ni 5, B. F. SCHWEIER, THE COBSTITUTION-THE TJUIOIT AUD THE EJIOKCEMENT OF THE LATS. Editor and Proprietor. VOL. XXXIII. MIFFLIXTOWX, JUNIATA COUNTY, PENNA.. WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1879. NO. 22. H. T. HELMBOLD'S COMPOUND FLUID EXTRACT BUCHU. PHARMACEUTICAL. A SPECIFIC REMEDY FOR ALL DISEASES or THt BLADDER I KIDNEYS. lor Debility, Lo of Memory. Indisposi tion to Lxertum or ButnsM, Sbortne of fttrtmth. Troubled with Thought- of ii liiunr4of Vhioq. Pain fn the Back. Cheet, nod Hfl. Rugn or Blood to the Head, Pale CountiJinc and Dry Skin. If these symptom are allowed to j?o on, very frequently fct-ileptic fit and Con sumption follow. Wuen tbe constitution becoiuet affected It require the aid of au lnvicora4iufc medicine to slrtiilueu and tone up the yleui which "Helmbold's Buchu I DOES IN EVERY CASE. IS UNEQTJAIXD By any remedy known. It Is prescribed by tbe most eminent puyilclana all over tu a orhl. In liheumatism. 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Delivered to any address free from observa tion. -Patients" may consult by letter, recelv tng tbe same attention as by calling, by answering the following questions: 1. Give yonr name and post-ofllee address, county and Slate, and your nearest expreas office t 1. Your are and sex T Z. Occupation? 4. Married or single? 6. Height, weight, now and In health? e. How long have you been nick? 7 Yonrcoiuplexion.colorof halrand eyes? ft! Have you a ntooplng or erect gait? s. Relate without reservation all you know atiout vour case. Knclnse one dollar . . .,- v. I..t i..,. will then as consultation receive our attention, and we will give yoa - . ...... ' - - . nJ Aiir eabilld toe nature ti iw - .. opinion conoernwK mv-u.c - .... Competent Physicians attend to corres . ' - . 1 1 i... . ... .hAnlil lu addressed noniienta. " i " . .... . i - to Dispensatory, 117 filbert treet, Phil Jclphia, Pa. H. T. HE Lit BOLD, Druggist and Chemist, Philadelphia, Pa. SOLD EVERYWHERE OPPORTUNITY. Iu harvest Urns, wben fields and woods Outdazzle snuaet's glow, , Aud scythe clang music through the land. It is too late to sow. Too late ! too late ! It is too late to sow. In wintry days, when weary Faith Lies cold in pulses sleep. With not a blossom on her shroud. It is too late to reap. ' " Too late ! too late ! It is too late to reap. When blue-eyed violets are astir, Ind new-born grasses creep. And young birds chirp, then sow betimes. And thou betimes shalt reap. Then sow ! then sow ! And thou betimes shalt reap. Marrying A CIcd. Godfrey Prime was a very rich and suc cessful nicrchanL He had no wife, and but one child a daughter whom he adored, and upon whom it was bis delight to lavish every thing she asked fur, if monev would buy iL Annis Prime was beautiful, and she was licsidcs, a girl of considerable sense ; too mueli go, indeed, to be easily satisfied in her choice of a husliand. She had many suitors, but none of them suited her. " One day the merchant came home to his splendid mansion, looking like a ghost, he was so pale. His hair had grown several degrees whiter since he went away in the morning. Gtiiig to his private room he locked the door and loaded his pistoL "If I kill myself," he saiil, "Annis will lie obliged to marry mie of her rich ad mirers, because she will have no home with out. I could never endure to live and see her suffer the miseries of poverty which her rearing has so ill-titted her to bear." Then be took the pistol in his luuid and looked at it calmly. 'Shall I blow out my brains or shoot tuy self through the heart.'"' "You will do neither if you please, papa," said Annis herself, coming forward from lieliind tbe curtain of a window in which she had leen sitting ever since be entered the room. "What is the matter?' Why do you wish to kill yourself.'" "Annis," said the merchant, sadly, "ever since your mother died I have lived only for you. All I cared to get wealth for was for you. Hut of Lite I have lecn unfortu nate. I stand to-day on the verge of bank nipt cy. " "Well, I am sure that is bad enough with out your killing yourself," said Annis. "Do you imagine, oh, foolish papa, tliut all the riches of the world could make up to me the loss of you?" The merchant started and looked down as if ashamciL Then he opened his arms wide and his daughter flew into them. "Promise me this moment, papa." she said, "tliat you will never, never think of such a wicked thing again?" "My darling," answered the merchant with emotion. '"I never will. Now you must make me a promise, I can stem the tide, I think a mouth longer jmssilily six weeks. I should not care myself how soon the crash came, if I could see you provided far. Will you not, in tliat time, choose yourself a husband from all thtsie who are so anxious to marry youf " Annis made a face. Then, seeing how anxious her father looked, she said : "I'll honestly try, papa. But whoever I choose must know the truth a! tout your affairs before I will marry him." "Certainly," said her father, "but I am sure it will make no difference. You are too sweet and beautiful to lie lovetl for any thing but yourself." Upon the following evening, when An nis received company, she made a careful toilet. She was a black -eyed blonde, and she wore a pale green tissue of silk, looped with water lilies and sea-grasses, and water lilies in her yellow floating hair. She looked a siren ; but no siren was ever indifferent to tbe homage lavished at her feet. One after another they came the tall, the short, the fair, the dark. She looked in blue eyes, and she looked in black; but not a heart-beat quickened, even when the liandsomest man in the room bowed low before her, and murmured flattering words n honeyed tones. All would not do. She felt a positive aversion to some of them, and having every thing she wanted, liecause of Iht father s indulgence, she could not reconcile herselt to the idea of mat tying a man for whom she did not care half as much as she did for her canary. V hen the month was nearly up, during which the merchant, while be waited anx iously, said nothing, Annis spoke : "Papa, she saitl, "you are worth a dozen of them. I would rather live in poverty with vou tlian in affluence with one of them." 'You don't know what joverty is," said her father gloomily. "Hut I have a cunositv to know, said the daughter, bravely. "lie a good papa. now, and don t tease me. 1 am sure you can save enough of the wreck to furnish two rooms, and the cook has leen giving me lessons. Wont it lie fun? The ruined merchant sighed, but he was not altogether displeased. The girl had such a sweet ami coaxing voice she looked at him so lovingly, and he was in the habit of giving Ikt everything she wanted. So the end of it was he let her do as she liked in this Godfrey Prime saved nothing from the wreck. He was an honorable man, and gave up everything to his creditors, even his daughter's many and costly ornaments with her consent, too. But even then all was not paid, and hum ble as was tlie home to which the pair lie took themselves, the saddest thought that entered there was that a dollar remained unpaid against the name of Prime. "It must b e paid somehow," said Annis "Oh, if thercwas anything great, anything grand that I could ilo: it is a snanie mere is not, after all you have laid out on me, nana. Why. I am the worst investment vou have made, I do believe. Help me to think if there is ao way in which 1 can earn money to make you even with the world again. I could not be an artist, for though you paid my drawing master sucn fabulous sums, I am sure if I were to sketch you something you would lie able to dis tinguish that it had four legs and a bead, and that would be all. I never could make any difference on paper between a horse's head and a dog s Dead, i uon i uiiiik i should ever succeed as an actress, and though I have a tolerable Voice. I should be fright ened if I were to try to sing in public, that I could not utter a note. ' "Ah, my child," said the father, "if you had only mamed some one 01 tnose ru n admirers of yours '. Annis lauirhed. "What is the use of saying that, papaf Xot one of them has been near us since your failure. I always suspected their devotion was not to be trusted. But if one of them did care enough for me to come forward now and offer to pay these dreadful debts, I be lieve I would fall in love with hint out of sheer gratitude. I would marry a vlmt, to see your name clear of delit." The father ami daughter had come out for a short walk at evening, and neither of them noticed that as Annis said these wonls a gentleman who had been walking behind them, assed them slowly, with a lingering glance into tlie girl's Itcautiful face. Some days passed and then a very queer letter came to Annis Prime. It read : "Dbak Miss: i hav wateht yu offen when yu didunt no it. i liurd wat yu sil t.io yure fother aliowt marriun enny wun hoo kood pa liiz dels, i kan doo it, and if yule have nice, will imc a clnl, but ive got the liiunuy. Ware a wred roze in y un bare, wheu yu go out to wauk the nextyme, if you akscp and the jent that gives yu a hokny will be me. Clou." Annis spelled this strange upistle with some dillieulty, ftc it was miserably written aside from the spelling. Then site showed it to her fathtT, anil laughed till she cried. "lie spells rose with a z' and red with an a.' But I think I shall aksep,' papa, if you don't object, just for the sake of the 'tKikav.' You'll be with me, you know." Accordingly, the merry girl, when she went to walk that night, wore a red rose coquettishly liclow one ear, where its crim son and velvet lieauty Im night out the golden tint of her matchless hair ravishing- iy. . Hit father was with her. They liad not liecu walking long liefore they noticed ap proaching them the strangest specimen of humanity either had ever liehcld. He was tall and awkward in his move ments, his hair hung long anil straight upon bis shouldiTs. 1 le wore a very broad-brimmed slouch hat of soft felt, a swallow-tail coat, and plaid unmentionables, with patent leather hoots, narrow if toes and high of heels. In one hand he carried a bouquet, which be held at arm's length, as if it were something explosive. "Here he really is, papa," said Annis, with a smothered laugh. "Now be sine you are civil to him. " She accepted the bouquet which the stranger proffeied her smilingly, and her fathiT politely invited him to go home with I heat, w hich he diiL Annis noticed, with some surpris.;, that Iiit liouquct was niiule up in exquisite taste. But that she attributed to the florist of whom the "clml" had protobly purchased it. But what surprised her most was to fiiuL, when the evening was over, and the strange guest had departed, how much she bad rva'lr enjoyed it. In spite of his oddities a:id awkwardness, the "clod" had contrived to lie interesting. "He has fine eyes anil good featun-s, pa pa," she saitl, "and if he w ould cut his hair and dress with some regard to Me he would please me liettcr than any of those others whom you would have liked me to marry, and whom I am sure would every ohe have instantly withdrawn their suits ami they kuown the condition of your affairs. I wonder if be is really so rich as he says? "Have no anxiety aliout the nn.i.-y,"?:iid Godfrey Prime, to bis daughter, af.i-r a few days. "The fellow has come most u:ii -Ki tetl!y into an immense fortune. He oii!tl pay my debts and set me up in business again, if he ('host:, without missing the money. And he stands ready to do it if you marry him." "I am ready," saitl Annis. gaily. "My In-art warms to him already.'" The marriage took place soon. The merchant was reinstat-d in his busi ness, and in a grander and mov flourishing manner than liefore. The splended residence which he and his daughter bad inhabited before his bank ruptcy was repurchasfd and refurnished in the most magnificent manner. Only one tiling troubled Annis Her "clod" still remained a "clml," do what she wi iuKL All her efft irts though she had made him cut bis hair ami liauish bis rain liow suit could uot make him any different from what he was at first. But he was devoted to her ami, liecause of his riches, cvcryliody courted him. His very awkwardness liecame the fashion, and bis most ungrainniatical speeches wot passed from tongue to tongue as profound wit. Besides all this, lie h:itl a g'Hnl heart, so much genuine kindness of disposition, be ing always ready to succor the unfortunate, and he loved her so well that Annis could not help loving him iu return. "Dear Clod," she said to him one day, disparingly when, in spite of all her instruc tions, be would llaine out in a fancy neck tie, and persist in saying "h:unY" for "have not' "dear Clod, you are too stupid fr belief: but somehow, I can't help loving you, in spite of that. The "clod smiled and kissed her most tenderlv. "I have been stupid," he said, "and vou have lieen nu patient than I deserve. But from this hour vou shall set? a change in me." Amiss laughed indiilgentlv. She had re signed herself to see hiiu always a "clod." But, to her amazement, that evening when her parlors were filled with the elite and fashionable of thecity, hcrhusband presented himself attired in exquisite tuste, and so altered in every other rcscct that only the eyes of love could have traced in this ele gant gentleman any of the characteristics of the 4:clod." Everj-'noilj-stared, and Annis, understand ing tl at he had lieen playing a part, was grieved and offendeiL "How could vou, sir?" she aked him re proachfully: "I don't know how I can ever forgive vou!" Her hiLsliand laughed in her face roguish ly- "I'd do it again for the same reward: and if you don't forgive me I'll go luick and be a clod t'le rest of my days." The threat was sufncient. Wonls of wisdom. Many who lind tbe day too long, find life too short. Xo one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear It. Our grief may be guessed from the solace and self-deception we resort to He who thinks he has nothing to fear from temptation is most exposed to fall. Never dors a man portray his own character more vividly than in his manner ot portraying another's. As the bee collects honey and de parts without injury to the flower, so let him who Is wise dwell on the earth. Tbe unbeliever is he who deliberate ly declines to speak what he thinks or to trust humanity with what helpful truth which has been entrusted to him self. Advert iaiug Cheat. It has become so common to write the beginning of an elegant, interesting article and then run it into tome adver tisement that we avoid all .such cheats and simply call attention to the merits of IIop Bitters in as plain honest terms as possible, to Indtca people to give them one trial, as no one who knows their value will ever use any thing else. "Deing Neighborly.' Tlie first person that called on us when me moved to Trumpletown, just after our weiMine, was Mrs. Colton. As her. hus band owned the house we were to live in, as well as that occupk-d by his own family, and was besides the proprietor of the two finest farms In the vicinity, 1 felt quite flattered by the attention. " I always like to lie neighborly," Mrs. Colfm saiiL - When the doctor came home, for I had married a physician, I told him what a pleasant acquaintance I bad made. " Kvi dently a woman of influence," I saiiL " It w as so kind in her to call at once, and es pecially to promise to lie so neighlsirly." My husband of course assented. A few days after, as I was getting sup er, a red-headed, unkemet urchin thrust his head in at the kitchen window, and saiil, in a higli, nasal tone, " Ma says, can't you lead her a mess of flour for supper and breakfast; company 's coined, and she hain't got none; and pa's gone out, and won't lie back till night." "Ami who may your ma be?" I saitl, wonileringly at this cool proposal, for in the place iu which I had lived until my marrriage, we had not been accustomed to such free and easy lending and liorrowing. "Mrs. Colton, ma'am." "Oh :" I replied, and that only. "And ma says, "resumed the shrill voice, "if vou could spare it, some butter and 'lasses." I took my hands from the dough and proceeded to comply with the reqiust, for I wished to be considered "neighliorly ;" but I thought to myself that Mrs. Colton might have sent to the store for what she w ant til, as it was hardly a three minutes walk distant. It certaitily was what 1 should have done, instead of appealing to a person almost a stringer. Hardly a day passed, after this, that the shock-headed boy did not thrust his head into my kitcheu door, and ask for the loan of something; and as my husband bad to make a pru t ice, and so sought to tie popular, 1 continued to lie "neighlmrly," and lend whatever was requested. Now it was eggs, or meal, or a bit of fresh meat, or butter; now it was a Ik ok, a magazine, a flat iron, a iiuttcrn for a ilrcss, a few cups, or something else. i f course I expected the things to lie dulv return.-, or at last what represented them. But day after day passed without meal, or butter, or eggs, U-ing forthcoming; and though the books and magazines came back, the latter were soiled and torn; and as for the flat-iron, it was absolutely rusted j from neglect. At first, I thought this failure to return 1 "in kind" the result of forget fulness; but! when the favorite lsiok came back, with ! the fashion plate missing, I could no longer conceal from myself the truth. Yet I went j on, complying, long after I had arrived at i this conclusion. "She can't keep the' thing up forever," said mv husband. " l-ct 1 us lose a little, my dear, rather than give offence. If we get Mrs. t'olton's enmity, I shall never lie called in there, or to any I of her .relatives; a country physician, csc- i cially, in a neighlM.rhood where lie is not ' yet well known, lias to study xilicy more or less." But at last Mrs. Colton's "lioing neigh-1 burly" began to cost so much that we. Could no longer afford it. If a lieef was' killed or a deer shot she knew of it as soon ! as ourselves almost ; ami lo! at the kitchen door appcari-d the shook of red-hair, and heard the nasal twang, "Ma wants to know if you can't lend," etc., etc. Finally I got distraetetl, "I can't and won't stand this' any longer, practice or no practice," I said, j one day, to my husliaml. "If that woman j sends here again, or even comes, I'll have it out uilli ln-r If ulw nun I.Hir I U'mljlii'l mind it. She'd lie welcome to borrow. But as she's far liettcr off than we are, her borrowing's simply meanness." My hus band mailt no reply, but gave me a quizzi cal look, for he hud learned, by this time, to know, that, when my mind was made up, I was "dreadful t," as my old aunt used to say. A few mornings after this the crisis came. Our meat for the fall and winter hail just lieen brought into lie cured, having lieen fed anil killed at a farmer's a few miles off, and the smoke-house was being got ready by the farmer's men, when -Mrs. Colton made her appearance. As soon as I heard her oieu the ganleu gate, "I seed it afore- mL" like Josiah Alien s ife,. "and knowed there'd lie a quarrel," for I divined her errand and at once resolved to settle matter with her, for good and all. "Morniu, Mrs. Mac, she began. "I seed the lioys pass the house, and thought I'd come and larn what's the news down yonder. I hain't beam from Jane, ' (her sisrer-m-Iaw, who lived near the tanner) in quite a spell: her youngest gal was Sick, last I got word from her." "I have had no conversation with the farmer's men." I said with dignity, "1 bad been tixihusy." Then, fearing I had lieen too plain, 1 addeil, in a more conci liatory tone: "But I will ask them, as soon as they come in frmi the smoke-house." "Well, do. I want to know rile bad. I don't think Janne'll ever nine that gal; she's too likely and peart; unusu:U smart to her age. Ain t you gitlm in your meat rather early t Seems to me 'tis." "I think uot. the weather is quite cold already, and the doctor says well have an early winter; and it's lietter to lie early than tif, isn't it ?" "Yes, that s so in most things. But we ain't ourselves puttin' in our meat yet, and so I guess I'll liorrow some from you. My le man 11 kill fore long, and then 1 can rive it back'." "I am sorrv to seem disobliging, Mrs. Colton," I said, nerving myself with great effort, for when it came to the point, it was more dillicult to Lice the enemy that 1 had supiMJsed, "but we really cannot spare anv of the moat; there is only just euougli, hardly that, lo last us. " I-a ! now. I d never have thought you d refuse me anything; and me always trying to lie so "neighlmrly," cried my visitor. "To lie frank, I answereiL for now mv blood was up. "I object to liorrowing. I never do it myself. What I can't pay for or earn. I do without. For one moment Mrs. Colton looked at mc as if I bad lieen the "Great Enemy" himself, hoof, horns and all; then she gave an audible sniff, and turned to her read- headed scion, w ho had accompanied her. "Come, son," she cried, "let's go. Folks as talks so big aWit yearniu' things. and nayin' for "em, won't have much to do .' . rr V, I..... . I.. .1.1 It with alore long, tuey u.is-iier not iioiu uuile such a high head." she continued, darting back on mc with a Parthian look of defiance and scorn, "or lie so unfriendly with naboors, 'specially when they're only a 'pothecary'a 'ifc an,l Pr 08 Jou'g tur- kev, if they is stick up. Of course the Colton's never called my husliand in. Of course also they instigated such of their relatives, as had already em ployed the doctor, to send for his profes fioiial rival, when the next case of sick ness occurred. But though this eff(ted our income for a time, it did not ruin us ; and when the year was up, for which we bad leased our house, we moved to the other side of the village, and ceased "being neighliorly," in any sense, to the Coltons. "The 'pothecary, as she had caueu me doctor, did not trouble them. " The change proved a wise oue in otner respects, also. Our new neigltlsirs were very different from our old ones, more cul tivated, better bred, and really, "neigh borly." They took a liking to us from the first, and my huslmiul soon worked bis way, through their influence, into a hand some practice. We now own the place where we reside, and it is, by ge nerd con sent, considered one of the handsomest in Trumpletown. Occa.4oiially I meet Mrs. Colton in the village streets, but she is always oblivious of my presence. Once at a wedding at a church then; was a crowd when we came out. and she was pushed c!iie to me. I sluill never forget the gesture with which she drew away her ukirt, as if I carried in fection with me. She was tired, you with me, at least, of " Beimi Nbhiiiuoiii.v." Store Natural History. "What animal is this?" "This is a liahy. He is now aliout tim e years old, and at the wickedest point of his earthly career." "What countries docs the liaby most in habit ?" "He can be found in every inhabited country on the glolie, the same as mosqui toes and lsiils." "Can they be tamed ?" "Yes, quite easily. After a little judi cious discipline they cease to struggle, and liecoiue subservient to the will of man." "Docs the baby cat grass?" 'Yes. or anything else. They swallow pocket-knives, thimbles, buttons, spoils or any other object a little smaller than a tea cup. If offered milk they seldom refuse iL" "Do they graze through the day, or only at night?" "They are always grazing, paying not the least heed to the hour. When not ac tually eating they generally give uttenuce to a peculiar cry. Strong men often jump out of bed at midnight in the coldest wea tlu'i upon hearing this cry." "What meaning is attached to this cry?" "Men of the deepest thought have agreed that it signifies to wake up the neighborhood and have some fun." '1 If what Iteiiefit tt) mankind is a domes ticated liaby?" "They are of no earthly account for the first few years, but by ami by they can slide down hill on a cellar door and carry articles ou'. of the house and trade them for a wood en sword or lose them in the grass." "Do you know of any instances where the bitliy has attacked the household and killed or injured any one ?" "Such instances are related by such emi nent naturalists as George Francis Train and Texas Jack, but we don't put very much faith in them. However, if the baby was maliciously provoked there is nc know ing what he might do." "Are they a healthy animal ?" "No. On the contrary, noUrugg's! could make enough profit in a year to buy him a pair of Arctic overshoes but for the prcscnii' of a baby in every household. There is hardly an hour in the day that the baby docs not demand c;ipcniiint, paregoric, milk, sugar, cordial, cod liver emulsion, ipecac, or something else' costing money.'' "What machinery is made use of to com pel the baby to take a dose of castor oil "There are severd patent machines for the purpose, but most people follow the old rule of knocking him senseless and getting the dose into his mouth In-fore he recovers." "Is the bald hcadcl liaby mon- domestic than the others?'' "Not a bit. He kicks around after tin same fashion, and has even a w-'rv- time fighting flii-s and inosqtiitot-s." "What music do they seem to prefer?" "A base (lnuu is their first choice; but they have a hearty leaning toward the sound of the stove handle knocking the nose off of the pitcher w ith the cmpuings in ii. This is all about the baby. Old Itread. Ill the Pompeii Museum at Naples, are to be seen- loaves of bread charred black, but otherwise jierl'ect iu form, and not much unlike, in size and form, tbe loaves of tbe present day. Think of bread 3f00 years old. Other articles of food have been found, as well as a great variety of household implements, color, &e., to say nothing of the rare sculptures, bronzes' jewelry and coin, itc. The mosaic floors and frescoed walls in many of the houses are almost as bright and fresh looking as if ne vly painted. Many of these mosaics are rich and beautiful and artistic in a high degree, while the columns, altars, foun tains, itc, in the religious temples, forums and richer private dwellings at test to the beauty and luxury of these cities, of which Herculaneuni is con sidered to have been the richest, since greater aud rarer works of art have been found there than at Pompeii. To the writer's mind it seems a pity to have shorn these ruins of most of their statues, furniture and ornaments. Why not have left them where they were found, and then roofed . iu the ruins and made them the museum in stead of carting them off to a modern museum in Naples? How much great er would have been tbe interest, and how much more instructive, had such a plan been adopted. An interesting leature of Pompeii is found iu the re markably well paved streets, in many places worn iu deep ruts by chariot w heels, bowing that they must have been very old at the time of the cLy's destruction. The most remarkable relics of Pompeii arc the human bodies that have been found perfect in form, covered with a hard crust of cinders; if they are broken as some of them have been, they crumble to dust. We saw the corpse of a dog preserved in the same way. Theevidwncestend toshow that comparatively few of the inhabit ants perished. Most of them had time to get away, and were not destroyed with the city, as we think Is the popu lar belief. lie Wanted Her Insured. A good-natured looking young man of 2." accompanied by a modest-appearing young woman of aliout the same age, evidently his wife, and just made so, recently called upon a Oriswald street insurance agent to see aliout insuring her life. After some pre liminary conversation the agent inquired what sum they had in rniniL "I want her insured for at least a million dollars!" promptly replied the husband, as he reached over and. patted her on the head. The agent figured up the premium and stated the amoiinL The wife turned pale as death, and the husliand lost a pound of flesh a minute. "But take a smaller sum, say five or ten thousand dollars," suggested the agent. "Not a cent less'n a million!" exclaimed U l..,.,.,.! lllf ulin ain't wlrfli thtlt die !lll(J JU.,. ' ' . -, . ain't worth nothing, and as I can't chalk up . for a million we'll go." I " And go theydld, stopping neither for ar gument nor good wishes.- A Itrav Boy. A lew years ago a lad who was left w ilhoiit father or mother went to New York, alone and friendless, to get a po sition iu a store as errand boy, until he coul i command a higher position; but this boy had been in had company, and had got iuto the habit of calling for 'bitters' and cheap cigars. On looking over the papers, he notic ed that a merchant wanted a lad of his age, and called there and made his bus iness known. 'Walk into the otlice, my lad said the merchant; 'I'll attend to you soon.' When he had waited upon his custo mer he took a seat near the lad, aud espied a cigar iu his band. This was euough. 'My boy. said he, 'I want a smart, honest, faithful lad, .but I see you smoke cigars, and, in my exper ience of many years, I have ever found cigar smoking lads to be connected with various other evil habits, and, if I am not mistaken, you are not au ex ception. You can leave, you will not suit me.' John held down his head and.left the store ; and, as he walked along the street, a stranger and friendless, the counsel of his poor mother came forci bly to his mind, who, upon her e'eath bed, called hi in to her side, and placing her emaciated hand upon his head, said : 'Johnny, my dear boy, I'm soing to leave you. Y'ou well kuow what disgrace and uiiseryyour father brought upon us before his death, and I want you to promise me before I die. that you will never taste one drop of tbe ac cursed poison that killed your father nor tobacco. Promise me this and be a good boy, Johnny, and I shall die in peace. The scalding tears trinkled down Johnny's cheek. He went to his lodg ings, and, throwing himself ujioii his bed, gave vent to his feelings in sobs that were heard all over the house. But John had moral courage. He bad energy and determination, and ere nn hour had passed he made up his mind never to taste another drop of li quor nor to smoke another cigar. He went straight back to tbe mer chant. Said he: 'Sir, you very pro perly sent me away this morning for habits that I have been guilty of; but, sir, I have neither father nor mother, and though I have occasionally done what I ought not to do, and have not followed the good advice of my jioor mother on her death bed, yet I have now mailt: a solemn vow never to drink another drop of liquor nor to smoke another cigar; and if you, sir. will only try me, i. is all I ask.' The merchant was struck with tbe decision and energy of the boy, and at once employed him. At tbe expira tion of live years this lad was a part ner in the business, and is now worth $10,000 1 lie Tragedy at Sloan'. "Do I understand, Mrs. Sloan," said the magistrate, "that you make a charge of at tempted infanticide against voui husband.'" "Hell, not exactly thai," replied Mrs. Sloan. " Vou see, I " "One minute h rmit me to explain," exclaimed Mr. Sloan. "Your honor, the situation is this: We have one liaby a year and a half old. and then we also have twins just two months old. Little cherubs, Uilli of them. Their mother's turn-up nose, pcrliaps, but my eyes and amiable t-xpres- loll. "His hair, too, vour honor," said Mrs.: Sloan, "his hair red!" Before wc were married; mav it please the court," said Mr. Sloan, "she was fond f alluding to it as auburn. But no matter. She went yesterday to a woman suffrage convention. 1 staved at home with the children three of them, vour honor! I have only two arms. When two of the little folks cned 1 would set down a silent one and carry those that screamed. Then the one I put dow n would It gin, and I'd have to pick him up and lay down another, and then it would scream. I tried to carry the odd one pig-a-tiack, but it was no use, he would slip down and bump his nose on the floor. Imagine the situation. It was hard. I was nearly wiliL Only two nurs ing hot lies, and the third baby veiling like a Crow Indian, while the tw ins were feeil- Couldn't he suck his thumb?" uskftl the magistrate. Mrs. Sloan wont let him. She closed the gate of joy, so to speak against her own otls'iriug! Alisoiutelv prohibited the child from sucking its ow n thumb! Nero, in his worst days, never went that far, I imagine." The historians forgot to mention it if he diii," said the justice. Precisely. Well, I got along as well as I could, when in couks a boy with a note from Mrs. Sloan saying that -Mrs. ( iiblis, the vice-president of the convention, w anted her liaby out ot the way while lies was conferring with the select committee on wavs and means, so in conies mc wr- gtant-at-arnis with Mrs. Gibb s baby f ir me to take care of. That made four. Your honor, if Mrs. Gibb's baby grows up and becomes a missionary, lie can preach to heathen in Africa without leaving home, lie has a voice like a fog horn. S he turned in ami cried, and the othei babies cried for sympathy." "It was hanL stud the magistrate. "Hani! Well, I'm an accommodating . . ii. i men, so I put one twin iu one i-nune aim nu ked it with my right foot, and I put the ither in another cnulle and rocked it with my left foot ; then I sat Gibb's baby on one knee and Johnny on the other, and by a peculiar action of my legs kept all four in motion at once. You understand I Well, sir, just as calmness began to prevail, in comes the sergeant-at-arms again with the secretary's baby. Said Mrs. Sloan had sent it while the secretary wrote up ner minutes, and wouldn't I lok after it for awhile?" "Was it asleep?" "Well, no. Now I don't want to exagge rate, your lionxir. I am under oath, and I shall "try to state the fact mildly. But I am sadly mistaken if you couldn't blow church organ with the secretary's baby's left lung! It whooped and hallowed in such a maimer as to alarm me. then Gibb's babv ioined in, and they gave a duet. Fre.ty soon our three tuned up for a chorus, and well, suppose a wnoie orpnan asylum should suddenly have a spasm oi stomach ache, and you can form some idea of the racket" Could't you quiet them by sinking to them?" "No, sir; you couldn't have heard a huss-drum in that room. "What did yon do?" "I gave tlie family Bible to one twin ami put Welister's Unabridged Dictionary on the lap. of the other, merely to play with. I thought I'd go down stairs and get some milk for the whole crowd. I did. When I came up, as I had only two nurs ing bottles, I emptied a bottle of hair re novator, which Mrs. Sloan uses " "I Am't!" exclaimed Mrs. Sloan. "And a castor-oil bottle. I put the milk in these and in ao old paregoric bottle, punched holes through the corks and han ded them around. When I came to the twins, they had the Bible and the dictiona ry lying right on their bosome, and they were blue in the face; too heavy, your honor! So I had to pick them up and smisr them a couple of times in the hath tub to bring them to; and when I got back into the room with them I found Gibb's baby in spasm from tbe taste of the hair restorer, and the secretary's baby had swal lowed tlie cork, anil the other child looked as if the caster-oil bottle somehow had not agreed with it. A minute later in come Mrs. Sloan and the secretary and Mrs. Gibs, and they hustled me ouL 1 don't know what happened after that, but I believe it was old Giblis put Mr. Sloan up to charge me with murder." "The case is dismissed," said the justice, and the Sloan's withilrew. Mrs. Sloan has hired a nurse. Educated Cattle Traders. In Colorado there is a class of highly educated men, engaged in the cattle trade. The men are sunburned at.d wear flannel shirts while on the ranch but none need mistake them for com mon or ignorant persons. They are, in very many cases, gentlemen of cul ture and standing. In the circle of ranchmen whose acquaintance I have formed during my stay, there are sev eral men of large wealth and scholarly attainments, who traveling in the West for health, became interested in the cattle business, enchanted by the wild open air life, and have Invested in stock, roughed it and enjoy the climate, the freedom and the excitement, s well as the monev !t brings. One gen tleman mine host was in the Bavy, but likes the billowy prairies better than the deep blue sea. A neighbor is one of the finest special geologists in America. Traveling in pursuit of his profession, he saw there was money in cattle, and so left his aesthetic Boston home for a tent on the plains. Another soientist, whose name is known on two continents, has during the past year gone heavily into the business, and two Harvard graduates are on ranches ad oining. Two young ineu. educated in Germany, herd their own flocks, and live temporarily in a dugout. At the ranch where I was entertained. I saw three youths, brown aud bashful, come every evening home with horses, and ride away in the early dawn, at break ueck p-ice, after the snorting herd. They looked like any farm boys; yet in the evening when work was over, and they sat on the steps with the family, their talk was wonderfully bright and interesting. Tw o of them had traveled iu Eurojie. One was the son of ex Senator Conness, of California; one was Mr. Pope Ycatman, nephew of General Pojie, U. S. A.; tbe third was the sou of Fred Law Olmstead, of New York. They are as well read boys as one can lind anywhere. In delicate health from city life and study, they went out there to "rough it," are stout and well, busy from morning until night, riding all day over the blossoms and fresh grass, and learning tbe cattle business, u ill, no doubt, in a few years own ranches and herds of their own. Playing Detective. M S lived in the city of P the proprietor of a well-known tavern. He was r Penttcher. Seldom was be beaten by a dead-bead, and be msde his brags accordingly that few men ever got a square meal at his place for noth ing. One day, however, a gentleman. w hom we will call D , made a bet that he would dine upon a certain day at S 's exiense, $a being the f-um ai stake. Mr. D went to tbe tavern at the appointed time, and, in a very excited maimer, informed mine host that he was a detective oflicer in quest of an individual who had stolen $10,000 from a bank. He Had received infor mation that the thief would dine there that day, Mr. D saitl he would step in at dinner-time, and, if the Indi vidual was there, would seat hiruself at the table, but he preferred not to ar rest him in the house. His plan was to let him eat, then follow him out and make the arrest. The so-called detec tive sat down to a sumptuous meal, ey ing a stranger who sat at his right hand. The unsuspicious stranger finished his meal and took his departure, followed by E and the landlord. D told mine host to call the man, and he would go and get the help of a brother officer down the street. Deutscher hailed the stranger, who suddenly stopped. "I was just about to return and pay my bill. How much do I owe your" "Forty cents," said S "Here is your money, sir, and my ad vice to you is, never follow me again, you old Sour Krant!" "You scoun drel!" said the landlord. "I will have you under arrest!" And the two men almost came to blows. I , who was some distance off, looking on the scene, was convulsed with laughter. The boi sterous mirth of D reached the landlord's ears, and immediately, like a flash, he smelt a mouse. Turning on his heel, he started for home, with the enrses o the stranger ringing in his ears. For onl-e he owned he was sold. eit I'sed to Poverty.' A hint-some boy, aliout nine years of age, sat on the City HaJI steps, counting over his coppers, when another lmycame up and asked : "Jim, can't you lend me five cents?" "Couldn't think of it," was the reply. 'How much ye got?" "Three cents." "Well, lend me one, then." "Couldn't do iL" "Why not, Jim hain't I always bin like a father to ye?" "Yes, but the more a man has the more he wants, they say, and I'm just that way." "But, Jim, don't you know tlie old say ing that bread cast upon tlie water will re turn to the caster?" "Yes, I've heanl of it; but when I walk along and smell roast chestnuts, or see a feller chawin' dates, I hain't goin' to let my mouth water 'cause I've lent my chink. Go long, Tom, and git used to poverty." Origin of the Apple. There is evidence that the apple was employed as food in certain parts ol Europe at a very ancient period, per haps even before the period of written history. Tbe carbonized seeds and frag ments of apples and other fruits are found iu the mud in certain lakes iu Switzerland, where the pile builders or take dwellers had their habitations. It might be supposed that these vestige were wild or crab apples, the native product of the country, and such is probably the fact. But according to Prof. Karl Koch, there are no species of apples truly indigenous in Eurojie; those which are fonnd growing with out cultivation, are the result of acci dental sowings of common apple seeds. If this statement is correct, the ques tion arises, whence came the apples and fruit of the pile-builders? The same qcestion might be propounded with respect to the wheat whit-h is found iu the debris of their dwellings, and the answer to the one question would probably be an answer for the other. It is not improbable that the distribution of grains and fruits among the nations of the earth has a much greater antiquity th: n has commonly been admitted. In attempting to determine the original specific charac ter of our common apple we have todea with a difficult question. The apple of the present day is the product of centuries of cultivation and horticul tural skill, and the transformations and modifications affected thereby are such that we need not be surprised if we are unable to recognize the original or parent stock. Linnaeus named the common apple of cultivation 1'yrua, ilalut, taking as the type the couiuion seedling apple, which he appears to have considered a good species, and the same view has been generally en tertained by botanists. The Sea tiull. One of the most remarkable ami at the same time pleasing incidents, shewing the power and influence of human kindness and gentleness, even upon the "fowls of the air and beasts of the field," has come to our knowledge within the past rew days. The incident occurred on board of the light-ship off Frying Pan Shoals, and is to this effect: I hiring tlie prevalence of the severe storm of the lglh of Seplemlier last, after the darkness of night hail set in, rendered doubly gloomy aud forbidding by the how ling teniptest that thundered through the rigging, broke with furious violence over the staunch vessel, anil sent the salt spray in ph ajpboresent clouds over the very mast heads, one of the seamen was leaning his ellmw upon the tsul rail of tlie ship, watch ing the storm as it mgi-tl in all its grainleur and sublimity, when a large black bird dashed through the blinding mist and lit upon the railing near where he was stand ing. lie took the bird which proved to lie an ordinary seagull, all wet and drabbled by the storm, and warmed and dried it in his bosom, after which he placed it in a lit tle bei I improvised for the occasion, after first feeding it, as if il had been a little chiliL The next morning, the storm hav ing subside L, our seaman turned the bird loose, of course w'lh no exjiectation of ever seeing it again. Very much to his surprise, however, on tiie very next night, at aliout the same hour of its previous visit, the gull again put its appearance, alighting Ukii tlie rail of tlie ship us liefore, w hen it was feil, caressed aad cared for as on the is-ca sion of its first call, and from tliat time up to the !thof Nov., nearly two months, when the latest information was nivived fnilu the ship, the bird bail continued its nigh'ly visits and been reguiariy fr-Ismd eoiisigiied to its "little lieil," where it would remain until released the next morning. This is no fancy sketch or draft upon the imagina tion, but is an "o'er true tale" from a source entireiV reliable and trustworthy. Talking at Talle. Talking at table is one of the very l-t digesters ; I lure is mi tonic known lo equal it, if il is of the kind calculated to promote hilarity and good feeling generally. Mint parents are pnine to prohibit their children from laughing and talking at the table: it is unphysiological ; it is a cruelty. Jov ousness promotes the cin-ulation of the blood, enlivens it, invigorates it, semis it tingling to the remotest part oPlhe system, carrying with it animation, vigor anil life. The louder the little ones laugh the U tter, the faster they talk the U tter, for tlien they eat less in a given time, coiiscqiicntiy chew their food more thoroughly. Discanl con troversy fnim the dining table. Discourage all subjects which invite political or re ligious rancor. I-et even- topic introduced lie calculated to instruct, to interest, or amuse. Do not lei the mind run on busi ness or previous mishaps or past disappoint ment. Never tell tud new s at the table, nor fur an hour la-fore. I-et everything you have to communicate Ik-, if possible, of a gladsome, joyous, hilarious character, calculated to bring out pleasanter remarks or agreeable associations. On the other hand, never administer a reproof at the social board to either servant or child; find fault with nothing ; speak mikindly to no one.- If remarks are made of the alisent, let them contain some words of commemla tion, which, if repeated in their hearing afterwanl will kindle kindly feelings, ami thus will thoughts of the family table come across the memory in after ais, when we have been scattered and some laid in their last resting place, bringing with them a sweetness of emotion which l. takes it a pleasure to dwell upon them A Gas Cloa k. It Is said that there Is a clock in the Guildhall Museum, London, of which the motive power is hydrogen gas, gen erated by the action of diluted sulphur ic on a ball of zinc. The clock itself resembles a large colered glass cylinder without any cover, and about half full of sulphuric acid. Floating on the top of this acid is a glass bell, and the g.ts generated forces forward this concave receiver until it nearly reaches the top of the cylinder, when, by the action of a delicate lever, two valves become sim ultaneously opened. One of these al lows the gas to escape, thereby causing the receiver to descend and tbe other permits fresh ball of zinc to fall into tbe acid. Tbe same 'operation is repeat ed as long as the materials for making the gas are supplied, and this is effect ed without winding or manipulating of any kind. The dial plate is fixed to the front of tbe cylinder, and communi cates by wheels, etc., with a small glass perpendicular shaft, which rises with the receiver and sets the wheels in motion. t Hi 4 1
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