iiii$i i 1.. ... B. F. SCHWEIER, THE CONSTITUTION THI TOION A5D THB KSFOBCEMEST OF THB LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. hi TOL. XXIX. MIFFLIN1WN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., JUNE 30, 1S75. NO. 26. OCEAN USES. O! wide the sea before na,-.-. And drear the waste around! The angry heavens o'er us All da have darkly frowned. And galea that seem to master All thing that meet the ere. Lot sweep na on the faster. Where sterner dangers lie. All nature seems in travail. The billows e'en complain, Then who shall aneer or cavil. With cynical disdain, If I shall own a aadueaa As memory portrays Those aoenee of glowing gladness We knew in other days ? Those fleeting scenes of pleasure That aped so swift away. When Joy filled up its measure . And ev'ry heart was gay. When Youth, with haughty madness. The gauntlet flung to care. And never sigh or sadness Could hope to enter there. " ' Whs dreamed each year discloses Some deeper discontent ? We crowned the hours with roses. Nor marked them as they went ; We scorned the idle morrow. Or what its dawn would bring ; We feared no touch of sorrow The aching heart to wring. lint Grief has given lessons We may not soon forget, Aud Time lias thinned our numbers Since last in Joy we met ; Yet fill the hours with gladness. And revel while ye may. Fur life is full of sadness Ab! whirl it avift away! ILikrHiian. My Lily-oRhe-Valley. rwp!" It was a' cheery, almost childish voice, well known ami loved by me; aul yet I started in balf affright, so deep was my reverie. Reveries, in the majority of cases probably, have love for their inspiring god ; but this was an exceptional one, else I had surely been prepared for any such surprise a this, from the Very priestess herself of love. Not that she acknowledged it, or I either, for that matter. Kilt we were' both finite, and love is infinite. "You little puss!" I exclaimed, "how you frightened me?" I 1 look so like a fright then, in my masquerading?" "of course not. You are always charming. Hut vour voice " "Was harsh and" "How dexterously you do fish for compliment this afternoon ! You know your 'voice is soft and musical, lor 1 have told voti hi several times; and " "Ha, ha", ha! Go on." 'It was that very sweetness and soft ness that startled me, being so antipodal to my thoughts just then." "There!" a suddeu seriousness set tling over her maimer. "That con viuces me that vou are not obeying your doctor. You must have lieeu thinking of those dreadful columns of figures, and of 'puts,' and 'calls,' and 'shorts,' and such ridiculous nonsense. Ion't you remember you told me you shouldn't "think of any "'calls,' but calling the cows, nor any 'shorts' hut those they have for their supper, to make them give you an extra quality of milk for your breakfast, so you can go back to the citv in the fall vigorous for business, and fresh for the smiles of your sweet heart. "Unite a lone siieech, upon my word ! And it is not a mouth yet since I sup- loed you never indulged in anything lieyond monosyllables, and scattering ones at that." 'Thank you for nothing. But liow do yu like my costume?" " 'harming! Who assisted you ?" "I made the things, Cousin Maggie . helped arrange them, and Mr. Fred .Marston neted as critic, to see whether I was presentable." '"And pronounced you an fait?" " Yes, if looks would do "so. But lie was so busy sketching that he would hardly say a word." "Puss." I said, after a moment's de liberation, and wondering whether" really hail the courage, "do'you really re member all I told you, in my gossi ing way, the day after Fred ami . I ar rived, about the doctor's instructions how 1 was never to think of business or cares of any kind, hut only amusement, and any noiisenseMliat came uppermost ?" "Yes ierfectly. 'W ho'd huve thought I would go so contrary thereto? tirst to come up to this quiet place, where both amusement and nonsense would seem to be sacri I igious; and " "Sei-ondly," looking as prim ami dig nified as so sfight and sweet a body could. "Yes, secondly, by falling in love with vim." I sMke deliU'rately, and with an effort; and the last word had not died from my lips liefore 1 knew that my premonitions of tlangerous. ground were not uninspired. A pink glow suffused her fae for an instant, and then faded into a whiteness that was not so deathly as it was trans parent. It added to my Riin as well as to a vague delight 1 felt ill the picture she made in her masquerading dress. To sMak of this mimic masquerade, and the picture it formed, it will be uecessarv to go back a Jew days,- on which ix-casion I sat -in the Jittle piiiched-un parlor of the old-fashioned farm house that formed my retreat from the city's hum and business for a few weeks" in the summer. On the wall opposite w here 1 sat, hung an old family Hirtrait, so old, indeed, that the daugh ter of my hostess was notexactly certain as to w ho she was, or of w hat genera tion she had formed a Jiart of the life. The student of fashion's capricas could probably have ascertained by research; but iteally made no great difference. The salient part of the iortrait was a large F.lizalicihiuu ruff, tiot so stiff and ungainly as are generally Yepresented hi xrtraits, bift seeming quite graceful and pretty, and, indeed, as though forming a art of the personality of the l-rsoiiage, w ho was young, less than twenty, apparently, skin white and delicate, almost entirely devoid of color, eyes if a J..v f,ir m'rule feeling, and lips whose just (lerceplible pout was In fine keeping w ith the round, cheery face. "Miss Perry." I said, "the portrait yonder is enough like you to pass for ur own, if you should only tell people vm were masquerading. How like a lily-of-the-valley it looks, w ith the round deli.-ate face, and the delicately penciled ruff!" ' "What an idea!" said Miss Perry, the laughter of my hostess. "And yet, since you suggest It, I can trace quite a resemblance. I remember hearing papa say once that she w as quite a belle in her day, and there was something of romance connected with her." It was in a dress precisely like this in all its details in which 'Miss Perry was arrayed w hen she peered over the rose uudi on the afternoon in which my story opens, and greeted me with her innocent "reen:" "So," she faintly articulated, "your amusement aim -nonsense' ror this summer are falling in love with an un sophisticated couutry girl! (Juite de- ugiiuui : - "Miss Perry!" I exclaimed in blank- amazement, "you wrong me by your misapplied irony. My words were not inning ones, as you seem to think. I was too abrupt and precipitate. 1 am but a tyro in wooing.." I put my arm around her slender waist as I sjioke the last words, and she sunereu it to remain there ror an in stant, and then withdrew shrinkingly, giving me a half-startled, half-shy look as she glided out of the room a look that haunted me for months afterward I saw her no more that afternoon, and the next morning F'red aud I were off on a troutiug expedition before she was astir. At supper she was absent, and iter motiicr volunteered the information that she had gone to visit her cousins over tne mountain. Its in the l mm? count v. some Rwenty miles off," she said. "One 'of the lioys was over tins way on some business or other, and she aptx-ared kind o' mniiiug and when he spoke ou't I just bundled her off quick. It'll do her good. She's a gal like all others." "Twenty miles!" I repeated. "She'll probably then ! gone live or six days." 'Five or six weeks more like " "was the reply. "I Job! her she'd have to stay, most likely, till we sent for her, and that wouldn't be till after harvest ing w as over. .The men aud horses are mighty busy during the hot weather." "I say, Fred," I said that evening as we sat on the piazza sinokiugoiir cigars. "I've becu thinking that I'll go back to tne city to-morrow ornextilay. To tell the truth, it's gettiag a little dull and monotonous, and " "Dull and monotonous! What has got into you? W hy, it's only a day or two since you were going to stay a month yet. You're just the queerest chap "I've lieen told that often enough to know it by heart. Fred. I think 1 shall go up by to-morow night's train, unless you will go too if 1 wait over a few davs." "Not I. I shall stay another fort night, at any rate." "All right. It is settl.il then. Walk up to the station with me, and you can scud my trunk along some day when the wagon is going up." The next evening we arrived at the little rise lit sight ofthe station some tune liclore the train was due, and we sat down on a rude stone wall overlook ing the valley. "By-t he-way," said Fred, suddenly. 1 until t show you tins, I believe. She looked so charming I couldn't help it." Ami he opened his jiortfolio, which he invariably had with him, and showed me a sketch he had made of Miss Perry the day she was masquerading, which had thus far proved so disastrous to me. It was a personified lily-of-the-valley, w ith the delicate features or her whose name of Margaret somehow grated on mv ear, and, as "Miss Perry was too formal, I had ' taken to calling her "Puss." "I say, Fred, I want this," I said. 'Xoiiscnse ! You'd better let me keep this, and take the original." A wise man is content with what he can get," 1 resioiided briefly, as I put it in my satchel. Fred gave me a curious look, which I did n6t interpret till late in the season, and made no objection to my appropri ating his sketch. The sun was sinking behind the moun tain, the valley we had just left having been for some time in deep shadow. "Where are yourcanvass and colors?" I presently asked. "There's an effect of chiiirnsruro that would draw praise from the most conservative critic." Fred needed no second bint; and as he painted away, I observed the beauti ful effect, and made occasional jerky re marks on a variety of subjects, presently saving: "How a ympot that masquerading wig was ! She is, indeed, a lily-of-the-valley both lily and valley being in their re sjiective ways charming in a superlative sense." . The whistle sounded just then, and I started in haste for the train, leaving F'red busy on his picture, hardly look ing up when he said good-bye, and prophesying my return in a few days. Several times, after my return to the cityt 1 -came near doing so, wondering if it were not cowardly in me to strike my colors at such a moment, and if "Puss" did not exiect me to come over the mountains to see her. Nearly two months had elapsed, and I had hotted no-word from F'red. I was on the Miint of putting a change of linen in a satchel, and taking a two-days' run in search of him, and to see if Miss Perry had returned, when I received a letter, which to say the least Indefinitely postHined the matter. I give only those parts my readers Will Is- interested in: "Mv 1kar Bov;. Congratulate me that is with an if. Sin' won't name the day, nor jiositivcly promise that she ever w ill : but it is so well settled in my own mind, that I shall order the suit as soon as I arrive in town, which will-be- some day next week, if I can tear myself away so soon. .... "How did I dn it? Blest if I know! I never dreamed of such a thing till you dropied that remark you did when I gave you the sketch of the lady in her masquerade dress, that 'a wise man is coiitent-with what lie -an get, which flashed through my brain the intelli-gem-e that you bad lieen rejected, or were satisfied yoifwonld be. Whr, I never could conceive, for I always sup lsed you to lie the favored one, but 1 didn't "puzzle over the Oonnndruiu very long, .From, that moment 1 gave my self iil to the task of winning her, and went at it mnghajid-tumble.- I never went into anything liefore so recklessly, because never before had I been so seri ously in earnest. "But you don't care for details. I have at last earned the trophy I shall hence-, forth wear so proudly on my breast." Before Fred returned from the coun try, I w as on the Atlantic. I had again lie'haved in a cowardly manner, and d sertetl my colors when a vigorous move ment on my own part, instead ot re sulting so, would have had a decidedly contrary result. But t was both blind and stupid. I could neither see nor understand w hat hail taken place, nor how it all tended to my advantage did I but follow it up. That knowledge did not come to me till many months afterward. On the water, and pressed to the brim w ith work, 1 had suposed I should for get the little country girl, and return heart-w hole from the Eurojiean trip 1 had been commissioned to take by the house In which I was engaged; but every day only added to the intensity of my suffering, and finally the longing I felt must forever be realized, became so much a part ot my existence that even sunlight began to take its hues from the half-ripened orange. But the exigencies of the business I was transacting demanded my continued stav, and levied such a tax on my mental capacities that I soon began to look on my trouble as annoying, but not serious, and as though a callus had grown over it, and no pain would result from It un less a violent strain were brought to bear upou it. ' Then disaster came- and the house suJdenly failed Jeaving me adrift: anfl I was preparing to return home when I was ottered an advantageous position in a foreign house, a member of which, I was courteously informed, had "ol served the masterly manner in which I Had managed the affairs of the branch which had been entrusted to me. So, of