for fflhfCß' Sake.
TV* happiness to Vow our work
For it* own sake,
And could wo alwava, none would ah rk.
Or dread to wake.
But life I* long, and we may NM
To l*e oar tasks;
Illusion* paaa, the sober day*
Throw off their mask*.
They front n* with averted ayv*
And faded bloc* ;
The spirit quail* and almost diea
Before their gloom.
Ah 1 then we learn work haa no worth
For it* own sake;
And aordid are all tasks of earth
TUI low partake.
Fhr, truly, only lore out Urea
thin worthy make;
And he ia happiest who meet strive*
For other*' sake.
The Changed Crws.
•ft was a time of aadneea. and my heait,
Although it knew and felt the better part u
Felt wearied with the eonffict and the atrife.
Ami all the needful discipline of life.
And while 1 thought on these aa given to me,
My trial teata of faith and lore pi be.
It WMWHV ae If i never ooulU be aUre
That feithfal to tlir end, I should endure.
And. thus. no longer trusting to Hie might.
Who aara, we walk by talth and mil kg sbt.
Doubting, and almost yielding, to despair.
The thought arose, my cross! osuuoibaor.
Far heavier its weight uiat aurelj ko,
Thau tlwse of other* whirh I daily we;
Oh I if I might another burden choose.
Mi think* I should not fear my crown to lose.
A solemn aßoncs wigned en all around.
E'en nxturs'a v <aca uttecad net a aottitd ;
The evening shadows seemed of iwaoe U teU,
And sleep upoa my weary aptril hit.
A m.miml* pause, and ihen a heavenly light
Beamed fell upon my wondering, raptured
rigUt;
Angel*, en (ulrrrt wing*, seemed uvwrwhem,
Ana angels' music thrilled the balmy air.
Then, one more fair, than all the real t aee
line to vhem All other* howinl the knee,
fame (ll> to me aa 1 trustingly lay,
Antl, -follow me.' he aairt. *1 am the way.'
Then speaking thus, He led me hur above.
And there, beneath a canopy of love,
Crowe* of ihvrr* share anil siae were aeen.
Larger and amaller thau my own had been.
Ami one thai .* rnsat hessßfwl tsbehoM,
A UM e one wvffi jvwe'a aet >a gw:d;
Oh! this, meumught, I can with n.iuh>rt wear,
For it win be an eaay one to bear.
And so the little crow I qaicilr took,
tint all at once ore frame ceneath it shook ;
The sparkling jewels, for they were to rar.
Bat far too heavy was tbr wrsyM for me.
This may rot be, I cried, and looked again
To see if mere was any here could esse my pain;
But one by one, I passed them slowly by.
Till on a lovely one I cast my eye.
Fair flowers around its sculptured form ca
twiued.
And grace and brauty seemed in it combined;
Wondering, 1 gaard, aiulsnU 1 wondered wore.
To think so rnaay shoaM haw ptmsd It uVr.
But oh! that form so beautiful to see.
Soon made its hidden sorrows known to me.
Thorns lay beneath those flowers ami colon
fair;
Sorrowing, I said. 'This cross I may not bear.*
And so it was with each and all around.
Not one to suit my need could then be found ;
Weeping. I laid each heavy burden down.
As my guide gently said, "no cross, no croea.'
At Wngth to him 1 raised my saddened heart.
He knew its sorrows, bid its doubts depart.
'Be not afraid,' He said, 'but trust in me.
My perfect love shall now be shown to thee."
And then, with lightened eyes and willing feet.
Again I turned, my rarthfr" cross to meet,
With forward footsteps turning not aside.
For frar some hidden evil might be tide.
And there, in the prepared appointed way,
Listening to hear and ready So obey,
A cross I quickly found of plainest form.
With only words of love inscribed thereon.
With thankfrilness. I raised it from the rest.
And jovfhlly acknowledged it the best;
The only one of all the many there.
Thai I could feel waa good for me to bear.
And while I thus mf chosen one confessed,
1 saw a heavenly bdghtgrss on it rest.
And as I bent, my br.: leu to sustain.
I recognised my ow* old cm** 0701s .'
But oh! how different did it seem to be,
Now I had learned Ita jaerioasneas to see.
No longer could I unbelieving ray.
Perhaps another is a better way.
Oh. no! henceforth my own desire shall be.
That He who knows me best should choose
foe me.
And so what e'er His lam sees good to send,
I trust its best, beceass He knows the end."
Song from (ioethe.
Many thousand stars are burning
Brightly in the vault at night;
Maty, an earth-warn heart is jeaminir
Upward, with % foad dslight.
Btara of beauty, stars of giorv,
Radiant wanderers of the sky I
Wsssy of the world's sad Maty,
Ever would we gazs en high.
A WIFE'S SECRET.
"The Lawrences are going abroad," raid
Robert Dtna to his young wife one ere
oing. "I met Tore to-dav, and he raid he
and Carry would sail cm the 26th, and the
furniture be soW at suction."
"Oh, how we shall miss them ! and what
a pi£y to bars that handsome old furniture
scattered among strangers ? We hare had
manv happy times there. Robert."'
"Ye, Annie; it was there I first raw
rou, do you remember; yon were playing
then on that old Chinese chess table, so
absorbed that you did not see me come in;
and I stood wondering who that little maid
in bine could be. I don't like to bare that
table sold at auction, dear; I wish it would
occur to Carry to tend it to us as a fare
well present."
"That would be very nice; but as she is
not at all romantic, she has no idea how
or rahy we value it."
"I suppose if I offered to buy it, Tom
would not accept any pay ; and then we
should feet as If we had begged a present 71
'"Yes; and, besides, we can not afford it,
Robert."
"How much is it worth 7"
"It must hare cost a hundred dollars
wheq it waa new ; but I presume it wdf
go for fifty, as it is somewhat defaH'£
We must not think of it, though, dear.
You know the hurt of our 'luxuiy-fund'
went for the Dickens reading, and we
agreed to have no more treats till fall. I
dare say we should not play very often if
we had it—reading aloud is so much nicer."
Thus the brave, conscientious little wo
man turned away from the tempting theme,
nd ft was not* resumed between them.
Annie Dona, however, had a great fund of
that tough quality which is now blamed
as "obstinacy," then praised as "firmness."
The more she told herself the chess-table
was unattainable, the more did a oersistent
inner voice reply, "1 must hare it P' But
how 7 Dozen* of schemes occurred to
ber, but none that seemed practicable.
When she awoke in the night, the weary
question flashed back, and with it. like an
inspiration, its answer. She would write
a story for the Magazine, and so
earn the ncedlul money. Had she not at
school, several years before, sent two or
three anonymous stories to a country
weekly," just for the frolic of it, and had
they not been printed f To fx* sure, they
were not paid for. She would almost have
6corned money then, so deliriously sufficing
was it to see her own words in print. But
there must be the sordid reality of pay
ment now ; and bow delightfril to surprise
Robert with the table, show him her arti
cle, and enjoy his appreciating praise!
But before this dizzy climax oould be
reached, much mast be done. What should
she write about ? When find time? How
bid for the table ? And all without
Robert's knowledge 7 Absorbed in these
questions, she appeared sadly absent dur
ing breakfast, greatly to her husband's
surprise and mystification. After she had
Eat two spoons in his saucer, asked for
utter when already supplied, and poured
maple syrup over her steak, he began to be
alarmed, insisted on feeling her poise, and
inquired if she had slept well. Annie dis
claimed sickness, but admitted that her
night had been restless; and finally, to
please him, promised to take a nap during
the day. Never having concealed any
thing from him before, the weight of a
secret was far from pleasant; but she con
soled bemelf by thinking bow well it would
all and. *For the first time since she knew
him, she was glad to have Robert go, so
eager was she to be free to plan, perhaps
to write, her story. Her usual duties
about the house were faithfully performed;
but the outline of a romance was flitting
through her head all the time, and she Mas
glad when free at last to sit down at her
desk.
