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B. F. SCHWEIER,
THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF JHE LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
VOL. XXVIII.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., NOVEMBER 11. 1S74.
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NO. 45.
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f A very man In an alm-liou was sskfl
wliat lie was duliig uow. lit replied, "Only
.altlngV'J
CMy waiting till the shadows
Ar a little longer grown;
Only waiting till the glimmer
Of the day's taut beam is flown !
Till the night of earth is faded
From the heart, ont-e full of day;
Till the stars of Ilearen are breaking
Thro' the twilight soft and gray.
Only waiting till the reapers
Hare she last sheaf gathered home;
For the summer-time is faded
And the autumn winds have come.
Quickly, reapers ! gather quickly
The last ripe hours of my heart.
Fur the bloom of life is withered.
And I hasten to depart.
Only waiting, till the angels
Open wide the mystic gate
By whose side I long have lingered,
Weary, poor and desolate.
Even now I hear their footsteps.
And their voioes far away;
If they call me. I am waiting.
Only waiting to obey.
Only waiting till the shadows
Are a little longer grown;
Only waiting till the glimmer
Of the day's last beam in flown.
Then from out the gathering darkness
Holy, deathless stars shall rise.
By whose light my soul shall gladly
Tread its pathway to the skies.
THE REAMOX WHT.
Ask why I love the roses fair.
And wheuoe they come, and whose they were;
They come from her. and not alone,
They bring her sweetness with their own.
Or ask me why I love her so:
I know not, this is all I know.
These roses bud, and bloom, and twine
As she round this foud heart of mine.
And this is why I love the flowers:
Onoe they were hers, they're mine they're
ours;
I love her, and thc-y soon will die.
And now you know the reason whv.
A Wrtltlins Xeeeilr.
A wedding ceremony now-a days that
cannot aspire to a notice in the newspa
pers is clearly not what it ought to be.
A woman's happiness depends so
much upon what people say of her that
if she cannot be talked about she firmly
resolves there's no use of getting mar
ried. Since Mrs. Grnndy quitted the Gar
den of Eden she has been pacing abont
the world making the misery or happi
ness of millions.
She has not even yet reached her cli
macteric, although she has chained the
world of fashion to her triumph car
and compelled journalism to imitate
her example.
It is therefore the initial condition of
wedded bliss that the bride shall not
blush unseen, or how she looked and
what she wore pass unnoticed.
It is better to read the statement that
she carried off forty-seven pairs of
stockings on her bridal tour, than to
escape all mention whatsoever.
Brides whose beanty and whose trous
seaux are not duly gazetted ; can be
easily recognized by the way they
"slosh" things aronnd at the breakfast
table next morning.
The mildest of bine eyes or the soft
est and tenderest of brow a, ones will
"spit fire" nnder such circumstances
without fear of exhausting the fueL
There, is likewise the temptation for
a bride thus offended to upset the cof
fee, set her sleeve in the butter, find
fault with the cooking, wish she were
back home again, threaten to cry a lit
tle, and finally to resent the sympathy
of the bridegroom as an indignity.
Considerations like these must neces
sarily influence young men about to
marry.
If they have no acquaintance with
newspaper men the sooner they do have
tne better it will be lor mem.
Newspaper men are not to be sub
orned npon a slight acquaintance, even
by the most seductive and subtle of ex
pectant bridegrooms.
It takes time to compass the favor of
a first-class wedding notice, and as that
is to the honeymoon what sauce is to
the goose, the path of duty is as plain
as the penalty for refusing to follow it
is certain.
C'w-Trea.
Among various kinds of trees which
are celebrated for their utility, not the
least valuable are those which yield a
milky juioe that does not solidify, and
may be used as a nutritious article of
food. Trees of this kind bear the gen
eral name of cow-trees. Of the differ
ent varieties of these species, the best
known and most useful is the "Jlrosi
mum Galactodcndron." This tree is
usually more than a hundred feet high,
and is found in abundance on the sea
coast of Venezuela. The milk of this
tree is obtained from the sugar maple
trees. Its taste very much resembles
that of sweet cream, and it is much
used by the natives as food, being nour
ishing and wholesome, with but one
unpleasant feature about it, which is,
that it is slightly glutinous.
In Venezuela and New Granada is
also found another tree very similar to
the one above described, and for medi
cinal purposes, more valuable. This is
the Chmia llodactodcndron," the
milk of which is considered a "specific"
for dvsenterr. The milk of this tree
contains a resinous and astringent prop
erty, and an aromatic substance. The
natives use the milk of this tree freely,
and by them dysentery is not feared,
though their climate is one calculated
to produce the disease. One of the pe
culiarities of this remedy is that it not
only cures the disease, but prevents its
return. This milk can be kept a year
without losing its taste or its valuable
medicinal properties.
Of this tree, and of the valnable prop
erties of its milk. Mr. B. B. White
gives a very interesting account. He
states that out of a party of from five
hundred to seven hundred men who
were employed in building a railroad
near Buenaventura in Western New
Granada, where the climate was ex
tremely unhealthy, a large number of
cases of dyspepsia broke out, not one
of which proved fatal. In some cases,
the milk was given with success, when
other remedies had failed, and when
all hope of effecting a cure had been
abandoned. He suggests, with much
show of reason and propriety, that the
milk of this tree should be tried in ca
ses of cholera.
A new style of letter-paper has re
cently been introduced. Imtead ef or
dinary ruling the lines are embossed,
giving the paper a very handsome ap-pearanoe.
I am the wife of an ex-signalman on
the Uniform Railway. His signal-box
stands high up, white and solitary,
above a charming country.
It is very hot in summer, when the
Bun snines on the glass, and very cold
in winter, when the northeast wind
howls around it, and whistles aerial
music through the telegraph.
it was an important lookout, for
wruiin a mile of it, numerous lines in
tersected each other, over which, day
and night, trains were ever crossing and
reorossing, with hairbreadth escapes of
collisions.
