'A rife B. F. SCHWEIER, THE COSSTITUTIOS THI TOIOX A5D THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXVIII. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., NOVEMBER 4, 1874. NO. 44. if litis w . 'it ' Ioetiy. THE VII.L.;E BIAITV. There she tamU just withiu the trellintj porch. Her fair fa-e funicd to nicc-t the Summer air. Half atauJiiiR. anj half leauiug lazily gainxt the lattice, thick with fiowen-U fair. Here Ix-iiJ the rosea heavy from the ftcm. Ami sreaJn the janmuie in profusion duet t. The j;raiid wistaria droops above her head, hilt pink fringed ilainics Mosom at her feet. The eglantine caresses her yonng cheek. The ttoft wind frolic with her tinning hair. And a tniant lock escaped from the land flutter its gold oil her forehead fair. Jler hat lianas IintleMely down f-om her hand. While her lingers toy with it ribbons blue: From under her simple but dainty drets I'eeps a dainty foot in a b:i kk-J niioe. She fazes tinauiily out on the siie if coppii'e, and laue, and iuiiuy field. With even whose hwtre their laches strive 1 it vain to coucval, though tliey may i-ln.l.l A atilluesB lien in the scented air. A dehcioua languor broods over all, Aud uon ;ht is heard save the hum of bees. And the mnrmnr of some brookkfs fall. Ak not her thoughts, seek not to understand The subjects which engross her niaideu mind. For if we knew them, tliev perchance niiht be What iu so sweet a p'.a.'e 'twere strange to find. I'.:lt foudiy hope that they would be til theme For painter's canvas, or for pjet'a sonnet; How it would mar the tcu ler scene to know. Her thoughts were centered in her net new bonnet ! -'7iiiVrjr' Jvtrtiti7. rIis,ell;tiiy. l lions his Tor I lie Thoughtful. Mr. Arnold says : "There is no snrer proof of a narrow and ill-instructed mind than to think and uphold that what a man takes to be truth upon religions mutters is always to be pro claimed." Mr. Greg, in one of his Judgments," finds serious fault with this proposition, but in one respect, at least, it is sound. For instance, we find that the Christian religion, as it is taught to-day, and has for many years been taught, is a purifying, elevating, saving influence among all men who in faith receive, and, in life, practice it. So much we know that, however false iin . tlitil(im' .mi niov I m ami hnvprAr incorrect our views of all that relates to I lioU and man in tneir nature ana rela tions, we hold enough of pure and vital truth to bring the hearts of men into sympathy with Jesus Christ, and their livesintoeousonancewithhis. Now.until a man has something as good to say something more sound, simple saving better based, more easily compre hended, working larger and better results, let him keep silence with his doubts, and withhold his hand from destruction. Nothing is more basely cruel than the destruction of any system of religious life that has good in it without having in hand something bet ter to put in its place. The time for keeping silence is when one has nothing to put in place of that which his words are intended to destroy. We may not hold the truth in its purity, but we hold enough of it to make it invaluable, and .. ., t . l .un nvABAnf it in a mi rer and a UUh&A wo vu J . - - - more fruitful form, so that those who may cut loose Irom ineir oiu Deuei shall have something to grasp that is better, it is well to hold the tongue and restrain the pen. Dr. Holland, in S-ribner'. Why is it right to flit from page to page of a dictionary by the help of the alphabetical order, and wrong to travel from one part of a history or a book of travels to another by the help of the index (if the book happens to be toler ably indexed), table oi contents, or otherwise ? We can see no answer to this, so long as the object of reading the book is knowledge, and not artistic pleasure. The writer can at most only guess what things it will be convenient to tell ; an intelligent reader must know best what things he wants to be told. It is the same with argumentative writing, essavs. and the like. You tee by a glance at the first page of balf-a-dozen that the whole space is filled with setting forth an argument with which von are quite laminar, w you will never be converted, or to which you need no conversion ; by what man ner or duty or reason can you be bound to read the other five pages ? It may be answered. Because the style gives a new lnstre to old matter. But then you are no longer reading with the single view of information, and the instance is no exception to the first branch of our rule, but a confirmation of the second. It shows, not that it is wrong to skip when you read for learn ing, but that it is right not to skip when you read for pleasure. Saturday Jleriew. What atrmufer breaat -plate than a heart "'.u'i--1 bnce be armM. t bat tat U "J' And h but naked, tb.miib k.-k'd up in t-el. W lee conscience with injustice u JJ, Reflection will show that all losses whatever, so far as they are at all im portant, are estimated in terms of indefinite possibilities rather than of any definite enjoyment A man may live among books he never reads, or sit in one place all the day ; but let him mislay a book and he will straightway fancy that he wants to read it ; let him loose the use of his legs for a fame, and he is filled with restless longings to walk to seve-al places at once. The loss of money, again, is the loss not merely of any one of the things one might have doneVith it, but of the foice m"nS all those things.-' MaU G?", Cultivated men always feel and speak so. as if a great fortune, the achieve ment of a civil or social measure, great personal influence, a graceful com manding address, bad their .neTf proofs of the energy of the spirit. Ifa man lose his balance, and immerse himself in any trades or pleasures for their own sake, he may be a good wheel or pin. but he is not a cultivated man. Emerson. . . . j Many suppose that sin fih able; but it is heavy enough to crush a world. Talmage. IiilelIenLi!?1,,,r'" A cultivated mind may be said to have infinite stores of innocent gratin . t. maw he made in- cation. x.verji""'8 r , . teresting to .it, becoming a subject of thought or inquiry. a t mer as a gUon . worth more than all tueiuiun , taste for literature secures cheerful oc cupation for the unemployed and languid hours of life; nl how many persons, in these hours, for want of in nocent resources are not impeUed to coarse pleasure? How many young men can be found in this city, who, un accustomed to find a companion ina book, and strangers to intellectual ac tivity, are almost driven, in the long dull evenings of winter, to haunts of . - 1 I...1 ancietv. H OM AN'S "Good morning, Mrs. More ton. I just run in moment