which I 'was buried
alive. In this cruel perplexity, Hod guid
ed bint to see a little kuap*ack which the
guide had left at the edge of the gulf. 1
cried to him to look at his watcb. Five
minutes more had elapsed. The cold wa
becoming more and more intense; the
blood wa- literally freezing!in my veins.
1 called; I asked if there was any one in
sight. The guide had started thirty five
minutes ago. and not a soul had yet ap
peared. It was scarcely probable that he
could return so quickly, as we had taken
three-quarters ot an hour to get to this
spot, and he had to go and return.
I felt that I could bold on but very little
longer. The frail support on which my
safety alone depended might yield at any
moment and break beneath me 1 remem
bered that I had a strong knife in my
pocket, and resolved to make use of it to
draw myself out. I informed mv com
panion of this project; he implored mc to
do nothing of the kind; hut my situation
had become intolerable. I made a notch
in the ice, high enough for me to reach it.
and large enough for me to insert my hand
in it; then about two feet above the little
bridge 1 dug out a bole sufficiently large
for me to put my foot in it. I succeeded,
and grasping these two points of support
my lck resting with all my Strength
against the opposite wall, I was able to
raise myself and keep myself firm in this
new position. 1 descended again u|on the
bridge, and began another notch above the
first. I flattered myself that I should
thus be ahle to escape* from roy prison, but
a single slip, a false step, would precipitate
me into the abyss.
I was working diligently at mv second
step, when I heard a joyous cry above mc.
u Here they are! Three men with rojx*s
—they arc running as fast as their legs can
carry them."
I steadied myself as firmly a* possible
upon the narrow and slippery bridge, so as
to lie able to seize the rope they were
about to lower, and tie it around me. 1
saw the end of it swinging about two yard*
above my bead. " May God have mercy
npon mc! it is too short!"
" We have another."
That was fastened to the first and let
down. I seized the end of it. 1 hound it
strongly around roy waist, and grasping
the rope with both hands I gave the signal
for them to pull up.
They began— I was saved. A minute
afterward I was standing upon the glacier.
1 had |*seed fifty minutes in the crevasse,
during which time I had happily lost neith
er my confidence in God nor my presence
of mind.
When I placed my foot upon firm ground
again, an overpowering feeling of deep
gratitude to the Almighty who bad deliv
ered me in so great a peril filled my breast;
I fell on my kncea and fainted. When 1
again became conscious, our party was pre
paring to start for the Montanvert. Be
fore leaving I wished to cast one last look
into the crevasse where I had nearly bee i
buried alive. 1 saw how completely im
possible it would have been for roe to get
out of it as f had projected. The opening
at the top was too wide to have allowed
me, as 1 reached it, to lean against the op
posite wall, and without that support the
most agile of climbing animals would have
found it impossible to scale this perpen
dicular wall of ice.
The guide bad run to the inn, where he
could not find a single rope suitable for the
purpose. In despair he started for Cha
meunix; when on the way he met two
muleteers. Their animal* were laden with
wood, tied on with ropes, which he im
plored them to give him to save a poor
traveler who had fallen into a crevasse.
These good people at once unloaded their
mtiles, and came with the guide to my as
sistance. Tying them together—there
were three—the ropes reached the depth
of thirty to forty yards, where I had been
arrested in roy fall.
Assisted by my deliverers, I was able to
reach Montanvert, where, in a good bed,
and with my bruises attended to, I had
leisure to dream about the danger from
which 1 had escaped, and the remembrance
of which often haunts ine both sleeping
and waking. 1 trust that future travelers,
profiting by my experience, will not run
the risk of ]>enctrating into the midst of
these icy regions without providing them
selves with axe* and ropes, and especially
with a first confidence in God's goodness,
the surest of supports, and the best safe
guard here below.
DON PIATT writes about an auction of
the contents of dead letters: "As the
rude auctioneer held each article in the
dim light, and coarsely cried it off, I
could not help to think of the fingers
that had worked, and the heart that had
throbbed over the token of affection, and
remembered that it had failed of its des
tination, and was being sold for filthy
lucre to this motley crowd. Two-thirds
of these evidences of remembering love
came from women. The fact is, during
my stay, I did not see one that could
positively be ascribed to a man. To a
woman's busy fingers, and to a women's
heart could the work be attributed, and
also to a woman's ignorance or careless
ness, probably, in addressing, is due Ihe
fact that the work miscarried."
OWTHKE, Idaho, is now shipping £41,-
000 in bullion weekly.
CENTRE HALL REPORTER.
JOHN CT'TTS* NECBET.
" l Mr. t'utt* in r a*ked a gentleman
who having knocked at a door, was saluted
I>V a woman from an up|>er window with,
•■'Well, what's wantin' MOW •"
'•l* Mr. Cutta in f"
••V v he' in or about aomewhera, I sup
she replied j *'but I'm Mr. 1 nit*
where any busman* i to IK' done. He's
Mr. t'utt* eatin' and drink in' and lee|iiu'
sometime*."
•■Wall, my good woman," said the gen
tleman, "I ihiuk he will I* Mr. t'utt* for
mv business, too. I wish to see hint.
"What uo you want of him asked the
shrew, thrusting her head still further out
of the window.
"To do something for me. But I must
see him," was the reply.
"I* it real business, lor pay. or only a
favor you want I I cau let your bow* have
a jieek of oats, or I cau direct you to the
shortcut road to the Four Corner*, or I
can I can—why—l can do auvtbiug for
vou that he could, and a good ileal more !
] can take the money, and rite the receipts,
and pay the men, and I take care of the
E induce! lTn as good a judge of stock a
e is, and 1 can't lie beat on horwetle*h."
"But." said the gentleman, drawing
down his face solemnly, "you can't take hi*
place now. Find him lor me at once.
The shretv was l>attied. "Look-a here,
mister, mart* you do not know the cir
cumstance* of this case. This here farm
ia mine, and it WAS my father's afore me ;
and Cut fa, be haiut no mere claim to it
thau that hen down there haa. And, be
sides, I'm seven years older thau he is, a
foot higher, and weigh tweuty pouml*
more! What'a your buainewa uo my place,
if 1 mav make so bold F'
"To "see and talk with your huaband,"
replied the gentleman, getting out of his
chaise ami hitching hta horse to a post, a*
if be meant to stay until he did are him.
"Be you a doctor I Cau*e there ain't a
living thing the matter with Cults, lie's
the wellest man in town, and so be 1,"
said this woman for the times.
4, X0, my good woman, I'm not a doctor.
Do you think your husband will he in
soon 1 Send that boy to find bim,'' said
the stranger.
The boy looked up in his Ks>ther's face
—but he knew his own intrrtets too well
to start without orders.