i-mrse, it transpired that I did not return .to my native .Iaid that au tumn nor the next, nor in faeT, 1t was three years from the time I left for Europe before I returned. I landed in the middle of August, last summer, and at once began to hunt up old cronies, by aiu or memory and directories, tint 1 had no luck. Fed I Could get no track of, only that he had just returned from an European trip; but where he might be at that particular tune was uncer tain. All for whom I cared in the city were out of town for the warm weather, or else w here I could not readily find them, and I liegan to think I had lieen a fool to come across the water at so un propitious a time. My ow n .immediate family l round, on inquiry, were stoi ping for a few weeks at a remote' plai-e, twenty miles or more beyond the little valley where Fred and 1 had summered three years before, and toward that point I turned my face. Just before sunset the train made a halt at the little village overlooking the valley w here I had met my fate, ami where the last time I had seen Fred he was engaged in making a sketch of the valley, hardly taking his .eye from the canvas to bill me his cheery good-bye. For some reason the train w as delayed a few moments, and, as I gazed over the valley, the old feeling of three years lie fore was instantly surging and swaying in my breast; ami liefore the train was again in motion I stood Umii the rude country station platform, iiuahle to re sist the force immpelliug me there, thinking I could pursue my journey the day as well as this. After the train had departed, and I observed the curious country eyes scan ning my singular behavior, I suddenly realized my awkward position, ami wondered what to do. Mechanically 1 strolled toward thesjiot Fred had chosen for his vantage-ground to view the valley. Little change was visible. The sunset colors were less vivid, and cou scquentlv the shadow over the vallev was less sombre a much more pleasing picture; and yet 1 could not help reeling that the sombre shadow was over my heart instead. I aimlessly followed the winding road into the valley, descending at every step farther and farther into the shadow ; yet mv soul into its own shadow plunged more recklessly still, the gloom sur- rouiiuing it seeming almost sullen in us intensity. Suddenly it grew lighter. What did it presage? A large cumulus of cloud had drifted into the range of the sun rays, and caught the splendor, sending them down to the earth in a glow of re flection. '"If my own soul could drift into such a volume of light !" I thought, bitterly, and walked slowly onward. What marvelous shaies the clouds take at times! This one and smaller ones, drifting with and counter to it, suddenly took the shape of a large anchor, seeming to me, in my shortened vision, a gleam of mighty irony glowiug with a false glimmer. So intent was my gaze bent heaven ward that I did not observe a figure immediately in front of me, emerging from the valley. It was a female figure and I hastily 'stcped on one side to allow her to pass, hardly withdrawing my gaze from the heavens, I he mo ment she had passed, in obedience to a sudden impulse, I turned my head, to see hers also turned to observe me. The light from the cloud of hope shone full in her face, and I started at the recog nition. V as mv soul, then, drifting as yonder cloud had done? Was this thrill that bathed it in pathos the light, in deed, that warms and glorifies all it shines on or was it but mocking irony? "Miss Perrv!" I exclaimed, "this is a rare pleasure." She advanced in the same sbv maimer as of old, and held out her hand in the old coy style. "V as it you. then, that 1 was to meet at the station ?" she asked. 'Were you 'expecting some one?" I asked, a little bewildered. "So yes, was the hesitating reply. "I suppose, if I tell yon, yoir will laugh. at me. 1 was sitting m the parlor a short time ago, looking now and then at the old picture you were pleased to take so much notice of in those other years the picture, has lieen, rery dear to "lie latterlv," she parenthetical add; with a just ierceptible tremor, in her 'voice "wheu suddenly 1 was Impressed w ith th; idea that I was to meet some one at the station. The notion occurred to me at once as so ridiculous, that 1 laughed outright. But it wouldn't lie laughed down, and finally 1 started, and here I am." I then told her how I had just re turned from :uroie, and was on my way to hud my mother and sister, w lien I was almost iuiielled from the cars. "And you were going right by w ith out stopping to see us?" 1 hesitated not knowing the nature of the ground 1 was standing on, and not caring to qiake a misstep. "Fred and 1 would both have lieen so disapiinteil.if you-had.." v.;.. "Ah! Is Fred here: 1 a.-kei. making an effort to apiiear at ease, though suc ceeding badly, I am afraid. -v ny, 01 course. lie is nere an ine time, now, except for a few months in the w inter." Mr heart leaped" into my throat in very agony, and for a moment I dared not trust myself to speak. e nan in the meantime been walking slowtv down into the valley, and suddciilya door of a house close bv the wayside swung open, and a flood of licht rested upon mv companion. Ah, the capneeof fashion I flow its eiitcts. unit around in circles, and turn up unex pectedly ! Of course the ruu w as m so prouonre, nor the rolling touts to tne dress, gathering in a mass Hack ot tne neck, so angular and so sun as repre sented in the Elizabcthian tiortrait; but there she was in the dress, with misiin- catious, in which she had made the final assault upon my heart, and won it unknowingly, heedlessly, 1 saul to myself. "Didn't you know of Fred's mar riage?" she asked, after the awkward pause iu which my mind had been so blisv. "Sot to a certainty. I conjectured as much. You are very happy, I supiiose "Yes, as the world goes, Fred is the dearest and best fellow iu the world. How long since you have seen him ? It is a long time isn't it?" "Three years. He was seated where I met vou, just now, the night of my return home, and after you went over the mountains so much after the French leave manner." "Oh, i was such silly chit then" "And think you have grown wiser, now?" "Mavbe not. nor happier ; this world is for growth not for happiness, after all. Growth is the object, happiness the result; not the reverse, as people generallv suppose." "And Fred has grown lu art as well as in a domestic way?" "Oh, yes. He Is quite the rage in certain circles. But you know all about that, probably ?" . "Xo. I have been so immersed in business in Europe that I have abso lutely not heard of or from him since- let me see; no, no, not since he wrote. just after my return from here, to tell me or Ins engagement with yon." "His engagement with me !" draw ing a sharp breath at the enunciation of every word, "lie was never engaged tome. Did he write you that?" "He implied as much. If I remember rightly, however, there was a chauee for a contrary result." "He fancied at one time he was in love with me and I don't know but con sidered himself engaged, but it only lasted a lew weeks, lie went to iuroiie, he said, to die of a broken heart; but came back last fall aud married my cousin, and " "And you are not married ?" I did not hear her reply, only saw her shake her head in the rapidly gathering dusk, and clasped mv arm around her as I had done three summers before. But she did not withdraw from mv embrace this time, in ever so gentle a manner; and when I asked her if she would be mv lily-of-the-vallev, the answer she gave shone over my soul as the depart ing sunlight had over the anchor-shaped cloud, ami the reflet-ted radiance illu minated my whole being. Ajt;li-Im Jtiumttl. Presr Tat law r Pewre. The Pull Mall HnzHtf says: "The general inconvenience arising from 'war scares has suggested to an ingenious Frenchman a scheme for mitigating. ami in the long run proliably averting, the evils caused by thus trilling with the nerves of Kunie. His plan also has the merit of meeting the views of not only those who hold that interna tional differences should lie adjusted by tlie sword, but also of those who, on the ther band, advocate a resort to arbi tration.' I'nder the new system there w ill tie lioth lighting and arbitration, and plenty of both. He proposes that w hen two nations growl and scowl at each other to such an extent as to make the general society of nations uncom lortahle, and to agitate the stock ex change's throughout the continent, it shall In- submitted to an international court of arbitration to decide w hether the two nations in question shall not be called iijmiii to light out their quarrel at once, whether prepared or not ror immediate hostilities. Iu the event of their declining to do so at the bidding of the court, they are to lie simultane ously attacked tv all the other nations. ami t ) Is-ar the w hole cost of the move ments against them. It is improbable. however, that they will bring matters to this pass by refusing to tight whende- -ired to do so; for it may be taken for granted that they would infinitely pre fer a sanguinary tusscl with each other to being together engaged in defending themselves against an attack of the whole civilized world, and being thus united hy a bond of sympathy totally at vari ance with their mutual feeling ol antagonism." fiowd Xalare. Men and women receive in this life much of w hat they deserve. It is like a looking-glass, this big world; grin aud mile at it and it will smile back scowl and it scowls. It is hut a confession of one's own iinpIuasautTiess'at home if we air our grievances. The nice people are not nice w itliout a good deal ol trou ble on their part. 1 hat pleasant fellow who always cheers his acquaintances, and who carries an atmosphere of good nature about him, is probahly a hero in his way, and most likely a good-natured philosopher, who takes a great deal of trouble to be w hat he is. The amiable sister, w ho never complains, has shown in little things as much bravery as if she had won the Victoria Cross. On the other hand, those young persons w ho have always a budget of miseries to pour into the sympathetic ears of their friends, and w ho are totally, If they are to lie believed, unappreciated at home, will lie found, if looked Into, not so amiable as they might be. Mr. Tom Pinch who never thought of himself. found even the gross hypocrite Pecksniff a good and kindly creature; while .Mar tin C'huz.lewit, w ho took care to sit in the very front of the tire, and liked to be read asleep by Tom, discovered every one to be selfish. iH-pend upon it, if we try to think more of others than we do of ourselves, we shall seldom have a grievances We may also rest assured that if we will dwell upon our sweet selves and our own merits we shall doubtless believe those merits to be so great that we shall find the world will ilways supply au immense and ever in creasing grievance by being blind to them. Kjuuia fr llmnf Life. The kssors. That a kangaroo should lie able to traverse the branches of a tree is so ex traordinary a fact that many people re fused to believe its Mssihility until pos itive proof was given of the animal by a living siiecimen at the Zoological (turdens. Its cage was fitted with a large tree branch, such as is supplied to the leopards, and it was a very curious sight to watch the animal skipping about" the boughs as lightly and securely if it bad lieeu a squirrel. It retained many of the habits of its wild state, notably that of sitting motionless for ong iterfods as if asleep, but. w hen roused to action, leaping about with astonishing quickness. I imagine that these habits tend to its preservation. The dark-brown color of the fur bears r1 elose-a resemblance to the hue of the viiiiiiiira linn, cilii u u umiai ao in a cage, and the observer knows where to look, he will not at once discriminate between the tree and the animal. Its habit of stillness w ill, therefore, ac count for its preservation from the eyes of enemies, w hile its exceeding quick ness and agility when in motion w ill enable it to escape from almost any foe except man. fclleat Mew. Washington never made a siieech. In the zenith of his fame he once attempted it, failed, and gave it up confused and abashed. In framing the constitution of the United States the labor was al most wholly performed in committee of the whole, of which George Washington was the chairman; but he made two speeches during the convention of a very few words each The convention, however, acknowledged the master spirit, and historians affirm that, had it not been for his personal popularity and the thirty words of his first speech pro nouncing it the best that could be united upon, the Constitution would have been rejected by the people. Thomas Jeffer son never made a speech. He couldn't do it. Xapoleon, whose executive ability is almost without a parallel, said that bis greatest difficulty was in finding men of deeds rather than words. When asked how he maintained his influence over his superiors iu age and experience when commander-in-chief of an army in Italy, he said, by reserve, The great ness of man is not measured by the length of his speeches and their number. Charles Warren Stoddard writes There are houses in Florence, many of them, that look as if they were built of the stage scenery of some dismantled theatre. I saw one this morning, a snug modern anair, as severely simple in its proportions as a packing-box, yet it was so touched ud by the brush and some scenic artist that a balcony with six pillars seemed to start out from the front of it. There are two doors and four windows introduced to complete the harmony of the facade. Yet these were all deceptions; the bouse pretended to be of stone, with a plaster that bad peeled off in spots, exposing the rough cut walls. In an attic window, a mere picture, a cat sunned herself, and a little away from hir ant ninrMitia hilli it a hut- mil cooing, for that was beyond t?ie art of even a r lorentine house painter. A rake leaned against the wall, and cast a pal pable shadow that unfortunately ran against the sun, for it was late in the day, when the shadow was stationary ; two towels fluttered from the balcony: a pail was turned over in the corner part, and a bush that might bewilder a botanist bloomed forever in blossoms of yellow and red as gross and unsavory as cabbages. W as this all ? -No, one of the fraudu lent windows was ojien, a fair and most substantial virgin leaned forth, and with her arm extended like a statue, she waves night and day, year after year, a handkerchief to the passer-by, be he friend or stranger. This sort of thing is often seen in Florence. Sometimes two lovers "spoon" unblushingly in a sham window. One is half inclined to ask if the inmates sat for this picture, but questions of that nature would be too frequent. I have almost lost con fidedce in everything Florentine. I am never quite sure that it is a house I see before me, or only the rear wall of somebody's garden. 1 am quite con vinced that 1 shall some day find my self knocking at a false door, and wait ing impatiently for the descent of the fat-faced woman who sits week after week smiling UMn the world from the window overhead. ' tm Law(k. I'uless you would be act down as vul gar, don't laugh at ieople's mistakes ormisfortunes. Thcre'satiinetolaiieh: but when when vour schoolmate has slipped down on the ice, and is hurt, perliaus ; or by accident the fruit-stand at the corner is overturned, aud the poor old man's oranges and apples arc scattered in the mud ; or some lover of very low uualtity of fun has ui lined a ticket for sale on a person's back as he walks the street ; or an absent minded lady, thinking more of the poor she is going to visit than herself, has pone out with one boot and one slipper on ; or a near-sighted person, whom you never saw before, addresesyou as Jane or John, and cordially inquires after your grandma, when you haven't any ; or the new boarder next door, in a a block of a dozen houses all precisely alike, walks familiarly into your hall and conies to a dead ston on the stairs. or the bashful student comes awk wardly upon the platform, and breaks down in an attempt to declaim : or the same sort of sensitive youth, through extreme diflidence, commits in com pany the very error he was trying to avoiu ; or wnenever anything trying or humble happens to any person that is not the time to iaugh.if von do by others as you would lie done oy. If you are the person laughed at in any such case, consider that, at least, you are a great deal better tiian those who laugh at you. The too bashful girl or boy al most always turns out better than the too bold The people who are always right side out in looks and dress and style, are not necessarily by any means the best or the brigbest. Nothing more surely indicate good breeding and a large heart than not seeming to notice a blunder, whether of friend or stran ger nnless it is by a word or simple act of kindness to show sympathy or ren der assistance, when this can spare the feelings or lighten a misfortune. Christian Era. Let the Battles Dla; la the Dirt. We once asked an old Winnebago squaw how it was that she cured her sick family hy simply covering them every day with fresh earth, leaving only a breathing spot for their noses, and she said: "fcarth our mother. J-.arth make she, and earth take good care to make she papoose strong; squaw mother make she pa i looses sick. Earth mother makes she papooses well again. She can't tell white snuaw any more." ow this poor Indian woman was wise "according to her lights." Without knowing why, she saw that the earth was a friend to her children, and therefore gave them to its healing embrace. If the mother be fortunate enough to live iu the coun try, she has the cure for many of her children's ills quite at hand. Encour age bahy to play in the fresh earth, pre paring it properly for its enjoyment and cure, with as careful an eye to the com fort of the little thing, as you would if it were to take any other sort of a bath. If it has no old dresses, make it a suit of cheap print, tie upon its head a light hat, that w ill protect its eyes from dis comfort and give it freedom to delve iu the warm, soft earth, where the sunshine can comfort aud invigorate it. If it is a city child and circiiuistantes forbid a trip to the country for the sake of the weak convalsceiil, have a sand heap made on the warm side of your yard. Instinct will teach it to dig, and digging hardens the niuscle aud brings strength to the bones, while from the heart of the earth rises a subtle and strong power of healing that we can neither explain nor understand for ourselves, though we have both seen and felt its potency. The Mrlrnliki. C'wrloaities sf Hii. In olden times it was the fashion for a suitor to go down on his knees to a lady when be asked her to become his wife, which, with very stout gentlemen, was an uncomfortable proceeding. The way in which Daniel e lister pro posed to Miss Fletcher was more modern, being at the same time neat and poetic Like many other lovers, he was caught holding a skein of thread or wool which the lady had lieen unra veling. "Grade," said he, "we have been untying knot. Let us see if we cannot tie one which will not untie in a lifetime." With a piece of tape be fashioned half a true lover's knot. Miss Fletcher perfected it, and a kiss put the seal to the symbolical bargain. Most men when they "pop" bv writing are more straightforward anil matter-of-fact. Richard Steele wrote to the lady of his heart: "Dear Mrs. Shur lock (there were no misses in those days,) I am tired of calling you by that name ; therefore, say a day when you take that of madam. Your devoted.! humble servant. Kit-hard Steele." She fixed the day accordingly, and Steeled her name instead of heart to the suitor. The celebrated preacher, hittield, proposed maniage to a young lady in a very cool manner as though Whit field meant afieldof ice. He addressed a letter to her parents without con sulting the maiden, in which he said that ther need not be at all afraid of off ending him by a refusal, as