ITr Mil firm" i . sill B. F. SCHWEISR, . . . Til C0H8TITCTI0" THI CalOB A5D TBI XXrOBCIMIST OF TH1 LAWS. J Editor and Proprietor. VQL. .XXX. f 1 ; MIFFLINTOWN- JUNIATA COUNTY, TENNA JANUARY 26. 1876. ' NO. 4. FOW.- - in ' Arise, for the day is fnninr. WbuV you be dreaming oa Your brother are cased io armor ' And forth to the fi Jit are (tone ; Vour plane in the ranks awaits joq Each man haa a put to play i The past and the future are nothing la the face of the a tern to-day. Ariee from the dream of the future. Of laiaiug a hard-fought field. Of etoraiia the airy fortress. Of bidding the giant to yuJd ; Your future haa deeda of glory. Of honor (Ood grant it ma?;) But your arm will never be stronger. Or needed a now to-day. Arise ! if the put detain you. i The aunsUine and etorma forget : No cfaaina ao unworthy to hold you Aa those of a vain regret. Sad or bnbt ehe ia lift-leas ever ; Caat her phautoot arma away, Nor look back, aave to learn the lesson Of a noUer strife to day. - Anno, for the hour a pawuDK ; . The eound that you dimlv hear le your enemy marching to battle Kiee! rise! for the foe is near ! Stay not to brighten your weapons. Or the hour will etnke at last. And from dreams of coming battle You will waken and find it past. Bartfnnt Part. Two Sides to a Bureau. BY HAItRIkT PRKSCOTT SPOFFOltD. ONE SIIlE. When 1 turned round anil she was coming in the door, I'm cure I thought I was dreaming. If it had been the tjueeu a-coming in, I shouldn't have been more surprised; and the three children with their three face. like little pig. 'Here, you." whispered I to Benjamin Franklin, "you just go "Ions; and stick your fare in some water, quick metre! And give Johnny's a scrubbing, too." And I wet the corner of my apron between my lips in a hurry and rubbed Sue's mouth; and thea I made believe 1 hadn't seen her before, and dusted the other chair for her; and she Kit down, and I sat down, and we looked at one another. I-ord! she was that fine! Her flounces were silk, and they were scalloped like so many roses, and lace showing under the edges of them; and she had such boots, setting liKe gloves justeuougli to make your eyes water. lint the flowers in her hat you should have seen them I declare, you could have snielled theui! Weil, she seemed to till up the little room, and if ever 1 was glad of anything, 1 was glad that 1 had scrubbed the floor that very day, so tiiat it was clean euough to J eat on of glad, too, mat 1 d taken Jim s old hat out of the broken window and put in the smooth bottom of a box with v good resftectable-lookiiig tack. Jim might have mended that window, tor he s a perfect Jack-at-all-trades; but he'd rather play the fiddle than eat, and be was a-playiiig it out in the tie-up that momeut, w ith all the wiud there was blowing. However, 1 couldn't complain, tor he'd jtist mended the chair, so that it was almost as good as new, and had put me tip as tidy a shelf at you ulease, over the stove for the brush and comb and hair-od bottle. If I'd been a little slicked up myself, with my new print and my piuk apron, or if I'd only had my bang on. 1 wouldn't 'a niiuded. But when Benjamin Frank lin came back with jut the top dirt rinsed otf, and the rest all smears, I did feel so vexed that I gave him as good a shaking as a uut-trce ;eis in harvest. "Bless my heart!' says she, "what are you doing that for?" "Because lie's so aggravating4" says I. "There, you go 'long;" aud I gave him a shove. "Wbv," says she, "don't you remem ber how It tised to feel to be shaken yourself?" "1 don't know as I do," says Z. "As if you w ere flying to atoms ? And your boil v was as iHiwei Itiss a if it had been in the hands of a giaut, and vour heart as full of hate?" "Whv. look a here.' savs I. "Be you a missionary ?" "A missionary ? says she, laughing. ,'N'o; I'm . Mr. Jlulgrave's wile. And I came up to see how the new house w u getting on ; but the hou-e is so full of plaster dust inside, and the whirl wind is blow ing the things off the roof so outside, that I thought 1 would ven ture in here till the cloud passed." "Oh," says 1. "I knocked, but you didn't hear me." "I'm real glad to see you." says I. "It's a dreadful lonesome place," and hardly anybody ever comes. Only I'm sorry everything's so at sixes aud sevens. You see, w here there's a family of children, and the wind blowing so," says I, with a lucky thought it's al ways good to have the wood or the weather to lay things to, because no body's responsible tor the elements "things will get to looking like ride out." "Children do make confusion,'" says she; "but confusion is pleasanter with them than pimlicoorder without them." "Well, that's so," I answered; "for I remember when Johnny had the measles, last year, 1 thought if he only got well I'd let him whittle the dcorall to pieces if ever he wanted to again. Here. Benny," says I, for I began to feel bad to think thai I'd treated him so "take that to little sister," and 1 gave them something to keep them quiet. "I sup pose you wouldn't care forany water?" says 1 to her, then. "Not if I put some molasses in it? 1 didn't know but the wind would have made you dry. Yes, children do make trouble. Oneof Jiut's song- says, Marriagr d'wx bnnff trouM ; A lug tr lift- ie-t ; Tlw-y iii..n i u?ver d-'Ohie w ho wouid-br a- rt.' But there! I wouldn't be w ithout them for all the. fine clothes 1 used to have when I was single and worked in the shop. I worked down at Burrage's I supjioseyott never buy auy shoes there ?" "What makes you suppose so?" says she, smiling. "Well, because your boots don't look like our work; they look like like ''inderella's slippers. Yes, I worked at Burrage's, off and on, a good many years on most of the time. 1 had six dollars a week. Folks used to wonder how I got so many clothes with it, after I'd paid my board. But I always had that six dollars laid out long before pay day in my mind, you know so that 1 sjient it to the best'advantage. There's a great deal of pleasure in that." "A great deal," says she. "That's what I say to Jim; and then he says his is all spent before pay-day too but with a diflerence, you know. I suppose you've got a real good steady husband ?'"' "Oh yes, indeed," says she, laughing some more. "You must, to Lave such a nice lioue as that is going to be. But there! I shouldn't know w hat to do with it, and I don't euvy you a bit." "Oh, you needn't," says she, a-twitch-lng her shoulder; "I expect to have trouble enough with it." "Not," says I" I don't mean that Jim isn't steady. He's as steady aa a clock at that old riddle of his. ' But sometimes I do wish he lored his regu lar irauc as wru, or else tnat that tea his trade. But I suppose if fiddling waa his trade, he'd want to be wood- carving all the time." ""'by don't you speak to him," nays she, "seriously?" "Well, you can't," saya I. "He'a so sweet and good-uatured and rleaant that when I've got my mind all made up to give him a sound talking to, he makes me like him so, and sets me to laughing and plays such a twirling, twittering tune, that I can't do it to save my life." You see, I'd got to talking rather free with her, because she listened so, and seemed interested, and kept looking at me in a wotidering way, aud at last took hue up oa her lap and gave her ber rings to play with, buch rings! Sly gracious! one of them flashed with stones all around, just like the Milkv Way. I should think it would have shone through her glove. "But," sys. "you should tell bim that his children will be growing up preseniiv, ana " "Oh, i do that," says I. "And he says, well, he'll do for the bad example they're to take warning by; and at auy rate, it's no use worrying before the time conies, and when they do grow up iney can take care or themselves just the way we do." "And are you contented to leave it so r says she. "Well, I'm contented enough. That is. in general. But I do w ish sometimes that Jim would go down to his work regular every day, with his tin pail in his hand, like other men, and come back at night, aud have a good round sum of money in band at once, instead of just working long enough to get some flour aud fish and pork aud potatoes am! sugar, and then not so much as lilting us uuger a -aiu mi mat an gives out; it's such a hand-to-mouth war of liv ing," says I. "Aud of course we can't get things together, such as a rocking- chair, a .d a sofa, and a good-sized looking-glass and an eight-day clock. Not that 1 care much; only when a lady like you hapjieus iu I'd like to give her a seat that's softer. Aud there's a bu reau. Sow you wouldn't believe it. but I've never owned a bureau." "Indeed," says she. "Yes. 1 don't think it's good man ners to be always apologizing about the looks of a place; aud so I don't say any thing about all the boxes and bundles I have to keep my things in, that do give a littery look; but I'm always meaning to have a bureau to put them in, if I can compass it ever. You sje. it's hard getting so much mouey in a pile; aud if 1 do happeu to, why there's something I must have, like Jim's boots, or flannel and yarn and cloth, or a little bed because you mn't sleep with more than two children iu one bed. And so, somehow, I never get the bureau. But then I don't give it up. Oh, 1 suppose you thiuk my notions are dreadful ex travagant," says I, for she was looking at me perfectly amazed; tealiy, just as if I w as a little monster, and she'd never seen the like. "And perhaps they are. But people must have something to am bition them, aud it seems to me as though, if 1 ever could get a bureau, I should 'most feel as if i d got a house !" "Well, I declare!" says she, drawing of a long breath. "I did come precious near it last fall," says I for I wanted her to see that it wasn't altogether au impossibility, and 1 wasn't wai-ting in" time in vapors "when Jim was at work up here, help ing lay out the garden, tie w as pad by the day, you know; Mr. Mulgrave paid him; aud he was paid here, aud 1 had the handling of the mouey; and 1 said to myself, 'Now or never lor that bureau!' But, dear me, 1 had to turn that money over so many .times to get the things 1 couldn't do without auy way at all, that before 1 got round to the bureau it was every cent goue!" Yes," she say;, "its apt to be so. I know if I don't get the expensive thing when I have the maiiey in my purse, the money is filtered away and I've nothing to show for it." "That's just the way it is with me," says I. "But somehow I can't seem to do without the shoes and flannel, and all that. Oh, here's your husband ! That's a powerful horse of his. But I should be afraid he'd break my neck it I was behind him." ''Not wheu my husband's driving," says she. And she bids me good-day, and kisses Sue, and springs into the wagon, and is off like a bird, with streamers all flying. Well, so far so good. Thinks I to myself : "She'll bo a very pleasant neighbor, it she'a ever so flue, she don't put on airs. And it does you good once in a while to have somebody listen when you want to ran on about yourself. And maybe she'll have odd chores that 1 can turn my hand to plain sewing, or clear-starching, or an extra help wheu company conies in. I shouldn't wonder if we were quite a mutual advantage." And so I told Jim, aud he said he shouldn't wonder too. Well, that evening, just at sunset now I'm telling you the real truth, and if you don't believe me, there It is to speak for Itself Jim was a-playing "Koslyn Castle," and I was a-puttiug Sue to" sleep, when I happened to look out of the window, and there was a job wagou coming straight up the hill, with something iu it that had a great canvas hanging over it. "It's a queer time o' day," says 1 to myself, "to be bringing furniture into Mr. Mulgrave's house, and it not half done, either. But it's none of my business. Maybe it's a re frigerator 'to be set iu the cellar." Aud I went on patting Sue, wheu all at once Jim's fiddle stopped short, as if it broke, and 1 heard a gruff voice saying, "Where'll you have it? Here, you, sir. lend a hain't." And 1 dropped Sue on the lied, and ran to the door, and they were a-bringlng it in there, look at It, as pretty a bureau as you'll find in a day's walk. It's pine, to be sure, but it's seasoned, and every drawer shuts smooth and easy; and its painted and grained like black walnut, and there's tour deep drawers, and a shallow one at the bottom, aud two little drawers at the top; and in the upper drawer of the deep ones there's a place for this all parted off, and a place for that, and a place for the other; and to crown the whole, a great sw inging glass that you can see yourself in from head to belt. Just look! Oh, I tell you it's a great thing! "With Mrs. Mulgrave's com pliments," says the man, aud went off and shut the door. I never waited for anything. Sue was screaming on the bed; 1 let her scream. I never minded Benny's rasa ling nor Jim's laughing. I got down every bandbox and basket and bundle 1 had on the shelves, got out every bag there was under the bed and behind the doors, and in ten minutes that bureau was so full you couldn't shut a drawer. Then I took them all out and fixed them all over again. "It's ours, Jim !" says I ; and then I just sat down and cried. ' TB"E OTHER SIM!. : "Well, Lawrence, i m so giau you i i thnmrht von never would. And I've bad such lesson read me I "Lesson? Who's been reading my ife a lesson, I should like to know? ' "Who do you think? Nobody, but that little absurd woman there that Mrs. Jim. But I never bad such a I son. Drive slow, please, and let me tell you all about it this horse does throw the gravel iu your face sot I'm expecting every moment to see the sHkes fly out of the wheels. There, now, that's reasonable. This horse is a perfect griffin has legs aud wiugs too. "Well steady. Frolic, steady! now let's have your lesson. If there's any one can read you a lesson. Airs, hanny Alulgraye, 1 should like to bear It." "Now, Lawrence! However, you know I came up to look at the house, for I've been having my misgivings about that room. And when I went in it did look so b;g and bare! I was dis mayed. I paced it off this way and paced it off that way, and thought about what I could put iu the corners; aud bow that window with the sea view would be- as a picture; and how the whole mantel-piece, with its white mar ble carvHigs and gildings and mirror, was a perfect illumination; and how I must confront it in that great square alcove with a mass of shadow ; and we haven't a thing to go there, and how magnificently an ehouy and gold cabinet ike that Mrs. atrouiand 1 saw at the exhibition the one I went into ecsta cies over, vou know,- that goes from floor to ceiliuir would till the place. And the more I thought of It the more indispensable such a great ebony and gold cabinet seemed to be. And 1 knew it was perlectly impossible " "II w did you kuow it, may I en quire?" "Oh, they cost oh. hundreds of dol lars. Aud, of course, the house itself .akes all you can spare. But 1 felt that it would be utterly out of my power to make that room look anything like what I wanted without it. And I kept seeing how beautiful it would be with those gold-colored satiu curtains of your aunt Sophy s falling back from . the windows on each side of it. And I sat down and stared at the spot, aud felt as if 1 diUu t want the house at all if 1 couldn't hsve that cabinet. And I thought you might go without your cigars and your claret and your horses a couple of years, and we could easily have iu" "Kind of you, and cheerful for me." "Oh. I didn't think anvthing about that part of .t. Just fancy ! I thought you were the most selfish man in the world, and i was the most unhappy woman ; and all men were selfish, aud all women were slaves; and and that ebony and gold cabinet was obscuring my whole outlook in life. I felt so an grv with you, and with fate, and with everything, that hot, scalding-hot tears would have shaken down if you had happened to come just then. I'm so glad yon didn't, Lawrence dear; I couldn't have spoken to save my life, and should have run directly out of the room, for fear, if 1 aid sneak, 1 should say something horrid." "Should vou. indeed ? And do vou imagine I shouldn't have followed?'"' "Oh, I should have been running." "Aud whose legs are longest, puss?" "Well, that's nothing to do with it. Just then the whirlwind came u;, and the window-places being open, all the dust of the building, all the shaving and splinters and lime and sand about, seemed to make a sudden lurch into the room, and I couldn't see across it. And there I was in my new hat! And I made for the doof as fast as my feet could fly." "Silliest thing you could do." "I suppose so; for when I was out doors, the boards of the scaffolding were pitching through the air at such a rate that 1 could neither stay there nor go back ; and I saw that little shanty just around the coruer, aud rau in." "That was sensible." "Thanks. And there she was, pots and pails ahont the door, and a hen just blowing in belore me, and a parcel of dirty faced, barefooted children tum bling round. Aud such a place! It fairlv made me low-spirited to look at it. 1 was in mortal fear of getting a grease spot on my dress. But 1 was in before 1 knew iu'and there was no help for it, and the wiud was blowing so 1 had to stay." "And the lady of that house read you a lesson?" 'Such a lesson ! You'd have thought to begin with, that It wasa palace. She did the honors like a little duchess. It didn't occur to her, apparently, that things were squalid. Aud that made It so much easier than if she had apolo gized, and you were forced to tell polite fibs and make believe it was all right, you know. She was a trifle vexed be cause the face of one of the children wasn't clean, and afterward she repent in gly gave him the molasses jug to keep him quiet; but another of the children was such a little darling! Well, pres ently her tongue was loose." "Humph!" "Humph? Didn't you want to hear about it? Oh, 1 know the whole story of my tongue, but I find you like to listen to it !"' "So I do, my dear; so I do. And then !" "Well, as I was saying, presently her tongue was loose, aud 1 had the benefit of her experience And I kuow she has a good-for-naught of a husband, whom she loves a great deal better than I love you oh yes, she does, for she seems ever to have thought one hard thing concerning him, and 1 was thinking so many of you, you kuow! And there she is, and has been, with her cooking stove and table, her two chairs, a bed, and a crib, with a contented spirit and a pitient soul, aud her highest ambition and her wildest day-dream just to have ii "An ebony and gold cabinet?" "Oh no, no! - Do drive faster, Law rence, i low this horse does crawl 1 I want to get it up to her to-night. A bureau. To think of it, only a bureau ! You needn't laugh at me. I've au aw ful cold iu my head. Aud I mean she shall have it, if it takes every cent you gave nie for my new Jacket. - I'll wear the old one. 1 thiuk I can get what she'll consider a beauty, though, for for twelve dollars or thereabouts. Drive to Veueer's please, dear. 1 do feel in such a hurry, wheu it takes such a little bit to make a woman happy." "An ebony and gold cabinet, for In stance." . "Oh, nonsense ! How you do love to lease, Lawreuce! 1 never want to hear of such a thing again. I wouldn't have it now." , - "Stop, stop, good-wife! You'll say too much. You silly little woman, didn't you know that that ebony and gold cabinet which you and Mrs. Wat rous saw was made for the place be tween yonr windows?" Sleeping rooms should be selected in such parts of the house as have the most benefit from the ravs of the sun. The bed aud bed clothes should be thor oughly aired and kept In the sun as long as possible everyday. Many of the slecDinir-rooms in our hotels are so situated as never to feel the Influence of the sun's ravs. and those who occupy such rooms tor any length of time are simply committing suicide. A w raJaalatrw. . Dr. Alexander Ecker, the well-known authority on matters prebistorical, as well as as Professor of Comparative Anatomy in Freiburg, Batlen, con tributes to a receut number of the pe riodical of which be is a Joint editor. most suggestive paper, eutltled "Some Remarks pou a Fluctuating Character iu the Human Hand." As the Hue of research is somewhat uncommon, and may, for aught we know, be productive of important results, the substance of Prof. Ecker'a paper is here presented to English readers In an abridged form Henle, in hU work on anatomy, has made the observation that people have very vague Ideas about objects even which are assumed to be well known ; e. g. the query is often put. How many feet has a crab? or. How many toes has a cat? questions which receive most varying answers even in well-formed and educated circles. If, then, the question be put in the com nanv of half a dozen DeoDle. which fin' gerUthe longest the index forefinger) or the "ring" (fourth) finger? the query can seldom be answered before the members in question nave been looked at. It seems, further, very prob able that the authors of w ell-known an atomical works have laid down as being the rule that which thev have observed on their own hands, so that we are en' abled to tell in what respect, as to digi tal arrangement, such aud such annual is endowed. For iustauce Weber says that the "ring" finger is slightly shor ter than the Index; Carus holds that the Utter digit la shorter than the ring linger: Ueiile la ol the same opinion. while, according to Ilyrtl, it Is the In dex which comes next to the middle (the longest) in length ; and Langer, lastly, saya that the index is generally shorter than the "ring" finger, but that there are individuals in whom they are nearly of the same length. Xaturt. The Ideal f Maits d. The period of complete manhood Is fixed by law at twenty-one. But physio logically that is certainly not universally correct; for although development may be regarded as accomplished In every respect at this age in the healthy Eng lish female, and vertical growth may have terminated even in ye male, a man's vital power cannot be regarded as having attained its maximum develop ment until about the age of thirty. For some years after the youth has ceased to grow, in the ordinary sense of the wont, tne atmensions ot ni cnest ine great index of vital power continue to expand; aud numerous are instances derived from military experience show ing that recruits at the age of twenty are unable to undergo the fatigue of active service that is borne with impunity by men of a more mat are age. They are, literally, not as yet well knit together. Several important bones are not per fectly consolidated ; and it may be spe cially meutioued that the sternum which has to bear so great a strain In labored respiration, and which Especially taxed by the weight of the soldier's knapsack, is not converted into a single piate of bone until after the thirtieth year. It is not until the sixth quinquennial period of life that our leading anatomical authorities find that the following events connected with the consolidation of the skeleton, take place : I. Completion of the vertebral column; -. completion ot the sacrum ; 3. Coalescence ot the third and the second piece of the sternum ; 4. Completion of the ribs; and, 5. Coales ceuce of the hauueh-boties with their crests. Aelalterated Ahttrlea tlmr ttae allrr. Dr. R. U. Piper lectured in Chicago recently on the subject of the adulter tion of articles in common use as food or in the arts, and the use of the micro scope iu detecting the presence of im proper substances. The lecture was il lustrated by means of the microscope and magic lantern. We condense Hie follow iug from the Chicago lttr-Ocin'$ report of the lecture. Candies are colored with chromate of lead and other poisonous cbemcals and drugs. Vermillion, a compound of mercury and sulphur, is used in large quantities for coloring fancy soaps, Ac. One prominent firm Iu this city inform us that they sell hundredsof pounds for this purpose every year. " Cocoa is adulterated with lard and starch, certainly to the extent of more than fifty per cent. Tea I have not as yet examined to any extent. ' Dr. H as sail, in his report before the British Parliament, before alluded to, says: "Tea is adulterated not only here but still more iu China, while as to choco late the processes employed in corrupt ing, the manufacture are described as 'diabolical.' It is often mixed with brickdust to the amount of ten per cent ochre twelve per cent, and peroxide of iron twenty-two per cent, and animal fats of the "worst description." Chocolate Is made up principally of clay, starch, iron In some form, and some kind of hard grease; a pound of the mixture may cost about five or six cents. The first article of paint I show Is adulterated with potato starch. This pigment goes under the name of Chinese blue. This blue, which Is a form of the so-called Prussian blue, is produced by mixing solutions of ferro-cyanide of potassium and per sulphate of iron. The article I exhibit is sold for seventy Ave cents a pound in the market; the starch is worth four cents, perhaps. 1 also show sugar adulterated with starch. On this slide is seen American ver milion, bicromate of lead, adulterated with corn starch, red lead and sulphate of bary tes. 1 also find sulphate of lime in many samples of so-called English vermilion . (mercury vermilion) in which there was not one particle of ver milion of auy kind. This article varies in prices from si to $2 or $2.50 a pound and indeed that used by artists costs several times this last amount. We should thiuk that this last surely might be kept pure, as it does not cost more to manufacture it than any good article of the kiud. The ouly adulteration found in this vermilion, that is that put up for artists' nse, as yet is red lead, and this is the worst possible material for the purpose, as it is sure to blacken in time, and thus spoil the picture. The other forms of . adulteration would merely weaken the color, and this might be obviated; indeed the vermil ion might be made more permament by mixing some of the madder red with it. Trwvelllwa x Ten chances to one, if yon are travel ling alone, the places yon most want to see are crammed lull or people, and yon are relented to a aixth story in a third- rate hotel a clear addition to yonr mis eries. But possibly yon are not traveling alone. Yon have. say. the companion- shin of your wife, and very pleasant company, too, in the right place. Let na have no cant, one way or the other. Home ia the pleaaanteat place in the world, and that ia not home where