I
B. F. SCHWEIER,
THE C0XSTITCTI05 THE CSIOJf AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
tol. xxix.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUN1T, PENNA., JULY 28, 1875.
NO. 30.
THE PEW SYSTEM.
Thou nhfclt oat pray, tboa shslt not sing.
No sitting shalt thou have from me ;
Tuou shall not pray, thou ahalt not sing
I'uui thou art aa "rich aa ma."
114, earn thy twenty thonaand pound.
iid tresd the aisle with proper pride ;
And then a seat ahall eoon be found
Where we may worship aide by aide;
Together take the bread and wine ;
And all ahall eome thy pew to awe.
And aainta will then be fneuda of thine.
And to thy riches bow the knee.
And if by cbanre some doubtful name
tie found within our sect select.
He must bare fashion, wealth or fame.
To patch hie moral incorrect.
And so be rich! and have then all
Thy fancy and thy taste demand
The evening dance, the morning call.
And the best pew at thy command
Our edifice was made for ahow !
Nor "without Mossy, wtthoct rSI
Can those into our aittinga go
Who hare not wealth and are not nice !
Oh, no! the poor moat meekly drink
The gospel from their cape of tin,
And backward from the pulpit shrink.
For poverty's a deadly am.
"Unix ix Tsor aurr, tht kcbstaxce omc
I TO THE ruOK. AttD PO1X0W Jf K !"
Alas ! that men should rather live
Kor Tina than for Ethkity !
Prof.Castletoifs "Method
BT 1IK1. l.KKTKt'KK GRISWOLD.
lu the opening of the college year of
1n0!, 1 unpacked my trunk anil arranged
luy cosy little room for the last time, aa
1 had arrived at the dignity of senior in
l.ynne 4 ollege. I had assed a delight
I ill vacation and bad returned to my
studies w ith renewed ardor, some secret
self-eomplai"eiicy at my nun-pfw as a stu
dent and my title ait "senior," and a
happy future to dream over and build
air castles upon, for was not to he
married after I had graduated to Tutor
Griswold ("My John," as I privately
railed hiiu i, and was not Tutor Gris
wold to lie call.il to a professorship at
that time? Could there he found a
brighter future in an humble way for
any one 1 -ertainly thought there
-ould not. and it was with a light heart
that I hungup my little hook shelves,
in V pen pictures, my little clock, and
otherwise made my room cheerful and
i-oinfortahle.
l.ynne College wis situated in the
pleasant little village of l.ynne, and
comprised eight or ten different build
ings of more or less architectural beauty,
several of which were built and pre
sented to the io!lemk bir wealth? rwvtnlp
or churches. For instance, our labora
tory and conservatory w ere built for us
by the meiuliers of a certain church in a
distant city. lare Hall w as built and
the library in it donated iiv a wealthy
Scotchman Kobert Clare. The museum
was built and partly tilled from the
proceeds of a legacy left for the purpose
by an old lady who had lived and died
in Lynne, and others had been donated
in the same way.
The students were very proud of our
college buildings and of our faculty,
which consisted with two or three ex
ceptions, of venerable gray-haired men,
all more or less known to the world of
science and letters.
ur Professor of Metapeysics, Otto C.
Van Aiken, was a young man, a Ger
man, w ith a good-natured, round face,
red cheeks, and light hair, and it is
needless to say, perhaps, that he was a
great favorite with all the students,
Wh ladies and gentlemen.
The Professor of Mathematics, Rogers
astleton, was a widower, about thirty
live years of age. His originally black
hair was quite thickly sprinkled with
gray, and his piercing gray eye sent
terror and confusion to the heart of the
culprit on whom It rested. Still he was
much admired and looked up to by all.
Hr. Lancey, our lady principal, was
a sweet-faced, white-haired, lady, much
loved by us all. and by none, perhaps,
more than by myself and I was proud
to be considered by her as one of her
favorites.
It was her custom, In assigning rooms
to the ladies of the institution, to give
each member of the higher classes as a
room-mate one of the younger and less
advanced pupils to "act as sedative and
maintain an equilibrium"' as one little
flighty girl remarked.
Hitherto, by an especial kindness on
l he part of Mrs. Ijuicey, I had been al
lowed to occupy a room alone, as 1 had
a great horror of a young, giddy com
panlon, from whom it would be impos
sible to seclude myself.
u the morning of my arrival, in the
midst of my unpacking, 1 ojiened the
door to Mrs. Lancey's knock, and after
an affectionate greeting was over I saw
he looked quite careworn and troubled
and I said :
"How tired you look! Are vou verv
busy? Are there many new scholars''
"Yes," she smiled, "in answer to
ltoth your questions; but just now a
new care has come, or rather is com
ing," and taking a letter from her
pocket she handed it to me. It was
signed '-Robert Clare."
"Clare Hall!" I exclaimed, half in
terrogatively. ""t es," she answered.
After some preliminary remarks he
w rote :
"I feel, Madam, although I have seen
you but once, that I may w rite to you
i'reeiy. I am. as you know, a widower,
and hit business keeps me traveling
from one part of the country to another.
wing to these causes my little daugh
ter, ot whom I spoke to you while in
l.ynne, has grown to be seventeen year
of age, w ith little moral training, or in
deed any training at all. she is a hoy
denish, "mischievous girl, and a silly
girl, if 1 must ray it; but she is also an
affectionate, lovable girl, and, God be
praised, a girl w ho scorns a lie or any
dei'eit. I have sent her to school sev
eral schools" in fact and although it
frieves my heart and humbles my pride,
must tell vou she has been expelled
front all. f am at a loss what to do with
her. 1 ask you if you will try her in
your school. I feel that under your
gentle care she w ill change. Will you
take her? Please answer immediately.
'KOBKRT C'LAKK."
I drew a long breath andlooked at
Mrs Lancey.
-Ik ST T A in . J.
uvar me. i uat ui , uu w.r
"I wrote to him to send her," point
ing to the date of the letter, three weeks
old.
"But," I cried, " 'hoydenish, mis
chievous,' 'silly.' '-
"I know," and she sighed.' "But we
ust do the bet we can. Of course,
there is nothing else to do under the
circumstances. ' We would do very
much more for Robert Clare," and she
sat silent some minutes; then looking
at me and smiling slightly said :
"Well, Gerty, what do you suppose I
came to you with the letter for ? ' -
I looked at her a moment, sat down
w eakly on the edge of a trunk, and after
a pause, I quoted grimly :
"And Abraham lifted up his eyes and
looked and beheld behind him' a ram
caught In a thicket by his horns."
Mrs. Lancey laughed.
-now well you put it !" And after a
pause, "I want you to be willing to take
her. I should hate to force her upon
you, Gerty, hut I thought of you almost
as soon as I read the letter, and was
sure you would help me. You see I
look upon you as connected with the
laculty to a certain extent," she added
smilingly, at w hich I smiled In return,
as I generally did at any allusion to mv
engagement to Tutor Griswold, and an
swered cheerfully:
" f course I w ill help you. I con
sider it a dread I ul cross, but 1 guess 1
can near It. n Hen is sue to comer"
To-night."
"To-night !" I echoed. "Oh, dear!"
ell, l w ill be ready for her."
"I will bring her in." said Mrs. Ijiu
eey, and as she bade me good morning
she said, "1 am obliged to you, Gerty,
for I know your prejudice against a
room-mate, so 1 take it as an especial
kindness to me that you seem so willing
and cheerful about it."
Privately, however. I was not "will
ing and cheerful." I paced my room
in as bad a state of temper as 1 had in
dulged in for many months.
ureal clumsy, rude gin: ' l ex
exclaimed, "and 'silly' at that. 'iot
tell a lie :' " I believe I had almost not
quite, perhaps, but almost rather have
her tell lies and be quiet and lady-like,
But as the day passed on I became
more and more reconciled to my duty,
and even formed plans for teaching her
gentleness, and in fact reforming her
generally.
I busied myself for the remainder of
the day. not giving myself time to dwell
upon thoughts of mv expected room
mate; but alter tea, as I sat gazing va
cantly out upon the distinct shadows of
the trees and clouds on the grass in the
moonlight, I gave myself up to the
painful luxury of imagining all the dis
agreeable points about which Miss Clare
and 1 could disagree, u ntil, for very
shame, I sprang to my feet, turned up
my light, and began to prepare one ot
my studies tor the next day.
The time nassed rabidly, and soon I
heard Mrs. J-ancey's voice in the hall
and her gentle tap at the door.
Seeing only Mrs. I -an eey as 1 oiiened
the door. I began ,
"Didn't she But behind her
came the smallest and really the loveli
est little girl I thought I bad ever seen,
whom sue Introduced as 3Hss C-assie
Clare.
1 was thoroughly confounded and in
a sort of maze. 1 w eh-omed her and
assisted in removing her hat and sacque.
She seated herself demurely upon a
hassock while Mrs. J-ancey talked on
pleasantly with me. I privately exam
ined Miss Cassie aa I talked.
I shuddered as I recalled my hasty
language in the morning. "Great,
clumsy, rude girl," I had said, while
here before me sat a fairy. Such tiny
hands, so white and plump; such a dear
little turned-up nose and short upper
lip; such a mass of short, reddish gold
ringti covering her head, and such large
brown eyes.
Mrs. Lancey soon took her leave, and
I tried to enter into conversation with
the child (for as such 1 could but con
sider her) by asking her if she felt
homesick or strange.
"Oh, no," she replied. "I am used to
going to new schools; I've been to so
many. Papa is in hopes I'll do better
here, though, and stay here."
"Well," 1 said, a "little astonished,
"you hope so, too, don't your"
"Yes; but then I always do. It doesn't
seem to last, though, some way," she
said, rather despondingly.
"I think it wiU this time," I re
sponded cheerfully, and my heart sud
denly warming towards her I stooped
and kissed her; then seeing she looked
tired I put aside my studies for the night
that the light might not disturb her,
and she was soon asleep.
In the morning it was with deep In
terest I watched her as she plunged her
head into the water, drew a comb
through her hair, then with both hands
"ruffled it," as she called it. I uttered
an involuntary exclamation of delight at
the shining beauty of the little rings,
and said
"Your hair does not give you much
trouble." :
"Xo, not now," she answered; "but
I did have such a time about it. You
see it was in curls long ones and
when I had to go away from the Insti
tute iu Xew York I cut them all off to
give to the boys over in the other Insti
tute, and mad'aine wrote about it to papa
and told him I was a 'mischievous, silly
chit,' and she was 'glad to be rid of me.
She didn't care about my hair, but was
so angry because I gave it to the boys.
Some of 'em had a w hole curl, and some
of 'em only hail a piece," she added re
flectively,""! like it better off, any way."
She was soon the acknowledged fav
orite of all teachers and scholars. Her
bright, affectionate, merry ways were
in pleasing contrast to the usual class
of quiet, grave students who came to
Ly nne. Yet, on the other hand, it most
be confessed, rules and regulations were
as sealed books to her. With the ut
most ease and recklessness of conse
quences she would transgress the strict
est rules on the list, and when railed to
account would confess so prettily, and
beg pardon so earnestly, that even dur
ing her first term in Lynne she had
been forgiven almost, If not quite, the
"seventy times seven."
Professor Van Aiken, as might have
been expected, was evidently ner most
dearly loved teacher, and by many of
the teachers and students it was strongly
suspected that her love was returned
tenfold by our red-cheeked, merry pro
fessor. She seemed to have more re
spect, however, for Professor Castleton
than any other of the professors, was
more careful that In his classes her con
duct and recitation should be more
nearly perfect, and a word of com
mendation from him would bringa rosy
flush to her check, and such an overflow
of joyful spirits, that, seemingly, with
out will or volition on her part, she
would drift straightway into some
transgression or other.
Tims passed the first and second terms
of Cassie's stay at Lynne. . My lore for
her had deeiened steadily, and it was
with deep concern I learned from "my
John" that, as Cassie's faults, instead
of diminishing in frequency and 11a
grancy were increasing, the patience of
the faculty, as body, was becoming
exhausted", especially aa their leniency
toward her w as having its effect on the
younger members of the school; and,
though thev loved not Osar Jess, they
"loved Rome more." - So faculty
meeting was called, at w hich she was
requested to be present. . ' T
My John told uie afterward that there
were tears in President Williams' eyes
as he ri proved seriously the sobbing
Cassie, and as severely as his kind heart
would let him, insisted upon the strict
obedience to all rules and regulations as
set down in the catalogue.
Cassie promised most humbly' and
earnestly to try to do better, and- for
several weeks after It made my heart
ache to see the efforts she madeto dis
obey no rule, however slight. - But,
alas, gradually she drifted back into her
old ways cheerful, light-hearted, lov
ing, but always doing something which.
although not wrong in itself, was a
positive Infringement on some college
' Our college was one to which both
ladies and gentlemen were admitted.
and although we were allowed much
liberty, still our strictest rules were
those which related to our intercourse
with the opposite sex One rule with
which I have to do, and, I believe, the
only one which Cas-ie wilfully dis
obeyed, was:
"A lady lielonging to the institution
may ride with a gentleman but twice
during a term, and must, w ithout fail,
be in ner room at eight o'clock."
This rule was Ca&sie's especial trial,
and she frequently violated it in both
particulars mentioned.
Charlie Castleton, a nephew of the
professor, and very much like biiu in
appearance, had entered the college
about the same time Cassie did, and
they had been fast friends from the tie-
ginning, and very frequently com
panions In disgrace.
One day Cassie informed me that
Charlie had been expelled from the col
lege for some persistent misdemeanor,
and was going away from Lynne the
next week, and, in a half whisper, she
confided to me that she had promised to
ride with him the next Tuesday even
ing, although she had already taken the
two rides allotted to that term. 1 tried to
dissuade her, but she said :
"I'm going this one time, Gerty, and
it is to be the last. I have been think
ing a good deal about it lately, and I am
firmly resolved to do better. I tell it lo
you alone, and you w ill see if it is not
as I say."
The next evening Tutor Griswold in
formed me that, at the last faculty meet
ing, Cassie's case was agaiu brought up,
and, with the excejition of Professor
an Aiken, who looked the picture of
distress, and Irofessor Castleton, white
and stern, all decided that she must
leave the college.
"The chilli young ladv, I mean,"
said irotessor I astleton, "Is in mali
cious nor willful, and I believe many of
her trausgressious arise from an over
flow of animal spirits," to w hich one
and all assented, half hoping their
brother professor had some plau by
which to relieve them. He continued :
''I have a a a method (eruaps it
might lie called which, 1 hope, will
prove efficacious. This is Miss Clare's
third term in Lynne, and the term is
half ended. At its close, if there is no
change, I will withdraw my ohji-cliou
to her removal."
This was readily consented to, and
after the meeting Professor Castieton
was assailed with many questions con
cerning his method, which he steadily
refused to gratify, saying: "If 1 suc
ceed you shall know. No, I cannot say
that I have ever known of its being
practiced before. It is entirely a new
ulan of my own. I fear it may not suc
ceed, but I earnestly hope it will."
The evening appointed for Cassie's
ride came, and it was with mingled
anxiety and relief I saw her leave the
house. Relief for I had faith to believe
that she would make it the last of sim
ilar disobediences, as she had promised,
for there was an earnestness in her look
and manner as she made the promise
that I had never seen before.
I had barely composed myself to my
studies after her departurewhen a vio
lent ring was heard at the door, and I
was summoned to the parlor, where, to
my astonishment, I found Charlie Cas
tleton pacing the floor in a fever of
anxiety and vexation.
"Oh, Miss Vernon," he crid as I en
tered, "I'm a wretched man! I don't
know why I should come to you, but I
had to tell some one. Where do you
suppose Cassie is? Off with Uncle Roger
and never knew it !" and he brought his
fist down violently nion the table.
"Oh, I cried, and weakly sat down
upon a chair.
"You may well say 'oh,' and I, stupid
idiot that I am, not able to say a w ord
but look on and get her iu !" and he
walked frantically around, taking up
hooks and small articles, turning them
over, and- laying them down without
seeming to know what he was doing.
"Charlie," I said, "sit down hero
quietly and tell me just w hat has hap
pened perhaps we can do something
then."
"Xo, you cannot; they are half way
toEldred by this time. "But I may as
well tell you ; I came to tell yon. You
see, we were to start early, before the
moon came up, so no one would recog
nize us, and she was to come to the big
hemlock tree at the corner f the park
and start from there. I was waiting
there for her with sack a Irnm! Col
vile's 'Black Jerry' and 'Dapple Jack'
you know they were in first class order,"
(his eyes sparkled and then darkened)
'when who should walk over to me
but Uncle Roger, and as he stepied up
to me I saw Cassie open the door down
here and start' nut. Uncle Roger saw
her ton. 'Charles, he said you know
he said it -Charles, I will take your
place for to-night. Give me your over
coat and bat, and he fairly hustled me
out of them, and I so dazed and Isvwil
dered. Oh, I knew I was an idiot I
said so but I never realized it as I did
then when he clapped this hat on my
head and said: 'Charles, move away
from her instantly. This is an impor
tant matter, sir!' And as I moved off
slowly he came down with his hand on
my shoulder and said, Ho!'and I went,
and 1 never said a word the whole time.
But when I was on the other side of the
tree I went back I couldn't help it,
you know and stood in the shadow.
There was Cassie patting the horses,
and saying, Oh, Charlie, arn't they
beauties?" and uncle answering "and
I swear," he said excitedly, "if I didn't
almost think it was I who had spoken :
'Well they just are, but i thought you
were never coining, Cassie. Xow one
two three jump!' and she was in
the buggy as light as a feather. How
he ever knew that was the way I did,
I'm snre I don't know. 1 just dug my
heels into the ground and swore as they
drove off, and then 1 thought of you and
came down. You see we can't "do any
thing." "Oh!" I sighed, "if you had only
spoken, even after they hail started, just
to let her know." "
"Oh, yes; if," he cried, almost an
grily. " 'If1 I'd not given him the hat,
or tiiecoat, or the team, or Cassie; 'if
everything! but I did, I did all he told
me to; that comes of being brought up
by him, and having to obey him when
I "was little. I suppose he thinks a fel
low of seventeen is a child still, and 1
can't say s I blame him after all," he
added, gloomily.
"Well, Charlie," I said, consolingly,
"Professor Castleton won't be very se
vere with her, I'm sure no one is and
may be it will be for her good."
"Humph!" he ejaculated, and pres
ently took his departure, and I sat in
my room filled with anxiety and dread.
I had no doubt but that Professor Cas
tleton would explain his new method to
her; and although I knew he could not
be very stern or hard toward her, I
feared, I scarcely knew what.
. As the chapel clock struck eight, I
heard a carriage drive up, and, peeping
through the bund, I saw Professor Cas
tleton lift Caasie to the ground and walk
up to the door with her. In a few min
utes I heard her running lightly up the
stair, and she was In the room, with her
arms about my neck, laughing and
blushing, refu-iug to let me see her
face. Presently she said :
"Oh, Gcrtv, vu never could ima
gine!" "Yes, indeed, I can," I interrupted.
'Charlie was here."
'Poor Charlie!" laughed Cas-ie;
"Roger laughed so about him."
"Hoyer!" 1 gasped, r
"Yes," she answered, smiling and
blushing more vividly. "Yes, 'Roger.'
He loves me. I had thought so for some
time, he always seemed so hurt, and
grieved when I did wrong. Some way
he found out that I was to ride with
Charlie to-night, and come and took his
place. I never knew it until we were
clear out of Lynne. 'When the moon
came out bright be pushed back his hat,
looked at me and iu his own voice said
Cassie. I turned iierfectly stiff, and
couldn't take his eyes from him, even
w hen he spoke to liic; 1 just stared at
him and couldn't seak. 'I have al
most frightened the child to death,' he
said, and," hiding her face on uiy
shoulder, "he put his arms around me
and kissed me, and called me his 'darl
ing little Cassie,' and 1 am so happy
so happy !"
"Well!" I remarked. "A 'method,'
indeed ! I should think he did have a
'method !"'
Cassie looked inquiringly at me, and
went on :
'Roger docs not wish to have our it
talked of much. He is going to tell
some of the professors ami Mrs. Ijincey
by and by and said I might tell you
now. I told you, Gerty, didn't I, that I
was going to break a rule for the last
time. I've la-en thinking alsiut it ever
since I began to find out how much I
loved him. I have loved him from the
very first, and didn't know it."
And from that time forward Cassie
was a changed girl, though her bright
ness and gavety were not lessened. 1
do not say she never disolieyed a rule
again, for she did frequently, but tjiere
was a marked chauge tor the lictter.
After my graduation, and I was mar
ried to the "Prole-sor" as I was proud
to call him and in my own dear little
home, I still kept Cassie with me, and
and at the end of two years she gradu
ated with the highest honors of her
class, and was married to "Roger" after
the gieat Alumni dinner in the hall;
and in President William's little con
gratulatory speech after the ceremony
but few of the a.-s-iiihled Alumni under
stood to what lie referred w hen he con
gratulated Professor Castleton ujwm his
"method," and regretted that it was
one which could not always proveavail
able. '
Crabbr. (he Poet.
If ever a man lx gau a literary life
with serious disaiivaulagcs, it was
George Crahlie. He was the sou of a
fisherman, who also ierformcd the du
ties of salt-collector at the rt of Ald
horough, iu Suffolk. The old man
would say, when George was but a lad,
"That boy must lie a fooL John, Bob,
and Will are of some use alsiut a boat;
but what will that thhfj ever lie good
for?" His early predilections were for
anything but the humble 'pursuits of his
father and brothers; so lie was appren
ticed to a surgeon, and ultimately began
to practice tor himself in his native
town, with but inuinVrcitt success. His
inclinations first led him to science.
Entomology and Isifanv engaged his
attention; but even while engaged in
these solid pursuits, lie was cultivating
the art w hich was to bring him fame,
and place his name among the first
poets of his native land. While wan
dering in search of plants and insects,
he was moulding verse into measure.
The two pursuits, poetry and natural
history, went on well together; note
book in hand, he would often pause in
his researches to jot down a verse or
revise a couplet.
At twenty-five he abandoned the
medical profession, and threw himself
upon the world of I .on. Ion ; with a heart
full of hope, a bundle of poems, and
three pounds liorrowed money in his
pockets. He arrived in the metroolis
a stranger. His poems were rejected
by the publishers, and forinany months
he was reduced to destitntior snd want.
Yet he struggled on, hoping against
hope, sustained by his religion and his
love for his sweetheart a Miss Sarah
Elmy whom he had left in his native
village. At last, driven to despair, his
wardrobe sold, his watch pawned, and
the spiinging-iiouse staring him in the
race, he applied to tsurue, and in a
modest and manly story disclosed his
situation to him. The great statesman
listened, couiiassioned his distress, took
bun by the band, received liun into ins
own house, and introdui-ed liim to Fox,
Sir Joshua Reynolds, and many more
of his distinguished friends. In this
same year, while under. Burke's roof,
Crabbe published his first work, "The
Uhrarv. His noble la-nelactor assis
ted him into holy orders, procured him
the position of chaplain to tbn 1 Hike of
Kutland, and the protection of l-ord
Thurlow. then Iord Chancellor, to
whom the needy ioet hail iu vain ap
plied in adversity.
He married the object of his affec
tions, settled down on his living, and
for the remainder of his' years, which
were long, for he died at the age of
seventy-eight, he led a life of domestic
happiness and literary leisure.
Later in lile. when he had acquired
fume, and came to the eity where he
had once wandered homeless and hungry
he was the lion of the season, dined and
feasted, and sought after by lite tir-t
men ot letters of the time.
LMtt Arts Bevivlna;.
There aunears to be a revival in
Venice of some of the arts which have
been so long unexercised as to be prac
tically lost. The ancient brocade
tapestry manufacture is being revived
by the t ratelli Agnino. J be produc
tion of this fabric, which existed liefore
that of Lyons, and was used by the
Doges for gifts to other potentates, em
oloved at one time 14.001 hands. Some
of the stuffs were of extraordinary
texture and beauty, but the secret of
the rarest died with the inventors. In
recent times Mr. l-ayard, British Min
ister at Jladi id, obtained a very suc
cessful result at revival of the art iu an
order executed for him ; the Princess
Dnlgorouky also obtained some of the
richest patterns. The cost ranges from
3 40 to i0 per meter (about 3U Inches.)
The lace work for which the small
islands of Burano, near enice. was
once renowned is also being revived.
Under the auspices of the Princess
Giovanelli and the Countess Marcello,
an aged woman, who remembers and
understands this art. has been engaged
to give instruction in it. The demand
for the first specimens was very great.
The cost is about $20 for a meter, about
4.68 inches in width. The production of
one meter occupies a jvoiuan 1V days
of five working hours each. Another
revival is that of the :"gros point de
Venice" at Burano. A new branch of
industry springing up in Venice is the
result of the demand of imitations of
antique furniture in ebony and ivory,
pearwooa ana none being asea as sub
stitutes for these materials. It is stated
that work is being produced which
would pass for the cinquecento with
all but the most experienced con
noisseurs. . ,
Forty thousand Mennonites are to
emigrate to this country. And the best
of it is, they mean to settle here, and
nave money to enable them to begin
life comfortably.
The Eye.
KITES KOK I1IK CAKE OP THE EVES.
I'r. I. F. Lincoln, Secretary of the
Department of Health, read the follow
ing roles for taking care of the eyes
liefore the American Social Science
Association at Detroit :
When writing, reading, drawing,
sewing, etc.. always take care that
1. 1 lie room is comfortably cool, and
the feet warm.
2. There is nothing tight alwut the
neck.
3. There is plenty of light without
dazzling the eyes.
4. The sun does not shine directly on
the oojwt we are at work upon.
5. The light does not come from in
front ; it is best w lieu it comes over the
lett shoulder.
!. The head Is not very much bent
over the work.
7. The page is nearly perpendicular
to the line of sight; that is, that the eye
is nearly opposite to the middle of the
ltge, for an object held slanting is not
seen so dearly.
ri. That the ge, or other object, is
not h-ss than fifteen inches from the
eve.
Xear-sightedness is apt to Increase
rapidly w hen a mtsoii w ears, in reading,
the glasses intended to enable him to see
distant objects.
In any case,w hen the eves have any de-
fcct.avoid all such work.except for very
short ta.-ks, not exceeding half an hour
each, and iu the morning.
Xever study or w rite before breakfast
by candle light.
io not lie down when reading.
If your eyes are aching from tire light,
rrom looking at the snow, ln.ni over
work, or other causes, a pair of colored
glases may le advised, to be used for a
while. Light blue or grayish blue is
the best shade, but these glasses are
likely to be abused, and usuiilly are not
to be orn except under medical advice.
Almost all thre persons who continue
to wear colored glasses, having perhaps
first received advice lo wear them from
medical men, would be better without
them. Traveling verniers of spectacles
are not to lie trusted ; their wares are apt
to lie riM oininend.il as ignorantly and
indiscriminately as iu the times of the
"Vicar of Wakefield."
If you have to hold the pages of ll.tr
prr Mii'tuziue nearerthaii fifteen inches
in order to read it easily, it is proliable
that you are quite near-sighted. If you
have to hold it two or three feetauay
before you see easily, you are prohably
far-sighted. In either case, it is very
desirable to consult a physician before
getting a pair of glasses, for a misfit may
permanently injure your eye.
Xever play tricks with the eyes, as
squinting or rolling them.
The eyes are often troublesome when
the stomach is out of order.
Avoid reading or sewing by twilight,
or when debilitated by recent illness,
esecially fever.
Every seamstress ought to have a cut
table to place her work on such a plane
w ith reference to the line of vision as to
make it possible to exercise a close scru
tiny without bending the head or the
figure much forward.
Usually, except foraged persons or
chronic invalids, the inter teniera
ture iu work rooms ought not to exceed
00 deg. or 1 deg. To sit with impunity
in a room at a lower tcmieratiire, some
added clothing will be necessary. The
feet of a student or seamstress should be
kept comfortably warm while ta.ks are
being done. SIipiers are bad. In
Winter the tcmjicrature of the lower
part of the room is apt to be 10 deg. or
15 cleg, lower than that of the upper.
it is indispensable in all forms of
labor requiring the exercise of vision or
minute objects, that the worker should
rise from his task now and then, take a
few deep inspirations with closed mouth,
stretch the frame out iuto the most erect
Ksture, throw the arms backward and
forw ard, and, if possible, step to a win
dow or into the open air, if only for a
moment. Two deks or tables in a room
are valuable for a student; one to stand
at, the other to sit at.
A Privileged Iwstitatlou.
The press dictates our opinion of it
self, and that uo other modern institu
tion docs. Even the telegraph is dumb
except as the press praises it. But the
press has iu itif a uever-silcnt voice
of self-eulogy. The power of the press,
the iutelliguuce of the press, the dignity
of the "fourth etale," the greatness of
tin-London Tim', the Xew York I!rmli,
the genius of Mr. Greeley or of Mr.
Smith these are themes from which
none of us can escaie. short of refus
ing absolutely to read the newspiers,
we cannot close our eyes, even in the
Barcan desert, to this fine procession of
heroic forms that are kept constantly
moving before us.
The stock eulogies of the press thus
become a part of the mental furniture
of a constant uewspaer reader, a sort
of fundamental postulate upon w hich
he buses his processes of thought. I
suppose that some day our metaphysi
cians may be able to u-e these concep
tions in making up their lists of intui
tions. A college professor gave us, a
few years ago, a valuable book on what
he called mental philosophy, if I re
member rightly, and it contained a list
of ultimate am) absolute truths, as given
in the professor's consciousness, very
useful as a sort of canon law, or final
authority iu cases perplexing to the
theological mind. I was always a little
surprised that he did not iuclude with
them the virtues of the newspaper, but
I presume these may le add.il to future
editions of a work so likely to remain in
leruianent demand.
It is the journalist then, and not the
soldier, the man of business, or the
scholar, who specially magnifies his
office in our day; who has taught us
that the press is "the soul of modern life,
the prnjier master of modern thought
and action; I hat the secret of intelli
gence lies In reading the newspapers,
ami the secret of wealth in advertising,
with many other valuable truths of a
similar kind; and it is the journalist
who, more thau other men, can sup
press criticism of his. calling. If the
praises of the press are Isirn of it-elf, if
iu censures are disarmed by itself,
should we not seek opportunity, from
time to time, to correct our estimates of
its power and value; to look at it," as far
as is possible, as we should look at other
glories of this age, with our own eyes,
and not with any others? May we not
have agreed too easily that the press
does us nothing but good all the days of
our life? : These cautions are obvious,
yet we need to bear, them in mind.
There are fallacies which escape our
notice because they are so evident, just
as we may fail to see an advertisement
printed in letters thrice as large, as we
were looking for. The 0'ahixn.
Werk fer SieaUav
They have a way In Oregon to make
gouts useful iu other ways than fur
nishing fleece and mutton. Men who
are clearing land are glad to take flocks
of goats to keep for nothing, for the pur
pose of availing themselves of their ser
vices as scavengers of weed and sprout
browsers. The lands in that State are
mostly heavily timbered, and a great
deal of labor Is required to clear it of
timber and prepare it for cultivation.
The first thing they do towards clearing
up apiece of timbered laud is to chop
down that timber, aiming to make the
trees fall as much as possible in heaps or
clusters, so that when fired they will
burn up. This they call there, slashing.
The stumps are generally left standing
about three feet high, and the first sea
son after being cut, the roots generally
send out a great many shoots or sprouts.
Goats are very fond of these shoots, and
devour them voraciously. In that coun
try, if these sprouts are kept closedown
the first year, preventing the sap from
going back into the roots In the fall, the
stumps are most sure to die and com
mence to die the following spring. Being
thus deprived of sap, the life-giving
principle, they can no longer resist ten
dency to decomposition. A white mil
dew sets in, and in about three years the
roots are rotted off and thestump may
be removed, leaving the land in con
dition to cultivate. The Angora goat
is becoming quite popular iu Oregon,
and those who have flocks can get tneni
kept without expense by those who make
uae of them in the above manner. To
those who are clearing river bottom
lands in this State, timbered with second
growth oaks or willows the above facts
may furnish a useful hiut. The practice
here is to dig the roots almost entirely
out of the ground to prevent the sprout
ing. If the effect of the work of the
goats will be the same here as in Oregon,
a considerable expense might be avoi
ded by cutting the trees off and turning
in the goats to Kill the stumps as tnev
do there. And we see no reason why
the same cause will not produce the same
effect. The philosophy of the killing by
browsing is this : The sap left in the
stump is takeu up by the growth of the
young shoots, and if they are nipped off
and kept short no sap is returned to the
roots to keep them alive aud tney die
from this cause aud the great shock re
ceived by cutting off the original tem
aud branches of the tree.
Steves ! Isaiawr.
SOME VERY I S El-XL St OC.ESTUlSS.
Xot only can we not see the slightest
use In taking down the stoves, it that
be the way of heating, but we hold that
in i-ountrv houses there should never be
a day in the whole year in w hich a fire
cannot be built at a moment's notice.
In summer an open fireplace is prefer
able to a stove, for there will le but a
few weeks in the whole summer in which
a little fire iu the morning or evening
will not be needed to ventilate the room
or to dry' it, if not to remove the chill.
Iu malarious districts this is of special
importance; a few sticks will prevent
what much quinine may not cure, and
be vastly cheaiier. So we insist that in
the family or living room of every coun
try house there should always be a fire
laid in fire-place, grate or stove, ready
to diffuse comfort when needed, even if
it be in July or August. But in houses
heated by stoves there are several which
may come down w ithout detriment, and
those w hich remain in place should be
properly cared tor, which brings us at
last to faking down the stoves. If the
stove connects by a short, straight piece
of pipe directly with thechimney, there
will tie little trouble in replacing it uext
fall; if, instead of this, there are, as is
more commonly the case, several lengths
of pie and more or less elbows, then
too much precaution cannot be taken.
Some hold the theory that a stove-pipe
once taken dow n can never be put up as
it was liefore without calling in a titter.
Stove-pipes make great havoc with do
mestic patience, but a proper foresight
at the taking down w ill help greatly to
a felicitnous putting up. Wherever two
ends of pie, whether sections or elbows
come together, they should be marked,
whether intentionally separated in tak
ing down or not. If a large pipe is t a,
keu down in the fewest possible pieces,
some others will separate, and all !e in
confusion, hence the only safety is to
number each joint, that is, whenever
the lengtlis or sections, including el
hows, come together with two numbers,
as 1-1, 2-2, etc. Do this before disturb
ing the pipe; chalk will answer, but
the marks must be renewed, if blurred
by handling, before the pipe is put
away for the season. Where anthracite
coal is burned a simple thumping of the
pipe will remove the gathered ashes and
dust; a pipe to a bituminous coal-stove
w ill show more deposit, and will need a
more thorough cleaning, but in those of
wood stove9, the deposit is often very
heavy, and, if the pipe is a long one, of
a highly acid and corrosive nature. If
this be not removed when the pipe is
taken down now the work of destruc
tion will go on all summer, and when it
is to be put up in the fall it will often
be found completely honey-combed and
useless. Hence a pipe of this kind should
have every incrustation upon its interior
removed by thorough thumping and a
bunch of twigs. To arrest the corrosion
of what deposit remains the interior
may be coated with ordinary lime wash
or white-wash. Both stove and r.ipe
should be thoroughly blackened beTore
they are put away for the summer.
The object of blacking a stove is not
solely to improve its looks, but it is to
cover the surface of the iron w ith a coat
ing that will prevent rusting.
Tea Xarh Hhavfaa- Water.
A certain minister, having become
much addicted to drink, his presbytery
had to interfere and get the minister to
sign the pledge. This the minister did,
and promised that he would never again
take a drink under any pretence w hat
ever. The minister certainly kept his
word ; but the result was that the sud
den reaction proved too much lor him.
and he took so ill that the doctor had to
be sent for. The doctor knew the habits
of the man well, and informed the min
ister that he must just begin and take
his toddy again. This the minister said
he could not do, as he had taken the
pledge in the presence of the presby
tery. The doctor replied that he might
get a bottle or two quietly, and that no
body but himself (the minister) and the
housekeeper would know anything
about it- "Man," says the minister,
"my housekeeper is wor-e than all the
presbytery put together, so that would
not do." However, it w as arranged that
the doctor was to bring in the whisky
and sugar, and that the minister was to
make up the toddy in the bed-room with
the hot water that he always got for
shaving purposes in the morning. The
result was, the minister got speedily
well, aud one day, on going out, the
doctor said to tiie minister's house
keeper, "Weel, Margaret, your minister
is quite himself again." "There's nae
doot aboot that, sir," she replied, "he's
quite weel in hotly; but there's some
thing gane far w rang wi' his upper
storey ." "What's wrong there, Marga
ret?" asked the doctor. "Weel, sir, I
dinna ken, but he asks for shavin' water
six and seven times i' the day." r- .
OpBSMltfea).
A certain amount of opposition is a
great help to man. Kites rise against
the wind, and not with the wind ; even
a head-wind is better than none. Xo
man ever worked his passage anywhere
in a dead calm. Let no man wax pale,
therefore, because of opposition ; op
position is wLat he wants and must
have, to be good for anything. Hard
ship is the native soil of manhood and
sell-reliance. He who cannot abide
the storm withont flinching, lies down
by the wayside to be overlooked or
forgotten.
I0rTHS C0LCIS.
The H'orm that Hred is a ChrstiiHt.
Once there was a little worm that lived
in the very heart of a hue laxe cticst
nii. How he got there he never knew. In
fact, I don't believe he ever thought
anything about it ; but there he was,
nug and warm, with plenty to eat.
and a tiny hole in the chestnut to let
in the air.
The nut w. lying on the ground
with a number of its relations, among
some autumn leaves, and the wee worm
could hear the leaves whispering to
gether whenever the rude wind came
that way.
"Oh ! how frightened we are !" they
would say. "The trees have let us fall,
and soon we shall be blown we know
not where." '
"But we need fear Dothing.n said the
chestnnts to each other. "Chestnuts
can't be blown about like dry leaves.
True, the wind, when he s in a very
great hurry, gives us a little roll, but
that's only fun, it dont frighten us a
bit."
As for the worm, he said to himself
because be had no one else to say it to,
"I'd rather be even a leaf than a worm '
in a chestnnt, no matter where the wind
blew me, for then I should at least see
something. It's awful stupid beiug
shnt np here."
Well, one morning there was a sound
in the wood that was neither the sons
of the birds, the whistling of the w ind,
nor the whispering of the leaves.
It was the sound of childish voices,
and the little worm heard the children
running gaily about shouting to each
other.
"Oh ! here's plenty of them right un
der these old trees."
And the chestnut lying next to the
one he lived in said, "Oh, dear! Oh,
dear! I think they are after us. This
is worse than the wind."
But the worm said to himself, "1 hope
they'll let me out of this poky little
house, so that I m:iy go about and see
what a wood is really like.-7
Just then he felt "the poky little
house" lifted from the ground, and a
girl called out in a great glee, "I've
found a great, big one asplendid one!"
Then a sharp, cracking sound nearly
stnnned him, and he felt the top of the
chestnut cave lu, and heard the girl
give a shrill scream, and cry out in a
very different tone from that in which
she had cried out before, "Oh ! a hor
rid, horrid worm fasslie flung it. with
all her strength, far away from her on
the grass.
Don't care !" said the worm to him
self ; "now I can come ont, anyhow."'
Aud be came, aud was nipped that
very moment by a sparrow, w ho was
hopping ahont on the ground looking
for something for dinner. The Mcth'i-
llint. j
JoIihmij uhiI Jtu-l. Johnny had a
piece of bread ; Jack had none.
Johnny w as not hungry ; Jack was
desperately so.
Johnny iiad lain all night asleep in
his crib: Jack had wandered tlironli
the silent streets, seeking bones, and
finding none.
.lohnnv was rhinkin? rt!ens:int. in.
distiuct lullaby of thoughts, about the
warm snnshiue and the twittering of
the birds, and "mother coming back
soon.'' She hud said so w hen she had
left him.
Jack was thinking: "It's the nicest
piece of bread lever did see." Hecrept
in through the open door, and sat down
very close to the little hand and lips so
busy with the bread, watching wfth a
watery look in Ms steadfast eves.
It was a dumb drama. Neither of
the actors could speak Johnny was a
young baby ; Jack was an old dog.
On the one side was the dreamy, self
absorbed couteut of fulness; on the
Other, the bitter impatience of want.
"He might give me a hit, "thought
Jack.
"Pretty sunshine," thought Johnny.
"It's a shame," thougl.t Jack, trying
to 6tifle his faithful d.ig-houesty ; I
could bitethat boy, and the bread, too."
'Mother coming track,' thought Johuuy
"I think I must," thought Jack
What held him back f Who shall
say I Perhaps the oilier dous would
have counted him a meau thief to steal
from a child. Perhaps, loug aj-'o, he
might have had a home and a master,
who taught him not to steal at all.
Perhaps, dog as he was, he had a con
science aud would not do the tiling just
liecause it was a wrong thing, lirave
Jack! But his will was falling; the
bread was so nice, and be was so hun
gry. He was getting angry, too with
the mover of his struggle. "Serve that
boy right to pnuish him a bit," he
mused. A dangerous thought. At,
Johnny, you may well begin to wish,
"Mother couie back."
Bnt as Johnny's little soul awoke to
longing, it awoke also to a perception
of the cravings near him. He turned
to look at Jack. "Poor dog," he tried
to say, and then good Johnny ! wise
Johnny! he broke otl'a piece" of the
bread, and gave it to him.
Jack smacked his lips in enjoyment.
"11a! ha!" laughed Johnny. This
was good entertainment- He broke oil
another piece. Jack ate it. and then,
in his dog's fashion, kissed the little
hand of the giver.
"Xice dog!" thought Johnny. His
bread grew interesting, now that there
was some one to share it.
"This bov is a fine fellow : how could
I think of biting hiui !'' thought Jck.
Johnny was saved and Jack was
saved. "Blessed are the mericful."
The Sen Timrn ami tht Oil for Chil
Artn. Thechildren in a West -side door
yard were just finishing a game of cro
quet yesterday, when oueof them came
running np to an old gentleman, who
bad been demurely watching the game
from a bench nearby,exclaiiuing: "Oh,
grandpa, why dont you play I it's such
fun." "I wouldn't jine many such non
sense," replied the old man. "What's
the sense in knockicg a lot o' balls
'round through some hoops and then
again' a post!" Here the rest of the
young folks gathered about the old
gentleman to listen, and as he took a
pinch of SDiifl' he shook his head aud
continued: Xo; children ain't brum up
as they used to be in my day. Here
I've leen a-watchin' on ye a playiu'
that Frenchy game; a qnam-lin an'a
niashiu' mallets an,' calliu'on each other
Hare that ain't no such way as my
parents edicated ine to do." The old
gentleman stopped to take another
pincbof snuffaud warmed up as he said:
"They kept me at work at some nseful
employment, lioeiu" taters or stodyiu'
the good hook. It was work in tiieni
days work for yonr daily bread work
night 'n day, au if any on us went to
runnin' offau' pUyiu' iay, I tell ye we
got tuk across seinehody a knee. And
the old man paused aa memory con
jured np these visions of the past, and
ne sighed as be said : "Ah, them was
palmy days!" The children thought
so. too, butchey didn't envy him.
A Xrir Lira i TeUgraiihg. Telegrams,
by a device founded on the idea of the
Jacquard loom, may now be committed
to a roll of paper, punched with holes
instead of letters, and despatched au
tomatically. The punched roll deliv
ers its message to the instrument with
out attendance, and the message is
printed at the other end of the line at
the same time. Theadvautageclainied
for this system is a gain of time, and
the liberty to send messages when the
line is in the most favorahleeondition
withont the assistance of the operator.
Ocrtfmtr for July.
SEWS n BMEF
Cozzens' Hotel, at Omaha, was Soli
by the Sheriff for $12,025.
Xew Haven has raised the salaries
of her public school teachers.
A western circus has a wax-work
group of the principals in the Beecher
trial.
Hon. Heister Clym.T is spoken of
as the Democratic candidate for Vice
President.
A heavy present. A father i:i Iowa
recently gave his daughter a lead mine
a a bridal dower.
A H:irrodsburg;Ky'inan boasts over
HO grand-children and more than 100
great-grandchildren.
I: U rcjorted that the marquis of
Lome and Princess Loii:i intend mak
iui a tour of the United States.
By adv'h v of his physician. Sneaker
Blaine will not participate in the Ohio
political campaign next autumn.
It Is a thousand years thM yearslnce
the first naval victory of the" English
was gained by Alfred over the Danes.
Watermelons, roasting ears of com,
peaches, pear and cauteloes are plentj
iu Georgia, Texas and South Carolina.
. They have foiiudoiitauseforpstent
office reports at last, by distributing
them as prizes at rural spelling matches.
(Jtiv. Tilden. by his Canal Policy,
has saved nearly $2,000,000 to the State
of Xew York. Hu is a imxlol governor.
The G real Eastern has been char
tered to run between Liverpool and
Philadelphia during the Centennial.
It is estimated that there are 8 Hi
tons of old rubber shoes niatiufai tured
into car-springs in Bsbm annually.
The Sorosis of Xew Y ork are de
termined not to patrouize the stores
w here -hop girls are kept standing all
day.
Keraronwe-,' an Indian runner
tried to run fen miles iu an hour at Ot
tawa, Out., hut lailcl by thirty-two
seconds.
All persons visiting Washington oil
official business should understand that
Long Bra'ich is the present seat ofg.
ernment. The I v.va Penitentiary Commis
sioners have nt last succeeded iu pul
tiiiir that institution on a -lf support
ing ba-is.
Conirnoiore Vanderbilt siv-t he
wants, to c3 railroad car running l.'s
miles p-r hour, in. In ling ue-c-sary
.-to;page.
Eroiu twenty to thirty thousand
dollars' worth of silver is annually
sweot uo from t!ie tloor of the mint at
Philadelphia.
The Erie Canal was f.rinilly
ojene 1 on the tweuty-lifth of October,
lSii.l. Here's a chance for a s Miii-ceu-teaufal
this l':l'l.
The new Masonic temple in Xew
York is said to have cost a round mil
lion. Yet it is built upon a level and
paid lor on the square.
They have Mil students at Auburn
'X. Y.) theological seminary. Morjj.m
hall in tint institution is ad'vertis -, as
c Hit-lining "a few rooms for students
11 feet in height."
The general force of the Treasury
I "p:trt mi-lit at Washington, will by the
reorganization be redie ed lo the extent
of its employe, at a saving, it is
claimed oi $"J,Ll(i.
Kentucky counties are contending
lor the parent. ige of Secretary Bri-stow .
Clark county claimed him. but To ld
county gels him. while dark county
console- itself w ith hi father.
Indianapolis eople wan, to marry
each other themselves, and avoid feeing
preachers and magistrate, but Judge
llu-likirk ha instructed the Grand .lury
to show them that they can't.
There is a new counterfeit $1.0M
bank note in circulation. Country edi
tors shoul I beware of it, aud wan every
ante of this denomination with more
th in ordinary circumspection.
Tliof a-iilors who earne 1 prl.e
money in IS'i2 and haven't received it
up to ls7,- have come to the conclusion
that it's better to work for low wage,
arid get their cash every Saturday night.
A Washington dispatehsaysS1") ad
ditional money order olli. es havtt been
designated by the lV,t Olliee Dcari
ui 'nt. The additions, will make, the
total nnmtier of money orler ofuees
K il Cloud and Spotf-d Tail have
a-'-e 1 to give up the Black Hills for
twenty-live, thousand dollars worth of
hor-e-, cows, harue-s and wagons. Xo
mention is made of hi-key, ritle-j or
tracts.
Some Savannah ladies have plei!gwl
their word of honor, each to the oilier,
thnt they will not, foroneyear, purchase
any material for wearing apparel whl.-fi
shall exceed in cost twenty-five cents
per yard.
Tourists to the Yoemite Valley -ay
thai no human lieing can appreciate the
grandeur of nature w here he has to pay
severity-five cents for a Bologna sau
sage and fifty cents for a cup of jioor
w hi-key.
Daring his r nt short stay lu Iu-
dianapolW. Postmaster General Jewell
u-cedel iu reducing the running ex
penses of the jx-t office iu that city
I'J.'SHI chiefly by the discharge of sier
fiuou clerks.
The Chicago papers thinks that if
Jacob's f.rne pillow was of the same
material a their Custom llou-e it mui
have lieen very comfortable. They pro-po-e
to sell the building materials for
"Jai-ob Pillow."
A Chicago sharp by the nam of
Otis, has presented a bill against the
Government of $."D0 per annum for
three years for the use of .1 post-hole.
Calculation shows tiie charge to b'J at
the rate of ,sij.iio (,er acre.
The Secretary of War ha notified
eighty-three members of the H.u of
liepresenUlives to nominate candidates
to till the vaeiiui ies now existing and
to occur at the Military Academy hv
the graduation of cadets iu June, 1S7G.
Three Southern Stales are to elect
member to a constitutional convention
the ensuing fall. They are, X'orth Car
olina, Alaba na, and Texas. Ia the two
last it is believed that a principal point
for Democratic attack will be the free
school system.
The Xew Orleans Republican, "of
ficial organ of the State of Louisiana,"
publishes rt.1 columns of notice to delin
Muent tax-payers, and 6 columns of
sheriff" sales iu a late issue. If no
body else gets rich in Louisiana the of
ficial organs w ill.
The historian Motley is still very
feeble from the paralytic stroke which
disabled his right side, several months
ago. He is said to be so afflicted by bis
physical ailments and the lo-s of his
wife that it is feared he will never
be able to resume his literary pursuits.
A Montpelier farmer fonnd in his
cornfield, the other day, a cent bearing
the date of ITSs. On one side w as an
Indian w ith bow and quiver of arrows
aud on the other au American eagle
with tthe inscription : "Massachusetts"
Commonwealth." Across the eagle
were the words "One Cent."