B. F. SCHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXVIII. MIFFLINTCNVN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., NOVEMBER 25, 1S74. NO. 47. v I! P P II fi V Ioetr3' ri:oki:t. Br nv e. BRAiir. He offered a kiw in the moniinc I coldly turned away. For u idle word that I orerheard Had nuiWled a niyht and a dmy. I litem, in truth, it wan nothing That he would have blushed to own. That point and sting of the trifling thing tirew out of my heart alone. l'.ut a vexed, unquiet spirit Weighs no matter aright, Aud the sore wuart of a jraluiu hi art TuU reason out of siht. I let him ijo in the morning Without the luxe he nought; Aud the day wag long, but I mimed my wroii- With many a bitter thought. One bitter thought, God help me ! Did not enter my brain. That kins of mine, by word or aigii. He would never seek again, ltut as evening shadows gathered. My heart began to burn With a quickened sense of hi iiitliiem-e. And I longed for bis return. Leaning against the window That overlooked the street. I strained my ear hia step to hear In the crowd of hurrying fi-t, Kar off, in the dimmest ditau, I should have known it well; lint there ca:n instead a niurtW tread. And the sharp alarm of the U-ll. Some griefs, though deep and bitter. Find at last their cures, liHt some retain the old, old pain As long as life endures. I did not know in the morning When I coldly turned away. That I should miss aud mourn that kiss Down to my dying day ! II i x .? 1 1 ii li y . Konllirj-N I.ilr. All Southey 's thoughts, all his wishes all his hopes, were centered within the four comers of his library. This library was all in all to him. Coleridge called it his wife, aud I e tjiiincey has given a description of it which is too well known to need quotation. Southey knew all his luniks by heart, kept them all in perfect order, well classified, marked, and indexed ; and here, with tiiese books for his companions, "the Eride of his eye and the joy of his t'art," he spent most of his time. "Imagine me in this great study of mine, from breakfast till dinner, from dinner till tea, and from tea till supper, in my old black coat, my corduroys, alternately with the long worsted pan. taloons and gaiters in one, and . the green shade, aud sitting at my desk, aud you have my picture and my his tory." This is Southey 'b own descrip tion of himself at work, in a note to his brother, and it tallies to a T with De Ouincey's account. "I rouse the house I to break f a,-1 every morning, and qualify myself for a boatswain's place by this practice ; and thus one day passes like another, and never did the days appear to pass so fast. My actions are as regular as those of St. Dunstan's quarter-boys. Three pages of history after breakfast, (equivalent to five in small quarto printing), then to tran scribe and copy for the press, or to make my selections and biographies, or what else suits my humor, till dinner time ; from dinner till tea I read, write letters, see the newspajer, and very often indulge in a uta ; for sleep agrees with me, and I have a good sub stantial theory to prove that it must ; for as a man who walks much requires to sit down and rest himself, so does the brain, if it be the part most worked require its repose. After tea I go to poetry, and correct and rewrite and copy till I am tired, and then turn to anything else till supper ; aud this is my life, which, if it be not a very merry one, is yet as happy as heart could wish. "i take thoe sentences from his letters at thirty and forty, but they may ntan.l fur a d--scrintion of his life at forty-five, at fifty, and even within fonr or five years of ins end ; for although his tasks varied from year to year, his habits were as fixed as the habits of a pundit. What they were at fifty they had been at thirty, and you may take his own account of his life at thirty as a representation in uiiniatnre of his whole career and of all the habits of his life. wjtlc liar. Female Tavolr. A cultivated taste marks a woman of elegance and refinement as decidedly as a knowledge of classical literature does a gentleman ; and there is nothing in which female vulgalarity is more clearly shown than in waut of taste. This i an axiom that we think will not admit of dispute; but it is a question how far tate is natural, and how far it may le acquired. A delicate taste must, to a certain exteut, depend upon the organisation of the individual ; and it is impossible for any rules to be laid down which will impart taste to persons entirely devoid of it. But this is very seldom the case with women, as it is one of the few poiuts in which women natu rally excel man. Men may be, and probably are, superior to women in all that requires profound thought and general knowledge ; but in the arrange ment of a house, and the introduction of ornamental furniture and articles of bijouterie, there can be no doubt of the innate superiority of woman. Every one must have remarked the difference in the furnishing of a bachelor's house and one where a lady presides ; the thousand little elegancies of the latter, though nothing in themselves, adding, like cyphers, prodigiously to the value of the solid articles they are appended to. mmm Ancient Firearm. An exhibition of ancient and modern weapoDS has been opened at Birming ham. They date from the fourteenth century. Among theia is a breech- .. . i I...., 1 7J1 which has seven barrels, all of which explode With one blow of the hammer. There is also a beautiful breech-loader, bearing ., ' r lLtrmB I gomewuere auuir ' , , the name 01 acimm -- There are many exquisite breech-loading pistols of anciout dates, with in genious mechanisms, and the first at tempt at the revolving principle, in the hape of a double-barreled gun. the barrels turning on a pivot. Many of the guns have reservoirs in the stock for ammunition. Oue curiosity is a single barreled gun to hold two charge. One charge was rammed home and several wad. inserted, after which the second charge was placed in the barrel, ine top charge was exploded by a hammer about a third of the way np the barrel, and a hammer at the breech then dis charged the second. PARKE MOl'LTKIE. BY CAPTAIN CHARLES HOWARD. The finding of Randolph Rhett dead in his library, on the evening of October 2iUh, 1S53, gave rise to considerable excitement The sudden taking off of so prominent a member of the Carolina