r v s B' r SCHWEIER, ' ... ' . THS CONSHTUTIOS THB U5I05 AND THE EKFOKCIMENT Or THI tAWS.' : " '"' ' . ' V " ' ' ' "' ' "'.-. '. . ' ? . - " Editor ndProprf atOrV 1 XOt7xXxi. , . MIFFLINTOWN,-JUNIATA'. COUyTYjiENyA.HWEDyESDAY JANUARY-'24.':1877.,! V,." 7 V,-:'.:.'. V NO. "THS BUNCH OF WHEAT." We bend to-day o'er a hallowed form. And onr tears fall quickly down. As we lock our last on a father' face. With its tranquil peace and patient grace And hair like a silver crown. As we touch onr own to the dear oold hands, From life's long labor at rest. We notice a hunch of golden wheat, flacked as a token of lore ao sweet, And laid on the silent breast. Flowers would have whispered of fadeless bloom In a land where fall no tears, liut the ripe wheat tell of the toil and care. The patient waiting, the trusting prayer. And the garnered good of years. We knew through what labors his hands had passed Through what za&svi place his feet. And we Jo red in the peace of hi brow ao white. As leached already with heaven's own liht. As it shone iu the ripened wheat As each goes up from the fields of earth. Hearing the treasures of life, Go-i looks for the gathered grains of goal From the ripening harvest that shining stood But waiting the reaper's knife. Then faithfully tut I, that in death jon may get. Not only with blossom sweet. Not bent with the doubta or burdened with fears. Or with dead, dry bucks of life's wasted years But laden with golden wheat. Daniel Truce. Elacksmith." It is a night of wind and rain, late Iu l!ie autumn of 1C51, and a wretched hut on tlie Xorfolk coast trembles and nearly succumb beneath the combined fury of the elements. Fierce as is the storm, it is nothing to that which rages in the breasts of .Englishmen, for it is hut a few days after the battleof Worces ter that contest which Cromwell called "a crowning mercy" lias put to flight the followers of Charles II. Two of these, Sir J:is)tr Combe, a Royalist colonel, and lieu ben liaiues, the only man left of his regiment, the King's Dragoons, have contrived by desperate endeavors to work their way to the coast, desiring to cross to France. For six atormy nights have ther faced the wind under the friendly protection of darkm-s. For Pis days have they hid den tiienielves in ricks and hedges and such out-of-the-way places as would In sure them sul'etr. Their progress has leen hindered and their liberty more than once endangered, through the presence with them of a troublesome encumbrance a little child throe or f.'ur years of age whom Sir Japer has felt bound to convey to his lady, who awaits him in France. The cavalier colonel, his sergeant, and the tender companion of tl.eir flight, gain, how ever, the miserable dwelling of which we have fpoken, and, clue pursued as they are. see in its squalid interior a bright ark of refuge. The only occu pant of the hut at the moment they come into the place, and hurriedly clos ing the door behind thcui listen for those who are on their track, is one wretched ligi.re, haggard with want, tt'iih neglected hair falling on his !-l;Ouiders, and beard unshaven, his wretched condition of mind and body rendered all the more lamentable by the half-intoxication apparent in his bear ing such is Ianl Druce, once a pros perous blacksmith, now an outcast a man withf.ut hope in life save to amass g:iin, for Druce is a miser. But an In stant before the intrusion of the Royal ist and his companion the former life f the master of the hut has been shown, but ?us through a glass darkly." A visitor to the town, one Marple, has come to Druce and claimed him as his roilier. But Daniel lias thought more f uki'ug tiie recompense for two nets iiuu tiie fi-dicrnian who came with his .. Iitive, than of acknowledging kin Mi;!., lie has not shown him, in fact, ;ie turesi courtesy, and when he has Ik en aJdressod as Jonas ilarple, he has ! ciared that Jonas Ilarple died three years ago. But his brother baa per- isred, despite the obvious desire of the man who was once known as Jonas Marple to disregard him, and has called to his mind that he gave himself out as dead iu order that his wife might re ceive reparation at the hands of a man who had takeu her from her home. DauT Druce has n wished to listen to aspersions against Lit wife. He has asserted that although she left him she was honest.and has prayed God to bless her. Then the mood of ih roan who, from having been open, heart and band, to the wants of the poor, had become a miser, and whose arm had lost its strength with bis life its peace, had -charged, and lie had spoken out to the brother who had sought him. Why should he return to the world to the world which has laid his happiness wHfte, to the world which he can do - without? In this hut life he was at least Assured and safe. Why return to the scene of unpleasant memories to the tiieatre if his desolation and bereave ment. And why should it be thought strange that he should turn miser? lie had cherished a precious hope, and that was to he blessed with a little child, but when he thought the wish certain of " fulfillment, his wife fled with a scoundrel. So he had concentrated the store of tenderness which he had re served for a child, and found robbed of its aim, on cold. And. he bad even in voked heaveo that some day a miracle be brought to par, and his money take human .diape and substance. And his brother had seen that Tonas Marple was oead indeed, and had left Dan'l Druce to himself and his gold. And this pre vious accumulation haJ been 60ught out nd fondled and praised' by Dan'l Drm, who called it child and nursed It, anJ even saw in iu senseless sub stance something better than the little babe who was promised him, but whom he was cheated out of by the villain whom he curses in the same breath in which he blesses his false wife. It is upon this scene that the fugi tives from the battle-field or Worcester vnler. Dan'l Druce Is naturally sur prised at their appearance in his hut, and lie demands their names and busi ness in no "gentle tones. Sir Jasper tells him boldly that they are proscribed Royalists, and when Dau'l Druce in