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B. F. SCHWEIER,
THE CONSTITUTION THI TOION A5D THB KSFOBCEMEST OF THB LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
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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.
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