1 VIII TVrrtS-VCV mm B. F. SCHWEIER, THX 00HSTITCTI08 TH1 UXI05 AHD IH1 XKFORCZMENT OF THI LAWS. " . , Editor and ProprlertOil. YQIXXX. MTFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.. APRIL 26, 1876. NO. 17. i :3 TEE QUEEN OF THE ORXKlT'ELim Oh. the Qneen of the Orkney Islands, She's traveling over the eft ; She's bringine a rattle-fish with her. To play with my babj and me. Oh. his bead is three miles long, dear ; His tail is three miles snort : And when be goes oat, be wriggles his snoot In s way that do cuttle-fish ought. Oh. the Qneen of the Orkney Islands, She rides on a sea-green whale. He takes her a mile, with an elegant smile. At every flip of his tail. Oh. the Qneen of the Orkney Islands, She dresses in wonderful taste ; The sea-serpent coils, all painted in oils. Around her bee-yatiful waist. Oh, her gown is made of the green sea-kale. And though she knows nothing of feet. She can manage her train, with an air of disdain, In a way that is perfectly sweet. Oh. the Qneen of the Orkney Islands, She's traveling over the main ; So weH hire a back, and send her right back To her beautiful islands acain. A. M TWOPENCE A DAT AND WHAT IT ACCOMPLISHED. BY FDN1 BROOK. "And now, Martha, my lass, I'm ag happy as a king!" said Joseph Gurney, as lie carefully held on his knees, for the first time, what looked like a bundle of live flannel, but was in reality his first-born child. For fire years Joseph and Martha Gurney bad lived a comfortable mar ried life, wanting only one thing the sunshine of a baby presence to com plete the domestic happiness of their humble home. Xow their fond hopes were realized; and on this particular Sunday evening, while the wild March wind shrieked and howled around their little dwelling, Joseph, holding the tiny baby by the cosy fire, looked from it to t!ie"beil where the mother was lying watching them with a happy smile ou her face, to utter the before-mentioned remark: "Now Martha, my lass, I'm as happy as a king!". "Yes, we've got what we long wanted 'little Joseph' has come at last," re idied Martha; "I'm so glad it's a boy." "Well, but," said Joseph, medita tively, ln"t know about the name, wife. I'd like him called after me, 'tis true, but it seems to me like we ought to call him Samuel, for don't you think God's given him to us in answer to our poor prayers, as much as he ever did to Hannah? That's my mind ou it, Mar tha." "Well, I'm agreeable," said Martha, after a few minutes' meditation on the important matter; "it's a good name anyhow, and the name of a good man, an' that's what we'll want our baby to be bless him:" "Just so," returned her husband, 'anl 1 tell you what, wife, he must have a good eddication; it's what I didn't have myself, but the boy shall, please God. if he lives to grow up." The next morning, as he was setting off to his work at tne usual early hour, he peeped under the bed clothes for one more look at the tiny face sleeping so placidly by thesideof the happy mother. "Good-bye, youngster," he said mer rily; "you'll be trotting along with me to work afore very long." "I hope not, Joe," said his wife, as she held up her face for his parting kiss. "Hope not! why?" "Because I want him to do better than his father," she replied earnestly; "please God he lives, we'll give him a good trade." "A trade, Martha ! where'll the money come from if" "Time enough for that, my man." "Ar, so there is," returned Joe, "and it's time for me to be off, too; take care of yourself and the little uu till I see you again," with which parting injunc tion Joieph took himself off to his daily work at the large leather factory of Messrs. Baker & Goldsmith, about a mile and a half from his humble home. He had worked for the same masters three or four years, and his 'wages, though small not exceeding eighteen shillings a week were regularly paid, summer and winter alike; so, as he often told his wife, when she was in clined to grumble at the smallness of the sum, they were Detter on man some of their neighbors, who, receiving higher wages in one part of the year, were thrown out of employment alto gether when the slack time came. The dinner-bell sounded at one o'clock, and Joe had iust commenced his simple meal of bread and cheese and a mug of beer, when the senior partner in the firm came along, and stopped to say a few kind words to him. "Well, Gurney, so you have a son and heir," he remarked, in the easy, good natured manner which had won him a well-deserved popularity throughout the factory. Joseph rose and touched his cap re spectfully: "Yes, thank you, and a line, hearty boy he is too." "I'm glad to hear it. I hope he will grow up to be a comfort, both to you and bis mother; we shall find him a corner here, 1 dare say, when you'll be bringing him along to work." "That's what I thought, sir; but Martha, my wife, she says, 'Prentice him to a good trade;" but then, as I says to her, sir. 'Where's the money to come from for that sort of thing?" "Save it from that," 6aid the master good humoredly.yet seriously, pointing with his walking-stick to the mug of beer on the table by Joseph's side. The man's color rose. "I'm not a drinking man, sir," he said, somewhat angrily. "It's only a pint of beer 1 get with my dinner; none with supper, nor yet ou Sundays it's but twopence a day I spend on drink." ; "Stay, my friend," interposed Mr. Baker kindly. "1 know you are not a drinking man; for you have not been with us nearly four years without our having found out that a workman more trustworthy than Joseph Gurney is not employed In our factory; still, could you make up your mind to do without your daily pint only 'twopence a day as it must cost you you would find that by the time your boy is grown old enough to learu a trade, the mouey to apprentice him would be in your pos session. I will leave you this to think about at yonr leisure; in the meanwhile, give this trifle to your wife, with my congratulations and best wishes for the future prosperity of her son," and, stip pling five shillings into the man's hand, the good master passed on. Mr. Baker had only spoken the truth wlieu he said that Joseph Gurney was sober man. lie had never been seen the worse for liquor in his life; the single pint of beer, which he considered necessary to keep up his strength on working-days, was truly all he allowed himself. But Mr. Baker's idea that twopence a day would in time grow into a hand some sum, had never before occurred to the simple mind of Joe Gurney; and all that afternoon he pondered on his master's words, till at last, throwing down bis tools, he seized a piece of looking figures on the wall of the fac tory. Joseph had, as he himself ex pressed it, "received no eddication," but he had a rough method of his own of making calculations, and the result of his present one appeared consider- amy to astomsn mm. lie scratched his head, pondered a little longer, tried again and again, but always with the same result; ami when be laid down the lump of chalk and resumed bis work, his resolution was taken The next Saturday night the shilling, though deducted as usual from his wages, did not go to pay a weekly score at the "Red Lion" Inn ; it was carried in Joseph's pocket to another and quite Weeks, months, and years passed on, and the little Samuel grew in body ami mind an active, healthy, persevering lad, carefully trained and educated, to the best of their ability, by the fond parents, wnose only child he had con tinued to be. Joseph had kept the chalk, and began making mysterious- promise mane on me day or the boy's birth, that he should have a good edu cation, and, at eleven, the young Samuel was a very lair scholar euarp, shrewd, and fond of learning. But, at eleven years of age, his father decided that Samuel, as hearty and strong as many a lad much older, must oegin to uo something himself toward his own support, and accordingly a place as errand boy, in a respectable grocer's shop, was soon secured. Joseph accepted for his son a somewhat smaller weekly sum than usual, in consider ation that he should be allowed four evenings in the week to leave work in time to attend an evening school in the neighborhood. The boy's uniform good conduct and steadiness soon gained the confidence of his master, and for nearly two years he continued in Mr. Morton's shop. It wanted only two or three days to Samuel's thirteenth birthday, when one evening he came In from his day's work with a cloud on his usually bright, kindly face. "Father," said he, as he hung up his cap on its nail, "Mr. Morton thinks 1 had better leave him." "What's that for?" asked his father, in a startled tone; "hast been up to any tricks, lad?" "No. indeed, father. Master savs he'll give me a good character to any one," and the boy drew himself up proudly as he spoke; "but be says I'm too old and Dig lor errand boy now I ought to be doing something better for myself now. He says he'll be sorry for me to go, but he won t stand in my way he wants a new 'prentice, though I know he'd take me, but that can't be, I know that," and a tear or two stood in the boy's eye, which he was too manly to let drop. "Whv can't it be?" inquire! the mother, looking up from the ironing in which she was engaged. w hv, mother, he says he can t take less than 4.10 with a 'prentice; mostly he gets more than that, but where could we get that from?" "Would'st like to go 'prentice to Mr. Morgan, Sammy?" inquired his father. Indeed I should, father, better than anything else " Better than the factory?" I hate the factory." said the boy ex citedly; "father, I'd rather " "Gently, my lad; you veal wars been a good, obedient boy, and if I bid you come along to the factory to work, you'll come; but," he added, seeing the boy was about to answer, "don't say any more about the matter now. Thursday will be your birthday; you'll be thir teen then, time you were something better nor an errand boy; you come home to supper directly after work, and we'll talk it over. You needn't go to school that night, I reckon." "But, father," urged the boy, "If I cr.n find another place, with better wages than Mr. Morton's, I needn't go to the factory, need I ?" "Well, you can look around if you've a mind to." Thursday night came, and Joseph, much to his wife's surprise, was nearly an hour after his usual time. Samuel was home, the tea ready set, and the kettle singing on the fire when he made bis appearance. How cozy and com fortable the little kitchen looked; so clean and bright, and the good wife, in her usual neat trim, waiting to receive him. "You're late to-night, my man," said she, as her husband took his seat by the fire, and warmed his hands by the cheerful blaze, for the cold east wind howling outside made the weather al most as severe as midwinter. "Yes, I'm late, sure enough," he said, cheerfully, as he took the tempting cup of hot tea from her hands. "Well, Sam, my boy, how about find ing another place? You know we wire to talk about it to-night." "I haven't heard of one," said the boy, moodily. r "Well," returned Joseph, with a cu rious twinkle in bis eye, "then I sup pose you'll be walking along with me to the factory on Monday; there's a berth for you there with five shillings a week." "Must I, father?" "Must you, my lad? Ain't what's good enough, for your father good enough for you?" The boy did not answer; his disap pointment was too deep to find expres sion in words. ' "I looked into Mr. Morton's as I came along," pursued Joseph ; "he's got a 'prentice lad,. I find; dost know who 'tis Sam?" "No, father." 'Tis a friend of yourn, I hear; canst guess who?" - Sam looked up quickly. "Is it John Jackson, father? , He was in to see Mr. Morton to-day." "No, It ain't; guess again.'" 'I can't tell," said the boy, 'and tisn't much odds." "Aini it much odds? Well, then, I'll tell you, my boy, 'tis you." "Father!" "Yes, 'tis you, and here's the money," almost roared Joseph in his exultation and delight; "count it my lad; it's all your'n." and he tossed upon the table a little canvas bag. Sam seized it eagerly, and turned out the contents bright sovereigns and a few shillings. It was a pleasant pic ture the proud, happy father, the eager, excited boy the loving wife and fond mother, standing with clasped hands, looking from one to the other with a face expressing the utmost as tonishment. "Thirty-three pounds, sixteen shil lings !" exclaimed Samuel, as he rapidly counted over the glittering coins. "Father, what does it all mean? .Did you say that it was all mine?" "Every penny of it, my lad," replied the happy father; and he proceeded to narrate to them, in his own simple way, the interview he had had with his mas ter on the day following Samuel's birth and the impression his words had made upon him. 'I saw then" added Joseph in con clusion, "that little sacrifice on my part would leave enough money to give you a good trade when you should be growed big enough. I resolved to give up hit beer and say nothing about it, J and I've not had a drop from that day to this. I've always took a smiling from my week's wages as usual, but now it didn't go to the "Red Lion," as before; It went to Mr. Baker's, and he put it into this bag, and he's kept the money for roe ever since. I've often been tempted, Martha, when rou have been 111, to break into it to out little PDie causes which induced the Iso thingsyoa needed, but I never did; Ij $?mmu"iIrty' of1hiteJ?0ttnt?Jn . . . . . . V I bnttrflwt tn ltk nn tlurtp ihAiU An iH. worked over hours Instead, and you have not wanted; and once. Sam. when you were a little chap, you were so 111 with fever, I thought as how the money a nau saved would only go to put you in your grave. But God" spared your life : you've been a good, obedient boy to me and your mother, so the money's your'n, my lad. I shall pay 10 to Mr. Morton to-morrow, when your articles are made out; you shall have a new suit of clothes, too; and the rest of the money snati go in tne Dana in your name, and please God I live so long, you shall have twopence every week of your time; and then, Samuel, there will be a nice little sum for you to -start for yourself with. So God blesa you, my lad, and may you be a good, useful man; that's all I want of you in return." The boy fairly sobbed, as he threw nimseir into bis father's arms. "Father," he said, as soon as he could speak, "I can't thank you now as I ought, but I promise that you shall never be sorry you gave up your beer for me. God helping me, 1 will be all you wish me to be, and If I turn out as good a man as my father, mother and I will be quite coutent." The boy kept his promise; and now over that handsome shop-front appears tne name oi .samuei uurney, Grocer," he, a thriving prosperous man, often gathers his children around his knee, and tells them the story of his early life how his self-denying father built up for him his present prosperity on the lounuation stone oi "l wopence a day." The caahers Has. The first occasion on which the Quaker's hat came publicly aud offi cially into trouble was at the Launceston Assizes in the year 1656, before no less a person than Chief Justice Glvnn. "When we were brought into the court." says Fox, "we stood a pretty while with our hats on. and all was auiet- and I was moved to. say. 'Peace be amongst you !' , 'Why do you not put your hats off?' said the judge to us. e said nothing. "1'ut off vour hats. said the judge, again. Still we said nothing. Then said the judge, 'The court commands you to put off your hats.' George Fox, with amazing simplicity, askea ror some scriptural instance of any magistrate commanding prisoners to put off their hats. He next asked to be shown, "either printed or written, any law oi England that did cemmand such thing." Then the judge grew very angry, and said, "I do not carry my law books on my back "But," said Fox, "tell me where it is printed in any statute-book, that I may read it." The Chief Justice cried out "Prevaricator!" and ordered the Quakers to be taken away. When they were brought before him again the Chief Justice asked Fox whether hats were mentioned at all in the Bible? "Yes," said the Quaker, "in the third of Daniel, where thou mavst read that the three children were cast into the fiery furnace by Nebuchad. nezzar's command with their coats, their hose and their hats on !" Here was a proof that even a.heathen king allowed men to wear hats liijhis presence, "Ihis plain instance stopped nun," says iox, "so he cried again, 'lake them away, gaoler; accordingly we were taken away and thrust in among the thieves, where we were kept a great while." After nine weeks' imprisonment "for nothing but about their hats," as the Chief Justice told them they were again Drought Derore him, grimly wearing the offending headgear. ''Take off their hats," said the judge to the gaoler. "Which he did," says Fox, "and gave them unto us: and we put . them on again. Then the judge began to make a great sjieech, how he represented the Lord Protector's person, and that he had made him Lord Chief Justice of England." The Quakers were incorrigi ble, lbey were sent back to prison. but not really so much for the wearing of their hats as for the suspicion that they were royalist emissaries affecting religious singularity in order to 'win their way among the extreme Puritans. Early Kallraad Bmtrletlaa 1st Eaa Ini, The Duke of Wellington is reported to have said, in one of the early rail road debates in the House of Lords, that in dealing with the new system it was above all else necessary to bear in mind the analogy of the king's highway. Parliament did bear it in mind, and up on this analogy, naturally enough, the railroad was first established. The pro prietor of the roadbed and the carrier over It were to be different persons. Provision in this respect was esecially made in all early charters, and it was supposed that the power of using the road, which was reserved to all the world on certain fixed terms, would make impossible any monoply of the business over it. Experience, of course, quickly showed how utterly fallacious this reasoning was. The analogy of the highway was, however, not at once abandoned. Recourse was bad to a sys tem of fixed maxima charges, and the old tollboards of the turnpikes were in corporated at enormous length into the new charters as they were granted. One of these, for instance, which went through Parliament in 1844, consisted of three hundred and- eighty-one dis tinct sections, in which, among other things, it was prescribed that for the carriage of a "horse, mule, or ass" the company might charge at a rate not to exceed three pence per mile, while for a calf or a pig or "other small animal" the limit was a penny. Naturally, this attempt at regulation proved no more efficacious than the other, and with it the analogy of the highway seems to have disappeared. A t Untie Monthly. Csaldtscs wltt WItm. In connection with the reported re mark of a gentleman, who said that he didn't believe the ladies he met in Washington street knew that the times are dull, and that their husbands are having a bard time to keep their heads above water, the Boston Journal relates the following: "All husbands do not make their financial affairs a topic of conversation at home, and some better halves know less of their own husband's affairs than they do of their neighbor's. Some week since a lady was first in formed of her husband's suspension by reading an announcement in a paper which she accidentally took up in a store while waiting to have an order filled. Whether it was pride or fear that prompted secresy cannot be stated, but what can be expected from wives in the way of true economy if they are only silent partners in the matrimonial copartnership? In 1837 a large jewelry firm sold a costly set of jewels to a lady. The firm knew that her husband was in a failing condition, but the lady had been a long and profitable customer. When the partner told his clerk not to charge the goods which were delivered, but to make a memorandum on the blot ter, he paid the lady'a integrity a high compliment. When the husband failed the jewelry came back with a note couched In such terms that the dealer only regretted that a gift of the set would be construed as an insult. Tae White wtela By. In a paper in the American Natural- itt, nr. August K. Grote suggests the butterflies to take up their abode on the rocKy summit? or that lofty eminence. The mountain is 6,293 feet high, and the butterflies never descend below an elevation of about 5,600 feet. Here they "disport during the month of July of every year," thriving upon the scanty deposits of honey found in the flowers of the few species of hardy plants that grow in the crevices of the rocks at that great altitude, and upon other available liquid substances. The insect measures, from tip to tip of the expanded fore wings, about 1 8-10 inches. It is color ed in shades of brown, with various bands and marblings diversifying the surface of the wings. The butterfly is known to naturalists as the QCneis temi- dea, and was first described in 1828, by Thomas Say. An allied species occurs on" Long's Peak ' and other elevated heights in Colorado, and another is found at HopedaL Labrador: but they are confided to the widely separated lo calities. Mr. Grote surmises that the White Mountain butterfly was brought down from its original home in the North by the glaciers, which, advancing at the rate or less than a mile in 100 years, carried them as far south as the latitude of Virginia. When the ice retraced its steps iu consequence of a change in the climate, "it was as the retreat of an ar my with all its baggage and equipments, aud In perfect order. Year by year it called upon its plants, its butterflies, its animals, aud they followed in its regal train ; they were to go back with the ice, nor be seduced by the lakes and streams its retreat unveiled, and soon became companions to the mammoth. And it succeeded, for the most part, un til it reached the White Mountains." There a colony of the (Encis were temp ted to remain by the shallow ice-rivers that then filled the raviuesof the moun tain, aud they stayed so long that re turn to the home of the glaciers was im possible. As the local glaciers melted at the base of the mountain, and crept constantly higher and higher, tin but terflies followed, for warm weather was uncongenial to them,' and at last they were landed on the mountain-peak, which is now bare of snow in the brief summer. Here they have managed to survive to the present day ; but, remarks Mr. Grote, "they are entrapped, and must die only by natural causes, unless certain entomologists sooner extirpate them by pinning them up in collections of insects. What time, in Tuckerman's Ravitie, I see the ill-advised collector, net in hand, swooping down on his de voted colony of ancient lineage and and more than Puritan affiliation, I wonder if, before it is too late, there will not be a law passed to protect the butterflies from the cupidity of their pursuers." In the same magazine from which the above notes are taken, Dr. W. Wood states, in an article ou the goshawk, that he has observed in his experience that the number and size of the eggs deposited by birds, particularly of the rapacious species, often vary witn the age of the birds. Thus the goshawk has been known in dinerent localities, to lay one, two, three, four, and bve eggs in a nest. Dr. ood believes that the old birds lay but two eggs, while the young birds lay a larger number, and those of a smaller size. Taste la Haaseaald raraltare. In a very interesting lecture which Cardinal Wiseman once delivered in England, he pointed out to his audi ence that the old vases and cups and boxes and other objects which were kept carefully under glass in museums, which were so graceful and refined in form, and were treasured by us as pre cious relics of an extinct art, were the ordinary vessels of the uses and conve niences of the life ot the times from which they descended. Is there any good reason that the wash-bowis and pitchers and tugs and jars or old Rome and Athens should be beautiful, and ours, designed for the same purpose, clumsy and ngly? And if we can not Invent new forms or beauty ror our selves, may we not copy pleasing models rather than unpleasing? Whether we go back for our model a year or a thousand years, there is really no need or selecting au ugly one. so in the cost of finishing and furnishing the house, the pumpkin in Cinderella's kitchen did not more surely hold the gilded coach, nor her own "filthy rags" the most magnificently jeweled robes, than every little dollar is full of neat ness, fitness, and beauty, if we have the gift of seeing them and extracting them. It is a subtle gift, indeed, for it is taste. All the dollars In the world will not buy it. It is like that ear for music which those who have it not deride and deny. Yet good taste is, not the first hut the second, household magician. The first is good temper. Good temper will make a hard, stiff, horsehair chair delightful;- -but "good .taste, ' without good temper, will make the most luxu rious and beautiful lounge uncomlor ta ble. The two combined make the pan feet household. The minor magicibe indeed, has one advantage over the other, and it is that she develops her. Good taste promotes good temper, but good temper no more promotes good taste than the smile oi the gardener ripens strawberries. On the other band good tear per has an advantage. ' It can not buy good taste, but it may buy its works. , You may not know mushrooms from toad-stools. But if an honest man ho, as you know, can distinguish them, offers to sell you mushrooms, you may buy in tolerable confidence that your nilet will not be garnished with poison. It is so with the mystery of household art- You may. not per ceive the harmony of colors, nor the superior grace of one form to another. But if a person whom you Know to be an expert assures you that this paper and that carpet are ' harmonious, and that this or that table is graceful and pleasing, if you really do not know, wny snouid you not trust mm r Mrs. Potiphar perennially shows her confi dence in Mr. Marcotte by giving him earte-lanche to redecorate and furnish. She does it, perhaps, quite as much be cause of bis fashion as of his taste. But what she does expensively for fashion, may not you do economically for taste ? In a word, it is the apparent mission of what is known as household art to show that cheap and nasty are not syn onymous. The Little Hawses aa the Telegraph Palea. Fastened to the telegraph-poles in New York City are five hundred and fourty eight little houses, in each of which dwells an invisible spirit with greater powers than the fairy godmoth er who made a carriage for Cinder ella out of pumpkins and horses out of mice. They are built of iron and painted green, and look for all the world like postoffice boxes. Indeed I have been told that honest country folks visiting the city sometimes almost wrench them to pieces with their umbrellas trying to get their letters in. Under the eaves of these little bouses there is a bit of glass window, behind which is a blind with some printing on it, and the printing says that a key to the door may be found at the baker's or the tailor's or the shoemaker's over the way. But the possessor is forbidden to loan it, unless there happens to be lire in the neighorhood and the spirit is wanted to go on an errand, bo. In order that we may bave a peep within. we will enlist the services of a friend of mine who is a city fireman, and who carries a duplicate key in bis pocket. When the door is opened, we look in to the front room ; let us call it the par lor, and, like many other parlors, it is cold and bare. The only furniture is a little knob projecting from one of the walls. I be back room, which the fire man opens with another key, is much more interesting, however; and it is here that the wonderful spirit is impris oned in a curious-looking machine. with brass cogwheels, levers and springs, which is set in motion by that simple knob in front. lie is on duty all the rear round, run the knob, and he' will fly like a dash of lightning over the wire that en' ters the bouse from behind, telling the firemen throughout the city that they are wanted, and where. His name is Electricity, and his house Is called a fire-alarm telegraph-box. So you will see that I am writing something more real than a fairy-story, although the facts I have to relate are about a kind of giants and dwarfs St. Xicholas M"nth- ......... . A Cillsaase af Old Philadelphia. There was very little stir of any sort In the village. We find a curious ac count of it written by one Gabriel Thomas soon after his landing. There were thirty carts in it the only vehi cles excepting Penn's calash. Laboring men were paid three tunes as much as in England, Gabriel himself having to pay two shillings for a pair of boots. omen s wages ne writes down as most exorbitant from 5 to 10 per annum." I hey had the game in their own hands, as "a wench, if not paid enough, will take land and turn farmer. I here are no beggars nor olde maydes. neither Lawyers nor Doctors, with lycense to kill and make mischief." Gabriel and his fellows were wont to assemble at the Blue Anchor Tavern to gossip; aud the news, brought once in six months, had a flavor of mystery and dramatic horror lacking to the telegrams in the daily paper of a country town nowadays. The village lay on the edge of an impregnable wilderness stretch ing to the I'acinc Ocean : on tbe other side was the river, an open highway to tne sea, where KIdd and other pirates raged to and fro a- highway so open that several of their ships, bearing tbe DiacK nag, were used to winter as near the town as Cohocksink Creek, the pirates themselves,, baviug their allies in the town, and in but scant disguise. frequenting undisturbed the lower class of houses, and storing away their plunder in certain dens along the river. Chief among these was the famous Teach, or Drummond, known as Black- beard. Kidd, it was said, had intervals of humanity: Blackbeard bad none. He was, however, an educated man. gay aud reckless in his ferocity. Old portraits represent him with three brace of pistols slung over bis shoulders, and the black mane of a beard tied up with scarlet ribbons, lie played the role or gentleman on the Carolina coast success fully for a while, married into a good family, and left his fair wife presently with the information that she was one of fourteen ! Tradition gives as the first known ancestors of one or two of the proudest of Virginian and Carolinian families members of Blackbeard's gang. A visit from tbe bold buccaneer, cut lass, red ribbons, and all, sent a quake of terror through the town of Philadel phia on many a winter s day; and there was public rejoicing when news came that bis ship or rorty guns, the ljucen Anne's Hecenoe, had been captured by Maynard, or V irginia, the pirate 8 bead cut off and carried home in triumph as a grim figure-head on the conquering vessel, me skull. was made into punch-bowL bound with silver, and used for years in the Raleigh Tavern, at r llliamsburg, lrglnia. At long intervals came to the settle. meut meu of means, cadets of respecta ble families driven by persecution from England, or emigrants from the Bar Dadoes, bringing their slaves and house hold goods with them, ur these were Nicholas Wain, Samuel Carpenter, Robert Turner, and Thomas Budd. Honest Gabriel writes home with de light of their" big housen aud orchards.' The Quakers . were "good providers iheu as now. The bins and pantries of their plain houses were tilled witn sub stantial fare, not forgetting wine from the Proprietor's vineyards. When James Logan, in the old slate-roof house, or Samuel Carpenter, or acy of the three or tour village magnates, bade the others to supper, there was much setting forth of flue napery, and glitter- i . i . . i i i rf.i. . i mg jwwicr piKies viuuiiuuiieu mini uie family arms and heaped with "vension and smoakt hams," with liquor of all kinds to wash it down. People or the baser sort gathered in the Blue Anchor or Penny Pot house, and talked of the arrival of Jonathan Dickinson and his comrades, who had been wrecked on the savage Florida coast, and wandered for a vear among the cannibals. The story went that the lives of the party had been spared for the rake or Dickin son's baliv. and we may be sure the child a laughing, ruddy boy of two- was closely watched wnen ms black" nurse carried him abroad. Or : they tried to spell out the Almynack just printed by n unam Bradford, wherein the date of Noah's flood was given as "3979 years before ye Almynack, and ye rule of ye Lord Penn as 5 years be fore ye Almynack." Ihis was tbe "first practice of ye Mystery of Print ing" in tbe province, and Penn com manded Bradford peremptorily to let it be the last, "as a danger to the printer aud to the country." i Arehaata-y. Tbe Voce della Vtrita states that in the course of the excavations which are being carried on between the Fo rum and the Temple of Antoninus and raustina, at Rome, several archaeologi cal discoveries of the highest interest have been made. Among other things has been found a large fragment of the famous fasti consulares, half of which has long been in the Capitol. The frag ment newly discovered gives the series of ordinary consuls and suffetes who held omce during tbe six years between 755 and 760. This discovery is all the more important as it supplements and makes complete the fragments pos sessed by the Capitol, which gives tbe list of consuls from the year 761. The names are engraved npon a massive stone which was evidently used as tbe coping-stone of some large building; and this fact tends to confirm the theory of the archaeologists that the fasti were inscribed not npon single