mm I i 3 WW ! I B. F. SCHWEIER, TES C053TITUTI0H TH1 UXIOB AKJ THE KKTOKCXMEKT OF THI LAWS. Editor and Proprietor TOL. XXIX. MEFFLINTOATN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.. NOVEMBER 10. 1875. NO. 45. WW wax BEAUTEFDl THINGS. Iieantifol faces are those that wear it matter but little if dark or fair Wbole-souled honesty printed there. lieantifnl erea are those that abow. Like crystal paiiea where hearth-fires glow, lSeaatiful thought that burn below. JVautiful lips are those wlMae words Leap from the heart like en tigs of bird. Yet wboae utterances prudence girds. ltcantifol bands are those that do Work that is earnest and brave and tine. Moment by moment, the long day through. lltantiful feet are those that go On kindly ministries to and fro lKwn lowliest ways, if God wills it so. Beautiful shonldera are those that bear Ceaseless bnrdens of homely care. With patient grace and daily prayer. Beautiful lire are those that bless Silent rivers of happiness, Wboae hidden fountains bat few may gncss. Beautiful twilight, at set of son. Beautiful goal, with race well won. Beautiful rest, with work well done. Beautiful graves, where grasses creep. Where brown leaves fall, where drifts lie deep Over worn-out hands! O beautiful sleep! A Legend of the Thames. "Father," said Xed Moffat, "Charley ami I have been having a day's fishing in the Thames, and the you 112 fellow Banks who took us out in tiie punt, was a character! I'm sure yon wouM have liked him. He told us all wits of stories about the place, and the ieople, anil the fish, anil all about him self when a boy, and how he had been a teetotaler all ids life, ami that the spot near the weir where we fished lor barbel was called Marcus' Ileep Whv, father, are you ill?" "I shall lie well directly, Xeil. Let Maleoiiib take away the 'dessert aud throw open one of the window. There, there; I am better now." Mr. Moffatt was a retired West India merchant, a widow er with two sons, for whom lie seemed to live, and they re turned his love with all the fullness of filial affection. They were home for the holidays from Harrow, and their father was incessantly devising schemes for their pleasure during the few days left of their vacation. "And was Charley as pleased wiMi his sport and the fishe'rman as you were, Xed? What did you catch?" "Oh, we got such a lot of all sorts of fish gudgeons on the shallows, perch and roach in the quiet water; but the big fellows, those barbel, they did pull so we got them in Marcus' I eep." Again Xed noticed a shadow,a twiU:h, a spasm, or a compound of all, pass over his father's face, which this time, it was apparent, he attempted to conceal by turning bis back, and covering his face with both hands. "Father!" cried both lioys, fur Char ley had noticed the sudden change in his parent likewise, "what can we do for you ? Will you see Ir. Seton ? " "Xo.no!" exclaimed Mr. Moffat; "it is merely a passing pang from an awak ened memory, the recollection of which is too horrible to recall without anguish. Iraw your chairs clixer, and I will tell you what has disturlied me so. Yon will be the first to whom I have w his pered it, for I did not even make your dear mother the reository of my secret.' Xed and Charley, struck dumb by the serious voii and visage of their father, mechanically did as they were bid. Well, boys," liegaii Mr. Mi.ff.itt. "I was about years of age when I fled this country for the West Indies, making over my affairs to the agency of a friend, to whom 1 stated neither reasons nor ex cuse for my sudden departure or rather my flight.' My affairs at the time were prosjs-rous, and therefore no prejudicial suspicion atfciched to my resolution ; at the Biost, perhaps, among my aiipiaint ances, it was thought to I attributable to a love affair. Xo; a that time my heart was as free as air, and every cir cumstance tended to heap fortune and happiness on my head, until one fatal morning! You will ierhas lie sur prised U hear that, at the criod 1 sicak of, the only resource I canil for from the anxieties of busine which, I must say went smoothly and easily with me was anirling, the art, the love for which von appear to have inherited from me, and to which attachment I have scarcely ever trusted myself to allude until liow. Saturdays were the days appropriated during the season to my favorite pursuit, in order to follow it to the full, 1 rented and furnished a little -ottage 011 the banks of the Thames. There I used to rundown on the Friday nights, lie up with the sun in the morn ing, and find mv fisherman ready with tackle, punt, and all things needful to get afloat. This was now the happiest portion of mv life, for the confinement of the previous part of the week in murky London, prepared me for a pleas ure keen aud intense. Then the calm ness and sweet peace of the succeeding day more than armed me for the recur ring city routine. Well, the last Satur day that I ever held a roil or saw the morning mists clear off from the Thames, I was out long before their dews were dispelled, and found my man, as usual, punctual, and waiting for me. After 1 had got on Uvird, how ever, I recollected that 1 had left some tackle I should re quire, and, throwing, my bunch of keys to my fisherman, lade him hasten and fetch it from the cottage. He was longer gone than I expected, and when he id come back, I noticed that he was the worse for drink. His seei h was thick and incoherent. He was more than nstiallv loquacious; and a something of disrespect towards me, which 1 had never before noticed in his mode of address, assured me he had been drink ing while absent on his message, aud thus hml broken a sacred pledge he had made to me to abstain from liquor. This uromise he had hitherto observeil w mi exemplary fidelity. I made no comment upon his condition as he spraw led, rather than stepped into the punt, hoping the fresh morning air aud the hard exercise he must undergo against the current before we got to the weir would restore him to sobrietv. As we took advantage oft lie hack eddies to get to a particular spot where we purposed to tie the punt to the stanchion of the weir, a trout ot fabulous size threw itself high out of the water, and came down wun a neavy splash, the noise of which could be heard over the roar of the fall of tha weir. "Do rou know." he remarked, with a hiccup, "that the whole oi the time, man aud Doy, 1 to ueeu a -erman. I never caught a Thames trout. I get preciously joked by my fellows, as most of 'em have had some, and many of 'em their half dozen of that fish. There he is again ! If he's one he s twelve pounds, and I intend having him or" And here followed a savage oath "We had now got close to the pile of the weir. The man, however, instead of puttiu mv roil together, as he always did, prepared it w ith spinning bait for my use, and seeing me fully at wort