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B. F. SCHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION THE UNION AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS. Editor and Proprietor.
YQL. XXIX. MIFFLINTOWX. JUNIATA COUNTY, PEXNA., FEBRUARY 10, 1S75. . NO. 6.
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IT 1 NO.
I re seen many a girl
Who would marry a churl.
Provided he'd plenty of gold,
And would live to repent,
Whea the mo tier waa apcut
When she found that her heart had been" goM,
It ia so ! it is ao!
Vou may smile if you like,
Hut it's DO.
I've known many a huts
Who would thoughtlessly pass
Whole hours parading the street;
While the mother would scrub
All the while at the tub.
Never minding the cold nor the heat.
It is so ! it ia ho !
Yon may aniil if yon like.
Hut it's so.
There is many a man
Who will "dress" if he can.
No matter how empty his purse;
And his tailor may look.
When he settles his book.
For his patron has bolted or worse.
It is no ! it is so !
You may smile if you like
Iiut it's so.
I know people so nice
They will faint in a trice
If yon mention hard labor to them;
Yet their parents were poor,
Aud were forced to endure
Many hardhia life's current to stem.
It is so ! it is so !
Yon may smile if you like.
Hut it's so.
There are many about.
With a face "long drawn out,"
Who will prate for the barm of a laugh;
Yet they'll cheat all the week.
Though on Sunday's so meek.
To my mind they're too pious by half.
It is so ! it is so !
Y'ou may smile if too like.
But it's so.
MIM K1.I.1VT.
Too Severe ranUhmeBl.
If sabre and bowstring, impalement,
hurrying alive, or blowing from the
muzzle of cannon, would put an end to
crime, then the Khans, Shahs and Sal
tans of the east would long ago have
succeeded in making their turbaned
millions by firman and fetwa. The
Kuout in Kauai, the Persian bastinado,
aud the subtleties of Tartar proficients
in the art of giving pain, have failed to
extirpate the deathless crop of offences
against law. In China, Siam and Japan
rnueh perverted ingenuity has been ex
pended in devising penalties excep
tionally apa!litig, but fortunately there
is a limit to the sensitiveness of the
throbbing nerves and quivering flesh,
and arbitrary power struggles in vain
against the fatilistic apathy which is a
marked characteristic of the widely
spread Mongolian race. Almost the
climax of absurdity, in pressing the
argumeut of those who advocate severe
punishments, is reached when we find
it easy in China to hire a substitute
ready to undergo any penalty, even
death, in the place of criminal who
can afford the luxury of vicarious suf
fering! Poor Chang knows that the
cangue, and the scourge, and the
dungeon, constitute an ugly perspec
tive and he is no more desirous than
other people of receiving the stroke of
the sharp sword-knife across that sup
ple neck of his. lint he cannot resist
the offer of the money that bnys him as
a sheep is bought, lie spends by an
ticipation, every grain of silver in the
bag of glittering dollars that is the
make weight for uis poor life, bnt not
selfishly, according to the ethics of the
flowery land. Those ten taels are Lil's
dowry. The tailor who is to marry
her asks more it is true, but little
haggling will close the bargain. Then,
when the daughter is established in a
respectible position, it is time to think
of clever young Cuing, the pig-tailed
hopef ul of the house.
A sharp lad Ching, who can recite
already a good deal of poetry, and who
paints the neatest verses on every scrap
of tinted paper that he can beg or steal.
It wonld be a thousand pities to ap
prentice so promising a youth to some
beggarly barge captain or prosaic cob
bler, in default of the thirty dollars
for which his tutor, promises to
turn him out a scholar budding
mandarin. Then three are the joss
sticks, the incense, and red paper to
burn at the tiny altar before the images
of revered ancestors who will be en
nobled so soon as aspiring Ching wears
the glass button and the peacock's
feather of a graduate. Add to these a
few opium smokes, some good dinners
of shark's fin aud sea sings, an evening
at the theatre, a treat of fire-works, a
match at kite-flying, and Ching is ready
to kneel and bend his shaven head and
passive throat for the sweep of the
scimitar. All the Year Hound.
KaiK or'tae-f"o-lal.
- "I should like to see a world peopled
with men alone, just to learn what kind
of creatures they would become ; but I
never expect to. There would be bnt
one man in it at a time. Be wonld
have eaten all the rest."
"I should like to see world peopled
with women alone ; bnt I never shall
1 would not dare to go near it"
"I should like to see the most perfect
of human beings but not till after I
am dead aud in another state of exist
ence ; for it is a sad thing to have no
character among one's fellows."
"I wish that 1 had ingenuity enough
to steal without being caught at it ; be
cause reputation and respect in the
world are pleasant things to secure."
"I am told that human breath poi
sons the air, aud the trees have to keep
it pure by sucking the poison out It
. ts ma that a OTP at DUOT DeODle
are put into the world for nothing but
to make hard von ior tuo trees.
not understand it."
"There is another catastrophe that I
am in dread of. I am afraid that we
shall learn some dar to read one an
other's thoughts. That will be the end
of society, and of marriage. We shall
1...- I.tta olrtnA after that.
UBVO V .
I knew a man once who did not like
to have his name in the newspapers, x
have not seen him since I was a boy. I
think he is dead."
When I was young I had thoughts
aI m.minir md I heiran to look for a
wife whom all women would speak well
. t r I..M
Of ; DU i never iouuu net. x
"There was a place set apart in
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Heaven lor gooa wives wno coma luuge
- ;vai tliinir as harshlv when a man
did it as when a woman did it. But it
has never been occupied, 1 believe.
"1 foolishly appnea myseu raw k
the study of the laws. It is fortunate
that I gave it up, for I should have
been sorry to loose all sense of justice."
"Since my eyes began to grow dim,
and I do not read any more, 1 find my
self daily growing in wisdom."
"I dreamed last night that I had
three friends. How crazy we are in
our sleep."
.No. 67, Dead Letter Office.
BULL V.
With a sigh of relief Daisy Baford
threw down on her desk, No 67 in the
gallery appropriated to the ladies' divi
sion of the Dead-Letter Office, the
letters she had been twisting and turn
ing for the last five minutes.
