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VOL. XXXI. . IFFLINTOWN. JUNIATA COUNTY, PEXXA.. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25. 1S77. NO. 17.
WHET 8CE08L LETS OUT.
wbeo school lets ont at sundown time.
And shadows long op hillsides climb.1
With leap sol roup and laot,h and about.
In kilt and smock and roundabout.
By grain-field fanes, through pastors grass,
X foot-worn way, the scholars paaaed ;
And bright-faced elf and brown-faced loot
00 heart-glad home, when school lets ont.
1 sit and watch, where, white and slow,
The mistress moves in trace below ;
A lithe young girl, with folded hands,
With low-down locks in wide, brown bands.
Who floats in light where deep shade lies.
With sweet, sad looks in lake-blue eyes ;
I ait and watch, and hope and doubt
I know not what, when school lets out
Were I so young as they who know
The mild made-role, J oat there below,
Would I be clad as they who pass
By grain-field fenoe and pastur grass t
Would I be glad the home-bound way.
And lauith and ahont and romp as they t
It might be so in roundabout.
But not as now, when school lets out.
Borne day how soon I cannot tell.
But some day soon, I know full well
My feet shall fall with beat as slow
The cret n-laid way that hers do go.
And I shall feel my great heart rise
To tender looks from lake-blue eyes.
And there shall be, no fear, no doubt.
Her hand in mine, when school lets out.
The Judge's Story.
rit Tiil,T L i A. tti t lis sell a a f rrm
his cigar, and rose ith an emphatic
Lorn " 11! r rio .ritl.i-a Hrv a Irknar
breath, and brought their chairs down
from their tilted positions. Graham
had been telling a story to while away
the long hours of the Christmas night,
" a":id Graham was a magnificent story
teller.
"Your turn, Judge," said Graham,
w ith a slight laugh, the flush slowly
Jying out of his lace.
""Beat Graham's if you can." said
Fenner, rubbing his bauds together
with great glee.
"You don't know the Judge, Fen
ner," said William.. "He used to equal
Mr. Midshipman Easy in the nnmber
of his adventures, and his grace in re
lating them.
The young lawyer, whose soubriquet
of "Judge" had beeu bestowed upon
him ill Jhe early days of his college life
from his superannuated gravity and
his sententious way of deciding qites-
i i .1 i i.
tions that Dorl mill, urr uaca a cnair
with a flourish, and then pushed it to
ward the fire and sat down.
-I'll tell vou what it is, boys, you
- needn't think I'm going N bf beat by
Graham. I have a story to teU which
is just as good as his. but then it may
' lose something iu the telliug. Sine
we parted five years ago. I have inter
viewed Blaekstone, Chitty, and others
'of that ilk.' and a good deal of the ro
mance iias faded out iu that way, you
perceive. But then. as. we agreed to
meet in five years and compare experi
ence, it was merely to have something
to tell, so I did my" best to have an ad
venture. Hem!
"Perhaps you all remember what my
college davs were. Y'ou do? Humph !
Then it will save me the trouble of tell
ing you, though I have studied aipa tine
bit of pathos about them. However, it
don't matter much; let it go now. pne
fact, though, 1 must speak of, and that
is the financial condition of your pres
ent orator in those college days, i
-,za anrthinir atvtut ir. then.- be-
uriri miu ' . . -- t -
cause I was a deal too proud ; but to
tell you toe trutn, oojs, u. muuro
aintr and some nrettv close
calculations to make my allowance
cover my modest wants. I remember I
used to be a little envious of Fenuer
and Graham when 1 saw them scatter
ing money round w ith such a lavish
hand, and I. w ith my fine natural abil
ities, good looks, and extraordinary
stock of common sense," and the Judge
straightenad himself back, and laughed
in his rare, genial way, without finish
ing the sentence.
"However, to pass over that, and
or.Tue to the time w hen we left college,
with young honors upon us. Weren't
we proud of our diplomas though?
Bovs I want vou to tell me truly
whether vou took your sheepskin out
of its case after the first six months?
"Haven't seen mine since two weeks
after commencement," murmured
Graham.
"Don't know where mine is, said
Fenner, and the others Intimated that
their experience entirely coincided with
'""That's just it, boys," pursued the
judge, "I tried to get a situation by ex
' tlbiting that imposing document, but
After a good many trials and as many
Ignomious failures I put the pious fraud
aw ay and left off being a college grad
uate. I weut in on my merits then, re
solved to win or perish in the attempt.
It seemed as if I would have to accept
the latter alternate. I had neither
monevnor friends, and there were
plenty of voung men w ith wealth and
r)siti"on, readv to fill every vaoauey.
was prettv hard up for money, you
know, and 'it w as about this time I fell
in with Steve Ranald, who was in about
(be same condition with respect to
funds. I believe none of you ever saw
him did you? I wish you had known
him! He was half French, and that
accounts for some peculiar traits in his
character. A magnificent looking fel
low, w ith a certain kind of fascination
about him that rou could not resist. I
could not, I know. He led me into all
kinds of scrapes that I never would
have thought of going into, and it was
Impossible to blame him. He had snch
a merry, light-hearted way w ith him
when he chose, that took me quite by
storm.
"Well, as I said, our condition was
about the same financially, so we joined
together and rented a room in a very
cheap but respectable neighborhood.
We kept bachelor's hall there very com
fortably for a while, while I hunted
. employment, and he compounded won
derful'French dishes out of nothing.
"I suppose in uiv search of. enploy-
" m'ent, I had started out with some vagne
idea of becoming minister to some lor
eign power, or postmaster-general, or
something Of that kind. My aspirations
after declining for several weeks like a
decreasing series of geometrical pro
gressionsthe Me noir of my boy hood
at last pointed to an ordinary clerk
ship in some mercantile establishment
as happiness beyond comparison, fcven
here Iw-as doomed to disappointment,
nd then I gave up the struggle. I hat
apent mv last dollar that morning. All
day I had walked from street to street,
from square to Sqaare. My limbs were
aching with the uuaccuitomed exercise
mv brain was in a whirl. I knew oue
man whom mv father had befriended
years ago, in the davs of his prosperity
; when the man was In great distress.
Sine then fortune's w heel bad turned,
and mr father liad died in poverty,
while "Mr. tacledawasoneof the money
kin"s of the city. Can you understand
why I would not go to him until every
other resource bad failed? Even then
t-. .....--.'-..
I went slowly and reluctantly. I stood
before the door in the easlurht. watch
iug the crowds as thev came and went
thinking some very bitter things, it
may be. But at last I went in. know
ing that they would soon close tip for
me nignt, ami askeu to speak with Mr.
.Laclede
"He received me in his private office,
where he was looking over the filing
papers; and he left me standing near
me aoor, ana went on witn lus work
after looking up and saying, 'Good
evening.' There was something repul
sive alKiut him, I thought, and I deter
mined to try for the situation first
without saying anything about w ho 1
was. N J stated mv business very con
cisely. He raised his sjectaeles on his
glistening forehead, referred from ine
to a paper he held in his hand, and
from the paper back to me, and then
said:
oung man. there is no vacancy
and even if there were, for the past two
w eeks tnere nave been on an average
twenty applications like this per diem
ou uaa Deiter appiv soraewnere else
'My hand was on the door-knob, but
I turned around and looked at him
Without knowing clearly how the
words came, I said slowly :
"I am Kenneth Lane, sir. My father
helped you once, in the greatest ex
tremity of your life.'
"His face flushed a little, and be in
terrupted testily:
"Ah, certainly ! But yon see, Mr,
Kenneth Lane, 1 can't make situations.
"I do not know what he was going to
say. i snut tne uoor anti passed out
through the long rooms, past smiling
clerks, wno no doubt read my errand
and its failure in my face, and out into
the street. I do not remember any
thing else very distinctly, except that I
seemed pluuged suddenly into an alley
and from that into all kinds of no thor
oughfares desperate places that I
would have shrunk from at any other
time. I was conscious of rushiugalong
at tunes and tneu timidly groping mv
w ay, dragging myself along slowly and
painfully, was in one of those latter
moods when I was seized and brought
to a halt by two ill-favored villains,
who proceeded to go through mv pock
ets in gallant style. Apparently dis
gusted with the geueral emptiness of
those receptacles they turned around to
the light.
"Irnnk." said one of them, "or else
a fool. 1 don't know which."
"Come, my covey." said the other
you air innocent, vou air, and vou'd
better skin out o' this afore you get
tap on the head."
It was gloomy enough, oovs, l can
tell vou. 1 he sense of failure is a hor
rid thing, and it had full possession of
me then. 1 was young, and Had rated
mvselt for some of the higher, nobler
work of life, just to be thrust back and
told there were no vacancies. Kight
then and there I felt that there were
powers in my brain which could win me
a name and place among men it thev
were only given the oniiortunitv
"Oh. bovs. there was the bitterness
of it? 'I might as well be a highway
roblier!' I said aloud, desparingly.
"That it is lust what 1 think, said a
voice close beside me, and whwt I
started and turned, there was Steve
liauald. xittinz there as coolly as if e
had walked to the tilaoe arm iu arm. I
never had quite liked his cat-like way
of watching and coming on me una
wares, but it had never startled me be
fore as it did then
Why Steve!' I exclaimed, "how
came you here?"'
"Oh, I've kept you in sight all the
evenins. I thought vou did not seem
nnite nirht. so I followed you. Oevil-
ish cool' that on old Laclede, wasn't it?
"The Question brought me back to
my grievances. 'It was terrible,' I
said. 'My father started him in busi
ness when he had not a friend or a dol
lar in the world. When I think of that
I could almost swear vengeance on all
mankind for that man's base ingrati
tude.' ' Ye.' said Ranald, but remember
your American proverb. The world
owes you a living.
"Iil never be able tocollect the debt !
I returned bitterly.
"But you wouldn't make a good high
way robber, you know,' said Ranald
mu'tteringly, "plowing up the earth with
a short stick. You haven't the right
kind of pluck.'
"What kind does it take?' I asked
with a short laugh-
"Well, supiose a carriage conies
along, your first job is to wing the
driver, after which you can talk with
the inside passengers at your leisure.
In case it a rider or a foot passenger,
you can deal with him easily enough.
But then you've got to have a quick
hand on the trigger, and yon haven't
got the pluck you know.'
"Haven't I?' I cried, with a kind of
reckless daring. If I was armed I'd
show vou before to-morrow. I don't
owe the world much gratitude, and I
had as well do something desperate and
get hanged, and done with it all.'
Oh. as for arms, 1 could let you have
mine, said Ranald, not looking at me
at all, but back towards the city. 'But
I don't like much to do it. You'd
never use tbem.'
"I ueed not go on to tell you, boys,
how it all came about, but iu less than
half an hour Ranald was on his way
back to the citv. w hile I, with bis pU
tols in mv pocket, was striding aloug
the green lanes that led farther and far
ther out iuto the country. I was des
perate, of course, and a burning fever
was bounding in my pulses, confusing
all that I did. It must certainly have
been that, combined witu Kanald s in
fluence, that set me, Kenneth Lane, be
hind a hedge, with a pistol in my hand
and a murderous intent in my heart :
while the moon shone whitely over tne
broad fields and the long ribbons, of
road that lay between them.
"The first that passed was a man
whose face I could not see. I had my
finder on the trigger. I was just ready
to spring out upon him, when suddenly
well, Graham, he began whistling
that same little iooiisn love tune you
used to be always w histling, singing
and plaving at college. That made me
tow very weak, and I couldn't move.
Tt brought back all you fellows so dis
tinctly. Bv the way, I wonder if be
will ever know how near that little love
tune saved his life? Talk about the
value of little thiugs. the stars might
all have fallen from their spheres, and
never have affected me as did the few
simple bars whistled by the traveler
along the moonlit road.
"I recovered myself after a little or
rather lost myself again and began to
wonder at my weakness; and then, just
as I had stra'ightened myself np and
taken a new hold on my resolution to
do something desperate, I heard the
rattle of carriage wheels far away on
the moonlit, w hite-ribbon of road. In
stantly I was on the alert, with every
faeult'y qnkkened, I raised my pistol
and examined the lock, wondering at
the same time whether my sentence
would be tianging,' or transportation,
or Imprisonment for Hfe, wita hard
labor. Before I had settled the matter
: . mi,i the carriage had come
nearer.. The wheels were rattling fu
riously. Who could it be, driving at
' v Ki,-nv - need? Then sud
denly U came In sifcht, and at the same
moment I heard the terrific screams of
wonwn, saw that the driver was ndss
ing from his place, and that the horses
rwee running away.
"In an instant, forgetting everything
else at those cries of distress, I dropped
my pistol and sprang into the road.
Just for a moineut. the startled horses
paused, and in that moineut I seized
the bits. Then commenced a furious
battle with the frantic plunging steeds.
a inrown down, trampled upon.
oui i ciung to them with Uespmrtng
rucrgy. ien minutes ago, myf only
thought had been to take life, novw, my
only desire was to save it. So it was, I
clung to the horses and kept them there
untii l lelt stronger hands assist in
mine, and then the wild struggle, the
broad fields, and the white road -all
faded away, and left nothing but dark
ness and silence.
"When 1 a woke-well, boys, I thought
Aladdin's lamp had certainly come
back uion the earth, and somebody had
oeen using it lor my Denent. II I bad
come back to live in our own room,
Ranald's and mine, I might have con
cluded that tlie wbole atlair had beeu
horrible dream, and so said nothing
more aoout it. nut it certainly was
surprising to find myself in a strange
room, on a strange bed, with a rosy old
gentleman leaning over me on the oue
side, and a rosy old lady on the other,
their faces expressing the most lively
solicitude, while a grave medical gen
tleman first felt my pulse, and - then
rubbed the palms of his hands together
with great satisfaction. or was my
astonishment decreased w hen the rosy
old gentleman said :
" "The dear boy has come through.
Allow me to take your hand doctor.
We owe so much to you.
"Whereupon he shook hands very
heartily with the doctor, and then with
the old 11 v, and they all seemed ex
travagantly glad of my recovery.
"It was astonishing too, in the davs
that followed, while 1 was lying there,
too weak to move, to see how 1 was
waited on and made much of by the
whole family. They told me after a
while how 1 had saved the lives of the
rosy old lady and her daughter, who
were in the carriage that night, and
how 1 was dragged out from under the
horses feet, bruised and bleeding, ! and
with my lelt arm broken; how 1 was
brought there, and never recovered con
sciousness, but went on Into a raging
lever, and laid next to Heath s door lor
weeks. They told me how I had talked
in mv delirium now arraigning Mr.
Laclede for base ingratitude, then
fancying that Ranald was -upon my
track wherever I went, and that he was
going to take tne commit murder. Then
1 was waiting behind the' hedge, with
my finger iiMn the trigger of the pistol
listening to the rattle ol carriage wheels
far away on the road, and the next mo
ment I was crying that there were wo
men inside, and that I must save them;
and I would strive to rise and would
fall back exhausted, only to begin all
over again.
"lo you picture, liovs. how I had fal
en upon l'aradise? After all, there is
i 'divinity that shaies our ends, rough
hew them as we mav.' Thev had gath
ered the whole story from my ravings.
1 hey knew what had beeu in mv heart
that uight beside the hedge, and yet
thev could be kind and tender. They
restored strength and manhood in me.
1 hey made me feel that 1 was worthy
of being honored and trusted. When 1
was able to work, the old gentleman
found me a splendid position, and I
continued my law studies in all my lei
sure moment. Mr. Lyndray gave me
a most cordial invitation to make his
bouse mv home, and treated me with
such confidence that I must have made
mvself worthy of it, however ignoble
and unworthy I might have been. So
it was that when Mr. Laclede came and
ottered me a position as book-keejer in
his establishment, I was enabled to de
cline the honor, with the old speech a
little more proudly uttered : "I am
Kenneth Lane, sir." And so it was
that every holiday took me back to the
home of my preserver, where Mr. and
Mrs. Lyndray treated me like a son and
their fair daughter smiled on me at in
tervals. At last I was admitted to the
bar, since which I have become well,
boys you know the rest.
'I he most promising young lawyer
in the state,' said Feuurr, emphati
cally. But what about the daughter.
Judge?" said Graham. "You surely
are not going t leave us in the lurch,
after we had all concluded that there
was goi ng to be a spice of romance
about it?"
Oh, yes the daughter!" said Ken
neth I-ane, with a blush. Then the
rising youug lawyer drew himself up
with the grace and pride of a young
god. "My friends," he said, with un
mistakable sweetness, "if you will go
down to Mr. Lvndrav's on the first day
of the new year, you will see me united
to Ethel Lyndray, my queen among
women.'
Hurrah ! Three cheers for the Judge
and his bride!" springing to his feet
and waving his cap, and the cheers
were given with a vim that brought
back their college days afresh.
A PlwMlwg Hawaer.
A certain class of people confonnd
culture ot manner with insincerity,
and blunt rudeness with noble frank
ness. They admire frankness so much
that they would lay no check upon it,
and even look upon efforts at self-con
trol with a suspicions eye. This, like
all extremes, baa, with much error, a
kernel of truth. Manners are so often
assumed to bide the real character, and
are so often at ntter varience with the
heart that lies beneath them, that it is
not atraDge that blunt, out-spoken hon
esty should denounce them as channels
of hypocrisy and deceit. But though
this culture is often allied with dupli
city, there is no necessary connection
between the two. On the contrary, it
may be an important element in the
motive. Many people really desire to
be what others only wish to seem. The
sincere man or woman who scorns to
cultivate manners will never reach the
full growth of which he or she is capa
ble. It is one of the laws of onr being
that every inward disposition is
strengthened by the outward expres
sion which represents it. For example
an earnest person truly desires to cul
tivate a generous and kindly spirit.
Insensibly he becomes more hnmane
and benignant in character. On tne
other band, we have known men whose
hearts were originally true and tender,
but who adopted a gruff, cold, and re
pellaat manner, thus .not only causing
pain and alienation in others, and also
blunting. ,their own susceptioiuuea.
crashing oat their sympathies, and
cooling their , affections. Thus the
character is ever aensibly affected by
the manner, and no one whe desires to
elevate himself can afford to neglect
it. ' "
Maid of money A young heiress.
Kcewlleetlwas t a Vie Claw.
BY PABMKSA3 MIX.
Those old songs even now they come
faintly to my ear, borne on the gentle
sephyra of memory. I catch le Gol
yer's tremulous air (he never bad much
confidence in his voice,) Dunlap a melt
ing tenor and MBlueskin's" heavy bass.
which was so very deep and strong that
the other singers were obliged to get
right down to their work in order to
secure a vocal representation. My voice
comes to me also; I lost it several years
ago it wasn't much of a loss.
Alone in my own room at midnight
when the village is still and my wearied
creditors are asleep, I often recall the
old days. Again I stand beneath the
pallid. luoon with my silver-tongued
companions and sing. Neither of us
could read music it was our business
to sing It. There were a few synical
critics who alluded to us as "Euter
pean homicides," and named among
our victims, "Xelly Gray." "Aanle of
the Yale," and an Irish lady named
"Belle Hahone." Strong in the assur
ance, however, that the severest criti
cism is often directed against superior
merit, we paid little attention to un
oomplimentory opinion. We bad each
of us been told that with the proper
cultivation and practice we might take
high rank in the musical world, conse
quently we continued our midnight
serenades, scattering our melodious
favors promiscuously among our female
acquaintances. I am quite certain that
if out-door exercise was as conducive
to vocal improvement as it is to physical
development, we would now be drawing
heavy salaries as vocalists. I am pained
to say that we are not. Indeed, the
overworked and discouraged air that
characterises each one of us to-day is
not the resul: of drawing a heavy salary
over the rocky routine of our profes
sions. Pecuniarily we are unincum
bered.
I Iu dly tb ink that I shall ever forget
my perlurmances with the old glee club.
1 was in love at the time, and the fair
being who en trapped my affections was,
quite naturally, made the innocent tar
get of a great many of our musical
broadsides. We sang ourselves hoarse
beneath her window. As a general
thing we would continue the entertain
ment for an hour or more. When at
last our list of songs was exhausted we
would steal noiselessly away, drawing
mental pictures of a white robed being
sluing up in bed wiping away the tears
that had been drawn out by our affec
ting allusions to a certain "Poor Old
Slave" and a somewhat famous piece of
cutlery known as the "Sword of Bun
ker Hill."
One night we went around rather
earlier than usual and took up our ac
customed position on the sidewalk be
neath the window where we supposed
our victim lay, fondly hoping that wtt'd
come . 'round and entrance her for
an hour or two. We opened np with
"Father, Come Home." DeGolyer,
with his tremulous air, had got as far
as
"Ofc-arther, dMrarthr, come home with maan-
II P
wten the door was softly opened and a
sweetly-familiar voice requested me to
6tep that way. It was Madeline, bless
tier dear heart, and I felt confident that
we were to be Invited to partake of wine
and cake. She drew me quietly into
the ball and said :
"Parmenas, you know I think the
world of you and would never find fault
with anything you did, but father Is so
curious. Now your singing doesn't
aunoy me a bit 1 sleep very soundly,
and am not disturbed in the least by
voices iu the street. But father works
in a boiler shop, you know, and be
says be hears racket enough during the
day without being pestered at night.
He just now woke me up he bad his
shot-gun in his band, and he told me
that if I didn't go down and put a stop
to your singing he'd cripple you all for
life. I'm so sorry, Parmenas can't
you go off to the woods somewhere, and
sing?"
I faintly replied that I supposed we
could, and sheepishly withdrew. When
1 reached the sidewalk the boys wanted
to kuow what was up. As I couldn't
think of divulging the awful truth, I
told them in bushvd acccents that Miran
da's grandfather was lying dangerous
ly ill, and that w hen DeGolyer struck
up "Father, Come Home," he thought
it wag the angels calling him, and com
menced to sink very rapidly. The fam
ily return their heartfelt thanks, I ad
ded, but earnestly request that we shall
discontinue the serenade. "Blue-skin,"
the heavy bass, wished to revive the pa
tient by singing "The Old Sexton," but
better counsels prevailed, and we silent
ly left the premises.
After that, somehow or other, I lost
all interest in musical affairs, and with
drew from the club. My companions,
however, continued to serenade, with
varying success, until one night while
they were endeavoring to charm a red
beaded girl with whom "Blue-skin"
picked up a flirtation, they received
their quietus. They were singing:
-Ob. oa, tb boy came laarchiDf,
Lika a (rand, auuaalic Ma,"
When the girl's father emptied a wash
tub of water on their heads from an
upper window. It came down like a
"grand, majestic sea," yon understand.
It may be that the old gentleman mere
ly wished to Illustrate the song at any
rate, the boys took it as an Insult, and
that was the end of the glee club.
Dr. cbJisasaaa'a Dlaeaverlaa.
If the indefatigable Dr. Schliemann
does pot succeed in reconstructing his
tory, and transferring the Homerle tale
from the region of fable to that of act
ual fact, be will at least have achieved
a by no means vain or useless purpose
that of feedingand satisfying the eager
and commendable cariosity of mankind.
Never have the "finds" of antiquarian
delvers and diggers not even those of
Layard in Assyria, or of his successor,
George Smith, or of the slowly-tailing
excavators of Pompeii been so full of
thrilling and romantio interest as the
discoveries which the devoted German
has made, or thinks ha has made, on the
famed plain of Troy, and now among
the ruins of the only less-famed city of
Perseus and Agamemmon. Unlike most
of his countrymen, who are usually
cautious, cool, Incredulous, painfully
weighing evidence on this side and that,
and watching intently lest they should
allow a sentiment of poetry or tradition
to color the theories they construct. Dr.
Schliemann has a perfect faith we had
almost said credulity in the Importance
of his discovery, the indentity of the
antique objects he unearths with those
mentioned by the blind bard, and In the
historic existence of events hitherto re
garded as legendary. It was a German,
we believe, who proved that the heroic
William Tell never existed except In the
lively imagination of the Swiss; it Is a
German who now tells us that Troy
certainly was, and Priam, and Achilles,
and Agamemmon, and Hector: that an
elopement, breeding war, really took
place on the part of Paris and Helen ;
and that he has found the treasure ot
the king, the citadel, and many other
of the objects and places described in
the "Iliad."
Dr. Schliemann has logically tians-
ferred bis researches from the Troad to
Argos, and crossing the Xgean, has
settled down to the excavation of the
long-mysterious ruins of Mycenae.
Those ruins are, not improbably, con
temporaneous with those of Troy; and
from Mycenae came the king who com
manded the Hellenic forces before the
Asiatic city, the brother of the outraged
husband of Helen. Substantial results
have followed the painful digging of the
German and his devoted wife, which
enthusiastic couple "may have been
seen" squatting on the ground under
the rain, troweling up the earth, and
every now and then bringing forth from
oblivion golden diadems and goblets,
ear-rings and necklaces.
Whether or not these ruins date as far
back as the warlike monarch who, ac
cording to Homer, was not the first of
the great men of earth, it seems at least
clear that they existed as stately edifices
at a period when glass and iron were
unknown in Argos, that is, in the pe
riod which archaeologists designate as
the "Bronze age ;" and the same may be
said of the Troy unearthed by Dr.Schlie,
mann. As yet he has been able to find
no writings or inscriptions, from which
it would appear that the sepultures of
the gorgeously-arrayed bodies which he
has found took place, in all likelihood
before the Greeks had adopted the Phoe
nician alphabet. Yet the artistic beauty
of the pottery and jewelry which have
so abundantly rewarded Dr. Schlie
manu's delving shows to what a high
state of perfection the workmanship of
goldsmiths and potters had attained in
this unquestionably remote period.
Dr. Schliemann is not, indeed, enti
tled to the credit of discovering the site
and making the first researches at My
cenae, as at Troy; for the Treasury of
Atreus, the Gate of the Lions, and the
cyclopean walls which once surrounded
the city, were excavated many year
ago. No doubt the tombs which Drs
Schliemann has found are those of an
ncient line of powerful and wealthy
kings, who must have lived In gorgeous
fashion, to judge by the splendor of their
funeral ornaments; for one of them, at
least, was buried with a crown of gold
over two feet long, while their rings
and other jewels, adorned with precious
stone?, further attest their luxury. We
have as yet, doubtless, but a small In
stalment of the discoveries the indefat
igable doctor Is destined to make at My
cenae; and very likely, before he has
completed his task, be may come upon
inscriptions which will prove Incompa
rably more precious to history than the
golden treasures already found. Apple
ton's Journal.
Aa Old Barlla alary.
The elders of the gossipy critics have
only to tax their memories a trifle to
go backto the hilarious dayi of Mile.
Son tag and Baron Rossi. Theirs was a
love match provoking acres ol broad
German grins and lots of sca.idal
was a feast which the gossips of
1830 fully enjoyed and have never
forgotten. Henrietta Sontag was then
the flower of her beauty of youth
and charm of song. She had
long declared herself Invulnerable
to the arrows of Cupid, but &he was hu
man after all. Wherever She went it
was noted that Baron Rossi was at her
heels. If she arrived In Berlin by one
diligence the devoted Baron was sure to
arrive in the next. The same thing at
Hamburg, the same at Paris, the same
at St. Petersburg until the Berlinese
made fun of poor Sou tag by calling
her persistent follower Baron 'Montag.'
When love's secret began to leak out In
pi te of all precautions, and scandal took
the place of harmless Just, they linked
Lady Sunday and Baron Monday to
gether, but it turned out that the parson
bad Joined them In advance, so that
all the calumniators and jokers on Sontag
were figuratively "knocked into the
middle of next week." Although nearly
half a century has passed one will occa
sionally encounter an old beau in the
Thiergarten or the lobby of the opera,
who will smile almost thoughtfully, as
he taps his snuff box and says, almost
sadly, "Nobody sings like Sontag, and
no one ever will."
Wldawaaad widawers.
It is contrary to custom to invite
guests to the marriage of a widow. If
widower marries a yonng girl tne
etiquette is the same as that of a first
marriage. A widow must marry in the
morning early, without show, and has
only her witnesses and those of her in
tended. Her drssa must be plain, of
quiet color, black, however, is not ad
missblie. On leaving chnrch the bride
invites to breakfast the witnesses who
have formed the party, bnt no other
guests are invited to the repast. On
the fifteenth day after the marriage
cards are sent bearing the new address
of the married pair. A widow never
makes wedding calls after remarrying.
Those who receive the cards do the
viaititing. There is a month allowed
for the return of the cards and the
visits.' When a single lady marries,
after having passed the nanal age for
marriage, the ceremony should be
simple and unobtrusive. Demons?
ilonlhly. '
Take Care af Taar Eyes.
The more yon avoid glaring and
glancing lights in the room yon habitu
ally ait in, the better. Therefore al
though the following advice is certain
to meet with no attention from the
great majority it is onr laughably
painful duty to recommend ladies to
have aa few mirrors and other lookiug
glasses, gilt picture frames and mould
ings, bright colored curtains, and highly
polished furniture in their drawing
rooms as possible; and what they mast
have should be so placed aa not to allow
bright lights to be thrown upon them.
Highly colored curtains are additionally
injurious when the windows are open,
so that various brilliant and dazzling
colon are flung about the room by the
incoming breeze. A very bright carpet
is a very injurious thing, and when
combined with a bright painted celling,
madness. These things may be a
merry life for the eyes, but they are a
short one. A rich patterned, sober
toned carpet, and a soft sky-gray or
stonecoloredceilingare my own private
fancy. The almost invariable white
wash of the British ceiling would be a
constant injury bnt for the grave fact
that the British isles are not overbur
dened with sunlight. But whether
reading, writing, working, or in any
other way, it should always be done
with an oblique light, and never with
a horizontal light. Aa to the use of lo
tions, several prescriptions are given
in the little book we commenced with.
as well aa in other works, bnt I forbear
to transcribe any of them, excellent as
they no doubt would be, because a lo
tion too strong, or too frequently ap
plied, or not exactly the proper lotion
for a special case or individual peculi
arity, might do far more harm than
good, unless nsed under professional
supervision. The only exception is
that of pure water. In cases of much
inflammation, or difficulty of opening
the eyelids in the morning, the water
should be warm, and it may be mixed
with warm milk; bat in nearly all other
cases the water should be cold. All
those who have been engaged in read
ing or writing during several hours at a
stretch, and especially at night, should
carefully bathe the eyes with cold wa-
tar before going to bed, and the first
tling in the mornings' ablutions. "All
artisans who work at a blazing fire
ought often to wash their eyes with
cold pure water; and so should all those
who work in wool, particularly carders
and spinners, and all those employed
in woolen and cotton manufactories,
&e.; for the fine dust almost impre-
ceptible, it may be called, which such
works disperse, of teD producescataracts
obstuiate- uinammatlona, swelled eye
lids," 4ic I once lived, daring weeks
at a time, on the banks of an ophthal
mic river in the interior of Australia,
and numbers of settlers and shepherds,
and bushmen and diggers were a Hi ic ted
every summer and autumn with sore
eyes so so. in some cases that you
might have thought they would never
open them again. One day a squatter
who owned a sheep station thereabouts
rode up from Melbourne with a great
air. He was a "swell-squatter,1 who
only now and then came to visit bis
snug little farm on the river to "sec
how his stock got on." I asked his ad
vice for the sore eyes of bis shepherds
and others. "It serves them right!''
said he. "I never have these sore eyes
and you, sir, will never have sore eyes.
No gentleman ever has." Not exactly
perceiving the nice distinction in this
matter, I demurred. "It is a nice dis
tinction," said be; it is just that. You,
no doubt, often wash your eyes with
cold water. Those fellows never do."
There was, no doubt, much reason in
this, but something else was the cause.
Beside the dirtiness of neglecting the
hot sand and dust in the eyes, flies
often rushed into them, and were not
soon or easily cleared out; there was,
moreover, a very small river fly, who
either bit or stung, and inflammation
very speedily set in. I should have
been very thankful at that time for the
sake of other,' (my horse included), as
well as myself, to have received the
following advii-e: Whenever a fly or
other insect, a small flying seed, quick
lime, dust, or any other minute object,
gets into the eye (L e., under the eye
lid), "do not adopt the common habit
of rubbing, or even of washing with
water, bat gently raise, or get a gentle
hand to raise for you, the eyelid, and
bend the bead forward. In keeping
thus the eyelid elevated, and the eye
quiesceDt for a few moments, one feels
a flow of tears starting from the organ
which seldom fails to bring along with
it the cause of the pain, or at least to
carry it toward the corner of the eye
next to the nose, from whence it may
be removed by a fine handkerchief
folded to a point. If this operation is
not sufficient then a finger ought to be
passed frequently, yet gently, over the
eye toward the great canthos (or in
terior corner), by which means the sub
stance Ls made to descend toward the
lachrymal glands, from whence it may
be drawn by a fine hair pencil." If the
irritating substance still remains, then
we are instructed that "the npper eye
lid mast be taken aa before, and kept
elevated aa much as possible, and the
eye being turned toward the nose, a
a very fine camel's hair pencil, dipped
in cream, oil, or very fresh butter
(without an atom of salt in it, remem
ber), must be introduced between the
eyelid and the body of the eye. begin
ning at the exterior corner and ending
at the interior corner." If the very
fine hair pencil ia not successful, you
will be almost certain to succeed with
one rather larger. Should all these ef
forts fail, which ia extremely unlikely
if they are properly performed, do not
set to work rubbing or washing the eye,
as yon must obtain professional assist
ance. Be sure to bathe the eye fre
quently in cold water as soon as, and
for some time after, the irritating sub
stance has been extracted. Frazer's
ilagajtne.
The Carat Flewer.
Emperor William the First is, as
everyone knows, very fond of flowers,
and his birthday table 1 always orna
mented with most magnificient bou
quets; and, among these more brilliant
sisters, a very modest wild flower, the
Corn Flower, or Blue Bottle Csntaurea
Cuanus), never fails to appear. All the
sons and daughters of the immortal
Queen Louisa cherish, in memory of the
dear departed, a decided preference for
this flower, and this preference dates
back to an apparently very insignificant
circumstance. The Queen Louisa spent
the two years from 1806 to 1808 in Ko
nigsberg, and lived during the summer
months on a country estate. The soli
tude of the place, broken only by the
rustling of trees, the singing of birds,
and the hum of insects, sothed the trou
bled spirit of the sorely-tried Queen,
Here she often rambled about with her
children, giving motherly words of
counsel, which would cultivate the
mind and heart and steel the character,
One morning, as the Queen was about
to take her customary walk in the park,
a peasant-girl stood at the garden gate
and offered herabasket of Corn-flowers.
The Queen graciously accepted the
present, generally thanked the girl,
took with her the flowers, over whose
beautiful blue color the Princess Char
lotte, then ten years old, expressed fond
admiration, and went into the park.
When they had come to a resting place
the Princess attempted, under the
mother's direction, to weave a garland of
the Corn-Flowers; and so great was the
mother's joy over the success of the at
tempt that the usually pale cheeks of
the Princess flushed toa bright red. And,
when she pressed the completed wreath
on her beautiful hair, it was so becom
ing to the fine, nobly cut features that
the admiring brothers and sisters
among them the present Emperor gave
loud expressions of joy. How delighted
the Queen must have been as she saw the
eyes of her children glisten over a trifle
whose material Talue was scarcely wor
thy of account.
The force ot arms had brought mis
fortune on misfortune to the dear
Fatherland. Who could have imag-
that the Princess, then adorned with a
garland of wild flowers, would ever
wear the diadem of an Empress? Who
could have dreamed that the apparently-
annihilated Prussia would extend its
protecting arm lrom cliff to sea, and
would exalt Louisa's son to mighty
power and honor as Emperor of United
Germany ?
But the Queen saw an Eden to arise
in the glad hearts of her children,
through innocent joy, out of which
prlngs of purest delight must flow.
With deep emotion she pressed her dear
ones to her heart, and the Corn-Flower,
which had given her so much pleasure,
became her favorite flower, as also that
of her daughter Charlotte.
-When Charlotte, twenty years later,
as Empress of' Russia, gladdened her
liome with a visit, the people of Kon-ig-lerg
thought to awaken in the mem
ory of the mighty Empress an exceed
ingly pleasaut recollection, when young
maidens, ornamented with Corn
Flowcrs, appeared before her, scattering
the war with flowers. And they were
not disappointed. The Empress ex
pressed her thanks and joy that they
chose the Corn-Flower with which to
honor her.
The Booster Caanaa af the Dardaael
lea. While the Russians are strengthen
ing their works at Odessa with Krupp
guns, the Turks are, it seems, substi
tuting the same modern weapons fur
the big cannon which for ages have
watched the straits of the Dardenelles.
Bigger than the biggest "Woolwich
Infant," or the 100 ton gun of the Ital
ians, these ancient cannon still retain
their former position as giants of ord
nance, the calibre of the largest being
something like twenty-nine inches.
while, as onr readers may remember,
that of the Anglo-Italian weapon is but
seventeen. According to one of the
best authorities on the subject. Major
General Lef roy, R. A., the present Gov
ernor of Bermuda, these monster can
non were cast aa long ago aa the 13th
and 16th centuries, and are fashioned
entirely of bronze. The cannon balls
provided are of stone, and far from be
ing useless and unmanageable, aa one
might well suppose such gigantic fire
arms to be, they have, it appears, sev
eral times been made use of with con
siderable effect- Some of the weapons
were employed against Scutaria, in Al
bania, by Mohammed II., in 1473, and
we are told that daring the siege of
that place, from June 22 to July 31, no
fewer than 3,534 huge cannon balls
were burled against the town.
As General Lef roy has remarked, in
his interesting history of these guns,
the supply of powder necessary to have
carried on such a terrible bombard
ment must have been imraenao, while
the quarrying and catting of so many
monster stone projectiles is a task
scarcely to be realized in these days.
Travelers have given strange accounts
of the guns whose ugly black muzzles
are to be seen from the Straits, and
marvelous legends are told aa to their
terrible might and distant range. But
it is very questionable whether they
could bowl a shot for a thousand yards.
even if the cannon were strong enough
to resist a heavy charge. However,
they certainly did some damage to a
fleet of ours which forced the passage
of the Dardanelles in 1807. for on that
occasion eight vessels were struck and
nearly a hundred men killed and
wounded. This was the last time they
were nsed in action, and the replace
ment of them now by Krupp guns
shows that the Turks have no longer
any faith in the unwieldly giants. For
some years past their numbers on the
shore of the Dardanelles have been
growing less, and a little while ago
one was presented as a specimen to the
British government. ben Bishop
Pococke visited the spot in 1740 there
were, it seems, forty-two in all of these
huge weapons, and he quaintly says of
them: "They are always loaded with
stone ball, ready to sink any ship that
would otter to pass without coming to
anchor in order to be searched; they
fire likewise with ball in answer to any
ship that salutes the castle. As this
does much dam.ige when they fall, so
the lands directly opposite commonly
pay no rent. London Xtaily Telegraph.
The Missouri Senate has passed a
hill offering J10.000 reward for the dls-
Icovery of a sure cure for hog-cholera.
XIW3 Df BEIXJ.
Boston Is striving to get the bulk of
the beef-shipping business to Euglaud
in her owu hands. -
A chair ot hoinujapathy is to be es
tablished in Its Iowa State University
during the summer.
The new Chinese coin is the fif
tieth part of a cent in value, and five
pounds are equal to a nickel.
An average of 110,000 letters Is daily
received at the Boston postotflce. A
year ago the average was 1)1,000 letter
a day.
Prof. Seelve. the scholar In oolitic.
has given his salary to the town of Am
herst, the mouey to be expended iu
sidewalks.
It is claimed that 30.C0O worth of
hogs have died during the past year of
cholera in a circle of live miles around
Uoiner, 111.
It is said that there are more Ban-
list churches and members in Philadel
phia than in any other city In the world,
save London.
The Graphic is the only Dater Iu
this country which can illustrate a boat
race 6,000 miles away ou the same day
of its happening.
The Pennsylvania railroad com
pany Is having 125 refrigerator car
constructed for the carrying of meal
irom lexasto .ew lork.
The boats of the Roval National
Life Boat Institution, of England, hut
year saved alj lives, beside assisting
uumerous vessels in distress.
J udge Ptleg Sprarrue of Boston la
the oldest ex-United states senator now
living. He was a member of the Maine
Legislature filty-six year ago.
The manufacture of silk in tha
United Stales increased troin two mil
lion dollar worth in l&H), to twenty
dye million dollars worth iu 1376.
It is stated as a fact that the Palmer
House, Chicago, has over t'JO.OUO worth
of bronzes distributed about the hotel
as ornaments and embellishments.
The last China steamer from Sau
Francisco took ten thousand barrels of
California flour. China is said to be
rapidly substituting wheat for rice.
A glass factory at Honesdale is fill
ing aa order for 72,000 hand laiuo. lor
Japan. The same concern has recently
shipped 115,000 fruit jars to California.
The debris of the palace car "Pala
tine" that went through the Ashtabula
bridge, has beeu made up into walking
canes by a thrifty individual named
Smith.
The author of "Home. Sweet
Home," never had a home; and George
McDonald, who has eleven children. 1
the author of "Annals of a Quiet Neigh
borhood." The Permaneiit Exhibition at
Philadelphia is an assured success.
tvery foot of space has been aDblied for.
and half as much airaiu could nave beeu
disposed of.
The Russian czar, during the 22
years of his reign, has not indorsed a
single capital seutence, although there
were m sucn iu the period troin 155
to 1S60 aloue.
The colored people of Raleigh, N.
,, have called a convention ol. the first
Monday of May to devise some plan for
bettering their condition by coloniza
tion or otherwise.
A private polar expedition will
leave New York in the early summer.
ostensibly for trading purposes, but In
reality to search fur records of thtt
rranklin expedition.
The male members of the Swedish
colony in Arostook county, Me., were
all uaturalized several days ago. The
colony now numbers about 600 persons,
auu is saiu to ue nourisniug.
Capt. Eben Pierce and Relmar
Eggers, both of New Bedford. Mass..
have jointly invented a breecn-loading
whaling gun, which will throw a lance
ad leet with destructive effect.
Off the coast of Virginia, about flva
miles from the mainland, is an Island
!ti which roam numbers of ponies aa
wild as the mustang. How or when
they settled there is uot known.
The city council of Danville. Hl
prohibited the boys lrom running vel
ocipedes upon the sidewalks. The boy
in a spirit of retaliation petitioned the
council to prohibit ttia wheeliu of
baby wagons.
One of the rarest books printed iu
the nineteenth century is the first edi
tion of the "Book of Mormon." pud-
lished at Palmyra. N. Y.. in 13.10. Lord
Macaulay tried in vain for years to pro
cure a copy ot it.
Hannibal Hamlin, since Simou .
Camerou's retirement, is the oldest
senator, reckoning from the time he
entered that body, but his service ha
uot been continuous. Senator Anthony
the oldest senator in continuous ser
vice.
The Baroness Mayer de Rothschild
lately died on board her yacht at Nice.
She had been sailing about the Mediter
ranean all winter iu the hope of bene
fitting her health. Her only child,
Mile. Hannah de Rothschild, inherit
the estate.
Joseph Bonaparte. King of Spain.
once possessed a ponderous set of mili
tary maps of France and Belgium, and
these have just been presented to tha
university or lulitornia, by Mr. Mail-
laird, of San Raiael. One of the map
cases i perforated by a bullet.
Mrs. Frost Thome, the widow of
the gentleman who was drowned in the
Mohawk disaster las; summer, intend
to return to the stage. She i a daughter
of E. L. Davenport, and will take back
her maiden name of Lily Vining Daven
port when she resumes her old profes
sion. --Judge S. C. Hastings, of San Fran
cisco, has offered to deposit $100,000
ith the 1 reasurer of California, on
condition that the State shall promise to
pay 7 per centum a year forever to the
niversity of California, the amount
thus received to be divided into two
parts, one of $4,000 and the other of
$3,000, the former to be used at first to
purchase books for a law library, and
the latter for a professor's salary.
The Central Pacific Railroad Com
pany has lately arranged to nave 40,-
000 Eucalyptus Globulus trees set out
along the 500 miles of the right of way
of the company. This Is only the first
instalment, as it will require about
800.000 of the trees for the 500 miles of
valley where they are to be cultivated.
The immediate object af the plan is to
increase the humidity of the region.
and lessen the liability to droughts.
The Modoc Indians, now number
ing fifty-four ma'es and sixty-three fe
males, are located on a very fertile
tract containing 4,000 acres, in the
northeast corner of the Miawnee re
serve, InUUa lerritory. iney nave
engaged energetically In labor duriag
the past year, and as a result, nave a
large and valuable crop on their farm.
lie Government nas expended ii.wi
for their schooling for ten months.
which is under the supervision of tha
Society of Friends.