his rage would threaten him with violence, he easily overcomes him, for the ruu:- cles of the arm that could once wield a mighty hammer have grown weak and powerless. Sir Jasper hears the hoofs of bis pursuers' horses die away in the distance, but still be thinks it pru dent to barricade tiie door. Then he tells Daniel that he is expected not only to take them across to the opposite coa when the gale has passed away, but to provide them with food and entertain uient until such time as they can de part. Small matter to Dan'l Druce, whether they be for the King or for the Parliament, for be cares for neither; but he refuses to give them meat and drink, saying be has none from pure oovetousness. They dispatch him to obtain food, however, threatening him with the burning of his hut should he betray them. Dau'l, against his will. departs. Left to themselves, the cava lier and bis follower discuss the dire strait into which thev have fallen. Sir Jasper's spirits have not deserted him, and he believes that som day be will be i e war Jed for his allegiance to his King. Meantime, after seeing that the child, whose presence he denounces In round terms as a nuisance, is doing well, he opens the locker with a hatchet, and fiuds proof of DanT's false economy through the discovery of food and drink. Before a blazing fire which they impro vise right speedily, and with such com parative luxuries as bread, fish and a bottle of Schiedam, the Lord of Combe Raven soliloquizes on the freaks of for tune which have made him glad of the shelter of a fisherman's hut. Accident ally he starts a board that conceals the horde of wealth overwhieh" Dan'l Druce has gloated but now, calling it child and more than flesh and blood. But although he is penniless, Sir Jasper is above availing himself of this chance; he will not stoop to plunder. This quick resolve is followed by the hurried re-eutrance of his sergeant, Reuben Haines, who had been on the look-out for Dan'l Druce, and who now bears the startling intelligence that they must be up and away, for the sound of hor ses' hoofs tell him that they have been betrayed. Sir Jasper bids him make ready Dan'l's boat, for they must put out to sea. Then, reasoning that, as they have been betrayed, Dan'l Druce's mouey is fair plunder, he possesses himself of the cherished wealth of the miser and is about to depart ; but he sees that it would be death to the child to take her with him, and equal danger to that incurred in an open boat at sea to remain with her in his arms and light their pursuers. He decides to leave her, first placing a locket and chain on her neck and pinning a paper, on which lie lias written something, to her dress. He has barely time to leap through the window before Dan'l en ters the place, leading a number of sol diers clad in the Parliamentary nni fornf They think that the Royalists have escaped thorn, and so it indeed proves; for, although the boat is per ceived making off Irom the beach, and is fired upon. Sir Jasper and bis re tainer are beyond the range of their weapons. Meantime Dan'l Druce has discovered the disappearance -of his -..1,1 I.!. ..I,!LI" i.--. . . , .. ... tie girl left by Sir Jasper, supposes that ,...,,. , it is to her that the distracted miser re fers, and tells him that his child is safe. Dan'l Druce cannot bring himself to understand, but be bids the sergeant read what is w ritten on the paper found on the child's dress, and the sergeant reads an injunction to be kiud to the child for his ultimate gain, and a decla ration that his go'd has passed into this shape. Daniel Druce thiuks he sees in this the miracle he has prayed for. This gold has become a child, and in the eyes of the babe he declares that he sees a likeness to those of the wife be has lost. He bids the soldiers kneel, he fore fends them from touching beaveu's gift, and he feels that an answer has been vouchsafed to his prayer. ; Fourteen years have passed since that eventful night on the Xorfolk coast, and Dan'l Druce lias grown not only older, but better. A hale old man of sixty four, he plies his original trade of blacksmith with no less content, if con siderable less strength, than younger men. nis old a;e has a comfort and a blessing in Dorothy, a maid of seven teen, once the babe who was abandoned by the Royalist colonel in his flight from the liattle of Worcester, now "standing with reluctant feet where the brook and river meet" almost grown to the estate of womanhood. Do rothy has proven worth a thousand times the sixty golden pounds which were taken in her stead to Dau'l Druce. Sometimes a thought will cross the old man's mind that she may be claimed sometime by the man who left her in his hut fourteen years before; and sometimes comes the idea that some young fellow will seek her out in mar riage and rob him of her. But Dorothy assures the man whom she has. learned to call father that she will never leave him, and he is only too ready to believe her. Nevertheless, when he tells her that Geoffrey Wyuyard, an old play mate of hers, has returned from sea and is about to visit her, she is too delighted to make it probuble that she entertains a feeling of mere friendship for the sailor who departed when a lad, and comes back a stalwart man. Her meet ing with Geoffrey, which follows speed ily, is a joyful one. He sees that she is grown to be a woman, and tells her that she is a fair one. More, when she con fesses naively that she has often thought of him and of the peril which he ran in his life on the waves, he tells her there is but one thing he loves better than the sea, and that is herself. He speaks to her passionately of his hopes regarding her, and woos the maiden with all the persuasiveness of a young lover, ne bids her not to think that there is any possibility of separating from her father, for be will leave the sea and become the secretary of Sir Jasper Combe, the new land-lord, who is to be received by the villagers this very day. Dorothy confesses that he is dear to her, but that she knows not whether or uot she loves him. She says that however it is be must not go to