before he did anything else, deliberately arranged his own tackle, muttering the while : "Ah ! I intend to have that trout Bill Smith and Harry Jones shall have no more shies at nie on that hook or," etc. "1 bus far I let him have his own way. Rut when he began to stagger about the punt, and nearly canght nie, now in the face and now by the less, with the row of hooks, in his clumsy attempts to cast ine line, which lie stumbled over, trod iiKn, and got entangled about him, I thought it time to expostulate. This was useless. He had got it into his be sotted brain that I was some "pal," as he called me, whom he had honored by bringingout to see him catch his Thames trout. I then insisted upon his putting me ashore, for our position, as the punt swung round in the Itoiling waters, threatening now and then to suck u tieiienth the fall and swamp us. -was more than critical. But lie was ifraf to all threats or persuasions. The trout he must have or meet the fury of another element. I'nder these circumstances, I did w hat I bail ot ten done before on'less urgent occasions I got out, and, steady ing myself by the timbers, mounted the sill or fixed tieam of the weir itself, which having no guiding rail, the foot ing depended entirely upon a steady eye and firm nerve, "the more as the running water over it hail, although but ankle deep, a constant inclination toi-arryoneoffhisfeet. Here with my spinning rod, which I had with some difficulty managed to bring upon the weir, I had every advantage, and, cast ing very far down the stream, spun my baft, a small bleak, slowly back; and, when aliout half the line was gathered in, 1 felt a tremendous rush, which car ried nearly all my line off the reel. I was therefore at once conscious I had hold of a formidable trout, and 1 played it with my usual coolness and skill, for such prey were not strangers to me, either in that river or in other waters. My oierations had up to this point been unobserved by my man, who was other wise occupied. The beautiful creature, however, throwing itself out of the water in one of its noble efforts for free dom, attracted the fishenuan'sattention. He uttered a loud curse, threw the rod down in the punt in evident rage, then to my intense surprise, flouudered out of the punt ou to the apron of the weir, and commenced scrambling up to the top of it. This was aa event I certainly did not anticipate. That it was this mad man's design to contest with me the capture of the fish I was soon made cer tain of by his very gestures. And now my fear was that the fellow, in the state he was in, would not be able to keep his equilibrium that he would fail over, get washed off' the apron he- tore be could recover lumsell, aim be plunged into the pool, from which, if lie once got among the dead water under the swirl, nothing but the greatest pres ence of mind and a full knowledge of the eculiar nature ofthe currents could jiossibly save him. Still he came on to i-ie with his arms outstretched, Daianc inir himself upon the narrow and slip- ery beam which formed the crown of the weir, like a boy walking on a rail. WJien he got within arm's length of me I warned him to keep his distance, and earnestly liesought him to recollect that he was jeopardizing two lives by his desperately rash and unaccountable con duit. "(Jive me the roil !" he shouted, w ith an awful imprecation. "The fish is mine. I will have it; I spotted it first. Give me the rod. I sav!" He now lit erally foamed at the mouth with excite ment, lie clutciieti me wun one nam 1 by the shoulder, and I felt the grie of the maniac (so tenacious was ms grasp) take up the muscle witn my clothes. With the other hand he made a snatch at the rod. which was on my left, which he had to get partly in front of me to reach. I would have resigned the tackle w illingly at this juncture. It was too late. In his exertions to seize uie rou he had thrown himself out of balance, aud, feeling himself going over, he seized me by the waistcoat with the hand at liberty, and the next moment we were both rolling over and over and down the ai.n.n. A heavy splash, and all was blank. Being, however, a skill ful swimmer, and lile at that moment my first consideration, 1 kept my lieail downward, as my only chance to rid myself of the embarrassing hold of my coin pa 11 ion, which at once relaxed, when 1 became free to act. . Knowing that if I attempted to rise to the surface in the snot 1 was I should only be carried under again, and that if this was re icated two or three times I should be come exhausted, i struck for the bottom, and there found it dark ami compara tively still. Here a thought Hashed across mv mind, by no means reassuring, for I hail often rcfli-cted that if I ever reached that st, the probability was that 1 should be sucked under, and never come up again. Instead, therefore, of attempting to rise, I crawled and swam a dozen yards or so on the shingle, until I saw the sheen of day above, which I knew from its transparency to tie the still water of the eddy between the lashers. Xow or never ! and up I went, rising, as I expected, in the eddy, which whirled me several times round, and then carried me into the run of the water. At this moment my alarm was great at finding I was tightly fastened to something. I summoned courage, and ascertained that 1 hail got entangled in my line, but. thanks to Uie confidence I had Acquired from my swimming master in what he called ornamental buoyancy, I threw myself on my back, and', after a little mauu-11 vring, the cur rent carried the line clear. Then a few vigorous strokes took me into the back eddy, and 1 swam into wadeable water. 1 niav here tell you that to try to rise in any other way in such an emergency is heless. Several persons have been drow ned in the pools of these weirs ou the Thames, aud their bodies have been invariably found in the cavity worked by the water, with their hands stretched oiit, a if endeavoring to push them selves off, Imt were held there by the suction." . 1 Here Mr. Moffat paused, took a long breath, and, finding that his two boys were perfectly transfixed with paiuful suspense and attention, proceeded- "Well, directly I coflld look back, I scauued every portion of the waters, but could not see anything of poor Marcus." "Marcus !" exclaimed the boys 'Mar cus Deep!" . "Yes, that was the poor fellow's name and I have had his death lying like frozen chill upon my conscience ever since." "But, father." interposed Charley. "I know, my boy, what you would say; that it was the man's own fault; that he might have been my murderer as well as his own. I have thought of all that. But it affords no consolation a, knowing the state the man was In, I ought at once to have surrendered the tackle, and given way to his whim. Xo; the man was not responsible for his actions, in one sense, and I cannot shake off from myself the feeling of guilt. 