B. F. SCHWEIER, THE COSSTITPTIOS TH C1U0H AHD THI INFOKCIMBNT OF THI LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXIX. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA , JULY 14, 1875; NO. 2S. TES WIDOW. Hoe m modest lint not baehfal ; "' Free imleMT, bat not bold,- '. Lake aa ppl. rich aud wteUow. Not too young, aod not too old ; Half inviting, half mipulaiTe. Now advancing and now ehy, Tbere ia mischief in her dinpla, Tbere is danger in her eye. Bba baa atodia I human nature. And ia skilled m ail her arta Sba haa taken her diploma. Aa the Buatreaa of all hearta ; She ean tell the Terr moment When to sigh and when to amOa ; O. a maid ia aometimea charming. But the widow all the while. Are too aad ? bow Terr anions Will ber handsome face become ; Are y.m angry ? he la wretched, . Lone I J. f nendleea, tearful, dumb ; Are too mirthful I now bar laughter, Bilvei-eonnding. will ring out ; ALe ean lore and catch and play you, Aa the angle doea the trout. Ye old batubelora of forty. Who have grown ao bald and viae. Tonne: Americana of twenty, With the lore-tooke in your ayes Yoa aesy practMa all the liaaoue Taught by Cupid before the fall. But I know a hule widow. Who could win and fool you all. The Old Letters. ' O Elsie! What mint I do? There comes that odious Cliftou again." "My child, refuse to see Tiim; surely you are ut obliged to receive him Whenever he chooses to come here?" - "O uurse, you cannot understand; I must submit to that man's imperti nence." "Indeed! I cannot understand why this should be the case, and you aton ish me when yon gay so. I have thought that this Mr. Clifton's calls were ao fre quent that lr. Keed, your betrothed husband, might not be pleased." "1 in u t confide the humiliating secret to you, mamma EUie. Year ago my own imprudeuce placed me in that bold bad mail's ower. But listen that is his ring at the dour bell. 1 will see him this evening, but Elsie, this shall be the last interview that I will grant him. To-night 1 will tell you all." ".My oor dearie ! I fear some youth ful lolly is aliout to ripen iuto bitter fruit that you cannot easily put away." And iiKittierly old EUie sighed deeply as the old lady followed the servant. It was hours after. The evening had grown into bight when Sybil Bond crept up the stairs to her old nurse, whom she knew would be wailing for her. Crossing the room to the window where Elsie sat in the shimmering light of the full luoou Bhe sank on the rioor at her side, burying her lace in the folds of her dreas. Caressingly soothing the dark hair of her pet, Elsie waited until the storm had spent it fury, and only an occa sional shudder or quiver of the slight form told of the mental anguish the was enduring. 'Tell me, dearie, what troubles you so greatly ?" "Mamma Elsie, bear with me even as you have always borne tny wayward ness since my mother placed her twelve hours' old babe in your arms, and went to heaven." "O, Sybil, my dear young lady, it was a precious charge, coming as it did from my dear young mistress in her early be reavctueut, and you know your sainted mother followed her idolized husband to his last home in one short week after his sudden death." "EUie, do you remember the summer we passed at your sister's beautiful prairie homer" "Eull well, my dear; it was your fif teenth summer ;'you were rather deli cate, and 1 thought perhaps the country air might be beneficial to you." "You will remember that, although J did not like going. 1 soon became well ju-aed with the place, and liked staying so well that 1 did not ask to come back to the city until fall, when 1 suddeuly insured ou su immediate return." "Yes, 1 remember." "Well, nurse, it was there that I met Warreu Clifton. I w as young, roman tic and easily flattered by his attentions. 1 promised to be his wife. Alter we re turned home, 1 had time to think of my folly , and alter a few months of childishly romantic correspondence, I wrote to him, asking to be released from my en gagement, aud requesting that he should return all my letters. This he refused to do. " The cowardly rascal !" cried Elsie. "1 wrote agaiu and again ; but to my entreaties he relumed the same answer. Theu 1 went abroad, you remember, and met Ir. Reed. 1 loved him, and promised to be his wife, hoping that Clifton, luul forgotten me, or had learned to be generous. You see how mistaken 1 was. On learning the news of my en gagement, that had man came here, and threatens to show my foolish, sentimen tal letters to Dr. Keed, if 1 do not in stantly break my engagement and marry him." Sybil burst into tears, and ceased speaking, while Elsie soothingly said: "There, there, child, do not grieve so. He's a bad man, to be sure, but you've nothing really to be ashamed of, after all. Tell lr. Reed the whole story, and he'll not be the man to judge a mere child harshly." A look of jiorror appeared on Sybil's pale face. "Tell Dr. Reed ! You know not what you are talking of, Elsie. He has told me, over and over again, that he would marry no woman w ho had loved another man. Aud will he not despise ine for not telling him the truth until forced to do so? lie will not understand that I never really loved Warreu Clifton after reading those letters. No, 1 caunot tell him." "Depend upon It, dear child, it Is the best thing to do," urged Elsie. "Xo, no! Never speak of snch a thing again. ' If he must know it, 1 will not be the one who tells him that which could ouly cause hint to scorn me. To morrow afternoon we must be ready to go from here. In the interim, we will catch a few hour's sleep. And, nurse, be sure you are ready. .Now, good night." - Aud, kissing ber old friend affection ately Sybil arose, aud walked slowly out of Uie room. "She shall uot commit this last folly, if I have any wits about me," said Elsie determinedly. She caught up a light shawl, and hastily throwing it over her bead, left the room, but paused at the stairway in the hall, counting the strokes of the clock. "Twelve!" she muttered. She listened a moment and then passed down to the ball leading to the front door. Standing on the outsiue, sue looked up the village street. "There's a dim light, aud his buggy is at the door. I must hurry, or I'll be too lute." And she walked briskly up the street. . - . ' ' e . It was eight o'clock on the following morning, aud Pr. Seed sat alone in his office. A thoughtful look was on his lace, as, leaning forward on a table, he ran his finrers through his brown, curl ing hair, making it fall in a heavy mass vu uic uruwi wmie orow. "I have it at last! Just the thing There will be some fun iu it too." Taking his hat he started for the door at a rate that brought him with force against a