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B. F. SCHWEIER,
. u .. m v -!i- THE CONSTITUTION THI CKIOH-JLND Tfll XOTORQKaflST OF THI LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
TOL. XXX.
, MIETINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.. MAY 17. 1876.
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Such aa of yore, on Autumn eventide.
Home bleat boj-poet oaroU'd and thea died.
Kay, 1 hare aung too long.
Say, ah&Il I flinj
A aigb to Beauty at her window-pane ?
I Bang there onoe, might I not onoa again ?
Or tell me whom to aing.
The peer of Feere ?
Lord of the wealth that give hia time employ
Time to posses, but hardly to enjoy
He cannot need my teara.
The man of mind.
Or print, who darken what ia clear aa day ?
I cannot iug them, yet I will not amy
Bach guide are wholly blind.
The Orator?
He quiet lie where yon fresh hillock heave ;
Twere well to sprinkle there those lanrel-leaTea
He won bat never wore.
Or shall I twine
A Cypres ? Wreath of glory and of gli
To march a gallant soldier to hia doom,
Need fuller voice than mine..
No lay have U
No marmnred measure meet for tout delishL
No aoug of Lore and Death, to make you quite
forget that we moat die.
Something is wrong
The world is over-wise ; or, more'a the pity,
; -These day are far too busy far a ditty.
Vet take it take my Song.
THE ADVOCATE'S RIGHT BOWER.
It may be asked what we mean by
putting a "right bower" in such con
nection.
It was Judge Lurlington 's own esV
pression.
Half a dozen young lawyers, fresh
from their studies, and just admitted to
the bar, were listening to his advice.
The old jurist had a bottle of wine at
his elbow, and was in a comrnnnieative
mood.
"Young men," he said, "whatever
may be your strait, never take a case
before a jury, or before any court, un
less von have your right bower for a
head"."
If the reader surmises from this that
the old judge was fond of euchre, he
will not have surmised amiss.
The young men looked at him in
quiringly. "I mean," he added, that you shall
never advocate a cause Into the work of
which you cannot enter with a clear
conscience. You shall never accept a
client whose cause you do not believe to
be just,"
"Can that rule be always adhered to?
aVed one of the listeners.
"It can," answered Lurlington em
phatically. It is a lawyer's firm rock
of foundation, and the only sure point
of dejiarture to the respect and confi
dence of his fellows."
"Have you always followed that rule,
judge?"
'I was never tempted from it but
once," he replied. 1 will tell you the
story, if you would like to hear it."
Of course they would like to; and
having laid aside his pipe, the old man
commenced :
"i ne day I was waited upon by a man
who gave his name as Laban Sarfurt.
He was of middle age, well dressed and
at first sight appeared to be a gentle
man; but the illusion was dispelled
when approaching business. lie was
hard and unfeeling, and naturally a
villain. Success in speculation had
saved him from being a thief or a high
wayman. I beard of him as a heavy
dealer in the up-river land. He asked
me if I was willing to undertake a job
which would call me to Shlreton. I
told liini I was open to anything legiti
mate which would pay."
'Mr. Lurlington," said he, tapping
me with coarse familiarity upon the
arm, "1 want to secure your services.
You must not be engaged ou the other
side."
"I told him if he would explain the
case 1 might be better able to give liim
an answer." He bit an enormous quid
of tobacco from a black plug, and, hav
ing got it Into shape between his jaws,
he went on with his story.
"The case was one of ejectment. An
elderly man named Philip Acton, had
died, leaving a valuable estate. There
was nearly a thousand acres of land,
with opportunities for developing im
mense water-power, and ere many years
that land would be worth more than a
million dollars. At present upon the
estate, and claiming it as son of the de
ceased, was a man calling himseir r u
liam Acton."
"But," said Sarfurt, "he is not a le
gitimate child at all. His mother was
Betsy Totwood, at one time a girl in
Acton's employ. Acton 1 know was
never married. He brought the boy up
and educated him, and now the fellow
thinks he will step into his protector's
shoes. 1 can prove that I am the only
living relative of Philip Acton. He was
my uncle my mother s orotner ana,
to a lawver as smart as you, mere can
ite no diillcultv in proving my title. I
can bring the wituess to your hand.
"He told me he would give me live
hundred dollars if I would undertake
his case, and an additional thousand if
1 gained. This was a big ree far more
than I iiad then made in all my plead
ing. It was tempting. And yet I saw
that it was not yet perfectly clear not
entirely honest. The probability was
that this William Acton was Philip's
child : and it was not impossible that
Philin had married Betsy Totwood. It
struck me that Laban Sarfurt was a vil
lain, and that be fancied he had young
Acton so far in his power that he could
eject him from the title. But what bad
1 particularly to do with that ? If I ac
cepted a client, I must serve him. I
had no business but to serve his inter
est. I finally told Mr. Sarfurt that I
would think the matter over, I should
probably have business in Shireton
during the session of the court, and I
would call on him there and examine
more fully. I could not take his re
tainer until I had further light,"
"But," said he, "will yon promise
not to take up for the other side t"
"I told him I would do nothing with
out further consultation with him."
"Because," he added, "if you are for
me 1 am sure to win. Acton can't find
a lawyer that can bold a candle to you.
1 know tlieni all."
"Xo matter whether I believed him
or not I did not feel flattered.
"Two weeks later I received a letter
from Sarfurt, promising me five thou
sand dollars if I won.
"The five thousand dollars is a strong
argument. Was not law really a game
of chance, in which the strongest hand
and longest purse must win r I told
myself yes. Yes and I sat down and
wrote a replv, saying that I would take
the case. But I did not mall it at once.
That night I put it under my pillow,
and slept over it; and on the following
morning I threw it into the fire. 1
would not make up my mind until I
had seen other parties until I had been
on the grounds. And I wrote to Laban
Sarfurt to wait."
"T wo weeks later I harnessed my
horse to the wagon, and with my wife
and child, started for Shire ton. -'I' had
been married two years and our little
Darje, a girl, was a year old, our pride,
our pet, and our darling. Shireton was
a distance of about thirty miles. We
bad been having rainy weather for
week or so and it bad now cleared off
bright and beautiful. We stopped and
took dinner at a wayside inn, four
miles beyond which was a stream which
must be forded. The innkeeper told
me that the stream was somewhat swol
len from the late rains, but that if my
horse was trusty there could be no
danger."