Legislature as Mr. Rhett, was to be de plored by the entire State, and when it became known that he had been mur dered, a thrill of horror shot through every heart. Mr. Rhett's library was situated on the ground floor of his spacious and magnificent mansion. The eastern windows looked out npon a beautiful palmetto grove, while the son t hern ones revealed the loveliness of a flower garden. The legislator had never married, but his roof sheltered a lovely girl who bore his name. His nephew, a young Geor gian named Parke Moultrie, resided with him. The youth was reading law under the Colonel, as Mr. Rhett was called throughout the State, and it was he who had found him dead among his books and legal papers. . When the student entered the room at 8 o'clock on the fatal morning, he found his nncle bowed upon the desk, very like a person napping. He did not manifest any surprise at this, for the Colonel often rose at four ; read or write till seven, to fall asleep again in the position I have, in a word, de scribed. Moultrie I am writing from his testimany elicited at the inquest took a legal volume from the book ease and threw himself into a chair near one of the southern windows, the sash of which was raised. He opened the vol ume at a page where several slips of paper had been placed by some one, and a sudden breath of southern breeze lifted them from the book. One piece alighted directly beneath the Colonel, and the youth thought to recover it without discommoding his relative. He left the chair and was putting his hand beneath the fauteuil when he noted a dark red spot on the carpet. As it looked like blood, he started and tried to waken the Colonel. Fail ing to do so by gentle shaking, he raised his head and saw the unmistak able stare of death in his eyes. There was a red stain on his well-ironed shirt front it was the wound of the life-destroying dagger. The Colonel had been dead several hours. Parke Moultrie could see this at a glance. He did not rouse the house until he had examined the room. The colonel's money had not been touched ; his papers were intact. Then what motive prompted the murder ! Revenge 1 Col onel Rhett had no avowed enemies who would stoop to the level of the mid night assassin. He did not fear the stealthy blow. "My foes are chivalrous, " he was wont to say. "When they want re venge, like gentlemen, to the field of honor thev will call me." Parke Moultrie found a bruised daisy leaf on the window silL It bore the imprint of shoe-nails, and it told the youth that his uncle's assassin had gained the house through the flower garden. He had preserved the leaf, and exhibited it to the coroner's jury. I have said that the papers of the de ceased were found intact. But a mys tery now bothered the minds of many. A will, which the colonel was known to have written, could not be found, though the mansion was searched thor oughly a dozen times. At last, deeply buried among seme old letters, a codicil was discovered. It was dated a year before the murder and read thus : "Codicil to the will of Randolph Rhett : I bequeath to my nephew, Marion Rhett, who, when last heard from, was in Richmond, Va., the sum of twenty thousand dollars, on condi tion that he takes charge of my planta tion and manages it for my child, Viola. I appoint him executor of my estate, and the guardian of my child. The other items of my will, namely, five thousand dollars to Parke Monltie ; the remainder of my property, exclusive of the bequest to Marion Rhett, to Viola." This codicil was properly signed with the well-known autograph of the dis tinguished Carolinian, and it was thought he had misplaced the will. "I do not know much about this cousin of mine," said Viola to Parke Moultrie several days subsequent to the funeral. 'I have heard father speak of a Rhett who has disgraced the family by marrying a traveling actress ; but I have forgotten his Christian name. Marion sounds like it, though I do not think that is it. Shall I write to Rich mond ?" 1 would advise you to do so," said the student. "It is proper that your father's affairs should be attended to at once," and he added as he turned away : "I am curious to see this Marion Rhett this nnknown cousin of mine." That night Viola dispatched a letter to the capital of the Old Dominion, and a week elapsed before a reply came. The letter which she received was signed "Marion Rhett." The writer expressed sorrow at the colonel's sud den death, and much emprise at the fortune that had befallen him. "I am coming down in a few days," he wrote, ,'and I will hAe no rest till the assassin is hung." "I adjudge him a young man," said Parke Moultrie, studying the chirogra phy of the Virginian letter. "A yonng man about my own age-four and twenty. I had expected to see a man in the neighborhood of thirty-six." One evening, several days after the reception of the letter, Marion Rhett reached the plantation. That he was a genuine Rhett conld not be disputed. He possessed the intellectual forehead of his revolution ary ancestors ; be could boast of the Rhett eyes, the Rhett mouth, and the ringing melody of the Rhett voice. What do you think of him!" Viola found time to whisper to Parke Moul trie. He is the person he represents him seli Sumpter Rhett's son," was the student's reply. "But there is some thing about him I do not like, Viola. I cannot explain myself now." Marion Rhett, gradually assumed the reins of government on the plantation. He treated Parke Moultrie deferentially for fortnight, when he suddenly began to wax cold towards him. He hinted that there was a good opening for law students in Richmond, and, unable to bear his ruling longer, and unwilling, for Viola's sake, to resist after the man ner of the Carolinian, he quitted the "Iehall feel lonely while yon are away, Parke," Viola said to him on the night prior to his departure. "I do not like my cousin. He treats me kindly : he is very entertaining ; but there is something about him I do not lUPark Monltrie started at her last .ntJ, TTa hA made use of them while addressing her shortly after Marion Rhett's arrival on tne plantation. "What have you discovered. Viola ?" "Nothing, Parke only there is a something about him I do not like. I cannot explain myself." Parke Moultrie kissed Viola Rhett before he went away, and a week later letter informed her that he had opened a law office