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B. F. SCHWEIKR,
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MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY. PENNA.. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 22, 1876.
NO. 47.
"A
'WHO 1 HAS COWS HOIK."
When a man comes home.
Don't begin to wrangle ;
Better far to eleep
In the hungry deep.
'Neath white abeets of foam,
And of eea-weedtangle.
Peace, peaetC peaee ;
Cease, cease, eeaee.
When a man cornea borne,
Dont begin to wrangle.
When a man cornea borne.
Let him enter smiling ;
Take the children sweet.
Playing round hia feet ;
Throw off grief and gloom.
And the world' beguiling.
Peace, peace, peace ;
Ceaae, eeaee. cease.
When a man eomea home.
Let him find all emiiing.
When a man eomea 1
He should still remember
Tis not always May,
Either work or play
Sure as Jnne will come
There will come December.
Peace, peace, peaee ;
Cease, eeaee, cease.
Erening brings all noma.
And sunshine in December.
Debtor and Creditor.
Two men met In Xew York They
were merchant.
"What do you think of Carlton's af
fair?, Mr. Elder?" asked one of them.
"1 think we shall secure a pretty fair
percentage. Don't you?"
"Yes, if we wind him up."
"That we shall do, of course. Why
let him go on. It will take him two or
three years to get through. If at all."
"If he can get through in two or three
years, I shall certainly be In favor of
letting him goon? Times have been
rather hard and business dulL But
evervthiug looks encouraging now."
1 "don't believe in extensions, Mr.
Highland. The surest way, when a man
gets Into difficulties, is to wind him up
and secure w hat you can. Ten chances
to one, if you let him go, you lose every
cent."
'l have granted extensions in several
instances, Mr. Elder," replied his com
panion, "and obtained, eventually, my
whole claim, except in a single case."
"It's always a nek". 1 go by the
motto, A bird in the hand is worth two
in the bush,' " returned Elder. "I am
always redy to take what I can get to
day, and never trust to the morrow.
That is my way of doing business."
"But do you not think the debtor en
titled to some consideration?"
"How r" with a look of surprise."
"He is a man of like passions with
ourselves."
"I don't know that I understand you
exactly, Mr. Highland."
j- '- J
Vdl as you and 1."
fl never doubted it. ui
"If we break him np in business, the
Avil w not visit him alone. Think of
tux effect upon his family."
"In wade we never consider a man's
family relations."
"But should we not, Mr. Elder?
Should we not regard the debtor as a
man?"
"As a man who owes us, and Is tin
able to pay what is due; but in no other
light," returned Mr. Elder, with a slight
curl of the lip.
"There we differ widely."
"And shall continue to differ, I
imagine. Good morning, Mr. High
land !"
The two men parted.
An hour previous, Mr. Carlton, about
whom they had been conversing, sat
with his family, a wife and three
daughters, at the breakfast table. He
tried to converse in his usual cheerful
mannr, but too heavy a weight was
upon his haart. There had come a cri
sis in his affairs, which he feared would
not be passed without ruin to himself.
If the effects of his misfortune would
not reach beyond his store and count
ing-room; i.'upon his head alone would
fall the fragments of a broken fortune
be would not have murmured. But
the disaster could not stop there. It
would extend even to the sanctuary of
home.
On the day previous he had called on
a few of his creditors and asked of
thom an extension. If this were not
given, it would be impossible for him
to keep on longer man a lew weens.
The spirit in which most of the credi
tors had received the unexpected an
nouncement that he was in difficulties,
gave him little to hope. He was to have
another interview with them during
the day. From that, as it would ex
hibit the result of a night's reflection
upon the minds of his creditors, he
would be able to see clearly his chances
of being sustained in business. He
awaited the hour with nervous anxiety.
When it arrived, and the few creditors
called in had assembled, he saw little
in their faces to give him hope. The
firt who spoke out plainly was Elder.
I gentlemen," he said, firmly, "am
.'Zt to all extensions. If a man
:rnofp.itwnkhh'd
ZIZ Z agree in this matter
it
...,Amnt o-rtpnrllnir Mr.
who thought all felt a. did
butwasnotwiUingtocomeout
so plainly. tj,.
"lalenwillbeofnouse."
Carlton almost
ceased to objection to retiring
"Have job 7 Mr Highland
for a few minutes-
u, the debtor. certainly," re-
I will ' ' d left the room,
turned Mr. CarHon, an
xr ncn vwt " . ..,
. that we -
Mr. Highland . Mf Carlton's
K"nt th!L and be will get over
business Is P' " eMy, ifweonly
his present diffifbould be just,
assist bim a l"le . d this I do not
as man toward " unless
.Kiir we should v ,, our-
nUDvoi jwi "
titled to consideration when
man gives his note payable at a certain
day, be ought to be very sure that he
will be able to take it np. Creditors
are entitled to some consideration as
well as debtors. The cry of 'poor
debtor' is soon raised', but who. I
wonder, thinks of the poor creditor? I,
for one, am not prepared to extend."
This was said by Elder.
"As for me," spoke up another, "I
take but oue view of matters like this.
If I think 1 will do better by renewing,
I am ready to so; If by winding up the
party now, I can do better, I go for
indlng up. I have confidence In Carl
ton's integrity. I believe he means
well. But can he get through ? that is
the question?"
I believe he can," said Mr. High
land.
