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A OL. XXX. MIFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.. AUGUST 2. 1876. , NO. 31.
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The shadows lie sleeping on field and bill ;
The eowa came home an hoar ago ;
Tbe bees sre lured, aod the oasts are still:
Where oan toe child be lingering so ?
Oh, where can the little laggard stay ?
So swift of foot as she ever has been.
It w not so far. by the meadow way.
To the lane where the blackberry Tines begin.
Her mother stands in the door-way there.
Shading her eyes from the setting ran.
And np and down, with an anxious air.
Looks for a trace of the tmant one.
ITas she wandered on where the swamp-flowers
blow
In the darkling wood and lost ber way ?
lias she slipped in the treacberooa bog below
That hides under mosses green and gay ?
Nay, timorous mother, spare your fears I
Your little maiden is safe the while.
No marsh bird acr ams in her atartled ears ;
No forest mazes her feet begnila.
She is only standing amid the rye.
There at the end of the clover-plain,
and polling a daisy-star, to try
Whether her tore lores back again:
And Will bends orer the bars beside.
Two beads are better than one, forsooth !-
Leaning and looking, eager-eyed.
To see if the daisy tells the troth!
ScrHmar't Monthly.
Grannie's Quilted Petticoat
BY MART K. DALLAS.
"My housekeeper is gone," said Mrs.
Cameron, '"and I actually do not know
how to fill ber place. Tbe idiot bas
married an old bachelor. lie was tbe
baker around the corner, and I never
guessed wben she was so obliging about
choosing all the pastry herself, what
was going on. I let her have ber little
girl with ber, too, aod I paid ber bigb
wages; but there's no depending on
widows. Tbey are always wild to marry
again. O, dear me !"
"My dear," said Mrs. Bonnycastle,
"I can belp you out of your dilemma.
There's Margaret Munn. If you don't
mind a child you won't mind an old
woman of ninety, and Margaret thinks
more of a home than wages. 1 11 send
her over. She's tbe beet housekeeper I
ever knew. I declare, I believe she
isn't comfortable if she can't see ber
face in everything that can be polished.
And she and Grandma Munn eat like a
couple of canaries, and grannie never
leaves ber chair, or scarcely ; and Mar
garet w ill keep ber in ber own room.
and as clean as an old wax doll. Now
do try Margaret. She will suit you to
perfection."
And the result of tbe conversation
was that Mrs. Cameron did 6ee Mar
garet Munn. and fiuding ber a nice,
tidy young woman, with an obliging
manner and an aptitude for housekeep
ing, engaged ber at once in tbe place of
the recreant widow who bad betrayed
her confidence by marrying tbe baker.
Margaret Munn took ber place in Mrs.
Morton's house one Monday morning.
She brought grannie with ber, and ten
minutes after Mrs. Cameron found the
old lady bolt upright in an arm chair
in the housekeeper's room, with ber
knitting, a gray worsted stocking, In
her hand.
She bad a cap with fluted ruffles on
her head and an apron with fluted ruffles
about ber wrists, and a cape, with a
fluted ruffle about it, on her shoulders.
She rose when Mrs. Cameron came
in, and said, "My duty to you, ma'am,"
and sat down again and went on knit
ting, like a machine that had been
wound up for the speech and was run
down again.
"Grannie won't be any trouble to
anyone," said Margaret, not lowering
her voice at all, for grannie was as deaf
as a post. "She always does exactly as
I ask ber all but one thing. She's 90,
and I don't like to be harsh with her;
so that one thing is a little anxiety to
me. She's my great-grandmother.
ma'am, and she was a beauty in ber
day, they tell me. She's not so very
ugly now."
"Tbe very prettiest old lady I ever
caw," said Mrs. Cameron. "Such nice
white hair and baby blue eyes. But
what is the thing that troubles you,
Margaret?"
"If you please, ma'am, I'd better not
speak of it just now, perhaps," said
Margaret. "It's only a little matter of
dress, ma'am."
"Oh," said Mrs. Cameron, "she looks
like a picture now."
And then the talk about pantries and
store closets, pickle jars and potato bar
rels, and the last housekeeper's ways
and rules began.
"I don't want to be bothered about
anything,! said Mrs. Cameron, after
this was over. "I am not strong, and I
go a great deal into society, ana I have
such a dislike to having a lady's maid
about me that I never keep one. I do
all my own dressing and that sort of
thing, and Mr. Cameron likes me to do
him credit. So I am very busy. You
tee I must have some one that I can
trust implicitly."
"Yes, ma-am," said Margaret, "and
I hope I shall suit you. Ill try my
best."
"I am sure you will," said Mrs. Cam
eron, and went away, well satisfied
with her housekeeper.
In the course of ber afternoon calls
she met Mrs. Bonny castle, and told ber
w hat Margaret had said about Grannie.
"Oh, I know all about that," said
Mrs. BounycasUe. "Margaret used to
be my seamstress once, before we broke
up housekeeping. She told me all. It's
Granule's quilted petticoat,"
"Grannie's quilted petticoat!" re
peated Mrs. Cameron.
"Yes," said Mrs. Bonnycastle. "You
know, or w ill know soon, that Margaret
is painfully neat. All the better for a
hired housekeeper, of course, and Gran
nie's undergarments and her own, look
just as their aprons do, marvelously
white. Just think of tbe trouble It
must be to Margaret, then, that Grannie
will wear ber quilted petticoat, ten
years old this month, without allowing
it to be changed ? It's been worn out
ten times over, but she always patches
it and nuts it on again. It's a mass of
patches of all colors, and tbe old soul
will not part with it. When Margaret
tries to steal it away, the cries aloud
use a DS.D7. sue gars she will never
give it up. It is a yery funny object
Margaret coaxed ber to show it to me
one day. She held up her gown a little
way and said :
"It's not to old and worn as Maggie
thinks. I keep it mended neat, ma'am ;
and I think a deal of it, I no. Let
Maggie wear the new one herself; this
mis wtu last me out."