in Petersburg, Vir ginia. Occasionally, during the year that followed the departure of the student, Viola heard from him, and he from her. To his repeated advice to watch the doings of Marion Rhett she at last be gan to turn evasive replies, and one evening the contents of a certain letter startled him. Viola was about to become the wife of Marion Rhett ! This announcement, made by the fair girl herself, drove Parke Moultrie from the chair, and he started at the letter, unable to credit the evidences of his son sea. "He has fascinated her with those baleful eyes of his 1" he cried, crunch ing the letter in his hand. "I love the girl; she loves me, or did. I know this By heavens ! his plans shall amount to nothing. I will battle him. if I am compelled to kill him on the field of honor, They are not fitted for one another ; the angels in Heaven above revolt at this match, and the demons down nnder the sea rejoice. He has charmed her, as the serpent charms the bird. He drove me from the planta tion that he might work with none to molest, nor make him afraid. I will not give Viola np without a struggle. With the spell broken she will return to me. She is not sinning no ! no ! Marion lihett has done it all I Maddened almost beyond control, Parke Monltrie stood over his law tables, with bloodless lips and clenched hands. The room was growing dark, and the lamplighter was making his rounds. The lawyer's form was not visible from the street, but his door. flung wide, told passers-by that he had not deserted the office. While he stood in the dusk, slowly recovering from the excitement into which lola s letter had thrown him, he heard a boy's voice at the door. "This is the place, ma'am, bnt I guess Mr. Moultrie's gone ont." "No. I am here." said the lawver. hastening to the door. "If the lady will step in, 1 will light the gas. lie saw the door darkened by a form. clad in female attire, and turned the gas on. The next nionieut, he closed the door, and turned to his visitor. He fort ml a woman who had not passed her twenty-second year. She was very beautiful, fragile in form, in tellectual in countenance, but there lurked the fire of passion in her dark Southern eyes, and it heightened her loveliness. , She d replied into the chair which the lawyer pushed to her, and looked him in the face. "Do you listen to clients after office hours?" she asked, in a rich voice. which rippled over a smile that played over her coral lips. "les, Miss or Madam. "Madam, if yon please, Mr. Moul trie," she said, her eyes flashing hate fully, and then she laid a white, un gloved hand on the table. "That hand," she murmured, "you must separate forever from the hand it grasped before the altar five years ago. Do yon under stand, Mr. Moultrie?" "I think I do. Yon seek a divorce." "And I must not seek in vain," she said, firmly. Parke Moultrie drew some paper from the drawer, and sharpened his pencil. "Please state your case, madam, he said, glancing at her. "Five years ago, come the tenth of next October, I, as Maud Raymond, better known to the playgomg world as Mademoiselle Ueaachampe, was united in marriage to Marion Rhett." At mention of his rival's name, Parke Moultrie almost dropped his pencil. The woman did not seem to notice his emotion, and continued after a brief pause. "1 don t know why 1 married mm. 1 never loved him. He bad no money." "Perhaps he had prospects? sug gested the lawyer. "Prospects 1" echoed the petitioner, with a smile. "Ah I he had prospects. He had a rich uncle Randolph Rhett 1 think his name was. He expected money there, but his marriage with me ruined all his prospects. His nncle cursed him in a long letter, and told him that he had cut him on without a cent I hold the letter. After that. Marion Rhett soon tired of me. He basely deserted me in Mobile. That was three Tears ago. I have spoken to him but once since. It was in Harris burg. I was playing my last engage ment there. It was the night of the 20th of October, 1853." "What 1" cried Parke Monltrie, start ing again. Marion Rhett's wife repeated the declaration. "Are yon confident of the date ? "T Am I can ivmt that I talked with him then and there." "Mrs. Rhett on what grounds do yon petition for a divorce ?" "On the grounds ol desertion ; Dut there in another charce which 1 would to God the court would hear." "Will you make it now ? Jia rrutA tf her feet- and looked the lowrAP in thA ATA All tllA Da&sionS of a Cenci burned in her eyes, and her voice was cuttingly vindictive ana em phatic. "I charge the man who charmed me to the altar with the basest of crimes the crime of murder'" she cried. "Can you prove it?" cried Parke Moultrie springing almost triumph antly from nis cnam "I do not know," she said siowiy. AVi find if thv anirels conld srieak in the courts of. men I He slew Colonel Rhett, his nncle. the dagger ne car l nrnnl1 fit thA death wound which I have seen so minutely described in the papers. I know he killed him, for I have heard him swear that be would do it What sweet revenge if I could prove it 1" "Hold I cried the lawyer, "une oi his lies shall furnish the missing link, r l. o Wter wliiffh ha wrote to the colonel's child one week After the mur der; In that letter be declares that ne was in Alexandria the night of the twentieth." "He was not ! On the morning of the Ilth of October, 1853, I left Har risburg for the South. I was obliged to retire from the stage on account of my health. I reached Cloyden on the 28th. That night I rambled among the sub- v. i,A nwn T saw a man an- proacbing, and I shrank into the shade of a palmetto, ne pwaoeu mc, uu hnshand. He went toward Colonel Rhett's plantation. The next day ne was no in viujuw. m. not seen him since. Mr. Monltrie yon can draw your own conclusions. Parke Monltrie was not slow in draw ing them. The next day he left Richmond, and one night suddenly confronted Marion Rhett A gentleman whom be made known as Mr. Swails, of Pittsburg ac companied him. "Where were yon on the 20 Ih of October, 18o3, inquired Mr. Swails, during the conversation that followed the introduction. The answer came after a moment's thought "In Alexandria and Washington." "Ah 1 a fine old town, Alexandria," said the questioner ; and then the con versation fell npon the mnrder at the plantation. "I was in Richmond that night at the Spotswood, said Marion Rhett The last word was still