to inquire of a bit of news I have heard be true, It is too incredible for me to believe, for with all your practical ideas of life, I cannot think you would carry your peculiar notions to such a length as this." Tray what have I been doing now, Mrs. Ellis ?" said Mrs. Moreton, as she quietly aroce and offered her visitor a chair. "Your words and looks are ominous. Have I committed such a breach of propriety that Madam Grundy has found is necessary to hurl her thunders of excommunication against me? Come, silence my suspense quickly;" and with a pleasant smile the lady awaited her visitor's revelation. "Why, I am told that you have actu ally apprenticed Belle to publisher, in order that she may become a com positor. Every one was talking about it last evening at Mrs. Wilson's party, and all thought it a great pity that so beautiful and accomplished a girl as Isabel Morton should be withdrawn from that society she is so well fitted to adorn, and immured within the walls of a dingy, old publishing-house, simply because her mother chooses to sacrifice her child to that Moloch of her's work, one must drift with the current you know. Belle has just graduated with the highest honors, and with her lovely manners and fresh young face, might command the most eligible match in tne city. It is absolutely cruel to sac rifice the sweet girl in this way 1" "Well, Mrs. Ellis, I take up the gauntlet society has thrown down, and I shall fearlessly perform what I con ceive to be my duty, though I am never again recognized by one of those with whom I am accustomed to associate. Out upon these aristocratic notions about work, imported from lands where despotism grinds with its iron heel the laborer and his offspring. What busi ness have Americans harboring such ideas ? It is my aim to make of Belle an independent, self-reliant woman. As to marriage, I am not at all concerned about that. The man who would scorn her hand because that hand was able to earn its fair possessor's support, I would scorn to receive into my family. It is my desire that she may grow up a noble, useful woman, fitted to reign a very queen in the hearts of husband and children, should heaven bestow such priceless gifts upon her. At the same time, I want her character to be so symmetrical that should she never meet one who appreciates her, she may cheerfully fill up this great void in her life by devoting herself to some noble pursuit I think parents commit a grave error in not practically educating their j daughters as well as their sons. In it I and not in legislation, may be found I the solution to the vexed question that j is now agitating our sex all over the j land, and breaking out in discontented j murmurings everywhere." "O, it is all very well for people to j work whose necessities require it' said Mrs. Ellis, "but Belle is your only child, and will inherit your large for tune. What need has she to work ?" "Because sne will be happier if she is usefully employed. Besides, the wheel of fortune is a revolving one, and thonch to-dav we mar be rolling in luxury, to morrow may find us crushed j beneath the J aggernant oi misiortune. Listen while I briefly relate the story of my early womanhood. I would I might write it as with a pen of fire upon the brain of every mother in the land ! Oh, I cannot tell you what an intense interest I feel in the young girls grow ing up around me. My heart yearns to urge them to make a speciality of what ever their inclinations prompt them most to do, and then concentrate every effort upon that one pursuit until they excel in it But to my story : I was the daughter of wealthy parents, the young est child by several years, and, of As for me, I cannot think you are so blind to your only daughter's interests." "Yes, it is true," said Mrs. Morton, glancing up a moment from her work, for her fingers were ever busy with something. "But I see nothing in this to create such a profound sensation. Belle is not lost in society ; she will have many hours for recreation, and will thus be enabled to meet any re sponsible demands society may make uDon her." "Xo doubt she will, is it possible, Mrs. Morton, you do not know that vou are eueciuauy rauraumg j"" . . . : L T.1 .uinMA daughter irom society i a " 'u,"i much as I deplore such a state of affairs, our set' could never recognize a hum ble type-setter as one of themselves. This is all wrong. I admit but public opinion regulates these matters, and course, a great pet Of an extremely delicate organization, my kind and in dulgent mother shielded me from every hardship, and I grew into womanhood a novice in the art of housekeeping. From a child I was passionately fond of reading, and at school excelled in all my studies Pleased with the progress I made and proud of my attainments, parents and teachers urged me forward, stimulating my ambition with words of encouragement nntil at the immature age of eighteen, I graduated, the most brilliant girl in Madam B - s school, and carrying off, amid the plaudits of friends and acquaintances, the honors of my class. But alas 1 I was superfi cial in many things, for while it had been easy for me to commit my lessons, I found it equally easy to forget them. Keenly did I feel this defect, and in order to perfect myself, I wished after : .t,i tpah. but so bitterly leaving , . . i i nonnta nnnose this that 1- yielded to their wishes, and returned home. I plunged into a round of gayety and amusement, and from this whirl of excitement I emerged the bride of one whom my parents did not look upon with favor. The young man was an em ployee in a wholesale house in tne city of N. He was poor, but possessed a well-cultivated mind. Unfortunately, however, he had no chosen trade or avocation. Idleness bad made me dreamy, visionary being, and there was . wrt of charm about beginning hfe in poverty. It would be so delightful to toil with and for him I loved so fondly. H r.i?iv,ntifril in theory, and where there .are four strong hands to perform the labor; dm !,"g..wtion to the desk, and breathing the unwholesome citv air ? j impaired my husband s tlwrnad married at 'a time when Ser was strong enough to battle with the stern reauuc-r;-T .. ",ti the salary of a cler. oi Seein -large city U very pre- great economy in business .Hundreds Ct thethe8resttlAh -e began the rnemoVmentFrvery vacancy there were scores o. F" .A wnn invariably received the answer "Persons of experience wanteds , un . bcrowPadd hearties, as the Tilt: STORY OF A LIFE. very stones under one's feet I envied even the servant girls ; but alas ! the mysteries of the euutine were as Greek to me, and I dared not apply for so menial a situation as theirs. My poor husband was -in wretched health, and almost frenzied at thought of the misery and, degradation he had brought upon me. For his sake I did my aching heart behind a smiling face. One night after he had retired, in hanging up his coat, a vial dropped from the pocket Picking it up, I found it labeled "Laudanum," and then I knew that he was beset with the terrible temptation to take his own life. Flinging the vile drug into the street I sank on my knees, and 'O my God I lead him not into temptation, but deliver him from evil,' was the prayer that went up from my agonized heart How deso ate I felt In the midst of a great city, friendless, well-nigh penniless, and, worst of all, haunted with the dreadful fear that my husband would commit suicide. . From the time we would separate in the morning until we met again at night I lived in a state of absolute torture. At length, despairing of finding anything in the city to do, we turned our faces country-ward, feeling that our slender stock of money would last longer than iu town. After many weeks of painful anxiety, my husband found a situation in a small village, with just salary enough to keep the wolf from the door. How I longed to do something to better our condition ; but tl8 ' what conld I do ? I might have had a fine music class in the village, but while I played and sang very well, I was not proficient enough in music to teach it success fully. Oh, how I wished I had given the time to it I had spent on French and Latin. Many an hourof hard study had I given to these branches, and of what practical advantage had they been to me ? I never met any French people with whom I could converse, and had never been able to secure a class in either language, while all the while my knowledge was becoming rusty by non use. It is painful to recur to this period of my life ; I was so unhappy. I expected every day would be the last my husband would be able to attend to business. Finally, driven to despera tion by our misfortunes, I resolved to do something or die in the attempt At tached to the honse we occupied was a large lot for gardening purposes, and I made up my mind that out of that bit of earth I would dig our fortunes, or at least, a living, with my own hands. I made horticulture and floriculture a study, and brushed up my knowledge of chemistry. It was hard work and small profits the first year ; but having once put my hand to the plough, I never turned back. Our table was bountifully supplied with fresh vegeta bles and fruits, and what was better, my step had grown elastic, my eye bright Qd my cheek rounded with health. My hnsband too. found many a spare moment from business to assist me, and in doing so found himself growing strong and well again. Oh, how happy we were 1 Surely there is a dignity in labor unknown to easel How proud I felt when I received the returns from my first shipment of vegetables to the nearest market 1 I counted it over and over ; it seemed to possess a value that I had never attached to money in the old days when father had lavished it so freely upon me. Then I would have thought nothing of spending such a paltry sum upon the trimmings of a single dress ; now every penny was hoarded with miserly care, for we had resolved upon having a home oi onr own. Well, to be brief, each year I at tempted something more first a poultrv-vard. then the culture of bees, and so on until, before we were hardly aware of it, our home was paid for, and we were in easy circumstances. "I had carefully concealed every trace of our adversity "from my parents. I think I would have died rather than gone home a beggar. Now that the dawn of prosperity had set in, I wrote, asking them to come and see the little silken haired girl thatlike a sunbeam, danced throuch our home. They came, rather. accustomed to his broad acres, was as tonished at the products of my small plot of ground. He declared I was the Ixwt farmer he knew of. and should have greater scope for my powers. . He bought a fine large tract of land adjoin ing our grounds, that happened to be for sale just then, ana made me a uexxi for it. This is the o nzin of the country- seat you visited last summer, and ad mired so much. Belle is a fine horti culturist and an accomplished house keeper. Should she ever be thrown upon her own resources in the country, she could make a living.and I wish her to be equally as independent in town. We came to town to superintend her education. She thinks her forte is journalism, ard desires, in addition to this to become a practical printer. And now, can you wonder, Mrs. Ellis, after my experience, that I am trying to have her avoid tne errors ma wcu uigu made my young life a failure ? "n inrleAd. Mrs. Morton, and hnnnr von for it I have been greatly honetirtod hv the narration of your early troubles, and I think yon will see the result of it in the future training of my own daughters." Brick Tbat Have Eadared For Twenty Ontarlea. A correspondent writing from Persia says : Coming from Bagdad, which, in a di rect line, is forty-four miles distant 1 1 ;MmA.A mstnnna imwir ill buit- lurtm luiuicune rt cession, which have the appearance of natural liiua. om uiuoo shows that they are composed ox onc .r.,1 ata remains OI large duiiuiuko. Tl ..a tliA AOst Stdfl Of the EU- llicws - . , , phrates, and the largest is aoouwou feet in height They are supposed to be an ancient citadel that deienaea this part of the town, the royal paiace j Ttnw immanse mnst the Uiu kempt " " , , .. original buildings have been, when it is considered mat vneoo muiuu. been the store-house from which for . i -tr.no. Ki-i-Va nf thA finest de- scription have been taken to build the great cities ox vtesipuon, oo.u.. Bagdad. Fragments of alabaster ves sels and images, fine earthenware mar- 1 1 1 mnat nnAtlTIT.lM III B111U1IC1CU UIU 1VUU . a - iL. .nUw,'n ATltfl ATI BK1TI1T OI WD1CH 11166. vuo e-- o -- - are still surpriflingly fresh, .can yet be found in tnese mounu o. -" . 1 : . wa aiamnArl Itl STI Ti1 101111 oi ererj unc dm. - the name and xmes oi .tucuiu . iney are r . , , .i . h;i thw are imbedded . 