For an hour her pencil flew busily; ideas
thronged at ber bidding; word* Came freely
to express them. The first sentence only
troubled her. Five or six beginnings were
made only to be scored out: this seemed
FRED. KURTZ, Editor nml Proprietor.
VOL. IV.
\ too formal, that too abrupt, another too
sentimcnul. She feared die uuiat resort
to the charming old formula, "(>uee upon
a time." liut the right word# oame at lat,
ami then all went on hrarely, till a neigh
bor eame in, and the already hulorcd hero
ine had to lw exchanged for RolvrtSi
aighan and every-day chat. Then ovine
! other intorruntiou* and dutie*; no mora
, writing that day. The promised attempt
at a nap occurred about baif an hour lieforr
Robert'* return, luring been entirvly for
gotten till then ; and though Annie lav on
the sofa, with her eyes conscientiously
closed, for fully fifteen minutes, ber
thoughts were on her heroine all the time,
aud mice ahe sat up and made pencil
memoranda on the luck of a letter, hastily
pocketed a# her hu-dand's step was hea rd.
By the second night her plot was fully
sketched in her mind, aud it only remained
to put it upon paper. Sometimes a whole
day would pa##, and not a moment cf time
run Id she fimi bur writing, though exactly
iti the Biood for it Again, ahe would hare
leisure, but an almost unconquerable aver
sion to her ncti; and if she tried to rally
her powers by reading what was already
written, it sounded like arrant nonsense:
certainly no sane editor would accept it.
The native persistency of her character,
however, enabled her to liiush her ta*k, in
defiance of many interruptions and discour
agements, and tbe rough draft of her story
was completed in two weeks. It was a
funny-looking affair, on no less than
twenty-three pieces of (taper —half sheet*
and wliols sheets, lucks of envelopes and
concert pr.srmmnies; white, brown and
tinted paper; some in pencil, some in
ink—a nu*-t disreputable medley ; but she
was a happy little woman as she scrawled
the last line, straightened her cramped
shoulders, pushed her hair hack from her
flushed cheeks, and whispered, " Done at
last?' A timely term of bad weather
gave her leisure to copy it promptly. She
was arranging her neat pages when
Robert's step wra* heard on the piazza. She
nervously crushed the MS. into her port
folio, and was ju-t turning the key as her
husband eutervd; but she looked so guilty
and confused that he exclaimed,
| "How, soared voo look, Annie! Did
you take tue for a burglar /
"Oh no; but aren't you early 1 There's
no bail news, is there P
u No, no, little woman; nothing of tba
kind. Been writing to mother 7 She'll
be glad to hear from you. Are you going
to let me read your letter 7" Annie wa*
in the closet getting hie slippers, so he did
not see her troubled tace as she made some
erasive answer, and changed the subject.
Robert referred no more to ber writing,
and Annie believed his suspicions were not
excited—that he would think of it no
more. This was far from being the case,
however.
The dly bdbre the Ufkiluuf sailed
Annie mailed her precious MS., under the
son de plnute of " Cynthia Sullivan.'' She
was very uneasy on her errand to the post,
for tear ome one might suspect her mis
sion, and was glad to start on her way
homeward, thinking herself unseen; but
she was mistaken, for although her hus
band's office was in another part of the town,
he raw her, and wondering at her strangely •
agitated face, his jealous heart instantly
suggested that she came from the direction
of Tom I-awrenee's office, as Tom had been
an old and ardent admirer of hers. But he
sought no explanation, and grew moody
and (alien; his wife attributing his con
duct to his old enemy, the dyspepsia.
, As days went on she had her own inwsni
anxietv to bear, for no reply came from
the editors. Every- other day she inquired
at the post office for "Cynthia Sullivan,"
but without success, till, at last, during
the third week of suspense, an envelope
bearing that name was actually handed
out to her. Well was it that the post
master was boxed in behind high wooden
barriers, or he must have observed Mrs.
Dana's strange agitation over the letter.
She lost all sense of the ground beneath
her feet as she hurried through the village,
and out on a by-road, where, seated in a
gap of the wall, behind a tangle of clematis
vines and barberry hushes, she read,
through happy tears, these beautiful
words:
Mrt. Cynthia Sullivan:
"Dkak Madam, —Your MS., 'Stella's
Summer by the Sea,' is accepted for ■■
Magazine, and we herewith inclose for it
our check for forty-seven dollars ami fifty
cents. Yours, etc."
There was the crisp, oiange-lettercd
check, the more thau realization of ber
wildest hopes ! She felt that these editors
were ber dearest friends, and longed to
do something to express her gratitude to
tbem. It was almost too good to be true !
and, as she walked happily home, one hand
in her pocket clasping the wonderful letter,
she feared she should wake and find it all
a dream, floing In. she found on the
table her husband's hat and an unopened
letter, with a Liverpool post-mark, ad
dressed to her in Tom Lawrence's well
known handwriting. Of course it was
from Carry; she never would direct her
own letters. But w here was Robert 7 She
went through parlor and sitting room seek
ing him. tearing open the letter mean
while. Not finding him, she was about
going up stairs, bur, remembering the pre
cious check in her pocket, turned back,
smiling happily as she recalled its contents,
and locked it safely in ber desk, quite una
ware that Robert was watching her from
bflbind tho bay-window curtains. Yes, he
bod seen her come in, more joyously than
for weeks past, with Tom's letUr open in
her hand; seen her look carefully aliout
the rooms, hastily secrete a billet in her
desk, and pocket the key. She never used
to lock that desk, or have any secrets. To
be sure, she showed him her letter after
ward—but that was from Carry; the in
closure, so carefully bidden, was doubtless
from Tom. And jet, while all his worst
fears were thus revived, Annie's eye* were
so pure and true, her manner so leving and
happv, be could not doubt ber long. After
a night of reflection he resolved that if she
had a secret it could not be an unworthy
one : he would trust ber and respect it. If
her heart ever did regret its choice, he
would win her back by patient tenderness;
for he well knew that if man had a guardian
angel, bis little wife was his.
Now followed many happy weeks, dur
ing which Annie showed no absence of
mind, made no mysterious journeys.ieceived
no private letters. Robert's resolutions
were easily kept, and he almost forgot the
Eerturbations of the summer. Coming
ome by an earlier train than usual, one
frosty evening in November, as he turned
up the hill from the station he saw his
wife, a few rods before him, coming from
the post-office with a letter in her hand.
She went slowly homeward, reading as she
walked, too much absorbed to hear bim
behind her. " What can interest her so 7"
be wondered. Juat then the envelope, a
common yellow one, fell from her hand and
fluttered down the icy path toward him.
He picked it up, intending to laugh at her
carelessness, but one glance at the address
drove all color from bis face, all jesting
from hie mind. " Mrs. Cynthia Sullivan,"
in a strange, masculine hand. For a
moment Robert stood still •, the November
night seemed to clase dark and cold around
him with a chill that penetrated to his
heart. Looking up at last, he saw his
wife's light figure for an instant on top of
the hill clearly traced against the lower
ing sky, then it turned into their own
avenue and disappeared. Sintram-like the
husband stood listening to the demon
within bim. Every half-forgotten mystery
rose as an uicusatton sgainst poor Annie,
carrying all good resolutions away like a
flood. u A secret correspondence! A
ffeigned same! What could it all mean V
Crushing the hateful envelope in bis band,
he strode fiercely on, determined to show
CENTRE HALL REPORTER.
it to her aud demand to lie told all. He
reached kit gate just aa Annie euteivd the
house. The light from within gleamed
down the path a moment, then the door
closed, and all waa dark and cold.
"Site doca well." muttered Robrrt.
bit terly! " ahe ahut me out of ber eoutideuce
long ago "
Su Idenlv the dour re-opened. Annie
.Mine quick I v out and down the aveuuc
to wan! him. Does she see him ? Oh no!
She i* searching for the bet envelope. Her
husband drew lack into the shadow of the
: beige, watching iinaani her Hurried
motion*.
What *\all I do P' ahe exclaimed, in
a low, troubled tone, close beside him.
Hi* jealou* mood awept over him like a
wave; he stepped suddenly out before her,
' saying, in a cold, hard voice, a* he thru.t
lorward the envelope.