"To think," said she, "that that
hieroglyphic should stand for John
Smith, this one for Bill Brown, and
that one for Polly Jones. Why do not
people learn to write ? Education seems
to do no good, for the more sense and
learning they have the worse they write.
Wouldn't Horace Greeley and-J ales
Janinhave stood nice civilservice ex
aminations ? Talleyrand said language
wis given to conceal meaning, an i I
wonder what he thought of letter
writing ? Oh I dear I Only twelve
o'clock, and the regulations gay clerks
roust be at their desks from niue till
three. Well, I've nearly directed two
hundred letters, a day's office work."
She was a bright, pretty little thing,
daiuty and sparkling as a tropical jewel,
with large, dark eyes, rosy cheeks,
cheery lips, and brown, rippling hair ;
a sunny, glowing face that uncon
sciously recalled the music of the
"Beautiful Blue Danube," and a figure
light and graceful as forest ferns. True,
she seemed rather out of place in the
somber and business looking gallery,
w ith its groups of sad, pale-faced elderly
women, writing quietly and silently at
their desks, seldom speaking or smiling,
and many of them wearing that look of
calm despair and hopeless resignation
so often seen in the faces of those who
have known better days ; yet she was
very proud of her clerkship, very grate
ful for her salary, and wondered what
she would have done without it.
ITer father was a gay, dashing officer,
fond of luxnry and pleasure ; but, as
gay, dashing officers, have a knack of
doing he died deeply in debt leaving
his wife and child an honored name and
untarnished memory, but no mouey.
Mrs. Buford, though lovely and accom
plished, was.as most officers' wives are,
sadly lacking in business qualities, and
there is no telling what humiliating ex
periences of privation and dependence,
coldness and neglect, they might have
acquired, had not Daisy, instinctively
realizing their needs and her duty, de
termined, child though she was, to be
independent and to make some effort to
support herself and mother.
Like all nobly born aud well-edncateJ
women suddenly thrown on their own
resources for support, Daisy's first im
pulse was to teach, and she applied in
numerous quarters for position as
governess or teacher, but people would
ask with a smile her age, qualifications,
recommendations, etc., and her pretty
face and seventeen years generally
closed the subject,
Some one suggested the Departments,
adding "You have so many friends ana
such high influence you can easily get
an appointment ;" but Daisy, like the
balance of us, found very poor reeds to
lean on in time of need. Her father
had been on intimate terms with most )
of the high officials in Washington, bnt j
when she applied to them to recommend
her, the invariable answer was "Really,
my dear, I would be glad to do so, but
you know I have no influence."
Men who dined every week with the
President, rode in Government car
riages, and had sons, cousins, and
nephews in every branch of the public's
service, would shake their heads gravely
and say, "I would not dare ask a favor
of the Government."
She met one day by chance old
Senator M , whose son, when wounded
at Gettysburg, was taken by Col.
Buford to his camp and kindly nursed
till he died. The old man was not a
great debater or party leader, and
maybe that was why politics had left
him enough heart to rememler the
kindness of his boy and be grateful for
it. Hearing of Daisy's efforts, he said,
'.Leave it to me, little girl, I'll attend
to it ;" and in a few days bronght her
appointment.
To-day was her second anniversary in
office, and delighting, girl-like, in com
memorating events and making fete
days of every unusual occurrence, she
had, in honor of the occasion, a fresh
bouquet on her desk and beautiful flow
ers in her hair and bodice. Letter after
letter had been directed and filed, when
one, written in a bold manly hand, at
tracted her attention. Probably no
spot on earth has such a dampening in
fluence on female curiosity as the Dead
Letter Office, and after two or three
weeks' service a clerk (even though it
is a woman) seldom glances at a letter,
never reads one. Some prophetic in
fluence, however, something magnetic
in the touch of the one Daisy held in her
hand prompted her to read the follow
ing paces :
"Miss Rebecca : I can hardly think
that this letter will be a surprise to
you, for you must have diviued long
since the feeling that prompts it, aud
anticipated the avowal it makes. Again
and again I have sought your presence
to make this declaration, but each
time my trembling lips refused to do
my heart's bidding, and now in despair
I trust the message to my pen. Some
times I fear you do not love me, or yon
wonld read my thoughts and make it
less difficult for us to understand each
other. Do you love me ? Will you be
my wife ? You often banter me about
my castle as you call it, ask if 1 am
afraid of ghosts there, and wender what
business I, an old bachelor, have with
fountains, roses, statues, ic Now let
me tell yon that when I planned and
built that house, the hojie that some
day it wonld be your happy home, con
secrated corner-stone and roof : dream
ing of the time when they wonld per
fume the air you breathed, I planted
those roses and vines. Even the books
in the library, the pictures on the walls,
the ornaments on the mantel, aye, the
little fancy churn in the dairy all were
selected with reference to your taste.
Tell me, dear one, that I have not hoped
in vain, that all these long years I have
not persned a phantom. I await
patiently your answer but implore you
not to prolong my suspense. Meet me
to morrow evening at the gate, and let
me read my fate in your eyes, lie iect
fullr, oh I that 1 had the privilege of
signing myself loving) yours,
The envelope was marked Miss Re
becca. "Poor fellow," sighed Daisy, reading
; . ,w,n,l Una what a nitv it was lost.
though it's three months since it was
" . iL.Jm .ntllaH
written, ana oi course mej D ocincu.
matters long ago."
As distinctly as if he stood before her
i in fancrr. the strong, manly.
bashful man. Like all city girls she
thought village or country beaux must
be awkward or boobyish, with red
faces, bushy whiskers, and big coarse
hands, red and brown from work. Re
becca 1 Was she blonde or brunette,
tall or petite ? What a charming picture
she made of that castle, with its roses
and vines, and as she thought of it bow
her girlish hpart hungered for home
pleasures and home duties ! How she
yearned for the sight of forest oaks and
wild flowers ; for the companionship of
free, nntrammeled men and women ;
men sot trimmed and trained and
dwarfed by routine and custom like the
shurhs in La Fayette park ; women not
bubbling and sparkling like parlor foun
tains for epecial occasions and in a
certain mold. Then she thought with a
sigh how much better opportunity
village girls have of settling in life than
city belles, and how full of ghostly,
dried-np old maids all these city streets
are. Here in Washington beaux are
plentiful, bnt a marrying man is a rqra
avix, and flirtations, balls, and levees
seldom end in a wedding.