"But Margaret takes it so to heart
that tbe cries over it."
Mrs. Cameron laughed over the story,
Grannie's quilt would never trouble
ber, at Margaret said. It was nothing
dui a joae to any one but Margaret.
Time passed on. Weeks, days, months
three of them. Margaret still re
mained housekeeper at Mr. Cameron's.
Grannie still sat knitting endless relays
of blue stocks at the housekeeper's fire
side, an i tbe bouse was a model of neat
ness. Never bad the door-bell and
plate glittered, or the stair-rods shim
mered in tbe sun as they did now. As
for dust, the bouse knew it not; but
despite this, Mrs. Cameron began to
speak coldly of her housekeeper, and to
wear an expression of face that Mrs.
Bonnycastl could not account for wben
that lady mentioned her.
"Aren't you suited with Margaret?
she asked outright, at last. And Mrs.
Cameron replied
A more perfect housekeeper never
lived, but, nevertheless, I'm very much
afraid I shall have to dismiss her toon.
Margaret Munn, I am beginning to be
lieve, has one very bad habit."
"She surely don't drink er take
opium," cried Mrs. Bounvcastie. "She
can't"
"My dear Mrs. ltonuycasilc," said
Mrs. Cameron, "if Margaret is really
withrttt the babit I suspect her of, I
shall be sorry I have allowed the idea
to enter my mind. If she is much ad
dicted to it as I suppose, why then you
must know it soon. Pardon me, if for
the young woman's sake, I do not men
tion my suspicions more definitely just
yet."
Mrs. Bonnycastle went borne greatly
bewildered ; but ber curiosity did not
prey upon her mind very long. The
very next day she received a note from
Mrs. Cameron, which ran thus:
Dear Mas. Bonntcastls: The time
has come when I can plainly mention
Margaret's bad babit, without doing
ber any injustice. Will you lunch with
me at 2 o'clock to-day t
Fbakces Cavebox.
Two o'clock found Mrs. Bonnycastle
at Mrs. Cameron's door. It was opened
by the man servant, who showed Mrs.
Bonnycastle directly to Mrs. Cameron's
boudoir.
The door was locked. Mrs. Cameron
herself opened it a very little to let
Mrs. Bonnycastle in; and as soon as
she bad crossed the sill that lady saw
Margaret Munn standing with her
handkerchief to her eyes, sobbing as if
her heart would break.
You may go now, Margaret," said
Mrs. Cameron.
Oh, dear! Oh, dear!" sobbed Mar
garet. "What an unhappy woman I
am, to be sure I There never was such
injustice done to any one. I'd liever
die than steal I would, indeed I'd
liever die. Mrs. Bonnycastle you don't
believe it of me?"
"Believe that you would be dishon
est? No, Indeed, Maggie," said Mrs.
Bonnycastle; and at the door closed
behind ber humble friend, she turned a
questioning and indignant face upon
quiet Mrs. Cameron.
My dear," said the lady, "sit down,
I beg of you. Don't be distressed. Let
me take your bat and shawl. I am very
sorry, but it can't be helped. I wrote
that I could now explain to you what
Margaret's bad habit was. I will now
do so. Yesterday I should say that it
was pilfering; now I must tell you it
was theft."
You might as well accuse me as
Margaret," cried Mrs. Bonnycastle.
"Listen, if you please, to my expla
nation before you blame me," said Mrs.
Cameron. "From the first day of Mar
garet's arrival I have misted little arti
cles; now an old cuff, now another,
now a linen collar, a tidy from a chair,
an old necktie, buttons, odds and ends,
you know; nothing valuable. My wo
men servants have all been with me for
years. 1 took poor mamma's House
hold, you know. Tbe men never come
up stairs. These little losses never oc
curred to me before. I made up my
mind after a while that Margaret was
at tbe bottom of it all; but, at first, I
was really not sure but that she in ber
neatness bad tucked them out of sight.
"At last 1 lest a lace collar worth fif
teen dollars. I gave a thorough search
and made inquiry. It waa not to be
found. A mouth later a very valuable
lace bar be vanished. I spoke a little
suspiciously to Margaret about this,
and the showed no discomposure. I
could not accuse ber; but on Monday
my pearl bracelet disappeared under
circumstances that leave no doubt in
my mind of Margaret's guilt.
"We hold family worship every morn
ing, you know. All the servants, be
ing of our own religion, are present.
Margaret, holding a different faith, does
not present herself. It was at this time
the bracelet disappeared. I laid it upon
my cushion before I ran down to break
fast. Wben I went into my room again
it was gone. Margaret was the only
person in the upper part of the bouse
besides ber grandmother."
Some stranger bas stolen it. Any
sneak thief, any tramp, might do it,
but Margaret never would," said Mrs.
Bonnycastle.
"My dear," said Mrs. Cameron, "be
fore I took any active measures, I called
on Mrs. Coulter, with whom Margaret
lived just as she does with me Grannie
and all before she came here, and I
asked ber plainly why she did not keep
h r. At first the refused to tell, men
I told her my suspicions. It will sur
prise you to bear that the then con
fessed to having lost to many things,
that tbe alto lost ber faith in Margaret.
So there is a policeman down stairs,
and Margaret's trunks are to be searched
and, unless abe makes confession, I
shall not let ber off so easily, lor sne is
the wont hypocrite I ever met."
I wont listen any longer," cnea
I'd trust Margaret
with untold gold. One of your dear
old servants has done it, of course, and
you suspect the stranger. I'll go to
Margaret." .