* Perhaps f hi* i* what you have lost!"
His unexpected appearance, passionate
gesture aud rude tone gave Annie a terrible
, shock. .Starting backward, catching ber
breath with a gasp of IVight and paiu, ahe
lost ber footing on the icy slope, and fell
down an emlankment of sevrral feet on to
the carriage drire below. Terrified and
| temorseful, Robert was beaide her inatant
j iy, only to hud her lying, white and ailent,
on her aide, her left inn broken under her.
Neither of them ever kucw van- clearly
what liappeued duriug the next half hour.
Robert took bis wife into the house. The
doctor came, set ber arm. preacrtbed for a
•lisp wit ion to lever, and ordered entire
quiet. Annie scarcely apoke. The doctor
was -urprvseti to see one usually so bright
and brave now apparently entirely sub
dued by pain. How could the good man
know tlut the hiisland, whose loving cou
cern was showu in every look and inove
ment, had been the cause of the accident
ami of the mental distress, Iwside which
the physical paiu was a* nothing t Annie
had been perfectly aware of her husband'*
state of mind when be sprang out upun ber.
She knew that he suspected her of some
thing wrong; that he waa angry ; had pre
judged her cruelly. With all her sweet
ness of temper slid warmth of heart, she
had a good share of personal dignity ami
womanly pride; and to lie condemned un
heard, on a mere mystery of appearance,
was more than she could well brook. She
was too much hurt to offer any explana
tion. Hove could she when he had asked
none? No; she lay perfectlv still, sub
mitting passively to all they <lid. Robert
waa more wretched than she. for be felt
guilty. The while patience of hie wife 1 !
face, her silence, and the bandaged arm
a crass her breast reproached him horribly.
He showed the doctor out, and returned
to the chamher. Annie did not look up.
Martha, the cook, who was very fond of
her young mistress, was sitting beside
i her. *
u If you please, Mr. Dana, I'll stay with
her while you has your tea. It's all ready
below, Sir."
Annie did not speak ; so he went down
and made a forlorn attempt at a meal.
How empty the room was without ita
queen! how utterly desolate! He kept
trving to think what he had raid in that wild
moment at the gate. He knew be.had
called ber by every loving name while he
was bringing her ro, but he could not re
roemlter that she had returned one kim,
one loTing word. She bad only said,
"Take care, Robert; it is broken;" awl
afterward, " Don't mind ; it docs not hurt
muchhat her eje had been averted,
and her roke had a repressed tone he had
uever heard in it before. By-aud-by he
went lack.sending Martha away. Annie's
eye* were shut, hut he frit sure she was
not sleeping. Her cheeks were brightly
flushed, ber breathing rapid.
" Mte is as unhappy as I am," thought
Robert. *' How can she have the perfect
repose the doctor ordered till we under
stand each other and are reconciled 7 This
silence is killing us both. Somebody must
speak first. It is she who is in the wrong,
surely it is; ami yet why cannot I look at
her and believe it 7 Why do 1 feel m reel I
the guilty one 7"
He leaned over bis wifo and studied her
sweet face eagerly, as these thoughts
agitated him. She felt him near, and yet
how distant! Hot tears sprang to ncr
closed eyes, hung on the thick lashes, ran
over her burning cheeks, but she dared
not look op. Pride was afraid of giving
way. Robert raw her lip tremble, her
tears fall, and he broke down.
"Oh, Annie, my wife, speak to me ! look
at me! lam afraid I have been harsh and
cruel to you; hut why, why do you have
a secret from me 7"
Wide open, honest, fearless were her
eyes then.
" Rolxrt! Robert! it was no harm.
Could yon not trust me 7 But I will tell
you every thing. I never will have an
other secret. I have hated myself all the
time. But it was onlr a story, for * sur
prise; and lam so glad tbst 1 need not lie
sly any more!" And then she burst into
such wild sobbing and crying that Robert
was (airly frightened.
He had never seen her beyond her self
control before, and, like all usually quiet
and serene person*, her giving way was
entire, and most distressing. It was a
long time before she could tell her story
coherently. In vain Robert begged her to
wait till morning, assuring her that he was
perfectly satisfied. She felt she could not
sleep till every cloud was cleared away ;
so at last—interrupted by her own tear*
or laughter, by his tender caresses and
self-reproaches—the whole history of the
manuscript, the table, and letters was
told. How the husband felt, as every
link in the chain proved ber so tender and
true, can not be described. Suffice It to
say that be, in his turn, laid bare all bis
heart l>efore her, and that upon these
hours of suffering and confession, of humili
ation and joy, their mutual confidence and
love were rebuilt upon a tried and perfect
ed foundation. The next morning a reply
was mailed to the editor's letter, the inno
cent cause of the trouble. It had contain
ed merely a request for " permission to
alter the name of Mrs. Cynthia Sullivan's
story;" and, with Annie's acquiescence,
the correspondence ceased, and " Mr*.
Cynthia Sullivan" wa* known no more in
the literary world.
A few weeks later, on the evening before
Robert's birthday, his wife failed to meet
him at the door on his return from the
city, but in the parlor he found her, blush
ing and radiant, sitting at the dear old
chess-table, trying in vain to keep np the
traditional look of absorption in her game.
The only drawbnek to the correctness of
the picture was the sling in which aba waa
still obliged to carry her arm. I'erbaps it
was this which sent the rare tears to her
husband's eyes as he kneeled beside ber
and held her close to his heart.
Thus the quaint old Chinese table be
came one of the most cherished of their
household gods, the companion of many a
cozy winter evening, the silent preacher to
Robert against all impatience and suspi
cion—to Annie against any concealment or
diingenuou*np*s. When February's maga
zine was published, Annie's arm was
entirely strong again, and she enjoyed to
the full the long-desired pleasure of hear
ing her story read and praised by the
voice dearer to her than all the world
beside.
A HORBIBLK CAW.—A negro on the
Gibraltar plantation, in Jamaica, aided
by a woman, seized a little boy, cut his
body, and dmnk his blood, then cut off
his upper lip, which was roasted and ate.
The child's cries were finally beard by a
man in the neighborhood, who leecued
the boy. The little fellow retained his
senses, and lived long enough, notwith
standing the entrails protruding, to give
the particulars of the manner in which
he had been treated. Intense excite
ment prevailed in consequence of the
terrible act.
CENTRE 11ALL. CENTRE CO., PA., ERIDAY, JUNE JO, 1871.
|
Massachusetts Farms and Farmer*.
Acrorxling to the hud census returns,
i the cash value of the farms iu Mannarlm- j
M<tl was Bllt,diK>,UUO, with in ore than
45,000, OOd worth of fanning iuiuleinctiU
aud machinery. The chief of the I alitor
ituiwau for that State reports that more
atteutiou is eneli year being paid to
manufacturer* ami less to farming into
i rnffii The general complaint w* uis to ,
be that farmers have to pay high wages
for all the help they employ, much
higher, iu fact, than the prices received
for their eropa warrant. The result ia,
i lmt mono iu vested iu furuuug does not
jmy a* well ah it would iu some manufac
turing induatry. The hew] of the Indior
Bureau, in discussing this question, aays
that the price of labor cunuoteoiue down
aud the result will be a change of invest- ,
ment. The coueluduig portion of the
report of thin official takes a somewhat
discouraging view of things, more so, the
Springfield Re/>uMicttu thinks, than the
circumstances warrant. The report says :
j •• The methods of agriculture are yet
crude, though growiug year by year
more and more into aeoorastuce with the
demands of the age. Neither capital
will invest, nor iutefiigeiit lalmr wort, at
a business that yields so grudging a pit
tance. Small farms, like sin-ll workshop*
! must yield to larger enterprise Aggre
gate capital will therefore call for con- ;
gratulated lal>or, and as the wages of a
people cannot be permanently reduced,,
machinery must and will be iutrodnoed j
!to chcapeu products, and make farm i
labor, as it has nil other, more ex pen- i
rive ; for in farming, as iu every other
! inductive eatnpriae, cheap labor i*
leareet, and dear lalmr cheapest. We
have said that the foreign laborer is
getting possession of our badly located i
or sterile farm*. This is doubtleaa true; i
and if the former owners migrate west- i
' ward, or bring their skill to the better
lands nearer the markets of cities, mak-!
ing anch change of culture aud crops as
tin- change of market demands, it will be
better for all concerned
An Incxtlngnlvhshlc Signal l ight.