She directed the letter mechanically,
and was about to file it, when a sudden
impulse stayed her hand. Tearing a
slip of paper she wrote :
"I am so sorry your letter did not
reach its destination, though I trust
you and Rebecca are married and happy
now. A woman's decision is, however,
always uncertain, and should she be
blind enough to her own good to decline
such an oiler as yours, do not be dis
couraged ; remember there are always
good fish in the sea ; come to Washing
ton, inquire at the Dead Letter Office
for clerk 67, and see if destiny has not
ever some compensation in reserve for
the brave and noble."
Ousting a furtive glance around and
finding nobody was looking, she took
some flowers from her bouquet, placed
them in the slip of paper, and enclosed
them in the letter, forgetting, however,
to preserve the signature.
Amused and refreshed by her per
formance as some pet squirrel who
frisks from his cage and cuts a mis
chievous prank, she relapsed into a
reverie, wondering what her mother
would say to all this, what the writer
would think of her, and how mortified
he would be to learn that a stranger
had read his letter.
"A penny lor your thoughts, little
one," cried from a neighboring desk
Mrs. R., who was the life of her corner
and an excellent antidote for ghosts in
any quarter. "Why, bless your soul,
child, you've been hitting for ten min
utes with your hands clapped to your
face. I thought you were crying."
"Xo, no," said Daisy, smiling, "only
dreaming."
"Dreams are nice, little one, but they
don't suit office work ; I tell you they
won't do for dead Utters."
Several months passed away, months
as much alike in their dull monotony
and dreary routine for Daisy anil her
office companions as Yankee sehool
ma'ms, only one day pay-day in the
livelong month to be anticipated or re
membered with pleasure.
She was rather a belle iu the circle,
and yet, poor child, at times her life
seemed very useless and aimless. Sated
with compliments, balls, flir'ations, and
other gilded fruits of fashionable
society.really as unsatisfying to genuine
sentiment as French bon-bons to a
healthy appetite, she longed for a taste
of real enjoyment and sincere friend
ship. Bright, quick at repartee, rather
saucy and original, she sang, played,
and danced remarkably well, and had
that winning grace and artless ease of
manner so much more attractive than ;
style or beauty, aud more becoming
than pearls or diamonds.
One morning, bright and fresh as a
rosebud, she tripped into the oftiee.
"Ah! little one," said Mrs. R.,
vigilant as a hawk and always glad to
tease, "those blushes are tell-tale.
Come, now, confess like a good girl.
Who is that tall, handsome, dark-haired
gentleman who walks with you every
morning to the ofii'-e ? '
"Indeed, Mrs. 11., I did not know it
was an unusual thing for me to have a
bean."
"Lots of beaux, dear, but not like
this one. Who is he ? Where does he
come from ? How did yon meet him ?"
"He is an old friend of papa, Mrs.
R Gen. Breen, of the volunteers ;
came to Washington on business, and
called to ste mamma out of respect for
my dear father s memory, lie is so
kind and agreeable."
Iudeed I Beware, little one, and
don't lose your heart. I'll be bound
you've promised to go with him to hear
the ruusic at the Capitol this evening.
Eh ?"
Daisy was hard at work at her desk
and made no reply. But sure enough
that evening, strolling through the
beantifiil walks of the Capitol park,
she listened with flushed cheeks and
sparkling eyes to the music of a voice
more eloquent than choir or band.
"Yon say, general, you came to
Washington by invitation. I thonght
yon were an entire stranger here."
"Yes, Miss Daisv, I came to keep an
appointment with No. 67 of the Dead-
Lietter OfliL-e, and only hope she will
fulfill his promise," and he drew from
his pocket the letter poor Daisy re
mem ler but too Well
Oh ? has that letter risen in judg
ment against me?' cried she, burying
her face iu her bauds. "I thonght you
liked me I bped and you must have
despised me all the time."
"Indeed, Miss Daisy, I loved you be
fore we met, and now that I know you,
can conceive no happiness separated
from yon. Let me explain, or you will
think me a faithless, inconsistent booby.
I huve led a dreamy, solitary life, and
indulged in some foolish castle-building.
I had known Rebecca all her life,
and imagined she possessed the quali
ties I ascriled to my ideal. She was a
fair timid child, universally petted and
spoiled. I often rocked her to sleep in
my arms when she was quite small. As
a school-girl she used to bring her
sums and abstracts to me to do, and as
a young lady made me equally useful,
though I now believe she never dreamed
of me bnt as an old friend that she could
use as she pleased. The day after I
wrote that letter I went to see her, and
found her standing in the gate. Taking
her hand, I asked her to walk with me.
"'Gladly,' she replied, 'but I've
promised professor to go with him to
tlie Mendelssohn Society.'
"The next morning I was called out
of town, and the first person I met on
returning was Rebecca's father, crushed
and mortified beyond expression with
the news that his daughter had eloped
with Professor Kukkeudorf, an ngly,
bald-headed, near-sighted German con
ceited as foreign music-masters gene
rally are, and not sufficiently intelligent
to kuow what a ridiculous object a
piano-playing, duet-singing man is.
The wakiug from my sweet and long-
cherished dream was of course painful.
Disappointment is always bitter.
"The letter with your precious little
note and flowers then came. I wrote
to a friend here, asking him to find out
who clerk 67 was, and tell me all about
her. When his reply came, describing
you, saying you were the daughter of
my dear old friend and had acted so
nobly in adversity, I determined to try
to win jour love and maybe add a new
chapter to the lovers' book of destiny.
Have I succeeded ? Will you be my
wife my own bright, beautiful bride ?"