'•Then you're a minister, 1 suppose, by
your black coat. 1 may as well tell you
and save your time, that we don't go to
meeting, and don't want to. It ain't no
use for you to leave no tracts for nothing
for I've got a big dairy and hain't no time
to idle away readin'. and I keep him alxnit
so early and late, that when he's doue
work he's glad to go to bed and rest."
'•l'm no minister, madam; 1 wish I was
though, for your sake," said the gentleman.
"Look here, mister," now appearing at
the door, and looking defiantly at him.
'•you're a schoolmaster buutin' up a dist
rict school; and you think he's a commit
tee-man ; but he ain't this year."
"Send for your husband; I cannot wait
much longer. I must see him at once."
The boy started to his feet again, and
looked in his mother's eye; but she gave
no marching orders.
"Ma'am Cutts," as the neighbors called
hor, dropped her bands at her side and
heaved a groan. She had found a man she
couldn't manage.
"See here, now, mister.'' she said, "I
can read a nun right through, and I knew
what you was the Mowed minute I clapped
my eye* on you. I can tell by your ever
la*tin' firguiii' that you are a lawyer. We
hain't got uo quarrels; don't want no dwsl*
drawed or wills made, so if you're huntin'
a job of my huslwnd, you may a* well on
hitch vour horse and drive on. We know
enough to make a little money,and 1 know
enough to hold on to it."
"Mr good woman you entirely misun
derstand my errand. I ran tell no person
but himself what it is, and must tell hiin
m confidence and alone. If he chooses he
can break it to vou the I wet wav he can.''
"O, my goodne** sake alive! Brother
I.ifs Mowed up in the Mississippi Mat, I
bet! O, la me. the poor fellow. He left
a little something, didn't he ?
"1 never heard of bim, and nobody's
'Mowed up,' that 1 know of," replied the
gentleman.
"()—now 1 know! You're the man
what wants to go to Congress, and have
come here huntin' after votes. He shall
not vote for you ! I hate politicians, espe
cially them that goes agin women, and
thinks thev were nude to drudge and notli
in' else ! Igo in for free and equal rights
for white folks—men aud women—for
Scripture saya, 'there isn't neither man or
woman, but all's one in politic*.' I lielieve
the day is comin' when such as you and
me will have to bow the knee to woman,
afore vou can get the big place and high
pay that's a eatin' u* up with taxes ! Yon
can't see my husband ! We are goin' to
the polls on the way to the mill, ami I'll
promise you that he votes right."
•■l'm no candidate, and I don't know
what you are talking about. Ah ! there
comes the man I want." And the stran
ger went toward Mr. Cutts, who had just
leaped a pair of bars which led from the
potato patch into the lane.
Mrs. Cutts flew into the house for her
sun-bonnet to follow them; but by the
time she got to the bars her mysterious
visitor and Cutts were driving rapidly
down the road.
The strong-minded woman shouted after
her husband. "You'd better come back, I
tell you!" but the wind was the wrong
way, and carried the wonls into the pota
to patch.
'•Sir,'' said the gentleman to honest
Cutts, "1 have a very simple question to
a*k you, but I shall have to ask you in
confidence. I will give you five dollars if
you will promise not to repeat my words
until to-morrow."
'•Well, sir," replied Cutts, "I shouldn't
like to answer any questions that would
make trouble among my neighbor*. I have
my hands full, I can tell yon, to keep out
of scrapes now; but I've done it, and haint
an enemy in the world, as I know."
'•But, sir, you needn't reply to my ques
tion unless you are perfectly willing," said
the stranger.
"Ask your question," said Cutts, "and I
will not repeat it."
"Well, Mr. Cutts, I am laying fence on
the Brisley place, that I have just bought,
and I was directed to enquire of you where
I could buy cedar post*. A fellow in the
store said, "Cutts can tell you, if his wife
will let him; but she won't. She'll insist
on telling you herself—and perhaps 0.'...
to drive you wherever you go to order
them.'"
"I told tbem I would see you and nak
you only ; and the fellows bet on it. They
are to give you ten dollars, and to two or
three widows in the town a cord of wood
each, if I succeed in asking you this ques
tion alone, and making sure your wife docs
not know my business until after breakfa*t
to-morrow morning."
Cutts knew his wife's standing too well
to feel very sensitive—and taking the bill
from the stranger, he smiled atid said :
"I'll go with you to look out cedar post*,
and keep dark, for the joke'* *ake; but I
don't know as she'll let me slay in the
hou* to-night; I don't own it," replied the
good-natured Cutts.
you go to th place and see to
setting the posts. 1 will send a boy to tell
her you bad to go off suddenly, on a little
business, and will be back in the morning,"
said the stranger.
'•I'll do that," replied Cutts, "for 1 never
quarrel with her, but let her have her own
way. I don't want to worry myself about
trifles."
"Goodman," said the Strang*r, "there
are no trifles in this life. The smallest act
is important, and that easy good nature of
yours will ruin your family. Baffle that
spirit to-day—and next Sunday take your
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1871.
i*v* and go to (he house of Hod, whalrvt-i
die ■tay*, and lw a real man —at the load
of vour uwtt house and family.
"It's rather lair to licftin," said t'nfta
shaking lii< l.rad ill away that w.wlil tiavt
>i arurd otht'lM from tin* trap in which hit
fret were fast.
"You see thr purer I* here," lie added
"ami that ha* hero a crueller fetter than
her will to me. But I will try to lufgiu
anew, ft* her good and the children's."
The I *>y wa* aeiit with the un-magc, hut
the Imv wasn't sharp enough. Madam
t'utta tUscoTrred tlie whereabout* of her
lord, tackled up, and went after him.
All the way home, and far into the
night, she used her eloquence, both lu
pleadings aud threatening*, to liud out the
tuvstciiou* errand of that hateful town na
bob that had come iulo the country to sep
arate happy famdiea.
But C'utta yielded himself up loa "dumb
spirit" for the night, and no measures
could induce him to talk on any subject,
lest she should pry the mighty secret out
of him.
About midnight she wore herself out,
and went to sleep; but at daybreak she
began again, lie thru ventund to say :
"As soon as breakfast is over, I'll break
the news to you."
"You'll never eat a moree! in my house,
I can tell you," cried Xautippe, "till you
hare told me w hat the man wanted of
you."
"Then you'll w ait a good while to hear
it," said t'utta, •'for 1 hare rowed I'd nerrr
tell it till I had tiret eaten my breakfast,"
ami with three word* he went out.
Ma'aiu t'utta endured the torture as
long a* possible, and then got breakfast
She called to the door to no one m partic
ular, "Come."
But t'utta didn't come. After awhile
she went out to the !ru, and found him
seated on an upturned half-bushel measure,
calmly preliug and eating a raw turnip.
"It does seem as if this here man had
l**MsKed y,u • Your breakfast is coolin';
do come in."