'And now, liovs, you have heard the story of poor Marcus, whose untimely end has leen on your father's conscience for many a year." That night, as Xed and Charley lay in bed together, they talked in bated breath over what they bad heard, and pitied their father from their innermost hearts. '"I'll tell tou what, Charley," said Xed suddenly, "I must know more about this affair. Xo harm can be done if I don't talk about it, but I am deter mined to learn more by the water-side. I-ook here, Charley was Marcus' body ever found?" "I think you hail better leave the lsslv alone," said Charley, with movement net ween a yawn and a shiver; aud the next minute he was fast asleen. Xed keiit awake that night, thinking. and the more he thought, the more was his course the only one that offered any solution to the mystery, if any, of the sad story. As soon as the morning dawned he was out of bed. dressed, and off with his fishing-rod and basket bv the first train. He found the fisherman in his front garden, digging worms for his eel-pots and a he was not otherwise engaged for the day, he was ready to go afloat. So, after providing a small haui- ler or refreshments at the Inn, they were soon punting against the stream for Marcus' Ieep. "How long, Banks, do you say it is since you have not drank beer, or that sort of thing?" asked Xed, as he saw the fisherman take a sw ig of cold tea after his exertion. "Ever sini-e I was that high," replied the man.nUiciug his hand about a con nie of feet above the gunnel of the punt; "ever since l was six years old; and I'm wonderfully thankful to this very place we are now fishing for that, though it did no good to some one else." "Xo good to some one else," thought Xed mentally. "Suppose, Banks, we have two or three more balls of ground bait in. Iid the anglers fish here much after the fisherman was drowned?" with as much iudiflcrence as he could a fleet. "There has been no fisherman drowned here that 1 ever recollect, although one was very nigh to. A gentleman was. But even at this time of day for it's twenty years ago it dou't do for nie to seak of it, and if you please, sir, I'd rather not talk aliout it." "But it's called Marcus' Deep liecause a fisherman of that name " "Well, sir, you'll excuse me, but I never speak aliout it more than I can help, and I'd rather not." . . But," continued Xed persistently, "do I understand you to say that there was no fisherman drow ned here, but that a gentleman was?" "I don't know how I have come to say so much," said Banks, w ith evident emotion; "but when 1 tell you that there are jiersons living w ho might get into very great trouble if I was to gabble any more, I am sure, sir. as a gentle man, you will excuse my holding quiet.' Xed, whose whole anxiety was for his father, tacitly acquiesced in the wisdom of silence. That day.at dinner, Xed much startled Mr. Moffatt by telling him that he had been again to Marcus' Deep. Indeed, his father was shocked to learn that the recital of his secret should have had so little effect. Xed, seeing what was passing in his father's mind, without further preface or preparation.remarked "Why, father, I have heard to-day that instead of the fisherman being drowned in that weir pool, it was the gentleman. "The gentleman " "Yes, indeed ; it was the gentleman, and not tl fisherman." A re you certain of this, Xed ?" ejacu lated his father, starting to his feet. "Can this be true ? The very possibility of that poor man having escaeil has never occurred to me. Xo, no," be added, and sinking into a tone of deep sadness, "he could only have been saved by a miracle." "But, father," urged Xed, "Banks, the fisherman, told me he knew all about the affair. fl told me the fisherman was not drowned, and the gentleman was. If he is correct which you can now easily ascertain you have only to make yourself known in confidence, and Banks, I am sure, w ill tell you all. W hen I reft him, I begged him not to engage himself for to-morrow, as I meant to bring a geutleman down with me to fish wlio, year ago, used to be very fond of Ihe place.'! .... "Meaning me?" observeil Mr.Moffatt, his hiqies again reviving. "We will go to-morrow, Xed ; it is a matter that I cannot delay an hour unnecessarily." Xext morning found Mr. Moffatt and his two sous afloat with Batiks; and Neil, watching his father closely, saw how greatly the scene of the weir and its turbulent waters affected him, al though it was so many years since the event had occurred w hich had thrown its shadow over the whole of that period. When properly moored, Mr. MotTatt's imnatienee being wrought to the high- est, he broke" the subject at once, aud was induced, as the best plan of getting at the facts which Banks could render, to tell him he knew the gentleman sup posed to have been drowned, and that he was alive, If not well. Banks' de light at this revelation was great, so uulKvuiuled. indeed, and expressed in such grateful and vivid terms, that it even exceeded that of Mr. Moffat, who beiran to see plainly that this manifesta tion closely concerned his own happi ness. Banks, therefore, now having no longer any cause for taciturnity, related all he knew of the occurrence. But we will let him tell Ins own story, almost in his own words. "My father, Marcus Banks better known as Marcus the fisherman was a great favorite with a gentleman who used to come down in the summer to that little white couage you see near the ferry yonder. I believe my father equally liked his customer, for by his influence he had become from being often unable to go out with gentlemen from too much drink, a regular, soner, steady man, respected by his neighbors, spoken well of, and often recommended as the best man in the village by our gentleman. One night the last I saw my father for years ; I was then but a snap of a lad he told me he expected the gentleman down from London, and that he had been all the afternoon get ting baits and other things, so as to have a good day's sport. It was late before he came to bed, and he was then as sober as usual ; aud I recollect no more than being slightly disturbed when he got up at twilight'in the morning and left me to fall asleen again. I don't know what time it was when I was sud denly awakened by the door being burst in and father, dripping wet, his hair on end, his eyeballs starting out of his head, and his whole bodv trembling as if he bad the palsy, throwing himself with a wild scream across the bed. I started nn in my fright and listened with hor ror to. my father accusing himself of murdering coldly murdering nis cus tomer by throwing him off the weir. His waitings and writhing were fear ful. He seemed wholly unconscious of what he did. One moment be would stand up and declare he didn't do it, with the most awful appeals to heaven : the next, he would fall on his knees and beg for mercy. 