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.
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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
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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.
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