"And I doubt it," returned Elder.
The efforts of Elder to efface the im
pression the words of Mr. Highland
had made, proved in vain. It was agreed
that the debtor should receive the ex
tension be asked. When informed o f
this decision, Carlton could not hide
his emotions, though he strove hard to
do so. His grateful acknowledgments
for the favor granted, touched more
than one heart that had been cold as ice
toward him a short time before. How
different were his feelings when he met
his family that evening, and silently
thanked Heaven that the cloud which
had hovered over and threatened to
break In desolating tempest had passed
from the sky.
Long before the arrival of the time
for which an extension had been
granted, Mr. Carlton was able to pay
off everything, and to look in the face
without unpleasant emotions every man
he met.
Strange thinks happen in real life.
Mr. Elder was a shipper and extensively
engaged in trade. For a series of years
everything went on prosperously with
him. His ventures always found a
good market, and his consignments safe
and energetic factors. All this he at
tributed to his own business acumen.
"I never make bad shipments," he
would sometimes say. "1 never con
sign to doubtful agents."
A man like Mr. Elder is rarely per
mitted to go through life without a
practical conviction that he is in the
band of One who governs all events. It
is rarely that such a one does not be
come painfully conscious in the end
that human prudence is as nothing.
The first thing that occurred to check
the confident spirit of Mr. Elder was
the loss of a ship and cargo under cir
cumstances that gave the underwriters
a fair plea for not paying the risk, ile
sued and was cast. The loss was twenty-
five thousand dollars.
A few weeks after, news came that a
shipment to the South American coast
had resulted in a loss. From that time
everything seemed to go wrong. His
UttaMM found a glutted market, and
his return cargoes a depression of
prices. If he held on to a thing lu the
hope of better rates, prices wouiu go
down, until, In a desperate mood, he
would sell ; then they would go up
steadily. The time w as w hen he could
confine himself strictly to legitimate
trade. But a mania for speculation now
took hold of him and urged him on to
ruin. He even ventured into the De-
ildering precincts of the stock market,
lured by the hope of splendid results.
Here he stood upon ground mat soon
crumbled beneath his feet. A loss of
twenty or thirty thousand dollars cured
him of this folly, and he turned with a
sigh to his counting-room, to digest
with care and prudent forethought.
some safe operation in his regular busi
ness. , .
But the true balance of his mind was
lost. He could not consider with calm
ness the business in hand. A false move
was the consequence. Loss instead of
profit was the unfortunate result.
Seven years from the day Mr. Elder
opposed an arrangement with Mr. Carl
ton, which should regard the debtor as
well as the creditor, he himself found it
impossible to provide for all his heavy
payments. For some time he had kept
his head above water bymistaken sacri
fices, but the end of this came.
After a sleepless night the merchant
started one morning for his store, op
pressed with the sad conviction that be
fore the day closed his fair fame would
be tarnished. As he walked along Mr.
Carlton came to his side with a cheerful
salutation. Mr. C. was now a large cred
itor instead of a debtor, On that very
dy, bills in his favor had matured to
the amount of five thousand dollars, auu
these Elder iVilllfl not nay. The recol
lection of this made it almost impossible
for him to reply to the pleasant obser
vations of his companion. Vividly, as
if it hail occurred yesterday, came up
before his mind the circumstance that
had transpired a few years previously.
He remembered how eagerly he had
ought, from the merest selfish mo
tives, to break down Mr. Carlton and
throw him helnless uoon the world, and
how near he was to accomplishing the
merchant's total overthrow. Such rec
ollections from hia mind the
hope that for s moment had presented
itself of enlisting Mr. Carlton's good
feelings and securing him as a friend
in the trial through which he was about
to pass.
Several times daring the walk he was
on the point of breaking the matter to
Mr. c, but either his heart failed mm
or his companion made some remark to
which he was compelled to reply. At
length they separated without any allu
sion by Mr. Elder to the subject on
which he was so desirous of speaking.
He had not the courage to utter the
first word.
But this was only postponing for a
very brief period the evil day. Several
remittances were anxiously looked for
that morning. He broke the sealing,
letter after letter, with trembling
anxiety. Alas! the mail brought him
no aid. His last hope was gone. oth
ing now remained for bim but to turn
his face bravely to the threatening
storm and bear up against its fury.
For a while he debated the question
as to what course was best for him to
pursue. At one time he thought of giv
ing no information of bis condition,
until the notary's protest should startle
them from their ignorance. Then be
thought it would be best to notify the
bolder of paper due on that day that It
would not be taken up. Then it seemed
to him best to give notice of his con
dition. Then he prepared brief notes to
all, but Mr. Carlton first. Hit heart
failed bim when be attempted to write
his name. Vividly, aa if It had oc
curred but the day previous, came up
before his mind all the circumstances
attendant npon that gentleman's appeal
to his creditors. His cheeks burned
when he remembered the position he
had assumed in that affair.
But, even though such were his feel
ings, when he came to dispatch the
notes he had prepared he could only
find courage to send the one written to
Mr. Carlton. The other creditors,
whose bills had matured that day, he
thought he would go and see; but half
an hour passed without his acting upon
the resolution to do to. Most of the
day Iras spent in walking uneasily the
floor of his counting-room, or iu exam
ining certain accounts in bis ledger, or
entries in bis bill-book. He was bend
ing, all absorbed, over a page of calcu
lations, when some oue who had en
tered un perceived pronounced his name.