"Arrived at the stream the Wampa-
iuck river--l round the water indeed
risen, and the current strong, but I saw
that others bad recently gone over, and
I resolved to venture. 1 knew my horse
and had faith in him. My wife was
anxious, but she trusted my judgment.
A third of the way across the water was
over the hub of the wheels. -A little
more and it would have reached the
body of the wagon. I began to be
alarmed; I feared I had left the true
track. . Presently my horse stumbled
and staggered, having-evidently stepped
upon a moving stone. The wagon
swayed and tipped, and the flood poured
in upon ns. My wife slipped, and In a
moment more we were iu the water.
With one hand I grasped the harness
upon the Dorse, and with the other
held my wife. J was thus struggling
when a wild cry from her lips startled
the air. Our child was washed away,
"Uh, my soul : I cannot tell you
what I suffered during those moments.
I could not help our darling. If I left
my wife she was lost. I clung to the
horse and clung to my shrieking wife
shrieking to God for mercy lor ner
child. The borse was struggling for
the shore. In the distance upon the
Wnni nf fit A s n r ipi i rr fl.-wl T MklllH BOA
our little one, her wuite dress gleaming
In the sun. being borne swiftly away.
A moment more and I saw a man
plunge from the bank into the river. I
saw this much and then an intervening
point of land shut out the scene. The
horse was now rapidly nearing the
shore, aud ere long my wife and 1 were
upon dry land, with the horse and
wagon. As soon as I was sure my wife
was sate 1 lelt her to care lor tne norse
while I posted off down the river bank
in quest of the swimmer aud the child.
iou may well understand that all
this time I was frantic I was a machine
being operated upoa by a surging and
agonizing emotion. How long or how
lar I wandered l ao not know, out at
length I met a man, wet and dripping
with my darling in his arms my darl
ing safe and sound. He toll that he
had caught the child within a few rods
of the falls, and that in landing be had
cleared the fatal abyss by not more than
two yards. He was a young man not
more than twenty-hve handsome and
stalwart. He said he had seen my
wagon tip. and was coming to my as
sistance when he saw the child washed
away. 'I threw my life into the bal
ance, said he with a genial smile, 'and
thank God ! both the lives were saved !'
"I aked him how I should ever re
pay him. He stopped me with an im
ploring gesture.
It yon talk of more pav than I have
already received,' he said, 'If you . cau
rob me of the only solid reward l can
claim, mercy ! if saving the life of such
a cherub is not enough of reward in It
self, then hard is the heart that can
crave more.' And with moistened eyes
he told me that be had a child of his
own at home an only child of nearly
the same age.
"I asked him if he would tell me his
name. Y itn a smile, lie answered that
bis name did not matter lie was-not
sure that he had a name. I then a-:ked
him if he knew me. He nodded, and
said be thought I might be Mr. Lur
lington, of Waldbridge. When I told
him that be was correct he said that I
must excuse him. He was wet and
must hurry home. And with that he
turned away. I was too deeply moved
to stop him, and when he had disap
peared I started to rejoin my wife with
a dawning impression that the man
might be slightly deranged, ifut my
darling was safe her broad fleecy cloak
had floated out aud kept her head aoove
water and I went on my way rejoic
ing, resolved that the preserver of my
child should not be forgotton,
"I will not tell you of the emotion of
my wife when she held her child once
more in her arms. W e reached Shireton
before night and found quarters at a
comfortable tavern.
"On the following day Laban Sarfurt
called upon me and was about to spread
his evidence for my inspection, when I
interrupted him. I told him I could
not accept bis confidence until I had
made up my mind to take his case in
hand. Something seemed to- whisper
that there was danger ahead. I did not
feel comfortable in that man's presence.
I felt as though he was trying to buy
me. The court would sit in four days.
I told him I would give him a final an
swer in two days from that.
"That evening I made a confidant of
ray wife, and asked her what I should
do. 'If I take the case,' I said, I am
sure of five thousand dollars.' She bade
me do what was right. 'God has been
very kind to us,' she said. 'Let us look
to him for our guidance.'
"After this I called on the clergyman
of the place, whose son had been my
classmate in college, and whom I bad
once before visited . He received me
heartily, and by and by I asked him
about William Acton. 'The result of all
be told may be summed up in his clos
ing sentence. Said he : ,
" 'I am sure William Acton was
Philip Acton's child in fact, I know it
and I think the father and . mother
were married. Betsey died very soon
soon after her child was born, and we
know that Philip always treated the
boy as a legitimate child ; and that he
loved him as such I cau confidently af
firm.' "
"On the following morning after
breakfast, as I sat by the window in the
bar-room I saw, coming up the street,
the man who had saved my child. He
was walking slowly like one in trouble.
I pointed him out to my host, and asked
him who he was.
"That is, William Acton. Perhaps
you have heard of the trouble he is
likely to have with Laban Sarfurt. ;
"I said I bad heard.
"I hope he may come out all ' right,
but the host added ; but I am fearful.
He has got a hard and heartless cus
tomer to deal with. -
"I shut my mouth and held my peace
until Laban Sarfurt called for his . an
swer. 1 said to mm:
"Mr. Sarfurt, I have beeu consider
ing all this time whether 1 could under
take vour case with a clear conscience
whether I should be helping the side
of justice and right in helping you. 1
had concluded mat I could not uoso De
fore 1 bad seen William Acton, to know
him by name. I now know him for a
man who nobly risked his own life to
save the life of my child. For that deed
I will reward him if I can. I have as
vet accepted not one of your private
disclosures, I have gained from you
nothing which you could wish- to Keep
from the public. I can not take your.
case, but I tell you frankly, that, if you ;
prosecute, 1 wm oeienu vtituam -acton."
v '
"I did not mind Sarfurt' wrath. He
raved, and swore, and stamped, and
then he went off and engaged two. law
yers irom Herkimer to take ills case. 1
called upon Acton and told him I wonld
defend him if be accepted, my ; service'
as I had accepted his. He took my hand
and thanked me.
