iv -AS. V v k k i M 7 a as. a. J. . W . Ill F. y. . r fi N Mil IV IK 1 ! M i tHK C0S3TITCTI03 TBI ClflOH AKD THB E5F0B.CE1TE5T OF IHI LAWS. Editor and Proprietor. B. F. SCHWEIER, VOL. XXXI. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7. 1S77. NO. 10. I THE OLD STORT. I hmv loved the f md'y. truly. With all my tnuitiiii; brt ; Anl. like a rove in fir arch of ret. Have wandered where than art ; I've lingered round thee Jay by day Till by thy haude arrewed, . I've laid my weary, aching head I'pon thy loving breaeL. But tow rjr.y drernn of love in o'er 18 memories blight are pissed ; And recollections bnt recall The eceues that eculd not Like non-flke, which deacond on earth. They uie.U d. one by one, Ard disapj cared l.ke droja of dew, t'efure the morning aun. I would rot cat reproach npon Th-t faitblesa heart of thine ; Tor coiiK-eiice mn-t prve pang more keen Than bnn.io? wcrln of mine ; And aa the hand cf time engrave Its f urro a od on Irows, My memory Lnu before thy vjw Ihj faiae and perjured vow. Xo. no, I would not have thee think That I a thcnLt aotdd cant Upon the happy seem of yore, Now t uiied in the pt ; For though I loved thee once, yet now 1 tr thee fr,-m my heart. And to their fountain backward send The burning Ura that ft it. The Kissing Bank Nole. Archie Norton was a happy man that evening, lie was paying his last visit to Marian Gilbert, who -was to become Marian Xorton to-morrow. As th-; two 8 it together in the twi light, murmuring delicious word of joy and hoi, they were interrupted by the entrance of a servant with the an nouncement that two gentlemen wished to see Mr. Xorton immediately. "Tell them they must wait till another time," said Archie; "that I am parti cularly engaged at present." "But I was to mv, sir, if you please, that the business is very pressing, and they must see you." With an impatient gesture Archie fol lowed the servant into the passage, w here he found himself confronted by two rough-looking men. Mr. Xorton, 1 suipose?" one of them accosted him. Archie bowed assent, adding with a touch of haughtiness, A request to be informed of the object of their visit. "It's all along o' t hat missing money," replied the man, curtly. - It is neee-snry to explain that a pac ket of bank notes, brought by a deios itor a few clays before to the bank in which Archie Xorton ' a clerk, hud disappeared mysteriously from the re ceiving teller's desk, and though the most thorough search had b.-en made, no trace was found of the lost money. Suspicion painted na'urally to some of the employe?, but fastened upon no particular one. All that could hi don under the circumstances was to procure a complete description of the notes from the depositor, who, fortunately, had preserved a ffic-morandum ofthcii denomini-.tious and numbers, and to keep strict watch through all available channels, w ith a view to discovering by whom any of them urght be put into circulation. "The missing money!" exclaimed Archie; "baa any clue been gained ol it?" "There Ins," the msn answered, "and you're wanted riht away." Archie had beeu among the most ac tive in efforts to solve the mystery, and expressed his readiness to aeenmpary Ids vUitors st once, and render all tht aid in bis twcr, asking them to wait till he should step ill and txcure his absence. "Quae impossible," sail the spokes man cf the two, in a low dogged tone at the same time placing his hand on Archie's arm and leading him put ot earshot "Cant suffer you out of our fight yen sr-e." i . , -Can't sutler me out of your sight?'' "Soj, seJU?- you're oov-pristier.'' "Your your- prison eri' tlus younj; man taspe.), stupefied with amazement. "Yes; aud unless yoa want u makt a acr-ne," rejoined the tther, "the bis; thing yon can do is to come alouj: quietly.'""" - t ' "But w hat U the charge i" asked Ar chle, "t-urely 1 am not susjectel." "We dciu't su-pect nothiii'," inter rupted the fflcer, "which that faren"i our business which iiouly to UVe'yoH! body." ' . ' . . Seein further parley wasuseks. w ith trhal cf'iu jmsure he could command, Ar chieafur, bidding the servant explain to Miss Gilbert that urged butlnes calied Idm way suddenly, accompanied his custodians io'sileuce, i." . At t!ie police i tfice he learned that nota which he bad p;:id out that eve ning had been identified as one of thos. stolen fioiu the bank, which fact led to his present arrest. A search was then made of the pri soner, in whose pocketbook was found a number of bank notes, every one ol which wa proved, ly its number au other distinctive features, to belong t the missing packet. At this revelation Arel.ie Xorton stood overwhelmed auJ speechlei-s. Tin stunning force with which the blow had fallen had bereft him of all jwwei to make an explanation, if, indeed, he bail any to offer. Xext morning I received a snmmous from the prisoner, with, whom 1 had been on terms of friendly inten-oarse, and one of whose wedding guests I was to be. I found him in his cell, in a half dazed bewildered state. "Surely," I said, "you must be able to account (or vour possession of the notes found upon you." "CertiiirUy I am," he answered ; "I got them yesterday from my uncle executor, Mr. Gordon in, payment ol a lejmcv. I was too much conl'ased last night to mention that." "Mr. Gordoa is a very methodical man of business," I replied, "and may be able to identify the notes he paid yon. In that cae the affair will be cleared up; for no one wilt snsrxKjt Mr, Gordon, and if be remembers from whom he received the mites, -not only will yoor Innocence be established, but a clue may be gained to the discovery f th real culprit." "By-tbe-way," I added, "In whoe company were you yeerday after re ceiving the monev from Mr. Gordon?" "Iu Ralph Gra.rson's" he answered, "ii deed!" I said, a little astonished, for Ralph Grtyson, a fellow clerk of Archie's, had been his rival a-p'rant to the hand of Marian Gilbert, and their relations had been far from friendly. "Flien you and he have bceoine ree-on-ciled?"" ; "Oh, yes," lie replied; '-he came home with me, yesterday, and remained till I started on my visit to Marian." "Where was your pocketbook mean time?" "Why, in my pocket, of course," said Archie, looking astonished at the lues tion. "All the time?" I continued. "Ali the time," be answered "that is, all except a few minutes that I was in my bed-room changing my dress. 