"Bat what will mamma ray f "
"That's all settled. I went first to
mamma, told her my story, and asked
her to bless my suit and to give me her
permission to love and care for her as a
son."
"And and yon never w ill tell any
body how you first heard of clerk 67 ?"
"Never, though I shall always bless
67 as the magic number that drew for
me the dearest prize in life's lottery."
They had strayed now far from the
crowd, and were in a quiet and retired
arbor, where, we can suppose, no one
saw the kiss that sealed the betrothal
which deprived the Dead-Letter Office
of its fairest and youngest clerk, but
gave a gallant soldier a true and loving
wife. .
Cilory.
Glory ! The name resounds like a
surging sea. It dazzles us with a blaze
of splendid meaning. It is the end and
object of all the triumphs that hnman
power can achieve. It has been fiercely
fought for by nations and by men ; it
has been pursued throughout all time ;
it has been sought more passionately
than even love or money. And it tempts
not only actors, but lookers-on as well,
for it corresponds to an imperious
necessity which acts on every one of us ;
it satisfies that irresistible disposition
to be sometimes enthusiastic about
something no matter what which is
at the bottom of all natures, however
ponderously placid they may be. The
world is of a single mind upon the sub
ject ; and, on the whole, the world is
right to be unanimously convinced, for
glory has been so singularly useful to
its progress, that we may reasonably
doubt whether we could possibly have
arrived at our present state without it.
Its rarity, and the extreme difficulty of
obtaining it, have ao largely added to
its value that no regard on earth can be
compared to it. Most other prizes may
be competed for by any man who has
ambition, strength, and intellect ;
wealth, rank, and power may be won
single-handed, by personal capacity ;
but glory, unlike those easier summits,
cannot be climbed aloue no solitary
traveler can reach its brilliant heights.
The reason is, that while each of us can
fight onr own way alone on the one
condition of being strong enough to
every other success in life, no man can
seize glory for himself. Glory is not a
diadem which any aspirant, whatever
be his force of arm or will, can lift un
assisted on to his own head ; it must be
placed there by applauding nations, and
the whole earth must ratify the crown
ing. And if individual claimants can
require it only by the acclamations of
maukind, so, inversely, nations are do
pendent for it on the actions of their
citizens. It is as essentially a joint pro
duet of men and States as a baby is of
its two parents ; neither of them can
create it witbont the other's aid. It
must be earned by them collectively,
and be bestowed by them reciprocally ;
its sources and its nature are, con
sequently, identical in each of its two
forms, personal and natiou.il ; it is only
in its consequence and its applications
that differences arise. This unity of
its elements facilitates iu study, but
still it is so huge a subject that the at
tempt to discuss it here is like trying to
put the Mediterranean into the dip of
Piccadilly. IUackwwl ' Majaziw..
A Drnidieal Wedding.
The following description of a mar
riage in the Druidical days is given in
Sain tine's "Myths of the Rhine."
At a place where two roads meet the
cracking of a whip is heard ; hogs, sheep
and small oxen are driven aside to make
way for a kind of procession, consisting
of grave and solemn men and women.
It is a wedding.
Two young people have just had their j
union blessed by the priests nsder the
sacred oak. The bride is dressed in
black and wears a wreath of dark leaves I
on her head. She walks in the midst j
of her friends. A matron, who walks 1
on her left, holds before her eyes a
white cloth ; it is a shioud, the shroud
in which she will be buried one of these
days. On her right a Druid intones a
chant in which he enumerates in solemn
rythm all the troubles and all the anx
ieties which await her in wedded life.
From this day, young wife, thou
alone wilt have to bear all the burden
of your little household.
You will have to attend the baking
oven, to provide fuel, and to go in
search of food ; you will have to pre
pare the resinous torch and the lamp.
Yon will attend to the cow aud even
to the horse if your husband requires
it.
Always full of respect, you will wait
on him, standing behind him at his
meals.
If he expresses a wish to take yon
with him to war, you will accompany
him to carry his baggage, to keep his
arms in good condition, and to nurse
him if he should be sick or wonnded.
Happiness consists in the fulfilment
of duty. Be happy, my child.
What is still more strange is that this
dolorous wedding song but slightly
altered, is still in some parts of Erance
at this day addressed to brides by local
minstrels.
KarKiral Love Letter.
It has sometimes been supposed tbf.t
the extremely charming grace and
readiness with which Mr. Bob Sawyer
entertained general society with hor
ribly interesting surgical tales reached
a step beyond nature. That this sup
position is groundless seems to be
proved by the manner of courtship of
one Mr. Joseph Sargent, of London,
recently tutored for breach of promise
of marriage. "With what a graceful
tenderness he loves ! Mr. Joseph Ad
dison might well have said of Josiah,
who was a surgeon in a hospital, and
in that character wrote divers letters to
his Lydia. Ordinary courtship Josiah
seems to have despised ; his way was
to chop off people's legs and arm", and
then frantically to seize a pen and de
scribe the operation to the superior
creature who possessed his heart. He
was accustomed, in genial little notes,
to anticipate the occurrences of the day.
"It is very likely," he affably remarks,
"we are going to take a child's leg off,"
and goes on to give Lydia professional
opinions concerning her pulse, when
anyother fiancee wouldhave talked com
monplace trah abont her lily-white
hind. It is so seldom that soft romance
and lofty practically world has great
cause to regret the oblivion which now
surrounds the ingenious Josiah.
reually of Betas Poor.
A rich man beginning to fall, is held
up by his friends ; but a poor man be
ing down, is thrust away by his friends;
when s rich man is fallen, he hath many
helpers ; he speaketh things hot to be
spoken, and yet men justify him ; the
poor man slips, and they rebuke him,
he spoke wisely, and could have no
place. When a rich man speaketh,
every man holdeth his tongue, and
look ; what be saith they extol it to the
clouds ; bnt if a poor man speak, they
say, what fellow is this ?
Help, and be Helped.
One of onr successful manufacturers
relates the following, in his early ex
perience :
Many years since, when a young man,
his financial affiairs became straitened.