11 l iu. n nwnvini mini is so hard that they can only be de tached with the greatest ouucunj. V nn A Ik. wut AT. iew OI US compraict." -- tent of the trouble caused by the late protracted famine by drought in India. Advices from the sections of the conn try where the famine prevailed state that 600,000 natives are vet supported by the government relief works. It is expected that the government expendi tures on account of the famine will cease on the 15th of October, as the rains are now abundant Fladiog EathOtker Out. One of the exPArienoAa of marriivl life, through which oonitural partnera have to pass, is thus referred to by Rev. xtooen uouyer : Home married folks find each other ont as I have heard of marriners finding out the polar world. They leave the shores of their single life in the spring days, with tears and benedictions, sail on awhile in sunshine and fair weather, and then find their way little by little into the cold latitudes, where they see the sun sink day by day, and feel the frost creep in, until they give np at last and torn to ice sitting at the same table." Others again find each other out as we have been finding ont this continent They nestle down at first among the meadows close by the clear streams ; then they go on through a belt of shadow, lose their way, and find it again the best they know, and come out into a larger horizon and a better land ; they meet there difficult hills, and climb them together : strike deserts and dis mal places, and cross them together ; and so at last they stand on the further reaches of the mountains, and see the other ocean, sunning itself, sweet and stilL and then their tourneys end. But through shadows and shine this is the gospel for the day ; they keep together right on to tne the end. They allow no danger, disaster or difference to divide them, and no third person to interfere ; for if they do. it may be as if William and Mary, of England, had permitted the great Louis to divide their throne by first dividing their hearts. via you ever bear my definition of marriage ? A wise and witty man says : "It resembles a pair of shears so joined that they cannot be separated ; often moving in opposite directions, yet al ways punishing any one who comes between them." The definition is as witty as it is wise ; and he might have added, part the shears, and then all you have left is two poor daggers. So it is possible we may grow aged in finding each other out and wondering why we never saw that trait before, or struck that temper ; but if there be between us a true heart if the rivet holds, then the added years will only bring added reasons for a perfect union, and the sweet old ballad will be onr psalm of life : "John AodanKm. my Jo, John, We elamb the bill t wither ; And many a canty day, John. We'Te oad wt' ane mntther : "i'w we maon toddle down, John, Bnt band in band we'al ao. And aleep fcifritber at the loot, John Anderaon. my Jo. We must find each other out, and then it is possible that bite my mother's old shears, over which 1 used to ponder when I was a child, one side is greater, and the other by consequence, less. I found James Mott delighted, one evening, when l went to call on mm, because, while he was working in his garden, two men went by and one said : "That is James Mott" "And who is James V "Why, don't yon know 1 He is Lucretia Mott's husband." Now James Mott was by no means a common in ; with a lesser hall, be would nave seemed a great man ; and he was great in his steady and perfect loyalty to truth and goodness but his wife was the woman of a century, while he was so noble and great of soul as to be glad and proud of her greatness, and at the same time he seemed all the greater for his worship, a feat I notice, few men are able to accomplish. Audubon, our irreat naturalist, married a good, sweet woman, and when she be gan to find him out she found he would wander off a thousand miles in quest of a bird. She said "Amen!" and went with him, camped in the woods, lived in log huts and shanties on the frontier. anywhere to be with him. sne entered into his enthusiasm, shared his labors, and counted all these things but loss for the excellency of the glory of being Audubon's wile. When tne children beeam to come to them, he had to wander off alone, but he could not go into a valley so deep or a wilderness so distant that the light would not shine on him out of their windows. He knew exactly where he would find her, and how he would look, lor while, as itusKin reminds us, the clouds are never twice alike.the sunshine was always familiar. and it was sunshine he saw when he looked homeward. So, if yon have read his notes, you will remember how his heart breaks forth into singing in all sorts of unexpected times and places, as he thinks of ths wife and children waiting his return ; and in tbat way they lived their life until they dropped into the lap oi uod, lixe mellow iruis. It was laid on the man to do this euro ous. wild work. How the woman s heart yearned to have him home we may well imagine, and now giaaiy sne would have riven up some of his great ness to keep her children's father at her side, but she did not ten mm so, u sue was the woman I think she was; and so aha is changed into the same image, from glory to glory. Growing aged to gether in the bedy, they are touched now in spirit witn immonai youtu. Royal "lasical Dlaaers and Pho- o(raclMi. n;.i u nw. ;.. wnn fit !a ttiy ambition . , - . . v.. J .a l.i - itttl ..in nf nKilnannhv run throilftrh this dull drossy ore of my discourse) that royal personages most needs have music at their feasts, not only to save their guests i . I j:.Mn,rn Kit in irom exnoarrasamcu. uiouuitv. .. - aid in tiding over the dreary time of their own state dinner hoar ? I say 'state,' for I have heard that some royalties hare been accustomed to make tbeir real dinner at 2 in the afternoon instead of 8, and at the former rational hour have regaled very k..w;iv anil morrilT indeed on roast shoul der of mutton, with onion sauce. But apart from such furtive indulgence in repasts not ;nnl K. tinnMlA. mtut not inuiij j " . the royalties spend the major portions of .. . ' ii :.i.uku ..t. ineir htcs 111 m wcn-uigi .,., - of boredom t They are the salt and savor of the earth, it is certain ; but must they not grow urea oi oemg perpciuau u.