Lettering Years.
Ah! years have loitered by, mother,
A weary, weary while.
Since last I saw thy gentle fee*,
With its sweet, patient smile ;
Binee last I felt thy fingers light
1W fondly through my hair,
As at thy knee 1 knelt at night
To say my childish prayer.
Into the world I've gone, mother.
The old home left oehind
New ties of friendship and of love
Ahoul mi heart have twined ;
Tet in ite holiest reoeee.
AH dry and joyleee etilk
There liee one well of tenderneee
No earthly love can fill.
Thv aelf-fergetfnl care, mother:
Thy oouneel, ever neer :
Thv eympathy with every joy,
Thv grief for every tear ;
Thy loving glance, thy tender tone,
Thy warm kiee on my brow -
Tone from my Ufe, forever gouc !
1 know their value now.
Aa Editor'* Table.
Will M. Carleton, in s recent poem, drawn the
following picture of en editor's tehle :
The editor eat in his sanctum, his countenance
forrowed with care.
Hi* mini! at the bottom of buainees. his feet at
the top of a chair.
Hi* chair-arm n elbow enpportin,:. his right
hand upholding hie hesd.
Hi* even on hi* dnety old table, with different
documents spread.
There were thirty long negee from Howler,
with underlined capitals topped.
And a short requisition from Growler, request
ing his newspaper aiopprti;
There were lyrics horn Gueher. the poet, frvn
corning eweet fionreta and zephyr*.
Ami a stray gem tr. o IVodder, the farmer, de
ecribins a couple of heifer* :
There were billet* from beautiful maidens, and
hill* from a gr-cer or two.
And hi* best loader hitched to s letter which
inquired if he wrote it or who T
There were raptures of praise* from writer*, of
the smooth and mclHfiiious school.
And one ot his rival's last papers, informing
him he was a fool;
There were several long ree-dutione, with
names telling whom they were by,
Oanomxing some harmless old hrother who
had done nothing worse than to die;
There were t rape on that table to catch htm
and serpents to sting ami emtio him ;
There were gift enterprises to **ll him, and
bitters attempting to bite htm ;
There wren- King, staring "ad*" from the city,
and money with never a one,
Which ae.de "Please give this insertion, and
send in your lull when you're done."
There were'letter* from organization*—Uivti
meeting*, the-r want* and their law*—
Which eaid ' Can vou print this announcement
Kir—the good of enr glorious cause f"
, 1 hoi r were tickets inviting hi* presence to fes
tival*. parties and shows.
Wrapped in note*, with "Please give us a no
t ee," demurely slipped fn at the cloee ;
In ahort. aa bis eye took the table, and ran oVr
its ink-epatl.red trash.
There was nothing it did not encounter ; ex
cepting, perhaps—it waa Cash.
CONDEMNED BY A CLOCK.
BY V ILK IE COLLINS.
tin a summer evening, some years ago, a
man was (Mind murdered in a field near a
certain town in tbe West of England. The
name of tbe field was " Pardon's Piece."
Tbe man was a small carpenter and
builder in tbe town, who bore an indiffer
ent character. On the evening in ques
tion, a distant relative erf It*, employed a*
farm bailiff by a gentleman iq the neigh
borhood. happened to be passing a stile
which led from tbe field into a road, and
saw a gentleman (earing the field byway
of this attic rather in a hurry. He recog
nized the gentleman (whom he knew by
sight only) as a Mr. Dubourg.
The two passed each other on the road
in opposite directions. Alter a certain
lapse of time—estimated as being half an
hoar—the farm bailiff had occasion to pas*
back along the same road. On reaching
the stile be heard an alarm raised, and en
tered tbe field to see what was tbe mat
ter. He found several persons running
from the farther side of Pardon's Piece
toward a boy who was standing at the
back of a cattle-shed, in a remote part of
the inekwure. screaming with terror. At
the boy's feet lay, face downward, the dead
body of a man, with his head horribly
beaten in. His watch was under him.
hanging oat of his pocket by the chain. It
bad stopped—evidently in consequence of
the concussion of it* owner's fall on it—at
half past eight. Tbe body waa still warm.
All the other valuable*. like the watch,
were left no it. The farm bailiff instantly
recognized the man as the carpenter and
builder men turned above.
At the preliminary inquiry, tbe stoppage
of the watch at half-past e ght was taken
as offering good circumstantial evidence
that the blow which had killed the man
had been struck at that time.
The next question was—if any one had
been aeen near the body at half past eight ?
Tbe farm bailiff declared that he had met
MrjDubourg hastily leaving the field by
tbe stile at that very time. Asked-if he
had looked at his watch, he owned that
he had not done aa Certain previous cir
cumstances, which he mentioned as having
impressed themselves on his memory, en
abled htm to feel sure of tbe truth of this
assertion without having consulted bis
watch. He was pressed on this important
Cut, but he held to bis declaration. At
1 past eight be had seen Mr. Dubourg
hurriedly leave the field. At half-past
eight the watch of the murdered man had
topped.
Had any other person been observed in
or near the field at that time ?
No witness could be discovered who had
seen anjr body else near tbe place. Had
tbe weapon turned up with which tbe
blow had been struck 1 It bad not been
found. Was any one known (robbery hav
ing plainly not been tbe motive of tbe
crime) to bare entertained a grudge against
tbe murdered man. It was no secret that
be aasoriated with doubtful characters,
male and female; but suspicion foiled to s
point to any one of tbetn in particular.
In this state of things there was no al- I
tentative but to request Mr. Dubourg—
well known, in and out of tbe town, as a
voting gentleman of independent fortune,
bearing aa excellent character—to give
some account of himself.
He immediately admitted that be bad
passed through the field. But, in contra
diction to the farm bailiff, he declared that
he bad looked at bin watch at tbe moment
before he crossed the utile, and that the
time by it was exactly a quarter past
eight. Fire minutes later—that is to say,
ten minutes before the murder had been
committed, on the evidence of the dead
man's watch—he had paid a visit to a lady
living near Pardon's Piece, and had re
mained with her until his watch, consulted
once m- re on leaving tbe lady's house, in
formed him that it was a quarter to nine.
Here was the defence called an "alibi."
It entirely satisfied Mr. Duboarg's friends.
To satisfy justice also it was necessary to
call tbe lady as a witness. In tbe mean
time another purely formal question was
put to Mr. Dubourg. Did he know any
thing of the murdered man ?
With some appearance of confusion, Mr.
Dubourg admitted that he bad been in
duced (by a friend) to employ tbe man on
some work. Further interrogation ex
tracted from him the following statement
of facts:
That the work had been very badly
done; that an exorbitant price had been
charged for it; that the man, on being re
monstrated with, had behaved in a grossly
impertinent manner; that an altercation
had taken place between them; that Mr.
Dubourg had seized the man by tbe collar
of his coat, and had turned him out of the
house; that he had called the man an in
fernal scoundrel (being in a passion at {do
time), and bad threatened to "thrash him
within an inch of his life" (or words to
that effect) if he ever presumed to come
near tbe bouse again; that he bad sincere
ly regretted his own violence tbe moment
he recovered his self-possession; and lastly,
that, on his oatb, (the altercation having
occurred six weeks ago), he bad never spo
ken to tbe man, or set eyes on the man,
since. ••
As the matter then stood, these circum
stances were considered as being unfortu
nate circumstances for Mr. Dubourg—
nothing more. He had bis "alibi" to ap
peal to, and his character to appeal to; and
BO body doubted the result
The lady appeared as witness.
Confronted with Mr. Dubourg on the
question of time, and forced to answer,
she absolutely contradicted him, on the
testimony of tbe clock on her own mantel
piece. In substance, her evidence was sim
ply this. She had looked at her clock
when Mr. Dubourg entered tbe roem,
thinking it rather a late boor for a visitor
to call on her. The clock (regulated by
the maker only the day before) pointed to
twenty-five minutes to nine. Practical
experiment showed that tbe time required
to walk the distance, at a rapid pace, from
the stile to the lady's house, was just five
minute*. Here, then, was the statement
KRED. KURTZ, Editor ami Proprietor.