Oa a certain day he had notes falling
due ; but as the products of his looms
were not selling, he ha 1 no money, and
the prospect before him was gloomy
enough. Not knowing which way to
look for help, he yet resolved to do
what what he could. With this intent,
he rose early on the morning of the day
of payment, and being a working man,
prepared himself for a visit to town ;
remarking to his wife that he might as
well go on. as it could do no harm if it
did no good.
Arriving in the city, with no definite
plan, he passed along one street, turned
into another, and so onward, until at
length, his attention was drawn to quite
a number of people upon the sidewalk.
Curiosity led him nearer, to inquire the
cause. In the centre of the group he
saw a little boy crying. Having sold
his matches, the child had lost the
money, amounting to ten cents, and
was afraid to go home lest, instead of
sympathy for his loss, he should find a
whipping. Our manufacturer viewed
the scene but a moment when he said to
himself, that " my case exactly. He
then remembered that he had still left
in his pocket, one small piece of silver
money ; so pressing through the crowd,
be placed it into the hand of the child
and quickly withdrew. Light beamed
again on the face of the boy, his tears
dried, the crowd dispersed as magically
as they seem to gather in the thronged
city, and the comforted child went on
his way rejoicing.
Not so with our friend. With a heavy
heart he continued his almost aimless
walk, when suddenly a business ao
qnaintance arrested him with a hearty
slap on the shoulder.
"Well, Mr. S., how do you do?
Haven't been in to see ns for a long
time ?"
"True," replied our friend, in a de
spoudeut tone ; "times are so hard with
me that really I don't feel like calling
upon aiiybody."
"Haul times indeed ! Times are not
hard with us ; make ns a call at onr
offi.v."
"Pondering the invitation sa warmly
passed, our manufacturer thought to
himself, well, if times are not hard with
this house, that mnst be the place for
me. Hd called ; arranged for placing
his goods in the hands of the firm, and
received a loan in cash.
That night, we may believe, a happy
match boy, with his loss restored, and a
light-hearted manufacturer with can
celled notes, lay down to please dreams.
I.et Rliwtr Aloi r.
A New York Medical Journal says :
Oue of the most generally diffused er
roneous notions is that it is good and
lieneficial to break a blister, whether it
is caused by a burn or the heating of a
part of the body by continued friction
under pressure, to which the feet es
pecially are exposed after loBg walks
in illy fitting shoes or lwots. Such
blisters are always found filled with a
clear liquid, which mnst be retained
and not drawn off by lancing them, and
also those blisters often caused by a
part of the skin being forcibly pinched
and squeezed, and which contains blood
must be left alone. This water or blood
in blisters is a healing substance, of a
kind most appropriate for the parts
where the skin is destroyed, and if th?
blister is allowed to dry out by itself
the new skin forms much more rapidly
under it, and much pain is avoided. If
the blister contains blood, it must be
treated in the same way, as blood is
the best healing salve. And, by the
way, while using the word "healing
salve," it may be well to . state that
there are no healing salves or healing
plasters. All Salves and plasters retard
healing, and many wounds which heal
notwithstanding the salves and plasters
applied, would heal in half the time if
left alone.
It is only in exceptional cases that a
blister may be punctured, namely,
when very full of fluid so as to cause
much pain by its tension, a prick of a
fine needle may be given so as to allow
the excess of tin id a chance of escape.
Instead of breaking a blister and de
stroying the loose skin over it, it should
be protected so as to guard against any
such destruction by accident.
Tbe Tlroog In the Wrong
Ottire.
That "good loy" in the school of
journalists presided over by the French
censors of the press, the immaculate
Francais, is still the bntt of the fra
ternity. The last hit at this most re
spectable print appears in the Evene
ment, which describes the following
occurrence : A fashionable dramatic
author and novelist lately called at the
office of the Francais to inquire the fate
of a fcuilU ton he had submitted to the
editor. As this gentleman had received
him very kindly the first time he called
he was much surprised to find himself
greeted with much coldness by one of
the staff, who had been desired to re
turn him the manuscript in qnestion.
"Then my novel has not given satis
faction?" exclaimed the astonished
author. "I don't know that exactly,"
was the answer, "but I am instructed
to call your attention to this passage in
the thirty-seventh page." And the
anthor read as follows : . "Here he was
seized with an irresistible tendency to
slumber. Was it surprising? He had
just perused two columns of the Fran-
no more questions, but disappeared in
a paroxysm of irreverent laughter to
dispose of his manuscript in a quarter
where the present passage is regarded
with more indulgence.
Krlf-t'oneeit.
The self conceit of the young is the
source of those dangers to which they
are exposed, and it is peculiarly unfor
tunate that the sge which stands most
in need of the counsel of the wise,
shonld be the most prone to condemn
it; confident in the opinions which they
adopt, and in the measures which thev
pursne.they seem as if they understood
Solomon to say, not who knoweth, but
who is ignorant of what is good for man
all the days of his life t The bliss to
be aimed at ia, in their opinion, fully
apparent It is not the danger of mis
take, bnt the failure of success which
they dread. Activity to seize, not sa
gacity to discern, is the only requisite
which they value. And, bigotry fol
lowing, prejudice is but a step further.
An enterprising patent medicine man,
who evidently intends to take time by
the fore lock, advertises that "summer
approaches. Tbe sun's increase power
of evaporation diffuses malarious prin
cipals. Suffering and body infirmity
increases. Even robust health is inse
cure without a remedy to ward off sick
ness. Have then the antidote remedy."
Condensed Milk and Its Jfann-farlnre.
Condensed milk has, of late years,
become of so much importance, both
at home and in foreign countries, that
a few facts in relation to it will not
come amiss.