he thanked God he was quite free from the passion called love. Of course the lady did not conclude that this field, however white, was the held for her. The well-known brothers, Jacob and William Grimm, were exceedingly at tached to each other, and had no desire to be married. But it was thought proper by their friends that one should become a husband, and Jacob being the elder, it was agreed that he should be the one to enter the bonds of matri mony. A suitable lady was found, but Jacob declined to do courting, request ing William to act as his agent. Wil liam consented, but soon found he was in love, and wanted the lady himself. He could not think, however, of de priving his brother of such a treasure, and knew not how to act. An aunt kindly delivered him of his difficulty by telling Jacob, who willingly resigned the damsel to his brother, and went out of the way nntil she had been made Mrs. William Grimm. A Scotch beadle was the one who popped the question in the grimmest manner. He took his sweetheart into the gravevaid. and. showing her a dark corner, said "Mary, my folks lie there, would you like to lie there, Mary P Mary was a sensible lassie. and expressed her willingness to obtain the right to be buried near the beadle's relations by uniting herself to him in wedlock. A similar nnromantic view of the subject was taken by another maiden. I pon her lover remarking. "1 think 1 11 marry thee. Jean." she retilied. "Man Jock, I would beniuckleobleeged to ye ll ye would." He who has seen the bird of passage only in a comparatively southern lati tude can form uo idea of the wiidness of rapture with which it hails its re turn to that far land where the bloom ing meadow aud the eternal glacier lie basking together in the wealth of the summer day, and where the forest breathes its fairy life under the burn ing dream of the midnight sun. To the minds of many the name of Norway suggests a picture of winter-clothed lines and far-reaching snowhelds. with ittle or no relief from the influences of the gentler seasons; aud still, strange as the assertion may sound, Norway is jM-culiarly the" Land of Summer." There is no doubt that the birds at least think so, and their testimony is likely to lie trustworthy. And he who stands iu the glory of the morning in the heart of one of the blooming fjord valleys, hears the thousand-voiced chorus of the valley's winged songsUrs welling down over him from the lurch glen overhead, sees the swift, endless color-play of the sun-smitten glaciers, the calm, lucid depth of the air-clear fjord, and the trembling frailty of the birch-tiough nniler the sturdy strength of the fir, ah! he whose gaze has but once dwelt upon all this will need no other persuasion than that of his own eye to unite in the song of the thrush and the cuckoo and tne fieldfare alxitit the peerless licautv of Norway's sum mer. It is not heat that makes sum mer; its life is of a far subtler aud more ethereal essence. Who knows but the glacier itself may do its share toward intensifying this life, or at least our own perception of it T For the white, snow-peaked background, with its remote breath of winter, grazing the horizon of the mind, sets summer off into stronger and bolder relief. Inseaions Howeatr ai a afaekanaw. The clerk of a merchant at Osaka, Japan, went to Kioto on business of his employer, aud received one thousand yen to carry back to Osaka. Having been detained longer than he expected he missed the steamboat, and being anxious to complete his journey as quickly as possible, took a jinrikisha intending to travel through the night and reach Osaka befor daylight. On arriving at a village a few miles from his destination, about three A. M.. a man with a drawn sword stopped the vehicle and demanded the thousand yen, stating that he had seen the youth receive it at Kioto. After some demur the clerk took the money from his bosom, and was about to hand it to the robber, when the jinrikisha coolie snatched the bag and made off, leaving the vehicle, the clerk, and the robber in the middle of the road, the two lat ter as speechless as the former. The kuight of the road, finding himself foiled, departed in the direction oppo site to that of Osaka, to which city the youth hastened, after abandoning his first thoughts of jumping into the river. On arriving at the house of an nncle.lie acquainted that relative with his ad venture, and expressed a desire to die. But he was spared, for it was discov ered that the coolie, instead of running away with the money, had taken it to the police station, lie was appropri ately rewarded with a share of the money he had so cleverly saved. A deranaai Lake A ad Its Fish. In Smith's "Wonders" we read that none of the curiosities of Germany are more surprising than the IikeCirenitz, in Cannula, and the method of takiiag its fish. The lake is four or live miles long and two miles broad. The most wonderful circumstance, is - its ebbing aud flowing in June ami September when it runs off through eighteen holes which form as many eddies or whir pools. Nalvasor mentions a singular mode of fishing in these holes, ami says that w hen the water has entirely run off into its subterranean reservoirs, the peasant ventures with a light into that cavity, w hich runs into a hard rock 3 or -I fathoms underground, to a solid bot tom, whence the water running through small holes as through a sieve, the fish are left behind and caught, as it were, in a net provided by Nature. On the first appearance of its ebbing, a bell is rung at Circuit, on which all the peas ants in the neighboring villages pre pare for fishing in these ehhings. An incredible number of pike, trout, eels, tench, perch, etc., are thus caught. One of the common practices, as mentioned by more than one old writer, is to place a iNtaril painted white along the edge of the lioat, which, refb-cting the moon's rays into the water, induces the fish to spring towards it, supposing it to be a moving sheet of water when they fall into the bout. A lse far Brinastaae. A French scientific paper suggests that brimstone should be carried on board every ship for use in rase of fire. Half a hundred weight (thirty kilos) of brimstone would be sufticent to abstract the whole of the oxygen from one hnn dred cubic meters of air, thus render ing it unfitted to support combnstion. In a closed space, like a ship's hold the sulphurous gas produced by the burn ing of the brimstone would penetrate where water from the decks coold not lie brought to bear, and the density of the gas wonld prevent its rising or spreading if care were taken to close the hatches carefully with wet sails, etc Tf W&nted that the brimstone should be made up in the form of large matches, the ends of which could be passed through scuttles prepared for them in the decks or bulkheads in ease of need. It is asserted that twenty to twenty-five francs' worth of briuiBtone would be sutticent to stifle and annihi late all traces of combustion in an air space-of one thousand cubic meters ca pacity. Elmira, X. Y-, expects that the coining census will show a population of 2:t,(M. Tornur coLni. TVio is(f Xiuht. Blue-eyed Charley Day had a cousin near his own age, whose name was Harry Kuight. Y hen they were about eight years old and began to go to the public school, the boys called them "Day and Night." Charley did not object to the puns the schoolboys made ; but Harry was quite vexed by them. Having quite dark skin, and very dark eyes and hair, he thought the hoys meant to insult him by calling him, "Night." One large ooy, alxuit twelwe years old, seemed to delight in teasing Harry. He would say to him. "Come here, 'Night,' and shade my eyes, the day is so bright. " 1 hen, seeing that Harry was annoyed, he would say, " h, what a dark night ! " Poor Harry would get angry, and that made matters worse ; for then Tom Smith would call him a "stormy night," or a "cloudy night," or the "blackest Dight" he ever saw. Harry talked with his mother about it; and she told him the best plan would be to join with the boys in their jokes, or else not notice them at all. She said if he never got out of temper, the boys would not call him any thing worse than a "bright starry night." And if be went through the world with as a good a name as that she should be perfectly satisfied. "Don't take offence at trifles, Harry, said Mrs. Knight. "Don't be teased by a little nonsense. All the fun that tfie bo a ran make out of your name will not hurt yon a bit." Harry was wise enough to do as his mother advised, and he found that she was right. The boys soon became tired of their jokes, wnen they found that no one was disturbed by them. But the little cousins were always good naturediy called "Day and Night." AIhihI Crirleln. I have before me a fiair of crickets. Crickets are "lively ittle insects, which are best known by their singing. Most, people do not know exactly how they sing: but I have examined them closely, and so know how they Mo it. Only the males sing; and they sing by rubbing their wings together. 1 he Ixxly of a full-grown cricket is about an inch long. The male, or sin ger.has two tails about three-eighths of an inch long; and the feelers of both male and female are about an inch long. The female cricket has two tails in the same place as the male, and another, about twice as long, bet ween the two. This she inserts in the ground, and lays eggs. In the front of the head is a sort of a flat plate, ami below this plate is the mouth, with two sharp jaws. They have, also, some arms with a bunch on the end, with which they feel aud push in their food. We keep crickets in a box with holes in it. One day, we thought we would let them out : so we took the Imix out of doors, and oM-neu it. When I came back at night, and looked iu the Imix, I found that there were two or three males, and about ten females in it. 1 put them out of the box, and tried to make them stay out ; but found that they all wanted to come back again ; so I put them into some holes: for crickets live in holes in the ground. t or 1mm1, they will eat grass, rice, po tatoes, liet-fsteak, aud cake. I know they will eat these things, for I have tried them. One day we were changing the crick ets from one box to another, and, while so doing, I saw that there was a tiny cricket, only about an eighth of an inch long, which must have been born in the box. TheSurtery. John itnlnry AiJdwS Mother. The mother of John Quincy Adams said, in a letter to him, written when he waa only twelve years old : 1 1 would rather see yon laid in your grave than grow, np a profane and graceless boy." Not long before the death of Mr. Adams a gentleman said to him : "I have found out who made yon." " hat do you mean T asked Mr Adams. The gentleman replied: "I have been reading the published letters of your mother." Jf. this gentlemen relates. 1 had spoken that dear name to some little boy who hail been for weeks away from his mother, his eyes could not have flashed more brightly, nor ins face glowed more quickly, than did the eyes and face of that venerable old man when I pronounced the name of his Mother. He stood up in his pecu liar manner and said, "Yes sir, all that is good in me I owe to my mother." Muny large stories are told alxitit the destructive habits of lions. Some of these are evident exaggerations, but there is one point atiout the trouble some beast which itapiiears impossible to exaggerate his powers of destruc tion among game and cattle. M. Chais saing estimates the consumption of a single Algerian lion at oneshecpa day, one ox a month, and one horse or mule every two months. It must lie remem bered that from eight to twelve pounds of meat, lione incliuled. is a full meal for a lion iu captivity ; and further, that the lion does not disdain an occa sional meal of carrion : thus, whatever may have Ix-en asserted to the contrary the lion kills from instinct more often than from necessity. Lions are able to strangle a horse or ramel at two years, and the few succeeding years appear the most destructive portions of their lives. They kill, as it would seem, for the sake of learning to kill. A Word h IUhj. See here, little friends, we want to say a word to you. While we are with you for enjoyment thickly sprinkle into the web of life, we must not forget our duties as we go along, nor must we get things tooliadly mixed. We admire the old saying, that there is a "time for everything,'' and we like the saying equally well, that "everything should be done at the pro per time." The idea that we w ish to convey is, that you should be regular and systematic in your habits, and not do one hour what is claimed for ano ther. Always discharge your duty fully and earnestly, whether it lie work or play, each in its proper time. You will find that this rule w ill make you U-loved and respected anil useful mem bers of society. Funny Tkimi. The owner of a pair of bright eyes says mat tne prettiest compliment sue ever received cane from a child of four years. The little fellow, after looking at her intently for a moment, inquired naively, "Are yonr eyes new ones I" All far skaw. The world is crazy for show. There is not one perhaps in a thousand who dares fall hack on his real simple self for power to get through the world, ami exact enjoyment as he goes along. There is no end to the aping, the mimi cry, the false airs, and the superficial airs. It requires rare courage, we ad mit, to