When John was courting me, he
often made me tremble about it. bv
saying, "Jane that place is a trouble to
me ; one day I know there will be a
crash ; I feel it. A man can't be al
ways in health. Even a signalman's
urain wiiif sometimes become dazed and
muddled ; and then if he makes a mis
take, a smash must come,
We were married, and John grew
brighter and more cheerful, and I
trusted he had forgotten that wretched
presentiment of his about the collision.
After six months, however.it returned,
worse than ever. He used to read all
the accidents ; and when any of the
officials were convicted for man
slaughter or discharged for negligence,
he would say : "That may be my case
to-morrow, Jane ; then what's to be
come of you T"
I am aware most men would not have
thought like him, but he had the kind
est, most sensitive heart.
"John," I said at last, "why don't
you quit the situation, and get some
thing else?"
"Because a married man should
never give up one employ before he's
sure of another :"
"Well, then, dear, don't say any
more, or you'll make me as nervous as
yourself.
I had begun to think about the cross
lines and the mail express as much as
John himself, though I wouldn't let
him see it. The signal box began to
haunt me, and I used frequently to go
up to the turn of the road and look at
it for no purpose at all. That idea of a
collision was a monomania with John
it was becoming so with me.
A year went by safely, and, except
for that miserable thought, ne two per
sons could be happier than John and I,
especially as we now had a little
daughter, who, for awhile, banished
John's dread, and we talked hopefully
of the future. Our prospects were
better, for my husband unexpectedly
heard from an uncle in Australia, who
had made a comfortable fortune, and
intended to return and live with his re
lations. "Who knows, Jane? ne was ever
kind, and he may start me in some
thing," said John, one evening, when
I haa taken his tea to the signal-box,
and was amusing Stand ie with the
colored lamps. "I certainly will try,
if if," he added, looking thought
fully up and down the lines, "nothing
happens before."
"For goodness sake, John, don't talk
like that I All has gone safely for four
years ; surely it will continue to do so,
with care."
"I don't know that," he responded.
gloomily. "It'stheconfonnded Wyming
express i tear. Within a space of two
minutes it crosses the line of the
Henshar mail, and often it's five before
its time.
"What do you do then, John ?"
asked, hushing Maudie.
"Why, I turn that colored lamp
then the express, knowing the mail
hasn't passed, slackens speed until it
has.
"And if yon were not to show that
light V
"It would come on, get into the same
line with the mail, and carriages would
go to inciter matches I
"Oh, John, please don't ! Ton make
my blood run cold !"
After that, there was another fascina
tion for me besides the signal-box the
colored lamps, by a mistake or omission
in the nse of which I knew not how
many lives might be hurled into eternity.
I regarded them with awe.and over and
over again asked John their nse.
Weeks slipped by, and we got an
other letter from incle Thompson.
The ship which brought him from
Australia had been delayed by a severe
gale in the Atlantic, but now he was
safe in England, and intended shortly
to come and see us.
"Safe I remarked John ; "no one
now-a-days can reckon upon that, with
a long railway journey before him.
John slightly exaggerated, of course
but that autumn the collisions and ac
cidents of all kinds had been something
fearfuL Not a day passed but fresh
collisions were recorded, and, with a
morbid interest, John used to read
them, and make my soul quiver by the
remarks "Such might just have been
my case, Jane. No doubt the fellow
was dead-beat. Only the mercy of
Providence saves me from manslaughter
or a discharge through negligence."
One oppressively warm evening, he
had, while at tea, been reading about
a more than usually terrible accident,
owing, it was stated, to the signalman,
who had been on the lookout for six
teen hours, making an error in the
signals.
Putting the paper down.he exclaimed,
"Jane, how often have I felt as he de
scribes, full of terror, knowing how
many lives might be depending on me I
How I pray Uncle Thompson may help
us, and i may give the whole thing up 1"
Rising, be put on hie hat ; he went
on duty at six. I watched him anx
iously. A ever naa i leit more nervous,
for I had observed him nodding uncon
sciously to himself over his tea. In
deed, he looked so depressed, 1 was
half inclined to ask him to let me go
with him. But I knew he wouldn't
consent as it was against the rules ;
while, independent of which, the man
who temporally filled his place was the
greatest enemy John had, and would
be sure to tell of him if be did so. I
knew Richard Malin bore a bitter
enmity to my husband, and would
gladly do an ill turn to one whose rival
he had been. I was aware he never
forgave my accepting John and reject
ing him, so I held my tongue, spoke
cheerfully as I could, as I walked with
him to the corner of the road, and
waited until I saw him appear in the
signal box, when I retraced my steps.
I had never felt so nervously restless
as I did that night I could settle to
nothing, so sat down before the fire. I
kept a light for John's return, and tried
to divert myself with my baby, but the
child soon slumbered, and I sat think
ing until I too slept
The whole time I dreamt of nothing
but railways. They were everywhere
rushing and tearing about me ; their
shrill whistles deafening my ears. I be
held the express and the mail with a
noiseless horror, rushing toward each
other, with lights seeming to laugh
with fiendish mirth ; then there was an j
awful cry a crash, and a scene of de
struction,
cries !"
Irritated at being so startled, I bust
tied about to forget the scene, and I
put Maudie to bed, and again sat by
the fire and dozed;
Scarcely had I done so, however,
than there arose before me a shadowy
figure of indefinite form, pointing out
of the window in the direction of the
signal-box.
I moved restlessly, and put my hands
before my face to shut it out Finally,
I started, rose to my feet, and I eonld
have declared the figure stood on the
hearthrug, in the tire-light, only it
gradually melted into air.