sea, and asks if to be glad when he comes and grieved when be goes away is to love. So Geoflrey draws her a picture of contrasts. He supposes that, having given up the sea, he has settled down near her father and herself, where he can see her dally and go with her to church on Sundays, and then he imagines that he is called away to sea again. lie pictures the parting nd their mutual fears, the long waiting and her dreary life, and finally the re- ceist of news of a disaster to his vessel worse, of his having been swallowed up in the fathomless billows. Dorothy can hear no more; her agitation shows she loves him, and they are both happy. lie place a ring upon her finger, and she gives him in exchange ner mother's locket, which she has worn on a chain about her neck. lie thanks her with a kiss, and Dan'l Druce, perceiving the sweet pledge of affection, sees that the girl has found her fate, and sighs over his prospective loss. Dorothy tells him simply what has happened, and, al though it is a hard struggle, Dan'l is thankful that, since it must be, it is as it is. lie tells Geoffrey what Dorothy's presence and innocence have done for him, the change that she has worked in his life; and bow, in teaching the child, he has learned himself the great truths which were written for salva tion, lie tells, too, of the fear that has constantly haunted him that Dorothy's father might come to claim her, and how the face of the strange man who had left the child in the hut fourteen years ago was constantly before him for a long time. Master Reuben Ilaines, now Sir Jasper's bailiff, stops at Dan'l Drtice's forge to have his horse shod, and renews an acquaintance, of longer standing indeed, than he has an idea of, with Mistress Dorothy. The maid does not understand his extravagancies of speeeb and demeanor, for Reuben is fa- cetious, and possesses "the gift of the gab" to a degree which is of excellent service to a general lover, as he is dis- osed to be. It stands him in no stead with Dorothy, nevertheless, and she is glad to speak of Sir Jasper. Reuben is uot to be deterred from his matrimonial project, however, and he not only de luges the maid with a One flow of lan guage, out Has seized ner about the waist, when Sir Jasper enters and pro tects Dorothy from his bailiff's obnox ious addresses. Sir Jasper whom Reu bcu ; strongly intimates would, ouce upon a time, not have been free him self from the blame which he now heaps upon his subordinate talks with the maiden, and tells ber how he regrets the loss or a little child, who was so mourned by her mother that death en. sued. Sir Jasper gains Dorothy's sym pathy, and he receives a hearty wel come, too, from Dan'l Druce, who gradually reccognizes, however, in his landlord the cavalier colonel of fourteen years before the father of the child whom he has reared as his own.- He is i overcome at the dread discovery, but Sir Jasper does uot suspect the true cause of his emotion, and departs, after inviting Dorothy to come to the Hall, and asking the privilege of imprinting a kiss cn her fairyoungbrow. Dorothy prattles in innocent delight over the prospect Of a visit to the nail, never dreaming of the anguish Dan'l Droceis undergoing. He had thought that Reu ben's face was a familiar one; but" he had never dream -I that It was a fore- runner of a recognition which would rueai nun mis certain uiuw. - lie lens Dorothy that Sir Jasper is unworthy of her sympathy, for he left his child to perish in order to save his own life, and after receiving from ' her the sweet as surance that she will never leave him, no matter what may happen, dismisses her. Dan'l Druce discloses to Geoffrey the discovery which he has made, and begs him to marry Dorothy, for Sir Jasper cannot take her from a huaband. Geoffrey at first demurs, intimating that Sir Jasper's right should not be gainsayed. But Dan'l Druce rises up in opposition. What, this man her father, who deserted her! This man her father, who proved false to his trust! Xo matter if he be penitent, no matter if his right be undisputable in the eyes of the law, be, Dan'l Druce, has bought her love by fourteen years of devotion, and she his affection by a thousand pure influences and a thou sand priceless associations. Whatever bis duty might be, nature cried out that she was bis, and he hers, and noth ing should part them. Then he appeals to Geoffrey's own interest, telling him that, once restored to rank and state, Dorothy can never be his wife. Geoffrey promises not to betray Dan'l Drnee's project of a quick departure with Do rothy, and he promises willingly at last, for he sees that his love would be hopeless of fulfillment, were Sir Jasper ever to be allowed to claim his own. Geoffrey is accosted immediately on his taking this resolve by Reuben, who is swelling like a turkey-cock over his imaginary prowess, and who poses sea himself of Dorothy's locket, which Geoffrey has unfortunately dropped on the ground. On Geoffrey claiming it as his, the bailiff bids him describe it, but before he has finished detailing its peculiarities, Sir Jasper's follower has recognized it as the bauble which his master placed on his child's neck on the night that lie had abandoned ber. Geoffrey, on being questioned as to how he came by it, will only say that it is a token of betrothal. He does not kuow that Dan'l and Dorothy have entered and are interested listeners, but he feels that he must not allow the bailiff to re cognize Sir Jasper's missing daughter, lest he be false to the trust that Dan'l has reposed in him, and a loser, more over, of his sweetheart. So he affects indifference, and wheu Reuben, catches his admission that the locket is a token of betrothal, and mentions Do rothy's name in that connection, he laughs lightly, and says that if he has paid Dorothy some attentiou, he has only carried out the license of his call ingsailors were ever wooers. Doro thy, understanding naught of Geoffrey's motives for disowning her, believes that he has dealt lightly with her love, and when Reuben goes to acquaint Sir Jas per with his discovery, Dan'l and Doro