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B. F. SCHWEIER..
THE CONSTITUTIOH-THE UNION-AHD THE EJTFOEOEMEST OF THE LAWS.
F.ditor niul Proprietor.
VOL. XXXI.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1S77.
NO. 21.
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knitting.
"With blooming maiden sitting.
While she nimbly phe her knitting.
Pleased I gazed opon her beauty.
While I fill my nappy duty,
"Paying tut" the zephyr double, '
Bicliiy paid for pleasant trouble
Jcet to a itch ber nimble fingers.
And ber ruby lip where Ungate
Many a beauty in ber nulling.
All my loving eoul beguiling.
Just to feel the wondrous thrilling.
Of my heart with rapture filling.
While beside the maiden sitting.
"Paying out" while she is knitting,
I am thinking how our knitting
la an illustration fitting
Of the real life we're living ;
Of the mercies God is giving
In the active world around him.
When to woman man has bound him.
Then are love and labor making
All the Joys our souls are taking,
Hisjo labor are supplying.
"Psylng out" life's thread, and trying
Ever to undo its tangling ;
His to give life's thread and hold it
Hers In love to gently mould it
Ibto forms of use snd beauty.
Thus they link their lore and duty."
Winnie's Fortune.
The handsome dining-room In the
Mayberry mansion was all a-glitter
with floods of gaslight and the general
glow of the fire for Mr. Joslah M ay
be ry was a very '-queer man," accord
ing to liU wife's opinion, and this fancy
of hi to have nasty, ashy fire all over
the splendid mansion before the weather
became cold enough was one of his "ec
centric freaks," Mrs. Maybe ry called It,
with a curl of her lip, a toss of ber
head and a smile, almost of contempt,
directed at the bale, hearty, honest-
faced old gentleman who bad married
her for her pretty face, ten years ago,
when he was an immensely rich wid
ower with his handsome half-crown
son for a not undesirable encumbrance.
They were sitting around the hand
some table, discussing their seven
o'clock dinner, with the solemn butler
and his subordinate, in silent, obsequi
ous attention these three Mayberrys,
father, son, and haughty well-dressed
lady who was wearing a decided frown
of displeasure on her face a frown
she had barely power to restrain from
degenerating into a verbal expression
of anger while the servants were in
waiting, and which, as the door was
finally closed on them, leaving the little
party alone over their wine and nuts,
burst forth impetuously :
"I declare, Mr. Mayberry, it is too
bad ! I have gone over the list of invi
tations you have made, and to think
there is not one no not one of our set
among them, and such a lot of horrid
people as you have named I"
Mr. Mayberry sipped his wine con
tentedly. "I told you, didn't I, Marguerite,
that it was my intention to give an old
fashioned dinner? And by that I meant,
and mean, to whom it will, Indeed, be
cause for thankfuluess. As to making
a grand fuss, and seeing around our
Uihle only the people to whom a luxurl
rous dinner is an every day occurrence
I shall not do it. As to the guests on
the list being 'horrid' and 'common'
you are mistaken, my denr. None of
them have a worse failing than poverty.
There is not a common vulger person
among the ten names on that paper."
Mr. Mayberry's good old face lighted
up warmly as he spoke, and Ernest
Mayberry's handsome face reflected the
satisfaction and pride he felt in his
father's views.
Mrs. Mayberry flushed, but said noth
ing. She knew from experience that, kind
and indulgent as her husband was, there
were times when he suffered uo appeal
from his decision. And this was one of
those times.
"We will have dinner ordered for
tw elve o'clock, as it used to be when I
was a boy. We will have roast turkey,
with cranberry sauce, and mashed po
tatoes and turnips, boiled onions and
celery, and all on the table at once. For
dessert, pie, cheese and cider, and noth
ing more. Marguerite, shall I give the
order to Lorton, or will you attend to
It?" '
"Mrs. Mayberry twisted her diamoud
rings, almost roughly.
"Oh, don't ask me to give such an in
sane order to him ! I have no wish to
appear as a laughing stock before my
servants, Mr. Mayberry. It 'will be as
severe a strain on my endurance as I am
capable of to be forced to sit at a table
with such people as the Ilurds and the
Masons, aud that Tliyrsa Green and her
lame brother, and that little Wilming
ton and his granddaughter, and"
Mr. Mayberry. interrupted her
gently
"Old Mr. Wilmington was a friend
of mine long before lie went to India.
Since he came home with his sou's or
phan daughter and l'ved in such obscur
itycomfortable, although plain, for
Winnie earus enough as daily governess
to support them both cheaply I regard
him as more worthy than ever. Eruest,
my boy, I shall depend upon you to
help entertain our guests, aad especially
at table, for I shall have no servants
about to scare them out of their appe
tites." .. .
And Mr. Mayberry . dismissed the
subject by arri.-ftij from the table.
'-'' "' ' v;
"Would I like to go? Oh, grandpa,
I should I - Will w e go, do you think?"
The little, wizened uld man looked
fondly at her over his steel-rlmmed
glas-es. ' 1
"So j ou w ould like to accept Mr! May
berry's invitation to dinner, eh, Winnie?
Tou wouldn't be ashamed of your old
fashioned grandfather, eh, among the
fine folks of the family? Remarkably
fine folks, I hear, for all I can remem
ber, when Joe was a boy together with
myself. Fine folks,. Winnie, and you
think we'd better go?'' ' '" ' ,'
"I would like to go','."grandpa''l
don't have maiij-pcreations I don't
want many,' fr I ihiuk contented honest
labor U the grandest thing iu the world,
and the best discipline but somehow,
I can't tell why, but I do want to go. I
can wear my black cashmere, and you'll
be so proud of me."
"Proud of you, indeed, my child, no
matter what you wear. Yes, we'll go."
And thus it happened that among the
ten guests that sat down at Josiali May
berry's hospitable overflowing board
that cold, blue-skied day, Winnie Wil
mington and the little old man were
two and two to whom Ernest Mayber
ry paid more devoted attention than
even his father had asked and expected.
Of course it was a grand success all
excepting the cold hauteur on Mrs.
Mayberry's aristocratic face, and that
was a failure, because no one took the
least notice of it, so much more power
ful were the influences of Mayberry's
and Ernest's courteous, gentlemanly at
tentions. "I only hope you are satisfied," Mrs.
Josiah said, with what was meant to be
withering sarcasm, after the last guest
had gone, and she stood a moment be
fore the fire, "I only hope you are sat
isfied particularly with the attention
Ernest paid to that young woman very
unnecessary attention, Indeed."
Mr. Mayberry rubbed his hands to
gether briskly.
"Satisfied ? Yes, thankful to God, I
had it in my power to make them for
get their poverty, if for only one little
hour. Did you see little Jimmy Iluid's
eyes glisten when Ernest gave him the
second triangle of pie? Bless the
youngsters' hearts, they won't want
anytiiing to eat for a week,"
"I was speaking of the young woman
who"
Mrs. Ma -berry was Icily severe, but
her husband cut It short.
So you were pretty little thing as
ever I saw. A. ladylike graceful little
girl, with beautiful eyes enough to ex
cuse the boy for admiring her."
"The boy. You seem to forget that
your son is twenty-three old enough
to fall in love with and marry even a
poor, nnkuoTn girl you were quixotic
enough to invite to your table."
"Twenty-three? So he is. And if
he wants to marry a beggar, and she is
a good, virtuous girl why not?"
A little gasp of horror and dsmay
was the only answer of which Mrs.
Mayberry was capable.
see
"Grandpa!"
Winnie's voice was so low that Mr.
Wilmington only just heard it, and
when he heard it and looked up he saw
the girl's crimson cheeks and her
lovely, droping face.
"Yes, Winnie. You want to tell me
something?"
She went up behind him and leaned
her hot cheeks caressingly against his,
her sweet low voice whispering her an
swer "Grandpa, I want to tell you some
thing. I Mr. May we Ernest has
asked he wants me to oh, grandpa,
can't you tell what it is?"
lie felt her cheeks grow hotter against
him.
He reached up his hand and caressed
the other one,
"Yes, I can tell, my dear. Ernest
has shown his uncommon good sense by
wanting you for his wife. So that is
what comes of that dinner, eh, Win
nie?" -
"And may I tell him you are willing,
perfectly willing, grandpa? Because I
do love him, you know."
"And you are sure that It isn't his
money you are after, eh ?"
She did not take umbrage at the sharp
question.
"I am at least sure it is not my money
he is after, grandpa," she returned,
laughing and patting his cheek.
"Yes, you are at least sure of that;
there, I hear the young man coming
himself. Shall I go, Winnie?"
It was the "young man himself,"
Ernest Mayberry with a shadow of deep
trouble and distress on his face as he
came straight up to Winnie and took
her hand, then turned to the old gentle
man.
"Until an hour ago I thought this
would be the proudest, happiest hour
of my life, sir, for I . ould have asked
you to give me Winnie fur my wife. In
stead, I must be contented to tell you
how I love her, and how patiently
and hard I w ill work for her to give
her the home which she deserves be
cause, Mr. Wilmington, this morning
the house of Mayberry & Thurston
failed, and both families are beggars."
II is handsome face turned pale, but
his eyes were bright with a determina
tion and braveness nothing could daunt
Winnie smiled back ou him, her own
face paling.
"Never mind Ernest, on my account,
I can wait too."
Old Mr. Wilmington's eyes were al
most shut between the heavy, frowniug
forehead, and a quizzical look was on
his shrewd old face as he listened.
"Gone up, eh 1 Well, that's too bad.
You stay here and tell Winnie I am just
as willii.g she shall be your wife when
you want her, as if nothing had hap
pened, because I believe you can earn
bread and butter for both of you, and
my Winnie is a contented little girl. I'll
hobble up to the office and see your
father, he and I were boys together; a
word of sympathy won't come amiss
from me."
And off he strode, leaving the lovers
alone, getting over, the distance In
remarkable short time, and presenting
his wrinkled, weather-beafc n old face
In Mayberry A Thurston's ; private
office, where Mr. Mayberry sat alone,
with rigid face and keen, trouhledeyes,
that, nevertheless, lighted at the sight
of his old friend. ' ;,
"I am glad to see you, Wilmington,
sit down. The sight tf tnan who has
not come to reproach me is a comfort."
J But Mr. Wilmington did not sit down.
' He crossed the room to the tible at
which Mr. Mayberry sat among a hope
less array of papers. . - - i
"There Is no use wasting words, May-berry-atV
time like this. Did you know
your son has asked my Winnie to marry
hiti?"
Mr. Mayberry's face lighted a second,
then the gloom returned.
"If my son had a fortune at his com
mand, as I thought he had yesterday at
this time, I would say: "God speed you
inyour woeing of Winnie Wilmlnirton."
as it is for the girl's sate I disap
prove."
"So you haven't a pound over and
above, eh , Mayberry ?"
"There will be nothing less than
nothing. I don't know that I really
care so much for myself, but Ernest,
It is a terrible thing to happen at the
very beginning of his career."
Mr. W iimiugton smiled gleefully.
"Good. Neither do I care for myself,
but for Winnie, my little Winnie. I tell
you what, Mayberry, perhaps, you will
wonder If I am crazy, but I'll agree to
settle a quarter of a million on Winnie
the day she marries your boy. And I'll
lend you as much more if it'll be any
use, and I'll start the boy for himself,
If you say so. Eh?"
Mr. Mayberry looked at him in
speechless bewilderment.
Wilmington went on.
"I made a fortune out in Inda, and
it's safe and sound in hard cash in good
hands a couple of millions. I deter
mined to bring my girl up to depend
on herself, and to learn the value of
money before she had the handling of
her fortune. She has no idea she's an
heiress my heiress. Sounds like a
story out of a book, eh, Mayberry?
Well, will you shake hands on it, aud
call it bargain?"
Mr. Mayberry took the little dried
up band almost reverentially, his voice
hoarse aud thick with emotion.
"Wilmington, God will reward you
for this. May he, a thousandfold !"
Wilmington winked a very suspicious
moisture on his eyelashes.
"You see It all comes of that dinner,
old fellow. You acted like a charitable
Christian gentleman, and between us
we'll make the boy and Winnie as happy
as they deserve, eh ?"
e
And even Mrs. Mayberry admits that
it was a good thing that her husband
gave that dinner, aud when she expects
to see Mrs. Ernest Mayberry an hon
ored guest at her board, she candidly
feels that she owes every atom of her
splendor and luxury to the violet-eyed,
charming girl who wears her own hon
ors with such sweet grace.
II ew le Hartineaa Began f Write.
It was at the age of nineteen that
Harriet Martineau felt the sensation,
that is so delightful to most authors, of
seeing her first contribution to liters
ture in print. The account of her en
trance upon the vocation of an authoress
is full of Interest. For some years, It
seems, she had aspired to this vocation.
It happened that her brother James,
who was going to leave home for col
lege perceiving that she was fur from
happy, advised her to turn her attention
to some fresh pursuit which would dis
tract and engage her mind, and sug
gested writing for the press. The very
next morning, before six o'clock, she
was at her desk coniosing an article on
"Female Writers on Practical Divinity"
a ponderous theme for a girl of nine
teen which, when finished, she sent to
a small Unitarian periodical called the
Monthly Bepotitory. Keeping her design
a secret from the family, she carried the
article to the postoflice, and awaited
with palpitating heart the arrival of the
next number of the JtepotiUr. It came
just before service on Sunday morning,
and when she turned the sheet her
heart "thumped prodigiously" on see
ing her article on the page. In the
evening her cider brother, by chance,
read the article aloud in his family cir
cle, where Harriet was taking tea,
praising it as he read. When he had
ended it, he turned to her and said :
" 'Harriet, what is the matter with
you? I never knew you so slow to
praise anything before.'"
"I replied In utter confusion :
' "I never could baffle anybody. The
truth Is, that paper is mine."
"He made no reply, read on in silence,
and spoke no more till I was on my feet
to come away. He then laid his hand
on my shoulder, and said, gravely :
" 'Now, dear, leave it to other women
to make shirts and darn stockings ; and
do you devote yourself to this.' "
"I went home," she adds, "in s sort
of dream, so that the squares of the
pavement seemed to float before my
eyes. That evening made me an au
thoress."
Table Etlqaelte la Easland.
English etiauette demands the ob
servance of two rules in connection
with dinners which it is the worst pos
sible taste to violate in any country,
many aeunqueme to tun contrary nut
vitlmt.ninir Tliv era that all din
ner invitations shall be answered at
once no waiting to see if pleasanter
enjoyment presents liseir, ana mat toe
guest shall be punctual to the nour
specified. That the success of the
Dartv depends largely upon these is
self-evident.
TlukiiATt imnptant mAttsr lipft wit.ll
the host or hostess, to settle before
hand the correct precedence ana 11
tliin im nnnA. to consider which con riles
best suit each other. There are sev
eral methods of arranging the order in
which the guest are to go down ; one
a tnw Jio hrt hefni-A dinner is an
nounced, to introduce each gentleman
to the laay, wnom ne is to wise to din
ner ; but this has its inconveniences,
and the wiser plan is thought to be for
the hostess to despatch the guests her
self when the host has given his . arm
tl tail hn takes down. Once ar
rived in the dining-room, the host
should tell each conpie as tuey appear
uAM 4ko ,m tn ait.- An exoerienced
hostess always takes special care sot to
seat husbands ana wives opposite eacn
other. j
One thing should never be forgotten.
Every gentleman must place the lady
he esoortcn his right hand. He should
..loava whan desired to take her to
dinner, offer his right arm. . Ladies
and gentlemen enter me room singly,
not arm-in-arm, and the ladies retain
their glovee tey Pn
ting them on again before leaving the
dining-room.. . -t , .
Tii Prince of Wales and the 'Duke
of Cambridge are now the only field
marshals in me rsriutn army.
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Stereolvplas;.
This art as most of oar readers are
aware, consists iu producing, by a rapid
process of metal casting, counterparts
of the type forms set up by hand by
the compositors, and with the work
of bringing this art to the pitch of per
fection to which it has attained in the
present day the name of Walter is
honorably associated. The invention
of stereotyping dates back to about the
year 1783, and is generally attributed
to William Ged, a goldsmith of Edin
burgh. His process, still nsed for cer
tain classes of work, is known as the
stucco process, stucco being the ma
terial nsed to take the impression from
the type and from the matrix. The
stucco is poured on to the face of the
page of type in liquid form, and bard
ens in cooling. As, however, the stucco
matrix cannot be bent into semi-circular
form, it is useless for cylinder
printing and for newspaper work has
been entirely superseded by the paprr
tnaeke process, which, though not in
vented, has been chiefly developed and
perfected in the Timet office. It was
first taken in hand there being at that
time a recent and crude invention
during the period of the Crimean war,
when with all previous known appli
ances, it was found impossible to com
plete the daily publication of tbe great
journal before nine or ten o'clock in the
morning. In the able hands of the
engineers and mechanics of the estab
lishment, a series of experiments, and
step by step improvements, gradually
led np to the admirably simple, rapid.
and effective method used to supply
cylindrical stereotype plates for the
Walter press, and of this a brief de
scription may be given. The "form"
of type as set np by the compositor is
oiled by means of a flannel covered
roller; a wet sheet, consisting of sev
eral thicknesses of soft paper carefully
pasted together, is then laid on tbe
oiled face and covered with a blanket.
The form thus covered is passed under
rollers, which by their pressure force
the face of tbe type in the paper in such
a way as to make it a perfect mold or
matrix of the form. Another sheet of
paper is then pasted upon tbe back of
the mold to strengthen it, and tbe form
with the soft paper still upon it, is
placed upon a hot plate covered with
several folds of dry blanketing, and a
press screwed down on the top. In the
space of two or three minutes the dry
ing process is completed, and the mold
lifts clearly off. The edges are then
trimmed, and tbe papier-mache matrix,
pliant enough to be bent into a com
plete circle if need were, is laid face
upward in a semi-circular casting box
having a core of the exact diameter of
the impression cylinder of the press.
Metal just hot enough to run, and so
co m posed as to sol idi fy rapid ly, is poured
into the mould, and on drawing the
core a semi-circular casting of the page
of type is upon it. A sharp tap or two
brings it off, and it is then put under.an
ingeniously constructed circular saw,
which cuts oil the overflow metal
gathered at the edges. It is next
dipped in water to accelerate the cool
ing and harden it a little, and then
fixed in a small double tooled hithe, a
few revolutions of which finish the
trimming of tbe edges, and cut the
ledges, which are necessary to keep the
dogs" by w hich it is held in place on
the impression cylinder "flush' with
the surface. From this lathe the plate
passes to a revolving planing machine
made to fit it. In tins it is placed face
downward so that the inside of the
plate is presented to the cutting tool
by which it is "trued" so as to insure
its having a dead bearing on the ini
pression cylinder, for being placed on
which it is now ready. Describing iu
words, this process may perhaps seem
somewhat complicated, but in practice
it is extremely simple; aud how speedy
it is our readers may judge for them
selves when we tell them that in the
Timt$ office the production of a plate
from first to last is the work of only
eight minutes. A practically unlimited
number of plates can be cast from a
single matrix, and by keeping it, re
prints can at any time be made with
out the trouble, expense, or delay of
again setting np type. In conclusion,
as bearing on the question of economy,
we may point out that tbe plates, after
doing their work for the day, are
melted up again and recast, so that the
same metal may be in use all tbe year
round. Good Mori?.
A Sine-nlar 1'harltjr.
It may be thought a singular purpose
of charity to provide for the "marriage
of poor maids," and one that would ac
complish but little in a field where the
objects would be so numerous; never
theless, the benevolent designs of men
have been turned in that channel, as
well as in other various directions men
tioned in the statute. By' the will of
Mr. Henry Kaine, a wealthy London
brewer, a fuud was established lor just
such a durpose. .
Among the notable charitable insti
tutions of London there is none more
novel in inception, or unique in man
agement, than Kaine's Asylum, estab
lished by him, In 1736, for clothing,
educating, and properly training for
domestic service forty young girls,
taken from a lower school previously
established by him. On arriving at the
the age of twenty two, any girl who
has been educated at the asylum, and
who can produce satisfactory testimon
ials of her conduct while in service,
may become a candidate for a marriage
portion of 100, for which six girls are
allowed to draw twice in each year
on the first of May and the fifth of No
vember. ' The drawing is In this man
ner : The treasurer, In compliance
with' tlte . explicit directions of Mr.
Kaine, takes a half-sheet of white paper
and writes thereon 'one hundred
pounds." Next, . he takes as many
blank sheets a3,rwitb the one written
on will correspond with the number of
candidates present. Each of these half
sheets Is wrapped tightly round a little
roller of wood, tied with a urrow green
ribbon, the knot of which is firmly
sealed.' Tbe rolls are then formally de
posited in a large canister placed upon
a small table in the centrt of tbe room.
This being done, the candidates, one at
a time, advance toward the canister,
each drawing therefrom one of the
rolls. When all have drawn, they pro
ceed to the chairwoman, who cuts the
ribbon which secures each roll, and bids
the candidate unfold the various papers.
There is no need to ask them which of
them has gained the prize the spark
ling eyes of the fortunate "hundred
pound girl" reveal the secret more
quickly than it could be spoken by the
lips. The portion drawn in May is
given after a wedding on the fifth of
November, the November portion being
given in like man nor on May day.
Dereaeee fCewMaallaaple.
The great importance of the Eastern
question rests entirely upon the fear
that Constantinople may fall into the
hands of Russia. No other great power
covets its possession ; with Russia the
desire to obtain this great key to the
East is traditionary. Both to England
and to Austria the occupation of the
Boaphorus and Dardanelles by Russia
would be of paramount interest. Nor
is it possible to suppose that either of
th jso nations would consent to such an
occupation except as the result of a
long and unsuccessful war. It is for
this reason that they wish for the im
provement of Turkey rather than for
her destruction, whilst Russian inter
ests induce that country to hasten in
every way the decadence of the Otto
man Empire. Constantinople and its
approaches being the great prize which
is much coveted, it naturally follows
that if this important position could be
made so secure that a Russian occupa
tion were impossible, a great political
as well as military problem would have
been solved. The superiority o! the
Turkish fleet and the works of defence
erected in tbe Bosphorus and Darda
nelles have prevented tbe possibility of
a Muscovite capture of Constantinople
by a sea attack. It, therefore, only be
comes necessary to strengthen the land
approaches -to make Constantinople
practically impregnable. And this could
easily be accomplished. Tbe Bospho
rus can only be approached from the
north by a narrow strip of land, in
some places only 23 miles wide. If a
line of works were erected across this
strip, with its right resting on the
Black Sea, and its left on the Sea of
Marmora, Constantinople would be se
cure. An admirable position exists
wbioh is so aided by natural obstacles
as to reduce tbe front to be defended
to between 17 and 18 miles. Bat can
Constantinople be reached by a Rus
sian army acting from the Caucasus
snd marching through Asia Minor?
From tbe Caucasus V, Constantinople
by road is upwards ot nine hundred
miles. There are no roads for artil
lery, and the country offers every diffi
culty relative to tbe maintenance of
supplies. The flank and rear of an
army so advancing would be exposed
to attack by any power in command of
the B'ack Sea. Finally the approach
to Constantinople is also by a narrow
neck of land only 26 miles in width and
there would be ample time to erect a
line of works extending from the Gulf
of Ismidt to the Black Sea, and so
blocking an advance from Asia Minor.
Thus the line of works proposed by
making the position of Constantinople
practically impregnable to a Russian
attack, would settle in a good degree
that Eastern questions whioh now of
fers such serious difficulties and dan
gers. Isvant HeraUL
"-Ifi;rualy."
I don't think I ever wrote about Miss
Grundy in the News and I want to do
so now. She is a medinm-sized com
pact lady, much given to emphatic
colors in dress and pnnning witticisms
in letters. As a correspondent I be
lieve she holds ber own better than
any of the other ladies. She is not
spasmodic and never ridicules. She
don't care much about fine writing,
but in the description of society events
she is clearly the most entertaining,
and seldom makes a mistake. She
works like a woman of intense practica
bility, and I don't think won Id scream
at a mouse. I rather think she'd sit
down on it. She writes very rapidly,
and so accurately that a revision is
seldom worth while. Her writing is
exceedingly English, devoid of "hor
rid adjectives and seldom as weak as
the subjects which perforce she is
driven to take np. She baa the entree
to the npper circles and is very much
liked by all. Occasionally she goes for
some with a whip, suapping with sting
ing facts and language not easily pooh
poohed. Her wit is not of the blue
stocking order, bearing traces of para
phrasing, nor does it smack of old
medical almanacs circulated before yon
and I were born, and hence out of our
memories. Sue's an honest writer,
not argumentative but assertive, free
and unimpeded by half-evolved lack of
understanding, she lives very quietly
with her mother in modest rooms sur
ronnded by books of decided worth
and comfort, all the more enjoyed be
cause well earned. Her motehr is a
lady of great refinement. Her letters
over the signature of "Fay," in the
Louisville Commercial, show rare cul
ture and parity of taste quite ont of
the daily press. She is devoted to her
daughter, aad bv mutual assistance
each performs much of the best work
that leaves this city Dy correspondence.
Miss Grundv's name is Austine Suead.
snd she comes of a fine Kentncky
family. , .
Night Workers.
Bats live their active lives in the
niirht : w he.n sunliirhf come they fly
away to their holes, there to sleep until
twilight comes again, when the re
sume the occuatiou of iiiaect killing.
The female lt has rather a hard time
of it, as she 1 the nest ami the food of
her voung until thev are tliemelves
able to flv. Often hrre 1 seen a female
hat, with her youn-r ones clinging to
her breast, flying about iu search of
food ; and the voung ones were not so
small either. How else could they get
along? . The old ones make no nest ; it
they wanted to ever so much they
could not, and the chances are that,
from their wandering habits, they
spend the day in one. place, and the
next in another two or three miles' dis
tant, just as they happen to be when
day overtakes tbein, and if they left
their young behind them, thrir exact
locality might be forgotten. When the
voung ones are able to shift for them
selves the mother's life is easier, and
until winter comes to kill their insecf
food, she lives luxuriously. Then,
when all nature is prepared to put on
the livery of winter, bats, instead f
leaving the scenes where they had
passed the siimnwr, ' repair to their
haunts iu the caves and walls, and
hanging by their bind feet in little
groups of five or six together, pa-ss the
dreary season ill: one unbroken sleep.
A word once spoken, a dozen hois s
cannot overtake it and bring it baok.
Seeking a Wile.
Well, the formalities were duly dis
penned with, and I find myself invested
with the property of my late respected
uncle all regular. And now, if I
choose, 1 can set np an establishment,
and keep it np in good stylo. But I
never fancied a bachelor's hall, and
where is the pretty Beatrice to make
me a Benedict ?"
So ran George Herbert's soliloquy
as he walked home from bis office one
evening soon after he had become the
"heir of his nncle."
"I declare," he continued, as he set
tled into a solitary corner in a half
empty car, "I wonld marry at once if I
could find a genuine girL But how
can a fellow trust thoee be-flounced
and be flummeried doll-babies whom
he never sees any other way. If I
could only catch some of them out of
'company attire,' and know just what
they are at home-wonder if I couldn't?
I believe I have a plan for it 1 IU
think a night on it, and who knows
what may happen?"
What did happen was that Mr.
George set out at a very unfashionable
hour next morning to call upon some
of his friends.
It was so early an hour that he knew
they wonld not be expecting him or
ready to receive him, and that was just
what he wanted.
His first call was upon Miss Lulu
Granger, where only the night before
he had spent so delightful an evening,
admiring Miss Lnln's faultless toilet
and soft sweet voice until a late honr.
A servant who was sweeping tbe
front steps told him Miss Granger was
in, and as the door stood open, George
stepped unceremoniously in, too, and
walked into the front parlor.
The heavy curtains were drawn, mak
ing the elegant room somewhat dark,
but the back parlor was wide opeu and
George saw a vision.
Mis Lulu, her hair twisted npou the
top of ber bead about the size and
shape of a peeled onion, her fair fore
head adorned with several little paper
horns, her pretty person arrayed in a
soiled frayed wrapper, without belt or
collar, and her pretty feet in slippers
decidedly shocking, was tossing over
some shining silks, in consultation with
a plain little body, whom George
guessed at once to be her dress-maker.
Their backs were partlT towards him
so they did not see him, and, quickly
turning, George beat a hasty retreat,
saying to himself as he ran down the
steps
'The Fates portend ! If I had to
live with a sloven, I should run away t
Farewell, Miss Lulu ! I'll go to Belle
Dorsey'a
At Miss Dorsey's the door was ajar
but George was about ringing the bell
when the sound of voices within ar
rested him.
It was Belle herself, vociferously
scolding a little sister, and George
heard the sound of a smart slap, fol
lowed by a child's sobbing, and the
words, in Belle's own tone I
"There, yon meddlesome little beast '
take that ! Ill teach yon to let my !
things alone, if I break yonr miserable
little neck for it !" I
George did not ring, but beat a re- j
treat even quicker than he had from
Miss Granger's saying to himself j
"Cupid save us A scold is vorse
than a sloven I I should take to drink
if I bad to live with her ! I believe I'll
try Miss Baldwin next."
Just as he reached Miss Baldwin's-)
door, her little seven vear old brotl er
came bounding ont, ready for shool,
and George asked him if his sister I
Josie was in. j
"I suppose you're Josie's young man I
ain't you ?" said the boy. "Lord, yes, j
she's in. She's in bed, and will be
these five hours. Josie never gets np j
till dinnpr time. Mother scolds heri
for layin' abed to read them French I
books o' hers, but it won't do no good.
Maybe though if I tell her you're here,
she'll get up. Shall I?"
"No, ill call again. You needn't
say I was here, and there's a shilling to !
bny some cakes with." I
Aud as George walked away he bnrst !
into a laugh, saying
'Bless me, but this gets interesting.
Three angels tumbled to clay iu one
morning, and it not half gone e ther.
Farewell. Miss Lulu. Good-bye, Miss
Belle. Pleasant dreams. Miss Jcwie.
Now, I'll make one more call on Nettie
Hayes, and if she turns ont a fright or
a fury, or a lounger, I'll go home ard
be an old bachelor to the end of my
days. So hear me, oh ye gods aud
fishes CnpiJ aud Eymen into the
bargain."
With which ferocions oath George
bent his steps to the Hayes dwelling
and rang the bell.
He rang twice, but no answer came,
and then he knocked, still without suc
cess. "Nobody at home," was his verdict
at last, when he turned to go, when the
notes of a song floated to his ear.
Ho paused to listen.
It was the voice of Nettie Htyes, for
he had heard her sing the same sotg
often, &n d it seemed to come from the
back part of the house.
"I'm determined to see her," quoth
Mr. tidorge.
With valiant ardor he followed the
sound, till it led him to a long, latticed
porch behind tbe bonse. He mounted
the steps and beheld Nettie Hayes in a
calico areas, and a white apron, her
pretty hair falling in a simple, close
knot, her sleeves pinned back from her
pretty round arms, her soft hands fly
ing busily, and her sweet voice singing
merrily, over a hnge ironing table,
with a well-filled clothes basket beside
her.
"Good morning, Miss Nettie," said
George close beside her, with his hat
lifted.
Nettie started, and nearly dropped
her iron.
"Why, Mr. Herbert, did yon drop
from the clouds ?'! she asked, blushing
and smiling in pretty confusion.
"No, I came the legitimate way, by
the front door, but neither ring nor
knock could rouse yon, so I took the
liberty of coming round. .
"I could not hear the bell," said Net
lie, and yon might have knocked a
half a day without anyone hearing it. Our
girl is sick, and ma and I have the
work to do for a day or so till she gets
better, so I'm helping with the ironing
to-day, yon see. Come in the house
Mr. Herbert, and I'll make myself as
entertaining as I esn. . . r
"Tou could not be more so than yon
are I cried George, ardently. - "But
don't tempt me to come in. for I would
be sure to interrupt your work too
long. I came so very early, just to
ask if you wonld like to attend Patti'a
last concert to night ? There is a very
attractive programme, and I should
like to ecjoy it with yon. Will yon
go?
"With great pleasure," replied Net
tie. "I was wishing this morning to
go, but did not think I could, because
papa is ont of town, and I could not go
alone.
"Then I am donbly glad I thonght
of it," returned Oeorge, "I will call
early, so that we can secure good
seats. And now I will wish yon good
morning Miss Nettie, and not interrupt
yon any longer.
Declining her second invitation into
tbe honae, George touched his bat and
hurried away with a very light heart.
"Pure gold found once," he mused,
as he walked in the direction of his of
fice. "Sweet, neat, and industrious.
Pretty as a pink, I always thought.
A lady every inch, and a good little
girl, not afraid or ashamed to be seen
at work, as I have just found out.
What more can a man ask ? He needs
no more, I'm sure, so, Misa Nettie
Hayes, if you don't become the mis
tress of the handsome mansion in Bel
gravia, it won't be for the want of the
asking, I'll warrant."
Whether the 'asking' was done as
they went to or came from tlte concert
that night, I can't say, as I did not go,
but if not then it was soon after, for in
three months there was a wedding and
pretty Nettie became Mrs. George Her
bert. Misa Lulu, Misa Dorsey and Miss
Baldwin were all invited, and were
there, lovely as angels, though they
did wonder at George Herbert's bad
taste in taking that baby-faced little
srirl. when he mieht have had anv of
them for the asking.
And George never explaineL
Materaal AMeelleau
Woman's charms are certainly many
and powerful. The expanding rose
just bursting into beauty has an Irre
sistible bewitchuess; the blooming
bride led triumphantly to the hymeneal
altar awakens admiration and interest,
and the blush of her cheek fills w Ith de
light; but the charm of maternity Is
more sublime than all these.
Heaven haslmprlutcd in the mother's
face something beyond this world,
something which claims kindred with
the skies, the angelic smile, the tender
look, the waking watchful eye, which
keeps its fond vigil over her slumber
ing babe.
These are objects which neither the
pen nor the chisel can touch, which
poetry fails to exalt, . !.!vl the nnst
eloquent tongue in vain would eulogize,
and on which all description becoiuea
ineffeective. In tne heart of man lies this
lovely picture: it lives in his sympa
thies; it reigns in his "aflections; his
eye looks round iu vain for such an
other object on earth.
Maternity, ecUtie sound; so twined
round our hearts, that they must cease
to throb ere we forget ! 'Tis our first
love; 'tis part of our religion. Nature
has set the mother upon such a pin
nacle, that our infant eyes and arms
are first Hplifted to it; we cling to it In
manhood; we amnt worship it In old
age.
He who ran enter an apartment, and
behold the tender babe feeding on its
mother's beauty nourished by the
tide of life which flows through her gen
erous veins, without a panting boom
andagratefnl eye, is no man, but a
monster. He who can approach the cra
dle ol sleeping innocence without think
ing tbaf'i.f such is the Kingdom of hea
ven !" or see the fond parent hang over
its beauties, and half retain her breath
lest she should break its slumbers, with
out a veneration beyond all common
feeling, is to te avoided iu every inter
course of life, and is fit only for the
shadow of darkness and the solitude of
the dersert.
Trlrk ef Arlfal Ilaers.
The police in London are smart, but
notwithstanding their smartness, the
problems, What has become of the
Countess of Dudley's jewels? and Who
took the mlsalng Gainsborough? are
still unsolved. In the ease of the jew
els, they were stolen out of the maid's
arms as she held them iu a box at a
railway depot. The theory now Is, that
whoever snatched them hurriedly push
ed the box into an empty railway car
and then returned and took them away
leisurely an hour or two afterward when
the excitement, searchiug, 4c, were
over. The Gainsborough picture
was cut from its frame on the ,ery day
of its sale for 10,000 guineas, ft was
locked up in a strong building In that
locality, Bond street, before which po
liceman were patrolling all night.
Another audacious robbery took place
the other day in broad daylight at a
railway station. A certain member of
Parliament an earl arrived at a pro
vincial railway station and found he
had half an hour to wait. He strutted
about the depot leisurely, but spoke to
no one, and no one came near him, so
far as he knows. As he was about to
enter the train, a gentleman sitting in
side said to him, "Have you not broken
your watch-chain ? I see it hanging."
The chain had been cut, the watch
stolen!
A lawyer told me that on one occa
sion when he had a thief for a client, he
asked hi unto show him, to satisfy his cu
riosity, how he had done this very same
tiling, which was then creating great
discussion iu the community. But be
fore he had finished speaking, the thief
smilingly showed his learned counsel
his watch which he had abstracted as
desired ; end when the lawyer express
ed astonishment at such marvellous
dexterity and laid his hand on his vest
pocket in sunrise, he found his watch
was back again,' safe and sound. The
redoubtable Ma.kelyne himself would
not be ahamed of such a neat bit of
('.eight of hand as this. Shaking of
that celebrated conjurer, let sue mention
that this week he has offered some im
provements in the already wonderful
cabinet trick invented by the Dnven
port brothers. Maskelyne now canes
Cooke (his partner) to be tied up alone
in the cabinet, thus exploding the the
ory that the two help each other to un
tie the fisherman's net, which is sewn
up and then examined by a vigilance
committee from the audience; also U
whipcord used for lashingthe wrists and
ankles, as being more difficult to untie
t lis n rope; and still, In spite of this, the
cabinet doors are barely closed beforo
hands appear, banjos and guitars are
played, and trumpets blown ; and when
the doors are frantically opened there
sits Cooke, quite calm aud secured as
firmly as when first tied up in his net.
Still the great feature of this entertain
ment is the wonderful automatic card
player, Psycho. Professor Pepper, of
"ghost" renown, has invented some
thing of this kind which I hear Is al
most as marvellous as Maskelyne'.
But both are surpassed by a new Paris
Invention, If It has not been overlauded.
We hear that a smart Parisian has In
vented an automaton which gives a
sensible reply to any question asked it,
and in every case makes the respoiiae
appropriate. We shall see this thing in
its full perfection at the approaching
Exhibition iu Paris. And yet the in
ventor has not had time to construct
figure in hitman shape for his auto
maton talker and at present the replies
come from a box. a small trunk full oC
the wires aud wheels of an intricate
machinery, which only makes the per
formance seem more strange and
ghastly. 4Hiv Lmfin.
Ctslaese t lager Satis.
The custom of wearing long finger
nails obtains among the aristocracy ot
parts of China and Siam. The disfig
urement is supposed to add to the im
portance of the individual, as it is evi
dent that the wearer can not do any
work, and must, therefore, be a person
of elegant leisure, backed by a fortune
corresponding to the length of his nails.
The hand of an Annauiite dandy has
nails four or five inches in length: The
thumb-nail has a characteristic shape.
and that of the first linger is cat short
to enable the person to pick up small
objects. Whithout this slight alteration
the hands would be nearly useless.
Nails of still greater enormity may be
seen. They are said to have attained
the extraordinary length of thirteen
inches, and in this instance the nail of
the first finger is not entirely cnt off.
Aaoat Vrhf.
In 1571 Queen Elizabeth received
from Leicester, as a New Year's gift,
"one armlet of ahackell of gold all
fairly garnished with rubies and dia
monds having in the closing thereof a
clock."
The first watches may readily be
supposed to have been of rude execu
tion. Tbe first great improvement the
substitution of springs for weights was
in 1550. The earliest springs were not
coiled, but only straight pieces of
steel.
At first the watch was about the size
of a dessert plate ; it had weights, and
was nsed as a "pocket clock." The
earliest known use of the modern name
occurs in the record of 1552, which
mentions that Edward YL had one
larnm or watch of iron, the case being
likewise of iron gilt, with- two plum
mets of lead.
A wooden watch was recently made
by Victor Doriat of Bristol. The ease
is made of brier-root, and the inside
works, all except three of the wheels
and the springs, are of box-wood. It
is an open faced watch with a glass
crystal, and is an elegant piece of work
manship, displaying wonderful talent
in the maker. It does not weigh more
than an ounce. It is said the watch
keeps good time.
L.rly watches had only one hand, ana
being wound np twice a day, they
could not be expected to keep time
nearer than fifteen or twenty minutes
in the twelve honrs. The dials were of
silver or brass ; the cases had no crys
tals, but opened at the back and front.
and were four or five inches in diame
ter. A plain watch cost the equivalent
of j?1,&hi in our currency, and after
one was ordered it took a year to make
it.
There is a watch in a Swiss museum
only three-siiteentha of an inch in di
ameter, inserted in the top of a pencil
case. Its ltttle dial not only indicates
honrs, minutes and seconds, but also
days of the month. It is a relic of the
times when watches were inserted in
snuff-boxes, shirt-studs, breastpins and
finger-rings. Some were fantastic
oval, octangular, cruciform, or in the
shspe of pearls, melons, tulips, etc
In tbe Academy of .sciences in at.
Petersburg there is a watch about the
size of an egg, and is said to have beeu
made by a Russian peasant. Within it
is represented the tomb of Christ, with
a stone at the entrance, and the senti
nels on duty. While a spectator is ad
miring this curions piece of mechanism
the stone is suddenly removed, the
sentinels drop, the angels appear, the
women enter the sepnlchre, and a
chant is heard.
Touch watches watches by which
the time can be felt instead of seen
have been frequently made for the use
of the blind. The hour marka on such
are generally raised studs, or pins,
which can readily be recognized by
passing the linger over the dial ; their
position with respect to the pendant
being quite sufficient to indicate the
hour they represent to digits as sensi
tive as those of blind people generally
are. They are not only of use to blind
people, bnt to all who wiaii to aaow
the time at night.
In 1540 a watch was presented to the
Academy of Science at Paris con
structed principally of rock crystals.
It was made by At. tleueliier, ana is
small in size : the works are visible :
the two teethed wheels whijh carry
the hands are rock crystal, and the
other wheels are metal. Ail the screws
are fixed in the crystal and all the
axles turn on rubies. The escapement
is of sapphire, the balance wheel of
rock crvbtal. The watch is in excellent
time-keeper, which is attributed by tbe
maker to the feeble expansion oi tne
rock crystal in the balance wheel, etc
Tmy Time.
Thing Tranre.
Accumulations of knowledge and ex
perience of the ino-t valuable kind are
the result of little bits of knowledge
and exerieiice carefully treasured up.
Those w ho learn nothing, or accumu
late uothing iu lite, are set dow it a.
failures, Waiwe they have neglected
little thini-. they may theinseive
Consider that the world has gone
against them; but, iu fact, tliey have
been their own enemies. Ihere has
long been a popular belief iu ohI
luck;" lit like many other notions, it
is gradually giving way. I he convic
tion is extendin-' tnat diligence Is the
mother of good luck; in other word-,
that a man's snccess in life will lie pn
Krtionate to his efforts, to his industry
U his attention to small things. Your
negligeut, shiftless, l.xx fellow s never
meet w ith luck, because the results of
industry are denied to those who will
not make Ute pror effort to -secure
heiu.
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