Just then the clock struck half-past
ten. '
In half an hour the Wyming express
and Henshar mail would be due. At
that I began to tremble violently, and
throwing on my shawl. I determined to
go and look at the signal-box, and see
if all was right.
White mists had risen since I was
last out ; and above them, rising from
a billowy sea, as it was abont a mile
distant, rose the "look-out," distinct in
the moonlight
But where was John? Generally I
could see him moving about ; now, the
place apparently was empty.
What did it mean ? There was one
answer John was asleep I
Never shall I forget the sensation
that run through my veins at that
thought The crown of my bead seemed
to literally lift np. Then, why, I could
never explain, I ran back, seized
Maudie, and afterwards hurried to the
signal-box.
Rapidly I ascended the steys to the
"look-out I tried the door, it was
fastened on the outside ; and what a
sight met me within, through the glass !
John sound asleep, his, his head on
his arms !
Calling him loudly, I shook the
handle. He did not stir. All was si
lent save for the monotonous tick of
the clock, beating out the fatal min
utes, above his head. I dared not de
lay. I dashed in the glass, put in mv
hand, turned the key. and entered.
Even this did not arouse him.
"John !" I called, shaking his shoul
der. "What is the matter with yon ?
Wake np ! It's eleven, the express is
coming '
lie breathed heavily, but made no
sign. hat was the matter with him ?
His appeared no natural sleep. In mv
alarm at the flying moments, fond
mother as I was, I forced Maudie to
cry, hoping that might awaken him.
It did. Slowly he looked np heavily :
but ouly to sink back to sleep. At the
same moment I heard iu the distance
the faint whistle of the express train.
Jt was coming and Henshar mail had
not yet passed. The terror of a v hole
life was condensed in those few min
utes. The collision John had fore
told had come at last 'KW my efforts
to arouse him were futile. I stood
alone, the frains rushing to their fate.
1 saw the awful sight of my dream
realized ; I saw men, women, children,
in one fearful heap, amid broken car
riages. My braiu reeled : I turned
sick ; then intensity of my fright ap-
apparently cleared my brain.
Why should I not save tbem ?
As. the question occurred, the whistle
of the advancing mail sounded. Look
ing right and left I pereeived the
growing lights of each engine coming
nearer, for the line was clear. I waited
no more. I recalled what John had
told me, and turned the signal lantern
for the express to slacken speed.
Eagerly, breathlessly I watched. Had
I after all, made a mistake ? Yes the
lights still approach ! No they had
stopped !
The next moment, the signal-box was
shaken to its base by the rush of the
mail train beneath it I watched it fly
off in the distance, turned the light,
heard the Wyming express in its turn
whirl under me, and knew as I fell in
sensible on the floor, that nearly two
hundred people had been on the brink
of the grave, and, that I had saved
them.
My baby's cries, however, soon re
called my senses, when, fetching water,
I dashed it over John, and at last
brought him to, I shall ever remember
his look when I told him what had oc
curred. He could not believe the mail
had passed ; but 1 soon proved it to
him beyond a doubt.
"I can't make it out, Jane," he ex
claimed. "I have not the slightest re
collection of going to sleep. In fact, I
was doing all I could to keep awake.
It must be my cold."
What is that?" I asked abruptly,
pointing to a glass.
"Part of a tumbler of beer Dick
Malin left me," he answered.
I saw it alL The beer had been
drugged to work our ruin. John
wouldn't hear of it
There being no more trains, we went
home, I taking the beer with me.
"John. I said when there, "in
going to show I ara right about Richard
Malin. See! And before ne coma
prevent me, I had drank the contents
of the glass.
A on arte r of an hour after, I was in a
dead sleep as he had been.
But this act had destroyed any proof
we had against Richard Malin, who,
however, confirmed our belief by dis
charging himself from his situation.
But the most singular part of the
affair was, in that very express train
traveled Uncle Thompson, who had
come down to see us. When he beard
of his narrow escape, and ef how I had
saved him, he vowed he would never
forget it He kept his word. He started
John in business, lived with us, and
made his will in our favor. Now ex
press and mail trains no longer give us
sleepless nights, though we never our
selves travel by rail without thinking of
that fearful night in the signal-box.
Spirits for Grief Sirlckea.
A verv amusing application for the
privilege of opening a saloon, or public-house
as it is called in England,
was made in the ancient city of York
recently. A publican, presumably a
sinner, applied to the authorities for a
license to open such a place near the
cemetery. There was, he explained, at
present no place for the persons to go
for a stimulent when depressed by
grief at the gravesides of their friends.
In making bis application ne was
backed by the lodge-keeper and, singu
larly enough, the chaplain. The lat
ter's motive must have been pure phil
anthropy. The former had a tinge of
thrift in it "At present," he said,
"these depressed persons come to my
lodge, and I have to give them my own
brandy ; for I should be fined if I sold
it to them." The logic of this is unan
swerable. If brandy is a necessity at a
funeral, there ought to be some means
of supplying it without loss to a poor
lodge-keeper. But the theory for sub
stituting ardent for departed spirits as
a means of consolation always to be ap
pealed to did not seem properly estab
lished ,and the license was refused.
UJ J In ,Mk Kw,"- Uwmtmmlmw. Ynths Column. Varieties.
Tt in not O'AnAra.llv Vnnwn that tinm.
ing lights are unhealthy in sleeping
rooms. The COmlinsKnn nf era a
tallow or whatever material is used for
illuminating purposes, renders the air
impure ; for it consumes oxygen, the
great life sustaining element in the
atmosphere. Man cannot live, only for
a lew moments, in a room deprived of
iu oxygen, in snouia oe remembered
that air in mmnnun nt atvmii 04 vt.rf.
r - faawo
and nitrogen 77 parts.) Now when this
aLimmiI T. . .3 1 t-.l 1L -
civuacu. wuijwaj itniuwu ueiuw Ule
standard of pure out-door air, it is sure
to interfere with the healthy functions
of life and lay the foundations of
disease.