VOL. IV.
of the form bailiff (himself a reapectabl*
witness) convtviraud by another witness
of excellent position ami character. The
clock, on living examined next, wat touml
to l> right. The evidence of the clock
makcr proved that he kept the key, ami
that there had lieen no ncccesitr to set the
clock ami *iml tt up
pci formed both those act* on the day pie
coding Mr. Dubourg's visit. The accuracy
ot the chick thus vouched for. the conclu
sion on the •viilcuee was irresistible. Mr.
Dubourg stood convicted of having lieen in
the Held at the time when the murder was
committed: of having, bv hi own admis
sion. had a quarrel with the muideml
man not long before, (rmmiating in an as
sault and a threat on bia side ; and, lastly,
id having attempted to act up an alibi by
a false statement of the question of time.
There was no alternative but to eottun't
him to take his trial at the Assise*. charged
with the murder of the builder in Pardon's
Piece.
The trial occupied two dsys.
No new fact* of importance wen? discov
ered in the interval. Tbe evidence fol
lowed the course which it had taken at the
preliminary examinations—with this diff
erence only, that it was more caretully
sifted. Mr. Dubourg had the double ail
rant Age of securing the service* of the lead
ing luirrbter in the circuit, and of moving
the irrepressible sympathi-.w of the jury,
shocked at his pout ion. and eager for proof
of his innocence. By the end ol the first
day the evidence had told against him wiih
ucb irresistible force that his own counsel
despaired of the result. When theprion
er took his place in the dock ou the second
dav tbote was but one conviction in the
mind* of the people in court; everybody
said, "The clock will hang him."
It wis nearly two in the afternoon ; and
the proceedings were on ttie point of being
adjourned tor half an hour, when the at
torney for the prisoner was seen to band a
paper to the counsel for the defense.
The counsel rose, showing signs of agita
tion which roused the curiosity of the au
dience. He dtmanded the immediate
bearing of a uew witness, whose evidence
in the prisoner's favor he declared to be
too important to be delayed for a single
moment. After a short colloquv between
the judge and the barrister* on cither side,
the Court decided to continue the sittiug.
The witness, appearing in the box,
proved to be a young woman in delicate
health. On the evening when the prisoner
had paid his visit to tbe lady she ra* in
that lady's service as housemaid. The day
after she had been permitted (by previous
arrangement with ber mistress) to take a
week's holiday, and to go on a visit to her
parents, in the wet erf Cornwall. While
there she had fallen ill, ami had not been
strong enough since to return to ber em
ployment. Having given this preliminary
account of herself, the housemaid then nar
rated tbe-following extraordinary particu
lars in relation to her mistress's clock.
On the morning of the day when Mr.
Dubourg had called at the house she had
been cleaning the mantel piece. She had
rubbed the part of it which was under the
clock with her duster, had accidentally
struck the pendulum, and had stopped it.
Having once before done this, she had been
severely reproved. Fearing that a repeti
tion of the offense, only the day after the
clock had been regulated bv tbe maker,
might lead perhaps to the withdrawal of
her leave of absence, she had determined
to put matters right again, if possible, by
herself.
After poking under the clock in the
dark, and failing to set the pendulum going
again properly in that way. she next at
tempted to lift the clock, and give it a
shake. It was set in a marble case, with
a bronze figure on the top, and it was so
heavy that she was obliged to hunt for
something which she could u*e as a lever.
The thing proved to be not easy to find on
the spur of the moment. Having at last
laid her hand on what she wanted, abe
contrived so to lift the clock a few inches
and drop it again on tbe mantel-piece as to
set it going once more.
The next necessity was. of oonrae, to
move tbe bands on. Here again abe was
met by an ob|pc!e. There was a difficulty
in opening the glass case which protected
the dial. After uselessly searching for
some instrument to help her, she got from
the footman fwithout telling bim what she
wanted it for) a small cbmeL With this
she opened the case—after accidentally
scratcning the brass frame of it—and set
tbe band* of the clock by gueu. She was
flurried at tbe time, fearing that her mis
trcas would discover her. later in tb<-
day she found that she bad over-estimated
tbe intenal of time that had passed while
sbe was attempting to put the clock right.
She had, in (act, set it exactly a quarter of
an hour too fa*t.
No safe opportunity of secretly puttine
the clock right again bad occurred until
tbe last thing at night. She had then
moved tbe hands back to the right time.
At the hour of tie evening when Mr. Du
bourg had called on her mistress she posi
tively swore that the clock was a quarter
of an" hour too fost. It had pointed, as her
mistress bad declared, to twenty-five min
ute# to nine—the right time then being,
as Mr. Duborrg had asserted, twenty min
utes past eight.
Questioned as to why she hsd refrained
from giving this extraordinary evidence at
tbe inquiry before the magistrate, she de
clared that in tbe distant Cormb village
to which she bad gone the next day, and
in which hrr illness had detained her from
that time, nobody had hc-ard of the inauiry
or the trial. She would not have been
then pi event to state the vitallr important
circumstanecfl to which she had just sworn
if tbe prrioner's twin brother bad not
found her out on the previous day, had not
questioned her if she knew anything about
the clock, and had not (hearing what abe
had to tell) insisted on her taking tbe jour
ney with him to tbe court tbe next morn
ing.
This evidence virtually decided the trial.
There" was a great burst of relief in the
crowded assembly when the woman's state
ment had come to an end.
She was closely cros*-exmined, as a
matter of course. Her character was in
quired into; corroborative evidence (rela
ting to the chisfl and the scratches on the
frame) was sought for, and was obtained.
The end of it was that, at a late hour on
thesccond evening, tlicjury acquitted the
prisoner without, leaving their box. It
was not too much to aay that hit life had
been saved by his brother. His brother
•alone had persisted, from first to last, in
obstinately disbelieving the clock—for no
better reason than that the clock was the
witness which asserted the prisoner's guilt!
He had worried every body with incessant
inquiries ; be had discovered the absence
of the house-maid after the trial bad begun;
and he bad started off to interrogate the
girl, knowing nothing and suspecting noth
ing—simply determined to persist in the
one everlasting question with which he
persecuted every body: "The clock is going
to hang my brother; can you tell me any
thing about the clock ?"
Four months later the mystery of the
crime was cleared up. One of the disrep
utable companions of the murdered man
confessed on bis death-bed that be had done
the deed. There was nothing interesting
or remarkable in the circumstances.
Chance, which bad put innocence in peril,
had offered impunity to guilt. An infa
mous woman, a jealous ouarrel, and an ab
sence at the moment of witnesses on the
spot—these were really the commonplace
materials which had composed the tragedy
of Pardon's Piece.
The Digger Indians of the Pacific coast
have an unpleasant custom, when a squaw
dies leaving an infant, of burying the
thild with her.
CENTRE HALL REPORTER.
Anecdotes of (iirartl,
The benevolent Samuel Coatee, one
of the director* of the Pennaylvnuta
hospital, met Mr. Girard on the street,
and told hiiu the hospital wauled fuuda,
and was about to ask him for a dona
tion.
*■ Well," said Mr. Girard. "call at
liiv eountiug-house in the mnriitttg, and
if you find me on a right footiuK I will
do eonrothiug for the institution."
Mr. Coatee called, as agreed, tin I was
invited to take some breakfast (for Mr.
Girard resided most of his time over
his counting-hotiae), after which Mr.
I Civitea ot (served :
" Now we will proceed to busineas."
" Well, what have you come for Sam
uel ?''
"Whatever thee pleaaeo. Stephen."
Girard then signed am) preaauted a
check for S2OO, which Mr. Coatea put
j IU Ins pwket without examitiiug.