He turned quickly and looked Mr. Carl
ton in the face. The color mounted In
stantly to the temples of Mr. Elder. He
tried to speak, but could not.
"Your note has taken me altogether
by surprise," said Mr. Carlton. "But
I hope things are not so bad as you
suppose."
Mr. Elder shook his head. He tried
f speak, but could not,
"How much have you to pay to-day ?M
asked Mr. Carlton.
"Ten thousand dollars," was the re
ply, In husky voice.
"How much have you toward it?"
"Xot two thousand."
"How much In a month?"
"Fifty thousand."
"What will be your available re
sources?" "Xot half the amount."
"Haven't you good bills?"
"Yes ; but not negotiable."
Mr. Carlton mused for some time. At
length he said :
"You must not He over to-day."
"I cannot help it."
"If you will transfer to me, as security
in case you have to stop payment, the
bills of which you speak, I will lend you
the amount you want to-day."
The color retired irom the cheeks of
Mr. Elder and then came back with a
quick flush. He made no answer, but
looked steadily and doubtingly into Mr.
Carlton's face.
"I have been in difficulties myself and
I know how to sympathize with others,"
said the latter. "We should aid if we
can, not break down a fellow merchant
when in trouble. Indorse bills to my
order for the sum you want, and I will
fill up a check for the amount "
Elder turned slowly to his desk and
took therefrom sundry notes of hand In
his favor at various dates from six to
twelve months, and indorsed them pay
able to Carlton, who immediately gave
him a check for eight thorsand dollars
and left the store.
A clerk was instantly dispatched to
the bank and then Mr. Elder sank into
a chair, half stupefied. He could hardly
believe his senses until the canceled
notes were placed in his hands.
On the next morning, Mr. Eider went
to his place of business with feelings but
little less troubled than they bad been
on the day before. His payments were
lighter, but his means were for the
first time exhausted. The best he could
do would be to borrow ; but he already
owed heavily for borrowed money, and
was not certain that to go further was
practicable. He thought of Mr. Carl
ton ; but every reeling oi nis nean ior
bade bim to seek further aid from him.
'I deserve no consideration there,
and I cannot ask it," he mui mured, as
he pursued his way to the store. The
first thing that met his eye on entering
bis counting-room was a pile of ship
letters. There bad been an arrival from
Valparaiso. He broke the seal of the
first one he took up with eagerness.
"Thank God !" was bis almost immedi
ate exclamation. It was from one of his
captains, and contained drafts for fif
teen thousand dollars. It also informed
him that the ship Sarah, commanded by
said captain, would sail for home in a
week, with return cargo or Hides and
specie anionnting to thirty thousand
dollars. The voyage had been profita
ble beyond expectation.
Elder had Just finished reading the
letter, when Mr. Carlton came in. Sell
ing the kind-hearted merchant by the
hand, and pressing it hard, he said,
with emotion
"Carlton, you have saved me! Ah I
sir this would be to me a far happier mo
ment, if, seven years ago, when you
were In trouble, I had as generously
ided you."
"Let the past sleep In peace," re-
.,.- Mr. Carlton. "If fortune has
smiled again, permit me to rejoice with
vou. as I do with all who are blessed
with favoring gales. 10 meet who uu-
Acuities Is of use to us. It gives us the
nower of sympathy with others; and
that gift we should all desire, for it is a
rood thing to lift the busuen
shoulders bent down with too heavy a
weight, and throw sunlight over
heart shaded by gloom."
Mr. Elder recovered from his crippled
condition in the course of a few months.
He was never again known to oppress
a suffering debtor,
Oawatdetf Devcl
The habit of using the right hand in
preference to the left among those peo
ple whose monuments aate irom me re
motest antiquity appears to be a univer
sal fact, and this is accounted for by the
anatomical mechanism or the human
body. It i known that the right lung,
liver-lobe and limbs exceed in size
those of the left side, involving of
course, a greater amount of tissue struc
ture and a larger supply or nerves and
blood vessels for their nutrition. A
person walking in a dense fog figures
with his feet the segment of a circle,
and If be is right handed, be takes
direction to the left, because the right
leg naturally takes a longer stride.
Am EaalUa niaea.
Through the massive portal of the
outer gate we have eomc, and entering
into the jail through that handsome
door in the iron railing that closes the
Inside entrance, we find -ourelv1n
building in which three or more wings
converge to the centre hall. Each wing
is divided Into three stories. Along
each story runs a light Iron gallery.
which you can gain by mounting that
ornamental circular stair running from
top to bottom. Above, large skylights
give ample light and ventilation. Every
thing, is light, airy, and cheerful. The
brasses shine as brasses shine only in
jails and on men-of-war. Let us walk
along the cells, and look at some of
their occupants. Here is a man making
pair of boots, and seemingly rattier
comfortable and happy. He is a boot
maker who has been twenty times com
m it ted for drunkenness. He is only
a drunkard; so we may feel a certain
amount of satisfaction that he is not very
miserable. What difference for bim
is his time spent in Jail from the Inter
vals of freedom! Here be works be
tween six and seven hours a day, and
out of earnings he receives an allow
ance larger than ever was left him by
the public-bouse when at home.
Around him everything is exquisitely
clean. His cell is boarded, and measures
twelve feet by seven. It is ten feet high,
and is lit and ventilated in the most per
fect manner that Science can devise. On
his shelf are his dish for porridge, and
tins brght as silver for soup and milk.
A clean hammock, in which you might
sleep most comfortably, is neatly "aided
and hung against the wall. In a cor
ner is a basin with water, in which be
can wash bimseir It be cnooses. in
winter the apartment is kept at a com
fortable temperature by hot-air pipes,
and a gas-burner diffuses a cheerful
light in the long winter evenings.
Should, he feel ill he pulls a bell-han
dle, on which a gong sounds in the cen
tre hall, and from his door the number
of his cell starts out; and uo millionaire
at Clarldge's is half so punctually an
swered as he is by the turnkey on guard,
who inquires into his wants, and, if ne
cessary, a doctor is at his bedside long
ere the Union doctor could be found
and persuaded to visit him were he at
home. As he seems a quiet fellow, we
do not feel much regret that he has had
the good fortune to become an habitual
drunkard. But what shall we say to
the occupant of the adjoining well,
cell? Here a burly rufiiian is engaged
in making mats. The work Is pleasant:
the cell a fac-eimile of theone described.
And as we listen to the details of the
crime for which he is undergoing two
months' "punishment," we cannot help
contrasting bis pleasant lot with the
squalor and misery of his lazy, idle,
polluted life outside, and feeling that
l m punishing a ruffian for a brutal
assault upon a woman, bumanltarlan
lio has become a crime, and set up In
our Jails a temptation to Idle rascals to
"come in and be happy," against which
it would require a large amount of ab
stract morality to struggle.
Flewera la the Hawse,
Why not have toiue elegance in even
the humblest home? We must, or
course, have cleanliness, which is the
special elegance of the poor. But why
not have pleasant and delightful things
to look upon? There Is no reason why
the humbler classes should not surround
themselves with the evidence of beauty
and comfort in all their shapes, and
thus do homage alike to the gifts of God
and the labors of man. The taste for
the beautiful is one of the best and most
useful endowments. It is one of the
handmaids of civilization. Beauty and
elegance do not necessarily belong to
the homes of the rich, They are, or
ought to be, all prevadlng. Beauty in
all things in natuie. In art, in science,
in literature, in social aud domestic
life.
How beautiful and yet how cheap are
flowers. Xot exotics, but what are
called common flowers. A rose for in
stance, is among the most beautiful of
the smiles of nature. The "laughing
flowers !" exclal ms the poet. But there
is more than gaiety in the blooming
flowers, though it takes a wise man to
see the beauty, the love, the adaptation,
of which they are full.
What should we think of one who in
vented flowers; supposing that before
him flowers were unknown? Would
he not be regarded as the opener of a
paradise of new delight? Should we
not bail the inventor as a genius, as a
god? And yet these lovely offsprings
of the earth have been speaking to men
from the first dawn of his existence un
til now, telling him of the goodness
and wisdom of the Creative Power,
which bade the earth bring forth not
only that which was useful as food, but
also flowers, the bright consummate
flowers, to clothe in it beauty and joy !
Bring one of the commonest field
flowers Into a room, place It on a table
or chimney piece, and you seem to
have brought a ray of sunshine into the
place. There Is a cheerfulness about
flowers! What a delight are they to
the drooping invalid ! They are like a
sweet draught of enjoyment, coming an
messengers from the country, and seem
ing to say, ' Come and see the place
where we grow, and let your hearts be
glad In our presence."
What can be more innocent than
flowers! They are like children on
dimmed by sin. They are emblems of
purity aud truth, a source of fresh de
light to the pure and Innocent. The
heart that does not love flowers, or the
voice of a playful child, cannot be gen
ial. It was a beautiful conceit that in
vented a language of flowers, by which
lovers are enabled to express the feel
ings that they dare not openly speak.
But flowers have a voice for all old
and young, rich and poor. "To me,"
says Woodswortb,
"The meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for lean."
Have a flower in the room, by all
means. It will cost only a penny, if
your ambition is only moderate; and
the gratification It give will be beyond
price. If yon can have a flower for
your window so much the better What
can be more delicious than the sun's
light streaming through flowers-
through the midst of crimson Fuchsias
or scarlet Geraniums? To look out
into the light through the flowers is
not that poetry? And to break the
force of the sunbeams by tender resist
ance of green leaves ? If you can train
ar Xasturtlura round the window, or
some sweet peas, then yon will have
the most beautiful frame that you can
invent for the picture without whether
it be a busy crowd, or a distant land
scape, or trees with their light or
shades, or changes of the passingclou'ls.
Any one may thus look througL flow
ers for the price of an old song. And
what pure taste and reduemeut does it
not Indicate on the part of the cultiva
tor! A flower In the window sweetens the
air, makes the room look graceiul, gives
the sun's light a new charm, rejoices
the eye, and links nature with beauty.
The flower is a companion that will
never say a cross thing to any one, but
will always look beautiful and smiling.
Do not despise it because it is cheap,
and because anybody may batre the
luxury aa well as yourself. Comm-j-things
are cheap, but common things
are invariably the most valuable. Could
we only have fresh air or sunshine by
purchase, what luxuries they would be
considered ; but they are free to all, aud
we think little ot their blessings.
A Glaaaeaaaver'a rat.
There was au arunoer in Rome who
made vessels of glass of so tenacious a
temper that they were as little liable to
be broken as those that are made of
gold and ailver. When, therefore, he
kad made a vial of the purer sort, and
such as he thought a present worthy ol
Csssar alone, he was admitted into the
the presence of the then Emperor Ti
berius. The gift was praised, the skil
ful hand of the artist applauded, and
the donation of the gi er accepted The
artist, that he might enhance the won
der of the spectators and promote him
self yet further in the favor of the em
peror, desired the vial out of Caesar's
and threw it with such force against
the floor that the most solid metal would
have received some damage or bruise
thereby. Cae-ar was not only amazed,
but affrighted with the act; but the
artist, taking up the vial from the
ground (which was not broken, but
only bruised together, as if the sub
stance ol the glass had put on the tem
per of brass), drew out an iustruineut
from his bosom and beat it Into its form
er figure. This done, he imagined that
he had conquered the world, as believ
ing that he had merited the acquain
tance with Caesar, and raised the admi
ration of the beholders, but it fell out
otherwise, for the emperor inquired If
any other person besides himself was
rivy to the like tempering of glass.
When he told bim "Xo," he told an at
tendant to strike off his head, saying:
"That should this artifice come once
Into use, gold and silver would be of as
little value as the dirt in the street."
pxng after this, in 1C10, we read that
among other rare presents sent from
the Sophy of Persia to the king of
Spain, were six mirrors of malleable
glass, so exquisitely tempered that
they could not be broken.
Taralatc Ike Tables.
There is a story of a uoble lord who
once gave his friend a golden snuff bx,
in the cover of which an as' head was
paiuteJ. Xot much flattered by this
present, and wishing to turn the tables
on the authojr of the joke, the recipient
took out the ass and inserted instead the
portrait of the lord. The next day at
dinner he, as if by accident, put his box
upon the table. The lord, who wished
to amuse his guests at the expense of
bis friend, made mention of the snuff
box, and aroused the curiosity of those
around hliu. A lady asaed lu see it. It
was passed to her. She opened it and
exclaimed, 'I'erfecj! It is a striking
likeness. Indeed, my lord, it is one ui
the best portraile of you that 1 ever
seen." 1 he lord was naturally much
embarrassed at the joke, which be
tnought was so hard upon him. While
he was reflecting upon the oUeusiveuee
of it, the lady passed the box to her
neighbor, who made similar remarks
about iu The box thus went arouud
the table, each oue expiating upon the
resemblance. The nouleuiau was much
astonished at this course ol things; hut,
when it came to his turn to look, had
to join lu the too, and confess that his
friend had got the best of him. Bvu
A eject fer Theacbl
Fault finders say that too much at'
tention is paid to fashion in women's
dress. For our own part we think there
is too little. Fashion would seem to be
ordered by people who know compara
tively nothing. There are reasons and
laws of taste and good looks, it should
not need to be said. The subject is one
to be studied, with pleasing results to
be certainly arrived at, and solidly es
tablished. Why do not some of our
most cultivated women take hold upon
it? This is a womanly field it must be
thought; or it is so thought at any rate.
And the range for womanly ellort is
said to be narrow. This ground at
least is open, whether It be large or
small. It is si wide field as it Is now
Xothlng could be worse than the dreari
ness of iu barren spots, unless It were
the hcrrlbleness of much of the growth
where it is not bare. May the hand of
skilful and graceiul tillage be speedily
brought upon lu May it be cultivated
with artistic tate. and may we be
spared to see the day.
ervwiaw Olsl.
now strangely our ideas of growing
old change as we get on in life ! To the
girl in her teens the riper maiden of
twenty-nve seems quite agcu. ihj
two thinks thirty-live '"au old thing.
Thirtv-flve dreads forty, but congratu
latea herself that there may still remain
some ground to be possessed in the fif
teen veara before the half century shall
he attained. But fifty does not by any
mnni s-ive ud the battle of lite. It
feels middle-aged and vigorous, and
thinks old age a long way in the future.
Sixty remembers those who have done
m-t things at three score; and one
doubts if Parr, when he was married at
one hundred and twenty, had at all be
gun to feel himself an old man. It is
the desire of life in us which makes as
feel young to long.
r4eeUa af Ballwlaas frasa Liaat-
alas.
Professor Clerk Maxwell read an ab
stract of a paper belore the Mathemati
cal and Physical Science Section of the
British Association at the recent meet
ing at Glaagow, iii which he slafd that
those who erected lightning conductors
had paid great attention to the upper
and lower extreraeties of the conductor
having a sharp point above the build
ing and lower extremity carried Into
the earth as far as possible. The eff-ct
was to tap, or. as it were, to gather the
charge by facilitating the discharge be
tween the atmospheric accumulation
and the earth. That would cause a
greater number of discharges than
would have otherwise occurred; but
each of them would be smaller than
those which wonld have occurred with
out a conductor. That arrangement
was therefore more for benefit of tiie
surrounding conntrv, and for the re
lief of clouds laboring under an accum
ulation of electricity, than for the pro
tection of the budding on which the
conductor was erected. What was real
ly wanted was to prevent the possibility
of an electric discharge taking place
within a certain region. Au electric
discharge could not occur betwien two
bodies unless the difference of their po
tentials was siiffi'.'iently great compared
with the distance between them. If,
therefore they could keep the potentials
of all bodies within a ceriaiu region
equal or nearly equal, no discharge
could take place between them. That
might be secured by connecting all
there bodies by means of good conduc
tors, such as copper wire roj es. It
would, therefore, be sufficient to sur
round a poder mill with a conJuet
ing material, to sheath its roof, walls,
and ground floor with a thick sheet of
copper, and then uo electrical ellort
could occur within on account of any
thunderstorm without. There would
be no need of any earth connection.
f hey might even place a layer of as
phalt between the copper duur and the
ground so as to insulate the building.
If the mill were struck, it would re
main charged lor some time, and a per
son standing on thegiound outside or
touching the wall might revive a shock,
but no electrical tffort could be per
ceived Inside eveu by the most delicate
electrometor. A sheathing of copper
was by no means necessary to prevent
any electrical effort taking place. Sup
posing a building were struck by light
ning, it was quite sufficient to enclose
it with a network of good conducting
substance. For instance. If a copper
wire were carried around the foundation
of a house, up each of the corners and
gables, and along the ridges, that would
be a sufficient protection for an ordinary
building against any thunderstorm in
England; but it might be well, to pre
vent theft, to have it built In the wall,
and then it would be nevesssry to have
it connected with to. mrul, wvh aa
lead "or zinc, on the roof. It need scarce
ly be added, said the professor, that it
is not advisable during a thunderstorm
to stand on the i oof of a house so pro
tected, or to etand on the ground out
side, or lean against the walls.
a ha wins:
Pasaperta at
la.
Keane Tlaoe
The man of th custom-house de
manded our - passports and then de
manded us. We dropped down from
our perch and were motioned toward an
inner room. We w ent in, one at a time.
Behind an immense black moustache
which stood out horizontally to right
and left, sat a little, thin, straight man,
w ith the air of a generalissimo iu opera
bouffe. He had already flattened out
the passport upon his deek. He mum
bles out your barbarian patronymic as
if it were a mouthful of cherry -pits, and
you respond. Then he reads your height
written In numerals 5 leet by 11
and runs his eye along you deliberately,
to take an altitude. Then he makes be
lieve he knows enough of English to
understand the description of your
hair, rnuiph xinn, mouth, chin and
nose, and examines every one of tlum
consecutively, lou see his pompous
silliness, "dog in office," hut know
he can annoy you vety much; anil so
you stand wondering whether to pla
ierritoievmilissimn or to lift him by the
moustache and drop him gently out the
window. Then he pores over every
pass on the paper, from twenty diflerent
governments, eyeing them shlewlse an
upside down. Xow he has found i
law, five pusses back. He consults his
register. But he asks you mysteriously
about it. You know nothing about It.
lie shakes hi- head. Diligent, Indela-
tl.ible. incorrnptibleoffli 1 d ! You think
o? Xo, he is scaring you into a bribe
if he can. But he can't. In the outer
room, meanwhile, they are waiting for
your key, to pounce don and evisce
rate your trnudk. ou stand by and
see the oiieralion, with what equanimity
a youth of Chi istian nurture and ad
monition may have vouchsafed you
Every book is opened, some scanned
wrong side bp. That map of Rotter
dam may be a plan of the Roman fort I
float ions; that old hotel bill, a list of
conspirators to assassinate the Pope
In one corner is a little odd-looking
box. Ecco I poison! bull.-ts!
"Please open this, signore," the of
ficial says firmly.
-Certa'nly. There! Bullets of qui
nine. Tate them !"
".Scf," and a grin.
Clarlereef Jleawt BVaJaler.
The main Cowlitz glacier Issues from
the southeast side, Just to the right of
our ridge of ascent. Its head Alls a deep
gorge at the foot of the eastern front or
face of the great mass of rock just ra
rer red to. and the southern face of
which overhangs the main Xisqually
glacier. Thus the beads of these
glaciers are separated only by this great
rock, and are probably not more than
half a mile apart, while their mouths
are three miles apart. Several smaller
glaciers serve to swell the waters of the
Cowlitz. In like manner the glaciers
from the western side form the Puyal-
lup., and those from the northern and
northwestern sides the White River.
The principal White River glacier is
nearly ten miles long, aud its width is
from two to four miles. Its depth, or
the thickness of its Ice, must be thou
sands of feeU Streams and rivulets un
der the heat of the sun flow down its
surface nutil swallowed by the crevas
ses, and a lakelet ol deep blue water an
eighth of a mile lu diameter has been
observed npon the solid ice. Pouring
down from the mountain, the ice by lu
immense weight and force has gouged
out a mass upon the northeastern aide
a mile lu thickness. The geological for
mation of Takboraa poorly resUta the
eroding power cf these mighty glaciers.
for it seems to be imposed not or solid
rock, but of a basaltic conglomerate lu
strata, as though the volcanic force had
burst through and rent in pieces some
earlier basaltic outflow, aud had heaped
up this vast pile from the fragments in
successive strata. O.i every side the
mountain is slowly disintegrating.
What other peak can offer to scien
tific examination or t the adm. ration
of tourists rourteea living glacier of
or such magnitude, Issuing from every
side, or such grand ur, b-auy, aud va
riety of scenery ? TV Atlantic.
Kafaa reaea.
I suppose tnai ui story of Rufus
Clioate's handwriting has beeu often
told. It seems that Mr. Choate was
living on a farm down in Massachusetts,
wanted a new fence arouud the home
lot. So he called in his carpenter aud
bad a talk with bim in regard to the
work, and the next time he went to
Boston be got bis architect to make a
rough Sketch, showing bis idea how he
eairwd to have the fence builU On the
ay appointed for the work to begiu.
Mr. Choate was auiumoued away. Just
as be was about to start, the carpenter
appeared, aud Mr. Cuoate pulled the
plan out of his vest pocket and hurried
ly delivered it, and tneu drove off to
catch the train. Returning alter au
absence of two weeks, ou approaching
his home be was filled with auiazeuieut,
aud led to doubt whether he kuew
where he lived ; his home lot was sur
rounded by a zigzag fence of the most
extraordinary design. Wheu he saw
the old carpenter pounding lustily
away, he fell reassured as to the iden
tity of the place, but was most puzzieu
by the marvelous feuce.
"Hello!" he shouted, "what are you
doing?"
"Doiir," said the old carpenter,
smashing In a ten-peuny nail with one
blow, '-we're doiu' some pooty tall
work. We ave just slung this fence
together iu a little bit less time than
any similar slingiu' was ever done lu
the Commonwealth of Massachuse ts!
We're two weeks ahead of the contract
time now !'
"But, for Heaven's sake, what kind
of a fence is this?"
"Don't know. Thought when you gi
me the plan it was the darndest fence I
ever heard of, but I supposed you kuew
what you wanted."
"Plan !" said Ku fu , " Plan ? Let me
see tfciMi" d when the carpenter
banded it over the fence, Mr. Choate
realized that in his haste he had felt
in the wrong pocket and handed bim,
not the plau, but a note in bis own
handwriting!
Haw aa
IarHl Cradle saaald
erasacalea.
The form of the cradle demands fit
ness; its ornamentation requires a more
extended know ledge. When planning
it. a mother must remember that the
fixity of the eye upon any object par
ticularly upon a bright one, and moie
so if that object is situated opward ami
sideways from the ordinary range ol vi
sion and through the eye the fixedness
ot the mind while the body is In a state
of repose, constitute a concurrence of
conditions eminently favorable to the
production of hypnotism, and its terri
ble sr quels, strabismus and convulsions.
Hypnotism, which, when unsuspected,
is not controlled, is often mi-taken for
tranquil happiness or natural ieep.
Psychologically viewed, the decora
tion of the cradle is of equal moment.
To surround au infant with highly
wrought or colored figure , often gro
lesque, or at least Uut-ue to Xa:ure,
may, by day, attract mor attention
than his faculties of perception rati
safely bestow; hence fatigue of the
brain, or worse; but it will, by night.
evoke other than the perceptive aud
rational powers, for, when the iigiits
and shadows of dusk alter alt the In. ins
and deepen e-ery color, the faculty of
imprinting images being led astray, It
photographs distorted imprints from
confused, often moving, sometimes rust
ling, ornaments. In this way the mind
is made the subject of hallucinations,
which it accepts as objective, without
inquiring into their causes, till It comes
to the fatal erf. quia alsurdum (I be
lieve, because it is absurd). The seeds
of nost of the Insanities are sown at or
before this time. Popular Seine t
Moithlg.
TsCttsStatl
a Paris Oaaalaas.
To get a seat iu a
faris omnibus it
does not suffice to plant yourself at the
corner of the street and hail the passing
vehicle, for such is not the fashion iu this
laud. The driver is not on the lookout,
and the conductor disdains to pull the
check string, even thongh his vehicle
be not half full. The speed of the hor
ses may indeed be slackened, and if the
would-be passenger is young and active
and willing to run, he may catch up
with the omnibus, but-the dead stop of
an American omnibus-driver is not to
be thought of. To secure a ride in
peace and comfort you must go to one
ol the stations, of which there are two
or three on every omnibus route. There
you will And a small waiting-room,
with benches round the wall and a desk
at one end, where sits a solemn func
tionary who presents you with a square
ticket bearing a number. You take your
seat and watch the arriving and depar
ting vehicles till your number is called
out; and you must be sharp about It too,
or the next number will be called and
the omnibus depart without you.. If
you want an exchange ticket or cor-
frespondance, as it is called here you
are furnished with one gratis, your sin
gle payment of six sous entitling you
to as long a ride as yon wish In a single
direction. Soldiers are entitled to rid
inside on payment of three sous only.
lApfineott MayaMiH.
IXWS CI BRUT-
Six hundred peisous
in Paris are
finger nail doctors.
A "Woman's Mining Bureau'
has
been orga-.ized at San Kraucisco.
One patch of ground, near Water--bury.
Conn., yielded forty thousand
cabbages this season.
The Duke of Sutherland h trans
formed 2.0U0 acre of English moorland
into arable land at au expeuse of 1150
per acre.
"The laillea brass band"of Lincoln,
Nebraska, carried away the premium
offered for the best baud at the recent
State fair.
The owners of guns paid into the
British treasury, during the last finan
cial yar. nearly $40d,U00 in the form of
license taxes.
Yale College library has purchased
6,500 volumes during the past year, and
received gifts ol 1.3o0 volumes, and
5,4. 0 pamphlets.
Financially, the Bayreuth Festival
was a decided failure. The rxpendl
sure exceeded the receipts by uo less a
turn than $3,000.
The largest library In Prince Ed
ward lsianu is owned by a wealthy
Cattle de..ler named Webb, who Can
neither read i.ur write.
A San Francisco clergyman, with
a salary of 5 U0d, never h.t anything
hi-ci edit or can reach, aoJ he oe
about $30,U0U iu Kansas.
There are 9U0 women in the United
State who proieseioually practice
astrology on gum brained Idiots at a
dollar aud a half a head.
At an auction iu Thomaston, Conn.,
the other da) , 700 bushels of po.atoe
were sold for $14, or a little over two
and a hall cents per oushel.
The annual exiieudilure for tobacco
in the United Slates i set down at 3,
0U0.00U, ol w hicli $5.01)0 OUO is charged
to members of the churches.
Xew Jersey will have six represen
tatives in the iiewly organized Kellogg
Opera Troupe, Miss Pressy, of Hau
moutou, being the last addition.
A Massachusetts fish company has
a contract to supply parties in Germany
wth 27,000 barrels, au-l another firm is
going to seud 8 0M) barrels to Sweden.
Two dogs in the St. Louis fair were
valued at $1 Ut0 each. '.Villi dogs at
such a price it would seem to be high
time to seek new sources of sausage
supply.
Poor Madame Anna Bishoo, who
has been singing her lite away for forty
j ears iu poverty, has received a legacy
of $j.0uo from an Australian lady lately
deceased.
Kaiher Bessories, of Indianapolis,
has paid over during the year to the
Pau handle Rul road $tl) "conscience
money," received by him through the
coufeseioual.
Xot less than 10,000,000 persons
visited camp meetings in America in
the course ol the past summer, and the
property used for these purposes was
worth $5,000,000.
A new vaul to be lighted with
plate glass windows to expose the in
terior, is tn be built for William B. As
tor ou a side hill in Trinity Cemetery,
at a cost ot $25,000.
An expert Chinese counterfeiter
I mtl-l-l ao M.l4Mfc ImUalwM of JLaft.
uole on the Miaughai banking com
pany, that it was only detected by Its
dale, which was December 35, 1371.
About 12.0;0 young trees and 45,
000 plants have bteu set in the parks
and square of tbistoii during the past
season, aud 3U bird houses haw been
located ou the trees at different points.
The cotton minutacturies of Co
I'lmbu, Ga., consume about XI hales ot
cutto.i per day, or nearly 11,000 In a
working year. The mills there are
running some 35,000 spindles aud 1,200
looms.
Gen. O. O. Howard says that he has
obtained recently touchers Iroui the
disbursing officers of the Freeduiau's
diireau, tending to relieve him of all
responsibility iu relation to the charges
against him.
Dmhts having been expressed of
Anna Dickinson's ability as au actress,
it may be raid that she has a ten thou
sand dollar wardrobe and a lot ot V till
able diamonds beside. This should
raise her above criticism.
In Xew Zealand there are 549 mis
of railway uimmi for traffic, and 33d
miles in progress. It i proto-eil to
exiend ovi r live million d liars during
tlie current year, cuiffly in completing
tlie works now iu progress.
The richest tem l: la-id-owner in
England is Mrs. Meynell Ingrain,
wbo-e Income lioui la. id is 4 ,0ov per
annum. Lady Burdeit Coou has an
income twice aa larg--, nut derived
mainly from London property.
Cincinnati has become a great shoe
man ut act urer, theiudiisirv havi-ig been
augmented lo aucll ail extent ol late
years that It is uo the centre of shoe
manufacture by m ichinery in Hie West.
The business wui tirst beguit lu 1M3.
The Driving Park Association at
Oalt-sburg. 111., is in trouble. It re
eeutly advertised 000 I . premium,
but tne superintend. -ut ran oS with the
cash. A cuare of conspiracy to de
inuil has beeu commenced against the
managers.
A Marysvllle, Cal., man has for
some time been depodtnig live dollars
iu a bank every month, that his dog
and his mule might have something to
live on in case of his uVt. As the
dog died a lew days ago, the mule la
uow sole heir.
One Cider house in Cincinnati has
bought a hundred thousand bushel of
at dtteeii cents a bu-hel delivered,
which leaves to the far. ner, calculating
leu cents a bushel lor hauling, about
Uve cents a bushel, or about sixty ceuts
for a barrelful of cider.
Professor Liomis concludes, after
comparing 5tiw cases, that si onus move
at tne rate of twenty-six miles an hour
on land in this country, ami a little
over uineteeii miles over the ocean. An
express train or a first-class steamship,
could easily keep ahead of a common
storm.
Twenty years ago Indiana did not
own a schoolhouse, and now there are
ten thousand school buildings in the
State, on which has been expended
more than $ 10,000,000. There are thir
teen thousand teachers In the State.
Last year more than $3,000,000 was paid
to teachers.
A calculation has been made of the
average contribution per member in the
leading denominations of this country
for foreign missions. The Methodists
give forty-three cents a member, the
Presbyterians a little more, the Baptists
a little less, and the Episcopalians
thirty-eight cents.
Whatever else may be said of the
Order of Patrons of Husbandry, there
seems to be no doubt that it has been
useful in Introducing a new element of
sociability among the farmers. Many
Of the Grange headquarters have been
Virtually transformed into club-rooms
some of them have been supplied
with libraries; and they are habitually
frequented by all the member entitled,
to their privilege.
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