Suddenly she stopped. A wail rang
through the bouse an awful cry. Mrs.
Cameron caught Mrs. Bonnycastle by
tbe arm.
"People only scream that way over
tbe dead," she said. "What Is It?
Where Is It?"
Tbey rushed to the door. In the ball
they met the servant. The policemen
also hurried up stairs. The cry had
come from the housekeeper's room, and
thither they ail made their way. It
was Margaret's voice that they had
beard, and there In her arm tat tbe
cause; Grannie in ber ruffled cap and
apron, with ber knitting in her band,
but stone dead.
"She was all I had to love!" wailed
Margaret; "all! all! all!"
There was nothing more said of the
robbery that day, Mrs. Cameron was
overcome by the incident and fainted,
as she always did when startled. Mrs.
Bonnycastle remained with Margaret.
Tbe old woman's form was stretched
upon a bed, and a doctor sent for. She
had simply died of old age. Nothing
ailed her besides that.
For a long while Margaret sat and
wept. At last she rose and bolted the
door,
"kou are so kind to me, ma am," she
said looking at Mrs. Bonnycastle, with
teanul eyes. "1 think you'll he re
warded for it hereafter. You don't be
lieve the things tbey say, I know. Poor
old Grannie. I'm so glad the didn't
know. .And I ought to nerve myself a
little. I must save her from disgrace
anyhow, She was always sweet aud
clean, only that dreadful qui) of hers;
and I'll get it off and hide it before tbey
see her. It's a duty to both of us, for 1
did my best to keep her tidy, only she
begged to wear that patch."
And Margaret, busy about the solemn
figure on the bed, amidst fast falling
tears, drew off the many patched petti
coat. She sat down on the floor wben
it was in her hands, and sobbed aloud.
"We don't know bow we'll feel when
people are gone," she said. "How
angry I've been about this. Feel the
lumps in it, Mrs. Bonnycastle. I fear
it hurt tbe poor dear. There's some
thing bard in it like stones. I can't
guess what it is."
Suddenly she gave a little scream.
She had ripited aw ay a roi'gb flannel
patch.
"Look! look!" she cried; and Mrs.
Bonnycastle looked and saw, stitched
against the original material quite cov
ered a moment before by the patch,
something that glittered.
"It's the pearl bracelet !" cried Mar
garet; "Oh, wbat shall I do?"
What Mrs. Bonnycastle did was to
call Mrs. Cameron, and tbe three wo
men together ripped up the poor patched
quilt, In it, carefully basted and cov
ered over, were the pilfering of years
the things that Mrs. Cameron had
lost the things that Mrs. Coulter had
lost articles of Margaret's own prop
erty long missing. The petticoat was a
perfect store bouse, and it was plain
that Grannie Munn had, in ber years
of childishness, become a confirmed
kleptomaniac stealing without tbe
least expectation of making any use of
what she stole.
The discovery saved Margaret's char
acter fur honesty, of course, and she
lives with Mrs. Cameron as housekeeper
to this day. No one thought of blam
ing the old . woman, w ho bad been as
honest at the sun in ber young days.
And Margaret still treasures a small
odd looking bundle, of which no one
could discover the meaning, as a de
votee would some precious relic. She
never shows it to any one, and she often
cries over it. "It is more like her, after
all, than anything else," she would tell
you, were you in ber confidence. "It
is all that is left of poor old grannie's
quilt."
The
CsttriBMl MlBdlais; Other
resBl1! Besliess,
A very powerful cause of the ineffi
cient execution of justice In society is,
that government perpetually forgets its
supreme function, in the pursuit of
other ends. It attempts to do so many
things that It does nothing well, aud
sacrifices the very object for which it
was instituted, In the attempt to accom
plish others which It bad no business
to undertake. Instead of confining it
self vigorously to establishing justice
in all tbe relations of society, and then
allowing the widest liberty of indi
vidual action aod enterprise, it meddles
with everything and everybody, inter
fering, checking and restraining, where
it should let things alone, and under
taking to play tbe part of Providence
in coutrolliug the whole course of hti
man interests. Justice is thus not only
neglected, but injustice it wrought in
all directions, so that government at
last becomes the Instrument and partner
of tbe great agencies of oppression and
wrong-doing in society. Popular Sci
ence Monthly.
ladwstry.
Independently of the wealth, influ
ence and greatness wnicn industry
gains for us, it carries along with it an
other great advantage it it condusive
to tbe preservation of health. AH things
in nature are preserved in their native
purity and perfection, in their sweet
nest and In their luster, by motion ; but
when resting, theytecome corrupted
or defiled. The air, wben it U fanned
by breezes, is pure and wholesome; but
when Inactive, it it thick and putrid.
Metals, when in use, are smooth and
sparkling; but, wben laid by, tbey con
tract rust. The soil, when tilled, yields
corn ; but, when fallow, It Is overgrown
with weeds aud thistles. In fact every
thing in nature it preserved in its
proper condition by constant agitation.
So the mental and bodily faculties of
man, when in constant exercise, are
preserved and improved ; but when nn
employed, they become dull and heavy,
at It tbey had contracted rust. By in
dustry alone, then, do we preserve our
health aod perfect our natures.
Xlagara Falls has been recom-
mendedby Archbishop Lynch of To
ronto at a place of religious pilgrimage.
J Mr. Bonny-castle.
The as ef Syr.