Derson iust enlerinv "Hello, Ned ! Just the man I want to see had started out to find you." "Aud you found me as this knot on my forehead will testify for a week." Aud Bowers rubbed his head dolefullv. "But what's up? Got a case for me? Business is rather dull just now be glad to serve you." "I waut you to help me play high- wavuiau. "What?" Ned rang to his feet in a startled surprise. "There, keep cool : don't pet excited. as iu that case you ean be of no use to me. . I said .pla highwayman, -and I want to start out in half an hour. So be quiet while I detail facts aud explain why such a course might be excusable." "Go ou; I am all attention." . "Five years ago, a fellow led a girl, a mere child, iuto the folly of correspond ing nu mui; ail me years since ne nas kept her letters. Now he is iu our little village, keeping her In mortal terror lest he give her letters publicity; threatens to do so nnless she gives him her hand in marriage. She now be lieves her only escape from trouble is an immediate and secret removal from this place. I oniv learned this much last night, from a friend, who believes that I could aud would help the lady in this dilemma." "I'll help you," said Ned. 'Thanks. But it must be done se cretly and quietly. This is the thing I propose, v nen rtarren I Hi ton rides to station this morning,' whither I have learned he is going to meet the ten o'clock train for the city, we will be ou the road to relieve him of that bun dle of papers, which he carries now ou all occasions. "Hurrah, Tom! - Just the thing. Provided you permit disguises, I'll give him a regular scare." "I will give up that part to you; ar range it as yon will. But I will reveal myself to him belore we part, with a little wholesome advice thrown iu to make the medicine go down; it no doubt will be a bitter pill." "Come with me to my rooms," said Ned Bowers, springing to his feet. "We will find everything we need there." "One minute; I will order my horses to lie saddled aud brought to your door." aiiu me menus were soon seen hur rying up the street. e The pretty liule clock in Sybil Bond's room was just striking eleven, when she awoke, with a start, to hear a loud, clear ring at her door bell. "So late!" said she looking up at the clock. "Is it possible I could sleep so long! But then I did not tall asleep until it was getting light. Come iu, mamma Elsie. 1 have shamefully over slept myself this morning." 'I am triad, dearie. It was rood for you to sleep," said the old lady, enter ing. "But hurry uow, let me help you dress; there is a visitor below, whom you must see before you breakfast." "fray who has called at this earn hour?" "Dr. Reed ; and he bade me say thai urgent business must be his excuse." "O, EUie! I can uot go to hint this morning. I do uot waut him to suspect I am going away this afternoon." "It can do no harm to see him a few minutes: you ueed not tell him all your secrets in that time." "Well, get my wrapper. I believe I am reaily for it." She huisbed coiling the heavy Drains around her shapely head, and taking the snowy wrapper from Elsie's hand, hurriedly finished her plain toilet and went below. The parlor door stood open, and a manly figure was restlessly pacing the floor as Sybil descended the stairs aud crossed the hall. 'Good morning, doctor; I fear I have kept you waiting." "Not very long my darling," and he eagerly advanced to her side, aud, taking both her hands iu his, gazed with anxious love into her upraised face. "1 tear you are uot well tins morning, my pet; perhaps my call is opportune; you are looking pale." "Give yourself no uneasiness; I am very well," she answered, as he led her to a seat. "Sybil, my love, I will come to the noiut at once. My business with you this mom ine is to relieve you of a cer tain emtiarrassment which I have lately learned you have tieen under for a long time. There, darling, is the cause ol all your trouble." Aud he drew from his pocket a buiKlleol old letters, yellow with age, aud laid them in her lap. "O Tom ! How came these in your possession? Have you read them?" And with burning blushes she lifted her head to examine them closely. -No, Sybil, to the last question. lean not say that I came by these letters In an honest way. 1 learned of their ex istence, aud the annoyance they were giving you, a short time ago, and de termined to possess them, that I might give them to you. With this intention, Ned Bowers and myself played high waymen this morning, and wheu the geiiileinauly Clifton rode to sta tion, we called on liim to deliver over his valuables to us, which he made baste to do, in tlie shape of his purse and watch. Wheu I bade him show the bulky object which he carried in his dde pocket, he tried to evade me; but of course I would uot be put off. As he ;ave into my bauds that precious bundle we pulled off ou r disguises aud returned his property. Y ou should have seen lib race when he recognized us; it was a perfect picture of battled villaiuy, rage and hate." '. Sybil shuddered. "O, Tom ! How can I thank you?" "By giving me a kiss before I go, which 1 must do at once. I have a ride of some miles to accomplish before uoon." "But, Tom, Dr. Reed you do not know" she stammered and then blushed painfully. "1 do not wish to know anything about it. I know you are my own darling; soon to be my own wife, and that you have already been too severely puuished by your own conscience aud by the base conduct of that fellow, Clifton." "And forgive me for fancying myself in lover You said that yoa wouiu never be au r one's second." - "My sweet girl, I understand how to draw distinctions," he replied, with a kindly smile. ' - "But do von not wish .to read these letters before you accord me full confi dence r , And again ner paie.iace flamed up. ....... "No, darling," said he, gravely. "A know ledge of their content would not add to mv neace. so let usdrop this sub ject forever. Believe me, I have no de sire to read them. - If you wish to re ward me for the slight service I have rendered vou this morning, just burn those letters, be your own happy self again, and hasten the day wneu i may call you my wife." And. holding her face between his hands, he kissed the upraised lips and was gone, leaving sty mi to carry a lightened heart to happy oiu cisie. Girl", do you see the moral to m story? I hear some of you exclaim. poutingly, "I hate morals!" To you, I say, lake care. The VcaMra raut ml I aw la. To the ship sailing past, the shore presents an ever-varying outline gene rally a dark serried belt of cocoa trees, whose root are washed by the waves, divided at freqoent intervals by the gleaming mouthsof broad rivers. Rocky headlands, seldom uncrowned with old fort or white pagoda, jut out, forming a succession ef winding bays where the long, narrow fishing-boats are busy, and the awkward-looking pattimars, or na tive vessels, with their tilted stems and eloping masts, are lying at anchor. Now aud theu large towns can be discerned embowered among cocoa groves and bananas; further inland knolls and tree clad eminences are dotted about, aud beyond them long rolling upland plains, bright green during the rains, w hiten ing when the grass is ripe, extend far away. For four months in the year the south-west monsoon deluges all this re gion, and earth aud air are steeped in moisture. Hence w hile trees are com paratively rare and grateful objects on the other coast, here foliage abounds and checkers the surface with green even during the hot, dry months, when vegetation is inconceivably burnt up. The soil of all this country is principally laterite, a stiff, deep red clay, often seamed with white and yellow layers; when exfiosed to the atmosphere, the surface, from the iron it contains, solidi fies into black rough rock ; it can be dug out aud cut into blocks, which aoou harden, and are the universally used and very durable building material. Great masses of gneiss and granite are frequently embed led iu it, and, becom ing denuded by time aud weather, crop up from the surface and strew the tops aud sides of the hills with fantastic boulders. A special feature in the aspect of the country is a flatness uniform, yet iufiuitely diversifieu. Once it was the floor of an uean, but now worn and furrowed by milleuiums of mon soons into networks of river basins, valleys aud hollows, varied with hills, ridges and elevated plains, all flattened at the same general k-vel, aud bounded by abrupt' wall-like cliff's. Whi'.e tra versing any wide, plain, one may sud denly encounter a deep ravine, opening as it were beneath one's feet, that, be ginning with a mere gash in the sur lace, w ulcus as it goes w hiding ou, till it joins some broader valley. Under its black craggy rims the upjier slopes are studded with cashew-nnt trees, loaded iu Uie hot season with large red and yellow apples, from the euds of which the edible nut curiously projects. Be ueath, amidst fallen blocks and under growth bristling with enormous thorns, the graceful climbing fern, Lfjuilium scuudtut, edged like point lace with de licate seeding, twines upward hop fashiou, and the splendid clusters of the Moriota tvperba grow abundantly. Lower down, the sides of the ravine are bordered with close-set plantations of cocoa aud areca-uut trees, interspersed with palmyras aud tali pats, lifting up the enormous green fans of their leaves, aud, stateliest of all the tribe, the smooth-truuked sago palm raises high its head, whence droop the long stream ers of its quivering leaves and the im mense clusters of its grape-like seeds. Between the, forest of tall, slender stems grow bananas, aud pepper-vines climb up anything that gives support. Copious springs invariably issue from the head of the ravine, and, as it widens out, rice-plots begiu to occupy the level centre first one, then two or three side by side, theu more as the area broadens, till a sheet of vivid green, 100 or 200 yards across, stretches river-like be tween the palm-groves aud uudercliffs of the ravine. U uder the grateful shade of those groves stand the homesteads of the owners of the rice-tract and gar dens, low built and thickly thatched, w ith eaves sloping dowu over the seat that runs along the outer wall, where the family gathers after work. In front a smooth, clean-swept beaten floor, where grain is husked aud winnowed, in the middle of which stands a pedestal-like altar bearing a tulsi, or sacred sage-plant. Dark, glossy-haired girls aud women, classically dressed in blue, brightly-norucrcd garments, are busy with household tasks; brown, pretty tilack-eyeil children run naked about, aud in the rice-grnuuds hard-by the good man, with his sous and servants, .s guiding the primitive plow, drawn by a pair of sullen-looking buffaloes, through the deep mud. With such fer tile hollows the surface of Canara is seamed; the description of one stiflices for the general leamres of all but (here is an endless variety of pictur esque likeuess, just as no Devonshire combe repeats another. Fnwr'i Mijn- Za. Idle Itwl Anne Brewster nte: Two classes of people in an Italian city lead this homeless existence me common, or middling class, and the fashionable. The latter seem v be poswam-d with he mtme nnt door rentless demon. The middling class, however, have the ad vantage over these modish ones; their possewuou by the spiiit of thiiftleas uess is a leisurely one; they louu are, aud dawdle, and seem really to enjoy their idleness it is true idleness ith them while with . the fashionable woild it is a feverish pursuit of aome ibiug that is never found. There is a deal of amusement in oberrviug the habits of life iu a family of common ur middle class Romans, not only ou fes tal days, but every day. Whole fami lies come up on the 1'tucio, or iuto the Villa Borichese, eveiy afternoon. They seem to have tiotbinar in the world to do. They appear about three o'clock iu Winter, and later, according to beat, in Spring and Summer. They select comfortable benches, sit down, and re main in a delicious, half sleepy, daw dling state for two or three hours, li'e rallv doing nothing. So Krone is the hat-it inoWd the need that they go there even on rainy days, and you are sarprised to ser groups of nice looking persons huddled np under umbrellas. water avw4 Umm tm Impmm. No feature of Japanese society is more carious than the relations be tween master and man. The master admits his servant provided, of course, that he be or the Bnlilary class to his intimate society, but. the servant never assumes a liberty. He takes his place at dinner with the otment humility, and baviug done so, bears his shaie of the conversation, addreasin freely, not only his master, but even gnesta ot the lintbest rank. The master will pass his own wiue-cup to his man aa if lie were an honored guest, and for awhile they would appear, to any one not acquain ted with a language most fertile in subtle distraction, to be upon perfec tly equal terms. Yet the moment the least M over the man retires with toe same profound obeisance and marks of deference with which he entered, and immediately relapses into the ser vitor; nor will he in any way presume upon the familiarly which, bavine las ted lis hour, disappears nntil occa sion calls it forth aaraiu. Freedom of intercourse like this between emplo yer and employe is creditable to both. Mr rwwltwh naam The fingers on one of my