B. F. SCIIWEIER,
THE COSSTITUTIOS-THE TUIOU-AHD THE EKF0ECZME5T OF THE LAWS.
Editor and Proprietor.
A OL. XXXI.
MIFFLINTOWN, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1S77.
NO. 43.
1 VINTAGE S05G.
BI L D. L BIASCIAKDL
... Once more the year it f nines poor
To uet the heart of toil ;
Once more we take with gratitnda
The blessing of the soil.
I hear the children laugh and sing.
They poll the grape together ;
And g'-adnee breathe from everything
In this October weather.
The winter day were lon and dirk.
The spring was slow to come ;
and summer storms brought fear and doubt
To many a humble home.
But rain aud sunshine hid heir will
And wrought their work together,
And see ! we heap our baskes still.
In this October weather.
My heart has had its winter, too.
And lain full bare and gray ;
I did not think a epring would come.
Much leaa a summer day.
How little did I dream that life
Would bring us two together.
And I should be a happy wife
In this October weather.
Doubtless the frosts will come again.
And some sseet 1 0s must die ;
But we shall bear the passing pain.
And smile a well as sigh ;
Nor let us cloud with fears of ill
This gclden hour together ;
F. r God is in Hn garden still
In this O.tobsr weather.
Scrttmer't Monthly.
The Lucky Larceny.
A Lawyer's Story.
Mr. Courtney was a rich old bachelor,
and the ancle of a couple of nephews
the one a brother's, and the other a sis
ter's son. 1 hese two were his next of
kin, legally entitled, in case he died in
testate, to inherit his property.
Edward Horton, his deceased sister's
son, was decidedly bis favor lie, and to
him the old man resolved to give the
bulk of his estate.
Charles Courtney, the other nephew,
had inherited a handsome fortune from
his father, and, moreover, by his uncle's
will, was entitled tosucceed to that left
by his cousin, in the event of the latter's
dying without issue.
Old Mr. Courtney was one of the
halest of bachelors when it was suddenly
announced, not only that he was dead,
hut that foul play was suspected. A
Iost-mortem examination demonstrated
that be bad fallen a victim to poison;
and it was given out that the hand that
had administered it was that of his
favorite nephew. The public mind was
naturally both surprised and shocked.
It was not until Edward Hortou bad
lieen fully committed for trial for his
uncle's murder, that I was retained to
get up the defence.
His statement was in substance this:
A physician had been called in to see
Mr. Courtney on the occasion of some
apparently trifling illness, requiring
some trilling remedy, for which a pre
scription was written, and handed to
the prisoner to be made up. This the
latter had taken to a well-known, com
petent druggist, who had put it up in
his presence. The medicine consisted
of three w hite powders, each folded in
a scrap of paper, with the whole en
closed in a single wrapper. They were
to be given at intervals of an hour, and
had remained continuously in the pris
oner's possession till the first was ad
ministered, which was done by himself,
immediately on his return from the
druggist's. Mr. Courtney grew rapidly
worse, and at the expiration of an
hour, the symptoms became so alarm
ing that a messenger was dispatched for
the physician, who, on his arrival, tie
dared that the patient was suffering
from the effects of poison. An exami
nation of the remaining powder dis
closed the fact that it was pure arsenic.
It was too late for any antidote to be
available, and in less than an hour death
had relieved the 6ufferer. An autopsy
of the body and an analysis of the con
tents of the body left no doubt as to the
cause of death. The presence of arsenic,
in a necessary fatal quantity was indi
cated by every known chemical test. It
was further admitted by the prisoner
that lie alone had access to his uncle's
apartment, or had handled the medicine
from the time it was compounded oy
the druggist till the coming of the phy
sician, alter the second powder bad
been taken.
The druggist, who was known to be a
man of extraordinary caution, and
thoroughly skilled in the business, wa9
ready to swear that by no possibility
could any mistake have occurred in
putting up the medicine.
To make matters worse, it transpired
that the amicable relations between the
uncle arid nephew had been somewhat
disturbed of late, by reasou of an at
achment of the latter disapproved by
the former, who had gone so far as to
threaten to change bis will unless his
wishes were respected.
"Who was in company with you from
the time you received the medicine till
you returned to your uncle's house?"
I asked the prisoner, desperately grop
ing after something to afford a ray ol
hope.
"Xo one," he answered, "but my
cousin Charles, whom I met near the
druggist's, and who accompauied me
in."
I drew J;om Edward the fact that
Charles saw the medicine put up;
walked with him a little way, then
went back for something, Edward
awaiting his return; then walked arm
in arm nearly home, w hen Charles left.
I also reminded Edward that, his uncle
being dead, if he also should die cnlld
less.'c'harlie would inherit the estate.
"lie did it! he did ill" the young
man cried, in a paroxysm of excitement
too earnest to counterfeit. ''lie went
out to get the poison when he left me
waiting. Ue put It up to resemble the
druggist's parcel, for which he substi
tuted it as we went along. Villain I
know it now ! I carried the parcel in
the right pocket of my overcoat, and it
was on that side he walked!"
I was seated la my office on the day
prveding that fixed for the trial, ln
in anothlng but sanguine ex
pectations, when a tap at the door an
nounced a visitor. It was a detective
whom I had employed.
"What is it!" I inquired, after clos
ing the door.
MIT 1 . -
i mane an arrest to-day," he an
swered, "and in the prisoner's posses
sion found this overcoat," undoing t
package he had brought.
"Well?"
"In one of the pockets I found this,"
and he handd me a small parcel which
I opened.
Inside were three papers folded as
druggists put up their prescriptions.
"The person with whom I found this
coat," the detective continued, "con-
resses that he stole it from a billiard-
saloon, the owner having laid it aside
while playing; and the date he fixes
corresponds with Mr. Courtney's mur
der. But what is more important.
have ascertained that Charles Cuurtneg
is the owner of the coat!"
"Let us at once proceed to the drug
gist s! I exclaimed, springing from my
chair and snatching up my hat.
We were soon there.
"Please examine that parcel," I said,
putting it into the druggist's hands.
He did so, carefully openiug the pa
pers and inspecting their contents. They
contained f nree white powders!
"How do they correspond w ith those
you made up for Mr. Courtney," 1 in
quired, and for which others seem to
have been so mysteriously substituted ?"
"They do not correspond at all," he
answered, they are the mum."
"The same! How do you know
that?"
"By these figures," he replied, point
ing to the inside of the papers. "I had
made a calculation that day on a the
sheet of paper, part of which I used In
puttiug up the prescription bought by
Mr. Edward Horton. The remainder I
have preserved, not knowing but it
might be important. Here it is and
you see how the pieces and figures fix
it."
They did exactly : the chain of evi
dence was complete !
I need hardly tell you how the trial
ended. Charles Courtney was called
by the prosecution to prove some unim
portant point. The counsel whom I
had retained for the defence asked him
but three questions on cross-examination
:
Had he accompanied the prisoner
from the druggist's?
Had he lost an overcoat that day?
Was that it?
The questions were very simple, but
the effect upon the witness was most re
markable. He trembled and turned
pale. He knew that bis secret was out,
and that lying was useless. He an
swered all three questions in tie affirma
tive, but in a voice scarcely audible.
Before the next witness was called he
slipped from the court, and was never
heard of afterward.
With the testimony of the detective
and the druggist, not forgetting that of
the thief who stole the overcoat, we
made short work of what had promised
to be "a beautiful case of circumstan
tial evidence."
The Origin of I lie Telescope.
vt ith reference to Galileo s chum to
be the. inventor of the telescope, M
Wolf quoteS( Awnilrn h:r Phijfik ud Che-
ioi') frouia manuscript of Scheiner(lClG)
111 a Horary in .uricii, a curious pas
sage, or which the following is part:
"It must be allowed first, considering
what the telescope does, that Baptista
Porta has better right to lie thought the
inventor, because he describes, after his
own wav, in ooscure words ami
puzzling expressions, an instrument
like the telescope. But secondly, if we
speak of the teles-0ie, as it i now used
after general perfection, we must say
that neither Porta nor Galileo is the
first discoverer of it, but the telescojie
in this sense was discovered in Germany
anong the Belgians, and that accident
ally, by one Kramer, who sold spec
tacles, and either for amusement or ex
perimentation, combined concave and
convex glasses, so that with glasses he
could see a quite small and distant
object large and near; at which success
being rejoiced, he united several simi
lar pairs of glasses in a tube, aud
offered the combination at a high price
to wealthy people. Thereafter they
(the telescojies) became gradually more
common among the people, and spread
to other countries. In this way two of
them were brought for the first time
br a Belirian merchant to Italy; of
these, one remained long in the college
at Rome; the other went first to Venice,
later to Naples; and here the Italians,
and especially Galileo, at that time
Profesessor of Mathematics in Padua,
took the op'iortuiiity of improving it,
in order to apply it to astronomical
purposes, and extend its use further.
Thus the telescope, as we have it to-day,
was discovered by Germany and per
fected by Italy ; the whole world now
rejoices in it." Xature.
What is a Uood Education.
Edward Everett, the gifted orator,
never spoke more truthfully than when
uttering the following words: "To
read the English language well, to write
with despatch a neat, legible hand, and
be master of the first four rules of arlth-
mteic, so as to dispose of at once, with
accuracy, every question of figures
whichcomes up in practice I call this
a good education. And if you add tne
ability to write pure grammatrical
English, I regard this as an excellent
education. These are the tools, lou
can do much with them, but you are
helpless without them. They are the
foundation, and unless you begin with
these, all your nasny aiiainmeuyj,
little geology, and all other ologies and
osophies are ostentatious rubbish." It
is generally the custom among the
schools of to-day to neglect these so
called "common branches." They
omit the foundation, and build up a vast
and imposing structure or showy accom
Dlisbments. Xo sooner does a pupil of
one of these schools attempt to enter
upon the busy scenes of Hie, than ne
finds his "castle in the air," bulit at so
r.t a cost of time and money, come
great a cost 01 ume ""' "
tnmblin down on his ears.
Donta for the Bachelors.
Don't think you are performing your
full duty in this world when you pull
yourself into your shell and waddle
around like a mud-turtle. '
Don't think that out of the millions
of women who perambulate this globe
there isn't one good enough to be your
wife.
Don't think if yea resolve to lead
your turtle life that any of these mil
lions will hanker after yon so badly
that she will go gouging down in the
mud for you.
Dou't think you escape the greatest
ills of life by "going it alone." Just
think of having to talk to yourself when
you want an appreciative audience, and
sewing on your own buttons and darn
ing your own socks.
Don't think Adam wouldn't have
gone into the apple business if he had
lived an old bachelor. lie engaged in
that during his courting days and never
amounted to much until he married,
settled down and went to work.
Don't think because he had a little
trouble in bis family and raised a bad
boy that you run the same risk. They
didn't have any bouses of reformation
to put boys into then, or pententiaries.
They have now.
Don't think you will live in the mem
ory of posterity much if you pass
through life like a 0. When you are
gone there will be no one to sigh for
you. I he best way to keep your name
and memory afloat is to leave half a
dozen rattling boys who will make
"Rome howl" in the neighborhood, give
the police something to do, and keep
your name prominently before the pub
lic.
Don't think yon are happy because
you don't have to listen to Infantile
nocturnal solos and orchestras. You
have, nevertheless, to listen to that cat
concert on the back shed and contribute
your boots to it in spite of yourself.
Don't think you would enjoy having
a miniature edition of yourself gouging
your eyes, pulling your whiskers, and
daubing candy, etc., all over your hair.
It s just next to going to the circus.
Don't think you can't "afford" to
marry and assume the responsibilities
incident thereto. You will find your
present expenses quite sufficient there
for, provided you marry a woman who
has more sense than you have.
Don't think you will necessary have
to "take care" of the wife you marry.
In e'ght cases out of ten if wives didn't,
by their better sense, "take care" of
their husbands they would go to the
d uce.
Don't be prowling around like a bear
escaped from a menagerie, expecting
that some enterprising woman will turn
up and take you in. As a genera! rule
they don't do it that way.
Dou't waddle around until you turn
gray and then expect some gushing
girl to open a hospital and take you In
as her siiecial ward for the sake of
wearing your name and what little
property you may have.
Don't fool. Come down to business,
Take your full part in life. Take some
sister in out of the cold. Wash your
face, brush your teeth, pare your finger
nails, dust up your wardrobe, set your
eye on some girl with a level head and
go straight for her. If you mean busi
ness, and are a clever fellow, she'll
meet you about half way.
A Good Sine.
How true is it that a good name is a
capital in itself. Such a capital, like
every solid accumulation, is not built in
a day, but is the result of years of con
tinuance in well-doing. No man can
hope by a spurt of good nature or hon
orable dealings to acquire an enviable
reputation which Is implied in the pos
session of a "good name." Little
things done and observed In a series of
years, the trifles of which life is made
up, if done conscientiously, are what
contribute to the result, and win for a
man the confidence of his fellows; and
when one has thus acquired this good
name, men seek him in business, rely
on his word and piefer his goods. Such
a capital is within the reach of the
poorest. It commands confidence, and
helps one in securing all that is desira
ble in life, and as it is to be acquired
without outlay, does not depend upon
birth or influence for its att iinmont. It
is wonderful so many prefer to travel
by crooked ways, which, though they
may seem short cuts to success, do not
lead in that direction at all. Let every
young man strive to adJ a good name
to his other capital
' A Good Emperor.
To avoid ceremonious receptions,
which be cordially hated, the Emperor
Joseph II assumed the title of Count
Falkenstelu. This incognito some
times led to amusing scenes. Once, on
the road to Hungary, his Majesty halted
at a post-house, when the newly-born
babe of the Postmaster was about to be
baptized. Joseph offered himself as
sponsor. The priest asked tor nis name.
Joseph,", replied he. "But the sur
name?" "Second." "What rank or
Drofession?" 'Emperor, "was the
reply. The amazement of the party
soon gave way to a burst of gratitude
when bis Majesty presented his little
godson with the customary gift, but in
this case of really royal magnificence.
On another occasion Joseph alighted at
a hotel before the arrival of his suite
The inquisitive host inquired if he be
longed to the service of the Emperor.
Yes," answered Joseph ; "I shave him
sometimes. Many anecdotes are told
of his amiable benevolence. Hearing of
an old officer who possessed a large
family with straitened means, the Em
peror unexpectedly called at his house,
and finding eleven children, said: "1
know you have ten children bat whose
is the eleventh ?" "It Is an orphan,"
replied the veteran, "whom I found at
my door, and I could not suffer it to
perish from want." Joseph struck by
this act of humanity said: "Let the
children be in future mine; I wtlf pro
vide for them, and do you continue to
give them examples of virtue and
honor." Another time passing down
the streets of Vienna, he saw a young
girl; with a bundle under ber arm, seem'
gi", wmi -
j , vXaagei i the deepest distress
lnv "u e
His delicate inquiries led her to confide
to him that she was the daughter of a
deceased officer, and that ber mother
and herself were reduced to such penury
as to part with their few remaining
clothes as a last resource. "You
ought." replied Joseph, "to have peti
tioned the Emperor." She told him
this had been already done, but without
success, not concealing her opinion of
his Majesty's want of generosity. "You
have been deceived," he replied, sup
pressing his emotion. "I will myself
report your case to the Emperor. I
know him too well to fear he will ref use
yon assistance." The girl now broke
forth into expressions of thanks, which
Joseph hastily Interrupted, saying:
"Allow me to lend you 12 ducats for
your present necessities." In a day or
two Joseph despatched a messenger,
bidding her and her mother repair to
the palace. w hen the young girl saw
the Emperor she fainted from fear and
emotion. On ber recovery Joseph said,
in delivering to her a pension eqnal to
the appointment of her father: "I en
treat you and your mother to pardon
the delay which has been the cause of
your embarrassment. You areconvirced
I trust, it was involuntary ou my pirt;
and should any one in future speak ill
of me, I expect you to be my advocate."
The Pecan.
In Arthur Bryant's work on "Forest
Trees for shelter, Ornament, and Profit"
is the following account of the pecan
tree, which some of our agriculturists
ought to attempt to cultivate in the
North :
"The pecan tree is found principally,
if not exclusively, upon river-bottoms
from Northern Illinois to Texas. It is
a stranger to the Atlantic States. It
most resembles the bitterinit hickory,
and will thrive in the same soils. On
the Illinois River it is found as far north
as Lacon. and on the Mississippi as high
as latitude 42 degrees. The pecan
grows in the forest to the height of sixty
or seventy feet. It is a beautiful tree,
with a straight and well-shaped trunk.
Its timber is inferior to that of some of
the species of hickory al ready described ;
but it merits the attention of the culti
vator on account of the excellence of its
fruit. Xo other nut, native or impor
ted, can be compared with it in flavor.
The shell is thin ; the kernel destitute
of wooily partitions and easily extrac
ted. By cultivation and the selection
of superior varieties for propagation the
fruit may undoubtedly be increased in
size and probably improved in flavor.
Like other hickories, it does not trans
plant well, and must be removed from
the seed bed when one year old. It
is said to be tardy in coming into
bearing, though producing abundantly
when well grown. This fault may,
perhaps, be corrected by cultivation.
The nut of the pecan tree would lie
more abundant in market but for the
practice, worthy only of barbarians, of
foiling the trees, to come at the fruit
more easily. This was extensively done
along the Illinois River when I first
settled in the West, forty years since.
It is said that the same vandalism is
still eretrated where it can be done
with impunity. If, on trial, it should
lie ascertained - that the pecan can be
successfully grafted on the black wal-
nut or butternut, its growth would
probably lie more rapid, and, cone
qiiently, its propagation and improve
ment facilitated."
It is no trouble to start this tree from
seed. In November, 1870, 1 put seeds
of it in the ground at Bosland, on the
Kansas Pacific Railroad, in the 0en
plains, 2.'I0 miles west of Kansas City,
and they came up finely in the spring,
In the spring of liCf I got dry nuts
from the store out there, probably two
or tiiree years old, and after scalding
and soaking about two weeks, had
them to grow. If planted in the fall,
the nuts need no soaking. Of dry
hickory nuts, brought to Bosland in the
spring of 1S73, by settlers, a few germi
nated.
Proverbial Philosophy.
"To make a virtue of necessity
comes from Chaucer the father of Eng
lish poetry, a man of infinite wit;
and to him can be traced the saying.
In at one ear, ut at the other;
though in thequaint language of the day
he said : ''One ear it heard, at the other
out it went. The proverb, "Man pro
poses, but God disposes," comes from
Pier's Plowman's Vision, abetter letter
than poem, and "Of two evils, the less is
always to be chosen," and "When he
is out of sight, quickly also is he out of
mind," the originals of "out of sight,
out of mind," and "of two evils, choose
the least" are from Thomas a'Kcmpis.
Thomas Tusser gave us "The stone
that is rolling can gather no moss,"
"Better late than never," "It is an ill
wind that turns hone to good,"
"Christmas comes but once a year,"
"Safe bind, also find,' "Look ere thou
leap, see ere thou go," and "Such mas
ter, such man." Chaucer died in l.i)0,
a'Kempis in 1471, and Tusser in 15S0;
so that these are venerable remains.
Cervantes says, "Every one is the son
of his own works," and tells of "A face
like a benediction." It was Sir Edward
Coke, the great lawyer, who said "a
man's house is his castle," and Christo
pher Marlowe, the founder of the great
English drama, who wrote of "Infinite
riches in a little room," and of a man
who was "More knave than fool." It
is also to him that we are indebted for
"Love me little, love me long."
It is John Milton who tells of "Dark
with excessive light," "A heaven on
earth," "All hell broke loose,"
"Heaven's last, best gift," "A wilder
ness of sweets," "Moping melancholy
and moonstruck madness," and "Evil
news rides fast, while good news
waits."
It was from John Dryden that we re
ceived "Xone but the brave deserve the
fair," "Pity melts the mind to love."
"Honor is but an empty bubble," "All
delays are dangerous in war," and "A
knock-down argument; 'tis but a
word and a blow."
Account him thy real friend who de
sires thy good, rather than thy good
will.
The Art of Proposing,
Young man, you can secure any wo
man vou want if von will exercise care
as to the time and place, with some lit
tle regard as to the manner. Xever
proMse to a young lady after a hearty
meal. The blood is then needed to aid
her digestion, ami her imagination is
rhitled. Xor should it come just before
a meal, for the longings of the Impor
tunate conduce to anxietv and irrita
bility, and the shock may prove hazar
dous. It would be - better to sei"ct the
evening, and generally after you have
taken her to some entertainment. Her
nerves are then apt to lie stronger, and
her mind n.ay have already dwelt upon
the possibilities until she is perfectly
prepared for the reality? Never forget
yourself so far as to propose on return
ing from a theatre, She will have the
style and air of some aetor before her
mental vision, aud you ean't compare
with the romance she throws over him.
The best way is to invite her to some
entertainment which you know she
wants to attend, and theu propose to
her just as she is ready to start. This
will be greatly to your advantage for
she will easily see that a rejection will
upset an evening's entertainment, ami
this will largely influence her decision.
In the spring of the year you must
remember that her system is undergo
ing a change, aud there must lie a
change of scenery to excite her torpid
imagination. Never risk a proposal iu
the bouse at this season. Take her out
for a drive over the worst possible road
available. Wheu at a distance from
home convenient for your purpose tell
her frankly that she must consent or
walk back. Xine times out of ten she
will prefer the ride.
The summer jtosseases claims over
seasons, if natural advantages are ju
diciously applied. Strolls in the woods
have been found efficacious, or losing
one's way In a blackberry patch will
bring reasonable women to terms.
Never go fishing with a view to pro
posing, lou can t avoid smelling of
bait, a perfume inconsistent with love
making. In the fall of the year you should
avoid the woods, for they are apt to be
damp. Seek the object at her home.
and, after reading to her for a few hours
something of which you are the
author will be preferred just tell her
frankly what you came for, admonish
ing her that you proimse taking vour
wife to the national capital during the
winter.
During the winter mouths it would
be also wise to avoid the woods, and, as
a general thing, the house might be
considered the procr place for your
overtures.
Never propose the day or evening
you take supper at the house, for tin-re
is nothing that so impairsa young lady's
affection for a man as to hear him eat.
In approaching a young lady at this
time too much meekness and Ion iiness
of spirit cannot !e manifested. It is
well for a man to linger w ith painful
attention to details uiioii his mi worthi
ness. He must speak of his "frolics and
faults," aud occasionally allude to him
self as a "worm," to which may le
added a parenthetic desire to feed iikii
the damask of her cheek. A hint as to
Ifcirk Kate in the event of rejection has
been found very efficacious, and a sug
gestion of the Wave of Ih-spair ha
worked wonders.
There is no excuse for failure on the
part of any man who follow these di
rections carefullv
Montgomery Smith and the Itear.
1
A lew d-;ys ago, says a corresoii
lew
deut ot tne iiiciimati weiovr, a man
named Mon gomery Smith, hailing
from St. Louis, had two singular and
narrow escapes rolled Into one. He
left a camp aliout thirty miles up the
I! lack Hills to bring letters here to post,
and in trying to shorten the distance a
little he lost the regular trail and got
into a bad bit of country. While hunt
ing for the trail he came across fresh
signs of Indians, and while hurrying
out of the neighborhood he ran directly
upon a large brow n bear which was
sleeping on the sunny side of a thicket
The thicket was on a side hill. Smith
was going at a good pace w hen he
turned the clump. 1 he bear was so
near when the man caught sight of him
that there was neither time to halt nor
chance to turn out. and bruin was
cleared by a flying leap. He made :
stroke at Smith as he w ent over, inflict
ing a slight scratch on one leg, and then
set off aftcrthe miner w ith the intention
of masticating him for dinner. The
flight led over broken ground, up and
down a ridge, and then along the base
of a broken ledge.
Knowing that the War would soon
overtake him, Smith hail his eyes celcd
for some place of refuge, and he found
a good one. t lose to the ground was a
rift in the bilge made by part of the
rocks settling down orcrnmblingaway.
He saw it when only thirty feet away.
and the bear was not a hundred feet in
his rear. There was no time to guess
whether the crevice was big enough to
admit the man, and too small to let the
bear in after him. or so small that the
etim would lie there overtaken and
devoured. He hail dropjied his gun to
aid his flight, and running at full sjieed
he made a drive and went into the
crevice head first. Hiking enough hide
off his shoulders and back to make a
pair of baby shoes. The bear wasn't
ten seconds, behind him, and as Smith
reached the back end of the cave, which
was not over six feet deep, the bear
put his head into its mouth aud tried to
work in his body. This he could not
accomplish, owing to his stout shoul
ders, but for a quarter of an hour
Montgomery Smith was doubtless the
worst frightened man in Xorth Amer
ica. I here was room enough lor mm
to turn around in, but he was complied
to lif at full length and look into the
firey eyes of a bear which could get
within four feet of him and wanted to
come nearer. .Bruin didn t give up
trying until he had sadly cut and
bruised himself against the stones, and
his snarls and growls put more relig
ious thoughts into Smith's head than
had ever lodged there before. The
bear couldn't get Iiiui, but neither
could he get the bear. He had nothing
j to shoot with, neither food nor drink.
aud yelling at a liear to clear out and
go home has no effect in this ra rifled
atmosphere'. The mouth of the crevice
was ten feet long, and Smith could
look out over his trail for forty rods or
more, no matter at what point the bear
was. The animal was walking up and
down before the ledge, probably fibbing
for a plan by which he might get some
thing better than roots for dinner, when
the miner caught sight of three Indians
creeping along on the trail he had made.
They had, perhaps, followed it for a
mile or more, and must have know n
that the bear had the first claim. The
redskins had just come into view w hen
they saw the bear, the hear saw them,
and Smith saw the whole thing, ami
was willing to go one better.
The meat under the greay decr-kin
worn by Indians ranks next to. white
man's meat, and the Western bears
are always ready to take the "next liest
thing." This bear looked in on Smith
in a despairing manner and then made
a bee-line for the redmen. They fired
at him once a piece and then, turned
and ran, and after about three minutes
waiting. Smith crawled out anil made
2.40 time until his breath gave out.
Regulated Production.
Now , for a series of years, labor and
capital alike have been in trouble. Caji
ital has not been able to buy lalior. tic
cause it could not sell its product. Labor
has not been able to buy anything, lie
cause it could not earn anything tootVer
in exchange. It has seemed like an ir
remediable dead-lock. We look for
better times, but they do not come, and
there apears to lie no mind so gifted
with foresight as to be able to predict
the daie of renewed prosjierity. Machin
ery in vast and multiplied organizations,
and capital in large accumulations, lie
idle, w bile lalior lives from hand to
mouth, and waits for something to do.
In the meantime, fictitious values have
died out, speculation sleeps, ami at
w hat Mint matters can possibly begin
to improve surpasses conjecture. Large
ex)ortatioiis of produce may start con
sumption again, and so set capital and
labor at work: but nobody know s any
thing aliout it.
Of this one I act, how ever, all men at
this time have come te be well aware,
viz., that we have the machincrv and
the lalior for producing more of the or
dinary materials required in civilicd
life than we can sell. The further fact
to w hich w e have already alluded, that
"the law of demand and supply" works
clumsily, and often disastrously, when
left to itself, is also pretty definitely ap
prehended. There would seem, there
fore, to lie no alternative policy but that
of "regulated production." That this
is possible in limited sphere has already
been abundantly proved. There is at
this time in Massachusetts a society of
paper-makers w ho are intelligently and
successfully "regulating" the produc
tion of their mills. They understand
that if they run their mills day and
night, a they did when business was
good, they w ill produce iK'r in such
inaiitities as to raise the price of stock
and reduce the price of paper, as well
as glut the market. So, by keeping the
supply a nearly even with the demand
as possible, they manage to run their
mills half time that is, only in the day
time and to make a profit on which
they ami their employes can live. This
is what may lie called "regulated pro
duction :" and we know of no rea-on
w by the jiolicy may not lie adopted by
every manufacturing interest in the
count rv.
Men's Manners.
Men succeed in their profession quite
as much by complaisance and kindii
ness of manner as by talent. Ilemos
theues, in giving his well-know n ad
vice to an orator that eloquence con
sisted iu three things, the first "action,'
the second "action," and the third "ac
tion," is supposed to have intended
manner only. A telling preacher in
his opening remarks gains the good w ill
of his hearers, and makes them feel
Llioth that he has something to sav and
that he can say it by his manners.
The successful medical man, ou enter
ing a sick-room inspires into his patieifls
belief in himself, and that hnie which
is so favorable to longevity by his
manner. Considering that jurymen are
scarcely personifications unmixed with
passion or prejudice, a barrister cannot
afford to neglect manner if he would
bring twelve men, one after another to
his way of thinking. Again, has the
business man any stock in trade that
pays him better than a good address?
And as regards the "survival of the fit
test" in tournaments for a lady's hand,
is it not a "natural selection" when the
old motto, "Manners makcth the man"
decides the contest? At least Wilkes,
the best mannered but ugliest man of
his day, thought so. "I am." he said
"the ugliest man iu the three kingdoms ;
but if you give me a quarterof an hour's
start, I will gain the love of any woman
before the handsomest." If kindliness
of disposition be the essence of good
manners, our subject is seen at once to
shade off into the great one of t'bris
tianitv itself. It is the heart that
makes both the true gentleman and the
secret theologian. The apostle Paul
(see speech delivered on Mars nill),
always endeavored to conciliate his au
dience when he commenced addressing
them. And his letters, as well as those
of his fellow apostles, are full of sym
pathy and consideration for every one's
feelings, because he has learned from
Him whose sympathy extended even to
the greatest of sinners. Ctunufj'r's
Journal.
A Remarkable Kail war Bridge.
The new iron railway bridge over the
river Douro, near Porto, Portugal,
crosses it with an arch of a single span
which measures 160 metres (520 feet)
and has a rise of 42 metres (133 feet 6
inches) . It is crescent shaped in form ;
the extrados and the intrados, which
are connected by struts in the form of
St. Andrew's cross, are farthest apart
at the crown.
The Value of Opes) tire.
We grant, as has recently been said
that an open fire is "incompetent to
heat our houses;" but we believe itca
be made such an important factor iu th
culture of children that we have no
hesitation in urgingothers to try it. In
houses that are w hollv warmed hv fur-
nai-e, the family circle is likely to lie-
come impaired. The children take their
friends to their ow n rooms, and the
hnother rarely becomes intimately
qiiainted w ith their as.(eiates. Around
a wood fire all natiirallvconietogether
what interests one, comes in a littl
while to interest all, and the children
learn to be open and free. The lire
warms the heart as well as the hotly
. woimi nre tit early in the evening
when the children are home from
school is all that is necessary. When
the Imij-s get used to coming in from the
cold and snow to find a cheerful hick
ory fire blazing on the parlor hearth
with the room not too nicelv furnished
for them to use, they w ill not want ti
leave it foranyoiitsideattractious. The
moment the familiar whistle is heard
in the evening, let some kindling wood
lie thrust under the logs. The plea-ant
en-ation produced by a blazing fire, i
rejieated everyday, winter after winter.
amounts to a great deal of happiness in
a hoy's life-time, aud will never be for
gotten. It is difficult to overestimate
the value of this central gathering-
place for the w hole family. Wood lire?
are not dusty, and when used not for
heat, but for cheer, and only iu the
evening, are not costly. The moderate
heat of a furnace or stove Is sufficient
for the parlor by day, and but little
wood in the fire-place is necessary to
make it comfortable at night. Indeed
the register often has to he turned off
anil the dors have to be closed to keep
the heat of the house from rushing into
the parlor. The wood fire ventilates.
and thus, not onlv are the feet kept
w arm, but the head remains cool. Half
a cord of hickorv wood lasts us about
month, and we use it on Sumlavs after
church, and on other davs if we have
friend for dinner, or the children are
to lie at home. In spring and fall an
open tire-place Is particularly useful
r. very one Knows tmw the furnace if
disliked in moderate weather, but by
using at such times the wood alone, the
Icsi red heat is obtained and far more
than the cost saved in the coal that
would he burned to waste. If the fire
place is painted black, there will be
good background for the red flame, and
the brick-work w ill not be made to look
shabby by the smoke. Let it be a good
hearty blazing tire or none at all. Bet
ter to save iu fine furniture, or iu rich
desserts, than put on logs sparingly
Ir:is andirons are the best, for thev
never wear out, and the lalior iu keep
ing tlieiu bright is much exaggerated
Tile w ikmI shouM reach clear over both
andirons. A lot ofcorncobs will make
a hot, iiuick blaze, just before the chil
dren go up to lied, and w ill make their
sIiiiiiIxt all the sweeter. Sertfwir.
CnriouK
Krmalna Ponnit In Tmnln More
nan x.lMMt Inn old.
At Veii the tombs are of various kinds.
from the simple cell cut in the voleauit
stratum near the -nrfoe and covered
with a tumulus, to the f'ampana Tomb
w ith its double vestibule and tw o com
partineiitsin the interior, intermediate
N't ween the-c two forms we saw many
single-chamhered tombs furnished w ith
doors. These are principally hewn out
ot the rock. The Campana Tomb so
called because of it discovery bv Com-
iiicndator Campana is by far the most
interesting. We entered wearily w ith
lighted torches and mackintoshes for
the air i- deadly chill into the presence
of skeletons J.ixhi years old, laid out on
stone lied, w ild armor and urns and
shreils ot clothing about them. On the
partition wall between the outer and
inner compartments of the interior is a
fresco painting representing human
figures and horses in the black and
white and brick color. It closely re
sembles Kgyptian work, both iu the
forms of the figures depicted and in the
general attitudes and treatment. It is
probably the oldest fresco iu Italy. Iu
the inner compartment are cinerary
urns. These are of three descriptions:
I. Black. 2. Painted "a corpo." 3.
Painted on varnish. There are very
few of the latter. The figures painted
upon them generally represent w inged
genu, animals, and trusses. Some have
shells r husks (haccelio and other or
naments, in relief and incision. The
art of v:is-painting is that by which
we have lcarm-d most of the manners
aud customs of tiie Etruscans. One
vase has lieen found at Veii of peculiar
interest in this resjiect. It lia two
handles, aud is painted on both sides
w ith a continuous subject. On the one
side are depicted two armed warriors in
conflict. Between them at their feet
lies one vanqui-hed, and at either side
stands a woman waiting to crown the
victor. On the other side, the con
queror returns triumphant, riding in a
biga, w hich is driven by a w arrior and
accompanied by women. Can nia sug
gests that this w as probably the prize
at the Giuochi delle l alestre or wrest
ling matches. Mr. Taylor remarks:
It mav lie said that the ceramic art of
the Etruscans has been the one great
permanent legacy w hich they have be
queathed to the world.'' He does not
tate whether he has any grounds for
attributing the art spirit to the Etrus
cans rather than to the "Finnic" sub
stratum over w hich th"y ruled. Caunia
holds that the art was indigenous, and
discredits the theory that it was bor
rowed from Asia Minor, on the ground
principally that the people of the two
countries had no inter-communication
in the earliest time. But if we refer
to the Homeric Hymn, we find at least
legeudary tradition that the Etruscans
did visit the remote countries of the
Mediterranean; nay, more, the Captain
said he hoped to reach Egypt or Cyprus,
or the Hyperboreans, or even further
off. They were celebrated for their
fleet, and their piratical use of it, down
to 474 B. C, when Hiero, of Syracuse,
destroyed it. The designs and coloring
of Etruscan vases have a strong affinity
with Egyptian work, even to a resem
blance In the signs of the Scarabieus
and serpent and eye. The earliest
Chiusi vases found in the sepulchres
have no pictorial design merely a
rough scratching on the terracotta for
ornament. The later vase-painting
bears evidence of Greek iufluenee; but
as it is extremely difficult even approxi
mately to fix the date of it, it is impos
sible to draw from it any conclusion
1 to its origin. Fr-iMr's Ma-iaziv.
A Roush Alley A London Mtetrh.
Rough's alley happens to he in my
ca. a short cut to railway, train-car or
omnibfls; so I know it pretty well,
though I never entered it by choice,
esjiecially iu hot weather. The space
between the miserable little holes of
houses is not w ider than the room in
which 1 am -writng. A gutter runs
.down the middle. The alley is unusu
ally noisy with ragged and dirty child
ren, quarrelling women also ragged
and drunken men. All these are
hideous with dirt. I do not believe
the women wash their faces once In a
week. How the oor creatures man
age to breathe in these small low room,
w ith fires in them, it is hard to sny. In
hot weather the w hole population gets
out of doors as much as possible. Half
a dozen of the old uifn beg of you as
you pass along. There are one or two
birds kept, ami there are cats the sight
of the latter, tortured, mangy skeletons,
adding greatly to the generally
miserable appearance of the place.
One very close Sunday morning I was
about to pass along this alley for time's
sake, but was stoped by w hat I saw .
Everybody man, women and child
appeared to have turned out in a stale
of half undress. At the first glance
you might have said that the inhabi
tant of Rough's alley had all got some
frightful spotted fever uixm them.
But the object that made me turn away
and choose another route, at the cost ol"
a cab, was a quite sufficient key to all
the rest of the spectacle, it was a
woman, suckling a child, and both
looked well enough they were cer
tainly fat enough. The woman's apol
ogy for a body-linen garment was rent,
and, coining suddenly round the corner
as I did, I saw, as she got up with an
execration to go indoors. I saw, to speak
plain English but no, I cannot Sicak
plain English the woman and child
were one mas of pink from the bites
of vermin. Thi is nauseating to read,
but it was more nauseating to see; and.
as I have said, I turned away. Once I
ventured, driven by my natural
euriosiiy, to walk down by the back of
one side of this allev. there a?ain I
aw among other things, a woman still
more nearly iinclud, w ho made inde
scribable gestures and called after ine.
But that w as nothing. It w as my nose
that suffered, and through my nose my
whole system. I have never repeated
that experiment. And about tlie mor
als of Rough's alley ? Well, before go
ing down the kick of it that day I had
taken care to leave my watch on the
mantel-piece; but, in fact. I saw no hu
man creature there except the shame
less woman. I only saw and smelt
unutterable things. But you will, of
course, he prepared to hear that in
Rough" alley there is plenty of drunk
enness. Here the women drink "in till
they cannot stand and till they forget
the lowest forms of decency. I have
seen on that open pavement, within a
tone s throw ot a hiisy thoroughfare
I have een no, that must also go un
written. If any policeman should read
these lines he may draw ujion his
recollection of the drunkards' cells at
the station-houses. Here, too, there is
wife-lMting. Here there is gambling.
Indeed at midnight, ami after midnight,
gambling and lioozing are carried on
so common in the beer shop-aliottf here
that I cannot possibly lielievetbe olice
are ignorant of tlie f.u-ts, though I do
not like to assume that they are bribed.
Here is the house c,t den in which the
man commits incest with his daughter,
aged !. in the verv room in which his
wife is lying in with her seventh or
eighth dhild; and when she complains
of the discourtesy, shall we say
rot daring to hope for morality in such
a place he smashes the windows, puts
out her last blink of fire w ith her last
drop of tea, lays the tongs about her
back, ami half kills the baby in his
eagerness to hit her on the breast.
Anil here, too to end a sickening story
aud let in a breath of sweet air here
the missionary is to be seen on his
rounds; here I have seen one or two
lovelv children; here Hiave watched a
poor coster lad gradually making his
way up in the fish and watercress line
till he has got a donkey and gone to a
better neighborhood, And, almost in
the alley itself, are two or three very
lecent families. Of one, the head is a
secularist ; of the other, the head is a
Methodist and a teetotaller. Close by
is a gin-shop, and tlft re is more than
one beer-shiqi one of the latter actually
n the pla"e. tJuHtnatmrf .' rlrr.
Lost lliue.
Iird Chesterfield says that the I Mike
of Newcastle lost half an hour in the
morning, and spent the whole day
running after it. This is a tru
expression ol tne career oi a nusy
but inefficient man. He who is
always driven, always in a hurry,
always late, and always with defici
encies to lie made up, is very likely to
be alway a failure. It is well known
that the resxiisabilities of society are
best and most easily discharged by those
who estimate the value ot small por
tions of time, who do things strictly in
their proper sense and place, who pro
vide against contingencies, and distri
bute their day in reference to what U.
as well a to what may be required ot
them. .!V Jii'j' 1k.
As the wily subtility of him who is
intent on gain, so the abrupt nrutaiity
of him who has gained enough. Be
ware lest the thirst of lucre should
creep into a mind which had hitherto
admitted nothing but the love of truth
and an anxiety to deserve well of all
men.
Omission of good is a commission O
evil.