We publish the following account ot
a fight between a mouse and a scorpion
recently given by Mr. Frank Buckland
the celebrated naturalist:
"In February, 1868, 1 received a box
by post containing two live scorpions,
kindly presented to me by my friend
the late lamented S. Keast Lord, who
had caught them under a stone at Heli-
opolis, in Egypt. Wishing to test the
power of the scorpion's sting, I got a
glass globe and turned in one of the
scorpions. A mouse having been caught
in the trap, I thought I might just as
well let the scorpion try his powers
upon it at tbe cat. I therefore shook
the mouse into the glass with the scor
pion. Tbe scorpion, an average-sued
one. Immediately resisted the affront ;
and the mouse, who had never evidently
seen a scorpion before, did not know
whether he was his friend or hisenemy.
Not liking the continued jumping of
the mouse, tbe scorpion twisted and be
gan brandishing about bis sting. The
mouse shortly crossed bis path. Tbe
scorpion instantly lunged his sting Into
him. This challeuge woke up tbe mouse.
who began to jump up and down like
jack in tbe box. When be became quiet,
tbe scorpion again attacked the enemy,
with bis claws extended like the pic-
tures of the scorpion in the zodiac. Be
made another shot at the mouse, but
missed him. I then called 'Time!' to
give both combatants a rest. Wben the
mouse had got his wind, I stirred up
tbe scorpion once more, and, as 'the
fancy' say, 'he came up smiling. The
mouse during the interval bad evidently
made up his mind that be would have
to fight, and not strike his colors to a
scorpion as he would to a cat. When,
therefore, the scorpion came within
range, the mouse gave a squeak and bit
him on the back; the scorpion at tbe
same moment planted bis sting well
between the mouse's ears on the top of
his head. The scorpion then tried to
retreat, but could not, for one claw had
got entangled in the fur of the mouse,
Tbe mouse and scorpion then closed,
and rolled over each other like two cats
fighting, the scorpion continually stab
bing the mouse with his sting, his tail
going with the velocity of a needle in a
sewing machine. When the scorpion
got tired, the mouse got hold of his tail
with his teeth and gave it a sharp nip.
The mouse seized the opportunity, and
immediately bit oil two of thescorpion's
side legs. lie then retired, and began
to wash his face. I bad expected, of
course, that the poison of the scorpion
would have killed the mouse, but he
didn't seem a bit the worse for it. When
I examined him the next morning, he
was quite lively and well;' and bad
nearly eaten up the whole scorpion for
his breakfast. Of course I rewarded
the mouse for his plucky conduct by
giving him some milk, and by letting
him go in a place where it was uot
likely the cat could find him.
"Scorpions are inhabitants of hot cli
mates; they live among stones, logs of
wood, etc., in such places, in fact, as
those inhabited in England by wood
lice aud centipedes,' etc. They are said
to attain the length of twelve inches in
Batavia; and along the Gold Coast, I
have heard (but hardly believe it) they
are found as big as a good sized lobster;
the general size is about three inches
long. It not unfrequently happens that
scorpions are brought to England in
timber ships, etc., aud I have received
more than one scorpion thus brought
over."
Am EBft-llsh tleeerstlea.
The Registrar General has published
a very interesting supplement to his
thirty-fifth annual report, in which he
estimates tbe march of an English gen
eration through life. He starts with
the assumed fact that 1,000,000 children
are born, and of these lie informs us
that 511,745 would be boys and 488 253
would be gills. This disproportion of
the sexes is, however, very speedily
redressed, for the evils with which the
infants of a household struggle in their
cradles are far more fatal to boys than
to girls. Tbe most fatal five years In
the generation is that when tbey are
entirely dependent on careless nurses
or ignorant mothers, for one in every
four of the whole million born, or 141,
387 of the boys and 121,705 of tbe girls,
will die before they are five years old.
Tbe millions thus reduced to 736,818
will now hare got a fair start in life.
The next five years the deaths are few,
and they are fewest of all in the third
five years, that between the ages of ten
and fifteen. This full growth of child
hood seems to be the healthiest period
in the whole life of a generation, but
somewhat more so for boys than for
girls. Then follow five years of greater
change and somewhat more liability to
disease and death. This liability is still
further increased in the next five years
by consumption and other ailments in
cident to the period wben growth has
ceased. But in this whole march of
twenty years through childhood and
youth, our million, which was decima
ted twice over in tbe five years of baby
hood, loses but 102,773 of its number,
and an army of young men and women
in almost equal proportions, and C34,
045 In total strength, marches over the
dividing line of the first quarter of a
century. During tbe next ten years
less than one in ten of the whole wil'
die, and there will still be 568,993 living
at five-and-thlrty years of age, wben
two-thirds of the women will be mar
ried. The next ten years will be more
fatal than the last, and ot those who
saw five-and-tbirty no fewer than 66,
078 w ill fail to reach forty-five, and of
the million who started only 2915 over
half a million will attain that period of
life. From that point the rise of the
death-rate at each decade is terrible;
62,052 died between 25 and 35; the num
ber increased to 66,078 between 35 and
45; but between 45 and 55 the number
of deaths rises to 81,800; and from 65 to
65 another 1 12,086 have fallen away.
The number who set out over the next
reach of years, and make a fair start for
the three-score yean and ten, Is 309,029.
The march for tbe next ten years is a
Balaclava charge into the jawa of death,
for nearly one-half of them (In actual
numbers 149,905) will be left behind in
the grave before those ten years are
over, and only 161,124 reach their seven
ty-flftn year. This remnant rapidly di
minlshes, and at eighty-five only 38.565
remain. Another ten years and there
are on tbe field only 2,153 people of
venerable age, of whom nearly nine out
of ten will past away without reaching
tbe centenarian's fame. Tbe number
which will probably cross the threshold
of a second century Is 223, but none of
these reach 110; for the last of tbe mil
lion will come to hit grave in his 108tb
year. London paper.
What wo Swear hy.