- . ii ; v;nva anil in nrint. that they uiiij. - t r ... are salt and savory, or sweet and smiling i , i n 1 Pnni-suuM. war an inordinately fond of baring their cartet U suite taken. To judge r , ... anfhM nw eanem in uiv buvv windows, the gi and folks must spend half .i - . : - .knmnkut .1 ml in and at lucir units w iiuuiu,. nrst I was mciineu to mm. -r.;i;n. r.nm which not even royalty is ex empt.) bad something to do with this addio- tedness to being xocussea. vu rtav i. . nu..nl in ma that nhotoflraithv must ao iivmuivi. i o- be a relaxation and a relief to overbored royalty. The deferential enat or tne opera- M mw aa amnaina- to the CTOWB head tVl J f w B ' as the smirking gossip of the court barber used to be in old days. The operator mtut talk how otherwise is he to tell you how i .nn.lav and nn which ler to stand. and at what object pinned on the curtain fe ttle side of bis camera to look t And yo must answer him, too, all grand as yon may k. Tk.. ha a.vanana th folds of TOUT m. - n - dress, or puts a book in your band or a flower between your angers ; and all these petty services and inevitable familiarities may be so many "distractions" and "dtUtt metr to the grandee oppressed with too much grandeur. uevrgt -if" -j A DUeaaraceel Bay. This boy was a good boy. He would have been an angel to-day but for the deceit of this false-hearted world. He wasn't one of a set of triplets, and therefore didn't have honors showered down upon him in his early days, but old women said there was founda tion there tea an orator, a great general or philosopher, and old men examined bis bead and said it was level. Nothing particular happened to this Christopher Columbus nntil the eighth year of his reign. His childhood days were full of mud pies, the butt end of shingles, paregoric, eas-or oil, and old straw hats with the front brim worn off. He wss deep thinker and a close observer for a small boy, and he was just innocent enough to believe things which other boys pitched out of windows without a second thought. When Christopher was going on nine years old, he heard it said that "a penny saved was two pence earned. He therefore laid a big Bungtown away in a crack under ti e map board, and every day be looked to see it grow two cents. He had confidence and patience, but at length both gave away. Then he got the cent out one day, and Mrs. Nor ton's baby swallowed it, and that was the last of that Bungtown. The youthful Chris topher didn't believe in maIais quite so mnch as before, but he hadn't cut all his eye teeth yet. When this boy was a year older he heard that "truth is mighty and will prevail,'' and that a boy who always spoke the truth would make a great and a good man. He com menced to tell the truth. One day he got his father's best raior out and backed it on a stone, and when the old gent came home and asked who in the blaies done that, Chris topher Columbus spoke up and said : "It was I, father, 1 notched your old raior. "You did, eh V sneered the old man as be looked np in a peach tree ; "well, l'U fix you so you will never touch another raior for me !" And he cut a budding limb and dressed that boy until the youth saw stars. That night unnstopner commons aeiermineu never to tell the truth again unless by accident, and all through life he stuck to the resolution. When the lad was about twelve years of age he read in a little book that "honesty is the best policy. He didn t more than naif believe it. but he thought he'd try. He went to be honest. One day his mother send him to the grocery to buy eggs, and Bill Jones induced him to squander the cnange in tne purchase of soda water. When he got home his mother asked for the balance, and Chris topher explained. "Spent it for soda, eh " she replied. Here your poor mother is working like a slave, and you are around swilling down soda water ! I don't think you'll swill down any more, I don t. Come over my right knee." And she agitated him in the livliest man ner. Tbat night as ne turneu on nis aowny straw bed the boy made up his mind that it didn't pay. and be resolved to cheat the hole world if he could. When Christopher was half a year older he came across the injunction: "Ite kind to the poor." He did m know whether it would pay or not, but he set aoout u. ne knew a poor woman who sadly needed a spring bonnet, and he took over his mother's along with a few other things, including his father's second pair of boots, his own Sunday shoes and so on. He went around feeling very big-hearted until the old gent wanted to go to lodge one night and then it came out. "Gin my boots away, eh " inquired the father ; "lugged your mother's beat bonnet off' eh T Well, I don't think you'U remem ber the poor very much after to-night" And he pounded Christopher loiiimous with a pump handle nntil the boy fainted away, and even men uian t leei as 11 ne na i made a thorough job or iu Thev fooled this boy once more. He heard a rich man say that everybody should 'make hay while the sun shone. So, when there came a sunny day, he went ojt, took his father's scythe, cut down bis tulips and hacked his sister in the heel, and bis mother came out, and led him around by the hair and bounced him until be almost went into a decline. They couldn't bamboozle tbat boy after that. He grew wicked every day of his life, and before his eighteenth birthday arrived, be was bung for murder. He said he didn't care a huckleberry about it and died without making the usual fourth of July oration. Faexl. Three classes of food materials are to be combined in requisite proportions to aatiafv the conditions of nutrition. These are 1st, the blood formers, or those albuminates which not only supply substance to the blood, but aid to make Ixines, sinews, muscles, and ligaments; 2d, the heat producers, such as are rich in carbon, andcarry on with the inhaled oxygen the process of combustion, to maintain tne nettuui triiiin-mmi- ui the body ; 3d, the nutritive salts, which remain after the combustion of the fMd, as ash. Each orgs- requires its food, and in the waste of the working of organic life the Joss of those substances wiiicn are in the living body in small quantities must be supplied. Such sulwtances are iron, common salt, phosphoric acid, lime, magnesia, and potash. Without iron the blood corpuscles lose uieir vitality; without lime phosphate no bone; just as without albumen no mus cular tissues, or without fat no brain. One food stuff consists principally of blood producers; another of the heat makers; another of the nutritive salts. Hence eating tloesnoi aiwavs snppiv true nutrition, and though the natural fmiilanr of the appetite may be more or less correct, there is such a condition as abnormal, disease producing nutri tion; yet the appetite is better than any theoretic rule, and, apart from cer tain general principles, lietter than rhcmiral analysis at its present stage. To get all the nutritive elements, a variety OI imnu necenrj. a no pugnance of the palate to an oft-repeated dish is the assertion of its natu ral demands by the human organism. To keep one organ from its food de ranges not only it bnt the whole sys tem. Each of the three classes of aliment is found diversely in both animals and plants; the blood formers in thefibrine, blood and muscles of animals, albumen of eggs, caseine of milk, lime and areo lar tissue of cartilage, sinew and skin, gluten of grains, legumine of peas and beans, and albumen of sundry roots, leaves, and fruits; the heat producers are furnished by animal fats and vere- table oils, while starcn, sugar, gum, and their allied substances, during the process of digestion, are transformed into fats. W