A new signal light poaseaaing moat ro
! markahh- qualities, has now been brought
• out in England. It* peculiarities are,
ithat it is self-igniting when placed in
i water or thrown out on the sea. Con
tact with water being the means of ig
! nitiiig th lamp, it is inextinguishable
' wheu once igtiih-d ; neither wind nor
•tot IU lias any effect upon the flame. The
Hgbt is of "intense brilliancy, and of
groat duratiou, aud can la- seen for s
distance in the open air. Photograph*
may be taken by it Experiment* wen
tried on the evening of the '2sth of
April, at ten o'clock, iu the presence of
some scientific gentlemen, to determine
ita brilliance as a signal. A lamp wa*
placed In a bucket of water on the top
of Primrose Hill, London, and the light
was so intense that one could see to n-ad
j a newspaper at a distance of seventy
feet, notwithstanding that the night wa*
dork and foggy
This light will burn forty minutes In
construction, the lamp is exceedingly
simple, and so contrmvl tlint when once
burnt the whale may tie thrown away.
The chemical preparation contained in
the lamp is a solid, hard sulwtanre, free
from danger ; not affected by heat, a!hd
also non-explosive; and the signal is com
paratively inex|>eiisive. It* applications
for marine signals are numerous. In
case of shipwreck, a few tem|w thrown
ou tlie sea would illuniinale the entire
scene, and enable assistance to l>e
promptly and efficiently rendered. F .*r
rocket-Unc apparatus it is equally valu
' able, as, bursting into a flame on falling
! into the sea, it would iudicate the posi
tion of the rocket-line. In connection
with life buoy*, it would be a mark to
, tlie drowruing sailor.
'♦Suthlne In the Paper."
The Richmond Gnmiss-, has a spicy
chapter on the subject of newspapers
elicited by the stereotyped remark of in
different readers after scanning the
•' miniature world " of a daily issue of
news, that " there's nothing in the
paper." It says: " And men are always
grumilling about their jaqs rs, and insin
uating how much better they could do
it. They talk as flippantly about " flne
artieb-s "* on every imagimble subject as
if tliey could effect such s change. Let
•ouie of tbeac over-running philosopher*
try it for one hundred and fifty day* in
succession. And tbeu they think it is
nothing to "select" for a newspaper,
you have merely to run the scissor*
through a half docon exchange*, and you
have got matter enough. Now this is
the most important, and the most diffi
cult dejiartment to fill on a newspaper.
Terr few men have the slightest idea
how to do such work. It require* a
thorough newspaper man—who knows
the public appe'ite well—who knows
what is going on in the world—and who
knows how to re-write and pack a col
umn into a dozen lines. Men who skim
a newspaper and to** it aside little re
flect bow much brains and toil have been
expended in serving up that meal. Busy
heads and busy hand* have been toiling
all day to gather and iirejmre those
viands, and some vast building lias been
lit from cellar to garret all night to get
the j-apt-r ready for the newsboy by
crack of ilnwn. "Nothing in the news
paper ?" Nothing in your heads, that's
what's the matter."
Church Building in New York.
" Burleigh " write* to the Boston
Journal, from New York : It in n jx-r
--ilnoa thing for * minister to undertake
to build a church, in this legion. One
or two things usually happen, either the
minister break* down, or a new hand is
required to fill and j>av for the church.
A pastor down town was several years
Btting his people to consent to move,
ic thing was fought vehemently, and
was carried finally by a rapture through
the centre of the church. The new
house is approaching completion. It is
commanding in position and lnrge. One
of the leading men in sneaking of it
casually down town the other day, said :
" Yes, we have got a fine church, and we
mean to have a star to fill the pulpit."
When a lecture-room costs 880,0(10, the
hill church, with all its appointments, is
rather an expensive matter. It is quite
common to have a church cost from
$200,000 to SBOO,OOO. One place of
worship in New York has a loan upon it
of a quarter of a million, As the insur
ance comiauiy that gave the loon take no
security at over half the value, the cost
of the church may tie conceived. It
takes from $15,000 to 825,000 to run a
fashionable chnreh. Seven thousand for
the pastor; choir, 80,000; sexton,
82,500, with other corresponding ex
penses. The test of a man is his ability
to fill the pews, and raise the pew rents.
If he can do this he can stand on his
head, and people won't complain.
THE OLDEN TIME.—The first meeting
house in Wbeelock, Va., was built in
1789. A curious vote was taken by the
town for the purpose of selling off the
pews. The record of it reads as follows :
'•Voted that the town be at the expense
of rum for the venduing of the meeting
house pews."
The prophecies from Delewore and
Maryland are that the peach crop will
yield 3,500,000 baskets—about half s
million more than were gathered in 1869,
which wae the champion peach year.
"Cornering."
The operation of " cornering," a* the
term is, is played by broker* iu the fol
lowing manlier : Four, five, six, or ten
(as the ease muV bej brokers cuter into
an arrangement with ouch other to buy
and get control of the entire stork of
some company. They commenoe by
• leprcwniilg tlic stoek as much as possible,
iTo do tlus, they must all appear to la?
sellers, and cry down the price, repre
senting it to lie worth less wild themselves
heartily- sick of everything |*<rtaiiiiug
to it While they are publicly selling
lota of one or two hundred shares, their
ngeuta or tools are buying all tliey cau
get hold of. As soon a* they can hny
all the cash stock they find in this way,
they turn suddenly around and Iwgiu to
buy on time. I'arties not in the secret,
of course, are willing to sell on thirty,
sixty or ninety days—tveu though they
do not pom* ** the stock—thinking tliat
l>efore tue expiration of that time they
would lie able to buy at a lews price than
they sell it at Iu * this way thousands
of shares are sold, to be delivered at a
future day, to the very men who own
every share of the stock that ha* ever
lawn issued. When the time arrives for
delivery the sellers discover that there
ia no stock to lie hail but of the men to
whom they haa sold it Of course they
must |*y whatever the owners choose to
demand" If the game ia well playi-d,
i the oomererw will make as much iu sell
ing aa they did in buying them. Should
every one of the party prove true to hia
comrades, they will soon manage to get
rid of the whole stock to outsiders at a
high price. It will lie readily seen that
this u a very ilangerous game unless
well played ; for ahould any of the par
ties interested " let fly" without letting
the others know it, the game ia up, and
although he may make a fortune, it will
be at the sacrifice of all the others.
Flower* and Children.
In u article on the influence of tors
in educating and forniiug the U*t- of
children, Blunt-hard Jerrold write*
charmingly cm the subject of flower*
He aaya: I would have flower* crowded
in the aoboabroom winduwa of the very
young, 1 would build broad open Inm
couies for the baby achohtnt; where, dur
iug every davlight moment of fair weath
er, they might have fresh air, and liitaof
In-outy" flowering under their inquiring
eye*. I would haw the PoupontUetw of
Brussels copied ; making elementary
education Wgtn—not when a child has
leen already erected into a little mon
iter bv liad parout* and evil aurround
ing* ; out in ita protected cradle, in the
first shaking of it* rattle, and the fintt
pointing of it* fingi-m to picture* arul
plant*. We should—or our children
would—see the good result* of audi cra
dle teaching ; of irotheties thrown inU
the alphabet, into the ty-hp, the
play-ground, and the adornment* of the
schoolroom. J>*or the chilil tliat i* alive
to tlie simplest lessons and leautiea of
the field, that can delight in atriving to
imitate—if only with draw or paper - a
beautiful form placed before it, 1* farther
on the way to a higher education, even
fthould subsequent events prove unto
ward in it* jwith, than the creature of
dull, unformed sight iu infancy, who
may he kept well at school under good
master* A feeling for the Wautiful, a
delight in it, which at present is almost
unknown in Kugland, it tliat which we
shall strive after, not in art academies,
but in infant schools and uursrnes. The
roughest Dutch doll is the Yenns de
M.-dica to the child that nuracs iL We
give the ugly thing to the child, aud so
make for or twelve* the after-difficulty of
proving that dolly is ugly. The n-mark
applies to ueurlv all toy* ; certainly to
ail that are English.
Sew fork Market.
The *ii|p]y of vegetables in New York
market is steadily improving, anil price*
are not exorbitant, rine Bermuda pota
toes sell at <SO cent* a half-neck, string
ttestis at 40 to 50 cents, cauliflowers at 25
to 50 o uts, and otlier tilings in proper
tion. Fruit is plenty at moderate prnx-s,
strawberries bringing from 15 to2a cents
tier basket ; whortleWrriea, whirh have
jlist made their api-earanee. sell for 25
cents per quart, and cherries from 15 to
25 cen to. The meat market is not active.
Porterhouse steak commands HO cento a
pound, sirloin steaks 20 to 25 cent*. lieef
for roasting, 1(5 to 25 cento, and soup
meat, 8 to 10 cento. Spring lamb sells
for 20 cento, and mntt.ro for 10 cento
Veal sells from 12 to 15 cento, fresh pork
from 121 to 18 cento. Butter brings
from 20 cents for ordinary to 35 cento
for prime ; egg*, 20 to2scants par doaen.
The prices of fowls are 25 cents per pound
for turkeys, $3 to 84 per pair for geese,
81.50 per |iair for ducks, 81.25 for Spring
chickens, and other fowls 82 to 83 per
pair. _
How PAXAUA HATS AR MADK.—Tin
process of making Panama hats is as fol
lows : The leaves of the Pandamus, or
Hcren pine, from which these hat* un
made. are gnthered Ix-fore- they unfold,
the rils and coarser veins are removed,
and the rest, without being separated
from the liase of the leaf, is reduced to
shreds. After having lieen put in the
sun for a day. and tied into a knot, the
straw ia immersed in Ixiiling wuter until
it becouiea white. It is then hung up in
a shady place, and consequently bleached
for two or three days, after which tin
straw is rernly for use. The plaiting of
the straw commences at the crown and
flnishea at the brim, and is a very trou
blesome operation. The hats arc lnaftc
on a block placed on the knee*, mid re
quire* to In* constantly pressed with tin
breast. The coarser hat may lie finished
in two or three days, but the finest may
require as many month*.
THE liocrwr. The Alhanv Argm
throws some light on tlie invasion of the
West by the "seventeen yar locust,"
which tlie West so much dreads. It nj
|M-ars that the "locust" is no 100 ist at
nil, hut is the dentin ttfflemtltvim ; nor'
yet ia it harmful, for it cannot devour
vegetation, as it lias no jaws for eating,
but merely a liaiistellnm for sucking,
which, however, it seldom or never uses.
Its life Inst* only from ton days to three
weeks, and during this time it does noth
ing but flv about, then it deposits its
eggs and dies. The only injury* done by
these insects is noticed when they hurt
trees by piercing them in order to de
posit their egg*. They apjieur every
year in some part* of tlie country, but
not in the HIM locality, as the eggs are
not hatclu-d until they have laiu for
seventeen years.
New cheap calis have lately l>cen in
troduced by Dodd's Trwnsfer Company,
New York City, and are received with
much favor. Fifty have la-en ordered
and ten are air ady in use. TH car
riage is called the "Crystal," the
whole upper portion, except the top and
corners, being of glass. The door is in
the rear, and the seat*, on the Rides, ac
commodate four persons. The interior
is" substantially upholstered with
morocco, and top is frescoed. Each
cab oosta about 81,600, horses and har
ness included. The drivers are uni
formed with blue coats and navy caps.
The rate of fare will be about 81 an
hour for the use of the vehicle.
THE amendment to the Connecticut
Constitution, submitting to the people
the question whether there shall be one
capital or two, was defeated in the House
by 145 to 87.
Under the Bark.
Tak<-u roughly, all the ere i turns wUflk
ar< found uiiJt<r the hark may be divided
into two ola.vm, namely, those which
hava resorted there for shelter durtUK
the cold mouth* of Winter, and those
which feed upou the Iwrk or the sub
stance of the tree itself. The former can
always lie found under the hark of old
tree*, eipe-ially oak* and willow*. The
latter, however, are the moot prolific in
insert lffe. In many old willow* the
hark u nliirhti v Meliorated from the trunk
for mauj feet, and although no external
sign tie given of thi* fact, the hollow
aound which i* returned when tlie out
aide of the tree ia Uppvd i* a sufficient
proof. On carefully removing one of
these sheet* of hark front the tree, a moat
extraordinary night ia often presented.
The space bet seen the liark and wood
is a vast camp of insect armies, their
white and glittering teuU being set so
closely together that them is not room
for a finger's tip between them. Under
the twurk also flourish certain colonic* of
flat white cry ntognius, which spread
themselves in fan-like rays, an 4 almost
rival the silken insect tents in whitenc**.
Now and then comes a circular teut,
through which can lie seen a quantity of
little yellow globular objects. The char
acter of the silk tells us that the neat is
certainly that of a spider, uud wo just
pall off a little of the cover to get a bettor
view of the egg*. Scarcely has the tip
of the forceps stretched the tilken roof,
than a simultaneous stir becomes appa
rent through th eggs, and all at once
they suddenly start into life, unpacking
in some mysterious way the limbs which
had been folded round their globular
bodies, and all running about busily and
aimlessly as the inhabitants of a disturb
ed ants' nest. In fall the seeming eggs
are uot egg* at *ll, but very vouug
spiders, wlucli have only just )**in Latch
ed, and are waiting for warmer weather
before they mako their appearance in
the world. This same space between the
bark and the wood is a favorite reoort of
many moth ester]nllsrs. Led by instinct
they proceed to the tree and climb up
the* liark. seeking for some recess in
nbirb to |MMS their short pariod of help
leas existence. In comparatively young
trees they content them vivos with the
crevices fanned by the rugged and knotty
liark, but in old tree*, such o have been
described, they manage to discover some
aperture through which they crawl into
the large sheltered space and there spin
their silken home. < areful investigation
shows that however safe such a retreat
iimv be for the insect while in its pu|>aJ
or chrysalis condition, it is little more
than a* trap for the iierfect insect. For
not only are spiders' egg* to be found
••under the bark,** but spider* them
selves also take up their residence there,
and And ample salaiisteucc in the many
insects that lrnve found their way under
the laxrk and cannot And their way ont
again. Of all the insects which hiber
nate in the crevices of the hark, by far
the greater number seem to be the ehrys
nil do of various moth*, which, as a rule,
hide themselves so well that they need a
practiced eye to see them, and even
though the greatest care be taken, are
often accidentally destroyed. It is ex
tremely provoking, after selecting an
apparently safe spot for the chisel, to see
a white creamy fluid run along the blade,
and then to know that the tool has pass
ed through the body of a chryaslis
which has bidden itself so cleverly aa to
escape observation. The most success
ful of theae hiders is the Puss Moth.
(Carura riau/tt,) the chrysalis of which
lies hidden in a *i ocularly ingenious
cocoon. When the caterpillar is full fed.
it crawls to the trunk of the tree and
looks about for a crevice in the rough
hark. Into this crevice it insinuates it
self, and begins at oner to nibble the
liark into tiny chips, which it fastens
together with silk-fluid discharged from
its spinereto, and so makes a cocoon
; which completely shelter* it. Owing to
the materials of which the cocoon is
mode, it exactly resembles the bark, and
con scarcely he distinguished from it;
and as the caterpillar took care to retire
into the crevice liefore spinning, the sur
face of the cocoon does not project be
yond that of the bark in general. Very
often when the eye fails in detecting a
cocoon, the touch succeeds, the material
of the cocoon being soft; but this is not
the case with the Puss Moth, whose
coooou is much harder than the bark of
which it was made, the silk-fluid forming
a wonderfully firm and tough cement
.KM for the wuodlice. millipedes arma
dillra and centipedes, they awarrn
under the liark. especially the woodlice,
whose dried and white.skeleton* can lie
seen by hundreds, showing at onee their
cruaUuH'ou* descent. Eoraig*, also, arc
sure to appear in great force, and, aa is
their want, do not lose their ptjrsence of
mind when disturlied, but make their
w*v iustinctively for the nearest crevice,
and wriggle their little bodies out of
reach almost before they have lieen seen.