The first idea of condensing milk,
appears to have been entertained bv the
well known scientist. Professor Hora
ford, whose food prod nets have, per
haps, given him as much reputation as
his extended scientific knowledge. He
first conceived the idea of reducing
milk to a powder or to a donghy paste
which shonld contain all the intrinsic
principles of the fresh milk, and yet
keep, when packed in tin, any length
of time or in any climate, and be good
when opened. These experiments were
made as early as IS 19. After manv
attempts the Professor satisfied himselt
that by evaporation at a low tempera
ture and the addition of cane sugar, an
article could be produced which would
retain the desired qualities. Gail Bor
den was at this time an assistant of
Professor Hereford, and from some
unknown or at least unexplained reason,
the Professor made over to his assistant
Borden, the result of his experiments,
and the future right to use them as he
pleased. One year after this curious
transaction, Borden having in the mean
time perfected his process, formed a
company, and acquiring sufficient capi
tal to push his enterprise, soon ob
tained a sale for his product, and laid
the foundation for a colossal trade.
In lstj6 a manufactory of condensed
milk was founded in the town of Cham.
Switzerland, and soon became known in
burope as favorably competing with
tbe natural milk supplied to the cities.
Baron Liebig also added to its authority
by endorsing it. In consequence of
the increasing consumption in Switzer
land and Germany, several new factories
were started, but none turned out as
good an article or did as much bnsiness
as the Cham factory. At the Vienna
exposition the product was exhibited
by four competitors in tbe German de
partment, three in the Swiss, as well as
one in each of the English, Norwegian,
and Spanish departments, but it is
represented that these three latter were
deficient both in color and consistency.
it was discovered that several of the
brands were manufactured by the same
person, and that there were really in
Europe only four concerns engaged in
the manufacture namely : one each in
Cham, Kempton, Bivaris, Thnringia,
mLondon. lhe products of these four
factories are essentially the same, dif
fering scarcely any under the most
searching examination.
In spite, however, of the factories in
Germany and Switzerland, we have re
cently noted that there have been some
heavy shipments made to Germany of
condensed milk. The explanation of
this fact lies in the tax on sugar, which
is killing the German condensed milk
trade and encouraging the importation
of the foreign manufactured product.
mere are nve or six manufactories
of condensed milk in America, which
turn out in the aggregate perhaps, font
times as much m.lk as the foreign fac
tories. Besides that, within the last
year, the trade with GurmaDy has bid
fair to take quite a quautity of the
surplus manufacture off our hands
Some of onr companks are doing a
large bnsiness with China aud Japan,
where the milk is a great favorite.
American Grocer.
Rime of Ike llaudkrrrhit-l.
Until the reign of the Empress Jose
phine, a handkerchief was thonght in
France so shocking an object that a
lady wonld never have dared to use it
before any oue. The word was even
carefully avoided in refined conversa
tion. An actor who would have used a
handkerchief on the stage, even in the
most tearful moments of the play,
wonld have been unmercifully hissed ;
and it was only in the beginning of the
present century that a celebrated actress
Mile. Duchesno:se, dared to appear
with a handkerchief in her hand. Hav
ing to speak of this handkerchief in the
course of the piece, she never could
summon courage to call it by its true
name, bnt referred to it as a light tis
sue. A few years later, a translation of
one of Shakespeare's plays, by Alfred
de Vigny, having been acted, the word
handkerchief was Used, for the first
time on the stage, amid cries of indig
nation from a great part of the bouse.
1 doubt if even to-day r rench elryantr
wonld carry handkerchiefs if the wife
of Napoleon L bad not given tbe signal
for adopting them. The Empress
Josephiue, although really lovely, had
ugly teeth, lo conceal them she was
in the habit of carrying small handker
chiefs, adorned with costly laces, which
she continually raised gracefully to her
lips. Of course all the ladies of the
court followed her example, and hand
kerchiefs have rapidly become an im
portant and costly part of the feminine
toilet ; so much so that the price of a
single handkerchief of the trouxxran of
the Duchess of Edinburgh would make
the fortune of a necessitous family.
Old TbonehtK.
Nothing is more strange than the
incessant reproduction of old thoughts
nnder the guise of new and advanced
opinions. Jt would seem as ll the
human mind, with all its restless ac
tivity, was destined to revolve in an
endless circle. Its progress is marked
by many changes and discoveries ; it
sees and understands far more clearly
the facts that lie along the line of the
route, and the modes or laws under
hich these facts occur : but this route
in its higher levels always returns upon
itself. Nature and all its secrets be
come better known and the powers of
nature are brought more nnder human
control ; but tbe sources of nature and
life and thought all the ultimate pro
blems of being never become more
clearly intelligible. Not only so, but
the last etlorts oi unman reasoning on
these subjects are even as the first.
Different in form, and even sometimes
not greatly in form, they are in sub
stance the same. Bold as the course of
scientific adventure has seemed for a
time, it ends very much as it began ;
and men of the nineteenth century look
over the same abysses of speculation as
did their forefathers thousands of years
before. No philosophy of theism can
be said to have advanced beyond the
book and Job ; and Professor Tyndall,
addressing the world from the throne
of modern science which the chair of
the British Association ought to be
repeats the thoughts of Democritus and
Epicurus, as the but guesses of the
modern scientific mind. Llackvood.
In the German postal service an or
der has just issued directing that
certain words derived from the French,
such as potte rettante, shall no longer
be officially used, and defining what
German words shall be the equivalents
of these.
At the season of balls and parties ap
proaches, boys begin to feel gal-lant
and girls buoy-ant.
lortHv roi.ru.
"Try, Tet Again." It is a true story f
that I am going to tell von now. It is j
U ,u Uttle who8e, nme was!
, Ijoss. Having had a present ;
nnit k., n;- fii
attempt was poor enough. Oue dav,
when he had been plaving ball with a
yong friend, he stopped, and taking out
his pencil, began to draw a picture on
the wa'l.
" hat do you call that ? asked his ;
lnen.l. "Whv. that is a horse!" re
plied William : "Can't you see?" "A
horse ! is it ?" cried his friend laughing.
w hy. 1 took it for a donkev.
'You are quite right in laughing at
it," said William. "Now, that I look
at it again, I see it is all oat of draw
ing ; bnt I will keep at it until I can
make a good drawing of a liorie."
William was not afraid til being
langhed at ; and he felt much obliged
to those who pointed out any faults in
what he did. He waa not discouraged
by failures. He kept trm. till he had
used his pencil nearly all up. Still he
had not yet made a good drawing of a
horse.