Science teaches us, that respiration
and combustion, require the same ele
ment to support them, namely, oxygen.
Put a burning lamp in an air tight room
and when this element in the air is
used ns, the lights will go out ; and,
nnder the same conditions, a man
would die. Every one has noticed what
slow progress a fire will make when con
fined to a closed room, and how quick
it will blaze up when a door is opened
and free air is admitted. They have
also noticed how dim a light will burn
toward morning in a closed sick room.
No one will need be told that burning
lights in a sleeping room is unhealthy,
if they have ever entered one from the
pure air, late at night, where two or
three persons were sleeping with a
burning kerosene lamp and smell the
foul and noxious air, that has been de
prived of its oxygen and poisoned by
carbonic acid and half burned kerosene
lamp smoke ; which charges the blood
with noxious matter and so perverts
the action of the brain and nervous
centres that neither the physical nor
mental powers can be duly exercised.
People who sleep in this way, will arise
in the morning, tired and unrefreshed,
with a bad taste in the mouth, and a
sense of heat and aching in the head.
Their heads feel dull and hot their
minds are sluggish and they are unfit
for study or labor until they have re
cuperated their systems with some of
God's pure air, which can be had for
nothing anywhere out of doors.
A room which requires an artificial
light should be well ventilated to keep
the air in a pure condition. II you
must keep a light burning all night
open your windows and keep a constant
supply of fresh air in your room ; then
you will sleep sweetly, awake in the
morning, refreshed and invigorated,
with a clear head and strong arm ready
for the dnties of the hour.
Prof. Partes, in his Practical Jliffi
cne says : "The products of gas com
bustion are for the most part allowed
to escape into rooms, but certainly this
should not be allowed, when gas is
burnt in the large quantities commonly
used. The immense quantity of gas
often used causes great heat, humidity
of the air, and there is some sulphurous
acid, an excess of carbonic acid, and,
probably, a little carbonic oxide, to
which some of the effect may be due.
Weaver found as much as 5.32 volumes
of cartninic acid per 1000 iu the room
of a frame-work knitter in Leicester,
with 14 gas lights burning. In other
workrooms, the amounts were 5.28, 4.6,
down to 2.11 volumes per 1000. This
amount has a very injurious eflect on
health, as shown long ago by Dr. Guy.
In a workshop in Paris, with 400 men
and 400 gas burners, the health of the
men was very bad. General Morin in
troduced good ventilation, and the
number of canes of illness was reduced
one-third. The appetite of the men,
formerly very bad, greatly improved.
According to Dr. Zock, coal gas gives
off rather more carbonic acid for an
equal illuminating power than oil, but
less than petroleum, Dr. Udling round,
for equal illuminating power, that
candles gave more impurity to the air
than gas. An excess of 2 per 1000 vol
nmes of carbolic acid in air, renders it
unhealthy, and 50 will destroy life.
In reading or working by lamp-light,
the rays of light should fall directly on
the book or work and not on the eye.
Many persons have impaired their eye
sight permanently, by having the light
by their side, and letting the rays shine
obliquely across the eye. The face
should be in the shade and the light
shine full on the object looked at This
can be accomplished by a lamp-shade,
a hanging-lamp, or the light placed
above and back of the person using it
A fire burning in a room consumes
oxygen and gives off as the products of
combustion, carbonic acid, unconsumed
particles of carbon and water, which
pass up the chimney, in smoke. Now
the air Jsed to supply the fire, is re
placed by pure air which finds its way
in through the cracks and crevices
around the doors and windows and
about the room. Unless there is a
fresh supply the fire will not burn long.
Therefore, a fire is healthy and a puri
fier of the air ; especially an open fire,
which always keeps the air good and
pure by a constant current going up the
chimney, while all the products of lamp
combustion remain in the room to
poison the air.
I saw a good illustration of bad air
the other day. An old lady asked me
what made her poor, pale, puny, peevish
little grandchild "take cold so easy."
He was in a small room with curtains
down and shawls pinned np over the
curtains, excluding light and air, and
inhaling air which was foul and unfit
to breathe. Said she, "I haint carried
that child out door this winter, nor
opened a window, and I have kept the
room hot night and day. and a lamp
burning all night for fear something
would happen. I do believe people are
growing weaker, if not wiser. Why I
when I was a gal, we used to live in an
old log house, with an old-fashioned
fire-place, and a chimney so big we
could set by the fire and look out and
see the stars, and the wind would
whistle through the cracks, and we
went barefooted till the snow came,
and lived on Pea-Porridge and Bread-and-Milk
and Potatoes and Salt and
were all as hearty and tough as bucks."
I said, 'Madam, if yon will only give
your child as good air and as good plain
food as you used to have, he will be as
healthy as you were. This cannot be
accomplished at once, because yon have
vitiated his appetite with dainties, and
impaired his health by keeping him too
long in bad air. But take time ; feed
on plain food, clothe him comfortably,
and, above all things, give him plenty
of good pure air, both night and day ;
let him run and play out of doors, and
you will have no occasion to wonder
why he takes cold so easily.
There is a large establishment at
tr.,1.1 nnnnaiu Mtrashnrff. on the Rhine.
where artificial wine is made into which
a grape never enters. In the valley oi
the Rhine and the Palatinate there are
hundreds of similar manufactories
where this imitation wine is made.
The Rhenish and Alsatian wine-growers
intended to nrge the German Reichstag
... . .tm'nrent law arainst the adul
teration and falsification of wines.
While my friend Clyde and mysel
were out in the hills back of the Golden
Gate park, last week, a jack rabbit
came along and stopped to look at us.
"ii 1 had tnonght to bring my revol
ver along we would have jack on toast
for breakfast to-morrow," I remarked.
"Not with my consent," he replied.
"What reason can you give for not
consenting r
' "A rabbit saved my life, and I have
not xuiea once sinoe, and never will kill
one again.
"How did he manage to save your
me r
"Three years ago I was living in Mon
tana. A smelter had just been built
and it created a demand for silver rock.
I owned an interest in a lead that had
been sunk on thirty feet Thinking
tne time nad come to make it available,
I concluded to go there and get some
ore, and have it tested. I did to ; and
reached the place just in time to take
shelter in the mine from a terrible hail
storm. I lighted my candle, went to
the bottom, and went to work. I had
not been there more than five minutes
when I heard a noise that sounded like
a cannon. The rocks over my head
shook, and in a moment the shaft be
hind me caved. Yon can imagine my
feelings better than I can describe
them, when I found myself buried alive.
I tremble even at this distant day when
I think of that moment The roof of
the shaft was rocks, and when they
came down they did not pack so tight
but what the air came through.
There was nothing that I could do to
release myself. I knew that if release
did not come from the outside I must
perish. No one knew that I had gone
there. A road ran past the mouth of
the shaft ; but it was not traveled much,
and I was not likely to attract atten
tion by calling ; nevertheless, I shouted
at intervals all day. I he following
morning I commenced calling again :
and all day, whenever I thought I
heard a sound, I shouted.
"When night came all hope of being
released had abandoned me. One
thing added great bitterness to my suf
ferings. I owed quite a large sum of
money, and should my fate remain un
known, my creditors would think I had
ued to defraud them, and my name
would be stigmatized.
"I will not dwell on the agonies I en
dured ; I am sorry I cannot forget
them.
"The morning of the fourth day of
my imprisonment I heard something
crawl into my grave, I "lighted my can
dle and saw a rabbit There were only
one aperature large enongh to admit
him ; I closed it to prevent his escape.
I saw in him food to appease my hunger,
and my hand was raised to kill h.m,
when a thonght occurred to me that
prevented the blow from descending.
I had two fish-lines ; their united length
would reach to the road. I took off my
shirt, torn it into strings, tied them to
gether and on to the fish line. I wore
a long gold watch chain ; I tied it on to
the part of the line that would cross
the road. I then cut several leaves
from my diary, wrote on them my con
dition, and tied them on to that part of
the line that would be outside. I then
tied the end made out of my shirt
aronnd jack's neck and lethimout He
soon reached the end of the line, and I
knew by the way he was pulling that he
was making desperate attempt to escape.
Soon the tugging stopped, and knowing
gnawing to be Jack's chief accomplish
ment, 1 thought he had cut himself
loose. Alxut three hours afterward I
felt the line pulled ; then some one
called. I tried to answer, but tne
hoarse noise I made died in the cavern.
I then pulled the line to show I was not
dead'
"All grew still again, and I knew the
man had gone for assistance. Then
came the sound of voices ; I pulled in
the line, and it brought me food. It
took all the men who could work in the
shaft nine hours to reach me.
"A very large pine tree that stood
near the shaft had been the cause of my
misfortune. It had been dead a num
ber of years, and the storm had blown
it over. The terrible blow it had struck
the ground had caused the cave.
"Jack had wound the line around a
bush, and tied himself so short that he
was imprisoned outside as securely as I
had been inside. He was taken to town,
put in a large cage, and supplied with
all the rabbit delicacies the market af
forded. He, however, did not thrive,
and the boys believing that he "pined
in thought' voted to set him free. He
was taken back to his old girdling
grounds and liberated.
"He not only saved my life, but be
came the benefactor of all the rabbits
in the neighborhood the miners re
fraining from shooting any, fearing it
might be him." San Francisco Golden
Era.
Ladies aad Yiaegar.
Taken in moderation, there is no
doubt that vinegar is lenetk-ial, but in
excess it impairs the digestive organs.
Experiments on artificial digestion
show that if the quantity of acid be
diminished, digestion is retarded ; if
increased beyond a certain point diges
tion is arrested. There is reason, there
fore, in the vulgar notion unhappily
too often relied on that vinegar helps
to keep down any alarming adiposity,
and that ladies who dread the disap
pearance of their graceful outlines in
curves of plumpness expanding into
"fat" may arrest so dreadful a result by
liberal potations of vinegar, but they
can only so arrest it at the far more
dreadful expense of their health. The
amount of acid which will keep them
thiu will destroy their digestive powers.
Portal gives a case which should be a
warning. "A few years ago a young
lady iu easy circumstances enjoyed
good health ; she was very plump, had
a good apietite, and a complexion
blooming with roses and lilies. She
began to look upon her plumpness with
suspicion, for her mother was very fat
and she was afraid of becoming like
her. Accordingly she consulted a
woman who advised her to drink a
glass of vinegar daily. The young lady
followed the advice, and her plumpness
diminished. She was delighted with
the success of the experiment and con
tinued it for more than a month. She
began to have a cough ; but it was dry
at its commencement, and was consid
ered as a slight cold which would go
off. Meantime from dry it became
moist a 'I"" fever canieon.aud a diffi
culty of breathing; her body became
lean and wasted away, niirlit sweats,
swelling of the feet and of the legs suc
ceeded, and a diarrhu-a terminated her
life." Therefore, young ladies, be
boldly fat! Never pine for graceful
sliiiiuess and romantic pallor, but if
Nature means yon to le ruddy and
rotund, accept it with a laughing grace,
which will captivate more heart thau
all the paleness of a circulating library.
An Irishman returned from bis trav
els gallantly compared his landlady to
Vesuvius, because "she was a fine old
crater."
Nicopnlisis a small town in the south
east of Russia, where the Caucasian
blood mixes with the Russian, and pro
duces very many remarkably line speci
mens of female beauty.