The Ikirl■ lihte.
Snpcrstltious of Vampire*.
The Pull Mall W.unc says : " From
a case now liefore- the high tribynal at
Berlin we learn that the superstition of
vampires—corpses who are supposed to
rim- from their graves at night and suck
the blood of those with whom they have
held intercourse in life—ia still general
among the Poles and Magyars. A Polish
gentleman died at his country si-at at
Boslasin in February last, leaving his
family in excclleut health. A few weeks
after his death, however, his eldest ton
was suddenly aud unaccountably taken
ill, his short aickncaa ending in death.
Similar cm**. though not fatal. occurred
among hia near relatives. It was at once
agreed that the ih>ocaaed must he a vam
pire, aud tliat his visits were the cause
of thia repeated illness. To save him
self from the fate of hi* brother, the
second son determined to apply the sup
posed only re-meily, vix.: to exhume the
body, cut off hia heml, and lay it with
the feet, while another jx-rson was to
collect the blood issuing from tlie wound
to give tlie remaining relatives a drink.
He obtained the assistance of a laborer,
naturally at a heavy price, but was pre
vented on his first expedition by the
interference of the parish priest. The
next attempt proved more successful,
and the deed was accomplished. It had
been observed, however, by some person
in the village, and wan thus brought to
the kuowledge of the authorities. The
absurd superstition threatens to coat the
doseerator of the churchyard a tlirce
months' imprisonment. That was the
verdict in the first instance, and though
the Court Appeal ha* cancelled the sen
tence, the High Tribunal seems resolv
ed to confirm it."
BE CAREFUL.—The Jacksou (Miss.)
PiM says : " Five persons have recently
been found dead in the southern part of
this State, under mulberry trees. Death
in all these cases have been attributed
to eating mulberries which had been im
pregnated by locusts. 'ln the stomach
of oue colored boy,' says the Woodville
Republican, 'were found a quantity of
raulberrv ►oeds and the locust eggs.'
Two children in Wilkinson County are
also reported to have died from eating
plums similarly impregnated.
" Look here, boy," said a nervous old
gentleman to an urchin, who was munch
ing sugar candy at a lecture, "you are
annoying me very mnch." 44 No, I ain\;
I'm*-gnawing this sugar candy," replied
the nrchin.
flipping Palish Beards and Trawaera.
According to the /irasfowsr Zc
whose authority on such uiatts-rw e can
not doubt, the Ituasiau ukase prescribing
a change of costume to Uie Jews in
I'ulsud lias not met with aa ready obedi
ence aa waa exported. The long ixato
have, indeed, been easily disposed of ;
whenever the owners refused to shorten
them the lattice obligingly took the task
off their hands. Tin- curia have under
gone similar treatment. But aa the
myrmidons of the law are not aa skillful
in handling the needle as the shears, the
Dowsers have for the most part remained
aa short aa before. The provision excit
ing most ruaiataiice is that ordering the
chin to be shaved ; barber's work seems
a ticklish matter for policemen to under
take ; the Jew, on tue other hand, ven
erate their liearda almost as a sscmd
tiling ; they would aa soon think of cut
ting their throats aa their beards. The
Warsaw police still allow the latter,
shunning all application of force aa apt
to produce disturbance* ; lmt in provin
cial town* a crusade ha* been opened
against them.
At Ooica the police In-gan the cam
paign by an exjierimetit on an old man
of ulsMit'eighty, who wra* ucrfowe spoiled
of bis lieard in the pnbhc market-place
The old man's erica speedily attracted
numbers of b-Uow-creedatnen anxious to
rescue their Neetor. No better opportu
nity could have lieen desired. Ax fast
as Uie men arrived the* were seized,
forced into chair*, and shaved in rwtiier
too hurried and rough a manner to be
uleaauit The lamentations of the help
lew. victims are described aa touching.
The authorities are, however, mightily
pleased with their success, and are said
to intend adopting the same method in
other towns, until the law imposed by
the paternal Government shall have been
everywhere complied with.
Ingenious Thin inr.
The Loudon Zbi/jr JVeww aava : An
example of the action of the Detective
patio] is given by the Paddington Hnper*
lntciideut. One evening, Detective
Frben and Police Constable Hmith aaw
two respectaWv dreaaed women loitering
in Westbouroe Grove. They were soon
joined by a grey-haired gentleman, who
carried a great coat on hia arm. In •
few minutes he left them and returned
wearing the coat. The three sauntered
along until they came to a considerable
group of ladies who were around the
window of a print shop. The police
went into an opposite ahop and watched.
Presently the man came out of the
group and stood where he could com
mand a view of the street After awhile
one of the women joined him and hand
ed him MißMthiog, which he pit in an
inner pocket of the groat coat; she then
returned to her female companion, and
the two placed themselves one on each
side of a lady who was looking in at a
print ahop window. In a few momenta,
one of them came out to the man, and
again handed him something, very much
like a purse, which he put in hia pocket.
The policeman followed the lady, ascer
tained that her puris- wma gone, and
then, with the detective, arrested the
women and their companion. Two pur
ses ww found upnu them, tbey were
all throe proved to be old offenders, and
thev were .sent off for seven year*' |>enal
servitude. Such occurrences aa these
are happening frequently.
Triamiag with Laces.
Vt tin* whit# muslin drew**, which
are to "be worn only on dneasy oorsmou*.
in> trimmed with point duchesoe Iw.
The lac* nswrnhU* Honiton, and St
three and four inches in width, Hinges
in price from wren to nine dollars a
yard. For black silk and Mack grena
dine, black dutches* enjoys an equal
degree of faTor. Valenciennes retains
popularity, thotigh such good imitation*
art- made of thia favorite lace, that it ia
sometimes difficult for even a connoisseur
to tell the genuine Freuch article from
the Italian and German imitations. In
the latter the patterns are often copied,
but in the genuine the thread which
forma the nnwh in thinner and finer,
and the flowers are more delicately
wrought The lanndry will make these
differences still more perceptible. Black
and white lace are mingled together with
good effect in elegant costumes, which
are designed for evening, for dinner, or
for receptions. The flowing drew
sleeves, which have necessitated hand
some nnder-sleeves. have made necessary
either the needle work collar edged with
lace, or a lace collar to match them.
Lace bows are worn at the throat, and
fine lawn neckties which are lined with
some bright color and tied in front in a
loose sailor knot, are also edged with
lace. Bright colored silk ties are trimmed
with Valenciennes, with stylish black
silk ties having tin- ends formed of alter
nate strips of Valvcnciennes insertion
and black silk. The ends which are
square are edged with wide lace.
Fereir* Weol Imparts.
The Boston Journal aays : The imports
of foreign wool* at this port are* again on
the increaoe. The l*rk George T. Kemp
aud brig Western Star lwth arrived here
this week from Cape Good Hope, bring
ing in the aggregate 1.780 bales. Until
nwntly these woola have been com par*
tivdv neglected by our manufacturers,
twit the continued 'scarcity of the home
products has turned their attention to the
foreign article, aud large Liuichas-a have
latelv been made abroad to supply t!e
deficiency. There is at present no little
excitement among the dealers in thia
country in re-guru to the new clip, as
nudcr "the very light stock*, tlie market
has been stimulated with a material rise
in prices, and buyers have gone to the
Western state* in large numbers to se
cure the first lrgains. Home fears are
expected by Eastern jieople, that a too
great eagerness to purchase at high rates
by the parties who have gone out may
lead to heavy importations of woollen
goods, and thus ultimately to break down
the markets, bnt the prospects of the
trade now are very good, the demand
from manufacturers Wing quite active at
full prices. Large purchases of foreign
wool Have recently been made in Eng
land for aliipmeut to thia country.
lUiaiNu TEA.— In 1848 Mr. Junius
Smith, of South Carolina, oommenoed
the cultivation of tew in this country,
and since that time it lias been cultivated
with moderate success in various parts
of the South. A correspondent of the
Wilmington (N. C.) Journal sgva that
his brother has raised plants and cured
tea which cannot be excelled in flavor by
the imported article. The plants were
obtained from the Agricultural Bureau
of the Patent Office liefore the rebellion,
and their number has increased every
year, the latter plants being fully equal
to those first grown.
Samuel Dunn of Livonia, Mich., was,
eighteen years ago, a hard drinker and
tobacoo-ctiewer, but formed a resolution
at that time to drop both habits, and has
kept it ever since. He has, however,
lain in bed all that tune, never leaving
his room nor having his clothes on,
though he has not been sick a day, nor
taken any medicine. He ia now eighty
years old, with flesh as pulpy as an
infant's, and just as good an appetite ee
he ever had.
THE Tekootis rebels in New Zealand
were defeated by the friendly natives.
Twenty-five of the rebels were killed.
The Ureivera rebels have surrendered.
TERMS : Two Dollar* a Year, in Advanoe.
U* ia (tenth Africa.
Matebric, Booth Africa mnal ha a
pWaalit place to lire to. Mr. Maekeo
! sic. who iuw been there tlraa tdla hi*
! *toiy;
Itotohalc MM-ictv may ba aald to tttirt
i for the chief. But ctainui ar supreme
IOM! unquestioned. To him Mattffil
. very pereon and every thing to the
country. The drove* of cattle wlum
! yon mod to every jwrt of the country
laelottg to the chief ; and if one die* he
:i* informed of it. The herd boy who
! follow* the cattle, and hi* master who
live* in toe adjoining town, baton* alike
to the chief. The trortoa of gMa who
raah ont from every Matehde town to
i ana the paartng wngunu, baking all of
them to the chief; the uuaeitmto fat
; women who slowly follow ace introduced
i to the traveler a* the wire* of Mosaic-
Lata*. The ehtoTa officer* or head men
may, indued, possess private property f
but the chief ui only to raiae hi* finger,
and their good* are confiscated, and they
! themaelve* pot to death.
; The head men lead perhapa the moat
wretched Uvea node* tin* wretched Gov*
crnment The private aohln-r haa little
to poaaiaakm or enjoyment, mi he baa
also liMlr oar*. The officer, an the other
hand, know* that jeatoua eya* aw apon
; ittoi. Hi* equal* to rank and *UUo
covet hi* punat l Baton*, and regard the
favor* which be receive* from toe chief
a* BO much personal kwa to themartve*.
Therefore the bead men am continually
| (dotting and ounntarplotttog again*!-on*
I another. *' We sever know/' wlitopafwd
; unc of them to me, having fink looked
carefully round to ace if we were quite
alone, •• we never know whan we enter
I onr Louse at uigbi tt *• "ball again took
ui** the hght of the eon." Aaa matter
! of fact, anefa meo neidom fall aaleep sober;
they every night call to the aid of boy
alw'a (baer) to deepen their dumber*.
One dav a" small wiir man waa intro
duced to me at layate by one of the mis
sionaries. He waa aakad abera be had
lieen the night before, and with a smile
mentioned toe name of a certain villas*.
Thia perron had sharp rcatleaa eye*, the
thinnest lip*. I had seen among native*;
hi* mouth v* wide, and hi* teeth large
and white. I wa* told after be toft that
tow waa one of the chief • eireutwom ;
and from the fmjoeocy of hiadomieflary
vixita he was called by the Matebel* "the
chief a knife-" 1 thought his face befit
ted bis office. Waiting in the neighbor
hood till his victim haa drunk the last
cup of beer, he gives him time to tell
into that stupor of aieep and drunkenness
out of which he ia never to awake.
The chiefs knife haa his tteiatento,
who arc to readiness to "mak* smear''
any bloody wo* ; for Mosekkatee could
not aarry on hi* paternal adminktratkm
with oiiiv one ''knife." According to
the testimony of one of the mtouonanaa,
it ia nothing for him to send in one
night four or five different partie*
vengeance, to harry the iahanitanta of
four or fire different Tillages into eterni
ty. The death of Moayebe, who waa toe
favorite officer of Moariekatee when the
mifMionaries arrived, illustrate* the social
life of the Matebel*, and emieciaßy the
position of the bead men. Monyebe waa
a wise councillor, a* he had bean a heave
noldier. Moariekatee kept him always
nmr to* penoo. But the man who is
ihns in attendance on a Zulu chief re
ceive* many valuable prevent*. Horses,
saddle*, clothe*, guns, beads, were given
by Moaekkatee to the officer hi whom ha
had such pleasure. The other officer*
liecame violentlv jaalon* of Monyebe's
prosperity. They laid their head* to
gether and plotted bia destruction.
Jealous of one another, they were
united against him, who was profaned
i before them *ll. Innuendo* were first
thrown out in the hearing of the chief;
vague surmise* *ad fears were expressed:
and at length a definite charge was made
' against Monyebe for witchcraft and in
tended murder—murder not of a subject
but of the king hiinarif. For some time
the king turned a deaf ear to all those
; charges, but the bead men ware indefat
igshle. They gave the Moariekatee no
rert. Hia life waa at stake, they declared,
and love to their chief waa their sole
motive. At kttgth. aorrowfaUy and re
luctentJv, the chief gave the officer* per
mission' to kill Moayebe. The next
morning nothing remained of toe favored
Prime Minister, or his wive*, or his rcb
tivea, or his servants, or hia property, or
hi* village, but a blackened or smoking
ruin. The sharp assegai had done its
wo*, and fire waa left to complete the
destruction Jealousy was tot the time
appeased.
Compressed Air a* a lathe Fewer.
A Portland (Me.) correspondent of the
Boston AdecrtiMr *ay* : The experi
ment* which Mr. Robert Spear haa
recently made in this city upon com
pi-catcd air aa a motive power have made
* very considerable aattteflkte among men
of rif classes, mechanics, manufactareiw,
capitalists and inventor*. It ia evident
that in certain branches of manufacture
a complete revolution must follow upon
toe general introduction of this simple
and economical substitute for steam or
water power. Whether engines of very
high pressure can be snpeessfuDv worked
by Uu* new agency is still a debatable
question among our intelligent median
irians Mr Spear Has invented a gov
ernor which aa easily control* toe pres
sure as the governor of a steam-engine.
He claims that air cau be compressed in
the reservoir to an extent double the
(>ower. of the engine that compresses,
thereby saving a large per cent in fuel ;
that the pipes can be extended to an
ahnoat indefinite extent, and the obstacle
of friction, which previous experimenter*
have found almost impossible to deal
with, ia bv a simple invention of Mr.
Hpear'* entirely overcome. The necessi
ty of long lines of shafting in large shop*
is thereby obviated, and each workman
broomiug as it were hia own engineer,
the work of keeping a large engine con
stantly running, when perhaps only a
small' part of the factory's machinery i*
in motion, is done away with. Mr.
Spear affirms that the tidal force at Tu
kev's bridge alone is sufficient to furnish
compressed air for all the machinery in
this neighborhood, and that toe water
(tower at the Lower Falls of the Pro-
Humpaoot, if applied to the same purpose,
would give a snffieieut power for a manu
facturing city of hundred* of thousands
of inhabitant*.
DOES IT PAT TO BF. SICK ?— The AMi
cal urn! Surffioal Reporter estimates the
cost, to the people of the United States,
of medical services And medicines, at
$100,000,000, and adds $25,000,000 for
the qnack medicines swallowed. " Let
the people," it saya, " study these figures
awhile, and then reflect that probably
one-half, or certainly a large fraction, of
this expense, is incurred by a deliberate
infraction of the laws of health ; that, if
they tippled less smoked less, overworked
less, were less ' fast* and less self-indul-
Snt, they would save some thirty or
rty millions a year."
A SAD STORY. —A brakeman named
Jones fell under a freight train on the
Lake Shore road at Cleveland, and had
both legs cut off and hia body badly
maneied. Hearing a passenger train ap
proaching, and would run
him over also, toe wounded man stabbed
himaalf is 23 places, in the breast and
left arm, with a pocket knife. He was
seen, however, by the engineer of the
passenger train, who stopped it, and the
m*n was taken up, but died shortly af
terward.
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\ . ,* pucft vawi W'f " tmi-t : -
Tmnp wreath* of *y td *Mte tor her hair;
Plate ream re! to mat aa f>t wWte tv—l
m.t4 *... _ui at_ m ritdla* aMH&M artagga ■>* MMr^irrw*
~ v lLt rirSSlhrTpS f riff fttW
Turtmfrn htiowfi oiwytwrrmi, iw 11 wr
The bang* W*^"**3?-
mLj MTfl 11 i
"SffiSHSSa*.-
Tafi nwtiiel fiprtng haaaomt. and prtat th*
***' . My km, toys* 1
;
Tour touch la tender, aw*rw qfgj*SSj.
four voim drv*eeam*to, and your asm* min*
tfrtßmaea:
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T*n me, my fipvtaf, my lor*, hew *•
aetite all auuahina mth with
Life whre leva to part;
AMI leva whan wjm.it bhtapag 'totemy.
I* BirwHr ifcaa ttn fo **7*,
JtoZmd sreraroSronut than roar fatty Mi
Ant, •* yo* natetor, uar. JSwaall
] yZj w Faate and Fancte*.
: Spotted vails, now so much warn, am
vary injuriona to the eyesight
Sixteen balnea on mm toDtoroit
have haattehri*tened • Bmnmrek.
Vermont emtitoya over AW mm to
quarrying martd* to th* aeroml parts rf
! toe Mate.
Oaa prrwon fa born evary few minutes
ami archer dim every rovaa mtontaa
! A Chicago bishop waited two honm
tor * bride who had been disappointed
i in her bonnet airing*.
Five hundred and twenty-five thou
sand nix hundred testes leave London
: in the eourM of <* yaar.
L The Fmumylwmia LegialaJ|BW ha*
t w ~
ti-mpoojar i#
JXiSStSSe-SSS
and about 1,00Q,0p0 pound* tote Eng-
Jfediotf cattmato. that
fhe peopf* of the United Btet P*T
§llfi.>' OWt anutmfiy lor medictima and
Tun fttta at Magteaw. MWt., ada a
Imavtba; toey cotod tek* five gratoa of
moifibine without injury. They teied it
i ad died together
TW mauagarof the AlhambraThaatre,
M Fruomaoo, baa failed, with aavte of
ten centa, no *l or peraonal pmperty,
watch, clock or jeweby.
A Providence mewhant aavaa hi* um
hrelhu. bv cutting a small ptoea out of
the whaeh be eantea in hi*
pocketbook. ready to paore at
anytime.
A Philadelphia baggage-maater died
latdy to the attempt to tnaah a man a
trunk He had maahed thousand* be
, fate, and thia waa the fiiat one thet
threw off on him.
Every seventh pamon to Umdon ia to
j fecespt of public oharity. !%• ooat of
aiding thia cfaa* has toaraaaad during
! the part ten yea** p
than the growth of the great metropoh*.
A Mr. L- P. Taylor, of Vermont iart
'South Bend. Ind.. on a ahmt vtrtt I for
the benefit of hi* health, the five Mm.
I Taylors whom he left a* hmna barma
proved too much of a loud on hi* mind.
A couple out to Portland, Qwgou,
i who found themartvaa divwwd. through
toe machination* of the wife** mother.
M JhT l*wt liong poanWe undtw fee
ciromnrtancaa—promptly got mamad
country paper. apaatog <* ffcf
street-organ pkytog of a *ddwjnthout
arm*, who worked the crank with hi*
foot, my* : " Hi pkytog waa tor above
the nsual average: he thww lna whole
sole into ft." •
A moose ran up the pautateous lag of
a Rochester Kaghahitmn w
a quiet nap at one
, poor fallow waa ja frigiitM tlmt be
jum)ied down a flight of atepa and got
ureated as a lunatic.
An infatuated young man to
haa indited many vemea to the id,d at
his heart, closing - May Mihron
kee eclipse Chicago, if ever I nmto
lover MMU could take no loftier
flight than that to Chtoago.
is announced on excellent authority
(Jvit ItU * million JKHUBU of
willow leaf were made up at Shanghai,
I last aeaaou. and palmed off a* gen tew
The willow leaf aa prepared cannot ba
dintinguirtwd from green to*
The potato bags sea finding thr
i B mti Bgp id the Waal in the
soldier bugs, Wgu taaugnlar toaecta
which attack th* other fiercely and make
sbork wo* of them when they appear in
' any conaidcrabl* quantities.
An Frgbah inmate of one of to* Pun
jaub jails mvlc two complaints to toe
inspector-general recently, one being
that be waa not ntppbed with gmn-fed
mutton, and th# other tfeathr was fonad
. to feel the mrtmtote of hi* porttiou.
The aewwrt too exhibited on the
i atevets of New To* ia to the shape of a
bird, which ia attached to a rubber
string, ami flutter* its wings and tail to
j a very life like manner, a* the vender
swings it in cinfle* wound his heed.
, A number of Milwaukee ritixensare
organising a colony to go 11 est They
will take along everything MM*_to
civflixaiior.. *qtiat on m# wtejrf® tbiat
s is vast enough, and have a well-built and
flourishing rtty by the thna mow flies
The Chicago Jomrmri thtofe " the
1 government throws swmr deal of
mooev in keeping np lighthooa. rt
the mouth of the Chwago river. On v
give a pilot a good rtttted b. wo,l ' d
make toe channel toe darkest night wito
ent faiL"
An old fanner said to hi* aoua : "Boy*,
, don't you ever speekerlate, or wmt for
siimmit to turn up. Ton might just aa
well go an'sit down on a atone in the
meddcr. with a pail atwixt your lega,
wait for a cow to ha* up to you to ba
milked."
A school committee to s frontier dis
trict are reported to have rammedl up
their opinion of an examination which
they had attended by making to the
pupil* this address: "You've spelled
well, and you've ciphered good, but you
haint sot still."
It having been decided that women
can hold the office of County Superin
tendent in lowa, the ambitious creatures
are determined to hold them all. Three
ladies fill ttiis office already, and several
other counties have put female candi
date* in the Add.
Tbay have something worse than pota
to bugs, chinch bug*, seventeen year
locusts, curculio, caterpillars, etc., out
in lowa, and all the country editors "go
for" him pretty strongly. They call
liim the "Chicago bummer." At home
he is a " commercial traveler."
The next municipal canvass in Louis
ville promises to be based on the dog
question. The wholesale slaughter of
the canine species is exciting the ire of
those who have pets, and toe next can
didate for alderman must show a clear
record on the anti-dog-kiHing subject
American readers are often amused
with the names of Chinese. To them
Li PoTai and Chy Lung look very
funny. Bat perhaps it is only in the
way we print it. Suppose some of our
own were given thus : Da Vis and Groe
Ley, ScuhyLer Col Fax and Val Lan
Dig Ham.
Let parents make every possible
effort to have their children go to sleep
lin a pleasant humor. Never, seold or
give lectures, or in any way wound a
child's feelings as ttgoes to bed. Let all
banish business and every worldly care
I at bedtime, and let sleep come to a mind
at peace with Oed and all toe world.
The editor of the Bangor {Ma) Whig
says he recently saw * large number of
ladies enter a public hall with diahev-
I riled hair and hat brims apparently
wrinkled and broken, and, aa ha fancied,
with exaited counter tines. "Upon in
quiring what the riot waa abont, tew
he, "imagine eur chagrin when told it
waa the fashion."
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