ater, as well as animals and plants, supplies the salts. Eggs wm. Meat. Would it not be wise to substitute more eggs for meat in onr daily diet? About one-third of an egg is solid nutri ment This is more than can be said of meat There are no bones and tough pieces that have to be laid aside. A good egg is made np of ten parts shell, sixty parts white, and thirty parts yolk. The white of an egg contains eighty-six per cent water ; the yolk fifty-two per eent The average weight 'of an egg is about two ounces. Practically an egg is animal food, and yet there is none of the disagreeable work of the butcher necessary to obtain it The vegetarians of England use eggs fr-rly, and many of these men are eighty and ninety yean old. and have been remarkably hnn illnaaa. A rood eg is alive. The shell is porous, and the oxygen of the air goes through the shell and keeps up a kind of respiration. An egg soon becomes stale in bad air, or in dry air charged with carbonic acid. Eggs may be dried and made to retain their good ness for a long time, or the shell may be varnished, which excludes the air, when, if kept in a moderate tempera ture, they may be kept for years. The French people produce more eggs than any other, and shin millions of them to England annually. Fresh eggs are more transparent at the centre, old ones on the top. Very old ones are not transparent in either place. In water, in which one-tenth of salt has been dis solved, good eggs sink and indifferent ones swim. Bad eggs float in pure water. The best eggs are laid by young healthy hens. Ii they are properly fed, the eggs are better than if they are allowed to eat all sorts of food. Eggs are best when cooked four minutes. This takes away the animal taste that is offensive to some, but does not harden the white or yolk as to make them hard to digest An egg if cooked very hard is difficult of digestion, except by those with stout sto"nachs ; such eggs should be eaten with bread and masticated very finely. An excellent sandwich can be made with eggs and brown bread. An egg spread on toast is food fit for a king, if kings deserve any better food than anybody else, which is doubtful. Fried eggs are less wholesome than boiled ones. An egg dropped into hot water is not only a clean and handsome but a delicious morsel. Most people spoil the taste of their eggs by adding pepper and salt A little sweet butter is the best dressing. Eggs contain much phosphorous, which is supposed to be useful to those who use their brains much. A Fair gJacKestiaa. A good story comes from Scotland. It seems that in a certain Scotch county parish, a church officer tilled the othce of grave digger for the long space of fifty years. Suspicion had long leen entertained that he was in the habit of helping himself out of the collection plate whenever an opportunity per mitted. It was difficult, of course, to prove this. At last, however, the sum of one pound was abstracted from a missionary box, which stood in the vestry, and everything combined to point out this man as the culprit. The elders told the minister that something must really be done. The minister said, "Leave him to me, and I'll see whet can lie done.n The following Sabbath, after the forenoon service, the minister was taking oil' his gown and bands, and being alone in the vestry with the suspected man, he thought the opportunity too good to lie lost ; so lie said, "Andrew, have you heard of the money that is missing from the box I "Oh, ay," said Andrew, "1 was hearing something alnitit it." "An drew,'' continued the other very gravely, "the matter lies between you and nie. We are the only two who have acres to the box. Either yon or I must be the thief." "Deed, sir," rejoined the imperturbable Andrew, "it's just as you say, we're the only two that have access to the box, and I think the bet way '11 be for you to pay the half and I pav the ithcr, and say nae mair about Probably (he Oldest Timber tbe Warlel. Proliably the oldest timber in the world which has been subjected to the use of man is that found in the ancient temple of Egypt, connection with the stone-work, which is known to be p tast four thousand years old. This, the only wood used in the construction of the temple, is in the form of ties, holding the end of one stone to another to its upper surface. When two blocks were laid in place an excavation about an inch deep was made in each block, into which a tie shaped like an hour glass was driven. It is therefore very difficult to force any stone from its po sition. The ties appear to have been of the tamarisk or shittem wood of which the ark was constructed, a sacred tree in ancient Egypt, and now very rarely found in the valley of the Xile. The dove-tailed ties are as sound now as on the day of their insertion. Although fuel is extremely scarce in the country, these bits of wood are not lanre enough to make it an object with the Arabs to heave on layer after layer of heavy stone to obtain them. Had they been of bronze half of the old tem ple would have been destroyed years ago; so precious they would have been for various purposes. Old Letters. LordCockburn writes in his memoirs: "I have all my life had a bad habit of preserving letters and of keeping them arranged and docketed ; bnt seeing the future use that is often made of papers, especially by friendly biographer. who rarely hesitate to sacrifice confi dence and delicacy to the promotion of sale or excitement I have long resolved to send them all up the chimney in the form of smoke, and the sentence was executed. I have kept Richardson's and Jeffrey's and some correspondence I had during important passages of our Scotch progress ; bnt the rest, amount ing to several thousands, can now, thank God, enable no venality to publish sa cred secrets, or to stain fair reputations by plausible mistakes. Yet old friends cannot be parted with without a pang. Tbe site of even the outsides of letters of fifty yards recalls a part of the inter est with which each was received in its day, and then annihilation makes one start as if one had suddenly reached the age of final oblivion. Nevertheless, as packet after packet smothered the Km with ita ashea and irraduallv disap peared in dim vapor, I reflected that .tit Anrrespondenia were saie. ami a was pleased." Tbe Sharp Man. Tha sharp man is mistaken for the wise one, but iz just as different from a wize one az he iz from an nonest one. Ha trusts tew his cunning for success, and this U the next thing tew beings rogue. The sharp man iz like a razor gen erally too sharp for anythirg but a shave. These men are not to be trusted ; they are so constituted tha. they must cheat somebody, and, rather than be