quivering on his lips when Swails rose to his feet "Marion Rhett, in the name of the Commonwealth tf South Carolina, I arrest yon for tne mnrder of your natu ral nncle, Randolph Rhett" The accused langhed. "Well, welL this is a ioke. Mr. Monltrie, I suppose I am indebted to you for its perpetration. So I am to exhibit a clear alibi to a dozen men. We'll drink over this." With forced good humor Marion Rhett ordered wine, and astounded the officer and his friend. But alas I for his precious life, his alibi was not a good one. The lie in his letter to Viola hung him. The evi dence of his wronged wife he could not overthrow, lie fore be died he con fessed to another crime. Entering his nncle's chamber that fatal night, he found him at the desk. There, before the old man conld recognize him, he drove the little dagger to his breast, stole the will, and wrote the codicil found among the letters. The spell of Marion Rhett's fascina tion dissolved. Viola returned to the love of Parke Monltrie, and became his wife. "You do not need a divorce now," said the lawyer to the deserted actress, after the villain's condemnation. "But I must have it 1 The world shall never point to me and say, 'Her husband was bung by his own lies. The court must separate us before he dies." On the morning of Marion Rhett's last day on earth, certain papers were placed in his hands. They told him that the ties that had bound him to Maud Raymond were broken. The intelligence embittered his last moments ; but he met his fate with the courage of a Rhett It was Marion Rhett who left the daisy leaf in the library, as is related in the first part of this story; it was Marion Rhett who was hnng by his own lies. The actress committed suicide four years si nee in New York. On her per son was found the decree that sepa rated tier from a murderer. Parke Moultrie and his wife are happy. Over his desk hangs a sword and faded uniform. True to the teach ings of his father true to the spirit of the Rbetts he wore them nobly for the "lost cause." Tweuly Jlmrrige Maxima. Husbands need not pass these maxims by, for they are designed for wives; and wives should not despise them, for they are addressed to husbands: (1.) The very nearest approach to domestic hap piness on earth is in the cultivation on both sides of absolute unselfishness. (2.) Never talk at one another either alone or in company. (3.) Never both be angry at once. (4.) Never speak loud to one another unless the house is on fire. (5.) Let each one strive to yield oftenest to the wishes of the other. (6.) Let self-denial be the daily aim and practice of each. (7.) Never find fault, unless it is perfectly certain that a fault has been committed, and always speak lovingly. (8.) Never taunt with a past mistake. (9.) Neglect the whole world besides rather than one another. (10.) Never allow request to be repeated. (11.) Never make a remark at the expense of the other. (12.) Never part for a day without loving words to think of daring ab sence. (13.) Never meet without a loving welcome. (11. ) Never let the snn go down npon any anger or griev ance. (15.) Never let any fault yon have committed go by until yon have frankly confessed it and asked forgive ness. (16.) Never forget the happy hoars of early love. (17.) Never sigh over what might have been, but make the best of what is. (18.) Never for get that marriage is ordained of God, and that His blessing eau make it what it should be. (10.) Never be content till yon know yon are both walking in the narrow way. (20.) Never let your hopes stop short of the eternal home. How Frederick Ih- Creat Re gained Specie 1'av meats. It was just exactly a century before our war that Frederick the Great, al ready so called, was involved in the seven years' war, a most tremendous conflict and one which promised to strip him utterly of his vaunted title, if not of his kingship. He was beaten on every band, and perhaps the fortunate death of the Empress of Russia alone saved (am from annihilation. Paper money was then unknown on the continent and Frederick for ways and means melted down all the silver in his possession,including the immense silver ornaments which his prudent father had placed in the palace at Ber lin with a view to just such an emer gency, rather than to the culture of art. His policy was not to increase the taxes a dollar. He soon saw that the barrels of silver bullion and the silver chandeliers and balconies would not hold out forever, and there was no heln for it but to debase with copper. just exactly as we debased the currency with paper, a century uuer. nui an this, like our emission of paper, was done solely as a war measure. Rut after the war, and when Freder ick came to undertake those measures for the restoration of the country which its wasted condition required, let us see if he inflated or debased his coinage. The seven years' war closed with the peace of Ifubertsbiirg, February W 1703. It was the 1st of April W-fore Frederick reached home, Berlin, inter viewing people on the way and taking prompt measures for the relief, out of his well-nigh empty treasury, of the communities flat with war. Three weeks afterward he decreed a new coinage just half way back in degree of debasement toward the pure stand ard. The degree of alloy was moreover marked upon it and ample warning given that before long even thatshonld beset right A year later (March , 1764) a new decree heralded a new the old decree of purity. which did indeed appear and go into circulation as the only legal tender on the 1st of June following, fourteen months after the treaty of peace. "The way to resume is to resume," thought Father Fritz, a man who failed some times and bitterly in the administration of war, but almost never in tne auimu istration of peace. The secret of fashion is to surprise, . a n never to disappoint. uutuw. Daaayaraok Fair. All those who were ever present will Dear witness that an Irishman "all in his glory was there" bnt not exactly for the reasons generally supposed. In the first place, the song, which makes the "shillelah" the all in all, refers to a traditionary period. A few fights and broken heads, inseparable from all English as well as Irish fairs, of course always took place, but the crowd was too dense to allow of much damage being done. There was not only no room for "science," but no room to strike a blow of a