"You will never learn to draw ; so
yon may as well give it np first as last."
said his friend to him one day, some six
... . i - I . . ..V
luuuma aucr meir last m uug. 1 ur
horses are all donkeys still." !
William opened a porifoliio, ami,
taking out some pictures, said, "What ;
uo von tniLX ot these 7
"Ah I here is something like a
i,,.-. -,i, i r - .. i i t. ,
the drawinl-s. "Yon will never do anv
thing like this, Willy.1
William smiled, bnt Said nothing :
though it was his own draiug that his : Miss Rraddon looks like the principal
friend was praising. of a girl's school or a spinister aunt.
Well, by brnveiy keeping at it, Wil- ! She is tall and rather angnlar, past
liam at last begun to niuke pictures j forty, wears her dark and gray-streaked
worth looking at. While jet a boy, he ' hair cut short, aud has coarse lines
sent in a painting to the Society of j about the month and a deep furrow lie
Arts, for which he received a present of tweeu the eyes.
a silver palette. He rose t be Sir Professor" Hiud, the astronomer.
William Ross, miniature painter of ; suggests in JWi.rK for December 27,
Queen letorio. the chance of sfeitig Encke's comet
Don t be discouraged, my you-jg , with tile large telescopes in English
friends, by failing in yonr first at- j observatories. In least distance from
tempts. Learn to persevere. Keep at the sun will be attained at midnight ou
it. That's the way. i the 11th of April next.
A Baby Monkey. -He was a little bit ' ,. A, rn';t,lre h ,n-ed between the
of a fellow, about as large as a kitten, I BU1 st!u 'T' iT
and had a tad as long as his mother'! ? u'n- Tl'e 'tter t.K.k refuge in the
but he looked very old in the face. 1 .Lr";sh. flt nJIJ"';
When I first weut to see him. the aUt . A ,'rU";h Knnbot
mother monkev was holding him iu her
arms, but presently he crawled to the
floor, then out thrngu the bars and
upon my knee. I thought it strange
that the mother was hot airaid of losing
it ; but when I moved ray hand to
stroke it, back went the little monkey, !
swift as a dart into his mother's arms, j
Pretty soon he crawled away again, aud
then I saw that the mother monkey hail :
i,..i l . i ,i .i i , i .. i -
hold of the tip of his tail witu her ,
i .i i ..i i i 1
augers, and as the little oue crawled
away from I'er she let him go as far as
she could reach, out never let go of his
tail; and when anybody moved tl, '
touch hiin she pulled h.m ba k into
ti,o
. '"j luxe fcju7 in hi rniu' ii jtriai
this hold by day or night tdl the little ,
She never seemed to relax
fellow was two months old, then she
let him go. But her mother instincts! All who hnndle mouey must occasion
were very marked even then. The cage i ally get a hold of counterfeit bills, for
contained a "happy family" of dogs, ' tho Note Printing Bureau at Washing
cats and guiuea pigs, sleeping in oue ton makes the startling admission that
box together, so when the little miu- seven ont of the nine denominations of
key crept out of his mother's arms, she ' the national hank nott-s have been conn
wouid reach dowu into the box and terfeited. Nor is this the worst yet.
take up a little puppy, or kitten, or : It is further asserted that the makers
guinea pig, and nurse and fondle it ! of spurious notes are getting more ex
just as though it were her owu. Sue pert every year.
did not seem quite contented without ' Russian ldv artist lias introduced
some sort of a young thing in Ler a new kind of artistic religions enter
motherly aitus. Itainmeiit. It consists of a number of
" transparent pictures, representing snb
As Ixdiax Baby. H w helpless tbe j,,cts from tlie xtjvity, which are
Indian babe, born without shelter, brnKht out M fore the. spectator. An
amidst storms and ice ; but fear invi..,ble orchestra aud choir perform a
nothing for him ; God has placed near cantata conipix-ed by the artist. The
him a guardian angel that ca i trinmph audience are in the dark during the
over the seventies of nature ; the sen- , performance, which lends a mystery to
tinel of maternity is by his side, aud so jt calculated lo impress weak
long as his mother breathes he is safe. 1 minds.
The Bqnaiv loves her child with iustiuc- i
tive passion, and if she does not maui- ! A he common cat tail of our swamps,
fest it by lively caresses, her tenderness scientifically known as tutha hjlifnlin,
is not less real, wakeful and constant. 18 susceptible of being used as f.jod.
No savage mother ever trusted her bale for which purpose it is highly esteemed
to a hireling nurse, nor put away her ' 111 Rome countries. The plant is per
own child for that of another. To the ennnd and propagates by the formation
cradle, consisting of light wood, and ot nnderground stems containing much
gaily ornamented with the quiils of ftarchy matter. In Southern Russia
porcupine, aud beads, and rattles, the ' ,ue ywg shoots, are tied np as aspar
nnrdmgis firmly attached, and care- f r our markets aud sold in all
lully wrapped iu furs, aud the infant t!:fi market. Ui.iled as asparagus is
thuti swathed, its back to its mother's boiled, and seasoned with salt and
back, is borne, as the topmost burden, RI,lce. is Pionounced quite delicious
its eyes now cheerfully flashing light, j travelers who have partaken of it.