Here was a point gained.
t'utta went in aa required, and ate his
breakfast. When that was over, uiadaiu
settled herself back in her ehair, with her
face full of eaprr expectation, and said:
"Now W hat did that ere man
want 1"
"He wanted some cedar post*,* replied
t'utts, calinlv, without looking up; "and
that wa* all.* 1
If an arrow had stnick Ma'am C'utta, aha
could cot have manifested tuore surprtae
and .shame.
"1 am the laughingstock of this town,"
added t'utta, "and from this hour I turn
over a new leaf. I'm henceforth the head
of my family—and unless this house Is
made mine, ( shall finish fT a room in the
bara—which is mine—ami you w ill be
welcome to share it with me. Hunt. I'll
live there with my boys, and you will tind
me a ci* it neighbor."
Ma'am t'utta' power waa broken. Since
then the farm ha* been called "Johu C'utta'
place," and he'a the head of the house.
Maddening Mechanism of Thought.
Our bruins are seventy-year clocks.
The angel of life winds them np once fur
all, then doaea the case, and gives tin
key into the luuid of the Angel of
Resurrection. Tic-tac ! tic-tar ! g<> the
wheels of thought ; our will cannot stand
them, madness makes tlictu go faster ;
death alone can break into the ease, and
seizing the ever-swinging (leudulum,
which we call the heart, dlenrr at last
the clinking of tint terrible escapement
we have carried ao long be Death our
wrinkled forehead. If we can ouly get
at them, aa we lie on our pillows and
count the dead bat* of thought after
thought and image after image j.irriug
through the overtired organ. Will no
body block those wheels, uncouple that
pinion, cut the striug* that hold the
weights, blow Up the internal machine
with gunjiowiler. What a jMission comes
over us aotnetiraes for sih-tice and rest,
that this dreadful mechanism uuwinding
the endless tapestry of time, embroidered
with spectral figures of life and death,
could have but one brief holiday. Who
can wonder that men swing themselves
off from lie am* in hempen lassos, that
they jump off from (tarapcta into the
swift and gurgling waters beneath, that
they take counsel of the grim fiend who
has to utter but his one peremptory
monosyllable, and the Metleen machine
is shivered as a vase tliat is dairies! apcD
a marble floor. Under that building
which we pas* every day there are strong
dungeons where neither hook, nor IMU\
nor bedcord, nor drinking vessels from
which a sharp fragment may be shatter
ed, shall lie seen. There is nothing for
it, when the brain is on fire with thp
whirling of its wheals hut h spring
against tlie stone wall and silence them
with one crash. Ah, they remember
that the kind city fathers and the
walls are nicely paddisl, so that one cun
take exercise as he likes without damag
ing himself. If anybody would really
contrive some kind of u lev er that oue
could thrust among the works of this
horrid automaton, nud cheek them or
ulter the rate of going, what would the
world give for the discovery. Men are
very aj.t to try to get at the machine by
some indirect system or other. They
clap on the brakes by means of opium,
they eliange the maddening monotony
of the rhythm by means of fermented
liquors. It is IM-oau.sc the brain is lacked
np and we cannot touch its movements
directly. Hint we thrust these coarse tools
in through any crerice by which they
may rencli the interior, aft T its rate of
going for n while, and nt lost spoil the
machine.— Exchange.
A Mam of unblemished character was a
candidate for a large constituency, and
the following means were used to get rid
of him. At a large public meeting, an
elector got up and said :
"I demand the exercise of my right
to nsk that candidate a question. Will
he answer me bv a direct y* or no, like
an honest man ?"
" Undonlitedly I will,"
A most incautious promise, na the
reader will say.'
" Well, they," said the eld-tor, " I ask
that gentleman who killed his irnshn--
troin'tn T"
What was the poor man to say ? What
ye* or n could answer the question ? He
hesitated, ho stammered—the meeting
was against him ; lie was hustled out of
the room, and to this day he laliors un
der the grnve imputation, m ninny peo
ple's minds, of having feloniously accel
erated the ih ntli of aotne unfortunate and
pcrlnqai ill-used washerwoman.
JOHN HKSH, who had been confined in
the jail at Oshkosli, Wisconsin, escaped
a few nights since, and immediately
went to Neenah, his former home ; thence
he went to the home of his divorced
wife and murdered her, first shooting
her, and then cutting her throat from
ear to ear. The murderer then icpnired
to his brother's house and hid in the at
tic. An effort was made to arrest him,
when he shot himself through the head.
AN Indiana paper announces that
Hon. W. H. Holman is to tie the next
Democratic candidate for Governor of
his Slate, and Hon. D. W. Voorheos for
the Senate, while Hon. Thos. A. Hen
dricks will have the entire Indiana dele
gation in his favor for President, in the
naxt Democratic National Convention.
The printing and reporting of the Ill
inois State Constitutional Convention
cost 885,000.
Two Chattanooga men went hunting,
were gone two days, and killed 385 quail,
II turkeys, 110 squirrels, and 3 deer.
The Ancient Km lan*.
In the early history of Scotland and
Ireland, a tribe of Celtie w amors stand
forth pre-eminent by their I mid adven
ture* aud warlike deeds. The scenes of
their exploits received names still |>er|iet
uiit.il in tlie topography of IMIUI conn
tries, and the exploits the HH.IV.-S ticeawe
, tlie them* of many JMICIUM, ami romattcea.
Finn Mac t'umliuil i pronounced (oole)
was one of these warriors, aud tiivir must
famous commander. According to Irish
annals, lie lived and dud in the third
• century of the t'hristiau era. Ho great
was his reiiowu that theae (iaelie war
riors, who had previously bora designated
I by various name*. lou-baron* to our Kug
' lish ears, were heuceforth known aa
Frinne. Fitiua, or Fenians; and such
were Celebrated in the legendary history
of Scotland and Inland. They seem
eventually to have constituted a kind of
established militia, whose duty it wa* in
tlie words of au old historian, "to de
fend the country agaiust foreign and
domestic enemies, to supjmrt the right
and succession of their kings, and to be
ready UJMJU the shortest notice for any
| surprise or emergency of tlie state."
lliese meagre historical details give
one little idea of the amount of Fetiiau
literature which still exists iu ancient
Gaelic manuscript*. Dae of ita moat
accurate and learned students ha* coni
putcd that, were all the Fenian (tortus
and legends published, thev would fill
three thou*and closely printed large
quarto pagm,
i To enter the aucieut Fenian order,
" nvenr sohlu-r must swear llint without
regartf to fortune he would choose a wife
for her virtue, her courtesy, and her
good manners ; that lie would never oflar
violence to a woman ; that as far as he
could he would relieve the jmor; aud
tbut he would not refuse iu fight nine
men of any other nation. Every *oldier
iuu*t be well acquainted with twelve !
Imoka of j*ietry, and be utile to eoinjwaae ,
I verses. He must also run well, aud ile
-1 fetid himself w hen in flight. To try his i
activity, he was made to run through a
wood, having a tree's breadth, and the
whole of the Fenians pursuing him ; if
he was overtaken or wounded iu the
wood he.was refused, as too sluggish and
uuskillfnl to fight with honor among such
valiant troops.
" He must lie so swift aud light of foot
ua not to break a rotten stick by standing
on it ; able also to leap over a tree as
high as his forehead, ami to stoop under
a tree tliat was lower than hi* kneea.
Without Mopping or lessening his speed,
lie must tie aide to draw a thorn out of
liis foot. Finally, he must take au oath
' of fidelity."
These are some of tlie qualifications
given to us by an ancient historian, who
uaively adds : "Ho long as these forms
of admission were exactly insisted upon,
the uiihtia of Ireland were tn invincible
defence to their country, and a terror to
rebels at home and enemies abroad."
Wliat would lieeouie of our modern
Fenians were such .raalifioatiani now re
(lUired ? l'rrf. iyccige, in QcribHrr't
SionUtly for M rrch.
Death of a Noble Human.
The telegraph brings us the jiainful
intelligt iicc of tlie death of the Senora
Dona Marguerite Maxa dc Juarez. wife I
of tbo President of Mexico. Born of
an honorable family iu the city of C'axa
ca, she married at 15 the then unknown
young lawyer, who snlswqueutly rose
step l>y step in his profession ami in po- j
litical poaitiun, utittl he liecame literally
the luad of the nation aud one of the
most famous men of our time*. Few
women ever (Mewed through siieli vicis
situdes of fortune. Hhe saw her bus- j
liand at one tinm a prisoner in the liamls
of the revolted Church party, niiderj
Minuiion, at liauilalajara, ami threaten
ed with instant death, aud again wa*
herself coin|ielled by foreign invaders to
seek an asylum iu tlie I'uited Htat**s,
where she industriously furthered the
cause of the Repuhhc and coutrilmkil
uot a little to the further overthrow of
the Empire. On tlie fall of Maximiiliaa,
Mr. Sewrnrd sent her and her ehiklreu
back to Mexico iu an American war
sU-amer. Hhe always nianifewWsl the
moat grateful regard for the American
|M-ople, who had been the friend* of hi*
family and country iu their hour of adver
sity. She waa admired and beloved by
nil* class.* in Mexico ; by the aristocrat*
for her piety ami courage, by the re
publican* for her unostentatious mode
of life and patriotic devotion to the
cause of the tuition, and by all alike for
her charity, kindneaa of heart, ami ma
ternal devotion. Hhe was the mother of
thirteen children, of whom oue won. a
fine, promising young man of years of
age, uow in Europe, three married and
three unmarried daughters, survive her.
A year ago slic appeared like an Ameri
can woman of 3o or 40, iu excellent '
health. Nothing in her drew or equip
age distinguished her from the wife of
any well-to-do citizen of the capital,
and her Me, like that of her htisluuid,
led her to avoid all unueowsary display
ou even the most inqiortaiit invasion*.
When the Si'ward party called at the ;
(wince to hid her good-bye on their de
parture from the capital, they found her
sitting with her daughters around her,
all engaged in family sewing, and no
ticed that the work wa* merely laid
aside for the moment to lie resumed on
the departure of their guest*, not hur
ried out of sight a* it would lie in mnny
American or English families occupying
infinitely leas exalted positions in socie
ty. She was always kind, sympathetic
and affable, displaying all the character
istics of a perfect lady, a faithful, devot
ed wife, n model mother, and an houor
to her sex and race.
A Ileal Ral .Story.
A London (Canada), paper says : The
most exciting rat eliaae we have heard of
for some time liaa been going on in
Sparks street for some days past. ilr.
Offord was terribly annoyed by the de
structive little brntea, and had lost a
great deal of his stock by them, and
seeing a receipt for banishing the pesta,
ho tried it. The plan was simply to
spread some kind of a drug on the floor
near their runs, when* they would get it
on their feet. The drug burns like cans
tie, and they lick it off end get it into
their months. Mr. Offord was astonished
to find that in a short time he hadn't a
rat ulmut liis promises. Dr. Hrown serosa
the mad, however, found that his stock
had increased to an alarming extent.
Mr. Offend gave him his receipt for
banishing tliein, and drove the hungry
little brutes into Mr. Alfred Brown's
house. Mr. Brown saw with astonish
ment the terrible plague that had come
on hiin and sat up at night to kill
the brutes. An idea of their numbers
inav be formed from the fact that he
kilted sixteen one night in his room.
After lie was tormeuted for u couple of
days, Mr. Offord gave him the receipt,
anil he soon got rid of them, and they
retired ou Mr. MeCormiek's flour-store.
He has got rid of them also, and Mr.
Ch&mpness lins now pot the whole of
them. It is the intention of mrties who
know the receipt to drive the rata into
Lower Town. A couple of weeks will be
sufficient, and they will cross the canal
some flne night ami walk into the Metro
politan, and their entry will be as trium
phant as that of the Germans into Paris.
An Indiana girl finding a man in her
room at a hotel, picked him up and threw
him out of the window.
THE Joint High Commission were cor
dially received by the President.
Lost on the Plata*.
Iu January hurt, John Wilton, a lad
about 10 years of age, left his home, on
Mosquito Bottom, Kansas, iu eotu|tauy
with his father aud two neighbors, for
the purpose of hunting buffalo on the
upjHr Arkansas The west lor was all
that could be wished, game was found iu
abundance, ami the huuk-ra secured an
much as tb<*ir teams were able k> haul
bin k ou ao loug a distauci, aud on tlie
10th preparation* were made for a return
home.
Young Wilsou, h.l liecome eueluuited
with the wild scene* and wilder *jH,rta,
mid shouldering his gun hastily, lie
started out, and waa noon lost to sight
as he picked his way quietly aloug the
rivt-r Iswik and timber. The boy not re
turning in a reasonable time to the camp
his father aud conqsuiiona became un
easy, and set ont in search of him. Onus
were fired, but uo answer came in re
sjKinsc. The same was continued through
oitttlie night, and large fire# were kin
dled on the highest eturaettofs in the
hopes of attracting lua attention, but all
in vain. The .lay daisied in fruitless
search, followed by another night of de
monstrations similar to those of the first,
On the third dav, after fully deli In-r
--ating on it, the party concluded to re
turn home, form companies of their
ueighbora, anil make a grand search fur
th<> bov on the plains.
Awakening from sleep, through a feel
ing of eoUneaa, young Wilson looked
out n(>ou the dreary wasta before him.
The wind still blew, but the sleet liad
sulsmlt*l His frozen clothe* clanked
about his lmdy as he aroae and picked
up his gun. He now fully recognized
his situation, and hia first thoughts were
on hia friends anil something to eat. To
choose his course puzzled him, yet no
time was Ui be lost. He plucked from
oue of the bushes s sprig <mt it on end.
and in his boyish way, resolved on going
in tlw direction it might falL As the re- |
suit will show, it fell in tlie oppoaite di
rectiuu to that in which his friends were,
and he wandered farther and further
sway.
For procuring food his guu was now
his only reliance, and as he trudged aliout
lie kept a sharp lookout for game. lie
first tlay out nothing in the game line j
presented itself, but on the second day ;
a small herd of buffalo, on which he
fin-<t, (tossed him. His shot was short
of the mark, aud they were aoon away. .
Ho he (Missed the third and fourth days i
Weakened by hunger and fatigue, h
nevertheleas ke(t up good courage, aud
hopH-d that if he did not And hia friends,
he at least might fall in with other hun
ters or Indians, friendly or otherwise, he j
did not care mush which, so long as his
*cai( was safe and a prospect of a re
plenishment of his stomach offered.
t)n the morning of the fifth day he
nunc to a small stream, skirted by s few
scattering trees. Here he gathered some
broken limbs, and pulled out from be
neath the roots tlie dry grass and started
fire. This he did by firing off hi* gun
and blowing the wad into a blaze, which
HOOU grew into a wanning fire, by which
his frozm clothe* were thawed out and
himself warmed. By this time he
was too hungry and worn out k> proceed j
much further," and he resolved on keep- j
itig up his lite through the day and
uiglit While so engaged late in tlie ev
ening, he was suiUlenly startli-d by a gruff
" how ! " and a dirty lug Indian stood !w
hire him, with a gun on his hack and the
hind qnsrter* of an antelope.
" Bully !" replied Wilson, " how your
lf ? " tie gaxivl ui astoniahment at the
intruder. The Indian comprehended
[he situation, proffered him a portion of
liis meat, and they sat down together and
ite ravenously of" it The heat and food
livened him UP. and he soon ascertained
that a liand of friendly Indian* were en
•Ainji.il a few miles below. To this
vamp the two repaired, and Wilson was
welcomed kindly, and fid for three .lava,
shen enough proviaiou wa* given him
to reach tlie settlement*. liis ctmrse
wa* pointed out and be started on hi* j
iiomeward jonrnev. He traveled three |
lays, when he fefl in rith liis father and
Friends, who were returning to renew
die search for him. The meeting wras a
joyous one, and young Wilson i* content
with " ouly one more shot."
Nothing in the WT.
Prewident Bez says there exist* no
: rooty between Hayti and Hanki Ikomin
<o to prevent the cisling of the latter to
uiy Government. The convincing proof
[but uo such treaty exists is, that Uie Do
minican Government has made a> agive
uent to the eotitrary with the Govern
ment of the United Htate*, without any
iwotcst whatever from Havti. while if
inch a treaty had existed, the fset would ,
laive lieeii brought to the attention of
die whole world long ago. It wa* hink*l
in eonveraation with official*, tliat Mr. |
iumuer in certain (wrsoual itik'tviews,
liimself at one time desired President
Bnez to come to Honto I>< >mingo and
keep himself in power, and that ulti
mately tin* I'nikit Htate* would lease or
uy Hsmann Bay. but President Baer
Having the snbjeot brought to his atten
tion, said the matter lielunged to the
•lass of private conversations.
Tlie ltaez Governxuent denii* ero(l)at
eally that *tiy eession of lands, any
M! vantage* or privileges whatever had
lieeu grantetl to any citizen of the Uni
ted Stake or elsewhere. From Uie licet
information attainable, it ai>|>oara tliat
minea arc regulstinl atximling ki the
French laws, which declare tliat private
vwneiw are owners of the surfnee, pro
ridisl there are no mines, or at least un
til after they obtain authorization from
die Government for such mine*, in ad
vance of designation Ac., by others,
rhere are, therefore, Mr. Hues says, no
reservations in contradiction to the law
in force.
In reply to the question as to the im
prisonment of individuals for jaditieal
effrneea, the President most emphati
cally says that no one has liecn impris
oned or ! shed for political opinions
against annexation ; that all who fol
lowed ('abml Jsiiuarv 31, 1867, did an
of their own free will, and that some
few who have gone since, owe their
forced alisenee hi the fact that they eon
spinal against the public safety in favor
of Cnbrnl or Lupenm.
The debt of the IlepuMie apiwars to
lie as stated in the Senate by Mr. Moi
ton and others, namely, 81,600,000 in
gold, but the friend* of Mr. Bacz say
that unless great care is taken to reject
spurious claims, a much larger amount
will be required. It seems to In- the de
sin" of the Bacz administration to pay
the dot its while the Government still has
legislative power to admit or reji-et the
accounts, according as they art" just or
spurious. None of the clergy, M above
stated, have thus far made any protest
against annexation. It wns charged in
the Senate delate tlmt Bacz intended to
leave the country. This he emphatically
denies.
People are inquiring liow long cotton
will kec-p. Columbus, Ga., asserts that
no change is noticeable iu the nppear
anoo of the staple in Iwdcs, which have
Ix-cn in its warehouse since 1866, and
Augusta Georgia, rejoins, that a liale wns
sold there the other dsy which, having
heen in the warehouse eleven years,
looked somewhat oily, and it brought
as mnch money as new cottons of similar
grades.
North Carolina is the fourteenth State
in the Union in point of population.
She is one of the sixteen that have over
oue million inhabitants.
The Struggle fur Food.
One calm dajr, aa we were lying at
ttuchur off the bor of Florida, a long, J
viona land of ripplca *M obwnrwd eou
trntiuK aenribly with the atill *tr of
the (lulf. Eventually it apiu-onctml,
, Mill proved to ruiidit of myriad* of wtl)
fiahea young *• sardine*." Hw ■
wonderful illustration of the m*xim,
•• Eat and Iw eaten." FN, tJU* *|owu
of thear small fifth** ia batched upon the
Mirfncr of the MM, and forthwith acre* of
form* live, move, ami have their l*uig -
■ greganou*lv, and almuat ** out- IUMM of
animation Ho uoiforai and situukau
nm are their momni oU, they aem like
the revolt of one impulse. l*rg. Avium,
(he Jack*, MO called, make vigorous uo
daugliU aiming them, ami carry many
i captive. The da*h ami uniform rimul
taiioous movement of a rqiud of Jack*
tut they make a raid upon tbeae aolid
column* of aardiniait infantry are iuU-r
--•wting to witmwa. The sardine* are con
tinually leaping oat of the water to mrau
their eiietuica, presenting in the ttulight
their njmrkiiug ailver aiilea, mad attract-
U>K the attention of the watchful ana-fowl.
Thia vast auiwated j*t h soon became a
scene of the greatest interest. Aa the
" streaky finger* of tlie morn" began to
fade, ami the aun ray* to glisten on the
ai.vrry wing* of the flying fiah, and glow
in indentvnoc on the rippling masses,
the brown pelicans drop from their rooat
and come flapping heavily toward the
scene Flattering for an instant over
the prey, down he (dungea, with open,
dip-cet bill, resting on the water to
adjust the game in hi* cajmcjou* pouoli.
The laughing-gall—iuglorioaa bird !
with eager and aoruatoined eye, hovering
near, eaaaya to help himself, and, "o/e**
rolent, settles on poor PeJec'a head—a
head, albeit, none of the araalleat, but
one amply rotund and roomy. Now i*
the moment of hia diaooutent. Aa the
fiah i toaaed to bring it right end down,
the gull adroitly atiapa it away, laughing
liia derisive ha, hn a* he goea. The
pelican aeem* to Kubmit to it an an inevi
table operation, and make* no resistance,
but flap# heavily up again to renew hia
search. Meantime the lazy gull ia
brought to grief, even in the inidat of
hi* hilarity. The war-hawk ia on hia
track. Listening and ogling from the
neighltoring ahore, he apiea when he can
leave hia rooat to profitable purpose.
The exultant laughter of the pull noon
give* place to ahrill erica of alarm. The
war bird, collision* of hia power, beam
a weary rye; caution*, and Mire of hi*
mark.' TV weaker darts fitfully in rig
rag line*. "triring with all hi* power to
escape. Fatifruc ■nd fear prevail, and
hating faith, lie let* the choiee morel
drop. Down dart* the hawk ; rlntrhing
the prey ere it reache# the *ea. he soar*
straight**y to the nearest roost. 80 the
struggle for exiatene* goes on.
THE IUWOEB of wearing false luur in
illustrated in a new and forcible way by
the recent exjwnence of a Massachusetts
dame. Fancying that her natural charm*
required enhancement, aha innocently
purchased one of those mysterious and
toil-like ajq>endagca for the female bead
known, we lxlievo. hy the technical
name of "switehea" It waa a ••switch,''
equally Iwatitiful and hecoming. and for
a brief space all waa luur and happincaa
But presently .Madam began to feel an
unpleasant sensation about the throat
every time ahe assumed the foreign loeks
—in jaunt of fact, a choke. She would,
in her own striking and niacatorial lan
guage, " get aa red a a bailed lobater.
and gasp like a [Kirpoise** dreadful
snnptoms which disappeared aa soon aa
the "switch" was removed. What waa
this myaterr no mortal could explain.
Madam, being a true Boston woman,
called a " medium." and Uie "medium"
called a spirit from the vasty deep. Then
did that spirit unfold a long and excur
sive tale which, condense t. waa to the
effect that " ahe waa the woman from
whoso head the hair had been cut, just
after she waa- hung ?"—and that a choke
would always attend the wearing of that
particular switch. Furthermore, this in
structive spirit obaerved that all false
hair retained more or lem of the jx-rson
ality of ita original owner, and that this
was th<* cause of mnch iuasnity and many
criminal idiosyncracies in women.
Which is an explanation rather more
startling than lncid.
A Storj of the Bell*.
The I**ll* of the Cathedral At Idmcrick
wore east by AH Italian. au<l placed in the
rompanile of A con rent in FK pence. He
had put hi* heart into hi* work. And
believed hi* IM-UA the moat nu-lodion* in
the world. I>uring the war* between
FranciA 1. and Charles V. h-* kwt all liia
AOUA, and his wife aoou after dying from
exceaa of grief, the Italian went to Man
ttu. and during hi* altaenee the I**ll*
were carried off. When he returned ami
found then) gone he was heart-broken,
for they were then hi* only couaolation.
He determined to wander oTer the earth
until he recovered them ; and ao, staff in
hand, be aet out upon hi* almoat hopeleaa
pilgrimage. One summer lay after sun
set, in 1550, a* the tale i* told, a grny
haired man wa* seen in a boat on the
Mhannou. Listless and dc*|Hindent. he
took no notice of any thing until the
I tell* of the Cathedral pealed out on the
soft evening air. He wa* young again.
He rrcognixed hi* long-lost and hug
eought bell* ; and lifting hi* hand in
gratitude to Heaven, hia aonl went forth
with a prayer on hia lip*.
The (tfrnin Umpire.
The new German Empire ia to have
a population of 38.509.053, exclusive of
Atsaeeand Lorraine, which will give it
1,688,545 more, or a total of 40,148,'J0*. >.
This ia the largest |*mulation of any
State in Europe except Knsaia. The fig
urea (TT the varioo* States are a* follows :
European Russia 89,879.500
German Kmpir (with A- and L.).. t0.14M.a00
France (without A, and L.) 96,488 MM
Anstro-Hungary Menarrhy 58.M5,593
Great Rritain and Ireland 90,8811,810
Italy, with Rome 38,170,000
There u a disjnite in Germany as to
where the Emperor sludl lie crowned.
In ages iiast the Emperors were elected
at FYankfort-on-the-Main and crowned
at Aachen. Two or three centuries ago,
Aacheu had no quarters for the guests
on these occasions, and the coronation
ceremony wss removed hi Frankfort.
Now Aachen is again of importance, nud
disputes the claim with Frankfort. Ber
lin is HO profoundly Prussian that the
.South Germans look upon it with jeal
ousy. _
How oist/I OVOHT TO WALE. HOW any
of you who desire to appear well, to
make a fine impression, can consent to
crawl about, poking your chins out,
shoulder blades sticking out and wiggling
yourself along in that stnbhy, stumbling
way. amazes me.
Why, girls, if yon were to give one
twentieth ]>art as much time to learning
Vn walk as yon give to the piano, Jyou
would mid immensely to your attraction.
Everybody plays the piano. It really is
refreshing to meet one who says, " I nev
er learned to play." Why not a few of
you, instead of sitting four hours a day
ou piano stools, weakening and distort
ing your spines ; why not just a few of
von, byway of variety, cultivate this
beautiful, elastic, queenly manner of
walking ? You have no idea how, to use
a Yankee phrase, "it would pay," as
an attraction.
A musical young lady says that a com
poser mav very properly make overtures
to anybody.
TERMS : Two Dollars a Year, in Advaaoe.
The HUrj ef a Hero.
II might have been a lon* atory, far
the her * waa aa brave aa good Mir Gala
bail, uid |Ntluni aa well deserved
immortality. Hut he waa only a boy,
and they aay lioya don't alwaya have
i untie** done them. He waa a eery poor
Liy besides, and there waa nobody in
; (artbikr to toll the atory, and et it
j never waa told in an/ regular way, only
uaawrd from lip to Up, and kept sacred
in the hearts that held it, like the legend*
of the old saint*.
I'm afraid he waan't a aaint, though.
He had tjeen known to join moat heartily
iu 'playing a trick on the pompous Utile
police man, that kepi the newsboys in
order while they were waiting for their
1 jw|K-r> ; and once, when a big peanut (
boy waa pounding a little candy peddler,'
be pi i cbed in vigorously and gate the
big fellow a complete pommeling. He
bad lieen beard to aay rough words upon
hard provocation, which waa not aa;
strange aa it might hare been, seeing he
1 never in his miserable life was taught
any lustier. In short, he waa nothing
better than a ragged, dirty, Utile heath
en, and it waa out of all reason that be
should have wanted to join the boya of
: his ward school in that laat game of j
•• shinny." Why, he hadn't even a pair
of akaios, but came scuffling along with
bis clumsy shoes, a* sure footed aa a cat,
except when one of the merry abaters
gU<led suddenly acrorn his track, or half
n-doieen of tbein swarmed pell-mell over
him in the eager rush for the balL He
! never minded that, or the frequent nuw
from the sticks that struck wildly at the
tiring ball, and aeemel to have aa much
fun a* if be were leader, and bis feet bad
•dlv-r wing*.
He bad not been chosen on either aide;
not because be waa poor—your genuine
boy is a democrat, arid anspa his fingers
at social distinction—but because he had
no skates, and what waa tbe use of a fcf- j
low without skates f Well, it waa hard
work keeping up, and by and liy he
shuffled off the ice, danml a torn or two
on aliore to warm his feet a little, and
started, with his hands in hia pockets,
for the glue factory, where Tim Conover
waa sure to let him warm up. It waan't
in boy nature not to we how the game
waa coming out, however, ao he crossed
a vacant led and came down to the river'
just bv the ice bonaaa.
Ah 5 H only needed one glance to see
how it moat come oat for seine of them.
Only a few rods away was the belt of
blue water where the'ke had just beeu
sawn across to keep the boys from spoil
ing the harvest of the ke packers, and
every instant they wet* coining d<*er to
it Couldn't tbeT see it? Would not
somebody ane itNo one hail eyes or
thoughts for anything but that hall,
gU<Uug, glancing.' darting here and there
among t he steel-clad feet
It wasa long way around the bend and
up the river by any street but straight
across, where the ice-cutten had been at
work, was a thin, treacherous sheet of
broken ke. It might bold a boy up, but
if it didn't—there waa no tone to think
about that for the next instant a ragged
little hero was dashing across, whooping
and screaming like a locomotive gone
mad. Would the ke bear ? Yes ; per-:
bap the hands that are underneath the
falling sparrow hell it up, and the herd
of startling players looked up, and cirrle
ed with quirk motion from the very edge
of the chasm at their feet
" Who was it? Where is be T they
asked with pale facet.
I roue down with the tweaking ice, to
come np again, gasping and strugghug.
nnd at last to !>• drawn out, chilled and
breath leas, by the ice cutters. They
rubbed him with all the vigor of their
1 *awiiy arms ; they held him up by the
beds to let the water ran out ; they
pounded, and squeezed, and tossed him
in a blanket, bat be lived through it all.
and came to himself aith a strangling
rough, and a laugh of approbation.
Everbody praised, and petted, and made
much of him, and then forgot all aliout
him ; ao it was left far me to tell his
story, and I call it " The Skxy qf a krro."
Proverbs of All NatlMs.
A deceitful man ia more hurtful than
open war.
A fox should not be oar the jury at a
goose's trial.
Justice will not condemn even the
devil wrongfully.
A great fortune is a great slavery.
A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a
fool.
A good word for a bad one is worth
much and costs little.
An old dog cannot alter his way of
lurking.
An idle brain is the devil 's workshop,
A penny worth of mirth is worth a
pound of'aonow.
Avarice increases wealth.
A small leak will sink a great ship.
Bacchus has drowned moire men than
Neptune.
Expect nothing from him who prom
ise* a great deal.
Draw not thy bow before thy arrow be
fixed.
Grieving for misfortune is adding gall
to wormwood.
Good Iwrgniu* are pickpockets.
Give neither counsel nor salt till yon
are asked for it.
Have not the cloak to make when it
begins to rain.
Re who would catch fish must not
mind getting wet
He is idle that might be bettor em
ployed.
lie who would stem every man's month
must have a great lcal of meal.
He that makes himself an ass must
not take it ill if men ride him.
He that knows not when to be silent
knows not when to speak.
He that fears yon present will hate von
absent
If an ass goes a traveling he'll not
come home a horse.
If l>etier were within, better come out
It is more easy to praise poverty than
to bear it
It ia hard for an empty bag to stand
upright.
It is a pitv that those who taught us
to talk did not also teach us to hold our
tongues.
How rr is Dora. —The following inci
dent is related to show how some things
mny be done, and it is said to have actu
ally occurred in New York city : A
builder of furnaces was called upon re
cently to name a price for heating a large
structure in that city. He offered to put
pat in his apparatus for 830,000. After
i ejKuted conversations with sundry per
sons interested in the contracts, lie was
told that the man that seenred the job
would be obliged to pay a percentage to
them—in this case amounting to $3,000
—the bill, of course, to be rendered in
such a form as to make him a party to
the fraud upon the owners of the build
ing. He told them he wanted the job,
but that as he also hail a desire to go to
heaven when he died, he should be
obliged to decline their conditions. HLe
also suggested that ha should like to bid
for the job with others, and was informed
that not a single contract on the build
ing was given to the lowest bidder. Then
he was jxilitely bowed out of the pres
ence of the gentlemen who oould not
nse him. He went home, and as an ex
periment, sent them a proposal to put
in his apparatus for 825,000. From
this he never heard ; and some man with
a more convenient conscience, got the
oontract and gave the percentage.
THE Democrats of Troy have nominated
the Hon. Thomas B. Carroll for Mayor.
TO* Mwp-Wr;.
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w'totisff*
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(Soidd Im iuqw <■ imhnw yon:
Hot I ktv>w Mart (Hat r<m|4
Msk# jroar eyas a dtaasood brighter.
Malt* *'">ttr Hjjs a its** am red.
Malt* yom twwk a sm*4mm whiter.
Straight mt Hjpoh*. with gb<hn* gait
(<ittm.v boots, I hate rem *01)
■3a or aw* ;
On# assail hand a tared ciaap*
(oVm<teM>, bawiT torawi;
I~ .t!i r tifte thr *&sMty ima,
Kbowing vsgui-it 1 what! might h*
Mo- tht'i ynt I tb fslial*T cU
Of h*r boot-boals tend* m* on;
And I follow hm in tlw*h,
: And I wonder rheer *W gone.
N<>( thr my hronsMrt kid
That illtuainr* Smwm Mr**t
OpiM no lw iw with H* cwß,
Coold an sank* my pal*** baal.
I* ahe walking sUB, *> wi f
Mali Mi* nasi In IMB Jin Mid pitawwu
Dai imanslaa (ah. todmfcl)
To tka nrgwnr* ofter bresai t
Or haa Mm reach. <1 bar fni,
Aad irat -il her rusty batf
And (hi. .hapdy hand, I ?*v
Ha* ah# Ram# ta work with (hat 1
H.miitealioft-girlt thm^thyowhnota
Wiai.br br and *b war dm*.
T<*l jronr Ist, and mat jroar joy*.
Mar. kind ward, and rare eatwaa; Ifl
irt I am (hat a ytar w
That owtaUaaa all oatvard show;
That make* poverty rente*A
And thst makre im kww jm ao!
I- Aft.! avnl fmmtk***
Woman'* ri^hlw —
High training—Haughty-cnHnre.
Operatic refreshment— High-ncrraurrf.
A aigenl ftflll I railway accident
j la mixed society, a clean hand often
carries off iba paint.
Th* London Gazette ia the obtest
newnaprr pnblialted in Eagtteb in the
world.
Tb* moat trembUaam* aort of tenant
ia that which the landlord can get no
(jointer from.
London haa 316 newspaper*. 21 daily,
and 216 weeklies. It haa *7B periodical
publications.
In Loudon workmen are earned on
the railroad*, ten mile*, once a day each
way for a week lor tweutydw cento.
A manufacturer of rat poison ia Parte
ia aaid to have committed anieide on ar
count of the annihilation of his trade.
Then- are 27.000 mote malm than B
female* in die population of Minnesota, |
or a masculine excess of about 12 per
j cent
A Taaatoaiaa caught in Sampson's
Pond, last week, a pickerel weighing ms
I m mud* two ounces, and armoring ova*
two feet ia length.
A Bo*ton l>ank President ha* gained
notorietv by carefully turning np hia
real several Inohe* when at hi* desk to'
keep it from wearing out.
An aeronaut haa dweorerod that a
woman's Toioe ia audible at a height of
two mile*, while a man's voice has nerer
tiecn heard higher than a mile.
It ia estimated that 220,000 pcowona
live on the banks at the Merrimac River,
and. to a great extent, are depend..! *
upon it for motive power for their facto
: ties and workshop*.
According to an English jeweler, "the
i United States have for several years
aliaorbed, and do still absorb, all tka
diamoiMla of firat-mte quality that como
to the European market"
\ An item in an account sued upon ia
Winntekick Canny, lowa, ia: "For
homing a bole in i y hall and dancing
therein, 810." Tir* occnrreoee moat
have taken place ra a holiday.
Charcoal and marsh hay, skillfully
compounded with a cheat of ordinary
tea. will increase its bulk to fifteen cheats.
* This compound is sold in the Wisconsin
ittnerie* to stimulate the wood-chopper*.
A-man in Qstian, lowa, was to be
married on the eveuiim of the lat inat,
tmt died on that day. The lady to whom
he was engaged attended the funeral in
what was to have been her wedding
drew.
Oapt Hall, of the steam-chip Jmma A.
Gftrp, reports a huge water spout in
Hatterea Inlet, ami my* the water came
down in one solid sheet, and in ita descent
-truck a dock of wild geese, killing all of
them instantly.
Three or four months ago an Italian
fisherman climbed Vesuvius and threw
himself into the burning crater. Since
then Are or six Neapolitans have com
mitted suicide in the same way. and the
{dan threatens to become fashionable,
A Florence paper mys of the American
ladies there : " There ladies are ao
handsome, there giris ao lovely, that if
one but see* them, or, still worse, if one
enter* into conversation with them, one
cannot help falling in love at one* with
the New Wodd."
How many person* there are who have
utterly misconceived their aim ha life!
How many tenors are ready to din with
grief, because their voice* are not bum !
How many Sim Tappertits are constantly
endeavoring to elbow their way to the
foremost rank among the chosen few.
During the siege of Paris all the Ger
man batteries "wittered around the city,
were connected with Headquarters %
telegraph communications. The tide
graph stations were bomb-proof, and the
operators were plentifully supplied with
cotton wherewith ti> stop their ears,
during the bombardment.
A terrible warning ia conveyed is the
statement that a young lady in Missouri,
to test the truth of the stories concerning
chignons being infected with insect.' thrf
ml into the scalp, immersed her head
gear in hot water, and una somewhat
startled to find the surface covered with
hundred* of jute bugs in a moment
The Naval Paymaster in San Francisco
appeals for contributions in aid of the
families of the men who perished while
n*kiug the trip from Ocean Island to
Honolntn in the gig of the United State*
steamer Saginaw, to secure assistance for
the wrecked crew. Two of the men left
families of little children wholly unpro
vided for.
A lazy dyspeptic was bewailing bis
own misfortunes, and speaking with a
friend on the letter's hearty appearance.
" What do von do to make you so strong
and healthy V inouired the dyspeptic,
"lire cm fruit tione." answered the
friend. " What kind of fruit T " The
fruit of industry ; and I am never trou
bled with indigestion."
" What are you drawing, Anna V
'Tsemakin' your pictnr'." So the gen
tleman sat very still and she worked away
earnestly for a while. Then she t n 1
compared her work with the ortgTaai.
and shook her little head. " I don't
like it much," she said : " Tain't a
great deal like von. I den I'll put a
tail to it and call it a dog."
This thing of wealthy gentlemen edu
cating young girK designing to many
them some time, ought to be stopped.
A rich man in Oshkosh, Wia., educated
a young lady with the intention of mak
ing her his wife. The wedding day was
near at hand, when a young lover took
her from the church, where she waa
attending service last Sabbath, and they
were speedily made one, and set off to
an Eastern home, leaving the elderly
lover to console himself as best he might.
During the trial of a famoua divorce
case, now pending in Philadelphia, one
of the lawyers in his argument said
something about a witness named Kelly,
when that individual sang out : " You're
a liar," Kelly was arraigned for con
tempt of court, until his counael ingen
iously explained that Kelly meant no
contempt of court, but that he was so
carried away by the sweet dulcet strains
of Mr. Cosaidy's voice that he involun
tarily exclaimed, "You are a /yre/"
thereby intending to compare Mr. Cassi
dy to that delightful Irish musicai
instrument.
Ssbykd him Right.—A Boston gentle
man, who could not waltz, offered a
young lady a hundred dollars if she
would let him hug her as much as the
man did who had just waltzed with her.
It was s good offer, and showed that
money was no object to him ; but they
put him out of the house so hard that
his eye was quite black.
As enraged father in Michigan caught
his little boy by the ear, and whirled f
him around with such force as to wrench
that organ from his head.
NO. 11.