"What!"said Girard, in his broken
English, " vou no look at the check I
•• No ; beggars must not be choosers,
i Stephen."
" Hand me liack the check I gave
< you," said Girard,
" No, no, Stephen ; a bird in the hand
is worth two in the bush."
"By George ! " exclaimeil Girard,
" you have .-auglit tne ou the right
footing."
He then drew a check for and
preaenfßfo it to Mr. C<Kites, saying,
" Will ym now look at it ? "
' • Well, ti> please thee, Stephen, I
will," said Cortes.
"Now, give me hick the first check,"
demanded Gintrd, and Coates immedi
ately complied with the request.
It is customary to relate the ab ve
anecdote with the amounts in thousands;
but a cq eful examination of Mr. Girard's
books and jiapen# warrants the strove
figures. Mr. Giranl was so constantly
giving, that he rarely made douations
in thousands. Had he done so. a greater
fortune than his would hare been im
paired, and the thousands of orphans
who have become useful citizens through
his bountv would have been friendless.
When the Baptist clum-h was building
in Sanson! street, Philadelphia, Dr.
Staughton called on Mr. Girml for aid
toward its erection. Girard was cold
and formal, and without saying a word,
! presented a check for 8500. which Staugh
ton received with astonishment, saying
that he had expected 81,000 at least.
" Ah, let me am- the check ; perha|a I
have made one mistake, 'said the French
man. Staughton returned the docu
ment, which Girard immediately de
stroyed, saving at the same time, •'WeU,
Mr. Staughton, if yon will not take
what I will give, I will give nothing."
The Doctor left a wiser man, but carried
his heart in his throat. Giranl never
went to church, and as he regarded no
sect more than another, he gave to all
dike, for he lielieved that the building
of churches should lie encouraged be
cause they improved the city and in
creased the value of property He gave
SoOO to the Episcopal Methodists to
build their church on Tenth strict, in
the same city. This building was after
wards changed to the Gothic stvle and
sold to the Episcopalians, who now
occupy it uuder the name of St Steph
en's (Lurch.
A deputation from the new adherents
called on Mr. Giranl. They expected a
large donation on account of the gran
deur of their plans as compared with
those of the former owner*. They ex
piated upon their proposed new edifice-,
but Mr. Girard listened in silence, and,
calling for his check-book, filled up the
blank for five hundred dollar*. Ther
were for a moment stnick dumb with
surprise, when their sjiokeman said :
"You gave five Unnured dollars to the
poor Methodists ; you have surely omit
ted a cypher."
" Ah ! gentlemen," said Giranl,"what
you say? I have made one mistake;
let me see—l believe not; but if TOU
say so, I must correct it"
I'pon which he destroyed the check,
saying :
" I will not contribute one cent. Your
society is wealthy—the Methodists are
|HX>r ; but I make no distinction, yet I j
cannot please you." He then waited a
moment, as if iu meditation, and then
proceeded : " You remind mo of the
rieh man iu the Gospel. He would not
lie content with the blessings which at- j
tended his agricultural toil*, hut was so
covetous that when his granary would
not hold his abundant crops lie erected
new building* for that pupnse rathf-r
tlwn distribute liis surplus among the
suffering tioor. Profit by his fate, gen
tlemen—l will give nothing to your
magnificent church."
GRADES. —Railroad engineers will lie '
interested in knowing that recent re
ports from Switzerland seem to indicate ,
that such steep grades as that of the'
Mount Rigi Railroad, even with the ex
orcisc of the greatest precautions, are
not entirely safe. An ascending pas-'
senger tram on this well-known road
was recently stopped by the inability of
the locomotive to carry it any further.
All the brakes were npplied as tight as
possible, but absolutely without effect;
tie train began to slip down gradually
and was soon bevond the control of the
engineer and brAesmen, w hen the timely
arrival of another train with a fresh en
gine fortunately averted a shocking ac
cident. The slipping train had acquired
but little velocity, otherwise it would
have been impossible to hold it, even
bjr means of the other locomotive.
DECIDED. —The Pans Uaulnit gives, in
a paragraph signed "Un Domino," the
following anecdote almut Hir Walter
Scott: " When the celebrated romancer
had finished 'Quentin Durward,* he
offered the youngest of his daughters, on
whom he hail not yet settled a dowry,
£4,000 or his last novel. Miss Scott re
plied, blushing, that before taking a
resolution on tne subject. she wished to
read the manuscript. Hardly hail she
received it before sne ran to lier father's
bookseller, who immediately gnve £I,BOO
for the novel. The young lady returned
to the house enchanted, and said to her
father, blushing, that she preferred the
novel to £4,000, and the poor man, cre
dulous as poets and fathers are, wept
with emotion in the arms of his daughter,
who blushed anew."
AN EXTRAORDINARY boicNAMßtrusrr.
In Mt. Vernon, Indians, there is an in
teresting "old citizen," of whom a local
pajier says : He will attend a church and
listen to a sermon, aud that night he will
repeat the sermoa in his sleep verbatim
et literatim. He has been known to listen
to lectures on scientific subjects, that he
knew no more altout than a hog, and
would repeat the lecture in his sleep, so
with public speeches. He is an illiterate
man, using commonplace language, yet,
when under the influence of somnambu
lism, uses the most chaste language.
MAPS. —During the operations of the
Versailles army around insurgent Paris,
the only map in possession of the offi
cers, (I will not say of Marshal Mac-
Mahon, but very probably he waa no
exception, for the engineer corps were
not) was a thirteen cent map of Paris,
as inaccurate as could be. Yet a first
class map of Paris was to be hud for 82
and at a few honrs' notice. The lessons 1
taught during the Fran so-German war i
of 1870-71 are tee hard fer Frenchmen !
to learn !
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25), 1871.
Among the Mliukt-r*.
A eorreepondcnt who hm l*-ou among
i tin' Icliauoii Shaker*. iv* : The Shaker
orMleuieut, foundedm IT9O, is a rematk
üble picture of lieatuc**, and at the same
time,romance, The tall, clmu.syiuctrical
houses dot uloug under the hills, and
great dower and seed gardens show
patches of lirilliunt color that contra*!*
with all the delicacy of nature's artistic
haudtwork agiunst the dark greens of
the pines and spruces. l)owu the vil
lage streets may he seen squad* of men
! and women wending their way to the
meeting house, while now ami then a
load of believer* roll in from Canaan,
itrick Yard and New Lelianon families.
• There is no aouud of church-bell, but,
borne along ou the breeze, one may
hear the tinkle of those at the Spriugs.
I'he Shaker* are uot believers of uoiae
jof any description. In their houses
; they walk on tip-toe, are firm believer*
in Beujaiuiu Fraukliu's motto, that a
door ahould never bo slanimed, and
speak in subdued whisper*. The meet
-1 itig-house is a long and imposing build
ing, some 150 feet in length by 75 or
I lUO feet in height. Along the side wall
are arranged ascending benches for the
accommodation of visitors, the male*
being seated ou one end, the females on
another. The floor fairly shines from
scrubbing, and is waxed, as that of a
ball-room. The male and female mem-
Imra of the community are separated af
ter the aanie fashion as the guests, aud
prereut a very picturesque appearance.
The vnmeu are dressed IU a light gray
stuff, spotless white kerchiefs around
their throats, and the dantiest and most
immaculate caps IIJHIU their lieoda. Here
j aud there may be caught u glimpse of
! s fresh, youug and beautiful girlish face,
j but as a rule, the women are elderly,and
present a comfortable, happy appear
> suce that savors but httle of the ascetic
save in the peculiarly waxy jMtllor of
| their faces, which arises more from
! the absence of wrat from their daily
diet than from any other cause. This
(tailor, though, does not sxtend to the
; ineu. They are sinewy sons of toil, and
their ham!* and faces are bronzed and
tiardcned from laboriug in tlie fields.
Like the women, they, too, are uniform
lr clad in suite of homespun, and wear
their hair m a peculiar fashion, the front
j heiug cut short, like thst of the beau
■ ties in Charles the Second's merry day*,
while, behind, it is allowed to grow long
and flowing.
Seated opjtosite each other, for IBM
I time, the men and women maintain a
' jterfect silence. Their hands folded,
and ou the face of each a calm look of
: reflection. Then one of the elder men
I arise* and apeaks to his companions,
thanking Hcaveu that they liave lw-eu
j allowed to meet together for another
; Sabbath ; that they have become so
(icrfeet ; that they are at peacs with all j
j men ; that so much peace has bosu ae
; corded to them, aud that prosperity has
lieeti given to the labor of their hands,
j One continued prayer, in fact, of thanks
to the God whom we all. Christian, and
Infidel alike, worship and recognize. As
the speaker ur>e his companions have
arisen with him.aud when be has ceased,
one oi the nunilmr has started the first
note* of a hymn, and soon it i* taken
up by all the number until it swells into
] one great monotonous eliorus, acrotnpa
! uied liy a shuffle of the dancing feet of
the worship)**-r*. The ilauce consists of
a one, two, three shuffle, and now aud
then, the dancers will stop, while one
of rticm again returns thanks to God,
that ao much gTsec has been granted to
j them. The f ices at the sjx-ctators are
u curious study during this jN-rformauce.
<>u some lurks a covert sneer, and on
, others an almost irrepressible unite ;
but, for the most jiarf, they are marked
: by an interest, aud, in some cases, rev- j
: erence. that is very noteworthy. The
, thought is plainly visible that these
casual spectators have been taught that, ;
althotigSi the form of worship of tlie
|>eopte before them may bo eccentric
and peculiar to their eyes, still it is earn
est, honest, and evidently the offspring
of s firm conviction. The fouuders of
the sect, so runs the Shaker tradition, ,
were moved by the spirit in just this
mnnner, and ao their descendants follow
out the doings of their ancestors.
The singing and dancing concluded,
beuchos are quietly brought, the broth
ers and sisters sit, and he who has been ,
selected to deliver the discourse stejs
quietly forward on tip-toe, and t>egins
to s|>eak. The discourse is delivered
towards the visiting sjiectatora, and is
almost invariably a defence of the Shaker
doctrine.
The Suicidal Mania.
It is said that an ancient law-giver once
put a stop to a suicidal mams among the
young women of lii.v country by ordering
the bodies of all who took their own lives
to be exposed naked to the public view. ;
The dread of that which was to come after ;
death, the ignominy of ex)>osure and the
insult* of the iMbble, was relied upon to J
stay the fatal hand, and is recorded to :
hnvc justified the faith reposed in it. j
To mark its reprehension of suicides, the (
Athenian law cut off the hand which
dealt the blow ; and for centuries the old
common law of England ordained the
burial of the self-murderer in the high- J
wav with a stake through the body. As ,
public opinion would not tolerate any of ;
these usages now, unless, perhaps, the ,
exposure, half-naked, at the Morgue of
the men and women who drown them
selves be an exception ; and these nag< s
are pretty much all that mankind lias
devised to deter from suicide, it becomes
a question whether somo ignotninnus i
punishment might not !>c awarded such
wretches as are arrested in the net of
suicide before their purpose can be
crrricd into execution. Iu England, if ,
such person is found under the influence <
of liquor, he is put away in jail for a
month or so to get sober ; if lunatic, he
is sent to the asylum ; and in case he is j
toler and well-to-do,a heavy fine is added i
to the imprisonment. It would l>e well i
if this were the course of law in the (
United States. Every now nnd then we j
read of some would-be suicide pulled out i
of the water, or cut down from a tree ,
limb or rafter, or otherwise prevented .
from self-murder, und yet no pain or 1
penalty is inflicted. But a few days since
a man was overpowered by the police just 1
as he was about to blow his brains out, j
and tliat was the end of it, instead of i
some ignominious punishment having
been awarded.
FOOLED HlM. —ltecently, two persons i
traveling on the road to Gotham in a <
light wagon, were smoking cigars, from i
the fire of which same straw at the bot
tom ignited. The flames soon drove them '
from their seats, and while busy ex tin- <
guinhing the fire a countryman who had <
been for some time following them ou i
horseback, alighted to assist tliem. i
" I have been watching the smoke for I
some time," said he. i
" Why, then, dhl you not give us I
notice ?" asked the travelers.
" Wall," responded tlie rustic, " there
are so many new fongled notions now-a
days, I thought yon were going by i
steam." i
NOT Bo FUNNY. —The other day one'
J. W. Ashburn called at a telegraph of
fice in Portland, Me., and sent an inno- 1
cent dispatch of inquiry about his wife i,
to Halifax. An hour later the worthy !
Collector of the Port was astounded at 11
the raoeipt of a telegram from Halifax '
whieh read. "To I. Washburn, Port
land : Tour wife sailed for Liverpool
I yesterday with a yeung man ! "
A Chapter ON Crab*.
Nature seeius to lisve taken into con
sideration their warlike disposition, for
alio haa certainly endowed them with
the jsiwer of renewing their arms and
leg*. It i* al*o asserted thst they are
almost, if uot quite, in*eu*ible to pain,
for a celebrated naturalist states that he
once saw a crab eating another which it
hud just killed, while a larger one was
picking of! and eating bits of An body.
1 hii* crnb uumlier three wss eating crab
number two, who went ou feeding as if
he did not mind his big brother treating
him as he ha 1 crab number one. There
i* another fact equally remarkable, and
that i*. that some oralis-—the spider, for
instance—throw away their limbs with
ap|>arently as much eaae as an old soldier
could his" wooden leg. When pursued
they are probably aware that their wuemy
wants something to est, and therefore
fiiug him a leg to appease his appetite
and to save the loss of more. T once
had s spider crab sent to me, and I won
very much vexed to flud that he had lost
a leg. and blamed tlie iwraon who had
put him iuto a basket, for having, as 1
thought, done it carelessly. I put him
!by himself in a glass ot fresh seawater,
and next morning, ou iookiug at lam,
you mav guess my surprise at finding
that he iiad but one leg left to his body,
the other* being sUVwed about the bot
tom of the glass. I presume that he
felt so anuovrd at being captured and
imprisoned that he threw away hi* legs
iin a fit of despair, or jN-rhaps it was an
act of spite aguinst me for lieing the
cause of his capture. At *ll events, he
paid tlie just penalty of his follv, fur
after trying to hobble about on one leg
for a dny or two be died. Before we
return. 1 must tell you that the shell of
the crab docs not grew much larger,
although his body increase* in sixv,
When he begins to find his jacket too
tight to tie comfortable, he ha* a natural
desire to take it off. This is not an easy
task to jtcrfonu because he has so many
claws and legs, the covering of which is
so attached to the jacket lie therefor*
crawls beneath a heavy stone, which
holds his shell tight, and then wriggle*
himself out of his shell clothing. As
soon as he has undressed himself be
becomes much bigger than he was before,
and could uot puasibly re-enter his shell
His body is tlieu as "soft as your baud ;
and, therefore, well kuowing that if he
met any hard-coated crab, be would cer
tainly be killed sud eaten, be hides him
self until his akin hardens and forma a
new suit of armor to protect hrui from
his foes.—LiUlt fiJLi.
A l-ong Branch Kewtsace.
Even the perfidious ocean has its ad
vantage*. A voung nun of good family
and jMoition, hut without income wor
thy of mention, went to Long Branch
some weeks atnre with the intention of
marrying a girl baring a wealthy father
—not with the intention of liviug upon
her, but as a precautionary measure
against possible poverty He found
such a girl, one of two children, and
she was sensible, amiable, and mode
rately good-looking, he proposed to her
after a courtship of ten days.
She thought his wooing "rather brief,
and frankly told him she believed he
wanted to wed her father's money rather
than herself
With equal eandor he admitted that
the pecuniary part had its influence, but
declared that if he were rich and she
iXHir, be would be moat happy to make
her his wife- She wavered lor half a
day, slept over the matter, and the next
morning felt constrained to decline.
The young man performed tlie phi
losophic role, remarking that he was
worry, but that he had too much to do
to occupy himself iu breaking his heart.
" We may do better than marry, Bella,"
he added" *' We might have quarreled
as man and wife, but we wont quarrel as
friends ; and. after all, who knows but
that celibocv is the greatest of blessings?"
Sail, be did not surrender hope.
He proposed the sonic afternoon to
teach her to swim, and they went to
gether iu the surf much further than
prudence would have dirtafc'd. He
wanted to frighten her.aud he sue.-ceded.
Tbo undertow carried her out until she
thought she was really drowning. He
r dunged after her. and" brought her aafe
yto the shore. When she had recov
ered from her terror, she said to her
comjsinion, "You have preserved my
life, Charles, and it would be ungrateful
for me longer to withhold my hand."
Charles, as may be supposed, accepted
the hand.
Papa is delighted with bis prospective
son-in-law for his heroic achievement,
and iu the early autumn the torch of
Hymrn will kindle the fire upon this
new domestic hearth.
The IMJ Man.
A lazy man is always good-natured,
lie never flies into a passion. He might
crawl iuto one, if that were possible ; but
the idea of his flyiug into oue is prepos
terous. Who ever heard of a lacy man
breaking into a hank where a crowbar
hail to be used, or drilling into a safe ?
Not but thst he might covet his neigh
lior's goods contained therein, but the
horror of handling a crowbar and drills
would always deter him from actually
committing* burglary. He uover runs
sway with his neighbor's wife, simply on
account of the horror he has of running.
If he is ever known to run, it is to—run
to seed. He rarely lies about his neigh
bors, for it would IM too much exertion :
but lie he* about a bar room all day. He ,
is of inestimable service to a billiard
saloon, keeping the chairs warm and
watching the game, for few would care
to play where there are no spectator*.
The fact that he doea thia without pay.
day in, day out, shows the unselfishness
of his nature. The lazy man never gets
up revolutions, insurrections, and other
popular excitements, and don't make a
nuisance of himself by training around
the oountry making incendiary speeches
to promote public discontent. In his
own neighborhood he is never a busybody
in other jieople's affair*, for the very idea
of l>eing a buayliody at anything would
drive him out of his head. No lazy man
ever ran mad. If he went crazy, it was
lteoause he couldn't go anywhere elae
without walking. Lazy men don't dis
turb the qniet of peaceful neighbor* by |
putting np factories, furnaces, and other ,
abominations. Exchanqe.
Mount Onla Tunnel.
The total oxpenuea of the Mount Ce- ]
nia Tunnel amount to 66,'XX),000 franc* ; (
of these, 20,000,000 francs are to l>e con
tributed bv the Victor Rmmannel Rail
way, or Railway of Northern Italy.
This sum is to be paid ou or lcfor the i
opening of the tunnel. The French i
Government was to pay 19,000,000 fr. if <
the work was uocompliahed within twen- 1
tv years, reckoning from 1862. But if
the work was accomplished at an earlier i
date Franse bound herself to jiay 500,- I
000 fr. more for every year thus gained i
npou the stipulated time. As there <
have been eleven years thus gained, i
France will have to jiay 5,500,000 fr. be- i
side the 20,000,000 fr" of the original '
stipulation. She has, basides, to pay 5 1
j>er ceut. interest on the money due for I
the work as it proceeded from year to •
Sear. Thus Italy will pay something
MS than 20,000,000 fr. Had the con
struction of the tunnel continued be- <
yond the stipulated term of twenty ;
years, Italy would have lost 500,000 fr.
for every year in excess of that period.
Frogs steal honey from tba baa hives
in Jamaica, Wsat Indies.
That Baby Again.
No matter what line vou travel, be it
the Western Pacific, the California or
the river steamer, the jtublic baby in
always ou board. It can travel ou luree
hues at ouee. Change your car to rid
yourself of the P. U., ami you may find
ita duplicate tit the nest. Ueleaee your
self at your journey's end from the inflic
tion ; g*t a room at the hotel ; the public
baby occupies the next apartment Go
at night to the theatre, the public Imbv
is iu the next neat.
The mission of the public liabj on
coming into the world ia to growl. The
parents of the public baity deem all thia
howling a concord of harmonious sound.
They would not have a single note
wasted. Thia ia why they manage that
it shall always go off in public. This is
why it in taken to Ike theatre—to rip
and tear into the finest orchestral - trains,
or insert a screech into the culminating
moment of the living scene.
The public baby sceme to have a full
head of nglineM on all the time. I ex
amined one the other day while coming
up here on the cars. When we started
from Oakland Point, 1 felt a strange
sense of a missing presence. 1 woudartsl
at the cause. All waa * -on explained.
At Sou Antonio, the public baby came
on ItoariL I had forgotten that this
little baby never mused a trip, nur paid
a cent. Then 1 felt at home.
At first, this public baby cried and
howled ou general principle#. It hadn't
a* yet discovered aur special cause of
muvwice. It cried lax-auae it hadn't.
It's little hand# were allrky with some
thing, it# little face wna sticky ; it rublied
ita Little fare with ita sticky hands ; the
dickiueaa on ita little face waa thus
amalgated with the stickiness on ita
hands, and vice vt-raa.
Then, when it had prepared this mix
ture, it wanted to rub it all over us who
sat near by. It clutched at a lady's hat
ur lion net ribbons (wluit do you call
them now ?) ou the forward acai ; it did
transfer an irregular j*>t of molasses
colored brow* to the bright blue of the
broad silk ribbon ; the lady turned ; she
looked for the moment as it ah* might
be Mr. Herod's wife or sister ; the pa
rent* withdrew their sticky offspring ;
tbe offspring cried because it couldn't
have that lady to pew.
They gave tt colored candy. By thia
th# little " wellsprtng of pleasure"
worked itself still more into an uneasy
lump of saccharine and mucilaginous
uaatinew ; the place where the candy
went inside of it ao>>n filled up ; it cried
because it couldn't hold any more; it
wanted to go to its father ;it went; it
then cried to go back to it* Brother ; it
went; it them howled to go back to it#
father. He went into tbe smoking car.
That mother held the public baby high
up ;it cried. She held it topside down ;
then it did cry a trifle leas ; the rush of
blood hail stopped it a little. Unfortun
ately, the motlier soon discovered thia.
The child waa aaved—saved to howl for
yuan.— Frvm Uu Sim Frunci*oo Reporter.
A Singular Indian Tradition.
Among the Seminole Indians there is
a aiugnlar tralition regarding the white
man's origin aud superiority. They ray
that when the Great Spirit made the
earth be alio made three men. All of Uie
men had fair complexion* ; and that after
making them he led them to the mar
gin of a small lake, and luwle them leap
in and wash. Oue obeyed, and came
out purer and fairer than before ; the
eoond hesitated a moment, during
whieh the water, agitated by the first,
had become muddled, ana when he
bathed lie came out eonper-oolored ; the
third did not leap till the water liad be
come black with mud. and he came ont
black with its own color. The Great
Spirit laid before tin mi three package*,
and out of pity for hi* misfortune in
color gave the black man the first choice.
He took hold of each package, and hav
ing felt the weight, chose the heaviest,
["he copper-colored man chose the next
heaviest, leaving the white man the
lightest. When the package* were
opened, the first was found to contain
Siadea, hues, and implements of labor;
ie second enwrap pea hunting, fishing,
and warlike apjiaretuscs ; the third gave
the white m. u pen*, ink and paper, the
engines of the mind—the means of mil
tad mental improvement, the social link
<f humanity, the foundation of the
white man's sti|>erioritjr.
Oonoß-Buvptns**. Mr. Monek. of
Trinity College, Dublin, propounds a
novel aud interesting theory of color
blindness. The ordinary explanation is
that the eye is not sensitive to certain
colors, to which it is objected that a j
color-blind pcraon sees the whole spec
trum, and that were th * explanation
true there should not be complimentary
colors—red and green for example. Mr.
Monck buses his theory on the phono- j
meua of accidental color*. Thus, if the j
ere be verv sensitive to the excitation of 1
tfie eompli'mentaiy tint, then this latter,
apjieariug with vividness while the eye
gazes apon the origins! color, is so com
bined with it as to give rise to the grey
ish tint with which color-blind persona
so often confound color*. Th* brighter j
the light the more quickly and vididlv j
would the accidental color be produced, j
Another argument is, that color-blind !
person* rarelv see accidental colors, j
According to this theory, then, the color- i
blind eye is one in which the eompli !
mentary color is seen very rapidly and !
very vividly while looking at the primary
color.
VEBT SAD.— The first wife of the Lou
isville millionaire who oauecd something
of flutter some time ago by inducing
the Kentucky Legisloture. as is alleged,
to ]Mxa a bill making it lawful for a man j
having an insane wife to marry again, is |
still an inmate of a private asylum near ■
Boston, without the least hojie of re-;
eovcry. She has letn there for nearlv |
twenty Tears, and first revealed her mad- j
ness in Louisville by throwing her four |
children one night, from the attic win- j
dow of her residence into the yard lie
low. Two of the little creatures were
killed. The others were almost miracu
lously saved from destruction, though
they nufferod for years from the severe
injuries they received. The unfortunate
lady was wuwiouately fond of her chil
dren, and the deatfi of the eldest de
ranged her naturally fine mind by caus
ing a religions monomanis, accompanied
by the morbid phantasy that God wanted
her offspring, and that alio was sending
them to Him by destroying their lives.
SWINDLED.— It is not strange that for
eign travelers who land in New Y'ork
complain of the miserable hack system
of American cities. A California Omted
States Senator arrived at a hotel in New
York. In the evening ho concluded to
S) and see Forrest as " Coriolanus." In
ont of the hotel he found a hackmon,
nnd told liim to drive him to Niblo's
Garden. Said hackmnu drove him round
nineteen blocks and landed bim safely
at tho theatre, waited until the theatre
waa ont, and drove around seventeen
blocks back to the hotel. His fare was
fifteen dollars. It was not until the next
day that the successful politician ascer
tained that both the hotel and theatre
were under the same roof, and that the
entrance to each were less than twenty
feet apart
IT is denied that the cholera is abating
in Russia, and stated that there is stih
an average of 150 deaths per day in
Kiev,
Latest Fashion Note*.
-1 The chignon'• reign is ended.
Turban hats are more in vogue than
' over.
- Trimming on the front of droanea is
I j revived.
I j Bonnets string* are wider and very
■ j much longer.
Chatelaine braid* will not ba worn
■ much longer.
II Sock overcoats with aspes will be the
style for boya
The plaited Garibaldi waists oonttuue
i j to grow iu favor.
j Doubts and single round copes are to be
> worn for early fall
Short curl* and IriuUM on the fore
head are still in vogue.
The hair on the temples continues to
> be worn high and smooth.
Plaited and twisted coronets of hair
are to supersede and Pompadour roll
Bhonlder seam* are still high and
short, following the line of the shoulder.
Not much change in bonnets, but
thev are larger and more cottage shaped.
Pelt bonnets are to be worn for weath
er suite by those who do not like hate.
The short skirt for walking eoatume
is still to be retained by sensible women.
Many ladies have become reallv crip
pled by wearing the French lugfi heel*.
Aprons to overakirte are much wider,
and the aide looping* are drawn very far
back.
Camel's hair aearfa will ba worn next
season for the ueck instead of far tippets
or boas.
Very long coat-shaped poatilinhs are
j to be worn with demi-trmin skirts for in
' door toilets.
I The general effect in the new style of
hair dressing is Qracian, bat as rough
1 and frowsy as ever.
Satin and velvet striped silks will be
very much worn next season, with plain
silk or cashmere overdresses.
Large jet or tortoise shell butterflies,
with gilt edges, are worn in the center
! of a large bow ou the lop of the head.
Deuii-trnius are to be adjusted for
street wear by means of tapes to loop
them up to the waist at the Wk eeama
Deep flounces are more in favor than
PJUTUW ones. When both are used in
combination, the narrow one is under
neath.
The double cape of bright Hcotcfc plaid
is sWery fashionable and atvlish street
garment for youug girls of from ten to
t fifteen.
A polonaise, or close cut paletot, with
pelerine cape or large collar, will be the
fashionable garment for giria for early
fall wear.
Gray and light brown Melton eloth is
' the must approved material for boys'
suite, comprising jacket, vast, and,
, trousers.
The style of arranging the back hair
for the next season will be a French
twist surrounded by a twisted ooil or,
j heavy braid.
The new style of wedding cards are
marked with one letter only, instead of
a monogram, and are plainly engraved .
on thick white paper.
Large silk and velvet cloaks reaching
nearly to the bottom of the dress,
with long circular capes, are to be vary
I fashionable next Winter.
Low-necked dreaaos are now entirely i
! a thing of the peat, all evening dseanas j
being cut a L Pompadour, heart-shaped, .
or square over the shoulders.
In-door dn-ases are made up mu?h j
plainer than last season. Overakirte are |
frequently omitted, the plain demi-train
and stylish basque being deemed suffi-!
eieot
Solid colored silks and rich poplins)
will be most fashionable for street cos
tume* : dark green, brown, black, ma
roon and narr blue will be the moast
fashionable colors.
Why FUrt* Iten't Many.
It is remarkable, lit nevertheless true. '
that, aa a rule, flirts, both male and 1
female, do not marry quickly. The
chaucee are that a girl aho become*
' engaged at 18. and goes on becoming
, engaged and disengaged, aa it is the
custom for flirts to do, ultimately settles
down into a confirmed old maid, too.
If she does wed. as a general rale, she
■levdone* into the most virulent wasp,
makes her husband miserable, and brings j
; up her children badly.
It is not very difficult to find reasons
why flirts do not marry. Sensible men
admire in a woman something besides j
.* pretty face and engaging manners, j
They love intellect, common aense and
heart, qualifications which the flirt does i
uot posse**. The true woman allows.
i her affection* full play, and is not i
ashamed of them. She will not lead a '
j man to l>elievu she caret for him when j
she does no such thing; she will not
flirt with him just for the sake of flirting.
She has a truer conception of what is
right, and poaaesm s a good deal more j
i Timmoa sense. She lias derived her j
education from something else than
! three volume novels nnd the society of i
empty-pated fojis. She can be tbor- j
•ugh!r merry ; but slie know* how to.
be nicrry without being idiotic. She j
way attract less attention in a drawing- j
room than tlie flirt does, because she i* .
less noisy and obtrusive ; but, for all
that, she will get married sooner, and :
make her hnsband a better aud a truer
wife.
A true woman does not care for the
spooney voung man. She dislikes his
foppishness, the vapid comjiliment* he ,
iiays her, and hi* effeminacy. He quick- ■
Iv finds this out, and leaves her in peace. 1 '
'flius, if he ultimately gets married, it is j,
to a flirt, and the " happy pair" lead the
j oiliest cat aud dog life imaginable.
A VAWAULK HOUSE. —The Potttlown !
(Pa.) gives an account of a mare (
which is employed at tlie iron works at (
that place. Her business is to haul j (
carts loaded with iron. Part of the day
die is required to draw a cart from tlie ' j
furnace to the puddling mill, and the!,
rest of the time to the plate mill, which i j
lies in another direction. The distance
to each place is over two hundred yard*.
The mare has lecn engaged iu thia btisi- ■
ness for over three years,and after only a (
few trips hs* made her rounds without
a drivt r. One route lead* over a rail
way track, aud such is the sagacity of
tilt* animal that if *he sees a train sp- !
proachiug st some distance she hurries |
over tlie track, but if it is near st hand
she stop* for the train to go past. As '
the wages paid to drivers in this rstob- '
iishment are s4l per month it will be 1
seen that this mars has saved bar preesnt '
employ sr |l,X> by gteg witknat a j
drivorl
BEWARE. —An English medical journal I
publishes a warning against the wearing i
of green kid gloves It has been oh- i
served in several cases that the hands of (
those wearing gloves ot this color soon 1
become covered with an eruption which i
physicians find hard to cure, as the i
poison see.ms to enter the system. Upon
analysis, it has been found thst the green i
used for dyeing the kid contains areenie.
Though not all the green kid gloves in
the market are so dyad, it is nevertheless ,
safer to wear others ot a loss bright snd ]
leas dangers us cwlor.
CCRIOCS. — It is certainly a curious i
chemical fact that the substanoe required
to form common table salt are both of
them poisonous—chlorine and sodium.
No one ean use either of these articles
separately with safety, and yat combine
them, and they form a substanoe neces
sary to health, and one found npou
every table.
TERMS : Two Dollars a Year, in Advance.
Hew father Cured his llsne.
WeU. said Reuben, the Wv-Udlr,
father always wanted a horse, because
the folks in Greene livw scattered, and
be has so far to go to attend funarals
and weddings, and visit schools, yon
know ; but bo never felt as if be could
afford to buy one. But one day he wae
coming afoot from Hildreth, and a
stronger asked biu to ride. Father
•aid, " That's a handsome horse you are
drivtug. I should like to own suck a
borne as thaf myself." " What will you
give for bun 7 aaid the man. "Do
you want to acU him 7" says faihet.
•♦Tea, I do, sad IH sell him cheap, tao."
aaid he. "Oh. wett,"aays my father,
j " it's no use talking, for I baron *t the
money to buy him with." " Make me
an offcr," aaid he. " Well," just to put
an end to the talk," seal my father, '*l*U
give you aeventy-flv# dollars for the
bora*." "Too "may have him," aeys
the man ae quick aa a flash, " but you 11
repent of your bargain in a week."
" why, what ails the horae," aaid my
father " Ails him," said the man,
- why he's got the ' Old Niek ' in him,
that's what ails him,"says be. "If he
has a will to go, hell go, but if be takas
a notion to stop, all creation can't start
htm 1 have stood and beat that home
till the sweat ran off me in streams.
! I've fired a gun Hose to his cam; I've
burnt shavings under Ma sons. I might
have beat him to death or burnt him
■live before he'd have budged an inch."
"I'll take the borne," says father.
" What 's his name 7" " George," say*
the man. "I shall call him George,"
Sara my father.
Welt, father brought him home, aad
we boys were mightily plumed, and we
built a place for him in the barn, and
curried him down and fed him well, and
father aaid :
"Talk to him, boys, and let him know
, you feel friendly."
So we coaxed'and petted him, and the
next morning father hsmeaaed him and
S3t into the wagon to go 00. But
eorgie wouldn't stir a step. Father
got out and patted him, and e boys
brought him apples and clovsr tops, and
< nice ID a while father would say ' Get up,
George," but be didn't strike the horae
a blow. By and by he ear* "this is going
to .ake time. WeU, Georgia, we'll see
which baa the moat patience ; you or L'
Ho he eat in the wagon.
He sat fuU two hour* before the borne
was ready to start; but when he did
there waa no more trouble for that day.
The next morning 'twas the aame thing
over again, only Georgu? gave ia a little
: aooner.
All the white it seemed aa if father
couldn't do enough for the home. He
was round the stable feeding and faeatng
■ •rer him in his quiet, gentle way, and
the third morning, when be bad fed
and curried aad harnessed htm with his
own hands, nomchow there was a differ
ent look in the horse's eves. But when
father was ready to go, Georgia put his
feet together and laid hia ear* back, aad
wouldn't stir. WeU, Dove waa playing
about the yard, and she brought her
■tod and climbed up by the horse a head.
Dove, tell what you said to George that
morning.
"I gave him aa awful talking to,"
said the little girL " I told him it was
perfectly ridiculous for him to act ao;
that he'd come to a real good place to
live, where everybody helped every
body ; that be was a' minister"a home,
and ought to set a good example to all
the other horses, aad God wouldn't love
him if he wasn't a good home. That's
what I told turn. Then I kissed him oa
the mwe."
" And what did Georgia do f "
" Why. he beard every word that I
said, and when I cot through be felt so
'shamed of himself, he couldn't hold np
his head ; so he jest dropped it, till It
'most touched the ground, and he looked
sa sheepish as if he had been steeling s
hundred theepa."
Yes, and when father told him to go.
be was off like a flash. He has never
made any trouble since. That's the
way father cured a balky horse. And
that night, when he was unharnessed, he
rubbed his head against father's shoul
der, and told him as plain as a home
could speak that he waaworry. He has
tried to make it up to lather ever since,
for the trouble be bad made him. When
he's loose in the pasture father has only
to stand at the ham and call his name.
, and he walks np aa quiet aa an old sheep.
Whv, I've seen him back himself be
tween the shafts of the wagon just to
i save father trouble. Father wouldn't
take two hundred dollars for she home
to-day. He cats anything jrou give him.
skis very often brings out some of her
dinner to him.
"He often euts out of a plate," says
Dove; "it makes him think lie's folks.'
Progress ef Co-operative Ladestry.
People are slowly learning Iheed van
tage* of combination in industrial pro
duction. both in profit of result and in
! escaping from the worst drudge rice of
i toilsome labor. Even the formers, who
are usually the last to move ia any
1 co-operative direction, are beginning to
see the benefits of this jmlicy, end to
. reap its advantage*. The production of
cheese in factories by neighborhood coui
bination has now become an established
business, and not only turns out to be a
| real economy, bnt in removing a labo
rious branch of manufacturing industry
from the household, it has proved one
tof the greatest domestic beous to over
worked women in many a farmer's family.
This industrial improvement i* not only
ex (aiding in this country, but the English
farmers are beginning to copy the Ameri
can system with satisfactory result*.
5 The report of the Derbyshire associated
dairies, shows that their first year's
experiment has been fairly successful, so
that there is every probability that the
plan of operations will not only lie con
tinned but extended. The "iood Jottr
of' says that the manufacturers of milk
have realised good prices for their pro
dure, while the quality of the cheese
made has decidedly improved, and what
is a hopeful feature in the transaction
everybody seems satisfied.
THX AXXMAL KNRNDOU. —The number
of species of animals kuown to l>e now
living is thns given by Mr. Benthani.
The number of mammalia is estimated
at between two and three thousand
species; birds at about ten thousand ;
reptiles and amphibians, under two thou
sand ; fishes at about ten thousand :
insects at above one hundred and sixty
thousand ; emstaoea and arachnids rather
above ten thousand ; molluscs about
twenty thousord; worms, radiates, and
sponges and infusoria, under six thou
sand ; while there are about a hundred
thousand species of plants. He thinks a
"Genera Plantaram is still within the
capabilities of a single botanist, while
such a work on animals would have to
be accomplished by a division of la bo
among zoologists.
REVEHOX.— I remember once says a
novelist, bearing of a lady who had mar
ried out of sheer revenge. The right
man had omitted to propose or had pro
posed to somebody else. Whereupon
she took s man who -was simply ugly, old
and stupid. In advanced life she can
didly owned how it was. that she bad
made such a marriage. Itewas simply
done out of spite. She bad a sort of idea
that the man she loved would'be grieved
at her marriage, and she wanted to grieve
him. I believe after all, that she found
a very tolerable husband.
xa'i'apnrued jffih— jb'*m.
RMTirwi; todrWMipMMal*
What I kmt fur Hit aak#:
i ttosreehr mat au it tbm y t
do thy Wat, utMitia
Oh, that in • Uviae lorn
Wm t*n ihmmand iwrsalika miaa
Prostrate laid, thai Ml tfaat •))
Thnw imliawuag tout mlgHteM t
00 thy ru, most awact, most fair I
Traad as down, M*t <t n.i pr!
Trampto on our (wads, tor we
Only Bra to honor the#!
A'l alone tl> tern-paved road,
1 sml*. pass to Uuos sbods.
Oorio of tevsa, aooeud Us* threes,
whom Uoo wiU not ait etas,
gweataat maid in all tba aarth,
la wf low too Ittiio worth
j • Sow to W traamtod on
Aa tbon paoaast la thy throes t
Pacta and Fanetoe.
The wants tap* from the locality where
larje deposits of coal are kept, silt flab
in streams where each waste water flows.
There's a metre daetyttt*. pondato,
A motra tor teagb and far tanas;
Bot tba malm atone not prosaic,
lath* Meat bar bjr nioaetighi ate*.
The prejudice against church organs
fat atil! strong is tfcntiand Men* the
people witt not enter a ohurob that hen
one.
Preacher* in Iceland ere not very weU
mid for their services Not one of them
baa an income of one hundred dollars a
year.
By mean* of a simple and ingenious
process a t<aeutftal dWMpMtoP artifl
eial ivory ia now produced from indin
rubber.
Everything that looks to the future
elevates human nature ; for never ia life
eo low, or so little, an when occupied with
the present.
A lady in California with a fortune of
half a million has married a "heathen
Chinee"— poor, miserable specimen of
the tribe at teat
Inviolable fldelty, good humor, and
<V'iaplaceaey of temper, outlive all the
charm* of a flue face aad make the de
cays of it leviable.
There ia a home on the stage route
from New Lisbon to Grand Rapids ('Wis
oooaan) that ia twenty-mine years old,
and has run over the route for nineteen
years.
Never overwhelm your friends by beg
ging them to make tbemaetvea at horns,
or they witt soon wish they were there.
Show by your action* rather than your
words that you are glad to see them.
A pert Mlow seeing in the street an
old woman who drove eome as**, mid,
" Adieu, mother of aesm%" " Adieu,
adieu, my eon" answered she. The man
feh his ears grow m be walked along.
At a meeting at a town council an
alderman complsined of the absence of a
certain eouneilnian. " Sir," exclaimed s
councilman, indignantly, "you ought to
have made that ewnpUint when he waa
present 7"
A widow, a boarding-house keeper out
in Kansas, who entered a oomp'aint
against s bonnier, gave her age as 23,
when she is 50 if she is a day, and thn
enraged justice diktat***! the case with
out inquiring any further.
A marriage by matchlight wa recently
. consummated in Kansas City. The
'Squire was in * hurry, and no was the
couple, and neither would wait until the
lamp could be illumined. The fee was
paid under a neighboring gaa lamp.
It ia aaid that the leaves of the gera
nium ore an excellent application for
cuts where the akin is rubbed off, aad
<>ther wounds of that kind. One or
leaves must be bruised and applied to
the part, and the around will be cicatrised
in a short time.
A shrewd little fellow was entrusted te
the care of his uncle, who fed the boy
rerv poorly. One day he happened to
see* s greyhound. whereupon he asked
the little fellow if knew what mads the
dog so poor. The reply was, "I expect
lie lives with bis uncle."
"As BIT wife at the windows* dry,
Stood watching a man with a nwekey,
A e*rt eawte ateag with a * bonis mtahoy,*
Who was driving a stoat fcttte douse*.
To mv wile I then spoke, by amy of a Joke,
' There* a latettoa at yoaw ia that eamage 1*
To which the rrolicd. as tba donkey aba spied,
j Ab. vaa--* rtiatton b* auwrtag#"*
NO. 38.
A minister Hkcd a tittle bay who had
been converted, " Does not the devil tell
ran that you arc not a Christian T "Ten,
mmHimm." " Well, what do von any
to him?" "I tell him." replied the
boy, with something of Lather's spirit,
" that, whether lam a Christian or not,
it is none of his business. **
The English postal cards sometimes
form the basin of libel suit*. A man
received one from his wife's brother, in
which it was written : " lew unmanly
conduct to my sister is known to me.
ft shall be known to the world at knee,
if ton do not reform, yon coward." The
receiver of the epistle sued for slander,
and got £9O damages.
A young lady of Bain bridge, made n
bargain with Curtis Cooper some fifteen
vears ago, wherebv she was to have
"ewe iamb and its increase until she
was twentv-oue years old," in eschar go
for a gold watch and key. She was hot
six yearn old at the time, and now ne
Mr. Cooper for 18.064 lambs, or their
value, at $4 per bead, which is 964,596.
An advertisement it going the round
of the German papers, stating that a
German Ira in E-gland has been en
tablisbed since 1858 for marrying for
eigners to English "parties." Indeed,
it is stated that the firm ha* "rich par
tica" always on hand, from all parts of
Europe, ready to be married. Discre
tion and delicacy are guaranteed, and
unexceptional references are ottered.
An Illinois constable made s return on
the back of a paper thus: " I executed
this subpeeny by trying to read it to
John Mack, but he was drivin* cattle on
horseback, and run faster than I could,
and kept up such ahoUerin* I don't know
whether he heerd or not This is the
beat I could do, and don't whether the
subpeeny is served according to law or
not"
Down In a Pennsylvania town the other
day aome unscrupulous fellows, who had
been gunning, compelled a poor itine
rant Italian imago peddler to stand in the
road until they had nhot every one of his
images from his head, to the imminent
danger of himself and the utter deatruc
; tion of his wares. And then they would
not pay the poor man a penny for the
damage done him.
LOST His Tames.— -A warning to
those given to losing their temper oc
curred at a correctional tribunal at Tou
louse, France. A man was accused of
theft, but as the evidenoe was insufficient,
the court was about to acquit him, when
he, doubtless supposing that he was go
ing to receive sentence of condemna-
tion, became most violent, and burst
k out with a volley of threats and insults
i against the judges, so that he waa
obliged to be handcuffed. The prisoner,
who is possessed of extraordinary
r strength, broke the chain with a vigor
r ous effort and redoubled his abuse, and
a number of gendarmes had great diffi
| culty in overpowering him. At the de
| raand of the public prosecutor, the tri
j banal condemned the accused to one
! year's imprisonment for menaoes against
: the bench.
TUX LAST FISH STOW,—4FCBE North
. Wales Chromkie treats risers to m
tine bold fisherman's adventure. Fishing
at Llanrwst, so the story run.", a Irsvwa
j ington gentleman landed a eataioa weigh
ing twenty-two and one half posted*. ntul
' had it conveyed to his hotel ww{ to® in
tention of dining on one-half dftt Oa
the salmon beinc oftoned it was discover
' ed he had gorged an eel, weighing about
two and one-qusrt|r pounds. The eel was
dissected and a one and three-quarter
pound trout was brought to light. Tho
1 trout was cut open, and inside wer
found eight minnows, making the total
k catch of ten fish. The search was not fur
■ ther pursued.
i
1 WHAT H* COULD Do. -A Green County
- farmei recklessly publishes the following
I challenge: "I will bet 942.25 that my
r hired man can take longer to go to the
i harvest field, get back to dinner quicker,
1 eat more, do loss and bear down harder
e on a panel of the fenee, than any other
1 hired w*" within fifteen miles of tho
flag-staff in Jefferson."