, "I have made a great many pleas in
my life, but I think I never made a bet
ter one than I made to that jury on that
occasion, l ney were out not over nve
minutes. By their verdict William Ac
ton was the lawful possessor of the es
tate his father had left. '
"From that day I never hesitated to
refuse a case to which I could not give
my heart. Such a stand on the part of
a lawyer becomes known, and the pub
lic feels it; and what the public feels
juries are bound to feel.
"Concerning Mliam Acton I will
only add that he became my bosom
friend, ne always felt that he owed
his valuable property tome; and I knew
that I not only owed the life of. my
child to him, but that to him I was in
debted for the home that was mine for
30 years. He was very delicate in the
gift of that piece of property. He deeded
it to mv wife. The husband of my old
est daughter la his oldest son."
Philadelphia (jankers sued Tertes.
It is a curious study to note in these
records of the last century, especially in
nestcett's invaluable' lit tor of Phila
delphia, which is a most vivid panorama
of the past, drawn with a Flemish min
uteness and accuracy, how the disagree
ment with the mother country, begin
ning with a murmur of discontent in
the outer business circles, angry talk in
counting-rooms and club-houses, scarce
heard In domestic life, rose suddenly
into the storm that racked the little
colony to its foundations, and brought
ruin aud death close to every home and
every woman and child. The Penn
sylvania Assembly acted tardily in re
senting the passage of the Stamp Act.
.Massachusetts and Irginia flamed with
indignation for months before ' the
placid Quaker town saw fit to join
them. When, however, the Royal Char
lotte, having on board the stamped
papers, hove in sight, all the shins in
the Philadelphia harbor dropped their
flags to half-mast, and all the bells were
tolled as for the death of Liberty. Com
mittees waited daily on Hughes, the
Stamn ttnttit dAmamlinfv hia Mulifn,.
Hon ; but he wisely kept himself in bed,
as at the point of death, and so shunted
the popular abuse on to Franklin in
Lngland, who was his friend, and, it
was supposed, the friend of the Stamp
Act. . The newspapers came out next
day in mourning for their own ap
proaching demise, Bradford's Juurwil
bearing a death's-head and coffin, and
the words, "The Penntylrania Journal
departed this life October 31, 1765, of a
stamp in her vitals. Aged twenty-three
years."
The history of Philadelphia for the
next three years is the history of an ex
ceptionally temperate, prudent commu
nity, slowly rousing Into a temperate,
prudent resistance to injustice. If they
were more tardy than any other colony
in this resistance, it must be remem
bered that the injustice touched them
less keenly. They had always been
ruled, in effect, not by England, but by
the Penns and the Governors appointed
by the i'enns; and although there was
an incessant squaoDle going on between
the irovlnce and the .Proprietaries, the
rule had been easy and just, and Phila
delphia knew that It bad beeu so. There
can be no doubt that her leading men
were drawn with extreme reluctance
into the violent separation from ' the
mother conutry. the Ouakers threw
their full dead-weight of inertia against
the revol Jtlonarv movements of Massa
chusetts and Virginia radicals, for
which we can scarcely blame them.
They had come here to find not only
religious liberty, but a chance to rise
socially and politically, and had gamed
all they sought. They were firmly
seated on the soil, and were the ruling
power. They were asked now to en
gage in a bloody war, which their
principles forbade, to give up an author
ity which they had used with wisdom
and justice, and to give it up into the
hands of people alien to themselves in
belief, habits, and education. Men who
were not Friends, but were associated
nth the proprietary government, and
the great shipping merchants, to whom
a prolonged war with Great Britain
threatened ruin, were, from evident
reasons, anxious to temporize, to use all
placable means before resorting to the
sword, when, indeed, they did not
openly take sides, as was often the case,
witn tne mother country. -
Apart from these, there were, how
ever, enough men of force of character
and broad political apprehension to
carry Philadelphia, at least nominally,
to tne side or the vt nigs; and soon after,
when she became the chief point of the
struggle (simply because she was the
most central and important town of the
colonies), the sudden influx of the
leaders of the Kevolution officers and
men who crowded into the capital to
make money or to spend it pushed the
Quaker-class and Tory families tempo
rarily to the wall. During the time
when Philadelphia claims historic im
portance, her old rulers, with few ex
ceptions, yielded their place to strangers.
Jlarjier't M'Hjnzinf for -Way.
Thackeray sad His meads.
Thackeray was the only, man upon
the 1'unck staff with whom Mark Le
mon was not upon thoroughly easy
terms. "I never felt quite at home wita
him." he said to me during one of oar
numerous gossips, "he was always ao
infernally wise. He was genial ; but
whatever yon talked about, yon felt
that be would have the wisest views
upon the subject. He seemed too great
for ordinary conversation. Now Dick
ens was very different. ' He was full of
fun, merry aDd wise, buoyant with ani
mal spirits. I always, however, liked
Thackeray, in addition to other rea
sons, because be liked Dickens, and
never showed a spark of jealousy about
his work, which lie always openly and
honestly admired. He read "Dombey
and Son" each month with avidity.
When the fifth number appeared con
taining the death of little Dombey,
Thackeray with the part in his pocket,
went down to the Punch office and
startled Mark Lemon by suddenly lay
ing it before him and exclaiming.
"There ! read that. There is no writing
against such power as this no one has
a chance. Read the description of
young Paul's death, it is unsurpassed,
it is stupendous !" Douglass Jerrold
used to say, 1 have known i nackeray
eighteen yean, and don't know him
yet." , . . . i . ; i
Veatllstiea r Ballread t'rs.
The Railroad Gasette says! "Several
years ago our attention was called to
the tact tnat uy raisin? me ena winuow
of a car in front of the stove, and put
tin a- the blind down, a plentiful supply
of fresh air wonld enter under ordinary
circumstances, and that the enrrent of
cold air would be directed upward by
the inclination of the slats of the blind.
so that on entering it wonld mingle
with the hot air which ascends around
the atove. and thus the enrrent of cold
air would not produce any discomfort.
and, in fact, be imperceptible to pas
sengers. We therefore recommend the
printing of a card with the following
inscription : "To Ventilate the Cars
Raise the front window next to the
stove and let down the ouna."
BelaUaar
Aalasals.