'Don't hang me, don't hang me !' he would scream ; and then he would sob like a child, as though his very heart were bursting. For some while an age to me he seemed not to know of my being there, and then, when he did so, he seized me in bis arms, kissed and fondled me, and asked me what was to become of me when he was gone. Then he pushed me away from him, and screamea again: 1 wuiieu you all ; but don't bang me ; spare me, snare me. for my poor lad's sake ! Look here. Gentleman wanted something from the cottage. He gave me his keys I opened the wrong cupboard, and there a bottle of brandy toppled over, and broke at the neck. Some of Uie cursed spirit fell on the shelf, and was dripping off. I caught it In the palm of my hand and drank it the first I had tasted for years, as heaven is my judge. One sup led to another, and I filled a teacup again and again, and drank. I know of little more but that the punt was full of my mates trying to cheat me out of a large trout I had gone out to catch ; tliey ieered and mocked at my attempts to get it, and one after another got out of the runt to avoid me, on to the weir, where followed them; and I struggled to get the fish witli the first fellow 1 came up to, and and, as I went down in the water, I saw it was my customer I was drowning. "These were his wonls, gentlemen, as near as I can remember. Then he started up again, and muttered that he must be off that the polii were after him and rushed to an old chest of drawers, scrambled up together a few clothes, and the next moment I was alone, rubbing my eyes, thinking all was a dream. There was plenty to eat in the house, but all that day 1 should have choked had I attempted to swallow a morsel ; and as night dre on and my father did not return, I began fully to bePeve that he had committed some frightful offense, and that 1 was de serted. In the latter resiect, however, I was wrong, for the latch was lifted, and a womau entered the room aud said she had come to fetch me. I was so be wildered, and thinking perhaps she was going to bike uie to my father, I made no objection; and she took me to a pretty little cottage about three miles from this, on the common. There I was well clothed and fed, and when old enough was sent to school as her adopted child. I did all I could to show my bene factress that I was grateful, but I al ways yearned after the water and my father's pursuits. So, as I was consid ered able to manage a punt, one was bought for me, and I was set up in the house in which I was born as a fisher man. I am sorry to say my benefactress is since dead." "Poor Jane Scott," sighed Mr. Mof fatt, "she was housekeeper to my friend whom your father supposed to be drowned. And of your father !" "Well, sir, I heard that he went wan dering about for some mouths under a feigned name, liviug the best way he could, and that now and then he used to come over to these parts in disguise, to get a look at me. One day, about two years ago, old and worn and ragged as lie was, he was known by something he let fall in his inquiries at the bar of a beer-house, and a few of the villagers hearing it, took pity on him, kept his secret, aud got him into Moffatt's alms houses." "Moffatt 's almshouses !" exclaimed both Xed and Charley. "Yes," went 011 the fisherman, "they were founded by a gentleman in the West Indies, who is said to have done so in gratitude for some reason or other we never learned the rights on." "Your father is living, then?" asked Mr. Moffatt, eagerly. "That he is, sir; and he is hale and hearty, but bowed with the weight of the secret he fancies his life depends iion the keeping. Yon will see him, sir, waiting for me on our lauding, for this is the day in each week he comes down for a dish of soda to treat the old men and women at the almshouse." We need not dwell upon the meeting of the two "drowned" men, nor attempt to describe the exquisite joy of all con cerned, as the way was led by the fish erman's son up to Moffatt's almshouses, where the founder shared for the first time in Uie happiness of the recipients. He now learned from Marcus Banks himself that he was miraculously saved from drowning by I.U coining up to the surface between the stanchion of the weir and the punt that he had clung to the latter for some time before his weakness and condition permitted him to get into it, which accounted for Mr. Moffatt not being able to see him, and presuming him to tie lost. Having got into the punt, he lay for some time in sensible; but when he recovered, and had realized the awful nature of his situation, he hastened ashore, sought his home in the state his son dcscriled, and fled, to follow a vagabond and pre carious, and infinitely worse, a haunted life for years. The liells of the village church were set ringing that evening, rejoicings w ere general as well as at the almsltouses; Ihe next Sunday the Yii-ar improved the occasion by a sermon on the events. The cottage was again set in order; and Mr. Moffatt, now more than in his younger days, seeks with his sons, when they can lie spared from their studies, and with young Banks, the pleasure round and about the once dreaded, and supposed fatal, Marcus' Icep. rwaaBi d ('safari. Very much has tieen said about the injury of heavy and tight-fitting dresses, and very little has been said aliout the fashion of shoes. It would seem to tie presumptuous to try by pressure to im prove the human form. It is a fact that ignorant people think it can be done, and begin in infancy the work of fash ioning a slender waist, and they do the same with the foot. If we examine the foot of the Apollo Belvidere or the Venus de Medici, we find that the great toe stands off from the one next, so as to leave a space of half an inch between them. The small toes are not cut off at a sharp angle, but form a graceful curve; nor are the toes piled one on top of the other the home of corns. A child'! foot, in its natural state, has the same formation. It is broadest beyond the joint of the large toe, where It forms with the rest of the foot a reentrant angle. The shoe should be the broadest beyond this joint; there should be a curve for the small toes, otherwise the foot presses inward. In addition, high heels give another weight of woe, and the result is the bunion a lasting sor row. We shall have better health and milder tempers when our feet are free from the foolish sway of fashion. Wky eoh.e. X'o habit adopted by a whole race of man, indeed by all races or men, dui must have a rai'soa d'etre. The dhu- deen of the Irishman, the chibouk of the Asiatic, the calumet or the Indian, the cigar of the white American, would not exist simultaneously on every par; of the globe, if in the use of tobacco there did not slumber some spell of great potency over men. The lazy man it seems to make lazier; the nervous man, it makes more nervous; the brain worker it inspires, and on the artist it bestows visions of beauty. All lectur ing against it has proved vain. The habit spreads with population over Australia and Polynesia, aud in a couple of centuries from now smoking will be as universal as eating. It be hooves us, then, to see that something is done to insure the rehabilitation of the better qualities, of tobacco, which seem deteriorating so fast. Manilla is ceas ing to produce even a decent cheroot, tobacco culture dying out there like wine culture in Madeira. One thing is certain, that the substitution of the cigarette for the cigar is exceedingly dangerous. A LADY TOURIST'S Three Months in Europe with Professor Loomls. Xo. a. From Itrienz, by steamer 011 the Like, and a short excursion by rail, we went of course, to Interlaken, where every tourist pauses inoreor less satisfied with its resemblance to the visions portrayed by raving poets and correspondents. Without one exception our party was disapointed in this anticipated gem of all Swiss views. It was very tame after Lucerne and Brienz, aud with but one admiring glance at the Jungfrau, we devoted our energies to the devouring of a "good square meal" preparatory to the ecstacics expected of us oil Lake Thun. The lake scenery was indeed beautiful and more extended than one could imagine for a Swiss lake. We are so accustomed in our American schools to limiting geographical dimensions to the seeming small proportions of the little green wedge in our atla-es called Switzerland, as compared with the great collection of parti-colored square called I'nited States, that we are apt to under estimate the expanse of Sw is ground one may cover in a month's travel and not then do justice to its varied and grand scenery. Iay and nights we journied by steam-boats, steam-cars, carts and carriages, row boats and ora nibusses, and came far short of thor oughly "doing Switzerland." Lauding at Thun in a pouring rain, we hurried into an express train that carried us to Berne, where we ran about pell mell to the nosmall atonish nient of the sober inhabitants. Through the arcades of the quaint city and along the middle ofthe market streets we ran like a crowd of school-girls to be in time to see the famous old clock strike the hour of five. And we were all crowded together in the middle of the square, Bedeker, Murray and Harper in hand, while the littleold rooster flapped his wings and crowed, the liears marched 111 grave procession, and Time with his hour-glass made some sugges tive evolutions. When the performance w as ended, lo ! a crowd of Bernese citi zens had gathered round us, and were quite as much entertained as we by our mirth and hasty scamper back to the hotel, w here tea was already on the ta ble for us. Taking the train for I-au-sanue we arrived late at night in the fine old city, and were conveyed in three omnibiisses, five hoi se each, up the long street from the dejxit to hotel Gibbon, the former villa of Uibbon w ho finished his great work here in 17ST. The gitrdens, terraces and adjoining grounds command a magnificent view of Lake Leman, and only the fact that we must breakfast at sunrise and set out for Clianiouni reconciled us to retiring to sleep. A glorious sunrise greeted our waking eyes, and we started on the day's jour ney in good condition to enjoy it. As we purposed returning by Uie lake, we took the fast expres train on the lake shore road for Martigny, where we found ten mountain carts awaiting ns, with two good stout horse in each, to pull us up the Forclaz. Such a scram ble and strain on the jioor beasts ! Cov ered with Uny bells that rung merrily as we flew through the villages at the foot ofthe Great St. Bernard, the driv ers cracking their great long whips to startle the villagers and bring them in haste to the doors and window to see our gay procession ; the faithful crea tures g:illoieil w ith all their might and main, till we reached the steep moun tain roads, and then on, on, up, up, higher and higher, they climbed and dragged ns, till Martigny was a pic tured village far below u, and Tete Noire reared his black head above the surrounding mountain peaks into the very clouds, vouchsafing not one gleam of encouragement to make the descent into the gorge of the mountain, where torrents were tumbling and roaring from sliding glaciers, and many a path was made hazardous by the overflow of swollen streams. Xot to be daunted by frowning Black Heads, we put the brakes on the wheels, and down we rushed by a road like the Switch Back, at Maueh Chunk, Pennsylvania and so wild was the scene, so deafening the noise of liclls and cataracts.that I wi-heil Gustave iHir might illustrate the jour ney, at least as far as the hotel Tete Noire, w here a group of Mount St. Ber nard dog jumped and fawned about n as we alighted from the carts, evidently pleased to receive such an unusually large crowd of "unprotected female." Only time for super, and all were mustered for a fresh start. We must reach Oiamouni by midnight, ami only Providence could have saved 11s from the dozeu accidents that threatened us on narrow bridges, where a heavy cas cade leaped on the backs of the horses, and rapid torrent roaring below checked the frightened animals, as they sprung from under the cold shower bath. Many a shrine and convent gate we passed w ith thanktiilness for these evi dences of human habitation in the ter ribly gloomy mountain gorge on the darkest of dark nights. We slept cliiig ing to each other, to avoid falling from the carts at a sudden start or stop of the horses. The loud cracking of our driv ers' whips and the sw ill gallop of our teams wakened us at last to the fact, that we were in Chaiiiouni. that Mont Blanc was wafting us an icy breeze, and beds were all reaily for us in the com fortable old hotel jtoyal. . . ' K. D. WAttaCK. X !; er Pis; la Pertneal- In some parts of the country, it is a positive solecism to talk of a dog; the animal must be named apologetically as a puppy, a "cachorro." Xo Portu guese of any class will name that shocking animal the pig. If he must be alluded to and it is necessary some times, seeing that the Portuguese are very fond of him cooked, he is called "the fat animal," "cevada;" and if a Portuguese is driven into a corner and absolutely forced to employ the word, be will use the diminutive "porquito," a little pig, and even that only under his breath, and with the phrase, "by your leave." I have been amused by reading the translation into Portuguese of a French savant's account of a fossil bone cave, in which had been found, among other remains, abundant bones of swine. The Portuguese translator ingeniously eluded all direct mention of the animal; and as often as science clearly demanded the plain word "pig" he would have recourse to one ingeni ous paraphrase, such as