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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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