Birds as
Certain traditions relating to birds
and beasta are only explicable on the
supposition that tlicv were once ob
jects of divination or worship. - The
old Germans we know from Tacitus
nsed white horses, as the Roman
used chickens, for purposes of augury
and divined future events from diner
ent intonations of neighing. Hence
it probably is that the discovery of a
horse-shoe ia so universally thought
lucky, some oi the feelings still sur
viving round the iron of its hoof. For
horses, like does or birds, were invari
ably accredited with a greater insight
into futurity than man himself; and
the many superstitions connected with,
the flight or voice of birds resolve
themselves into fancy, not inconceiv
able among men surrounded on all
sides by unintelligible tongues, that
birds were the bearers ot messages and
warnings to men, which skill and ob
servation might bone to ; interpret.
Why is the robin's life and nest sacred.
and why does an injury to either bring
aoout bloody milk, lightning or rain T
ihe Christian legend says that it ex
tracted a thorn from the crown of
Christ, or that it daily bears to bell a
drop of water to put but the flame, and
accounts in either way for the red dye
on its breast. ' Bnt this ia evidently
media? val floss to some heathen be
lief, like the reason of the nnluckiness
of the magpie, that it would not enter
the ark, but sat jabbering outside over
the drowned world : or like the idea of
the aspen still trembling at the part it
piayed in the cruciiixion.
It has been suggested that the robin
on account of its color, was once sa
cred to Thor. the god of lightainir: vet
is it not possible that its red breast
singled it out tor worship from among
birds, just as its red berries the rowan
from among trees lomt before worship
ers had arrived at any ideas of abstract
divinities. All over the world there is
a desire for thinirs red. In the Hieh
lands women tie some red thread round
the cow's tails before turning them out
to crass in spring, and the red silk
round their own Auger to keep off the
witches; and just as in r.sthonia moth
ers put some red thread in their ba
bies cradles, so in China they tie some
round their children s wrists and teach
them to regard red as one of the best
known safeguards against evil spirits.
indeed, one ot the eti let lessons of com
parative folk lore is a caution against
tne tueory wnicn deduces popular tra
ditions from Aryan or other mytho
logy.
We have already alluded to the fact
that in parts of China the same feel
ings prevail abont the swallow as in
England and Germany. But there are
yet other analogies between the Last
and Vest. A crowing hen is an object
ot universal dislike in Knttanny, and
tew famines in i tuna will Keep a crow
ing hen. 1 be owl s voice is ominous
of death or other calamity in Lneland
and Germany, as it was in Greece (ex
cept at Athens ;) but in tne Celestial
Lmpire it presaires death anil is regar
ded as the bird which calls for the
soul. And the crow also is in China a
bird of ill-omen. Is it not. therefore.
likely that its popular fancies about
birds and animals have began in the
same way among the same or different
races of the clone and were suuse
auently adopted bat never originated
by mythology T May it not be that cer
tain birds or animals became promi
nent in mythology because they had
already become prominentin tradition,
rather than that they became promi
nent in tradition, because they previ
ously had been prominent in mytholo
gy. For instance, instead of tracing a
dog s howling as a death omen to an
Aryan belief that the dog guided the
soul from its earthly tenement to its
abode in heaven, may we not suppose
that the myth arose from . an already
existing omen, and that the latter
arose, as omens still do. from a coinci
dence which suggested a connection
subsequently sustained by superficial
observations f The St. Switliin fallacy,
which arose within historical memory
and still holds its ground in an age of
scientific observation, well illnstates
how one striking coincidence may grow
into a lielief, which no amount of later
evidence can weaken or destroy. Jast
so, u it happened that a dog howled
just before some calamity befell our
Aryan forefathers, thousands and
thousands of years ago, long before
iney nai attained to any inougnc ot
soul or heaven, we can well imagine
that the dog which already betokened
death, should, when they came to
frame the myth, be conceived as the
guide which was waiting for the soul
to take it to heaven, and might survive
to the latest ages. It, at all events.
militates against the exclusively Aryan
nature of the belief, end exemplifies
the extraordinary coincidence of ideas
among different people, that the Es
quimaux lay a dog's head by the grave
of a child, for the soul of a dog can
find its way everywhere, and will show
the ignorant babe to the land of souls."
Uornhill JJagazint.
Taie Cenkery a Bmrd Swedish
ttleaasera.
Here, as at other porta where the
steamer stayed any time, the towns
people flocked on board to dine or sup,
or, at any rate, to drink punch. The
deck was covered with little groups
ma it ma: tne most oi tne opportunity,
before' the ringing of the steamer's
bell relegated them to the quiet and
uneventful life of a northern town, till
the arrival of the next week's steamer
would give them another chance of
more varied fare than was to be ob
tained on shore. The cookery on board
Swedish steamers is generally excel
lent, and all the arrangements are so
good that one is not surprised that the
residents should be eager to taste of
the pleasures of a dinner on shipboard.
The dining-saloon in the Lulea was
placed forward, and quite apart from
the cabins, and this is usually the case
in Swedish steamers. No smell of din
ner can penetrate to your berth, while
the dining-saloon is nearly always well
aired, with none of that sickly, greasy
smell which in an English steamer re
pels the passenger who is not very sure
of bis equilibrium. At one end of the
saloon a table was spread, with nume
rous little dishes containing anchovies,
tongue, salmon, radishes, &c, flanked
by two bottles of spirits.' and a larire
array of glasses. This brauointbord, as
it is called, is the initial stage of a
Swedish dinner, and is supposed to
give an appetite; and although the
fresh sea-air might have been sup
posed a sufficient preparative, the or
thodox commencement was never
omitted, and seemed efficacious. After
the guests have helped themselves to a
selection of morsels, which they eat
standing, the regular dinner begins,
and often proceeds without regard to
what we consider the established order
of things. Blaeberry soup was some
times the first course, followed by
meat, which in its turn was succeeded
by fish. Breakfast and supper were
equally substantial meals, and at the
former beer was generally taken, some
times even by ladies. One morning,
on board of a Swedish steamer, when
our numbers had been thinned by a
suggestive swell, we watched with
wonder and awe a delicate-lookina
young lady breakfasting. She began
with rye-bread covered with raw sal
mon, smoked reindeer tongue, and cu-'
cumber, accompanied by a good glass
of beer: she then called for a cup of
coffee, bat as it came her feelings
proved too much for her. and she has
tily quitted the cabin. In the Summer
months,' however, rough weather is
seldom met with in the Gulf of Bothi-
rradttlaaa
na, and the coarse of the 'steamers is
so much under shelter of the land that
the enjoyment of the voyage is rarely
spoiled by sea-sickness, and the stran
ger- may pursue his experiments in
sweaian dietary without fear of conse
qnences. l rater t Magazine.