real kind from the shoulder, and "using the toes." We saw no blood flow. Something else in abundance we did see flow, whisky. As for the interior, or main body of the fair, it presented no features materially differing from others previously men tioned ; bnt the outskirts certainly pre sented something very different indeed unique. The fair, as to its great shows and booths, was held in a large hollow, or basin of green ground, on descending into which yon found the immediate skirtings occupied by a set of very little, very low-roofed, hot-like booths, where a busy trade was carried on in fried po tatoes, fried sausages, and oysters, cold or scolloped. Not a bad mixture ; but the cooking, in some cases, seems to be performed by individuals who had never before seen a sausage or an oyster, and who fancied that smoke and peat ashes improved the one. and sand and saw-dust the other. But cookery is by no means the special characteristic allu ded to. It is this: and I will defy the world to produce anything like it. Donnybrook is a village a few miles only from Dublin. The houses are all very small, the largest generally rising no higher than a floor above the ground floor rooms, and every house being en tirely appropriated to the use of the fair-coming people. The rooms below were devoted to whisky-drinking.songs. jokes, politeness, and courtship, with a jig in the middle ; and the very same, but with more elaborate and constant dancing, in the rooms above. Every house presented the same scene yes, every house along the whole village ; and when you came to the narrowest streets the effect was peculiar and ludic rous in the extreme. For observe, the rooms being all crowded to the last man and woman and child they could hold, and the "dancing" especially above stairs being an absolute condi tion, there was no room left for the fiddler. We say there was no room left for him and yet he mnst be among them. There was room for him, as a man, be it understood but not as a fiddler. His elbow required space enough for another man, and this could not be afforded. The problem was, therefore, solved by opening the win dow up-stairs ; the fiddler sat on the window sill, and his elbow worked out side. The effect of this "elbow playing outside the window of every upper floor, and sometimes out of both npper floor and ground floor of every house in a whole street, and on both sides of the way and playing a similar kind of jig surpassed anything of that kind of hnmor in action it has ever been my fortune to witness. If that is not merry fun, show me what is. The elbows ail played so true to time that if yon had net beard a note yon would have known that it was an Irish jig by the motion of all those jaunty and "knowing" el bows. A last word on Donnybrook shall be devoted to one other custom, characteristic of the kindness as well as the humor of tbe nation, which was manifested in a way never seen else where. Once every hour or so, a large police van was driven through the fair to pick np all the very drunken men who were rolling about unable to govern their motions. They were at once lifted into the van, and here many of them again found their legs, and yon heard the muffled singing and the dull thunder of their dancing inside as the philanthropic van passed along. As they got sober they were set free. J he Aaturday Jounml. Happy IlnHbaad. It is a man's own fault if he is un happy with his wife, in nine cases out of ten. It is a very exceptional woman who will not lie all she can lie to an attentive husband, and a more excep tional one who will not lie very dis agreeable if she finds herself wilfully neglected. It would be very easy to hate a man who, having bound a woman to him, made no effort to make her happy ; hard not to love one who was constant and tender ; and when a woman loves she always strives to please. The great men of this world have often Ix-en wretvhed in their domestic relations, while mean and common men have been exceedingly happy. The reason is very plain. Absorled in themselves, those who desired the world's applause were careless of the little world at home ; while those who had none of this egotism strove to keep the hearts that were their own, and were happy in their tenderness. No woman will love a man tbe better for beinir renowned or nrominent. Though he be first among men she will only be prouder, not f under; and if she loses him through this renown, as is often the case, she will not even be proud. But irive her love, appre ciation, kindness, and there is no sacri fice she would not make for his content and comfort The man who loves her well is her hero and her kin if- No less a hero to her thought he is not one to any other : no leas a king though his ouly kingdom is her heart and home. EatlaK Before Sleeping. It is a common mistake to suppose that eating before sleep is injurious. Not at all unfrequently does it happen that people are sleepless for want of food, and a little taken either when they first go to bed or when they thus awake sleepless, will be generally found far more efficacious, and of course infinitely less injurious than any drug in the chemist s phanuaco pia. These are the physical remedies for sleeplessness which have the best recommendation. As for the moral ones, there is certainly a good deal more to be said. Perhaps tne most strincent of all rules are: "Avoid anxiety!" and "Dont go to bed owing . n v)u ul xr frrtlrlmk' f'hewinfr tile nuier cuu oi a quarrel is a iimusaiiu fold more injurious to repose thai swal lowing a whole teapot tul of the very greenest of green tea ! A Meaaonite Divorce. A curious enisode in the railroad depot at Lincoln, Nebraska, the other day. was a Mennonite divorce. The man was anxious to go to Dakota, and U1S H11C WiJIiUUD v , iubiu, after a long argument in Russian and German, they sat down upon tne noor, and. nnenin? a bair containinir 3.