thy both reproach the young man, the one silent, but eloquent with tears, the other with uplifted arm and a charge that he has betrayed the secret wan tonly. Geoffrey is confounded at this allegation and cannot find words to ex plain. Dorothy bids him to, and Dan'l says he pardons him, but tells him he must depart; and when he has obeyed, Dorothy falls sobbing at Dan'l's feet, and Dan'l tries to assuage her grief. When the evening falls Dan'l pre pares to steal away from the old forge. and bids Dorothy make ready to go with him. She. poor child, is sadly conning over a letter which Geoffrey wrote her months before, and 'seeking to renew in the simple , words which he has penned impressions of the , lover whom she now thiuks faithless. Dau'l feels that, however Geoffrey ' may have wronged him, he is not false to Doro thy; but to undeceive ber would neces sitate explanations which hu.canuot make just now. So Dorothy talks of her shattered idol, and Dan'l makes no sign. Enters to him Raubeu Haines, wbese cunning mind has devised a pro position which will aid his self-inter ests. If Dorothy will wed with him, he tells Dan'l Druce, he will say noth ing to Sir Jasper and Dan'l can keep her for his daughter. Will Dan'l ac cept? The perplexed old man decides to consent even to persuade Dorothy to be this man's wife. The maiden views this proposal with no favor, but Dan'l urges it upon her as though be were pleading for his life. He argues that since Geoffrey has denied her, she can have no thought of allegiance to him to deter her from accepting; he even begs that she will consides his re quest as the first one he has ever made aud grant it to save him from great sor row. .Dorothy coiiseuts to do as she is bidden, but she declares that her heart will break. At this Dan'l Druce changes his resolve, and begging her forgiveness for wavering for a moment, orders Reuben from the house aud tells him to do his worst, and the bailiff de parts to tell Sir Jasper where his daugh ter may be found. Geoffrey comes to Danl, and tells him lie has refused the position which Sir Jasper would have given him, and is going to sea. He begs that when he is far away Dorotiiy shall be told all, and how he was ever faithful to her in thought and purpose. Dan'l tells him that if it were in his power the maiden should be bestowed where she had pledged her faith, but now it is impossible, for Sir Jasper Is coming to claim bis own. And, in sooth, as he speaks, there is a knocking at the door, and the two men lie who left the child fourteen years before iu the hut on the Xorfolk coast,' and he who took ber In glad exchange for his gold stand face to face to contest their ' ights. Reuben, who has conducted Sir Jasper to the frge, is over zealous in his desire . to impute the blame of coucealment aud the intention of flight to the blacksmith, but he is speedily disposed of: for, on Sir Jasper hearing that lie has himself oflcred to hide bis discovery, on condition that Dorothy' be given to him iu marriage, he is ordered to deliver his books and papers to Geoffrey, who is named steward in his place, and get him hence. Then Sir Jasper and Dau'l Bruce are left to contest between themselves the question which is uppermost 'in the minds of both. To Sir Jasper's charge that Dan'l stole away from the town to which the child could be traced aud left no clue behind him, Dan'l replies, with righteous indignation, that the father who would desert his infant thus could not be expected to seek her again. He Dan'l Druce had done his duty by her. What had the man doue who left her to perish ? Sir Jasjier admits that Dan'l has spoken wisely, ne himself was but step-father to the child, but her mother bad died of grief over her loss, and be had promised the wife whom he dearly loved to make amends for his neglect by searching for the babe. Why, then, now that he has found her, should he give ber up to any one, even to Dan'l Druce? The poor old man has nothing to say to this; he calls Dorothy, and tells her that she is to be a lady, for Sir Jasper is her fattier. He will come and see her sometimes, he says piteously, and then he tells her that instead of one father she will have two, and begs her not to speak "and rushes from the place. But Dorothy cannot welcome this new-found parent. She is not daz zled by thoughts of wealth ; she sees only the poor old man to whom she is ail the world, and she begs Sir Jasper not to take her away from Dau'l Druce. He tells her she is free to do as she will; and, blessing him for the words, she says that another blow would have ended Dan'l's life, for his wife's deser tion nearly drove him mad his wife, for whom she was named Dorothy; his wife, Dorothy Marple, to save whose good name he gave out that she was dead. At the mention of that name Sir Jasper is deeply moved, and, sum moning Dan'l Druce he bids him take his daughter, for she is his very own. He conveys to him, too, that he, Sir Ja'per Combe, is the author of all his woes, but now, penitent, implores for- giveuess. And when Dan'l urtice awakens to the fact that the man who has just gone out into the night is he who desolated his life, and stole from him the mother of Dorothy, be would even rush after him and wipe out his wrongs with blood. But Djrothy, angel of mercy and forgiveness, inter poses, and bids him spare the man who has suffered, and will suffer, for her mother's sake aud for hers. And Dau'l Druce is content to forgive, aud Geoff rey is no longer the victim of miscon ception, but is restored to Dorothy's arms, as he ever has been present in her teuder thoughts. this is the story of W. S. Gilbert's noble drama, "Dau'l Druce, Black smith." A Coaviet Wiser thaa bia Judge. The history of jurisprudence probably doea not afford a more aniusiuir story than that of an incident which occurred two or three weeks ago in an English court, when a man who had ben con victed at the previous session of an at tempt to steal was brought up and sen tenced to five years' penal servitude. "What ! five years for an attempt I" he exclaimed. It ought only to be two years." He went back to his cell, but his comment on the sentence was cor rect, and iu a few minutes he was re called to the dock when an amended sentence was passed opon him. "I told you ao !" he remarked triumphantly, and he went back to his ceil elated at having saved three years. ; In Rhode Island 14,152 children of the legal school age did not attend any school to the amount of one month during the year. The Taller Md lnHitf. Two years alter his marriage, on April 12th. 1709, . and . without the knowledge of Addison. Steele published the first number of The Tatler. The significance of this event could have been foreseen by. no one. Steele did not know, and none of his readers knew, that from this small seed would spring many a goodly tree, bright with flow ers and wealthy in fruit, and that foli age, blossoms, and fruit would be un like aught that bad been grown hither to iu the garden of our literature. The name of Isaac Bickcrstaff had received notoriety from the famous joke played by Swift upon the astrologer and aim nao maker. Partridge, who, although doue to death and decently buried by the great wit, would not believe in his own decease. Steel took advantage of the jwpularity created by Swift's in vention, and announced his journal as The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq. The paper was published three tunes a week, the days on which the post left London, and contained, besides amusing sketches of character, "ac counts of gallantry, pleasure and enter tainment," and poetical criticism, a portion devoted to foreign and domestic news. This variety of plan suited the habits of Steele, and afforded scope for bis genius. His versatility and hi mercurial nature made prolonged labor distasteful; but he had wit, aud readi ness, and lively fancy, a quickness of comprehension, and a facility in com position, which eminently fitted him for the task he had selected. Addison detected Steele's hand in the sixth num ber, and afforded him some slight assist ance from that time; but it was not un til about eighty numbers had appeared that he became a frequent contributor. For some months all the writing as well as the editing, of the work de volved upon Steele. It would seem that he was not a little careless about the revision of proofs; but readers in those days were easily satisfied, and the niceties of the spelling were as much disregarded as a uniform system of spelling. Pope in verse and Addison in prose, were the literary reformers oftheage;and the latter, after a cen tury and a half, retains his fame not only as a moralist and a humorist, but as a consummate master of language. Steele wrote with strong feeling and healthy enthusiasm, with much pathos and varied knowledge of life; but he often wiote incorrectly, and his sentences, are sometimes ao oddly put together as to obscure the meaning. j The depre ciation he has rccivedfrom some critics is due, we believe, in great measure, to the looseness of his style; but it may be observed, while acknowledging Steele's weakness in this resjiect, that frequently and almost always when moved by the pathos of his subject, the writer's language is simple, forcible, and appropriate. The best of Steele's papers in The Tatler were excelled by Addison alone, and there is a sprightli ness and simplicity of tone about them which make them delightful reading. Steele came to his work well furnished, he carried it on with infiuue vivacity, aud in spite of the help rendered him by his illustrious friend, the color of the work, if the term may be allowed, comes from the hand of Steele. As the teller of slight and pathetic tales he is superior to Addison, and in criticl-iii he takes a place by Addison's side. "What a good critic he was!" exclaimed Landor. "I doubt if he has ever been surpassed." Steele was indeed brn for literature far more than for politics, for which his chief qualifications were a directness and manliness of purpose, and a love of country so pure and chiv alrous as the love he felt for women. For business and commercial specula tion he had a little geni us, but bis rash ness forced him to mauy a foolish scheme at the cost of time and money that might have been spent more profit ably. The only post held by Steele when he started on his official career as essayist was that of Official Gazetteer. After a while he was made CommUion er of Stamps; but when the Tories came Into otlice, Steele, whose Whig gery had become obnoxious, lost his previous appointment. On January 2d, 1711, Swift writes to Stella: "Steele's last Tatler came out to-day. He never told so much as Mr. Addison of it, who was as much astonished as I. To my knowledge lie had several good hints to go upon, but was so lazy and weary of th work he would not im prove them." Steele was impulsive aud given to change, but he was not lazy, and two months after the exit of The Tatler appeared the first number of The Spectator.Addison was consulted this time. The two friends formed the plan of the papers in concert, and according to Bishop Hurd, the characters that com prise the celebrated club were the com mon work of both. This may be true, but it is certain that the second number, iu which the different characters of the club are sketched, was written by Steele, aud that we are indebted to him for our first introduction to the immor tal Sir Roger de Covcrley. Miss Aikin, with the curious habit of depreciating Steele In vogue among writers, regards it as a "singular circumstance" that the first hints of this character should have been thrown out by him; as if the versatile fancy and happy art of character-drawing that had so long sus tained the Tatler were incapable of pic turing the humorous knight! The por trait is a mere sketch, but the few lines that form it show the hand of a master. The Spectator was wonderfully popular. All the town berime familiar 'with it; it was found on every breakfast table; fine ladies who knew nothing about literature followed the prevailing fash ion fashion and learned to talk about Will Honeycomb and Will Wimble, and to laugli at the eccentricities of Sir Roger. The circulation was enormous for an age in which books and papers were usually the food . of a circle of wits, instead of being, as in our days, a common necessary of life. Both in numbers and in volumes the famous essays sold in thousands, and the sur prise of Steele must have been as great as his pleasure. Nevertheless, after a while, he grew restless and impatient, and at the close of 1712 brought his Journal to an end. This was done, as in the former case, without consultation with Addison, and wheu two or three months later, Steele commenced the Guardian he did so without communi cating with his friend. Comhill Maga (', . . . -, . tit , Dress ! the Lavat Ceatary. Speaking of dress iu the last century, a writer says: The toilet was the great sum and business of life, the adjust ment of the hair the principal employ ment. Take, for instance, how a lady of fashion passed ber day. , At ten, af ter her "dish of Bohea," as it was cal led, generally taken before rising, the lady arrayed herself in a muslin wrap per, aud had a regular reception ot her friends, while, with her hair disheveled, she was submitted for the first time iu the day to the hands of her hairdresser, for usually she dressed four or five times a day. Her hair dragged off her face, covered with powder, plastered with pomatum, frizzed iu still curls. was raised by means of gauze, feathers, and flowers into an edifice often equal to her height ; four ells of gauze have been contained in some of these erections, with butterflies, birds, and feathers in troduced the last tiie most preposterous height of, it is recorded, about a yard. After an hour's plastering aud frizzing tiie hairdresser's task was over, and a weary one it was, though enlivened by the animated conversation of the visi tors. The remainder of the toilet was Quished, the most important of which was the arrangement of the patches a point of great interest. These were made of black silk, gummed,' and cut Into stars, crescents, and other forms. Patches had originated in France, under Louis XV with a view to show off the whiteness of the complexion, but they were never worn by women of dark sklus. Great was the care In placing these patches near the eye, the corner of the mouth, the forehead and the tem ple. A lady of the world would wear seven or eight, and eaeh had a ecial designation. She never went without a box of patches, to replace any that might accidentally fall off; and these boxes, generally of Battersea enamel, finely painted by some eminent artist, had usually a tiny looking glass inser ted within the lid to help her to repair her accident. Xor was the rouge-pot forgotten, rouge at that' time being an indispensable adjunct to the toilet so indispensable that when Marie Antoi nette came over to France to marry Louis XIV and begged to dispeuse with wearing it, a family conclave was held at Versailles on the subject, followed by a formal order from the King to put it on a command which she had no al ternative but to obey. alena Faaatlelsna la Dansaaraa. Hardly a better example of the man ner in which the Turkish government misgoverns can be obtained than from what is at this moment taking place in Damascus. The yearly pilgrimage to Mecca, with presents sent by the Sul tan, ought to start from that city in a day or two. In order to do this it must have Jt40,0)0. The towu aud the neigh borhood have been ransacked lor the amount, but not more than half the amount has been obtained. The bank has been asked to advance a portion of the rest, but remembering how much the government owes it, and with what bad, purely Turkish faith it has been treated, the bank has, I believe refused the request. The local Jews have been applied to, but as the numerous serghls, or orders, upon the departments held by them are hardly negotiable at any price, they too have refused. The poor peasants of the neighborhood have been squeezed until it has become hopeless to get anything more out of them. The governor is in despair how to get the money. I naturally asked of my many informants, for this, after the war and the propect of a new Damascus massacre, was the chief subject of con versation what the money was wanted for. From every source the same an swer was given. It is to bribe the Bed ouin chiefs to allow the caravans to pass in safety. In other words it Is to pay black-mail. One who knows Syria well told me that iu some of the Arab tribes the usual dowry promised by the husband to the wife on marriage was what he could steal or beg the next time the Sultan's caravan passed on its way to Mecca. I have already alluded to the dread of another massacre which is felt in Dam ascus. 1 may say at once that I don't believe there's any immediate danger. Several well-informed European of ficials told me that the Christians have lived for years in perpetual fear, and that they do not observe that Moslem fanaticism, bad though it is, is no worse now than it has been for many years. But the recollection of deeds of sixteen years ago, when so many lives of an in nocent, industrious, defenceless, and small minority were sacrificed to Mos lem fanaticism, makes the people feel as men do who live in a powder maga zine. Let it be said in passing, however, that Arub fauaticism showed to advant age as against Turkish fanaticism in Bulgaria. Xo children were killed; few women were killed, few violated. I write carefully when I say that it is by no means clear that the Turkish government has not been trying during the last few weeks to arouse Moslem fanaticism in Damascus. The state ment of a consul resident in the city that the government has been putting out feelers to see whether the Moslem population would rise, has, I believe, good grounds. This much is certain, that while the government will not al low anything like political telegrams to reach the residents, it has itself put out a statement on or about the 6th of Octo ber, which has caused great alarm among the Christians. One consul told me that it was to the effect that Servia had broken the armistice, had martyred 8,000 Mohamedans, therefore all Mos lems ought at once to go and fight the giaours. Two others agreed that the document certainly spoke of those killed as martyrs of Mahomedanlsm. Oue of them said it was a distinct ap peal to Moslem fanaticism, the object being, as he believed, not to provoke an actual outbreak, but to create a feel ing which the government would be able to refer to, and have reported upon by the consuls, to the effect that if any concessions were made to the Christians in Europe the government could not be responsible for an outbreak in Syria, however much they might regret it. The other consul told me that, he be lieved its object wag of a different kiud. The government wants money, as I have said, for the pilgrimage. By pre tending that there must be a new call upon the Moslems to go to the war, be hoped to get in a considerable sum of substitutional money. All however, agreed that the proclamation was pure ly mischievous. Uufortunateiy, none of them bad been able to obtain copy. It must be said, to the credit of the Arab Moslems of Damascus, who hate aud despise the Turks,- that all the copies were tarn down a short time af ter they were put up, one Arab of great influence saying, Iu the presence of a consular cavass, as he tore it down, We are not going to have oJchief made iu that way." 1 was Informed iu Damascus by oue of the consuls, who knows the place well, that some of the leaders iu the massacre - are now holding situations under government, and have been pro- moled. Englishmen will do well to bear iu mind that the promotion of leaders of massacres of Christians is that which seems right to the lurk. I hey may have to be punished, though how skilled the government is iu evading such pun ishment the second inquiry into the murder of the consul last spring at Sa lon ica has sufficiently shown; but if they are punished it is only the result of European dictation, and as soon as will be possible the offenders will be taken back to the heart of the Turk. It may possibly turn out as I have sug gested already, that the Turkish gov ernment would not be unwilling just at the present moment to make political capital out of the existence of Moslem fanaticism in some of the Syrian towns ; to say to Europe if such aud such terms are imposed upon us, it will be impossi ble to restrain our Modern subjects. Mara Time. Peter Hagermau devoured his break fast with a wonderful relish, drank nearly all the coffee from his wife's cup she had left to cool, and with her only clean handkerchief in his pocket started out boldly in search of work, leaving his kit of jewelry tools behind him. Passing a bank lie stepped in and asked the President : "Do you want an assistant here, cashier, book-keeper, or collecter?" "Any experience iu the business?" "Xo, but f';n handy at anythtng." 'Do not want help all full." Then he went out and along another street until he came to a newspaper cfllce where he entered to ask of the proprietor : "Do yon want an editor?" "Xo, have all we want." "Will work cheap." "Have you had any experience in the business?" "Xo, but I know when I see a good thing in a newspaper and can cut it out. I am a careful reader." "What salary do you wish ?" "Am not particular the best there is to be had." "Xo use for editors." "But I am out of a situation." "Well, look around and find one. That is the way dogs find or pes and men find places. "Well, I don't want any common pl.-u-e." "The eood ones are generally filled." "I won't accept a poor one one that is not first-class." "Then you had better wait till there isademaud for inexperienced men for first-class positions." Then Peter Hagerman went out aud rolled at ten-pins till near midnight.. and when he went home asked his wife to go out and find some sewing or embroidery, or music teaching, to earu enough to pay for their board, the times were so hard, and the next day tried billiards, and feasted on another lunch counter. He will soon have a situation and a good one ! What MUljeerlaeT This question is often asked, and an answer would be of much interest to many, for it is an article that is much used, and ought to be found in every household. It is a principle which ex ists iu fat. and fats are a combination of glycerine. Lard, after the lard oil has been pressed out, is chiefly a com pound of stearic acid aud glycerine. Where the best candles are manufact ured, the compound is brokeu up, aud the stearic acids is used for caudles, while the glycerine is cleansed and put up for sale. Pure glycerine should be a quite thick aud colorless liquid. It has no odor; its name is from the Greek word meaning sweet, and this term points out one of its most prominent characteristics its sweetness. For its undrying qualities it is very remark able. If spread out and exposed to the air, it remains unchangeable for a long time. It will not mix with oils, but mixes freely with alcohol and with water, and has a solvent power for nu merous substances. It is much used iu medicine as a solvent for many drugs. In medical preparations it Is much used instead of sugar. We all know of its excellent qualities for chapped aud sore hauds, face, and lips, keeping the parts from the air, aud is much more convenient than other oily matters. Diluted with water it makes a good hair dressing, keeping the hair smooth aud moist and rendering it easily combed. Glycerine does not freeze or evaporate. It Is used instead of molas ses to mix in glue, to form the rollers by which ink is applied to type. It is exclusively used iu cities to put in gas meters, and in many other ways. These are only a tew of the uses to which it can be pat. It would be still more generally used if people knaw the virtue of this Interesting chemical prod uce. There are more fools than wise men, and even in the wise men more folly than wisdom. .1179 CI BUTE?. Each person ou the gloh would get $2 if all the gold was parcelled out. . In Michigan a tract of 1,040 acres, was the other day sold for ten cents an acre. Bull, Cow and Calf, are the names of three Kentucky streams that empty into the sanuy river. Dr. Winslow says that spiritualism has a constituency ot 10,000 in the luna tic asylums of the United States. : Rev. Pliojbe Il.innaforJ "iai or dained ber son and married her d;. ligh ter. The Chaplain of the Colorado State Senate is a negro, Kev. C. F. VVatsoti, of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Italy produces 33,000,000 galloua of olive oil annually, and France some 7,000,000 gatlons. Lyon J. Tyler, a son of the late President Tyler, has been appointed Professor of Modem Languages at Wil liam and Mary College, Virginia. They have one Pa'.rou of Husbaiidry (famiiiarly, Granger) in Congress, Col onel D. Wyatt Aiken, Iteutucratic Representative-elect from the third district of South Carolina. Gov. Kemper of Virginia, says that thedebt of that state amounts to .ti.OOO, 000, all of which w a-t contracted before the war. It amounts to oue-teutu of the taxable property of the state. Nothing like perseverance. A man named Fox ol'Titusville. Pa., has re covered f.M.OOO damages from tiie Balti more and Ohio lUilroad y a 23 years suit. ' Mr. Robert Browning has bee.i nominated by the Glasgow students' Independent Association as their can didate for the Lord Rectorship of the University. It snowed recently in Constantino ple, and the suerstitious Turks were filled with dismal forebodings at a phe nomenon of such rare occurrence in their climate. Two young men in St. Louis re cently robbed the corpse of a deceased hatter oi au overcoat. They thought he would not need it where he was going. Col. J. Dean Hawiey, of Syracuse, N. Y., has presented to the University of Syracuse a watch about S;0 year old. It still keeps very good t:me, and weighs half a pound Troy weight. A youth was recently tried iu Eng land for breach of promise, who had written to his sweetheart tl'i love-letters since lai7. Those letters coet him 100, not including the stationery. The first bank in the United SUtes was the Bank of Xorth America or ganized January 7, 1772, at Philadel phia, and it is still transacting an ex tensive business in the Quaker City. Mr. Chaffee, the new senator from Colorado, is enormously wealthy, and a widower. It is not especially encoura ging to fair treasury clerks, however, that he has been a widower IbrliOycars. A son of Rrigham Young has re signed from the United Stales Xaval Academy, desiring to seek another oc cupation. He stood welliu his studies, which he had been pursuing for over two years. Capt. Boyutou has successfully ac complished his greatest voyage in his life-saving dress, by swimming down the river Po, from Castel Duoni.t to Ferrara, 2(?0 miles, in ii hour-', without a break. There is au unusual interest mani fested in kitchen maids by the young men of Memphi., Mo., cause-1 by a statement in a local paper that a young lady, heir to 10,inh) is working as a domestic iu a family there. Mrs. Scute is an old Imly of Car rolltou. 111., whose age is supit.sed t be from 10S to 11j years. She is known to be over 10U years old. Mie has len helpless tor many years and dependent upou the charity of I'rien.N. The rsult l the recent School Hoard election is the greatest triumph the Liberal party have had in Lunlo:, for many years. Ail the four lady can didates have been elected. At the first election in 1570. only two ladies were returneu. A Brooklyn man recently got him self into trouble by kicking the wron boy. A lot ot young rascals hail been ringing his door bell, and he ran out tor revenge, which cost him J"0 and twenty-nine days' imprisonment. A mill ought always to be sure of his hot . The Cherokee have over eihtv conimoti schools. The Ciiicasaws iiave - four public and ten district schools. The Choctaws have two public school and over fifty district schools. The Creek have three public schools and about thirty district schools. There are 331 Freemason lodge iu Germany. Outside of the Empire there are 123 lodges that conduct their pro ceedings In German, of which 95 are in the tinted slates, the others are dis tributed throughout the world, inclu ding China, Turkey and Egypt. A lady lost two valuable rinsr in the snow at Rutland, Vt., the other day. while taking off oue of her glove. Sev eral gentlemen volunteered their assi-t-ance, scraeil together all the snow in the vicinity, placed it in boxes, aud took it into a boiler room, where it was soon melted by steam, and the jewelry re covered. Gas iu Baltimore was reduced a few months ago Irom 3 to $2.75 per thou sand (feet. Xow Baltiuioreuns are be seeching the gas company to restoretlie former price, as, according to the biil. they are paying for nearly one-hair more gas under the reduced rate than they ever did. Anyhow, they don't want any further reduction on tin plan. It has been asserted impossible that a man could eat thirty quail iu thirty consecutive days, which may be true of men, but a San t rancisco womau re cently achieved the feat in response to a banter from her snn-tn-Iaw, who of fered a wager of $500 that she could not accomplish it, and thus nobly taught one man what a spirited mother-in-law can do. He thought they would kill her, but site survives. The tew observatory at Xiagara Falls, wheu completed, will offer advan tages to the sight-seers that will cer tainly be appreciated. The building i being erected on a massive foundation of masonry, a short distance from the entrance to the "Shadow of the llock.' The entire end of the building facing the falls will be of heavy glass, attorn ing to those within a grand vie w of the falls. The building will cost about 12,000 The new Harvard catalogu: con tains 1,370 uames of students and officer in the several departments. Teacher., one hundred and twenty-four, student, eight hundred and tweuty-O'ie divin ity, twenty-three; law, one hundred and eighty-seven, scientific, twenty nine ; medical, two hundred aud twenty six; candidates for higher degrees, forty-five, the Bussey institution h is only six Btudents and the Episcopal Theological School thirteen. The col lege library numbers 100,000 volumes, which the various department libraries increase to 219,000. 1 : i ii
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers