fulfil ft jMBIij-Mil ieiilliii B. F. SCHWEIER, THE COJTSTITUTIOJI THE TJ5I05-A5D THE E5F0BCIME5T OF THE IATS. Kditor and Proprietor. v VOL. XXXI. MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1877. NO. 39. IT TH liR. "Who epeakj for this man ?" From the great whit throne, Vei'ed in ita loeeete clonda the voice came forth; Before it stood s parted eon alone. And roiling east, and west, and sooth, and north. The mighty accents summoned quick and dead : "Whe speaks for this man, ere his doom be idr Shivering be listened, for his earthly life Had pamed in dull unnoted calm away ; He brouglit no glory to its daily strife. No wreath of fame, or genius' fiery ray ; Weak, lone, unsifted, quiet and obscure. Born in the shadow, dying 'mid the poor. Lo, from the solemn concourse hushed and dim. The widow's prayer, the orphan's blessing roue ; The straggler told of trouble shared by bin. The lonely of cheered hours and softened woes ; And like a chorus spoke the crushed and aad. -He gave us all he could, and what he had ;' And little words of loving kindnens said. And tender thoughts, and help in tune of need. Sprang np, like leaves by soft spring showers fed. In some waste corner, sown by chance flung seed ; In grateful wonder heard the modest soul. Such trifles gathered to so blest a whole. Oh ye, by circumstances strong fetters bound. The store so It tie, and the hand so frail. Do but the best ye can for all around ; Let sympathy be true, nor courage fail ; Winning among your neighbors poor and weak. Some witness at your trial hour to speak. An Old Offender. BY CaPT. CHARLES HOWARD. When Carl Binkley, the private de tective of the Macacheeek air line com pany led Courtney Tenney to the altar, he shaved his face until no hirsute ap pendage, Pave a fine blonde moustache remained thereon. This whim pre vented his recognition by several ac quaintances on the day of his wedding, and he and his bride enjoyed more than one outburst of merriment at their ex pense. The wedding tour planned by "Bink," as the employes and officers of the road familiarly called him, promised to prove quite extensive, and the directors placed a palace car at bis disposal. But he preferred, ana so did his bride, to travel like the rest of the peo ple, and so on the afternoon of the wed ding day, they stepped on board of the train amid the good-byes of a host of relatives and friends. They expected to reach their destination at one o'clock on the following morning, and for the sake of Courtney who had a horror of sleeping coaches, the bridegroom re fused an offered favor from Scott, the conductor. As the train rolled westward, the sun sank to rest, and the night stars peeped out again in the sky. It was a beauti ful mid-Autumn night, and the cool breeze ever and anon blew the yellow leaves against the windows of the coaches. "Carl, what if an old offender should board the train I mean a man for whom you have been looking ?" The detective looked down into the smiling face of his newly made wife and smiled himself. "Well, I don't know what I would do, Courtney," he answered; "but I suppose I would arrest htm, take him to prison, and let you finish your wed ding tour alone." "How jolly that would be !" Court ney laughed, "I really wish such an event would occur. I should be rid of you at least for a time, and I'd have the jolliest wedding tour ever written of. "I'd like to see you roughing it alone with your three trunksand groomless replied Carl, as the brakeman opened the door and shouted "Bloomfield" at the top of his lungs. At the almost deserted station of the inland town the train stopped long enough to permit two men to board it, and seat themselves in the car that bore the newly wedded. The new passengers were tolerably well dressed, and passingly good look ing. Thev occuDied one scat a short distance behind the detective, and almost directly beneath the lamp that afforded a miserable light. A detective is constantly watching human faces, and after awhile he reads them as he would an open book. Thus it was with Carl Binkley. When the two men entered the car his eyes were turned upon them, and followed them to their seat. By and by the conductor collected their fare, and the detective followed him from the car. "Where are those fellows going?" he asked. "To Terre Haute," was the reply. "Do they strike you unfavorably ?" "Moderately so," said Bink. "Send a man in to trim the lamp above them." Then the detective returned to his bride, who thought that something strange was going on, and a minute later a brakeman entered and proceeded to trim the light In the coach. '- Binkley did not appear to watch the two men; but nevertheless his eyes were upon them, and before they moved back into a shadier seat he had spotted one, if not both. "Courtney, I am afraid your wish is about to come true," he whispered to bis wife. She looked up surprised at the solem nity of bis manner. "Why, Carl?" -"An old offender has boarded the train," he replied, "and it is my duty to attend to him. I am certain of my man, though 1 have not seen him for two years, and his face, smooth then, is bearded now. Jack Hawk bas re peatedly committed depredations on our line, and we can send him to the peni tentiary with ease. But you see, Court ney, you must catch man before you hang him, and according to this truism Jack bas escaped punishment. I must attend to him, save the company fur ther losses, and put several hundred I dollars in my pocket. He suspects noth ing yet, I believe. I think he has not recognized me, and I have no doubt that his companion is an old offender, like himself." The young wile heard her husband through, and then, with wifely fear, asked: "Js he a dangerous character, Carl? "Well, yes," was the reply; "but he's one of those fellows who submit gracefully when they see great odds against them. Of course, 1 shan't at tempt the arrest alone. I'll go forward and see the boys in the express car. Do you watch Jack while I am gone, Courtney. If. he bas recognized me, which is not likely, as I do not think he has seen me more than twice, he may attempt to play one of his tricks. Here, and Courtney felt a small revolver dropped Into her hand. "Do not at tempt to use this unless you think that he is going to escape, lie's up to all kinds of tricks, and I consider him the shrewdest villain outside of prison." Courtney's hand trembled a little when she hid the weapon in her pocket, and Carl rose and carelessly left the car, "We're booked for Jeffersonville, if he catches us," said one of the twain in the seat behind the lamp. n e are. witiiout iau, Jack," re plied bis companion. Do you really think he knows us?" He's recognized me, sure, and he may have spotted you. But It's all the same thing. If he wants me he'll not let you go. Why, I knew him as soon as I set my eyes on him, and I thought he would not know me, as I've let my beard grow. He sent that fellow in here to trim the lamps, so be could get better view of our faces. I saw through the trick when the boy took the first lamp out of Its socket. Oh, 1 tell you, Byrd. it's all day with us if we don't outwit that eagle-eyed chap. "Of course it Is," said the second man. doggedly. "I didn't look for him on the road to-night. And he's going on his wedding trip, I suspect. "Just so; but that wouldn't stop him if he wanted to catch a man," said Jack Hawk. "And then he's been wanting me for the last two years. Look here ! this train doesn't stop again till it runs into Terre Haute. If we're ou board then, we're sure to be gobbled. He'll post the men in the express and bug gage cars, and they'll proceeJ to cut off every avenue of escape." If they do, there'll be bloody work, grated Hawk s comrade, "l in not going to be taken. It would be a twenty years' term for me." "And a life residence at Jefferson ville for Jack Hawk," said the worthy who boasted of that name." "We must escape said Bvrd MeDon- aldson. "Ring the bell and when the train slacks we'll leave it." But Hawk shook his bead. Twouldn't do, Byrd," he said "Scott is forward with Bink, and at the first tap of the bill we'd have the posse upon us." "Then it's all up with us !" said the Scotchman almost ready to despair. "Xo; wait here for me." As he spoke, Jack Hawk left the se it and walked forward. Courtney Binkley saw hi in pass her and leave the car by the forward door. She felt that she was up to some trick, but concluded to wait and see what it was. She soon dismissed the thought of bis leaping from the train, which, being as it was the express, was running at ter rible speed, and believed that he would not desert his companion in crime. Jack Hawk stepped upon the platform of the forward car, and drew a rope from his pocket. One end of it he fas tened to the knob of the door, and the other end, after making the cord taut. he secured to the strong railing of the car. Satisfied with bis work, he next drew a knife, and severed the bell rope, which he prevented from slipping into the cars. Then he stooped over the coupling, a smile of triumph on his face. 1 can outwit the best detective on the globe," he said to himself above a whisper, and a moment later he arose, having successfully accomplished the work of separating the cars. Then he sprang to the brake, and pre sently the speed of the rear coach began to diminish, while the greater part of the train, with newly acquired velo city, darted on. He re-entered the coach, and sat down beside his partner. "We're loose," he whispered. "The train is a mile ahead now. We are stopping. Come! Xow is the time. Who says I can't beat Bink?" The men left their seats as Courtney, who had been looking out of the win dow, dropped back into ber seat, and put her hand on Carl's revolver. The trick which Jack Hawk had played was apparent to her, and the two men had almost reached the rear of the car when she arose and cried : "Stop where you are, villains! I'll kill the first man who attempts to leave this car without my orders. Tou two rascals will oblige me dropping into tbe seats where you now stand, and remain ing there until promptly disposed of." Startled at the unexpected Interrup tion of their plans. Jack Hawk and bis companion exchanged pale looks and glanced down the aisle at the little wo man clad in bridal robes who pointed the deadly revolver at their breasts. By this time the car had come to a halt, and the other passengers, com prehending the situation, were rising. Already other pistols were exhibited, and the villains saw that their game was baulked. "Let us be men," said Hawk to Mc- Donaldson, as he dropped Into a seat. "When the odds are against me t always submit. That woman would shoot at the drop of the hat. Shoot is in her eye !" A minute later the two worthies were seated, and two "drummers" guarded them. Of course, all knew thattbe train would "back" when the absence of the several coaches was discovered, and, in a short time, it was announce.! as re turning. When - the detective came Into the ear he kissed his brave little wife, and secured the two villains, who submitted like lambs. He acknowledged that Jack Hawk had outwitted him, but said, smilingly, that the best and bravest member of the Binkley family had proved too much for tbe old offender. at jerre Haute the villains were handed over to the sheriff, and as Jack had been concerned in several murders, be received a life sentence, while his companion went to Jeffersonville for long term. Binkley feund himself everywhere congratulated on the coolness of his wife, who still boasts, as well she may, of her capture of Jack Hawk and his criminal associate. The South America Stales. The condition of the South American continent, taken as a whole, is not satisfactory one, whatever way we view it. Politically It is split up into a num ber of separate states, few of which possess any real political vitality, and nearly all of which are toe) poor to ob tain any stable position as traders among tbe nations of the world. The same dominance of the soldiery which has nearly destroyed old Spain has helped to prevent hitherto the develop. ment of most of those offshoots from her which form the states of Central and aoutn America, mere is, to all ap pearance, an absence of the capacity for creating solidly based civil institutions in the Spanish race, and although these Spanish colonies have all thrown off the yoke of the mother country, they have made next to no progress in the art of self-government. Xot one of them can show an orderly, well-knit system of authority, such as Prescott, for instance, says no doubt with exaggeration the Incas of Peru or the Aztecs of Mexico possessed. The Spaniard of America is civilly a degraded being, through the supersti tions which have so long molded tbe quality of his mind, and the mixed races and natives whom he has called into being or subdued, have never risen to the position of the peaceful, order- loving citizens ofdree states. Therefore we find continual wars going on, brig andage and murder rife, in even the most promising of the states, and an absence of any progress worthy of the name in every Spanish republic save one. Public offices are filled through corruption, and integrity and fair deal ing are qualities almost unknown. When contrasted with the United States, the utter backwardness of all South Ameri can states conies with startling force on tne mind of the political student. The very beginnings of life which society evinces there serve but to suggest, as it were, the corruption which makes one almost despair of these states ever de veloping into healthy political orguni zations. Chili alone among the Spanish states of South America has made real pro gress in the art of self-government, and bas been blessed with internal peace for a generation. Among the rest, the Ar gentine Confederation, Peru, and Mexico stand prominently forward as commu nities of whom much bas been expected, but which have yet performed little. The Argentine Confederation bad a war on the occasion of the election of the last president, and has had more than one civil disturbance since. The gov ernment is too weak either to repress the soldiery or to prevent crime, and its outlying provinces are subjected to a terrorism from bands of ruffians, which at times threatens to depopulate the country. What progress and enlight enment the republic has is due mainly to the influence of people of other than Spanish nationality English, German, Italian, and if these cannot get and maintain the upper hand, revolutions, bloodshed, possibly dismemberment, will attend tbe future of this state. More disheartening, perhaps, is the condition of Peru, where the Spaniard has more exclusive possession of the destinies of the country, and wastes its wealth to the top of his bent. To find another orderly government we have to leave Spanish possessions altogetlier, and betake ourselves to the vast Portu guese empire of Brazil, which under the old reigning house of Portugal has attained to a certain importance and order. Poor as this may be, compared with the higher civilizations of the old world, it nevertheless places Brazil first among the states of South America. Fraser't Magazine. A Japanese Theatre. One of the chief drawbacks to the en joyment of a visit to a Japanese theatre is the painfully realistic way in which many of the tragic occurrences of the play are represented. In the blood and thunder melodramas which can always be witnessed at the minor theatres, what is wanting in the latter is made up by the plentiful display of the former, and so artful are wounds sim ulated, that the spectator sometimes finds his nerves put to almost as severe a test as they would have to suffer were they called upon to witness the dread ful reality. A play called "Kolia.la Hvoheji," which is now being performed at one of the theatres in Yokohama is not wanting in these elements of horror, but an opportunity is also afforded of witnessing an amusing and more pleas ant piece of realism. One of the most terrible scenes is supposed to take place during a storm. The Japanese stage manager disdains to have resource to that old make-believe method of jteas and shot to simulate the sound of the rain. He must give his audience real rain, and so, by means of concealed pi)es, have a regular pouring shower, which continues throughout the scene, deluging the stage and drenching the actors. The effect is really admirable, not only aiding the mimicry of the scene, but in wafting a cool and re freshing moisture through the house, and it was mostly on this account, we were informed, that the rain was Intro duced. The play is simple in con struction, but extremely interesting, and contains one scene as sad and pa thetic as any we have witnessed on the Japanese stage. Japan Mail. Aaeient Morals. In the ancient Gen too laws of India which show admirable notions of hon esty as between the subjects of the laws, we find prescriptions for dividing th booty of robbers who had plundered any contiguous but alien people. any thieves," savs the ordinance, "hv the command of the magistrate, and with his assistance, have committed depredations upon and brought booty from annthrr pmrlnee, the magistrate shall receive a share of one sixth of tl whole," etc. In ancient Greece, even at the golden prime of that splendid narrow culture which exhibited itself so incomparably in art, in literature, and in civic virtue. the moral rules which concern liberty and life, and the simpler of the moral rules which concern rights of property, were defined very perfectly as lietween the fellow-citizens of each state, and between the kindred states, hut very imperfectly beyond that strict limit of familiar association. The stranger, the alien, the enslaved captive, the bar barian of the" non-Hellenic world, were not hiimau fellows to the Greek; at the most thev were onlv human creatures of some different variety, having that similitude and approaching somewhat to that relation, but quite exclml.il from his cognition of fellow-ship by ail the nanits ot his reeling anil Ins thought. According to his creeption. they were clearly proiicr subjects of predatory warfare and piracy; hecould kill them, plunder them, enslave them, witn no more compunction of con science than the modern hunter feels in capturing or killing the game-ani inals ol the lorest. And yet the same conscience was acting in the Greek that acts in men to-day; but only with more narrowness of range in the jiereeptions upon w hich it acted. AVe shall have to pass far lieyoud the Greek in history to find much of a moral change in these respects. The Englishman of the Elizabethan age was a tolerably cultured man, as well mor ally as otherwise. So far as his fellow Englishmen were concerned, he had notions of right conduct that were quite accurately formed. But he found it hard to carry many of these notions be yond the shore-bounds of his little island. The sea in that time not only the Spanish Main, hut the English Channel, and the very Thames itself was swarming with English pirates and buccaneer, who were the contem poraries of Shakespeare, and Itacoii, i and Spenser, ami Coke; who boasted the liest names of the English gentry in their ranks; who received more than half countenance from the public sen timent and the public policv of the English nation; and who pillaged Spanish, French, and Flemish traders with serene impartiality, killing ca taiiisaud crews without remorse w hen it suited their convenience to kill. PupHlar Scirnce. Miauhly. The Khoran and it Teaeliinjc. The revelations which were made to Mohammed are contained in the Khoran which has ever been and still is the Bible of his followers. It is divided into 1 14 chapters, w Inch were delivered at different times through a course of years, as circumstances required, the latter (tortious often revoking and con tradicting the earlier. As the different portions were given by the angel, they were proclaimed, and then written down by a scribe on palm leaves, skins or other lit materials, and these loose scripts were thrown promiscuously into an ark or chest. After the Prophet's) death they were taken out and pub lished, without the slightest regard to order, method, dates or subjects; so that the student has no means 'of find ing the proper place of any chapter but by comparing it with the Prophet's history and seeing where it will best fit the occasion. This makes the Khorau a verv difficult book to read or studr to any advantage. 1 lie teachings of the Khoran corres pond in many points with those of the Old Testament, particularly in regard to the creation of the world, the fall of Adam, the general deluge, the deliver ance of Xoah and his family in the ark, the call of Abraham, the stories of Isaac and Ishmael, of Jacob and the patri archs; the selection of the Jews as God's chosen people ; the prophetic of fice, miracles and administrations of Moses; the inspiration and authority of the Hebrew historians, prophets and psalmists, especially of David and Solo mon ; and, lastly, the promise of the Messiah, with many of the accompany ing predictions respecting it. They agree also with the New Testament in the recognition of Jesus Christ as the Messiah of the Jews, in his miraculous conception, his immaculate nativity, his numerous miracles, his rejection by his own countrymen, his condemnation to the death of the cross his bodily as cension Into heaven, his othciating thereas mediator between God and man, and his coming to judge the world at the last day. The acquaintance of Mo hanuned with these leading facts of our sacred history may be accounted for by his long-continued acquaintance with Jews and Christians. The principal doctrine of the Khoran is that so oft repeated, "There is no god but God, and Mohammed is his prophet." ..The Trinity is rejected and also the divinity of Christ. Mohammed taught the universal providence of God and a kind of predestination not ot the Scriptures, but more nearly re sembling heathen fate. He believed In an innumerable company of angels, a future retribution, a general resurrec tion and judgment, a paradise for the faithful and a terrible hell for all his enemies, lie believed In a purgatory for those w hose moral disorders are susceptible of cure; but for the miser, hie remnant there is no hop. Of the moral and religious duties in culcated in the Khoran some are com mendable and useful. In the . former part of his ministry Mohammed often enjoined upon his followers the duties of patience and submission, but in the latter part they were measurably for gotten. No duty Is more frequently enjoined in tne Khoran than prayer. He speaks of praver as "the pillow of religion and the kev of paradise." To his followers he preserilied five slated seasons of prayer every day. The first is in the moruing, between day anil sunrise; the second immediately after noon ; the third at the middle hour be tween noon and sunset; the fourth be tween sunset and dark; the fifth hour and a half after night lias fully set in. inese seasons or prayer are still scrupulously observed in all Mo hammedan countries. The muezzin or crier from the toji of the mosque pro claims the hour of prayer, when every good Mussulman, wherever he may be or however employed, is obliged to pause and go through with his devo- votions. Fasting is another duty or the Mo hammedan religion. The great fast of Ramadan is continued through the whole of the ninth month of the Arabic year. Xo food must be taken through the hours of daylight, but when the evening comes the votary gives himself up without restraint to the pleasures of the table and such other gratifications as his heart desires. Frequent ablu ti. ns and alms-giving are also to be reckoned among the duties of the Mo hammedan religion. Mohammed prohibited to his follow ers the sin of gambling and the use of strong drinks. By strict Mussulmans these injunctions are observed, while by the more liberal class they are dis regarded. Polygamy is permitted and practised among the followers of Mohammed. He limited his followers to the number of four wives, while he was allowed to have as many as he pleased. Baptist Quarterly. Ruftinene Punctuality. It is astonishing how many people are un punctual. Thousands have tailed in life from this cause alone. It is not only a serious vice in itself, but the fruitful parent of numerous other vices, so that he who becomes its victim is soon involved in toils from which it is almost impossible to escape. It makes the merchant wasteful of time, saps the business reputation of the lawyer, and injures the prospects of mechanics, who mignt otherwise rise to lortune; in a word, there is not a profession nor sta tion in life which is not liable to the canker of this destructive habit. Many of Xapoleon'a great victories were won by infusing into his subordi nates the necessity of punctuality to the minute. It was his plan to manoeu vre over large spaces of countrv. to render tbe enemy uncertain where be was about to strike, and then suddenly concentrate his forces and fall with irresistible force upon some weak point of the extended lines of the foe. Exe cution of this system demanded that each division of the army should arrive at a specified spot punctually, for if any part failed to come up, the battb; was lost. It was by imitating bis plan that the allies finally succeeded in over throwing the Emperor. The whole Waterloo campaign turned upon these tactics. AtMt. St. Jean, Blucher was punctual, while Grouchy was not, and the result was, Xapoleon fell and Wei liugton triumphed. Iu mercantile affairs punctuality is quite as important as in military. Many are the instances in which neglect to renew an insurance policy punctually has led to serious loss. Hundreds of ity merchants and manufacturers and publishers are now suffering in conse' quence of want of punctuality among their country customers in paying up accounts. It is sound policy which moves the banks to insist, under penalty of protest, upon the punctual payment of notes; for, were they to do other wise, commercial transactions would fall into extricable confusion. Many time has the failure of one man to meet obligations brought about the ruin of a score of others, just as the toppling down of the first in a line of bricks causes tbe fall of all the rest. Mystery of Dreams. It is related that a man fell asleep as the clock tolled the first stroke of twelve. He awakened ere the echo of the twelfth stroke had died away, hav ing, in the interval, dreamed that he committed a-crime, was detected after five years, tried and condemned; the shock of finding the halter about his neck aroused him to consciousness! when he discovered that ail these events had happened in an infinitesimal frag. ment of time. Mohammed, wishing to Illustrate the wonders of sleep, told now a certain man, being a sheik, dreamed that he found himself, for his pride, made a poor fisherman; that he lived as one for sixty years, -bringing up a family and working hard; and bow, upon waking up from this long dream, so short a time had he been asleep that the narrow-necked gourd bottle filled with water, which he knew he overturned when he fell asleep had not time in which to empty itself. How fast the soul travels when the body is asleep! Often, wheu we awake, we shrink from going back into the dull routine of a sordid existence, regretting tne picasanter life of dream-land. How is it that sometimes, when we go to a strange place, we fancy that we have seen it before Is it possible that when one bas been asleep the soul has floated away, seen the place, and has that memory of it which so surprises us? In a word, how far dual is the life of man, how far not t Effeeta of Aretie Exposure. It is a curious fact connected with those who were for a long period absent from their ship, the Alert, that the hair on their faces was bleached nearly white. The loss of color was gradual. and although noticed, was never alluded to, each one Imagining tnat his com panions' hair was turning gray from the - effects af hardships and anxiety. It was only after their return to tbe ship that those possessing beards and moustaches discovered the change of hue In their own hair. The color gradually returned in about three weeks. Hlk Culture la the Tyrol. The path lay through meadows green with a greenness which might shame the Emerald Isle, and dotted here and there with flowers know n only to our green-houses: then up through pine woods fragrant with the mingled per fume of tree and flower, and bright with many-colored blossoms, trailing gracefully from tree to tree, or nestling , : , up to the giant stems as if for protec tion; emerging again high up on a sunny Alp, where the cattle graze and and corn and wine enrich the thrifty knurr; on through acresof wines trained carefully over trellis work, beneath which we walk as through an arbor, sheltered from the scorching sun, up to the very gates of the fine old chl, turreted and castellated like most of uiese iiieii;rai iwroinai mansions, um its (iurj,iuiiuiira by a proud and lawless baron, w ith his hand-full of armed retainers lording it over the peasantry, but by a simple r 1. : iri:..i.. i . i. i: I idiuin, ukuwMzii unit; aijut v uic vruiuai y peaant, yet by frugality and industry rapidly rising to wealth, and conse- uurnuy 10 owrr. t.very men 01 ground seemed turned to good account; corn waving here, haymaking there; acres or trellised vines laden with un- ripe clusters, orchards of pears and chestnuts, and everywhere hedges about five feet high, neatly trimmed, w iiii nere ami mere a small wnue Derry resembling a raspberry. From these hedges women were diligently picking the leaves, and with them filling those huge bankets with which Tyrolean women toil patiently up their native mountains, bearing loads which our laborers would reject as too heavy. The utility of this seemingly useless labor we were soon to learn, for our rriends inri-nueil us that the enterpris- OI a soap-ooiier, and must hae per ing proprietor had added to the lesiti- Ished, had not a w orkinan, just enter- mate Oerations of an ordinary farm, the culture of silkw orms, that he had sent to Italy for women skilled in the management of the silk-worm, and had already begun to realize considerable profit from his novel venture. l'on our request to be allowed to see the ol- jects of his care, we w ere courteously conducted to a large partially-darkened room, lifted up with a double row of helves in the centre, like those used ill many tarmlionses for the storage of cheese. On first entering the room our ear were availed by a rustling noise a- of much munching, reminding us of the account w e had read of an army of locusts, and as our eyes became accus- touted to the suMiie.l li-'ht we found that the noise proceeded from a miilti- tude 'which I think mieht be counted by many thousand, if not million of catternillars. in many staresof rowth. whose voracious apiietites were satis- isli.nl br tl. hti hL-n r.r I- culled from the hedges of white mill berry which we had seen ; and in this work alone four women were constantly employed. llie shelves, w hich were light and movable, and surrounded by a narrow ledge, were taken off in rota tion, theilry, partially consumed leaves, with such luckless individuals as ad hered to them, lieing shaken into an empty basket, and the vigorous worms supplied with fresh leaves several times a day. We had supposed that this refuse would be thrown aside as useless rubbish after the worms hail oeen careiully tucked rrom it, but we were told, on the contrary, that this mass of withered leave formed excel lent litter for the cattle, who ate what thev chose, treadingthe rest under foot for manure; and as for the few worm: adhering to the refuse, the fact of their doing so proved them to be weak and iinneaiiiiy, and tnereiore useless; so they were consigned to thcirdoom to be trodden to death by the cattle. Having examined the w orms in all their various stages, from the tiny, recently hatched, to the great ugly-looking creatures as large as a tinker. .just ready to spin, we were shown into another room filled with branches of trees uoii w Inch the more advanced worms were busy spin ning their cocoons. Some of these are carefully selected and reserved for a supply of eggs for the next j-ear, while the remainder are wound off for silk, me moms urns ireaic, wing, I oeueve, generally killed by the process, or too much injured by the necessary immer- ii m In hot water to be depended upon for fertile eggs. In yet another room lay the rich produce of the previous year, great masses of rich, creamy sik ready for delivery to the merchant to be carded and spun, and prepared by many processes for the manufacturer. The manner in which the worms are reared and managed in this Tyrolean chln is strictly analogous to that employed In China, amr is, doubtless, that which has been found by experience to be the most simple and profitable. In China, we learn from "Fortune's Wanderings in China," the worms are kept in dark rooms, on shelves one above the other. and only differ from those we have been describing in being placed in round bamlioo sieves upon these shelves. Then again, we learn that "the trees, or rather bushes, of white mullierry are planted in row-son the banks of canals, and not allowed to grow more than from four to six feet In height. The natives cut all the young shoots off close to the stump, and the leaves are stripped from these and taken home. The Chinese seem very particular in stirring up the earth round the roots as soon as the young branches and leaves have been stripped from them." Xow, one of the greatest obstacles to the suc cessful rearing of silk-worms in Eng land is, undoubtedly, the backward ness of the mulberry tree. The worms are hatched before their natural food is ready for their consumption; resort is then had to the lettuce ; but experience has proved that although the young worms will readily eat lettuce, yet thej do not thrive npon it; the pulsations of the heart become gradually more feeble, and they die; or even if put upon mill- berry leaves early, the silk produced wf 11 not be so good and even in Quality , nor so large in quantity, as that pro- duced by worms fed wholly upon mul- berry leaves. The mulberry usually cultivated in this country Is the black mulberry, which is a tree of slow growth and by no means easily reared whereas the mulberry njion which the w orm thrives best is the Jtf-ru albo, or white mulberry which, as I have already shown, both in China and in the farm , th Tvro, . described, hnavu - I i..,.i....i .. . , , i m iieocrow s or low Hi- lards, and never suffered to attain the size of trees. Whether this is onlv for the convenient-? of plucking the leaves. or w liether it has been found that, by thus restricting the growth, a large crop of leaves is produced, I know not. trHM II urtln. Besaarhabie Escapes of Eminent Mem. Some years ago a young man, hold. ing a subordinate position in the East I India Comiiany's service, twice at- tempted to deprive himself of life by snapping a loaded pistol at his head I Kaeh time the pistol missed tire. A friend entering his room shortly after ward, he requested him to fire it out of the window; it then went off without I any difhCllIIV. Sati tied thus that the weapon had been duly primed and loaded, the vounr man siraiir nn. ex- 1 claimill" I "I must be preserved for something great,." and from that moment gave up the idea of suicide, which, for some time previous, had been iipttcrmost I his thoughts. That voting man after- I ward became Lord Clivc i wo nrotiiers were on one occasion I walking together, when a violent storm of thunder and lightning overtook them. One was struck dead ou the spot; the other was sared, else would I the name of the great reformer, Martin I Luther, have been unknown to man- I kind Bacon, the-ulptorr when a tender I00 0' five" year? hid, fell into rhe-pit ing the yard, observed the top of hU head. When Oliver Cromwell was an in fant, a monkey snatched him from his cradle, leaped with him from a garret window, and ran along the leads of the house. The utimtst alarm was excited among the inmates, and various were the devices used to rescue the child from the guardianship of his newly found protector. All were unavailing; ouui-ne rescuers Had lost courage, al"' wert' '" despair of ever seeing the It.!. , ,,ahy alive afCai' when the monkey ,nV,y retraced its tepN and dc,ositel il? ht""d.-n safely on the bed. On a subsequent occasion, the waters had ell-nigh quenched his insatiable am- ''" -" tell into a deep jiou.l, from ,lrow mn' ' ' clergyman named J"bnson w as the sole instrument of hi I reM'lle u,e "'J' 1,1 Leicester, a young soldier, about seventeen years of age was drawn1 out for sentinel duty. One of his comrades w as very anxious to take his place. Xo objection was made, and this man went. He was shot dead w hile ou guard. The young man first draw n, afterward became the author of the "Pilgrim's Prix-ess." Ioddriilge, when born, was so weakly an infant that he was believed to be lead. A nurse standing by, fancied she saw some signs of vitality. Thus the feeble spark of life was .aved from lieing extinguished, and an eminent author preserved to the world. John Wesley w hen a child, was only just preserved from fire. Almost the moment after he was rescued, the roof of tbe house w here he had been fell in. til l hilip Henry, a -miliar instance is recorded. .Many years nave now elapsed since three subalterns might have lieen seen struggling in the water off St. Helena; one of them, peculiarly helpless, wa; fast succumbing. He was saved to live as Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Welling ton. The life of John Xew ton is but the history of marvelous deliverances. As a youth he had agreed to acconiKiuy some friends on hoard of a man-of-war. He arrived too late; the boat in which his friends had gone was capsized and all its occupant drowned. Ou another occasion, when tide-surveyor in the port of Liverpool, some business had detained him, to the great surprise of those -no were the hanit of ohsM.v. Ung his undeviatin.' went ollt , th . " punctuality. He as heretofore. to inspect a ship, which blew up before he reached her. Had he left the shore a few moments soone. he nfust have perished w ith the rest on board. Self-Inflicted. - A most remarkable man recently dird at Zurich. His name was Amsteriu. Thirtyyears ago h fell in love, and, like most lovers, got jealous. (Wilay, while under the sway of the green- eyed monster, he said something dis paraging about his sweetheart. The offended beauty resolve. 1 to punish him and Amsterin, to regain her favor, was forced to swear that he would not speak another word for the next twelve months, or till she released him from the penalty. But before the year of silence expired the young lady sud denly died, and Amsterin, not Wing relieved from his oath by the lips of his sweetheart, vowed to remain dumb until he joined her in the next world. And he kept his word. For thirty years he was never heard to s(ieak. and he died mute to all around him. What Makes Men. It is not the best things that is the things which we call best that make men ; it is not the pleasant things ; it is not the calm experiences, of life: it is life's rugged experiences, its tempests,j its trials. The dicipline of life is here pood and there evil, her trnnhla ml there joy, here rudeness and there smoothness-one working with the oth- er; and the alternations of the one and the other which necessitate adapta- tions, constitute that part of the educa- tion which makes a man a man, indis- Unction from an animal, w hich has no education. The successful man invarl- ably bears marks of the struggles which be has had to undergo on his brow . , hn.n hT. ZZZZZT:,. 'ous. KnctLsh Kin;. William the Conqueror died from bU enormous fat, from drink, and from the violence of his passions. William Ruf us died the death of the poor stags that be hunted. Henry the First died of gluttony. Henry the Second died of a broken heart, occasioned by the bad conduct of his children. Richard Cceur de Lion died like the animal from which his heart was named, by an arrow from an archer. John died, nobody knows how, but it is said of chagrin, which, we suppose, is another term for a dose f hellebore. Henry the Third is said to have die. I a natural death. Edward the First is likewise said to have died of a "natural sickness," which it would puzzle all of the college of physicians to denominate. Edward the Second was most barbar ously murdered by ruffians employed Dy his own mother. Edward the Third died of dotage, and Richard the Second of starvation, the very reverse of George the Fourth. Henry the Fourth Is said to have die-J of fits, caused by uneasiness," and uu- easiness in palaces in those times was a very common complaint. Henry the Fifth is said to have died of a painful allllction, prematurely." This is a courtly phrase for getting rid of a king. Henry the Sixth died in prison, by means known then only to bis jailer, and known nqw only to Heaven. Edward the Fifth was strangled in the tower, by hisuucie. Richard the Third. Richard the Third was killed in battle. Henry the Seventh--wasted away as a miser ought, jto do. and Henrv th Eighth died of carbuncles, fat and fury, while Edward the Sixth died of a decline. Queen Mary is said to have died of "a broken heart," whereas 3he died of a surfeit, eating too much of black pud ding. Old Queen Bess is said to have died of melancholy, from having sacrificed Essex to his enemies. James the First died of drinking. Charles the First died on the scaffold. and Charles the Second died suddenly, it is said, of apoplexy. William the Third died from con sumptive habits of body, and from the stumbling of his horse. Queen Anne died from her attachment to "strong water," or, In other words, from drunkenness, which the physi cians politely called the dropsy. George the First died of drunkenness, w hich hit. physicians a politely called an apoplectic fit. George the Second died of a rupture of the heart, which the periodicals of that day termed a visitation of God. George the Third died as he lived a madman. Throughout life he was at least a consistent monarch. George the Fourth died of gluttony and drunkenness. William the Fourth died amidst the sympathies of his subjects. S m m m The Land of the Pharaoh. The pa-t lends to Egypt a charm more entrancing than its cloudless skie and delicious climate. Go w here you w ill, antiquity meets you at every turn. Aroimd you lie the ruin .' cities w hose very names have been obliterated in the silent inarch of the age. Itctorf you tlow the sacred river uiu w h- waves ll.iaied centuries ajr. the little ark of the outcast Hebrew infant, an. I the gulden barge of the gorgeous daugh ter of the itolemies. Time was when this old Xile was the highway dow n which many siicccive nations rii-he-1 to conquest, for the Ethiopian, the As syrian, the Persian, the Ri.man, and the Saracen have ail lorded it in turn in this ancient realm of the Pharaohs. Xow vexed no longer w ith the fleets of rival monarch., the mighty river rock with slumberous swell the lotus lillies on its tranquil breast, and on its lonely banks. which have rung so often in day gone by to the s,ril eans of tri umph, the palms in the sultry noontide throw their long shadow athwart the ruined temples and colossal statues, grand in execution and fau":U-ss in detail, which reveal in every outline the perfection to w hich the arts of ar chitecture were carried in this their earliest cradle. The soil is strewed w ith fragments of broken columns and defaced colossi. Buried beneath tbe drifting sand of the desert lie the glo rious and yet grotesque masterpieces ol" the Egyptian chisel. Serene, majestic, grave, inundated "with a flood of har monious light, tbe calm features of the once Inscrutable Sphinx l.s.k down upon us' as many centuries ao they looked dow n in their grand reinsc ukh the wondering Father of Hist., V -'''jjue ha pressed lightly on these Jtnic temples and vast tomb-places, but from their shadowy portals the worshiper have gone forever. Iiesolate and state- fallen, they open now only to admit the curious strangej. ChaiI.T' ...wr nat. Keal Old Solid Comfort The other afternoon a frog catcher from the city came across two boot blacks in camp on the river bank near the lighthouse. Their tent was com posed of old coffee sacks sewed together. and was just large enough to keep the sun off a spot three feet square. Tbe lads were boiling potatoes in an old wash dish and frying a very thin fish o:i piece of sheet iron. They bad an oyster can todrinkoutof, a bed made of weeds. "What are we doin' here?" indig nantly replied one of the lads wheu questioned. "Why, we is out on our summer trip, and having the butliest time in the world. The cocoanut is all gone and the crackers eaten up, but we've got fish and taters left, and you kin tell the boys in town that we shan't come back till we've recuperated right np to a hundred and fifty pounds apiece. We hain't on the Saratogy lay, we hain't, but we are aft--r real old, solid comfort." WaTEKiNO-rLacK notes greenbacks.
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