(Xl0in gold, counted it out piece by piece, the man taking one-half and the woman the other. They then shook hands and separated, the man jumping npon a train oounu ior uaKoia. Most of the shadows that cross our path through life, are caused by oar standing in oar own ngnu A Dor Collar Story. A correspondent writes to the London Time : "The Paris polioe lately re ceived intelligence that a yonng man of Polish origin was journeying through the suburbs of the capital, and en deavoring to pass off a quantity of iorgea .Russian notes, and last week this interesting wayfarer wos appre hended in a cafe at Sceanx. He was a man of about thirty years of age, who nad Deen rutting rapidly through tbe towns and villages on his route, accom panied only by a large mastiff, that never left him. When arrested be put on an air of injured innocence, protest ing that he was an honest dealer in imitation jewelry, producing a box of samples, and growing more and more defiant as the strict search made upon his person proceeded, without bringing to light anything of a nature to incul pate him. At length his captors, fairly nonplussed, were on the point of dis missing him, when the eye of one of them fell upon the mastiff that had re mained at the door. He noticed that th animal's neck was encircled with a collar of very nnwieldly thickness, and, on taking it off and inspecting it he discovered that it was hollow inside and stuffed with counterfeit notes to the amount of 300. In the face of such proofs the man ceased to deny the facts imputed to him, and began to moralize pathetically npon the flagrant unfair ness of Providence, and the cruel absence of anything like even-handed distributive justice in the apportion ment 01 tne prizes and blanks of bis profession, whose chiefs and magnates invariably came off scot free and mil lionaires, whereas the poor toiling un derling drudges never reaped anything for their pains but the prison and the hulks. These gloomy metaphysics he proceeded to fortify with an anecdote, which, whether authentic or not B certainly very remarkable. It appears that during the Crimean campaign one of the principal regimental canteens in tbe Kussian army was suddenly closed in the faces of officers and men with out notice or warning. Prince Gor- tschakon, furious, rode up the purveyor and demanded an explanation, where upon the latter replied that instead of yielding him, as was commonly sup posed, M 01 clear daily prohts, his business was landing him in downright ruin, inasmuch as the greater part of his receipts consisted of false bank notes. The General, at his wit's end. telegraphed to tbe Emperor, and, on receiving a reply, told the purveyor that if he would open his canteen the spuri ous notes in question should be cashed by the bank as if they bad been genuine. Armed with this assurance, the pur veyor briskly resumed his business, and labored in his vocation with such zeal and diligence that at the end of the war he had the satisfaction of being able to present for payment to the Imperial bank 10,000 worth of counterfeit paper, scarcely any of which had really been received by him in the course of his dealings with the army." Wash lag. Muslin dresses, even of the most del icate colors can be cleaned in ten min utes or a quarter of an honr without losing their color. Melt half a pound of soap in a gallon of water, empty it into a wash-tub, place near two other huge tabs of clean water, and stir into one a qnart of bran, Pat the mnslin in the soap, turn it over and knead it a few minutes ; squeeze it out well, but do not ring it, lest it get torn ; rinse it about quickly in the bran for a couple of minutes. Rinse again well for a couple of minutes. Squeeze oat dry and hang it between two lines. A clear, dry day should be chosen to wash muslin dresses. Half a dozen may be done this way in half an hour. This last rinse may be pre pared in the same way as the rinses for woolen fabrics. A colored pattern on a white ground mnst not be blued. The bran may be dispensed with. ben tbe dress is dry make tbe starch ; for a colored muslin white starch, for a colored muslin white starch, and un boiled bnt made with boiling water, is best for muslin dresses. Stir the starch with the end of a wax candle ; dip tbe dress ; baug it to dry again. When dry rinse it quickly and thoroughly in clear water ; hang it to dry again ; sprinkle and roll it np ; afterward iron it with very hot irons. Hot irons keep the starch stiff. This rinsing after starch ing is called clear starching none of the stiffness, but much of the nnsightli ness of the starch is removed in this way. The advantage of thus cleansing dresses instead of washing them is, first if colored, the process is bo rapid that there is not time for the colors to run ; secondly, the fabric is not rubbed, and therefore not strained and worn ont ; thirdly, the process saves nearly all la bor, and is so quick done that any lady may manage it for herself in the absence of a laundry-maid or a lady's niaid. Household Guide. A Seriona Objection. Personal cleanliness is not invariably a "passion, even with individuals iu the uppei ranks of society. We have heard of a British General, whose anti pathy to ablution was a matter of noto riety among his friends and acquaint ances. Meeting one of the latter one day, the General complained of being unwell. "What seems to le the mat ter V enquired the gentleman. "Can't tell" said the General, "but I don't feel exactly well." "Allow me to prescrilie, said the gentleman. No objection be ing raised, he advised tbe General to lose no time in procuring "a convenient tub, half-tilled with tepid water, and1 (in addition) "a big-sued lump of brown snap. Apply the .soap and the water lilierally, said the gentleman, and repeat the experiment again and again. "Why. said the General, "that simply amounts to washing my self." The gentleman (putting on a very serious look) remarked, "It is tiablo to that objection.' Female Hats. Happy is that human lieing who has the tact to do a disagreeable thing beau tifully. Here are the men of America continually a-babbling concerning the nroravarinir height of feminine Lata in theatre audiences. And yet no manager in tliA lunfl hna had tliM wit to remove these torments in the simple manner adopted by the tunctionary 01 a x reni n provincial theatre. He made no bois terous observations; he gave no stern orders ; not he. He merely printed in lirn letter nn his nlnv-bills this mas ter-piece of genius : ''The manager begs that all good-looking ladies will remove their hats for the accommodation of the rest of the audience. 1 be Aged, the Bald, and the Plain are not expected to comply with this request." From that auspicious night the soaringbonnet and the mountainous hat were invisible at that wise man's theatre. The darkest and most contemptible ignorance is that of mot knowing one's self ; and that all we have and all we excel in is the gift of heaven. "Voiitlis Column. A Littls Talk to ths Girls and Bora. It is very hard for boys and girls between 10 and 20 years to believe what older people tell them concerning the selection of reading matter. If a book is interesting, exciting, thrilling, the young folks want to read it They like to feel their hair stand on end at the hairbreadth escapes of the hero, and their nerves tingle to the ends of their fingers at his exploits, and their faces burn with passionate sympathy in his tribulations and what harm is there in it ? Let ns see what harm there may be. Ye know very well that a child fed on candy and cake and sweetmeats soon loses all healthy appetite for nutritions food, his teeth grow black and crumble away, his stomach becomes deranged, his breath offensive, and the whole physical and mental organization is dwarfed and injured. When he grows older he will crave spices and tobacco and alcohol to stimulate his abnormal appetite and give pungency to tasteless though healthy food. No man who grows np from such childhood is going to have the first positions of honor and trust and usefulness in the community where he lives. The men who hold those positions were fed with milk and bread and meat when they were yonng and not with trash. Now. the mind like the body stows by what it feeds upon. The girl who fills her brain with silly, sentimental, love-sick stories grows np into a silly. sentimental, lackadaisical woman, use less for all the noble and substantial work of life. The boy who feeds on sensational newspapers and exciting novels has no intellectual muscle, no commanding will to make his wsy in the world. 1 hen, aside from the de bilitating effect of such reading, the mind is poisoned by impure associa tions. These thrilling stories have always murder or theft or lying or knavery, as an integral part of their tissue, and boys while reading them live in the companionship of men and women, of boys and girls, with whom they would be ashamed to be seen con versing, whom they would never think of inviting to their houses and intro ducing to their friends, and whose very names they wonld not mention in polite society as associates and equals. Every book that one reads, no less than every dinner one eats, becomes part and par cel of the individual, and we ean no more read without injury an unwhole some book or periodical than we can eat tainted meat and not suffer thereby. Just as there are everywhere stores full of candy and cake, and liquor and tobacco and spices, so there are every where books, newspapers, and maga zines full of the veriest trash, and abounding in everything boys and girls should not read. And just as the healthful stomach, passing all these pernicious baits, will choose sound aliment o the healthful mind will re ject the unwholesome literature current everywhere, and select such only as is intrinsically good. A Word for Boys. Truth is one of the rarest gems. Many a youth has been lost in society by allowing false hood to tarnish his character, and fool ishly throwing it away. If this gem still shines in yonr bosom suffer nothing to displace or diminish its luster. Profanity is a mark of low breeding. Show ns a man that commands respect ; an oath trembles not on his tongue. Read the catalogue of crime. Inquire the character of those who depart from virtue. Withont a single exception yon will find them to be profane. Think of this, and don't let a vile word dis grace yon. Honesty, frankness, generosity, vir tue blessed traits 1 Be these yours, my boys, and we shall not fear. Yon will claim the respect and love of alL You are watched by your elders. Men who are looking for clerks and appren tices have their eyes on you. II you are profane, vulgar, theatre-going, they will not choose yon. If you are up right steady and industrious, before long you will find good places, kind masters, and the prospect of a useful life before yon. Mother and Child. Do animals love each otber ? Certainly. The cow lays her head over the back of her calf as tenderly as a human mother folds her arms about her baby. And there is a look of gentle content and pride in her face, as if well satisfied that her own child is the very prettiest and best in the world ; this, too, is very like a human mother. Suppose we take away the calf does the mother suffer ? Does she express that suffering by all the means in her power ?; W e know that she does. If, then, the animal creation is bound to ns by that strongest and sweetest element of our own nature, which we call affection, shall we not do well to follow the good example so long ago set us by St Francis, who used to call the birds his "brothers snd sisters," and who treated all animals as a part of ths great brotherhood ot the earth ? Ixscct Work. Red coral is formed very slowly, and in deep water, so that it is never found in large pieces. When fishers are in search of it, they row a boat over that part of the sea where the coral insect works, and then drop a large wooden cross with a net at each end. into the water ; this is dragged along, and gets tangled among the rough branches of the coral deep down in tbe water, and breaks off branches of it which fall into the nets, and are picked ont and sold to jewelers, who fashion it into tbe many pretty orna ments which are so popular with tbe ladies. A Doo's Grikf. A writer ssys . My father had a dog who took care of sheep and eows in tbe pasture for years. My brother went to pay a visit to his grandmother a few miles away, and while there was taken sick and died. The dog went to see him every day, and would steal np stairs into his room and when driven ont would sit and cry for him. After my brother's death, he would revisit tbe place once a week. nntil some one beat him, and he came bome scarcely able to walk, and soon after died. Ox morning I found Dora busy at her ironing table, smoothing the towels and stockings. "Isn't it hard for the little arms f I asked. A look like sunshine came into her face, as she glanced toward her mother who waa rocking the baby. "It isn't hard work when I do it for mamma," she said, softly. How true it is that love makes labor sweet . An Abbess is on trial in Moscow for forgeries to tbe amount of CGO.OOO. The case causes a profound sensation in Russia. Varieties. That is true plenty, not to have, bnt not to want riches. UL Vhrytottom Defect in manners is usually the de ficiency of finer perceptions. Emerton. Classical quotations is the parole of literary men all over the world. Dr Johnson. Do not speak of your happiness to a man less fortunate than yourself. Autarch, Working and thinking should go to gether the, thinker working, and the worker thinking. Talking of Southern outrages, Vir ginia, Tennessee and North Carolina have raised 720,000 bushels of peanuts this year. "How many people," says Jeremy Taylor, "are busy in this world" gath ering together a handful of thorns to sit npon. Man's real friend is industry ; it keeps him in health and brines him wealth. if systematically conducted, and kept within due compass. Write your name with kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the people you may come in contact with year by year, and yon will never be forgotten. Do not pride yourself nnon your wealth, for riches have wings ; if there is anything npon which yoa have a right to be proud of, it is, your good conduct and your readiness to extend. Discontent is a sin that is its own punishment, and makes men torment themselves ; it makes the spirit sad the body sick and enjoyments soar ; it arises not from the condition, but the mind. A poor vagrant was about being con demned to imprisonment for that he had no "visible means of support" "Wisible !" cried the astonished defen dent, as he pulled from hia pockets a section of moldy sausage and a hard old emst of bread ; "Wisible ! Judge, ain't them wisible?" It is a weakness of some good men to speak of man as miserable rather than guilty. Indeed it becomes one who has obtained mercy to pity rather than condemn. Yet compassion should be mixed with a holy indignation ; for we may indulge a tenderness to offenders till we lose sight of the abomination of sin. The semi-barbarous tribes along the Amoorn river, in Asia, are said to have a curious mode of performing capital executions. They give the culprit Chinese brandy until he becomes un conscious, and they then bury him alive. xselore bv recovers consciousness be is. of course, smothered by the earth, and so it is a merciful plan. It is a good thing to believe : it is a good thing to admire. By continually looking upward, our minds will them selves grow upward ; and as a man, by indulging in habits of scorn and eon tempt for others, is sure to descend to the level of what he despises ; so the opposite habits of admiration and en thusiastic reverences of excellence im part to ourselves a portion of the qual ities we admire. It is commonly said, and more par ticularly by Lord Shaftesbury, that ridicule is the best test for truth ; for that it will not stick where it is not just; I deny it A truth learned in a certain light and attacked in certain words, by men of wit and humor, may, and often doth, become ridiculous, at least so far that the truth is only remembered snd repeated for the sake of the ridi cule. L'heslerficfd. Ministers of religion see people at their very best When a visit is ex pected tbe Bible or some pious book is found on the parlor table, and all seems serene and fair. Lawyers see people at their worst, and good legal advisers have a task to resist tbe angry feelings that would hurry them into their bitter lawsuits. But doctors see people jast as they are. From them few wish to hide their real condition. A Oenesee County man, says the De troit Free Press, who wanted trt go out on the train yesterday, but missed it. walked np and down tbe depot in a high state of excitement berating him self and every one else, "I know just what my wife will say 1" he exclaimed, as he walked np and down. "When that train gits thar and she don't see me, she 11 git right np and tump over chairs, and smash crockery, and swear that 1 m off on another drunk I It is onr prerogative to command our selves, not events ; not content with tbe inevitable, while we neglect the possi ble. The moral energy we spend in su perfluous efforts, we shall want for ac tions that are really profitable. Evils are more to be dreaded from the sud denness of their approach than from the greatness of their duration, and they will be the more insufferable in proportion as they find ns unprepared. Habits that are ultra are always perni cious. Never be sorry for any generous thing that yon ever did, even if it was betrayed. ever be sorry that yoa were magnanimous, if the man was mean afterwards. Never be sorry that yon gave. It was right for you to give. even 11 you were imposed npon. ion cannot afford to keep on the safe side by being mean. Yoa bad better, many times in your life, for the sake of keep ing yourself in the practice of benevo lence, do things that are questionable, rather than judge so narrowly that yoa will always be on tbe side of cold calcu lation. Give your heart some headway. and in the long run it will be safer lor you. Hassan Effendi has been enjoying a pleasant vacation. He can sympathize with Dr. Newman in his professional jaunt around the world. Whereas the latter went at the expense of the Gov ernment of the United States, the for mer enjoyed himself, while the Sultan of Turkey paid the bills. He had the best of it too, because not being a clergymen he had no reputation to carry along with him, and none of his detractors could say unkind things about his devoting himself too much to worldly pleasures and pursuits. In seeking Jspan he went round the world, coming from Constantinople via Europe, the United States, and San Frai Cisco, and returning my way to China, the Indian Ocean, Ceylon, and the Suez Canal. Tbe object of his mis sion was to purchase erockeryware for the Sultan. He returned with 36 feet of Japenese porcelain, valued at $Xi3. 33 and a few odd mills per foot This was divided into six equal parts, valued at 95,000 a part, and made into vases for the adornment of the palace. Tbe vases are colored bine and white, and were bought dirt-cheap in Yokohama Hassan Effendi knew a cheap piece ot crockery when he saw it having kept a little "old cariosity shop" in Paris for several years. It is not every rag-and-bone dealer whose passage is paid round the world in order to purchase pottery eheap for somebody else. - . i . 3 3 its 1!;; n 1 fi I, 11 -I 1 1 fi
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