live up to one's enlightened con victions in these days. Unless you con sent to join in the chat, there is not-oom for you among the great mob of pre tenders. If a man desires to live withiu his means and is resolute in his purpose not to appear more than he really is, let him lie applauded. There is some thing fresh and invigorating in such an example, and we should honor and up hold such a plan with all the energy in our power. NEWS Dl BRIEF. The Alleiitown, Pa., shoe factories are all at work again. The estimated value of the last French vintage is f int),iNn),niNt. There are 107,0."7 children between the ages of S and 14 iu New York. There are eight Bessemer steel works in ojieratioii in this country. Atlanta, Ga., is about to lay the corner-stone of her first cotton factory. The steamer Farraday has picked up the direct cable and w ill finish laying it at once. From New York to New Orleans 'in sixty-four hours is the latest railroad achievement. Three Editors are candidates for the IVinocratic nomination for Governor of Pennsylvania. Dan Rice the showman, lias received the discharge in bankruptcy applied for by him last February. Twenty nine State Senators, besides the House of Representatives, are to tie elected in Iowa next fall. The Indiana school fund amounts U fm,(tlNI,llilO, which is the largest school rum! of any state in the In ion. The Memphis Avalanche estimates the w heat crop this year iu the country tributary to Memphis as the largest since A Louisville Chinaman is going to marry a colored American lady, ami still further complicate the national characteristics. Mrs. Mary Sweeney has triumphed over a male candidate, and lieen :iiv- pointed iwin nd mistress of the city of Jackson, Mich. As soon as the horse rai-es are over the Bev. Adirondack Murray w ill oien his new church and attend to the human race a little w Idle. The Corliss Steam Engine Compauv has recovered J&'iit.KS.S from the lion-rn-luent for engines ordered, hut cancelled liefore they ere completed. George Francis Train is on the track for the lresiilency again. Isn't it almiit time for some one to throw that I rain over an embankment? The Connecticut assembly has pass-i I a constitutional amendment providing biennial eh-ctioiis lor lull and winter sessions of the l-cgislature. It is proxscd to erect a monument to the f 'oiitiilenite dead, w ho, to the iiiiiiiImt of .l.ooo. crished iu the prison at Elmira, N. Y., and now lie buried there. Two women have taken a contract to furnish iron fencing for a pilot square, Carson, Nevada, and are to re ceive $.-,."ilill iu gold w lieu the fence is delivered The Ohio Republican convention resolved that Grant is a snlcniKil i. resi dent, but he mustn't he president again. It was in favor ol sound money and a revenue tariff. Sartoris, Gen. Grant's son-in-law, has Isiuglit a tirst-clasj building lot in Washington, and there seems little doubt that he will reside permanently in Washington. The cost of educating a young lady at Vasar, including the necessary wardrolie, which must lie purchased for her, is about ll.mNi. Vassar at present has 400 students. Quite a Mrtion of the Government troops at New Orleans have been re turned to the North. So it would seem that dove-eyed peace is brooding over the Crescent City. Boston swells wear a style of yi-t called the "Ijingfellow," of w hich Tlu: Ol" says that w ith one of them, a rea sonably high pair of shoes, and a hat, a man is in full dress. The Postmaster-General orders that the postage on letters to and from for eign countries, with which different rates have not l-en established lie five cent for each half ounce. Mr. A.. I. Alexander, of Lexington, Ky., has sold two of his valuable short horn cattle to Mr. Fox, of England, viz : The-Uth Duke of Amlrie ami the ilith Duchess of Andrie, at fftl.iNH) for the pair. By an act just passed, the Virginia husband is hem-eforth exempted from liability to pay the ante-nuptial debts of his wife; neither is her pnqicrty, un less it was acquired from him, subject to his debts. The Minnesota Central Committee ofthe I lemocratic. Liberal Republii-an and .iiti-.MonnHily party has agreed Uhii the 7th of -Inly as the day for hold ing a convention for the nomination of State Ollicers. In Warrensbiirg, Mo., the locust, o1 grasshopper pests have been utilized by licing converted into fixsl, first in soup, then in cakes, fried or baked, and eaten with honey. They are pronounced highly palatable. An incident ol the distress at Osage, Kansas, was a raid on a grist mill by a party of farmers w ho said that they bad neither food nor money, and that they would mt H-rruir their families to starve while food was within reach. This year the Southern counties of California sent to San Frauci-H-o ",:Chii, io oran-es, i;jo,ihki lemi.iis, ami S4i,ims limes. The consumption of California is alMiiit 1o,ihmi,iio oranges a year, ami .",HHi.tMM are brought from Mexieo and the Pacific I-les. ' The Brooklyn Aiy lias an idea of Western newspaier editors as follows: In St. Louis, when one newspaper strikes its tent and moves off to join its forces with those of another, some fif teen or twenty lager beer saloon pro prietors sell their leases ami move too. The Cape Ann Advertiser says the losses attending the fi-hing business from Gloucester, Mass., this season are increasing at a fearful rate. Already there have lieen J." lives and ! vessels lost since Jan. 1st J I more lives than w ere lost during the w hole season of 17. Every New Bedford fMass.) vessel to arrive, and those now in irt, w ill he straightway fitted for sea as whalers. It is tliscovered that for some purMses there is nothing after all like ss-rm oil and whalelsine. and this once rich in dustry promises to again attain a re-sjiei-table position. The Knights of Iliiuor.an order that is begiuning to excite considerable at tention throughout the country has or ganized a lodge in Patersoii,N'.J., the only one in the State. It costs $7 to join, and after that .") cents a month for dues. While a member is sick be receives .1 :i week, and on his death his friends re ccive J.ikiO. Whenever a member dies each of his comrades is taxed ft. The Scranton silk factory, founded three years ago, is enjoying prosperity. It has materially improved iu every de partment, and its producing caiacity has lieen increased upward of 1W per cent. The factory is in full operation, employing ISO hands, principally girls, and working It hours a day. The com pany is now preparing 4,mo imhiiiiIs of silk ier mouth, or an average of T:l0,0t)0 worth. The works are now the fifth in size and capacity to be found in the I'nited States. ki ! t I r i r ft J- -v
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