Y IHK CONSTITUTION THI C5I0N A5D THI ISFOKCEMEST OF THB LAWS. Editor and Proprietor B. F. SOHWEIER, !! I! 1 ." YOL. XXIX. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, TENNA.. NOVEMBER 3, 1S75. NO. 44. 1H GIPSIES. BT WLlf HT5BT OOODTEiE. Vwn Ce Cctmm of "Lam" I saw. three Gypsies on the heath. My carriage rolled along ; One played the violin And sang a fiery song. One, with a pipe in hand. Looked through the smoke As though all in the land None better luck bespoke. One slept beside the tree Ilia harp did hang upon. To breathe a wind-swept melody , Hia heart a dream had won. Cage were the clothes tbey wore ; touts they had always worn, Bat in their eoals they bore For fate a heartfelt scorn. Three-fold tbey tanght me all. When life's day turns to night To fiddle, smoke and sleep away. With three-fold soorn its epite. Long toward the Gypsies turned, I watched in traTetiug on ; The Gypxiea brown in faces burned, The locks bnrned black with sun. The Bell of St. John's. bt isrrrs saimiext. , In a huge and smoky foundry close by the wharves in the town of B , a irang of workmen were getting ready to cast the largest bell of the St. John's cathedral chime. Only an hour more. and they would let the glaring, bubbling metal. Cowing from the huge furnace into the mould, which was buried deep i n the black earth close or. It was just at evening, and in the fathering twilight the lurid blue flames that burst from the top of the tall chlm- nev, flashed unearthly gleams upon the neighboring windows and house-tops. The scene within the foundry was weird and almost awful. The swarthy forms of the workmen, partly lighted by the yellow glare, moved about like Tartarean shadows, and the sooty beams and ponderous chains crossing, half black, half golden, uuder the glowing roof, recalled the engines of the Cyclops under Mt. --'Etna. The town clock struck six. It was time for supper. All the men threw down their tools, and rau and put on their outer clothing. Be back in half an hour sharp !' criinl the forire-inaster. We shall make the cast at a quarter to seven." All right, sir !' cried the men in re- snonse. I hear some of the town folks are cominir down to see the work.' said one. Yes,' said another, and it'll be some thing to open their eyes. There was never such a bell cast in the whole State as this one will be.' I In a moment more onlv one workman and the master were left in the foundry. The former was to stay and watch the "blast." He had brought a double allowance of dinner, and he would nuke a snnner on what remained. Perhaps we can get the 'Iuventor' to stay with you, George, said the master, laughingly, as he prepared to go. Yes, where is he?' returned the man, in the same jesting tone. He's been round the works Ion enough to know when anything goes wron ik. Hallo! hallo! I say I w Here 8 ... i. . i the 'Inventor?' Come here. Ah, there he is!' Ami in silent answer to the summons, a shock-haired fellow, with large gray eves, and a pale, vacant face, nnieared from behind a pile ot castings. He had on his back a Cray shirt much soiled with dust, and lie wore a pair of huge pantaloons, Held up Dy a single susender. Well. Monti. uuoth the man George, slapping him rather roughly on the shoulder.'siippose voii ve got wit enough to help veil if anything' the matter?' The young f.llow looked stupidly around and nodded his head. Then sit here and look at that fur- n.n- and don't take vour eves off. The noor lad smiled, and meekly did as he was orde'cd just as an obedient dog would have laid down to watch his owner s coat. A ciueer fellow was this "Mopus; ctnniil enough in ordinrrv things to tl a world of watching, but wilhal wonderfullv fit to watch a furnace. He knew all the workings of the foundry, l.v what seemed a sort of brute instinct. tlmni'li reallv his sagacity in this was a remnant of a ouce bright mind. If anvthing happened, or went on in an unusual way, he would always no tice it. and sav what ought to be done though he could not tell, perhnis, why it ought to be done. Ta n rears before, he had been an in telligent, promising lad. He was the son of a designer connected with the foundry com nan v. and had always been allowed free access to the shops, and to niino-le with the men and watch their work, tfht one day a great lifting-chain broke, with its load, and an iron irag- ment struck him on the head, inflicting . iiaiiTprous imurv. r roin tins lie par tially recovered, and only partially, for his reason was impaired. But his na tural love for machinery and mechanical ovnorimeiits remained, and as he re- irsiinftl his bodilv strength, he spent most of his time making small wheels and shaft, and putting together odd eontrivances. which he would exhibit u-tfh Immense nri( le and satisfaction This neenliar trait ill the VOling fel Inn- trained for him the humorous title " All the men felt e-reat kindness for him, even though their manner toward him was occasion ally harsh and impatient. Sneh w the nerson left to help watch I IA TtVif blast for the casting of the iw.n nf the chime of St. John's, t'.Mii.fiiiiv he kent his place before the hile. the man George sat down at a little distance and began to eat his mnor. I ton ht less the latter inienueu to keen a general oversight, but he cer- - . . . , . : .-.- aroc fin the tainiv maue uie unci""- - - ti, lookinir. Whether he felt a kind of reckless trust in the instinct of his half-witted companion, or tnaoient y i,in.i that nothing wrong could ,,,. he was sadlv to blame for charging himself so litt le with the ira ,t .intir that, was before him. Not a word was said by either watcher and only the deep roar of the furnace was heard through tne vast lounurv. i fl.,ichrl his supper, and saun nfrhetool 6hon to find his pit. "Inventor" sat alone before his great blast. The one rational faculty of his feeble mind enabled him to com prehend what it meant, and even some thing of the magnitude of the enterprise that was ripening inside those burning walls. He knew that the furnace was full of valuable metal, and that close beside him, buried out of sight in the deep sand, was the huge mould, so soon t Ko filial ith the nreclous cast. He L-,,,- ..,i,i iuw that all the chan nels for the flow of the fiery liquid were ready, and that near the mouth of the fn,'. tha inner iron rod that was to be used when the moment came to let on the molten stream All this his limited thought took In i i . m i . V. at- anme- thing great was soon to be done, he sat I with hU eyes on the furnace, absorbed and intent. Suddenly something startled him. There wag a slight noise, and a burning crack appeared near the top or the lur nace. Then another crack, and a worth ing brick fell out and rolled to the ground at his feel ! The lad opened his mouth to shriek, but so terrified wax he that the sounds stuck in his throat, as if he had been in a fit of nightmare. A tii in rea stream followed the fallen rick, and trickled down the furnace aide like running lava. Then came an other alarming noise, and a thin gap half-way down the masonry let out more of the hissing metal. W here was George f Ml the un faithful fellow still hunting for his pipe? 1 he furnace was bursting, with only a poor, half idiot lad to guard it! What could he do He did what per haps a lad in his right mind would not have dared to do. Rushing to the mouth of the furnace, he seized the long iron rod mat stood near, and tapped the vent. One desperate thrust with the sharp point up the terrible tunnel a few quick, pryingstrokes! Stand back, now! lhe confining clay reli away, and the yellow-white flood spurted out with re sistless force. It leaped into the clay lined troughs, and hissed its way, flam ing, down to the mouth or the Dell mould. The "fool" had done a deed worthy of a general on a field of battle. Was it too late? Kverv moment new fissures opened intothe doomed furnace. Some of the upper stones toppled over. Still the metal poured out into the mould. But the waste was great from the gaping flaws. 1 he pressure was relieved by the opened vent, but the leaks multiplied continually. It was art running a race with ruin. Poor "Mopus" stood powerless before the coining catastrophe. His knees knocked together, and his head swam. A great heap of red hot bricks and rub bish fell at his feet. He had barely thought to get out of the way and save his life. lie heard a wild shout or human voices in the distance, then an awful roar behind him, and he saw and felt himself pursued by surges of seeth ing fire. Sharp, blistering paius pierced his flesh at. a hundred points. The rest was all a horrible, unintelligible dream. It was as if he had suddenly sunk into the earth and been swallowed up for ever. By seven o'clock comparative quiet reigned again on the scene of disaster. Kuins lay everywnere. ine engines had quenched the flames that had caught the building, and the men, blackened with smoke, stood in sueni groups about the remains of the furnace, it had fallen to pieces, and nothing was left but heaps of steaming rubbish. Poor 'Inventor." who nad oeen iounu with the tapping-rod in his hand, lying on his lace in me sanu. irigiuiuuy burned, had been carried to his home, j Little was said, but the rew words spoken, uttered with no mild emphasis the natural wrath of the master and the hands against the man George, whose excuses for himself only exaggerated the oflencc. 'See what he s done,' said they a few days later, as they stood in the half- burned foundry. 'I- ive thousand dol lars mine to waste in a minute! The best job in twenty years spoiled ! The rascal, to go hunting lor uis piie, ano leave that stuttering idiot to watch ! Is that all lie can say for himself? Out uon such carelessness! Why, the boy didu't know enough to bawl out when he must have seen the furnace tun bling to pieces !' 1 tie master, wno nau more ai imk than the men, of course felt the loss more keenly than they. He almost went with mingled grief and rage. Suddenly something peculiar caught hs eye among the uenns, anu ne crieu in a startled voice: Hallo! What's this? What's this? He snatched up a fragment of one of the troughs which hail led from the furnace to tne mould, mere were traces of the stream of bronze still run ning in it. Then the possible meaning of the iron found in the injured boy's hand flashed upon him. Bringme a shovel. quick !'he shouted A spade was put into his hands, and he began nervously to heave away the hot mass that lay piled over the bc!l mould. It was a herculean task, but he worked like a giant, and three or four of his men took hold and helped him. Brick-bats, ore, slag and ashes flew in every direction. Presently the master's spade penetrated the sard and touched something hard. He stooped down. Then he leaped up like one half frantic, and, plying his spade with redoubled energy, tore away the remaining sand. disclosing what looked like a great metal ic ring. . Men,' he cried out. lifting his flushed face, 'the bell is cast !' Who did this?' asked every excited voice, as soon asthecheeringdied away. Come with me. two or three of you !' cried the master. 'I think I know who iliil it. It's a miracle!' Thev hurried away to the home of the half-witted bov. The attendant met thom with her finger on her lius. The noor lad is in a brain fever,' she ,1 ' Does he say anything In his delirium ?' whisnered the master. H), yes, he raves all the time about the Mr hell mould. '1 Dope It will nil hnne it will fill ' he says.' The men exchanged glances. It was indeed true. The idiot had cast the irreat bell of SU John's. Just then the physician came out. 'Perhaps he will recover his reason by this shock and sickness,' he said, 'Such things have happened.' ' Do yon think-so? Pray neaven he may! solemnly ejaculated the master and his men; and they turned away, deeply moved. Two months later the great bell hung from a huge derrick in the lathe-room of the factory, and beneath it stood a heavy truck upon which it was about to be lowered. A silence fell upon the fTOup of workmen as the pale face and feeble form of "Inventor" appeared, borne in on a small soft reclining chair. He had recovered his reason, aad was fast getting back his strength. His large gray eyes Instantly fastened them selves on "the bell, that splendid master piece, whose making meant so much to him. They had told him the whole story of the casting, and the disaster in the foundry, but it all sounded like a wild romance to him. 'I remember nothing that happened, said, he, shaking his head with a smile. It's all new to me, all new and strange sortrange!' Yes,' said the master, devoutedly, it was God's hand.' Every eve was turned upon the in valid. Soine of the men felt almost afraid, it was so much like a resurrec tion to have him there among them, the boy they had known so long under ,,nw T-nnnc man keen and in- telligent, as it cuangeu mw I should like to strike the bell once, said he. Two men lifted himup and put a small hammer In his hand. He struck one gentle blow. A deep, sweet, mournful tone, solemn as the sounds of distant waterfalls, rolled frotn the great bell and echoed through the foundry. Tears filled the eyea of the ..Umax a rhv hprd it. -An,' said the master, -there's a halle- lujah in that, and it may well begin here. ' Long may this bell praise God ! He saved it in the ruins of the furnace by one wise thought in the ruins of a human brain. Our furnace is rebuilt, and behold, this dear boy has his reason again! The bell and the boy shall glorify God together !' 'Amen !' murmured all the listeners. Then the great bell was lowered, and as the truck rolled away with its melo dious burden, the boy was lifted and carried after it, and both went out into the sunny day together, the rough men standing in the doorways, waving their hands. ,. Little "Inventor" afterward well proved his claim to the title so lightly fiven him in his unfortunate boyhood, lis name is now read on many a hell whose matchless richness of tone his genius and skill in metals alone created. A LADY TOUKIST'S Three months in Europe with Professor Loomis. Xo. 4. . Paris, August 17th, 1875. The Taris papers have followed the example of the journals of I'lorence and Venice, and announced us a a "caravan" and "convoi" taking the city by storm. We are regarded by some as a sort of Rothschild association, and anneals for every charity, are made. even to the refunding of money lost by an Italian Post officer, "the father of a numerous family!" At the railway stations money boxes were rattled under our eyes with petitions for charity for "les inondies," and we would fain have convinced the officers that we ourselves were inundated with beggars from morning till night. Once, however, our charitable Inclinations were roused by the musical appeals of a celebrated Parisian amateur pianiste, who gave a concert at the hotel Geneve, iu Geueva, for our special entertainment, and the unfortunates' benefit. There was no want of appreciation of the talent of Miss B., as most enthusiastic applause and a shower of fraucs into the poor box, fairly testified. The geographical pause in my last letter was at Brienz. At six o'clock in the evening we descended from clouds aud glaciers, amid the roar of cataracts and cascades, into this fairy vale of Switzerland, and it was with some diffi culty I pinched and shook myself into a realization of my mortal existence. The bread and butter and collV spread at the White Cross hotel, aided materially in the disenchantment for a few min utes, but it was only a few minntes. when a patter of slipper heels on the bare floors announced the arrival of a party of Swiss singers, peasant girls in the costumes of their Cantons. Grouped at the end of our table they seriously interfered with our appetites, for away we floated on their marvelously sweet notes to the cloud regions from which we had just descended. The music of their voices had not ceased when we were summoned to boats, on the lake, for a moonlight sail to the Grissbach falls. o use to pinch or slap ourselves, we simply abandoned onr senses to the idea that we were Prince Fortuna's (Titoata and fnr the time nartnkers of his Fairy Highnesses' winged itredilections. An old woman with weird gray locks. stood at the oar end of the boat assigned to my special party .and as we approached the rocks on the opposite shore of the lake, her cries and jodeling were echoed and reverberated till every jutting rock seemed vocal with the wild yet strangely musical sounds. I he steep and winding ascent to the terrace of the pavillion, opposite the base of the Grissbach, was fraught with all sorts ot uniookea lor difficulties, such as going one step for ward and two backward with almost every effort, and the whole troop of boatmen, Including Cinderella s god mother with the weird locks, waved their lanterns and torches over bush and brake, where neither moonlight nor starlight could penetrate, to prevent our breaking through rustic rails orj steppingoversudden declivities. Clouds of a threatening diameter had com pletely obscured the moon by the time we reached the summit, ami we were reconciled to the thought that the beau tiful, fleecy waterfalls of the Grissbach, should be painted with colored fire or illuminated for our benefit. Hundreds of tourists were assembled on the ter races of the pavilion by eight o'clock, the hour appointed for the illumination, though it was impossible to distinguish an individual feature of any one in the thick darkness, that lowering clouds and ascending mist from the rushing cataract made every moment more in tense. Suddenly a rocket flew like, a fiery dragon up the steep mountain tie-! clivity above us, and it seemed as if the place of Jacob's vision was revealed to us, for high as heaven and deeper than we could follow it, crystal waters were sci n ti 1 lat i n g 1 i ke the sacred jewelsofthe "Gate called Beautiful," and as the rose and blue, amber and silver lights were thrown on the wonderful fall, bridge above bridge could be seen crossed and recrossed from rock to rock, over dizzy heights and yawning chasms, and every leaping cataract threatened to carry away these steps of the Jacob's ladder, that supported the swaying figures of torch bearers, and but very few daring visitors to the gloriously beautiful Griss bach. The idea ot the illumination was at first distasteful, but when time' and weather forbade our viewing it by day light or moonlight, we were more than repaid for the evening's toilsome climb and the perilous descent to the lake again, by the painting in fire of the beautiful falls of the Grissbach. A weary head was pillowed on my shoulder as we rowed over the still dark lake, aud the girlish face still and pale, that gleamed uuder the fire of a boat man's torch, brought to mind the weird funeral scene of Tennyson's heroine floating on the barge by night to her cavernous grave. But, the morning sun that dawned ouly too soon for some of us, dispelled all the gloomy impres sions of the night scene, and there were at least thirty of our forty diaries filled out on the page that dated our crossing the Brunig Pass, with stars and emblems of exceeding great enjoyment. . . E. D. Wallace, filial Okedleawe ta Japaa. Of woman's position in Japan, Prof. Win. E. Griffin writes: "Filial obedi ence is a marked characteristic of tne Japanese maiden. Be she as pure as the purest Christian virgin, she .will at the command of her father enter the brothel to-morrow and prostitute herself for life. Xot a murmur escapes her lips as she thus filially obeys. To a life she loathes, and to disease, premature old age, and an early grave, she goes joyfully. The staple of a thousand novels, plays and pictures in Japan is written in the life of a girl of gentle manners and tender heart, who hates her life and would gladly destroy it, but refraius because her purchase-money has enabled her father to pay his debts and she is bound not to injure herself." -. i Tennyson, the poet, is somewhat of a shepherd. He owns and pets a flock of two hundred Southdown Sheep. ' Hlslt AlMsit Bfceasaailsaa. ' A painful disorder, writes an English physician, very common in this country which attacks principally the larger joints the shoulders, knees, elbows, etc. is rheumatism. It may be chronic or acute. . It seems to arise horn the in flammatory action induced by exposure to damp and cold upon a certain condi tion of the blood, and generally