Among the most beautiful of the
Wait ties of N'icopolis was l'lyana, the
only daughter of a wealthy land-owner.
Her father was in the habit, every year
at naryesi time, to add to his force by
engaging "people from Russia," as they
say, meaning people from the interior.
w no at mis season ot tne year seek re
munerative labor in the more cultivated
and wealthier districts of the south.
one oi t nose people, r iivatiett, a
handsome, stalwart young fellow, at
tracted especial atteution. He seemed
perfectly indifferent with regards to
his gains and was always in the best of
spirits, l'lyana soon became a willing
listener when lie was praised, and til v
atieff, who was not insensible to tfie
charms of female beauty, soon evinced
a marked partiality for her society. It
was not lone ere their likinir for each
other ripened into an affair of the heart
and become the suhjectof remark. Nor
did the young people attempt to conceal
what they felt for each other, and Filv
atieff went ltoldly to the father of hi
lady-love and asked his blessing. But
the fanner peremptorily refused: he
was not going to give his daughter to a
strolling lalxirer, he said. And all
L'lyana s tears and entreaties were of
no avail : her father was inflexible.
and, in order to "put other thoughts
in her head, he compelled her to a
betrothal with a wealthy townsman.
The betrothal was celebrated with
great pomp. All were merry but l'ly
ana; her thoughts were with Filyatie'ff,
who gave her good cause of uneasiness.
He had ceased to work, and now spent
his time in either one pot-house or
auother. He drank to assuage his grief ;
but not long, tie soon took an aversion
to schnapps a rare thing for a Knssian
to do and then drink did not lesseu
his irrief. He therefore foresworn thn
pot-honse, and determined to go far
away, where, concealed and forgotten,
he could end his unhappy life. In this
romantic frame of mind he bethought
himself of Siberia, and determined to
take the necessary steps to get there as
soon as possible. With this object in
view, he, one evening soon after dark,
went to the principal bazaar of the
town and tried one door after another
nntil he found one he could force. He
entered the well-filled shop, took what
money ne found in the till, anil looked
abont to see if any one came. Then he
made a bundle of some of the goods,
and again looked around to see if no
one came to arrest the burglar. As he
was still unobserved, he made a bright
aiaub iu mo biii'i. m 1119 nan ixnru nv-u.
and people cameand seized the supposed
robuer. Un his trial lie simply declared
that owing to his disappointment in
love, he wanted to be sent to Siberia;
that this, and this only, was his object
iu breaking into the shop. The jurors
were unanimous iu rendering a verdict
of acquittal, which was received by a
loud acclamatiou on the part of the
spectators.
The fanner was now compelled to
relent. He broke off the engagement
of his daughter with his wealthy neigh
bor, and consented to her union with
the romantic Filyatieff. Appleton's
Journal.
Mark Twain Chambermaid.
Against all chambermaids of whatso
ever age or nationality, I launch the
curse of Batchelordom 1
Because :
They always pat the pillows at the
opposite end of the bed from the gas
burner, so that while you read and
smoke before sleeping (as is the ancient
and honored custom ot batchelors), you
have to hold your book aloft in an un
comfortable position, to keep the light
from dazzling your eyes.
If they cannot get the light in an un
comfortable position any other way.
they move the bed.
If you pull your trunk out six inches
from the wall, so that the lid will stay
np when they open it they always
shove that trunk back again. They do
it on purpose.
They also put yonr boots into inac
cessible places. They chiefly enjoy
depositing them as far nnder the bed
as the wall will permit It is because
this compels you to get down in an un
dignified attitude and make wild sweeps
for them in the dark with the bootjack,
and swear.
They always put the match box in
some other place. They hunt up a new
place for it every day, and put a bottle
or other perishable glass thing, where
the box stood before. This is to cause
you to break that glass thing, groping
about in the dark, and get yourseii into
trouble.
They are forever moving the furni
ture. When yon come in. in the night
you can calculate on finding the bureau
where the wardrobe was in the morn
ing. And when yon come in at mid
night or thereabout yon will fall over
the rocking chair, and yon will proceed
toward the window and set down in the
slop tub. This will disgust yon. They
like that
No matter where yon put anything.
they won't let it stay there. They will
take it and move it the first chance they
get
They always save up the old scraps
of printed rubbish yon throw on the
floor, and stack them up carefully on
the table, and then start the fire with
your valuable manuscripts.
And iney nse more nair ou uian any
six men.
Ther keen always coming to make
yonr bed before you get up, thus de
stroying your rest ana lnmcung agony
upon yon, but after you get np they
don't come any more till the next day.
Taate la Drew.
Far frnm beinir nf the opinion of
t atnanne oi Aragon, -xuat uresnm
time is wasting time," the woman, we
are apt to tnink, wno nas not some
natural taste in areas, some love vi
atma .la1iolir in ttiA combina
tions of colors, is deficient in a sense of
the beautuul. as a wors: oi an a weu
dressed woman is a study. That a love
Ar .lru. natural anil that it has aomA
Ul w vm mmMf - -
advantages, is so plain as to be scarcely
wortn recording- 1 L
that it should engross every other taste;
it ia nnlv the. rnnnette'a heart which, as
Addison describes it is stuffed with "a
flame-colored hood." From tne aavs oi
Anne Boleyn, who varied her dress
every day, and who wore a small ker
chief over her round neck to conceal a
-1. lIAm.n n.t . fnllinir aleevff to
hide her aouoiy-tippeu nuie nnuer.
dress has naa its piace in me nmn vi
an Englishwoman. And it is well that
it should be so, for the dowdy, be she
young or be she old, is sure to hear of
it from her husband, if she has not
already done so fiom brothers and
fancy cousins. Indifference, and conse
quent inattention, to dressoften shows
edantry, self-righteonsness, or indo
ence: and, whilst extolled by the "unco
gude" as a virtue, may be noted as a
defect Every womanshould habitually
make the best of herself. We dress our
rooms with Hewers and make our tables
gorgeous with silver, glass, and china
should our wives be less attractive
than all around themT Among the
rich and great the love of dree pro
motes taste, and fosters ingenuity and
industry.
1HS VOO THAT UARRntD t OOP TO a
Bbsieokd Cinr. The following story of
tne sagacity of a dog is to be found in
an old volume in the British Museum :
When Duke Robert and Richard,
Duke of Capua, besieged Palermo,
which the furious Prince Gisolfe de
fended, the sufferings of the inhabitants
threugh hnnger and misery are de
scribed by Monte Cassimo as resembling
those experienced by the Jews dur'ng
the siege of Jerusalem by the Romans.
The interests of humanity required
that an end should be put to the horri
ble rule of Gisolfo, by winning the town,
so that great sufferinar seemed una
voidable. Two young men on this
occasion, followed by a dog, contnved
to escape from the besieged city, and
came to where the Duke was snd begged
oreaa, wmcn was Riven to them. The
youths gave a third part, to their dog,
and the dog that evening ran back to
tne city, earned the bread to their
father's house, placed it at his feet and
then returned to the lads.
The next day they had bread enoneh.
and gave more to the dog, though they
anew not weal ne nad done with it
before, and the next evening the doe
earned it to their lather, and the third
evening likewise, and the father, be
lieving that a Christian had sent him
bread for the love of God, tied a label
round the dog's neck, on which he
wrote : "I thank God for these alms.
and I cease not to pray to God for him."
Witn tnia the dog returned, and when
they had read the card they carried the
dog, leaving it still hanging round its
neck, to the duchess, but she would not
believe their report However, she
caused a little sack of bread to be fas
tened to the dog's neck.
lie loiteied about the place as if
afraid of the people nntil the setting of
the sun, when he passed out of camp
and made his way safely into the city to
the father's house, who on receiving the
bag attached a card to the dog's neck,
on which was written, "Greater thanks
I render thee for these greater alms."
Bearing this he returned and was strain
presented to the Duchess, who loudly
expressed her astonishment at the won
derful cleverness of the dog. Its fame,
however, led to its destruction. The
story of its marvelous feats reached the
ears of Prince Gisolfe, who caused a
watch to be set for it at the city gates,
it was captnred by the sentinels and
cruelly put to death.
lhe book from which the above is
translated was printed in Florence,
upwards of two hundred years ago.
TniMBLi Making. The manufacture
of thimbles is very simple, but singu
larly interesting. Coin silver is mostly
used, and is obtained by purchasing .
coin dollars. Henoe it happens that
tne pronts of the business are aflected
instantaneously by all the variations in
the nation's greenback promises to pay.
The first operation strikes a novice as
almost wicked, for it is nothing else
than putting a lot of bright silver dol
lars, fresh from the mint, into dirty
crucibles, and melting them up into
solid ingots. These are rolled out to
the required thickness, and cut by a
stamp into circular pieces of any re
quired size. A solid metal bar of the
size of the inside of the intended thim
ble, moved by powerful machinery np
and down in a bottomless mould of the
outside of the same thimble, bends the
circular disks into the thimble shape as
fast as they can be placed nnder the
descending bar. Once in shae, the
work of brightening, polishing and
decorating is done upon a lathe. First,
the blank form is fitted npon a rapidly
revolving rod. A slight touch of a
sharp chisel takes a thin shaving from
the end, another does the same on the
side, and the rounds off the rim. A
round steel roil, dipped in oil and
f tressed upon the surface, gives it a
ustrons polish. Then a little revolving
steel wheel, whose edge is a raised or
nament held against the revolving
blank, prints that ornament just out
side the rim. A second wheel prints a
diflerent ornament around the center,
while a third wheel with sharp points
mikM thA inilentatinna on thA lower
half an I anil nf thA thimtklo ThA inuiila '
is brightened and polished in a similar
way, the thimble being held in a revolv
ing mould. All that remains to be done
is to boil the completed thimbles in
soapsuds, to remove the oil, brush them
up and pack them for the trade.
TwaWTT Impolite Things. Loud and
boisterous laughter.
Reading when others are talking.
Reading aloud in company without
being asked.
Talking when others are reading.
Spitting about the house, smoking or
chewing.
Cutting finger nails in church.
Leaving church before worship is
closed.
A want of respect and reverence for
seniors.
Correcting elder persons than your
selves, especially parents.
Receiving a present without an ex
pression of gratitude.
Making yourself hero of your own
story.
Laughing at the mistakes of others.
Joking others in company.
Commencing talking before others
have finished speaking.
Answering questions that have been
put to others.
Commencing to est as soon as yon
get to the table ; and
Not listening to what one is saying
in company.
How to Tam. If yon have the
ability to amuse, talk often in company
and in a way which shows that you
understand what is said aronnd you.
But do not talk long. In that case you
are apt to tire your hearers. There are
many persons wbo, though they have
nothing to talk of, never know when to
leave off talking. There are some who
labor under so great and insatiable a
desire for talking that they will even
interrupt others when about to speak.
We should in society never talk of our
own or others' domestic affairs. Yours
are of no interest to them, and theirs
should not be to you ; besides, the sub
ject is of so delicate a nature, that with
the best intentions it is a chance if we
do not make some mortifying mistake,
or wound the feelings of some of the
company.
8wxario. Cowper writes some line'
which it would be worth while for every
one to learn .
It rhills mj blond to sear th hint Surra
RudHT appaatod to oa ear tntt-na tboM.
Maintain your rank. rnlirarUy 4im
To ntml aettber pnli any wiae
Y m would not ww upon iWo( drain :
I lour nay aow avi your
Vulganty and light talk should be
shunned as leading to profanity.
-Debts are no noisy, but they keep
... ...la " 'lr.A ia not loved be
cause he is handsome, bnt handsome
because he is neioveu. at saw menus
with the bear but keep hold of your
hatchet"
A matter of course a horse race.
Pride is precarious, but virtue is im
mortal. He that boasts a multitude of friem's
hath none.
Some people look at everything, yet
really see nothing.
"Do not sing that song again," is the
sarcastic title of a new song.
Unpopular mnsio Thomas's concerts
on the back yard fence.
Northern proverb : "God created
the world, but the devil made Iceland."
The best way to keep out wicked
thoughts is always to be employed in
good ones.
"I SAT, Bill, John is a fellow of great
spirit, isn't he ?" "What John ?" "Why
demijohn."
The light of friendship is like the
light of phosphorus seen plainest
when all aronnd is dark.
Figs are so easily cultivated in Film
land that extensive orchards now exist
in Sussex, and more are being planted.
The open Polar sea which Dr. Kane's
party claimed to have discovered, is
fast proving itself a fact and not a
myth.
Wagner is described as the most
nervous-looking man one can imagine,
but with that grim setting of the mouth
that betokens an iron wilt
Some men mourn that they have
made and broken so many resolutions.
It is sad that you have broken them,
but thank heaven that you have made
them.
Enemies spring up anywhere of their
own accord. Friends are reared in the
affection, and cease to be such as soon
as they are removed from the conserva
tory of the heart
In an ordinary open fire grate, 75 per
cent of the heat, resulting from the
Aombustion of the fuel, goes up the
chimney and is wasted, only 25 percent
being radiated into the apartment.
The spire of Strasbourg Cathedral is
no longer the highest in Europe. The
steeple of the Church of St Nicholas,
at Hamburg, just completed, is 472
feet high, which is four feet higher
than Strasburg.
Switzerland turns nut about 1,0)1),
000 watches per annum. The industry
is chiefly confined to the ca.itons of
Nenfchatel, Berne, Van J and Geneva
and gives employment to 15,241 men
and 12,727 women.
Pretty old boys in Europe. Gnizot
died at eighty-seven, and Prince Ment
schikoff at eighty-five is just taking a
run from Russia to Faris. Ho is tho
grandson of the first of the fan ily wbo
made such delicious pastry that Peter
the Great promoted him to politics and
the Cabinet.
The Duke of Cambridge has got the
gout, and is going to resign the com
mand of the British army, (jueen Vic
toria once remarked to Lord Palmers
ton that, "as a warrior, Cam is not a
success." Nobody has ever had the
courage to deny it His Grace's strong
point is a rapacity for the sherry wine.
The celebrated Tynan pnrple was
derived from several species of marine
snails, supposed to be principally Mu
rex brandnri Purpura and tatiHns
the latter being a kind of whelk still
very common on the English coasts and
in the Mediterranean. The liquor
which ran le squeezed from this whelk
is nearly colorless, but. by the action of
light, becomes first of a citron tint,
then pale green, emerald green, azure,
red, and liually. in abont forty-eight
hours, a magnificent purple.
Excavations in the Coliseum at Rome
show that the original floor is twenty
feet below the modern level. The ex
cavations have laid bare the immense
corriders whence the wild beasts rushed
to deadly combat, or human victims
were led toslanghter. Even the month
of the great dram, with part of its orig
inal grating intact, has been found,
and there is no longer any difficulty in
understanding how the water could be
drawn off which tl.Hi.leil the ring, and
enabled it to be naed for the exhibi
tion of the sea fights.
Krupp's steel gnu, intended for the
Austrian Government, has been tested
by s government commission, who, af
ter three days experiment, were highly
satisfied with it. They propose to
Krnpp s agent that half the guns re
quired be cast at Essen, bnt that Herr
Krnpp should divulge the process of
manufacture so that the other half
could be cast in Anstria. The agent,
however, said that the secret could not
be revealed under any circumstances.
In competent military circles it is be
lieved that the guns cannot be made
without Krupp's assistance.
The Patriarch of Antioch, at present
in London, was taken recently to see
the library of the Bntish and Foreign
Bible Society. He contemplated the
scene with silent wonder. Book after
book was bronght to him to look at
He was very much struck with the mode
of reading Chinese down in columns,
at first shook his head as it in donbt
whether his informants were not de
ceiving him. But nothing seemed to
deiight him so much as Walton's Poly
glot t There he saw, side by side, He
brew and Greek, and Latin, and Arabic,
and his own sacred Svriac. Ou leaving
he shook hands warmly with the secre
taries, and praised God for all he has
seen and heard.
There is in the Island of Skye, a min
ister of one of the parish churches who
occupies the pulpit which his father,
grandfather, and great-grandfather
have filled in succession, and who is
training up a son to be his successor.
Besides discharging the duties of the
ministry in his parish, he is chairman
of the School and Parochial Boards,
road contractor for the district a
noted breeders of Betters, which he
supplies to the Southern markets, a
knowing judge of cattle, and occupant
of three large sheep farms in addition
to his glebe. He is verging on three
score, and vet be continues to discharge
these multifarious duties and preach
two sermons every Sandsy one in the
Gaelic and the other in English.
There is at least one blessing in being
an nnedacated working man, for which
that class cannot be too grateful. An
English savant has shown that they
never have the bay fever. He finds
that this interesting disease is peculiar
to the educated classes, and more com
mon in proportioo to the spread of
mental culture and the intensity of in
tellectual occupation. Hiaexperiments
lead him to the conclusion that the dis
ease is due to the pollen of flowering
plants ; bnt why this pollen should get
into the educated nose in preference to
hA iliwa not explain.
If his theories be trne, it is appalling
to think of the catarrhal possibilities
involved in our pnblio sehoool system
and the nasal ruin lurking in bookstores.
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