hands had a qnarrel the other day ; at least 1 dreamed they did, and that's just aa well. It seems they thought I was asleep, and took the chance to pitch Into one an other. The first I noticed of it there was a general commotion, and the middle and ring fingers were pushing each other very spitefully, .bach of them wanted all the room. "Now you just stand aside," said Mr. Middle; "I'm the longest and the biggest, and have tlie best right here You are always sticking yourself up and getting in the way. I'll have you under stand that the middle of the hand Is all mine, and if you know when it's good lor you, you II keep away." At this, Mrs. Ring was so indignant that she could not speak, and Mr. Fore r inger, jumping up in a great flurry shouted : ; ' 'No, you don't, either, you insolent fellow ! Mrs. Ring aud I run down into the middle just as much as you do, and, putting us together, we occupy more of the middle than you do. If you don t behave yourself we will take you In hand together and give you such a thrashing as you never had. Y'ou are a great overgrown lubber, good for noth ing but to get iu the way of better people." After this Mr. Fore stretched himself up as high as he could beside his neigh bor, while Mr. Middle looked down on him with great contempt, and said. sneeringly : "Out upon you: You are so much of a nobody that I never think of you ex cept when I want to touch Thumb for some great business, and then there you are, bluudering around in the way." "Humph ! retorted Mr. ore, pretty talk, indeed. Mrs. Ring and I nave been iu love these years, and we can't enjoy each other's comjiany for you and your impudence." Here these two drew hack as u pre paring for a fight. In doing so, Mr. Middle crowded Mrs. Ring so that she cried out: "You are pretty fellows, to be sure. I abhor you both. I wouldn't conde- sceud to associate with either of you. Haven 1 1 a wavs worn the wedding-ring because I am directly connected with the heart? I heard my owner reading it to-day, and now do you suppose I'll have anything to do with either of you low-bred fellows? I just wish you would fight so as to pull each other out by the roots, and theu I'd be clear of you and have it all to myself, the ouly proper way for a lady of my blood and next to the heart !" At this speech MifS Little Finger quivered all over as she fairly screamed : "I guess there's somebody iu the world beside you, Mrs. Ring. Y'ou are the meanest, most conceited thing I ever saw. There is no getting along with you, you put on so many silly airs just because some dunce used to think you were closer connected with the heart than the rest of us. I'll have you under stand I've just as much to do with the heart as you. And more than that, I'm nicer and prettier than you. You are too big for a lady. I'm just as graceful aud nice as can be. Everybody admires me. They stick the wedding ring on you just because you are so homely as to need something to make you passable. I'm handsome enough without it." By this time each of the lour nngers was mad at all the other three, and stood off as much by itself as it could, looking funny enough. I don't know that they ever would have come together again in the world if it bad uot been for Mr. Thumb. He stood up very stiff and dig nified, and said in a deep bass voice, very slowly, aud with a good deal of a sneer : "Well, well, you are four of the shal lowest fools I ever saw. Got up a regu lar family fight about nothing. I've half a mind to give you all a good drub bing. I'd like to know what any one of you would do alone. You'd cut a pretty figure, wouldn't you, flopping around in the air with nobody to leau on ?" "Shut up!" they all cried together, seeming to forget their differences in common opposition to Uncle Thumb. "Shut up. Y'ou've no business meddling in our aflairs. Y'ou don't belong to our family. You are not a finger at all, but a thumb. Nature set you away off by yourself because you are not fit to be iu good company, you short, clumsy old stump, you !" "All right,' said Uncle Thumb.coolly ; "I'm glad 1 don't belong to your family if you keep up this kitulof a rumpus all the time. I'm an old bachelor aud can get along alone shove my own way through the world. But I guess you'd all wish me back if I was gone; you seem to make a good deal of me, any way." Now it seemed to me that the best way to stop this quarrel for good was to let each one of the very iudependeut folks try to do some common thing alone. So 1 told my thumb to pick up a piu. The fingers all agreed they wouldu't help him, but would see how he made out alone. Thumb made a dive at the plu in his clumsy style, hut Instead of picking it up he knocked it out of the window. He hung down his head and all the fingers pointed themselves at him scornfully. j "Now,"said I,"Mr.Thumbhas failed; suppose Mr. Middle tries it. He did, but could only roll the pin around. So they all tried, but none could pick it up. j You are a pretty set of independent people," said I, "and not one of you cau pick up a piu alone 1 Now, Thumb, you stand aside aud let them try it alto gether." So they tried, and such a trial. Of course they could do it easy euough altogether; but they scrambled this way aud that, twisted and twirled, bumped and jumped, and got so much mixed up with it that they hardly knew themselves. "Now," said Middle to Fore, "you must turn yourself around and we can do it." "But I can't turn," sid Fore, "you must do that." "I caii't, sure." "Then we will have to give it up, if Thumb does langh at us." "Four sound fingers, and all together you can't pick up a pin," I exclaimed. "Now try it one at a time with Thumb." With Thumb's aid auy finger could pick it up. "Now," said I, "stand up all In a row, for I must give you a lecture." Up they stood, looking very sheepish, and I said : "You are neither of you worth a straw alone. In almost everything two of yoa must work together, and in some cases it takes all to Jo what is necessary. Your usefulness and happiness depends on your helping one another. How silly and mean it is for you to quarrel. It is cutting your own head off. And there are some boys and girls just like you, always annoying and bating the very persons who help them, aud without whose help they could do nothing. Sometimes tbey think themselves inde pendent of others, when really tbey cannot do some simple thing without tbem any more than one of you could pick up a pin alone.". ' Prwv Amos Atkins was very fond of pro verbs. Be read proverbs, wrote pro verbs and spoke proverbs; and, meet him where you would, he had always a proverb upon his lips. When he once began to speak there was hardly any stopping him. When I first met Amos I was on my way to my uncle's. A long walk It was; but 1' told him I hoped to be there before night. "Ay, aye," said he. "Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper. Put your best foot foremost, boy, or else yon will not be tbere. It is a good thing to hope; but be who does nothing but nope Is in a very hopeless way. "Have a care of your temper; for a passionate boy rides a pony that runs away with him. Passion has done more mischief in the world than all the poi sonous plants that grow in it. There fore, again 1 say, have a care of your temper. 