a familiar mam mal, which we will still employ as food and so forth! If Uiis foolish prudery applied only to the two animals held abominable by the law of Islam, it might be trai-ed to the influence of the Moors; but it applies to a hundred other words, things, and ideas, which the Moors never dreamt of interdicting; for instance, no one in Portugal vent ures to speak of a certain migratory bird, which both Shakespeare and Moliere have mentioned allusively, al though I believe no other nation in Europe thinks it wrong to speak famil iarly and even lovingly f the bird in question. Moreover, the modern Port uguese dislike of calling a spade a spade by no means prevailed during the best period of Portuguese literature which was two centuries after the Moors had left the country. The pres ent fastidiousness dates from a time when letters, as well as morals, began to degenerate; a period in literature which is, oddly enough, as Mr. Mat thew Arnold may think, designated "Culturismo" which would probably, by its admirer, he translated, "cul ture;" a period during which it was thought well to stimulate an over sen sibility of emotion and an over-reflne-meut "of expression. This grew into effeminacy and ended in absolute deca dence. These influences have, unfor tunately, never ceased to have sway in Portugal. Among the prose writers of the present day are many nnmanly sentimentalists, or rhetoricians; and any true poetical utterance in the land of Camoeiis and Ferreira, of Miranda and Rernnrdes, is rare, if not altogether aliseut. Lutimche' Travlx is Purtmjtil. OkllsMwrjr Military SerTle. Is general obligation to military ser vice something entirely new, either to the world in general or to this island in particular I or rather, is it not sim ply something very old under a new exterior a maitmtnee of the old fen dal and mnnicipial system out of which our modern civilization has developed itself? The renowned English bow men who fought at Crecy and Poiteirs were not whit more volunteers than were the Pomeranians or Saxons who fonght at Gravelotte and Sedan ; nor were they in any respect inferior as sol diers to the British infantry whofonght at Busaco, Vittoria. andWateiloo, and had been brought into the ranks through the agency of money and beer. This feudal system was no donbt in covenient to kings and princes, who could only then bring a force into the field when the nobles and burgesses brought them men and money. Grad ually, aud after long and severe strug gles, the royal supremacy was estab lished, mainly by the aid of hired sol diers, who were frequently foreign mercenaries, aud partly also by that of the great towns and cities, which in their turn were gradually deprived of their independence in proportion as they themselves neglected the privi lege and dnty of personally fighting their own battles, and transferred both to hired mercenaries. On the break up of the feudal system there followed what is known to military students as the Condottieri period, when, especi ally in Italy, the cradle of all modern mnnicipial institutions, these hired forces frequently fought sham battles with each other, and sold for ready money the interests they had been hired to defend. And it was during this period that the ground was pre pared and the foundation laid for standing armies which depended whol ly on the royal authority. What lay historians call "breaking the power of the nobles" means, for the military man. the transition from the old system of territorial and national forces through the Condottieri period to the plan of maintaining standing armiesef soldiers, whose services were pur chased in detail from each individual recruit instead of en bUte from a mili tary impresario. Franer'j 3Iaan:ine. Satire Trade la ladia. The native trade of Calcutta and ot its maiu arteries the Ganges, the Brahmapootra, and others i marvel ous almost lieyoinl conception. 1 have stood for hours from midnight by the side of the Ganges, some miles from Calcutta, and couuted hundreds of boat passing in an hour, the oars splashing to the leaden melancholy of that strange song which assists to make an Indian river so dismal in the rains. By day and by night that song and splash never cease. I hail afterward several opjiort unities of seeing the trade far up the Ganges, and in or.e case, by the courtesy of the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal, Sir Kichard Tem ple, had the advantage' of hearing the boats hailed one by oue, and questions put as to cargoes, length of voyage, ownership, ami so on. The scope of the replies seemed to take in nearly all India. The Lieutenant-Governor was himself astounded at the vastness and variety of the trade, although he had been organizing, with great energy, convoys of grain of such magnitude, and under circumstances so difficult, as almost to defy description; certainly, at all event, the full fact never has tieen overstated by any one, nor more than liare justice done to the great ef forts made. We found at that time from fifty to sixty native vessel at the mouth of the Guiidiick Kiver, aud 2iH more in a steam run of thirteen mile on another affluent of the Gauges. A hundred and five more, mostly from Benares and Mirzapore, and ii many cases from forty to fifty tons burden, were anchored at a small place called Khagaria, which would have been the centre of operations if the Bengal fam ine had continued another year. Sime were laden with rice,some with fodder, some with salt, linseed, w heat, giinny bjigs, cotton, oat-straw, oil-seeds, to bacco, hardware, sugar, and so on. The astonishment with which one views the number of these boats on the sacred river is increased when one runs for hours up the small-nullahs, or creeks, and still finds no limit to the won derful industries, which are never more markedly seen than in course of transit by the river. On the banks of the river, or rivulet, you see tobacco plan tations, mostly European; a landscape at places beautiful and green as an Eng lish park, at others bearing marks of the devastation of the floods, or the caprice ofthe stream, which often in a day removes the landmarks of centu ries. . Everywhere you see that you are not among an idle but an industri ous and wealth-producing people. How little we know of all this. Jhm Jiuut Ird'ie. The Heart. A popular error of counties age of duration has assigned to the heart func tions which it has not, and cannot have and the language of nearly all naUons has concentrated this delusion. In the heart it places the passions and filling-of the mind, and a 'hard heart.' a 'bad heart,' a 'kind heart,' expresses in brief terms the amount of the error, which is ascribed to a hollow- muscular organ, insensible under ordinary cir cumstances, the great and noble, tender passions which ernament or dishonor humanity. But although such delu sions have been longexploded with the scienUflc world enough of interest at taches to this organ to render it worthy of all attention. Its mysterious, un ceasing rhythmic action, hith.'rto unex plained; the strength and peculiar char acter of its muscular fibres; its supply of nerves and nervous power from a force which seems to remove it, and does remove it from the control of the mind or will, and the nnknown ways by which notwithstanding, it betrays the secret feelings of the soul, becoming the telltale of that of which it can know nothing; all these are points which give to its anatomy an interest second only to the brain itself. Brook Farm, near Boston, ha been bought by Mr. U. F. Burckhardt, aud is to be used as a home for orphans, under the charge of the German Luth eran Church of Boston. Torres' roLris. iVore rtant. Don't huddle around the kichen stove, boys, these cool morn ings. I suppose you ret chilled get ting np in a cold room and washing your delicate fingers in cold water ; but you, great big boys, almost as big as your mother, surely yon would not go shivering and cowering around the the kitchen tire and in the way of your mother, who is busy at work getting your breakfast. What shall yon do, then 1 Why, go ont of doors, withont bat. mittens, or muffler; play ball, practice gymnastics, or take a good run. fast enough to make yon warm, and long enough to get you in a tine glow, and, my word for it. yon will find it far U tter than cooking over the stove. The warmth will remain lon ger and you will enjoy it more, so much more, that if yon are at all wise, yon will get up early enough- every morn ing to secure such a benefit. it is poor practice to warm yonrself by artificial heat- If yon are ohlufed to sit still, of course artificial heat i better than none ; but the more yon depend upon it, the more tender you will be; the less you exercise out of dsors, the more you will shiver miser ably over the stove indoor. It would be a good plan for both boys and girls who have no work to take them out of doors, still to go oat, es pecially when they feel lazy and in clined to coddle over the stove, and have a good run, play tag or hide-and-seek, or go some errand for mother and get warm over it. The Day Room. We wian, espec ially to urge upon mothers the propri ety of giving up to the boys, as soon as they reach the age of twelve or four teen, one room (not a bedchamber), for whoe (reasonably) good order they shall be responsible, and which they shall consider wholly their own. The floor should be nncarpeted, of oiled wood ; the fnrniture of the same mate rial. Let it le papered, curtained, dec or ited according to the boys-own fancy; if the taste is bad. they will be inter ested after awhile in correcting it. There should be plain book-cases, a big solid table in the center, by all means an open fire, and room after that for Joe's printing-press, or Charley's box of tools, or Sam's cabinet of min erals ; for chess and checker boards, or any other game which is deemed proer. To this room the Itoys should tie allowed to invite their friends, and learn how to be hospitable hosts even to the extent of an innocent little feast now and then. Father, mother, and sisters should refrain from entering it except as guests : and our word for it, they will be doubly honored and wel comed when they do come. Be Thorough. "Pile it np carefully, Johnny." said his mother, as the little boy threw down the wins I in acoruer and turned to leave the room. "Pshaw ! that's good enough," said Johnny. "It don't mako any matter; it will soon be goue." "What is worth doing at all is worth doing well, my sou' said Lis father, who overheard him. "1 once knew a little iMiy whose mother had taught him this proverb. He was a poor boy, and hired as an errand-boy by a merchant. He took pains to do everything well. This pleased the merchant, and he gave him something better to do, ad vancing him, as he grew older, from errand-boy to nnder-clerk, then to head-clerk, and finally admitted him as a partner iu the business, until he became at last owner of the Tery store where he first began by doing the lit tle things well. Be thorough in every thing. The boy who takes pains in the little things he has to do is far more likely to lie thorough in iniort ant duties than he who slightingly says in regard to . any half-done, work, 'Pshaw ! that's good enough. Lit tit l'flro. Pedro is a little Italian iMty, who lives in Chicago. When I first knew bim, he was roaming alxmt from house to Iiimisc, play ing on the fiddle, and singing. Sometimes kind persons gave bim money, and then he always looked happy. But many times be got nothing for liis ntiisic,ainl then he was Tery sad; for ho lived with a cruel muster, who always iN-at him when lie enme home at night without good round sum. -One day htsi spring, he had worked very hard : but people were so busy moving or cleaning house, tlat. when night came, he hail very little money. He felt very tired: so he went home with what he hail. ' But hi cruel master, without stop ping to hear a word from the little fel low, gave him a whipping, and sent him out again. lie t-aiue to my gate, long after 1 had gone to tied, and played and sang two or three sung ; but Ire did not sing very well, fur he was too tired and sleepy. Fuhltof licontentmeHt. A canary and a gold fish hail theirl.it thrown to gether in the same room. One hot day the master of the house heard the fish complaining of his dumb condition, and envying the sweet voice of his compan ion overhead. "Oh ! I wish I cwnld sing as sweetly as my friend np there!" whilst the cauaiy was eveing the in habitant of the globe. "How cool it looks ! I wish my lot was there !" "So, then, it shall be, said the master, and forthwith placed the fish in the air and the bird in the water; whereupon they saw their folly, and repented of their discontent. Of which the moral is sooner drawn than practised let every man lie coutent iu the state which Providence has placed him, and believe that it is what is best fitted for him. Jsif a Little ChiUl Shall Tal Them. In old days there were angels, who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the City of De struction. e see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction. A hand is put into tlwir's which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more hack ward ; and the hand may be a little child's. Tae VMtraerjr ef Maaaer. Almost every man can cite score of cases, within hi knowledge, where pleasing manners have made the for tune of lawyers, doctors, divines, mer chants, and, iu short, men in every walk of life. Kaleigh flung down his laced coat in the mud for Elizabeth to walk on, and got for his reward a proud Queen's favor. The politician who has this advantage easily distances all rival candidates, for every voter he speaks w ith becomes his friend. The tones in which he asks for a pinch of snnff are often more potent than the logic of a Webster or a Clay. Polished manners have often made scoundrels successful, while the best of men, by their hardness and coldness, have done' themselves in calculable injury; the hell being so rough that the world could not believe there was a precious kernel within. Civility is to a man what beauty is to a woman. It captivates ople iuUiuUr, while the opposite quality excites as quick a prejudice against him. It is a real ornament, worth more as a means of w inning favor than the finest jew els ever worn. The gruffest man love to he appreciated, aud it is often the sweet smile of a woman, which we think in tended for us alone, that hew itches our heart, and lays us at Uie feet of Iter whom we afterwards marry. IXWS IU BRUT The State debt of HlinoT b over si,r,ouo. A Hebrew college has been opened in Cincinnati. Felt slippers those worn by mothers of disobedient boys. Boston unpaid taxes, since 1S9, aggregate $1,12",S6.". A stalk of red pepper in Henry county, Ga., bear 20,SS-2 ods. The tobacco yield in Virginia this year is the largest since the war. A corn-stalk fifteen feet in length is now on exhibition at Bernardino, Cal. It is now believed that Donaldson's body went down with the w reck of the balloou. Cuba in a single year exported beeswax and honey to the amount of Vi.)0,IKX). m Gen. Fitzhugh Lee is to be field of ficer of the Centennial Legion for the Stuthern State. The fund for an equestrian stitne of General I.ee at Kichiikind now amount to $.1i,0oU. The Chicago bar, at the beginning of the present vacation of the courts, could lioast of over !HM) lawyers. Admirers of royalty paid last year $16,55 for the privilege ot inspecting the British crown jewels in the London Tower. The Sister of Cliarity have built an academy at Salt I.ake City. Children of all religious denomination will be received. The Smiths have only ten represen tatives in the next Congress. They will bring in a bill to secure majority rep resentation. The I'nited Sfctte Supreme Court ha decided that the Fourteenth Amend ment does not confer the right of suf frage on women. They are talking about a twelve story hotel at St. I.ouis. Come now, be reasonable, no story above the first four will pay expenses. Two stallion belonging to the Rev. Mr. Murray took the first and second prizes at the Windham county, (. 01111., fair the other day. The quantity of iron to be used in the construction of the Centennial building will aggregate aboiit (5,0110 tons of which more than avo-sixthth will be wrought. Eusebius Slaton, of Georgia is the champion father of the United Stites. He has been married twice, and thirty children call him by the endearing name of father. Infuriated bulls are no respecters ' of person. One t' them had the auda city in Portland the other day to upset the President of the International Steamship Company. In memory of Bishop Berkeley, the Berkeley Association of Yale College has decided to place a window in the new College Chapel. The window will cost t'iOO, and a large part of this sum has already been subscribed. A newspaper In South Bend, Inil., hint that one of the professor in the high schools bribes the big girls to he good by kissing them. The editors are highly indignant probably because they didn't have Uie same chance. A wholesale fruit firm in San Francisco recently sent by express to a firm in St. IiuU two hundred lioxe of Tokay graies, w hich were so well re ceived that an onler for a thousand hose more was sent immediately. The Solicitor of the Treasury has given aa elaborate opinion that a state lii-ense tax iixn a national hank's capi tal cannot be enforced, and that state ollicer have no right to examine or to exact report from national bank. Oen. X. B. Forrest ha two acres of land nnder cultivation near Glencoc Stition, Shelby county. Miss., 430 of w hich are in cotton. He sent np the first instalment of the new crop, amounting to ten bales', averaging !&l tounds each. . The board of visitor of the Balti more jail have decided to try the ex periment oil the professional bummers of mixing w hiskey with every article of food and drink issued to them, in the hoNt that their thirst for liquor may be xTiiianently satisfied. Victoria Johnson, servant in a Bal timore home recently alscoiiibil with a variety of larrenoiisly converted gissl ami chattels, im luding a child's bank with M in it. This is a sad lesion to the little stockholder of the instability of financial institutions. At I-baiioii, Oregon, recently, a young lady walked across a river and back upon a single line of board from pier to pier of a bridge in course of con struction. The narrow path wa at an altitude of forty feet, and the walk was undertaken in resxusc to some Iwtiiter ing. The cranberry crop, this year is es timated at 21l),IIOli bushels, against an average of alsmt 27"JJ"0. t'a Cod and New England produce 7r,lN bushels, Xew Jersey 'JO.IsM, Xew York ."i,tN), and the Northwestern States 40,1 mo. The fruit is said to tie of nice quality. How often a new affection makes a new man ! The sordid, cowering soul turn heroic. The frivolous girl be comes the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by death less love. The career of bounding im pulse turns into an anthem of sacred deeds. t'huin. The tunnel under the British Chan nel will be nearly 2."i feet below the bottom of the chaanel. The channel is atss.it 2K) feet at the deepest part. Sir John Hawkshaw, the famous British engineer, thinks there is no doubt that the tunnelling scheme will be success fully carried out. - Inferno Is the appropriate name of a sulphur mine in Humboldt county Nevada. It is near the railroad, anil more valuable than a silver mine. Nearly two car bwds a day are shipped. There is one "lump," at the Humboldt House which weigh over 700 pounds. It is to be shipped to the Centennial. The camels formerly used in pack ing salt to the Comstnck mines will shortly be taken to Arizona for service in the deserts of that cohntry. Since the introduction of these animals into Nevada, some ten year ago, they have increased, by breeding, from eight to forty-two. They seem to be still believers in the Mosaic law down in Stanley county, X. C, for an ox there having fatally gored a man, the friiind of the de ceased broke into the stable, took out the offending animal, stoned him to ' death, cut hi flesh into small pieces and scattered them. Since the fir-t Issue of postal card two years ago, 2.,47S,(ns cards have been issued, for which the Government ha paid the contra'-tors f:C7,.'l'J,S.", and has collected S--'ev,7S" from the iieonle. The entire shipment of the card weighed '. ton, and wouM. fill 1 a freight train of MO cars. Si it 3 1 . 1 r I i.j 1 I i J
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