, Schiller's Aeoeaa.
' Goethe aud Schiller worked co-opera
tively under tne influence of their kind
friend, Duke Karl August, in Weimer,
and Inland was creating a new school
in Mannheim. It ' was there that
Schiller's "Robbers" first saw the light
or day, and that llflland. In the char
after of Moor, achieved a triumph which
revolutionized the entire theatre. The
public was frantic with excitement and
Schiller woke up the next morning to
find . himself a great man. n hen he
heard of the enormous success of his
play, he escaped from the tyranny of
rnnce Charles' school, and walked
from Stuttgart to Mannheim in mid
winter In a light Summer suit. When
there he handed bis second play, "Love
and Intrigue." to the management. In
tendant von Dahlberg appointed the
three stage managers, beaded by Wolf,
to hear it read by the author. After
the reading of the second act they all
shook their heads,, and Wolf took
Schiller aside and asked whether be
was sure that he was the man who had
written the "Robbers." Schiller looked
at him with large eyes, and upon Wolfs
explanation that he could hardly credit
that the author of the "Robbers" could
be guilty of such trash as he had just
now read, "is it really so bad?
Schiller asked with a deep sigh. "Very
Dad indeed, tierr sctulier; but if you
win leave the manuscript with me
will read the other acts, and see whether
anything can be done with iu". Early
next morning Schiller was roused from
slumber in his miserable garret by loud
Knocking, and on opening tne door,
Wolf flew into his arms, exclaiming.
"Schiller, that s a great play of yours
it was your confounded feuablan accent
that spoiled It all." Poor Schiller! He
was very fond of reading, and, it la
said, intended once to enter the profes
sion, a step from which he was only
prevented by his friends, who showed
him the utter impossibility of success
with such an accent. Frau von Kalb. a
great friend of his, tells the following
story oi mm. ite usually gave ner
everything to peruse before he placed
it in the hands of the printers. One day
he read a couple of acts of "Don Carlos
to her. In the middle of his reading
she burst out laughing, with the ex
clamation, "Schiller, that's the worst
thing you have ever written." In dis
gust he threw the manuscript on the
Moor and lelt the room. She took it up
read It herself, and was in ecstacy. "It
was that awful Schwaebische accent.
Xacmilan't Mamizin.
lew the Oyster Bailds his Shell.
Mr. Frank Buckland.who conveys
instruction more agreeably than any
naturalist of the day, thus explains the
manner in which the oyster bailds his
shell, l he body of an oyster is a poor.
weak thing, apparently incapable of
doing anything at all. Yet what a
marvellous house an oyster builds
around his delicate frame. When an
oyster is first born he is a very simple,
delicate dot, as it were, and yet he is
bora with bis two shells upon him.
For some unknown reason he always
fixes himself on bis round shell, never
by his nat shell, and being once hied
he begins to grow but he only grows
in summer. Inspect an oyster shell
closely, and it will be seen that it is
marked with distinct lines. As the
rings we observe in the section of the
trunk of a tree denote years of growth,
so do the markings on an oyster tell ns
how many years he has passed in his
oed ' at the bottom ot the sea.
Suppose the oyster under inspection
was born jane !, he would go on
crowing up to the first line we see well
marked ; he would then stop for the
winter. In scnimer. 171, he would
more than double his size. In 1873 he
would again add to his house. In 1873
and 1874 he would again go on bnil
ding, till he was- dredged op in the
middle of bis work in 18 j ; so that he
is plainly hveanda half years old.
1 he way in which an oyster grows
his shell is a pretty sight. I have
watched it frequently. The beard of
an oyster is not only his breathing or
gan, l. e., his longs, but also his feed'
ng organ, by which be conveys the
food to his complicated mouth with
its four lips. When the warm, calm
days of June come, the oyster opens
us sueu, ana uy means oi nis heard
begins building an additional story to
bis bouse. This he doea by depositing
very, very fine particles of carbonate
of lime, till at last they form a sab
stance as thin as silver paper, and ex
ceedingly fragile. Then he adds more
and more, till at last the new shell is
as hard as the old shell. When oys
ters are growing their shells they must
oe handled very carefully, as the new
growth of shell will cut like broken
glass, and a wound on the finger from
an oyster shell is often very poisonous.
Be Eeasa!eal.
Take care of the pennies. Look well
to your spending. Ao matter what
comes in, if more goes out. you will
always be poor. The art is not in mak
ing money, but in keeping it. Little
expenses, like mice in a barn, when
they are many make great waste. Hair
by hair, heads get bald ; straw by straw
the thatch goes off the cottage, and drop
by drop the rain comes into the Cham
her. A barrel is soon empty, if the tap
leaks but a drop a minute. hen you
mean to save, begin with your mouth ;
many thieves pass down the red lane,
The ale jug is a great waste. In all
other things keep within compass.
Never stretch your legs further than
your blankets will reach or you will
soon be cold. In clothes choose suitable
and lasting stuff, and not tawdry finer
ies. To be warm is the main thing,
never mind tne looks. A fool may
make money; but it takes a wise man
to spend it, Kemember, it is easier to
build two chimnies than to keep one
going, if you give an to Dack and
board there is nothing left for the sav-
ngs bank, rare hard and work hard
when you are young, and you will have
a chance to rest when you are old.
BeltXew.
Don't live a single hour of your life
without doing exactly what is to be done
in it, and going straight through it from
beginning to end. Work, play, study,
whatever it is take hold at once, and
finish it up squarely and cleanly; and
then to the next thing, without letting
any moments drop out between. It
is wonderful to see bow many hours
these nromnt neonle contrive to male nf
a day ; it is as if they picked up the mo
ments that the dawdlers lost. And if
ever yon find yourself where you have
so many things pressing upon you that
you hardly know how to begin, let me
tell you a secret; take hold of the very
nrst one that comes to band, and you
will find the rest all fall Into file and
follow after like a company of well
drilled soldiers, and though work may
be bard to meet when it charges in a
squad, it is easily vanquished if you
can bring it into line. You may have
often seen the anecdote of the man who
was asked how he accomplished so
much in his life. "My father taught
me," was the reply, "when I bad any
thing to do, to go and do it," There is
the secret the magic word now. -
Wtae Brlaklaa; la Fraaee.
Mr. Hamerton, in "Notes of Rural
Life ia France," comments as follows
on winednnkusr:
The wine drunk during meals is al
ways some cheap rt ordinaire. An
Englishman wonders at first how rich
people can be induced to drink such
poor wine at all : bat. after some ex
perience he discovers that, n'a ordiaair
is one oi tuose common tnings wnicn
are better in their place than more ex
pensive things, just as bread is better
for constant use than plumcake. I here
are, however, very different qualities
ot ns orainaire, ana tne skin ot the
master of the house is never put to
more serious test than in the choice of
this common wine, the merit of which
is not to bear a distant resemblance to
bom nn. but to keep the appetite alive
(60s rt cloys it) and to bear mixture
with water. A good vim ordinaire is
not preferred to a higher class of wine
simply from economy. If the two were
at the same price, the indieious French
man would choose an ordinaire for use
until hanger was satisfied. A bottle of
better wine is always produced at or
before dessert if there is a guest, but
this ia ' generally omitted when the
family is alone, unless there ia some
excuse for the indulgence, soch as
birthday, a fete day or the return of a
member ot the family from a distance.
In summer white wine is often served
at dejeuner and drank with seltzer wa
ter, with which it makes a verr re
freshing beverage, perhaps only too
stimulating to the appetite. Coffee is
hardly ever omitted after dejeuner, even
in the most economical families it is
generally excellent, though not invari
ably. In houses where care is taken
about coffee, it is roasted in very small
quantities at a time ana very moder
ately. The burnt, black coffee of the
caret is only ht for peasants at a fair
the true connoisseur despises it and
takes the greatest precautions to se
cure the unspoiled aroma. It is very
probable that there may be some natu
ral connection between the wine and
the coffee, the wine seems to call for
the coffee and perhaps physiologists
may know the reason. 1 be wine drunk
varies from half a bottle to a bottle
each meal for each man : ladies drink
less, and seldom go beyond the half
bottle, in hotels a bottle is the retra-
lar allowance. Men often drink their
wine pure, but ladies never do, except
a little at the end of the repast. 1 he
quantity of wine drunk in France
sometimes appears excessive to modern
r-ngusnmen. though it would not nave
astonished the contemporaries of She
ridan and Pitt, while Americans ra
ther suspect von of a tendency to in
temperance if you drink anything bat
iced water during meals. I have never
perceived that a Frenchman was less
solier after his bottle of ria ordinaire.
nor is there any reason to believe that
it injnres his health or shortens his ex
istence : but if he drinks much wine at
meals he oneht to abstain rigorously
from drinking between meals, and the
wisest r renchmen are often very se
vere with themselves on this point. 1
knew several whom nothing wonld in
duce to infringe their rule and who
never enter a
Straaare Nalaral Clsaeraa.
In the rough granite country back
from Mossamedes, on the west const of
Africa, are some very remarkable natu
ral cisterns, the country itself is pe
culiar, huge single rocks rising out of
tne nearly level plain In some places.
and in others hills of rock, in several of
which deposits of water are found at the
very top. A receut traveler visited one
of these, and describes It as a natural
tana: with a narrow entrance, contain
ing some three or four hundred gallons
of exquisitely clear and cool water. It
was covered by vast slabs of granite.
from which the rain drained into it
during the rainy season, shading the
water so that It could not be seen with
out a torch, and so protecting it that
the sun cannot evaporate it during the
try season, ihus a bountiful store of
excellent water is preserved while
there is not a drop to be had elsewhere
for miles.
A still more remarkable cistern of
this sort is that of the Pedra Grande, or
Big Stone, some thirty miles from Mos
samedes, a huge rounded mass of gran
ite rising out 01 tne sandy plain, on
the smooth side of this work, twenty
or thirty feet above the plain, is a cir
cular pit about ten feet deep and six
feet across. The rainfall on the rock
above the pit drains into it. filling it
completely every rainy season. The
walls of the pit which is shaped like a
crucible, narrowing gently to the bot
tom are perfectly smooth and regular.
the enclosing granite being of the clo
sest and hardest description. Tho cis
tern win hold several thousands gal
lons of water. Near by are smaller
pits of similar character. Their forma
tion is unexplained. The water of this
strange well furnishes the natives and
travelers with an abundant supply dur
ing tne dry season; consequently it is a
uoieu naiung place.
I-earalaa; te Play aa laatraaieat.
Experience goes to show that the boy
or girl who learns to play apon some
musical instrument has provided him
self with that which will be in many
ways a source of pleasure and profit in
after years. As a means of self enter
tainment, the ability to play passably
well upon flute. vloliu.or guitar, servues
to Drnige over many a lenesome honr.
to drive away many an insidious temp
tation to wrong doing, and furnishes a
constant element of culture to the youth
of either sex. In addition to these there
are many indirect advantagesthe re
straint which music and Its associations
afford in keeping boys from bad com
pany and questionable places of resort,
while the aid which it gives in making
eur young men and ladies agreeable in
society, with other advantages, unite to
make the cultivation of musical talent
eminently desirable. Let the parents
encourage the musical faculty whenever
it is manifested, and Instead of looking
upon the time and money thus spent as
wasted, do everything In their power
to develope the musical talent and facul-
les of their children. It is true that
there are few cases in which any re
markable musical talent will be brought
to light, but it is less musical talent than
general musical cultivation that is de
sinable, and this cultivation is best se
cured by making musicians of as many
of the people as possible. Besides it
must be remembered that all work and
no play does not elicit the highest or
best possible results, and that no recre
ation brightens and stimulates the intel
lectual faculties like music. Encourage
the children not only to sing, but to
play, and they will in after years appre
ciate the kindness and forethought
hich have aided them in forming
their musical tastes.
Hahit.
Like flakes of snow, that fall nnner.
ceived noon the earth, the seemingly
unimportant events of life succeed
one another. As the snow gathers to
gether so are our habits formed. n
single flake that is added to the pile
produces a sensible change. No single
action creates, however it may exhibit.
a man 8 character, pat as Uhi tempest
hurls the avalanche down the moun
tain and overwhelms the inhabitant
and his habitation, ao passion, acting
apon the elements of mischief which
pernicious habits have brought toge
ther by imperceptible accumulation,
may overthrow the edifice of tr"th and
virtue.