Let us now examine tome typical
forma of oath. Tbe rude natives of
New Guinea swear by the sun, or by a
certain mountain, or by a weapon, that
tbe sun may burn tbem, or tbe moun
tain crui-h them, or the weapon wound
them, if they lie. The even ruder sav
ages of the Brazilian forests, to confirm
their words, raise the band over the
head or thrust It Into the bair, or tbey
will touch tbe points of their weapons.
These two acounts of savage ceremony
Introduce us to customs well known V
nations of higher culture. The raising
of the hand toward the sky seems to
mean here what it does elsewhere. It
is in gesture calling on the heaven-god
to smite the perjurer with bis thunder
bolt. The touching of the head, again,
carries its meaning among these Bra
zilians almost as plainly as In Africa,
where we find men sweating by their
beads or limbs, In the belief that they
would wither if forsworn ; or, as when
among tbe Old Prussians a man would
lay bis right band on his own neck, and
his left on the holy oak, saying, "May
Perkun (the thunder-god destroy me !"
At to swearing by weapous, another
graphic Instance of Its original mean'
ing comes from Aracan, where the wit
ness swearing to speak the truth takes
in his band a musket, a sword, a spear,
a tiger's tusk, a crocodiles tooth, and a
thunderbolt (that is, of course, a stone
celt). Tbe oath by the weapon not
only lasted through classic ages, but re
mained c common in Christendom that
it w.as expressly forbidden by a synod ;
even In the seventeenth century, to
swear the sword (like Hamlet's friends
in the ghost-scene) was still a legal oath
in HoUteln. As for the holding up the
hand to invoke the personal diviue sky,
the successor of this primitive gesture re
mains to this day among the chief acts
in tbe solemn oaths of European na
tions.
It could scarcely be shown more
clearly with what childlike imagina
tion the savage conceives that a sym
bolic action, such as touching his bead
or his spear, will somehow pass into
reallity. In connection with this group
of oaths, we can carry yet a step furth
er the illustration of the way men's
minds works in this primitive stage of
associations of ideas. One of tbe cc-
caunts from New Guinea is that the
swearer, holding up an arrow, calls on
Heaven to punish him if he lies; but by
turning tbe arrow the other way the
oath can be neutralized. This is magic
all over. What one symbol can do, the
reverse symbol can undo. True to the
laws of primitive magical reasoning,
uncultured men elsewhere still carry
on the symbolic reversal of their oaths.
An Abyssinian chief, who had sworn
an oath be disliked, has been seen to
scrape it off bis tongue and spit it out.
There are still places in Germany where
the false witness rekons to escape the
spiritual consequences of perjury by
crooking one finger, to make it, I sup
pose, not a straight but a crooked oath,
or be puts bis left hand to his side to
neutralize what his right hand is doing.
Here is the idea of our "over tbe left;"
but so far as I know this has come down
with us to mere schoolboy's shuffling.
Popular Science Monthly,
esalalsceaee ef Aadvbee.
BY A GRANDDAUGHTER.
Many a happy hour have I passed,
listening to incidents of his daring, his
patience and endurance, bis quick
nervous nature causing strange con
tradictions in his character. One can
hardly believe that the man who for
three weeks spent evey day, and ail
day long, lying on his back under a
tre watching two little birds building
their nest, could be the same who
would sometimes become so discour
aged and so impatient, when the effect
he desired could not be produced, that
he would throw canvas, easel, paints
and brushes from him, and rush from
the house, to find consolation in his bo-
loved woods. On bis return lie would
find his implements collected together
and arranged, and would resume bis
work as if no outburst or temper had
interrupted him.
At no time did ne lose sight or bit
work, and he carried it with him where-
ever be went; 11 not in the tangible
form of paints and brushes. It ap
peared in bis earnest questions addressed
to those he might be with, or in the
quick glances of those eagle eyes which
were such a noticeable feature In his
handsome face. Animals of various
kinds many of them far from attractive,
were at one time or another Inmates of
bis bouse. I remember mv mother
telling me of ber first experience with
my grandfather, was being call ra up
one night In common with the rest of
the household to eaten a number or
white mice, which had escaped from
their cage; and very amusing was ber
account of tiie pursuit and final capture
of the runaways the excited owner
leading tbe chase, under tablet and
chairs, into corners and behind the cur
tains, eventually securing them all,
though not without a brave resistance
on tbe part of the mice, whose sharp
teeth lert palniui records on the nugers
of tbe captors.
Patlei Meeker.
She should be firm, gentle, kind, al
ways ready to attend to ber child. She
should never laugh at him at what he
does tbat is cunning never allow bint
to think ot bis looks, except to be neat
and clean in all his habits. She should
teach him to obey a look to respect
those older than himself; abe should
never make a command without teeing
that it is performed in the right snan-m-r.
Never sneak of the child's faolta
or foibles, or repeat bis reauu ka bef ere
him. It is a aure way to spoil a child.
Never renrove a child wben excited.
nor let your tone of voice be raited
wben correcting. Strive to inspire love,
not dread respect, not fear. Ke mem
ber you are training and educating a
aoal for eternity. Teach yow children
to wait noon theater! Tea, to pat away
a thing wben done with it. But do not
timet tbat too were ooce a child. Ca
lifornia Farmer.
Ja
Justice la certainly an accident in
Persia. The perpetrator of foul and
malicious murder may have bit sentence
remitted if he can obtain sufficient
"blood money" to overcome tbe desire
of the victims friends for bis execution
The creditors of the peasanta and of
small traders are generally soldiers,
for these only feel sure of the requisite
power to recover their loans. The de
faulter well knows that If he does not
repay the soldier, bit boue, or bit
store in the bazaar, will be plundered
of all that la worth taking by a gang
of military money-lenders. In one
part of our long ride from tbe Caspian
Sea to the Persian Gulf we were atten
ded by an officer of the road-guard and
some half dozen of bit men. For days
these people accompanied our caravan
by order of the Governor of the prov
ince we were traversing- We observed
that whenever tbey approached a flock
of goats or theep, tbe officer, with one
or two men, rode toward the herd, and
that soon afterward one of the flock
was following at our heels. The officer
sold animals thus obtained at every
town we passed, and pocketed the pro
ceeds of the transaction, which we have
no doubt was highway robbery. In an
swer to our demand for an explanation
of bis conduct, which we threatened to
report to the Governor, he replied that
be bad lent the herdsman money and
wat only taking security for repay
ment. But this cloak for his probably
ri miual conduct was seemingly trans
parent to bis glgling followers.who per
haps had received tome small share in
the gains of these roberies by men
whose immediate duty It was to protect
us and our baggage from robbers.
Walking one day through the narrow
and filthy streets of Ispahan with tbe
only Eugllsb resident, we met with
two native complainants. Tbe first, a
Jew, said that the house of bis brother,
a silversmith, had been broken into and
plundered by the servants of the Gov-
ernor, with the plea that they wanted
to carry the tradesman before tbe Priuce
to answer a case in which money was
claimed from him by a Persian. The
second was a benna-dyed follower of
Islam, who informed us that a Persian,
with whom our companion was well ac
quainted, and who, though the son of a
poolah, was known for '"broad" views.
nad been summoned before the Prince
and bidden in friendly language (for
be had lived on such terms with the
Governor) to abandon the wearing of
trousers of European pattern as offen
sive, upon one of hit descent to the
Sheik-iu-Islam. The man, eager to
obey the wishes of his illustrious friend,
departed and quickly reappeared in or
thodox costume. '"Go," said the grati
fied Prinoe,'and show him how quickly
at my request, you conformed to his de
sire." The man went, but Immediately
upon reaching the presence of the re
ligious authority, who is an ecclesiasti
cal judge ex officio, he was seized, and
without pretense or trial, sentenced to
one hundred slicks." The English
man at once undertook inquiry into
the truth of this story. He found that
no exaggeration had been made, and
that the sufferer had been so punished
hat for weeks he would be unable to put
bis feet to the ground. In Persia, death
or 'the sticks' is the commonest punish
ment. The man, in the latter case, is
laid on the ground, and after his shoes
and stockings are removed, his ankles
are passed through leathern loops fast
ened to a beam, which is held by two
men at nearly the length of his legs
from the ground and by them turned
until his ankles are so tightly secured
that no writhing of his back can un
place them. Near him are laid the
precise number of sticks to which he
is sentenced. These are lithe switches
five or six feet long, and rather more
than half an inch thick in the centre.
Two experts, who usually war scarlet
coats bouud witli black, then take their
places near the beam, each armed with
stick, with which they in turn be
labor the soles of the feet until the
tick is broken too short for use. Iu
the case above referred to the beating
was continued until tbe hundred sticks
were reduced to this condition. The
Prince wat annoyed at the severe pun
ishment of bis friend, but his Royal
Highness had to bear it, for in Persia
unless stirred to unwonted effort, the
Shah's Government is far less power
ful than the chief priest of Islam.
Contemporary Review.
The Vlkiaa-a.
The Northmen, in the seventh, eighth
and ninth centuries after the birth of
Our Lord, inhabited tbe great peninsu
la of Norway and Sweden, with bran
ches established in Denmark, Finland,
the Faroe Islands, and all about the
coasts of Northern Europe. Tbey were
a wild, rough and tumultuous race, so
given to roving and adventure that they
made their appearance, at one time or
another in their history, in every part
of Europe which could be reached by
. They certainly visited the shores
of the Mediterranean, and they once
held such complete possession of a part
of France tbat their name is still pre
served in the title of the province of
Normandy. Before the time of King
Alfred, they ravaged England contin
ually.
These people, who have left their
names all over Europe, were never wel
come anywhere. Even at home, they
quarreled among themselves. And it
would seem tbat wben things grew un
comfortable for them in their country,
they took ship and sailed tbe sea, car
rying destruction and terror wherever
they went. The chiefs were called
Jarlt, or Earls, and tbe tons of chiefs
to whom were given maritime command
were called Vikings. These were usu
ally the younger sons, who were driven
out by contentions at home, as well as
by their own fierce desires, to find plun
der and occupation in ravaging tbe
coasts of the rich Southlands. In
course of time, these wild sea-rovers
were masters of the teas of Europe.
Their captains came to be known gen
erally as Vikings. In these days we
should call tbem pirates. Such a man
was Flokko, who. In the ninth century,
discovered Iceland. Pirate be may have
been, but be took with him families,
cattle and tools, as If Intending to live
like an honest man. St. yuKoUu.
Erc5isii. sores.
Isaac Newton and Isaac Watts art-
two Centennial judges.
A blind girl has charge of a knit
ting-machine in order to show the east
with which it can be worked.
Petrified grasshoppers from th
spouting geysers are on exhibition ai
tbe Centennial.
An unfortunate child born in Mer
edith, Penn., May 29, has been name
Edward Decoration Centennial Har
rington. It bas suggested tbat tbe United
States Government exhibit should be
removed to Washington at the close of
tne fcxniDition and made a permanent
institution.
A Japanese commissioner expresses
it as his opinion a:id the opinion of hi
colleagues that the American women
are the nicest objects iu or about the
Centennial.
The new special building erected
by Spain near the foot of George's Hill
contains models and military articles
giving a comprehensive illustration of
Die principal workings of tbe Spanish
army.
A bust of General Grant, composed
of fine wire of diftereut colors, attracts
much attention at the Centennial. It
is the work of a Peruvian lady, and b
remarkable for iu resemblence to Gen
eral Grant in uniform.
In the French section of Machinery
Hall is an illustration of the works on
the Suez Canal. These consist of charts
showing the hydrography and geologi
cal sections or the isthmus, photographs
or Jsmalls, fort Said and Suez.
The statue of "Religious Liberty
which has been erected in the Centen
nial Exhibition grounds by the Ameri
can Hebrew Order of isenal Berien, is
near completion. In August it w ill be
shipped to this country, and will be
erected in September.
In the German section of the Main
Building there is a bell weighing 4U0or
ouu pounds, and which strikes every
hour. Doing operated hy an Immense
piece of clock-work protected bv a glass
case, but otherwise open in all iu mech
anism to tbe inspection of visitors.
A new building called "The Tea
and Coffee Press" has been erected on
the Centennial grounds near Agricul
tural Hall. Tea aud coffee, made by a
new process, and r. vailing in quality all
other establishments on the grounds,
are vended there at moderate rates.
Miss Annie Aucrback exhibits in
the Woman's Pavilion a beautiful
spread comiiosed of w hite satin, lined
with rose-colored silk. Seven thousand
skeins of embroidery silk were required
to make the 1,500 rose-colored and white
roses with which it is ornamented, and
each rose has 74 1 stitches.
The Pennsylvania Museum of In
dustrial Art has, perhaps, Durcbased a
greater number of articles on exhibi
tion than any other organization or In
dividual. They all bear labels telling
the name of the purchaser, and after
the clore of the Exhibition they will be
removed to Memorial Hall, where they
are to remain permanently.
When Mr. Richard Henry Lee be
gan to read the Declaration of In.le-
peudence in lliiladelphla on July
Fourth, Dom Pedro took from his poc
ket a well-worn pamphlet, which
proved to be a fac-simile of the manu
script of the Declaration, and remarked
to the gentlemen near him, "I have had
this for thirty years."
A Centennial correspondent says
the exhibition is "a great place lor
study." And so it is. A gentleman
sat in the Main Building on Monday
endeavoring to study a solution of the
great mystery why young men wear
hirt-collars that conceal hair their ears.
and why ladies put so much costly
trimmings on a cheap dress.
Entries are being made for the dog
show In the agricultural department,
and tbey will be closed on the 10th of
August. Many noted breeders or crack
blooded dogs engage to contribute their
share to the display. Awanls are to be
given to every distinct breed, and dur-
n g the display exhibitors will have
free tickets of admission to the grounds.
At the Centennial the PhiladelphU
ladies cry out. "Isn't it cunningr"
New York ladies. "How superbly love
y ! Boston ladies. "Ah how exqtiaw-
site ! Louisville la lies, "lk-auuiul to'
shuah !" Chicago ladies, "Oh, my I
wish 1 owned that!" while the genuine
Yankee girls from the rural districts
exclaim "Gee-whimminy, but aiut that
'ere a stunner, neow!"
The monument to Columbus which
is to be erected In the l'ark will be ded
icated by the Chrisiopher Columbus
Monument Association on the 12th of
next October, the anniversary of the
discovery of America. The monument
has arrived In this city from Itaty, and
King Victor Emmanuel has sent the
Italian commissioners 1,000 francs in
gold to be devoted to the object of the
association.
The Japanese bazaar merchants
have a funny man among them. - He
makes a bamboo monkey dance hy pul
ling a string, and every time the mon
key dances the Jap dances. He makes
a bamboo rat show bis teeth and squeal,
and every time the rat so exercises his
powers toe Jap also shows bis teetn and
squeals. He turns heels over head,
back somersault, makes passable at
tempts to jump down his own throat,
and does more business than all the
other Mongoliau shopmen combined.
The Legislature of the state of New
York appropriated the sum of $500 to
the regents or the state for the purcnase
and preparation of a set of tbe natural
history, the geological reports, the re
Dorts on the Jew York slate museum
of natural history, and other state pub
lications relating to the history and re
sources of the state, ttc. for exhibition
at the Centennial exhibition. These
works are now exhibited in the educa
tional department of the government
building, and may be consulted at any
time on application to the attendant of
the department, or to Gen. K tton. the
superintendent, or to the New York
state commission.
Adjutant Hoyt. with bis many
trunks full of article' lost on the Exhi
bition Grounds, could start a bazaar in
opposition to the Japs. In an immense
record book be Keeps an account or
every article brought to tne orace,
where It was found, when and by whom.
The lost goods are packed so systemati
callythat, with the aid of the record,
the adjutant can, as soon as he receives
a description of one of them, return it
to the owner in a moment. The arti
cles comprise purses and pocket-books
containing money, watches, hats, vali
ses, fans, parasols, spectacles, umbrellas
and other articles, the names of which
would Brake a lengthy vocabulary.
Watches, money and children are soon
redeemed. About a dozen lost children
are brought to the office every week.
Persons lrm places ss far distant as
California and Kansas have visited the
Exhibition and gone borne again Igno
rant of tbe fact that they had lost con
siderable amounts of money on the
grounds. Thev have, however, with
out exception, recovered their property
npon writing to the adjutant and prov
ing it to be theirs.
HW8 D B&H7.
Only 6ixty per cent, of the children
of Rhode Island attend school.
P. T. Barn urn proposes to build a
grand hotel in Bridgeport, Conn.
Over five hundred southern Pres
byterian churches have no pastors.
The average age of the signers of
the Declaration scarcely reached 44
years.
It is said that one of the Nevada
bonanza kings has an income of ll.OOd
an hour.
The Overseers of Harvard College
have re-elected Chas. Francis Adams
President.
There were sixty-four fires in New
York City on the Fourth of July nearly
all of tbem caused by fire-works.
Greenwich, Conn., boasts of an old
lady, Mrs. Ira Stead, who will attain
to the age of 106 years, should she live
until next August.
An Indiana school-marm one dav
recently thrashed 39 scholars. Thev
are going to use her for a threshing
machine after harvest.
A Muss Stewart of Hamilton. Onta
rio, has recovered $700 damages from a
lover who forsook her after an engage
ment of twenty-six years.
The value of a toe is now definitely
determined. A Brooklyn Court has
awarded a man who lost four of them
ou a horse car, $437 50 per toe.
Il is proposed to amend the Consti
tution of Connecticut by adding a sec
tion making nine members of a jury
competent to render a verdict.
There are said to be in Turkey, at
the present time, over 40,000 individu
als incarcerated for debt, and nearly
all for debt due to the Turkish govern
ment. Ex-United States Senator Truman
Smith, who read the Declaration of In
dependence st Litchfield, Conn., on the
Fourth of July, read it at the same
place 50 years ago.-
A swarm of caterpillars which had
gathered on the rails of the Maine Cen
tral Railroad, near Farmington, com
pelled a train to stop for several min
utes a few days ago.
The Fortnightly Eeeieto makes the
statement that 4,5u0 persons own the
half of England, that 333 peers own 5,
422.200 acres, and that 70 owners owu
one-half of Scotland.
On the new appraisers' building in
San Francisco, now in process of erec
tion by the United States government.
17 men are employed, of whom seven
are superintendents.
The pension officers say that Daniel
Drew never claimed bis pension. Con
gress hy special act three years aro
made him a pensioner at $8 a month for
services iu the war of 1812.
The eldest daughter of Gen. Robert
C. Scbenck, ex-United States Minister
to England, is to be married in Ohio
next September to an English gentle
man whom she met in Loudon.
There are 162 driving parks in the
United States. The value of the prop
erty held hy these associations is esti
mated at $5,000,000. and that of th
horses entered in a single year, f !.",( KM)
000.
Dartmouth College has Just gradu
ated a man 50 years old. The new
alumnus is the Rev. J. S. Small, who
chose in this singular manner to repair
l ite In life the deficiencies of his early
years.
William II. Fordh.nn, a man sixty
years old and weighing two hundred
pounds, elimbed the liberty-pole in
Buchanan. Michigan, and put up a rope
through the pulley . The pole is 104
feet high.
The Free Medical College for Wo
men iu New Vrk has suspended oper
ations, on account of insufficient sup
port. It was established six years ago,
ami good work has been done by its
officers and students.
Sidney Smith made an eloquent
plea against locking passengers into
railway ears in 1842 thirty-lour years
ago; nd still the loeking-iu evii con
tiuues, aud the English cars are more
crowded and uncomfortable than ever.
The eloquence of the Adams family
was in great demand in Massachusetts
on the Fourth of July. The elder
Adams spoke iu Taunton, Mr. C. F.
Adams, Jr., in Quincy, ami Mr. Brooks
Adams, the youngest son. iu ilingham.
Mr. Samuel Bowles published the
only newspaper in New England on
the" morning of July 5, 1S76. ft Is this
kind of enterprise, not simple editorial
acuteness, which makes the Springfield
B-puiilk-an I he greatest provincial news
paper in America.
Miss Mary Graham, one of tbe
graduates of the Flint high school, en
ters the Michigan university next fall.
Nothing remarkable about this, except
that Mary is a young colored woman,
and will be the first of that kind to en
ter the university.
The Fourth of July was celebrated
in Auburn prison in tne most patriotic
style. The celebration was gotten up
by one of the wardens, and consisted
of music, reading of the Declaratiou of
Independence and an oration. The ex
ercises were well appreciated by the
convicts.
Queen Victoria has now attained a
very high rank on the roll of English
sovereigns for length of reign ; having
lately passed Henry VIII, aud Henry
VI, she uow stands fifth in order, being
still junior or inferior only to Eliza
beth,and the three long Thirds, Edward
Henry and George.
An aged couple, Mr. and Mrs. John
E. Peonies, live in Barnwell S. C.
They were born in Gloucester county,
on the James river, in Virginia. Mr.
Peoples is 121 years old, and his wife
123. This is. perhaps, the oldest living
couple in tbe United States. Mr. Peo
ples IS a macuiuut oy traue.
Henry Kroger, the Milwaukee
weather prophet and seer, says there
will he four mouths good sleighing in
the winter of 76'-77. Kroger sayt:
There will be five mouths of cold
weather, with little rain and without
thnndcr. There will be plenty of Ice
in tbe river of 30 inches thickness.
There are 72 papers at Constantino
ple, 16 of which are printed in Turkish
1 iu Arabic, 1 in Persian, 20 in Fren.-h.
1 Iu German. 1 in English, U in Greek,
13 in Armenian, 4 in Bulgarian, 2 In
Spanish and 1 in Italian. There are 19
official journals in the provinces, and
as many official caleudars or almanacs.
It Is estimated that two hundred
and eighty million dollars have beeu
paid out of the United States Treasury
in the way of bouutle. This U a very
large amount of money, but the people
would not grudge it, or twice the
amount, if it were not for the fact that
uore than fifty per cent, of it bas
tound its way into the pockets of favor
ite bounty agents and lawyers.
Providence, K. I., has a bright
young girl of eighteen years whose
loudness for masculine attire and ad
venture has made her lite thus far a
notable one. She lias been to sea sev
eral vovages, and is as familiar with
the Pipes and rigging as anv old salt.
She bas also driven a coal cart in Prov
idence. She rails herself Susan Holme
but her real name is not known.