f n ft-v v-3' rvvJC ''-T.-ri- v J 7 3 VT !f B- F. SCHWEIER, Ki '.or m-.iS Pr.pr.e'.cr. THE CONSTITUTION THE CNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT Of THE IWs VOI- XXVIII. MIITUXTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PEXNA., AUGUST 12, 1ST i. NO. I'octry. IIOBIDt. kV iTTl A. K2U.h. 1 au E ltfu-hke laud riafls now in my dreaai. Hht-eiitraacing, and fair, gilded o'er with sunbeams; Aud her Kreat tropic heart, to the North open wide. Warmly eaya : --litre u Lfe nhcra niy Hue nvers ghde. S t them windiug and flowing itito auft gloam ing hues r.oimlujg awoct groves of orange aud whisper ing pin 2; Through our drojamy thai azure ywir houe breeze blow, rVating vigor and Mrentb from your regions of enow; And the win da of the East, from their gay wanton wiupi. Drop the bright silver dew that the great ocean flings. In our foresta of green nature joyously reigns. Filling full with rich, atrong hfe her flowery domains; Here the bird' wing melodiously breaks the soft air; In low murmuring sound wind the gay streams so fair; And the honey-bee ainga a sweet song in the rose. Which in wildest profusion and richness here flows; Wi.ile the step of the deer a? it rattles near by btartllug pbeasauta aud qnaila frjra their covtrtd auii.li; With the swoop of the eagle, the iug of the dove, Fju h and all wake a ineloJr eet as llrst love; Aud old, duep-hearted aiUnce, with Lati-niug CAT. formed breatulcss with rapture this clioroa to hear. On our future's no shade; prowue lira in our soil; Near it heart slc-p the germs of wine, bnad. cloth, and oil : The magnolia, date, ohve. and kuion cutw.ne. To the live-oak aud cyutca cliuga ciue the fond ruie. While the palmatto jungles, historic in name. Offer pathways by labor to rkhea and fame. There is hfe in the air, there la youth in the stream; lu the sky's tender blue, in the sun's golden beam; Aud far bettrr than wino, the rich perfume so near. For the bloom of a summer unfading is here. Miscellany, Httlt of llealtta and Slrength in I be Vonns. Let me ask you, ladies, with all cour tesy, but with all earnestness are you aware that more human beings are killed iu England every roar by un necessary and preventable diseases than were killed at Waterloo or at Sadowa? Are you aware that the great majority of those victims are childreu t Are you aware that the di seases which carry them oil' are for the most part such as ought to be specially under control of the women who love them, pet them, educate them, anil would iu many cases, if need le, lay down their lives for them T Are you aware, again, of the vast amount of disease which, so both wise mothers and wise doctors assures me, is engen dered in the sleeping room troui simple ignorance of the laws of ventilation, aud iu the school room likewise, from simple ignorance of the laws of ''''J'1 ologv ! lroiu au ignorance of which I shall mention do other case save one that too often from ignorance of signs of approaching disease, a child is pun ished for what is called idleness lft lessnosa, willfulness, sulkiness; and punished, too, in the unwisest way by. an increase of tasks and confinement to the house, thus overtasking still more a brain already overtasked, anil depressing still more, by robbing it of jxvgen aud of exercise, a system al ready depressed! Are you aware, I ask agaiu,of all thist I speak earnestly upon this point, because I speak with experience. As a single instance, a medical man, a friend of mine, passing by his ow n school room, heard one of Lis own little girl sscrearaiug and cry ing, and went in. The governess, an excellent woman, but wholly igtiorant of the laws of physiology, complained that the child had of late become obsti nate, and would not learn: and that therefore she must punish her by keep ing Ler indoors over the unlearned les Mins. The father, who knew that the rl.il.l was usually very pood one. looked at her carefully for a little while; sent her out of the school room; and then said. "That child must not open a book for a month." "If I bad not acted so," Le said to me "I should have Lad that child dead of bnun disease within a year." Xow,in the face of such fact as those : . ..... i.L- of mothers, sis IS It IW HI 11V u v ., ters aunts inirsin- irovci iiesses an who may lc occupied iu the care of rliildrcn, especially u. tn ...... should study thrift ot human health and human life, by studying sj.mew hat the laws of life and health T I here arc books I may say a w hole library of liooks written by scientific doctors on these matters, w hich are. in my niind, far more iuiixiriaiit to the school room than half the trashy accomplislimeiits so called, which are extiec ted to be known by governesses But are they lKught m. Are they even to lie bought from booksellers! Ah.for a little know ledge of the laws to the neglect of which is owing so much fearful disease, which, if it docs not produce immedi ate death, too often leaves the consti tion impaired for years to come ! Ah, the waste of health aud strength in the young, the waste, too, of auxiefy and misery in those who love ami tend them ! How much of it might tie saved by a little rational education in those laws of nature which are tho w ill of (iod alxuit the welfare of our Irodies, and which, therefore, we are as much bound to know and toouey tnespiiuuui laws whereon depend the welfare of our souls J Health and Education. Furls Green. Paris Green, which has been creating more or less of a sensation in and potato-bug circles of late, u w hat chemists term arseniteof copper. It w .precipitate resulting 1 the mixture of the solution oi arsenic and rdphate of copper ih little Bolnt on of amonia to help the matter along. It is a tme. dense, com paratively heavy po. emerald-green color, whose proper pEceia in the paint 6hop. Agreeably to the anthority of an eminent chemist of this city.the pare ci eist of one equivalent of copper ana one of arsenic. When taken into the stomahthe gastric Juice of that rgan dissolves the arsentons element of tne ffi green, which is then token up by fhe ablorbenta and introduced into the cireSlatior In Europe it ta known Scheie green, from tne name of the celebrated chemist who Tf. U. When pure, ten grains U suthcient to destroy li The article in nse mon thye cheap American nation, however, is vastly adulterated, and it would probably' require double above dose for a man to prove that he bore the undertaker no malice. THE MEIDLKS IIOKsr.HlS. Ut H. W. T. ' Ciji spec! you, aud a safe j ourney to you. Charley," ejaculated the master of the little blielMjeo Louse at Bally Looley, after Lis old friend and good customer. Charier C. tllliMnp trim aI length had tnroed his face homeward j with the prospect of a 4 dreary a ride, I aud as dark a night as ever fell upon the j Black water, along whose bant he was ; about to journey. Charley Culnace kDew the country well, aud moreover, was as bold and as daring a ridt-r as any Mallow boy that ever rattled a four Tear old nnon Drumrite race course. lie had gone to Fermony iu the morning, as well for 1 tue purpose 01 purchasing some in gredients required for the Christmas diuiier by Lis wife, as to gratity Lis own vanity by having new reins ti'ted to his sniffle iu which Le intended fehowing off the old mare at the approaching St, Stephen's Day hunt. Charley did not get out of Fermoy until late; for al hongh he was not oue of yonr very particular sort in anything relating to the common occurrences of life, yet in all the appointments con nected with hunting, tiding, leaping ,in short, iu whatever was connected with the old mare, C iarl.-y, tne saddler said, . Li(J n,.rve8 a iitti(i shaken bv thi uuex ' was the devil to pUse. An illustr-! usl from tne ue jusi horse- tioti of this lastidiouMiess watt aftor.l , wll),m he CODSijere,l this njnre by Lis g..inR ;.iuh a.'.istanre f..r a fuhIiI . ,1,, mUst bo. bridle. Mallow was full twelve miles ., , t , , . .. ' nearer Charley's farm (which lay just , three onarteri of mile llowC ,rru ki than Fermoy, but Charley Lad quarreled with all the Mallow saddlers, and no oue would content him in all particulars but honcat M.ck Twomey of Fermoy, who used to assert, and who will doubt it? that Lecoul.l Mitch a saddle U tter j T' . - V . 'i . V .1 , . ! than the lord l.eutenant. although they ! lt behind the lappet of his coat, now Imade Lira ell as one as king over tmg " U U horror as the ! jij I motion of the horse eansed his arm to 1 Tt I a : , , t . r n, 1 move to and fro. The ground tdiuok 1 he (it'iy iu tne arronppffiC nt .01 the i . .. ! .,1 1 . 1 11 .i;nndi'r the wemht of its suieniatnrl iii:iuj in,ne um allow iuane , Ca!u:iiie to ho long a visit as Le had at i tirst intended to Lis old friend aud : gossip. Cki. Buckley of the Uarnofi Erin. Con, Loweven. knew tli valne of time, aud insisted upon Charley makiui? good nae of what Le bad to j spare. ' 'I wou't bother you waiting f..r 1 water, Charier, lM-cau.se I think you'll have enough of that sa-ue b.-f..reyo.i iretLome: so drink oB your li.i.ior, ! man, it's as good parliament as ever a ientlem:iu tasted." Charley, it must be confessed, nothing loth, drank success to Cm, and success to the jolly "Harp of Erin," with its head of beauty and its strings of the hair ot gota. ana to ineir ue ier o-, qnaiutance, and so on, from the b .ttom : of his soul, until the bottom of the 1 " . "1 look upou yon as my patron saint," bottle reminded him tht Carrick was " W"hy, then your honor ndi-f, mighty j she wroJ 'oalileo, "(to speak ae ut the bottcm of the hill on the other well without stirrnps. ; cordiug to our custom here), to whom side of Castletown Koch, and that he "Humph growled the Lend from ; j tM - nJ gorrows. slie had got no further on his road than Lis ! under that horseman s right aru , 0ahIe0 to Mnd uer a new couuter gossips at Ballybooley, close to the big ! "This is not an over civil answer," paie, as she had given away Ler own, gate of Counamore. (Jatctting noi.i 01 tuonguc uuariey ; out no matter, ne 1 or prepares for him two pots of electa l.is oilskin hat, therefore, white Con j was tanght in one of them riding houses j ary ag preservative from the plague. Buckley went to the cupboard for j may be aud thinks nothing at ail about j jjut n was the daughter who was now another bottle of the "real stuff," Le ; bumping Lis leather breeches at the 1 1 guardian saint, and the great phil regularly, as he termed it, bolted from rate of ten miles an honr. I'll try him osopher had no oue to watch over him his friend's hospitality, darted to the ! on the other tack. "Ahem !" said ! j j,;,, iater years but the faithful spirit feraote, ugieueu u.s .itus, u imii. nnr ( old mare into a canter toward home. j Iharley cantered gayly. regardless of the rain, which, as his frieud Con had anticipated fell in torrents ; the good old woman's currants and raisins were carefully packed between the folds of his veomanrv cloaK, wnicinjuariev, who ; iiampn : gruwieu amu tua uji. i iaj w usuuu iui -was proud o'f fehowinRtbat he belonged ; Tliin eoond hump was a terriWe t is the common prey of Adventurers, a... . i T ,w-.l Tllaatv T .irlit i (tinmn in thn f to noor Ctiirlev. t neculators acd speculators, foreign and Volnnfeent " always strapped before Lim, and took care to never destroy the military effect by putting it cn. Notwithstanding that the visit to the ' ' . .... iollv Hart) of Lrm mil I1TMA in. creased the natural complacency of his mind the drenching of the new snaffl3 reins began to disturb him.and then fol lowed a train of more anxions thoughts than even were, occasioned by the dreaded defeat of the pride of Lis long anticipated tnrn-out on St. Stephen' Uir In an honr of cood-fellowship. v - . . " --..i t 1." 1 ' when his heart was warm, auu ma u : not over cooL Charley Lad baked the. old mare Bgainn Atr. . -cos. u . , , o... fX t -ore mr-gTv nV, I, th. .-Vudence 7.1 ofthematca. lie now arri vcu ai e " Kilcummer Hill, and bis eye fell on the old walls that belonged, in lormer times, to the Knights Templar ; but the silent gloom of tiie rnin was broken only by the heavy rain which plashed and pattered on the gravestones He then looked up at the bky to see if there was. among the clouds any hopes for merer on Lis new snafu reins ; aud no sooner were his eves lowered than Lis atten tion was arrested by an obj.iet so ex traordinary as almost led Lira doubt the evidence of Lis senses The head apparently of a white horse, with short, cropped ears, large open nostrils, and immense eyes, seemed rapidly to follow him 'n r-nnnection with body, legs, or rider could possible bo traced. The head advanced Ciiarley's old mare, too, was moved by this unnatural sight, and' Buorting violently, increased her trot tin the hilL The head moved forward and poised on Charley pursuing it with astonished "ze, and wondering by what means 2nd for what purpose this detached bend thus proceeded through the air, did not lierccive tho corresponding body until he was sudden.y ttart.ed Dy finding it close by Lis feide. Charley , I tn rmiu3 what was thus so x iablv ioeing ou with him, when a msrnLxamplfd apparition presented iWlf to Lis view A figure, whose high he computed to be at least eight tt was seated on the body and legs of aXeLort, full eighteen Lands and a half high. Inthw measurement, , tjnariey, mau, wy m -r Charley could not be mistsken, for his I Charley pulled np hard. "Ay, said own mare was exactly fifteen hands he ..JoU may fceat me by the Lead, be nign, and the body that thus jogged I caUEC ,t always goes so much before alongside be conld at onoe determine, j on . but if the bet was neck and neck, was at least three Lands and a ha!f j anl ttttfB the go between the old mare higher. I and Dcsdemona, I'd win it hollow 1 After the first feeling of astonishment, was over, be exciHiuieu, m som u for ever 1" but still he directed l is at tention to this extraordinary body, and having examined it with the f ye of a connoisseur, he proceeded to recon noitre the figure so unusually mounted, who had hitherto remained perfectly mute. Wishing to see whether his com panion's sileuce arose from bad temper, want of conversational powers.or from a distaste to water, and the fear that the opening his mouth might subject htm .f t, Z it filled with rain, he en deavored to catoh a sight of his com panion's face, in order to form an Son on that point. Bat his vision iailed in carrying him further than the top of the collar of the figures coat, which was a scarlet single breasted hunting frock, having a g old fashioned cut, reaching to the saddle, with two huge shining buttons at about a yard distance h'?d- i ought to see farther than "us too. thought Charley, "although he is mooted on his horse, like my cousin Earty, who was made barony constable last week unless it is Con's whiskey that Las blinded me entirely," However, see farther. Le could not. aud after j straining Lis eyes tor a considerable time to do purpose, he explained with pure vexation. "By the big bridge of .Jallow, it ' ao Lead ut all La Las !" "Look again, "Charley Cuiuane ," said a hoarse voice that seemed t pro ceed from ruder the right aria of the ugnre. Charley did look again, and now iu the proper place for Le clearly saw, ui.der the aforesaid right arm, the head from which the voice had proceeded, aud such head no mortal ever saw betore. It looked like a large cream chee Lung around with black padding. Xo speck or C"lor, enlivened the ashy paleness of tue depressed features ; the skin lay stretched over the unearthly surface. almost like the parchment head of a drum. Two fiery eyes of prodigious circumference, with a fctrauge and ir regular mo' ion, flashed I ke meteors noon Charley, and a mouth that reached from either extremity of two ears, wuich le-p(l forth from under a profusion of matted locks of lusterlcsa blackness. This head, which the figure bad evidently hitherto eoncealed from Cjarley's eyes, now burst upon Lis view in all its hideousuess. Ciiarley, although a lad of proverbial con rice iu the nnfr!V rat ixxil.l 11. t l.nt ful . ibe rrop-eari eu 01 .... B.K..-..e '',r m Steadily forward, always keening from six to eight yards in advance. The horseman, unaided by whip or spnr, and disdaining the use of I otirrnps which dangled useless from I the saddle, followed at a trot by ' , , -1 1. 1 1 , . i xi i : , ... I.... ourjeu, au.i me water iu iiic wn agitated into waves as he trotted by . , Ou they went heads wituont lMdies d bodies without beads. The deadly leuce of night was broken ou!y by the fearful clatter of hoofs, and the .l.staut "d of thuuder, whi.ih rumbled above niystio hill of Cecauuo a Moua Fiuue. Charley who was naturally a 1 m.-rrv hearteil. and rather a talkative felloff, had hithert fdt tongue-tied by apprehension, but tiudiug Liacompaniou showed no evil disposition toward hiiu, and having become somewhat more re-com-iled to the Patagonian dinieusions of the horseman and his headless s!eel. WkM hisca nrageal),i tl.na ad- , . vii.iiv, vic,u6 "' at the same tiaie rather daunted at this ; second attempt to establisn a eonveroa - " - - , cat of yonr honor s, although tis a j little too longin the waist for the present : cat." ! who was fairly bothered to know what j subject he could start that would prove j more agreeable. "'lis a sensiole head," . inoiigui ne. -aiiuougu au uK.y oue , ... ' . . . 1 Ann, nh til A mini lldtlflfl t t US UMiU cuuuku wiaw - like flattery." A third attempt, how ever, Charley was determined to make, and Laving failed iu his observations as to the ridins: and the eoat of his fellow traveler, thought he would just drop a trifling allusion to the wouderful head- less horse that was jogging on so sociably by the side of Lis old mare ; and as Charley was considered about Carrick to be very knowing in horses, twti.lt lieintr a nrivate in the Koval , M Voluiiteer8t wUch ! -re every one of them mounted ike i real Hessians, he felt rather sanguine ' as to the result of his third attempt. "To h sure that's a brave horse venr li-tor rides, recommenced the per severing Charley : "Yon may say that, with your own ugly mouth," growled the head. Charley, though not much flattered by the compliment, nevertheless chuckled at his success in obtaining an answer, and thus continued : "May be your honor wouldn't le after riding "him across the country ?" Will you try me, Charley ? ' said the head, with au inexpressible look of ghastly delight. "Faith, and that's what I'll do," re sponded Charley, "only I'm afraid, the night being so dark, of laming the ol I mare, and 1 ve every naltenny oi a hundred pounds on her heeLs." This was true enough. Charley's courage was nothing dashed at the head less horseman's proposition ; and there never was a steeple-chase, riding or leaping in the country that Charley Culnane was not at it, and foremost in it. 'Will you take my word?" said the man who carried Lis Lead so snugly uuder his right arm, "for the safety of your mare ? "Done " said Charley, and away tuey ; started, belter skelter, over everything, ditch and wall pop ; the old mare ne,er went in such style, even m broad daylight, and Charley had just the start 0f Lis companion, when the hoarse j voice called out; "Cnarley Culnane. t, unneared as if the stranger was well aware of what was passing in Charley's mind, for he suddenly broke ont quits loquacious. "Charley Culnane," says he, "you have a stout soul in you, and are every inch of you a good rider. I've tried you and 1 ought to know; and that's the mr nt man for mT money. A hundred years it is since my horse and I broke our necks at the bottom of Kilcummer hill, and ever since I've been trying to get a man that dared to ride with me, and never found one before. Keep, as von have always done, at the tail of the - . i v - 1 . Inpn hounds, never oauia. u uiuu, awav from a stone wall, and the Head less Horseman will never desert you nor the old mare." Charley in amazement looked toward his right arm for the purpose of seeing in his face whether or not he was in earnest; but, behold, the head was snugly lodged in the huge pocket of the horseman's scarlet hunting-cloak. The horse's head had ascended perpendicu larly above them, and his extraordinary companion rising quickly after Lis avant-courier, vanished from the as tonished gaze of Charley Culnane. Charley, a may be supposed, was lout in wonder, delight and perplexity ; the pulling run, the wife's puddiug, the new snatU'i even the mitch against Squire Jephaou all were forgotten ; nothing he could think of, nothing could he talk of, but the Headless horse man. He told it directly he got home to Judy, he told it the following morn ing to all the neightor8, and he told it to the Hunt on St. Stephen's Day; but what provoked him, after all the pains he took iu describing the heid, the horse, and the man, wan, thatVoe and all attributed the creation of the 11 fad less Horseman to his friend. Con. Buck ley's "X water parliament. " This, how ever, should te told that Charley's old mare beat Mr. Jephsou's big filly Desdemoua by Diamond, and Charley pocketed his cool hundred ; aud if he didu't win by means of the Headless Horseman, I am sure I don't know any other reaajj for his doing so. iialileo'a Oaujlitcr. The pure ans geaerons spirit of Sister Maria Celeate, (iahleo's eldest daugh ter, so touched by a rational piety, so full of love for Ler famous and erring father, au intellect so clear and calm, disposition so wholly nnselSsh, gleams out from the Franciscan convent, the usual abode of envy, remorse, anil dis content, like an angelic apparition; and with tender self denial the faithful nun, in the midst of constant illuess, end le&s toil as a nurse and attendant, la boring of-n nearly all night with her needle, regular in her devotions, shiv ering with cold in the thin garb of her order in April, or sinking benenth the heat of the Florentine summer, became each year more than ever the sole sup port of Galileo's fading age. Lis only guide, comforter, and friend. Her mind resembled Ler father's in its clearness of perception, surpassed it in the conception of moral purity. A cor respondnce grew up between Galileo and his child, of which all his letters have been lost or purposely destroyed; but those of Lis daughter, recently published, indicate the teuder afTfetiou that linked them tog-tli.-r. When prunes were faithless or the Inquisi tion froucd, Sister Miria Celeste wrote to O ilileo sued c.iiisol.ttion as only a spotless intellect could give. Watched over the family of her untrustworthy brother, mended with nimble fingers her father's or Yiucrnzio's linen; or when the plague raged over Florence, and the lonely convent trembled at the scene of death around it, was always ". "d concealed her that she misht soothe thobe of terrors others. OI uiscuoo. jiurjn m .ufu.ie. i . . . , The 1tet lMazne of Egypt. , , . - t j Tue great miracle tn Egypt, writes a , Corres.ondent of the Loudon Timet, is how a Government which is obliged to , domestic, exposed to plunder, spolia- tion and extortion, contrives to keep allo.tt. There is not an article sold to the Khedive or Lis people, from a pin to a steam-engine, which does not yield tribute. We read a good deal of the word "backsheesh" in all books and writings about Eirvut. but we do not ! know how often it is the echo of the ut- terance from Europe, In no other country in the world does a traveler of i rank expect to be lodged, boarded and carried about gratis by the ruler. Here j it is the rule. If the Governor of an Indian IVovine. with which Egypt has eot no more to do than with Kam- m.h ,rriveS ,t s leZt oa hi8 way to Cairo or Alexandria, he Las a special train put at Lis disposal when asked for; if he wishes to stay in Cairo he has a house assigned to him, carriages and horses, a staff of servants, and his table spread with every luxury. Does be want to go up the Kile, he gets one of the Viceroy' steamers to tow his diabeah. Many people come here who expect their Consuls to ask such favors as right.never reflecting on the whole some example set in other countries, and more especially in our own, where even greatness allied to Koyalty is oc casionally obliged to take care of itself in private apartments and pay for its own broughams The extent to which anch a system can lie pushed must be witnessed to be credited. Fortunately, some Consnls General resist unreasonable demands aud draw proper distinctions, other wise there would be but little exagger ation in the sketch on the stage of a Viceroy's guest who refers his washer woman for the payment of her bill to the Minister of Finance, and pays for a box of pills by an order on the M:nia ter of the Interior. Rolen for Sllr. The Boston Commercial Bulletin offers the following excellent sugges tions for youg men about going to sea : The ship will teach you a lesson of politeness you will notice she never enters a foreign or home port except with bows first. Don't inquire the whereabouts of the horses for the captain's gig. lest you be met with rowers of laughter. The ship's cook is the modern galley slave. No matter bow fine the ship may be called by others the capt'u will decide the ship's course. Do not expect anything extraordinary in the hatchway because all the sails havn ViM.n net. Do not consider the captain a man ol contracted views because yon find the chief compass of his observations to be inside a small box. A good ship, like good wine, should be kept well caulked. When this is neglected both ship and wine are very likely to saner. U -i " . -K.no inon although they are continually going to oaiioro are no. tC.j...b sea. Do not confound a see saw with revenue cutter. If the captain ask yon for abightofa rope, it may offend him if yon should offer a quid of tobacco inntead. He would not consider it a quid pro quo. uk.n.). .in Man AinHnct It see the hands of both the larboard and star- board watchers, yet they do not point the time as well as the captain's chro- nometer. If any of the old sailors insist on yenr finding them a state room, tell them the room for sailors is a loft. Knimnrr Widower. A magazine writer thus di-t-our- : At this sea sou of the year a great many married men, as everybody knows, lead for several weeks the lift of bachelors or widower. Their wives aud childreu go to the springs, or coun try boarding houses, or the seashore. Tuey themselves stay iu town. If the place to which their families have gone is near enough, they generally betake tl)!usclve3 to it on Sutuiday evening and return on Monday morning. The rest of the week is, except in business hours, siM-ut either at a city boarding house or iu un Alexander Selkirk imle of existence iu their own domiciles. When one of of these individuals is asked how he likes this kind of life, he replies that it is a miserable way of Jrettiug along, but it cannot lie 1k-I d I is a matter of necessity, he says, and there is no use in grumbling; he must make the best of it. There can be no doubt that the ne cessity thus spoken of has, iu many cases, a real existence. The health ot families, especially w here there are 1 young chihlren.often renders it exceed-1 iiiL-ly desirable that they should le out of the city iu hot weather. How much matters are improved by taking the children, as is ofteu done, to a crowded watering-place hotel, is a question which uul'ashionably disposed persons sometimes ask. but which we must cou- I less ourselves unable to auswt-r. It is not our purpose, at present, to say how far watering-place life is or is not, . water upon the face of a sleeper who beneficial either tochildreuor grown was frequently alarminir his household people. What we wish to speak of by the revelations of his remarkable now is the undoubted fact that, w hat- and alarming dreams. W lieu he came ever may be said about the need of dow n to breakfast, he said that a new utility of such a state of things iu cer- life had lx-cn pictured to hiiu one full taiu cases there are every summer, in 1 of vicissitude, of pleasure and sorrow this and other cities, tuonsaiids of men that he was finally drowned unu the who are for two or three months almost j Uirders of a lake.bv the treachery of a completely exiled from their families, j friend, who plunged him into the Dismal shadows of their former selves, i waters when he awoke. The inci they flit joylessly from their stores to dents of this life, of friendships and their houses and from their homes to . treachery, of death and water, had all their stores, glad eveu of that tempo- I passed through his mind in the few rary relief from their melancholy which ( second between the sprinkling aud is afforded by their countiug-rooms and his full awakened ronciousucss. a profuse perspiration. Eveu thej Dreams are naturally the result of noonday feed at a restaurant au irre- 1 recent events arid particularly if uu pressibie tear intercepts the communi- der excitemrnt. Coleridge composed cation between each of our eyes and j his poem of "Kubla Khan'' in a dream, the paper before us as we write is felt lfe fell asleep in his chair while read to lie au agreeable variety as compared jug of a palace built by Kubla Khan, with the (solitary morning and evening j lie woke, sat down, and wrote three meal at home. When the summer is, hundred lilies of the poem as they were alMiut halt irone, the miserable man ; gciicrallv becomes dcspcrat-Vind starts oil', determined to remain with his family till their return to the city. After Le has been away a week or ten days, his partners, w ho do not fancy having Lis work to do iu addition to their own when the mercury is iu the nineties, coutiive to find out that the business is threatened with a total smash-up uuless he returns ou the first train, bo, back t he poor man comes, finds the affairs of the firm as secure as the Fortress of Gibraltar.but concludes that as the exjeriiiicnt of leaving was so unsuccessful, he may as well stay w here Le is the remainder of the It U so delightful to think that nil discomfort is not without its reward. As the man's family usually come back after their summer sojourn w ith rather jioorer health than when they started from home, he naturally pictures t hwnselt how much worse tney wouiit have been if thev had staved in the hot and unhealthy atmosphere of the city I tion. fhe descriln-s the entrance, the all the time, "it is certainly better, he position, her own sitting up. the words reflects, to lie a little lonely a few ,f waniiuir, the exit, her getting np to weeks than to see half his children die j close the opened door,&e. Singularly, and go into a decliue. He then-fore I however, she did not call any other goes to work at money making with re- ! member of the family, or follow the lie wed energy, oue of his priucipal ob- j j;liost into the street. Of course it is jects Ix-iug to seud his family away , quite as easy for people to dream that the next summer, in order that the 1 they arc awake as it is to dream of any same beneficial effects may In- again other iucideut. l'ersons who have such exiierieuced. dreams can never lie convinced that Of the class of men of whom we have ! they have dreamed at all. It will I spoken, many are now, we fear, con- ; quite sensible ot them not to relate siderablv troubled Wcaiise the dull- their dreams. .... ness of business during the past year ! 1 he senses and reasoning faculties will prevent their sending their fami-I are lost iu sleep. Nothing but the liu lies away for so long a time as usual ! agination remains Heine, nicongnii this summer. This is very sad. Hut ties of dates changing the past to the there is oue very curious circumstance ' future making the long buried friend which we have ofteu observed, the I a natural companion, re opposed statement of which, we hope, will at- ny no external ooiccis to emier . ..n. k ford some comfort for the privation we ! or balance the tuind. W hen awake, it have mentioned. Strange as it may j told that the apple in our baud is a appear, families that are thus com- i gold chronometer, our eye contradicts pelled to forego their accustomed sum- the assertion: but if in sleep we dream nur absence from the city, generally that a tree is loaded with diamonds or find, at the end of the season that their ! that a distant frieud is by our side.rea Lealth is from some unaccountable i son does not come to our rescue to sug- cause, quite as good as in years w heu gest lnirMissiliiiitics or the iaws oi ua thev went out of town. The reason I ture interfere with the wildest riot of for "this singular plivsioloiri.-al plien- ! imagination. 1 he laws of gravity ot oinenou must Ik-left to medical men. ; time, and ot space, being suspended. All we can pretend to do is simply to j there existsno obstacle in the moment state the fact and to present it as an of dreams to our seeing cannon balls agreeable subject of reflection to those j dancing in the atmosphere, of our par- w ho, after having hitherto Keen acciis- timi..i t.i i..:ij1 no in, or rniniiess W III- I 'S W IU- oners for eon tile of months or more evervvear.nroiMise to enjoy through out the summer the luxury of living under the same roof with tin ir aud children. wives The Old American Aristocracy. , x , . . . , , . , The most marked feature of colonial society was its aristocratic thar-1 t,icre arc ju the e,,,,,, f thc acter. Our ancestors brought with tvre,ve u,,,,,,,, an,l something to spare, them the notions of rank and prece- G 1(t.mt.u na,i them, and gentlemen's cedence which pre vail.il at home, and ut,,,mt.II rt.aJ tIu.m. Mj- lady i-r-eveu iu those folonieswhi. h. like the . tU an(l ,a,iv8 ,;,! de New England, wore established on a I .h.-in.. Thev rule the court, the democratic basis the aristocratic tcri- feel ing of the superiors was aimor as strong as in the feudal South and New York. Custom gave privilege which the Liws did not recognize, and A com paratively few families monopolized oltieial dignities. John A. lams, for in stance, mentions that the Chandler family "engrossed almost all the pub lic offices and employment in the town and county'' of W orcester, Massachus etts. It is well-known how the Hutch inson kin filled the chief places of pub lic trust iu that province. In New j i ork the Delanceys and Livingstons werssaid to lie "the two great families upon whose motions all their politics turn." The aristocratic spirit of the Virginian magnates is proverbial to this day. In .South Carolina the gen try, we are told, were more numerous than in any other colony iu North America. It was common to see several offices in the hands of a single persou, who perhaps was colonel of militia, judge of probate, justice oi tne peace, incinoer of the legislative body, etc. The colonial families, however, were com pelled to share such distinctions with he favorites of courtiers. A dignitary of New York, writing in 17W of the low rate of iudicial salaries.which were not enongh to tempt an able lawyer to leaTe hig practice, fears that if they , ahnnld iM raised "some sorry fellow would b crammed upon the I colony because his patron did not ; know what else to do with him The I Galaxy- iThatfn. Wrv First Fa milleS. -- - Workmen on a new Virginia railroad, a ! about a -I - I . Inn , n nr jr. bank a vast heap of skeletons, packe4 packed I close together, tier on iier, ana ' mingled with the human bones, a lot oi sharp stone arrows, rune mortars, mu 1 ninA-howla. The skulls were nearly an Lea in thickness, the teeth were as : large as those of a horse.and filed sharp I Uke those of cannibals, and the leg- bones indicated that the stature of these members of a "lost and forgotten race" must have been as great as eight or nine feet. DrrsuK. The most contradictory the u.e M iu the Uliuds of dllb-Mlit IK-r-sius ill 1 jrard to their dreams; yet -icr.ee and observation have reduced the phenom ena to a tair standard and r il-. Sud denly aw akcucd out of a sound sleep a person is generally impressed with the viidness of au important dream. A brief period thereafter, and it is dif ficult to relate what the dream was. This arises from the fact that dreams flash through the mind in the wakinu moment-), after the awakening cause has transpired. Kent says that we can dream more in a minute than we can relate iu a day, and the rapidity of thought iu sleep is the reason why we so imperfectly rememlier dreams. Dr. AU-rcroiubie relates the story of a man who dreamed that he had en listed as a soldier, deserted from hi rcgiiucut, was arrested, coudcmiied to lie shot, anil marched out to execution. The pun was tired which was to take his life, hen he awoke, to learn that the cause of his ahum was the falliug of a IxHik from a shelf. De Quincey anvs that a sleener w ho is awakened by a sudden rap, experiences a Ions train of events between the rap and his thorough consciousness, which would require days for their enactment. It is iiuH)ssible'for the mind to appreciate this unnatural transuiissiouof thought, and not one in a thousand but will be lieve they have been laboring in the dream for hours. He recites an exper iment tried bv sprinkling drops ot com nosed, or. rather, lived, oy nun in Lis sleep. At that point he was ralh-d out to attend some business. When, after tin hour's absence, he returned to Ins library, the incidents Lad passed from his miud to such au extent that he was unable to finish them iu the style first commenced, Condorcet say that he had been baffled for days iu a mathematical cal culation, which came clearly and dis tinctly in a dream altera day of intense labor. We know of an instance where an accountant had spent fifteen days exiimiuiug his ledtrer for an error in his balance-sheet of H5 cents. Leaving his office after niidnight.in the sleep which followed, it came to him that an 8 cent entry iu a long debter and creditor ac count hail been placed in the wrong column. The amount, chauged to the other side, balanced the books. A lady known to ps insists that she was visited iu the uiht time bv the nlivsical form of a deceased relative, w ith whom she held absolute con versa- j iicmauoii nu i:"r'""".-j I11 tue ut.eiiies-,, vi v. ..'- ...... , di l:int or even dead friends. The fact of dreams, and that the nnnit never rests, we know. ny tue muni never rests, and wiry it is moie active wuen 1 asleep than awake, we do not know. XoveH. i A writer in Temple Bar says: 41 ., novels published . . -p.ovaltv intrigues to in-t a novelist to uiueat uis lao.e. i ue 1 ' r. i.-..ii. ti till the club library; and the hall-porter and the small-buttons in the lavatory while away the time between handing our letters or emptying basins in turn ing over the liew itfhing panes of the novel. Novels divide with the news paper and the rapidly passing !.inds-ae the discomforts of a railway carriage; thev mitigate the horrors of a long sea passage; thev swarm in the barracks and iu the limdoir alike. Dramatists steal their plots: young ladies imitate their conversations; yonng gentlemen parodv their heroes. Statesmen read them;" nay, statesmen write them and our 1'riiiie Minister is a fashionable novelist. We are indebted to them in no small degree for our Ul-cooKed din ners, for our imperfectly-dusted grates, for the noble discontent of our 'maids' and the elegant indolence of their 'mistresses.' They come out in bits, in parts, in chapters in serials iu one volume, two volumes three volumes. Thev are thrown at our heads they are stumbling-blocks at our feet; we fall over them, we quarrel over them, we weep over them. They are law, church and physic to us;for do they not preach sermons anticipate causes celebies and obligingly show us how to poison our enemies without being found out, at least for a very long time 1 They are the parents of Tichborne trials and warm the aged bosoms of solemn Chief justices into glowing panegyrics They are the soul and support of many a magazine; they even sustain tne exisr- miinr tiinw mterestinir publications 1 illustrated naners. and they are the 'Ttl '. many a home., 1 heir . name is legion: 1 lull Ml are luril luuiuuut. . j . . ns both of the lunatic and the lover, n y atmosphere of blue-books. 1 Thy make the industrious idle and the dle jjdustrioua. They abolish i thought, and even compete witn stum- I ir Thev are the manna of the latter , nalf of the nineteenth century, the spontaneously-sent food of a literary desert." Who is the laziest man T The furni ture dealer; he keeps chairs and lounges about all the time. Youths Column. The Caolle-BuiIJrr. A 2 Nt. w:tb i-t n I : A i; 'i r ni i- w --t:. :i a i . -((. ujuia u-t,: - A iVarlc- n lr m h. f:hr' ; An eaf-r !itnT --.- Oir.fs. tola AI It aound f 4tct Ih nurst-ry. X ttorj x? JTBUlure uaiU..l T-i-e wi.t hi oth-r icw-r tor tui to bi:l! t . To r.: Wll. fc ll.cf !eiT- nil-. r..l ii IliV I M Utl KnratI u.ATu, u4 m-A !.orUi-t Biia.1 on. nd mi- th bih sml l iir. ki-nirf n.l r c:.niii u tiu? ski. ; Litru h uh iu uwrr air, Iul:D in mri- Miogie's Faclt. I have a little girl ; i . . ' . :.. wu i wuose grvafc iituu is mg'-fcuuK. forgets to hang up her dresses ; bhe forgets to put buttons ou her shoes ; she forgets where she u ft her mittens, or hammer, or her thimble ; she forgets to do her errands ; she forgets to come home wheu she is told to. Yet she always seems sorry when I talk to her, and means. I think, to improve : but she does not. Every week, if it tiuds her no worse, does not find her better. I often wonder how it happens. In other respects Maggie is a good child. 3he is au industrious little girl, and speaks the trnth. Bat ail these Hue qualities are almost spoiled by forget fulness. It leads to much disorder, as you may suppose, I should not like j you to see her room ; and 1 cannot depend, of course, that what I tell her will be done. I could not for a Ions time think how she could forget so, I have found out now ; the Bible told me. God says in it, "My son, forget not my law ; but let thine heart keep my com mandments." Whatever is done from the heart is doue quickly, and done well, l'oor Maggie, alas ! has no hetrt in it, therefore she forgets anil dis obeys. And many a mother is grieving over this sime fau.t iu her dear child ; and perhaps masy a poor child is j (frievinjr for it too. "How shall I re-1 luciuovrr wuo ui'imu - i ... ..n..,. rn came I to forect ?" feeliug an !, i,u. I ' and sorry, and mortified as can be. My dear child, I can only tell yon to fall down on yonr knees before God, and beg him to give you that "new heart" which the bible tells of, filled with the spirit of humble, faith'ul love. That will remember ; that will try hard, and will assuredly succeed, you may depend upon it. Tue Linrrrs is ins Tcjtxeu I was traveling upou a road which I had never passed over before. There was a long train crowded with passengers In the afternoon while there yet remained an hour ol daylight, I noticed tho lamps were being lighted. We journeyed ou, and I Witched their faint glimmering flames ; scarcely conld they be distin guished in the bright light of day. I wondered why they were lighted so early. Suddenly we passed into dark ness. Then the lift-lit shone with a strong, steady ray. All through the , steady ray. All throngh the, tunnel they bnrned bnl nanny, uow dependent were upon them. Conld I v possio.o luej .a. wuicu a lew miuuies ucioko uurucu so dimly? Yes, they were the vry same, ouly brought into view by the surrounding gloom. How like God's promises, I thought. When the suuof prosperity shines Hjnin ns, we may greatly undervalue thtm. But when adersity and afflictions en close ns with the thick shades of night, our faith bursts into a ttrouj and steady dame, and chases away the dark ness and gloom of despair. We feel how weak aud feeble we are. We can-1 not take one step without the light i iiai0 almost prophesied when he de which comes from above to guide our ! g0r:bed the righteous maa as "one. wandering feet. Our souls rest upon j wij0t without doing any injustica, yet God's promises as onr only Lope. nM t0 apjarance of the greatest in Without them we should be in deepest J jastice, aud proves his own justice by night Let ns have true and living j persevering against all calumny unto faith, and we may rest secure that when) jeath." Again, he predicted that if we need its changing ray it win not desert us, but become a burning aud shining light to guide ns on our journey to the promised haven ol rest. IT at pixels. The comioiHon of a little girl nine ytar otL The world is a very wide world. In some parts the people are happy, and in other parts some of the people are wretched and nuhappy. The cause of many unhappy children is that their fathers are bum- men; ana now unuarpy iuo cuuu , i .u i.:ii : when other children, when they Lear their fathers footsteps in the hail, are happy. It is not always that the rich are happy, for the poor man may feel very happy as he approaches his cottage ; how happy he will feel as he sees his little children coming to meet him, some with sunny curls and glossy ringlets How happy the lady is when she thinks that she is the belle of tho ball-room, bnt that does not last long. How proud the young lady is because she lives in the city ; how scornful she looks if any one should speak of her as a country lady. The country is a very beautiful place in summer, and in the winter is very nice to hear sleigh bells over the ice. How peaceful it is in the cottage in winter. So it is not always the rich in cities who are happy. Always look happy, and yon will make others hippy also. Jacob's Mruap. Jacob and M.-try were playing near a tub of water in the kitchen, when Jacob tripped, and fell into the tub. But. instead of helping Lira, Mary began to wring Ler hands, aud scream. "Oh ! Come here ! Come here ! Jacob will be drowned in the tub 1" cried Mary. But Jacob had no intention of being drowned in the tub. He raised his head. and. hearing Mary s screams, said, "Why don't you help a fellow. instead of standing there screaming ? Finding that he did not cry, .itary stopped screaming, and helped him out ; and then Jacob said, "Look here, Mary : the next time I get into trouble, help me first, and scream afterwards." T.rrn.w words are the sweetest to hear ; little charities fly farthest and stay longest on the wing ; little lakes are the stillest; little hearts the fullest, and little farms the best tilled. Little books are the most read, and little songs the dearest loved. Aud when nature would make anything especially rare and beautiful, she makes it little little pearls, little diamonds Child' World. A xax once saved a very poor boy from drowning. After his restoration he said to him, "What can I do for yon, my boy ?" "SDeak a kind word to me some times," replied the boy, the tears gush ing from his eyes "I ain't got a mother like some of them." A lecturer on optics, in explaining the mechanism of the organ of vision, remarked : "Let any man gaaa closely into his wife's eye, and be will see himself looking so exceedingly small" here the leturer's voice was drowned by shouts and laughter and applause wnich greeted his scientific remark. Lord lVr'.y viji. "'ClcVi-raeai i ' net 1 1. th t-r-t ...ihioLior, Jr a 'jo- . Cese.lii CarvC. ' I-.t!e oi.ca fa I ii p.t.eaei oal-r ! stu.ii trials beca'-W tl-y 1 k vuly tJ 1 secondary motives for support. ! A Cuban dollar is lo worth only thirteen cetts but tb.ev keep on calling it a dollar just for l ? f in of the thing. ! After foruiisg a friendship, von should ! rentier impbe.t b-bef : tet'ore that jptriodyou may .exer :.se your j.t-.lg- uieut. V it'-u. M.in is l.ke the eve. which cannot suffer the least impurity ithout damage; Uke the prte.ous stone whose least de fect diminishes t'.e price. Kxtn'tt t. There arc two forms of tyranny ; one real, which arises from oppression ; the other is seated iu opiuiou, aud is sure to be felt whenever those, who govern establish things shocking to the prtsent ideas of a ualioii. .kVif7a.u. It may not be generally known, says a Chicago pa)er, that the enormous arches whicu support the Chicago and St. Louis bridge were modelled from a cast taken from the instep of a promi nent S Louis belie. Somebody writes all the way from Paris to say that the real ladies there don't wear those long lace scarfs about tue neck wheu promenading, as ladies do here. This is intelligence worthy fashionable consideration. Nothing teaches patience like a garden. Yon roy go Toward and watch tiie opening bu.l from day today, but it takes its own time, and you can not urge it on faster tiiau it wilL If forced, it is ouly torn to piecM" AU the lest results of a garden, Uke tuoe of Lfe, are slow, but regular! progressive. It is stated tint tin? fibre of the ramie is iu gre it d.'ni:ud for England, and that if proper R." Licery could be I'rocnrea u airiu ii u Uio plant it - , , . ' H'JIIil. SOO-l J'i impnwmo The Direct Trade Company of England will purchase mil lions of pounds of tha bore at much higher prices than would be paid for cott ju. The literary career of George Eliot has reached its present reuowa by steady persever tic.. Her first novel brought her only S.VH). S;ie sold the "Mill on the Flos" for $3,000, and "Komola" brought -?13.00.). It is not yet known what is the deliuite aum she lias realized from her latest novel, "Middle-mcich," bnt it is estimated to be larger than any thut have preceded it. I should rejoice to hear any one of my congregation saving : "I forgot who preached, I felt so much the influ ence of the truths he pr .'ached. Blessed be God, I was enabled to repent, and the silent tears trickled down my fheplio. Mv heart was atTected : it be- n , , . t ; n consi)kr b whose m it wa3 tnRt j hAJvith tue99 filings." ,Uou - Umd Jlit!. Notwithstanding tho great flood in the Mississippi valley in the spring, the New Orleuns Times estimates that the sugar and rice crops will be abundant, the latter yielding 30,1X) barrels more than in lS"d. lu sugar, the losses by floods will be aliont 1D,i) hogsheads. and t'ae total yield from 1I,000 to 100,000 hogsheads. The acreage devoted to rice culture shows an increase of COW acres over last year, and the rice crop is ex- pected to be llU.OdO barrels. , sai.h. a righteous mau should ever ap- pe,,, oa the earth, "he would be sconrged, tortured, bound, deprived of his sig'it, and, alter haviug sullere 1 all possible injuries, nailed to a post." Explorations have recently bten made into the mounds of Ottumwa, Iowa. In one, a mass of charcoal, a bed of ashes, and some calcine 1 human bones were found, showing that cremation was i practised by t ae people who erected ' mem. 1 them. As Indians never barn their , , ... , , nrt . ,h theory that they were not the original mouud builders. The similarity oi tho mounds of Mexico an 1 of Iowa point to the f ict that they were constructed by the samo race of ancient Mexicans. The romantic young son of a wealthy Chicago hotel proprietor, who married au actress and ran off with her to San Francisco, is in trouble. Some scoun drel had opeced tue trunks of the errant pair, extracted tlie gorgeous wedding apparel with which they ex pected to make a shine in the Golden City, and left nothing in their place 1... . a m ...... 1 . . 1. . ! a .nt K i j ' t n i t , i UU .11 DU.I...CV. V I llll 1.1 ...... - shirt of some railway eninror brake- man, a pile of old miner's clothes, cow hide boots out at the toes, and a hat without a rim. The growth of cities is due to the number and varieties of their in dustries, and it is to this cause that Northern and Western cities owe their great populations II would be well that Southern cities should profit by this fact acd become centres of manu factures Philadelphia, for instance, has 11,000 manufactories which turn out SllW.OOO.O) manufactured goods per annum, aud a population of three quarters of a million, living in 12G.0W houses of which 4'),iW are the resi dences of working people. Thero is a wholesome tonic for a!J of us in the certainty, which is forced upon ns, now aad then, of the unknown, unmeasured resources of courage and heroism aud unflinching integrity to duty which we find among what we choose to call the mass of the people. It is, after all, ouly whn a man reaches the certainties of middle age that he is not surprised every new day by the knowledge of how admirable a crew has been put into the world for its long voyage ; how many of the women are gracious and finely natured ; how many men respond promptly to the call of , honesty or duty or even seu-aacniic. because it is the simple and natural thing for them to do so. A resident of Indianapolis has a moss agate stone, which he picked np two hundred miles northwest of Fort Buford, in Dacotah Territory. It is set in gold and worn as a breast-pin, is nearly an inch long and more than half an inch wide. The disposition of the moss re smbles very clearly a castle with three distinct towers and a long, low wall ex tending back in the rear, while beyond is the sea line very distinctly defined. The castle seems to be sitting on the brow of the bold promontory and the view down the side in the foreground is very much broken, and there are two distinct lines of road leading up to the gates The combination of colors is as serted to be very striking and beautiful.
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