attacks persons of a plethoric habit of body at the middle period of life, and once be gun with an acute pain, often continues at intermittent periods throughout the rest of life in a lasting or chronic form. In whatever form it oicenrs, the same or similar remedies are useful in its cure or alleviation, though applied in different cases, modified by the. circumstances and symptoms most urgent. Acutc.com monly called rheumatic fever some times attacks a person so suddenly that he goes to bed without pain, and wakes in agony with an attack of acute rheu matism ; yet generally speaking it gives notice of its approach some days pre viously, by general uneasiness, giddi ness, headache, then succeed shivering, alternating with flushes of heat, quick ness of puise, hot skin, 'hirst and a sense of fatigue; afterward is felt a gnawing pain in one or more of the larger joints, progressively becoming more severe, until the slightest move ment occasions the greatest pain. It shifts often from one joint to an other, fever increases, and the patient cannot move or bear the slightest touch. After a fortnight the fever piibsides,aud the joints either very gradually and slowly recover their tone, or the disease assumes me chronic or lasting lorm. Remedies: In acute rheumatism, blood, letting by the application of from ten to twenty leeches to the most painful joint is a most valuable remedy in tins dis ease. The bowels should te wept open by mild laxative medicines, and the bleeding assisted by a mixture of tartar emetic,two grains; tincture of henbane, two drachms; water, six ounces, ine whole to lie taken in the course of the day, one or tw o tahlespooufiils at a time. The joints most affected may have lo mentations of poppy heads, henlmiie leaves, etc.. applied, or a poultii-e of lin seed meal ami laudanum much alleviate the gnawing pain. If only one or two joints are affected, odd bathing, tlieap plication or cold cloths and com lotion tend to moderate the pain and reduce the inflammation; but where the disease wanders from one joint to another, such is dangerous, as it may drive it to the heart or some other important organ. Rubbing the painful joints with cam phor dissolved in ether rapidly alleviates the naiu: also, moistening the joint two or three times a day with a feather dip- lied in a solution or the nytlrtotiate oi potash has been found very servh-eahle. The following remedies have each their popular advocates: Take at bedtime, for some days half an ounce, or from that to one ounce, of the volatile tinc ture of guaiaciim. in a team pf ul of water gruel. Take of the ra.-piiof guaiaciim wood half a iKHiud ; licorice root, one ounce; sassafras, half an ouni-e; corian der seed, three drachms; lime water, three quarts. Infuse two days without heat, and strain off the liquor. Take from four to six ounces twice a day. Take of flour of sulphur and flour of mustard, of each, halt an .ounce; honey or treacle, a sufficient quantity to form an electuary. The size of a nutmeg to be taken several times a day, dri iking alter it a quarter of a pint of the decoc tion of lovage root. Tearhera ana ineir Reaposmtbllilles. Teachers are tiersons on whom rests the blame or the praise of the schools, aud to them all itower should belong. If a teacher is not capable of managing her own class, the remedy is not to set a superior ollicer to manage ner, out to dismiss her and put a competent teacher in her place. The relation of teachers to superintendent or committee or prin cipal is not the relation of rank and file to a colonel and general, or of railroad employes to President and director. It is rather thai of a clergyman to the parish officers, or of a representative to his constituents, or of an editor to his subscriliers. The teacher is a servant hired by the Committer; but a servant through his intellect, a servant to whose judgment much must be left, who is rc- sponsible for results, but who is not to he dictated to a to methods; who is to be consulted, who may be advised, w ho can be dismissed, but who is never to be ordered. So amount ot machinery, no interference of outside authority. can help a poor teacher, or do anything but hinder a good one. VI one ol the best public schools that ever came into the range of my vision, the committee is like clay in the hands or the potter. They do everything that the teachers tell 'them to do, and nothing that the teachers tell them not to do, and there is no unsoundness m tliein. ('ii't Ham ilton. Power sf Klndaes. Walking down a country lane the other morning, I heard a gentle whistle behind me and almost simultaneously a shrill neigh burst upon my ear from the neighlHiriiig field. Turning round I was about to retrace my steps toward a man I saw standing by the field gate, about a nundred yards away, and whom I presumed had given the call, when a jiony dashed past me at full gallop, on the opposite side of the fence toward the gate, aud before I had gone many yards, was being quietly led out by the man. Feeling interested, not to say de lighted, at tins proof of the power of kindness tor sueii i nau notional was the cause of this ready obedience I Questioned the man, who, seeing that 1 was interested, told me that, having been accustomed to groom and feed the animal, he was in the habit of calling it from the fields by the peculiar whistle of which I had just now seen the effect; that many others had likewise tried to ....II liim Hut ala-.l'B Bftriiullir fflil! the 1.111 11 1 1 1 , vii, " w f-. J ...... ... .... pony taking not the slightest heed of them. He acknowledged tnai it was through kindness and attention alone that this was gained. In his absence another groom having to catch the pony would attempt to call, but whistle an J chirn as he woidd. it was no use: he was always obliged to enter the field. basket in hand, and so lure it towards the halter. J. A., Anitaal World. la Idle Dream. For a man to think that he is going to do the work of his life without obstacles and opposition, is to dream in the lapof folly itself. a What should we amount to were we not compelled to feel our way, to fall down and get up again, learn that our theories are never according to the laws of nature, but nothing more than the projection of our own limited per ception upon the untried and unreal? We are, however, not to be discouraged on this account; we are rather to be the more satisfied or its being good and right for us. For in adversity and op position we are tried, and trials are nothing more than tests of nature. ' Up from below do we go above. Wf are but the products of lower conditions. The material comes to its highest in this life, and is gradually refined and got rid of after natural laws. Our experience is merely passing through thesechanges, which would be just no experience at all if we could manage to escape alto gether. W e . ought not to make com plaint when we see how all things work together for our gooa. Haitallty. BY FAXNT FERN'. If each person were asked to define this word, the answers would le amus ing. Emerson says, "that we should not turn away wholly from the routine of our daily life to make our guests wel come; that every one worthy to sit at table knows that life has it necessary duties; and that we should not burden our friends with the thought that our business is siiflering derangement and loss by their coming." This is common sense; but if we meas- sii re the majority of people by it, then few "are worthy to sit at one's table." It may be because insincerity Is so mucn the order of the day, that each so dis trusts the other, that a person cannot say frankly to a friend without giving offence, "I would be glad to stay longer with vou, or have you stay longer, nut I really cannot now." A lady said to me. not long since, "I never dare say. truthfully that I am 'engaged' when a visitor comes, no matter how Impossible circumstances make it for me to receive him or her. If I do, it always ollends. Therefore I am obliged to send word that I am 'not at home, aud the caller leaves without any wouud to his or her self-love." Xow, this ought not to be. A straightforward honesty is much better. But there are so many incon siderate people, who, provided they gain their point to see you, care little at what sacrifice on your part of time, or at what postponement of imperativeduties. Thm have time enough so much, that they are even puzzled what to do with it ; how can it he that yn have none, or so little, at the service of friends? 1 hey cannot comprehend that one's duty or one's labor niay tread so closely on the heels of the other, that your remaining vitality needs the most careful nursing and division to keep your steps from jfiurl faltering. What is to be done with such inhospitable people a tliese? l on feel no unkindiies towards them; but you have little sympathy for them. 1 recollect once a laay in me same house with me to whom 1 apologized as civilly as 1 knew now, lor being ouiigeu to leave her to write a promised article. She bowed coolly, and on my leaving the room, said to a friend of mine, "1 suppose she did that to get rid of me; don't yon think so?" it is much easier to get on with men. lieeause they can understand that life has Its nnpostponable duties, without any lifting of eyebrows or incredulous shrugging of shoulders, oraool salute the next time you two meet. The inter course of one gentleman with another in this regard has always elicited my ad miration. They take up a newspaper or a book, and read, in each other's pres ence, with a tacit understanding of its perfi-ct propriety. If one ha to leave, he often says no more than "I'm off," or "Good-bye," "Shall see you again on another evening," or some other familiar observation perfectly well understood, and therefore appreciated. Sometimes it is onlv a touch of the hat. or a hand laid on the other's' shoulder in passing, and sometimes only a nod; an J no black looks follow. . SulrKlaJ Naaln. - Sometimes a ersou determined to de stroy himself w ill wait months and years for an opportunity of executing the deed in the particular manner he has marked out for himself, and the very inclination to suicide may be removed by withdrawing the particular objects that would awaken the idea. Thus a man who has tried to drown himself will be under no temptation to cut his throat. Example, it is well known, is a powerful cause of incitement -to the suicidal act. W e were once told by a physician thata hypochondriacal patient used to visit him invariably the day after reading the report of a suicide in the daily paers, possessed by a morbid fear of imitating the act of wnicn ne read. Sir Charles Bell, Surgeon of Middlesex Hospital, was one day de scribing to a barber who was shaving hitn, a patient s unsuccssful attempt to cut his own throat; and, on the barber's request, pointed out the anatomy or tne neck, showing how easily the act might have been accomplished. Before the shaving oieration was completed, the barber had left the shop and cut hi throat according to Sir Charles Bell's exact instructions. Sometime there l an epidemic of suicides, as at Versailles, in li'Ji, when out ol a small population 1..JO0 persons destroyed themselves in one year; or as in tne iioiei ues in valided in Paris, w hen six of the inmates hanged themselves on a certain crossbar within a fortnight. Very often this disease is hereditary, and at a certain age the members of"one family will all in turn evince the suicidal tendency, while even children of very tender years have been known to end ineir short lives by their own act, from force of example! Curious, too, are the methods of self-destruction, out tuey are too painful to bear description. A Frenchman once attempted to ring his own dcath-knell, by tying himself to the clapper of the church-bell, which thereupon began to swing, and'alarmed the villagers by its unwonted tones. All cases of determined suicide are character istic of confirmed insanity; whereas, in cases of impulsive lusamty, the per etrator will often regret the act lielbre it is completed, and eudeavor to save his lile, as did Sir Samuel Romilly, thus demonstrating that the very attempt may elleet the cure of the disordered brain. The months of March, June, and July are the favorities with men; September, November, and January for women, iu which they voluntarily end their lives, la youth men hang them selves; in the prime of life use firearms; and when old revert to hanging. Women usually prefer Ohtlia't "muddy death." Poisoning is a method adopted by the very young 6f both sexes. We have the consoling reflection that, prevalent as brain disorder is in our country, at least eighry per cent, of cases of insanity are cmaiile, if treated at an early stage; while it is to be noted that it is not pleasurable productive brain-work that does the mischief, but ritther the mental strain which result from the high pres sure of our artificial life. C7in'r" Journal. Iaaaravldeaee af Eng-tlaa Work mea There is no saving among the working classes. The traditional picture of the British tar of a century ago, w hose ec centric extravagance has been the source of inexhaustible laughter for several generations, would be no unfitting rep resentation of the more prostHTOii sec tion of the British workmen of the pres ent day. Much has indeed been done in the direction of thrift by the great bene fit societies, but their action has been greatly checked by the fact that even Uie best of there is "based upon t-tatistics which do not command the confidence of those qualified to form an opinion of their stability, it is nnie m uie creuu of past governments that slight legisla tive as.-istan-e has been afforded to the onlv great effort which ha been matte by ihe working meu of England to raise themselves permanently fve the in fluence of pauperism. The life of i collier, of a London journeyman tailor in the season, or even of au agricultural laborer in the best districts, is one of more or less lavish expenditure ; and the idea of joining a benefit society, mucn UlUl II rarely less of laving ov money, out enters the mind of these men. They have no object iu doing so in this country. A man who succeeds by his own thrift in providing himself with a little income in case or sicklies or old age, i no better off than the man who has led the life of a jovial British workman, and who, in his hour of need, draw from the parish pay-table in ail probability alniut the same income which the other has denied himself many a luxury and enjoyment to procure. The advantage to a country of a large nnmlx-r of small hoards is al most incalculable, as the recent history of France clearly show. It is not t4M much to say that the folly and extrava gance of Imperialism plunged that coun try into misfortunes from which the thrift of the working classes extricated her. There are no such hoards in Eiig laud. If we had an indemnity to pay. we should have to make a hard bargain with those capitalists iu whose hanU the wealth of the country is accumulating with geometric speed. Is there a single working man iu England who holds consols? CoutertifMrary Iinirv. The Blessed Maids af Tj ral. A writer in All the Year itovNtlsavs: Perhaps the prettiest and most poetical tradition of the Tyrol is that of the "Salire Fraalien." - Their very name is descriptive, for"Sali(r" is, in all probability, derived from "Selis" blessed" or "happy.' Popular belief depicts them as lovely maidens, clad in snow-white robes, with flaxen curls, and blue eyes beaming with sweetness. Their sovereign is the beneficent and gracious gotldcss Hulda, the especial patroness of the flax culture, which may account for the chief home of the legend being in Sonth Tyrol, where flax inmost cultivated. There have always been many superstitions connected with flax. It is supposed that it will only dower at the time of day at which it was originally sown. He who sows it must first seat himself thrice on the sack, turning to the east. Stolen seeds miDgted with the rest canse the crop to thrive. Flax, when in bloom, acts as a talisman against witchcraft, and sorcery can be practiced even with the dry stalks. When the threads are spun or woven intoshirts under certain iucanta- J tiona, the wearer is secure from ac cidents or wounds. . It was Halda who first taught mortals the art of growing ; flax, or spinning, and of weaving it. Her habitation is in the ravea of the mountains; there she dwells with her maidens and their attendant dwarfs, in Biileudid palaces and grot toes, the walls of which sparkle with inlaid gold and jewels, while the domed roof is of transparent crystal. Moreover, there are beautiful gardens, leafy woods and even verdant meadows, on which feed countless wild animals, particularly the chamois tiie especial favorites of tiie Salige Franlien. However, the Salige Franlien did not always remain in se clusion. In olden times, before they disappeared from the earth, the friend liness ot their disposition drew them to the haunts of mankind fnr their character was as attractive as their ap pearance, and its chief feature was an unselfish benevolence. Legendsof their numerous good deeds alonnd in the Ober Inn Thai, the Outz Thai, aud the Yinschgaii, which are the ioorest dis tricts in Tyrol. ffoaealjr. Every body says that every body should be honest; but everybody is not honest either abroad .or at home. ' That we should be honest in our trade, weights and measures, dealing with our neigh bors and with .strangers, is also clearly right. That a strong principle of integ rity should govern us is just what every man not only admits but believes and contends for. There is no such thing as being too holiest. Honesty is a virtue better than gold, richer than rubies, more precious than gems and costly trappings. It is a much richer adornment for manhood or womanhood than wealth can purchase or place se cure. To be honest is to be like a child and like an angel; and Christ said, of such as little children is the kingdom of Heaven. But we wish to write a word a strong word in behalf of honesty. There are many people who are honest away from home, they make borne promises only to break them. A3 Hus bands they make a thousand and one promises to their v ives, and hint a thousand good things and raise many pleasant expectations, they never seem to think of again. As wives, they prac tice a thousand little deceit, equivocate many times, when straight-forward honesty was just the thing required. As parent they conceal, go around the truth, deceive aud often actually falsify to their children, when the truth is always better, always the best. The children see their parents' double-dealings, see their want of integrity, and learn to cheat, deceive and equivocate. The child is too often a chip off the old block. ftajaaaderiaa; Prleleaa Gifts. Among the numberless marvels at which nobody marvels, few are more marvelous than the recklessness with which priceless gifts, intellectual and moral, are squandered. Often have 1 gazed with wonder at the prodigality displayed hy nature in thecistus, which unfolds hundreds or thonsands of its starry blossoms, morningafter morning, to shine in the light of the sun for an hour or two, and then fall to the ground. But who among the sons and daughters of men gifted with thought which wander through etemitv, and with powers which have the godlike privilege of working good and giving happiness who does not daily let thousand of these thoughts drop to the ground and rot? wbo does not continually leave his IKiwers to draggle in the mould of their owi leaves? ine imagination can hardly conceive the heights of great ness and glory to which mankind w ould be raised, if" all their thoughts and energies were to he aviiuated with a living niinxwe. But, as in a forest of oaks, among the millions of acorns that fall every autumn there mav, perhaps, be one in a million that will grow on finto a tree somew hat in like manner fares it with the thoughts and feelings of man. What, then, must be our con fusion when we see all these wasted thoughts and feelings rise np in the judgment and bear witness against us! Jul ins Ul'Tt. War -WJea Waiake. No habit adopted by a whole race of men. Indeed by all races of men, but must bave a rairn d'etre. The dhudeen of the Irishman, the chibouc of the Asi atic, the calumet of the Indian, the cigar of the w bite American would not exist simultaneously on every part of the globe if in the use of tobacco there did not slumber some spell of great potency over men. The lazy man it seem to make lazier; the nervous man it make more uervous ; the brain worker it in spires,and on the artist it bestows visions of beauty. All lecturing against it ha proved in vain. The habit spreads with population over Australia and Polyne sia, and in a couple of centuries from now smoking will be as universal as eating. It behooves us, then, to see that something is done to insure the rehabi litation of the better qualities of tobaem, which seem deteriorating so fast. . Ma nilla is ceasing to produce even a decent cheroot, tobacco culture dying out there li ke wine culture in Madeira. One thing IS VL1 1.111, lliu. niv til...... v. 1 cigarette for the cigar is exceedingly i. tt,.,t ih. .nimtmnii r th dangerous. TOCTHS COLrJ. "The ivoir ta ihf C'tmil. Once, when I waa a little jrirl, I disobeyed my mother. After that I was afraid, and went to an old barn, a way off, so that mother could not hod me. All at once it began to rain so hard I could not go back to the house. So I sat still, and thought of what 1 had done. I remem bered that ( iod had seen me disobey, and that be was angry at people who did wrong. It kept on raining harder yet, and I was afraid that God was going to drown the world because I was so bad, just as he bad done in Noah's time. 1 pnt nir face down in the bar. and rned. Pretty soon 1 felt my father touch me. "What is the matter, Louie V be asked. "I have been very naughty, and God will never forgive me," 1 said. Father took ma in his arms, and carried me to the door. The rain had stopped. I looked np : and there in the sky was a rainbow, its beautiful colors shining in the snn. My father said to me : "When Noah came out of the ark, none of his chil dren could forget the awful flood which had left them so lonely. Every time it rained, they must have been afraid that the Hood was coming again. And when they did wrong, tbey thought, that perhaps God would punish the world as he had done before. So God told Noah that the raiubow should be a sign that he would never drown the world again, but would watch over men : and when men saw it shining af ter the raiu, they were to remember God's goodness and he wonld hmk at it and remember his promise to them. So the rainbow wonld be a token be tween God and men." I would rather not have God watch me ; I am so naughty," I said. Then my father told me how God loves ns, and when we do wrong is ready to forgive ns, if we are sorry for our sin, and confess it. He sent his dear Son to die for ns. For his sake he is willing to forgive all oar sins, in stead of punishing ns. It made me very happy to think tliat God loved me, and was willing to for give. And after that, every time that I saw the rainbow, it was a sign to me of God's blessed promise to take rare of us. . .1 hout Bern. A lady in Providence relates the following story : Her father once brought home a mo lasses hogshead, to be used as a water tank. On washing day her mother said, "Let's throw the snds into it, to soak the molasses from the bottom.1 The inwtant she had done so she exclaimed, "Oh ! I have drowued hundreds of our neighbor's bees." The hogshead was black with bees, that were bnsily appropriating the sweets from what they must have con sidered an enormous blossom. The good lady made haste with her skimmer to skim the bees from the top of the water, and spread them on a Itoard in the sunshine ; but thoy seemed drowned and nearly dead, and" she was very sor ry. All the been that were around the hogshead bad flown away at the dash of the water, but in a few minutes they returned, accompanied by scores of others. Then began a curious work. They immediately went to work upon the unfortunate' bees, turning them over and over and working upon them constantly with their heads, feet, and antennip. The result of their busy lalior was, that one after another gave signs of life, stretched ira limbs and wings, crawled and dried itself iu the snn, and flew away. The lady said that there was a half a pint at first, and that there remained only about a dozen hopeless cases beyond the humane ef forts of their brothers. Little Corporal. The Plurnis. The most interesting of all fabulous creatures is the Poo-nix. It waa exceedingly heautitnl. as large ns an eagle, with a plumage that shoue like gold around its neck, a parpie body, and a tail of blue and rowe col ored feathers. It had a cock a comb nmier its neck, and a magnihcient crest. Thts splendid looking bird was supposed to live five hundred years. and then burn itself, to rise from the ashes young, strong aud more beauti ful than ever. An old writer gives a long account of this new birth of the Phieuix. which always took place at Pheliopolin. the Citv of the Suu. A priest made a tire of spices on the altar, and the bird flew into the names and was ourneu wuu the Htneea. A small worm would tuen be found in the ashes on the altar, anil on the second day after it appeared it would l transformed into a bird, and in one day after that or i he third day after the burning, the Plncnix would lie itself again and would go on in fine spirits, and in new clothes that were warranted to last for five hun dred years. Worling Ihtyx. In all the German towns the dogs are ntilized. They are tanght to work, and not raised to play, as in England. Hitched to little cans, either in the shafts or under the wagon, they supplement the man or woman who owus the barrow, and pnll by ones or twos with surprising fi delity ; and better than all, they seem te lie proud of their service. In Switz erlacd dogs are generally nsed, simi larly ; and scores of the larger breeds may be seen early in the morning, at any of the larger towns, harnessed into thtir milk-wagons, which they drag from door to door to the patrons of their owners, without mistaking the residences of the customers performing this duty cheei fully and asreguUily as would a horse or a mule in the same ecrvice. Foryire ami Forget. I heard two lit tle girls talking under my wimlow. One of them said, iu a voice full of in dignation : ' "If I were iu your place I'd never speak to her agaiu. I d be angry with her as lone as 1 lived." I listened, feeling anxious aliout the reply. My heart heat more lightly when it eanie. "No, I-ou," answered the other, in sweet and gentle voice. "I wouldn't do so for all the world. I'm going to forgive and forget just as soon as 1 can." . . (inartherasa. - Observations regarding the rate of the growth of man have determined the following interesting facts: The most rapid growth takes place immediately after birth, the growth of an infant during the first vear of it existence being about eight inches. The ratio of increase gradually decreases until the age of eight years, at which time the size attained is half that which it is to become when full grown. After live years the succeeding increase is very regular till the sixteen year, being at the rate for the average man of two Inches a year. ' Buyond sixteen the growth is feeble. being forthe following two year aliout two-sixteenths of an Inch a year; while rrom eignteen to twenty the increase in height is seldom over an inch At the age of twenty-five I ishitare, and was returned In is-, in the growth ceaes, save in a few exeep- j 1il he became Mayor of Roxbury, and tional cases. It has furthermore been was re-elected at the expiration of his observed that in the same race, the term. In 1870 he became Mayor of mean size is a little larger in cities than Boston, and was the successful candt in the country, a fact that will be re-1 date alo at the next election. In 1874 ' icH with iimiht hir mint who nave , -. J j come to regard the rustic as the true KIW3 EI BRUT Silver has been discovered at Attle boro Mi-s. The most fashionable nightcaps are made of hot Scotch. There will be eleven State elections on the 2d of November. A Potter Co. (Pa.) bee-tree has yielded 150 pounds of honey. The next World s Fair after the Centennial will be held at Rome. The New Jersey cranberry-growers report a large falling off in this season's crop. Rumor has it that A. T. Stewart will build a grand hotel iu Washington next year. Detective Pinkerton has expended $18.110 trying to find Charley Ross and still he is at it. In spite of grasshoppers, Minnesota will be able to sell 25,000,01 X) bushels of grain this season. . The Connecticut apple crop has fallen off 90 per cent, as compared with last year's yield. Charleston (S. C.) colored ladies in the boarding-house business cowhide delinquent boarders. The amount of sand paper annually produced in the United States is esti mated at 200,000 reams. The tailors of St. Louis have formed a base ball club. Eightv-one of them will constitute the first nine. Two couples were recently married in an Iowa cornfield. Their first son should be named Kernel Cobb. The total amount paid by New York churches for their choirs I not less than half a million dollars a year. Another distinguished artist Is en r.te for America. The pianist Bulow I on hi way over the briny billow. The stamp duty on patent medi cines manufactured In Great nritain hist year amounted to over f 571.G10. Gen. James S. Negley has been elected a viee-president (for Pennsyl vania) of the army ot the Cumberland. " Mrs. Farragut, widow- of the Ad- . mi ml, has returned to her home in New -York, after a long stay in California. Dr. Lemuel Moss, late President of the Chiiiigo University, has been elected . President of the Indiana State L'niver- : sity. Georgia is drilling a battalion com posed of companies in Augusta,Atlanta, Macon and Savannah, for the Centen nial. Mrs. Lizzie Ehling is a young a-ro-' nant who recently made au asceut at llarrisburg, Pa., without breaking her neck. The. Pacific ocean is somewhat deep in places. The greatest depth, as found by the l'.riti-h ship Challenger was live miles. One colored bead waiter at Cape May made f 1.000 in fees during the past seasou, and another, at Saratoga, $2,000. Out of 800 convicts in the Georgia Penitentiary only one-tenth are white, the majority being negro boys of ten and twelve. A woman arrested in Cleveland re cently for fighting gave her residence a i-ike Erie. She nuv-t belong to the floating population. The life-saving station at East " Rockaway, L. 1. is so endangered by the washing of recent storms that it will have to be moved. The sail boat Water' Witeh recently made the entire distance of Seueca Lak from Watkins to tieneva, under double reef sails inside of four hours. It is said that the foundations of the new Chicago Court House are to rest upo:i piles driven sixty feet deep, at a cost of as many thousaiid dollars. In Bell Connty, Texas, there Is a farm of 3,500 acres, which is enclosed by oue fence and cultivated by thirty two owners, every one of whom Is un married. A Pultncy (N. Y.) girl put in a good ten hours' work the other day. tdie nailed in that time MM) grape-boxes driving 10,000 nails and handling 3,000 pieces of wood. Three acres of oats recently threshed at Cleveland, yielded 270 bushels in weight or 09 bushels per acre. Wheat from the same farm aver aged 2G bushels per acre. There are 1,700,000 Baptists in the United State, ami only 200,000 in England. Virginia alone has a many as Maine, .ew Hampshire, V ermont and Massachusetts put together. There is a pond near Watch Hill Rhode Island, the bottom of which the longest sounding lines have never suc ceeded in finding, and which is popu larly supposed to be fathomless. Custer City is the name of a new town laid out in Custer county, Dakota. It is loated near the (Gordon stockade in Custer park. Black Hill. The city Is watered by two mountain streams, and surrounded by rich placer mines. A Mormau in Provo, of whom Cap tain Codman tells in the linluj-y, is ninety-two years old and the father of sixty children, the eldest of whom is seventy-year old, and the youngest sixtj--scven years his brother's juuior. Bears begin to show themselves pretty freely in Stratton, Vt. One came within thirty rMls of a dwelling one day, killed a sheep, ate a part of it. and carried off the n-st of the carcass the next night. Calfornia is sending two car-loads of pears to the East every day, and the -anguine Californians hope that in a few years they will realize more money from their exports of fruit than from their exports of wheat. A prize 1 offered by a Canadian Agricultural Society for the best bread made ami baked by bachelors. And the bachelors naturally wonder why the society doesn't offer a premium for the best well dug by old maids. Sorrittn Urmhl. The music in eleven Episcopal churches in New York costs nearly $40,400. Trinity Church leads with an annual expenditure of $15,000. In five Rouiai Catholic churches in that city the annual outlay for music is $10,500. The exenditnre for music annually in all the New York city churches is over half a million dollars. It is a remarkable fact and very creditable to the San Francisco savings batiks that the failure or the hank ol California was not accompanied nor followed by anything in the shape of a run on them. They have 5fi,377 depos itors, and are the depositories of large amounts of money, and yet only 713 persons demanded their money on the day the great bank failed. ' Gov. Gaston of Massachusetts is a decided second-termite. In 1854 he was elected a member of the State Leg- 1 lie was eiecieu governor oi me obk, I . . , and la now the Democratic nomine again. t. ? 5 H t ! f i 1 'I at ii; r lit- I '1 f . 1 ' 1 V
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