stones but upon the blocks of marble which were employed for the construction of the temple. Among the other discoveries is the base of an imperial statue in the Forum. The name engraved unon it is effaced, and the only inscription still legible is the date or its dedication and the name of a sub-prefect of cohorts. The presumption is that this statue was dedicated to one of those Emperor whose memory was condemned by the Senate, and whose name was effaced from ail the public buildings. Tka Ametaass as Cicero, Plutarch, and other ancient authors, have preserved the following anecdote: "Simonldes, having met with the dead body, on the highway, of a man who was a stranger to him, had it buried. As be was about to embark he dreamed that the man whom he had buried aDDeared to him and informed him that if he persisted in embarking in in is voyage be would perisn. l ms warning induced him to alter his mind and it appeared subsequently that the vessel was wrecked." Says Bernard in St. Pierre : The opinion that truth is sometimes pre sented to us during sleep prevails among all nations.' The greatest men of an tiquity believed in it, among others Alexander, Caesar, the Scipios, the two catoe. and Brutus, none or whom were weak minded men. The Old and New Testament furnishes us with numerous examples of dreams that have been realized. For myself, I need nothing neyona my own experience, and 1 bave more than once round that dreams may be warnings, giviug ns some informa tion interesting to ourselves alone, and that it Is not possible to combat or defend with reasoning things that surpass hu man reason." . Cicero (De Divin. Iib.l.) tells or a famous- dream. Two friends arrived at Megara, and lodged in different places. une oi tne two was scarcely asleep wnen he dreamed that his companion' an nounced to him, with a melancholy air, that his host had plotted to assassinate him, and entreated him to come as quick ly as possible to his succor.- Upon this, be awoke, but convinced that it wai only a dream, be went to sleep again A second time his friend appeared and conjured him to hurry, as the murderers were about to enter. Jluch disturbed he was amazed at the recurrence of his dream, and prepared to go to his friend. but reason and fatigue gained the mas tery, and he returned to bed. His friend then appeared for the third time, pale, bleeding, disfigured. "Wretch," said he. "you did not come at my en treaty! It is now over; nevertheless, revenge me. At daybreak yon will meet at the city gate a cartload of dung : stop it, and bave it unloaded; you. will find my body concealed in the centre ; inter me honorably and pursue my murderers." Such tenacity, such con sistent details allowed no hesitation. The friend arose and repaired to the gate indicated ; found the cart, stopped the driver, who was disconcerted, and on searching discovered the body of his menu. Bleealaa- atarlea. . Mr. Plater, the celebrated lutanist, or lute-player, one evening dropped asleep wnue playing, alter partaking or au un usual liberal supper. He continued to "discourse sweet niusic" correctly and tastefully until roused from his drowsy nap by the noise of his lute falling on the floor. A "reader" In a printing of fice fell asleep while reading for the correction of proof, but continued read ing down to the bottom of that page. In this case the probability is that his sleep only went to the extent of drowsi ness ; at any rate, when roued up lie could not remember the words which he had just been correctly reading. Sir John Moore during his ever memora ble retreat to Corunna, had to make forced marches night and day, as the only mode of averting capture by a vast ly larger French army; his poor tired soldiers often slept as they marched or tnaeched as they slept. A truely remarkable manifestation of somnam bulism is that which An be brought about by tbe Influence of some other person on the sleeper. External voices and sounds ean move hiui to action even when his consciousness is asleep. ur. t.arpenter and other physiologists have recorded many instances of this kind. A young naval officer, signal lieutenant to Admiral Lord Hood, at Toulon sometimes continued his anxious studies for eighteen or twenty hours at a stretch ; going to his berth and falling instantly asleep, ms mind was never- theless so far awake on one .particular subject that If a comrade whispered 'Sig nal r in his ear it roused him at once and irresistibly. A young military of- ncer voyaging witn ms regiment in a troopship displayed a tendency which the mischievous wags about him took an unfair advantageof. When be was asleep iu his berth they would whisper in his ear, giving him all the details of a duel, a shipwreck, or a battle; bis mind unconciouslv followed the narra tive, until he was roused to action by the climax, aud awoke by springing out oi oeu; iortunateiy lor society such cases are rare. Chamber's Journal. The latere aa aa Oaselet. A London paper teils the following story: "A commercial traveler journey ing through Normandy halts at a vil lage inn aud orders an omelet to be made with six eggs for bis breakfast. He is called away on business, and departs without either eating the omelet er pay ing for It. Twenty years elapsed, be fore journeying through Normandy again, he reappeared at this particular iun. Tne landlord is still alive. 'I owe you something for an omelet,' be gins the commis tvyatjeur. . 'Made with six eggs,' adds the landlord; you do. and with a vengeance!' 'Well,' pursues tne commercial traveler, 'here are 16 francs; that will be pretty good interest on the prime cost of the omelet.' Six teen francs !' repeats the aubergiste, dis dainfully, 'I want 1,000,000 francs, 12 sous, and 2 liards.' 'How so?' asks the debtor, aghast at the demand. 'Just in this wise,' answers mine host. 'Those six eggs would have produced so many chickens ; by selling those chic kens I should bave been enabled to buy two pigs; by selling so many pigs I should bave been able to buy so many cows ; thence . so many carts, horses. farms, houses, and so forth. And I in tend to sue you for 1,600,000 francs before the tribunal at Caen.' The case is duly tried, and for a while matters look dismally for the commercial trav eler; when the judge he is a Norman judge, and a very wary one inter venes. I wish,' he savs, 'to ask the plaintiff one question. Were these six eggs broken in order to make tbem into an omelet?' M hey were.' says the plain tiff. Then,' adds the judge, 'there is an end of the case. Tbe renumerative career of the eggs ceased as soon as they were put into the frying-pan. Verdict for the defendant.'" rrcctlaa-. He who frets is never the one who mends, who heals, who repairs evils; be discourages, enfeebles and too often disables those around him, who, but for the gloom and depression of his company, would do good work and keep up brave cneer. xue eltect upon a sensitive person of the mere neigh ber- bood or a rretter is indescribable. It Is to the soul what a cold, icy mist is to the body more chilling than the bit terest frost, mora dangerous than the nercest storm. And when tbe fretter is one who is beloved, whose nearness of relation to as makes bis fretting even at the weather seem almost like a personal reproach to ns, then the misery of it becomes indeed insupportable. Our Vumo Animals. A man in Northampton County J Pa., has contracted to ship 75,000 school slates to Japan. Trartlrd Dog. The captain of a Xa- nani boat has bne. enrly dog. which never misses making a trip with his master if he can help it. He likes the bustle and little excitement of getting underway, and going on shore again, as well aa old sailors love tbe sea. He is quiet sociable, and well acquainted with the regular passengers. They know his peculiarities, and be knows some of theirs. If he dues not regular ly "beg" he is still sharp enough to "hang round'' those who are rather lib erally disposed. He generally gets his penny or live-cent piece, and tnen on be bounds to the retreenmenc tame. and lays it out in cakes aa orderly as a boy. He would scorn to eat it oil the floor, like a dog that ban never been taught good manners. He hunts nn bis master and puts the cakes in his band, and then stands by decorously and eats it, piece by piece, aa it is bro- iten on lor mm. Another smart Yankee dog has taste for visiting. He goes down to the depot and steps aboard the train, with out the customary little ceremony at tbe ticket-office ; and when he reaches tbe right town he bounds oil' and nays a visit to some family friend of liis master, lie never makes a mistake about the town or the train, and is such One, intelligent fellow, he always meets with a welcome. He usually spends two or three days on his trips, and no doubt picks up considerable dog lore in his travels. 1 do not know whether the miirhtier dog shows him any particular attention on his retnrn, but he is on good terms with them all Presbyterian. JUmnrrtahle Ilahits. Nearly all the disagreeable habits which people take up come at nrst from mere accident or want of thought. Ihey might easily be. dropped but they are persisted in until tliev become second nature. Srnn and think before yon allow yourself to torm them, l here are disagreeable habits of body, like scon Hug. winking. twisting the mouth, biting tbe nails. continually picKing at something, twirling a key or fumbling at a chain, drumming with the fingers, screwing and twisting a chair, or whatever you can lay your uauds on. I'on t do any of these things. Learn to sit quietly. like a gentleman, I was going to say, but I am afraid even girl fall into such tricks sometimes. There are much worse habits than these, to be sure: but we arestteaking only of very little things that are only annoying when they are persisted in. There are habits ot speech also, sncb as begin ning every sneeeh with "von bp'' or you know," "now-a," "I don't care," "fAll VA What: " foil V nnur ' In.lia.in utterance. sliarD nasal tones, a slow drawl, avoid them ail. Stop and think what you wish to sav. and then let every word drop from your lips just as smooth and perfect as a new silver coin. Have a care about yonr ways of sitting aud standing and walking. Be fore yon know it. von will find yonr habits bave hardened into a coat ot mail that yon cannot get rid of without a terrible effort. Little Corporal. Hie Stork. The stork ia a rom&rlrn. We bird. In Germany the stork lives n the marshes and low grounds, where t can find Dlcntv of from anil amull fishes : on these it feeds. The stork is a welcome bird where- ever it visits ; for it is useful in de stroying the noxious reptiles that might do harm. The white stork approaches the dwellings of man without fear. In Holland and Germany, the stork is so well treated, that it returns every year to the nut where it was born. The winter is ihismnI hv tli ornrfr in the more genial climate of Asia, and in the northern part of Africa. Kmri.t es pecially. Those who have seen these birds in the act of migrating speak of men- nnmoers as very large. When Dr. Shaw was traveling over .uount larmel, be saw the annual mi gration of those storks which had quit. ted tgypt ; and he states that each of these Hocks was half a mile in breadth, and occupied three hours in passing i er. Lse, not Abuse. Do yon tliiuk that man could not contrive some way by which the animals could lie made use ful to bnu without outraging their na tnral attections. Why, if a man sbonld give no deeper thought to the subject than was re quired for the improvement of a sewing-machine, the way would soon be clear of all obstacles. After all. if this could not be done, we have no right to the animals at all. 1 know that it was once supposed tiie earth and all it contained was made especially for man. But science has discovered that there are millions of creatures who enjoy life on this earth wtthout the least reference to man. A very meagre living man would get, both in regard to food and labor, with out animals. If, then, they are so ne cessary to our comfort and happiness, why not take particular cognizance of theirs I Wlt'tpping the Sea. You've heard about Xerxes f Of course you have; every history scholar that comes into my field to study talks about Xerxes of old, and his great armies. Well, I heard a yery queer story about this same Xerxes the other day picked ont of one of the big books, you know. In one of his wars he wanted his soldiers to cross a piece of water a mile wide. So be caused a bridg of boats to be made. But before his men had crossed, a storm came up and destroyed the bridge ; whereupon this brave general Hew into a passion, like a little boy, and ordered the sea to be whipped with three hundred lashes, and a set of fet ters cast into it, to punish it for its dis respectful conduct! Dear, dear! I'm told the little waves are sobbing on the beach to this day. c-'f . Skhola fur Ajtril. TUehttle Herotne of Bloomington Illi nois. The world's history is full of lit tle heroines tiny Joaus of Arc : baby brave-hearts, whose prowess makes the sweetest stories in the volume of daring deeds. But in all tbe list we think there never was an act more tho roughly brave than the following: A little German girl, Kosa Cottenuan, aged ten years, of Bloommgton, Illi nois, lately stood in tbe way of an in furiated cow while she put four or five smaller children overa fence. Her clothing was neatly torn from her. and she was very badly bruised, but the mayor and oolice force, aa thv descended from the lamp-posts and telegraph-poles, were loud in praise of her courage. A bright little three year old in Hart ford Conn., having become a littl niixed between her religious instruc tion and her nursery rh met, gravelv recites: "The Lord is t lie shepherd", and be lost his sheep, aud dou't know where to find tlieui." "Horn old are you T" asked a railroad conductor of a little girl, whom her mother was trviug to Dans on a half ticket. "1 m twelve at home, but in the cars I'm only six and a half." 'Home is the place for boys." said Sninks tn his eldest nride and inr. yl" said tha Tnmretwr. Hntifnllv fcI like to stay at home all tbe time, but ma sends me to school." BTWS H B2HT Minnesota boasts of millions of grasshoppers already. Iowa has Just decided through her Legislature, to do without local option. The estimated cost of running the Alientown, Pa., Iron Works is $800,000 per year. Dr. Linderman approve the pro posed site for the Western Mint, at Co lumbus, O. There are estimated to: be over 5, 000 daily and weekly newspapers pub lished in the United States. Ton can travel 1,700,000,000 miles on a Massachusetts railroad before it will be your turn to be killed. . Miss Stratum ascended Mont Blanc on the 31st of January last, when the temperature was 23 degrees below zero. Professor Murray, of Rutgers Col lege, has resigned to become the Super intendent of Public Instruction in Ja pan.' A New York farmer expects to sell 2000 worth of horse-radish this year. That's greater than most farmers ex pect. John Tyler, a son of the president of that name, proposes to run for governor of Florida upon an indepen dent ticket. Montana has taken an immense number of buffalo skins this season. The buffalo will soon become as extinct as tbe dodo. Bartholomew county. Ind.. contains four villages named respectively Crack- away, Possumglory, Kooncreek and llaruscrabble. An old lady died the other day in Alexandria, Va. surrounded by her pets five dogs, two pigeons, half-a-dozen hens, and a cat. The New York Legislature has killed a bill prohibiting the employ ment of women in linuor saloons, gar dens or any place where liquor is sold. Philadelphia announces that she will have next summer, in her boarding-houses and hotels, accomodations for three hundred and seventy thousaud persous. Captain Ostrom. of the Cornell University crew, is training eight oars men and a coxswain in view of a possi- ble contest with an English crew next summer. Gov. Tilden, at the request of the common council of Albany, has con sented to sit for his portrait, to be placed in the common council chamber of that city. Of the one hundred and seventeen women now studying at the Michigan University, four have chosen law. forty seven medicine, and fifty-six literature ana science. President MeCosh at theoneningof the 129th year of Princeten college said that during the seven years of his pres idency, gifts to the amount of $1,2.j0, 000 were received. A monument to the late Vice Presi dent Wilson by the regular army is pro posed. Company D 16th Infantry, stationed at Humboldt, Tenn., has raised 30 for the purpose. Liberia has withdrawn her annro- priation for securing representation at the Centennial Exhibition on account of the expenses of the war in which she has become involved. General Sehenck sars he Is ready and anxious to answer all charges against him, and that the press of the country has been infamously and mali ciously false toward him. The XT. S. Snnreme court decides that the law levying a tax on passen gers arriving at the port of New York is unconstitutional. The decision ot the court below is reversed. The Fredericksburg Herald has found a lottery ticket signed by George Washington. That's the kind of a man who now comes forward and asks the country to buy him a monumeut. Senator-elect Beck, of Kentucky, will be the arbitrator on the part of Virginia on the Maryland-Virginia Boundary-line Com mission, in place of ex Governor Graham, of North Caro lina deceased. The Shelby (Ky.) Sentinel says: Whisky, less than thirty years ago, cost but 22 cent- a gallon It seems lifce a heartless, hollow mockery to boast that the Centennial year shows won derful national progress. Messrs. Cockerell Jk Co., the great London coal merchants, bave set apart one of the offices at their wharf where lady clerks are employed to manage the accounts. The hours are from 'J to 6o'clock, and the salary a guinea a week. Th& is done as au experiment. Recently thirty-one estimates of the cotton crop of the current year, made by cotton dealers of Augusta, Ga., were received and consolidated at the Au gusta exchange, when the average proved to be 4,406,060 bales. The high est was 4,600,000; the lowest 4,200,000. There were literally more persons killed and injured each year in Massa chusetts 30 years ago through accideuta to stage-coaches than there are now through accidents to railroad trains. Such is the conclusion of Mr. Charles Francis Adam in the February Atlan tic. James Parton has been remarried in New York to his step-daughter, such marriages being legal in that state. Par ton was 34 when he married Fanny Fern, then aged 45. He is now 34 aud marries Fanny Fern's daughter, aged 40. The whole thing is a general aver age. Walnut logs are in such demand that a man who recently purchased a farm of 250 acres near New Albany. Indiana, for $10,000 received an offer of $9,600 for 120 large walnut trees grow ing on the place. There are also on the farm over 200 poplars, worth from $20 to $30 per tree. It seems to be a pretty well estab lished fact that the ministry is one of the most physically wholesome of occu pations. Of the 173 Congregational clergymen who died last year, eight were over eighty years old, and only six under forty. The average age was over sixty four years. One farmer in Georgia last year planted fourteen acres in sugar cane ; lie saved fully three acres of seed, and had the remainder ground up and made into syrup, which yielded him about 2,300 gallons. This he sold at 65 cents per gallon, realizing the bansoine sum of $l,4t3 from eleven acres of ground. Seven Chief Justices have occupied the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States: John Jay, six years; John Rutledge, a part of a year; Oliver Ellsworth, five years; John Marshall thirty-five years; Roger B. Taney twenty-eight years; Salmon P. Chase, ten years ; and Morrison R. Waite, ap pointed in 1874. Rollins and Co., bankers, of New York, announce that they have institu ted a suit against James Gordon Ben nett, proprietor of the New York Herald in behalf of Mr. G. M. Rollins, senior of the firm, for libel in a recent publi cation by that paper. Damages are claimed in the sum of one hundred thousand dollars. if
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