now accompanying with tears the wall- Tue plant is found in more or less
ings which the plaintive melodies of abundance in swampy places all over
the carrier can not hush. Or while the , tue United States, ami may le very
squaw toils in the field, sho hangs her j ea"7 "1,ro n'i 1,1 I'loces where it
child, as spring does her blossoms, on tioea Dot Erow already,
the bough of a tree, that it may be I It has puzzled manv people to decide
rocked by the breezes from the land of j wuy the dark wood so highly valued for
souls, and soothed to sleep by the ( furniture bhonld be called rosewood,
lullaby of the birds. Dix-s the mother ltg clr Certaiu'v does not look like a
die, the nnrsling euch is Indian com- roHO, so we ninsUook for some other
pasaien shares her grave, reason. Upon asking, we are told that
i when the tree is first cut the freihwood
Robert's Tauz Lizard Many of 1 iosseses a very strung, rose-like fra
onr little readers have never seen a granee, hence tbe name. There are
lizard. It is not oftn found in onr half a dozen or morn kiwis of rosewood
Northern States. trees. The varieties are found in South
My friend Robert passed last winter ; America and the Etst Indies and neigh
at Savannah ; and among his other , boring islands. Sometimes the trees
treasures, consisting of a tuuckiiig bird, grow so large that planks fonr feet
a pet alligator, and a banana-plant, he broa 1 and ten in length ran be cut
had a lizard, to which he gave the name from one of them. These board planks
of Spry. I are principally used to make the tops
It grew to be so tame, that it wonld of pianofortes. When growing in the
take food from Robert's fingers, and forest, the rosewood tre is remarkable
lap water from the hollow of his hand. : for its beauty, bnt snch is its value in
Lizards are social beings, aud are some- manufactures as au ornamental wod
times found in countless numbers, that some of the forests where it ouce
basking in tbe snn in perfect harmony. 1 grew abundantly now have scarcely a
When Robert came North iu the i single specimen. In M.tdras, the Gov
spring, he gave away all his treasures, ' en.aieiit has prudently had great plan
including his tame lizird, to a lady, tations of this tre set out iu order to
She has the lizard stiil in her garden,
where it runs into a Utile clunk in the
wall when it sees an esemy approach
ing. Robert had a let'er, last week,
informing him that Spry was quite well.
.
Ja(tb and M iry were playing near a
tub of water in the kitchen, when Jacob
tripped and fell into the tub. But,
insieau
wri
come
arownea in the tuo, crieu .uary. u,n
Jacob had no intention of being drowned
in the tub. He raised his head and
hearing Mary's scream?, said : " hy
dont you help a fellow instead of stand-
ing there screaming f" Finding that
he did not cry, Mary stopped screaming
and helped him out; aud then Jacoo
saia, - i.oo uere, .nri, ma urn nmc
1 get into trouble, help me nrst and
scream afterwards."
oi ueipiuit una, m try uqnn io Tllia iua. :tm ;.,, - of
ng her hands and scream. "Oh, incred ulity. The proof whiskey that
here! Come here I Jacoo wui be , in i.,.lf hn... lA TfirAr,i bv a
" Montana whiskey contained would nave
No trait of character is more valu-; separated from the water in the pro
able than the possession of good temper. ! 0f freezng like the "core" ia a
Home can never be made happy with- frzen barrel of cider. If it actually
out it. It is like flowers springing np froze goIid, it was a harmless whiskey,
in our pathway, reviving and cheering the severest cold of the Artie explo
ns. Kind words and looks are the mtTons proof spirit never froze. The
outward demonstration, patieoce and prubable explanation of the Montana
forbearance are the sentinels within. : phenomenon is that the spirits were set
" ontside in an open vessel, when the
"Good words for the voune" Din- i whiskey evaporated rapidly and left the
ner'9 ready.
T1BIETIES.
They have discovered two
Venuaes in Rome.
The place for proof-readers:
hoase of correction;
the
What animals are always seen
at a
j faneral ? Bladt kkU-
I ben is a literary work like smoke ?
j When it rises in volumes.
, The school-ma'am may not be a mind
I reader, bnt she makes readers mind.
Tbe area of the British Empire ap
proximates to 7,76;5ilO square miles.
Iu Taris 671 women get their living
by serving as models for painters aad
j sculptors.
Somebody savs that King KotTee is a
! wreck. Somebody says that all kings
j are rex.
Why am de pen dat Sir Walter Scott
j wrote wid like a riber in Maine ? Cause
j it am the Pen ob scot. :
! Henry Clay describes a mule as an
, animal that has no pride of ancestry
and no hope of posterity."
A tariff nuion of tho islands of the
: Pacirlc. at the head of which will be
I Australia and New Zealand, is proposed
i by the latter colonies.
A recent traveler has discovered
i ' 1 i . , .. . .... I
that
tne lames in the nortn oi cuiua Tang
their hair, and considering the habits
of the people have probably done so for
the last thousand years.
Two thousand dollars iu gold were
lately paid iu Ijoimou lor a cup oi cof-
The "P of c,,,r 'e .w8 mX hr
I M idrae on his easel. It was a won-
. ' derf ul specimen of the paiuter s art.
" " ?.K" "'r '."r "K pro
tect the British subjects.
Apiilause in au Italian theatre is not
alwavs a sure sigu of success. There
was a case recently of a composer being
railed before the curtain twenty-four
times ou the first performance of bis
opera. The theatre was closed the
next night for lack of patronage.
ti r i r- . - ,
-l lie I.ank of I rauee contains a brick
, , . . ,,, f , .
for which H)i)i) francs, alnt SJttil. was
T. , , ,
" .m V T V u
hgnres of . note for W
'"T"1 tLe nrf. 1
Imrned house, and the image aud
XX) francs are
ransferred bv
tiie heat from a real note. This brick
, 1 , , . . .
T '"k ?m' on Presentation, as
: keep up the supply.
Will alcohol freeze ? is the last co
, nundrnm. It is stated, as an example
of intense cold, that, in Montana, on
I the night of Jan. 11, the mercury iu the
i thermometers all froze, small qnanti-
',,.,. m.,n .- :..i inm. n-
, Pav,i. a,i proof whiskey place.! out
o Joora fr()ZB 8o!lll ia hM ,a hour
.m.,rr i.-n(
freezinjf cf the mercury baopens at 3D
of lelow z.,rt bnt absolute
aicohoI, it is declare 1, has never been
rozen though Prof. Farrady found it
. lookei a little turbid when subjected
tQ temperature (artificial; of 1G'-
y,,, zero ji, wint.8 contain 73
uent. of alcohol.
Proof spirits of
.,,, .tA
Government standard are placed at 50
i l l TL. 1 . U . -
t per cent, aiconou ana icuuui mi
component water frozen.
,1 holicf Tim
4f
!