idle or lose a good job, they will pitch into their best friends. They are not exactly outcasts, but live close on the borders of criminality, and are liable tew step over enny time. It iz bnt a step from cunning to ras cality and it iz a short step that iz al wuz invitin tew take. Sharp men have but few friends, and seldum a confidant They learn to fear treachery .by studyin the;r own nature. They are always bizzy, but like the hornet want a heap of sharp watching. The sharp man iz always a vain one. He prides himself upon his cunning, and had rather do a shrewd thing than a kind one. Josh Billing. Why should a spider be a good cor respondent ? Because he drops a line by every post "Vou-tlis' Column. Gboboe's Reason. The pupils of Mr. Jones' school had all, save one, entered the school and taken their seats, when George Hardy, the tardy scholar for once, came hurrying in, much out of breath. "Why, George, said his teacher, "how is this ? I saw you, as I supposed, on your way to school when I started from home. I hope you have not been away at play when you should have been at school." "Xo, sir ; I have not played any this morning ; I thought I could run home and be back before school commenced." "But why did you wish to return home ? Did yon forget anything ?" "N'o, sir." "What did yon go back for, then?" "If you will please excuse me, sir, I had rather not tell." "I hardly think I can excuse you, George ; yon are very late, and you know I have a right to demand suffi cient reason for it" George stepped up, and, placing his lips close to his teacher's ear, whis pered, "I met a boy who was withont shoes, and as I had a pair which I had outgrown, I went home to get them for him." "Was that the reason?" asked the teacher, looking upon the blushing boy with love and approbation. "Tes, sir." "Why, then, did you not wish to tell me?" "Because, sir, my mother says when I give anything in charity, I must do it privately, lest I should receive praise of men, and become vain and proud. Focb Servants or Satan. Dear young friend3, Satan has a great many servants, and they are very busy, run ning about doing all the harm they can. I know four of them, and some of the mischief which they have done. They appear sociable, easy, good natured, and not too much in a hurry. They seem to wait your own time, and entice you when you least expect it "O, we want you toenjoy yourselves," they say, "and not to be so particular ;" and the arguments they use are very taking ; at least I mnst think so, since so many of the young listen to them, and are led away by them. And all, I believe, because they did not know, in the first place, who was speaking to them. They were deceived. They did not see it was Satan's uniform they had on. Do you ask for names ? Here they are : " There is no danger." That is one. "Only this owe." There is another. " Kreryttody df m," is the third; and "Ily and ly" is the fourth. If you are tempted to leave God's house, and break the Sabbath day to go for a sail or a ride, and "Only thi once," or " rylxtdy duett o," whis pers at vour elbow, know it is false. aur Krr Cvi. . uu D.u , mm , bring your heart and conscience into ! ,. ' . ,i. :m . i;..t 4.. : r . :i t - : .. . k. . trn nn ainninff fur tliprA i not half an i much to stop yon as there was to pre- vent you from setting out at first Hold no parleys with "Only this owe," or .rerybtxly do: o. Listen to their in Jhe fortieth chapter ot ttenesis and b.-igerons counsels, no, not for a mo- j twentieth verse : "And it came to pass meut. the third day which was l'haroah's birthday, that he made a feast unto all Insects in Winter. Spiders usually his servants." spend the winter in the egg state, the j Dacrot was supposed to have an mother enclosing the ball of eggs in a j nonnceii to Taris, touching a certain beautiful silken bag, and hiding it ; 90rtie) that he would return dead or wherever she can get a chance. Many j Tjctorion3. In fact, he returned alive insects spend the winter in the larva or and beaten. It now appears that his woim state. StiU others spend the ! proclamation was written by Jules Fa- chrysalides may be seen attached to ' wiutcri u me; vuijoolo -- me twigs oi ousuen, r uuutrr lun ubik of trees, or imbedded in decayed wood, while the change goes on which trans forms the crawling worm into the beau tiful winged creature. Still others, in their perfect state, like bears and squirrels and gophers, settle themselves down for a long nap, and sleep the whole winter away. They cuddle under the bark of trees, and bere. t"i stones and logs ; they dig tun rels in the gronnd, and line them with tbe softest silk, spun from their own bodies ; they swing in warm hammocks. sr upended from twigs of trees and bashes ; they squeeze into the crevices of walls ; and wherever there is space to make a warm, cosy bed, some little creatures will be found lying down in it A Thocohtfit. Boy. "The birds get very tame here in spite of the noise of me crowus in me streets, o ut uum-i i my window, in a comparatively shel tered place, a lad has placed fonr bricks for walls, and filled the enclosed space with bread crumbs; the birds soon fonnd out the supply, and came in amazing numbers to ieed mere, ai one time I saw six little brown sparrows and a robin in a circle on the bricks, all eating from their sunken table ; then came two pigeons, who were so big that there was only room lor two or tnree st. rrows while they were there, but twenty or thirty sat on the fence wait ing, and the trees were full of the cheerful twittering of many more. Two or three times a day horses kick the bricks away and trample down the bread ; but the boy sets up his free eating-room again, and his patrons come at once. It is a pretty thing to see." A i.adt traveling abroad, writes : "The broadest general remark that I ! can make on the topic which occupies our society, as a result of my travels during the past six months, is, that all , Cipolla was a staunch adherent of the animals out of Egypt are, comparatively i latter. Since the funeral of Raphael, speaking, in raradise. The sights in there has been no such pompous inter the way of horres and donkeys that one ment as that of the great artist seen in sees in the streets of Alexandria and Ilome. It was followed by the reli Cairo are ecough to break one's heart. gious, civil, and military authorities, gal'ed place, a quarter of a yard i as well as by a legion of artists from all square, and the most frightful emacia- parts of the country. He was the ar tion ; and the in abitants have appar- chitect of the beautiful National Bank ently no idea that animals have any ! at Florence, the Tor'onia place at Rome, feeling at all. ine aogs, too, arei wretched, starved objects, with such traditional fear of man that it is almost impossible to approach anywhere near them. On two occasions I bought a large quantity of bread and gradually attracted some of them around me, feeling that I was doing credit to the society in a hnmble manner." Tbat as a Catcher. To onr surprise, when walking through Lafayette Square we saw a bevy of boys placing base ball with a dog in the capacity of catcher a middle-sized yellowish dog, half pointer catching the ball ia his mouth with an accuracy that was really aston ish in ir. For half an hour, during which ...itnAthin novel same of base tn h ,W Hi.! not mina the ball a single time. And more than this, when, DiUKlv wk aaliT ii sits - v v j at our request one of the boys threw the ball into the grass for a distance of about fifty fe t, his emine catcher found it in an instant, and brought it back. The dog is evidently trained for the national game, and may yet make his mark as the champion catcher in this city. Sttv Otltan Times. aneties. The bump of destruetivenesi a rail way collision. First law of gravity never laugh at your own jokes. Breach of good manners for ruin to stare you in the face. Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits. Jlurke. A schoolboy defines a flea "Flea, flew, fled when yon put your hand on it Why is a grain of sand in the eye like a school master's cane ? Because it hurts the pupil. "Loss of a t 'hina packet ship !" ex claimed an old lady. "No wonder, when even iron ones aren't safe." Why don't the ladies put their names on the door plates they wear on their belts ? It wonld not only be a novel idea but wonld save a heap of trouble. Nothing more impairs authority than a too frequent or indiscreet use of it. If thunder iiself was to be continual, it would excite no more terror than the noise of a mill. A magnificent bust of the Empress Piotina, wife of Trajan, in a fine state of preservation, has been recently dug np in Rome. It will be placed iu the Capitol mnsenm. "This fire was the result of gross carelessness," said an insurance agent to a mau whose store was in ruins. "1 know it," replied the man, "and that's just the risk I paid yon to assume. " A kiugdom. The total quantity of land embraced in the various Govern ment grauts, including railroad and wagon road grants, after deducting lands forfeited, reverted and lapsed, is 210'75t,807 acres. It doesn't make any difference ifa man has said his prayers before going to bed ; let him find cracker crumbs be tween the sheets, and he won't go back on the satisfaction of three or four "swears," anyhow. There is no funeral so sad to follow as the funeral of our own yonth which we have been pampering with fond desires, ambitions hopes, and all tha bright berries that hau in pokououi clusters over the path of life, I.an lor. Imagine tbe wrath of a young woman who rises from her seat in the horse car to give it to an eld lady, when she turns around and sees that the yonng man opposite is gazing out the wiudow, instead of gazing at her approvingly. Experiments recently made in Eng land indicate that wagous are most easily drawn, on all kinds of roads, when the fore and hind wheels are of the same size, and when the polo lies lower thau the axle. After several years nv reflocktion, I have come to the konklnsion that the three most difficult things in this life are 1st Carrvin' an armful uv live els m without U , K, ,- .. - . t., . -ud Atkin as a referee at Uiu au eel. a dog lite g"1 o ll i. Elitin a newspaper. It is not generally known that a good custom of keeping birthdays is many thousand of years old. It recorded vre. and lie Knew noinmg oi it mi ne jj lQ prjnt. Let me see a female possessing that beauty of a meek anil modern deport ment of an eye that bespeaks intelli gence and purity within of the lips that seak no guile. ; let me see in her a kind and benevolent disposition a heart that can sympathize with distress, and I never ask for the beauty that dwells in love, features or perfect form. Windsor Castle, in Great Britian, is a mansion really calculated to accemmo date a large family. It only covers sev enteen acres of gronnd, aud contains seventeen magnificent state apartments. i seventy-nine bed-rooms, sixty-live sit ting rooms, and lorty-eigut miscellane ous rooms including kitchen, pantry, confectionary and store-rooms. In ad- I dition to these there are apartments for I .1 ,.f l,,.,i,lru.l on.) . ... u.t., . i..i. . Ame'rioan hotui it WOIlU Dake. The power of growing vegetables, even the most fragile, is something bt tle short of wonderf u'. So delicate a structure as the mushroom can, under certain circumstances, exert the most extraordinary powf r, for, according to a good authority, it is well known that a mushroom will "lift a paveiiig stone many times its own weight ; rather than turn over and grow sideways, which it wonld spjx ar so mnch easier for it to do." The fact is also a curious one, that tree roots will throw oyer im mensely strong wails against which they have grown, thongh one would think the pressure agaiust the softer soil j would give room for their development. WltnOUt tlie necessity u meir rucumug so much force against the walL The R iman papers announce the death of the celebrated architect Ci polla, which ocenrrcd a few weeks since in the Eternal City. His funeral was attended by representatives from the Courts of the Quirinal and Vatican, for. although employed by the former, and ot tne i.oman savings-Dana, aaai.-.u of several fine churches and hospitals. Mr. Menier, at Epping Forest, near London, has been experimenting with a baioon inflated by heated air. The heating apparatusindeed, is nothing but a huge petroleum lamp, with a chimney twenty five feet long. Hot air is radiated very rapidly when the fire is lighted, as the tlame is intense, and the fire is kept constantly supplied with oil from two cisterns placed iu the rear of the car. Ten minutes only, it is claimed, will be reqnired to inflate a baioon eighty feet in diameter. Gauze wire is used as a protection against fire aronnd the upper part of the furnace. I'pon the whole, it looks ! as if somebody was p'aying with fire i with extra precautions, and at very ; great risk of bis necK. We never hear i - - - . i of those elaborate fire guards when one thing depends on another, and that on a third, and all must oome in oruor auu accurately adjusted, without any suspi cion that there will ia the end be found a defect somewhere, and then well, in the case of this new balloon puff, and a neck broben. 1 I-. a r t 4 V ' t' I r i 1 n ti miemperauce auu
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