the wife is not. Bat to begin with, women are rarely good travelers, and perhaps wives are the worst travelers in the world. Oar friend Punch, who is no cynic, and strictly a family nan, once I mad a person ask his friend. at yon I going to travel for pleasure, or are yon rot off ta travel with your wifet It sounds very dreadful when the bunch haa died away: bnt there ia a kernel of truth in the half-anpleaaaat satire. If you you, a strong, heartr man. with no aches, pains or nervet and travel! ins sometiinea so fatigaiuaT. such i wearineM, such a pain of a pleasure. woac tniHK voir u leit or tne saucn more bia-hlv-stnina- creature who tra vels to please von, and in order not to be separated froa yonr aide overlong T Where you feel badly, she atarves; where vou crumble, she ailentlv en durea, till perhaps she ean endure no longer. Doea her fatigue increase your enjoyment 1 Doea it not spoil italto- retber 1 Are m not vexed beyond nt Utrauee when yon cannot get ber the much-desired cup of tea; when the train ia fnll and she cannot lie down. when. at the end cf a long journey ffnoi is the best bedroom to be had. Then there are places which cannot be visited save on foot or on horseback : and while she eannot walk, bow, in the name of all that s reasonable, can she be expected to ride a male on that saddle for hours apon hours over the Tete Noire or the Col de Balmef She tries and succumbs, You don't let her. and sue feels she baa marred your pleasure; And both of yon inwardly confess, aa night closes in, that Madame de Stael waa right wher, in "Corinue," she descibes travelling to be "a a det pin trutt ptaUir$ de la vie." then leave vour wife at home. Many men do; many men must. The matter of coat settle the Question very fre quently. What's meat for one may be made meat for two: bat what are tra velhoir expenaea for one are not and cauuot he made travelling expenses for a second likewise more especially when me second wants several tbum with which the first can dispense. Hut is it pleasant to any man to leave his wife at home, even though she be the one to urire bim to go on a little tour, thinking that he require it t If be beanvtbina ot a tellow, he teels aa though he were acting selfishly, even though he may not be ; and. in any case, he misses his usual and bet companion, aud must often feel desjierately lonely without ner. l nave already alluded to those dull evenings spent in hotel bedrooms, and at such a moment he ha a heart of stone if he does not feel disposed to ex claim, as in "Maud." "Oh ! that it were possible after long absence. &c. and even the least axorioua of husbands discovers the truth of the latter hall of a Latin line too well known to be quo ted. He haa travelled "without her." and be misses her unspeakably. Bat why not travel with a friend T Certainly, aa Mr. Disraeli observes in one of bis novels, if you want to lose mm. oeiier lenu mm a nunareo, pounds at once. Addison and a noble ally travelled, quarrelled and parted. Gray tried the same experiment ; and he and bis companion disputed at Maotna over the meaning of an Italian word, and agreed to differ to the extent of meetiog no more. "AI ! sis-! we war aaca ether eat ; Wit .elfa 4'ae ears Mbar wa la'aet ; Sack Im a rfrt dieie, aruad aMat. aaa ir wa avis taaa laaca. watat Taoct Uvea. Boys, the most valuable and misused portion of humanity, are too often the victims of restless and rudderless im pulses. Let any one of us who has reached middle age look back upon his school days and recall his schoolfellows and how many of them can he count who have been of any use to the world? You may count dozen after dozen who have thrown away i heir lives, or not achieved even resrtc lability, and have faded when middle aged Into mere uothingness. When a boy gets out in life, always a dilliculty w ith the parent, whether of the upper, middle, or lower class, there seem to be many chances to oue that he will be placed Iu some uncon genial sphere or occupation. The grief of the young fellow w hose father put him as iu ml to a celebrated artist, w hen. as he said with tears, he "wanted to be a butcher," is very real, and is repeated every day. The wonder is, not that boys torn out indifferent workmen un der these circumstances, but that they turn out well at all. 1 here Is too little trouble taken to find out the impulse of genius or to consult the fitness of the lad ; something offers an advertisement is put in the papers, or an uncle is found who has some influence with somebody else, and the round boy Is drifted away i. .. t - 'n. ..-- I iiiiu uic Filial c ikiic m iiv iiiaiii nut mended w hen bovs show a general cleverness. They are the most puzzliug and deceptive of creatures. They are capable of doing everything, and too often doiug nothing. "To fix them to any one thing is sure, like nailing a weathercock to one quarter, to render them useless. They, too, drift into troubled beings dabblers at many things, masters of none, and at fifty perhaps out or place, and lookiug for something to turn up. the victims of being too clever by half. Wet Prejwwleed. "Mark Twaiu" found it necessary to give a description of an acquaintance once, and especially desired that noth ing in his description should be under stood as indicating prejudice against the subject he should confine himself to bare facts; and this is the array or facts: "A long-legged, vain, light weight lawyer, from New Hampshire. If he had brains in proportion to nis legs he would make Solomon seem a failure; if his modesty equalled his Ig norance he would make a violet seem stuck up; if his learning equaled his vanity he would make Yon Humboldt seem as unlettered as the backside of a tombstone; if his stature was as well proportioned as his conscience he would be a gem for the microscopes; if his ideas were as large as his words it would take a man three months to walk around one of them; If an audience were to contract to listen as long as he would talk, that audience would die of old age; and if he were to talk nntil he said something he would still be on bis legs w ben the last trump sounuea, and he would have cheek enough to wait till the disturbance was over and go on again. How To Make Mischief. Keep your eve on your neighbors. Take care of them. Do not let tbem stir without watching. They may do something wrong if you do. To be sure you never knew them to do anything very bad, but it may be on your account they Have not. Perhaps if it had not been for your kind care they might have disgraced themselves long ago. Therefore do not relax any effort to keep them where they ought to be Never mind your own business that will take careof itself. There is a man passing along he is looking over the fence be suspicious of him ; perhaps he contemplates stealing one of these dark nights; thereis no know ing what queer fancies may have got Into bis head. If you find any symptoms of any one passing out of the path of duty, tell every one else what you see, and be par- ucu.ar to see a great many. It is a good way to circulate such things, though it may not benefit your self, or any one particularly. Do keep something agoing silence is a dreadful thing; it is said there was silence In heaven for the space of half aa hour ; do not let any such thing occur on earth ; It would be too much for this mundane sphere. . . Two Iwwsm astw arts Food. . Their fast being. In soma respects. rawer obtuse, tne nesn or wnicn tney nartake Is not oblected to. even though it be too long lnra It was killed, or even whether it waa killed at au. aiany a buffalo calf, dying with its mother, b thus served up. They have no idea of being nitny in their baoita, as woo haar What If they did not wash their hands before mixing the bread, or taking up the meat? Jteat u meat, and, therefore. clean. No matter if It has been carried thirty or fifty miles, swinging and flop ping upon the aide of a mule, until covered with dust, sweat, and hair; It needs no washing, or at least gets none, before being pat into the camp-kettle. If the hair, boiled Into strings and served np with the beef. Is unpalatable, it to quietly taken out of the mouth, and thrown away. Hair to dean, dust is clean. If dirt Is, as has been defined, matter out of place, there to none in an Indian camp; for what can be out of place where nothing has a place? As might be expected of a people whose subsistence depends upon the chase, they are not particular as to the kind of meat used, unless prescribed by "medi cine." The buffalo, antelope, or deer baa the preference; If these cannot be obtained, a pony or mule, a dog or a wou, supplies the denciency; and even the poor little land tortoise does not come amiss. To the latter I became somewhat partial, from the fact that, being thrown Into the fire alive, and roasted with his shell on, there could none of their tilth be Introduced. Do not consider this act cruel. A tortoise thrown Into a hot fire, with his back down, never struggles, or gives any in dication or pain, but la apparently dead immediately, while he would live for hours with his head severed from his body. The Kiowas and Comancbes do not eat birds or fish, neither does the Kiowa eat the flesh of the bear. They are forbidden. In the code of laws, as unclean tabooed or, in plain Indian, "bad mediciue." Ueuce with tbem the wild turkey is valuable only for Its feathers, which they use to wing their arrows. After a meal, water Is always offered to all who have partaken of it, to rinse the mouth, and wash the nanus. After this the pipe may be in order, but not necessarily. IfU be introduced, the women withdraw, aud some important subject is discussed. The pipe is always circulated from one to another, from the tight towards the left. Bntt-i. Am TaitMMa Kll Hie French King Louis XIV., at one period of his reign, in addition to his other accomplishments, undertook to make verses, and received from two of the literary men of the day instructions as to the best method for succeeding therein. He made one day a little madrigal which even he himself did not think any too good of its kind, and then said to the Marecnal de Urainout: "Marechal, I beg of vou to be good enough to read this littfe madrigal, and see if vou ever saw a more miserable affair, because people have lately learned that I am fond of verses and they bring them to me of all kinds." The Marechal, after having read them, said to the King, "Sire, your Majesty judges divinely well of everything. It is true that this to the silliest and most ridiculous madrigal that I ever read." The King began to laugh, and said to him. "Is It not true that the one who made it must have been a great cox comb?" "Sire, it to Impossible to give him any other name." "Oh, well said the King, "I am de lighted that you have spoken so hon estly to me about it, for I am the one who made it." "Ah I Sire, what treachery! let your Majesty give it back to me, for I read it carelessly and in a hurry." "No, M. le Marchal; first sentiments are always most natural. The King laughed a great deal at this little joke, and every one waa of the opinion that it was one of the most cruel things that could be done to an old ooulier. Froridmu Prtf. Walt. Walt, husband, before yon wonder audibly why your wife don t get along with the household affairs "as your mother did." She is doing her best no woman can endure that best to be slighted. Remember the long weary nights she sat np with the babe that died ; remember the love and care she bestowed upon you during that long sickness. Do you think she Is made of cast iron ? Wait wait in silence and forbearance, and the light will come back to her eye the old light for the old days. Wait, wife, before you speak reproach fully to your husband when he comes home late, weary and "out of sorts." He has worked hard for you all day, perhaps far lu the night; he has wres tled, head and hand with care, selfish ness, and greed and all the demons that follow in the train of money making. Let home be another atmosphere en tirely. Let him feel thai there is no other place In the world where he can find peace and quiet, and perfect love. A Oover Teat. The Worcester Spy revives an old but good story concerning the wife of John Adams and the mother of John (juincy Adams. This noble woman was Abigail Smith, daughter of the Rev. William Smith, of Weymouth, Mass. At the time of their courtship, John Adams did not appear satisfactory to her par ents. The story goes that they neglected him. left his horse standing at the h itch In g-post when he visited Abigail, and deuied bim the hospitalities of the house. tier oldest sister was married to a Bos ton merchant, and her father preached for her a "marriage sermon." mally, Uiey consented to Abigail's marriage to John Adams. After the marriage Mr. Smith said to her. "Well, Abigail, I suppose I must preach a marriage ser mon for you ; but you must cnoose tne text." Her quick-witted reply was: Very well. I choose this text : 'John came neither eating nor drinking, and ye say he hath a devil." It Is a good story, and very characteristic of the wife or John Adams. Taw Bsrlk'i In the preface to his recent excellent book. "The Abode of Snow," Andrew W ilson, well known as tne author of one of the most interesting works on the Chinese Empire revives the old theory of M. Adhemar that the earth will topple over one of these days and send th oceans sweeping over the con tinents. The theory is that owing to the greater preponderance of water In the Southern Hemisphere, the greatest accumulation of water is round the South Pole; when the accumulation has reached a certain point the bal ance of the earth must be sudden 1 v de stroyed the center of sphericity ab ruptly change far from th center of gravity, and the whole eartn almost in stantaneously must turn transversely on lu axis, move the great oceans, and so produce one of those grand cata clysm wbica nave before now altered in wnoie iae or in g looe. lorraw coira. CJh'iMM Frog. All ot yon have heard the concert with which the bop-frus of the little country screams serenade their neighbors and viaitora - after niKht-fall. I confess that next to the croak of a raven, 1 would rather hear that of a froar than listen to all tl arand art of all your musical swells, in the great musical ball. But there is a limit to all thina-a. and I moat say in all caudor that I would rather listen to almost any operatic singer, than to a chine frog. Did any of you ever hear one! W ell you needn t coax yoar father ta take vou to loina iaato that account. It won't pay.. You know that Snangbai fowls are much larger than the one of this country. Well. just in such proportion, or indeed more so, is the croait ot a inioeee irog to one we hear on this aide ot tne water, it don't croak it grunts, and $mrk a grant ! It ia as big in size (the grunt 1 mean) a a good siaed barrel, and as roach aa the side of an aoaroand mill stone. Oh, the Chinese, the Chinese ! If they want to bring their frogs with them to this country, keep them off, or lake a lesson from California and tax the owners and the frogs so hiirhly that they will both be glad to stay away. I terpen tire Charity "Ah, Xed ! what a wicked world tins is, and what monsters men arer aaid Mooly. the cow, to the donkey. Ned pricked up his ears and looked for an explanation. "Ah. my friend ! Can yon believe it T Instead of feeding innocently on sraas and thistles, as yon and I do, they kill creatures like as, and eat our flesh. I saw the butcher with his cart fall of what the monsters call meat, roinir the round of the village this very morning. Ned! can you go on grazing P she de tuanded, angrily, a thedoukev resumed his hite at a thistle. "Well." said Ned. "it a very cruel very; aud I'm sony people do it : but. as you justly observe, it i a wicked world, and 1 suppose people nave got into the way of doing it and can't iret out of it. Man is but an imperfect be ing, and its hard to break from old habit. His air waa so philosophical, it greatly provoked Mooly. "I'll tell you what, Ned, you aie mighty wise and charita ble, but when the knife comes to your throat, you'll have another mind." Ah ! but you see they rtont ear donkey f replied Ned. Xoreltu'i 77i Point i Or. A Sine Dawi" M oudrr. "What are you staring at" 1 asked Koek, the shepherd's dog, as he noticed the cows walking one after another np to a corner of the field. where they stood with their laces nxea in the same direction. "At the new gate," aaid the white cow. "Why it's exactly like the old one," said Kock. "Exactly," replied the white cow; and stared on. "And leads into the same lane," aaid Rock. " The same lane," answered the white cow, still staring. "Then why in the world do yon stare at itf asked Ruck. "It's new," said the white cow, and never turned her bead. "What incomparable dol Is!" ex claimed Rock ; "if the old gate had re maineu standing, they would nevet have given it a look, but this, that to not a wbit better, and leads the same way, iust because it is new, take the eyes of tne.wbole field. What Is The Bible lie f It is like a larire, beautiful tree, which bears sweet fruit for those that are hungry, and af fords shelter ami shade for pilgrims on their way to the kingdom of heaven. It ia like a casket of jewels and pre eioas stones, which is not ouly to be looked at and admired, but used and worn. It is like a telescope, which brings distant and far-off things of the world very near, so that we can see something of their importance. It ia like a treasure house a store hniiui of all srta if valuable and use ful things, and which are to be had wiihouc money and witnoutprice. It ia a deeo. broad, calm, flowing river ; the banks are green aud flowery, where birds sing aud lambs play and dear title children are loving and happy. A Difference In Tonaae. 'What's the matter 1" cried a bluebottle to an angry fly-wasp, that Hew furiously about, hardly knowing what to attack Brst- "Matter f retorted the wasp; why is it that I caunot be seen or heard on a window-pane without the whole room risinir to kill me. or at least tarn me oat ; while you. who make twice the noise 1 do, may ny about ana oazz wiin impunity T'' "Whv to it. replied the bluebottle, "111 tell you. When people hear your voice they tremble for your sting, dui thev are indifferent to my buzzing, be cause they know the worst 1 do is to tease and tickle ; 1 don t stiug. IJaht Burden Long Bom Ileary. 'What a fass yoa make, Ted." said the oilier horse to a donkey with a pedd ler s pack,. Just look at the loads we have to carry from the pit to the carts every day. Yoar pack is a feather compared to oar coal sacks." "That true." aaid Ted. "but you carry your sacks only a little way, and then snoot mem on ana nave a rear oe fore you take the next. Now I never get nd of my pack from morning till night , it is light. 1 know, but you can't think what a weariness long bearing makes it to me !" Hamulihi A Tent Of True Service. "I nnru.n auid the stream to the mill. "that you grind beans as well and as cheerfully, a tine as wheat." .... - - t M i i -1 :ti M I. -. lercainiy, ciacaeu iue mm, niiu am 1 for bat to grind t and as long as I work, what doe it signify to me what the work is t My business is to serve my master, and I am not a wbit more use ful when 1 turn out fine floor than when I make the coarsest meal. My honor is not in doing tine work bat in performing any that comes aa well as 1 can. Tie Pennon Whv. "Why doea father scrape P said a chicken to his brothers. "Do look, be is close to the Dariey, ana there ia a measure of corn just by ; yet be scrape and scrape as if he hadn t a grain but what he scratcnea oat oi me -it a nis nature, my uear, saiu from her wicker cage : be was born a . . .. . . :j ir scratcher. and whatever ne nas ne wiu scratch on till he dies." Fit Work To The Jjalorer."lf you are wise." said the old trnuk."you will let me alone in this corner, sunning here in neace. I will bold your clothes. and keep them aate irom ausi ana loss : bat carry ma over the conn try and 1 ahall go to piece on the way. ou had better be satisfied with the little I can do well than injure me and yourself too by putting on me work to which i am not equal." Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it alto gether. So it is with our moral Im provement ; we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit, which would have no hold upon us If we ascended into a higher moral atmosphere. IXWS H BRUT Michigan has eighteen persona who are over a hundred years old. A Schenectady girl at a spelling bee sat down on "jyautaloou." Harvard has accepted Yale's chal lenge for an eight oared coxswain four mile race. " - Chauneey Filley of St. Louis has paid fl.OUO.OOO worth of notes which he en dorsed for a friend. Richmond haa two pressing wants the Improvement of James river and a statue of Gen. Lee. Florida ia progressing in popula tion and wealth more rapidly than any of the southern states. ' Among the California exhibits at the Centennial will be a buildiug con structed of pine couea - The proposed new Constitution of Texas peruii a nine jurors in a panel of twelve to return a verdict. The California love books. Only 20,000 books have been stolen fro m the Mercantile library lu oue year. It is proposed by the legislature of California to punish illegal wife-whipping by legal husband-whipping. Mr. John B. Trevor, of New York, has given $1,500 to Rochester Univer sity for the purchase of a telescope. In Cincinnati every other street lamp Is to be extinguished, thereby ef fecting an annual saving of $33,000. The Virginia Senate is composed of nineteen attorneys, five physicians. thirteen farmers, and the balance mer chants. 3en. Sutter, famous as the man on whose land in California gold was first discovered, is poor, and SO and living at LUtix, Pa. It is asserted that the $10,000,000 bridge over the Mississippi at St. Louis ill uot pay interest on cunt during this generation. Ship-building in Maine this year aggregates a tonnage of 7j,060,4o, against m,S4,7i in 1S7. a decrease or over one-third. "Mount Casa," the residence of the late Mrs. John C. Calhoun, near Pen dleton, South Carolina, waa sold re cently for $3,000. The Dabolls. of Groton. Connecti cut, have manufactured almanacs for over a century. It runs in the family. AO. lin is just tssueu. Mark Twain savs the charzes of the Niagara Falls hackinea are so much higher than the Falls, that the latter appear quite Insignificant. Bret Harte commenced life as a child, and was a clerk, a schoolmaster, a gold miner, a printer, an editor and a poet before he became of age. One little bit of a Kansas town shipped 35,000 bushels of castor beans last year, but it frankly admits itself to be a poor town for rhubarb. The President has signed the bill ftirtner extending the time of the dura tion of the court of commissioners of Alabama claims to the -'2d of July next. The Episcopal church at Williams burg, Va. has a very heavy communion service, which was a present from George III. It will be exhibited at the centennial. A Brooklyn gas company wouldn't come down, and 4,500 of its patrons went to burning kerosene. ben the company wanted to come down people told it to go up. The students of the Art College at Syracuse have prepared and framed a wreath or nnely-tinted autumn feaves to be sent as a present to the Crowu 1 rincess of Prussia. St. Louis is 429 feet above tide ; Cincinnati, 4) feet; Pittsburg, 95 feet; Omaha. 1060 feet; Atlanta, lOrlu feet ; Denver, 5106 feet; Cheyenne, 6074 feet, and Pike's Peak, 14,148. A Tennessee court has just decided that a teacher has the same right to en force obedience from a child that a parent has, and can therefore inflict corporeal punishment when necessary. A petrified man, with gold orna ments, has been found in the vicinity of Iiidianola, Texas, and the scientists are puzzled to kuow what age he be longed to. The golden age we should say. A colony of bees have been allowed for several years to Inhabit the attic of r.nenezer Southard s house at w inca- sett. Me., and a few days ago a pot tion of the roof was removed and over 100 pounds ot honey obtained. A huge rock, which appears to be formed almost entirely of serpents in various positions, but making a solid mass, has been found on the line of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and will be seut East for exhibition. Gen. Fremont, who 20 years ago had "a glorious moustache" and parted his hair in the middle, is now, accord ing to a correspondent, "a little, weazen-faced, dried up old man, who can not write as well as his wife." The well known Hudson river steamers, Drew, St. John, and Dean rlichmond, are now being overhauled from stem to stern for Centennial year. They will have new boilers, machinery aud fifty additional staterooms each, all at an expense of nearly half a million doilars. The Washington Elm at Cambridge under which Washington stood when he took command of the Continental armies, to decaying rapidly. The ex- cavatious of the municipal government for sewer buildings have so cut and un dermined its roots that the famous tree is in danger of falling at any time. A workman at Columbus, Ohio, tried to pass over the Scioto river hand over hand on a wire of an unfinished bridge, but shortly the wire began to cut his hands, and though he made des perate attempt to return, the pain com pelled him to let go and he was dashed to pieces on the rocks, fifty feet below. There will be four eclipses in 1376, two of the sun and two tn the moon. Only two of them will be visible in this country, namely, a partial eclipse of the moon at midnight, March 9, and an annual eclipse of the sun 3Iarch 25. September 18, a total ecjipse of the sun will be visible in Australia and the Southern Pacific region. Only eight Indiana editors hold postmaster-ships. The enumeration of these able and loyal journalists is as follows Holloway, Indianapolis ; Hard ing, of the Cambridge City Tribune; Garber, Madison Courier; Davis, Rich mond Palladium ; Philips Kokomo Tribune; Langsdale, Greeucastle Ban ner; Hegler, Attica Ledger; Huff.Mon ticello nerald,and Met lain, Crawfords ville Journal. The grand Jury at Jacksonville, Florida, makes the following disclosure. "We find that there are three prisoners in the jail who have been there nearly two years for the pitiful sunt of ten dollars costs each. These prisoners have cost the county nearly nine hun dred dollars. We recommend that the County Commissioners pay the fines. ' release the prisoners, and thereby save money for the county. 1 1 V
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