1 had taken out my p.cket'iMk ju-t be fore to consult a paper, :i ud la.ii! it on my sitting-room table." "And Grayson was in the sitting- room with yon?" "Certaiuly, but why do you ask? You do not think surely " "I think nothing at present," I re plied, and encouraging my friend To hoe for the best, took my leave. - My first step was to ascertain the numbers and description of the notes found In Archie's possession; the -mxi to call on Mr. Gordou. . "Ton" iaid Mr. Xorton some morreyt yesterday." I began. . ,k "I did," was tiie answer. "i)id you keep a memorandum of the nuinlx rs and denominations of the notes?"' "It is my Invariable custom," said Mr. Gordon, "and 1 followed it iu this instance." Then y.ui will be able to tell whether this i a correct list and description of them." 1 continued, handing Mr. Gor don a memorandum of the notes found on Archie. Alter ooiif-ulting his book, he shook his head. "X; these are not the notes." My first hope was da.-hed, "but I hal still another. "Will you suffer me to take a copy of the description of the notes you did pay Mr. Xorton?" 1 asked. Th permission m given ami the copy made. Xow for hopo number two. That evening fo-.iud rue in social companionship with Kalph Grayson. We had not been intimate hitherto; for Ita'ph was of a disposition too secretive and selfish toa lmit of much cordiality between us. For one, hovvevever, we got along famou-dy. Ililph was in a gleeful mood, notwithstanding Ids triend's trouble. "l'licr Archie!" he said; "its a very' ugly case they have against him." "Very uly,". I assented. "I'm afraid h-j's guilty," continued Ralph. "It certainly Joos so at present," I inswtred. "By the way," I added, .areleesly, "could you oblige me itn change lr a twenty dollar bill, Mr. Grayson?'' Mr. Grnyson could and did,. In the sh;:pe of four fives. I t x -u-ed myself to my companion, and t'k my leave as soon as I could wi'liout rudeness. On examining the four bills received from Grayson, I found them to eorre sjiond exactly with four of those de--rihed in Mr. Gordon's uieun rtti'ium of the notes paid to Archie. Hope num ber two was realized, and the problem solved ! 1 had previously learned from Archie that he had paid out no money between rhetimeof receiving the sum irom Mr. Gordon, and that at which he separated from Grayson, and that the note which led to his arre'sf, he had paid at a jewel er's, while on his wjiy to visit Marian, for a ring which was to figure in the coming cereui my. It was clear now that Ralph Grayj'i IntJ embraced the importunity offered of replacing the oontcr.ts of Archie's povkelbuok with an equal amount of the stoleu money, without reflecting that means might ..xi-t of traeing and Idcntifving the, for mer. Acting on this conviction, I lust no time in procuring a warning for Gray son's apprehension, in hoe possession most ol the purloined notes were found ; md, within a brief spsce, he was in Archie's cell, and the hater was at Ma rian's side, consoling hrr for the hours rr bitter suflcrlng she had i ased on his account. ImprOTfmnt la Ireland The material progress of Ireland since the time of the potato famine has h-en much greater than is generally believed even by those who are not pessimists with regard to the Celtic character. To say that there has been a great change for the better since the disastrous period alluded tA, Is, how ever, to say little, . Ireland, -at that lime, with thousand of her peasantry dying of starvation, was in sorry plight. It was hardly possible for her to have nnk much lower in misfortune. The ;hirty years that have interveusd have on the whole, beeu profitably spent. According to Mr. Tim, improvement is manifested in every direction. By means ot special machinery for the sale of land, no less than one-seventh of the whole soil of Ireland, by Mr. l'iin' estimate. Las changed bands. The ef fect has been to lessen the number of propi M-tors and to improve the value ot the land. There has, at the same time, been a marked rise in the rate of wages. Ireland has always lieen be hind tier sister countries in the charac ter of the dwellings of the maas of her population, but there ban been a vast increase in the number of good honses built in the place of mud cabins for merly occupied. Besides all this, Mr. Pim evidence as signs ot the pros perity of the country the great exten sion of the railway system ami the erowthof ita sbitning. The value of theshiDDing has been DMily trebled in thirty-one years. Ireland has so long suffered from mismanagement and misgoverument that the people cannot be expected, for some time, to pro - claim their satisfacton with the ltu- proved state of affairs. London le-tpatch. ' Loidoa. All roads lead to Loudon, as once all roads ledjo Home. Here all the world's balances arc struck at last, and here the vibrations of human life and progress from five continents quiver and trem ble. - ' ; I stood u-on the durun of Wren, a marble monument reared into the sky, solid as the hills, yet vibrating to every passing cart or omnibus upon the thronged street below,- The day was glorlons with sunshine. For you must not believe the nonsense that put Lon don uuder perpetual fog. Thw sky wo; Id have done no dishonor to Colo rado. As far as the eye could reaeh swept away to the misty hor"mthc roofs and domes and towers of the one grrat City of the World. , - They may talk of Puris as ther will. They may praise, as I have prised. the glorious capital of the Xorth Kilin burgh, on her throne of crags. They may tell you of Venice and her wave washed palaces, of Xaples and her sap phire bay. of the great discrowned 'Lady of Kingdoms" herself, in all her ancient splendor, or in her pathetic de cay. But here, from "The Uome of the Goldeu Cross," where Xelson'a hopes aud Wellington's rest beneath your feet, sweeps arjuud and away the world's one city of our day. " v Tbe roar of London rises faint to your ear, r. multitudinous indi.-uiiguisiiable ! mass of mingled sounds. You are alone, alnue. You are above it itU- It wne- to you as the son nds of, a grc-t world, ascend to heaven. Kvery human pas sion is lit , every .bnmsa ptuai. God only can di-tinguUh between UielaKgii ter and tears the curses Tttirsyers, the groans of the vanquished ajid the shouts of the victors. , ' I know not how rne can help being sad dened at sight f a great city.' I know not how oiie can stand on the dome ol t. I'a id's and not fe-el a knocking at the brain and heart of all the riddles of human life and destiny. ":" Such motes they are below there! IVer's chariot and costermongrr's carf, itovv much alike! I'aJaoo and . hovel, dwarfed from the airy distance, to the same proportions Millionaire and lieg gar boy, they en-op on yonder much alike. The roar of the great idty .Luutly rises. You are in iut very center. Kvery street radiating from St. Paul's is crushed and thronged. It is not the roar of London only. It is the murmur of the world. X'o sound of war or peace, no change of State or Kingdom, but mingles its echoes with the sounds ol Ljntlon. Xo misfortune, or-fraud, or failure at the world's end, but repents itself in the world below you. Xo dis aster by flood or fire, bnt sot-sits sad story at your feet. Xo ship goes down in farthest teas, but the moaning wind and the plunging waters tell of it here at last. Xo blight falls upon the vin tage and harvests of men in Europe, Asia or Amerie-a, that the cry -f dis tress vibrates not along the graniie ui:tses of Loudon's heads. Lorci Eidoa a Slaw Apart from his great abilities, un weaiied industry, and natural gifts for political intrigue, there w.is uineh in the personal character of Lord Kld-n to nnder biui one of fortune' favor ites. He wa-i eminently a kiuilly be nevolent man, prone to muelt ch.it si nil gos.-ip, and liking nothing better than to talk over old day with a ftiend, oi to draw upon his large stores of anec dote for the be nefit of an appreciative circle of the fair sex. Hi manners wete very fine diniticd without t-ff irt. In soctcty he was ninch liked, and tbongli his wife mindful of tbe times when she had to keep the house hold hooks on a very slender allow ance was somewhat stinsry in Iter hos pitali'ies, Ids bouse in Hamilton place was always one of the popular places of resort in town for fashion and poli tics. As a man he was very handsome, his features regular, his eye bright and iu'l, his smile singularly swetrt, and las tijrure, though uot above the middle size, litf lit and well made. But it was as the humorous companion and the ttcuial wit that Lord Lldoo, away from the. pttctnet of Liucolu's lau wan bertt known. . Fond of the comforts of life, keeping an excellent table,, itidtiljiujg with the freedom of Li's day in the prape of Oporto, te deaily loved, when the women had retired, to pass the bot tle and keep his guest merry with stor ies that fell fnmi Ids lips. These stories penerally relatf d to the strngeles ol his c-ariy life or to the verbal dnels be tween the IVnr and liencb, or to the Court of Georite IIL Like tunny men fond of anecdote, lie bad no objection to story that told against himself. He Lad ways liked to relate bowwlien-hc fwent down to the country, waudenn alioiit with bis nun iu quaint, uns'ad itd attire, missing every bird Le filed at he was constantly Wing taken for a poacher or a game-keeper, or for the very Rervant of himself. Ouc day ,he asked a gentleman who waa trespas (injrupon his preserves to show bis cer tificate. "Who ate jonT"iid the gen tletnwn "one of old Hairs' keepers?"' "Xn," replied the Chancellor, "I am o!d Bajs himself." Another time he saw two gentleman iu an adjoining field calmly HhootinK Lis bird. He weDt np to them and said, "Gentlemen, I appre hend you have not Lord Eldon's per mission to shoot on Lis grounds." Ob, permission is not necessary in onrcasc!' answered one of the sportsmen. "May I ventnre to ak why, gentlemen f "Bccanse," replied they, "we flushed onr birds on other rronnd. and the law entitles ns to follow our garao any where. If you ask your m ister, Lord ru wr, i l,f ij tlm I,,, ft r.HlOII, lie; 11 irujvu WherensHia" the Chanceller aaid, "I dou't think it will be uceossary to trou ble him en that account, since, to tell you the truth. I am Lotd Eldon him self." Then, oa seeing the confusion of the gentlemen, who were profuse in apologies, be said, "Come, our meeting has begun in good humor, and so let it end; pursue your pleasure on mT J grounds, only next time don't be quite so positive iu your law. Other stories lare n-lated all to be found in the pagesof his amnsing biographer many ! of which evince not only his sense of humor, but the possession ot a warm generons heart.- Now we learn of bis assisting a struggling barrister, then of conferring a comfortable living npon a poor clergyman with a large family, or relieving some professional man w ho bad known better days; "in such cases the parties relieved were often kept in lgtiorauce of the source from which their succor flowed." One afternoon, while driving in a cab from Downing street to his honse in Hamilton place, be left some valuable papers iu the ve hicle. A few hours atterward the cab man returned aud restored the uiis.-ing documents. He was desired to call airain in a few days, and when he obeyed the invitation he was told, to his intense delight, that be was the proprietor of a cab aud three horses, which the Chancellor had bought, him ns a reward for his honor and prouipti tudc Temple liar. 1 be 4 ark Tree la raliforntm. Several experiments have been made w ith the cork tree Iu various parts of the state, with considerable ftieces-. There i a prospect that it will soou be more extensively introduced, Sontag & Co., sent an order to Spain for three poll u els of seed, which will be dis ml.uted gratuitously to farmers throughout the state. This valuable tree grow s abundantly in Spain, Portu gal and Italy, In thin, rocky ground, aiiiL is very tenaceous of life. Jt is a species of oak, with a soft and rla.stic bark. When the tree is fifteen years oM the barking is commenced, and may te rejieatcd every eight or ten years af terward, the crops improving both in U unlit y and quantity at each operation. Trees thus baiked, it is said, w ill Ihrw 150 years. 1 he cork is removed iu July and August- This is done by maMr)g incisions around the tree and longitudi nally to the root, when the pieces are hastily detached. These are then soaked in water, pressed under be-avy weights, dried bctore the tire and stacked or pneked fn bales for transjiortatloii. The cerk-cutters dividu the sheet of cork into narrow strips, and. after cutting these of a prop r length, round them into a cylindrical form 'with a very sharp, thin bladed knife. Spanish black is made from the parings of cork. Cork manufacturers iu the . Eastern States and Europe have a large market in California mid the demand Is in creasing correspondingly with our wine iHOeiuet. It is said that a full grown tree will yield at each cutting the value of the tree for commercial piirioises. It make an excellent shade and good timber. The latitude of San Francisco is the s;;me as the southern portion of Spain and Portugal, .the eliiuaie similar, and the soil of the foot hills of the Sierra is not unlike the soil in w hich the tree has been sj success fully grow ii in the Oid World. When the tre is once firmly rooted iu tlie ground i.o more care and attention to it i required than with the oak. in Spaiu large tracts of lard am devoted to lis culture, and each year only a sec tion of its bark is stripped, v hkh in sures an annual crop. . ;l Amerleitn lrlte. We may w;U be proud of what we have done; but if we cau not govern ourst Ives if we canuot yive to every man hi rights if we cannot opeiate the machinery of the fr.c populai- gov ernment which La been e-ir principal boast all this goes for uotiiiug i t the establishment of tiio national honor. We cau be the richest, mo it comfort able, most prosperous, tn-xt iafelli;e:jt atid lient ficitit people of the world, if we will. There is no limit to oar wealth or oar influence, bnt such as o-ir weak passion and selii-di demagogisna may build hoforo us. If wecannut lie proud of our government, o its j istitw, its aggregateel aud couso'idited p ivvers, its easy and safe a ij tstm-.'Ut t cireu in stancies, it su'jility ati.l it p-jii'yof adiuinistration, it will bo well to put boasting far axay from us, aud to ac knowledge with sUiiua. raliior than proc!aiu .with pride, that, wo are Americau. It we aae to drift into rev olution, or even into danger of it, wkh every diliculty, we may w'eil hang our lieadbefoie the disgrace of the Eng lishman' scornful ' laugh, 'and ' the greater' disgrace, of theTrenchniau's fraternal symparhy.-7. J. O. fl tUatid; The VeUle Spell the Xllada Rare. The masses, and moot of the higher classes, tit inly believe that the Veda contains the authority for all that is enjoined and all tht is prohibited to the modern lliudn. Widow marriage is believed to be piohibited by texts to be fouud iu tiie Veda. '1 he uiouatrons division iu'o thousands of little com rount.ies ot caste is believed to be snp poited by the. Veda in all it modem rigor, w hich picvenls a Rrahman from driuking water touched by a Orabnian of auother sub-division, and requites him to purify himself by ablation, if he is touched by t!ie power of a Mabar or Atisnda. All customs, all usages, all stories, all laws are believed to lie based on Vedic texts. Even things which cau easily be shown to have no pretense to any antiquity whatsoever ae represe n teu as based ou Vedic texts. Those, therefore, who endeavor to iotroeluce any social or religious reform among the natives are constantly thwarted by the Veda, and the spe ll which it still exercises on the native . ndnd, the people clinging fast to the belief that what their fathers did or abstained from doiug was ordained by the Veda The Academy. ....... . . . Water far Doc. Awriterlnau Eugiisune"Spaperays that the great neglect ill- uot providing' water for Jo;s to di Ink no doubt is the cause of frequent hydrophobia. They do not throw wff their beat by perspir ation lake many other animals, hut from panting and throwing out. the tongue, lie says there are, many dogs kept in Portugal, and there are not ni.ny in stances of hydrophobia, although the climate is much hotter than ourj. It Is there understood to be a nuinlclpi.il regulation to causa troughs or vessels to be provided near each house contain ing a supply of water. There would be little fear of dogs goinjf mad 'were they regularly supplied with' water, "unless bit by some other animal. ' '' 1 ' - , mm ' Shoe leather lias been made from sturgeon skins at Greu Bay. Clear Grit. About thirty years ago, Said Judge P , I stepped into a book store in Cincinnati iu search of some books that I wanted. While there a little ragged boy not over twelve years of age, ciauii in and Inquired for a geogra p!r. "Plenty of them," was the salesman's reply. "How much do they cost?" "One dollar, my lad." "I did not know they were so much." Hrt turned to go out. and even opened the door, but closed It again, and came back. "I have got sixty -one cents," said he; could you let me have a geography, and wait a little while for the rest of the money ?" Tl.w eagerly bis little bright eyes looked for an answer, and bow he seemed to shrink within hi ragged clothes, when the man, not very kindly, to'.d him be could not. The disappointed little fellow looked up to me, with a very poor attempt to smile, aud left the store. - I followed him, and overtook him. "And what now?" I asked. 'Try another place, sir." Shall I go, too, aud Joe how yon succeed ?" "O yes, if you like," said he, in fur prise. Four Uiflercnt stores I entered with him, and each time he was refused. "Will you try again?" 1 asked. '""Yes, sir; I shall try them all, or I should not krow whether I could get one." . . V'e -ciit'-red the fifth storcanJ thw little fellow- walkeel up maiilully, aud told the gentleman just what he wanted, and how much he had. "You want the bemk very much?' said the proprietor. "Yes very qmch ?" , "Why do you want It so very much?': ' "To study sir. I can't go to school; but I study, w hen 1 cau at home. All the boys have got one, and they will get ahead of me. I'esldes my father was a s.-.ilor, and I want to learn of the pbn-es where he used to go." "I)oes h? go to these p'ac?, now?" asked the proprietor. "He I dead," said the boy oft!y; ben he added after awhile; "I am going to be a sailor, too, rf, n t)irni," -L,l it,, ,., are yon, iiiougu r a-Keu " K1" - iieiu in raisiu ins eye urvw a ".urn usii . "Yes, sir, if I live.".. "Well, my lad, I will tell you what I will do:, 1 will , let you have a new geography, and you may pay the re mainder of the money when yon ran, or I w ill let you have one that is not quite new for fifty cents." 'Are tlio leave ali in it; and just like thn other, ouly not new?" "Yes, just like the new one." "ltwilleki ju-t as well, then, anil I will have eleve n cents left towards buy iug some oilier bonk. 1 am glad they did not let me have one at any of the other places." . The bookseller looked up inquiringly, and I told h'.iu what I had seeuot the iiuli leUow. He was much pleased, and whcu be brought the book along, 1 sawaiiicu new pencil, and se.tue clean white! paisr in ii.. "A preeut, my lad, for your per severance. Always have courage like that and you will make your mark," sai 1 the bookseller. "Tcank you six; yoaart very gooel." "What is jour name?"' "William Have: ly, sir." -' Lo you waut any more books?" I now n-ke-i him. More than I cau ever get," he re plied, glancing at the booka that filled the shelves. ..;,-,: 1 gave biui a bank-note. "H will buy some for you," I (aid. , 1 Tears of joy came to hi eyes. , "Cau I buy what I want w ith it ?" . ''Yes, my l id, a:ij thing." "Then I -w ill buy a book for mother,' s.vd tie. "I thank you very much, and i mo day boe I can pay you back." .11 wanted my name, and I gave it to him. Tueu 1 lett biui standing by the cuuiiler, so happy, that I almost envied hiiu; audit was many year before I was him again. , ,, , ,. Last year 1 went to Europe on one of the. fir. est vessels that ever ploughed the water of tlie Atlantic. V'e had very beautiful weather until vry uear thej end of tiie voyage; then came a most terrible storm, that would have sunk 1 all on. board bad It not been for the cap tain. Every spar was laid low, the rudder was almost useless,, anJ a great leak had shown itself, threatening to fiil the ship. The crew were all strong, willing men, and the mates were practi cal seamen ef the first class; bnt after pumping for one w hole night, and the water, aiiil gaiuing tiuoo them, tliey gave up in despair, and prepared to take to the boats, though they might have known no small be-at could ride such a sea. .The captain, who had been below w ith bis charts, now came up. Ha saw how matters stood, and with a voice that I heard distinctly above the ro;:r of the tempest, ordered every m:a to bis l"'-- . It was surprising to sec thoe men bow before the strong will of their cap tain, and hurry back to the pumps. The captain then started below to examine the leak. As he passed me I asked i there was any hopes.' He looked at me, and then at the other passengers, who crowded up to hear the reply, and said, rebukingly : . j' ' . '"Yes, sir, there Ishop as Torig as one inch of this deck remains above water; when I see r.oile of it, 'then I ' shall abandon the vessel, and not before ; iior one of my crew, sir. Everything shall be done to save it, and If we fall, it will not be from inaction. Bear a baud, every one of you, at the pumps." . Thrice during the day did we despair; but the captain' dauntless courage, perseverance, and powerful will, mas tered eve ry man ou board and we went ta work again.:,;,, , . , , "I will land you safVJy at the I'ck in Liverpool, said he,"if you will !k men." And be did land us safely; but the vessel sunk moored to the dock. The captain stood on tlie deck of the sinking vessel, receiving the thanks and bless ings of the passengers, as they passed down the gang plank. As I pnssed he grasped my hand, auJ said : "Judge P , do you recognize me?" I told him that I was not aware tha I ever saw him until I stepped aboard his ship. "LH you rcmetubor the boy In Cin cinnati?" "Very well, sir; William Haverly." "I am he," said he. God bles you!" "And God bless noble Captain Haverly "BipUt VaUm. faaalaar Urawaoppera. And now comes the Denver Ti.e with this story concerning the nnp.t relled sagacity of grasshoppers: "A gentleman who has watched the grass hoppers with au interest born of an earnest desire to nuderstand their hab its, with a view of beuelittin humauity in this part of the world, declares that the Vt thop' is superior in iuteliirence to most of the families of the auimal kingdom, and in proof of this aasertion gives the following a the result of bis personal observations. Last summer, iu order to preserve hi wheat field from their ravages, tie flooded his ditches with oiL It bad a good effect for some time, destroying millions ol the newly Latched hoppt-rs.aud he went about congratulating himself on bis success, when he discovered that they were not coming over as usual, and on examination found that they were moving along the ditch iu a dense column. Following the direction taken by the dense column, he found that they w ere crossing at a point where the railroad passes over the ditch, three miles from Lis wheat, covering the skcrers and Tnils and moving up on on the odM-r sidev thus avoiding the oily tide. , Tbi bridge was be.-nicared with oil. snd again the hoppers were flanked. Bur, like Mary ' lamb, they, j 'waited patiently about, untU a train enrae along. The friction of the wheels left a space on tiie rails less thsn an itch in width entirely clear of oil, and the boppri a, retiring to a point where the track Lad not bee a . smeared, would mount the rail and proceed carefully along t: ceuter of the Iron, caret it dy avoiding the' oil on the edges, aud it therefore in eauie necessary to station a boy at thn In i-'e to carefully smear the trae k with oil after the pass age of every train. Thus- far the story ban every appearance of piobabilty to I one ac-ju it:;uil wiiu the jnp.irallelcd M - i"i.iiua -...ai.t.-. i 'pnnniii of the Insert, hut lien a Vet- ! u.ran T,.j,orteT present st narration j i took up the t hi oid and a-serted that ! j when thus finaliy t'oilt, i, tiie hoppers changed their line of match, proceeded o the nearest station ami took pos.-ss- j ion of a train, waving the condnrtor j w bile other and further fat nun will, aside with all the che-ek of the olt'est i from time to time h:ver aWit the li veterau excursionist of the Indiana I ca'ity, wi'li tlie e videMit desire of as- editorial fiaternity, we were convince-a that there was some nustake aln.it the or." - lleeutn Vnat, matter We ho!.l that it is one of the primary flnties r ""'"-oi;- in rxev..eiu . phvssieal it condition ; in net, to orer our habit so that they shall conduce to the best health of which our constitu tions are susceptible, is just as much a duty a to cultivate the sentiment of honesty and good wi'l. Ju-t consider the effect of being ill npon others. Is it not an inipnioer infliction? . Ha who is sick Kcomes incapable of performing lis normal work; and if his sickness be severe, he prevents ot'iars from doing ielr normal and productive work. Ilence there is much resultant lo-s to! soe-ietr. ., We gnitit that there exi-t cases of in validism whi.-h mav contribute richly in the way of moral strength to the community, but they are rare. The familiar side of ordinary invalidism Is cluira,' terijwd by eouipJa'.uiiig, peevish ness, vexation, which we are wont to n-garj as a matter-of-course acconipaui ments of illness,' and we treat the "pa tient" lf tiiat gentlo svmnnthizing manner, which implies that his al'dict- tion i some unace-ou-itable thing, and not an effect of conduct for which he Is responsible. Some moralists, the Cou- iord philosop'ieramoiig them, go to the length of as-ertiug that sickness is a kind of sin, becauao it is not only in its immediate ell'-ct a hindrance to the free activities of normal life, but aljo because of its b;ng fin direct or indi rect consequence of tran'ressoii of physiological law. , - i Allowance, curtuinly, should be made for popular ignorance of the nature of suc.i law. r.ut In tim? ofie would think thst the sore experience . of Ignorance would stimulate at least the Intelligent to more earnest endeavor for light and knowl edge. ' At any rate, those who claim enlightenment . In hygienic affairs should lend a willing hand to the w ork of instructing the people' at large In the things pertaining to health. "My peopla are destroyed for lack of knowl edge.", la no respect U the application of thi3 prophetic declaration more definite and clear than to the physical habits of the peopl-j. S.iciety is full of its "skeletons in the clo-et" and out of It come irs asylo.ns, infirmaries, hos pitals and prisons, because of our fail ure to know and practice the true and useful. rhrt'io1fl'Cal Juvenal. Victor Kiaaaael' CaarJs. Altiiough Victor Emanuel is physi cally vigorous, rising every morning at five and taking a stroll in bis garden befeire breaknes, he is not without superstition. ' lie bad not been long iu the Quirinal Palace before be discovere I a trap in Ids bedroom. It commttnicat-d with a vast gallery, in which the King an-1 his attendants walked for twenty minutes' without finding an outlet. It seemed however to lead to the castle of -i. Angeio. ma .Majesty ueciueu to investigate tne matter, ana oruere.t tn: trap-door to be bricked up Soon afterwards he ' discovered a secret door In the wall which communi cated with a narrow stair-case leading to the roof. It, too, was bricked up, but since this discovery, we are in formed, that whenever His M ijesty sleeps at Q-ilrlual two huge black d-ga also sleep at the foot of the royal bed. Ther ohov no nriR but the Kin-r. never bark; and would strangle, without any parleying, the first person who entered the room. " . ' - f Of nil thn mriiins evnellients bv I The If nt la rbarefc. which iugenions church goers have en-j Clarion County, Pa., produces $30 deavored to safely dispose of their hats, WW w orth of oil daily, there is not oue (sava a writer in thej Six members of the Georgia legish Timtt) that has not be en proved to be under 2tt years of age. fallacious. To bold one' hat contiuu- f Capfc. Howgate's polar colonization allvin one's lap is practicable only in ' f10"16 Krow inUMor a the heated a Qnaker meeting-honse, where the;term-PPrhes- " , worshipers remain seated during the 2?; entire service, and never nae any devo- C8Ut jjve on j7 m jay tii)nalimplemetits,8iichasprayer-bcoki , m :. . and hymn-books. No man could suc-l eessiuuy oaiance a uat iu one uauei uiu find the Epistle for the twenty-second Sunday after Trinity with the other baud; while to stand up iu order to re peat the Creed or to siug a hymn, with a bat under his left at m, would be the height of absurdity. The bnt, then must be laid entirely aside daring di vine service, and our churches being constructed with exclusive reference to souls ius'ead of bats, affard no rest ing places for the latter. The extreme danger of placing a Lat in the aisle immediately outside the pew is universally knoarn. The first lady that sweeps np the aislo carries with her a confused mass of defenceless i hat. which are de'posited in the shape j of a terminal nioiaiue in the frout of i the pew which is her final goal. Of course the bat which Lave been sub- jeeted to this process are reduced by .i,i .,,, ...! ,r u. .,,,.,, ... j covcreu wiiu scraicnes, reiuiiiuiiijc uuu of the uiaiks of glacial action on gran- ite boulders. However interesting they I may be to me geologist, taey are ot no further value as hat , and can rarely be bent into a shape that will allow their owners to wear thetu home. Xext to the aisle, the uew-seat i the most dan- gerous position in which a bateau be gerous post placed. Statistics show that out of every one hundred hats thus situated. sixty are sat upon by their owners. thirty-five are sat upon by other peo ple, and only live escape untDjured. It is a curious fact that more men sit down on their hats after repeating the Creed than after reading the Psalm or per forming any other perpendicular part of the service; and another curious fact is the attraction which a hat thus ex posed npon a seat exerts upon a fat person. Xeither of these facts has ever Ueu satisfactorily explained, allboagb they are matters of great notoriety. -A man may enter a remote p.' in a strange church, and pNce bis hat on iu ,.i3,e.u c i. ii..i.s-i siIiIm that a fat man could nereeivrt it : the se-at in a position whe'e it isimpos- on entering the church. Xevertlieless.jcartridgeUdiscuargedtrou.lt. experience hrt.s shown that in six cases ' o-.tt of ten the sexton will show a fat man into that precise pew ttithiu ten minutes after the bit i in position, j certaitiing if the Lat is susceptible of further smashing. There is clearly a law of nature at work Lere w Lich needs , . i , - , to ,K; lehnire!y formulated, and it u ; Uot vet been dSue, Ul.t. UMll ttlIU C1.tliC VSJ1 I'lia 4 t I as to pitirirg one nat ou tiie uoor uaiie rce.ith the seat. uo one who follows this reckless course can expect any-' thing but di saster. If there is a small boy iu the pe w, lie w ill inf.illiabiy dis cover that hat, and kick it to the fur ther end of the pew within the first tliirty minutes of the tlie service. If there is a lady iu the pew. a surgical operation w ill be req tired to irtu iVs her hoot frotu the iiireiiorof the hat, while id any event the hat is ccitain to .a . j, t 1 , i , . T" T- n.ilii.lu aF iln.t -if 1 1 1 .1 . .- , - , . , . . r , . :. self to tlie lioor with the aid of forgot ten Sundav-sfliool gum d.on-i. Nei- tl.er under the seat, on the seaf, nor in the nislV, c.vn the worried hat find rest, aud the plan of estuibiisliiug a hat pound i:i tho vestibule, whete bats could U- ticketed and kept during ser vice, woa!J simply result in con verting a church info a i.ut exchange, w here t'.e sinner would secure all the good hat, and the saint would bo cooipe-IIed to content themselves wit'i worn out acd wortli!es3 ones. Ilne Journal Corlgitlm l thw Hrrrint Fishery. The Lot weuthe-r I'ist Bunmt-r aSVc tetl even the herring fishery. The fish ermen t-ff the Scotch coast had been sup plied with se-a thermometers by the Scoti.eh Meteorolovic.il Society, and tliey fouud that during one week when the sea water showtd a temperature of H deg. to 53 di g. no fish were canghf. Hut when tbe temperature full to 53 deg. the herring were caught in great abundance. Indeed they ihttkt-d to the land in such Lumber tha many nets were taken to the bottom with their weight, and fi.shernieu lost considerable sums from this odd miahan. The ac- tion of the Society has produced impor - tent results.-TLleotire-iy new discov- ery hai been made that the herring love colli water, and in seasons when the tcmpotature of the sea water rises, the-y keep away from the land, in deep er water, between the fifteen to eigh teen fathoms for which tho nets aie calculated. The colder the weather the greater is the take of tish; 1ST5, a year when the water was considerably and continuously waimerthan 1874, h iving been a poor year, while the loi ter was a better one. This action of tbe fish make it probable that it likes a given range of temperature, neither too high nor too low. In cold water this belt of agreeable temperature is found near r tho nun-wanned surface, and tbe fish creep inshore. Mauy sin gular fact relating to this fishery . are kuowti. If a thunderstorm occurs, the fishermen expect a tsnotl catch on that day, but the next day they will -get none except in deep water, and tbe supposition is that the fish are leaving the land. The herring hs a strorg sense of locality, always returning to the same ground. Experienced dealers j , ten oy inspection in just w bat eea or hjc', a p,ven i,,t f fish were cangl t. Shrink not froui a woman of strong setis?,for if she becomes attached to you, it is seeing and reviewing different qual ities in yourself; you may trust hrr, for she knows the value of yonrconfi dence; you may eoits-ilt her, for she is able to a lvlse, and does so at oi.ee, with the firmness of reason and th ct-nsider- ation of affjctlon; her love is lasting and it will not have been lightly won, for weak minds are not capable of the I softlett gtades of passions. ' ' 5IW3 Ef BS2F. cressin!r the ambor of female clerks in the English Post oillce. Only four out of the eighteen iron fnrn-ices on the Susquehauua, south of Uarrisburg, are in blast. In Baltimore a street car conductor must deposit fifty dollars with the com paiiy a a certltieate of honesty. Senator Hamlin of Maine, has lately given $l,0u0 to the Colby Univer sity at Wutertown, In that Slate. The Illinois State Board of Agricul ture report an estimated loss for tlie last year in that State through the hog chol era of $3,000,000. Forty years ago the average dally number of pins made in E;land for home use and export was 20,000,000. Xow It is ao.UOO.OvO. There Is an average of elgit suicides per week in the United States, and It's butter to reduce the population that V ',,an 10 ,f t0 wr-. , -George Wagner, a outzen of Brldge- Prr. u"n- h" fiveu but library ef three tliou-a:iU volumes as a tree library for the Germans iu that cltv. TI,.tAfot iniln)lA,1n.aaAffliA Cn rrn States,as estimated by the Committee ou Adjustment is about $200,0o0,0uO, that of Virgiuht aloue amouiuing $35,000,000. Dr. W. H. Jones ofXcvada, and a companion, have recently furnished a nieat tor the cannibals of Xew Guinea. uere iney were too zeaiou.:y prospect ing tor gold. Arizona advices state that the Gov ernor has telegrnpued to the See-retary of War for arms, and will call out vol unteer scoets for service against the ho-tile Apaches. Among the assets of a merchant of Xew York who failed the other day, wer oue hundred thousand acre vt land on an i-dand off the coast of Texas, valued at two dollars an acre. German educational stttistte show that ill Saxony one out of 1,11)4 of the tot tl male population is in actual attend ance upon a university, while in Prussia the proportion is oue tol,:ji-i. Richard A. Petnell Is in training in Xew York for the performance of ,rie extraoruuiary teatoi noiilinga t.wiu mmMili-'innnn in hi.h.n.l. hiia. hl.nt the extraordinary featoi holding a 1,000 j General Xewton of Xew York citv j has j ist finished plans fr a new biij'e I whieii is to cross the Hudson at I'eek i skill. It will be one magnificent span of It SO feet, aud thw floor will be lti.'t feet bt-ove the water. Xo less than 3,6C3,.V2,100 yards of cottnii piece goods were exportetl from j V.'". 1 'ted king lorn in t'i 4,,tUlia: ported iu one vear. It ave ! titan lOMHiWvards a day. eyear l!-.b. tity ever ex- eraii's more Several savings banks in Xew Ilampshir have been doing a general , bunking business without pay in the Government tax. and have been ordered to stop doing so. Tne estimated amount of Lutes due from them is lloO.tioo. The new Domesday B-xk of Great Eritum and Ireland gives the potiiilation of the United Kingdom at 23!ooo,OoO. The number of inhahited hottM is put at u,ili;jM, an-l there are 7ll7,"tJ acre of assessaWe land in the kingdom. Fremaonry Is growing rapidly in Enghind. The Grand Lo!ge wa es tablished in 1717, and there are now l,ltO lodge and 5U0,m members in England and Wale's. In Seotlan-I and Ireland there are over 1,000 lodge. The youngest contributor to the C-nteuuial Exhibition was Miss JInVI Warren '1 hyng, aged three and a r.ait" years, the daughter of an artist in ialeui, Mass. little woman exhi bited an outline drawing ot a bell and a pear. The latest figure report the total untunl eiip ot wool in mis country at oyO.OlW prnnds. It is beli-red that'the figures lor l-jS) will, ii a fair connt is .secured, place thii country at tiie head of the w ool producing countries of the world. When tbe ceutennarUu. Father C;chin, died, Dr. Levic l'ierce, of Georgia, became the oldest Metboili-t uiinieier in the United States, lit! is now ninety-two, and preached for his son, Bishop George Foster Pierce, but a few Sunday ago. Pittsburg. Pa i to have one daily paper les and one paor better; the G'icelte has purchased the CVK.iwwrei.ii, ami the couaniued patronage of tlie two will enable the survivor to give the reader more f jr his) money than either ,-e-ul I do separately. From July 1 to December 31, Is7t5, eighty-nine millions of po-tal cards were soi l Iu the post ortloes of ti e United States, or fifteen million more 1 tl'"n fur the same jK-rio.1 of ls;. p, I-T 'n t'", 'es:al country only lour years ago. Charles Dubosc, a famooa Parisian model, died on the loth of January, aged eighty. He had posed for painters ir.ru ls04 till 1.-C9, in which year he re tired and made bis will which wa just opened. He leaves all hi property, amounting to some 800,000 francs, to the Academy of Fine Art. Great preparations are bebig mule at Antwerp to celebrate next August, the. ifOOtb anniversary of tbe birtli of ttubens. The mu-ic il fete are to be ou a grand scale, and tViere will b". an artists' congress, nu exhibition of an cient paintings, and a retrospective ex hibition Of paintings of the Belgian school since 1S30. The congressional library has grown to immense proportions. The last an nual report of tiie librarian shows the number ol bound volume to be over 311,000. to say nothing of about loO.UOO pamphlets. Xo less than 17,510 bound volumes have been added during the past year, there having been li.SJJ en trie In the copyrightdepartment. Not many months agr, a municipal Paris deputation went to London to ex amine the underground railway. It has now been decided to build a simi lar network under Paris at a cost of 160,flO0,l'J0 francs. The Seine will be crossed by two tunnels, one for np line, one for down, ench inclose I in brick work, surrounded by tube of plated iron, nvasuriug over eighteen feet in diameter. A bank-book was presented at tbe Springfield Institute for Savings one day recently, which had not been seeu by the bank officials silica the original de posit wa made thirty-two year ago. The amount of tbe drpoit wa f XX), while the interest alone amounted to 41.6U4 During this time the owner of the nook had never entered tlie bank or asked a question as to her property, which she now come to claim- . i I
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