21 titi in! ' w B. F. SCHWEIER, THE C0S3TITCTI0S THE CXIOX .VXD THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXVII. MIFFLINTOAVN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., NOVEMBER 19, 1S73. NO. 47. Toetvv Let Ilonrt.. J tHl lae Vla-ii that I aero 1. a ud ana a eolema talni, Wasere t&e caill Oeiober breexee ?!, AtulHhft feraft lift wlthftriag. 1 or I paee the reare la lung review, Tae Jun I LaTe triced pat, 1l yeare waea Ufe waft bright aaa aw , Ah, what bave they troaglil at Wl A4 X cry, aa I look at my 4rjoi4ag sow ere, it j baffle aopea, aaa my falling puir.ra, "Oh, mj loftt, Iot beam What a barveet night bave beea garaarW la, WLa Ik fjldea grela wa wtikal WaetaaeetaxaflUeatwaamlaeUwta, Wbo thft draaght waa barely taeted t What tappy memories miat bave ihaat, Baa fully aever stalaea tbem I What awfcla height to net aaoa. If a steadier foot has gala! than! Aad I err, aa 1 all 'mid my faded Ijwert, "Baahaese aad weakaeae haTa fatal dowera Oh, my lost. lot honra ' Too lata for battle, too lata for (aw, Couee tha Tlaloa of better Ufa ; With eyea that ara amartlag- with leal wl iIau I g aaa at tha world' hot atrtfa. Tha patleat love caa aol pardoa ww. Or the pruad believing cheer ; Where tha white croaa f leaiaa ana the vloiete grow Lie the loved that made life o dear. Kiad 5 a tar reaewa her perlahed flowere. Bat Peath kaowa aothlag of tan or showers "Oh, my loet, loftC hour Honor. by, what ia Lwaor? Tie the snort acae Of JaftUee which thft ha man nlod can fnun. intent eaeh larking frailty to disclaim, Aad goaxd the way of Uie from all offenoe eoaVred or dwae. Hope'a Kong. The World may change from old to ie, From aew to old agaia ; Tet hope aad beavea, forever trae. Within maa'a heart remftia. The dreama that bleca the weary aual. The etragl"e of the strong. Are stepe toward some happy goal. The tory of Hope, ftoog . Uinta of Style. Although daw and startling cLaueS of modes nave been heralded by mer chants and drew makers for a month past, the "openings' show few radical differ rnoes from last season's garments. There are some changes, bnt the general effects are similar. The most noticeable alteration is the plainness and tastef ulness of the walk ing Raits. A majority of them are made with the comfortable and convenient redingote, and a skirt really artistic by reason of iU appropriateness. The others, as a rule, are made with a single akirt and jacket-basque, which unites the desirable qualities of basque and polonaise, and has the awkarduesses of neither. The relinquishment of ovemkirts, predicted at regular intervals for the last two years, seems to be an accom plished fact. They are still made, of course ; but the most elegant dresses are without them. For home costumes, uverskirts are simulated by trimmings ; for street, the jackets and polonaises take their place ; and for full and din ner toilette, no pretense of overskirt is made. There is a severity in the style of the 1 new costumes, restful and pleading to : eyes wearied witn tue involved and meaningless trimmings of the past Trimmings are by no means forsaken ; but they are generally flat and much simpler'in design. Gimps and fringes, woolen and linen laoes are as frequently employed as flounces and puffs, and ap pear by comparison, tiie essence of sim plicity. The redingote is, in a measure, responsible for this change, as its plain ness demands plainness in the accom panying garments. Buttons are assuming more modest proportions ; and, though still striking the vision with painful effrontery, they seem less of au excres cence than formerly. Skirts are as scant as ever in front and on the sides ; the fulness being drawn as far back as possible. The width of walking dresses is not more than three yards and a half or less than three and a quarter around the bottom. The puff in the back of trained skirts was so popular last winter that it is re vived. It is pretty and graceful, and if it leads, as is to be hoped, to speedy diminishing of,and final dispensing with the inelegant and nnseemly bustle, it will be a blessing in pleasing disguise. The trains of evening dresses are cov ered with diaphonous puffings, and garlanded with dainty vines of flowers and berries more frequently than they are trimmed with stiff and heavy flounces of the same ; but whatever the decora tion, it is arranged with a carefully studied irregularity, of which it is diffi cult to discover the beginning or end. The fashion of ornamenting the fronts and backs of suits without regard to 1 each other, or to the rules of good j taste, still exists ; but is likely to die I eoon of its own ugliness. Sfribn-r't Mvntf.l!. a--e Una He a call to be a Htiftband. j : , , , , Has he. call to be a hiwlmnd who thinks more of his horse than of hu ""if . 11 a t . 1 i 1 v 1 Has he a call to be a husband who spends six evening- out of the week his wife will go Thursday evening to ', praverraeeting? " wv fmm home, and comDiains Dpcause Mas be a call to re a nuaoana woo to spends $5 a week for cigars and an oc casional glass, but can't afford to take a newspaper for his family? Has that man a call to be a husband who comes home with a face as sour as the last of the pickles, and expects his better half to be sweetness personified? Has he a call to be a husband who makes elegant presents to other ladies and grumbles if his wife wants a new dress? " ' Has he a call to be a hubband who swears if the one hnndreth button is missing and never speaks a word in commendation of the ninety and nine that remain immovable ? Has he a call to be a busband who never bnys a book or a picture to make home attractive and still wonders why a woman can't be contented to stay at home seven days out of the week and ever singing. "There's no place like home?" Haa he a call to be a husband who comes to the table with tobacco-stained lips (those lips for which sweet kisses should ever be in waiting) and turns away in die gust from a grease spot on his wifea apron ? Has he a call to be a husband who loses money by betting on elections and horse races, and when he becomes in volved attributes it to his wife's extrava gance, Why didn't a dog want a place in the ark ? jBecanse he had a bark of his own. THE DUKAMISC. BEECH. More than a hundred years have passed since it was struck by lightning and split from top to bottom, and the I plow lias well 1 arrowed the place where ; it grew. Before that time the mighty ! old beech tree stood, some hundred yards from the first honse of the vil- lage, on a grassy mound a tree snch 1 as one never sees in these days, because ! animal, plants, trees and men are be 1 coming small and mean. ! The peasants said the tree dated from ! the early Christian era, and that holy aposiie u aa wen massacred beneath it by a false heathen ; that the roots of the tree Lad drunk np the apostle's blood, which, rising through the trunk and branches, had made them so large and strong. . Who knows if the legend be true ? Anyhow, there was certainly one curious fact concerning the tree, and everybody in the village knew about it, great and small. Whoever fell asleep under the tree, and dreamt dream, would surely come to pass. So from time immemorial, it was called the "Dreaming Beech," and no one knew it by any other name. There was, how ever, a peculiar condition attached to the dreaming, and if anybody lay down under the beech with the idea of 'dream ing some particular thing, then the dream would sure be nothing but con fusion and rubbish, and nonsense of all Borts, of which no one could make either head or tale. Now this waa assuredly rather a difficult stipulation, because most people are so very likely to think ' of what lies nearest the heart. ' One hot summer's day, when not a j breath of air stirred, a poor journeyman . came wandering along the road. Things ' had gone very badly with him for many ; years in foreign parts. When he reached ; the village he turned his pockets inside t out for the last time, but, alas ! they i were empty. "What am I to do ': ' he thought to ; himself ; "1 am tired to death, but no ' one will take me in for nothing, and it is i hard to beg. " i Just then his eyes fell opon the noble ; beech tree, on the green, grassy slope ; and as it stood only a few yards from ! the road, he laid himself down under it to rest. While he was soundly sleeping, I a branch dropped from the beech tree. with three leaves on it, which fell just across his breast lie dreamt that he sat at a table, in a most cosy room, and the table was his own, and the room, and, indeed, the whole house. At the table, leaning on it with both hands, stood a young woman, looking lovingly at him. and that was his wife. On his knees eat a child, whom he was feeding nrith or, nr. orifl KdOAantaA fnA TWVirl Wall with soup, and because the spoon was too hot, he blew upon the spoon to cool it Then his wife cned out, laughingly, 'What a capital nurse you make 1" Jumping about the room was another child a fat rosy-cheeked nrchin dragging about a large carrot to which he had tied a string, and snouting out -T ll i. ;t .. r-r- And both children were his own. j I This was his dream ; and it must have luiun . ..n ftl.Miwflr.fc rlraflm fur hia ' whole face beamed in his sleep, with happiness. When he awoke, it was almost even ing, and before him stood a shepherd, smoking. He sprang np from the ground, much refreshed, stretched him- j self, and vawued. saying. "Heavens I if it were only true ! bnt, at all events, it was pleasant to know I how it would all feeL" I VI al. -I. .a cnA tvi u: .i, i,,m- on.T w-ii.tW . - d wUether he bal .ver heard of the wonderful beech. Having learned he was as innocent as a new born babe, he exclaimed, "Well, yon're a lucky dog ! For any one could" read in your face you were dreaming for a long time as you lay there." So he told him the peculiar virtue of the tree. "It's sure to come true," lie added. "'Sow, just tell me what you were dreaming." "Old fellow," answered the young man, grinning, "that is the way, is it, yon question strangers in these parts ? I mean to keep my beautiful dream to myself, and you can't be surprised at that But for all that, nothing will come of it Stuff and nonsense I I should like to know how a tree could come by such power !" As he came into the village, he saw stuck from the roof of the third house a long pole, with a golden crown dangling from it And below, at the door, stood the landlord of the Crown Inn. He happened to be in good humor, for he had had a very good supper. So the young laborer pulled oft hia cap, and asked for a night's shelter. The landlord of the Crown Inn looked at the smart lad in his dusty, ragged clothes, from top to toe, and then kindly nodding, said to him, "Sit down here in this arbor. I dare say there's a bit of bread and cheese and a jug of beer to Bpare for ye, and a truss of straw in the loft at night" ( Whereupon he went into the honse, land sent ont his daughter with the bread, and cheese and beer, ana sne sat down beside the yonng man, and asked him to tell h?r of the foreign lands, and in return told him all the village gossip. Suddenly she rose, leaned toward the stranger, and said, "Frav tell me what those three leaves are, sticking out of your waistcoat ?" down and thrw leaTe9 which had fallen upon him while he slept It uad po waisfcoat J . ., . -imu un iau beech tree just outside the village," he replied. "1 had a nap under it uen he ceased speaking, ue itu to question him narrowly, till she had ascertained beyond a donbt that he had really fallen asleep under the great beech tree, and that moreover, he knew nothing of the wonderful power and properties attached to the tree. For he was a sly dog, and pretended to know nothing. As soon as she had done questioning, she drew him another jng of beer, and pressed htm to drink, telling him all the lovely things she had herself dreamed, and what a pity it was they had not come true. Just then the shepherd came from the field, driving his sheep through the village. As he passed the Crown Inn, he saw the two sitting in the arbor, iu earnest converse, and he stood a mo ment and said, - "Ah, yes ; hell be sure to tell you the beautiful dream." And then he drove on hia sheep. When the girl found that she conld not learn anything about the dream, her curiosity knew no bounds, and she asked him outright what he had dreamt while sleeping under the beach. Then the yonng man, who was a mis chievous rogue, and in very high spirits about his pleasant dream, with a aly look and a wink said, '- "Ah I had a most glorious dream, which mnst come true ; but I dare not tell yon what it was." Bat she worried and teased him so. that at last he drew hia chair toward her, and told her quite gravely, "I dreamt I should marry the daugh ter of the landlord of the Crown Inn, and that, after a bit, I should become landlord myself." On hearing this, the girl grew as white as a lily, and then as red aa a rose, and got np and walked in the house. Then, after some little time, she eatue again, and asked if he had really dreamt it, and was quite in earnest. "To be sure, to le sure," said he ; "she who appeared to me in the dream was most certainly just like yon." Then the girl went again into the house. She walked straight to her own room, and thoughts flowed through her brain like water that runneth apace. "He knows nothing about tha tree," she said to herself : "he dreamt it. and whether I wish it or not, it will surely come to pass ; there is no possibility of j changing that" And with this she! went to bed. When ahe awoke the next morning, she knew his face by heart, so often had she seen it in her d reams during the night . , , .. I The young man had slept sonndly on his bed of straw. "Dreaming Beech , , dream, and all he had said to the land lord's daughter, were alike forgotten. Be stood at the door of the tap-room, and was just shaking the landlord's hand, and wishing him good-by, as the girl entered. On seeing him ready to start, an indescribable feeling came over her, and she could not let him ago. "Father." she said, "the beer has not yet been tapped, and the young man has nothing to do. Couldn't he stay a day longer and earn Lua board and louging, ana get someining oestue iot certain tourist, makes the following the journey home ?" observations on a sea-beach scene : The landlord had no objection to I "To the beach, by all means 1" cried make to this proposal, as he had just ' I. and to the beach we hastened, where, had his morning draught, and was in indeed, we fonnd heaps of cast-off rai the best of humor. ment, and a hundred footprints in the Km,. ,w,.i.r.,n- t,wi but slowlv. Then came bottling the " -. r rt wine, and wnen tne casK waa empty and the bottles fall, then the girl thought he could help in the field work, and when that was finished there were so many things to be done in the garden, that no one ever dreamt of before. So .ro, aMrrA v., , night she dreamt of him. .... . .. . . .. , And so it csme to pass that at the end of the year the young man was still at the honse. , And then the floors were well scoured, and white sand fir twigs were thrown mall the .rooms, and the wnoie yniage naa a nonaay. was me weaamg-aay 01 ane young journey- man and tne inn-Keepers aaugnier ; and everybody iejoiced at it except j .nst tha fe w who ,uIke because tuev ' a . " were jealous, or pretended to be. Not long after, the landlord of the Crown Inn was decidedly onoe more in a happy frame of mind. He had been eating and drinking to his heart's con tent, and sat in his arm-chair with his snuff-box on his knee. Long he slept ; u v uaoi. viuru mei tried to wake W,n- tuer found he WM dead 1 ...a .... One day, about five years later, the voting landlord for such he now was had come in, and waa sitting in the tap-room, when his wife ran in, and said to him, -'Only fancy I yesterday at noon one of our mowers fell asleep under the Areamiug xeeca, wuuuu. snowing it, and what do you think he dreamt ? Why that he was immensely rich t And only think who it was Cavpar, old Caspar, who is half-witted, and everybody pities him, and keeps him only for charity. What on earth will he do with all his money ?" "Wife," laughed the husband, "how can you believe such rubbish ? Yon, a sensible woman I Just reflect for one moment How is it possible that a tree can foretell the future, let it be ever such an old and beautiful tree ?" The wife gazed at her husband with wondering eyes, shook her head, and slowly said, "Husband, don't speak ao wickedly t Yon ought not to joke on snch subjects." "I am not joking, my dear," replied the husband. "Why pretend what you do not mean?" she cried. "Surely, you, of all others, have most reason to be grateful to the tree. Hasn't all you dreamt under it come true ?" "God knows," replied the husband, "I am grateful to Him and to you. Yes, it was a beautiful dream, and I remem ber it like yesterday, but everything is a thousand times better than I dreamt it and you, love, a thousand times prettier and dearer than the yonng woman who appeared in my dream." "Bat still it was strange that you should dream yon were to marry me." "I never dreamt that I All I saw was a young woman, with two children, but she was not half as pretty as you, or the children either." "Fie I" cried the wife ; "do jou mean to deny me or the tree ? Didn't you tell me the first dsy we met it was in the evening, out there in the arbor that you had dreamt you were to marry me. and become the landlord of the Crown Ina?" Then the man remembered the joke he had played on his wife, and said, "It can't be helped, dear wife. I really did not dream of yon, and if I said so it was only a joke. I remember you were very inquisitive, and I wanted to tease you." "You havestolen my love, and cheated me ont of my heart," she said ; I shall never be happy again no, never I" Then he asked her if she did not love him better than anybody in the world, and if they had not been the happiest couple in the whole village. She could not deny this ; bat nevertheless she remained sad and miserable, notwith-! standing au ne could say. every at tempt at reconciliation failed ; nearly all day she sat gloomily by herself, starting whenover her husband came near her. Tills state of things continuing for some time, he alxo begun to grow mel ancholy, fearing he had altogether lost his wife' love. One noon he went ont into the village, and loitered carelessly through the fields. In the distance stood the old Dreaming Beech. He went and sat beneath its shade, think ing of days gone by. Then the beech began to rustle again, aa it had done five years ago. Then his heart grew calmer, and he slept Soon he dreamed that same bright dream again. The woman at the table, and the little children at their play ; bnt now, the faces of his own dear wife and children, and she looked at him with her large brown eyes so kindly ah, so kindly ! And then he awoke and fonnd it was only a dream. More sorrowful than before, he broke off a small twig from the tree, and went home and placed it in his hymn-book. The next day was Sunday, and as they went to church, the leaves fell ont at his wife' feet He turned scarlet a he stooped to pick them up. But the wife had seen it and asked what it waa. "Only leave from the Dreaming Beech, which is much kinder to met than yon are. Yesterday I was resting i kind to me again, and bad forgiven everything. But it ia not trae. The good old beeeh, though it is a noble tree, knows nothing about the future." - The wife gazed at him, and it was aa if a ray of sunshine had crossed her face. "Husband, did you really dream that?" "Yes." he answered, positively. "And I waa really your wife ?" "Really my own, true wife." "Thank God !" ahe said ; "now it is .... ...... all right again. I love yon so dearly how dearly yon can never know. And all these long, weary days, I have been in such dread lest I waa wrong in loving von, and that God meant me to have notn h"bni. and you another wife, For yon certainly did steal my heart, man andt was djeption first-yes, yon stole my heart, but it d do much good, for you know V?.ngm.,tst h,PPened I"" y did, whether we would or no. But, my hn.band promise me never again to sijAtingly of the Dreaming Beech." "I never will, for I believe iu it aa much aa yon do, depend upon it, though in a different way, perhaps. And now let me paste the leaves in the beginning of our hymn-book, so that they may not be lost" Hawaiian Keav-iteach Scene. In a pleasant article on Hawaii, the , Overland Monthly, through the lips of j nana. nat wouia .nr. ivoDinson urn- soe have said to that I wonder ? Acrosa the level water, heads, hands and shoul ders, and sometimes half bodies, were floating about like the amphibia. We were at onoe greeted with a shout of welcome, which came faintly to ns above the roar of the surf, as it broke heavily i on the reef, a half-mile out from shore, I " drawing toward the hour when the fishers came to land, and we had ' i - .lt x,ra thfy -,me ont of the like ; , mermen and mermaids. They , ... Kfhinirlv innocent of etinnette I at le4st of onr tmation of it. gndj a freedom WM 'rTtT'l V.?! weU M UtUft embarra-wing deliberate yfin gered .fondled and fussed jth b ' ee dnsk in At hud. thonrht I f-t w 11 m beyond the pale of civilization, for this begins to look like the genuine article. ith uncommon slowness, the mer maids donned more or less of their apparel, a few preferring to carry their robes over their arms, for the air was delicious, and ropes of sea-weed are accounted full dress in that delectable latitude. Down on the sand the mermen heaped their scalv spoils fish of all shapes and sizes, fish of every color ; some of them throwing somersaults in the sand, like young athletes ; some of them making wry faces, in their laBtja agony ; some of them lying still and ciammy, witn uijr, round ryes, 1111 amoked pearl vest-buttons, set in the middle of their cheeks all of them "ii: l :i i ai Btneiiiug iisa-iiae, euro uuue ui mem looking very tempting. Small boys laid hold on small fry, bit their heads off, and held the silver-coated morsels between their teeth, like animated sticks of candy. There was a Fridayish and Lent -like atmosphere hovering over the spot and I turned away to watch some youths who were riding surf-boards not far distant agile,narrow-hipped youths with tremendous biceps, and proud, impudent heads, set on broad shoulders, like young gods. These were the flower and chivalry of the Meha blood, and they swam like young porpoises, every one of them JeflVrnon's PovertyHow Hon. t (cello was Saved- Irotu the Sheriff. Mr. Jefferson's affairs did not mend, though he enjoyed the able and reso lute assistance of his grandson and namesake, Thomas Jefferson Randolph; and he resolved, at length, to discharge the worst of his debts, in the fashion of old Virginia, by selling a portion of his lands. But there was nobody to buy. Land sold in the usual way would not bring a third of its value ; and conse quently he petitioned the Legislature to relax the operation of the law so far as to allow him to dispose of some of his farm by lottery, as was frequently done when money was to be raised for a public object The Legislature granted his request, though with reluc tance. But, in the meantime, it had been noised abroad, all over the Union, that the author of the Declaration of Independence was abont to lose that far famed Monticello, with which his name had been associated in the public mind for two generations, the abode of his prime and the refuge of his old age, a Mecca to the Republicans of many lands. A feeling arose in all liberal minds that this mnst not be; and during the Spring of 1S2C, the last of his years, subscriptions were made for his relief in several places. Philip Hone, Mayor of New York, raised without an effort, as Mr. Randall records, $8,500 ; Phila delphia sent 85,000, and Baltimore, $3,000. The lottery was suspended, and Mr. Jefferson's last day were so laced by the belief that the subscrip tions would snffice to free his estate from debt, and secure home and inde pendence to his daughter and her chil dren. He waa proud of the liberality of his countrymen, and proud to be its object He who had refused to accept so mnch aa a loan from the Legislature of his State, gloried in being the recipi ent of gift from individuals. "Xo cent of this, said he, "is rang from the tax payer. It is the pure and unsolicited offering of love." Cape Town. The city of Cape Town, Cape of Good Hope, is at the extremeend of the South African continent The climate ia delightful in all seasons. I have never aeen the mercury in summer higher than 80 degrees, and in winter, which i from June to Angnst, lower than 64 degrees ; so, properly speaking, there is no winter but a perpetual spring. Fruit of all kind are in abundance ; grape are of an enormous size and very pleasant to the taste ; with them the Cons tan tia wines are made, which are largely exported to India and England ; some are sent to Boston, but in small quantity, as the dry wine are there preferable. Strangers are aston ished when they see the Cape grapes, and mnch more so when a penny only ia asked in payment for a cluster weigh ing two pounds I These grapes are cultivated by all farmer who make their own wines, which they dispose of to merchant at a very low figure. A bird in season, how good it is. Customer. Their Trlrka anal Their JIai i pverv namnn mho Anratra a thnn ia avira every person who enters shop ia aware oi wnat be requires. Lmr experience, however, shows that shopkeepers and shopmen are accustomed to recognize two classes of customers, those who know what they want and those who do not In the first is to be found that customer who is so rare and so perfect that we will call him the ideal custo mer. He exists as a sort of fond dream in the minds of shopmen, sometimes, but too seldom, realized. He knows what he wants, and he knows the price; he asks for it, pays for it and takes it away. Heaven prosper him on his way ! it- : - ii .it . (t as uiuuci av au uuaHiuivra, Now, if the shopkeeper did not pos sess the article required by the cus tomer, he would inform him so, and the customer would leave the shop. In this respect and in this only, he differs from tiie obstinate customer, who, al- inougn quite as clear on nis own re quirements, gives far more trouble. For he is no sooner informed that the article he wishes ia not kept, than he betrays a belief that it is, and that only laziness and lack of understanding pre vents his obtaining it He therefore institutes a little search on his own ac count throughout the shop, naturally inflicting annoyance on the feelings of the shopman. Ue will suppose the obstinate cus tomer enters a chemist's shop, and asks for a pair of washing-gloves. He is told that "we do not keep them." "Don't keep them?" he exclaims, gazing keenly around the shop ; "dear me, that's very awkward t What is that pile of things on the shelf just above your head there ?" He is told that they are chest-proteo- tors. "Oh, indeed ! chest-protectors, eh ? They wouldn't do then they wouldn't ,i Ti;. ; .1 i .1.. yj. luu ,s wuu Divmj aw alio speaker's eye wanders searchingly around the ahop. Presently he says again, probably pointing rudely and oiiciouHly with hia umbrella : ''Isn't that pile of things there with the red borders to them washing-gloves? I think they must be 1" They are accordingly taken down and shown to be something.quite different to washing-gloves. A glimmer of intel ligence will, then, perhaps, shine upon him, and he will say, "Well, if yon haven't got them, I can't have them can I ?" And then, casting suspicious t glances around him he leaves the shop I BlowlT- nd tLe shopman may think I himself fortunate if something in the window does not attract his notice and . Kvinn rtirM VlaSewV Orfalfl ! A customer much to be avoided is the j indiscreet customer. He orders readily. and speedily finds what he wants. But he never thinks about price, and gene rally never inquires until his parcel of goods is packed np. It most frequently happens that the price i. three or four times what he exnected or can afford. ?nJ n wkwarJ d.aeaVa & th re8nlt- It generally ends in the parcel being tauu. uuDiuuift aa iu icouia. 1 r .V.. . ! & opened. and goods extracted until the r .. . ...... . . so." J? reduced to witMnw reacn 01 , the indiscreet customer a pocket lhis customer is the most annoying, j - " the mode of dealing with him is so j . aimcuic iinoe attempted to discern , of the individual ! I by his dress and appearance, there is ' the utmost danger of confounding him I -:V 4 1. ....I-....... ..aAMA. .k. .11 ; 'n" (irurauio unu Odd . . . . o - uui tuns oa Kraae Bpiauir lltr uvbftnui - .,- . T . ,, - W . with the unknown customer, who is at projecting rocks, and once ii a while a ? e La8t I,ndies M weU "the West once the horror and delight of the shop- j tt 0 dell u fonnd OTergrown marind, soar-sop and jambn ; the keepers. We will narrate a fact we .ith Wr A .mall hnrW i bread-fruit, papaya, blinibmg. and Ian- ' Mm. . nmua f s. i 1 1 ti of-. f a rhia A shabby old gentleman walked into 1 a jeweler's shop and asked to be allowed to look at some topazes. Three or four i were accordingly shown him, and he quickly selected the best, which he said waa hardly good enough, "Ah, bnt you see these stones are expensive," said the jeweler, rather patronizingly, "I can assure yon the one you have chosen would answer any ordinary purpose. The old gentleman looked around him j in a dissatisfied way, and presently caught sight of a large and beautiful stone in a corner of the jeweler's glass case. "That look more like what I want," said be, "let me look at that one, will you?" "It will be very expensive, sir ; very, indeed, more, I dare say, than you would like to give. The stone yoa have is very good, sir." In a quiet voice the old gentleman asked if the stone was for sale or only on view. At this rebuke the jeweler produced it, naming a high price. It was immediately chosen ; and hi cus tomer, taking a sketch from his pocket, aid : "Get that coat-of-arma engraved upon it and send me word when it is done." He gave hi name and address. He was a noble earl, and the shopkeeper had oommitted the grievous error of treating him as an indiscreet when ht was an unknown customer. Spider-Killers. By general observation spider are considered by entomologist to have a specific office viz. : to keep down the dangerous multiplication of winged in sects. They occasionally seize a worm or stray caterpillar, if they happen to encroach upon their webbed territory. But entrapping flies is their forte. In significant and solitary as they are, we could not dispense with their quiet aervicea. Let spiders strike, and for a ingle month in rammer refuse to set their traps, we could hardly defend ourselves against armies of noxious in sects that would take possession of onr dwellings. But useful as they are, un obtrusive and vigilant a sentinels in cellars, garrets, under the floor, in the hiding-places of straying bugs, moths, and creeping things, they have their enemies, and are subject to the rigorous demands of the same law under which they act, otherwise there would be too many spiders in the world, especially in Van Dieman's Land. Just in the busy season of spider activity, when they are slaughtering their thousands like Cincinnati butchers, a peculiar fly is let loose by nature to limit their multiplication. It is abont the size of a wasp. In fair weather they may be seen constructing their cells of mud against walls and sunny dry place. They are really prison dungeons. In company or alone they hunt whatever spider are found, seizing them adroitly, and away they fly with their prisoners, which are forced into the cell", sometimes three or four in one. When secure, they drop in an egg and then plaster over the top se curely. When the egg hatches the ?'onng worm has an ample supply of ood all ready for consumption. One of the strong consolations which the true Christian enjoy is derived from the belief that an all-wise and merciful Providence is continually watching over him, and directing the course of hi temporal affairs, in such a manner a shall make them all ulti mately work together for hi good. A Ghost Story. Some years ago I was living in an old fashioned honse built by a retired sea captain in the early part of the century. At 1 r. u. on a winter's day, in the midst of a furious snow-storm, as we sat at dinner, we heard a commotion in the kitchen. Instead of the expected joint enter a pallid woman : "Oh. please come out and see Martha 1" The lady of the honse hastened to the kitchen, and found Martha, the cook, almost fainting upon a chair. "What is the matter?" As soon as she could speak she gasped out "Oh. that face at the window 1" The window of the kitchen looked out upon the garden, which had a high fence all around it I at once ran ont to see if any person waa there: the ground was covered with a pure and untrodden surface of snow six or eight inches deep. This waa rather startling, when inside the window a woman was fainting at the sight of some fearful appearance on the outside. I looked out on the street, which ran alongside the garden fence, and which waa not much of a thoroughfare. There were no tracks to be seen in the snow. No human foot had lutely been in the garden. When the woman came to herself, she said that suddenly looking np, she saw a female face with an agonized expres sion looking in at her from the window. On being asked if it was any one whom she knew, she replied that the face seemed familiar, but that she could not recall the name that belonged to it After reflection she said that it looked like a daughter of hers whom she had not seen since she was a child. The girl had been brought np by a lady in another State, and waa now a married woman, living in Vermont About a week afterward. Martha re ceived a letter from the lady who had j brought up her daughter, informing u u uie juuuK wuuuu uau rewmij died after a short illness, and that her great anxiety seemed to bo tc sea her mother before she died. Some time after I wrote to the town indicated to ascertain the exact time of t'ao young women's death. The husband bad moved away immediately after the funeral, bnt the town clerk repLed that a person of the name mentioned had died there about the time mentioned in my letter. The lales ofShoale. About ten miles from Portsmo;i'Ji, off the coast of Mew Hampshire, lie clus tered together eight small islands, com- 11 1 in it K uuiy aaa aiimufeu acre, aula bearing the name of the Isles of Shoals. Mnra rlian twia linn.lnvl vn ttr thaan : 1 . : 1 1 1 11 ioi.n.ia - f.m.m. v. Tr..., ih.,o. and had a resident nonulation of sev-!?et eral hundred arsons, who sent ouan- titles of well-cured fish to Spain and ! the West Indies. The town of Oosport, J 1 . .nnr on Star Island, had five hundred in-! T I 1. I a A 1 " - 1 1 . -- 7' V.- I ..vw. J V v VJO Hampshire. Ao-. by the process of 1 ai-a , . . , . i;u" !W -w"P " yuePopu- j V""' ,tuu " ?.Ma u" owu erec? I for the aiWinimtvi'difir of annimer vim- Q Applcdore, formerly known J? J cl pBbe lodging five hundred guests, These 1 Q( Shoals seem to be but masse8 of jagged granite thrown r. i. .i...i, r ,. ... x- trCS g,, and MKely , .nmb appears, brlt tnft8 of grass spring np between ! . f . ... j with wild Bowers. A small harbor is I inclosed by these rocky crags, which affords a refuge for small vessels in storms. Recently the Isles of Shoals have become quite a famous summer resort To be sure, there are no beeches for sea bathing, driving is an unattainable pleasure, and for walks one mnst expect to clamber over rough granite walks. But there is boating and fishing, and. above all things, the simple enjoyment of the delightfully f c warm, and equable climate, so free from chilly winds. These barren isles are f nil of romantio historic inter- est ; and visitor generally find it most . . J restful to lie lazily upon the sunny rocks, above the surging waves, watch ing the changeful sea, and reading, or dreaming of scene long gone by of early navigators, of shipwrecks, of In dian massacres, and wild romance of pot of gold and silver found hidden in the craggy ledges. Good Teeth. Civilization make sad work with our teeth. Savage are rarely troubled with a defect or ache in their dental appara tus. It is not hot drinks which destroy them prematurely, nor warm food, ao much as acids too concentrated in vine gar, pickles, etc, which acts directly upon the lime in their composition, and thus crumbles them. The foundation for sound, flrn, white teeth must be laid in early life, by sub sisting on food that contains the ele ments which the teeth must have, or they will be imperfectly formed, feeble in structure, and fall early into decay. If wheat flour were never bolted, but eaten with the bran, as we find it par tially in graham bread, then the system would be abundantly provided with phosphate of lime, the essential ingre dients lor the formation c: the teeth. tonnauon or tne leeiu. j ins a good proportion of of lime and hence those , Batter contains the phosphate who consume much of it furnish from that source a supply for keeping their teeth in good condition. Children are usually lovers of bread and bitter, especially if they are habitually fed on white-bread. In that way they obtain something for their teeth, but bv no i means enough. The coarser the feed, especially bread, the better for young people. The soundest teeth belong to persons who have not been reared on delicacies. C overing np the Scar. A distinguished preacher of London, in speaking of the proneness of Pro testant denomination to observe each other's defect rather than excellencies, says: '"When an eminent painter was re quested to paint Alexander the Great, so aa to give a perfect likenebd of the Macedonian eonquerer, he felt a diffi culty. Alexander, in wan, had been struck by a sword, and across hi fore head was an immense scar. The painter said : 'If I retain the scar, it will be an offence to the admirer of the Monarch, and, if I omit it, it will fail to be a per fect likeness what shall I do ?' He hit upon a happy expedient ; he represen ted the Emperor leaning on his elbow, with his fore-finger upon hia brow, ac cidentally, as it seemed, covered the scar upon his forehead. Might not we represent each other with the finger of charity upon the scar, instead of repre senting the scar deeper and blacker than it actually is ? Might not Chris tians learn from heathendom a lesson of charity, of human kindness and of love?" Sky-light Sun, moon and tars. Yontlis Column. Cocsis Jack's Cakk. Before Jack sailed for Singapore, his aunt Alice made him, as she usually does, a couple of loaves of nice fruit cak9. I couldn't tell yon the number of good things she mixed np in her ample earthen bowl ; bnt I know that although there was plenty of cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg, she did not nse any of the caraway and ginger Harry brought her in his eager ness to help, nor so much aa sprinkling of that volcanic pepper he had told Madge about. "Can't I do mmcthiny f" asked Harry, who very much wanted a finger ia cou sin Jack's cake. "Yes, you may ponnl the mace." Then Jack, hearing the noise, and getting I suspect a sniff of spicy fra grance that must have been slightly familiar to him, threw down the morn ing paper, and coming out into the kitchen, offered his services Lh. Aunt Alice laughed. "I won't trmt yoa to stone the raisins," she said; "Imtifyoull promise not to use the same blade of your knife with which you cut tobacco, I'll let you chip the citron for me." "What are you about, Hal?" asked Jack. ''You're making considerable noise for a small boy, seems to me." "Oh, I'm smashing something," said Harry. "It smells like nutmeg, but it don't look like it" "Mace, eh? Well it has a good right to smell like nutmeg. It U nutmeg." "Xo it is'nt!" replied impulsive Harry, with more promptness than politeness "Mother keeps the nut megs all alone in a box by themselves." "Harry 1" said his mother, reprov ingly, "I do wish you would get over your very bad habit of contradicting yourself. Cousin Jack wouldn't make peopie especially inose older KnA 11 l tie stjtement he did ignorantlv. He knows a great deal more about'spices man you ao. "I was going to tell you, Hal, bow mace grows," Jack went on. "You'd like to see a grove of nutmeg frees, I'm certain. They're handsome, I can tell yon.- "Is mace the bark of the tree ?" asked Aunt Alice. "Xo," said Jack ; "It is a part of the fruit which grows to about the size of an average pear, and has a smooth, thick yellow rind, white inside, and when ripe cracking open everywhere among the inica, oars green, glossy leaves, and snowing tne deep red coat of the kernel. mat is mace. 1 44 t ,1 1 , , I 1 P ff k? T an.J.there I t"1 Bnt, almObt M black aa let, With abont . fine a polish on it as you can ,with, V? arVn d ?ood .urusu- "8V,e OI lUM Jonr. peewa. hrnwn mvil.r nntmo. InJ Mn Prwn Iery nutmeg And row ? CBa beH. U 8 "B"" -au ft uc. ib s au ever- g.reen. .wun aen9 ?oiige, starting j ai:uu UUIU iuo giuuuu, atiu Biajung a twenty to'twenty-flve feet - - v, iK " " "X to walk tions only you'd have to take it early aiavMg u vu va e,eJVu UiillB' u luo auuruiiiK, or wait nit evening ; for when the sun shines in Singapore it b ukes as well as shines." And then Jack told about the banyans and cocoa-palms ; the rambutan and uw4Muu-.jtvl taiatieua aauu . ' 1110 1-iijjtij.Tcjw.a-inm, wcjaju- uiaimes fifty or sixty pounds ; ?he.,P "S?""? guava for they grow in the K.lHt IrwliAa aa eroll a . tha Wact sen ; the luscious pine-apples, and that prince of all natural delicacies, the mangos teen, which I believe is fonnd nowhere but in the Malay peninsula and on the adjacent islands. It is about as large as a common apple, and looks quite like some of the red varieties, only perhaps it is more brown than red. The rind is a quarter of an inch thick, hard on the outside, but soft within, its juice being astrin gent I imagine the fruit is scalloped something like a cantclcpe or musk- LS u '":J' U? B fcm '"ir?a nmS 5 1 JapR aava that vhn tha nnd i. Hiiital melon, only the number of ridges varies Jack says that when the rind is divided transversely, and you take on the upper part, the pulp is in curved sections, each enclosing its seed, and easily re moved, a section at a time with the fork. The pulp ia white, sometime tinged with a lovely purple, and melts in the mouth the realization of every thing that is delicious. Aunt Alice said it was delightful to hear of these exquisite dainties, but very tantalizing ; whereupon Jack in sisted that is waa more tantalizing to think of them, having once tasted them and become familiar with their luscious properties ; and it seems to me he was right Well, tbe cake was baked two nice loaves of it coming out of the oven in about three hours' time, with aa rich a brown as could be desired and then it was garnished with a heavy frosting, and set away in the pantry. The next day it waa packed in a tin box and Jack took it to sea with him. When he told aun: Alice that he should never eat a morsel of it without blessing Ood that there was somebody in America to love him, the tears came into her eyes. "And," he added, "your cake shall make some of my shipmate think of their homes, too, before we round the Cape of Oooj Hope... .-ihafa right. Jack, George ; "and I'm incln aid uncle ned to think it will do your hearts all more good than . nil. J .wuiabua "Oh, never fear for us," returned Jack ; "are salts have better digestion than yoa landsmen ; and I'll divide it np so that none of ns shall be sick. Yoa won't care, I hope, aunt Alice ?" "So ; make the most of it yoa can. J It is yours to do with just as you please ; and if you'd rather distribute yourhap 1 piness than keen it all to vourself. whv then yoa shall and welcome. Little Corporal. Tbt. Can't do it sticks in the mud, but Try soon drags the wagon out of the rut I he fox said Try, and he got away from the honnds when they almost snapped at him. The bees says Try, and turned flowers into honey. Tue squirrel said Try, and up he went to the top of a beech tree. The snowdrop said Try, and bloomed in the cold snows of winter. The sun said Try, and the spring soon threw Jack Frost ont of the saddle. The yonng lark said Try, and he found that hi new wings took him over hedges and ditches, and np where hia father was singing. The ox said Try, and ploughed the field from end to end. No lull too steep for Try to climb, no clay too stiff for Try to plough, no field too wet for Try to drain, no hole too big for Try to mend. A sentimental writer state "that it was a comfort for him to know that one eye watched fondly for hia coming, and looked brighter at his approach," where upon he waa condoled as one having a sweetheart with only one eye. When is a captain in hi heaviest at tire? When he wears his ship. Vtirietiefi. To have the best wife, you must bt the best husband. A life properly sea-toned with grace has a uniform flavor. An honest employment is the best inheritance that can fall to any one. It is said that there waa never an honest red-breast ; he is always a robin. The Chinese laborers in Cuba object to being paid in paper. They say ft ia too thin. A probate court Making love to a girl who proves that she has "a will of Ler own. Why is a solar eclipse like a woman whipping her boy ? Because it'a hiding of the son. A Newfoundland dog having a qoar rel with a bull-dog at Montreal, drowned him in a canal. A Johnstown. Penna., paper talks about a man who "never enjoyed a day's sickness in his life." What extraordinary kind of meat ia to be bought in the Isle of Wight? Mutton from Co was. That man in Trenton who found 327,000, about two years ago, ia still advertising for the owner thereof. An ancient mariner declined shipping on board a schooner, on the gronnd that no man could serve "two masters." The buckwheat season approaches, when the head of the family eat f oar teen cakes at a sitting, to the unbounded satisfaction of himself, and the unmiti gated disgust of the oldest boy, who cripples his digestive apparatus for life in a vain attempt to do the same. A farmer sent to an orphan asylum for a boy that was smart, active, brave, tractable, prompt, industrious, clean, pious, intelligent, good-looking, re served and modest The superintendent wrote back that unfortunately they had only human boys in that institution. Bath the beans. Brummel and Hick man, outlived their own period of vigor, good looks and capacity for enjoyment; each died a bo at the age of sixty-three, and in a hospital, attended by Sister of Charity; and both were buried by strangers, and at the p nblio expense. A Roman Catholic priest Father Paolo Orassi, incumbent of the splen did basilica cf Sta. Maria Magiriore. uas abandoned the old church and re- ceived baptism at the bands of an Eng lish Baptist minister. The affair ha created a profound sensation in Rome. A remarkable anachronism occur in Victor Hugo's new drama of "Mario Tudor." One of the character tell the other to go to the Tower of London by way of Charing Cross. The ques tion is then asked, "Is there not a shorter road?" to which the reply ia, "Yes, by the Quai" meaning the'Vio toria Embankment, bo ill not half a dozen years ago ! Mr. Coviile says a looking-glass affords a woman a marvelous amount of com fort and gratification. He says his wife thinks just as mnch of consulting her glass when she ties on her apron aa when she ties on her bonnet He says that when there is a knock at the door he goes there at once, but his wife, on the contrary, ejaculates : "Mercy, Jo seph, who's that I" and dashes for the looking-glass the first thing. In conversation a man expresses him self he discloses his character, and make available that character for good or cviL The tongue, in this sense, be comes a most powerful engine ; and th watch over the tongue becomes a duty of the first importance. It ia the ohief doorway ont of which the mind sallie forth to its work ; and in the contact of mind with mind, it is the point for careful observation and control. Little Corporal. A suit for breach of promise has been brought by a man against a woman iu England. Miss Jenkinson proposed to Mr. Smith, and engaged two young men to act as groomsmen. That waa a far aa the matter was allowed to go. She jilted Smith. When the writ was served on her, she said, "IU marry him if he makes me, and when I've married him I'll make him live like a toad under a harrow." Smith ia a lucky fellow to have been jilted. There are follies and whimsies iu fashion. There is opportunity for in dividual taste and choice. Neverthe less, the wisest thing for people in gen eral to do is to follow the fashion that prevails. It is only in exceptional case that they will obtain a larger re sult of satisfaction at a leas outlay of trouble by setting up there own stand ard. Dresa ia too important to be de nounced,too significant to be neglected, but too pliable to found a fight on I It is rather good story which the Cincinnati inquirer tells of a customer and a private banker in that city. The gentleman called at the bank and wanted to draw $5G0 of hi own money on his own check, but hia reasonable desire waa not gratified. As the gentleman waa going ont of the bank with a sad look upon hi face, the President of that institution peeped out from behind the counter and seductively said: "I guess we could let yoa have the money at two per c?nt premium." In panicky times like these the man sleeps sound est and sweetest who has no bank ac count An Ohio paper relates that abont sev enteen years ago a young boy, residing in Wood County, took a black cat akin from which the original tail of the cat had been removed and a mink' tail nicely sewed on instead, and sold it to a certain buyer of furs, not many mile from Grand Rapids, for $1.25. It was done for a practical joke, but the boy kept tbe money, grew to be a prosper ous business man, and joined a church, but his conscience upbraided him so much that a few days ago the ex-fur dealer received a note inclosing S3. 70, principal and interest The joke ia now on the fur-dealer, as he put the cat-skin among a lot of mink skins and sold it for &). As he can not now find the purcb iser, he proposes to contribute the money to some benevolent purpose. The oldest white inhabitant of Min nesota haa been heard from. His name is R. S. Spalding, and in a recent letter he Sam : "I claim to be the first white child born in what is now the State of Minnesota. On the 26th of February. 1827. 1 was born inside the walla of Fort Snelling. near St Peter. My father. Stephen Spalding, run a canoe with ma in it n 1928. to St Loaia, and from that day to the present I have never returned to Minnesota. Bom in Minne sota, raised in Missouri, and graduated in the Rocky Mountains, I have caught more beaver than all the Newhoaae traps combined. I fought in the Mexi can war, and God only knows how many Mexicans I killed (though I don't know as I killed any.) On the 10th of Angnst, 1859, I discovered the first gold ever found on the west slope of the Rooky Mountains in Colorado. The mine I discovered were good, bnt my own were good for nothing."
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