TOITH'S COLl l.
Stick to your Bwih. Mr. Morgan was
a rich, and also a good man. The peo
ple of the town respected him, sent
him to Parliament, and seldom under
took anything without asking his ad
vice. If a school house was to be built,
the- plan had to be talked over with
him. Widow P asked him what
she should plant in her field, farmer
8 always got his advice in buying
cattle, and Mrs. K consulted him
abont bringing up her boys-
When asked how he was' so snrcss-
ful. Mr. Morgan said: "I will tell yon
how it was. ne day. when I was a
lad, a party of boys and girls were go
ing toadistant pasture to pick whortle
berries. 1 wanted to go with them,
bat was fearful that my father would
ot let me. When I told him what was
going on, and he at once gave me per
mission to go with them. 1 could hard
ly contain myself for joy, and rushed
into the kitchen and got a big basket,
and asked mother for a luncheon. 1
bad the basket on my arm. and was
just going out of the gate, when my
rather called me back, tie took nolo
of my band, and said, in a very gentle
voice: 'Joseph, what are yon going for,
to pick berries or to play T To pick
berries,' I replied. "Then. Joseph,
want to tell you one thing. It is this
When you find a pretty good bush, do
not leave it to find a better one. The
other boys and girls will run about.
picking a little here and a little there,
wasting a great deal of time, and not
getting many hemes. If yon do as
they do. you will come home with an
empty basket. If you want berries,
stick to your bush.'
I went with the party, and we had a
capital time. But it was just as my
father said. No sooner had one found
a good bush than he called to the rest,
and they left their several places and
ran off' to the new-found treasure. Not
content more than a minnte or two in
one place, they ram bled over the whole
pasture, got very tired, and at night
had but very few berries. My father's
words kept ringing in my ears, and 1
'stuck to my bush.' When I had done
with one. I found another, and finished
that : then J took another. Wheo
night came, I had a large basketful
of nice berries, more than all the
others pat together, and was not half
so tired as they were. I went home
happy. But when I entered I found
my lataer had been taken ill. lie
looked at my basketful of ripe, black
berries, and said. 'Well done, Joseph.
Was it not just as I told yon T Always
stick to your bush.'
"He died a few days after, and I had
to make my way in the world as best I
could. But my father's words sunk
deep into my mind, and I never forgot
the experience of the whortleberry par
ty 1 'stack to my bush.' When I had
fair place, and was doing tolerably
well, I did not leave it and spend weeks
and months in finding one a little bet
ter. ben other young men said :
'Come with us, and we will make a
ortune in a few weeks,' I shook my
head and 'stuck to my bush.' Present
ly my employers offered to take me in
to business with them. I stayed with
the old house until the principals died.
and then 1 bad everything I wanted.
The habit of sticking to my business
led people to trust me, and gave me a
character. I owe all 1 have and am to
this motto 'Stick to your bush."
Moore' t llural Sew Yorker.
Robhie't Red Avvle. One day Robbie
was visiting his cousin. Thev went to
a neighboring farmhouse, and the kind
people gave them permission to go in
to the orchard aud get some ripe ap
ples to eat. The trees were bending
with fruit, and underneath their laden
boughs were many mellow apples fal
len to the ground. Some were yellow.
some rosy-cheeked, and some were red
all over. A few were very large, and
others quite Small.
Robbie looked around, trying to find
very nice one. He wasn't satisfied
with those that seemed "fair to midd
ling," bat wanted a very good one in
deed.' Presently he chose one. It was
one of the largest and reddest a fine
apple to look at. But apples were
made to eat. itobbie took a bite of his
beautiful one, and found its looks were
great deal better than its taste. It
was not sweet or thoroughly ripened.
and it was bard and coarse-grained be
sides. Many apples, lying close at
band, though but half as large and not
half so pretty as tins one, were ten
times better, for they were mellow.
sweet and juicy. . .
Robbie showed a little of the unwise
and selfish side of the heart, which is
too common in the world. He was
fond of size and show; he judged from
outward appearance, and so made a
very poor choice.
The great and showy thiols of life.
and the bright and glittering things of
the world, are not alwavs what they
seem. Fine clothes and big purses do
not- make good, wise people. Such
things are like the rind of Robbie's red
apple merely outside show that de
ceives the thoughtless. Keal merit
does not love to deck itself in showy
gaio. -
Answer Them. Parents rnn the risk
of losing the love of their children who
put aside their trivial questions as of
no - consequence. An interrogation
noint Rvniltolizea tho life nf rhililluuwl.
'Why" aud "What" are the keys with
wuicn 11 untucks lue treasury 01 lie
world. The boy's numberless ques
tions often seem trivial, bat the wise
parent will never turn them off unan
swered, if he can help it. It is his rich
opportunity of teaching. He is met
bait way, and there is all the difference
between impressing truth on an eager
mind and an uninterested one. T he
little fellow helping you at your work
and peltingyou with endless questions,
may learn as much in a half-hour
there as in a week when his body is a
prisoner in the school-room, aud his
thoughts are oat of dotrs.
Cleaning Floor with Oranaes. That's
shocking, isn't it T But, then, they
have more of them than we do, for it is
in Jamaica that they make scrubbing
brushes of oranges, and you may be
sure it's true, because Mr. Gosse saw
them do it. The floor was of hard,
polished wood, and. before the family
were out of bed. two or three colored
servants scrubbed over the whole of it
with sour oranges cat in half. When
the jnice was rubbed out of one piece,
they would take another, and so they
used up a big trayf ul of them. A po
lish was put on by rubbing with cocoa
nut husk, and the floor looked as if it
had been waxed. 1st. jV ichotas.
The motto fcr the week on a little
girl's Sunday-school card was, "Get
thee behind me, Satan." 1 here were
gooseberries in the garden, but she
was forbidden to pluck them pluck
them she did. "Why did not yon."
said the mother, "when you were
tempted to touch them, say. "Get thee
behind me. Satan' f" "I did," she said,
earnestly, "and he got right behind me
and pushed me in the bash !"
Stewed Lobster or Crab. Take out
all the meat from two lobsters ; cut in
squares; add three ounces of butter;
half tablespoonful mustard ; same of
vinegar; a teaspoonful mixed salt and
pepper, and a pinch of cayenne, and a
little boiling water. Simmer all to
gether ten minutes. Serve with sliced
Iemon( Crabs can be prepared in the
same way.
H1WS HI BRUT.
The Scotch herring fisheries earn
7.000,000 yearly. .
There are 10,33C American exhibi
tors enrolled for the Centennial.
' The New York Seventh regiment
armory fund has reached $7tf,545.
Australia exported, in 1S75, gold
dust to the amount of $ 13,880,525.
Potatoes are quoted at 16 cents a
bushel at Girard, Erie county, Pa.
There are over lli.OOQ soldiers buried
in the Xational Cemetery at Vicksburg.
Corporal punishment in the girls
grammar schools of Boston has been
prohibited. .
' The grain exports of San Francisco
during the last nine mouths amounted
in value to $13,479,3in.
Treasurer New has finally agreed
to retain his ottice until June 30 the end
of the present fiscal year.
Lotta the actress, has engaged the
Palmer cottage, ou Bellevue- avenue at
Newport, K. 1., for the season.
Miss Pillow of Memphis, has just
married. It is to be hoped her husband
will not find her a Piliow-sham. .
It is stated that the Grangers of the
United States have over 18,000,000 in
vested in their various enterprises.
Hundreds of bags of pulverized
grasshoppers are being imported in
trance from Ameriea for fish-bait.
Robert Lincoln, son of President
Lincoln, is talked of in Illinois for Re
publican ' candidate for Secretary of
State.
The Xew York Wurld says that
Commodore Vanderbilt's wealth is es
timated at between $73,000,000 and $80
000,000. .
Nine Presidents have served iu the
Senate prior to election, but not one of
them passed directly from the Senate to
the White House.
The Nebraska Supreme Court de
cides that railroad companies are liable
for damage caused by prairie fires set
by their engines.
. Silver mines which bear traces of
having been worked by a prehistoric
rai-e, are said to have been discovered
in Mason county, Texas.
t The oldest inhabitant in Grayson
county, K'y., is Mrs. Catherine Nolly of
Grayson Springs Statiou, she being one
hundred aud six years old.
renny banks have been established
in London in connection with the pub
lic schools, and within a few months
5,2Ci children have dejwsited $.,620.
Ninety-four young women have
been graduated for doctors during the
14 years' existence of the New York
medical college aud hospital for women.
The residence of I -eland Stanford
the president of the Central Paeitiie.
railroad, at Sail Francisco, cost $1,000
000; yet the railroad is not making any
money.
Mrs. General Van (Teve and Mrs.
Winchell, of Minneapolis, have been
elected School Directors by a heavy
majority over two prominent tyrants of
that city.
Sixteen millions of dollars already
expended upon the Iloosac Tunnel and
"more to follow"! Massachusetts is
certainly paying dearly for her mam
moth project. .
The tin wed-liug of Mr. and Mrs.
John Van Kiper of Paterson, X. J., the
other evening, was notable from the
fact that both host and hostess and the
40 guests were deaf and dumb.
It seems almost incredible that this
country iosseses a man fifty-four years
old who never owed a cent to a living
soul in all his life; yet such a phenom
ena is said to really exist in Wilson, N.
C.
General Sebert Ogh'sby, who com
manded the divisiou of General Jack
son's army nearest the river at the bat
tle of New Orleans is still living in
Texas. He was one hundred years old
last February.
Dr. Emma Braiuerd Ryder, who
will be remembered as a dress-reform
missionary, has been awarded a diploma
by the New York opthalmic hospital,
which entitles her to practice optic and
aural surgery. - She is the second wo
man iu this country so authorized.
It is rumored that the Rev. Dr.
William M. Taylor, of the Broadway
Tabernacle in New York City, is to be
called to lie the pastor of the Vale Col
lege Cha-1, the pulpit of which has
not been regularly supplied since Dr.'
Daggett left it about eight years ago.
President Scott, of the Pennsylva
nia Railroad Company, aud Senator
Cameron have invited the widow of ex
President Polk to visit the Centennial
Exhibition. Should she accept the in
vitation, a sleeping car will be sent to
take her to Philadelphia, where she
will be hospitably entertained.
Mr. Dexter, of Lyons, has executed
a model elopment. He went to the
house of the married woman of whom
he was enamored, found her and her
husband in bed, waked them, and told
the woman to get up and dress herself,
and go with him, which she did, leav
ing her husband to see to the house.
The champion bankrupt henceforth
is named George T. Porter, a New
York insurance broker, who has been
thrown into bankruptcy, his schedule
showing liabilities to the amount of $40
000, and assets as follows: "Portions
of three suits of clothes and ten changes
of undergarments of unknown value.
The California legislature which
seems to be going quite extensively
into educational legislation, has passed
a bill providing that all school text
books shall remain in use at least six
years. A good many parents here
abouts who have to pay for a new set
of books every term or two, would rel
ish a law of that sort.
Dr. H. B. Wilbur, ofSyracuse finds
the asylums of England more economi
cal than our owu." In Massachusetts
our structures average $2,500 to $3,000
per patient; in Jew Jersey more than
$3,000 ; in New York $4,000 to$.",000;
winie in bngland tne highest average,
including cost of land and furniture, is
set down at $750 per patient.
The fastest clipper-ship between
New York and San Francisco is the
David Crockett. She has been sailing
that route since 1857, and the longest
trip she has ever made was 136 days in
ltt, and the shortest, 103 days In 1872.
The average voyage is 115 days for
each trip. Her old captain, John Bur
gess was washed overheard in 1874 and
lost. Since then Captain Anderson ha
commanded her.
Rabbi Gottheill, of New York who
is well informed and careful in his lan
guage, says that the Jewish population
of that city alone is over 70,000; and
the Jews are to be counted by many
thousands in all our large cities, in
cluding New Orleans, San Francisco,
Chicago, St. Louis and Cincinnati.
There has been a large immigration of
Jews to the United States from the va
rious countries of Europe during the
last twenty years; aud the prosperity
tbey have here enjoyed has enlarged
the curreut in this direction from year
to year. "
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