'Remember that the first spark burns down the bouse. Quench the first spark of passion, and all will be well, No good comes of wrath; it puts no money in the pocket and no joy in the heart. Anger begins with folly and ends with repentance. "Look to your feet and your finrers, boy, aud let both be kept in activity ; for he who does nothing is in a fair way to do mischief. An idle lad makes a needy man, aud I may add, a miserable one, too. "If you put a hot coal In your pocket it will burn its way Out. Ay, and so will a bad deed that is hidden make itself known. A fault concealed is a fault doubled ; and so you will find it all through life. Never hide your faults, biii con less them, and seek through God's help to overcome them. Now step forward, boy; and as you walk along, think of the half dozen pro verbs given you by Amos Atkins. A La war JlickC A writer In the British Quarter! savs Night set in. Gratefully it comes alter the sun has gathered up its smiting beams and gone to its rest. All at once we are plunged into comparative obscu rity, for agaiu there is no twilight to stay the steps ot departing day. At one stride comes the dark. But, looking up into the sky, we behold a vast orb, which pours down a milder and more benedcieiit splendor than the great lord of the system. It is such a moon as we terrestrials cannot boast; for It is not less than thirteen times as large aud luminous as our owu. There it hangs in the firmament, without apparent change of place, as if "fixed in its ever lasting seat. But not without change of surface. For this great globe is a painted panorama, and, turning around majestically ou its axis, presents its oceans aud continents in grand succes sion. As Europe and Alrica, locking the Mediterranean in their embrace, roll away to the right, the stormy Atlantic offers its waters to view, then the two Americas, with their huge lore ls aud vast prairies, pass under inspection. Then the grand basin of the Pacific, lit up with island fires, meets the gazer's eye, and as this glides over the scene, the eastern rim of Asia aud the upper portion of Australia sail into sight. The Indian Ocean ,aud afterward the Arabian Sea, spread themselves out iu their sub dued splendor, and thus, iu four-aud- tweuty hours, "the great rotundity we tread" turns its pictured countenance to the moon, and grandly repays the lis tening luuariaus by repeating, to the best of its ability, tlie story ol its birth. Nor is the sky less marvelous in another respect. For the absence of auy atmos pheric diffusion of light permits the con stellations to shine out with a distinct ness which is never paralleled on earth. They glitter like diamond points set iu a firmament of ebony. Stars and clusters which we never see by the naked eye flock iuto view aud crowd the lunar heavens. Tke rwllatlM ot stiver. This is a topic thai i axes the atten tion of British sanitarians to the ut most. The extent of the difficulty is certainly alarming. Nor is it caused solely by the sewage of cities and towns, bad as that is. The rivers are lined with manufactories of all sorts, chemi cal works, niachine-shiips aud dye houses, all of which pour their poisonous refuse iuto the riveis. Aud so great is the pollution of the water in some in stances that when a light was applied to some of it dipped fiom the river at Bradford it actually burned. A man who accidentally tumbled iuto a river and swallowed a mouthful of water died from the effects. The effluvia that rises from the Clyde produces sickness iu summer-time, and the Mersey emits au unbearable stench. The water of the Bourne is yellow as ochre aud thick aa glne, and the horse that drinks it dies. Aud all the rivers are more or le-s aflccted iu the same way, and the fish that survive in some of the stiesms are so unwholesome that they are unlit for food, if not dangerous. The govern ment looks at the difficulty, bnt seems hardly to know what to do in the face of ancient osage. The question has a double aspect. The sauitary problem claims first attention. People must live. To poison the rivers is to destroy life by tbe wholesale. But this waste of all the sewage and other matters that are needed for fertilizing purposes is a point of great financial aud social importance. Cheap fertilizers meau cheap bread. Tke Virl she Win. Tlie time has passed when woman must be pale and delicate to he interesting when she must be totally ignorant of all practical knowledge to be called re fined and high-bred when she must kuow nothing of the current political news of the day, or be called masculine and strong-muidcd. It is not m sign of high birth or refinement to be sickly and ignorant. Those who affect any thing of the kind are behind the times, aud must shake up and air themselves mentally ami physically, or drop under the firm sti ides of enmmou sense ideas, aud be crushed into utter insignificance. In these days an active, rosy-faced girl, with brain quick and clear, warm, light heart, a temper quickly heated at in tended insults or injnry, and just a quick to forgive; whose feet cau ran as last as ber tongue, and not put her nnt of breath ; who is not afraid of f recklea, or to breathe the pure air of heaven, unrestrained by the drawn curtains of a close carriage ; and, above all, who can speak her mind, and give, her tipiuiou on important topics which interest in telligent people, is the true girl who will make a good woman This is the girl who wins in these days. Even fops and dandies, who - strongly oppose woman's rights, like a woman who can talk well, even if she is not handsome. latitat law r Free, to Mawea. There is in Paris a vast establishment the most extensive of its kind in tbe world where tbe imitation of pearls. dmmoods4ind precious stones generally. is earned on with all the skill which modern ingenuity renders possible, and these productions are sent to the a bops of all lands. Here tbe whole process of transforming a few grains of dirty, heavy looking sand into diamonds of sparkling hoe ia constantly going on. The sand thus employed, and upon which the whole art depends, is found in the forests of Fontainebleaa ; it appears to possess some peculiar qnali tMts of adaptation to this purpose. The coloring matter for imitating emeralds, rubies, aad sapphires is en tirely mineral, aad haa been brought to high perfection. Hundreds of opera tives ate sm ployed in polishing the colored stones and in lining the false pearls with Dsn scales and wax. the scales ot the roach and dace are chiefly employed for this purpose ; they have to be stripped Iroiii the hsh while liv ing, or the glistening hoe so much ad I mired in the real peail will not be inii l tated. These Paiia pearls have been 1 of late years ao perfected that Roman I pearl has to a great extent, been super seded. The setting is alwavs of real gold, and the fashion of the newest kind. BA Hawwa mm Heavy ray. One of the great causes of hard times, says the keeu observer, P. T. Barnnm, the renowned showman, "is the number of soft hands wail ing for light work and heavy pay." Yonng men are not w il liug to do what their prosperous fa thers did before them. Tbey wish to begin where their fat hers leave off. and it will not be strange if they Jeave off pretty near where their fathers began. The successful men of middle age, Uie men wh have a front rank among our merchants, mechanics, manufacturers, and financiers, were many of them at the foot of the ladder a generation ago, and they have reached the ton by their own exertions many of tlieu bearing fpry heavy burdens all the way. I he men who succeed them will be men be ginning as I bey did men who are not afraid to work hard, aud with but lit tle compensai ion at first beyond the business) tiaiuina? they thus acquire. These men deserve success for they are willing to fit for it by needful disci pline and preparation. Those who wait with folded hands, expecting to lie cal led to higher positions without having served apureuticesuip in subordinate ones, will grow wearv of waiting, while those who are busy in subordinate po sitions will be summoned to higher pla ces sooner than they expect. Tbe world knows whom it wants, and when it has wmk for them to do will be sine to call for them. It is wouderfully discriminating both in its needs aud the ageuts with which it meets them. There is always room at the top of a profession, in the higher ranks of trade and commerce, for those fitted to fill them, but the preparation mnst lie iu d us try early and late, application with out cessation, a mind full of busiuess and stored with all its details, quick U perceive its wants and fertile in re sources fur meeting them. Place a man in any position ever so high, and with out the necessary qualifications to fill it and sustain himself, he would find himself tlirnst down in haste. Idle hands and idle heads are not wanted there, and if they are ever placed there tbe descent is sure to tie rapid. The future is full of golden promise, but it promises nothing but disaster and shame and want to the soft hands that are folded and waiting for light work aud large pay. Ther is a mine of wis dom in the epigrammatic expression of of the sagacious show man himself a hard and busy worker all his lite, which it will be well for young men to ponder. Success iu everything ouly comes through toil. Soft hands aie too often the sign of soft lie ads. Begin at tbe ImiUoiu if need be, and lie the winner of your own way. The world will re spect you all the moie, and aill be all the more disposed to aid you in youi way, than if yon sit down snpinely waitiug for something to turn up. Walakey-Drlahlag la ftcwtlawa. Thei'uK.VaH GazMe says: "We're no vera foil, but we're gaily yet," will be the impression of natives of Scotland on considering the following figures sup plied by a correspondent : Scotland spent last year seven millions on whiskey for her own consumption. At the same time it appears from tlie return of the value of lands and heritages in Scotland pre sented last year to Parliament that the annual value of these was 13,ti"S,804, aud that these figures represented 1 : Gross annual value of lands and heri tages other than those contained iu burghs of more than 20,000 inhabitants 13,516,848; 2. gross annual value of lauds aud heritages iu said burghs, .'3,131,9.16 together making, as aliove, .tlH,6ytf,s04. I'll contrasting these de tails it appears that the people of Scot laud now exieud on whiskey aioue more thau one-half of the annual value of the lauds aud heritages which are outside of the uiue larger burghs in Scotland, aud more by two millions a year than the whole value of these ascoutaiued within these burghs." Weddlwgs. A fresh list of weddings are called for, so how are these for 1 1 y menial f Sugar wedding A maniuge with an attendant suite. Wooden wedding Marrying a lum berman. Crystal wedding Marrying one ad dicted to the glass. Silver wedding Marrying a gray lieard. Golden wedding When the groom is a minor, and the bnde a little vain. Diamond wedding When tbe "wash ings" are large. And here are some others. Sugar wedding Many ing a "candid man. Wooden wedding Marrying a perH tect stick. Tin wedding One among the pan- sies. Crystal wedding The Glasgow cer emony. Silver wedding An end of "spoon ing. Golden weddiug One of the species we like. Diamond wedding Jem's marriage. l'vton Commercial Lullttiu. Orlgta af Beer. We have evidence of the nse of this liquor for more than 2,000 years. The Greciau poet and satirist, Archilochus, who lived about 700 K. C. aud the Gre cian tragedians -Es hylus and Sopho cles, who lived more than 400 years B. C, called it m ine of barley. Diodorus, of Sicily who lived about the time of Julius Ciesar, mentions beer in Ins his tory. Pliny also, about the middle of f lie first century after Christ speaks of this beverage iu several places in bis dai oral history. He s tys that in Spain it is called etlia and rii ; in Gaul aud other province of Uie Roman empire eerecuia. Tbe Egyptians are said to have invented beer. Afterwards beer was ankuowu in Egypt until the French army introduced it anew. How far the beer of the ancients ream bled the modern article we do not know. The word beer was derived from bibere, to drink Bora ! Letters. For many reasons it is better to barn old letters of aflVctioa than to hoard them in thia most uncertain world. Burn if you do not wish tbe deepest se crets of your soul made the sport of at torneys. Burn if you woald not have your friend pained by ever an acciden tal disclosure of kindness. Burn if yoa woald have your costliest secrets con tinue audirulged. Burn foryear sake, and for tlie sake of others. Give treni blliBg hopes and geutlr assurances, the first faltering promise, the last welcome asservatioc, the golden and silver sen tences, the recotd of dreams and of doubts, the lines traced when all was benighted give tbe sweet and bitter, and the bitter-sweet, earnestness and playfulness, deep appeal and trivial jest ail to the friendly fire. lorra cvLru. Atlrro after trork. Sound asleep, lit tie woikwiaa. Sweet sleep to you. aad pleaxaot dreams. Tbe sleep of a little workman who is weary, is better than the Uuguid lounging of a buy fellow. There are many people who have no idea of what good strep is. Having plenty of leisnre time, not much to do, aud a great deal to eat. tbey hardly know how to spend their time, and doze thiough the day without finding any refreshment in their dozing. At night they eat heavy snppera. goto bed late, and toss for an hour or two, after which tbey sink iuto a troubled sort of slumber, which gives them no rest noi strength. This is no way to live. The wealthi est lounger who ever yawned may well envy the busy boy or the toiling work man the sweet sleep which honest labor brings. Did you ever count op the boars you spend m sleep, and see what a large part of your life they are I And did yoa ever think what a fine thing it woukl be if yoa could pat in twenty- four hours of solid work, and get solid pay for it, instead of having to waste so many hours as yon do in doing noth ing but going to sleep T But stop aminnte! Just try for once, to work tseutv-fonr hours on a stretch without sleep, aud sen what becomes of you. Or try four or five hours of extra work, without sleep, l ou may stand H for one uight ; but oh, bow heavy your eyes look tbe next diy. How weary your heart, aud how dragging your" foot steps. Sleep, good, sound, honest sleep, is one of the precious blessings God gives ills children, v e cannot be too thauk ful for it. The better we enjoy it, tbe more wide-awake shall we be in our waking hours. For so He giveth His beloved sleep." She IIUl Them. As it was difficult to hud homes for all the little oues of "mother's rat," we seldom htft her but two to tend till tbey were old enough to be given away. On oue occasion she evidently meant to keep them all, for the children had searched in vaiu tor several days to find the little family, kitty apparently eager in the search, but would never lead tbem to tbe spot. Oue morning, when the children were at school, I was working in my dower garden, when kitty came and leaped upon my shoulder, and put ber head against my face, as she was in the habit of doing when she wanted to attract my attention. I said, "What is it, kitty P She was satisfied, jumped down, and went a little way towards the bam, theu came back, pulled at my sleeve, aud started agaiu. 1 followed her. She would ran a little way ahead, aud then wail till 1 came np. Wheu she reached the barn, she ran np the stairs, theu turned aud looked back to see if I was coming. When she saw I was near, she ran across the barn chamber, jumped upon some bay, and took her poitiou till I came np. when she set vigor lously to work to pull away the hay which covered her four little kittens, which she had been biding away from the children by coveriug luein with the hay whenever she left them. Our Dumb Auimalt. Bird Wonihip. The chaplain who otticates at Ward's Island, at tbe Asy lum for the Insane, affords us this suggestive incident, which we extract from the Church Journal, New York : A little canary-bird hangs in his cage directly iu trout of the chancel. He is a brilliant singer, and never fails to have his full share in tbe wors'jip. While the women are coming in be sits iu silence, as if I e felt some awe- inspir ing iutlueuce of the Uuseeu Presence. To the voluntary he pays no attention, save now then one or two faint peeps. But when the voices of the worshippers burst forth with the "O come, let us sing unto the Lord," then, as if sud deuly awaked and inspired by tbe call, he opens his bird-ltps and pours forth a full stream of rich melody that makes the beai t thrill with joy ; so joy ous, su triumphal, that at times 1 can scarce command my owu voice to go on. He seems to be sent to call our thoughts away from earth ; to represent that world of song, wliere not aloue the an gels, cherubim and seraphim, aud "the spirits and souls of the righteous," but ' the fowls of the airn also, joiu the uni versal choir to "Bless the Lord Jesus, aud praise and magnify him foiever." It is worth anyone's while to go for once to the Asylum to enjoy tbe birds song of praise. Parlor Game. Two new amusments are thus described parlor Two players are closely blinded with a bandage made of their pocket hand keichiel. Each oue is provided with a sancerful ot cake or cracker crumbs, which is heid in tlie left band, and a spoon, which is held in the light band. A sheet is spread npou the floor, upon which the players sit, and upon a given signal they begiu to feed each other. Their ef torts to find each other's mouths with tbe spoons never fail to afford much sport. Another amusing experiment is to try to blow out a can dle blindfolded. The caudle ia placed upou a table up to which a player is led; he then walks back six steps, turus around three limes, and walks forward as nearly iu the direction of the caudle as possible and tries to blow it out. If he happens to wander to the wrong part ot the room the effect of the blow lug is very fuuny. A Dog' Exploit. A gentleman in Dea Moines owns a very iutelligeut little dog, which he has trained to bring him his morning paper from tbe front gate, where it is left by tlie carrier. Recently some one stole the paper di rectly after the carrier bad left it, aud Carlo was greatly mystified about the matter. Fearing bis master's anger if he entered the breakfast room without hU accustomed burden, he scoured about in great distress. A happy idea struck hi in, however, aa be espied a journal lying on the doorstep of the opposite neighbor, and galloping off in high alee, be aoou came iuto the house with the stoleu prize in his mouth, it is quite needless to add that bis pene tration, thought miadireclrd. was re warded with a bone of extra size. A precocious boy was asked which was the gi eater evi1 of the two, hurting another's feelings or Lis finger. He said the fotroer. "Right, my dear child," said the gratified questioner, "and why is it worse to hart the feel ings f "Cause yoa can tie a rag around the hDgers," explained the dear child. - raaaily Yaleso. ' Voices run in funilies quite as much as do eyes, mouth, chins, tempers, ca pacities, complexions, hands, feet and legs. Resemblance of thorax is trans mitted from sire to son, with other con genital likenesses, and notably with tbe constitution that speaks average length of life. Sorrowful experience will often connect the well-remenbered quality of "a voice that is still" with the visible sounds of declining health. The music of the lone, like the flush on the cheek, was mortal ; the very life of the voice, the clear, bell-like ring, was the ring of death. . There is now aud then a strange witching in these doomed voices. An extrmordinarr haste to discharge an obligation Is a sort of ingratitude. IXWS Ef BRIX7. Boston has 3,000 music teacbe rs. It Is a City of note. Nine hundred undertakers make a good living iu Vermont. The Connecticut state prison cleared f 2,713 above its expenses last year. About one-half of the South Caro lina state debt has already been fuuded. New York complains of the low ness of the Croton river, and fears a water famine. The orchards of this country are es timated to occupy 500,014) acres, and contain 30,000,000 trees. Gen. Sheridan has been robbed at his Chicago residence of a $1000 diamond in the hilt of his sword. Several more insurance companies in Boston have w ithdraw n from the Fire Underw riters' Union. It is remarked as singular that no Southern outrages have been reported since Attorney-tieneral Plerrepotit took the helm at the Iiepartment of Justice. The representatives of the Liver pool trans-Atlantic steamship compa nies have come to an agreement in re gard to their rates anil passage fares. Subsidy Pomeroy of Kansas has in vented an indelible ink ; but most of his ' old companions remark that what they wsnt is ink that isn't indelible. The late Senator Sumner's Wash ington uiansiou has been bought by Corcoran, of the Arlington, and w ill be connected with that house. Tbe proprietor of the Paris Fihiro, bankrupt in 1S35 and in 1S44. has just paid his debts with interest to all bis creditors he cau find, aud U advertising for the others. The last Wls-onsin Legislature Im posed a forty dollar license ou the sale of spirituous, malt and vinous liquors, or uny other ncnem.je, which looks like overdoing tbe thing. It is reported in the Troy Times that Mr. James Gordon Bennett will come home before the Fourth of July, with four $3,000 pointers and some choice thoroughbred horses. Last year there were 3,521 brewe ries in operation in the Union. New Y'ork having 319 and Pennsylvania 317. In all New Euglaud there were only 74, Vermont having none. The reorganization of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, with a view to tlie completion of the line from its present terminus at Bismarck. Dakota. to lu get Sound, is talked of. Anna Culver, a lady missionary from Philadelphia, returned from Fiji in disgust, because her mixed Suuday schoolrlass insisted that ear-rings and a necklace were full dress. The rocks in a shaft in the Belcher mine, Nevada, whieh was burned out last October, are still red-hot. Places in the famous Y'ellow Jacket mine re mained hot for nearly three years after afire. The Missouri Constitutional Con vention invited ministers to open the business of each day with prayer, but caused it to be distinctly understood that the prayers would not be paid for ny the state. Canaan Valley. Conn., is the place where they store kegs of gunpowder in a blacksmith shop, and where the gun powder, lighted by a spark from the forge, blows the blacksmith and his shop into bits. Mrs. Grundy and the Misses Grundy are packing their trunks, and will soon nee away into the mountains. Mr. Grundy is haunted by visions of hotel . bills, and is heard to groan aloud at the midnight hour. It takes just one cent to send n ordinary paper by mail from Canada into the I nited States, cut according to our postal laws, as existing at pres ent, it takes four cents to bring the same paper back. The new managers of the Boston Put announce that the chance in its af fairs does uot involve any change in the present editorial organization or political sentiments of the above men tioned newspaper. The siaiWilton ilowa) women who engaged ill the tarring and feathering of Miss Ellen Corey of that town, nave waived a preliminary examination and secured a postponement of their prose cution until July 6. Women have their rights in Charles ton, S. C. At the Shuetzenfest held there a rifle range for women was well patronized. The prizes offered were bird cages, dress patterns, and other things of use or,oruaineut. Harry Brooks Is a Washington pe destrian who has accomplished the feat of walking continually for 130 hours with the exception of one hour s rest and forty hours which he occupied In sleep. It nearly killed him. According to the time-honored fashion In Kentucky, the democratic candidates, notwithstanding the cer tainty of their flection, have begun to "stump" the state, the canvas opening with a long list of appointments for each. The famous class which graduated at Bowdoin College in 1S25. containing among its members Longfellow, Haw thorne, aud other men since distin guished in letters. Is to bold Its semi centennial st the college about the 8th of July next. A man and his wife are two. In New Y'ork Mrs. Allen drew $.1,950 of Mr. Allen's money from a bank with out his consent. The bank has since been compelled by a court to pass him an amount equal to that drawn by his unprincipled wife. There are now eight gold note banks in California one each In Sac ramento, Stockton, Santa Barbara and Petal u ma, two in Sau Jose aud two in San Francisco. Two are soon to be opened In Oakland, one at Tomales and perhaps one at Marysville. Mrs. Jefferson Davis aud Vice Pres ident Wilson are said to have met acci dentally in the streets if Memphis re cently and to have slnken hands cor dially, "after which," continues th narrative, "the party adjourned to dis cuss strawberries and ice cream aud the memories of the past. , Buffalo rejoices in the possession, ac cording to our statistical reporter, of 5 Malaga grape stands, 13 proprietors of orange and lemon counters, 20 sellers of pretzels and penny ice-creams, 25 peddlers of stockings, patent soap and jewelry, 30 apple and cake stands, 23 harps and itinerant fiddlers, 50 hand organs and 3 peramliulatitig pianos; and still she lougs for worlds to con quer. It Is rumored iu Washington that a press-club Is soon to be established there. Also, that Mr. Samuel Ward, the lobby king, intends to give his en tire library, consisting of 5,000 volumes of the best standard books of reference, as the foundation for a library for the new organization, and that Mr. Corco ran, the generous millionaire, will give a new and handsome building for a I ii,h.hnn. Both rerjorts will be Quit important after they are confirmed, !; i:iD : ! 'I i ' r ff s 1 11 i SI V9
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers